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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 10:14 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 21, 2024 10:14 PM (GYt5+)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 21, 2024 10:14 PM (4MP1v)
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Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 10:15 PM (8zz6B)
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Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2024 10:15 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Solutus at December 21, 2024 10:15 PM (Jnnb9)
[spoilers] Especially in the sense that some of mankind is more concerned about saving its enemy then it is of saving itself - an idea not at all present in The Thing.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 10:15 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 21, 2024 10:16 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 10:16 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: A missed opportunity at December 21, 2024 10:16 PM (UKe2c)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 21, 2024 10:16 PM (Vyll1)
Posted by: Pete Seria at December 21, 2024 10:16 PM (7ZQe3)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2024 10:17 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: scampydog at December 21, 2024 10:17 PM (41CYW)
*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2024 10:17 PM (Xo+UM)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 10:17 PM (LkLld)
This is what happens when Snoopy could no longer control all of his various personas and alter egos.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle
He had a cheap psychiatrist living nearby.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2024 10:18 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Solutus at December 21, 2024 10:18 PM (Jnnb9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Think of it, a Psychiatrist repeatedly bullying and tormenting a neighbor with a football.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2024 10:19 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 10:20 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Lucy MacReady at December 21, 2024 10:21 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2024 10:21 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 10:21 PM (mT+6a)
QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO SPACE ACTIVITY FOR DECEMBER 21
On Go - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Astranis Block 2
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: December 21/22, 2024
Launch Time: 12:00 a.m. - 0500 UTC, 06:00 CET
https://www.youtube.com/live/nHgWiLoW6SI
Posted by: Ciampino - trouble with mahometans at December 21, 2024 10:21 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Locarno
Pig Pen has already been assimilated. I really should not have laughed out loud when I saw this rendition. Coal this year for sure.
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 21, 2024 10:22 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: pookysgirl, feeding the giant Dutch baby at December 21, 2024 10:23 PM (dtlDP)
Posted by: James Arness at December 21, 2024 10:24 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 10:26 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: javems at December 21, 2024 10:27 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 21, 2024 10:27 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: North Pole News at December 21, 2024 10:27 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 21, 2024 10:27 PM (CWMF2)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 21, 2024 10:27 PM (XMwZJ)
You're supposed to say that with a cigarette in your mouth.
Posted by: pookysgirl, enforcing the AoSHQ Style Guide with a lighter at December 21, 2024 10:29 PM (dtlDP)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 21, 2024 10:29 PM (ha1wR)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2024 10:30 PM (Wnv9h)
https://tinyurl.com/yj6nkmmx
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 21, 2024 10:30 PM (pIfcn)
Picked Tenn due to kid from this small town plays for em.
And he's a grandson of a very dear widow lady's best friend.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 21, 2024 10:31 PM (ytKo6)
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024 10:31 PM (9tvFd)
Posted by: You Bet Your Life at December 21, 2024 10:31 PM (G5+As)
But Ace were you aware that apparently RINO Kay Granger has been missing from Congress for SIX MONTHS, and they just found out she's been confined to an assisted living memory unit for the whole time?
Which of course means that she's been worthless for years before that.
It's actually insane that the RINOs just casually covered up something like this.
She should have been forcibly removed and a replacement named.
But of course, the RINO party hoped we just wouldn't notice.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at December 21, 2024 10:31 PM (lCHt6)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 10:32 PM (kpS4V)
Interesting thing about the internet if you haven't heard yet, it was designed for large scale monitors and not tiny little telephone screens.
If you are viewing on a pc or even a laptop, margins being expanded are barely noticeable.
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. Today is not that day! Dangerous Radical at December 21, 2024 10:32 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 21, 2024 10:32 PM (DTX3h)
https://tinyurl.com/yj6nkmmx
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here
Shucks. I was hoping it was Brian May of Queen.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 10:33 PM (VNX3d)
Weasel and Bluebell did an excellent job with that.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 21, 2024 10:33 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I don't understand at December 21, 2024 10:34 PM (/7KEl)
https://t.co/Za5TInBQot
Posted by: Ciampino - trouble with idiots there's too many at December 21, 2024 10:34 PM (i0xsb)
But Ace were you aware that apparently RINO Kay Granger has been missing from Congress for SIX MONTHS, and they just found out she's been confined to an assisted living memory unit for the whole time?
Which of course means that she's been worthless for years before that.
It's actually insane that the RINOs just casually covered up something like this.
She should have been forcibly removed and a replacement named.
But of course, the RINO party hoped we just wouldn't notice.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at December 21, 2024 10:31 PM (lCHt6)
Ho Lee Fuk. The bar for the GOP is We Too Low.
Posted by: pookysgirl with the meme callbacks at December 21, 2024 10:34 PM (dtlDP)
Margins fine here.
Maybe, if they turn their phone sideways...?
Posted by: TeeJ at December 21, 2024 10:37 PM (ytKo6)
Posted by: Ciampino - no nepotism is good at December 21, 2024 10:38 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: North Pole News at December 21, 2024 10:27 PM (G5+As)
They are a lot bigger than DD bras, right?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 10:38 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Zeera The people are coming at December 21, 2024 10:38 PM (tXURQ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 10:39 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2024 10:39 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 10:39 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Ciampino - monthly is ridiculous at December 21, 2024 10:40 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos
Us or congress?
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 21, 2024 10:40 PM (+VovS)
That ho Insty put up two Firefly references in a row and you can't resist, can you?
Well, THE POWER OF THE EWOK COMPELS YOU and you need to get back here!
Posted by: pookysgirl, yet again juggling a cat and baby at December 21, 2024 10:40 PM (dtlDP)
Very good
Posted by: Zeera The people are coming
To satisfy my sweet tooth I'm having Rumchata mixed with cheap whiskey my son gave to me. Only way I can choke that crap down.
But, I'm up for the challenge.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2024 10:40 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
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I'm right here, you know...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2024 10:41 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 21, 2024 10:41 PM (jGGMD)
Allow me to translate.
DeSantis was not going to pick Lara Trump.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 10:41 PM (LkLld)
But Ace were you aware that apparently RINO Kay Granger has been missing from Congress for SIX MONTHS, and they just found out she's been confined to an assisted living memory unit for the whole time?
Which of course means that she's been worthless for years before that.
It's actually insane that the RINOs just casually covered up something like this.
She should have been forcibly removed and a replacement named.
But of course, the RINO party hoped we just wouldn't notice.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at December 21, 2024 10:31 PM (lCHt6)
Shit is getting out of hand with these fucking archaeological wonders taking up space in government.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2024 10:42 PM (VwHCD)
I see a lot of therapy in that child's future.
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 21, 2024 10:42 PM (+VovS)
Judge's bombshell response to 'suicide' death of teacher from TWENTY stab wounds
https://mol.im/a/14216607
Posted by: Ciampino - 4 shotgun blasts in the back -- suicide at December 21, 2024 10:43 PM (i0xsb)
But nothing like that of Charlie Brown characters. But then again, Rule 34 is always in play.
And no, I'm not going to look for them.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2024 10:43 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: scampydog at December 21, 2024 10:44 PM (41CYW)
[spoilers] Especially in the sense that some of mankind is more concerned about saving its enemy then it is of saving itself - an idea not at all present in The Thing.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 10:15 PM (oZhjI)
Life is a movie that I will watch but don't really like.
But damn, Rebecca Ferguson.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 21, 2024 10:44 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: pookysgirl with the meme callbacks at December 21, 2024 10:34 PM (dtlDP)
Vote Papoon, Not Insane!
Posted by: Papoon - actually insane at December 21, 2024 10:44 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 10:44 PM (mPfbt)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 21, 2024 10:27 PM (XMwZJ)
I was trying to figure out what "blowing a migraine" was.
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2024 10:44 PM (WlvCt)
Posted by: Tracy at December 21, 2024 10:45 PM (PdW5U)
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. Today is not that day! Dangerous Radical at December 21, 2024 10:32 PM (89Sog)
Except...about 35% of Ace's readers use their phones, so people who don't give a sh*t about blowing the margins (that's a Pixy problem, but that is also another issue) are pretty rude.
That being said, the margins aren't blown. Maybe expanded a bit, but it is still readable.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2024 10:45 PM (d9fT1)
Could've been worse. Could've been an F-35.
Kind of makes the U.S. combat capabilities look a little rusty, though.
Posted by: mnw at December 21, 2024 10:45 PM (NLIak)
Everyone knows you need to put her in the Senate.
Posted by: Mitch McConnell's staffers at December 21, 2024 10:46 PM (sDWtc)
Um...this is almost as bad as the Clinton and Epstein adviser that "committed suicide" by hanging himself and while suffocating then shot himself in the chest with a shotgun, which was NOT found at the scene.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 10:46 PM (oZhjI)
But, I'm up for the challenge.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2024 10:40 PM (WXNFJ)
I'm doing Hershey kisses and bourbon. Kinda tastes like those little booze filled chocolate bottles.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2024 10:46 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 21, 2024 10:42 PM (+VovS)
Heh, the cat thinks it's safe because my lap has gone still. But then she hops up, sniffs the sleeping baby, and either gently cuddles up to him or hops off.
Posted by: pookysgirl, yet again juggling a cat and baby at December 21, 2024 10:47 PM (dtlDP)
https://t.co/Za5TInBQot
Posted by: Ciampino - trouble with idiots there's too many at December 21, 2024 10:34 PM (i0xsb)
That fucker needs a serious beating. About 40 broken bones should be about right.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 10:47 PM (8zz6B)
Soviet America has shot down more F-16s then Soviet Russia did...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 10:47 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: TeeJ at December 21, 2024 10:31 PM (ytKo6)
This is how every campfire story and every "No, it's real!" gossip starts.
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2024 10:48 PM (WlvCt)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 10:48 PM (1m82a)
Could've been worse. Could've been an F-35.
Kind of makes the U.S. combat capabilities look a little rusty, though.
Posted by: mnw at December 21, 2024 10:45 PM (NLIak)
Navy. F-16. It's own. Does not compute.
Posted by: Gref at December 21, 2024 10:48 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I don't understand at December 21, 2024 10:50 PM (/7KEl)
Maybe a handy guideline on just how wide the comment box is might be in order. That way when somebody posts a link or a quate, they can count down to the exact character.
Most are not trying to be rude at all. So how about you help them?
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. Today is not that day! Dangerous Radical at December 21, 2024 10:50 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I don't understand at December 21, 2024 10:34 PM (/7KEl)
The ONT is a state of mind. Yes.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 21, 2024 10:50 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 10:51 PM (mPfbt)
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F/A-18... purportedly.
There was "shit" going on in the area. Someone did not deconflict their airspace.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2024 10:52 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2024 10:52 PM (QTCRF)
Posted by: mnw at December 21, 2024 10:52 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2024 10:52 PM (QTCRF)
https://t.co/Za5TInBQot
Rats....site no likes adblockers.
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. Today is not that day! Dangerous Radical at December 21, 2024 10:53 PM (89Sog)
Use tinyurl or another link shortener.
This isn't hard. It's been know for years here. Long unbroken stings of letters blown the margins.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 10:53 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 21, 2024 10:27 PM (XMwZJ)
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If it's #26 then that has never caused problems before. It's uTube's own link shortener and I post them all the time without complaints.
Can your browser handle a split link like this?
ttps://www.youtube.com/
live/nHgWiLoW6SI
Posted by: Ciampino - I'll split them if you want them at December 21, 2024 10:54 PM (i0xsb)
OSU is thumping Tennessee pretty good
35-10 3rd
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I don't understand at December 21, 2024 10:50 PM (/7KEl)
Division 1 Championship First Round Playoff games have all been one-sided in favor of the higher-ranked teams. Wow, is this brand-new 12-team playoff format terrific or what? I'll take "or what."
Posted by: Gref at December 21, 2024 10:54 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: rhomboid
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Everything they do has a degrading purpose if it appears logical it's a misdirection.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 10:55 PM (mPfbt)
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. Today is not that day! Dangerous Radical at December 21, 2024 10:50 PM (89Sog)
Seriously? I have been helping them for five fucking years. Do you know how many fucking comments I have edited so they don't blow the margins? Do you know how many times I have asked that people don't use links that are too long?
Maybe ease up on the entitlement. I don't work for you.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2024 10:55 PM (d9fT1)
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Social media "influencer" with thousands of followers. Supposedly been doing this for "a while."
Gets a lot of "likes" for his stupidity.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2024 10:55 PM (Q4IgG)
pookysgirl, yet again juggling a cat and baby
Throw in a couple bowling pins and a chainsaw and you've got an act suitable for the Sullivan show.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2024 10:56 PM (63Dwl)
Just get rid of the http crap wherever it appears.
My problem with tinyurl is what if some troll or spammer hides something nasty in there.
Posted by: margin fellator at December 21, 2024 10:56 PM (sDWtc)
F-18...pedant.
Now does it compute for you?
Posted by: mnw at December 21, 2024 10:52 PM (NLIak)
The devil is in the details on a Smart Military Blog.
Posted by: Gref at December 21, 2024 10:56 PM (aBgBM)
Maybe there's a problem with the phone.
I had an Alcatel that would fritz on anything.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 10:57 PM (mPfbt)
Posted by: Ciampino - I'll split them if you want them? at December 21, 2024 10:58 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2024 10:58 PM (QTCRF)
1) A Turk in Germany saying she was a great visionary
2) A self described American leftist in Germany saying she was great
But all the comments aren't bad. One poster noted "She made West Germany into East Germany"
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 10:58 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: mnw at December 21, 2024 10:45 PM (NLIak)
The US Navy doesn't have any F-16s. At all.
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2024 10:59 PM (WlvCt)
But don't mind us, we find a way to make it work. Pixy has more important work, like rehashing HN and Slashdot at 4 AM in the US.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at December 21, 2024 10:59 PM (RGt60)
If it's #26 then that has never caused problems before. It's uTube's own link shortener and I post them all the time without complaints.
Probably the constant underline.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2024 10:59 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 10:39 PM
***
You rang?
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024 10:59 PM (9tvFd)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 10:59 PM (CHHv1)
I will be madder than hell if I still can't taste anything by Christmas. She's making rib roast. It been a coon's age since I've had a decent cut of beef. She'll probably sous vide the thing then send her husband out to finish it on the grill.
Anyone have any luck finding None such mince meat in the jar this year? Himself finally dug out his mother's recipe and made it from scratch.
Posted by: Livia Augusta at December 21, 2024 11:00 PM (lAAta)
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2024 11:00 PM (WlvCt)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 10:39 PM (VNX3d)
Pfft...
Try getting off
Posted by: TRex with blueballs at December 21, 2024 11:01 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2024 10:55 PM (d9fT1)
Do you have a hard number for unbroken string length? I generally use a url shortener, but some links are natively "pretty short", and it would be nice to know if they can be posted as-is.
Is less than one comment input box line OK? Half a line?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 11:01 PM (8zz6B)
Is less than one comment input box line OK? Half a line?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 11:01 PM (8zz6B)
That's pretty much all I wanted to know but something got lost in translation.
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. Today is not that day! Dangerous Radical at December 21, 2024 11:02 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 11:02 PM (mPfbt)
Posted by: margin fellator at December 21, 2024 11:03 PM (sDWtc)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 11:01 PM (8zz6B)
Half a line. That's a guess, but I think I am pretty close.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2024 11:03 PM (d9fT1)
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. Today is not that day! Dangerous Radical at December 21, 2024 10:50 PM (89Sog)
Or, you follow the rule of thumb to use an URL shortener.
That is frequently mentioned here, I think.
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2024 11:03 PM (WlvCt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2024 11:03 PM (ImxiA)
If it's #26 then that has never caused problems before. It's uTube's own link shortener and I post them all the time without complaints.
Probably the constant underline.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2024 10:59 PM (63Dwl)
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I assumed that any text processing system would break a line at a space, even if underlined. Okay I'll sort that out.
Posted by: Ciampino - I'll split them if you want them? at December 21, 2024 11:04 PM (i0xsb)
woman leaves kids in car while she goes drinking.
https://tinyurl.com/wztpw6tp
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. Today is not that day! Dangerous Radical at December 21, 2024 11:04 PM (89Sog)
Everyone knows you need to put her in the Senate.
Posted by: Mitch McConnell's staffers at December 21, 2024 10:46 PM (sDWtc)
I concur!
Posted by: Zombie Dianne Feinstein at December 21, 2024 11:04 PM (wNu9z)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2024 11:04 PM (d9fT1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 11:05 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 11:01 PM (8zz6B)
That's pretty much all I wanted to know but something got lost in translation.
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it.
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That should solve the problem. What is the number of string characters allowed?
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 11:05 PM (mPfbt)
Your link was...fine. It pushed the margins, but not enough to be unpleasant.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2024 11:05 PM (d9fT1)
https://t.co/OJqhrpDMF2
The USS Gettysburg “mistakenly fired on” the F/A-18, CENTCOM said. The shoot down happened amid a weekend of military action against the Houthis, a militant Yemeni nationalist group that controls much of Yemen, including the capital. American and British aircraft have been bombing targets in Sana’a. The incident is under investigation.
On Saturday, Dec. 21, CENTCOM said that U.S. forces had shot down several one-way attack drones and an anti-ship cruise missile fired from Yemen over the Red Sea; it’s unclear if the back-and-forth strikes were ongoing when the Navy jet was shot down.
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at December 21, 2024 11:05 PM (9aVck)
Posted by: margin fellator at December 21, 2024 11:03 PM (sDWtc)
Well, I don't recognize hyphens as line breaks, either, and I am pretty sure that hyphens exist as characters in their own right in some urls.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 11:05 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
I loved the dude spinning plates. THAT, my friends, is entertainment.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2024 11:05 PM (WXNFJ)
Allow me to translate.
DeSantis was not going to pick Lara Trump.
Posted by: JackStraw
Good. I despise political dynasties.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2024 11:06 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2024 11:06 PM (RFPHU)
On Go - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Astranis Block 2
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: December 21/22, 2024
Launch Time: 12:00 a.m. - 0500 UTC, 06:00 CET
https://www.youtube.com/live/nHgWiLoW6SI
Posted by: Ciampino - This okay? at December 21, 2024 11:06 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Ciampino - This okay?? at December 21, 2024 11:07 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2024 11:08 PM (ImxiA)
A great rule of thumb is use a url shortener for every link. They are stupid easy to use and they never blow the margins.
This place is free. ace almost never asks for any donations and hall monitors are also working for free other than CBD who gets dental.
Just use a tinyurl of bitly or another url shortener whenever you post a link and it makes it easier for everyone. Bonus, we can stop having this same conversation for the next 10 years.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 11:08 PM (LkLld)
And yes the video looks kind of like 9/11.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 11:08 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 11:08 PM (LkLld)
This being the HQ, and we the Horde ...
What fun would that be?
Posted by: browndog watching the Buckeyes roll Tennessee at December 21, 2024 11:10 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 11:08 PM (LkLld)
Next you won't want to refight the war of southern idiocy again.
How rude.
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. Today is not that day! Dangerous Radical at December 21, 2024 11:10 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2024 11:03 PM (d9fT1)
Thank you. I will try to remember that. I generally use tinyurl, but some links that I find are real short, as is.
By the way, youtube has their own short link maker, the "share" function. It generates a link with a string of characters, a question mark, and another string of characters. Delete the question mark, and the string that follows, and the link still works; just denies youtube their tracking data.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 11:11 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2024 11:06 PM (RFPHU)
Blue Note "Juke Joint."
93 proof. Simple. Pleasant. but definitely not exciting.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2024 11:11 PM (d9fT1)
Posted by: Ciampino - you jinxed it at December 21, 2024 11:11 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 11:11 PM (8zz6B)
Ahhhhh, that's good to know.
I've seen the YouTube string and delete it as I would be afraid of blowing the margins.
Posted by: browndog watching the Buckeyes roll Tennessee at December 21, 2024 11:13 PM (TTAGa)
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Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at December 21, 2024 11:14 PM (9aVck)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 21, 2024 11:14 PM (83y/e)
I can manage to use tinyurl. It is t difficult, but reading on my phone when y'all blow out the margins is not fun.
Please. It isn't hard. And y'all are a lot more techy smart than I am.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 11:14 PM (mT+6a)
93 proof. Simple. Pleasant. but definitely not exciting.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2024 11:11 PM (d9fT1)
Aren't all those Blue Note varieties crazy expensive??
My local shop is selling allocated stuff tomorrow at noon. Everything is MSRP. They're drawing tickets to make it somewhat fair. I'll let you know if I get anything.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2024 11:15 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2024 11:15 PM (QTCRF)
https://mol.im/a/14216693
Posted by: Ciampino - you jinxed it? at December 21, 2024 11:15 PM (i0xsb)
https://t.co/OJqhrpDMF2
The USS Gettysburg “mistakenly fired on” the F/A-18, CENTCOM said. The shoot down happened amid a weekend of military action against the Houthis, a militant Yemeni nationalist group that controls much of Yemen, including the capital. American and British aircraft have been bombing targets in Sana’a. The incident is under investigation.
On Saturday, Dec. 21, CENTCOM said that U.S. forces had shot down several one-way attack drones and an anti-ship cruise missile fired from Yemen over the Red Sea; it’s unclear if the back-and-forth strikes were ongoing when the Navy jet was shot down.
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at December 21, 2024 11:05 PM (9aVck)
Why should I believe anything from DoD nowadays? The friendly fire explanation is no doubt a coverup for the aircraft being shot down by an anti-matter particle beam fired from a SUV-sized drone from the Planet Whizbang in the Outer Hydrocephalic Nebula.
Posted by: Tin Foil Hat-Wearing Gref at December 21, 2024 11:15 PM (aBgBM)
That is my 2 cents.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 21, 2024 11:16 PM (elaR+)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 11:05 PM (CHHv1)
1972 Overlay
1972 The Horizontal Woman
1972 The Masochist
1972 The Men Inside
Well, I feel like I've got an, um, feel for his work.
Posted by: pookysgirl is aware of phrasing thank you very much at December 21, 2024 11:16 PM (dtlDP)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 11:16 PM (oZhjI)
And yes the video looks kind of like 9/11.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 11:08 PM (oZhjI)
An attack of great strategic importance, no doubt. Are they try to goad the Russians into making a Lidice out of Kiev?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 11:17 PM (8zz6B)
Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 12/21/2024
IT
A couple of years ago, I decided that I was going to read Stephen King's novels in publishing order until they bored me. I've made it into his 80s output, and I picked up IT, his magnum opus. Reading it in about a month, the 1200 page novel is...a complete and total mess. The first 20% had me hooked, though. It was great. There was this promise and sense of ill-defined danger that worked marvelously well as King jumped us between 1958 and 1985 with this sense of impending doom infecting everything.
And then things began to unravel. He focuses fully on 1958 for a long stretch, and it feels like a more typical King novel than the promise of greatness that had started things. There's a heavy issue with repetitive vignettes that don't actually feel that dangerous because kids keep escaping the central monster. The adults don't actually have a whole lot to do, and when they do become the focus just after the halfway point, they also go through their repetitive, but not dangerous vignettes. Things really pick up again in the final 20% of the book when the jumping between time periods ramps up as both adults and children go into the sewers underneath the central New England town of Derry, Maine, danger ramping up once more. And then...King lets his freak flag fly while also demonstrating that he doesn't know how to pull off endings or fulfill the promise of Lovecraftian horror like he would dream.
And yet...there are people who love this book. Love it. Think it's one of the greatest pieces of English literature ever written. I'm only noting that I don't agree, and I think I am closer to the general consensus which is: good, not great, and could use real editing (I'd go with okay, not good, and in need of an axe).
In the context of film, that presents an interesting question. The book has been adapted twice over the past thirty-five years. The first was on network television, a three-hour mini-series on ABC directed by Tommy Lee Wallace (an early close compatriot of John Carpenter). The second was a two-part, big budget, feature film directed by Andy Muschietti. With such a large, messy, and generally accepted flawed original source material, it presents an interesting case study in how to approach adaptations. Add in the fact that both filmed versions are actually quite different from each other, and you've got an interesting slice of cinematic adaptation.
And, as a note, this is going to feel a fair bit opaque to those not at least passingly familiar with the characters. Sorry, but I don't think I can drag this out another 1,000 words to give that clarity. It's way too long as it is.
The Book
I'm reminded of a quote from Orson Welles when discussing his own approach to adaptation saying, that it's required of a filmmaking making an adaptation to make changes. The mediums are simply different and cannot transfer directly. The most loyal adaptation that recreates every line would just be a recitation of the book's text with still images. One must change things, a lot of things, to adapt. So, IT is kind of an ideal source. There's going to be disagreement about what to change, what to include, and what to outright excise (that late scene with the Losers Club in the sewers and Bev's solution to get out...that should get excised and I don't think I want to know anyone who argues otherwise).
All of the choices are subjective, of course. I think I could make the case for not including Pennywise the Clown (not a decision I would make should I be suddenly granted the money and opportunity to make another adaptation), so you have to take a step back and look at the large choices to be made. The book is filled with large (and many, many small) things, so what do you keep? What do you highlight? What do you downplay?
Well, I have my own preferences, and they start with the book's structure. On the grand scale, the structure jumping back and forth between the two time periods is easily the best thing in the whole book. It creates this path of discovery for the audience that mirrors the main characters in both timelines (the execution is often clunky and unnatural, especially transitioning from one to the next, but it overall works very well), and it provides framing for the adults that that half of the story desperately needs (the adults really don't do much in the book until the finale). I would like to see that built into any adaptation.
Another really good thing in the book is the relationships between the kids. Aside from Mike, who's introduced to the Losers Club shockingly late, the kids feel like...kids interacting with each other and facing down something bigger than them. There's a genuine aspect to them that goes beyond the often poorly written dialogue from King. The secret to King's success is always his characters, and IT is a good example of that.
I also find the history of Derry to be interesting, Mike's research tracing back in time the different awful history of the town that is Its bloody trail, mostly told through oral histories he picks up from the older members of the town. It's not something that's easy to dramatize, working better in a literary form than a cinematic one, but it's something I'd want to see in an adaptation.
However, talking about good things, one must also mention the bad things. As previously mentioned, the dialogue is generally not good. No need to keep that for the sake of loyalty to the source. Stan is largely a non-character. The adults don't have a lot to do. Both adult and child sections have long stretches that are little more than loosely connected horror vignettes that end with the characters involved getting away. Having that happen repeatedly makes the monster chasing them far less scary, no matter how gross the vignettes can get (emblematic of King's tendency to just write in circles until he eventually found something like a point). The ending is a disappointment with the Lovecraftian terror that is IT ultimately just being a big spider. Also...getting out of the sewers is just...wrong.
So, in terms of adaptation, there's a lot to sort through. What choices did the two make?
Television
The biggest thing that television series tries to port from the book is the structure. Well, sort of. The television series works best in the first hour or so when it does do the jumping back and forth from the adults to their memories as children. However, because the television movie was broken into two parts to play over two nights, the first one has to end with a climax and denouement, so Wallace chose to show how the children defeated the eponymous monster at the end of the first episode. One of the points in the book where the cross-cutting of timelines works best is when King is cross-cutting during the competing confrontations with It across the two timelines. It's a tense way to deliver the information on the two events as they feed into each other with, essentially, different characters going through the same space at different times. It works really well. Isolating the child and adult confrontations with It robs the two events of that supplementary quality.
Regarding structure, that decision also makes the second episode...really weird. The children's story is finished, but the adults are still digging up memories and marching towards their own confrontation with It. So, that means that we're getting a bunch of memories, like Bev's moment with the blood in the bathroom sink, well after we've watched the kids defeat It. The decision is very bizarre, and it deflates the second half even more than the overall focus on the adults who are generally not that interesting and don't do much but wander around, experience horror vignettes, and eventually find their way into the sewers. Highlighting the adult section by letting it stand on its own is a mistake.
The medium of network television also prevented Wallace from getting too deep into the horror that King described in often vivid detail, so things like Richie facing the werewolf end up feeling a bit tame. Scary enough for network television, but not much else. This isn't helped at all by the rather cheap budget and short filming time which creates a very flat visual look to almost everything, death to most horror. It ends up being a fairly literal adaptation, making few major changes, condensing heavily, trying to keep focus on the characters, and eliminating the vast majority of small side characters that King populated the book with.
Being fairly literal, though, it retains a lot of what makes the book frustrating to me, namely the feeling of random vignettes in a row. Kid/adult encounters It. Kid/adult gets scared. Kid/adult runs away without getting touched. I think it works slightly better here, though, because it just doesn't take as long as in the book which is two separate sections of a solid 100 pages each that does the same thing that the series does in a few minutes. It also retains King's disappointing ending where he reveals It in Its full form, and it's a giant spider. I mean, King spends a lot of time calling It this otherworldly, eternal thing, but he doesn't have the imagination to even imply some truly alien form. He settles with "the closest thing they can come up with is a giant spider" before he ends up calling it "the giant spider" for the rest of the section. So, the film just puts a giant spider in its finale. What doesn't work in the book doesn't work in the TV movie.
Overall, the TV adaptation is a very literal adaptation that makes plenty of changes to fit the story into the medium of network television movie. It makes some curious changes to the structure while trying to retain some of it, but ultimately it's a safe work that retains more issues from the book than tries to fix them.
Feature Film(s)
The assortment of production companies (including New Line Cinema, who funded a three-part adaptation of The Lord of the Rings before the first one was even fully written) would only fund an adaptation of IT one at a time. So, they made the first part, released it, took in the cash, and then greenlit the second part. So, this led to major structural changes, especially in the first part, and I think it requires treating to two separately to some degree.
Chapter One
The biggest choice that Andy Muschietti made regarding the adaptation is keeping the children's story wholly contained in the first part. If one were to split the original novel into two halves, between the tales of children and adults, it's the children's story that works best independently. The adult section is so intimately tied to the children's section, King playing (not entirely successfully) with the idea of memory in the adult section that it cannot stand alone. The children's section is fodder for its own telling, and that's what Muschietti does.
The biggest difference between the feature film's treatment of the material and the television adaptation of this part of the book is the overall approach to cinematic storytelling. The TV adaptation feels like a book adaptation. The feature film feels like a movie. It still retains much of the issues with the book, but scenes aren't quite as choppily put together, and the whole thing actually looks like a movie instead of a cheap TV production. I mean...I appreciate that. There's also this effort to make the series of horror vignettes feel more impactful and spread out rather than in a row, like the adaptation largely maintained. It ends up retaining a lot of the events of the film like Eddie encountering the Leper, for instance, but because they're spread out and spaced out better than the book, it's less obvious that it's just a series of close calls. It's interesting, though, that there's no werewolf. It's very prominent in the book, and even the TV adaptation included it.
And the werewolf isn't in it because Pennywise the Clown gets far more attention than even the book gives it. Pennywise is the most prominent form of It in the book, but he's far from a majority. He's more like a prominent plurality. The rest is largely dedicated to the Mummy and the Werewolf with a smattering of other things all over the place (like the insane bully's dead friends guiding him in the adult section), but the most prominent scene of It with the group of kids outside the finale has It being in the form of the werewolf (when they all go to the rundown house). This means that It is in only one form when it scares the children: a clown.
The Pennywise shape is explicitly done to lure kids in close to then feed on them. And then, the film has him be a source of terror in that form too. It's both, but those are mutually exclusive things. That leads to these amped up terror moments when Pennywise shuffles forward fast with his head jerking about as the only way to scare things. And that's kind of how the whole film approaches horror: big and obvious. There's no tension. It's mostly just big scary noises. It's more of a general approach to horror in film in the 2010s, but it's a difference in adaptation from the source. It's something that irks me, not because it's different, but because that type of horror is not scary, I don't think.
Another change is that they give the kids a more personal motive to go into the sewers to face It in the form of It kidnapping Bev. They have to come back together after a fight (not in the books) to save their best friend, and it even gives us a moment where It demonstrates why he scares kids instead of how King does it: giving It a handful of chapters late where It essentially explains itself.
In terms of adaptation, I think Chapter One is the best of the three. Not the most faithful, but the one that does the job best of moving the story from one medium to the next.
Chapter Two
And...then we get to the adult section. The adult section in the book is just not that robust. The adults receive the calls from Mike. They leave their lives to go to Derry (or not, in Stan's case). They meet at the Chinese restaurant and bond again. And then Mike...has them wander Derry for an afternoon to recover more memories, or something, which leads to the horror vignettes. Afterwards, they meet at the library, talk some more, one gets attacked by the old bully Henry Bowers, and they have to go down to the sewers two short instead of at full power with seven. For half of a 1200 page book, it's not a lot of story.
A nearly 3-hour movie about this is going to go very thin, and Muschietti made the choice to do what the TV adaptation did: input childhood memories into the story when the childhood section is already complete. This time they invent things not in the book, though, which is...whatever. It's nice to see the clubhouse appear, I guess. This really feels like an attempt to pump up runtime so that the producers could call the finished product "epic".
Anyway, the film actually moves through the reunion pretty quickly, and leaving us with a lot of time to focus on the dispersal across Derry. However, Muschietti comes up with an actual reason: The Ritual of Chud. The Ritual of Chud was in the book, but it was more about locking eyes with It and making it laugh, a facade for facing down this thing of fear and making it clear that you're not afraid of it. The film introduces busyness to collect mementos from the adults' childhood to burn in an old Native American urn for reasons. I mean...it's really just a fetch quest of dubious use, but it's something other than, "Just go, we'll meet up later."
That does create the series of vignettes again, and it's where the film suffers the most. The reappearance of the kids' storylines ends up creating new events where the kids faced off with It, and they're aligned with the adults' encounters. So, we're getting double encounters with It where we know that the people will survive...for more than an hour. It drags. The movie drags badly.
The confrontation with It in the end is much, much longer in the film than it is in the book, with each adult going into hallucinations from their past with Pennywise taunting them. At least Muschietti was determined to not just do a giant spider. We do get Pennywise's head on a giant spider with a heavier emphasis on the Dead Lights (from the book, but also present in the first feature film) that implies It being something bigger and more menacing than just a scary monster. I mean, the whole third act drags out way too long, but at least there's a real attempt at making the spider a mask for something more, though King's own description was that the spider form was It unmasked.
Choices
I've gone long, so let's wrap this up...
It used to be that film was seen as this idealized form for a story in popular culture, that every great book needed to become a movie. That has shifted over the past decade or so where everyone wants their favorite book to be a long miniseries like Game of Thrones. And yet...imagine Jaws as a 10 part miniseries instead of the tight 2-hour film that Spielberg put out in the 70s.
Anyway, my point is that IT doesn't need a 25-hour adaptation on Prime, or whatever. It needs, at most, 5-6 hours. You don't need to spend pages of the pseudo-intellectualizing by 10-year old characters. You don't need the series of repetitive horror vignettes. Heck, I don't think you need all of the characters (Stan, in particular, could get cut pretty easily, and I think there's an argument for combining Mike and Ben).
That being said, the two adaptations, purely from the angle of the task of adaptation, are not bad. They retain the core of the book (the kids and their relationships). They retain a lot of events from the book. They ultimately feel like they belong in their own medium instead of being awkward attempts in the wrong one (this is how I view Pet Semetary). The most loyal would be the television adaptation. The best of them is probably Chapter One (though I don't think I'd quite call it good). The most improved is honestly Chapter Two because the adult section of the book is such a wet fart for a long stretch, and at least the ending of the movie works decently.
They all make choices. They all change things. Some big things get changed a whole lot. A whole host of smaller things get changed (Ben being the historian of Derry instead of Mike feels like a crime against Mike). The choices are subjective. The source is flawed. The flaws come through. Some are fixed sometimes, but they're often just left along, translated into the new medium uncritically.
Anyway, I'm done. That's enough. It was an interesting thought experiment. I think the end result is as messy and cluttered as King's original novel.
Sorry about that.
Movies of Today
Opening in Theaters:
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Mufasa: The Lion King
Movies I Saw This Fortnight:
The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Rating 1.5/4) Full Review "Anyway, it's generally not that funny. The plot doesn't really work. The special effects and production design are really good." [Library]
D.C. Cab (Rating 0.5/4) Full Review "He ends up creating this slog of a film that never comes together, never entertains, and never engages." [Library]
St. Elmo's Fire (Rating 1/4) Full Review "Joel Schumacher really wanted to be the Robert Altman for Gen-X, didn't he?" [Library]
The Lost Boys (Rating 2.5/4) Full Review "I mean, I sort of get its enduring appeal. It's pretty fun, but it's also frustrating at the same time." [Library]
Flatliners (Rating 2/4) Full Review "So, I didn't hate it, despite my long list of narrative grievances targeted at its script. Schumacher is a largely unimaginative director, unable to take the material from Filardi and take it in a direction more interesting, but he makes the most of what's on the page." [Library]
Dying Young (Rating 0.5/4) Full Review "This movie is trash. It was approached poorly by Schumacher and then fixed badly by him after test screenings." [Library]
Batman Forever (Rating 0.5/4) Full Review "So, no, I don't like this movie at all. It's really bad. I do appreciate the visual look of the film, which is pretty consistently interesting, but it's far from enough to get me through even singular scenes much less the whole thing. Really, this is the worst Batman live-action film." [Personal Collection]
Batman & Robin (Rating 1.5/4) Full Review "Is this fun? Some childish part of me doesn't hate it, but it's poorly written, poorly performed, and kind of dumb. It might be some of the closest I get to ironically enjoying a film because I don't enjoy it." [Personal Collection]
Contact
Email any suggestions or questions to thejamesmadison.aos at symbol gmail dot com.
I've also archived all the old posts here, by request. I'll add new posts a week after they originally post at the HQ.
My next post will be on 1/11, and it will be about the directed works of Joel Schumacher.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 07:45 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: jsg at December 21, 2024 07:50 PM (Aq3kJ)
Posted by: jim at December 21, 2024 07:51 PM (p9OE+)
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Posted by: jim at December 21, 2024 07:51 PM (p9OE+)
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This is smartness.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 07:53 PM (4LF+x)
Posted by: Gigantic Dude at December 21, 2024 07:53 PM (JkO4W)
I kid!
Never read the book, didn't see the movies. Watched the tv movie decades later and thought it was pretty good, as King adaptions go. I liked how the friends started questioning their memories and forcing through a willful ignorance to confront what really occurred.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 07:54 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2024 07:54 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Gigantic Dude at December 21, 2024 07:53 PM
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Which Bev, though?
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 07:54 PM (4LF+x)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2024 07:54 PM (dDmld)
Well acted, of course, and handsomely produced, but...it was just like the book. (Yes, a couple of minor things got dropped, but the through-story was the exact same.)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 07:55 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 07:54 PM (kpS4V)
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The whole memory thing in the book never quite feels like more than an excuse for doing the time jump. It's the start of an idea that King never finishes, which is par for the course for him.
It's why I was interested in the idea of adapting the book before I watched the adaptations themselves. It felt like a great idea to explore for someone else.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 07:56 PM (4LF+x)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 07:57 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: davidt at December 21, 2024 07:57 PM (i0F8b)
"A nuclear bomb is detonated in Los Angeles, and the nation devolves into unprecedented chaos. Ex-Green Beret Jeff Eriksson and his family escape to The Homestead, an eccentric prepper’s fortress nestled in the mountains. As violent threats and apocalyptic conditions creep toward their borders, the residents of The Homestead are left to wonder: how long can a group of people resist both the dangers of human nature and the bloodshed at their doorstep?"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 07:57 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 07:57 PM (4LF+x)
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2024 07:58 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 07:58 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 07:59 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 08:00 PM (VNX3d)
Only version we watch every year - truest to Dickens, and Alistair Sim, to boot! Amazing that he is so little remembered.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 21, 2024 08:01 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2024 08:01 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 08:01 PM (dxSpM)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2024 08:01 PM (BpYfr)
That can't be War and Peace - the copy I have is 1450 pages. Shogun was 1270.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 08:02 PM (VNX3d)
There was so much character and expression and fluidity in the 2-D characters, and the "lifelike" versions seem flat and lifeless.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 08:02 PM (kpS4V)
I've watched some 90 minute movies that felt like an eternity. Looking at you, Bill Rebane.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 08:02 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 08:02 PM (VNX3d)
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Wind and Truth
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2024 08:02 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 08:03 PM (fwDg9)
Never read a word of Stephen King. I have no intention of reading a word of Stephen King.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 08:01 PM
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I was like this until a weird moment.
I decided to watch The Dark Tower. It's bad. Not recommended.
However, it had all of these little references to the larger universe that King had created through his books, namely a reference to The Crimson King, and I was intrigued.
So, me being me, I decided that the only way to figure this out wasn't to read a Wikipedia article or even to read the Dark Tower series, but to read all of King.
I think I'm an odd duck.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 08:04 PM (4LF+x)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 08:04 PM (tQrL+)
I've watched some 90 minute movies that felt like an eternity. Looking at you, Bill Rebane.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 08:02 PM (CHHv1)
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Seven Samurai is a great example of how people generally don't understand the cinematic reality of pacing.
By almost every measure people use and call pacing Seven Samurai fails, but it moves so easily for its entire 3.5 hours.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 08:06 PM (4LF+x)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2024 08:06 PM (Cbio9)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 08:04 PM (tQrL+)
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I like both versions!
But yes, the earlier, De Palma one is better.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 08:07 PM (4LF+x)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2024 08:07 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 08:02 PM (kpS4V)
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I would be up for an all-animal version of Hamlet. If only Gilbert Gottfried was still alive to voice Polonius.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2024 08:07 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2024 08:06 PM (Cbio9)
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I don't think King understands why his own books work or not, so King railing against Kubrick, who improved his book, never moves me.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 08:08 PM (4LF+x)
Missed last week's Movie Thread. I read Conclave and rather enjoyed it. Anyone who thinks the Vatican isn't some cauldron of intrigue is delusional.
But almost all these Vatican novels pit progressives as the protagonists and traditionalists as evil meanies. It would be fun to see Windswept House as a film.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 08:09 PM (dxSpM)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2024 08:09 PM (a3Q+t)
"Salem's Lot" and "The Shining" are pretty good. I read "The Tommyknockers" and thought it had a good central idea, but boy did it need an editor. (I think he was Superking by this point.) "The Stand" ditto.
Some of his short stories are OK, but a lot of them are kind of dumb.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 08:09 PM (CHHv1)
But yes, the earlier, De Palma one is better.
Posted by: TJM's phone at
There's more than one?
Sissy Spacek is just great. As was the woman who played her mother.
Pet Semetary was a very scary book. Never saw the movie. Figured it would be stupid.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 08:10 PM (tQrL+)
I think I'm an odd duck.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 08:04 PM (4LF+x)
Having done some reading of King (not a lot) and F. Paul Wilson (much more) I prefer Wilson. Better prose, better characters, better plots, and far better horror.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2024 08:10 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 08:10 PM (kpS4V)
And that is Stephen King novels in a nutshell with me. Start out great, lose me in the middle, and if I hang around to the end, I might get a payoff, mostly I don't. Meh on Stephen King.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2024 08:10 PM (Kdi1r)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2024 08:11 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 21, 2024 08:11 PM (OTdqV)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 08:11 PM (CHHv1)
Sissy Spacek is just great. As was the woman who played her mother.
Pet Semetary was a very scary book. Never saw the movie. Figured it would be stupid.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 08:10 PM
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Remade about a decade ago with Hit Girl from Kick Ass as Carrie.
The 80s version of Pet Semetary feels like disconnected scenes from the book stitched together. Poster child for "the book is better".
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 08:11 PM (4LF+x)
I liked The Stand.
It scared me.
Cujo was popcorn, but a fun read.
The Shining was awesome. As was the film with Jack Nicholson.
Guess I read a lot of King. Oh well. So Sue me.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 08:12 PM (tQrL+)
A big spider? Really?
Better if it was Pennywise as a demon
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 08:12 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 08:11 PM (CHHv1)
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Firestarter is where I think King started to lose any semblance of self control. It's his first massive mess, and the adaptation had no interest in fixing anything, making it even worse than the book.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 08:13 PM (4LF+x)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 08:14 PM (tQrL+)
A big spider? Really?
Better if it was Pennywise as a demon
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 08:12 PM
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It's an eternal being with no shape.
But King doesn't know how to convey that, so he resorts to giant spider.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 08:14 PM (4LF+x)
Maybe unpoopular, but I liked the first Sonic movie. I don't know much about what they had to change, other than Sonic's look, but it's generally well done.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2024 08:14 PM (nNWCn)
Or the remake of "The Shining" with King as screenwriter and producer.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 08:14 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 08:14 PM (tQrL+)
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Salem's Lot is apparently the only book my grandfather forbade my mother from reading. It was too scary, he thought.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 08:15 PM (4LF+x)
I've been trying to find the most disturbing horror - slasher films I can. I did see "Children of the Corn" which was underwhelming. Unlikable liberal douchebags that I kind of wanted horrible things to happen to. "The Mist" was good but King really hates religion.
I tried something different yesterday and watched Amazon's "The Tomorrow War" starring Chris Pratt, who I have heard of. I looked it up. Amazon spent $200 million on that movie.
Interesting premise. Aliens attack Earth in 2050 and are wiping put humanity. The humans come back 30 years to recruit people to help them fight. Great effects. The aliens looked awesome. Nearly impossible to kill at first and later on they were dropping like flies with little effort.
So many plot holes. Plot chasms. $200 million and they couldn't get a few extra people to review the script?
It was a movie that looked up at the beautiful sky seeing an amazing world of possibilities, bent down, removed a sewer grate, ignored the sewage, descended and kept getting shittier and shittier with each passing minute. And I'm not that fussy. I haven't seen 5% of the movies many of you have.
3 out of 10.
Posted by: Stateless at December 21, 2024 08:16 PM (jvJvP)
But King doesn't know how to convey that, so he resorts to giant spider.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 08:14 PM (4LF+x)
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It's hard enough to convey formless, eternal evil on the written page. It's impossible to do it in a visual medium.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2024 08:16 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2024 08:16 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 08:00 PM (VNX3d)
Ahh! Big Penguin infiltrated one of my childhood favorites! Snoopy as a penguin! He's funnier as a vulture on Lucy's head, though.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 08:17 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: TJM's phone at December
Rosemary's Baby (not King, I know) was far scarier than Salem's Lot.
Maybe because I was pregnant when I read it.
*shivers*
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 08:17 PM (tQrL+)
I was stuck in a hotel the other day, and the boy wanted to watch Home Alone 2. Funny how evil Tim Curry looks, no matter what character he's playing.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2024 08:18 PM (nNWCn)
Or the remake of "The Shining" with King as screenwriter and producer.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 08:14 PM (CHHv1)
If the main character is a Mary Sue, then I could understand it.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2024 08:18 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2024 08:16 PM (BpYfr)
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I don't think it's impossible. It just requires going backwards instead of trying to go forwards.
Put perception back, say two dimensionally, and then imply from there.
We can't perceive 4 dimensions, but our imagination call begin to paint in 3 dimensions when only given 2.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 08:18 PM (4LF+x)
With the popularity of fantasy like Game of Thrones, it would be relatively simple to adapt.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2024 08:19 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 08:19 PM (kpS4V)
In the right hands, Thinner would be a great movie..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2024 08:19 PM (Cbio9)
I liked Shadowland by Peter Straub more than most anything King wrote,though.
Posted by: jsg at December 21, 2024 08:20 PM (Aq3kJ)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2024 08:16 PM (BpYfr)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer enters the chat.
No, seriously, evil is whatever it wants to be, and the show does a great job illustrating that. Not least of all bringing back a dead character as a ghost, and trying to get other characters to think this ghost is trying to help.
Wildly effective when I first saw it.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2024 08:20 PM (nNWCn)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 08:21 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Puddleglum
Same. He's a terrible writer. Just lazy awful.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 21, 2024 08:21 PM (b294k)
In the right hands, Thinner would be a great movie..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2024 08:19 PM
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Factoid: King has no memory of writing Cujo he was so fucked up.
I think Thinner was made into a movie. It was also the last Richard Bachman book published before people figured out that he was King's pseudonym.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 08:21 PM (4LF+x)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2024 08:21 PM (DopAq)
Posted by: jsg at December 21, 2024 08:21 PM (Aq3kJ)
The Stand was better than IT but ultimately also a mess.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 08:22 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 08:22 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 08:22 PM
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I much prefer The Stand and think it works quite well. King was still trying, and I think it showed.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 08:23 PM (4LF+x)
....
...very very special.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 08:23 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
I had such a crush on Amy Irving in 1976 or whenever. Hubba hubba.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 21, 2024 08:24 PM (b294k)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 21, 2024 08:21 PM (b294k)
And he is a deranged Leftard. I am quite content to not support him in any way.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 08:24 PM (8zz6B)
Or the remake of "The Shining" with King as screenwriter and producer.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 08:14 PM (CHHv1)
There are pieces of any Kubrick film that are well done, but overall most of his films fail, because he's a piece of shit human being, and doesn't know how to treat characters like people.
Nor does he understand what ghosts are, apparently.
The book is great. His move is ultimately a failure.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2024 08:25 PM (nNWCn)
No, seriously, evil is whatever it wants to be, and the show does a great job illustrating that. Not least of all bringing back a dead character as a ghost, and trying to get other characters to think this ghost is trying to help.
Wildly effective when I first saw it.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2024 08:20 PM (nNWCn)
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The First was able to take on various forms, but we never saw its true shape. We really only saw it through the perceptions of the characters. It's an eldritch abomination of sorts, so to view it in its true form should blast the sanity right out of the viewer. It's easy to describe that in a written medium, but very difficult to convey that on screen, as we need our imaginations to fill in the gaps so that we are properly horrified.
When the evil is shown in all its glory on screen, it often loses something.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2024 08:26 PM (BpYfr)
St. Elmo's Fire sucked. Bad. I hated all the characters.
The TV adaptation of 'It'. Haven't seen it in years but I recall liking it. Tim Reid and John Ritter were/are very good in most things they were in. RIP JR. Never saw the movie 'IT'.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2024 08:26 PM (Kdi1r)
Posted by: epador at December 21, 2024 08:26 PM (ip9rs)
There was a lot of good story for Stephen King fan but that scene fucked the book up for me.
One of the strengths of his books is you could identify with the characters and imagine you're doing what they're doing.
That got blown out of the water.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2024 08:26 PM (3wi/L)
Anyway, a policewoman comes across a corpse in the road. She clearly says "Merde!" but the subtitles say "F*ck!"
Quite a change from when a French character would say "Merde!" and the subtitles would say "Darn!"
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 08:26 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 08:29 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
There was a documentary I watched about a group in communist Romania, or some such, that would make copies of Western movies, but dubbed into Romanian. The Character would say "Fuck!" and the Romanian dubber would ALWAYS say "Go to hell!"
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 21, 2024 08:30 PM (b294k)
heh. Lots of clunkers to sit through. Not even one to make it worthwhile.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 21, 2024 08:31 PM (klJTj)
heh. Lots of clunkers to sit through. Not even one to make it worthwhile.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 21, 2024 08:31 PM
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I didn't want it this way! I wanted to have a good time!
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 08:32 PM (4LF+x)
Based on actual events in the Australian Outback where you don't want your car to break down. Some beautiful shots of Australia. 9 out of 10.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers - I liked it. 9 out of 10.
Lifechanger - US - 2018 - Tubi. A dying shapeshifter has to constantly change bodies. Not too gory and was nicely different. 8.5 out of 10.
Hostel - 2005 - thought it would be more horrible. Unlikable main characters, story sucked. Lots of nice perky female breasts so 6 out of 10.
ABC's of Death - 26 short films about death - one for each letter from directors around the world. Cool. Different. 8.5 out of 10.
Finished all the 'Saw' series. Had to buy 3l very enjoyable. I really liked them.
Hey, Christmas movies. Technically the french movie "Inside" takes place late on Christmas Eve and into Christmas Day. It also mentally prepared me for the 'Saw' series. Quite a movie.
Everyone have a happy week.
Posted by: Stateless at December 21, 2024 08:33 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous
I can sit here and read you morons, or I can watch MST3K Track of the Moon Beast on YouTube.
Oh, heck. I can do both. Has the game kicked off?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 21, 2024 08:34 PM (b294k)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
War is heck!
https://youtu.be/7Thq-SBtukg
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 08:35 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Archer at December 21, 2024 08:35 PM (IDphi)
"For the Plasma" - spoilers of course...
A young woman gets invited to a remote Maine house to work for her friend who has some sort of forest fire monitoring job - but she's actually some sort of psychic who can predict stock futures.
And...the film doesn't go anywhere. The non-psychic wanders around Maine...which is pretty enough but...we get no explanation of why the other girl can make these predictions, who she works for, or why the location in Maine matters. The movie ends with the psychic going off for some other employment as her friend asks her to explain anything and she refuses which I guess is meant to echo what the movie writer knew the audience was thinking?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 08:36 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2024 08:36 PM (Kdi1r)
Posted by: Archer at December 21, 2024 08:35 PM (IDphi)
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She was going to make me a pot.
Posted by: Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman at December 21, 2024 08:37 PM (dDmld)
I still can't get over how bad the last season of that show was.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 08:37 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Archer at December 21, 2024 08:38 PM (IDphi)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2024 08:36 PM
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I don't think the original short story is all that. Day of the Triffids but with trucks.
Meh.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 08:38 PM (4LF+x)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 08:38 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 08:38 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2024 08:06 PM (Cbio9)
++++
I enjoyed the original publication of The Stand. That "uncut" version released years later was a real chore, though. Around 50% longer and you can really see how a work can suffer without a good editor.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 21, 2024 08:39 PM (klJTj)
A pretty teenage girl with teeth in her vagina. Vagina dentata.
But somehow it works.
Night all.
Posted by: Stateless at December 21, 2024 08:39 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 08:38 PM
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I think one movie has scared me over the past decade: The Babadook.
One book, The Shining, made me second guess walking down a dark hallway for a moment, which I did without being attacked by a ghost somehow.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 08:40 PM (4LF+x)
Posted by: Archer at December 21, 2024 08:35 PM (IDphi)
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She was going to make me a pot.
Posted by: Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman at December 21, 2024 08:37 PM (dDmld)
I don't want to be alone. And could you get some of your friends to go with us?
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 08:41 PM (LHPAg)
A pretty teenage girl with teeth in her vagina. Vagina dentata.
I knew that shit was real.
Posted by: Barack Obama at December 21, 2024 08:41 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 08:42 PM (fwDg9)
It's tough to be an original all ages movie these days, especially a 100% non woke one...IF delivered...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2024 08:42 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Archer at December 21, 2024 08:43 PM (IDphi)
Posted by: Accomack at December 21, 2024 08:43 PM (IG7T0)
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 08:40 PM (4LF+x)
What made it so scary for you?
I found the kid annoying as hell. And before this, I watched a lot of kids comedy shows that had some pretty annoying characters. Really annoying!
But that kid.....ughhhh.
Posted by: Stateless at December 21, 2024 08:43 PM (jvJvP)
I liked it, but TBH supernatural horror movies aren't very scary to me.
I believe the meaning of the movie is that the monster is really depression and grief
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 08:45 PM (oZhjI)
IF, as mentioned, is the worthy movie to watch...but if you or your kids are bored, this one is a nice holiday distraction...for this year. It's not gonna become the next Elf, or anything...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2024 08:45 PM (exHjb)
I still can't get over how bad the last season of that show was.
Posted by: 18-1
The first 2-3 seasons were really good! When Buffy died they should have ended the series. Her getting together with Spike was stupid and the whole last season was awful.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 08:46 PM (4piHn)
Haven't seen It the miniseries in decade.
Never saw It the movies.
Never read It the book but I did skim to the infamous scene to see if it was as bad as they say and YIKES! Jesus fucking Jehosaphat, what the hell is wrong with King?
Posted by: Robert at December 21, 2024 08:46 PM (Ndvkr)
A pretty teenage girl with teeth in her vagina. Vagina dentata.
But somehow it works.
Night all.
Posted by: Stateless at December 21, 2024 08:39 PM (jvJvP)
There is no reason in hell to watch that twice.
Posted by: jsg at December 21, 2024 08:46 PM (Aq3kJ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 08:19 PM (kpS4V)
And I should read the comments 1st
...Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2024 08:47 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Robert at December 21, 2024 08:47 PM (Ndvkr)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 08:48 PM (oZhjI)
Nope. Nope. Nope. I can't do devil/satan shit. Nope nope nope.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 08:48 PM (4piHn)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage
My mom took me to Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte when I was four. It's part of the reason I am the way I am.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 21, 2024 08:49 PM (b294k)
Posted by: Archer at December 21, 2024 08:50 PM (IDphi)
The Steelers have finally hit that wall and have gone as far as their mediocrity will take them. Meh.
Penn State suprised me and won. I was expecting a Franklin Special. Glorious underperformance and choking.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2024 08:50 PM (Kdi1r)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 08:51 PM (r3wfs)
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Druids.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2024 08:51 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2024 08:51 PM (Kdi1r)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 08:52 PM (L/fGl)
It would, at least, make a certain mechanical sense. Instead, King just demonstrated perfectly that he should not contribute to any adaptations of his work.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 08:52 PM (CHHv1)
Now whenever I see a clip I can't not notice that
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 08:52 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 08:53 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: jsg at December 21, 2024 08:46 PM (Aq3kJ)
Well actually......there is.
-shaitan
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 08:53 PM (LHPAg)
The Steelers have finally hit that wall and have gone as far as their mediocrity will take them. Meh.
Penn State suprised me and won. I was expecting a Franklin Special. Glorious underperformance and choking.
Posted by: Puddleglum
Tennessee looks flat.
Russell Wilson can eabod.
The North Dakota State vs South Dakota State game was all kinds of awesome.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 08:53 PM (6nASi)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 08:54 PM (CHHv1)
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I liked it too.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 08:54 PM (L/fGl)
I saw Constantine a while back. Its not a good movie but...Satan doesn't win.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 08:54 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Accomack at December 21, 2024 08:55 PM (IG7T0)
WTF?
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 08:55 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 08:56 PM (kpS4V)
!) "Pet Semetary"
2) "Cujo"
3) "The Shining"
1 deserves a good movie, which it hasn't had.
2 maybe got about as good a movie as it could have, given the story but it deserves a better flick.
3 was fine but the run through the garden maze was a boring tension killer.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2024 08:56 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
Find Nefarious on Prime. Unsettling. Awesome film.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 21, 2024 08:56 PM (b294k)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos
That's the best thing I've heard all day.
Heh
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 08:57 PM (jLKE+)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2024 08:51 PM (Kdi1r)
Lord Of The Rings: War Of The Rohirrim, directed by Kenji Kamiyama.
A lot of nerds on YouBoob have been hating on it since it's announced. I have more faith in Kamiyama as a director than I do in angry nerds.
Posted by: Robert at December 21, 2024 08:57 PM (Ndvkr)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2024 08:56 PM (iJfKG)
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Everything about the topiary in the book is simply wrong. It is the wrong type of horror. It is the wrong source of horror. It is silly. It doesn't work.
It's one of the big reasons I like the movie more than the book, which I like quite a bit otherwise.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 08:58 PM (4LF+x)
Dude. Cujo, the movie was a laugh. The St Bernard was wagging his tail the whole time!!
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 08:59 PM (jLKE+)
Kerbal Space Program (mentioned by Elon) had a trailer that was amazing. It gave me one-step-for-man chills IRL, even though the characters are green goobers. Later SpaceX made a video that used the same music.
https://youtu.be/P_nj6wW6Gsc?si=fvTuwbfPUxAiIz6v
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 21, 2024 08:59 PM (lhenN)
Dude. Cujo, the movie was a laugh. The St Bernard was wagging his tail the whole time!!
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 08:59 PM (jLKE+)
They had Cujo racheted in on the 'cat' setting.
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 09:00 PM (LHPAg)
It's streaming now on Max...I think.
I enjoyed it and stayed interested. Though it goes pretty much exactly where you think it will. So, that makes the ending flat, which in turn makes you go "meh".
Excellent, crisp direction, great acting, unsurprising script.
Check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2024 09:01 PM (iJfKG)
Have a great evening everyone
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 09:01 PM (fwDg9)
These commercials for the university during college football games are all scientists and laboratories and Nobel-quality research. Never green-haired Gender Theory professors and keffiya-wearing Jew hating students
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 09:04 PM (dxSpM)
Dude. Cujo, the movie was a laugh. The St Bernard was wagging his tail the whole time!!
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 08:59 PM (jLKE+)
They had Cujo racheted in on the 'cat' setting.
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 09:00 PM (LHPAg)
Well, that''s what I mean.
It a solid, tight read, but the movie ain't great.
Maybe they could CGI Cujo to get aa better movie.
And even then, it's a gal stuck in a car for an hour and a half movie.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2024 09:04 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 09:05 PM (CO5FX)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 21, 2024 08:59 PM (lhenN)
I imagine it has sweet feck all to do with anything in Lord Of The Rings.
Studios, having no faith in original material, will often slap the name of an established property to a script that has nothing to do with it. Rework it a little to add some connection or two and voila! Franchise film.
I'm going to guess it's a decent enough fantasy movie. I plan on seeing that and Nosferatu when I get home.
Posted by: Robert at December 21, 2024 09:06 PM (Ndvkr)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 09:07 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 09:08 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 09:08 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 09:10 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 21, 2024 08:59 PM (lhenN)
I imagine it has sweet feck all to do with anything in Lord Of The Rings.
Studios, having no faith in original material, will often slap the name of an established property to a script that has nothing to do with it. Rework it a little to add some connection or two and voila! Franchise film.
I'm going to guess it's a decent enough fantasy movie. I plan on seeing that and Nosferatu when I get home.
Posted by: Robert at December 21, 2024 09:06 PM (Ndvkr
I believe I read somewhere that the movie was created just to keep the rights to the books.
Which is why Spider Man movies are being pumped out all the time.
Posted by: Stateless at December 21, 2024 09:10 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Heh! I like it!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2024 09:10 PM (Kdi1r)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 09:07 PM (kpS4V)
Wouldn't that just be Animal?
Posted by: Robert at December 21, 2024 09:10 PM (Ndvkr)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 09:07 PM (kpS4V)
Make Cujo a teacup Chihuahua with venomous fangs. His victims are all found sprawled out with 2 red Sharpie dots on an ankle, a huge saving on makeup.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 09:11 PM (8zz6B)
These commercials for the university during college football games are all scientists and laboratories and Nobel-quality research. Never green-haired Gender Theory professors and keffiya-wearing Jew hating students
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 09:04 PM (dxSpM)
They're all ad men. Did you ever believe you could feed a starving Ethiopian for .23 a day? To begin with, they were lying, but then Granny sending in $5 US a month multiplied wy whatever mad a tidy sum which was grifted and made some bastards rich. Boy I'm a cheerful sumbitch tonight. Clemson lost.
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 09:12 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Stateless at December 21, 2024 09:10 PM (jvJvP)
Probably.
Film rights are usually "use it or lose it." Studios can't just buy a license and then sit on it.
Posted by: Robert at December 21, 2024 09:13 PM (Ndvkr)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2024 09:14 PM (Cbio9)
I see you're still plowing through Joel Schumacher's oeuvre of crap.
Soon, you will come to the realization that "8 MM" is indeed his best movie.
Maybe(mostly) because it was written by Andrew Kevin Walker and plays out as a kind of refutation of "Seven".
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2024 09:14 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 09:08 PM (L/fGl)
You're not alone. Roku, PlutoTV and Tubi are your friends.
Also, may I suggest asian stuff. I've really enjoyed the asian horror movies I've watched but there's other stuff too. No gays or blacks bitching about racism.
And I don't give a crap that I'm not represented. I just want good stories.
Cats came in. Time to watch something horrible.
Posted by: Stateless at December 21, 2024 09:14 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Megthered at December 21, 2024 09:15 PM (HZt/w)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2024 09:14 PM (Cbio9
I hope this is happier.
Good luck and all the best!
Posted by: Stateless at December 21, 2024 09:16 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Accomack at December 21, 2024 09:17 PM (IG7T0)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2024 09:14 PM (Cbio9)
Maybe she just wants to talk about the LOTR anime?
Posted by: Robert at December 21, 2024 09:17 PM (Ndvkr)
Posted by: Accomack
PSU doesn't win games that matter. A guarantee win for OSU.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2024 09:19 PM (Kdi1r)
Posted by: Accomack at December 21, 2024 09:17 PM (IG7T0)
I strongly suspect that unless Notre Dame beats Georgia, it will be Texas VS Georgia for the 3rd time this year.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2024 09:20 PM (iJfKG)
And of course Richard Dawson was perfect.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 21, 2024 09:21 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2024 09:21 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 08:52 PM (L/fGl)
I loved it - glad someone else liked it, too!
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2024 09:21 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2024 09:14 PM (Cbio9)
Luke 12 vs 12: For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 09:22 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2024 09:24 PM (Cbio9)
Well acted, of course, and handsomely produced, but...it was just like the book. (Yes, a couple of minor things got dropped, but the through-story was the exact same.)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 07:55 PM (CHHv1)
Pfft ...
You want a faithful adaptation, you come to me ...
Posted by: Peter Jackson after reading the Hobbit at December 21, 2024 09:25 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 21, 2024 09:26 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 09:26 PM (aVbgC)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 21, 2024 09:27 PM (lXCUP)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 21, 2024 09:27 PM (lXCUP)
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I kind of grew up with the Arnold movie. It's a favorite of my father's.
Edgar Wright is currently filming a new adaptation, starring Glen Powell. I'm excited.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 09:29 PM (4LF+x)
The most faithful-to-the-book movie I've ever seen was The Fourth Protocol, based on the Frederic Forsyth book. I liked both, but the movie was a bit by-the-numbers. Day of the Jackal was similarly faithful to the book, but in that case, the movie had a real soul; it's a remarkable piece of work IMO.
Posted by: Splunge at December 21, 2024 09:29 PM (hmKaK)
Posted by: Accomack at December 21, 2024 08:55 PM (IG7T0)
The Pony Express they ain't ...
Posted by: Ron Meyer at December 21, 2024 09:30 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 21, 2024 09:30 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 21, 2024 09:31 PM (EXyHK)
It won my heart when the resistance was going through a file folder for the critical news video, and came across a version that said "Edited for Television." How many times did I see that growing up, for a movie that had been cut for length, to fit in a neat time slot with commercials? Countless. To turn that innocuous phrase into something sinister struck me as brilliant.
Posted by: Splunge at December 21, 2024 09:32 PM (hmKaK)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 08:54 PM (oZhjI)
I'm probably in the minority on this, but I thought Constantine was a decent movie. Not great, but good enough.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 21, 2024 09:32 PM (jGGMD)
Reading a little bit deeper about the dumpster fire that is Politics in Germany. I know the gaslighting is worse there than here, all of the western “news” and politics is hopelessly buggered.
I’m trying to wrap my head around a couple statistics. One, is the AfD is the 2nd largest party in the whole country.
Two, polls claimed 85% of Germans would have voted for Harris if they could have.
Does this make any sense?
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 09:33 PM (r3wfs)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 09:33 PM (7MHHr)
When the evil is shown in all its glory on screen, it often loses something.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2024 08:26 PM (BpYfr)
I think you're saying what I'm saying, and I'm just saying I think that's how you portray it. Through the eyes of the character who encounters it. I don't think there SHOULD be a "true form" of evil.
Anyone who imagines it for themselves will see what they see, I'm going to see something else, and it's the horror in my eyes that is a reflection of it.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2024 09:33 PM (nNWCn)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 21, 2024 09:34 PM (D6PGr)
PennSt&ND on one side, Texas Ohio St the other. The bracket is set up to save Franklin's job.
Posted by: Accomack at December 21, 2024 09:36 PM (IG7T0)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 21, 2024 09:32 PM (jGGMD)
I thought it was a great movie.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 21, 2024 09:37 PM (D6PGr)
I thought King's popularity died when a young adult reached puberty.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 21, 2024 09:37 PM (/MR36)
Posted by: BurtTC
Wait. You didn't see the Stay Pufft marshmallow man?
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 09:37 PM (bT4AE)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2024 08:51 PM (Kdi1r)
Are you sitting down? This will come as a shock, but Hollowood decided to make a girlboss who can't do anything wrong the center of the story, even though she was so insignificant in Tolkien's work that he never even gave her a name.
I know, I know, such a radical idea. Who knows, it just might work, there just might be some lesbians in Hollowood who know better than Tolkien who and what his story was meant to be.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2024 09:38 PM (nNWCn)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 09:38 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 09:39 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 09:37 PM (bT4AE)
Ok, I was wrong. There is a perfect manifestation of evil depicted on film.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2024 09:39 PM (nNWCn)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at December 21, 2024 09:39 PM (yLkiW)
I know, I know, such a radical idea. Who knows, it just might work, there just might be some lesbians in Hollowood who know better than Tolkien who and what his story was meant to be.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2024 09:38 PM (nNWCn)
But only if they're lesbians of color (LOC).
Posted by: Dr. T at December 21, 2024 09:39 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 21, 2024 09:40 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Grump928(C)
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In the book, Stan's suicide essentially starts the adult section. In both adaptations, he's much later (last in TV and 4th in the movie). It's a choice that made me curious both times.
King, though, didn't know what else to do with Stan other than to have him commit suicide, so even as a kid he doesn't do much.
I think Stan should have been a replacement in the Club to another kid that It actually kills. That makes Stan not fit into the club and allows for a vignette that actually leads to some consequences.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 21, 2024 09:42 PM (4LF+x)
Well.
King sure likes to blame a lot of things on his alcoholism, doesn't he?
Posted by: Dr. T at December 21, 2024 09:43 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 21, 2024 09:31 PM (EXyHK)
Ed Glosser, Trivial Psychic
https://tinyurl.com/yp44euaj
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 09:43 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 21, 2024 09:44 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 21, 2024 09:32 PM (jGGMD)
I thought it was a great movie.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 21, 2024 09:37 PM (D6PGr)
Yep. Great flick.
Also beautiful filmography and one that deserves a 4K disc, buuuuuuuuuut will almost certainly never get one.
*sigh*
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2024 09:44 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 09:47 PM (vTuB/)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 21, 2024 09:47 PM (D6PGr)
After a dramatic and entirely non-action 90% it switched to low rent Tarantino mess and then deus ex machinad a resolution to the mess offscreen, narrated in the dialogue by a secondary character.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 21, 2024 09:47 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 21, 2024 09:48 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 09:49 PM (ZgUvY)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 09:49 PM (aD39U)
Comment 208 was regarding "Black Robe",
not "Constantine".
Though I like "Constantine' quite a bit and watch it once a year. Good solid flick.
BONUS!: It has the best portrayal of Satan outside of "The Prophecy".
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2024 09:49 PM (iJfKG)
I don't want to make "Constantine" more than it was. I gather it was a pretty sharp deviation from some of the source material, and I remember the audio seeming oddly hushed, so that I couldn't always tell what they were saying.
But it felt like the movie did a great job of world-building, and Constantine himself had a solid character arc, one that fit in decently (not perfectly) with Christian theology. Honestly, if we're leaving aside special-effects action scenes, I would say it's some of the best *acting* Keanu Reeves ever did.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 21, 2024 09:50 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 09:50 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 09:52 PM (aD39U)
Every woke person who thinks native North Americans were just a peaceful people until the white man came along need to watch Black Robe.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 21, 2024 09:53 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 21, 2024 09:54 PM (EXyHK)
I makes me smile.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 09:52 PM (aD39U)
It’s a solid movie though the ending could have been edited better. IMO. Some of it was crammed together and some was stretched out too long.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 21, 2024 09:56 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 09:33 PM (r3wfs)
How often have you heard that Orban is a Nazi, or Meloni is a bigot and totally incompetent? How many times have you heard that La Pen's party RF are far right reactionaries or that the heart and soul of Brexit is isolation and rejection of Europe? Imagine if the only source of your world news is Democrat Underground.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2024 09:56 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: zigggggy at December 21, 2024 09:59 PM (K5Rdg)
King has always, I think, been wildly uneven. But when he's cookin' he's good, particularly in the earlier work. The Shining was imho scary as hell, and King had reason to be dissatisfied with Kubrick's adaptation which threw away too much of what made the story work; YMMV.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 21, 2024 10:01 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: JohnSmith at December 21, 2024 10:02 PM (YL1Op)
By WILL POTTER and KELLY LACO, EXECUTIVE EDITOR OF POLITICS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 23:04 EST, 20 December 2024 | Updated:
Joe Biden kept the grieving relatives of the Marines killed in Afghanistan waiting for three hours while he napped on Air Force One on the tarmac before a dignified transfer, multiple military families have told Daily Mail.
You all knew. Neil, Rick, Jonah, Andrew, and Mark.
You all knew he was DEAD and just rolled out.
Fuck you all!
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2024 10:02 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 21, 2024 10:06 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Orson at December 21, 2024 10:07 PM (dIske)
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024 10:09 PM (9tvFd)
Hobby Thread - December 21, 2024 [TRex]
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread.
As previewed, the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) has determined that the Hobby Thread theme of the week is Christmas and Hanukkah crafting. The Wheel is feeling festive and might be a little tipsy after getting into the spiked eggnog.As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. Politics, current events and religious debates can live in threads elsewhere. Even though it is arguably religion, college football is fair game. Play nice. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls. Pants are optional.
I make the meringue mushrooms and I made the little mouse. My mom had a decorative saw that I hope I can get my hands on next time I visit my stepfather. The ornaments on the cupcakes are made out of white chocolate that I hand painted with edible paint to make them look metallic. The silver hangers are marzipan with edible glitter.
Photos of my finished 1/35 Willys MB. I will be giving it to my dad for Christmas. He served in Company L, 3/34, part of the 24th Infantry Division in Korea and it is only in the last few years that he has begun to talk about his experiences. So I wanted to do something special to honor his service and sacrifice.
I have made Christmas ornaments on and off for years, but I usually make them to give away, My sister sent me a picture a couple of weeks ago because she has some questions about ones I had made her (the ornaments in a row). I have no idea now why I thought it was a good idea to send Valentine hearts for Christmas ornaments!
The other picture is a cross stitch ornament I did keep, along with a hanging. The third ornament is in progress (yes, a very late start) that will be a Christmas tree in the center of a small hanging. I'm making two for my daughter and daughter in law.
Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week with a theme of toys and games? The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.
Someone mentioned Chinese Checkers last week. TRex saw a set (metal playing board and marbles) in good condition at an antique store today with a price tag of $36. It stayed at the antiques store.
Words of wisdom:
"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).
If Christmas or Hanukkah crafting is not your thing and you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, hijack the thread for your hobbying as you see fit. We will feature a different hobby next time. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com All Christmas items are 60 percent off (exclusions apply).
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 05:31 PM (fwDg9)
tinyurl.com/2bysbp3n
Christmas grave wreaths
Sadly only 4 of us made them this year, past more family members helped but are no longer able now.
These are made for past on family
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 05:35 PM (fwDg9)
Glue, or pin the baubles to the ball, maybe wrap some ribbon around, and voilà... ornaments. Hand made. Mom and Dad loved them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2024 05:36 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 05:40 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 21, 2024 05:41 PM (PgoHQ)
https://x.com/BourbnChicken/status/
1868076022421463310
Right now I have Kings of War ogres.
I start a new job in January. While unemployed I have gone through teams at a rate of one figure per day. I paint them in batches of 6-10 usually.
I find that the miniature railroad and WWII people have been full of good advice for my slightly different hobby.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 21, 2024 05:42 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2024 05:42 PM (XTmTf)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 05:43 PM (fwDg9)
I'm not letting one of those things in my home.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 05:43 PM (UodRc)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 05:44 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 05:45 PM (omVj0)
Seconded.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 21, 2024 05:43 PM (mH6SG)
Beautiful workmanship.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 05:45 PM (VNX3d)
You have to have a model if you have the real thing. Rules, you know.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 05:46 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 05:46 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 05:45 PM
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How much blood did you lose from the injuries sustained in the fitting process?
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024 05:46 PM (9tvFd)
I'm not letting one of those things in my home.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 05:43 PM (UodRc)
Leavenworth is that town in the Cascades that's all tarted up in a Bavarian, theme, isn't it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 05:47 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 05:48 PM (omVj0)
I am working on 18mm Bavarian Chevau- Leger cavalry unit from 1812, not sure which Regiment yet. They are light cavalry.
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 05:48 PM (fwDg9)
I will do the same for my grandchildren if I ever get some. Maybe I should start figuring out how to do it soon.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 05:48 PM (gU5fc)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2024 05:49 PM (XTmTf)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Yes! There's a few really good sausage and beer joints on the Main Street. Cute town.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 05:50 PM (gU5fc)
Posted by: Lirio100 at December 21, 2024 05:52 PM (izAv/)
Since I'm off Monday, too, I may trek out to the pipe shop in the suburbs in mid-morning and hang out there for a bit.
A side note: We went into the mall on this side of the river this morning. It was not crowded. One glance at even the sale prices of Ralph Lauren men's clothes, I understood why no one is buying. (I love their stuff. But I wait for sales.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 05:53 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 05:55 PM (omVj0)
I have made several Christmas decorations..
Tree ornaments: I used old wooden thread spools, ribbon and old jewelry or dead watches to make some neat ornaments. I hang my dad's old pocket watches on the tree. I made fake gingerbread ornaments, decorated with puffy paint that looks like piped on frosting. I turned a small novelty syrup can in to a gingerbread house using paint and puffy paint that looks like snow on the roof. Also used some old lace and vintage buttons to make an angel. And used an old wine cork and scrap fabric to make a gnome.
Other decorations: I used a couple of old baby food/juice jars to craft a snowman. Used a tin can and stiff felt to make a snow dusted top hat to hold candy canes.
I am now working on a carousel. An old cookie tin, a cardboard tube from aluminum foil, chopsticks, two small, old, plastic horses, plenty of air dry clay and paint. Also some antique wax to make it look really old and worn. So far, so good. Might not be done before Christmas but it will be out next year!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 21, 2024 05:56 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2024 05:57 PM (vFG9F)
I have it now 60 years after first riding it. Rode it for one season and then we moved to Louisiana.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 21, 2024 05:58 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 21, 2024 05:52 PM (mH6SG)
*****
Indeed, where are my manners? Thanks for the thread TRex. I’m not a hobbiest, but I always enjoy reading this thread.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 21, 2024 05:59 PM (PgoHQ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024
***
How much blood did you lose from the injuries sustained in the fitting process?
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024
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Amazingly, none. Both cats were fine with the suit being put on. There are two simple Velcro straps to fasten, one under the throat and one farther back, and the suits fitted fairly loosely at that. Stirling, the black cat, walked backwards, trying to brush it off, and even leaped into the air like an exuberant goat, hoping it would come loose. Dagny the little cat was not too bothered. She kept moving, so it was hard to snap pics.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 05:59 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Wine bottle condoms! Yes they look like condoms but one uses them to close the bottle that still has wine in it. Hilarious, impractical, and a conversation starter!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 21, 2024 05:59 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 21, 2024 05:52 PM
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You're welcome Dr. Deal.
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024 05:59 PM (9tvFd)
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2024 05:57 PM (vFG9
It's a gift that is useless. Origin story supposedly that the King of Thailand ( Siam at the time) was the only one that could ride or use the very rare White Elephant so he would gift someone he didn't like with a White elephant and they were stuck with the expense of feeding and caring for it for a lifetime.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 21, 2024 06:01 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 06:02 PM (omVj0)
https://x.com/BourbnChicken/status/1868076022421463310
I usually break it up, since people complain if I am anywhere near pushing out the margins.
The line-return sometimes gets copied as a "%20" so if you delete that you get the right address.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 21, 2024 06:02 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 21, 2024 06:02 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 21, 2024 06:04 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2024 06:04 PM (pZEOD)
Have lived in the South all my life and never heard it called Dirty Santa. That sounds like a euphemism for something off of South Park.
Posted by: Scarymary at December 21, 2024 06:05 PM (F2xQR)
We've had numerous gag gift parties with family and friends in the past, but I never realized they were categorized and benchmarked as a social milestone.
All you fucking people are morons and weird.
Happy Holidays!
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 21, 2024 06:05 PM (/MR36)
Posted by: RetsgtRN at December 21, 2024 06:05 PM (uRfvC)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 21, 2024 05:59 PM
33 TRex, you have indeed turned the Hobby Thread into your own. Good work!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 06:02 PM
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Thanks much and thanks for being here!
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024 06:06 PM (9tvFd)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 06:06 PM (fwDg9)
If they turn out good enough they would be gifts. If not, they will be for our house.
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2024 06:06 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Scarymary
Sp funny, I have only heard it as dirty Santa here in my corner of Alabama.
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2024 06:07 PM (pZEOD)
https://tinyurl.com/3j8bsya3
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 06:08 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 21, 2024 06:09 PM (NQtI0)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2024 06:10 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 21, 2024 06:04 PM
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Received. Thank you!
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024 06:10 PM (9tvFd)
I have it now 60 years after first riding it. Rode it for one season and then we moved to Louisiana.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
It snows all the time in Louisiana! Granted, it's the unfrozen version of snow, but it shows year round down there.
Floats on a sled. I'd love to see something like that. Kid running and flopping onto their sled so float down the over full runoff ditch.
Year round sledding in Louisiana. I need to patent that.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 21, 2024 06:10 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2024 06:10 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 21, 2024 06:14 PM (F2xQR)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 21, 2024 06:14 PM (NQtI0)
As a kid in Louisiana I used a piece of plywood to 'sled' on the frequently flooded streets. Lot of skinned knees growing up.
And they think Californians invented the skim board.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 21, 2024 06:15 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2024 06:16 PM (XTmTf)
Oh, don't forget the glued on sparkly red and green 'snowflakes'. Wow were they hideous. Mom hated them as they shed the metallic 'snowflakes' whenever they were touched and got into everything.
These were the same two gamokes that constructed spinny windmills out of empty 2-liter pop bottles. Americana kitsch at it's worst.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2024 06:17 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024 06:18 PM (9tvFd)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2024 06:19 PM (Hkcdp)
Bypasses waves and goes straight to a big hug for both of you.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2024 06:21 PM (XTmTf)
Made pralines, stamped cookies, and gingerbread folk today. Fixed pralines in bags for preacher and choir staff tomorrow.
Almost done with my son's hiking staff--just one more coat of lacquer, then affix the copper cap at the base. It's high gloss because that's what he chose to put on the guitar he made from a kit twenty years ago and there is still plenty. (I am cheap.)
Cross stitched a stocking for his second Christmas that still hangs from the mantel. Memories abound, like him toddling past saying "Hi, Mama" while I stitched it...
Posted by: skywch at December 21, 2024 06:22 PM (uqhmb)
I placed an order for some Mac Baren HH Burley Flake tobacco which has become one of my favorites and some Sutliff Virginia Slices. Both Mac Baren and Sutliff have been bought out by another tobacco company and there is no way to know if my favorite blends will be continued.
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2024 06:22 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 06:22 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Thomas Bender"
Newsletter?
Posted by: Hillary at December 21, 2024 06:24 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at
Yes, these are not hard to make and a lot of fun. Good ones to do with kiddos. These aren’t mine, but I have made them in the past.
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2024 06:24 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 06:25 PM (fwDg9)
https://tinyurl.com/3j8bsya3
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 06:08 PM (fwDg9)
I caught a whiff of radon and it's making me nostalgic.
I love the Napoleon era but I dare not buy any more models until I have painted what I have.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 21, 2024 06:25 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2024 06:25 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2024 06:25 PM (vFG9F)
At least they still have their noses - no dog stopped by to eat them.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 06:27 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: skywch
I have the cross-stitched stocking my grandmother made the year I was born. I still hang it, and I treasure it.
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2024 06:27 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2024 06:30 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 06:31 PM (jgmnb)
I made a snowman out of 3 foam shipping coolers one year and put it down by the road. MisHum posted a pic of it a while back. The garbage men finally got the idea and picked it up.
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2024 06:32 PM (vFG9F)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BLPMsoGbWA
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2024 06:33 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 21, 2024 06:36 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2024 06:38 PM (63Dwl)
At a place where I worked, the winner of one white elephant was required to display it all year. It was a small, garish aquarium (usually maintained without fish).
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 06:41 PM (xekrU)
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 06:42 PM (xekrU)
Posted by: Eromero
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While working at a consolidation/distribution center in the aftermath of the storm, two NG tank transporters rolled up, *loaded* with pallets of bottled water and MRE's. It was very cool/heartening to see.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2024 06:43 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr"
The only time I ever tried it, the nutcracker broke. My jaw dropped. So did the nutcracker's.
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2024 06:43 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2024 06:38 PM (63Dwl)
No. Ours protect our Christmas tree from Krampus. We bought them in Germany way back when.
I use my framing hammer to crack nuts.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I'll hang up and listen... at December 21, 2024 06:45 PM (Ad8y9)
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 06:45 PM (xekrU)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Was going to ask the same.
I don't think they would work.
Maybe you could jam a small peanut in there...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2024 06:46 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2024 06:48 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I'll hang up and listen... at December 21, 2024 06:50 PM (Ad8y9)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2024 06:51 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 21, 2024 06:51 PM (Dm8we)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I'll hang up and listen... at
I get it. I'm trying, unsuccessfully, to "fake it till you make it." Lemme know if y'all figure it out.
*hugs*
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 06:52 PM (3bWKb)
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2024 06:53 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2024 06:53 PM (Cbio9)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2024 06:51 PM (/lPRQ)
Our office party was pretty good. Wife got a hundred bucks in cash. I got 20. made out like bandits, we did.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I'll hang up and listen... at December 21, 2024 06:53 PM (Ad8y9)
Thanks for the thread and this theme. Not much to say about past attempts but it sure gave me ideas for the future.
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2024 06:53 PM (yTvNw)
Thanks for the thread and this theme. Not much to say about past attempts but it sure gave me ideas for the future.
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2024 06:53 PM
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Thank you and thanks for being here. I love it when the HT provides inspiration for future ideas and projects.
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024 06:57 PM (9tvFd)
While working at a consolidation/distribution center in the aftermath of the storm, two NG tank transporters rolled up, *loaded* with pallets of bottled water and MRE's. It was very cool/heartening to see.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,
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Must be individual initiative. NC governor would have nixed it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 06:59 PM (DvLTT)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 07:01 PM (DvLTT)
Posted by: skywch at December 21, 2024 07:03 PM (uqhmb)
Crossword puzzles are kind of a hobby.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 07:03 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others"
It's really just dark orange.
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2024 07:04 PM (vFG9F)
I think she does keep the hearts out but the only reason I can guess at for me to choose them is that the heart patterns were new that year and I wanted to try them out!
Posted by: Lirio100 at December 21, 2024 07:04 PM (izAv/)
PA Dutchman - what a great model and gift! So glad your dad is starting to open up about the topic. You might check out the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project (on their website), if you think you might want to get your father's experiences more formally recorded and saved for posterity (and if he's amenable).
About the model. I once (about 10 years) ago saw what looked to be a perfectly restored Jeep, with a trailer, and (presumably fake!) pintle-mounted M2 in the back ..... in Japan. From a distance (I was on a bridge, Jeep was in a parking lot below). Were the Allied white star-in-a-circle markings kept for Korea?
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 07:05 PM (1m82a)
https://tinyurl.com/3j8bsya3
Posted by: Skip
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Never realized how small your miniatures are. Amazing.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 07:05 PM (DvLTT)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 07:05 PM (1m82a)
I'm not letting one of those things in my home.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 05:43 PM (UodRc)
I had a girl friend who's mom collected Nutcrackers. Her mom also collected Mickey Mouse things, too.
All in all it is less disturbing than my buddy's wife who collected dolls, and put them all into opaque Sterlite tubs, those were freaky to open up casually.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2024 07:06 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 07:05 PM
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Thank you! and thanks for being here. By the way, you win the Century Post award.
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024 07:07 PM (9tvFd)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 07:07 PM (1m82a)
Crossword puzzles are kind of a hobby.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 07:03 PM (CHHv1)
Crossword puzzles are my crack..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2024 07:08 PM (Cbio9)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 07:09 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 07:14 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 07:14 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 07:15 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2024 07:17 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 07:14 PM
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Ummm....I've heard that too. From others....
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024 07:17 PM (9tvFd)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2024 07:18 PM (Cbio9)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 07:09 PM
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What creations? (brushes random and totally unrelated crumbs off my shirt...)
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024 07:20 PM (9tvFd)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 07:14 PM (fwDg9)
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Years ago I fell into that trap, in part because people were giving me figures as gifts, etc, and so I conducted a thorough purge of everything that I could not find an immediate use for.
I do retain an extensive "bits" collection from which future creations can be completed.
The backlog om assembly and painting is now a function of less free time rather than excessive purchasing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 07:20 PM (ZOv7s)
Going down 10mm, 6 mm then 3 mm.
One thing about conventions I get to play with 28mm very often.
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 07:21 PM (fwDg9)
Yum!!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 07:22 PM (W/lyH)
I'm hoping to begin a gradual process of clearing out his place. He won't throw anything away, or sell it, but he will give it to me.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 07:23 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 07:23 PM
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Good timing. Model railroading is in the queue for a future Hobby Thread theme.
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024 07:24 PM (9tvFd)
Posted by: Joe Kidd
>Dude. Can I groom your lawn? Just once.
Before we had monitors there were printers churning out AI.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 21, 2024 07:25 PM (/MR36)
rhomboid,
Interesting. I didn't know C and D got involved in cigars in any way. But from your description, I can see why a pipe tobacco company might help since they can offer flavors not typically used in cigars. I wonder if they used one of their holiday blends, suitably cut for cigars.
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2024 07:26 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 07:26 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024 07:26 PM (9tvFd)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 07:27 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024 07:24 PM (9tvFd)
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Excellent! It's kind of funny because I think he knows I'm going to sell them, although I (truthfully) said that the grandkids would like to see them run. He put great emphasis on saving all the packaging. "Don't throw out the boxes!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 07:27 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 07:28 PM (1m82a)
Not old, just experienced. I can think of few better uses for those cards that had typos in the 79th F'ing column.
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2024 07:30 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 07:14 PM (fwDg9)
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Your painting table is disturbing. Too orderly.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 07:30 PM (ZOv7s)
Never heard of White Elephant until this month.
We've had numerous gag gift parties with family and friends in the past,
Posted by: Dr. Bone
"Gag gift exchange" is what I've always called them. My former employer did one at Christmastime.
I think I still have the South Park xmas tree ornaments I got at the last one packed away somewhere. Not the Mr Hanky one posted earlier this week; just the four main kids. They still don't go on my tree.
Posted by: mikeski at December 21, 2024 07:31 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 07:31 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 07:31 PM (fwDg9)
Yum!!!!
Posted by: Diogenes
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Where's the chocolate and peanuts?
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 07:32 PM (DvLTT)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 07:34 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 07:31 PM
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The email box is always open. Operators are standing by.
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024 07:35 PM (9tvFd)
Elon Musk Breaks Diablo 4 Dungeon Speedrun Record
https://is.gd/IQ8g1y
The 11 video games you should play, according to Elon Musk
Overwatch, Elden Ring, Warcraft, Diablo IV, Quake, Bioshock
Civilization series, Mass Effect series, Fallout series, Polytopia and Kerbal Space Progam.
https://is.gd/hzgGBu
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The surprise here is Kerbal Space Progam, a game in which WTFs build rockets and explore the universe. It's like Mike Tyson playing Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots on his day off.
https://is.gd/XkxKbA
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 07:35 PM (L/fGl)
This has worked very well in reducing clutter, and the chief cause of disorder now is that when I got out of the Guard, I placed some orders with the anticipation that I could knock things out and flesh out new armies and new units.
Alas, I'm once more a custodial parent of toddlers, who painting and assembly have been at a standstill for a year. The Soviet infantry I was finishing off this time last year are exactly where they were. Hopefully I will be able to peel some time away because the most satisfying part about miniatures is putting away a finished unit and then leaning back and saying "Next!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 07:40 PM (ZOv7s)
johnny maga@_johnnymaga
HOLY SMOKES.
Biden reportedly left the families of the fallen Abbey Gate heroes waiting for 3 HOURS while he “napped” on Air Force One ahead of the dignified transfer.
I can’t imagine a more disrespectful way to treat families of the ones whose lives you took.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 07:40 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 07:42 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Javems at December 21, 2024 07:44 PM (8I4hW)
I'll drive right over!
- Saudi guy
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 21, 2024 07:45 PM (81yHT)
Currently completed two calligraphed & illuminated documents for my medieval recreatnion group, which will be given away to the recipients on January 4th, after which I'll try to remember to send TRex some photos. Calligraphy is exhausting so now I'm resting on my laurels before returning to the little oil paint portrait now underway.
Posted by: tankascribe at December 21, 2024 07:45 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 07:45 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Javems at December 21, 2024 07:44 PM (8I4hW)
Not a small batch of sour grapes?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 07:46 PM (VNX3d)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, December 21
Courtesy of Sarah Hoyt by way of mindful webworker who sent me the link to Hoyt's webpage . . . Enjoy! "Perfessor" SquirrelHeh.
Best regards from Jerusalem, Biden's DogI love this teacher 😹🫶🏻 pic.twitter.com/VI3x2RVQAg
— Puchy Catto (@PuchyCatto) December 17, 2024
This lovely moment of tenderness. pic.twitter.com/BPtfswJfSG
— Figen (@TheFigen_) December 19, 2024
These are Sangria and Rooney, both Maine Coon cats. Sangria (the black/gray) is two and a half years old, and she is just over sixteen and half pounds. Rooney, my orange himbo, is a year and a half, and twenty pounds. The table they are sitting on is bone of contention between the two. Sangria considers it hers but Rooney wants to be near her. She likes to sprawl full length on it but he gets up on a corner of it and nudges her until they both are sitting up on it together. The size difference is not due to forced perspective, he really is that much bigger than her. She is rather compact while he is rangy with long legs. (the green blob is a grandchild's Squashmallow picture). Lirio100What a pair! Thanks for sharing this great photo and the details about the differences between the siblings. Family life!
Hi KT, it’s Quarter Twenty. Passing along a note about my friend Charlie’s dog Buddy. He passed over the Rainbow Bridge this week. A black lab mix, he was special to me and a group of friends because we meet weekly for what is essentially a house church. And Buddy was always there to revel in the controlled chaos of a bunch of guys trying to prepare some haphazardly planned meal in a tiny kitchen with an abundance of appetizers, snacks and dropped food. Dutifully cleaning the plates before they entered the dishwasher, he would also incessantly lick hands, arms, and exposed knees of anyone within range. Charlie would usually have to explain to newcomers: “Please excuse my dog. He can’t control his licker.” 70 pounds of friendliness, he loved to accompany the group for a post-dinner walk so he could check his pee mail. Charlie is also a talented photographer and captured this silhouette a few years ago while watching sunset at Shenandoah National Park. Buddy will be sorely missed by all his friends from The Church At Charlie’s House.I think Buddy qualifies as a PetMoron. So sorry that Charlie, you and all of your group have lost him. What a great photo.
This is Belle and she is mesmerized by the Christmas lights. I wish to remain a lurker. Thanks!Thank you for sharing the great photo of Belle and the lights! She's an example to us all of the possibilities of appreciation.
Encountered by Members of The Horde
Great Egret, tired of my shenanigans. By-TorWonderful action photo! We recently had egrets and cranes hanging out locally, but they have moved south for the winter. Nice to see that By-Tor can still photograph one in Southern California.
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:Until next Saturday, have a great week!petmorons at protonmail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, December 14. I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2024 03:07 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 21, 2024 03:08 PM (U81Si)
As long as he/she’s not bitern about it…
Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2024 03:09 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 03:12 PM (xekrU)
Beautiful kitties.
Thanks for this data point. We have a garden variety orange American Shorthair, who is a beast at 20 pounds, and a giant, gentle lover.
He could do some real damage if he wanted, but his main target is cardboard boxes.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 21, 2024 03:12 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 03:12 PM (jgmnb)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 03:15 PM (VNX3d)
Elf died a violent death
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 03:15 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2024 03:17 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Lizzy"
First thing I noticed. Yikes. Seriously.
And 68% is a B now. That's depressing.
Posted by: eleven at December 21, 2024 03:19 PM (iziT8)
Chewy delivered a large bell for Mr Senegal. Will make a big deal out of opening it Christmas.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 21, 2024 03:20 PM (P6t1G)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2024 03:21 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Lizzy"
First thing I noticed. Yikes. Seriously.
And 68% is a B now. That's depressing.
Posted by: eleven at December 21, 2024 03:19 PM (iziT
I'm old enough to remember when the cutoff for a B was 85%.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 03:21 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 03:22 PM (oZhjI)
We stopped to take their pictures and they did not look up from their snuffling and grubbing for the acorns.
It is the occasional scent of these and other wild things that makes Lily the corgi go into a big loud fright howl in those zero-dark-something hours.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 21, 2024 03:23 PM (KiBMU)
Posted by: 18-1 "
About the same time Big Penguin popped up.
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2024 03:26 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 03:26 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 03:22 PM (oZhjI)
Evidently, it started as a book published in 2005.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 03:30 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Lirio100 at December 21, 2024 03:30 PM (izAv/)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at December 21, 2024 03:31 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2024 03:32 PM (yTvNw)
Great post. The distracted
We got a scratching pad and put it over the spot on the carpet that Ony had been clawing at. She hasn't scratched the pad, but has sat next to it, probably trying to figure out how to move it so she can get back to the carpet.
Charlie’s dog Buddy and the Egret are especially artsy pix. Other critters are fun to see.
Posted by: mindful webworker - fur collector at December 21, 2024 03:36 PM (i4Mn+)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 03:22 PM (oZhjI)
Evidently, it started as a book published in 2005.
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The Elf on a Shelf was originally a Christmas ornament that sold back in the Sixties. My parents have one just like it that was tucked away onto a tree branch gap in the halcyon days when we had live trees for Christmas. In the Oughts the Elf came back into vogue, and someone with more gumption than me made a picture book about it, then someone put them together and it was a hit. The cat in question doesn't look repentant at all, which is par for the course.
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at December 21, 2024 03:37 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at December 21, 2024 03:42 PM (XjTSo)
Elf on the Shelf is a SNITCH. Should be crushed under Ace's Shelf.
Tabby Penny deserves SKRITCHES, not snitches.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2024 03:43 PM (Xo+UM)
Elf on the Shelf is a SNITCH. Should be crushed under Ace's Shelf.
Tabby Penny deserves SKRITCHES, not snitches.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2024 03:43 PM (Xo+UM)
If it was an 18" one, then either the cat had a huge litter box, or has skills in hiding things.
Deserves a gourmet meal, at least.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 03:46 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 21, 2024 03:53 PM (P6t1G)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at December 21, 2024 03:56 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 03:57 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at December 21, 2024 03:59 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2024 04:00 PM (TcVeV)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 04:01 PM (2Ra0c)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2024 04:04 PM (XTmTf)
But then again, too few to mention.
Posted by: Sinatra at December 21, 2024 04:06 PM (guGkK)
But then again, too few to mention.
Posted by: Sinatra at December 21, 2024 04:06 PM (guGkK)
But in the end,
I made it my hay!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 04:09 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: NY State Animal Control at December 21, 2024 04:10 PM (dIske)
Sangria and Rooney are actually siblings? they've been mentioned before on the Pet Thread, but we've never seen pics that I recall. Both are astonishing and impressive, as well as beautiful. They look ferocious (as big house cats often do), but Coons are supposed to be gentle creatures.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 04:12 PM (omVj0)
He decided to get in the new one while I was still assembling it. I think that's how a cat says "Five stars."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 04:13 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024
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Wolf and Chekov totaled 27 pounds together, 15 and 12. I used to say I had the equivalent of three normal-sized cats.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 04:15 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 04:15 PM (7MHHr)
Yeah, okay, I snapped a couple too. I'm a terrible sentimentalist. (Or some kind of mentalist, anyway.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 04:19 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Lirio100 at December 21, 2024 04:20 PM (izAv/)
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2024 04:21 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024
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All the tabbies I've known had the M. Dagny the "torbie" -- which means, I gather, a tabby with tortoiseshell patches mixed in -- certainly has the marking.
From what I've read, there are classic tabbies and "mackerel" tabbies. The former has stripes on head, tail, and legs, and the rest looks like a marble cake in the middle (a big "hurricane" whorl on the sides). Mackerels like Dagny have stripes all along theri bodies too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 04:22 PM (omVj0)
Grading on a curve. Had organic chemistry classes where someone getting 40% right scored a C.
Ask me how I know.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 21, 2024 04:24 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Lirio100 at December 21, 2024 04:25 PM (izAv/)
Linda is not a big horse fan; she finds them too large and kind of scary. We went to take a riding lesson at a stable in town many years ago -- English saddle; I'd have rather had a Western seat, but I got over it -- and she did fine. Her horse didn't really take her seriously, though, and would stand, head lowered to crop grass, when she wanted him to walk.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 04:27 PM (omVj0)
Watch your six little forest creatures.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 04:27 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Lirio100 at December 21, 2024
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Ten reps holding either of them would be a good arm workout!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 04:28 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 04:29 PM (omVj0)
I've always been intrigued by Maine Coon cats and I liked the story about them.
Sorry about Buddy. It is a lovely photo, though, and I am happy to hear about a home church. God bless you all!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 04:31 PM (/GtGZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Well...
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at December 21, 2024 04:32 PM (sAmhv)
Grading on a curve. Had organic chemistry classes where someone getting 40% right scored a C.
Ask me how I know.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 21, 2024
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Back in high school, kids in class used to ask, "Are you gonna grade on a curve?" I had no idea what that meant, as I had always striven to do the best I could on any test. Anything below 70 was failing then, so that gives you a hint how old I am.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 04:32 PM (omVj0)
Red Tails are dangerous to songbirds, though not like the accipitor species I suppose. Of course the predator species are “protected” now.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 04:33 PM (FaOSD)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 21, 2024 04:35 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 21, 2024 04:37 PM (iZEhM)
Maybe when she's older she'll become a lap cat. At least now and then.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 04:38 PM (omVj0)
Grading on a curve. Had organic chemistry classes where someone getting 40% right scored a C.
Ask me how I know.
Posted by: Nazdar
OChem is a bitch. I worked harder for that C+ than any other class.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 04:40 PM (1DWAs)
Around here hawks are more than protected, they are welcomed. The most popular are osprey's and the birders in town, of which there are many, build nests for them. Very common to see them fishing and cruising around. Lot of owls as well. Really, lots of all kinds of birds.
We have a lot of conservation land so lots of room to move arounds.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 04:41 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 21, 2024 04:43 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 21, 2024
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I think when I was in high school, an A was 90-100, B was 80-89, C was 70-79. BUt that doesn't leave room for a D before you hit the failing mark of 69. Maybe 95-100 was A, etc.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 04:46 PM (omVj0)
In the first week of his new environs he wandered up to a neighbor's back door. Seeing a large black unfamiliar dog, they called Animal Control.
Before Charlie could spring him from Puppy Prison his picture was on the web with a one word descriptor: "Friendly!"
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 21, 2024 04:46 PM (dg+HA)
Sigh.
Posted by: Brewingfrog at December 21, 2024 04:47 PM (NiLb0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 04:47 PM (omVj0)
Had such a high opinion of my brainpower at that age; was in high school with some seriously sharp people and kept pace...helluva way to have a little humility pounded into me.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 21, 2024 04:48 PM (NcvvS)
Talking of Brie, she always ran from me but whenever I could I would stroke her before she panicked. Finally she no longer runs away and enjoys my attention. Making progress.
It has taken Astrid since early 2019 to make friends with me but now she even sleeps with me, all in the last 2 weeks. (Astrid is Mom to Houdini, Loki and April).
Posted by: Ciampino - The Meow Of Cats at December 21, 2024 04:49 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 04:49 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2024 04:51 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2024 04:51 PM (Hkcdp)
Ciampino's Rescue Kitties
Still accepting donations towards the unkindest cut of all
There's another photo update #288 at the link.
Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on
"See Older Updates" as well if it's your first time.
https://is.gd/WQ5JcT
OR
http://tinyurl.com/4pak97f6
Posted by: Ciampino - The Meows Of Cats at December 21, 2024 04:51 PM (i0xsb)
That's why we hated the curve. We had (mostly) tracked classes, and in a freshman year with 1000+ students, there was some very high-end talent, and there weren't many of those who weren't in at least 3 top-track classes.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 21, 2024 04:53 PM (NcvvS)
Both birds a welcome to eat them!!
The owl in particular was gorgeous. I don’t understand wanting to kill them to save smaller birds - that’s a fact of nature.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2024 04:56 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 21, 2024 04:59 PM (w6EFb)
https://tinyurl.com/4txypfns
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 04:59 PM (oxQ9u)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 05:00 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 21, 2024 05:01 PM (PgoHQ)
Posted by: RobertM at December 21, 2024 05:02 PM (9gJrw)
OChem requires a different type of thinking than many other classes - even chemistry classes. Some people who are good at OChem may not be so good in their other chemistry classes.
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 05:03 PM (xekrU)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2024 05:06 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
Why, back in my day that would be a solid D!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2024 05:06 PM (/lPRQ)
We had A, B, C, D, E, F(ail).
Good times.
When I got over here somebody had to explain what this curve was all about. Also had to be told about 'extra credit'. Madness. Definitely grade dilution.
Posted by: Ciampino - Getting an A was hard on an Chem essay at December 21, 2024 05:08 PM (i0xsb)
My gymnastics coach insisted we were all on the honor roll in high school to travel with the team.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 05:11 PM (35jYC)
OChem requires a different type of thinking than many other classes - even chemistry classes. Some people who are good at OChem may not be so good in their other chemistry classes.
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 05:03 PM (xekrU)
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Yes.
I never enjoyed Physical Chem so didn't do so well. Took to Organic like a duck to water. Also loved Inorganic.
Posted by: Ciampino - Getting an A was hard on a Chem essay at December 21, 2024 05:12 PM (i0xsb)
It's a trap!
Posted by: P'nut at December 21, 2024 05:12 PM (mH6SG)
Follow the beaver tail's bossa nova beat from the hollow log to find him.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 05:25 PM (VNX3d)
The owl in particular was gorgeous. I don’t understand wanting to kill them to save smaller birds - that’s a fact of nature.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2024 04:56 PM (Hkcdp)
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They want to kill off an 'invasive' species of owl to 'save' a local species of owl. Isn't this what evolution is all about?
Posted by: Ciampino - Getting an A was hard on a Chem essay at December 21, 2024 05:25 PM (i0xsb)
Nice Moronimals, as usual!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 05:27 PM (8zz6B)
Nice Moronimals, as usual!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 05:27 PM (8zz6B)
Wow! You want to earn some extra money?
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 05:30 PM (jgmnb)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 05:32 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 05:33 PM (KRipJ)
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 05:30 PM (jgmnb)
Had to do it. No choice. The dust bunnies were trampling the dog while she slept.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 05:35 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 21, 2024 05:37 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: P.T. Barnum at December 21, 2024 05:47 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 04:32 PM (omVj0)
Same here. None of this "grading on a curve".
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 21, 2024 06:13 PM (iODuv)
83 >>Yes.
I never enjoyed Physical Chem so didn't do so well.
Thought that OChem & PChem would be accessible to me. My brain wasn't flexible enough.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 21, 2024 07:40 PM (NcvvS)
Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Dec 21
Edible Gardening/Putting Things By Starting to feel like you've already had too much rich holiday food? Turning toward salads? Tomatoes have been pretty awful around here - even those grown in greenhouses. Have you had any good experiences? We've had some good avocados and some bad ones. We should probably talk again about endive and escarole - classical winter greens. How about some old-fashioned lettuces, or some newer ones bred for dramatic color or climate adaptation? Get out those catalogs. Tom Thumb is 150 years old. A miniature Bibb/Butterhead type. My Mom and I used to take a bottle of vinegar and a salt shaker out into the garden to munch on it.
Cos. This is a very small, green romaine type. One of the very best tasting lettuces we’ve encountered. A superb heat-tolerant variety that is sure to please! Famous among chefs and home gardeners alike!
Bibb/Butterhead. Translating to “The Marvel of Four Seasons,” this famous French butterhead is a standard for flavor and quality! A true marvel both in the kitchen and the vegetable patch. A pre-1885 heirloom; crisp and tender. The fine flavored leaves have a reddish color, and it can be grown almost year round in many locations. The ruby-rose leaves form a distinctly attractive rosette head, but can also be enjoyed as young baby greens. 30-48 days to maturity (30 for baby greens)
Leaf. Originally Devil’s Ear comes from Abundant Life Seed Foundation. It has very large, spreading, loose-leaf heads. Leaves are large, wavy-margined, and suffused in burgundy. We love its nutty, crisp texture and bitter-free flavor. Slow to bolt, and it stands a very long time in the garden.
Leaf. Reputed to be absolutely the darkest red lettuce in existence, making it tops for anthocyanin (antioxidant) content as well! Leaf lettuce with wavy to frilly leaf margins and very crisp, waxy leaves! Excellent bolt resistance, and good cold tolerance for a late fall to winter crop. Recommended as a cutting type for baby greens production or cut-and-come-again harvesting. We feel, along with our friend William Woys Weaver, that this variety is destined to become a classic, and it certainly deserves it! A rich source of potassium and vitamin A.
Ornithogalum thyrsoides -
Chincherinchee, Tjienk, Star of Bethlehem
Chincherinchees or ‘tjienks’ belong to the genus Ornithogalum and are members of the Hyacinth family that includes indigenous garden favourites like Eucomis, Lachenalia and Veltheimia. There are more than 120 species of Ornithogalum and the name is derived from the Greek words ornis and gala, meaning ‘bird-like’ and ‘white’ respectively. In Roman times, bird’s milk was used to describe anything special or admirable. Ornithogalums have a disjunctive distribution in Africa, the Middle East, southern Europe and western Asia, but most species occur in Southern Africa – mainly in the winter rainfall regions of the Northern, Western and Eastern Cape. There are also a number of summer-growing and evergreen species such as Ornithogalum Saundersiae (Giant Chincherinchee) and Ornithogalum Longibracteatum (Pregnant Onion).There's a lot more information about the plants than you see in most American gardening magazines. More at the link. Blooms may last 6 weeks when cut. The plant is very poisonous. Don't you love the name "Chincherinchee"? "Ornithogalum Thyrsoides is seen to great advantage when grown in rock garden pockets inter-planted with the mauve, late spring-flowering annual, Senecio Elegans (Wild Cineraria)." The latter is recognized as a potentially invasive weed in coastal sand dunes in California.
Want to take a Magic Elevator ride to the North Pole?
Ten months ago I approached the City . . about a special project I had in mind. Inspired by a video I had seen about an attraction in a mall in Canada. . With a budget to buy materials, I got started. I had to build the magical elevator, Santa's Workshop, and design the computer program that would take the families to see Santa. The journey starts by a greeting from Santa's elf, step into the elevator, and the journey begins. When you arrive at Santa's house, you ring the doorbell and Santa is there to greet you. I have never worked on anything of this magnitude and there were times I just didn't think I could get it done. . . A special thank you to so many people who helped out.
Thread of the world's most beautiful towns and villages at Christmas 🧵
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) December 20, 2024
1. Locorotondo, Italy pic.twitter.com/Nnw7LUL3yt
Hi Katy, Just back from some early winter maintenance at our vacation home in northern Israel. The gardener was at work the other day and managed to save some birds of paradise for Mrs. BD to take back home to Jerusalem. Regards from Jerusalem, Biden's DogA fascinating flower. It's the City Flower of Los Angeles.
From Don in Kansas:
While most of the yard is dormant, one of the daffodils got the dates mixed up and is blooming now. Unless the temperature gets extremely cold soon, I should have flowers in the garden for Christmas.
If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, the address is: ktinthegarden at g mail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2024 01:04 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 01:05 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 01:08 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 01:14 PM (VNX3d)
*tosses blow-molded light-up Frosty in the dumpster*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2024 01:18 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 01:19 PM (zQ3t+)
-Frank Z.
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 01:26 PM (jgmnb)
Many of those places in Europe are worth seeing on any day
Posted by: javems at December 21, 2024 01:27 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 01:27 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 01:30 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 01:31 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 01:34 PM (xekrU)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 21, 2024 01:35 PM (fzQGK)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 21, 2024 01:36 PM (fzQGK)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2024 01:37 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 01:39 PM (fwDg9)
My favorite room in the house.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 21, 2024 01:39 PM (dg+HA)
Paiute in Susanville, CA? "Pogonip" is a good word.
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 01:41 PM (xekrU)
*drags in blow-molded light-up Frosty he found in the dumpster.*
Posted by: Cicero's neighbor down the street at December 21, 2024 01:43 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2024 01:43 PM (yTvNw)
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
JUST - Biden has signed the stopgap funding bill. The shutdown has officially been averted.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 21, 2024 01:48 PM (hovnC)
The bird of paradise is a beautiful flower.
Nice choice.
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Its the most "exotic" plant growing in our garden. All other tree, flowers and plants are more appropriate to the mountain climate and location of our home in northern Israel.
I expect it to be a few months before we see some new flowers blossom toward the start of spring.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2024 01:50 PM (1xs6C)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 01:54 PM (fwDg9)
was it a bimmer? My friend's son did that with his car
Posted by: kallisto at December 21, 2024 01:56 PM (dCxaZ)
and Locorotondo, Italy...wow. Would be delightful to visit there.
til then, I'll have to stick to a Christmas Village closer to home:
https://tinyurl.com/5dy2h6bf
Christmas in Cape May NJ
Posted by: kallisto at December 21, 2024 01:59 PM (dCxaZ)
Been a mild winter to date. I'm hoping we get enough rain this spring I can turn over a patch.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 21, 2024 02:02 PM (NQtI0)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 02:03 PM (fwDg9)
They used a Mercedes C-220 for a Christmas Play in New Jersey. It was carrying three Wise Guys and they followed that three-pointed star.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2024 02:10 PM (Xo+UM)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 21, 2024 02:27 PM (UKUm3)
'Health' note: if you're growing dark greens because they are so good for you (and for most, they are) and have a history of folate stones, be prepared for a doctor to tell you to eat less lettuce and spinach. You just can't win.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 21, 2024 02:33 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 21, 2024 02:27 PM (UKUm3)
*hits Curley on head with mallet*
Posted by: Moe Howard at December 21, 2024 02:40 PM (TcVeV)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 21, 2024 02:27 PM (UKUm3)
*hits Curley on head with mallet*
Posted by: Moe Howard at December 21, 2024 02:40 PM (TcVeV)
You guys!
Posted by: Larry Fine, the Peacekeeper at December 21, 2024 02:43 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 21, 2024 01:35 PM (fzQGK)
-_-_-_-_-_-_-
Ah, the hazards one misses growing up on the high plains. Met a gal from Indiana who asked me, 'Where are all the trees?". I told her, "We thought you were gonna bring 'em."
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 21, 2024 02:46 PM (52uDx)
His sister - my aunt - inherited it when Uncle died. It did a lot of traveling before she passed it on to me a couple weeks ago. It's not going to bloom this year.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 21, 2024 02:49 PM (KdWM9)
I've never heard of folate stones, but if you have a history of oxalate stones, you need to avoid spinach, chard, beet greens and maybe some other greens, veggies and nuts.
Lettuce is very low in oxalate, spinach is very high. But some people with other kidney problems may need to limit lettuce because of its potassium content.
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 02:54 PM (xekrU)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 21, 2024 02:27 PM (UKUm3)
*hits Curley on head with mallet*
Posted by: Moe Howard at December 21, 2024 02:40 PM (TcVeV)
Niagara Falls? Niagara Falls?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 02:58 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2024 02:59 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 03:07 PM (xekrU)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 21, 2024 03:09 PM (U81Si)
Plants with a family history are the best. In addition to Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter cacti, some indoor begonias and hoyas can be passed down.
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 03:09 PM (xekrU)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 21, 2024 02:02 PM (NQtI0
Notsothoreau, this might not be the culprit in your case, but I have found that I'm fine with lettuce if I wash it myself, specifically if it's "pre-washed". There's something they use on pre-washed lettuce that often causes digestive distress for me. Fortunately, it rinses off okay.
Posted by: Emmie at December 21, 2024 03:18 PM (Sf2cq)
Interesting we should be talking about lettuce and spinach. Due to a health problem that turned up recently, I've been advised to eat a lot more vegetables. The first change I made was from a meat-cheese sandwich for lunch, to a tuna-mayo-spinach salad topped with a few dried blueberries. The side effect losing a few pounds, in just the first week - definitely not complaining! I'll be taking my lettuce and spinach growing efforts more seriously this year. Oh, and yesterday I harvested fresh parsley to add to my salads! I had no idea it would make it to late December without freezing out.
We cut one of the blue spruce trees from our wind-row as our Christmas tree - our first tree cutting. We planted them at double density so we could do this. Blue spruces have very pointy needles...
Husband's Puttering was to frame more of his old mosaics and hang them in the master bathroom. Mine was to take the "vanilla meltys" left over from making peppermint bark, melting them with crushed candy canes, and using that to coat roasted almonds.
Posted by: Pat* at December 21, 2024 04:49 PM (A6A+8)
A bold educational change in New Zealand
It is a rare day that I suggest we follow New Zealand’s example for anything, but this is one step Congress and the Trump Administration should strongly consider in their efforts to force universities to reform themselves (which they are not going to do without concentrated and sustained outside pressure): From Science magazine:Links at the link. BOLD! What do you think led to this move?Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences This week, in an announcement that stunned New Zealand’s research community, the country’s center-right coalition government said it would divert half of the NZ$75 million Marsden Fund, the nation’s sole funding source for fundamental science, to “research with economic benefits.” Moreover, the fund would no longer support any social sciences and humanities research, and the expert panels considering these proposals would be disbanded.
Hmmmmm . . . New Zealand expects to post budget deficits over five-year forecast period Immigration: Another annual record for departures from New Zealand
Imagine taking budgeting into consideration when designing university programs.
First, I am sure that if the Trump Administration cuts off NSF and other federal funding for university social sciences and humanities, the campus whiners won’t call it “astonishing.” They’ll call it “genocide.”Remind you of anything going on in the USA right now? Hayward also got curious and looked up the bio of a professor quoted by Science because of her interest in the importance of social sciences to New Zealand’s economy and “social cohesion.” Read her research accomplishments and interests at the link. She seems to be fascinated by the concept of "nation", especially with regard to Northern Ireland, and she has been concerned about pre-9/11 stereotypes of Irish terrorists. One could imagine by trying really hard how that research could improve the social cohesion and economy of New Zealand for certain people. But can she show us her data? How about her other interests? Does studying them improve social cohesion and the economy? Where are the data? She has a PhD from Stanford, so there may be some professors pretty much like her stateside. And some who are more feisty and disagreeable. There is an appealing photo of her at the link if you're into professors who are into cosplay.
Students are not being well-educated at our current universities pretty much anywhere in the West. Got any suggestions for federal or state authorities, or donors here in the USA?
The droneswarm has only intensified over the last week. And that’s just in New Jersey. On Capitol Hill, the spending drones have suddenly hit some electronic interference in the form of Elon Musk, and boy are they hopping mad about it. Imagine—a billionaire not named Soros or Bloomberg having the audacity to get involved in politics! And media drones such as George Stephanopoulos and Chris Cillizza are losing altitude fast.
The fall of Rome is widely misunderstood.
— Culture Critic (@Culture_Crit) December 17, 2024
It wasn't invasion, disease or famine that truly brought it to its knees.
Rome collapsed because the birth rate did… (thread) 🧵 pic.twitter.com/IxbMVp69hv
Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, Sydney Opera House
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2024 11:02 AM (2UnvF)
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 11:03 AM (xekrU)
This is not sustainable.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2024 11:08 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 21, 2024 11:09 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 21, 2024 11:09 AM (LAw/P)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 11:10 AM (L/fGl)
Maybe they can challenge them to a game of rugby.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 11:10 AM (ZOv7s)
This is not sustainable.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2024 11:08 AM (u82oZ)
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The whole CEO assassination thing showed that gun control really is about punishing enemies. There's not even a pretense that it will reduce crime - especially when they're also letting violent offender out without any restraint.
Interesting times.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 11:12 AM (ZOv7s)
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Basic research is in physics, chemistry, and biology. Not social sciences or humanities. Cut government funding for anything but physics, chemistry, and biology.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at December 21, 2024 11:13 AM (17s+e)
https://youtu.be/7oKqptZdQ3k
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 21, 2024 11:14 AM (PiwSw)
Biden on Iran: Too Little, Too Late
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 11:10 AM (L/fGl)
Biden wasn't ever a "tough guy".
He was that yappy little cartoon dog that's all aggressive cuz he's got that big bad dog)Secret Service) to back him up.
On the plus side, he sure knew how to steal from the American gov't. So, kudos to yappy dog Joe.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2024 11:17 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable
__________
All of the humanities researchers will just find some tenuous connection of their work to climate change.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 21, 2024 11:17 AM (Dm8we)
Posted by: BignJames at December 21, 2024 11:17 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Present at December 21, 2024 11:17 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 21, 2024 11:18 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 21, 2024 11:19 AM (1bNHn)
Happily, Max is streaming the 'Horns game later today.
And the SMU college playoff game right now.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2024 11:20 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 11:22 AM (jgmnb)
Lord of the Rings was filmed there so that's a plus
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2024 11:23 AM (DopAq)
I've asked before, isn't there a Kiwi Horde member called Frank? Still around?
Posted by: Ciampino - make it worthwhile to have kids WHEN MARRIED at December 21, 2024 11:24 AM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Little Navy Joan at December 21, 2024 11:24 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Ann at December 21, 2024 11:25 AM (4neFu)
Posted by: The Great Poof at December 21, 2024 11:26 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Little Navy Joan at December 21, 2024 11:24 AM (G5+As)
Sure...bituminous or anthracite?
Posted by: BignJames at December 21, 2024 11:27 AM (Yj6Os)
Last weekend, Hubbymayhem took me to a Mannheim Steamroller performance. They were wonderful! They kicked off the show with their arrangement of Hallelujah chorus. Just instrumental of course. But I was tearing up for the beauty of that piece. The last song was Oh Holy Night. My favorite Christmas song and it always brings tears.
So I started the performance with tears and ended it with tears!
Have a wonderful and blessed Christmas!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 21, 2024 11:28 AM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Sands of Time at December 21, 2024 11:28 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 11:29 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: BignJames at December 21, 2024 11:30 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: Navy Joan's Dad at December 21, 2024 11:30 AM (G5+As)
Both terrorism and regular crime are seen as positive by western elites. Because fear will allow them to push for ever more control over society. Now they won't use their additional power to stop terrorism/crime but the compliant FNM will obscure that.
How many times have you seen "we have to do something!" when there are already laws against some outrage...laws that weren't enforced against politically sensitive groups?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 11:31 AM (oZhjI)
from the X link of Sharyl Attkisson
"These monuments weren't "manned" to begin with. The only reason to cordon them off from the public was so that visiting tourists would see the "impact" of the shutdowns and the news media would have something to take pictures of and interview people about."
And as I recall, they kept veterans out (or tried to) but opened it so illegals (or at least "Hispanics") could do a festival there.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 21, 2024 11:31 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 11:32 AM (xekrU)
On some of the islands in that part of the world the Maori ATE their predecessors.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 11:32 AM (oZhjI)
Link is in last week's post, I think. See end of this thread.
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 11:33 AM (xekrU)
Christmas Before Dickens, Napoleonic Wars Podcast
https://tinyurl.com/4efysazw
It's on Spotify. It has nothing to do with Napoleonic wars just pre and post Christmas traditions and how they started and changed .
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 11:34 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: muldoon, astronomically challenged at December 21, 2024 11:34 AM (991eG)
'The whole CEO assassination thing showed that gun control really is about punishing enemies. '
It confirmed for me that leftists are happy to see people they don't like murdered.
But it showed me that they have no idea that they are vulnerable too.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2024 11:34 AM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 11:35 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: KT
So, that's where I read it!
Posted by: Mind Like A Sieve at December 21, 2024 11:35 AM (G5+As)
POLITICS · DEC 20, 2024 ·
'Elon Is Controlling Trump!' Complain People Controlling Biden
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 11:35 AM (L/fGl)
Meeting up with a 4320 pulling a large disc, or cultivator bar, made things interesting
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 21, 2024 11:36 AM (8AONa)
Posted by: muldoon, astronomically challenged at December 21, 2024 11:36 AM (991eG)
Posted by: Sands of Time at December 21, 2024 11:28 AM (G5+As)
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I saw that. It makes me smile when I see all these places here in the Midwest that advertise 'ANTIQUES' and I think of Europe. Of course much of ours follows 'My Junk is Your Antique' principles.
(Not THAT junk, keep your mind out of the gutter)
Posted by: Ciampino - Genuine Louis XIV Imitation Furniture at December 21, 2024 11:37 AM (i0xsb)
They're making great progress. Just look around...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2024 11:37 AM (Q4IgG)
Rowdy the kangaroo has jumped his fence and is on the loose in Texas.
***********
Animal control officer, strapping on his vest and body cam:
"It's Rowdy duty time!!"
Posted by: muldoon, astronomically challenged at December 21, 2024 11:38 AM (991eG)
A great example of this...the Aztecs arrived in Mexico after the Vikings did in the Americas...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 11:39 AM (oZhjI)
Posted by: muldoon at December 21, 2024 11:39 AM (991eG)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 21, 2024 11:40 AM (4XwPj)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 11:40 AM (oZhjI)
No heavy lifting or using a vacuum.
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 11:42 AM (xekrU)
Posted by: Officer Pete At The Pound at December 21, 2024 11:42 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: muldoon at December 21, 2024 11:39 AM (991eG)
Heh.
I first read that as jock adjust.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 11:42 AM (W/lyH)
Whew! Glad I teach Business.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 11:44 AM (W/lyH)
If it shags the sheep we'll have a whole lot of woolly jumpers.
Posted by: Ciampino - Genuine middle school humor at December 21, 2024 11:44 AM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Your hernia doctor at December 21, 2024 11:44 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2024 11:44 AM (gm9Sb)
Maybe they can challenge them to a game of rugby.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 11:10 AM (ZOv7s)
Better yet, a game of intersectional victimization.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 11:44 AM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Officer Pete At The Pound at December 21, 2024 11:42 AM (G5+As)
N worries. They will get him in the hopper in no time.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 11:45 AM (W/lyH)
Nah. Just eliminating social science "research". If you know what I mean.
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 11:45 AM (xekrU)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 11:46 AM (fwDg9)
Nah. Just eliminating social science "research". If you know what I mean.
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 11:45 AM (xekrU)
Well that does it then.
If I have to continue to put up with their incessant whining at faculty meetings, then I'm keeping my flask to myself.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 11:47 AM (W/lyH)
BTW despite NZ being easier to knock over than Jenga, the CCP would have to get past the Philippines -- the Houthi of the South Seas.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 21, 2024 11:48 AM (wBaIH)
BREAKING: White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre warns that a government shutdown could delay the transition of power from Biden to Trump.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 11:48 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 11:40 AM (oZhjI)
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These are the fools that no nothing about farming or manufacturing. Was it Bloomberg who claimed farming was a piece of cake?
Posted by: Ciampino - murdered by security at December 21, 2024 11:48 AM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 11:48 AM (7MHHr)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2024 11:49 AM (DopAq)
know
Posted by: Ciampino - murdered by security at December 21, 2024 11:49 AM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Ciampino - murdered by security at December 21, 2024 11:48 AM (i0xsb)
They shared their knowledge of farming with CHOP in Seattle.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 11:49 AM (VNX3d)
Democrats don’t hate guns, they love guns. They hate you. And they don’t want you to be aboe to defend yourself, the most basic fundamental human right of all.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 11:50 AM (XH8Ra)
Be better New Zealand.
Posted by: UN World Report On Rape at December 21, 2024 11:50 AM (R/m4+)
______
Seconded. The PM was one of my favorite characters:
https://tinyurl.com/bs8krzb5
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 21, 2024 11:52 AM (Dm8we)
Posted by: Retired, thank God at December 21, 2024 11:52 AM (9BIt9)
Posted by: Rowdy the Kangaroo at December 21, 2024 11:53 AM (PT7Bh)
Glad you got to go to that performance. Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 11:53 AM (xekrU)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 11:48 AM (L/fGl)
Karine is raising the red banner of rebellion there in DC?
sounds insurrectiony to me.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2024 11:53 AM (D7oie)
Yeah, I was driving over a bridge on the west side of the South Island, looked in my rear-view mirror, and saw a train following me across the bridge.
That was a first.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2024 11:53 AM (uxCna)
That's not their only moral shortfall.
Posted by: Let's Invite Uncle Bosie To Dinner at December 21, 2024 11:54 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 11:54 AM (7MHHr)
In fact, it would be better for everyone involved if you leave now.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 11:55 AM (XH8Ra)
Maori/British treaty that held for 184 years!
Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 21, 2024 11:55 AM (QSrLX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 11:55 AM (RIvkX)
Rome collapsed because the birth rate did
Isn't it likely that the former caused the latter?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 11:57 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 11:58 AM (xekrU)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 11:54 AM (7MHHr)
It usually works pretty well too until one barbarian claims to be more popular than the other.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 21, 2024 11:59 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 12:00 PM (aD39U)
-
Skynet is here!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 12:01 PM (L/fGl)
Who was wild and a little unscrupial
He was surely not sterile
In fact he was so virile
That his wife was expecting quintupials
(yeah, so sue me)
Posted by: muldoon at December 21, 2024 12:01 PM (991eG)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 12:00 PM (aD39U)
She sounds insurrectiony, and should get to join the J6 hotel guests....
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 12:01 PM (VNX3d)
For some reason X has put a couple of videos in my feed of a woman arguing that the Crimean Tatars are "indigenous" to Crimea, as opposed to Turkic invaders who "displaced" the Greeks and other ethnic groups who were living in Crimea earlier.
The Official Explanation, as given on Wikipedia, is that the Tatars "merged" with the existing population of Crimea, so the Tartars count as indigenous.
We should try that argument with Europeans and American Indians.
Next up, I expect to see videos explaining that the Turks are indigenous to Turkey.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2024 12:01 PM (uxCna)
This is how you start hundred year wars. Is that what you want?
Maybe you should check with your bishop before you talk.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 21, 2024 12:02 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at December 21, 2024 12:03 PM (Ej3El)
I have to stifle a laugh when I'm in an "antique mall" and see Star Wars toys in the display case.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 21, 2024 12:03 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 21, 2024 12:03 PM (goY6W)
Apprenticeships and shovels.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 21, 2024 12:04 PM (goY6W)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2024 12:04 PM (DopAq)
Apprenticeships and shovels.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 21, 2024 12:04 PM (goY6W)
There are dignity kanals to be dug.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 12:05 PM (aD39U)
I think you meant to type appalling, not appealing.
Shudders.
Posted by: MammaB at December 21, 2024 12:05 PM (WotRI)
So there's that.
Posted by: The Tartars at December 21, 2024 12:07 PM (dg+HA)
Rome collapsed because the birth rate did
Isn't it likely that the former caused the latter?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 11:57 AM (aD39U)
Probably not - wealthy urban populations generally move away from child bearing, as it is no longer a source of wealth to them as it is for rural, agricultural populations.
Look at South Korea today - wealthy highly developed urban society, but population is about to collapse because so few children are being born.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:07 PM (7MHHr)
You want to try that again except this time write it out in understandandable English?
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. Today is not that day! Dangerous Radical at December 21, 2024 12:07 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2024 12:11 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024 12:11 PM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 21, 2024 11:59 AM (g8Ew
Leading to about 1,000 years of European history where the rulers traded towns and regions back and forth like they were just pieces on a game board , without anyone in them being asked what they thought about it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:12 PM (7MHHr)
Posted by: muldoon at December 21, 2024 12:12 PM (991eG)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024 12:13 PM (ZmEVT)
It's a difficult line of argument - you need to understand that being allegedly Indigenous is all-important in the United States, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia; and being allegedly Indigenous is utterly unimportant in Europe.
One wouldn't want to view the new masses of people flooding into Europe as coloristic settler-invaders, like one views historical immigration into the US/Can/Aus/NZ area.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2024 12:13 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 12:13 PM (W/lyH)
You want to try that again except this time write it out in understandandable English?
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. Today is not that day! Dangerous Radical at December 21, 2024 12:07 PM (89Sog)
Don't hold your breath.
Posted by: More loose screws than Ace Hardware at December 21, 2024 12:14 PM (UKe2c)
That was a groaner.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2024 12:14 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: I gotta get out more at December 21, 2024 12:15 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 12:16 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024 12:16 PM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 12:16 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024 12:11 PM (ZmEVT)
Immediate material problems and a lack of purpose or vision for the future will do that too.
Posted by: Kids aren't cheap and inflation is high at December 21, 2024 12:16 PM (UKe2c)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 12:17 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:17 PM (7MHHr)
Yeah, but when "humanities" has been transmuted into yet another branch of Oppression Studies, as it has most places, it becomes completely useless.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2024 12:18 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024 12:18 PM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: no one of any consequence
Ick! How did you ever afford triple-virgin Olive oil and Tuscan vacations? Ski vacations to Vail? New BMW?
Posted by: Adam and Steve at December 21, 2024 12:18 PM (G5+As)
Dock workers in Wellington excepted (they had strikes affecting vital military logistics at one point).
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 12:19 PM (1m82a)
As soon as I finish this drink.
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 21, 2024 12:19 PM (dg+HA)
That part of the world had a large number of groups move through it - the Scythians, Alans, Huns, etc.
Though to your point the Greeks had the longest most notable presence in the area.
On a somewhat related note if you want to bring Turkey to heel start demanding the return of Constantinople and Eastern Asia Minor to Greece. The Greeks were only ethnically cleansed from those areas about 100 years ago.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 12:20 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 12:20 PM (DvLTT)
Strongly recommend anyone who can go there and spend some time. Fantastic things to do and see beyond scope of a comment section. Only spent a month but it was packed full and could have done more.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 12:21 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 12:22 PM (DvLTT)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:22 PM (7MHHr)
Losing wars will do that.
Ask the Germans.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2024 12:23 PM (uxCna)
Thanks for posting it, KT and good luck with the recovery!
Posted by: SimoHayha at December 21, 2024 12:23 PM (yf7Pm)
Posted by: Social Workers at December 21, 2024 12:23 PM (dg+HA)
But it showed me that they have no idea that they are vulnerable too.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2024 11:34 AM (3wi/L)
The murdered CEO was undoubtedly a Democrat, and profited greatly from Obamacare. Had some link to P. Lousy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 12:24 PM (8zz6B)
The tax cuts offered are generally trivial to the standard of life of middle class and above people.
Want to really encourage family and kids?
Married couple pays 50% of their combined tax rate after all other deductions are made. Then each kid as he increases the size of the family reduces it further - one kid 33%, two kids 25% and so on.
This would save enough money to really have an impact on people's lives and encourage rich/upper middle class people who can afford kids to have them. And yes it would in the end heavily penalize singles and DINKs.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 12:24 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 12:25 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Feeling Flushed at December 21, 2024 12:25 PM (G5+As)
I once had to go through a bunch of resumes of college graduates, and half-jokingly suggested that we could throw out all the resumes of the people whose major contained the word "environmental".
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2024 12:25 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 12:20 PM (oZhjI)
Recent genetic studies have proved a bit embarrassing, as they showed the great majority of the Turkish population today is in fact ethnically Greek. Almost as if the Ottoman Turks were always just a small warlike ruling class that was able to impose their rule on the same old population that has always been there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:25 PM (7MHHr)
**********
If they are leaving shouldn't that be 'emigration' rather than 'immigration'?
Or is this a nit that doesn't need picking?
Posted by: muldoon at December 21, 2024 12:27 PM (991eG)
Posted by: From about That Time at December 21, 2024 12:27 PM (4780s)
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He who blinks his lights first has the right of way.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 12:28 PM (DvLTT)
I suspect a lot of that is concubinage/extra wives/flat out rape
The Turks did win some notable battles, but mostly took over areas in Asia minor as Greek authority waned. And since Muslims could take up to 4 wives they'd take their share of the local Greek women and kill/enslave the men.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 12:28 PM (oZhjI)
And I don't know why the Turkish government is enraged by this revelation.
Instead of slaughtering the existing population of Anatolia, the Ottomans Turkified them.
You'd think that this would make the Turkish invaders look better, but that's not the opinion of Erdogan's government.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2024 12:29 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: muldoon at December 21, 2024 12:27 PM (991eG
Nits are like zits. They always need picking.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:29 PM (7MHHr)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024 12:16 PM (ZmEVT)
The currency debasement was "required" because of the need to support an imperial burden greater than what the empire could produce. and once started it was nearly impossible to reverse due to Gresham's law, and unwillingness to reduce the quantity of money by calling it all in and re-minting it. Constantine and a few successors did make a stab at it by issuing gold currency, but he linked it with price controls, but in turn those were only followed where there was any enforcement.
Personally I think the resurgence of Europe was based around the development of credit markets which gave a point to long-distance trade.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2024 12:30 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Feeling Flushed at December 21, 2024 12:25 PM (G5+As)
Toilets?
Posted by: Tasmanians at December 21, 2024 12:30 PM (W/lyH)
The wife has it as the worst joke she ever heard.
Being she is my wife... that is an impressive acomplishment.
Posted by: Reforger at December 21, 2024 12:32 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:25 PM (7MHHr)
when you kill the men and take their wives, your grand children and great grandchildren will be more closely related to the wives' fathers than to you.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2024 12:33 PM (D7oie)
Indiana is nice, but I can't go back there.
Posted by: R. Dean Taylor at December 21, 2024 12:33 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 12:28 PM (oZhjI)
Hernando Cortez says “hey that sounds like a pretty good idea!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:35 PM (7MHHr)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 12:36 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Frank at December 21, 2024 12:38 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 12:38 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: From about That Time at December 21, 2024 12:39 PM (4780s)
Posted by: Gene Wilder at December 21, 2024 12:40 PM (dg+HA)
Cortez's story is an impressive one AND his native wife was critical to his success which you'd think would get a lot of multi-culti and feminist kudos to him...
If we had a saner culture there would have been multiple big budget movies about him.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 12:41 PM (oZhjI)
Rome collapsed because the birth rate did
Isn't it likely that the former caused the latter?
Posted by: Grump928(C)
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We have genetic drivers that motivate us to procreate. Bread and circuses, fat, dumb and happy are not drivers. Gaza has the highest procreation rate on the planet.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 12:41 PM (DvLTT)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 12:38 PM (VNX3d)
My mind jumped to a scene where the 3 Wisemen are Frankenberry, Booberry, and Count Chocula.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:42 PM (7MHHr)
Years ago, my Dad used to say that the sociologists were insufferable in faculty meetings. And it must be much worse now.
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 12:42 PM (xekrU)
https://tinyurl.com/bdmmkdnw
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 12:44 PM (DvLTT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 12:44 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 12:38 PM (VNX3d)
My mind jumped to a scene where the 3 Wisemen are Frankenberry, Booberry, and Count Chocula.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:42 PM (7MHHr)
Did they follow the rainbow to Lucky's Manager 6?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 12:44 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 12:44 PM (RIvkX)
That’s because the water swirls backwards.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:46 PM (7MHHr)
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 12:42 PM (xekrU)
Actually it depends on who is running the meetings. I'm down to adjunct status so I go only when its mandatory. And I take a flask, and tend to giggle a lot at the woke bullsh*t.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 12:46 PM (W/lyH)
Pissed me right off.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 21, 2024 12:47 PM (4780s)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 12:48 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Diogenes
Can you bring a friend? I have an honorary degree in Squirrel culture.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 21, 2024 12:50 PM (goY6W)
That's a clue. Having a family, having children is of preeminent importance. When being a family and having children is not valued it's not done. That's what the communists have insinuated into our culture. They have taken capitalism and turned it into a corrosive making things more important than the eternal family.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 12:54 PM (DvLTT)
Posted by: Diogenes
Can you bring a friend? I have an honorary degree in Squirrel culture.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 21, 2024 12:50 PM (goY6W)
On your final meeting, bring a squirrel to enjoy the meeting.
https://youtu.be/K16fG1sDagU
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 12:55 PM (VNX3d)
Pissed me right off.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 21, 2024 12:47 PM (4780s)
I guess that's better than sending her off hoping for a MRS degree and her coming home with a life partner.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 12:55 PM (W/lyH)
Senator Britt speaks out about the matter in a Senate speech.
LINK: https://tinyurl.com/2p9atnjh
Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2024 12:55 PM (rj6Yv)
https://youtu.be/K16fG1sDagU
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 12:55 PM (VNX3d)
AVENGE ME!!!!
Posted by: P'nut at December 21, 2024 12:57 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 12:57 PM (xekrU)
Maybe they can challenge them to a game of rugby.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 11:10 AM (ZOv7s)
Forget the army, the CCP would annoy NZ Frank.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 21, 2024 12:58 PM (KcwUg)
Posted by: Accomack at December 21, 2024 12:59 PM (IG7T0)
Well, for starters, someone had to pay for this:
https://tinyurl.com/yteejxf8
Posted by: Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed at December 21, 2024 01:03 PM (kvDvI)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 21, 2024 01:06 PM (Dm8we)
https://youtu.be/K16fG1sDagU
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 12:55 PM (VNX3d)
One of my favorites for years. LOL!!
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 21, 2024 01:08 PM (iODuv)
Pissed me right off.
Honestly, a job posting asking for the latter probably pays a lot more than the former.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 21, 2024 01:08 PM (/y8xj)
Some very nice flowers
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 01:09 PM (fwDg9)
Is anyone surprised the most corrupt president has freed pnzy scammers?
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 01:11 PM (fwDg9)
The road over the southern pass from the coast was surfaced with compacted clay. I don’t recall seeing more than a few cars while crossing to the summit. You make that summit and the terrain looks like eastern Washington/ Wenatchee.
Posted by: 13times at December 21, 2024 01:17 PM (BQSJx)
LINK: https://tinyurl.com/2p9atnjh
Posted by: mrp
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Sleepy Joe, on they job tearing America apart piece by piece.
Senator Britt could have made a much better presentation if she had read her aides written presentation a couple of times before coming to the dais.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 01:17 PM (DvLTT)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 01:24 PM (W/lyH)
_________________
Fantastic!
BTW, what "research" exactly takes place in the humanities?
Social "science" will be OK. They just make up 90% of what they publish anyway.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 21, 2024 01:27 PM (YqDXo)
Sounds about right, actually.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 21, 2024 01:29 PM (YqDXo)
Just start a Physics “Studies” course, and bitch about Whitey instead. Thus preparing students to compete in the global economy. 5th grade Indians taking Calculus will certainly be no match for gender-dysphoria drug-addled youth learning to gobble cock for Social Credit scores. Keeps the temps lower in Antarctica too
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 01:44 PM (JRe3J)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 11:54 AM (7MHHr)
Speaking of 'Imperial control', the Eastern Roman Empire 's bureaucracy got so bad that there's a name for it that's lasted to this day - Byzantine. Heh.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 21, 2024 02:12 PM (JDH8J)
Did you read "Frankenstein?"
The "monster" would kneel down before the Lord of Lords.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024 02:22 PM (ZmEVT)
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Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 02:36 PM (fwDg9)
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Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2024 02:58 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 03:05 PM (aD39U)
Germany Christmas Market Tragedy: Car Incident Claims Lives
A tragic incident occurred when a car drove into a crowd at a Christmas market in Germany, resulting in the deaths of five people, including a child, and injuring more than 200. The driver has been identified, and while early reports speculated on the involvement of autonomous technology, it was confirmed that the vehicle was operated by a human driver. Discussions around vehicle safety and urban event security have intensified in the wake of the event.
This story is a summary of posts on X and may evolve over time. Grok can make mistakes, verify its outputs.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2024 03:29 PM (P5BPp)
Grok ridiculous summary link: https://bit.ly/3DEfKoL
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2024 03:31 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 03:31 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 03:49 PM (DvLTT)
Hawaii has a lot of one lane bridges. Outside of Honolulu the whole state is BFE. It's been 20 years but one post card pretty valley had one access road, one lane, very steep, no guardrails. Posted rules were 4x4 only (4L), vehicles coming up had right of way. Nobody fvcked with those rules.
Valley had maybe a population of 100.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2024 04:29 PM (/lPRQ)
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Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 06:55 PM (DvLTT)
The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
Good morning Horde and welcome to the Classical Saturday Coffee Break and Prayer Revival. As we approach Christmas The Fabulous and I wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas.
Now before we enter the Prayer Revival there are just a few housekeeping matters to take care of. (Rulz for those of you at the North Pole) 1) This is an open thread. Please feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate away.
2) Be kind, be nice. No jumping on the furniture and no open flames by the Christmas tree.
3) Running with sharp objects could impact your consumption of eggnog and fruitcake, be careful.
4) Have a great weekend.
AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update. Prayer Requests: 11/8 – Jim in Kalifornia could use prayers. He was scheduled for laparoscopic surgery to clean abscess(es) and add a drain.
11/16 Update – Jim was released from the hospital on 11/12. He still has the drain, is on 2 antibiotics and an antifungal for another 12 days. His anti-rejection regimen was reduced to allow him to fight the infection(s), but at a potential risk to the transplanted kidney.
12/7 Update – Jim is hospitalized again with sepsis again. His blood pressure has slumped again and his heart rate is too high. Also, the drain in his abdomen is not working.
12/11 Update – Jim had surgery, and the doctors removed “a couple of feet” of his small intestine and resected the large. Jim will be living with a colostomy bag for 6 months. 11/23 – Jewells sent an update. She has been taking ivermectin for 2 weeks, and the only side effect is extreme fatigue.
12/7 Update – Please keep praying. The past few weeks have been bad. Jewells is in a lot of pain. The bone lesions are spreading in her arms and rib cage. She is supposed to start radiation Wednesday, and is waiting to hear about a permanent drain to be put in her lungs.
12/14 Update – The drain was put in on 12/11. She was supposed to receive a sedative and medication for pain while they worked, and she received nothing. She felt everything and it hurt like hell. It also hurts when it is being drained, and that is daily for the first week. She has a great home health nurse coming in now, and she has shown Jewell’s daughter and husband how to do it. 11/30 – Tonypete offered prayers of thanksgiving - #4 son and his wife have announced the (estimated) May arrival of their first baby. They are all so thrilled. 11/30 – PabloD asked for prayers. He is currently on a two-week heart monitor and waiting for more tests. They are not sure what’s wrong. He is praying for favorable results, or at least a clear answer as to what the problem may be. 11/30 – DiddlySquat requested prayers. After doing his normal weighted leg lifts, his foot went numb, with pain down his calf. He’s had constant pain and many sleepless nights for the last 6 weeks. He’s finally scheduled for a nerve test EMG. 11/30 – Megthered asked for prayers for her son-in-law. He had stepped on a nail, and it became infected. They took him to the hospital, and they did surgery to try and save his foot. 11/30 – W offered the following prayer, as a follow up on the election:
“Almighty and most merciful father, we thank thee for the great blessing you have heaped on the citizens of the United States. We thank the Lord for protecting President Trump from the assassin’s bullet. We thank the Lord for providing a fair and just election, and for the great electoral victory which you have granted us. We offer thanks for your guidance during the electoral contest, and humbly beseech thee to continue providing each of us and our leaders with courage and guidance so that we might crush the wickedness of the swamp and establish justice and moral rectitude in the United States.” 12/7 – Hrothgar sends continued prayers for future president Trump, to keep him safe from harm and that the many forces of corruption and evil arrayed against both him and our country be made ineffective and come to naught! 12/6 – Fenelon Spoke requested prayers. She was in the hospital, after having gotten sick while out with friends. She didn’t end up having to stay the night; tests showed she was dehydrated and had a UTI. 12/7 – Our Country Is Screwed asked for prayers. Just as his daughter completed her cancer treatment (and is now cancer free, praise be to God), he has been diagnosed with cancer as well. More tests are needed, but the biopsy was malignant. What is supposed to be a season of joy is once again dampened by cancer. 12/7 – Grammie Winger updated that Rev is scheduled to have a colostomy reversal in January. Thanks be to God. 12/7 – Jordan61 requested prayers for his mother, who is going in for a CAT scan. Mom has been coughing and congested ever since she caught a cold in August. They have done antibiotics, etc. since, and a chest X-ray revealed something that caused the doctor to recommend an urgent CAT scan.
12/14 Update – The CAT scan showed she had pneumonia. They gave her antibiotics (fourth round) and are continuing with prednisone. If this doesn’t work she will have to see a lung specialist. 12/7 – rhennigantx asked for prayers for his friend Mike, who lost his best friend of 50 years. 12/10 – Village Idiot’s Apprentice requested prayers for his father, who had a major stroke on 12/9, with not a good prognosis.
12/14 Update – His father has entered hospice. He is only expected to last a few days.
12/19 Update – His father was called home to be with God at about 1 am. It is so bittersweet to know that he is no longer here, but yet already at the side of God. 12/10 – Tonypete asked for prayers for his buddy, Larry, whose mother passed away during the night. This is after Larry’s wife passed away last year. Larry is having a tough time. 12/10 – Nurse Ratched asked for a prayer for Marine. He was in a motorcycle accident yesterday. He’s got a broken nose and arm, but no spinal injuries or concussion. 12/11 – Lady in Black requested prayers for her dad. He’s 89, in declining health, and suffers from mild dementia. Lady in Black’s dad’s wife of 45 years died on 12/3. Dad is lost without her and very sad. His dementia challenges are making it even worse. Prayers for his mental and physical well-being during the time would be greatly appreciated. 12/11 – Teresa in Fort Worth has had her second round of chemo, and it went well. Thanks to God for that! Also, the anti-nausea meds are working very well for her. (We have been praying for Teresa for a couple of months, as she found she had bile duct cancer, which had metastasized into her liver. It is very rare and very serious. She hopes for at least 12 months more to live, with chemo and surgery and prayers.) 12/12 – Cybersmythe is supposed to have outpatient surgery on 12/16, but he got an abnormal ECG. He’s asking for prayers for the best of all possible outcomes. 12/12 – Bulg asked for general prayers for himself and his family. 12/14 – Dash my Lace Wings asked for prayers. She has had chronic hip pain for years, but it has really started to affect her mobility. The MRI showed torn tendons. She is going to try platelet-rich-plasma injections to stimulate healing, in lieu of surgery. That will happen in January. Please pray that the tendons are healed and that she might have reduced pain for a few years, and not have to have more expensive surgery. Thank you. Also, if anyone has had this treatment, what is your opinion of it? 12/14 – About That Time asked for prayers for a daughter who is trying to give them a second grandchild. The daughter lost a baby in early October, and is pregnant again. Prayers for success are appreciated. 12/14 – Commissar Hrothgar would appreciate a prayer or two for Tim, an acquaintance from Southern Virginia. He apparently dodged a deer while driving, but went off the road into a ditch, jamming the driver’s side door, and then the car caught on fire. Amazingly, there was an ongoing house fire nearby, so the fire department EMTs saw the flames and were somehow able to extract him from the car. However, he suffered severe burns on his hands and legs. He is already receiving skin grafts on his hands and legs and will be in a bad way for some time. 12/14 – Sock Monkey asked for prayers for Publius. His cousin passed away suddenly on 12/13. 12/14 – Sharon (willow’s apprentice) could use some prayers. She had a CT scan of her hip, and may be headed toward a hip replacement. She is not worried about the surgery, which probably will improve her life, but is concerned about the loss of autonomy during recovery. 12/14 – Duke Lowell asked for prayers for his father, who was taken to the hospital 12/13 in respiratory distress. They are thinking it’s an infection, but he’s 87, and at that age anything can be serious. 12/16 – Teresa in Fort Worth requested prayers for Paul’s niece, Amanda, who had a heart transplant 4 years ago. Now her body has started to reject it. She needs another miracle. 12/17 – Bulg asked for prayers that he would find a job soon. 12/18 – neverenoughcaffeine could use prayers. She has 3 minor medical issues. One she can ignore, but the other 2 are causing loads of pain and discomfort. They may be related. She is praying that her ortho doctor has an answer for both. For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: torabora at December 21, 2024 08:47 AM (0Gnoc)
Posted by: torabora at December 21, 2024 08:48 AM (0Gnoc)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 08:49 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: torabora at December 21, 2024 08:50 AM (0Gnoc)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2024 08:50 AM (BpYfr)
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 21, 2024 08:51 AM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2024 08:53 AM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 08:53 AM (SfhV1)
Hiya JT
Vic z"l
Also prayers for TiFW and CoMM
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 08:53 AM (RIvkX)
Also prayers for E, my son's supervisor who has chest pain and a fever and has missed a couple days of work.
Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 08:54 AM (cpUiL)
No coffee but have a plain cinnamon bagel
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 08:55 AM (7h2uy)
"Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do."
— Colossians 3:12-13
Ouch, this is a hard one for me.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2024 08:55 AM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2024 08:56 AM (vFG9F)
I've got a few minutes until I leave for the local post office to see if they can track my errant (three days overdue) package. The office opens at 8:30. I'll be there when the doors open, but somehow I think there'll be a line anyway.
The Killer Kittenz From Outer Space, Stirling the big black and Dagny the little Siberian, are doing well. In fact, Dagny came into the bathroom and sprawled on the counter just now as I brushed my teeth. She's been doing that for the last three weeks -- and she's lived with me now for more than two years. Maybe someday she'll decide to sit in my lap.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 08:56 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2024 08:55 AM (WXNFJ)
You're not the only one.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 08:56 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 21, 2024 08:57 AM (Y1sOo)
It's hard for me and for most us unless they're saints, in which case they'd probably not say it was not hard for them.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 08:57 AM (cpUiL)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2024 08:58 AM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 08:58 AM (kpS4V)
Prayers for the families.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 08:59 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 09:00 AM (cpUiL)
Well, there'll be the decorations to see at least.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 09:00 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 09:00 AM (dxSpM)
Back to reviewing the content and saying the prayers....
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 21, 2024 09:01 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 21, 2024 09:01 AM (2NHgQ)
That's good news!
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 09:01 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at December 21, 2024 09:01 AM (1VvJB)
Last 30 seconds:
https://tinyurl.com/39abhe3x
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 21, 2024 09:02 AM (Dm8we)
Mis Him, you should have termed it Mmmmmyyyyssssttttteerrrrryyyy Click . . . . . . . . thanks!
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 21, 2024 09:02 AM (ha1wR)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 09:02 AM (7h2uy)
What's better? Ditching daylight savings time and going to standard time, or the reverse?
The sun set before 5pm here today.
Posted by: Ann at December 21, 2024 09:02 AM (4neFu)
That page also has links for using the nucular clock time server for your PC/laptop.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 21, 2024 09:03 AM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Ann at December 21, 2024 09:03 AM (4neFu)
Prayers for complete and speedy recovery to those ailing, and comfort for family and friends who suffer along with them.
And deep gratitude from me to all of you for the love, prayers and support this past year. Last Monday, my latest MRI was also negative (that's three in a row!) and my oncologist is very pleased with my progress.
Merry Christmas everybody!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2024 09:04 AM (x0n13)
Put the whole world on UTC and be done with TZ hell.
Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at December 21, 2024 09:04 AM (1VvJB)
I don't want to categorize AfD as good or bad. It's a political party so the usual mixed bag. But what they aren't is a far right, Pro-Putin, neo-Nazi hate group as they have been branded by the German establishment and our State Dept among others.
AfD is in some ways similar to MAGA. The party is comprised largely of working class, ordinary Germans who want things like secure borders, an end to mass immigration and a return of cheap energy. Prior to the Ukraine war Germany was getting about 90% of their Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) from Russia. LNG is a primary source of energy for most of Europe. Now they are getting almost 0 LNG from Russia and their energy costs have spiked, just like ours.
The war in Ukraine is largely a fight over control of energy. That's why Burisma has been at the center of the corruption, the Bidens, the CIA, BlackRock, etc., AfD wants a return of cheap Russian LNG so that makes them Putin lovers. There's a lot more to it but the claims that AfD is some evil group is just BS spin, again just like the claims about MAGA.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 09:05 AM (LkLld)
This is so wonderful.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 09:05 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 21, 2024 09:05 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: PabloD at December 21, 2024 09:05 AM (iPHJZ)
It doesn't matter to me. We would get used to whatever. The planet will go on as usual.
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2024 09:05 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 09:06 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 21, 2024 09:06 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2024 09:04 AM (x0n13)
Great news! The good negative is always a positive!
Posted by: davidt at December 21, 2024 09:06 AM (i0F8b)
The sun set before 5pm here today.
Posted by: Ann
DST is much more rational. Morning people are mentally ill and should go squeeze a breeze.
Posted by: Night Time Is The Right Time at December 21, 2024 09:06 AM (G5+As)
Put the whole world on UTC and be done with TZ hell.
Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This
I'd kinda like to split the difference. Just go forward by 30 minutes and then leave it alone.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 21, 2024 09:06 AM (MsrgL)
Love and hugs and prayers for all the Horde and loved ones who need them.
I have a few blueberry pancakes left this morning for anyone who needs those...
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 21, 2024 09:07 AM (JRHzL)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 09:08 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 09:05 AM (SfhV1)
Thanks Grammie. While NYC has many top cancer hospitals and doctors, What a stroke of luck to wind up here at UW which is considered world class in brain cancer treatment and research. Take good care and best as always to you and family!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2024 09:08 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2024 09:08 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 09:09 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2024 09:04 AM (x0n13)
Great news! The good negative is always a positive!
Posted by: davidt
Wonderful, JJ, why not look into buying your own used MRI machine? Monitor at home-no co-pay. I guess they are loud, though.
Posted by: In The Tube at December 21, 2024 09:10 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2024 09:08 AM (x0n13)
God works in mysterious ways. Love you.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 09:10 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2024 09:04 AM (x0n13)
Thanks for sharing the good news and Happy Hanukkah to you!
Prayers will continue.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 09:10 AM (UnlAF)
Received in the mail the announcement of the capital campaign for my parish's new church building.
Right now our chapel seats 185 and is packed full for each of the six (6!) Sunday Masses. The new church building will seat 600, 500 on the ground level and 100 in the balcony. Four confessionals and two side altars.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 09:10 AM (dxSpM)
Or just give me a call: 202-762-1401
Posted by: USNO Master Clock at December 21, 2024 09:10 AM (dg+HA)
If you have not yet discovered Jesse Welles, you have now by clicking here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIKlPC6JiwQ&loop=0
You're welcome. Watch him do his tune "Walmart."
Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 21, 2024 09:10 AM (KiBMU)
Posted by: Ann
4:29pm today. I am on the eastern most edge of Central Time. Somedays it seems it's sunrise at 4am.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2024 09:11 AM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 09:10 AM (dxSpM)
Wow
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 09:11 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Nice! Good luck with the fund raising program.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2024 09:11 AM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2024 09:12 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 09:12 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: In The Tube at December 21, 2024 09:10 AM (G5+As)
Duct tape a Polaroid camera to a microwave oven et viola!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2024 09:12 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 09:13 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024 09:13 AM (pfEGd)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 21, 2024 09:13 AM (2NHgQ)
Spent much of the summer of 2006 in Norway and the midnight sun was both bizarre to witness, and it played havoc with my body clock.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2024 09:14 AM (x0n13)
Prayers for all of God's children this holiday season. May God's blessings bring peace and joy to everyone.
And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 21, 2024 09:15 AM (rxCpr)
Posted by: Steeplechase Jones at December 21, 2024 09:16 AM (G5+As)
Thanks, Annie, as always for the list.
Prayers for all, every day.
I ask for prayers for all those who are having Christmas without a late family member for the first time this year- my brother C's family, K. and her family who just took their son off life support, VIA and any others.
You are all a blessing in my life- have a blessed Christmas!
Posted by: sal at December 21, 2024 09:17 AM (f+FmA)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2024 09:17 AM (a3Q+t)
Like loving your enemy for example. You realize they can't help it.
It also causes you to say "Why me Lord? I did nothing to deserve the gift of faith."
Posted by: TeeJ at December 21, 2024 09:17 AM (ytKo6)
Posted by: Caffiend at December 21, 2024 09:17 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 08:56 AM (omVj0)
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A few years ago I shopped some ammo components (to the late redc1c4 as a matter of fact) and it went out in two boxes. One got there, the other did not. I requested the do a search, they didn't find it, but said I should request again. So I did, nothing, and then I asked them to pay the insurance, at which point they said they had no proof it was lost.
You know, it could show up. Try requesting a search! Then they demanded proof of its value. Um, I bought insurance, who cares. No, no, they said, I had to prove it was worth the insurance I put on it, and of course it was at this point they the intended recipient passed away, but after increasingly pointless and petulant discussions, I finally got the payout.
Good luck!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 09:19 AM (ZOv7s)
Realized it was yesterday's coffee. I had forgotten to put water in the coffeemaker.
Moral of the story, don't try to make coffee before you've had your coffee in the morning.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2024 09:19 AM (VVFSv)
Posted by: From that stupid song at December 21, 2024 09:20 AM (dg+HA)
Great news JJ
Prayers to the Horde and their loved ones in need.
A brisk 19 when I got up. Going down to 13 tonight. Got about 2 inches of snow overnight. Winter is def here
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2024 09:20 AM (DopAq)
Our parish has grown in a dozen years from 120 families to nearly 800. It is the only one dedicated to the Traditional Latin Mass, as Annunciation in downtown has them only on Sunday, TLM at all other diocesan churches having been suppressed.
With more Catholics being drawn to pre-Councilar rites, the growth in numbers is unsurprising. Our facilities have simply outgrown the numbers using them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 09:21 AM (dxSpM)
Posted by: From that stupid song
NO! Because much of the world is Muslim.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2024 09:21 AM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 21, 2024 09:22 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 09:22 AM (dxSpM)
APD Police Chief's press conference:
https://is.gd/T79Lf6
Coalition of lefty immigrant "advocate" groups denounce the raids in an inflammatory counterfactual press release of their own:
https://is.gd/8hDhFY
Posted by: muldoon at December 21, 2024 09:22 AM (991eG)
As far as the which time argument goes, I'm for whatever the worker bees and moms prefer.
I will just sleep until my personal dawn, which comes later than either.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 21, 2024 09:22 AM (4780s)
Posted by: Like moths to a flame at December 21, 2024 09:23 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 21, 2024 09:23 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 09:10 AM (dxSpM)
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This is great news, and thoroughly destroys the defeatist narrative that the Church is somehow doomed because of Francis. Our parish is also seeing an uptick in Mass attendance, we've got historic levels of seminarians, and the young priests are very doctrinally orthodox.
The own downside is that because the parish is new skewing younger, contributions are not what the used to be, even though membership is growing. I take this as a sign that incipient geezers like my need to kick it up a bit.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 09:23 AM (ZOv7s)
After Covid, mine had to turn the parish hall back into a chapel, even though the re-done church (ex-Korean Baptist) was pretty large. They have grown amazingly and have 7 Masses on Sunday, I think.
I miss it a lot, but I console myself with having been there from the get-go and soldiering through the early years crammed into the good Sister's chapel for nearly two decades before we were allowed to buy a property.
I think this is the trickle that turns into a flood.
Posted by: sal at December 21, 2024 09:24 AM (f+FmA)
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2024 09:25 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: From that stupid song
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I don't know about that but there are millions of dogs who wonder where their next meal is coming from...
...or if they will even get a next meal.
Posted by: From that stupid commercial at December 21, 2024 09:26 AM (991eG)
There were some secular tunes as well. One of the songs (by the 3rd grade, I think) was about praying for a snow day. My granddaughter LOVES school, is sad that they are on break, so she was incensed at the song. Not funny, Grandpa. I don't like it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 09:26 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 09:05 AM
It's likely the Syrian mess is over a Saudi - Europe gas pipeline.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2024 09:27 AM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 21, 2024 09:28 AM (dVwV4)
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2024 09:28 AM (v6JzV)
Put the whole world on UTC and be done with TZ hell.
This is the right answer for a connected world. Yes, it would mean some people are going to work at 0200 and some people are having dinner at 0200 but so what.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 21, 2024 09:28 AM (/y8xj)
Early Hannukah party today due to everyone's travel plans. Quiches in the oven. Just wondering how I'm going to get them to the car.
I am going to get a new hip sometime in the next 6 months. In the meantime, still limping but getting around okay. Also cataract surgery. 29 came on fast.
Here's wishing all of you a joyous Christmas and/or a Happy Hannukah. 30 days til the world changes for the better.❤️
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2024 09:28 AM (t/2Uw)
...or if they will even get a next meal.
Posted by: From that stupid commercial at December 21, 2024 09:26 AM (991eG)
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Diana wonders this every hour or two.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 09:28 AM (dxSpM)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2024 09:19 AM (VVFSv)
Also, don't fill the coffeepot out of the water purifier in the mostly dark, and leave the tap ajar. After re-filling the urn.
By amazing good luck, there was a large empty can- why, I have no idea- on the bottom rack of the cart under the tap, so damage was minimal.
Except to my ego.
Posted by: sal at December 21, 2024 09:28 AM (f+FmA)
Thanks. I also thought it was lovely that the bosses boss dropped off winter hats in a festive gift bag to the young people working there, and she had never met our son before.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 09:28 AM (Iy0Wy)
LOL tough to argue with that.
Posted by: Ann at December 21, 2024 09:29 AM (4neFu)
Asking for a drinking buddy friend.
Posted by: Mornin' Miklos at December 21, 2024 09:29 AM (xesY+)
Same to you, Sharon!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 09:29 AM (Iy0Wy)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 09:23 AM
Is this what the kids are calling those approaching their third decade these days?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2024 09:30 AM (a3Q+t)
One good thing about our demographic is the parish has plenty of funding.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2024 09:30 AM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Night Time Is The Right Time at December 21, 2024 09:06 AM (G5+As)
Shut yo mouf!
Posted by: Benjamin Franklin at December 21, 2024 09:30 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Obligatory Remy video at December 21, 2024 09:31 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Ann at December 21, 2024 09:02 AM (4neFu)
Oh here on the coast of Maine, today the sun will set at 4:08PM.
only 10hours of daylight today.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 21, 2024 09:31 AM (dVwV4)
Amen
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 09:31 AM (jgmnb)
Posted by: Ciampino - Except exceptionally exempting exhalted examples!! at December 21, 2024 09:31 AM (i0xsb)
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at December 21, 2024 09:32 AM (EmT/E)
Instead of the Iran - Iraq - Syria "Friendship Pipeline".
One thing old school liberals were not wrong about is a great deal of our conflicts are over control of energy. Control energy, food, healthcare and speech and you control the population.
Now take a look at what leftists have been trying to do to us for years.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 09:32 AM (LkLld)
This is great news, and thoroughly destroys the defeatist narrative that the Church is somehow doomed because of Francis.
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We are bound to believe that God will never allow His Church to perish. Me? I keep my nose down, ignore whatever nonsense the incumbent says and try to put my life right in the time remaining.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 09:33 AM (dxSpM)
Asking for a drinking buddy friend.
Posted by: Mornin' Miklos
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There's a whole category of breakfast stouts.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 21, 2024 09:34 AM (Dm8we)
I am in favor of expressing the time using military time, however.
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2024 09:35 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2024 09:36 AM (u73oe)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 21, 2024 09:36 AM (JRHzL)
They hate us.
They despise our values.
They kill us.
And our children.
We have to stand up.
With perseverance and vigor,
No more.
Never again.
This is our land, our freedom, our life.
And we’ll defend it and never surrender.
Join me and we’ll win.
We will win!
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 21, 2024 09:37 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2024 09:37 AM (v6JzV)
Bad things about time changes
- Changing clocks
- Listening to HM complain
- Listening to the dogs complain
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 09:37 AM (dxSpM)
I am also close to the eastern edge of central time. Earliest sunrise is a little after 5am here. If we go to standard time, it will be a 4am sunrise!
We live in a golf course community (9th hole). I don't even want to think about what time those goofers would be out.
Posted by: Ann at December 21, 2024 09:37 AM (4neFu)
Hi Ladies,
I have a Christmas Present Question for y'all:
Would you find a nightgown with an empire bust comfortable or not?
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2024 09:38 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2024 09:39 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: naturalfake
Which Empire are we talking?
Posted by: Franz Josef at December 21, 2024 09:39 AM (xesY+)
And also of writing dates in the Euro style of date/month/year.
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2024 09:37 AM (v6JzV)
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This is the very embodiment of Evil.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 09:39 AM (dxSpM)
I thought the huge gas field in the Med off Israel's coast would've or could've been a game-changer.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2024 09:39 AM (x0n13)
Vibes of Luigi the rationalist.
Posted by: Boulder Terlit Hobo at December 21, 2024 09:39 AM (GDfNw)
The Left and the globalists have done a very good job at hiding the fact that the primary purpose of the US troops in Syria has been (and still is) to protect the Chevron oil concession in eastern Syria. That’s why they don’t want to withdraw them, that’s what they’re guarding.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 09:40 AM (7MHHr)
Posted by: Bulg
*sneakily grabs Bulg's bottle*
Thanks, SiD!
Posted by: Opportunistic Miklos at December 21, 2024 09:40 AM (xesY+)
Posted by: Ann
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Carl, I want you to kill all the goofers.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 21, 2024 09:41 AM (Dm8we)
Here's 14 minutes about Christmas lights:
https://youtu.be/BGyr1yWFB8M
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 21, 2024 09:41 AM (dg+HA)
Vibes of Luigi the rationalist.
Posted by: Boulder Terlit Hobo at December 21, 2024 09:39 AM (GDfNw)
The only ex-Muslims are either dead or soon to be dead via Fatwa for apostasy (like Ayaan Hirsi Ali). I sense a taqqiya sunrise.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2024 09:41 AM (x0n13)
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A family member had a plasma injection done on her shoulder after a rotator cuff tear. It took about a month to see improvement, but it is healing now and she feels better. I pray yours will be successful also.
Posted by: Scarymary at December 21, 2024 09:41 AM (F2xQR)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 09:05 AM (LkLld)
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AfD is challenging the Establishment consensus, which typically holds certain issues as out of bounds. Immigration is one of those, as is confidence and pride in German culture.
The AfD is getting smeared by the entire state and the churches as well. The German Catholic Conference has all but declared membership in AfD bars one from receiving the sacraments. They had to back down, but the Church his losing huge numbers because of this stupidity.
That and they want priestesses and all the ghey stuff. I mean, just become Anglican.
Oh, and there some sort of Catholic association that is demanding the German Church be controlled by the laity, which would allow dogma to be overturned by a popular vote or something.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 09:41 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Franz Jose
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Not to worry, Franz. With all of the intermarriage among the leaders of Europe, what could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 21, 2024 09:42 AM (vd6bO)
— Zombie Messalina
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2024 09:42 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 09:42 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 09:40 AM (7MHHr)
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Too bad the "No Blood For Oil!" slogan was always a put-on.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 09:43 AM (ZOv7s)
I am in New Jersey. Again.
Like everyone who lives in this godforsaken state I ask...why?
Posted by: Robert at December 21, 2024 09:44 AM (Ndvkr)
Posted by: Don in SoCo
Napoleon III and I were JUST FRIENDS.
With a feather fetish.
Posted by: Franz Josef at December 21, 2024 09:44 AM (xesY+)
Posted by: Bulg
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Oof. Not an easy task, that. I'm doing well. Settling into a new routine with Mom's home services (Praise God for her aide, B) but I know better than to get too comfortable at any point... Still fighting the LTC insurance... Some good things also afoot in my world.
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 21, 2024 09:44 AM (JRHzL)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 09:44 AM (RIvkX)
Nice for Regency-themed hanky-panky.
This is for *Mrs.* fake, right?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 09:45 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 09:41 AM (ZOv7s)
You would rather have the Church governed by the State?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 09:45 AM (SfhV1)
Thanks, SiD!
Posted by: Opportunistic Miklos
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You can always count on the Horde to come through in time of need!
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 21, 2024 09:45 AM (JRHzL)
But I guess in Delaware you can describe anything and everything as just down the road.
Posted by: Robert at December 21, 2024 09:45 AM (Ndvkr)
I think a lot of people agree. So of course it's been a political tug of war for years.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 09:45 AM (LkLld)
Like everyone who lives in this godforsaken state I ask...why?
Posted by: Robert at December 21, 2024 09:44 AM (Ndvkr)
77 years here. What's the problem?
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 21, 2024 09:45 AM (iODuv)
Also "WORK OUT YOU SLOTHFUL FOOL. NOW."
And when I say this, it's not a voice, it's like doctors and calls from social workers and stuff. YOU WILL DO THESE THINGS.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 09:46 AM (ZOv7s)
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it!
Prayers for all, listed and not. Prayers that friends with serious health issues can be healed of them. That JT is soon well enough to come back to us. That those who are grieving find comfort, as it's especially difficult during holidays. I love you guys.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 21, 2024 09:46 AM (OX9vb)
Vibes of Luigi the rationalist.
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Or lied about that to hide being a jihadi? Why not drive through a Moslem crowd instead then?
See next comment.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 21, 2024 09:46 AM (hovnC)
https://tinyurl.com/3mzjun8w
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 09:47 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: BignJames at December 21, 2024 09:48 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 09:45 AM (SfhV1)
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I'd like the Church to stay Catholic, not go liberal Protestant with beautiful but empty buildings.
We are long past the point where anyone can argue that re-writing doctrine will somehow reverse declining participation. What it is doing is driving the faithful away.
Which is entirely consistent with these people being (unwitting?) servants of the devil.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 09:48 AM (ZOv7s)
Coalition of lefty immigrant "advocate" groups denounce the raids in an inflammatory counterfactual press release of their own:
https://is.gd/8hDhFY
Posted by: muldoon at December 21, 2024 09:22 AM (991eG)
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I love the demands from illegal aliens: security deposit and first month rent from the city. Legal immigrants never got that. Also their appeal to 'their elected representatives' - you are illegal, you have no elected anything. All you should get is very basic human rights - food, shelter, medical is all on you.
Posted by: Ciampino - Excepting exceptionally exempting exhalted examples at December 21, 2024 09:48 AM (i0xsb)
Also "WORK OUT YOU SLOTHFUL FOOL. NOW."
And when I say this, it's not a voice, it's like doctors and calls from social workers and stuff. YOU WILL DO THESE THINGS.
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That has a Zod vibe . . . .
Did he somehowe get your phone number?
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 21, 2024 09:48 AM (8AONa)
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at December 21, 2024 09:49 AM (dg+HA)
Saudi girl living in #Germany reported to the German police in September 2023 about the danger of a man called Talib Abd AlMohsen, who was planning to run people over with his car.
The German police ignored the report and acted in a stupid bureaucratic manner.
A month earlier the first report, Talib tweeted threatening to kill 20 Germans & the same girl sent a report to the police that was also ignored.
Today Talib carried out his threat and killed many innocent people in #Magdeburg while The leftist media insists on hiding these facts.
This is totally insane!!
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 21, 2024 09:49 AM (hovnC)
Everyone should listen to this 👇🏻
@Moraqeb2020
HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed @ABZayed warned them 7 years ago but they continue to act as if they know the Middle East better than us.
Worse, they accuse us of suppressing freedoms and human rights when we act against extremism in all its forms.
#Germany is paying a heavy price today in #Magdeburg, Will it learn its lesson?
Absolutely not
@Moraqeb2020
Correction for first paragraph : Saudi girl lives in Saudi Arabia, not Germany.
I was typing quickly and wrote Germany instead of Saudi Arabia
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 21, 2024 09:49 AM (hovnC)
You would rather have the Church governed by the State?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 09:45 AM (SfhV1)
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I'd rather have the Church governed by the Magesterium.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 09:49 AM (dxSpM)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 09:40 AM (7MHHr)
War Is A Racket.
Posted by: Zombie Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, Retired at December 21, 2024 09:50 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2024 09:39 AM (x0n13)
The big problem is that the eastern Mediterranean is too militarily and politically insecure. That situation has to be dealt with before anyone would risk a major development project.
It’s going to take a multi party agreement including (at a minimum) Turkey, Egypt, and Israel. Not likely soon.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 09:50 AM (7MHHr)
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 21, 2024 09:50 AM (yV8c7)
Did he somehowe get your phone number?
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 21, 2024 09:48 AM (8AONa)
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I get the sense that Zod would be demanding I bring him barbecue or a beer. GOOD BEER.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 09:51 AM (ZOv7s)
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Understandable, because otherwise people would be shipping insured rocks to each other and submitting claims.
Used to see this with collector cars. “Stated value” doesn’t mean anything other than they’ll take your money and pay whatever they decide. “Agreed upon value” - that’s the magic right there. Needs independent appraisal
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 09:51 AM (TbGaV)
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2024 09:51 AM (v6JzV)
God has not forsaken my state😊. I don't confuse God with politicians. There are still some lovely people here who have blessed my life and that of others. It is a sunny day here and I love looking at the first snowfall. Today I get to have a service at the local senior center and they are dear people
But I do sometimes think it would be nice to be in a state that was not progressive
Travelling blessings on you, Robert and happy holidays to you!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 09:51 AM (EDMMc)
There is nothing known about the German xmas market attacker other than he was an anti-islam "activist", and shared his anger about germany allowing Syrians in, many jihadis, under the guise of asylum , and rejecting Saudis who he says are fleeing jihadis and sharia. There is a lot about this guy that is murky.
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2024 09:51 AM (QTCRF)
Posted by: Ciampino - No chocolates for dogs & cats at December 21, 2024 09:52 AM (i0xsb)
The question is whose establishment?
The censorship and narrative building that was done on US citizens largely emanated from the State Dept. They have been doing the same things overseas for years.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 09:52 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Zombie Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, Retired at December 21, 2024 09:50 AM (R/m4+)
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It has become one because of the rise of democratic governments. Monarchies can fight wars for personal reasons or to enhance national power, and make peace without much popular input.
With a democracy, everything has to be a moral cause because modern people want to feel good about themselves when they're displacing people and taking their wealth.
At least the imperialists were open about there being financial benefits for the home country. Today there are negative benefits for the home country, and only the elites profit. So like a monarchy, but your only ruler options are Stalin or Caligula.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 09:53 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 09:00 AM (omVj0)
Late 1970's--new, grand malls, my girlfriends and I with newly minted driver's licenses and parents grateful that they didn't have to take us. We drove an hour to the city to shop at The Limited, Casual Corner, Wilson's Leather, Peaches record store...so much fun.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 21, 2024 09:53 AM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2024 09:53 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2024 09:54 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Celeborn at December 21, 2024 09:57 AM (jxRfg)
Well, i am, too! But here's some advice about what NOT to get them from content creator and gifting expert Leah, who makes videos as "Leah's Gift Guide"
The three items you shouldn't gift women are household cleaning supplies, scales and anti-aging skincare products.
According to Leah, "these items can be seen as offensive or send the wrong message."
You're welcome! Big Daddy D-Thrax wishes y'all a Joyous Christmas!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2024 09:57 AM (a3Q+t)
Used to see this with collector cars. “Stated value” doesn’t mean anything other than they’ll take your money and pay whatever they decide. “Agreed upon value” - that’s the magic right there. Needs independent appraisal
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 09:51 AM (TbGaV)
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It was obvious to me that there was more going on. The package was very heavy (bullets being lead and all), so someone in USPS likely thought it was gold or something.
Happily, I could document everything because the purchase and negotiation took place by email, and I even had photos saying "This is what you are getting."
It was just weird how at every step they were trying to get me to stop and just wait for it to turn up someday.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 09:57 AM (ZOv7s)
18h • 8 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
In 2015 and ’16, I embedded with Syrian and Afghan migrants who weee pouring into Europe at the time. I even lived in a smuggler’s safe house in Istanbul.
There was no vetting and no way to vet, majority weren’t refugees, and some openly told me they saw migration as “jihad.” [...]
Reporting this story for the WSJ as a writer fluent in one of the main languages of the migrant trail was my first encounter with the gap between liberal narratives and reality.
For others, it was Covid. But for me, it was this story. [...]
https://tinyurl.com/mv8f4tpa
thread unrolled as an ordinary webpage
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 21, 2024 09:57 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2024 09:57 AM (QTCRF)
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2024 09:51 AM (QTCRF)
I would probably catch a lot of flak if I said the problem actually isn’t Islam, it’s that all Arabs are murderous bastards at heart.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 09:58 AM (7MHHr)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 09:58 AM (RIvkX)
"So like a monarchy, but your only ruler options are Stalin or Caligula."
That goes on the quoteboard at my house.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 21, 2024 09:58 AM (vd6bO)
Offhand, I can't think of a leftist slogan that wasn't a
But the comment reminds me of my favorite thing from my one attendance at Dragon Con: a small group of Steampunk protesters with signs saying "No blood for steam!" and "Boycott foreign steam, boil here, boil now!"
Posted by: Oddbob at December 21, 2024 09:59 AM (/y8xj)
A possible exception - he bought her a Litton microwave oven, about 1972, when they were brandy new. She was happy with that.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 09:59 AM (TbGaV)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 09:58 AM (RIvkX)
Thank goodness.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 09:59 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2024 09:51 AM (QTCRF)
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This looks a lot like an op to pin this on AfD.
It makes no sense for someone opposed to immigration to attack a Christmas market. But it's really helpful to the Establishment to discredit AfD as being pro-terrorist.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 09:59 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 21, 2024 09:59 AM (hovnC)
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No cleaning products, but vacuum cleaners are ok? scales are a no? how about gym memberships? are botox gift certs out ?? They really need to give people more specificity !
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2024 10:00 AM (QTCRF)
A possible exception - he bought her a Litton microwave oven, about 1972, when they were brandy new. She was happy with that.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 09:59 AM (TbGaV)
Science ovens were the bees knees!
Posted by: American Hustle at December 21, 2024 10:00 AM (Aqu9a)
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And my senior citizen Aussie and the puppy are among them.
I'm keeping them guessing so they will stay in line.
Posted by: From that stupid commercial at December 21, 2024 10:01 AM (991eG)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 10:02 AM (dxSpM)
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No cleaning products, but vacuum cleaners are ok? scales are a no? how about gym memberships? are botox gift certs out ?? They really need to give people more specificity !
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2024 10:00 AM (QTCRF)
Where does a box of Lume fit in the matrix?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2024 10:02 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: muldoon at December 21, 2024 10:02 AM (991eG)
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Yes. There's a troll at Insty's [new account etc.] pushing that bullshit too.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 21, 2024 10:02 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Yes, but there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 21, 2024 10:02 AM (Dm8we)
Posted by: Bulg
I've found it worth the effort. The path I was on, no telling how much trouble I've avoided.
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at December 21, 2024 10:04 AM (mn/mw)
Posted by: Al Bundy at December 21, 2024 10:04 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2024 10:02 AM
You'd probably find it to be a glitch.
Posted by: Neo at December 21, 2024 10:04 AM (a3Q+t)
It makes no sense for someone opposed to immigration to attack a Christmas market. But it's really helpful to the Establishment to discredit AfD as being pro-terrorist.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 09:59 AM (ZOv7s)
They are now saying he was on drugs. if he was not a psychiatrist I would have dismissed it , but then he is, so 50/50. also described himself as a leftist. so not an AfD.
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2024 10:04 AM (QTCRF)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 09:00 AM (cpUiL)
Great news!
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at December 21, 2024 10:05 AM (mn/mw)
Moral of the story, don't try to make coffee before you've had your coffee in the morning.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2024 09:19 AM (VVFSv)
I recently brewed an entire pot of water. Forgot the beans.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 21, 2024 10:05 AM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2024 10:05 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 21, 2024 10:06 AM (hywts)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2024 10:02 AM (Aqu9a)
Good question!
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2024 10:06 AM (QTCRF)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 10:06 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Celeborn at December 21, 2024 10:06 AM (jxRfg)
I need four distinct seasons.
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2024 10:06 AM (v6JzV)
Silver! Silver for werewolves and vampires!!!
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 21, 2024 09:59 AM (hovnC)
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Live ammunition is very heavy but requires certain marks. What I shipped was also heavy, but since it was inert components, it did not need marks. I supposed a worker running it through an x-ray or whatever, might have that it was a score because of the weight and opacity.
Or maybe they wanted to do some reloading?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)
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Very well could.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 10:08 AM (TbGaV)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 21, 2024 10:08 AM (F2xQR)
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2024 10:06 AM (v6JzV)
I used to enjoy autumn, but then I realized that just meant winter was coming. So I'm down to spring and summer.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 10:08 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: dantesed at December 21, 2024 10:08 AM (Oy/m2)
It makes no sense for someone opposed to immigration to attack a Christmas market. But it's really helpful to the Establishment to discredit AfD as being pro-terrorist.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author
Never let a crisis go to waste. They need excuses to ban the most popular party in Germany before the election in order to save democracy, by not allowing people to vote for whom they want.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 21, 2024 10:09 AM (hywts)
Posted by: The Internet at December 21, 2024 10:10 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2024 10:10 AM (QTCRF)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 21, 2024 10:10 AM (hywts)
Posted by: dantesed at December 21, 2024 10:08 AM (Oy/m2)
Alternativ für Deutschland.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 21, 2024 10:10 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 10:10 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 10:11 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2024 10:11 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 10:08 AM (SfhV1)
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That's why it's so special.
Every day is a progression and the sun gets a little lower and the light changes. Even if it's still warm, and the leaves are green, you "feel" the difference because the daylight is fading, night comes earlier.
And then the leaves begin to change, and every year is different, every day is different. Summer and winter are basically constants, with weather making it interesting. But autumn is profound.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 10:11 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Just got here at December 21, 2024 10:11 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2024 10:12 AM (QTCRF)
I need four distinct seasons.
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2024 10:06 AM (v6JzV)
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
And it's a nice day here in SoCo to cut firewood! February's on its way. My teenagers all have the flu, so it's on me this time. I don't mind at all, but it is a lot more fun with them helping (and faster).
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 21, 2024 10:12 AM (vd6bO)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 21, 2024 10:10 AM (PiwSw)
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Look who has a fancy keyboard!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2024 10:12 AM (Aqu9a)
What's better? Ditching daylight savings time and going to standard time, or the reverse?
The sun set before 5pm here today.
Posted by: Ann at December 21, 2024
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I wish it got dark at 6 pm in the summer. We don't *need* any more hot afternoon sunlight. Just ask Arizona.
I'd far rather have standard time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 10:13 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2024 10:14 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Just got here at December 21, 2024 10:11 AM (dg+HA)
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The political establishment. In Europe, there are agreed-upon issues that are not open to discussion. Such as leaving the EU, or going back to the Deutschmark, or limiting immigration.
Even "conservative" parties refuse to discuss this (see also the UK).
So just as with Brexit, the AfD is going outside the traditional parties and as a result, all the parties have said they will not form a coalition with them.
You know, because democracy is about what the Establishment will allow. They are literally saying "you cannot vote your way out of this."
Which is how you actually get swastikas.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 10:14 AM (ZOv7s)
We were talking about "lie of the year" a few days ago? I think we have a winner
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 10:14 AM (oZhjI)
We spent 3 hours at the beach yesterday, noon until 3, but will let the workforce people have it today and tomorrow, their days off. Monday we'll go later to watch the big orange orb do its dive.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 21, 2024 10:14 AM (KiBMU)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2024 10:14 AM (BI5O2)
I wish it got dark at 6 pm in the summer. We don't *need* any more hot afternoon sunlight. Just ask Arizona.
I'd far rather have standard time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 10:13 AM (omVj0)
Standard Time, definitely. DST year-round has already been tried and pretty much everyone hated it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 21, 2024 10:15 AM (fzQGK)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 10:15 AM (TbGaV)
I have another shipment coming from them, and it's *supposed* to arrive on Monday. In fact it's already in town. Of course, so was the other before it disappeared.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 10:15 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at December 21, 2024 10:16 AM (jxVvT)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2024 10:16 AM (Aqu9a)
Starting with how America was paying for military protection for one of the biggest financial supporters of Assad’s government.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 10:17 AM (7MHHr)
'One thing old school liberals were not wrong about is a great deal of our conflicts are over control of energy.'
The thugs taking over Syria are doing so to make it another base for terrorism. The control of energy just sweetens the deal.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2024 10:17 AM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 10:18 AM (HY3gN)
Posted by: Kramer at December 21, 2024 10:18 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2024 10:18 AM (Aqu9a)
Damn. And we already sent in the order for T-shirts with Trump's picture.
-- Politi"fact"
Posted by: Oddbob at December 21, 2024 10:19 AM (/y8xj)
Insurance is something that the seller must have. If he doesn’t want to eat it.
The Buyer gets a Refund. The seller submits the claim. You don’t need to get involved with the PO. just get your money back.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 10:19 AM (TbGaV)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 10:15 AM (TbGaV)
Nat King Cole has something to sing about that.
https://tinyurl.com/mrywybuh
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at December 21, 2024 10:19 AM (uYVRZ)
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Mail theft?
This time of the year packages from Amazon, UPS, FedEx and USPS all seem to disappear at an alarming rate.
Most with "no explanation."
Spoiler: There's an explanation
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2024 10:20 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Jb at December 21, 2024 10:20 AM (nGjyj)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2024 10:18 AM (Aqu9a)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJS9TjjHxx8
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 21, 2024 10:21 AM (fzQGK)
This is totally insane!!
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 21, 2024 09:49 AM (hovnC)
The German police and the highest levels of federal authority securing the German People's constitutional rights are otherwise occupied
https://tinyurl.com/48xyd4ha
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2024 10:21 AM (D7oie)
It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.
Posted by: Kramer at December 21, 2024 10:18 AM (dg+HA)
Accounting humor never gets old.
No depreciation or amortization.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2024 10:21 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Jb at December 21, 2024 10:22 AM (nGjyj)
As an adult, I visited the southern part once and I was like "oh my G-d, I'm moving here." Just a vast, rolling thicket with a temperate rain forest in the middle of it. I wake up every day and love it. It's like Donkey Kong Country.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2024 10:22 AM (BI5O2)
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Yes, of course. So it necessarily follows that crippling domestic energy production makes perfect logical sense then, doesn’t it. Colorado plateau, California, Alaska, Montana and Wyoming.
Enough Coal, Oil, Gas to last hundreds of years. Good careers. Revenues and taxes stay in country.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 10:22 AM (TbGaV)
Posted by: Stuff your grandmother said at December 21, 2024 10:23 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 21, 2024 10:23 AM (hovnC)
This time of the year packages from Amazon, UPS, FedEx and USPS all seem to disappear at an alarming rate.
Most with "no explanation."
Spoiler: There's an explanation
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2024 10:20 AM (Q4IgG
Who you hire might be the answer.
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 10:23 AM (jgmnb)
Posted by: Stuff your grandmother said at December 21, 2024 10:23 AM (dg+HA)
Embrace the power of "and".
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 21, 2024 10:24 AM (PiwSw)
>>@elonmusk
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>>5m
>>The traditional political parties in Germany have utterly failed the people.
>>🇩🇪 AfD is the only hope for Germany 🇩🇪
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 10:24 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2024 10:22 AM (BI5O2)
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The Great Smokies get a lot of scenery porn in "The Last of the Mohicans."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 21, 2024 10:24 AM (fzQGK)
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Mail theft?
This time of the year packages from Amazon, UPS, FedEx and USPS all seem to disappear at an alarming rate.
Most with "no explanation."
Spoiler: There's an explanation
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2024
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The first package was said to have actually been placed in my mailbox. It was pipe tobacco, so I have no idea who among the USPS's crack (ha!) staff might have lifted it. It didn't say explicitly on the outside, "Pipe Tobacco."
This second one might be too big to go into my mailbox. But I'll be home Monday afternoon to keep an eye out.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 10:25 AM (omVj0)
Summer, for fresh tomatoes and afternoons on the porch.
Fall, for a riot of reds and oranges and that crisp autumn air.
Winter, for that early morning hush as snow falls.
I need four distinct seasons.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 10:25 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2024 10:17 AM (3wi/L)
I’ve seen an interesting explanation of the success of Isis (for a while at least) and now the jihadi groups from a middle eastern source. I don’t know if I buy into it completely yet - but the claim is that Erdogan in Turkey was the primary booster of these groups in Syria, just as he made sure that Isis always had plenty of weapons. Why? Because, this theory goes, that Erdogan wants to see the entire region sink into jihadi chaos, at which point he can move the Turkish army in, in great force, and establish Syria as a Turkish province just as it was under the Ottoman’s.
This would explain why Erdogan has gone to great lengths to destroy Russian and Iranian influence in Syria.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 10:26 AM (7MHHr)
>>Enough Coal, Oil, Gas to last hundreds of years. Good careers. Revenues and taxes stay in country.
This is what the climate change bullshit has always been about.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 10:26 AM (LkLld)
I'd like to offer my prayers for all of us that need them.
I include myself as my 1st cataract surgery went well and my right eye's vision is much improved.
The left eye, not so much, infection set in and I've had steroids and antibiotics constantly (injected and topical) for the last 3 weeks.
They don't know how much vision I'll have when the eye has healed, right now I can almost make out the largest letters on the vision chart.
Thanks all.
If I don't get my vision back I'll have to change my nic to One Eyed Jack of all Trades, master of none!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 21, 2024 10:27 AM (EcFOi)
Posted by: muldoon, astronomically challenged at December 21, 2024 10:27 AM (991eG)
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 21, 2024 10:27 AM (zdLoL)
The other seasons suck
Winter - cold and dark
Spring - wet and dark
Autumn - windy and dark
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 10:28 AM (RIvkX)
Insurance is something that the seller must have. If he doesn’t want to eat it.
The Buyer gets a Refund. The seller submits the claim. You don’t need to get involved with the PO. just get your money back.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024
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That's what I'd thought. But the USPS site says either recipient or sender can file. I'm fine with them handling it anyway.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 10:28 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 10:28 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2024 10:22 AM (BI5O2)
Ever hear of the "Southern Sixers"....53? southern Appalachian peaks 6000+ ft?
Posted by: BignJames at December 21, 2024 10:28 AM (Yj6Os)
Nice for Regency-themed hanky-panky.
This is for *Mrs.* fake, right?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 09:45 AM (kpS4V)
Yes, for the lovely and sleepy-eyed Mrs naturalfake.
Not for me, though I might have considered that option had Kamala won. Easy way to get a gov't job you know 🙄
Thanks to the ladies who answered. Your advice was much appreciated.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2024 10:29 AM (iJfKG)
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We have a place in West Virginia not far from the Ohio River. It's probably one of the darkest places I've ever been at night. In the spring and summer the tree canopy blots out the stars. In the fall and winter it's some of the clearest sky I've ever seen.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2024 10:29 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 21, 2024 09:41 AM (F2xQR)
Thanks, Scarymary. It's going to be expensive and insurance doesn't cover it, so I'm hoping for good results. Hoping they can get me in for it around mid-January.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 21, 2024 10:30 AM (OX9vb)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 21, 2024 10:30 AM (Y6IkP)
Spoiler: There's an explanation
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2024
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The first package was said to have actually been placed in my mailbox. It was pipe tobacco, so I have no idea who among the USPS's crack (ha!) staff might have lifted it. It didn't say explicitly on the outside, "Pipe Tobacco."
This second one might be too big to go into my mailbox. But I'll be home Monday afternoon to keep an eye out.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 10:25 AM (omVj0)
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I recently ordered a small something from Amazon that was to be delivered by USPS. After several days went by, I checked the tracking and found that it had been delivered, but I didn't have it. So I went to my local USPS station with tracking number in hand and explained the situation. The gentlemen went in back for awhile and came back saying that GPS tracking showed that it had been delivered to a location slightly different from mine, I filled out the necessary (short) form, went my way, and a few days later, my package arrived in my mailbox! So USPS does have some diligent folks working for it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 21, 2024 10:30 AM (fzQGK)
https://tinyurl.com/48xyd4ha
Posted by: Kindltot
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Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 19h
Turns out that the German police valiantly confiscating a Swiss Army knife from an elderly woman at Christmas markets did nothing to protect Germans attending Christmas markets from actual terrorists.
https://tinyurl.com/3ncj3js8
45 seconds; yes, a regular-sized Swiss Army knife.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 21, 2024 10:30 AM (hovnC)
Nothing is “delivered” in the legal sense - in the bill of lading sense, unless and until someone accepts it. Technically speaking, leaving valuable parcels on someone’s porch without receipt is not delivery, and from a legal perspective, insane.
When you buy something and it is shipped - you paid them, they have your money. But the item isn’t “yours” until you take delivery. It is in the custody of the shipper. And they are responsible for it.
Most everything is cost shifting. Rightfully so. Some cunt stole it off your porch? Why should I pay for that? Or a dishonest carrier? Not my clowns, not my circus.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 10:31 AM (TbGaV)
"you can ask the pentagon
they'll tell ya somethins wrong with yer eyes
they're the most expensive polygon
that's ever been commissioned to lie"
Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 21, 2024 10:31 AM (KiBMU)
Used to go with FIL to the Naples Beach Club to watch the sunset and have drinks on their veran-dah. Often the sunset got so much applause I felt like I should yell for an encore.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 21, 2024 10:31 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 21, 2024 10:31 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
The gain in daylight goes VERY slowly at first. I hardly notice it until Groundhog Day.
Posted by: Bill DeBlasio at December 21, 2024 10:32 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 21, 2024 10:24 AM (fzQGK)
Actually Chimney Rock, Lake Lure area...a little east of the Smokies.
Posted by: BignJames at December 21, 2024 10:33 AM (Yj6Os)
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It all started with double-entry bookkeeping.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 21, 2024 10:31 AM (hovnC)
Old accountants never die.
They just go out of balance.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2024 10:33 AM (Aqu9a)
The other seasons suck
Winter - cold and dark
Spring - wet and dark
Autumn - windy and dark
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 10:28 AM (RIvkX)
The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco. Someone said that, right?
I know when I honeymooned in San Francisco and the Monterrey peninsula I did find myself shivering in July
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 21, 2024 10:33 AM (i5Vkf)
Posted by: Just the Punchline at December 21, 2024 10:34 AM (aD39U)
Summer, for fresh tomatoes and afternoons on the porch.
Fall, for a riot of reds and oranges and that crisp autumn air.
Winter, for that early morning hush as snow falls.
I need four distinct seasons.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 21, 2024 10:25 AM (kpS4V)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK0lWrZMlF8
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 21, 2024 10:34 AM (fzQGK)
Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 21, 2024 10:35 AM (iZEhM)
Thank goodness.
It's been so great getting ready to leave work at 5:00, look out the window and see a dark parking lot. It puts a spring in my step.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2024 10:35 AM (3wi/L)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 10:36 AM (RIvkX)
Thanks
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 21, 2024 10:36 AM (lPeS+)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2024 10:36 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 21, 2024 10:35 AM (iZEhM)
Great!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2024 10:37 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 21, 2024 10:37 AM (pIfcn)
>>@RadioGenoa
>>Taleb Abdelmohsen left Saudi Arabia and applied for asylum in Germany, claiming he had become atheist to ensure his application would be accepted. He then continued to pretend he was not Muslim so he would not be deported. It doesn't take a college degree to figure that out.
>>@RadioGenoa
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>>27m
>>The Islamic terrorist who kiIIed Germans is a supporter of Hamas and IsIamic Jihad.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 10:38 AM (LkLld)
The Mister had a similar situation with his cataract surgery, though his main problem in the eye that was infected is some sort of moving film. He's going in to get it zapped.
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 10:39 AM (xekrU)
'Alternative to what? Swastikas?'
I know you're being clever but I'll answer you seriously. Germany has more of a leftist uni-party than we do. And they all have promoted migrants on a massive scale with all the terrorism and crime that entails.
The alternative is a party that doesn't do that.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2024 10:40 AM (3wi/L)
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My wife and I did Deep Creek trail, topping off at the AT, close to Clingman's Dome. It has it all: rhododendron "hells", black bear, and not any/many people. Good luck!
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 21, 2024 10:40 AM (lPeS+)
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2024 09:51 AM (QTCRF)
I would probably catch a lot of flak if I said the problem actually isn’t Islam, it’s that all Arabs are murderous bastards at heart.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 09:58 AM (7MHHr)
Well...islam is a shame culture. All sin, all problems, etc lie outside the faithful. lie outside your family, lie outside yourself. Unless, you violate the tenets of islam...then shame on you and you deserve whatever punishment you get.
Now, apply that to the jihad mindset...and-
Why not kill a bunch of infidels? There are sinful bastards anyway. Shame (in the form of death) be on them!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2024 10:41 AM (iJfKG)
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The only way you can defend this position is to either claim counterfactuals or hand wave actual examples away by claiming that "that wasn't an actual monarchy"
The main element that monarchy is supposed to bring is stability in succession and the creation of someone who is accountable for the actions of the state, is something which never actually happened. A monarch has never been the sole power in a state, and cannot be, even if you consider the alpha male Chimp in the troop as a monarch; even a king as autocratic as Phillip II relied on support of his nobility and governors to prosecute his wars and policies, which were specifically about money, trade routes and resources.
As an aside on the theorists in this field, I always thought Moldbug was as self serving as Nick Fuentes ever was, and H-H Hoppe is a wonderful observer of politics, but I no more trust him about the glories of monarchies than I trusted Linus Pauling about his vision of the radiant future of mankind.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2024 10:42 AM (D7oie)
Hamas clearly recognises that when the cultural establishments of global capitalism treat every image of Palestinian death as an indictment of Israeli evil, when the West’s activist class, media elites and online influencers hold up every picture of a broken Palestinian as proof of the Jewish State’s ‘uniquely murderous nature’, then it is in Hamas’s interests to prolong the war and allow more such suffering to occur. Having made Palestinian agony the currency of their activism, the activist class cannot now feign surprise at Hamas’s willingness to let this disastrous war continue. Hamas’s intransigence in the face of its far more powerful foe is a direct consequence of the keffiyeh classes’ commodification of Palestinian pain as a testament to both Israeli malfeasance and Western indifference.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 10:43 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 21, 2024 10:37 AM (pIfcn)
Recht fahren, Schnell!
Posted by: Roy at December 21, 2024 10:44 AM (z+ik4)
I suspect the police guy wanted the Swiss army knife, so like any autocrat he just took it
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 10:44 AM (oZhjI)
RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa 45m Replying to @elonmusk
Taleb Abdelmohsen left Saudi Arabia and applied for asylum in Germany, claiming he had become atheist to ensure his application would be accepted. He then continued to pretend he was not Muslim so he would not be deported. It doesn't take a college degree to figure that out.
RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa 31m
The Islamic terrorist who kiIIed Germans is a supporter of Hamas and IsIamic Jihad.
https://tinyurl.com/dk77f82f
screencap with translation about Gaza
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 21, 2024 10:45 AM (hovnC)
They're pretty much running our playbook
Posted by: t-bird at December 21, 2024 10:45 AM (ueHpO)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 10:43 AM (RIvkX)
That's a good one.
Posted by: BignJames at December 21, 2024 10:46 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 21, 2024 10:46 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2024 10:46 AM (Aqu9a)
My college required for engineers a basic accounting and business economics class for undergrads. I can't say it was my favorite course. Lots of hand waving about calculations without going into the basic diffEQ on the backend. Nobody else wanted to hear that so it was skipped over, but I always learn better starting at first principles.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 21, 2024 10:47 AM (Y6IkP)
Posted by: Moki at December 21, 2024 10:47 AM (wLjpr)
'This would explain why Erdogan has gone to great lengths to destroy Russian and Iranian influence in Syria'
Yeah. That does sound plausible but risky to Turkey. Erdogan antagonizes everyone that can do Turkey harm:
Russia, Iran, the U.S., Israel.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2024 10:47 AM (3wi/L)
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- you get something that resembles today's left here in the US.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2024 10:48 AM (Q4IgG)
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In the initial reports I saw 16 dead, dozens injured. How do you say "Lazarus" auf Deutsche?
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 21, 2024 10:48 AM (lPeS+)
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 21, 2024 10:49 AM (lPeS+)
Posted by: Just the Punchline at December 21, 2024 10:34 AM (aD39U)
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What do mathematicians do when constipated?
Posted by: The First Part Of The Joke at December 21, 2024 10:50 AM (i0xsb)
Pray for the Spirit of Truth to shine and drive out all the dark error.
Posted by: mindful webworker - g l o r i a at December 21, 2024 10:51 AM (i4Mn+)
The Mister had a similar situation with his cataract surgery, though his main problem in the eye that was infected is some sort of moving film. He's going in to get it zapped.
Posted by: KT
I'll keep Mister KT in my prayers for a successful 'zap'.
No one knows how much vision I'll end up with... right now the cornea is inflamed (steroids for that) and there are a bunchs of floating 'stuff' in the eye's fluid.
Asking St Lucia for intercession...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 21, 2024 10:51 AM (7ISuP)
Posted by: It's a joke at December 21, 2024 10:52 AM (dg+HA)
Russia, Iran, the U.S., Israel.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2024 10:47 AM (3wi/L)
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The Greeks already don't like the Turks very much. So, he's going for "surrounded by enemies?" Strong move.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 21, 2024 10:52 AM (fzQGK)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 21, 2024 10:53 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Dr. Not The 9 0'Clock News at December 21, 2024 10:54 AM (jxRfg)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2024 10:54 AM (u82oZ)
BMW pretty low to ground ... at least it wasn't a truck this time.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 21, 2024 10:46 AM (Cus5s)
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What sort of BMW though, a sedan or an SUV?
Posted by: Ciampino - See you don't solve it by banning guns at December 21, 2024 10:55 AM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2024 10:42 AM (D7oie)
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I wasn't making a comprehensive argument, just using shorthand.
Yes, monarchies have courts, nobility and there are merchant interests as well, but this is open and the parts are exposed (even palace conspiracies are pretty much assumed).
When the crown wages war, someone is expected to profit. Either new lands are gained, more plunder is secured, titular claims are resolved, etc. There was never this weird, modern "we're doing this out of pure altruism" concept.
That's the difference. Back then troops fought for God, King and Country (and pay, plunder and social advancement) but now everything is for the sacred and holy borders of Ukraine or "spreading democracy."
It is much more difficult to practice realpolitik of the kind that national interest is maximized, i.e. carving a protectorate out of another state for the purpose of building a canal. Instead, our elites practice shadowly self-dealing schemes that weaken the home country.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 10:55 AM (ZOv7s)
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He has a purty mouth.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2024 10:55 AM (dDmld)
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Hey, that tweezer thing can really pluck someone upl
Posted by: muldoon, astronomically challenged at December 21, 2024 10:55 AM (991eG)
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2024 10:56 AM (vFG9F)
Rowdy the kangaroo has jumped his fence and is on the loose in Texas.
Name a 'roo Rowdy, what did you expect?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2024 10:57 AM (aMl27)
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Hey, that tweezer thing can really pluck someone upl
Posted by: muldoon, astronomically challenged at December 21, 2024 10:55 AM (991eG
Ah, the Swiss Army knife confiscation. The TSA Specialty.
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 10:58 AM (jgmnb)
Posted by: muldoon, astronomically challenged at December 21, 2024 10:55 AM (991eG)
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I saw Jonh Wick kill three men with the toothpick. The fucking toothpick!!
Posted by: Viggo Tarasov at December 21, 2024 10:58 AM (fzQGK)
Despite claims made by the German press, Taleb Al Abdulmohsen is not an ex-Muslim atheist, nor is he a fan of the AfD or Elon Musk. While he may have spread this misinformation himself, it aligns with the practice of Taqqiye, an Islamic doctrine that permits lying and deception to advance Islamic objectives.
In reality, he is a radical Shia Muslim, as evidenced by his name and numerous tweets and chat leaks circulating on Arabic-speaking platforms like X. Disturbingly, his plans to carry out mass killings of Germans were brought to the attention of German authorities by a Saudi woman. Tragically, the police ignored her warnings.
The links are added in the thread.
https://tinyurl.com/yc72paaz
2:38 minutes
Here's the thread she references:
https://tinyurl.com/3e2e78d8
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 21, 2024 10:59 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2024 11:00 AM (vFG9F)
Rowdy the kangaroo has jumped his fence and is on the loose in Texas.
Name a 'roo Rowdy, what did you expect?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2024 10:57 AM (aMl27)
Sealy, Texas area.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2024 11:01 AM (Aqu9a)
Someone didn't heed the wisdom of the song?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 21, 2024 11:01 AM (/y8xj)
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Well, to be fair, “F**king Idiots” is listed right there as a prerequisite on the Prime Video management application.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 11:01 AM (L/fGl)
Killing machines nach Munchen.
Used to say, you could buy an Alfa, built by ill-tempered communist insurgent Italians, or a BMW, built by ill-tempered communist migrant insurgent Italians.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 21, 2024 11:02 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2024 11:02 AM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2024 11:02 AM (Aqu9a)
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And the Moslems don't like that it has a bottle-opener.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 21, 2024 11:03 AM (hovnC)
Hey, confronting young Muslims with long knives is dangerous business. Cops just being safe.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 21, 2024 11:03 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 11:03 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Ciampino
looked like a normal car type BMW to me, but did not get a good look.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 21, 2024 11:04 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2024 11:04 AM (Aqu9a)
Where would you get a basement sized Cryogenic Nitrogen Dewar? OTOH DIY freeze yourself for future Morons to cure.
Posted by: DaveA at December 21, 2024 11:05 AM (PMJuY)
We are getting a new Christmas tree. When we take the old one down after Christmas, it goes in the trash! It was cheap and flimsy. The new one will be 7 ft tall but not as big around. That fits our space better. And it's flocked so it looks snowy and our ornaments and garland will actually show up! We will be able to see them!
My cousin raises beef cattle and is getting two big ones ready for the meat processing. She has a quarter that isn't spoken for and asked me if we might be interested. Sometime in January I will pay $1000 for somewhere around 300 pounds wrapped of prime beef.
And then the bad news... My dad's cousin is ending treatment and entering hospice with palliative care only. This sucks.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 21, 2024 11:08 AM (4XwPj)
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Animal control officer, strapping on his vest and body cam:
"It's Rowdy duty time!!"
Posted by: muldoon, astronomically challenged at December 21, 2024 11:17 AM (991eG)
Sounds familiar. Keep those steroids on a steady schedule.
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 11:25 AM (xekrU)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 10:55 AM (ZOv7s)
so all the other monarchies prior to 1776, or perhaps prior to the Dutch Estates, or perhaps the Athenian state, were not doing exactly the same thing?
No, they did exactly the same thing, and in any situation where there was a need to raise levies and the peasantry was not held in peonage or outright slavery, there was a need to rally them for whatever action was considered important to the powerful. Even peons held in conditions of chattel slavery need to be rallied.
Look, the use of propaganda by the state to promote whatever economic or warfare goal was pushed through propaganda, not because of some double dealing and self deception, but because the state was acting contrary to the wishes of the people from it draws power and authority from.
To claim that there were no shadowy back room deals in Ur or Elizabeth I's court is a counterfactual.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2024 11:26 AM (D7oie)
To claim that there is some benefit to a monarchy out of some inherent goodness and openness in the system is being ignorant of actual history, something you as a history writer should not be subject to.
I think I understand your point, though, that somehow the past, golden age did not employ propaganda and underhanded dealing in moving masses to fight wars, and that such heroes of the past did not need such subterfuges since the state did not engage in "shadowly self-dealing schemes that weaken the home country" . . .
I mean, this was one of the satirical underpinnings of Don Quixote.
what we are seeing now is an intensification of the trend since low interest loans and fiat money hides the fact that such actions are wildly unprofitable for anyone who isn't skimming, but it is nothing new.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2024 11:26 AM (D7oie)
Off to Google I guess.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 21, 2024 11:27 AM (4780s)
56 6k peaks in southern Appalachians
Highest east of Rockies Elkhorn SD.
Highest Appalachian Mt. Mitchell NC.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 21, 2024 11:31 AM (4780s)
Posted by: Mick at December 21, 2024 11:35 AM (gYvAB)
Prayers requested please for husband's younger brother M who found out yesterday he had leukemia. He is only in his mid thirties and his daughter is 2. Headed to hospital for 6 weeks in Monday for testing. Please pray for strength for his wife and mother who are in shock and understandably devastated. And for good doctors and total healing of it is God's will.
Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy at December 21, 2024 11:49 AM (G77LY)
https://tinyurl.com/ryjet9t6
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 21, 2024 12:00 PM (NQtI0)
Daily Tech News 21 December 2024
Top Story
- Here's a list of the 49 American AI startups that have raised $100 million or more in 2024. (Tech Crunch)
Top among them is OpenAI, which raised $6.6 billion this year, but close behind is Elon Musk's xAI, which raised $6 billion.
Interestingly Europe didn't miss the boat with Mistral leading the table there with $1.2 billion raised.
What all that money will achieve I don't know.
Tech News
- For consumer hardware, it's not achieving much. (Tom's Hardware)
AI PCs just aren't selling. That is, people are buying PCs, and some of them are labeled "AI", but nobody is buying a PC because it is labeled "AI".
Notable Qualcomm's sales of its new Arm-based Windows laptops can be best described as meh.
- Meanwhile here's an M.2 card that contains a 24 TOPS AI accelerator. (Tom's Hardware)
More precisely, four 6 TOPS accelerators.
Why? I don't know. But it costs $149, which is reasonable if you need one.
- How types make hard problems easy. (Mayhul)
Yes, thank you. We figured this out sixty years ago. Then JavaScript happened.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Nazdar at December 21, 2024 03:46 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2024 03:52 AM (QPCEj)
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at December 21, 2024 03:53 AM (JRP2U)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2024 03:58 AM (+YRf1)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 04:01 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2024 04:02 AM (+YRf1)
*** Wheels trebuchet into position ***
Posted by: Adriane to Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 21, 2024 04:03 AM (qz+gL)
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at December 21, 2024 04:09 AM (JRP2U)
Pixy I hope you enjoyed your outing where you made lots of noise and scared the neighbours and critters (That's what a dinn is fer) and your pizza afterwards. ;-)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2024 04:15 AM (O7YUW)
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Pay compensation for their AIs lying and causing harm to unsuspecting users.
Posted by: Decaf at December 21, 2024 04:15 AM (unUNN)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2024 04:18 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline
Uh huh …
Nice try at deflection.
Posted by: Adriane to Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 21, 2024 04:18 AM (qz+gL)
Posted by: Adriane to Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 21, 2024 04:19 AM (qz+gL)
#19 on that list: "Here's an idea: whenever congressional "leaders" deprive their fellow lawmakers of a meaningful opportunity to read a bill *before* voting on it, we should immediately fire those leaders and elect new ones }}
Sounds good to me. The reaction to being pressed to vote for a brick of legislation you couldn't possibly have the time to read and understand should be an automatic "no" vote. If it's not, the congress critter voting yes isn't fit to sit in that seat.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2024 04:24 AM (O7YUW)
I believe that Pixy has dietary requirements that makes pizza a rare treat.
So if pizza is on the menu for dinnfer tonight, it would be a good thing.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 21, 2024 04:33 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2024 04:38 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at December 21, 2024 04:39 AM (JRP2U)
If congressional leaders let there members read legislation before voting on it, we would quickly run out of 'leaders'.
Posted by: Colin at December 21, 2024 04:40 AM (wlQdF)
Posted by: Just Wondering at December 21, 2024 04:51 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 21, 2024 04:52 AM (dR6yv)
https://youtu.be/tnO6YqZ_qkQ
(language alert for those of you at work)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2024 04:57 AM (O7YUW)
Wait, didn't you have a thing about wheat?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 21, 2024 05:03 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 05:04 AM (fwDg9)
Darn, missed the solstice. It was at 09:21Z, 4:21AM EST.
Lo, the sun stood still, if we could see it on this side of the planet.
In a quirk of the Erf's orbital mechanics, due to perihelion occurring in Winter, the longest apparent solar day is tomorrow. Note I said longest. The apparent solar day, the time between successive high noons will be 24 hours and 30 seconds tomorrow.
The longest solar day occurs right at the shortest day in terms of daylight. Well, for us in the Northern hemisphere. For Pixy, today was the longest day. So he gets two longests at the same time, being upside down.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2024 05:06 AM (w6EFb)
As per usual, may all effort today result in maximum benefit for each of you, coupled with extreme grief for the resident leftwits who infest the area.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 21, 2024 05:06 AM (hKoQL)
Right. He's going off his 100% kangaroo meat diet. That's gonna set back his cage-fighter training.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2024 05:13 AM (QPCEj)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 05:15 AM (fwDg9)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 21, 2024 05:16 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Jen the original at December 21, 2024 05:23 AM (L39RQ)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 05:31 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 05:32 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 21, 2024 05:36 AM (hoCmQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 21, 2024 05:46 AM (bss/y)
Forward Dog 9 out
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 05:46 AM (fwDg9)
The Robertson - Walker, Standard Model, that states that the fabric of space is expanding and the galaxies are moving with it, necessary for the big bang theory, shot down in this published study.
https://tinyurl.com/5n94a6ms
Posted by: TeeJ at December 21, 2024 05:47 AM (ytKo6)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 05:31 AM (fwDg9)
Yesterday was our last day. Most of the auto manufacturers have their winter shutdown this time of year. With the way the holidays fall this year (right on midweek) it means about two weeks of nothing going on.
Supposed to be something on the 30th. We'll see.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 21, 2024 05:48 AM (bss/y)
Forward Dog 9 out
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 05:46 AM (fwDg9)
And yet I love Christmas.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 21, 2024 05:48 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 21, 2024 05:56 AM (dg+HA)
i]Have I mentioned I H8 winter and won't be happy until May lately?
Forward Dog 9 out
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 05:46 AM
you are not alone
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 21, 2024 05:56 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2024 05:59 AM (YzqWW)
From Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools website:
"Paleontologist-Futurist Michael Garfield works in mind-jazz across genres to help navigating our world of accelerating weirdness and cultivate the curiosity and play for people to thrived in it. Host of Future Fossils, former Digital Media Strategist for The Santa Fe Institute and host of Complexity Podcast, former Community Manager for The Long Now Foundation and Research Analyst for a stealth Mozilla AI spin out, his latest project Humans On The Loop examines agency in the age of automation through conversation, music, essay, social weaving, and the rearing of bespoke language models."
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 21, 2024 06:01 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 21, 2024 06:06 AM (dg+HA)
"Inspired by material from The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, this course brings together an all-star team of artists, musicians, poets, and community stewards to help you recover your senses of safety, identity, power, integrity, possibility, abundance, connection, strength, compassion, self-protection, autonomy, and faith."
So, DEI, but with more technobabble.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 21, 2024 06:07 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: fluffy at December 21, 2024 06:09 AM (AN2gy)
On Go - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Bandwagon-2
SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: December 21, 2024
Launch Time: 3:34 a.m. PT, 1134 UTC, 12:34 CET
https://www.youtube.com/live/T0hdFic_KuA
Posted by: Ciampino - The other coast at December 21, 2024 06:11 AM (i0xsb)
The churn will rent some office space, a few conferences and buy some corporate branded swag.
Some tech talent will get experience working long nights and some executives will get bonuses.
Posted by: fluffy at December 21, 2024 06:13 AM (AN2gy)
It's dark. And cold. Yet the cats felt the need to be outside.
I felt the need to make coffee.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2024 06:18 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2024 05:13 AM (QPCEj)
Ah. The BOING diet.
Must have heard of it from Biden's Dog.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2024 06:18 AM (y/ZMQ)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2024 06:19 AM (y/ZMQ)
Posted by: Strunk & White at December 21, 2024 06:19 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Ciampino - The other coast at December 21, 2024 06:24 AM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Ciampino - The other coast at December 21, 2024 06:24 AM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2024 06:27 AM (y/ZMQ)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2024 06:29 AM (y/ZMQ)
Two weird dreams: First, Miss Linda and I were at a school reunion, mine, but it seemed to be held in a building much like my junior high school. We had the cats with us. And the reunion people wouldn't let us leave -- like house arrest! Apparently I didn't have a car. If we went out the back gate of the property, which we could see, and walked a couple of blocks, we'd be able to grab a bus to get back to where we lived. (Which seemed to be the place where I grew up on Bourbon St.) I talked a young lady staffer into driving us out the back gate, and we got to the bus stop . . . and then realized we'd left the cats behind.
Wakeup time. Odd.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 06:33 AM (omVj0)
And has certainly sipped a p3nis or two.
Posted by: Ms Cramer at December 21, 2024 06:36 AM (dEYSD)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024 06:37 AM (ZmEVT)
Even in dreams, apparently, I know how to do a fast transition over dull stuff to the next important scene.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 06:37 AM (omVj0)
Wakeup time. Odd.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 06:33 AM (omVj
I have had similar dreams in NOLA. How much did uou drink?
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 06:37 AM (jgmnb)
Word salad is kind of a goofy little paradox if you think about it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2024 06:39 AM (y/ZMQ)
And has certainly sipped a p3nis or two.
Posted by: Ms Cramer at December 21, 2024 06:36 AM (dEYSD)
Am i the only one who started humming "Lesbian Seagull" after reading that last sentence?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2024 06:43 AM (y/ZMQ)
Wakeup time. Odd.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024
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I have had similar dreams in NOLA. How much did uou drink?
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024
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Zero! Though one of my co-workers on our last day yesterday brought me a little gift bag of chocolate-iced grahams and Christmas sugar cookies, and I allowed myself one of each last night. Sugar high in dreams . . .?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 06:44 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 21, 2024 06:44 AM (X24aq)
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I'm curious what this "mind jazz" thing is all about. I mean, you make money at this?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2024 06:46 AM (Q4IgG)
On Go - Rocket Lab - Electron - Owl the Way Up
LS-1 - Mähia Peninsula, NZ - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: December 22, 2024 (NZDT)
Launch Time: 03:13 NZDT - December 21, 10:13 a.m. ET, 14:13 UTC, 15:13 CET
[u/]
https://www.youtube.com/live/K18IPBBMxxE
Posted by: Ciampino - The other end of the world at December 21, 2024 06:47 AM (i0xsb)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 21, 2024 06:48 AM (PiwSw)
("The big lake they call Ponchee-trainee --")
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 06:49 AM (omVj0)
And that's the point you snapped out of the dream because of the scare factor. Hey, this is confirmation to you that your furheads matter the world to you.
Moves with cats are "fun". Mine was 3 days, 1,200 miles, with all 3 cats each in their own carrier in the front cab of a Ryder 27 foot moving van. Every morning, immediately upon starting up the engine and driving, it was 30 minutes straight of "Yowl, MRRROWR, Merp, {even more } YOWL!" until they finally finished their meering and protesting at this undignified and improper confinement.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2024 06:50 AM (O7YUW)
25 here in N GA, will be lucky to see 40 today.
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at December 21, 2024 06:50 AM (dEYSD)
We'll probably have some dinner out tonight, so I'd better save my money. Maybe I can visit the diner and wish them all Merry Christmas tomorrow.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 06:54 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 06:57 AM (omVj0)
This is what the website put out
Launch Time: 03:13 NZDT - December 21, 10:13 a.m. ET, 14:13 UTC, 15:13 CET
That may be 9:13 am ET. Someone check and correct me please.
Posted by: Ciampino - The other end of the windy world at December 21, 2024 06:57 AM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2024 06:58 AM (BQmuy)
If that doesn't stir fears of civilizational collapse...
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2024 06:58 AM (BQmuy)
hoopy tsjl tjj wkjkj tgjjkjlt yaya!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 21, 2024 06:59 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2024
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I didn't try it with big Arizona when I moved to CO; I left him with Linda, figuring she could air-ship him up to me later. Much easier on both of us. Marie-Antoinette the late smart black cat was a talker, and I thought I'd hear her meowing constantly on the trip back to NO. But after an initial bit of chirping each day, she settled right down in the carrier on the front seat next to me and just enjoyed the trip -- or at least endured it silently.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 07:00 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 07:04 AM (xEKi4)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 07:06 AM (xEKi4)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024
***
That term is usually used for tailored clothing, a "bespoke suit," and special custom body work for cars -- normally in the British car magazines.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 07:09 AM (omVj0)
https://tinyurl.com/mv82hh4v
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 07:09 AM (xEKi4)
Yes, I knew what it meant. 😊 It's just pretentious in "academics writing.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 07:11 AM (xEKi4)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2024 07:12 AM (u82oZ)
Yes, I knew what it meant. 😊 It's just pretentious in "academics writing.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024
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I'm sure you did, Fen. I too found it an odd appearance of the word, since the two usages I know are about the only times I see it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 07:13 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 07:15 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 07:16 AM (Izk0I)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 07:18 AM (Izk0I)
This is what the website put out
Launch Time: 03:13 NZDT - December 21, 10:13 a.m. ET, 14:13 UTC, 15:13 CET
That may be 9:13 am ET. Someone check and correct me please.
Posted by: Ciampino - The other end of the windy world at December 21, 2024 06:57 AM (i0xsb)
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The online UTC Converter says 14 UTC = 9 ET
Posted by: Ciampino - The other end of the windy world at December 21, 2024 07:19 AM (i0xsb)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at December 21, 2024 07:20 AM (cY18j)
There will be headlines in the Washington Post.
Global Warming on pause due to an unexpected Winter.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2024 07:24 AM (u82oZ)
I don't read the devotionals but often the passages get added to other reading in His Word.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 21, 2024 07:25 AM (ytKo6)
Ciampino, go to time.gov to see the time zone clocks. EST = UTC - 5, CST -6, MST, -7, PST - 8.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2024 07:26 AM (w6EFb)
You are welcome. Good to see you. Another poster was saying last week that she had missed you!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 07:27 AM (L78BK)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at December 21, 2024 07:28 AM (cY18j)
Today is the start of my vacation until January 2. Woot!
Also, I only have 1,298 pages left to read in Wind and Truth...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2024 07:28 AM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 21, 2024 07:28 AM (NQtI0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 07:29 AM (L78BK)
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 07:31 AM (jgmnb)
I slept well but woke up badly. Lots of pain in my shoulder. I think it's bursitis. I've been working my arm to try to relieve the discomfort and it's improved.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 07:34 AM (dxSpM)
(o rats, is it +5 or +6 season, aaahhh !)
Please, O mighty President, free us from the tyranny of "daylight saving" !
(wise or prudent ham radio operators do their logs in UTC, this is what makes it important to me)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at December 21, 2024 07:35 AM (cY18j)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 07:37 AM (L78BK)
Sorry about your pain. May you have a full recovery soon.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 07:38 AM (L78BK)
Please, O mighty President, free us from the tyranny of "daylight saving" !
_________
To this I add my voice. DST is an unnatural abomination that cries out to the Lord for vengeance.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 07:40 AM (dxSpM)
Speak to me, brother!
I deal with that shit at work all the time.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 21, 2024 07:40 AM (wn8di)
When we lived in Ohio, summer dog shows in Indiana, which were day trips, had the added fun of trying to determine when to leave and what county the show was in.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 07:44 AM (dxSpM)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2024 07:47 AM (pZM95)
The 3-wise men were in the road. Still, sort of, inflated.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2024 07:48 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: TeeJ at December 21, 2024 07:49 AM (ytKo6)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2024 07:50 AM (u82oZ)
Most all modern OSes run the clock in UTC now, with filesystem time stamps in UTC as well. The only time local time comes into it is display the time to the user.
The big exception is the old FAT filesystems, FAT32 and exFAT being the only ones still really used much, for USB sticks and SD cards and such (I prefer NTFS or ext3/4 for those now anyway).
File times are local, and this causes some strange behavior during DST changes. The time is thus ambiguous. exFAT added a field to allow the UTC offset to be stored as well, but it's not used in all implementations.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2024 07:51 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024 07:52 AM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
+++
How was it decided that North was up and South was down?
How do we know that we're not the ones who are down under and spinning upside down?
Deep thoughts. Meh.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 21, 2024 07:53 AM (Lo97M)
They get a release if a normal stop lasts too long, or we just take a break.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 21, 2024 07:54 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2024
***
Since I can no longer pick up WWV on the shortwave bands on my radio, I use that site to set my watches and the clock on this laptop.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 07:54 AM (omVj0)
How do we know that we're not the ones who are down under and spinning upside down?"
Eurocentrism.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024 07:55 AM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2024 07:55 AM (/7KEl)
Easy day today - taking lunch to a shut-in and pizzelles to the Rectory. Father is having an open house tonight.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2024 07:56 AM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024 07:56 AM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024
***
Marie was like that. Always she adapted to new circumstances.
Stirling was fine also on the four-hour trip back from Vicksburg where I adopted him. Dagny's trip home from the breeder was only an hour, but she was quiet too. In fact she is oddly silent all the time. I know she's not deaf, or mute -- I stepped on her tail once, and the yowl was definite -- but she's just a silent cat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 07:57 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: no one of any consequence
What goes up
Must come down
Spinning wheel
Got to go 'round.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2024 07:58 AM (WXNFJ)
Right hand rule with "up"/+z axis being north. Positive rotation is counterclockwise.
"Up" or "north", like for the ecliptic plane is define according to this right hand rule.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2024 07:59 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2024
***
Since I can no longer pick up WWV on the shortwave bands on my radio, I use that site to set my watches and the clock on this laptop.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024
***
There is also timeanddate.com, which has a world time zone map and a lot of other features. I use the map to set my GMT watch to Pixy's timezone in AU
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 07:59 AM (omVj0)
We get our dogs accustomed to car rides from an early age. They're crated for the trip with a soft pad, food, water, toys and chew items.
Babies may fuss for the first few times, but everyone quickly learns to enjoy it. I joke that the veteran show dogs are asleep by the time we get to the end of the driveway.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2024 07:59 AM (dxSpM)
Dullsville.
Posted by: Romney Dog at December 21, 2024 08:02 AM (i0F8b)
You can use NTP syncing to do this automatically, and continuously if you like and not have to worry with it. Here, I keep my machines synced to 50ms of UTC. That's pretty easy to do with a broadband connection.
Windows is piss-poor by default, and you have to tweak some things to get the "w32tm" clock discipline set up right. Linux is much better by default, but you can tweak it to do much better. "Chrony" is the best NTP syncing out there.
That running on my little routers is the main time server for my network, and easily does 50ms. I could do better, looks like, than that, but no need to be pinging the NTP servers that much.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2024 08:03 AM (w6EFb)
Timeanddate is very good, you can put your exact longitude and latitude in the URLs and get all the times (sunrise/set, high noon, moonrise/set, planetary rise/set and all that) exactly for your location.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2024 08:04 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 08:04 AM (SfhV1)
For example, the timeanddate URL for sunrise/set is this:
"www.timeanddate.com/sun/@Lat, Long"
where lat and long are in decimal form, and W of prime is negative. North is positive latitude.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2024 08:06 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2024 08:06 AM (w6EFb)
Sounds suspiciously like math.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 08:08 AM (SfhV1)
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I have a weather station that uses my lat/long for sunrise/set, moonrise/set. Elevation for the barometric pressure. Synched to the web for time.
Accurate enough for home use.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2024 08:08 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2024 08:11 AM (gbOdA)
Timeanddate is very good, you can put your exact longitude and latitude in the URLs and get all the times (sunrise/set, high noon, moonrise/set, planetary rise/set and all that) exactly for your location.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2024 08:04 AM (w6EFb)
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Is there a 'low noon'?
Posted by: Ciampino - Weirdly weird world at December 21, 2024 08:13 AM (i0xsb)
Once I see what the line is like, I may change my mind.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 08:13 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 21, 2024 08:15 AM (PiwSw)
That would be apparent solar midnight. :-)
There's high loon, when the moon is over your meridian, too.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2024 08:15 AM (w6EFb)
Once I was in charge of it, we had a budget for steak and bourbon and people would fight over the job.
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at December 21, 2024 08:16 AM (dEYSD)
There are 4 minute per degree of longitude. If you know your longitude, you can calculate your local mean time (LMT) from this. For example, here I'm 0:28:41 minutes behind EST meridian.
Local mean noon is thus 12:28:41PM here, which is different from "high noon" or apparent solar noon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2024 08:17 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at December 21, 2024 08:18 AM (uYVRZ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 21, 2024 08:19 AM (NQtI0)
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Posted by: Ciampino - Weirdly weird world wind at December 21, 2024 08:21 AM (i0xsb)
In early Web days, content producers were looking for anything to put on a web site other than a logo and a hackneyed motto and thus begat the About Us page.
For vanity's sake, it was senior management, then someone in HR thought it would be great to add individual staffers to make it look like we are one big happy family.
That worked until head hunters mined the About Us pages for talent to poach for other opportunities.
Not the best employees will never be found on the About Us page.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2024 08:22 AM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Soothsayer hates Hoosiers, too! at December 21, 2024 08:24 AM (GtlsB)
Posted by: Soothsayer hates Hoosiers, too! at December 21, 2024 08:24 AM (GtlsB)
Nirvana vs Valhalla
Which is better?
Posted by: Soothsayer hates Hoosiers, too! at December 21, 2024 08:24 AM (GtlsB)
Peacefully sitting alone vs Partying with buxom Valkyries.
Tough choice.
Posted by: davidt at December 21, 2024 08:26 AM (i0F8b)
Not the best employees will never be found on the About Us page.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2024 08:22 AM (rHxhM)
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Exception is a university or government department page, where everyone is listed, short of the janitor.
Posted by: Ciampino - Except exceptionally exempting exhalted examples at December 21, 2024 08:30 AM (i0xsb)
"Noon" comes from Latin. The Romans originally divided the daylight, sunrise to sunset into 12 units, "hora", from where we get "hours". This was variable with the seasons. An hour was about 45 minutes on the winter solstice, and 75 minutes on the summer solstice. They knew this, but didn't care.
"Hora nona" was the 9th hour, 3PM, but it came to mean what we call noon now, the 6 hour.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2024 08:33 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 08:33 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Mary Jane Rottencrotch at December 21, 2024 08:33 AM (Y1sOo)
The German elite want to ban the AfD party. They're claiming this guy was an AfD supporter, and will use this to try to ban them.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2024 08:35 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ciampino - Except exceptionally exempting exhalted examples at December 21, 2024 08:35 AM (i0xsb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2024 08:04 AM (w6EFb)
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Is there a 'low noon'?
Posted by: Ciampino - Weirdly weird world at December 21, 2024 08:13 AM (i0xsb)
Don't ask. Seriously.
Posted by: Gary Cooper at December 21, 2024 08:35 AM (Aqu9a)
Yeah, right AfD wants safety and security for its citizens, but a murderous Muslim supports that party.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 08:41 AM (cpUiL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 08:43 AM (cpUiL)
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2024 08:44 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 08:43 AM (cpUiL)
Apparently he rejected islam, and encouraged others to do so as well. That's what is puzzling to me.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 08:45 AM (SfhV1)
Mike Benz has a really fascinating take on why not just Germany but the US, the UK and possibly other countries want AfD banned. It really revolves around the true reasons behind the Ukraine war and LNG. The whole Nazi, far right thing is no more true about AfD than it is about MAGA.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 08:45 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 21, 2024 08:46 AM (SfhV1)
Thanks. I'm sorry, I don't know what LNG is.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2024 08:47 AM (cpUiL)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 21, 2024 08:48 AM (PiwSw)
Our kids are visiting mom. They are happy. She is happy. Mrs. F. and I are happy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 08:49 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2024 08:49 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
This is supposed to be a 'appy occasion. Let's not bicker about 'oo killed 'oo…
Posted by: King of Swamp Castle at December 21, 2024 08:51 AM (WXNFJ)
T - 20 mins approx.
Hopefully this goes well without another scrub.
Posted by: Ciampino - Except exceptionally exempting exhalted examples! at December 21, 2024 08:52 AM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Ciampino - Except exceptionally exempting exhalted examples! at December 21, 2024 08:59 AM (i0xsb)
Fuck ups, mismanagement of billions, certain people becoming wealthier.
Posted by: just saying at December 21, 2024 09:06 AM (rzwGB)
Posted by: Ciampino - Except exceptionally exempting exhalted examples! at December 21, 2024 09:13 AM (i0xsb)
Posted by: m at December 21, 2024 09:48 AM (VnUSN)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2024 06:44 AM (omVj0)
yum
Posted by: m at December 21, 2024 10:17 AM (VnUSN)
Posted by: jimmymcnulty at December 21, 2024 10:59 AM (k3AX8)
20 Tweets from Bad Blue
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 01:56 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: m at December 21, 2024 11:01 AM (VnUSN)
That's a funny way of spelling "perl".
Dynamically typed scripting languages are nothing new. Everything terribly wrong with JavaScript was also wrong with Rails, and everything wrong with Rails was also wrong with perl and python. For some reason we have to keep relearning that "easy to develop" does not trump "actually works in production" every generation.
Posted by: Daniel Ream at December 21, 2024 03:56 PM (LgYtf)
Does managing a well-established blog like yours require a lot
of work? I'm completely new to writing a blog however
I do write in my journal on a daily basis. I'd like to start a blog
so I will be able to share my own experience and feelings online.
Please let me know if you have any recommendations or tips for new aspiring bloggers.
Appreciate it!
Posted by: koitoto login at December 21, 2024 05:10 PM (GuHXP)
Just The ONT, Ma'am
Hi Horde! Friday night, what's everyone up to? Time to get silly.
Fido Friday: Firsty
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) December 21, 2024
Feel good story
I think maybe he was high
Cool
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) December 21, 2024
ND
Obamacare
The universe has a sense of humor
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) December 21, 2024
Christmas cartoon
True 'nuff
Build a better rattrap, and the world will beat a path to your door
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) December 21, 2024
Unsocial Media
Man-aging a bad situation
I'm speechless
OMFG! I try (and fail) not to be profane, but OH MY FUCKING GOD!
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) December 20, 2024
Coach: We need a theme for the halftime show
Cheer coach: 9/11?
Coach: You son of a bitch, I'm in! pic.twitter.com/xM7fs8Geb6
SMDH
Woman moment
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) December 20, 2024
Christmas service
Hard to argue
When you're grown up you can recycle this bit when you're working blue
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) December 20, 2024
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at December 20, 2024 10:00 PM (yLkiW)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2024 10:00 PM (Qp67s)
Remember to sit real close to get your recommended daily allowance of X-rays.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 20, 2024 10:00 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - NEXT Year in Corsicana - again at December 20, 2024 10:00 PM (rOtXe)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at December 20, 2024 10:00 PM (yLkiW)
Posted by: Ciampino - just a question at December 20, 2024 10:01 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 20, 2024 10:01 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - NEXT Year in Corsicana - again at December 20, 2024 10:01 PM (rOtXe)
Posted by: four seasons at December 20, 2024 10:02 PM (3ek7K)
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Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 20, 2024 10:06 PM (KcwUg)
Guys, gals and all the ships at sea - you owe it to yourselves to give a listen to Shawn Ryan interview Joe Lonsdale. Touches on everything: drones, AI, High Energy weapons, major threats to America and on and on. It's a long one but well worth the two hours.
https://t.ly/ZD0nY
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 10:06 PM (WXNFJ)
Huh?
Posted by: four seasons at December 20, 2024 10:07 PM (3ek7K)
Aspiring Thrawn, formerly Kratos, knows the answer to the renamed television channel -- he used to reference it a lot.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2024 10:07 PM (i4sOa)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 20, 2024 10:06 PM (KcwUg)
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A cautionary tale of what happens when you say "Nuts" to muzzle discipline.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2024 10:07 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2024 10:08 PM (dxSpM)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 10:08 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 10:08 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
Lack of crotch armor?
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 20, 2024 10:09 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2024 10:07 PM (hY4dx)
—————-
He went off half cocked.
Posted by: Duke Lowell who is definitely not Ace at December 20, 2024 10:09 PM (u73oe)
that was special
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 10:09 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Ciampino - a unique problem at December 20, 2024 10:10 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2024 10:07 PM (hY4dx)
—————-
He went off half cocked.
Posted by: Duke Lowell who is definitely not Ace
A real sad sack.
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 20, 2024 10:10 PM (+VovS)
Yes.
Also, rule #5. Don't shoot yourself in the balls.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 20, 2024 10:10 PM (lUFok)
Guys, gals and all the ships at sea - you owe it to yourselves to give a listen to Shawn Ryan interview Joe Lonsdale. Touches on everything: drones, AI, High Energy weapons, major threats to America and on and on. It's a long one but well worth the two hours.
https://t.ly/ZD0nY
Posted by: Tonypete
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Road Trip!
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2024 10:10 PM (Qp67s)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at December 20, 2024 10:10 PM (yLkiW)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2024 10:11 PM (dxSpM)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
But I was holding it sideways!!!!!!!11ty
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 20, 2024 10:11 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 20, 2024 10:11 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 10:11 PM (Ihn6X)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
Not exactly sure but 'Don't shoot yourself in the balls' is right up there!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 10:12 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 10:13 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 20, 2024 10:13 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 20, 2024 10:13 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Duke Lowell who is definitely not Ace at December 20, 2024 10:13 PM (u73oe)
Imagine someone saving all such vids could do a nice compilation of jihadi miscues with firearms.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 10:14 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Figgered It Out at December 20, 2024 10:15 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 10:14 PM (1m82a)
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Might I suggest Yakety Sax for the soundtrack?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2024 10:16 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Cooter Brown at December 20, 2024 10:16 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Peter Buttigigigig at December 20, 2024 10:17 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 20, 2024 10:17 PM (F2xQR)
The sad end of rapper Juice Wrld
"On December 8, 2019, Higgins was aboard a private Gulfstream jet flying from Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles to Midway International Airport in Chicago. Law enforcement officers were waiting for the jet to arrive, having been notified by federal agents, while the flight was en route, that they suspected there were guns and drugs on the plane. Law enforcement officials said that they found 70 lb of marijuana on the aircraft and said several members of Higgins' management team aboard the flight told them that Higgins had taken "several unknown pills", including allegedly swallowing multiple Percocet pills while police were on board the plane searching the luggage.
"Higgins had a convulsion episode and a seizure; two doses of naloxone, an emergency medication, were administered, as it was suspected that he had an opioid overdose. Chicago PD were told a man (Higgins) had suffered a medical emergency at around 2:00 local time (8:00 GMT). Higgins was transported to the nearby Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2024 10:17 PM (dxSpM)
New T-Zero: 11:15 p.m. ET - (December 21, 04:15 UTC, 05:15 CET).
https://www.youtube.com/live/19mgjpnAPVM
Posted by: Ciampino - a bit later at December 20, 2024 10:17 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Figgered It Out
Oh man, thank you. Was just about to hit "Place bid".
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 20, 2024 10:17 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 10:08 PM (Pv3Rg)
____________________________
The North Pole "don't ask, don't tell" policy suddenly makes a little more sense.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 10:17 PM (dIske)
So, a little more of this and they'll have Israel on its knees, I guess.
Or something. Or - they're gonna get hammered some more. Looks like the Crazy Islamist Learning Curve Effect (a flat line) is in play again.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 10:18 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 20, 2024 10:18 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 20, 2024 10:19 PM (T/zw7)
In days of yore, I would have been forced to remove the post and promise to be a good boy.
This time, I hit the appeal button, and a couple of hours later I get basically "Nah, mang. You're good to go. The person who reported this is just a whiny little bitch." I didn't have to delete the post.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 20, 2024 10:19 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Bulg
I have a lovely bottle of red, cheese, smoked meats, olives and some pickled veggies. Hummus, crackers and some cashews.
***pats couch*
Have a seat. Indiana is getting creamed.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 10:20 PM (Ihn6X)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 10:21 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 10:22 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 10:22 PM (xCA6C)
So, in short, this isn't something you do twice.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 10:23 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 20, 2024 10:23 PM (T/zw7)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 10:22 PM (xCA6C)
That kid is going places.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 10:23 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: Zeera The people are coming at December 20, 2024 10:23 PM (tXURQ)
that was special
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 10:09 PM (Pv3Rg)
She is a real prize, blaming everyone else for her innate stupidity. Must be a Democrat voter.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 10:24 PM (8zz6B)
Because otherwise... no shit?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 20, 2024 10:24 PM (W5ArC)
v=GHd8EiJn5hI&pp=ygUMYmVib3AgU2FudGEg
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 20, 2024 10:24 PM (T/zw7)
>>@JenniferSey
>>🚨🚨🚨 Women's sports are being saved.
>>The Biden administration is withdrawing its Title IX proposal which forced schools to allow trans-identifying male athletes into girls' sports.
>>They know they've lost.
>>Common sense is emerging.
>>Your courage is making the difference.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 10:25 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Ciampino - FAFO at December 20, 2024 10:25 PM (i0xsb)
Yes, and they're going to do everything possible to make sure Trump doesn't get credit.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 20, 2024 10:26 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Ciampino - EOs EOs EEIO at December 20, 2024 10:26 PM (i0xsb)
https://mol.im/a/14214275
Posted by: Ciampino - EOs EOs EEIO at December 20, 2024 10:26 PM (i0xsb
Hasn't the Supreme Court stopped this four times over already?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 10:27 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: Beartooth at December 20, 2024 10:28 PM (3Ev2O)
Way back when men were men and Cold Wars were cold, I recall being in the car when the Marines were doing a full-scale amphibious exercise as our family drove north to LA. Tanks rumbling along on both sides of the freeway, Hueys with guys hanging on lines crossing over from the beach side. Lots of people had pulled over to watch. I begged for this but was turned down.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 10:28 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Beartooth at December 20, 2024 10:28 PM (3Ev2O)
That's only a few dollars more.
Posted by: Martha Radditz at December 20, 2024 10:30 PM (KcwUg)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 20, 2024 10:31 PM (F2xQR)
Posted by: scampydog at December 20, 2024 10:31 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2024 10:31 PM (Qp67s)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 10:31 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 20, 2024 10:34 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 10:35 PM (8zz6B)
At the pawn store
Posted by: Zeera The people are coming at December 20, 2024 10:23 PM (tXURQ)
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Mongo only pawn, in Game of Life.
Posted by: Mongo at December 20, 2024 10:35 PM (hY4dx)
I said Ho Ho Ho.
>>@AGAndrewBailey
>>🚨BREAKING: TOTAL AND COMPLETE SURRENDER.
>>@JoeBiden abandoned plans to illegally forgive Ivy League student loan debt at the expense of working Americans.
>>We successfully BLOCKED these unlawful giveaways EVERY time.
>>A HUGE victory for fairness and the rule of law.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 10:36 PM (LkLld)
Did you eat it?
Posted by: Scarymary at December 20, 2024 10:31 PM (F2xQR)
It was remarkably in good shape so I grilled it and cut it into tiny pieces and am using it for training rewards for Heidi, our 2 1/2 years old velocirapter.
Posted by: Beartooth at December 20, 2024 10:38 PM (3Ev2O)
From memory, a male presented himself to the ER and eventually revealed that while working at a machine shop, during lunch he would sometimes gratify himself by using one of the machines. Not sure how this works, but somehow in the throes of passion his junk became entwined with a drive belt, which avulsed a testicle and was missing, and a huge gash on his ball sack.
He decided to try and staple the wound closed with those large industrial things.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 20, 2024 10:38 PM (eQfh1)
Posted by: Miklos, now serious, no joke, my word as a Miklos at December 20, 2024 10:38 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 20, 2024 10:39 PM (QSrLX)
This is a terribly dull game. ND's principal skill is just chewing up the clock. Indiana gives them lots of opportunities to do so.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2024 10:39 PM (dxSpM)
Multiple emergency crews are on the scene after a military helicopter crashed bursting into flames during an emergency landing incident
https://tinyurl.com/3jtau6uh
Posted by: Ciampino - all safe at December 20, 2024 10:40 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 10:40 PM (CDGpN)
Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 20, 2024 10:39 PM (QSrLX)
Only if the idiot's name is published, maybe?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 10:41 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 10:41 PM (iziT8)
Apparently I should have accepted that full ride scholarship to Harvard, and taken student loans.
Posted by: Miklos, stupid Miklos at December 20, 2024 10:41 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: Common Tater
How many times do you think he hollered "OW! MY BALLS!!" during that episode.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 10:42 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 10:27 PM (mzM2O)
This one is for "public servants" for which there actually is some enabling legislation, dating back to the Obama regime.
I think this one will stick.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 20, 2024 10:43 PM (W5ArC)
I remember it going around on dial-up bulletin boards back in the day.
https://tinyurl.com/2w5w5a9k
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 20, 2024 10:45 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 10:41 PM (iziT
But you wind up with a bucketful of angry rats, which you then have to kill. You can't release rats, because, rats.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 10:45 PM (8zz6B)
You staying on your side next week?
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage
Christmas Eve your side, Christmas Day my side.
Are you hosting or traveling?
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 20, 2024 10:47 PM (+VovS)
The wife and I watched Red One this evening. Is it great cinema? Well, no, but it was still lots of fun.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 20, 2024 10:48 PM (OGOaV)
Husband had a hip replacement on Tuesday. He was at physical therapy today, walking in with his walker.
Mind: boggled. I remember when hip replacements had a three week stay in the hospital and then the patient was sent to rehab to relearn how to walk. He has pain, but it's managed well with advil. Absolutely amazing.
Posted by: Moki at December 20, 2024 10:48 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 10:45 PM (8zz6B)
Surrender them over to PETA. They have a 90% kill rate, so the rats will be in good hands.
Posted by: RickZ at December 20, 2024 10:48 PM (gKDq2)
I used to hang out on ISCA - Iowa City, when I lived there. Definitely different, but I learned a lot, especially unscrupulous methods of debate oft employed by leftists. They haven’t changed, I’d note.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 20, 2024 10:49 PM (TbGaV)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 10:50 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: RickZ at December 20, 2024 10:48 PM (gKDq2)
PETA only kills pets and livestock. They would likely release rats. Because, rats.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 10:51 PM (8zz6B)
He decided to try and staple the wound closed with those large industrial things.
Posted by: Common Tater
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That or one similar, yeah. Those machine shop staplers can cause a heck of an infection.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2024 10:51 PM (Qp67s)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 20, 2024 10:51 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 10:45 PM (8zz6B)
Surrender them over to PETA. They have a 90% kill rate, so the rats will be in good hands.
Posted by: RickZ at December 20, 2024 10:48 PM (gKDq2)
You might also try a pharmaceutical company, for the drugs that are too dangerous to test on politicians.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 10:52 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Moki
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Gave my 'weird uncle' a bit of payback when he had his hip replacement. Smuggled a six pack in and set it on the window shelf, just out of his reach.
Hope the healing goes smooth for your husband.
Posted by: scampydog at December 20, 2024 10:52 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Moki at December 20, 2024 10:48 PM (wLjpr)
Coming out of anesthesia for heart surgery, they have you up and walking today.
'It's okay, pretend like you're just a little drunk. And what better place to fall?'
Posted by: RickZ at December 20, 2024 10:52 PM (gKDq2)
Cheer coach: 9/11?
Once I realized what they were doing, I just stopped the vid. Don't think that's ever been necessary on an ONT meme before. OMG.😒🙄😶
Enjoying the post… otherwise.
Howdy, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - looking away from a train wreck at December 20, 2024 10:52 PM (v+OaN)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 10:52 PM (VNX3d)
They have lawyers for that...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 10:54 PM (8zz6B)
You staying on your side next week?
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage
Christmas Eve your side, Christmas Day my side.
Are you hosting or traveling?
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat
Hosting. But Dec 27th because, guests.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 10:54 PM (aRpZy)
I'm totally stealing this idea.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 20, 2024 10:55 PM (QzM4s)
Posted by: RickZ at December 20, 2024 10:48 PM (gKDq2)
PETA only kills pets and livestock. They would likely release rats. Because, rats.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 10:51 PM (8zz6B)
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New York Department of Environmental Conservation hated us because we were fun and brought joy to the masses.
Posted by: P'nut & Fred at December 20, 2024 10:55 PM (F2xQR)
Drop a lump of dry ice in the container.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 10:56 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 20, 2024 10:39 PM (QSrLX)
Only if the idiot's name is published, maybe?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 10:41 PM (8zz6B)
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That's pretty much it. As long as there's no way to identify the person from the information provided, it's not a violation.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 20, 2024 10:56 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: mnw at December 20, 2024 11:00 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: four seasons at December 20, 2024 11:01 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: TRex at December 20, 2024 11:03 PM (pfEGd)
Maybe it's all the comics I've read. But I feel like you're not putting your supervillain hat on here, because "bucketful of angry rats" is a first step in at least 100 great plans.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 20, 2024 11:05 PM (QzM4s)
Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 20, 2024 11:07 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 11:07 PM (hqusk)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 20, 2024 11:07 PM (wNu9z)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 11:07 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Archimedes
Kid heard it the night before - Dad was singing while locked in master BR with Mom.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2024 11:08 PM (/lPRQ)
Did I mention I hate Notre Dame?
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage
Due to the "realignment", I hate ALL teams in the playoffs.
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 20, 2024 11:09 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: mnw at December 20, 2024 11:10 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 20, 2024 11:13 PM (wNu9z)
https://youtu.be/muUZjovOFRg
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 11:15 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 20, 2024 11:15 PM (r5tfK)
Maybe that little artist grew into the child singing off camera
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 20, 2024 11:15 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 11:16 PM (p4NUW)
God speed The Day!
Posted by: mnw at December 20, 2024 11:10 PM (NLIak)
That just makes it offcial. For all intents and purposes, and considering Joe's dementia and Kammie's imbecility, the world treats Trump as president now. And he's not even using that silly 'Office Of President-Elect' seal Obama used back in '08.
Posted by: RickZ at December 20, 2024 11:17 PM (gKDq2)
https://tinyurl.com/3w3547jr
Posted by: Ciampino - machhine guns? at December 20, 2024 11:18 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2024 11:18 PM (dxSpM)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
Is Lorena Bobbit still alive?
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 20, 2024 11:19 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Archimedes
Kid heard it the night before - Dad was singing while locked in master BR with Mom.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
This could make a pretty good Hallmark Christmas movie.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 20, 2024 11:21 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 11:21 PM (iHpv6)
Posted by: far cry at December 20, 2024 11:22 PM (0Y8yb)
Little get togethers with morons are the best.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024
These 2 are awesome, which you know. I may continue to exert my bad influence tomorrow and go antiquing with Grateful. After I make people sweat and burn in the morning.
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 11:24 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 11:16 PM
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It was a lovely evening. Thank you! The wine problem got a lot easier after you suggested guzzling straight from the bottle. Rawr.
Posted by: TRex at December 20, 2024 11:25 PM (pfEGd)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 20, 2024 11:25 PM (0Htd1)
Of course there's a thick, juicy briefing book on Bibi's desk with a menu of options for this and all imaginable contingencies. Question here may be is it time to finally hit Iran in "retaliation"?
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 11:25 PM (1m82a)
It was a lovely evening. Thank you! The wine problem got a lot easier after you suggested guzzling straight from the bottle. Rawr.
Posted by: TRex at December 20, 2024
That is what friends are for!
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 11:27 PM (p4NUW)
"For the Plasma" - spoilers of course...
A young woman gets invited to a remove Maine house to work for her friend who has some sort of forest fire monitoring job - but she's actually some sort of psychic who can predict stock futures.
And...the film doesn't go anywhere. The non-psychic wanders around Maine...which is pretty enough but...we get no explanation of why the other girl can make these predictions, who she works for, or why the location in Maine matters. The movie ends with the psychic going off for some other employment as her friend asks her to explain anything and she refuses which I guess is meant to echo what the movie writer knew the audience was thinking?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2024 11:27 PM (oZhjI)
Son #1 works at Boeing.
He's on a break, they ran out of parts and are farting around in the break room. Someone pulls out a deck of cards and poker chips from their locker. Five guys start playing.
Trump cards. President Donald J Trump playing cards.
Hahahahahahahaha!
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 11:27 PM (iHpv6)
Posted by: Crying In My Soup at December 20, 2024 11:28 PM (G5+As)
I read through some of it today and I've been following the collusion between the feds, big tech and private universities and businesses and even I was taken aback. When the American people who, for the most part, have no idea what was going on finally understand what was done to them by our government I think our numbers will only get bigger. A lot bigger.
We came this >< close to losing this country.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 11:28 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Piper
You do understand with any wild animal, when the food runs out...well, they are wild animals.
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 20, 2024 11:29 PM (+VovS)
Makes a game of spades go pretty quick.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 20, 2024 11:33 PM (r5tfK)
Drop a lump of dry ice in the container.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 10:56 PM (xCA6C)
Hose from tailpipe to container. Idle a bit.
Posted by: javems at December 20, 2024 11:34 PM (8I4hW)
If you are a normie you aren't allowed to keep your stuff - because "your property isn't worth someone's life" even if someone is willing to break into your house and maybe kill you to get it.
In Heritage America you'd draw a lot of shit for being related to a punk that breaks into houses, but that America is long gone. This home owner though should thank God he lives in FL - if that has happened in CA or the Northeast the legal situation could have been much worse...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2024 11:34 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Crying In My Soup
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Yeah. It's all 'Merry Christmas! , until, Santa starts going over the Naughty list.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 11:36 PM (XeU6L)
We came this >
Trump has two choices with how to deal with this
1) Starting throwing the weaponizers in jail.
2) Turn the weaponized government on the left
If he doesn't do either we will revert to the mean and in a few years be right back where we are now.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2024 11:36 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 11:16 PM
***
It was a lovely evening. Thank you! The wine problem got a lot easier after you suggested guzzling straight from the bottle. Rawr.
Posted by: TRex
Was this in the NoVA area? I recall you asking me about going for a few beers the other night. I work right through the weekend, so my schedule doesn't mesh with most folks.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 20, 2024 11:39 PM (+YRf1)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 11:41 PM (XeU6L)
The Son who is living in your home, because otherwise he would be homeless....
I'm... conflicted.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 20, 2024 11:44 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 20, 2024 11:39 PM
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Negative. Will catch up with you in the new year.
Posted by: TRex at December 20, 2024 11:45 PM (pfEGd)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 11:45 PM (iHpv6)
Posted by: Romeo13
Tell him you love him.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 11:45 PM (iHpv6)
I did... it had no impact.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 20, 2024 11:46 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 20, 2024 11:29 PM
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We consider wine to be food, which helps tame the wild beast.
Posted by: TRex at December 20, 2024 11:46 PM (pfEGd)
Posted by: Ciampino - machhine guns? at December 20, 2024 11:47 PM (i0xsb)
Good evening, all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 20, 2024 11:51 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Romeo13
You're not saying it for impact. But he does need to respect you and not be unkind.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 11:53 PM (VaV9x)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 11:53 PM (63Dwl)
1) Starting throwing the weaponizers in jail.
2) Turn the weaponized government on the left
If he doesn't do either we will revert to the mean and in a few years be right back where we are now.
Posted by: 18-1
====================
#1
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 20, 2024 11:55 PM (lCaJd)
The Son who is living in your home, because otherwise he would be homeless....
I'm... conflicted.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Tell him you're glad he's not fathering any kids that he obviously can't support? /s kinda
Sorry, Romeo13.. what an awful situation.
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2024 11:56 PM (YoCnN)
Posted by: keena at December 20, 2024 11:56 PM (Fd8wq)
The Son who is living in your home, because otherwise he would be homeless....
I'm... conflicted.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 20, 2024 11:44 PM (QAkQ3)
Tell him you're giving his inheritance to the church since he's not having kids and will have nobody to leave it to you're just cutting out the middle man.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2024 11:57 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 11:57 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 20, 2024 11:55 PM (lCaJd)
Do both. Make it abundantly clear to the Left that weaponizing government is a bad idea.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 11:58 PM (8zz6B)
Depends on why he's telling you this.
Is he a hardcore leftist?
Has he so far failed at what he's tried to do in life and is depressed?
If it is more the latter sometimes all it takes is one thing going right - getting a decent job for example - and suddenly the world looks very different.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2024 11:59 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: keena at December 20, 2024 11:56 PM (Fd8wq)
Will need it christmas eve since my brother's asshole biden bung licking inlaws will be there.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2024 12:00 AM (VwHCD)
The Son who is living in your home, because otherwise he would be homeless....
I'm... conflicted.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 20, 2024 11:44 PM (QAkQ3)
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Throw him out of the house.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 12:01 AM (ZOv7s)
And it most certainly always is.
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 21, 2024 12:01 AM (+VovS)
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I vote that we allow these people to be placed in stocks on the village common. Us Deplorable Garbage Bitter Clingers can throw tomatoes at them with wild abandon.
Posted by: Scarymary at December 21, 2024 12:02 AM (F2xQR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 12:03 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:04 AM (7MHHr)
Posted by: Scarymary
Dammit people! The gallows or guillotine, this ain't rocket math.
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 21, 2024 12:05 AM (+VovS)
https://www.youtube.com/live/19mgjpnAPVM
Posted by: Ciampino - machhine guns? at December 20, 2024 11:47 PM (i0xsb)
Woops.
Posted by: javems at December 21, 2024 12:05 AM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 21, 2024 12:06 AM (F2xQR)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 21, 2024 12:02 AM (F2xQR)
Tomatoes? Tomatoes are what you throw at piss poor stage actors. These bastards deserve pig iron.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2024 12:06 AM (VwHCD)
First time I have seen this and glad nothing blew up as there's about a million pounds of kerosene and liquid oxygen on board.
Posted by: Ciampino - machines at December 21, 2024 12:09 AM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Scarymary
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We would never do such a thin..., uh, nevermind.
Posted by: Robert, an innocent poster at December 21, 2024 12:09 AM (XeU6L)
After he makes a snow-crater, he has a super-whistle, and a super-dog wearing a red cape comes and rescues him. Not a joke, I am not making this up.
Grown-ass men will watch this movie, and then go to youtube to stare lovingly into the equally-soulless camera, and gush.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 21, 2024 12:10 AM (lhenN)
Posted by: Scarymary
Mild is for detergent, not people. (smiley face icon here)
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 21, 2024 12:10 AM (+VovS)
Posted by: Ciampino
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TV ad says Blue Pills are the answer.
Posted by: Pharma at December 21, 2024 12:11 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 21, 2024 12:12 AM (F2xQR)
TV ad says Blue Pills are the answer.
Posted by: Pharma at December 21, 2024 12:11 AM (XeU6L)
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Do they go in the LOX or the kerosene?
Posted by: Ciampino - machines that go up at December 21, 2024 12:16 AM (i0xsb)
You know your son best. Does he respond better to kindness and compassion, or to clear goals and expectations? It's so hard. We don't want to coddle our adult kids, but we don't want to alienate them either.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 12:19 AM (OnhE9)
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https://tinyurl.com/yypxt65r
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 12:19 AM (Qp67s)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 21, 2024 12:12 AM (F2xQR)
Thats better. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2024 12:23 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 21, 2024 12:24 AM (F2xQR)
🚨ESG WIN: Wells Fargo withdraws from Net-Zero Banking Alliance. On August 21, I strongly encouraged Wells Fargo leave Net-Zero Banking Alliance due to its unlawful ESG commitments. On December 19, Wells Fargo confirmed that they would leave NZBA because of my request.
Today, Wells Fargo took a step in the right direction by officially ending their affiliation with NZBA, and Texas welcomes them to continue doing business with our great State. I urge other financial institutions to follow their example and end ESG policies that are hostile to our critical oil and gas industries.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 12:35 AM (Qp67s)
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at December 21, 2024 12:39 AM (JRP2U)
Happy Solstice.
https://youtu.be/InD3FrCya2k
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - jingling awl thee weigh at December 21, 2024 12:40 AM (v+OaN)
I think this one will stick.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 20, 2024 10:43 PM (W5ArC)
This is going to make DOGE's work a wee bit easier you know.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2024 12:42 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 21, 2024 12:12 AM (F2xQR)
Actually, reading this again, AOS style guide says flaming barbed wire wrapped pineapple sideways. A regular garden variety pineapple isn't effective. It needs to be... accessorized.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2024 12:43 AM (VwHCD)
that was special
Posted by: BlackOrchid
I noticed! I'm thinking she should probably not be allowed behind the wheel.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 21, 2024 12:46 AM (mWdS+)
Posted by: TRex at December 21, 2024 12:49 AM (pfEGd)
It is worth noting that in 2008, after Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother, and nephew were found murdered in their Chicago home,
Donald Trump sheltered Jennifer rent-free and ensured her and her remaining family's safety.
"We're protecting them well. They are very safe," Trump said
https://tinyurl.com/3zw87dej
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 12:55 AM (Qp67s)
Except...that's not what happened. The defenders surrendered to the Russians, the family of one of the defenders trademarked the slogan, and the Russians traded them back to Ukraine for some Russian prisoners.
So...even the small details of this war are fake.
Not to argue surrender wasn't the prudent course here - the island is of little worth and the defenders had no chance. But...that's the story of this whole damn war isn't it?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 12:57 AM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2024 01:00 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: four seasons at December 21, 2024 01:01 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2024 12:43 AM (VwHCD)
I live in Texas. I'll find some thorny plants. And I'll claim the Castle Doctrine.
Posted by: Scarymary at December 21, 2024 01:04 AM (F2xQR)
Posted by: Archimedes
Kid heard it the night before - Dad was singing while locked in master BR with Mom.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher “
That is sick and perverted and I can’t stop laughing.
Posted by: Ripley at December 21, 2024 01:08 AM (PTDkx)
I'm guessing a lot of ya'll have gone to read what's in the bill. I can save you lots of time: WE ARE STILL SCREWED!!!!
Posted by: four seasons at December 21, 2024 01:09 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 21, 2024 01:10 AM (lhenN)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
I live in Texas. I'll find some thorny plants. And I'll claim the Castle Doctrine.
Posted by: Scarymary
Cacti are acceptable (see footnote 173.) But they must be 110% the diameter of the average pineapple.
Posted by: mikeski at December 21, 2024 01:15 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: BourbonChicken
* waves *
Posted by: Ukrainian Mail Order Brides, LLC at December 21, 2024 01:15 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 21, 2024 01:10 AM (lhenN)
Men in prison are finding women to marry no problemo.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 21, 2024 01:16 AM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 21, 2024 01:18 AM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 21, 2024 01:19 AM (F2xQR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2024 01:00 AM
Next up, numerous mysterious "exercise band" accidents during the holidays among the senators and representatives who failed to deliver the 1300 pages worth of pork that got cut from the original budget proposal.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2024 01:19 AM (wNu9z)
Posted by: not actually Yuki Kajiura at December 21, 2024 01:23 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: mikeski at December 21, 2024 01:15 AM (DgGvY)
There is a a honey locust tree on my property that claims sovereignty. It is a vicious bastard, (like Ken Paxton, state AG, that Magnificent Bastard.)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 21, 2024 01:26 AM (F2xQR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2024 01:26 AM (YzqWW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I saw Bucketful Of Rats open for a double bill of Buckethead and Modest Mouse at some forgotten hole-in-the-wall in '98.
Posted by: mikeski at December 21, 2024 01:31 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Rather like Groucho Marx not being a member of any club which would have him as a member, any bill which passes both houses of congress should have passed neither.
Posted by: mikeski at December 21, 2024 01:32 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 21, 2024 01:39 AM (F2xQR)
How does someone go from living at home at 33 and unemployed to finding a wife and having kids? What's the reliable plan to make that happen?
Posted by: BourbonChicken
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Well, the son said he's not having any kids. I bet marriage isn't in his plans either.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 21, 2024 01:43 AM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2024 01:26 AM (YzqWW)
I believe this bill totaled 138 pages worth of outrages against the American public, versus the 1500 plus pages of the original.
I guess that makes this bill 90 percent less evil.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2024 01:46 AM (wNu9z)
20 Tweets from Bad Blue
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 01:56 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: 13times at December 21, 2024 01:58 AM (gMyx+)
Church?
I'm not a big church-goer myself, but that's probably a good place to look for someone worth wifing.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 21, 2024 01:58 AM (W5ArC)
Church?
I'm not a big church-goer myself, but that's probably a good place to look for someone worth wifing.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
I was going to say something about that presupposing someone worth husbanding, but some women like "projects."
Posted by: mikeski at December 21, 2024 02:02 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 21, 2024 12:19 AM (OnhE9)
Actually, I kicked mine to the curb when he turned 18. Little SOB isn't leeching off me anymore. Sent him to AMYA (military school, essentially), where he got his GED. Then he proceeded to lay about the house, eating my food, making horrendous messes, putting holes in the drywall, smoking dope and heaven knows what else, and NOT getting a job or signing up with the military. He racked up $1500 in driving violations (still hasn't paid them) and got our car insurance canceled. Kid is a dead end. Every time we have reached out to "help" he has made us regret it. I'm done with that.
He is currently couch surfing, I don't know who is buying his drugs, I don't know who buys his clothes, I don't much care.
Nobody can break your heart like your spawn.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 21, 2024 02:03 AM (xZ/E3)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 21, 2024 01:10 AM (lhenN)
Kick his ass to the curb.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 21, 2024 02:05 AM (xZ/E3)
Posted by: 13times
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Baseball player, Ricky? Crossed paths with him a few times back in the day.
Posted by: scampydog at December 21, 2024 02:09 AM (41CYW)
The Christmas Spirit hit me two weeks ago with a new Grandson who is Jonathan, and he will be a man amongst men.
Merry Christmas Horde.
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 21, 2024 02:09 AM (TDvv2)
Posted by: scampydog at December 21, 2024 02:11 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 21, 2024 02:14 AM (F2xQR)
Posted by: scampydog at December 21, 2024 02:09 AM (41CYW)
Yes. And he's was too young to die.
Posted by: 13times at December 21, 2024 02:19 AM (AWt0a)
Later, gators.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at December 21, 2024 02:23 AM (JRP2U)
Is this the left's most egregious lie (this week)? Or is Bizarro World just getting more bizarre?
Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 21, 2024 02:23 AM (TdCYS)
A Charlie Brown's Christmas
my fav...
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 21, 2024 02:24 AM (TDvv2)
Some people have to be loved =before= they become lovable.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 21, 2024 02:24 AM (lhenN)
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 21, 2024 02:27 AM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 21, 2024 02:30 AM (F2xQR)
Informed I am that I will be BBQ Master for many people tomorrow.
Tri-Tip, Chicken and Hot Links for 20....dang gotta hit the rack.
Night Horde!!
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 21, 2024 02:36 AM (TDvv2)
Posted by: 13times
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Dang. Yes, way too young. Five tool player. He was a physical specimen. Gym story, Ricky spoke in third person. He started unloading the weights, I told him I wasn't done. He said, "Ricky is ready to lift. Ricky is gonna lift."
Posted by: scampydog at December 21, 2024 02:39 AM (41CYW)
Is this the left's most egregious lie (this week)? Or is Bizarro World just getting more bizarre?
Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 21, 2024 02:23 AM (TdCYS)
How dummkopf do they think the average German is?!
Posted by: pookysgirl sez NEIN at December 21, 2024 02:40 AM (dtlDP)
Merry Christmas Horde.
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 21, 2024 02:09 AM (TDvv2)
As a mom, I just have to say, sniff that head.... Not like a Biden, like a mom.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 21, 2024 02:44 AM (xZ/E3)
I'm... conflicted.
Posted by: Romeo13
It's hard to know what to do. As a parent you are supposed to care for your children. Just dumping them in the street even at adult ages sounds straightforward. But that doesn't feel right either.
I know too many people in my age cohort who have an adult son living at home that failed to launch.
Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2024 02:59 AM (QfvaV)
I know too many people in my age cohort who have an adult son living at home that failed to launch.
Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2024 02:59 AM (QfvaV)
I do care for my child. That's why my heart is broken. But you can determine to be a victim, or determine not to be. I choose not to be. I gave that child every chance to succeed. I still pay for his cell phone, health insurance, dental, vision. But what I won't do is let him infect my house with his drug use, his disregard, his abuse, and his general uselessness.
Every night I pray that he is okay, not dead, not drugged into a stupor, not selling his body to buy drugs. I can pray it, but God will have to see to it. I can't push that rope to any advantage. Either the kid figures it out, or he doesn't.
I hate it. But I can't change it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 21, 2024 03:08 AM (xZ/E3)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 21, 2024 03:34 AM (xZ/E3)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 21, 2024 03:47 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 03:49 AM (fwDg9)
Merry Christmas Horde.
Posted by: Nightwatch
*fistbump*
My newest (no. 3) grandson came into this world yesterday morning.
Merry Christmas indeed NW.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 21, 2024 04:11 AM (goY6W)
Posted by: pawn (on his new laptop!!!) at December 21, 2024 05:08 AM (Lo11P)
Posted by: Candidus at December 21, 2024 08:23 AM (FW1NF)
Posted by: Alberta Oil
....
Antifreeze is your friend in these situations
Posted by: TexasDan at December 21, 2024 09:49 PM (rAsBA)
Giant Animals Cafe
Big Jake, one of the World's largest horses during his time
Big moose. Major elephant. Big bison. That's no king cobra, it's a Kong cobra:
This is not a horse. Bro is riding a Mythical Beast. pic.twitter.com/aa9YtZTC8g
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) December 17, 2024
Ice skating skates
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) December 20, 2024
pic.twitter.com/QLw5Ydl9ff
He brought a friend home.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/B14dlFyUlV
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 20, 2024
Happy tails!
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 20, 2024
These shelter dogs pick out their own Christmas toys! 😊
🎥 IG: heschatt
Humane Educational Society, Chattanooga, TN pic.twitter.com/v1pGOQ2ST4
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Admirale's Mate at December 20, 2024 07:28 PM (sMkAM)
Banks
Biggs
Bishop (NC)
Boebert
Brecheen
Burchett
Burlison
Cloud
Clyde
Crane
Curtis
DesJarlais
Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2024 07:28 PM (DQ6xw)
Posted by: Admirale's Mate at December 20, 2024 07:28 PM (sMkAM)
Gonzales, Tony
Good (VA)
Gooden (TX)
Grothman
Harris
Harshbarger
Hunt
Lesko
Lopez
Mace
Massie
Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2024 07:28 PM (DQ6xw)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2024 07:29 PM (DQ6xw)
Posted by: Heirloominati at December 20, 2024 07:29 PM (CtJ/Z)
Posted by: Admirale's Mate at December 20, 2024 07:29 PM (sMkAM)
Especially for all the Gainz.
Posted by: Heirloominati at December 20, 2024 07:30 PM (CtJ/Z)
One of? He looks like three of! You could go rhino hunting with that thing. What a beast!.
Posted by: t-bird at December 20, 2024 07:31 PM (sZIeh)
Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 20, 2024 07:32 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at December 20, 2024 07:32 PM (xaNfJ)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2024 07:33 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 20, 2024 07:33 PM (+YRf1)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2024 07:33 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 07:33 PM (+o9ie)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at December 20, 2024 07:34 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at December 20, 2024 07:34 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: Stephen Maturin at December 20, 2024 07:34 PM (XeU6L)
Snowing and ground is covered
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 07:35 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 07:35 PM (YOgOt)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 07:35 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 07:35 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at December 20, 2024 07:34 PM (XjTSo)
——————-
Nope. Moose out front should’ve told ya.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2024 07:35 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2024 07:35 PM (Y6IkP)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
......
That's what she told me at the picnic.
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 07:35 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 07:36 PM (aD39U)
Huh. Now I'm not certain what di-lapidated means anymore.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
dilapidate (v.)
1560s, "to bring (a building) to ruin, bring into a ruinous condition by misuse or neglect," from Latin dilapidatus, past participle of dilapidare "to squander, waste," originally "to throw stones, scatter like stones," from dis- "asunder" (see dis-) + lapidare "throw stones at," from lapis (genitive lapidis) "stone" (see lapideous). Perhaps the English word is a back-formation from dilapidation. Intransitive sense of "fall into total or partial ruin" is from 1712.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 07:36 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2024 07:37 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 07:37 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: Zombie Catherine the Great at December 20, 2024 07:38 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 07:38 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2024 07:37 PM (u73oe)
ooh clash of the titans there
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 07:38 PM (n7h9X)
Just. No.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 07:35 PM (YOgOt)
For sure. Eek.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 20, 2024 07:38 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2024 07:39 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at December 20, 2024 07:39 PM (1VvJB)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2024 07:39 PM (u73oe)
it's like LOTR and the hobbits. The rider is on a forced perspective platform far behind the actual horse.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 07:40 PM (n7h9X)
Banks, Biggs, Bishop (NC), Boebert, Brecheen, Burchett, Burlison, Cloud, Clyde, Crane, Curtis, DesJarlais, Fulcher, Gonzales, Tony,
Good (VA), Gooden (TX), Grothman, Harris, Harshbarger, Hunt,
Lesko, Lopez, Mace, Massie, McCormick, Mills, Mooney, Ogles,
Perry, Rosendale, Roy, Self, Tiffany, Van Duyne...
Posted by: Marcus T
U.S. House from Alabama are: Jerry Carl (District 1), Barry Moore (District 2), Mike Rogers (District 3), Robert Aderholt (District 4), Dale Strong (District 5), Gary Palmer (District 6), and Terri Sewell (District 7). All representatives are serving terms that end between January 2025 and January 2029.
Appears as though all seven of my assholes voted yes.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 20, 2024 07:41 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 20, 2024 07:41 PM (D6PGr)
Impressive. Unfortunately, it looks like they were immediately bailing water. I hope it eventually sealed up.
Posted by: t-bird at December 20, 2024 07:41 PM (GCKiK)
Posted by: comradearthur at December 20, 2024 07:42 PM (lJ0uc)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2024 07:42 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 20, 2024 07:42 PM (D6PGr)
"Excuse me. Fishing, huh? Nice. So, where's the wife? That her over there on the shore? Have fun."
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 07:42 PM (dIske)
Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at December 20, 2024 07:45 PM (1VvJB)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 07:45 PM (LkLld)
WHY THE F**K IS SHE HOLDING THAT THING FOR THE LOVE OF....
Posted by: Nelly at December 20, 2024 07:46 PM (bcr4y)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 07:46 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2024 07:46 PM (u73oe)
My diverticulitis is apolitical, abstained.
Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at December 20, 2024 07:47 PM (1VvJB)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at December 20, 2024 07:34 PM (XjTSo)
Yes, they are called Musettes. They are used in the manufacture of small canvass shoulder bags.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2024 07:47 PM (D7oie)
I was in Ivory Coast and saw these big flamingoes flying over the lagoon. One swooped by the hotel window and it wasn't a flamingo it was a BAT!
Like 6 foot wingspan, body the size of a cat.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2024 07:47 PM (QfvaV)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 07:48 PM (hovnC)
Whoa.
Posted by: Zombie Catherine the Great
Big Jake was a gelding.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2024 07:48 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 07:49 PM (iziT8)
New Florida man accidentally gored by elephant while adjusting tv antennae from it's back.
New Florida man caught peeing on the windshield of New Delhi bus to remove bug splatter.
New Florida woman receives severe burns after passing gas during surgery and setting the laser on fire.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 07:51 PM (dIske)
Whoa.
Posted by: Zombie Catherine the Great
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Big Jake was a gelding.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
I thought you were dead?
- John Fain
Not Hardly.
- Jacob McCandles
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 20, 2024 07:52 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Cleopatra at December 20, 2024 07:52 PM (G5+As)
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𝕏 Tonight’s #Top20Posts: Stunning Purple-Haired Rep Is The New, Fresh Face of the Democrat Party
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Fridays with Frank #134 (8:25)
https://youtu.be/Ftcuk_uoQ14
Mark Dice on changing times (16:26)
https://youtu.be/RBj5FgY6Wmg
History Guy on cross-words (17:22)
https://youtu.be/RBj5FgY6Wmg
Zeducation Extras (13:20)
https://youtu.be/ciWZoLmPnpk
Ozzy Man Reviews: Best of Destination F'd 2024 (8:12)
https://youtu.be/nYADp1cDPXU
Posted by: mindful webworker - don't blink at December 20, 2024 07:53 PM (v+OaN)
Posted by: Moosie Drier at December 20, 2024 07:54 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 07:54 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 20, 2024 07:55 PM (/6GbT)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 07:56 PM (K861k)
Posted by: IrishEi at December 20, 2024 07:57 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: From about That Time at December 20, 2024 07:58 PM (4780s)
By Who Goosed da Moose
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 07:59 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Owl Be Seeing You at December 20, 2024 07:59 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at December 20, 2024 07:34 PM (XjTSo)
Yes, they are called Musettes. They are used in the manufacture of small canvass shoulder bags.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2024 07:47 PM (D7oie)
Meese.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 07:59 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 07:59 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 08:00 PM (gbOdA)
So is this a Republican bill or a Democrat bill? 🤔
Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie 4h Replying to @WallStreetMav
This was in fact correct when you tweeted it, but speaker Johnson flipped his decision after the meeting when he spoke to Hakeem Jeffries and realized he could get Democrat votes to pass all the legislation as one bill.
Thatch @THATCH_ARISES 2h Replying to @elonmusk
You are figuring out that the GOPe is Dem-lite and they have always been a problem given they are essentially enemy agents working behind our lines.
They fight tooth and nail to keep the base from getting ANYTHING while making sure the donor class gets everything it wants.
We despise them more than even the Democrats and they have to be purged from holding any sort of power before the country can move forward.
alexandriabrown @alexthechick 1h
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 08:01 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Oldcat
Sorta related
How They Made Hagrid Big
https://youtu.be/pn4XUOHLFUE
Posted by: mindful webworker - movie wizardry at December 20, 2024 08:01 PM (v+OaN)
Our elk is called wapiti.
Posted by: MkY at December 20, 2024 08:01 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: MkY at December 20, 2024 08:01 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 08:01 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 07:56 PM (K861k)
______________________
Link a little lower has an actual moose. Top one however is most definitely an elk....with neck problems due to that massive rack (phrasing).
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 08:01 PM (dIske)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 20, 2024 08:02 PM (7gFa4)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -- Despite a short life, marked by illness, ...
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 08:03 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Norseman at December 20, 2024 08:04 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: From about That Time at December 20, 2024 08:05 PM (4780s)
Posted by: Owl Be Seeing You
Many years ago, I had what I'm pretty sure was a bat zip past the top of my head, soft swoosh, barely felt my hairs brushed. Figure he was going after a skeeter, so it was all right.
Posted by: mindful webworker - did not become a vampire at December 20, 2024 08:06 PM (v+OaN)
Our elk is called wapiti.
Posted by: MkY at December 20, 2024 08:01 PM (cPGH3)
You do know your shit's all retarded, yes?
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 08:07 PM (K861k)
Posted by: Ciampino - another clean cloth jo for HRC at December 20, 2024 08:07 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Norseman
What do they call llamas?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 20, 2024 08:07 PM (b294k)
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Best deal would have been the slimmed down bill from yesterday that had the debt limit extension. But nooooooh. Don't listen to Trump who told the R's that was the best deal, the guy who wrote the book called Art of the Deal.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 08:09 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Accomack at December 20, 2024 08:11 PM (GxmKP)
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Best deal would have been the slimmed down bill from yesterday that had the debt limit extension. But nooooooh. Don't listen to Trump who told the R's that was the best deal, the guy who wrote the book called Art of the Deal.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 08:09 PM (fs1hN)
I'm just concerned that a moron has seven assholes.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 08:11 PM (K861k)
Posted by: Otter Facts at December 20, 2024 08:12 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Norseman at December 20, 2024 08:13 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2024 08:13 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Lover Boy at December 20, 2024 08:14 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 20, 2024 08:16 PM (Wx316)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
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*looks around nervously*
Posted by: Mike Pence at December 20, 2024 08:16 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
That's OK with me. I can't go back there.
Posted by: R. Dean Taylor at December 20, 2024 08:17 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Owl Be Seeing You
It was fall in my part of Canada several years ago. I was running out in the country. On both sides of me, fields filled with birds.
I'd run, hundreds if birds on both sides, rose up and landed a bit further in the field. I'd get closer, they did it again. And again.
Beautiful.
And kind of creepy.
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 08:18 PM (jvJvP)
That's when you blow the air horn. More fun than cow tipping.
COME GET ME PETA!!!!
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 08:18 PM (dIske)
Our elk is called wapiti.
Posted by: MkY at December 20, 2024 08:01 PM (cPGH3)
You do know your shit's all retarded, yes?
Posted by: tcn in AK
Not my shit.
Yerp's.
Posted by: MkY at December 20, 2024 08:22 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Ralph at December 20, 2024 08:22 PM (TysyT)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 08:22 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Accomack at December 20, 2024 08:22 PM (MeckE)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 08:23 PM (NOlOe)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 20, 2024 08:24 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Accomack at December 20, 2024 08:25 PM (MeckE)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2024 08:25 PM (u73oe)
Somebody that looks dilapidated looks scruffy.
Posted by: Ciampino - looks like a Lefty bum at December 20, 2024 08:25 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 08:26 PM (iziT8)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 20, 2024 08:26 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Otter Facts at December 20, 2024 08:12 PM (vFG9F)
If they weren't so promiscuous this wouldn't have been an issue in the first place.
Posted by: Otter Transmitted Disease at December 20, 2024 08:27 PM (UKe2c)
It is obviously meaningless to call our country a democracy if the elected leaders are unable to read legislation before voting!!
alexandriabrown @alexthechick
Mr. Musk: I humbly request that you consider putting time and energy into supporting the passage of the Read The Bill (yes, that's the sanitized name) Constitutional amendment.
The Read The Bill amendment is as follows:
"No bill may be voted on by the House or the Senate before a human being, reading at a natural pace, reads the text of the bill on the floor of the House or Senate respectively. Only one bill may be read at a time on the floor of the House or Senate.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 08:27 PM (hovnC)
Each proposed amendment to a bill must also be read by a human being, reading at a natural pace, on the floor of the House or Senate respectively before voting on the amendment. Only one amendment may be read at a time and the reading of the amendment may not take place simultaneously with reading of the bill.
After amendment or after reconciliation of a bill in conference, the full text of the amended or reconcilled bill must be read by a a human being, reading at a natural pace, on the floor of the House or Senate respectively before the amended/reconcilled bill may be voted upon."
If nothing else, this will insure that at least one human being on the planet read the bill in its entirety before it is voted upon.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 08:27 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: PabloD at December 20, 2024 08:30 PM (iPHJZ)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 08:31 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Tried Neither So Far at December 20, 2024 08:31 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Tried Neither So Far at December 20, 2024 08:31 PM (G5+As)
If prepared properly, both are delicious.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 08:32 PM (W/lyH)
Hating Notre Dame is natural, like hating NYC. Sensible people do.
Posted by: Accomack
What about Knute and The Gipper?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 08:35 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Tried Neither So Far at December 20, 2024 08:31 PM (G5+As)
Who am I? Nanook of the North?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 08:35 PM (mzM2O)
Hating Notre Dame is natural, like hating NYC. Sensible people do.
Posted by: Accomack
What about Knute and The Gipper?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 08:35 PM (63Dwl
They started it.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 08:36 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 08:36 PM (Ihn6X)
Posted by: JROD at December 20, 2024 08:37 PM (IlL6s)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 08:38 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 20, 2024 08:38 PM (RqJVU)
How They Made Hagrid Big
My favorite part of Thor:Ragnarok (not even checking to see if I spelled that correctly) was Peter Dinkledge (or that) as a giant.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 08:38 PM (/y8xj)
They make you wear a Super Bowl ring looking dealio but at least you can sleep in your own bed.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 08:39 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 20, 2024 08:40 PM (DTX3h)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 08:40 PM (3wi/L)
After nearly 40 years in business, Party City is abruptly closing ALL stores today and staff will not receive any severance.
Also relevant to know: Party City made a huge DEI and LGBTQ push in recent years. Their business crumbled as they forced this agenda.
Go woke, go broke.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 08:43 PM (hovnC)
Do you ever wonder if he's just f*ckin' with us sometimes?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 08:43 PM (/y8xj)
They make you wear a Super Bowl ring looking dealio but at least you can sleep in your own bed.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 08:39 PM (mzM2O)
At least you don't need to buy any textbooks for those.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 08:43 PM (VNX3d)
Do you ever wonder if he's just f*ckin' with us sometimes?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 08:43 PM (/
I don't wonder. I'm sure of it.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 08:44 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2024 08:44 PM (LcXXS)
They make you wear a Super Bowl ring looking dealio but at least you can sleep in your own bed.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
That's much better than things were 10-20 years ago. Make you try to sleep in a clinic or hospital all wired-up.
Posted by: Niko Lepsi at December 20, 2024 08:45 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 20, 2024 08:45 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 08:43 PM (VNX3d)
I'll still get a C.
I always get Cs.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 08:45 PM (mzM2O)
'Do you ever wonder if he's just f*ckin' with us sometimes?'
That's possible. I also wonder if he comments under one of the regular nicks.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 08:45 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: azjaeger at December 20, 2024 08:45 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 08:46 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2024 08:47 PM (LcXXS)
That's possible. I also wonder if he comments under one of the regular nicks.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 08:45 PM (3wi/L
I'm not Ace. Just so everyone knows.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 08:47 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 08:48 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: Linz Minyuk at December 20, 2024 08:48 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 20, 2024 08:49 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Accomack at December 20, 2024 08:49 PM (GxmKP)
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 20, 2024 08:50 PM (/6GbT)
Posted by: four seasons at December 20, 2024 08:50 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 08:50 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 08:51 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Linz Minyuk at December 20, 2024 08:48 PM (G5+As)
Maybe this will cheer you up a bit
youtu.be/DimXZEK4EFA
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2024 08:51 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 20, 2024 08:45 PM (2NHgQ)
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I'm a Spartan homie so normally my favorite teams are Michigan State and whoever is playing Michigan and Notre Dame.
However, Cignetti is such a world-class prick that I want the Domers to grind him into the turf.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2024 08:51 PM (ZOv7s)
It isn't a lack of skill the lesser programs have. It is a lack of size and speed.
Posted by: Accomack at December 20, 2024 08:52 PM (GxmKP)
'I can relate to the idea of top executive hatred.'
Yeah, but I hate leftists 100X as much. Executives don't mandate lockdowns or incite racial hatred or send their political opponents to jail.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 08:52 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: AlaBAMA
Which is, of course, exactly what you'd say if you were.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 08:52 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 20, 2024 08:50 PM (/6GbT)
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MSU would have been 8-4 with that schedule. Total joke.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2024 08:53 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Duke Lowell who is definitely not Ace at December 20, 2024 08:53 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 08:52 PM (3wi/L)
what about leftist executives? is that additive function or multiplicative, or power function?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2024 08:53 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 08:53 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: AlaBAMA
Which is, of course, exactly what you'd say if you were.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 08:52 PM (/y8xj
That is reverse psychology, which means you're likely Ace. Throwing off the scent.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 08:54 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: AlaBAMA
I say, it is a bit of a sticky wicket, is it not?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 08:55 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 08:53 PM (i0F8b)
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Crucify him anyway, just to be safe.
Posted by: The Romans at December 20, 2024 08:55 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 20, 2024 08:55 PM (HxyBZ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2024 08:56 PM (LcXXS)
Posted by: Rex B at December 20, 2024 08:57 PM (PT7Bh)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 20, 2024 08:55 PM (HxyBZ
How can you know? Maybe he's Kaiser Sose. He's so deep undercover he doesn't even know who he is anymore.
He's a dude, playing a dude who's playing another dude.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 08:57 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 08:57 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2024 08:58 PM (TUUcv)
Posted by: AlaBAMA
I say, it is a bit of a sticky wicket, is it not?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 08:55 PM (/y8xj)
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Bit of a googly there Old Chap, try a full toss next time.
Posted by: Ciampino - a Silly Mid-on at December 20, 2024 08:59 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Accomack at December 20, 2024 08:59 PM (MeckE)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 08:59 PM (WXNFJ)
One very late night, Barry Goldwater in the chair (very unusual, this was his last year and he was not young), a classic moment. Forget details, things were stuck, nuthin' happenin', 2AM, Barry was pi**ed off, he leans towards the mike, grimaces, and says "Third reading. That oughta wake them up!".
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 09:00 PM (1m82a)
Retail Pharmacy is another field that is a shadow of it's former self. Pharmacy schools are nearly 70-30 women now. Veterinarian Schools 80-20 women.
Posted by: Center Cannot Hold at December 20, 2024 09:00 PM (G5+As)
It isn't a lack of skill the lesser programs have. It is a lack of size and speed.
Posted by: Accomack at December 20, 2024 08:52 PM (GxmKP)
This. The difference in size of the linemen is notable.
Posted by: Akshulee Enpecey at December 20, 2024 09:01 PM (OA79/)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 20, 2024 09:01 PM (+YRf1)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 08:59 PM (WXNFJ)
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Shut up, Jonah.
We know you crapped on the couch, and also that the "fair Jessica" lookslike Mr. Ed.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2024 09:01 PM (ZOv7s)
'what about leftist executives? is that additive function or multiplicative, or power function?'
Logarithmic.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 09:01 PM (3wi/L)
The smaller bill (yay!) but without the 2 year debt limit extension (which was what Trump wanted, either yay! or boo! depending on whether you think Trump is a strategic thinker and knows what he is doing rather than, say, Chip Roy) was passed with nearly all Democrats voting for it.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 09:02 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 09:02 PM (/y8xj)
Those poor bastards have no idea how cold the Shoe is going to be tomorrow evening. I feel sorry for them.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 09:02 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: azjaeger at December 20, 2024 08:45 PM (3/XaG)
Well, yeah. They are becoming the new French aristocracy ca. the late 18th century. Every bit as privileged, every bit as aloof, every bit as clueless. And we know how that turned out.
Posted by: What was old is new again at December 20, 2024 09:03 PM (UKe2c)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher
The moose out front should have told us.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 09:03 PM (WXNFJ)
Retail Pharmacy is another field that is a shadow of it's former self. Pharmacy schools are nearly 70-30 women now. Veterinarian Schools 80-20 women.
Posted by: Center Cannot Hold at December 20, 2024 09:00 PM (G5+As)
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What about Pharmaceutical Chemistry?
Posted by: Ciampino - more than Synthetic Chemistry at December 20, 2024 09:03 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2024 09:04 PM (TUUcv)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 09:02 PM (/y8xj
Maybe this is Christopher Nolan film.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 09:04 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 20, 2024 09:05 PM (8AONa)
DC_Draino @DC_Draino 1h
President Trump just got a huge win in Congress
After he blocked the Swamp Cramnibus, he got a clean one with no Democrat pork or pay raises
Most importantly, he secured massive disaster aid for farmers and states affected by the hurricanes
He cut the bill from 1500 pages to less than 150 and he eliminated J6 Committee immunity and blocked funding for the State Department censorship regime
Big win
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 09:05 PM (hovnC)
Carried forward 2x:
"Republicans would regularly ping me and say 'Why don't you ask more questions about Joe Biden and how he's doing? He's 76, 77, 78-year-old man,'" Cillizza said. He continued, "And I would sort of brush them off because what I would say is 'Well, there's no obvious evidence that he's declining. He moves a little slower. He talks a little slower but there's no evidence that he's declining.'
And then, Cillizza broke into song:
"And that's Uncle Joe
He's a movin' kinda slow
'Round the junction
chuffa-chuffa, chuffa-chuffa!
chuffa-chuffa, chuffa-chuffa!
Petticoat Junction!
Woot! Woot!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2024 09:06 PM (i4sOa)
Posted by: Moose out Front at December 20, 2024 09:06 PM (cPGH3)
Unless unfucking a family situation involves children and/or elderly people it is none of my business.
Tonypete, I hope everything works out for you all.
Posted by: four seasons at December 20, 2024 09:06 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 20, 2024 09:01 PM (+YRf1)
One team and two teams were too corrupt.
4 teams led to some discussion of who gets in.
more than that nobody cares who gets in.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 09:06 PM (n7h9X)
This was my hill to die on. I hate bullies and that is exactly what the J6 committee was.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 09:06 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 20, 2024 09:07 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 08:52 PM (3wi/L)
Let's not pretend that the oligarchs and the government aren't reciprocally balls deep in each other's asses, like a sodomite ouroboros.
Posted by: They hold a lot of sway over your life at December 20, 2024 09:07 PM (UKe2c)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2024 09:07 PM (i4sOa)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 20, 2024 09:05 PM (8AONa)
All the ND fans are also Indiana drivers
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 09:07 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 09:08 PM (iziT8)
Posted by: AlaBAMA
Which is, of course, exactly what you'd say if you were.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 08:52 PM (/y8xj
That is reverse psychology, which means you're likely Ace. Throwing off the scent.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 08:54 PM (mzM2O)
____________________________
Start building shelves, gentlemen. The most unprofessional, injury laden effort pretty much settles matters.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 09:08 PM (dIske)
Big difference.
I am torn between hoping they win it all and hoping for an early loss to seal Day's departure.
Day is a big loser and can't coach for shit.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 09:08 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 09:09 PM (WXNFJ)
' dumbass Indiana drivers going 45MPH'
That's the second time I've seen you whining about that.
I don't drive remotely that slow but if I knew you were behind me I'd make an exception. And I'd think "Now that toad has something to bitch about."
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 09:09 PM (3wi/L)
I understand that Sodomite Ouroboros wrote one hell of a cookbook about Dutch oven recipes.
Oh, wait, that was Solomon Ouroboros.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2024 09:09 PM (i4sOa)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2024 09:09 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Ciampino
There are slots for research, but not enough to employ all the DPharm graduates every year. And lots of furriners get those jobs, too.
Posted by: Center Cannot Hold at December 20, 2024 09:09 PM (G5+As)
*puffs pipe thoughtfully*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2024 09:09 PM (hY4dx)
Nice slippers.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 09:10 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: Accomack at December 20, 2024 09:10 PM (w9ItN)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 09:10 PM (VNX3d)
That's the second time I've seen you whining about that.
I don't drive remotely that slow but if I knew you were behind me I'd make an exception. And I'd think "Now that toad has something to bitch about."
Posted by: Dr. Claw
Is this a flamewars thread? Because it sure reads like one.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2024 09:11 PM (i4sOa)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 09:11 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: Soothsayer hates Hoosiers, too! at December 20, 2024 09:11 PM (LcXXS)
Posted by: Oldcat
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'Indiana' as a general reference, not IU reference.
To differentiate ND fans, i guess i could have added "driving 45 in the passing lane, while being insufferable assholes."
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 20, 2024 09:12 PM (8AONa)
Larry Bird was overrated!
Fuckyou, Inidiana!
Posted by: Soothsayer hates Hoosiers, too! at December 20, 2024 09:11 PM (LcXXS)
Larry is the State Bird of Indiana. Careful now.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 09:12 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 09:12 PM (1m82a)
THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM? CONGRESS TRIES (AGAIN) TO AVOID A SHUTDOWN
Speaker Mike Johnson is rolling out his third plan to keep the government’s lights on, featuring:
• A funding extension until March (a.k.a. kicking the can down the road).
• $110 billion for disaster relief and farmers.
Gone is Trump’s demand to raise the debt ceiling.
Now, Republicans are bickering, Democrats are side-eyeing, and a shutdown looms at midnight.
Will this be the plan that saves the day?
Source: Washington Post
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Musk thinks "this is great", BTW.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 09:12 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Ciampino - Meme going around at December 20, 2024 09:12 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Dorcus Blimline at December 20, 2024 09:13 PM (FDlb9)
Start building shelves, gentlemen. The most unprofessional, injury laden effort pretty much settles matters.
Posted by: Orson
And there you have the horde's version of the Turing Test, morons and moronettes!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2024 09:13 PM (i4sOa)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 09:11 PM (mzM2O)
_____________________________
I'm out...I don't make lasagna with cabbage leaves and Steakum.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 09:13 PM (dIske)
95% of the Federal Govt has gone on a two-week Christmas break
Enough with this "shutdown" bullshit. The govt is already Closed for business.
Posted by: Soothsayer hates Hoosiers, too! at December 20, 2024 09:14 PM (LcXXS)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 20, 2024 09:15 PM (mH6SG)
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Alas and alack, but no. Family obligations call inland. You going sailing? Fishing? No wait, drinking?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2024 09:15 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 09:11 PM (mzM2O)
_____________________________
I'm out...I don't make lasagna with cabbage leaves and Steakum.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 09:13 PM (dIske)
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I’m out. I’ve never accidentally banned myself.
Posted by: Duke Lowell who is definitely not Ace at December 20, 2024 09:16 PM (u73oe)
If things stay the same, we go another 6 months.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 09:16 PM (mzM2O)
Remember that one Bugs Bunny short based on the opera? The one with Elmer Fudd.
Remember when towards the end Bugs comes out as Brunhilde riding a big fat ass horse?
That's what the horse in the video above reminds me of.
Posted by: Robert at December 20, 2024 09:17 PM (tPMqd)
Posted by: Accomack at December 20, 2024 09:17 PM (w9ItN)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 09:02 PM (/y8xj)
If he is, then one of us just cut a big one and Mrs.D isn't hapoy.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 09:17 PM (W/lyH)
So sick of this "shutdown" bullshit theater.
These fuckheads could pass a law that Social Security & Veterans & military payroll will be Exempt from all "shutdowns" over CR disputes and SHALL be funded Separately from the CR bullshit theater.
Posted by: Soothsayer hates Hoosiers, too! at December 20, 2024 09:18 PM (LcXXS)
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 09:18 PM (iziT8)
Hey Cicero you going to be in the marina at all on Christmas Day? I probably will (relative will take a sailboat out for a bit, as has become a tradition).
Posted by: rhomboid
It did not go unnoticed that you said "a" sailboat and not "your" sailboat.
The "Elf on the Shelf" of sailboats' rearranging is here tonight, folks!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2024 09:18 PM (i4sOa)
Right Angle News Network@Rightanglenews
BREAKING - A Pennsylvania woman, tied to a Democrat-founded Project, has been charged with registering dead voters to vote in the swing states election.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 09:18 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Ciampino - just a question at December 20, 2024 09:19 PM (i0xsb)
That's what the horse in the video above reminds me of.
Posted by: Robert
Are we still dissing Indianians?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2024 09:20 PM (i4sOa)
Posted by: Accomack at December 20, 2024 09:20 PM (w9ItN)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 09:20 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 09:20 PM (mzM2O)
The Commie Dems will forge Biden's Veto on any document if they do not get what they want. When Trump is POTUS he can go on TV and present his case to the American people anytime he wants and have Vance as President of the Senate go on Fox every night to point out Schumer's Lies.
If Johson is Speaker and is a Pussy, then he has to go.............
But with a slim R majority with Pansey ass RINO's, Trump may have to force their hands...
Basically, the Bully Pulpit...
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 20, 2024 09:21 PM (I8HuZ)
*puffs pipe thoughtfully*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2024 09:09 PM (hY4dx)
Nice slippers.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
He must have a beer schwanstucka.
- inga
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 20, 2024 09:21 PM (MsrgL)
Frank was the man?
Posted by: Ciampino - just a question at December 20, 2024 09:21 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2024 09:21 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 20, 2024 09:21 PM (2NHgQ)
Ala fucking Bama
stupid fucking Siri
The lastest iOS update really has fucked this up. I may have to turn that off.
Posted by: Accomack at December 20, 2024 09:22 PM (w9ItN)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 09:22 PM (L/fGl)
As far as those programs shut down without financing...a vast majority of those have the same type employee with the same type beneficiaries.
Bonus, the IRS is shut down. The State Dept. is shut down. The intelligence community is shut down. The Law enforcement is on a shoe string staffing.
Still looking for the detriments here. I'm sure I'll come up with something.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 09:22 PM (dIske)
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 20, 2024 09:24 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 09:24 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 09:24 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 09:24 PM (iziT8)
https://tinyurl.com/nxvktrhr
Posted by: Robert at December 20, 2024 09:24 PM (tPMqd)
Hey, you don't know how all those dead people voted. Statistically speaking, they probably went just about 50/50. No harm, no foul.
-- Every MSM that even bothers to mention it at all
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 09:24 PM (/y8xj)
'Tis the season. It just affects some people that way.
There's a name for those people, too.
My old office partner, 50 years ago, was a retired career USAF sergeant, and he used to say "Fuck the world, it's Christmas."
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 20, 2024 09:25 PM (zdLoL)
Bonus, the IRS is shut down. The State Dept. is shut down. The intelligence community is shut down. The Law enforcement is on a shoe string staffing.
Still looking for the detriments here. I'm sure I'll come up with something.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 09:22 PM (dIske)
Once a new spending bill is approved, they get back pay.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 09:25 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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I'd just carefully pass on the right, with the admonishment "never pass on the right!" in the back of my mind.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 20, 2024 09:26 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: N at December 20, 2024 09:27 PM (7neCS)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 09:27 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: four seasons at December 20, 2024 09:27 PM (3ek7K)
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Sounds like fun and your weather should be not bad. If you see any sea lions, please kill them for me.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2024 09:27 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 09:28 PM (NPkX1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2024 09:29 PM (TUUcv)
Point #2: Joe Biden was President of the US and from Pennsyvania
There is a trend here............
The trend points to the fact that President's from PA Suck and cause mass chaos leading to war(s) .......
Would Gov. Shapiro be a good POTUS ??
Any Questions ???
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 20, 2024 09:29 PM (I8HuZ)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 09:29 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 09:28 PM (NPkX1)
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*ahem*
Pantywaist
Posted by: The AoSHQ House Pedant at December 20, 2024 09:29 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: N at December 20, 2024 09:29 PM (7neCS)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 09:30 PM (ytBBc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2024 09:29 PM (TUUcv)
I think they take three bidness days to reply.
It's cool, it's cool. Time is on your side.
Posted by: Robert at December 20, 2024 09:30 PM (tPMqd)
This led to an investigation in which officials determined Hill tried to fraudulently register at least four people, including her dead father, her grandmother, an unidentified person and a person who died in her home in 2011.
“She knows that because she was the person who called the police to come when he died in her house,” Stollsteimer said.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 09:31 PM (dIske)
Killmenow
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 09:30 PM (ytBBc)
I have a rule not to go near stores during the holidays.
Stock up in November and avoid December.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 09:33 PM (mzM2O)
Husband and I got many texts today about so and so is getting a divorce and so and so is such a bitch.
First thing it is not our business. We've always had the attitude that no one knows what goes on in other people's lives and homes.
We always feel bad for the children.
Posted by: four seasons at December 20, 2024 09:33 PM (3ek7K)
Biden Admin Overestimated Employment Statistics by 3 Million Jobs Close to the Election
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 09:33 PM (L/fGl)
Idiot Mitch further beclowned himself today as he apparently doesn't know recent history of shutdowns. Only real shutdowns were in 90s, GOP gained seats after both (and won the substantive battle involved). Beltway GOP relies on the ignorance of their own electorate on matters like this. Enjoyed the Newt shutdowns, made good use of them, I recall the lifers freaking out, which only confirmed what sad losers they were.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 09:34 PM (1m82a)
BREAKING: According to reports from UAE and Saudi Arabian 𝕏 users, the perpetrator of the Christmas market attack in Magdeburg, Germany is a fugitive from Saudi Arabia.
The German government refused to extradite him despite requests from the Saudi government, citing human rights concerns.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 09:34 PM (fs1hN)
Biden Admin Overestimated Employment Statistics by 3 Million Jobs Close to the Election
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 09:33 PM (L/fGl
How do you say...propaganda?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 09:35 PM (mzM2O)
Killmenow
How about some weekday morning?
Posted by: N at December 20, 2024 09:35 PM (7neCS)
Wow, the Mega Millions annuity jumped in one day from $825 million to $862 million. Drawing is tonight.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2024 09:35 PM (TUUcv)
Stock up in November and avoid December.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
You are far smarter
Than I.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 09:35 PM (L2z8B)
Biden Admin Overestimated Employment Statistics by 3 Million Jobs Close to the Election
Ot was unexpectedly
Posted by: N at December 20, 2024 09:35 PM (7neCS)
Posted by: The AoSHQ House Pedant
Whoopsie's panties could provide a tent for a homeless family of twelve.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 09:36 PM (L/fGl)
BREAKING: According to reports from UAE and Saudi Arabian 𝕏 users, the perpetrator of the Christmas market attack in Magdeburg, Germany is a fugitive from Saudi Arabia.
The German government refused to extradite him despite requests from the Saudi government, citing human rights concerns.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 09:34 PM (
It never ceases to amaze me how socialists bend over backwards to protect terrorists.
Look at the cocksuckers drooling over Luigi.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 09:36 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2024 09:36 PM (TUUcv)
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2024 09:36 PM (LHPAg)
I am in a lot of pain. A few days ago my shoulder began to hurt along the inside of shoulder blade. I was at physical therapy yesterday and it didn't help. I went to a deep-muscle massage today and it doesn't seem to have helped. The arm works all right, it's just that frequently there's a sharp, stabbing spasm.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2024 09:37 PM (dxSpM)
Posted by: N
I'm a working stiff M-F. Maybe I'll go on the 26th. I'm hosting Christmas Eve dinner on the 27th.
Yeah. I know.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 09:37 PM (L2z8B)
Posted by: N at December 20, 2024 09:37 PM (7neCS)
I am in a lot of pain. A few days ago my shoulder began to hurt along the inside of shoulder blade. I was at physical therapy yesterday and it didn't help. I went to a deep-muscle massage today and it doesn't seem to have helped. The arm works all right, it's just that frequently there's a sharp, stabbing spasm.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2024 09:37 PM (dxSpM
*looks at hot iron near the fireplace.*
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 20, 2024 09:38 PM (mzM2O)
We have to drive two hours to a Costco or Sam's. We've learned we were buying a lot of stuff we didn't need.
I loved shopping at both places but we realized we save a lot of money not shopping there.
Posted by: four seasons at December 20, 2024 09:38 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 20, 2024 09:38 PM (LvszO)
Yeah. I know.
Oh, you thought I was referring to Costco?
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Posted by: N at December 20, 2024 09:39 PM (7neCS)
'I'd just carefully pass on the right, with the admonishment "never pass on the right!" in the back of my mind.'
Actually. That's fairly sensible. Sorry about the toad thing.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 09:39 PM (3wi/L)
Husband and I got many texts today about so and so is getting a divorce and so and so is such a bitch.
_________
Are so and so and so and so the same so and so?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2024 09:39 PM (dxSpM)
Posted by: Where's My Pony, Santa? at December 20, 2024 09:40 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 20, 2024 09:41 PM (T/zw7)
Husband and I got many texts today about so and so is getting a divorce and so and so is such a bitch.
That's why you pick sides, half as many texts that way
Posted by: N at December 20, 2024 09:41 PM (7neCS)
Many of us will NOT get that pony we were hoping for.
Posted by: Where's My Pony, Santa? at December 20, 2024 09:40 PM (G5+As)
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We will, however, get the big pile of manure.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2024 09:41 PM (dxSpM)
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The Chevron Doctrine is dead. Sea lions are fair game again. Fire away.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2024 09:42 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Doktor Spear at December 20, 2024 09:43 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 09:33 PM (L/fGl)
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Who's more reliable? The OMB or the CDC? My answer is neither.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2024 09:44 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
You're a truth teller, and voice of experience.
Posted by: King of the Dung Heap at December 20, 2024 09:45 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 20, 2024 09:45 PM (T/zw7)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2024 09:46 PM (TUUcv)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 20, 2024 09:47 PM (T/zw7)
Here's my statistical prediction: those fake employment numbers just corrected, clearly just election propaganda of the kind they pump out every month, will be cited unchanged for the rest of his term, into retirement and in his obit. He'll never take back the lie.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 20, 2024 09:47 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 20, 2024 09:49 PM (T/zw7)
Posted by: Happy Harry at December 20, 2024 09:49 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2024 09:49 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2024 09:49 PM (KQk9m)
If I go to Costco, I'll buy a whole bunch of stuff I don't need. And be out 600 or so.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 09:50 PM (Ihn6X)
Actually. That's fairly sensible. Sorry about the toad thing.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
Oh, no you don't! No take backs!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2024 09:50 PM (i4sOa)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2024 09:51 PM (TUUcv)
Posted by: Gerrold Nadler (D-NY) at December 20, 2024 09:51 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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But what if you're right?
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 20, 2024 09:51 PM (8AONa)
' into retirement and in his obit.'
I hope they specify where he's buried so people can leave tokens of how they felt about him.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 09:52 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 20, 2024 09:53 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 09:54 PM (Qp67s)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 09:55 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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Grass may never grow over his grave.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 09:55 PM (Qp67s)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 20, 2024 09:57 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2024 09:58 PM (Qp67s)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 09:59 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2024 09:59 PM (Qp67s)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 20, 2024 10:00 PM (KcwUg)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 10:01 PM (3wi/L)
I hope they specify where he's buried so people can leave tokens of how they felt about him.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
The cemetery of Saint Joseph on the Brandywine parish in Wilmington, DE. That's where J'Blowme had the sainted Beau's remains reinterred after having recovered them from where he fell at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2024 10:01 PM (i4sOa)
Quick Hits
Ryan SaavedraThe Democrats are holding disaster funds for (red states) Florida and North Carolina hostage, but don't worry, Biden's handlers just approved by their usurped kingly authority a $1 billion payment to Save Some Trees in Ecuador.
@RealSaavedra Reporters did not ask Karine Jean-Pierre a single question about The Wall Street Journal report from yesterday that outlined how the White House hid President Joe Biden's cognitive decline from the public.
Some crime investigators think that the hearthrob terrorist that deplorable leftwing women flick their beans over must have had an accomplice acting as a "spotter" for his target.
Further arguments about Mangione having an inside line here. America's Sweetheart -- no, the lesbian one with pink hair, not the brother-marrying one who said some people did some things -- is running her ugly mouth again.
Top crime investigators are convinced the suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter carried out the cold-blooded murderer with the help of an accomplice, DailyMail.com can reveal. ...
But two leaders in the investigative field who have analyzed the case have now told DailyMail.com that some key details are being ignored -- and that those clues point to at least one accomplice to the alleged murderer. ... O'Shea says the coincidence of the shooter arriving within five minutes of Thompson emerging from his hotel, suspicious behavior by others on CCTV, and conflicting witness statements, all suggest the killer knew exactly when to pounce thanks to help from at least one other person. A second industry leader in private intelligence for celebrities and CEOs spoke to DailyMail.com on condition of anonymity due to being close to the case. This second top security expert also pointed to CCTV footage of the assassin talking on the phone to an as-yet-unidentified contact while walking to the Hilton Midtown 15 minutes before the murder took place. These top PIs are asking: could that call have been from an accomplice monitoring the movements of the UnitedHealthcare CEO?
In an incredibly predictable fashion, Megan Rapinoe was a fan of Caitlin Clark's recent comments about how she has benefited from 'white privilege' throughout her life and basketball career. The former U.S. women's soccer standout didn't stop at simply applauding Clark's comment, however, Rapinoe also took a shot at conservatives in the process. "I want to say I've earned every single thing, but as a white person, there is privilege," was the quote from Clark that lit the Internet ablaze after she was named Time's Athlete of the Year. Rapinoe co-hosts the 'A Touch More' podcast with her partner, WNBA legend Sue Bird. The two discuss noteworthy topics in the sports world and offer the exact same opinion. Typically, that opinion involves tongue-in-cheek remarks insinuating how awful, racist and misogynistic the United States is as a country. Clark, arguably the most popular female athlete in the world, talking about her white privilege was music to Bird and Rapinoe's ears. When race and sport intertwine, Rapinoe is like a kid in a candy store, and this instance was no different. What also wasn't different was Rapinoe singling out conservatives in her response and then trying to articulate some sort of original thought, but instead suffering from a case of word vomit. "I think what Caitlin did in her quotes, or in the article, was speak explicitly about her white privilege, like and that is what is receiving so much criticism or backlash, and like that is the lesson," the former NWSL star said. "So, you know, for conservative media coming at her now that obviously they're just showing their whole ass," Rapinoe said. "If fans are upset about her saying that and just acknowledging what is true, I think that says a lot. But I think the more that you speak directly to it the clearer it becomes what your stance is, and then you can't be used in that way. It doesn't really leave your beliefs or your stance as a white player to any sort of interpretation."
Republican Oklahoma GOP Senator is scheming to craft another Comprehensive Amnesty plan with Democrats. It never stops.
At least one GOP Senator is working with pro-migration Democrats to draft a border bill for 2025, a report in Axios.com. detailed Thursday. Oklahoma Republican Markwayne Mullin told the outlet his "serious" project could replace the fast-track reconciliation bill that is now expected to massively fund border security and enforcement in early 2025. "If we can do border separately -- without reconciliation -- then [President Donald Trump is] okay with" a single reconciliation bill for tax cuts, Mullin told Axios. The details are "very secret," he said.
Several pro-migration Democratic Senators are working with Mullin. They include Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), according to Axios. ... Kelly told Axios that the Mullin bill must include their version of "immigration reform." That is an establishment euphemism for amnesty, more legal migrants, and more federal support for migrants. "If there's willingness [by Mullin] to work in a bipartisan way to do some stuff, not only on border security, but on immigration reform, I think it would be great," Kelly told Axios.
🚨 A father rips into the Vista Unified School District Board after students at Rancho Buena Vista High School in California were put through an activist-séance during school hours.
— rooted.wings (@BrittRooted) December 18, 2024
“I don’t think this assignment should ever be taught to children. It does not do anything other… pic.twitter.com/Pz86QtYo4f
Illegals with foreign flags protest Trump, Border Czar Homan at ICE facility (Los Angeles) pic.twitter.com/Rc5fyu2lCs
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 19, 2024
Robby Starbuck
@robbystarbuck Big news: Nissan is ending a number of woke policies today. I can now exclusively tell you what's changing and how it happened. Weeks ago I informed execs at @NissanUSA @nissan that I was doing a story on wokeness there. Instead we had productive conversations about how to fix this. Below are the changes they committed to: * Surveys: Nissan will no longer participate in the HRC's woke Corporate Equality Index nor will they participate in any 3rd party survey that has a political activism angle. * Funding for events: Nissan will review future funding of events to ensure that sponsorships align with brand standards and business priorities. This means no more funding for Pride events that expose kids to sexually inappropriate content like the San Francisco pride event they sponsored recently which exposed kids to extremely inappropriate content. * Supplier diversity and hiring: No quotas for hiring, promotions or diverse suppliers. Focus is now on merit and performance. * Trainings: Nissan will only require training related to the core business going forward. This means no more forced DEI or LGBTQ trainings. You didn't think I was going to let Christmas come and go without giving @X
the gift of another company changing woke policies, did you? This list is a bit shorter than other companies we've focused on because Nissan was not as far gone as other companies we've changed but Nissan was important to me because they're one of the top employers in Tennessee and I wanted to get this done for my fellow Tennesseans. This won't just have a positive impact for their employees who will have a neutral workplace without divisive issues being injected but it will no doubt also extend to their many suppliers dropping woke policies. We've now changed policy at companies worth well over $2 Trillion dollars, with many millions of employees who have better workplace environments as a result. Our campaigns are now so effective that we're getting the biggest companies on earth to change their policies without me even posting a story outlining their woke policies. Companies can clearly see that America wants normalcy back. The era of wokeness is dying right in front of our eyes. The landscape of corporate America is quickly shifting to sanity and neutrality. We are the trend, not the anomaly anymore. We are winning and one by one we WILL bring sanity back to corporate America. If you love what we're doing, subscribe to my X page for $5 a month to help fund our growing team! You can also support us by sending any amount once at this link: https://buy.stripe.com/8wM8xC7Qs5uXcSc3cc
If you want to expose your woke workplace, send tips at http://robbystarbuck.com/dei So far you've helped me change corporate policy at Tractor Supply, John Deere, Harley Davidson, Polaris, Indian Motorcycle, Lowe's, Ford, Coors, Stanley Black & Decker, Jack Daniels, DeWalt tools, Craftsman, Caterpillar, Boeing, Toyota, Walmart and now Nissan! We are a force to be reckoned with and we won't stop until wokeness is extinct. Share to make sure everyone knows this is happening so that we keep this movement growing. Also, feel free to download this video and spread on all platforms.
Link here. Starbuck gives his video summary of this report.
NEW: Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez says she won't be attending President Trump's inauguration because she's a "brown woman, daughter of immigrants, and I would feel unsafe."
— Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) December 18, 2024
Source: Newsweek pic.twitter.com/zEMGvLgzWX
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Look for a young administrative assistant from a liberal arts college. Those people are like the Unibomber now.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 06:20 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: Fat Bastard at December 20, 2024 06:21 PM (pUMay)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 20, 2024 06:22 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 06:22 PM (+oR7L)
Posted by: Adriane to Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 20, 2024 06:23 PM (1mz4r)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 06:23 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at December 20, 2024 06:23 PM (NEGXR)
Posted by: huerfano at December 20, 2024 06:23 PM (DKIGo)
Because all day long they sit on the internet feeding their psychosis by sharing mentallly ill points of view with fellow retards?
I mean, it’s just a thesis right now. But it sounds plausible.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 20, 2024 06:25 PM (rZcgP)
Posted by: huerfano at December 20, 2024 06:23 PM (DKIGo)
Ohhh, I was gonna make a snarky comment but yours is better.
Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at December 20, 2024 06:26 PM (NEGXR)
Posted by: DanMan at December 20, 2024 06:26 PM (8uzBS)
Yeah, I bet she'd feel safer at a Palestine/Hezbollah rally, or an all you can eat buffet.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 06:26 PM (+oR7L)
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 20, 2024 06:26 PM (srz+/)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 06:26 PM (Cus5s)
Because they are almost always on the dole. SNAP, welfare or some other form of government assistance. The vast majority of people who take welfare are fat and unhealthy.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 20, 2024 06:27 PM (Rcnd3)
Posted by: Tall Paul at December 20, 2024 06:27 PM (G5+As)
Plus she’s way too fat and over the weight limit for the bleachers. Plus she may eventually explode and that would make a mess in a crowd.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 20, 2024 06:27 PM (rZcgP)
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This ties into James O'Keefe's recent offering where an EPA official admitted that they are basically throwing away money to conservation and environmental groups before Trump comes in the door and puts a stop to it.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 06:27 PM (dIske)
Is it just me, but isn't that the exact opposite of how the brass generally try squirm out of responsibility?
Usually, we get "the CinC was being all micromanagy and we couldn't do our jobs."
Now it's " we can't make good decisions on our own, we need help from a dementia sufferer "
Posted by: Just Lily at December 20, 2024 06:29 PM (RLLZj)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2024 06:29 PM (KQk9m)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 20, 2024 06:30 PM (YfvWK)
He's makin a list
Checkin it twice
Gonna turn them over to ICE
Tom Homan is coming to town!
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2024 06:30 PM (XTmTf)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 20, 2024 06:31 PM (YfvWK)
158 “While it does not include everything we sought, it includes disaster relief that the President requested for the communities recovering from the storm, eliminates the accelerated pathway to a tax cut for billionaires, and would ensure that the government can continue to operate at full capacity,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
Since this didn't pass with the suspension of debt-limit that Trump wanted, I can assume that the "accelerated pathway to a tax cut for billionaires" is Dem speak for suspension of the debt-limit. Chip Roy got what he wanted, I guess.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 06:32 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at December 20, 2024 06:33 PM (NEGXR)
But she will muster the courage to face three crullers, an apple fritter, a bear claw, a raspberry filled doughnut, a lemon filled doughnut, and five chocolate covered creme filled doughnuts in one sitting, washed down by a 20 ounce, ice cold diet Pepsi.
Not all heroes eat crepes.
Posted by: Minuteman at December 20, 2024 06:34 PM (LaNzR)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2024 06:29 PM
Since Joker Tsarnaev on the cover of Rolling Stone. Has Luigi been on RS yet?
Posted by: huerfano at December 20, 2024 06:34 PM (DKIGo)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2024 06:34 PM (t/2Uw)
🚨 UPDATE:
Thomas Massie has won. The House GOP leadership is splitting the spending bill into smaller pieces.
Each section will be voted on individually and allowed to pass or fail on it's own.
CR, disaster relief, debt limit increase, etc. They will each be separate votes.
Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie 2h Replying to @WallStreetMav
This was in fact correct when you tweeted it, but speaker Johnson flipped his decision after the meeting when he spoke to Hakeem Jeffries and realized he could get Democrat votes to pass all the legislation as one bill.
Elon Musk @elonmusk 2h
So is this a Republican bill or a Democrat bill? 🤔
Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie 2h Replying to @elonmusk
It’s much improved because of transparency & feedback X has provided.
It went from roughly 1500 pages to 100. Lots of pork was cut.
Johnson agreed this morning to pass what remained as separate bills, but when he found out Jeffries will provide votes, he went back to 1 bill.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 06:35 PM (hovnC)
On Go - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Astranis Block 2
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: December 20, 2024
Launch Time: 10:39 p.m. ET - December 21, 0339 UTC, 04:39 CET
https://www.youtube.com/live/19mgjpnAPVM
Posted by: Ciampino - another at December 20, 2024 06:36 PM (i0xsb)
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It seemed very strange from the get-go that this guy could be exactly where he was, when he was.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 06:36 PM (XeU6L)
The Speaker did a good job here, given the circumstances.
It went from a bill that weighed pounds to a bill that weighed ounces.
Ball should now be in the Dem court."
I guess, have not seen details.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 06:36 PM (Cus5s)
Perhaps she right not to attend, because she's a big (not referring to her massive obesity) part of the problem.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 06:37 PM (dIske)
Perhaps she right not to attend, because she's a big (not referring to her massive obesity) part of the problem.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 06:37 PM (dIske)
Perhaps she's afraid of ICE showing up?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 06:38 PM (VNX3d)
Well, at least they've come out for capital punishment. It's a start.
Posted by: javems at December 20, 2024 06:38 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2024 06:38 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 06:38 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 06:39 PM (na0Rw)
Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at December 20, 2024 06:23 PM
I believe Oklahoma was the only state where EVERY single county voted red in the presidential election.
Yet, somehow Oklahoma gets RINO Senators?
GOPe delenda est!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 20, 2024 06:39 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2024 06:38 PM (2UnvF)
... and folding chairs.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 06:39 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 06:39 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 20, 2024 06:39 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: The Chicken at December 20, 2024 06:40 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2024 06:41 PM (2UnvF)
Stephanie Ruhle warns that the ABC defamation settlement has shown the media that *now* they need to be accurate when reporting news about Trump:
Stephanie Ruhle: "For the media environment for the rest of the world, when they see a settlement like this, there is a chilling effect, right?
Because what happens immediately after? Well, you see Donald Trump say, I'm going to sue the Des Moines Register.
I'm going to sue the pollster [J Ann Selzer] who put out a poll just before the election that said women in Iowa are going to vote for Kamala Harris.
And you're saying I want to accurately cover this administration like all of us are going to, it's a scary time.
So for all of us, this is a warning. You better have your T's crossed. You better have your eyes dotted, which I actually think is a positive because we need to do that. But yeah, there's definitely a chilling effect."
The 'chilling effect' Stephanie Ruhle referred to is also known as 'consequences'.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 06:41 PM (hovnC)
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Got that? She has a husband, uncle, brothers, sister-in-law all in this country illegally. And, she doesn't think they are committing a crime.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 06:42 PM (dIske)
Like bleach in the gene pool.
Posted by: Euthanasia for the Fat and Unemployed at December 20, 2024 06:42 PM (R/m4+)
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Friday afternoon that the House would vote on a modified version of the bill that was defeated Thursday — minus the debt ceiling provision pushed by President-elect Trump.
Democrats and a few dozen Republicans on Thursday rejected the bill that paired a three-month government funding extension, $110 billion in disaster and farm aid and other measures with a two-year extension of the debt limit.
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The smaller bill (yay!) but without the 2 year debt limit extension* (which was what Trump wanted, yay! or boo! depending on whether you think Trump is a strategic thinker and knows what he is doing rather than, say, Chip Roy) was passed with Democrat support.
*(I said 'suspension' instead of 'extension' in my earlier post)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 06:43 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 06:43 PM (W2Pud)
Clearly they are privileged white Democrats, and Luigi made it perfectly OK to shoot privileged white Democrats.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 06:43 PM (8zz6B)
pic: t.ly/_g3bs
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 06:43 PM (XeU6L)
Not sure about this speculation about Trump tiring of Musk and shunning him. With all that cash and X, Elon is Trump's brass knuckle guy. "Stick with us or you're going to get a ton of ads and social media right up your rocket launcher!"
Not sure Trump wants to part with that!
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 10h
The few remaining smart Democrat advisors have to feel uncomfortable with their party's abrupt gaslighting pivot on Trump from "Insurrectionist Hitler with dictator inclinations" to "Puppet of Musk."
The absurdity level is through the roof.
Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey Dec 19
For awareness — note the language here. It’s a very intentional strategy
The goal is to weaken Trump and Elon by fomenting tensions between them
By jabbing Trump about not being the alpha, the idea is to provoke him to sideline Elon and to fray the relationship
Elon Musk @elonmusk 6h
That is exactly the goal.
The political & legacy media puppets all got their new instructions yesterday and are now parroting the same message to drive a wedge between @realDonaldTrump and me.
They will fail.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 06:43 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 06:43 PM (LkLld)
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It seemed very strange from the get-go that this guy could be exactly where he was, when he was.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 06:36 PM
Good thing we have a totally non-partisan FBI filled with top men that will be able to arrest the accomplice within the next 24 hours!
/sarc-retard tag off
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 20, 2024 06:44 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2024 06:41 PM (2UnvF)
Made me laugh.
Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at December 20, 2024 06:45 PM (NEGXR)
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'as if they are less than human', really? Slander.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 06:45 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2024 06:46 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 06:47 PM (63Dwl)
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Apparently, McDonald's employees are sharper than the fibbers.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 06:47 PM (XeU6L)
If they arrived illegally, they are criminals.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 06:47 PM (WXNFJ)
Looks insurrectiony.
But it's not. They are aliens so cannot be an insurrection. More like enemy aliens inserted into the country to commit sabotage.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2024 06:47 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Just another guy at December 20, 2024 06:47 PM (ItsCg)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 06:48 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT FRANCE at December 20, 2024 06:48 PM (/7KEl)
McConnell: I don't care to count how many times I've reminded our colleagues and our House counterparts how horrible it is to shut the government down. And how foolish it is to bet your own side won't take the blame for it. Recent history doesn't leave a whole lot of room for interpretation on that one. When you try to use normal government function as a bargaining chip, you pay a political price
https://tinyurl.com/kwu3rwt2
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 06:48 PM (hovnC)
But it's not. They are aliens so cannot be an insurrection. More like enemy aliens inserted into the country to commit sabotage.
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I prefer the term "Invaders". And our government is giving them taxpayer money. That part looks insurrectiony.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 06:49 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2024 06:41 PM
And order a Diet Coke.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 06:49 PM (+oR7L)
That would be Luigi from Super Mario Brothers.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 06:49 PM (LkLld)
If they arrived illegally, they are criminals.
Posted by: Tonypete
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They are always confused by facts.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 06:49 PM (XeU6L)
surprise surprise another weird op
notice how we got all his social media info right away? I hope he rats the others out but he seems like a True Believer
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 06:49 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 20, 2024 06:50 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Mike at December 20, 2024 06:50 PM (YLAlY)
jeez turtle I already said I want the government shut down you don't have to keep selling me on it!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 06:50 PM (Pv3Rg)
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this time would be better spent packing up their belongings and getting ready to go home
don't wait til the last minute, amigos
Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT FRANCE at December 20, 2024 06:50 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Just another guy
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Physically presentable, perhaps..but sane? No.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 06:50 PM (XeU6L)
it's so weird because I could swear that as of now the house is majority R I must be confused or something
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 06:51 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at December 20, 2024 06:51 PM (TN5A0)
/sarc-retard tag off
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
They still have a few thousand J6ers to round up.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2024 06:51 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 06:49 PM (XeU6L)
The "feels" are the important part. Can't argue feelings.
Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at December 20, 2024 06:51 PM (NEGXR)
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at December 20, 2024 06:51 PM (5AVMW)
CANCER: Democrats have been blaming Elon Musk for the failure to include pediatric cancer research in the CR. The irony is that House Republicans passed the $190M bill back in March and @SenSchumer won't bring it up for a vote in the Senate. Democrats could pass it today. Why won't they? Do they hate kids? Why are they blocking a cure for cancer? Could it have to do with not getting their pay raise?
h/t @greg_price11
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 06:52 PM (hovnC)
And they breed. Dollars to donuts the dude who probably hasn't seen his dick in decades is bumping uglies with the gas masked gunt whale.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2024 06:52 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT FRANCE at December 20, 2024 06:52 PM (/7KEl)
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*Scribbles notes*
Posted by: Tom Homan at December 20, 2024 06:52 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Men at December 20, 2024 06:52 PM (a3Q+t)
Horrible?
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 06:53 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 06:54 PM (XeU6L)
BREAKING: Woman in Pennsylvania is charged for registering dead and even nonexistent (!!!) people to vote. She’s employed by New PA Project, an org Democrats started in 2021.
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 6h
Do Republicans never do this or do I not see those stories in my bubble?
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Scott's wrong -- Republicans do this too! You know, the one guy an election who takes his dead mom's voting card and tries to vote for her. Same thing!
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 06:54 PM (hovnC)
Horrible?
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 06:53 PM (i0F8b)
It's dangerous for turtles to stick their necks out?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 06:55 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2024 06:52 PM (VwHCD)
How do they manage to get uglies touching?
Posted by: Just another guy at December 20, 2024 06:55 PM (ItsCg)
Posted by: Fat Bastard at December 20, 2024 06:21 PM
On Endor, Ewoks Yab Yum you!
Posted by: Storm Trooper 100111011110110 at December 20, 2024 06:55 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Buster Hymandd at December 20, 2024 06:56 PM (upiS8)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Why was it Super Mario Brothers if Luigi and Mario are both first names? Or was that their last name - Luigi Mario and Mario Mario.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 06:57 PM (Dm8we)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2024 06:52 PM (VwHCD)
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Great. Now I need some Admiral Ackbar brand brain bleach to get that image out of my head.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2024 06:57 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Meal Team Six at December 20, 2024 06:57 PM (a3Q+t)
There is an answer, of course: because radical, revolutionary politics, which promises to bring down society's winners and replace them with society's losers, are naturally favored by society's losers.
#SorryNotSorry but that's the truth. Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.
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IMO, they are not normal because either they are mentally challenged or they've been horribly damaged in childhood. NO ONE who had a normal upbringing ends up like this.
Posted by: LASue at December 20, 2024 06:58 PM (lCppi)
Tastes like chicken.
Posted by: Bitch McTurtle at December 20, 2024 06:58 PM (paSBy)
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McConnell worships government, and his place in it
he's like a fossilized Pappy O'Daniel
Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT FRANCE at December 20, 2024 06:58 PM (/7KEl)
They're ridiculous.
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 07:00 PM (lX8VI)
Your actions turned a bill that weighed pounds into a bill that weighed ounces!
You are the media now.
VOX POPULI
VOX DEI
QuoteEric Daugherty @EricLDaugh
53m
We have to be clear here.
The bill on the left is what would've passed without Elon Musk and our voices on 𝕏."
one foot stack of paper versus one inch stack of paper
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 07:00 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 20, 2024 07:00 PM (D6PGr)
'It seemed very strange from the get-go that this guy could be exactly where he was, when he was.'
Count Dankula made that point. An assassin that has no idea when their target will show up should have had to loiter there for hours. This guy shows up waited a few minutes. He was tipped off.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 07:00 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 07:01 PM (QTCRF)
@RealSaavedra
Reporters did not ask Karine Jean-Pierre a single question about The Wall Street Journal report from yesterday that outlined how the White House hid President Joe Biden's cognitive decline from the public.
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I'm not willing to assume these "reporters" can read and comprehend anything longer than a tweet.
Posted by: LASue at December 20, 2024 07:01 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2024 06:52 PM (VwHCD)
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Great. Now I need some Admiral Ackbar brand brain bleach to get that image out of my head.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2024 06:57 PM (BpYfr)
Foreplay is him hurling flour at her to locate her blowhole, screaming "She tasks me!"
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 20, 2024 07:01 PM (yjflf)
A car has driven into a group of people at a Christmas market in Germany apnews.com/article/germany-m…
Poppy Coburn @kafkaswife 3h
Gee I wonder why the AfD is doing so well in Germany, Rory.
Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK 6h
This is the AFD - of which Elon Musk says “only the AFD can save Germany” 👇
When are people going to wake up to direction in which Musk is pushing things? @RestIsPolitics
Geert Wilders @geertwilderspvv 1h
Na, danke, Angela
Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage 3h
We have allowed people who hate us and our values into Europe. Christmas is their target. Any guesses why?
Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM 3h
A plague on all those who brought evil into Europe
11 dead. 80 injured
From Angela Merkel to Boris Johnson, those who (naively?) facilitated the mass importation of Islamic extremists into Europe should be tried for something akin to treason
Enough is enough. Mass deportation
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 07:02 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2024 06:52 PM (VwHCD)
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Great. Now I need some Admiral Ackbar brand brain bleach to get that image out of my head.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2024 06:57 PM
When Bertha got moving
Her hips were humming in the wind
The ground started shaking
No grass grew where she'd been
Posted by: Jimmy Castor Bunch at December 20, 2024 07:02 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 07:02 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 20, 2024 07:03 PM (D6PGr)
Turrible.
Posted by: Charles Barkley at December 20, 2024 07:03 PM (i0F8b)
Of the five Oklahoma US Congressmen, the only one voting against the giant CR and the smaller replacement CR was Josh Brecheen, Okla 2nd Congressional District. That's our district.
But the state went all counties for Trump three times in a row. Go figger.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Okie by birth and choice at December 20, 2024 07:04 PM (v+OaN)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2024 07:04 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 20, 2024 07:01 PM (yjflf)
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*** KAAAAHHHHNNNN! ***
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2024 07:05 PM (BpYfr)
BREAKING: 𝕏 is now the #1 news app on the AppStore in Germany
Elon Musk @elonmusk 6h
Well, well, well, let that sink in 🤣🤣
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 07:05 PM (hovnC)
.@RepJeffries
: "House Democrats have successfully funded the government at levels requested by President Biden in order to meet the needs of the American people...This is a victory for the American people."
Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT FRANCE at December 20, 2024 07:05 PM (/7KEl)
The continuing resolution (CR) that was passed by the House extends government funding until March and provides over $100 billion dollars in relief funds to hurricane victims, farmers and more.
However, the Senate must now vote and approve the bill before President Joe Biden can sign it into law to avoid a lapse in federal spending set to occur just after midnight Friday.
The 118-page bill passed with bipartisan support, 366 - 34, after Johnson negotiated with his Democratic counterpart Hakeem Jeffries over the details in multiple conversations on Friday. The bill will now head to the Senate for approval. "
where it will fail...
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 07:05 PM (QTCRF)
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 07:01 PM (QTCRF)
Party City wasn’t that big of a surprise though since they just emerged from bankruptcy about a year ago. I was surprised when they went into bankruptcy. I thought they had a hold on pretty stable niche market. Must have been really bad management.
Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 20, 2024 07:06 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2024 07:04 PM (a3Q+t)
The drone of Biden sleeping, the drones on the East coast, the drones of Congressional speech, or the drones over military bases.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 07:06 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 07:07 PM (QTCRF)
Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2024 07:07 PM (PTDkx)
Turrible.
Posted by: Charles Barkley at December 20, 2024 07:03 PM
Turtible.
-- Mitch McConnell
Turdible.
-- The U.S. taxpayers stuck with the bill.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 20, 2024 07:07 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Why was it Super Mario Brothers if Luigi and Mario are both first names? Or was that their last name - Luigi Mario and Mario Mario.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 06:57 PM (Dm8we)
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Mario is their last name, and I do believe Mario's name is in fact Mario Mario. Though I could more easily believe that, being the eldest, everyone just calls him by his last name, and he has another first name (Guiseppe, maybe)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 20, 2024 07:08 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 07:06 PM
What are we, chopped liver?
Posted by: The Drones of Navarrone at December 20, 2024 07:08 PM (a3Q+t)
It is "HORRIBLE" because of the media propaganda machine, which is losing its thrust after two million obscene lies in a row. The People get angry when they discover they have been (and still are) played for fools, constantly, with smug laughter by the lying media.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 07:08 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 20, 2024 07:09 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 20, 2024 07:10 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 07:10 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 20, 2024 07:11 PM (yjflf)
Democrats are breaking everything they can on the way out the door.
Remember this always.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 20, 2024 07:11 PM (Z4+h5)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 06:57 PM (Dm8we)
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Mario is their last name, and I do believe Mario's name is in fact Mario Mario. Though I could more easily believe that, being the eldest, everyone just calls him by his last name, and he has another first name (Guiseppe, maybe)
Posted by: No One of Consequence
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Well ok then. I thought it might have been some bad translation of Japanese like Super Happy Fun Time.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 07:11 PM (Dm8we)
Posted by: Just another guy at December 20, 2024 07:11 PM (ItsCg)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 20, 2024 07:12 PM (a3Q+t)
Count Dankula made that point. An assassin that has no idea when their target will show up should have had to loiter there for hours. This guy shows up waited a few minutes. He was tipped off.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 07:00 PM (3wi/L)
This is our world that a guy who got arrested for teaching a dog a trick is the most sensible commentator on a serious subject, as opposed to all the MSM.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 07:12 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 20, 2024 07:13 PM (paSBy)
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*Scribbles notes*
Posted by: Tom Homan at December 20, 2024 06:52 PM (2UnvF)
Hmmm... so Husband, Uncle, Brother and Sister in Law are illegal Aliens? and you are knowingly helping them stay in the country?
De Facto admission of Felony conduct under the Aiding and Abetting Illegal Aliens Act.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 20, 2024 07:14 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 20, 2024 07:13 PM (paSBy)
Not until they can play Tulane 12 times in a row.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 07:14 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: Just another guy
Surely there are instructional videos available on the internet.
You may need to turn "safe search" off for best results.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2024 07:14 PM (/lPRQ)
Jagmeet Singh @theJagmeetSingh
Justin Trudeau failed in the biggest job a Prime Minister has: to work for people, not the powerful.
The NDP will vote to bring this government down, and give Canadians a chance to vote for a government who will work for them.
Conservative leader tries to get the election called as early as possible instead...
Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre
I have written the Governor General confirming that the Prime Minister has lost the confidence of the House and that Parliament must be recalled to hold a vote before the end of the year on triggering an Axe The Tax election.
I am asking the NDP leader to match his actions to his word and likewise send a letter to Her Excellency asking for the same.
Sign here to call an Axe the Tax election: [e-petition]
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 07:15 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 20, 2024 07:12 PM (a3Q+t)
Princess is a title and Peach her first name in normal usage.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 07:15 PM (n7h9X)
Ha! Now that Parliament is closed and there is no chance to introduce any motion for months—until after you get your pension.
You did the same stunt in September, claiming you’d no longer prop Trudeau up. Then you went back on your word and voted 8 times AGAINST AN ELECTION & for your boss Trudeau.
Just 11 days ago you voted against a non-confidence motion filled with your own words. Had you voted the other way, we’d be almost half-way through the election now.
Only common sense Conservatives can and will replace this costly NDP-Liberal clown show.
Axe the tax election NOW!
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 07:15 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Just another guy
Surely there are instructional videos available on the internet.
You may need to turn "safe search" off for best results.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2024 07:14 PM (/lPRQ)
Sexual.. Congress? Is that where a Male Representative and Female Senator love each other very much and...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 20, 2024 07:16 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: EveR at December 20, 2024 07:16 PM (MUpk6)
Her hips were humming in the wind
The ground started shaking
No grass grew where she'd been
Posted by: Jimmy Castor Bunch
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"The most unromantic creature that ever urged its squat thick bulk across the face of the protesting earth."
Posted by: Stephen Maturin at December 20, 2024 07:16 PM (XeU6L)
You may need to turn "safe search" off for best results.
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It's a trap!
Posted by: A Certain Calamari Admiral at December 20, 2024 07:16 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 20, 2024 07:17 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 07:15 PM
Toadstool is Peach's last name, and Kong is Donkey's.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 20, 2024 07:17 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Just another guy at December 20, 2024 07:11 PM (ItsCg)
A series of trusses, harnesses, and reinforced crane-like structures resembling medieval siege machines are involved. It's contained in an appendix to the deluxe edition of Kama Sutra published by Little Debbie.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 20, 2024 07:18 PM (yjflf)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 20, 2024 07:18 PM (EES2L)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 07:18 PM (fwDg9)
Hamas proudly posts propaganda videos showing they’re digging up water pipes in Gaza to use as rockets.
At the same time, anti-Israel governments are blaming Israel for “genocide” through “dehydration.”
You can’t make this stuff up!
https://tinyurl.com/44m5wjwe
45 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 07:18 PM (hovnC)
"Just let all killers roam free, to join all the cartel killers and terrorist killers I've imported," says the corpse of Joe, and/or his angry jilted (from her WH lifestyle) wife.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 07:19 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 20, 2024 07:16 PM
I can only wish ...
Posted by: Senate er allSenate Judiciary Committee hearing room at December 20, 2024 07:19 PM (a3Q+t)
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I have a friend that occassionally goes down there for business. His company provides a driver/bodyguard and a bullet proofed company car.
Posted by: A Certain Calamari Admiral at December 20, 2024 07:19 PM (fs1hN)
"Just let all killers roam free, to join all the cartel killers and terrorist killers I've imported," says the corpse of Joe, and/or his angry jilted (from her WH lifestyle) wife.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 07:19 PM (Cus5s)
Nothing on the hostages held by Gazans, popey mc pope face?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 07:20 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein, Brattleboro, VT at December 20, 2024 07:21 PM (F2xQR)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 07:21 PM (fs1hN)
Hamas proudly posts propaganda videos showing they’re digging up water pipes in Gaza to use as rockets."
That trillion dollar pier has probably been sold for scrap for a few hundred dollars
Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2024 07:21 PM (PTDkx)
'A series of trusses, harnesses, and reinforced crane-like structures resembling medieval siege machines'
Haha.
Or maybe like the hoist they made for Henry VIII to load him onto his horse.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 07:22 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Just another guy at December 20, 2024 07:11 PM (ItsCg)
Well, you see, they could........
Oh, man. Now I have to through out my dinner and get that image out of my head.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 20, 2024 07:23 PM (iODuv)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 20, 2024 07:23 PM (iODuv)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 07:24 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Carnac the Magnificant at December 20, 2024 07:26 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC)
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Huh. Now I'm not certain what di-lapidated means anymore.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 07:26 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 07:26 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: tommy chong's one remaining brain cell at December 20, 2024 07:26 PM (yjflf)
*shakes fist at Miklos
Posted by: runner
*shakes double martini*
Posted by: Miklos in accustomed mode at December 20, 2024 05:27 PM (xesY+)
***
Lifts a large Rainier beer. Prost!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 07:26 PM (+o9ie)
__________________
Illegals showing up at ICE facility? That's damned decent of them to save ICE the difficulty of having to chase them down to round them up.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 07:27 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT FRANCE at December 20, 2024 07:27 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 07:21 PM
* casual side glance to check *
Posted by: Krusty (the Klown) at December 20, 2024 07:27 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2024 07:27 PM (XTmTf)
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at December 20, 2024 07:28 PM (EmT/E)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 07:26 PM (fwDg9)
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He needs to accept Jesus as his personal Savior.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 07:28 PM (YqDXo)
"If there is a shutdown, and I don't want to get too much into hypotheticals but this is the reality, transition activities will be restricted ...
Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT FRANCE at December 20, 2024 07:29 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Admirale's Mate at December 20, 2024 07:29 PM (sMkAM)
@RealSaavedra
Reporters did not ask Karine Jean-Pierre a single question about The Wall Street Journal report from yesterday that outlined how the White House hid President Joe Biden's cognitive decline from the public.
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Has anybody asked the Wall Street Journal why they sat on this story for four years while the country and its citizens were being intentionally & systematically destroyed?
/rhetorical, of course not ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Vivek for Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 07:29 PM (z3WOQ)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 07:29 PM (YqDXo)
Are you here illegally? Then perhaps you should feel unsafe. If you are an American citizen, then you're just bullshitting everyone.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 07:30 PM (+o9ie)
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 07:30 PM (z3WOQ)
Posted by: mindful webworker - big snakes at December 20, 2024 07:31 PM (v+OaN)
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I wonder if that means the stones of a wall or of a house are no longer setting upon each other??
Off to look right now!
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 07:31 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.
Cross your legs, leaving your ankle spotlighted by the single overhead pot.
Slllloooooooooeeeeeelllllyyyy roll the sock down while smoking a cigarette.
Peeeeellllll it off your heel sssssllllllllooooooeeeeelllllyyyy.
Now. Grasp the toe of the sock and yank it of quickly.
This is how you remove a soock and wallow in the degenerate fullness of your socked post.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 20, 2024 07:31 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT FRANCE at December 20, 2024 07:32 PM (/7KEl)
dilapidate (v.)
1560s, "to bring (a building) to ruin, bring into a ruinous condition by misuse or neglect," from Latin dilapidatus, past participle of dilapidare "to squander, waste," originally "to throw stones, scatter like stones," from dis- "asunder" (see dis-) + lapidare "throw stones at," from lapis (genitive lapidis) "stone" (see lapideous). Perhaps the English word is a back-formation from dilapidation. Intransitive sense of "fall into total or partial ruin" is from 1712.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 07:32 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 07:33 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 07:34 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT FRANCE at December 20, 2024 07:35 PM (/7KEl)
Two signed their drivers licenses with nicknames and then the forms had to be erased on computer and completed once more. (That took several more minutes and screwed up the lines.) One of those had, in fact, been born in the USA and argued she was only known to others by her nickname.
It was interesting to see how voter registration was handled. After reading a legal paragraph, each applicant choose if they desired to register to vote, switch political parties, or make no change in their status.
Posted by: L - cellphone at December 20, 2024 07:45 PM (NFX2v)
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Posted by: m at December 21, 2024 03:08 AM (VnUSN)
Posted by: m at December 21, 2024 03:12 AM (VnUSN)
#SorryNotSorry but that's the truth. Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.
You forgot criminal. A very large part...
Posted by: Warren Quin at December 21, 2024 08:26 AM (kW5mR)
Democrat Strategist Ruy Texiera: The Public Gave the Democrats a Clear Message About Their Rejection of Identity Marxism, But the Democrats Don't Want to Listen
In the wake of the Democrats' drubbing at the hands of Donald Trump and the GOP, you'd assume the party would be all-in on a fundamental rethink, starting with some serious soul-searching on how the party came to be so out of sync with the majority of America on key cultural questions. Questions like: Is America a "white supremacist" society? Is it racist to question levels of immigration? Are citing one's personal pronouns necessary? Is anyone who questions the differences between trans women from biological women a bigot who should be expunged from polite society? For each of these questions, the answer for the overwhelming majority of Americans is an obvious no. But in elite Democratic circles, it's a different story. For a party pondering its unpopularity, you might think that this gap would be a good place to start. Well, if the six weeks since the election is anything to go by, you'd be wrong. Instead, much of the party is maneuvering to change as little as possible on the cultural front. Why? Because many of today's Democrats are culture denialists. That is, they do not consider cultural issues to be real issues. Instead, they see them as fictions, distractions, or expressions of bigotry that are to be opposed, not indulged. Consider Greg Casar, the new chair of the powerful Congressional Progressive Caucus. In a recent interview with NBC News, Casar urged the Democrats to "re-emphasize core economic issues every time some of these cultural war issues are brought up." He said that "when we hear Republicans attacking queer Americans again, I think the progressive response needs to be that a trans person didn't deny your health insurance claim, a big corporation did--with Republican help." Casar said that "the Republican Party obsession" with culture war issues is "driven by Republicans' desire to distract voters and have them look away while Republicans pick their pocket." Massachusetts Democratic representative Jim McGovern echoed Casar's thoughts recently with this rhetoric about Republicans: "They want to blame trans people? Guess what? Trans people aren't the ones raising people's grocery prices. Big corporations are." Republicans, he added, "want to blame immigrants. . . . Immigrants aren't the ones denying health insurance claims. . . . it's the billion-dollar insurance companies that do that." Get it? These aren't real issues. They're just distractions ginned up by Republicans for nefarious political purposes. The logical conclusion of this argument is that Democrats don't need to actually change their position on any "culture war" issue. Instead, they just need to change the subject and talk about mustache-twirling corporate villains. ... Or perhaps the real problem, some Democrats argue, is that the party hasn't communicated its wonderful positions adeptly and thoroughly enough. With the right spin, maybe their positions on everything, from the economy to transgender issues and immigration would be popular. This seems to be the view of the two leading candidates for chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Ken Martin, head of Minnesota's Democratic Party (technically its Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party), has a 10-point plan that calls for a "massive narrative and branding project." Ben Wikler, head of Wisconsin's Democratic Party, believes Democrats must "become the narrator" of their own brand. This all seems reasonable enough but, cutting through the verbiage, nowhere do these candidates for the DNC chair concede the party's cultural vulnerabilities. When reading their pitches for the powerful post, it's as if those problems don't exist.
The outgoing DNC chair takes things even further. Since the election, Jaime Harrison has strenuously resisted the idea Democrats should abandon "identity politics," saying they represent how "people of color" see Democrats fighting for them. Invoking his status as a black man, he remarked: "That is my identity. . . . it is not politics. It is my life. And the people that I need in the party, that I need to stand up for me, have to recognize that. You cannot run away from that." In other words, Democrats should double down on so-called culture war issues like race and gender that are so off-putting to voters. This is a strange recommendation since, as Democrats have become ever more associated with identity politics, they have been doing ever more poorly among non-white voters, especially non-white working-class voters. Their advantage among the latter group has declined by more than half since 2012.
I was wondering when the Democrats would change course, and I decided it probably wouldn't be for another 8 years. It took the Democrats 12 years of losing the White House to finally pretend to moderate. Bill Clinton was their fig-leaf of "moderation." But it took three crushing losses in a row to even get there. The Democrat Cult will keep doubling down until they lose twice more. They're in such a (Satanic) religious fervor now, and they are so ruthless in attacking and shaming and cancelling any heretics who question current cult doctrine, that they might not ever be able to moderate. The entire party might just have to collapse and be replaced by an emergent alternate-liberal party. Ed Morrissey writes that Democrat strategist James Carville, campaign director for the "moderate" Bill Clinton, is making a similar argument. The Daily Caller:
"Anybody that questions the absolute, unquestionable benefits of transition surgery is going to be called this equivalent of being against civil rights or being against women having the right to vote ... somebody can fact-check me, it's banned in Nordic countries," Carville said. "I think the liberal Labor government of Britain just passed legislation on that question." ... "But you can't -- if you say the border, we should have had something different -- well, that makes you a racist. If you say that we should proceed with caution on this transition surgery ... then you're slammed. And the tyranny of the left is tyranny. And not only tyranny that it causes people grief, it loses us elections, people," Carville said. "And I got to tell you ... there are people that think this, and I'm increasingly agreeing with them." "There are a substantial number of people in the Democratic Party -- almost exclusively coastal, almost exclusively white, almost exclusively higher-educated -- that would rather lose and feel superior about themselves than have to go through the trouble to do the stuff it takes necessary to win an election," he continued. "And as long as that philosophy is part of the Democratic coalition, it is going to continue to cause unbelievable damage to our electoral prospects. I cannot say it any simpler than that."Morrissey comments:
This formulation is pure Carville. He structures this argument so that it's less concerned about the actual tyranny than it is about the elections. If tyranny won elections, you get the sense that Carville might gripe a bit, but he'd also appreciate it from an electoral-strategy point of view. As it happens, though, tyranny turns out to be ... unpopular. In fact, that's it's defining characteristic. If these policies were popular, the Left wouldn't need to impose them with tyrannical methods, after all. Carville seems to miss that point in this rant, although to be fair, it's clipped from an obviously longer argument that Carville makes.In fairness, you cannot tell these cultists that tyranny is bad, because they want the tyranny. This is what the revolution preaches: Tear down society until you can install yourself as dictators and impose your weird, sick vision of the anointed on the unwilling masses. You can only make the argument that their tyranny will result in them giving the right the power to impose tyranny.
Morrissey acknowledges this as well:
Tyranny is both the strategy and the end goal.Remember, though, "reporters" can't report on Biden's obvious senility until one of his top-raking aides/coup-conspirators admits he's senile:
In Sept. 2022, Biden prompted more concerns when he wondered, "Where's Jackie?" even though she had died over a month ago.
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) December 20, 2024
The White House defended Biden as having her "top of mind" which is why he asked the question. pic.twitter.com/BWMLSwaCht
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 05:21 PM (14URa)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 20, 2024 05:21 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 20, 2024 05:22 PM (8XYYe)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 20, 2024 05:22 PM (Rcnd3)
Should get a life.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 20, 2024 05:22 PM (4780s)
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 20, 2024 05:23 PM (vs8ws)
Posted by: From about That Time at December 20, 2024 05:24 PM (4780s)
Change Democrat Party to GOP, and he has a good nail on the GOPe RINOs.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at December 20, 2024 05:24 PM (bufu1)
Me, I approve both of those messages.
Could you imagine the jumped-up bar hostess trying to debate Vance?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 20, 2024 05:24 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 05:24 PM (14URa)
Nah - triviality is the goal. They just want to be free to spend your money on whatever and have you not bitch so much about it.
They are narcissistic spoiled rich brats more than anything. They want daddy's credit card and car keys and throw a fit when they don't get it. They have no ulterior motives, no plan, no really good ideas. They just want to do whatever they want when they want.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 05:26 PM (nLFEI)
They consider cultural issues to be religious issues.
Denying that men can get pregnant is heresy, for example.
You don't compromise with heretics - you kill them.
Also, all their cultural positions are "non-political" - for example, Pride Flags are non-political, and therefore can't be questioned.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2024 05:26 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 05:26 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 20, 2024 05:27 PM (vs8ws)
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 05:27 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 05:27 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 05:28 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at December 20, 2024 05:28 PM (qUkBO)
I think I saw a clip of the cretinous Jeffries explaining the CR follies as caused by "billionaires!" not getting enough $ from the process.
Why not double down when your voters are THIS stupid and misinformed? Besides, I didn't notice a Reaganesque electoral map this round. Given the state of the country, the unbelievable weakness and ineptness of the Dem candidates, and the unique one-time appeal of a very unusual GOP candidate, that it was razor-thin indicates Dems have good reason to believe they can survive or prosper on pure delusion and bigotry.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 05:28 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 05:29 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 05:29 PM (nLFEI)
Well, the vapid affirmative action empty shell Harris won her debate with Trump, so.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 05:30 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 05:26 PM (fwDg9)
FIFY
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 05:31 PM (VNX3d)
Where do you think a 40% pay raise comes from?
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 05:31 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 05:31 PM (Odg76)
So to speak...
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 05:31 PM (jvJvP)
Just imagine how many infidels he killed in the hospital earlier.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2024 05:32 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: garrett at December 20, 2024 05:33 PM (j6KoD)
This is exactly what I have been writing must happen - the current has placed for too many radicals in positions of power, and they’re driving any remaining rational people out. It’s far easier to junk that structure and start fresh than it is to reform it. Although the new party will almost certainly find a way to hang onto the Democrat name for branding reasons.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 05:34 PM (zQ3t+)
Islam is not compatible with Society.
Posted by: garrett at December 20, 2024 05:34 PM (j6KoD)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 05:35 PM (Q4IgG)
So.
You have a hand for Wiping and a hand for Eating...
which one do you use for Surgeries?
Posted by: garrett at December 20, 2024 05:36 PM (j6KoD)
Posted by: General Burkhalter at December 20, 2024 05:36 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 05:29 PM (fs1hN)
What is Dr. Smelly Noasswash doing in Germany driving into a Christmas market? Aren't there Christmas markets in Saudi he can drive into?
Posted by: Deport, Expel and Ban Them at December 20, 2024 05:37 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 20, 2024 05:37 PM (7CGJt)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 05:37 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2024 05:38 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 05:40 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:42 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 05:42 PM (o0+oQ)
Those laser-brains at Pod Save America and The Bulwark have been going through paroxysms of self-analysis and trying to account for the loss, and it keeps coming down to us.
I don't know why some Dems are figuring it out (Ana Kasparian's another) and others aren't.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 05:42 PM (I87yH)
The press that didn’t tell us Biden’s Brain has been broken since his first day in office are waiting to tell us about Harris’s seemingly obvious drinking problem.
Nothing changes.
Same thing.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:43 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at December 20, 2024 05:43 PM (qUkBO)
But it was just a stutter.....
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 05:43 PM (+oR7L)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 20, 2024 05:43 PM (UKUm3)
It's unfortunate that he plays for the demoncrats. He would be a hoot as a non partisan analyst just verbally kicking the shit out of whichever team does something really stupid.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 05:43 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2024 05:43 PM (dxSpM)
The press that didn’t tell us Biden’s Brain has been broken since his first day in office are waiting to tell us about Harris’s seemingly obvious drinking problem.
Nothing changes.
Same thing.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:43 PM (hovnC)
Which office?
President?
Vice President?
Senate?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 05:44 PM (VNX3d)
But it took three crushing losses in a row to even get there.
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That was the genius of James Carville. Love him or hate him, he knew what he was doing. Carville would poll a state during the campaign to find out the most lucrative issue to exploit, and then he'd send in Clinton to hark on that issue. It's why Clinton had the reputation for "putting his finger in the air to check the winds" before making any statements.
As a result, Clinton ended up cleaning up Welfare to some extent, and had a much better record on immigration than he gets credit for.
Remember Hillarycare? Probably not. Carville made every effort to sabotage that effort behind the scenes.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 05:44 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I'll hang up and listen... at December 20, 2024 05:44 PM (Ad8y9)
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You bent over backwards to kiss Trump's ring so you wouldn't get canned and have to shell out millions.
Stephanopoulos has some tips, asshole.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 05:45 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Beverly at December 20, 2024 05:45 PM (Epeb0)
Remember Hillarycare? Probably not. Carville made every effort to sabotage that effort behind the scenes.
Posted by: Orson
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Really? Lord, how many people are on her Hate List?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 05:46 PM (I87yH)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:46 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: Beverly at December 20, 2024 05:45 PM (Epeb0)
Malformed pine trees?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 05:46 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2024 05:47 PM (dxSpM)
Driver of the car that drove through Christmas market in Germany is reportedly a doctor originally from Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 05:29 PM (fs1hN)
First,
Posted by: naturalfake at December 20, 2024 05:47 PM (iJfKG)
Same is true of other core false doctrines ... The Vax, Global Warming, Men can have babies, Diversity is our Strength ... but most of those "Great Lies" (can't come up with the word, am thinking "sabolith" but that is wrong) ... most of those Core Myths are still alive and well ... being used to crush/replace traditional Western dogma (via the Fake News Machine that gave us Obama the LightBringer).
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 05:48 PM (Cus5s)
Liberalism has always been Marxist/socialists, it always ends up in the same place and that's right where they are now.
Posted by: JROD at December 20, 2024 05:48 PM (IlL6s)
When they appear to be doing something batshit crazy like mutilating kids and calling the gender affirming care they are doing the bidding of their partners in the permanent government.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 05:48 PM (LkLld)
No, they want you to DIE. Where have you been?
Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 05:49 PM (q177U)
in Germany legally since 2006, I read
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 05:49 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 20, 2024 05:47 PM (iJfKG)
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The Mohammedan Oath
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2024 05:49 PM (BpYfr)
Very sad. Israeli flag taken down at the Embassy in Dublin. Hopefully it can go up once again, when Ireland has a government that is not so viscerally hostile towards Israel and antisemitic.
4:49 AM · Dec 19, 2024
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2024 05:49 PM (RIvkX)
Just imagine how many infidels he killed in the hospital earlier.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2024 05:32 PM (uxCna)
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He's a mental doctor - take it both ways.
Posted by: Ciampino - psychiatrist at December 20, 2024 05:49 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 05:48 PM (Cus5s)
Shibboleth?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 20, 2024 05:50 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Plainoldtoast at December 20, 2024 05:51 PM (RtC70)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:51 PM (Drm1A)
Let me guess, a urologist.
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at December 20, 2024 05:51 PM (qUkBO)
Bingo. That's why I still despise Carville: it's all about getting and maintaining power. He puts me in mind of something H.L. Mencken once wrote about Harry Truman: "If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country he [Harry Truman] would have promised to provide them with free missionaries, fattened at the taxpayers’ expense.”
Posted by: Paco at December 20, 2024 05:52 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Plainoldtoast
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There's a remedy for that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:52 PM (Drm1A)
And by "interesting" I mean "the woketards would burn you at the stake for even suggesting such a study".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 20, 2024 05:54 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:54 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:52 PM (Drm1A)
The "hoof and mouth disease" remedy?
If there aren't any animals with hoof and mouth disease, then there won't be any.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 20, 2024 05:54 PM (W5ArC)
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Face it, Dems: the dogs don't like the dog food.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:55 PM (YqDXo)
They and their messed up ideals need to be called out and ridiculed.
Make people uncomfortable with associating with these scumbags and ideas.
Hope we are all strapped in, 31 days to go.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 20, 2024 05:55 PM (ufFY8)
Of course they don't have picutured of burned face troops either.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 05:55 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: JOE BIDEN at December 20, 2024 05:56 PM (oOc/o)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:56 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 05:57 PM (ZKG7+)
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Face it, Dems: the dogs don't like the dog food.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:55 PM (YqDXo)
https://youtu.be/XI4140D8gk0
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 05:57 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 20, 2024 05:57 PM (W5ArC)
Very sad. Israeli flag taken down at the Embassy in Dublin. Hopefully it can go up once again, when Ireland has a government that is not so viscerally hostile towards Israel and antisemitic.
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Why is Ireland of all places hot about Israel? How many Jews can there possibly be in Ireland? A dozen, maybe?
Why don't they tee off on ... say ... Zoroastrians, or Scientologists?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:57 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 20, 2024 05:58 PM (W5ArC)
Let me guess, a urologist.
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at December 20, 2024 05:51 PM (qUkBO)
Veterinary doctor, specializing in sheep and camels.
Tangentially related: I think the collective noun for camels should be "a hump of camels", or "a joe of camels".
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 20, 2024 05:58 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:54 PM (Drm1A)
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You are conflating Ireland (Eire), an independent country, with Northern Ireland, part of Great Britain. Eire is the one about the Israeli embassy closing.
Posted by: Ciampino - not so hard at December 20, 2024 05:58 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 05:58 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 20, 2024 05:58 PM (YfvWK)
'Tis Freya's Day, the consummation devoutly to be wished! Especially if you have Monday and Tuesday off. My boss let us go at noon, and I had time to stop at teh grocery and do a little Xmas shopping, plus rinse off the car. It may touch freezing tonight, so no car washing tomorrow.
The Killer Kittenz From Outer Space, Stirling the big black and Dagny the little Siberian, have had dinner and are racing about, chasing each other.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 05:58 PM (omVj0)
Good. I hope they double down until everyone else hates them as much as I do.
Then the mass arrests can kick off.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 05:58 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 20, 2024 05:58 PM (Vyll1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 05:58 PM (7MHHr)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 06:00 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 06:00 PM (YqDXo)
He's a psychiatrist therefore mental.
Posted by: Ciampino - not so hard is it? at December 20, 2024 06:01 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 20, 2024 05:58 PM (ufFY8
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I never smoked. But I did win a drawing for a Joe Camel trash can from a gas station back in '92.
Posted by: Turn 2 at December 20, 2024 06:01 PM (i1Dh+)
For awareness — note the language here. It’s a very intentional strategy
The goal is to weaken Trump and Elon by fomenting tensions between them
By jabbing Trump about not being the alpha, the idea is to provoke him to sideline Elon and to fray the relationship
Elon Musk @elonmusk 6h
That is exactly the goal.
The political & legacy media puppets all got their new instructions yesterday and are now parroting the same message to drive a wedge between @realDonaldTrump and me.
They will fail.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 06:01 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 05:58 PM (7MHHr)
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Thirty pieces of silver is, I believe, the going rate.
I'm officially kicking off the "Oust Johnson" movement here and now.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 06:01 PM (YqDXo)
Paid Republicans and their consultants are very similar. They will say and do anything as long as it delivers a loss. Losing to the Democrats is the only thing that ever matters to entrenched R party mouth breathers.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2024 06:02 PM (Y6IkP)
TDS was so powerful. My a**hole neighbors insisted on Kamala signs this time around on their lawns. They aren't stupid, TDS is very powerful.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at December 20, 2024 06:02 PM (xA5g+)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 06:02 PM (7MHHr)
You are conflating Ireland (Eire), an independent country, with Northern Ireland, part of Great Britain. Eire is the one about the Israeli embassy closing.
Posted by: Ciampino -
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Never heard of such a thing but I'm OK with it.
Cut Eire loose, let them hang themselves.
Only thing is, it's within England's territorial waters and lo to the outsider.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 06:02 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 06:03 PM (ZKG7+)
Several reasons:
Historical connection to terrorism
Conflation of British oppression
Contemporary woke Marxism
Ancient Catholic antisemitism
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2024 06:03 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 06:04 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 06:04 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 06:04 PM (exHjb)
Shoot. Congressional Republicans didn't give me the Christmas present I wanted.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 06:06 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 06:06 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 05:58 PM (LkLld)
Big one or small one?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 06:06 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 06:07 PM (ZKG7+)
McConnell: I don't care to count how many times I've reminded our colleagues and our House counterparts how horrible it is to shut the government down. And how foolish it is to bet your own side won't take the blame for it. Recent history doesn't leave a whole lot of room for interpretation on that one. When you try to use normal government function as a bargaining chip, you pay a political price
https://tinyurl.com/kwu3rwt2
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 06:08 PM (hovnC)
Historical connection to terrorism
Conflation of British oppression
Contemporary woke Marxism
Ancient Catholic antisemitism
Posted by: San Franpsycho
If only Manischevitz made whiskey...
Posted by: Miklos would try that at December 20, 2024 06:08 PM (xesY+)
Then I pointed it out. I still have not noticed much, but I have noticed a lot of blame, deflection, and misdirection.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2024 06:08 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Just the Punchline at December 20, 2024 06:08 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgi
I don't think they will. This is just throat-clearing to goose donors to start building up a new challenger. "Hey, if you guys don't get off your asses, this will happen."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2024 06:08 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 06:08 PM (Cus5s)
https://tinyurl.com/kwu3rwt2
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 06:08 PM (hovnC)
You mean like not recessing for recess appointments you fraud?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 06:09 PM (n7h9X)
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Maybe there's a pony underneath the mountain of horseshit. Let's keep digging!
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 06:09 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Why it's almost as if it is a cult.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 06:10 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 06:10 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at December 20, 2024 06:02 PM (xA5g+)
I saw more cocksucker signs than pedo dementia patient signs. But 20 M fewer ballots?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 20, 2024 06:10 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Miklos would try that at December 20, 2024 06:08 PM (xesY+)
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It would taste something like a cross between Jagermeister and Southern Comfort.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2024 06:11 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgi
I don't think they will. This is just throat-clearing to goose donors to start building up a new challenger. "Hey, if you guys don't get off your asses, this will happen."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2024 06:08 PM (IG4Id)
They may want to do that, but of course a lot of them were planning to get an open convention and that failed. It might just be that if they don't crush their zealots and purge them, everyone will be too cowardly to try.
It happenend in 1992 when nobody wanted to Oppose Bush I but Clinton and Gary Hart.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 06:11 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: Paul P. at December 20, 2024 06:12 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 06:04 PM (exHjb)
BOHICA
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 20, 2024 06:12 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 06:13 PM (8zz6B)
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Who cares. Does he think voters actually remember this a year or two down the road and what difference does it make? No one says, "I'm not voting R because they caused a Gov shutdown."
Posted by: Ciampino - not so hard is it? at December 20, 2024 06:13 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Paul P. at December 20, 2024 06:12 PM (a3Q+t)
I LOL'd.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 20, 2024 06:14 PM (Aqu9a)
time. This time the results were Conservative Party, 66%; Liberals, 16%. That’s a good guess as to how the next national election will go as well.
The Liberal Party of Canada dies with Trudeau’s career. It won’t be back.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 06:14 PM (7MHHr)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 06:06 PM (WXNFJ)
The 870s?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 20, 2024 06:14 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Miklos would try that at December 20, 2024 06:08 PM (xesY+)
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It would taste something like a cross between Jagermeister and Southern Comfort.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2024 06:11 PM (RIvkX)
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 20, 2024 06:15 PM (Aqu9a)
So, I would hold my breath waiting for them to figure out why they lost. Reality is the last thing they will consider.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 06:15 PM (ZKG7+)
Posted by: That Chicken at December 20, 2024 06:15 PM (WNVpZ)
Now he is getting the physical imparements that goes with his age.
Maybe a stroke might mess his mind and body, but I think his brain was fried four years ago, loosing ability to just makes it more obvious.
Very old men can have difficulty walking.... taking a while to shuffle up to the mic, or keeping the pace is one thing, shuffling off aimlessly is another, especially when you should just be stnding there.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2024 06:15 PM (/lPRQ)
It took the Democrats 12 years of losing the White House to finally pretend to moderate. Bill Clinton was their fig-leaf of "moderation."
But it took three crushing losses in a row to even get there.
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And when he got in, he and Hillary went hard left and generated a massive loss in the House in 1994 and a GOP Majority.
Bill Clinton, NOT the DNC tacked rightward hard for the last term and a half to avoid losing in 96 and impeachment after that. Probably no GOP winner in 96 would have governed as right as Clinton did.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 06:16 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: That Chicken at December 20, 2024 06:15 PM (WNVpZ)
It Is Assured
Posted by: Magic 8-Ball at December 20, 2024 06:16 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: That Chicken at December 20, 2024 06:15 PM (WNVpZ)
Better you than me.
Posted by: The Toaster at December 20, 2024 06:16 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 20, 2024 06:12 PM
Something the two of us can be bipartisan on!
Posted by: George T. and Lindsay G. at December 20, 2024 06:17 PM (a3Q+t)
Now the Senate, and then next year will be glorious! says The Speaker.
Posted by: L - cellphone at December 20, 2024 06:18 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: That Chicken at December 20, 2024 06:15 PM
Don't leave us out in the cold.
Posted by: The Monkey and The Football at December 20, 2024 06:18 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Ciampino - not so hard is it? at December 20, 2024 06:18 PM (i0xsb)
So, I would hold my breath waiting for them to figure out why they lost. Reality is the last thing they will consider.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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Authoritarian thugs want power for the sake of having power. The only consistent positition they will ever have is sending their enemies to the camps.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2024 06:19 PM (/lPRQ)
Just reminded me of a time a guy meant to say BOHICA but said BOCOD instead and we laughed at him.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 06:19 PM (ZKG7+)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I ate too much and dozed off at December 20, 2024 06:19 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 06:19 PM (XeU6L)
The Liberal Party of Canada dies with Trudeau’s career. It won’t be back.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 06:14 PM (7MHHr)
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Parties in Canada are frequently destroyed. The Progressive Conservatives were reduced to 2 seats after Kim Campbell called an election.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2024 06:20 PM (dxSpM)
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We're smart and sophisticated, we know what is best.
Posted by: Dems at December 20, 2024 06:21 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Actual DU Thread at December 20, 2024 06:21 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 05:24 PM
Do you need jammies when it's dark?
Posted by: Philosomoron at December 20, 2024 06:22 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 05:55 PM (n7h9X)
I guess "burned faces" was more believable than "teleported the Nork corpses back to Norkland".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 06:23 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Tonypete
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1770 is about fifteen years early.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 06:23 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I ate too much and dozed off at December 20, 2024 06:19 PM
All is proceeding as we have foreseen.
Posted by: Big Penguin at December 20, 2024 06:24 PM (a3Q+t)
https://tinyurl.com/4j5fp2c7
Posted by: Ciampino
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Watching the Dems and GOPe, Ben Franklin's preference for the turkey is becoming more logical. Although, thinking about it, the Turkey Vulture might be more appropriate.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 06:24 PM (XeU6L)
https://tinyurl.com/4j5fp2c7
Posted by: Ciampino
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Watching the Dems and GOPe, Ben Franklin's preference for the turkey is becoming more logical. Although, thinking about it, the Turkey Vulture might be more appropriate.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 06:24 PM (XeU6L)
I think Congress should designate a Congressional Bird. I recommend the pterodactyl.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 06:25 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 06:25 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Big Penguin
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I love it when a plan comes together.
Posted by: Stan at December 20, 2024 06:26 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Kamala Harris at December 20, 2024 06:27 PM (paSBy)
Since this didn't pass with the suspension of debt-limit that Trump wanted, I can assume that the "accelerated pathway to a tax cut for billionaires" is Dem speak for suspension of the debt-limit. Chip Roy got what he wanted, I guess.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 06:27 PM (fs1hN)
BREAKING: Speaker Johnson was going to split the spending bill into multiple pieces but caved to Democrats who wanted an “all-in-one” bill, according to Rep. Thomas Massie
Leading Report @LeadingReport 29m
BREAKING: Spending bill to avert government shutdown has passed the House.
Disclose.tv @disclosetv 13m
JUST IN - U.S. House passes stopgap funding bill, averting government shutdown.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 06:27 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 06:27 PM (3wi/L)
144 For some reason, the Democrats seem determined to embrace perversion, whether it be trannies or furries or drag queens or pedophiles. They refuse to see that this kind of shit is unpopular and distasteful to the vast majority of Americans. It makes you wonder what kind of diabolical idiots control the Party.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I ate too much and dozed off at December 20, 2024 06:19 PM (/7KEl)
This happens to organizations that are so focused on their own virtue” that they say “we can’t judge! We’re inclusive to all! Sounds great to some, but what happens is that worst radicals find it easy to rise in these organizations - they are highly motivated to do so. As soon as they get power, they kick out all the normies and bring in all of their pervy friends to run things.
It’s happened to a lot of NGO’s and foundations, that’s how you end up with Jewish foundations sponsoring pro-Hamas protests.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 06:28 PM (7MHHr)
🚨 UPDATE:
Thomas Massie has won. The House GOP leadership is splitting the spending bill into smaller pieces.
Each section will be voted on individually and allowed to pass or fail on it's own.
CR, disaster relief, debt limit increase, etc. They will each be separate votes.
Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie 2h Replying to @WallStreetMav
This was in fact correct when you tweeted it, but speaker Johnson flipped his decision after the meeting when he spoke to Hakeem Jeffries and realized he could get Democrat votes to pass all the legislation as one bill.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 06:28 PM (hovnC)
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The Dodo.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 20, 2024 06:28 PM (paSBy)
Posted by: The Toaster
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Good to see you back. I suppose the couch will show up any day.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 06:28 PM (XeU6L)
So is this a Republican bill or a Democrat bill? 🤔
Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie 2h Replying to @elonmusk
It’s much improved because of transparency & feedback X has provided.
It went from roughly 1500 pages to 100. Lots of pork was cut.
Johnson agreed this morning to pass what remained as separate bills, but when he found out Jeffries will provide votes, he went back to 1 bill.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 06:29 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: andycanuck
I read that as "inverted pork rectum"
Posted by: Miklos has new glasses, so it's not that at December 20, 2024 06:29 PM (xesY+)
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The Dodo.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist
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Blue-footed booby?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 06:30 PM (XeU6L)
dammit
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2024 06:30 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 06:31 PM (3wi/L)
'He's a mental doctor - take it both ways.'
Huh. Just like Nidal Hassan.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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And, 'Admiral' 'Rachel' Levine.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 06:31 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 06:32 PM (hovnC)
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The Dodo.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist
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Blue-footed booby?
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Where's Spurwing Plover when we really need him?
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 20, 2024 06:32 PM (paSBy)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 06:32 PM (fs1hN)
So
Re-election as Speaker strategy is clear.
Posted by: Miklos would spit, but is busy drinking at December 20, 2024 06:32 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 06:34 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: That Chicken at December 20, 2024 06:15 PM (WNVpZ)
Like Arnold used to whisper in my ear before he penetrated me...over and over again..."Yessss!"
Posted by: Arnold's Maid at December 20, 2024 06:35 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Meremortal at December 20, 2024 07:13 PM (Bwqq4)
Kamala Harris To Be Offered $20 Million in a Media Payoff Disguised as an "Advance" on Book Royalties
Plus: Media Makes Excuses for Covering Up Biden's Obvious Senility
At Victory Girls, as reported by the Daily Mail, another corrupt media company will offer Kamala Harris a $20 million bribe in the form of a "book advance" for royalties they know she'll never, ever earn.
Sure, sure. She'll "tell all." Sure. These outsized "advances" for leftwing politicians are simply bribes. An advance is just the royalties you would collect in the future, but paid in advance. It's literally an advance on expected future royalties. But no one, and I mean no one, expects Kamala Harris's book to earn $20 million in royalties. She'd make about 10% per book in royalties, so a $20 book would earn her $2. She'd have to sell ten million books to make $20 million royalty. She won't. She'll struggle to make a one million dollar royalty. This is not a payment, this is a pay-off. Remember, she still intends to run for office. There is no way to pay off a politician legally for future favors -- except through these corrupt "book deal" payoff operations. All politicians should be required to only take real royalties for their book deals. No "advances" which are completely divorced from reality. They can earn for their books, but they should earn what they actually earn, not what a multibillion dollar media conglomerate with business before the government thinks they might be worth as a paid operative. Unrelated: Former CNN Thumb Chris Cillizza admits he is a weakling and coward who can easily be bullied by more aggressive people. That's why, he says, he refused to report on Biden's obvious mental decline. The White House worked to make him "feel bad" about any reporting on this, the admitted beta male follower cuck says to excuse himself of responsibility.
Kamala Harris, who bizarrely blew through a record $1.5billion on her failed presidential campaign, may soon earn some big-bucks payback. Top publishers, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively, are willing to pay the soon-to-be former vice president and twice-failed Democratic presidential hopeful a whopping advance of as much as $20million for an inside look at President Joe Biden's, 82, White House and presidential campaign tell-all. According to a Kamala insider: 'Virtually the moment Kamala lost to Trump, the offers began pouring in from the publishing world for her to do the definitive book on what really went on between Joe and Kamala -- what went right and what went wrong -- inside the Oval Office walls, and all the ups and downs of her campaign. 'They are throwing around advance numbers in the $20million range, maybe more with other publishing rights.' ... A prominent executive at one of New York's top liberal-leaning publishing houses told DailyMail.com: 'More than anyone in the Biden White House, Kamala as the number two, and then as Joe Biden's campaign successor after he dropped out of the race, knows all the secrets, knows where all the skeletons are buried. 'She was there from the beginning of the administration and participated in all the presidential decisions, right or wrong. She's the one who can tell the consummate story.
"Republicans would regularly ping me and say 'Why don't you ask more questions about Joe Biden and how he's doing? He's 76, 77, 78-year-old man,'" Cillizza said. He continued, "And I would sort of brush them off because what I would say is 'Well, there's no obvious evidence that he's declining. He moves a little slower. He talks a little slower but there's no evidence that he's declining.' "And the White House and the people around Joe Biden were absolutely adamant that suggesting anything...asking the question about whether he was in some physical, mental or both decline was offensive. 'How could you?! It's age shaming.' And I think impacted me at some level. Because while I did ask the question from time to time...I didn't really push on it if I'm being honest." A bit later he returned to this adding, "There was a shame factor that went into that. People around Biden worked to make you feel bad when you asked whether he was up to the job of being president, running for president again and serving for another four years...And they did a very good job, until they couldn't any more, of hiding it." Two points here. First, I guarantee you that there are 50 or 100 other DC reporters who could all tell this same story. All of them were cowed by the White House for years. That's obvious in retrospect. Few wanted to risk their access to the exclusive club by stating what was increasingly evident to everyone. That was especially true given that the right had taken up the issue. No media person wants to agree with them. It's career suicide to take anything the right says seriously.More at Sexton's article. He points out that Cillizza says that the Trump debate showed everyone that Biden had "good days and bad days," but Sexton wants to know: What "bad days" did Biden have that we didn't see on video? Did he have a "bad day" when he sleepwalked through the Afghanistan bug-out debacle, for example? We'll never know, because reporters never bothered themselves about it. They just kept repeating the mantra that when the cameras were not running, Joe Biden was performing Chinese Kung Fu Human Pyramid Attacks like he was one of the Five Deadly Venoms.* Scott Adams made the point that Cillizza pretends that the only reportage he could do was asking questions of the White House staff. Because the White House staff would not admit Biden's obvious senility, he could do no stories about it.
But everyone on the right could report this without an admission by the White House, because we could see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears. Cillizza is claiming that a reporter cannot report anything he sees himself, unless a high ranking member of the Democrat Cult confirms the report of his own eyes officially. This says a lot. This tells you what the media's idea of "confirmed story" vs. "conspiracy theory" is: A "confirmed story" is one a Democrat endorses. If no Democrat endorses it, it's a "conspiracy theory." All claims that hurt Democrats are disinformation and conspiracy theories until they are so obvious to everyone that the media is forced to admit them. Here's "reporter" Nancy LeTourneau of the Washington Monty informing you that all of your impressions that Biden is frail and incoherent and protected in a Basement Bubble is just "disinfofmation:"Are we pretending the only way reporters could know Biden was incompetent is by asking his staff?
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) December 20, 2024
We observed his incompetence since 2019. https://t.co/M95N5NLVmW
🔥VDH just unleashed on legacy media, the Obamas and the Democrat hierarchy for lying abut Joe Biden’s cognitive state for four years:
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 20, 2024
"This was the greatest presidential fraud and deception since Woodrow Wilson had a stroke in 1919, and Edith Wilson kept that from the American… pic.twitter.com/3KsUCURE1T
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 20, 2024 04:21 PM (Rcnd3)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 20, 2024 04:22 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: SimoHayha at December 20, 2024 04:22 PM (yf7Pm)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2024 04:22 PM (KQk9m)
Great read. And I could a been first except this took this long to poke out.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 20, 2024 04:22 PM (4780s)
Posted by: SimoHayha at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (yf7Pm)
I guess this is evidence that the establishment hates Kamala and wants her to just go away.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 20, 2024 04:21 PM (Rcnd3)
Two members of the British Royal Family wondered what color her children would be. No, wait, that was a different, nominally female, waste of space.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (14URa)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (sAmhv)
No evidence, except that he moves and talks slower.
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (VGRuw)
Posted by: EveR at December 20, 2024 04:24 PM (MUpk6)
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (14URa)
And an African village will use them to build huts.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:24 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at December 20, 2024 04:24 PM (gHSfI)
Ahem
Posted by: fat university "speaking fees" at December 20, 2024 04:25 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 04:25 PM (ZKG7+)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:24 PM (ExV1e)
And the rest will be on the bottom shelf over at the Dollar Tree.
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:25 PM (14URa)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 04:25 PM (ZKG7+)
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The ghostwriter will make $150. They will mostly use ChatGPT.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:26 PM (GBKbO)
America will finally have an idea how many times Biden publically shit himself.
I bet 5!
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (14URa)
And an African village will use them to build huts.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:24 PM (ExV1e)
I'd rather see FEMA use them to build temporary shelters in the Carolinas.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (VNX3d)
And these tools can still sit in front of a camera scratching their heads wondering why they are considered irrelevant now.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (N39Ws)
Where, and perhaps more importantly, how do they hide the trail?
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:26 PM (GBKbO)
Chapter 1: I was born in a middle class family.
Chapter 2: Lawncare.
Chapter 3: Venn diagrams and me. A love story.
Chapter 4: Discovering what has been.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 04:28 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 04:28 PM (v0R5T)
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Advance on royalties?? I'm setting the over/under on the total royalties on her "book" at $20, so they'll be just $19,999,980 short of recouping the advance.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:28 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 04:28 PM (wyMQY)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 04:29 PM (PCK5/)
Find out where that $20 million actually came from.
Prosecute everyone and their dog who's involved in this shit for money laundering. RICO their asses until they whistle dixie.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 04:29 PM (VoAdT)
Chapter 2: Lawncare.
Chapter 3: Venn diagrams and me. A love story.
Chapter 4: Discovering what has been.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (ExV1e)
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Chapter 5: Appreciating the significance of the passage of time.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:29 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 04:29 PM (LkLld)
Well, they got that right.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 04:28 PM (W/lyH)
Fluffer??
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 04:29 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 04:28 PM (wyMQY)
Two more than the Three Storms.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 04:30 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:30 PM (14URa)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:30 PM (i0F8b)
Where, and perhaps more importantly, how do they hide the trail?
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (i0F8b)
It's no secret. Let's say you write a book. It sells 1 million copies. That's $900M. The bookseller gets $100M. The publisher gets $100M. It costs $10M to produce. You get $20K. The rest is a slush fund for political payout.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:30 PM (ExV1e)
it's not in that, though. I thought it was, but I watched it, and-- no human pyramids.
Like I said, it may be a sequel, because I remember it as the Five Deadly Venoms. But it's not.
I just don't want you to be as disappointed as I was.
Posted by: ace at December 20, 2024 04:30 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 04:31 PM (fs1hN)
Normal authors have to pay their advances back if their books don't sell.
Only politicians get guaranteed advances that they don't have to pay back.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2024 04:31 PM (uxCna)
Chapter 2: Lawncare.
Chapter 3: Venn diagrams and me. A love story.
Chapter 4: Discovering what has been.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (ExV1e)
Chapter 5: Fight! Fight! Fight!
Chapter 6: Favorite Drink Recipes!
Chapter 7: Oral Sex Secrets Women's Magazines Never Mentioned.
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 04:31 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:29 PM (YqDXo)
Chapter 6: Just fell out of the coconut tree.
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:31 PM (14URa)
Big Lots plans to close all stores: See full list of locations around the US
Story by Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY
https://tinyurl.com/mtpw99e2
Party City closing all stores
Story by Emmy Abbassi and Jordan Valinsky, CNN
https://tinyurl.com/5emxk9t2
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 04:31 PM (jHelr)
but no human pyramids.
Posted by: ace at December 20, 2024 04:31 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
......
Chapter 6: My neck wattle journey
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 04:28 PM (v0R5T)
It will get a Grammy for best spoken word book.
I keep reading your hash as 'worst'.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: ace at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (i0F8b)
No one noticed how senile he had become because they all already knew the bastard from stinking up DC for half a fucking century, so they're all like "Yeah, he's a fucking dolt who can't even put his pants on without trained professional assistance. We already know this, what's the big deal?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 04:25 PM (ZKG7+)
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The publisher is on the phone to Bill Ayers even as we speak.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (YqDXo)
Only politicians get guaranteed advances that they don't have to pay back.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
heh
Posted by: B. Hussein Obama, who reneged on on original advance repayment, and stiffed his agent at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (xesY+)
But that would mean shivving a bunch of fellow dems and killing whatever prospect she (wrongly) thinks she has of future office. So it's the money for a tell all, or the Cal gov run. She can't have both.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 04:33 PM (Dm8we)
Best economy in history, Fat.
Posted by: ace at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (KRtlO)
At least you will still be able to source shelving materials.
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:33 PM (14URa)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 04:33 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: ace at December 20, 2024 04:33 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: davidt
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Could be. Maybe she's somehow paying herself from campaign funds? Soros to launder a payment via a 'white knight' to pay for the campaign 'debt'. Super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 04:33 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: pookysgirl would rather have time than money at December 20, 2024 04:33 PM (dtlDP)
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 04:34 PM (rQHR5)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 04:34 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
......
Chapter 6: My neck wattle journey
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (v0R5T)
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Chapter 7: How I learned to cackle
Chapter 8: Fellatio as a career booster
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:34 PM (YqDXo)
The five pupils are the Centipede, Snake, Scorpion, Lizard, and Toad.
No spider. I guess that's why spider didn't climb the walls.
Posted by: ace at December 20, 2024 04:34 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (hXd3r)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: dantesed at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (+arps)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: tsj017 at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (xakWh)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 04:32 PM (aD39U)
.......
Do you really have 39 ADU's on your property?
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (rQHR5)
Chapter 8: Fellatio as a career booster
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:34 PM (YqDXo)
Editor's note...
Chapter 7: Hillary, or How I Learned to Cackle
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (14URa)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (YqDXo)
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And below us, if you think about it, a postscript.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Miklos, ed. at December 20, 2024 04:36 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (PCK5/)
______________
Maybe as a poet:
"Roses are red
Violets are blue
I lost the goddamned election
Boo freakin' hoo"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:37 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (rQHR5)
"Tell me what to write."
"Tell me what you want to write."
"Tell me what to write."
- fourteen hours later -
"Tell me what to write."
"Tell me what you want to write."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 04:37 PM (VoAdT)
This is not a payment, this is a pay-off. Remember, she still intends to run for office. There is no way to pay off a politician legally for future favors -- except through these corrupt "book deal" payoff operations.
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I know these deals aren't straightforward or reflective of reality, but who's being paid off or bribed for what? I thought it was more like money laundering, especially with the Obamas.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 04:37 PM (I87yH)
That's the only benefit to paying her. She's not going to spill juicy damaging items. She was too unattached to her job to actually be able to accumulate them. She's not going to mangle a going forward strategy. No one listens to her or takes her seriously. She's not going to take a hardline against any Leftist policies because she hasn't faintest idea how to accomplish that.
If I were going to pay $20 Million to her and I was a leftist. It would require that she switch to the Republican party and make an effort to become loudly involved in their acts. It's where she could do the most damage.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 04:37 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Latrine John-Pissoir at December 20, 2024 04:37 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (rQHR5)
________________
With a foreword by Hank Johnson.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:38 PM (YqDXo)
Oh, you dear sweet naive child.
The way it works is a corporation, or even a rich individual, approaches publishing house X and says "I think Kamala Harris biography is going to be a massive hit. Sell record amounts. In fact, I'll sign a contract right here and front you $20 million in exchange for 5% of the profits."
This is a private contract - nobody sees it but the lawyers.
Publishing house hires a ghostwriter - they get $30k. They sit down with Kamala and listen to her ramble for, I dunno, a week. They write the book. Book comes out and sells maybe 50,000 copies. Embarrassing low numbers. Easy answer, another "investor" swops in to buy 200,000 copies - enough to get it on the bestseller list. Copies go to local libraries or the landfill.
Why is that important? easy - the first "investor" then swops in and says "hey the book is selling so well, let's line up some travel for Kamala hawking her book. First class world travel, all expenses paid. basically, a giant vacation with maybe a couple of hours work here or there.
And at the end, the investor, who "lost" all this money writes it off on their taxes.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:38 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 04:37 PM (I87yH)
I guess it's more that it's a payoff to all the people she still owes $20 million to. Not really her, herself.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 04:38 PM (VoAdT)
Chapter 2: Lawncare.
Chapter 3: Venn diagrams and me. A love story.
Chapter 4: Discovering what has been.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (ExV1e)
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Chapter 5: Appreciating the significance of the passage of time.
Posted by: Deplorable
Chapter 6: Space is big, very, very big.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 20, 2024 04:38 PM (AXDbb)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 04:34 PM (aD39U)
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I think it works a lot like Hollywood. Publishers have a stable of "tentpole" authors that keep them afloat so they can speculate on lesser known authors (promoting a few to "tentpole" status if their works really take off) and pet projects.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2024 04:38 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:38 PM (nLFEI)
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The NYT admitted in court that its best seller list is completely untethered from sales numbers and is just editorial content.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 04:39 PM (DopAq)
"Okay, you've heard about a coffee table book about coffee tables, right? Now, how about a book about the whores in D.C written by an actual whore?"
Posted by: spongeworthy at December 20, 2024 04:39 PM (CDWlY)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 04:39 PM (DopAq)
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It's nothing compared to the speech circuit.
$250,000 or more for the biggest names for a 1 hour speech.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Suggested title at December 20, 2024 04:39 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Suggested title at December 20, 2024 04:39 PM (vFG9F)
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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:40 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:40 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: Miklos, ed. at December 20, 2024 04:36 PM (xesY+)
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As opposed to Obama's line: "And that little willie was mine."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:40 PM (YqDXo)
Normal authors have to pay their advances back if their books don't sell.
Only politicians get guaranteed advances that they don't have to pay back.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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Ehhhh, not true. They only have to pay back advances if they don't product a manuscript in a timely fashion or otherwise violate their contract.
Of course, Barry-O missed lots of deadlines on his first book but the publisher never canceled or demanded their advance back.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 04:40 PM (I87yH)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:40 PM (GBKbO)
It's okay, lots of guy don't.
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:40 PM (14URa)
________________
That no one ever reads.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:41 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
But Newt Gingrich had to resign because he wrote a book that actually sold.
Posted by: Miklos, Happily Houring at December 20, 2024 04:41 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:40 PM (GBKbO)
SHE BLOWS TRANSITIVELY AND INTRANSITIVELY
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISSBERGER at December 20, 2024 04:41 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Chapter 8: embracing the suck in success
Posted by: Kratwurst at December 20, 2024 04:41 PM (0v8AM)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 04:42 PM (BI5O2)
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That no one ever reads.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
It's not that their fans don't read.
I'm sure they would if they could.
Posted by: Miklos, Quite Happily Houring at December 20, 2024 04:42 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:43 PM (i0F8b)
Chapter 2: Lawncare.
Chapter 3: Venn diagrams and me. A love story.
Chapter 4: Discovering what has been.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (ExV1e)
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Chapter 5: Appreciating the significance of the passage of time.
Posted by: Deplorable
Chapter 6: Space is big, very, very big.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 20, 2024 04:38 PM
Chapter 7: Collard Greens in the Bathtub and Word Salads
Posted by: huerfano at December 20, 2024 04:43 PM (DKIGo)
Posted by: PRESIDENT XI at December 20, 2024 04:43 PM (oOc/o)
They also, jointly, got paid $65 million for their memoirs.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:43 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:40 PM (GBKbO)
It's okay, lots of guy don't.
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:40 PM (14URa)
*rimshot*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 20, 2024 04:44 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Me too.
That's my affectionate nickname for Darleen.
Posted by: Miklos, maybe she doesn't know yet at December 20, 2024 04:44 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 20, 2024 04:44 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 04:44 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:44 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 04:39 PM (DopAq)
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Consider Obama. As a totally unaccomplished punk, he got a book deal with a hefty advance. He buggered off (?) to Bali, leaving his lovely "bride" to honeymoon on her own. In Bali, he strained and strained, but there was no splash. In the end, he had to return the advance, minus the cost of treating the STDs he got in Bali.
Then again as a totally unaccomplished punk, he got ANOTHER book deal, but the publisher had the good sense to engage Bill Ayers to write the goddamned thing on behalf of the CPUSA.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:45 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 20, 2024 04:45 PM (1bNHn)
$20 million? I foresee a very, very angry Dr. Jill.
Posted by: EveR
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Hah, Jill's going to "write" a "book," too, you know. Ten mil? Fifteen mil? Anyway, 8-figures mil.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 04:45 PM (I87yH)
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:43 PM (nLFEI)
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"I was born at a very young age ..."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:46 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)
Actually, been a to a few of these. They'll get up, 1 hour, and give a repeat of the campaign speech they have given a hundred times for free. Also, luxury travel baby!
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:46 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 04:46 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 04:46 PM (aD39U)
Of course, Barry-O missed lots of deadlines on his first book but the publisher never canceled or demanded their advance back.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office
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Woops, corrected by Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:45 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (I87yH)
http://tiny.cc/i092001
Remember when people were putting up pictures of hostages taken in the Oct 7 massacre? A whole bunch of people were videoed defacing these posters and outed. Many of those outed were Muslims in the medical field.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (Odg76)
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That no one ever reads.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
It's not that their fans don't read.
I'm sure they would if they could.
Posted by: Miklos, Quite Happily Houring at December 20, 2024 04:42 PM (xesY+)
If they're looking to recover the costs, then have Kamala write a very short book on how best to do blow jobs. With her, it's probably a short book, with pictures, and can also be used as a fan in hot weather.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:46 PM (nLFEI)
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This is what you peons get instead of a bonus!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (GBKbO)
"Veep Throat"
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 04:45 PM (I87yH)
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"Call Me
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (YqDXo)
Best barstool advice I ever got: Never meet your heroes.
Posted by: Nelly
I met Buck Dharma (Blue Oyster Cult). I thought he was going to be some kind of other-worldly demigod (which he is on guitar) but, nope, just a great dude whose humility may even exceed his chops. Maybe I actually met Donald Roeser instead. Glad I did either way.
On T - I actually think Harris would be good on SNL. She's genuinely entertaining and while a few women out there can emulate her cackle, she's the only one who can do the genuine thing.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (KAi1n)
Or does he take it out in trade?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: DaveA at December 20, 2024 04:48 PM (FhXTo)
Chapter 12: November 5th, 2024 - Falling From the Coconut Tree
Chapter 13: My Campaign's War Chest
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 04:48 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:44 PM (i0F8b)
never recoup?
They don't give out the advance until it's already hit their accounts. No, no that account, the other one. In the Caymans.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 04:48 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: THE GHOST WRITER at December 20, 2024 04:48 PM (oOc/o)
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Yes. That's it precisely. And it's not just about Biden's senility. It works the same way if the question is whether Hunter and Joe are honest, or whether Haitians are eating pets. You ask a Democrat; what he says is Real True Information, not the mis-dis-malinformation the far right conspiracy theorists are spreading.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 20, 2024 04:48 PM (1bNHn)
I sign a private contract with you and front you money to invest. There is nothing to "hide" - there are no rules about what I can or cannot invest in as a private party.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:48 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (VNX3d)
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Very short book? Hell, it could be a pamphlet.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:49 PM (YqDXo)
http://tiny.cc/i092001
Remember when people were putting up pictures of hostages taken in the Oct 7 massacre? A whole bunch of people were videoed defacing these posters and outed. Many of those outed were Muslims in the medical field.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (Odg76)
We don't need OUR people to study medicine because we can just import doctors.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:49 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: EveR
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Hah, Jill's going to "write" a "book," too, you know. Ten mil? Fifteen mil? Anyway, 8-figures mil.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office
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Again, these numbers would not be unrealistic if they actually told us what the fuck was going on behind the scenes these last four years. That book would be a huge seller. And yes, I know they'd never do it.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 04:49 PM (Dm8we)
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Yes. That's it precisely. And it's not just about Biden's senility. It works the same way if the question is whether Hunter and Joe are honest, or whether Haitians are eating pets. You ask a Democrat; what he says is Real True Information, not the mis-dis-malinformation the far right conspiracy theorists are spreading.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 20, 2024 04:48 PM (1bNHn)
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I'm reminded of a little kerfuffle around the Trump assassination attempt.
A CBS reporter was defending herself for not using the word "assassination".
Why? Because the government hadn't classified the event as such...yet.
She was too stupid to realize that she was admitting to being nothing more than a government stenographer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)
Chapter 13: My Campaign's War Chest
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 04:48 PM (BI5O2)
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Chapter 14: How to Spend Money Wisely
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:49 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:50 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 04:47 PM (VNX3d)
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Very short book? Hell, it could be a pamphlet.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:49 PM (YqDXo)
Jewish-American Sports Legends - for some light reading?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 04:50 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 20, 2024 04:50 PM (1bNHn)
I thought Texas was going to buy all of these parts?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 20, 2024 04:50 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2024 04:51 PM (vFG9F)
And as for Biden, my dog knew he was in decline before he was even running for POTUS. Are you saying the legacy media is dumber than a sled dog? Yes, yes I am.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 04:51 PM (K861k)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 20, 2024 04:51 PM (Vyll1)
They MIGHT. a) the dems hate Joe Biden, thinking he cost them the white house b) the dems hate Kamala, thinking they cost them the white house. Pay them to destroy each other and go away.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:52 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 04:52 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 04:52 PM (G5/PO)
But that would mean shivving a bunch of fellow dems and killing whatever prospect she (wrongly) thinks she has of future office. So it's the money for a tell all, or the Cal gov run. She can't have both.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 04:33 PM (Dm8we)
She will write a tell-all then when she announces her soon to be failed campaign for some office she'll say, "Nevermind the tell-all, it was only a book! CACKLE-CACKLE"
Next day she will be shot in both knees. As retribution from the publisher- pain and destruction of her only other way to make money.
Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2024 04:52 PM (aBgBM)
Rich benefactors can order thousnds of copies.
think of the trees this will save.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2024 04:52 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 04:51 PM (K861k)
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"And I wuz framed!" - Biden's dog, Commander
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:53 PM (YqDXo)
Suicide by book.
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:53 PM (i0F8b)
http://tiny.cc/s192001
Maybe they're all effectively working from home. I doubt it, though.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 04:53 PM (Odg76)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)
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Maybe the media is being paid by the government, of so, then she wouldn't be wrong.
Stop all government payments to media, direct and indirect. Maybe things will improve.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 04:53 PM (fs1hN)
Best barstool advice I ever got: Never meet your heroes.
Posted by: Nelly
I married mine. About 27 years ago. He just went out to get the mail, should be back shortly.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 04:54 PM (K861k)
How about a Congressional hearing on who presented all those pardons to Biden, to start?
IIRC, the J6 Committee shit all over Executive Privilege and even got court orders to bless such.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 20, 2024 04:54 PM (VAkB9)
I thought Texas was going to buy all of these parts?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 20, 2024 04:50 PM (/U5Yz)
Can't vouch for this but I did read (from one of the Texas mucky mucks) that it was all rusted/rotted and basically worthless.
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 04:54 PM (14URa)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
That chapter on Sandy Koufax, alone, is going to be pretty heavy. He's not the only one, you know? Lots of us Hebes in baseball history.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 20, 2024 04:54 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 04:33 PM (Dm8we)
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You left out the spin around Dealey Plaza.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:54 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at December 20, 2024 04:54 PM (MkuC5)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 04:55 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 20, 2024 04:55 PM (Rcnd3)
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Liberal-leaning? They all are, there is no other kind. It's just that some do want to make some money and will publish conservatives authors.
Posted by: Decaf at December 20, 2024 04:56 PM (unUNN)
Easy a) they get 90% of the profits and b) they pay the writer zero. Someone else is taking all the losses.
This is a massive source of profits for publishing companies.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:56 PM (nLFEI)
Suicide by book.
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 04:53 PM (i0F8b)
It's not like she was aware of anything going on, after all. So, no harm no foul. Or some such shit.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 04:56 PM (K861k)
If they popped Trump and walked Brandon across the line as planned, she *would* have been President, something she certainly must have known by then she couldn't achieve on her own.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 04:56 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:56 PM (YqDXo)
Chapter 16: How I Found Out that Dr. Jill isn't a Medical Doctor
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 04:57 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
That chapter on Sandy Koufax, alone, is going to be pretty heavy. He's not the only one, you know? Lots of us Hebes in baseball history.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 20, 2024 04:54 PM (KAi1n)
Going from memory from Airplane! Shirley, my memory isn't that bad - or is it?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 04:58 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
That chapter on Sandy Koufax, alone, is going to be pretty heavy. He's not the only one, you know? Lots of us Hebes in baseball history.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 20, 2024 04:54 PM (KAi1n)
***
Moe Berg gets a chapter.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 04:58 PM (W/lyH)
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I guess they lack energy.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 04:58 PM (L/fGl)
They are now 'admitting' their sins by not going after Biden, so they can then go after Trump for any perceived gaff.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 20, 2024 04:58 PM (QAkQ3)
LOL.......
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 20, 2024 04:55 PM
You are far too tender of years to espouse this level of cynicism.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2024 04:59 PM (a3Q+t)
If he had "good days and bad days," shouldn't we know that he wasn't making decisions on the "bad days?"
And if he wasn't, what days were the "bad days?"
And who was making decisions--usurping his authority-- on those "bad days?"
Or are we going to have to accept that he was making national security decisions on "bad days" as well as "good days?'
This limited modified hangout of "good/bad days" isn't good.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 20, 2024 05:00 PM (VAkB9)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
That chapter on Sandy Koufax, alone, is going to be pretty heavy. He's not the only one, you know? Lots of us Hebes in baseball history.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 20, 2024 04:54 PM (KAi1n)
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Moe Berg gets a chapter.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 04:58 PM (W/lyH)
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But then so does Arnold Rothstein.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:00 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 05:00 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:01 PM (Drm1A)
I don't think they need an excuse to keep doing what they've already been doing for the last 9 years.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 05:01 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 20, 2024 05:01 PM (vs8ws)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 05:01 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:01 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:02 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Machiavelli at December 20, 2024 05:02 PM (6/GGU)
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If I Coked It
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:01 PM (hovnC)
No, I Don't Want a Pepsi!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 05:02 PM (VNX3d)
You'll find it in the "office supplies" section disguised as reams of copy paper.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 20, 2024 05:02 PM (VAkB9)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:03 PM (hovnC)
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If I Coked It
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:01 PM (hovnC)
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"Coke: The Pause That Refreshes"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:03 PM (YqDXo)
It's like I know you people.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2024 05:03 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:03 PM (Drm1A)
"This book's got teeth. It's got bite. Which doesn't surprise me. Bitch never could get it right."
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 05:03 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2024 05:03 PM (XTmTf)
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 20, 2024 05:03 PM (DobEs)
- by K. Herris
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2024 05:04 PM (jgmnb)
Pow Wow Cow
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:03 PM (hovnC)
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Right next on the shelf to Obama's cookbook: "Bow Wow Chow"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:04 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:05 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 05:05 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 20, 2024 05:05 PM (vs8ws)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:05 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:04 PM (YqDXo)
I'll stick to the Horde Cookbook, thanks.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 05:05 PM (K861k)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 05:06 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 20, 2024 05:06 PM (VAkB9)
Posted by: Orson using his Howard Dean voice at December 20, 2024 05:06 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:06 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:05 PM (Drm1A)
I have done my best to avoid that pervert's actions, but this does not surprise me. Can we just put all those white trash asshats in the rear view?
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 05:07 PM (K861k)
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Right next on the shelf to Obama's cookbook: "Bow Wow Chow"
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The paws that refreshes.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:07 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 05:07 PM (Dm8we)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 05:06 PM (BI5O2)
LOL.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:07 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 05:08 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 05:08 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December
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Thirty days and counting but I don't think they are going away.
If they don't go away they are fair game for ridicule and persecution.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:08 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: Chaim Yankel at December 20, 2024 05:08 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 05:09 PM (K861k)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 05:07 PM (K861k)
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No, not yet. It's cathartic to ridicule them.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:09 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 05:09 PM (hwLGC)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 05:09 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 20, 2024 05:03 PM (DobEs)
It's after 5:00 EST and you're apparently in DC and you don't have a heavy work schedule. I expect you've already had a few drinks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 05:09 PM (IYvE+)
If they don't go away they are fair game for ridicule and persecution.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:08 PM (Drm1A)
Yeah, I guess their felonious perversion go like stink.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2024 05:10 PM (K861k)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:10 PM (Drm1A)
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The Color Purp... never mind. That ones already been done.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:10 PM (hovnC)
If they don't
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:08 PM (Drm1A)
FIFY.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:10 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Paco at December 20, 2024 05:10 PM (mADJX)
"This book's got teeth. It's got bite. Which doesn't surprise me. Bitch never could get it right."
Posted by: Orson
*Spits coffee on monitor. *
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 05:11 PM (xblT4)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2024 05:11 PM (XTmTf)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 20, 2024 04:58 PM (QAkQ3)
Oh, absolutely. They won't make that mistake again, amirite??
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 20, 2024 05:11 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:12 PM (YqDXo)
Which were to be "donated", but mainly being e-books, never really existed.
Posted by: Miklos, who has seen some scams at December 20, 2024 05:12 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: troyriser at December 20, 2024 05:12 PM (DPeYO)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2024 05:11 PM (XTmTf)
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And vice versa.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:12 PM (YqDXo)
The Story of My Faith in God and My Political Career
By Kamala Harris
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 05:09 PM (4XwPj)
Bravo!
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 05:13 PM (hwLGC)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2024 05:13 PM (XTmTf)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:13 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 05:13 PM (BI5O2)
You know it’ll be fun but it is scary when you look down.
Posted by: Rimshot at December 20, 2024 05:14 PM (DobEs)
Posted by: Chaim Yankel at December 20, 2024 05:08 PM
To be fair, I got to be Vice President by going down, and no flames were involved (yet).
Posted by: Kamala! 2028! 2032! at December 20, 2024 05:14 PM (a3Q+t)
He lived across the street and I did their yard work when he was with the Padres. In 1971, the year Seaver had a 1.76 ERA, Dave had a 2.06 - on the cellar-dwelling expansion team. So he's there in the pantheon of Jewish pitchers. He also could hit, including HRs (a world long ago where pitchers could hit).
Very nice people, they were happy he got traded to Houston, where they both were from.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 05:14 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Machiavelli
Another Hungarian mention
Posted by: Miklos, too lazy to add them up at December 20, 2024 05:15 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: Chaim Yankel at December 20, 2024 05:08 PM
To be fair, I got to be Vice President by going down, and no flames were involved (yet).
Posted by: Kamala! 2028! 2032! at December 20, 2024 05:14 PM (a3Q+t)
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Although some of her ... uh ... clients did report a burning sensation later.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:15 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 05:16 PM (Q4IgG)
Yeah, he had lost a step or two in the Fall of 2019 but by March of 2020, Biden was clearly regressing. And this was still before most, if not all, of the primaries.
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 05:16 PM (o0+oQ)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 05:16 PM (xOhpI)
That's why the guy who recovered it went to the feds.
Posted by: Reforger at December 20, 2024 05:16 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Machiavelli
Another Hungarian mention
Posted by: Miklos, too lazy to add them up at December 20, 2024 05:15 PM (xesY+)
Stop being a Pest.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 05:16 PM (hwLGC)
Although, in DttD there is a giant ninja pursuing a monk through the desert. When the giant ninja gets close to the monk the giant is actually made up of 5 ninjas, who proceed to capture the monk and imprison him.
It's a great flick, highly recommended.
Posted by: KwaiChangMandelblit at December 20, 2024 05:17 PM (gLdUb)
They are as dumb as they claim to be. What's with the 1,875-dimensional chess to figure out whether it's "bias" or stupidity and ignorance? Take them, like everyone, at their word. They are in fact as stupid as their "reporting".
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 05:17 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Miklos, too lazy to add them up at December 20, 2024 05:15 PM
Hungarian notation > Hungarian mention
Posted by: Charles Simonyi at December 20, 2024 05:17 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 05:17 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 05:16 PM (o0+oQ)
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Nancy Pelosi just recently lost a step, too.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:17 PM (YqDXo)
Where's Hunter's Coke?
Spend a few wacky days with Hunter Biden while he searches for his misplaced cocaine! Follow along and see if you can spot the clues! Just find the clues and text the location to #helpthedummyod! Help Hunter find his coke and win a weekend in Las Vegas!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 05:18 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 05:18 PM (TXJK3)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Try The Reagan Diaries.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 05:19 PM (xOhpI)
I think the movie is Shaolin Prince. The pyramid formation was called The 18 Buda attack
Posted by: Machiavelli
Those cats were fast as lightning
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 05:19 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 05:19 PM (hwLGC)
You could also make that into a board game or video game!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 05:19 PM (MQJVv)
Posted by: Chairborne!
There he was, that hairy hound From Budapest.
Never leaving us alone,
Never have I ever known
A ruder pest
Posted by: Professor Miklos Higgins at December 20, 2024 05:20 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 05:20 PM (MQJVv)
Where's Hunter's Coke?
Spend a few wacky days with Hunter Biden while he searches for his misplaced cocaine! Follow along and see if you can spot the clues! Just find the clues and text the location to #helpthedummyod! Help Hunter find his coke and win a weekend in Las Vegas!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 05:18 PM (4XwPj)
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Never work - there's no suspense. Everybody would immediately go to the White House. Maybe that's why they call it the White House.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:20 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Pierre Salinger is unavailable for comment.
Posted by: Miklos thinks he may have read PT-109 at December 20, 2024 05:21 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: Paco at December 20, 2024 05:22 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
I'm still working on Moronopoly
Posted by: Miklos has Ideas at December 20, 2024 05:23 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 05:23 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: azjaeger at December 20, 2024 05:24 PM (iixBX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 05:18 PM (TXJK3)
I am pretty sure Ulysses S. Grant's Memoirs were not ghost written.
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 05:24 PM (QTCRF)
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 05:24 PM (QTCRF)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Actually, I think Grant wrote his own.
And is well written and worth reading.
Posted by: Miklos so believes at December 20, 2024 05:25 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: Miklos so believes at December 20, 2024 05:25 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 05:25 PM (QTCRF)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2024 05:26 PM (XTmTf)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 20, 2024 05:26 PM (xxf6X)
Yes, that would be a good choice. I think they were done to pay off debts however.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 05:26 PM (MDf/p)
Didn't ghost write it though.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 05:27 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Miklos in accustomed mode at December 20, 2024 05:27 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:27 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Miklos has Ideas at December 20, 2024 05:23 PM (xesY+)
Someone else was also working on this. They posted a link to the PDF of the work in progress around November 16th.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 05:28 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Miklos thinks he may have read PT-109 at December 20, 2024 05:21 PM (xesY+)
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He had real skill. He turned a court martial offense (dereliction of duty*) into a vehicle for the offender to be elected President.
*JFK had the dubious distinction of being the skipper of the only PT boat in naval history to be run down by a warship.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:28 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 05:28 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 05:26 PM (MDf/p)
267 Mark Twain was advising Grant on that book. He also pushed the publisher to give Grant an advance so he could die in peace knowing his family wouldn't be destitute.
Didn't ghost write it though.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem
Later, Samuel Clemens had to knock out some books to avoid bankruptcy and pay debts himself.
Posted by: Miklos has minimal royalty income at December 20, 2024 05:29 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 20, 2024 05:26 PM (xxf6X)
_________________
I once had a Cenk on my Uygur. Right near the tip, too.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:29 PM (YqDXo)
_Hunter Biden
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 05:33 PM (Drm1A)
It’s usually someone like Simon and Schuster
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 05:38 PM (o0+oQ)
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If you were born in the 60s and one of your parents was a professor at Berkeley, you were upper middle class. If you had another parent who was a professor at Stanford, you were definitely upper class.
Bitch has no idea what middle class is.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 20, 2024 05:40 PM (xxf6X)
My dad had an autographed picture of Hank Greenberg, the Hebrew Hammer.
I myself am partial to Maury "Some days you can't make a buck" Rose, who, after winning Indianapolis three times, became chief engineer for a Chevrolet project called Corvette.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 20, 2024 05:40 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 05:29 PM (YqDXo)
I actually laughed out loud. Heh.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 05:42 PM (hwLGC)
Posted by: Machiavelli at December 20, 2024 05:44 PM (6/GGU)
It wasn't really a coverup. More like an elaborate prank.
Gotcha.
Posted by: The Media at December 20, 2024 05:48 PM (vlXMQ)
Is it just me, but isn't that the exact opposite of how the brass generally try squirm out of responsibility?
Usually, we get "the CinC was being all micromanagy and we couldn't do our jobs."
Now it's " we can't make good decisions on our own, we need help from a dementia sufferer "
Posted by: Just Lily at December 20, 2024 06:09 PM (RLLZj)
Posted by: Darwin Akbar at December 20, 2024 06:09 PM (mEBMr)
Posted by: Old Man Mike at December 20, 2024 08:19 PM (C9Oe7)
Biden's deception was worse for many reasons including: 4 years v 18 months, Biden wasn't that smart to begin with, and the US President is about 10 times more important to the world now than 100 years ago.
Posted by: Dave at December 20, 2024 10:37 PM (nLwaa)
AGAIN: A Car Plows Through a German Christmas Market at a Very High Speed, Sending People Flying Like Bowling Pins, Killing an Unknown Number
Again.
This happens every year. I know how to stop it -- ban the AfD! Stop them from spreading their Nazi rhetoric about unassimilatable hostile foreigners waging a guerilla warfare campaign against the native population and making life unlivable! Whatever you do, don't ask any questions about immigration!Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg JUST IN: At least one car plows through a large crowd of people at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. The driver of the car was arrested. Local reports say that many people are injured. It's unclear how many have d*ed. "A vehicle drove through the Christmas market despite security measures and ran over several visitors," a local report says. "Extensive police operations are currently taking place at the Magdeburg Christmas market. The Christmas market in the city centre is closed. Further reports will be made," Magdeburg Police said on X.
Paul A. SzypulaVideos in a thread here. Watching human beings getting blasted to smitherines by a high-speed truck is repulsive so content warning. This video is horrible. Meanwhile, a 7-year-old girl was murdered by a crazed knife attacker in Croatia. Six other people were wounded. "I wonder who the culprit will turn out to be" asked literally nobody because we all know.
@Bubblebathgirl 11 people reportedly k*ll*d and at least 60 injured in Magdeburg, Germany when a car barreled through a Christmas market. The car didn’t appear to slow down at all or avoid people. Investigations ongoing, but you can draw your own conclusions.
A knife attack at a school in Croatia's capital left a 7-year-old girl dead and a teacher and five other students wounded, police said. Police described the attacker as a "young male" and said he had been detained. State HRT television said the attacker entered the school and went straight into the first classroom he found and attacked the children. ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) -- A knife-wielding teenager walked into a school in Croatia's capital Zagreb on Friday, killing a 7-year-old student and injuring three more children and a teacher, authorities said. Authorities said the knife attack happened at 9:50 a.m. at the Precko Elementary School in the neighborhood of the same name. They described the attacker as a 19-year-old male and said he had been detained after inflicting injuries to himself. Croatian Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic said one child died while three children and a teacher were injured.Oh, a (touches nose) "young male." That's so specific, thank you for all of this very specific information. Another "young male" (touches nose) was arrested for plotting a terror attack in America.
An 18-year-old Egyptian national, a freshman at George Mason University, was arrested in Falls Church, Virginia, on Tuesday for allegedly planning a terrorist attack against Israel's general consulate in New York. Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan faces 20 years in federal prison if convicted of trying to teach someone how to manufacture an explosive with intent to murder internationally protected persons. Prosecutors said that more charges may be forthcoming as the criminal investigation proceeds. He currently is in deportation proceedings, something that will likely be put on hold until after he serves his prison sentence if he is convicted. The Islamic extremist operated multiple social media channels that promoted pro-ISIS and Al Qaeda propaganda that promoted violence against Jews. He praised Osama bin Laden as his "idol," and he openly said that he was "praying for an ISIS" terrorist attack to happen at sporting venues.Below: I'm shocked that this report says the culprit in the Madgeburg Christmas Market terror attack is a Syrian. Just shocked. I never saw this coming, not even a little bit. Note, I cannot confirm this picture is even from Madgeburg or even from tonight. I wouldn't post it, except for the FACT we all know, which is that governments conceal the identity of terrorists when they are Muslim "Newcomers," and we are left in the dark until they have prepared a hashtag public relations campaign like #YouCanRideWithMe to ease the public into accepting another completely-preventable terrorist catastrophe. So I post this in defiance of corrupt Western governments and their anti-civilization media attack dogs: I will post whatever scraps of information I come across until you stop the embargo of any information that may embarrass your Welcome the Terrorists immigration agenda. You don't want disinformation? Then start telling the public actual information.
Local government officials in Magdeburg confirm that the ramming attack tonight at a Christmas market in the city, is believed to be "linked to terrorism".
— Israel News Pulse (@israelnewspulse) December 20, 2024
Attached is a picture of the terrorist, apperantly a Syrian, being arrested minutes ago. pic.twitter.com/XI4BCIfxlD
The AP is fcking trash.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) December 20, 2024
End WokenessCorrect. They hide the truth, they even criminalize the truth, and then they arrest your for guessing in the absence of the truth. This cannot go on much longer. Germany is holding elections early next year. Will they ever change course? I doubt it. The transnational communists/globalists rule in Europe. And if a party opposes them -- they ban the party.
@EndWokeness A lotttt of Germans are about to be jailed for posts on the Christian market attack
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: GF at December 20, 2024 03:21 PM (gFJ53)
Canada too.
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 03:22 PM (jvJvP)
Will they ever change course? I doubt it. The transnational communists/globalists rule in Europe. And if a party opposes them -- they ban the party.
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"Spoilers!"
-Professor River Song, with that coquettish smile
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:23 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: THE GRINCH at December 20, 2024 03:23 PM (oOc/o)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 03:24 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 03:24 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:25 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 03:25 PM (DopAq)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2024 03:25 PM (lwxJT)
Hitler too.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:26 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 03:26 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 03:26 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: jeannebodine at December 20, 2024 03:26 PM (N79S3)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:27 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at December 20, 2024 03:27 PM (EmT/E)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:27 PM (j+LsA)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:25 PM (bss/y)
My favorite is bowdlerizing "shooter" as "sh**ter".
Dear Twitter:
That scans as "shooter" to no one. No. One.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:28 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:28 PM (j+LsA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 03:25 PM (DopAq)
It's peace for the followers, and the peace of the grave for everyone else.
See, peaceful.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 03:28 PM (VNX3d)
AP stands for Associated Propaganda
Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray
You don’t hate the legacy media enough. The Associated Press uses a passive voice when reporting on the Christmas market terror attack in Magdeburg, Germany. As if the car simply drove itself peacefully, and the affected number of people small and insignificant.
https://bit.ly/41KStLX
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 03:28 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at December 20, 2024 03:28 PM (tvr4e)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 03:28 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:28 PM (j+LsA)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:27 PM (j+LsA)
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Before I can answer that, were any of them CEOs of Health Insurers?
Posted by: Gen Trotsky at December 20, 2024 03:28 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Capt. BACKLASH at December 20, 2024 03:29 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:29 PM (RsS92)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:29 PM (j+LsA)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:29 PM (VoAdT)
Obviously we need common-sense truck control! The only thing we really do need, but will never get, is Common-Sense Muslim Control. Common-sense as in "don't let a single one of these filthy goat-fucking sadistic Satans into the country."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 03:29 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 03:29 PM (W/lyH)
Mistakes were made.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 03:29 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: THE GRINCH at December 20, 2024 03:29 PM (oOc/o)
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 03:30 PM (14URa)
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 03:30 PM (+xpqh)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
@CharlieSue_USA
11m
Confirmed by the authorities, it was a Syrian Terrorist. Actually 11 dead and between 60 - 80 injured. The police also found bottles of gas in the trunk of the car."
no idea who this guy is, but he has a blue checkmark
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 03:30 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 20, 2024 03:30 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:29 PM (RsS92)
Clearly the answer is to go to Mecca during the Hajj and do counterclockwise donuts.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:30 PM (VoAdT)
If the driver is from the Religion of Peace (highly likely) I think that will flip enough people that the ruling class will not be able to ignore the wished of the lowly citizens anymore. Not if the want to avoid lampposts.
Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2024 03:30 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 20, 2024 03:30 PM (yxhux)
Dear Twitter:
That scans as "shooter" to no one. No. One.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:28 PM (VoAdT)
Everyone knows that reading 'shitter' will send both muslims and trannies into uncontrollable fits of rage and depression.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:31 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 03:30 PM (+xpqh)
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Promised authorities.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:31 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:29 PM (RsS92)
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All we really need is common-sense holiday control.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:31 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 03:31 PM (Cus5s)
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Mohammed factor: 20%
Btw, Ace, thanks for saying "high speed" and not the usual stupid "high rate of speed," which would be an acceleration.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 03:31 PM (YqDXo)
This asshole need to hang. Any light post will do.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 03:31 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 03:31 PM (2zWFh)
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 03:31 PM (+xpqh)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (1gLn1)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 02:54 PM
Elon Musk @elonmusk
He did
Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray
Almost a decade ago, UAE Foreign Minister HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed warned Europe of what would happen if they continued down their path of suicidal altruism by inviting dangerous fanatics into their nations. They should have listened.
Video: https://bit.ly/3P4xaO3
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (9sGg5)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:31 PM (bss/y)
Two groups who really can't figure out women's bathrooms....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (VoAdT)
This is how you get Mustache Man.
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 03:31 PM (2zWFh)
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*nods sagaciously*
Douglas Fairbanks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ace at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2024 03:30 PM (GUOwU
Everyday I pray for the lampposts scenario to start.
Every day!
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Just Lily at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (RvtZJ)
Posted by: Ron at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (KDtr3)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 20, 2024 03:30 PM (yxhux)
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Google translate says: spiel
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (krQz2)
Then it would be just fine. Right?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 20, 2024 03:33 PM (yxhux)
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 03:33 PM (2zWFh)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 20, 2024 03:33 PM (y9nCu)
A man with a name like that is destined to be a terrorist. All his parents needed to do was stick "Akbar" in there somewhere, and he would have slithered out of the womb in a suicide vest.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 03:33 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Ciampino - Burn baby burn? at December 20, 2024 03:33 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 20, 2024 03:33 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:31 PM (bss/y)
Two groups who really can't figure out women's bathrooms....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (VoAdT)
But they should totally meet at the top of 50 story buildings.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 03:33 PM (VNX3d)
Scrumpfengestictendorsengeflatten
Posted by: ace at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (KRtlO)
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Yeah, but what's the correct article to use with it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (GBKbO)
Think of the children! If it saves only one life, its worth it!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (RsS92)
Posted by: Ciampino - Burn baby burn? at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (i0xsb)
I will pray for the affected innocent people.
Posted by: Just Lily at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (RvtZJ)
Same.
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (14URa)
Then it would be just fine. Right?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 20, 2024 03:33 PM (yxhux)
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Absolutely!
Posted by: Gen Trotsky at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (krQz2)
This is how you get Mustache Man.
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 03:31 PM (2zWFh)
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*nods sagaciously*
Douglas Fairbanks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
_______
Tom Selleck
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2024 03:30 PM (GUOwU)
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The "leaders" in those countries are in a tough spot of their own making. The natives want to hang them and the immigrants want to behead them.
I doubt they will find a third option in time to save their skins.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Douglas Fairbanks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
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Tom Selleck
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (iFTx/)
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Burt Reynolds?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 03:29 PM (iFTx/)
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"We need driving lessons for Muslims!" - leftists
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Accomack at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (aHqhe)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (xxf6X)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (krQz2)
I think that's backlash in the sense of "play" in a gear train, not retribution.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:35 PM (VoAdT)
Was it a white SUV with a mind of its own?
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 03:31 PM (+xpqh)
Truth.
Posted by: Zombie O. J. Simpson at December 20, 2024 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 03:35 PM (2zWFh)
Tom Selleck
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (iFTx/)
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Burt Reynolds?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (GBKbO)
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Marlboro Man
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:35 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (GBKbO)
ein
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:35 PM (bss/y)
Scrumpfengestictendorsengeflatten
Posted by: ace at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (KRtlO)
LULZ
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
We were not (and maybe still are not) far from "Christian" being an acceptable target to the left. Praiseworthy, even. There was a time not so long ago when Christianity was treated with respect and cultural honor. Now some "pastors" openly attack Jesus as homophobic, racist, and misogynistic... from the pulpit.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:36 PM (RsS92)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:25 PM (bss/y)
Me, too. If our Jewish Morons and 'Ettes choose to write "God" as "G_d" as a sign of respect, I have no problem with that. Bowdlerizing common words in normal discourse is silly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 03:36 PM (8zz6B)
Gene Shalit!
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 03:35 PM (2zWFh)
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Well, the only reasonable response is:
Take away all my freedoms to keep the demon in his cage.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:36 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Associated Press at December 20, 2024 03:36 PM (tvr4e)
I doubt they will find a third option in time to save their skins.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (BpYfr)
Perhaps the natives and immigrants will come together and compromise, and bring back drawing and quartering of the "leaders".
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 03:36 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:36 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 20, 2024 03:36 PM (MZ+PY)
He was just going to murder the people native born Americans wouldn't.
really it is an act of love
Posted by: Jeb Bush at December 20, 2024 03:36 PM (oZhjI)
Good job keeping Christmas markets safe from white grandmothers wielding Swiss Army knives. Want to spend a little more effort on young Muslim men?
http://tiny.cc/9o82001
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 03:36 PM (Odg76)
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (2zWFh)
I will pray for the affected innocent people.
Posted by: Just Lily at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (RvtZJ)
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I've seen enough death in my lifetime and sometimes we need to be reminded of just how nasty and vicious it can be.
But not today.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (RsS92)
Gene Shalit!
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 03:35 PM (2zWFh)
Dance wit da one who brung ya.
Posted by: Zombie Wilford Brimley at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (QSrLX)
At what point do the average Europeans rise up against their leftist overlords? Or do they just become slaves?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (DopAq)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (j+LsA)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 03:26 PM (LkLld)
Viewing it from the bombardier's seat in a B52 loaded with nukes would be fun.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (8zz6B)
This is how you get Mustache Man.
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 03:31 PM (2zWFh)
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*nods sagaciously*
Douglas Fairbanks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
I'm standing right here ...
Posted by: zombie David Niven at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 20, 2024 03:36 PM (MZ+PY)
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That anyone would look at the 14 months since 10/7 and say, "That was great for the side that implemented it, and we should also do it," is just asking for it.
Israel went from divided and borderline lovey-dovey with Palestine to outright warmonger.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (GBKbO)
Obviously the only reason to want to keep such a fine upstanding individual out of your country is racism.
Posted by: Jeb Bush at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:36 PM (bss/y)
He is a fine looking man. Too bad he's a loony leftist.
Posted by: Scarymary at December 20, 2024 03:38 PM (F2xQR)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 03:38 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 03:38 PM (2zWFh)
Obviously the only reason to want to keep such a fine upstanding individual out of your country is racism.
Posted by: Jeb Bush at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (oZhjI)
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He wouldn't have done this if the German government had given him more welfare.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:38 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 03:38 PM (14URa)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:38 PM (bss/y)
/sarc
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Do they celebrate Christmas? That is, as a religious holiday? I'm guessing their church attendance isn't much different from France or the UK.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 03:38 PM (Dm8we)
Posted by: Just Lily at December 20, 2024 03:38 PM (RvtZJ)
All those military-aged males from across the globe rushing across our border aren't here to help you save a few bucks on a new roof.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 20, 2024 03:38 PM (CwhoI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:38 PM (bss/y)
However, Merz is a member of Merkel's party (although someone who challenged her more that once). The big problem is that Merz used to work at a high level position for Blackrock.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 03:38 PM (dIske)
You don't want disinformation? Then start telling the public actual information.
Wouldn't be prudent.
Posted by: Corrupt Western governments and their media minions at December 20, 2024 03:38 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 03:38 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:38 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 20, 2024 03:36 PM (MZ+PY)
***
Maybe.
Maybe not.
Either way, stay alert, stay armed.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 03:39 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 03:39 PM (2zWFh)
However, Merz is a member of Merkel's party (although someone who challenged her more that once). The big problem is that Merz used to work at a high level position for Blackrock.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 03:38 PM (dIske)
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"We vote for Merz because of his promises!"
-The German people
"Fuck you. I'm doing the opposite of all that."
-Merz
"Foiled again!"
-The German people
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:39 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 20, 2024 03:39 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Jeb Bush at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (oZhjI)
See say pwadway!!!
Posted by: DOCTOR Jill Biden at December 20, 2024 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 03:38 PM
This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Designated Hitter at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (Odg76)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (GBKbO)
"What's that you said? 'Please Fire'? I can't really hear you over all this shit blowing up!"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (VoAdT)
This is something most Americans do not know.
And the funny thing is that if you get say a lefty LIV talking with a European you'll soon get told:
1) It doesn't matter that they have smaller houses, smaller cars, and less money. Its better for the earth
2) And their healthcare is free!
Note, said lefty LIVs will also tell you they are taxed too much and that the government needs to start denying more types of treatments here in the US...
Posted by: Jeb Bush at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (oZhjI)
Please watch your language.
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 03:39 PM (2zWFh)
S*rry!
Posted by: Barbara Streisand's luxurious mustache at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (yxhux)
Posted by: Kamala Hussein Biden at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (tXJwU)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:38 PM (bss/y)
*channels JT*
Gesundheit!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Douglas Fairbanks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
_______
Tom Selleck
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (iFTx/)
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Burt Reynolds?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:34 PM (GBKbO)
Sam Elliott
But my vote is Skunk Baxter. Great musician, epic 'stache, and an expert on missile/high-tech war strategy.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Jeb Bush at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (oZhjI)
See say pwadway!!!
Posted by: DOCTOR Jill Biden at December 20, 2024 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)
They're as yummy as breakfast tacos!
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (14URa)
1) It doesn't matter that they have smaller houses, smaller cars, and less money. Its better for the earth
2) And their healthcare is free!
Note, said lefty LIVs will also tell you they are taxed too much and that the government needs to start denying more types of treatments here in the US...
Posted by: Jeb Bush at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (oZhjI)
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Italians still tend to live at home until they're 40.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (GBKbO)
______________
Aka the "Pokemon policy."
Gotta get 'em all!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (krQz2)
--- _Collin Rugg @CollinRugg
JUST IN: At least one car plows through a large crowd of people at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.
The driver of the car was arrested. ...
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Right. Whatever you do don't shoot them on the spot. Don't harm or bruise the precious, that would violate their rights and be inhuman.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:41 PM (RsS92)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:41 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 03:41 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (q177U)
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On the -3rd day of Christmas...
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:41 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 03:41 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at December 20, 2024 03:42 PM (TN5A0)
Further, every other party, regardless of supposed ideology, will join together to prevent them from forming a government unless, somehow, they get an absolute majority of the seats. Because Parliaments... and Democracy... and Shut Up.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 03:42 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat Wears the Emperor's New Clothes at December 20, 2024 03:42 PM (bWR5k)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2024 03:42 PM (KQk9m)
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 03:41 PM (jvJvP)
With 50 cuts to do a U turn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:42 PM (bss/y)
He's registered as having mental problems, you wrote it yourself!! Idiot.
Anyway if he's a mohammedan then he is not mentally balanced.
Posted by: Ciampino - they are incompatible with the West at December 20, 2024 03:42 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 03:42 PM (2zWFh)
2) And their healthcare is free!
Posted by: Jeb Bush at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (oZhjI)
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Seems to me that if humans are such a burden on the earth, less healthcare might fix part of that.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:43 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Peaches at December 20, 2024 03:43 PM (14URa)
Why is he still stealing my oxygen?
Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2024 03:43 PM (RYTCQ)
News said 50 guys.
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 03:24 PM (jvJvP)
Rookie numbers. -- Lily Phillips
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 03:43 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:44 PM (krQz2)
Gotta get 'em all!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Drive them to Egypt and let Sisi sort it out. They are kindred spirits why on earth would they want a Jew to sort out their problems?
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 03:44 PM (Drm1A)
With 50 cuts to do a U turn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:42 PM (bss/y)
*snort*
I was trying to come up with a film editing joke and you beat me to it.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 20, 2024 03:44 PM (y9nCu)
Pikers. We arrest before you get to the guessing stages of Truth.
Posted by: Britain at December 20, 2024 03:44 PM (aXxgO)
News said 50 guys.
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 03:24 PM (jvJvP)
Or as Obama calls it, Tuesday.
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 03:45 PM (2zWFh)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 20, 2024 03:45 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: ryukyu at December 20, 2024 03:45 PM (VBdzl)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2024 03:42 PM (KQk9m)
The world has gone insane. I didn't know Germany had speech police like the UK.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 03:45 PM (1gLn1)
I can't believe it took that long for Sam Elliot to be mentioned. He should have been right before or right after Tom Selleck.
Posted by: Nelly at December 20, 2024 03:45 PM (bcr4y)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 20, 2024 03:45 PM (i24o9)
Not ours. We've been voluntold.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Gavrilo Princip at December 20, 2024 03:46 PM (yxhux)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 03:47 PM (e+6P0)
I can't believe it took that long for Sam Elliot to be mentioned. He should have been right before or right after Tom Selleck.
Posted by: Nelly at December 20, 2024 03:45 PM (bcr4y)
Yet you didn't mention it until your comment........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:47 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 20, 2024 03:40 PM (y9nCu)
I watched a video of him talking to a European type of "TED Talk" a few nights ago.
And yes, he's extremely intelligent about music, and strategic defense issues.
But, BUT ... he spent a goodly amount of time apologizing for America being "stupid", and "not as enlightened as you Europeans", as well as being a Climate Change Warrior.
Skunk, good buddy, stick to music, and the occasional forays into missile command.
Posted by: browndog disappointed at December 20, 2024 03:47 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 03:48 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Gavrilo Princip at December 20, 2024 03:46 PM (yxhux)
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"The women of America are thirsty for this dreamy European who struck a blow against tyranny. Here are our 40 favorite thirsty tweets."
-Buzzfeed, circa 1914
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:48 PM (GBKbO)
Of course it was never common sense, it was a coordinated attack on USA and The West.
(o couple other sources say a Saudi Arabia guy born in 1974)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 03:48 PM (Cus5s)
I know that Islam claims to be a religion of peace, and that the Koran has lots of actual good stuff in it. From what I understand, Mohammed had two phases: the Mecca phase which came first, and the Medina phase, which came second.
The Meccan Islam is a great religion, apparently. It's the Medina stuff that causes all the problems. I sometimes wonder if Muhammed was actually a prophet of God at first... then switched sides when he went to Medina, and became a prophet of Satan.
So we just need to tell Islam to just do the Mecca stuff... and anyone who wants Medina can eat a cluster bomb.
Posted by: SimoHayha at December 20, 2024 03:48 PM (yf7Pm)
Diversity is our choice of suicide.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 20, 2024 03:45 PM (i24o9)
Gozer the Traveler has come. But I really didn't expect the form of The Destructor to be a 190 foot tall Teletubbie.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 20, 2024 03:48 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at December 20, 2024 03:48 PM (USyCi)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2024 03:42 PM (KQk9m)
The world has gone insane. I didn't know Germany had speech police like the UK.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 03:45 PM (1gLn1)
Everyone everywhere has speech police.
The USA is the only shining star in this, thanks to the Founding Father's.
Our star grows dim, however.
Posted by: Just Lily at December 20, 2024 03:48 PM (RvtZJ)
Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 03:48 PM (q177U)
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Was it the poll a few months after the war started that showed that 75% of Palestinians still supported the 10/7 attacks and thought it was worth it?
Or was it something else that convinced you?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:48 PM (GBKbO)
Did she get her freak on?
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 03:42 PM (2zWFh)
She graded using a red ink pen.
One day she handed me back a paper I had written and I asked her is she had killed something on it?
She actually laughed.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 03:48 PM (W/lyH)
Spoiler: It's all about Ukraine corruption by our deep state.
https://tinyurl.com/379dt7dd
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 03:48 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2024 03:49 PM (IG4Id)
It's not altruism. TPTB want to kill off whites. The published WEF plans for a sub-one billion person global population has whites only among the ruling class. Islamists are just one tool toward that end.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 03:49 PM (ExV1e)
One day she handed me back a paper I had written and I asked her is she had killed something on it?
She actually laughed.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 03:48 PM (W/lyH)
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And then she took off another 5 points because you had phrased the question using incorrect grammar.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:49 PM (GBKbO)
There is blood and gore,
And it's all because of a diverse murder cult.
Mommy is crying and Daddy is, too.
They had a family, and now they have goo.
Because murder time is here.
The most treacherous time of the year.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 20, 2024 03:50 PM (i24o9)
He's registered as having mental problems, you wrote it yourself!! Idiot.
Anyway if he's a mohammedan then he is not mentally balanced.
Posted by: Ciampino - they are incompatible with the West at December 20, 2024 03:42 PM (i0xsb)
If he is a Mohammedan in Croatia, he likely would be Bosnian. (Although the evidence so far points to a homegrown person of mental illness.) Croatia is not a migrant destination. The few "migrants" in Croatia are trying to get out of there as fast as possible and to get to Austria and Germany ASAP.
Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat Wears the Emperor's New Clothes at December 20, 2024 03:50 PM (bWR5k)
When mosques are burning, don't blame the people with the torches; blame those who threw open the borders.
Posted by: Wally at December 20, 2024 03:50 PM (dgf0j)
Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 03:48 PM (q177U)
innocent Palestinians got the hell out of dodge years and decades ago and went to sane places and got married and started families and aren't a pain in the dick, and they look at these jackasses and say "thank fuck my parents got me away from all that bullshit".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:51 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 03:51 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2024 03:49 PM (IG4Id)
Most likely a money trail.
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:51 PM (j+LsA)
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I see four cars.
Posted by: Captain Jean-Luc Picard at December 20, 2024 03:52 PM (yxhux)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 20, 2024 03:36 PM (MZ+PY)
Good thing the border is secure.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 03:52 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:52 PM (bss/y)
I know that Islam claims to be a religion of peace, and that the Koran has lots of actual good stuff in it. From what I understand, Mohammed had two phases: the Mecca phase which came first, and the Medina phase, which came second.
The Meccan Islam is a great religion, apparently. It's the Medina stuff that causes all the problems. I sometimes wonder if Muhammed was actually a prophet of God at first... then switched sides when he went to Medina, and became a prophet of Satan.
So we just need to tell Islam to just do the Mecca stuff... and anyone who wants Medina can eat a cluster bomb.
Posted by: SimoHayha at December 20, 2024 03:48 PM (yf7Pm)
_________
Funky Cold Medina
-- Tone Loc
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 03:52 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)
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Jesus lived in Palestine. So, Jesus.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:52 PM (krQz2)
-- Tone Loc
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 03:52 PM (iFTx/)
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I actually paid attention to those lyrics once.
That is a weird song.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:52 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 20, 2024 03:53 PM (CwhoI)
1) It doesn't matter that they have smaller houses, smaller cars, and less money. Its better for the earth
_____________
I'll tell you what would be better for the earth: if we had many fewer Europeans and many fewer leftists.
Next time the Europeans throw a war, we stay out of it, sell arms to both sides, and put the whole thing on PPV.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 03:53 PM (YqDXo)
https://tinyurl.com/3mwdcn96
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:52 PM (bss/y)
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Isn't that the guy that Kanye brought along to meet with Trump and it was Trump's fault because he "could not have not known who he was"?
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:53 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)
$20, on sale.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 20, 2024 03:54 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 03:51 PM (fs1hN)
You can get one made on amazon with the logo of your choice for $35.
https://tinyurl.com/45xnucuc
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:54 PM (bss/y)
Next time the Europeans throw a war, we stay out of it, sell arms to both sides, and put the whole thing on PPV.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 03:53 PM (YqDXo)
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Idea for a protracted series of military novels:
Just that. Europe gets into a war, both sides thinking that the US will help them, but the US stays out, just getting rich on each side buying arms.
Think of the espionage and battle potential!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:54 PM (GBKbO)
The Meccan Islam is a great religion, apparently. It's the Medina stuff that causes all the problems. I sometimes wonder if Muhammed was actually a prophet of God at first... then switched sides when he went to Medina, and became a prophet of Satan.
So we just need to tell Islam to just do the Mecca stuff... and anyone who wants Medina can eat a cluster bomb.
Posted by: SimoHayha at December 20, 2024 03:48 PM (yf7Pm)
When you talk to pasty white American college students, they don't even know that there's two periods in the mohammedan narrative.
And i'm convinced that mohammed the goat fucker was always Medinan, the Meccan stuff was him and his followers bullshitting the other arabs when his band of brigands were weak.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 20, 2024 03:55 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:53 PM (krQz2)
I am not even sure I DO know who this guy is. Is he the one dropping the N bomb on live streams for lulz?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:55 PM (bss/y)
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He was on-track to become the President of Harvard.
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 03:55 PM (+xpqh)
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 03:55 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Because of chest-thumping neo-cons who are desperate to prove their virtue to the Left on social media at every turn. If those assholes hadn't boosted jackasses like Funyons, no one would have heard of them.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2024 03:55 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 03:56 PM (Dm8we)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:53 PM (krQz2)
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DC Draino is one of the X people. He has had dinner with Trump a couple of times at Mar-a-Lago.
These things aren't 1 on 1 affairs. It's Trump at the head of a table of at least 12 with Trump directing conversation and telling stories. It goes on past midnight, and he's up at 4 the next morning getting ready for a game of golf.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
That is a weird song.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:52 PM (GBKbO)
I sat behind him at a Dallas Mavericks game a while ago. He seemed REALLY stoned out of his mind. He did allow a photo of us, tho.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)
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Only a Christian Nationalist would pounce on this 'story'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 03:56 PM (XeU6L)
That's pretty much what AfD is and you saw what our own government tried to do to us.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 03:56 PM (LkLld)
Next time the Europeans throw a war, we stay out of it, sell arms to both sides, and put the whole thing on PPV.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 03:53 PM (YqDXo)
Just airdrop FP-45 Liberators in random locations.
https://tinyurl.com/m8fz286
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 03:56 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 20, 2024 03:57 PM (a9OXe)
That was the dude I was trying to think of.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
Hungarians sure are showing up in the threads today.
Posted by: Miklos szivesen iszik meg egyet at December 20, 2024 03:57 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:57 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 03:57 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Just Lily at December 20, 2024 03:57 PM (RvtZJ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:57 PM (GBKbO)
Inga from Sweden hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:58 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 20, 2024 03:57 PM (a9OXe)
Those feds at J6 from the meme were all wearing polos...
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:58 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 03:58 PM (YzqWW)
-- Tone Loc
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 03:52 PM (iFTx/)
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I actually paid attention to those lyrics once.
That is a weird song.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:52 PM (GBKbO)
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It's a sleazy date-rape song. The sleaziness is mitigated by the lyrics being more comical than serious, and the fact that the rapper gets his when he accidentally roofies a dude. That being said, I doubt any even remotely mainstream act could get away with it today.
Unless of course they sex-swapped it, and made it about a stronk empowered black woman drugging white bankers and healthcare executives and stealing their money. Oh wait, they made already made a movie about that, which the critics loved! It was called Hustlers.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 03:58 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:57 PM (GBKbO)
Let's not forget the busty beergarden hostesses!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 03:58 PM (VNX3d)
Yeah no more. Shut down NATO, pull back, force them to pay their own damned defense bills. Make friends with India and sub-Saharan African nations, that's the future, not Europe.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:59 PM (RsS92)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 03:59 PM (Odg76)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 03:58 PM (iFTx/)
"What?!?"
- - -- - - Zombie Larry Flint
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 03:59 PM (Odg76)
Broken. Ouch.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 04:00 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2024 03:42 PM (KQk9m)
The world has gone insane. I didn't know Germany had speech police like the UK.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 03:45 PM (1gLn1)
Well, if there's one thing guaranteed to reduce tensions and increase the peace it's screwing the lid down tighter.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:00 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:36 PM (bss/y)
He is a fine looking man. Too bad he's a loony leftist.
Best barstool advice I ever got: Never meet your heroes.
Posted by: Nelly at December 20, 2024 04:00 PM (bcr4y)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 20, 2024 04:00 PM (9sGg5)
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Have you seen the guy (Merz). He's nightmare fuel. About 6'6"....think as a rail. He looks like one the extras you'd find in "Texas Chainsaw Masc" or maybe a space alien.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 04:00 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)
I actually know more christian palestinians than muslim ones.
One is a Maronite. Which is weird because that's not really a palestinian thing, it's a lebanese thing. But whatever.
If you're just going to call "people whose families were in the mandate of Palestine before it got partitioned" Palestinians, then there's a lot of good ones out there. Just not actually "there" anymore.
But when Teh News and Internets says "Palestinian", they mean a goat fucking retard from the deserts who swooped in to fuck the place up with their creepy death cult bullshit.
It's like calling Habib Habibbullah Habib, who doesn't speak a lick of English and just showed up three weeks ago, a "Local Scunthorpe man" after he kills a guy or knocks over the offie. Yeah. Sure. "Local".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 04:00 PM (VoAdT)
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You'd think the examples of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda should have put "paid" to that ridiculous notion.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:00 PM (YqDXo)
🤡🌎
Posted by: Mrs Emma Peel at December 20, 2024 04:00 PM (lIN5E)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 03:59 PM (Odg76)
Considering the thread, I prescribe beer for the pain.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 04:00 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2024 03:42 PM (KQk9m)
The world has gone insane. I didn't know Germany had speech police like the UK.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 03:45 PM (1gLn1)
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Less than a year ago in Germany, there was a small anti-islamist demonstration. The demonstrators were wearing blue shirts. An Afghan man started stabbing everybody and the blue shirts started defending themselves and restraining the Afghan. A police officer immediately tackled one of the blue shirts who was restraining the stabber, and began to handcuff him. Afghan the stabbed the cop multiple time in the head and neck. The cop later died of his wounds.
What is pretty obvious from the video is that the cops had to have been instructed before the event to arrest the blue shirts as soon as they had the thinnest of reasons to. This got the cop killed... Just following orders right
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 20, 2024 04:01 PM (xxf6X)
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Probably an EV flying carpet.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 04:01 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 03:59 PM (Odg76)
Owww …
Pulled 213kg for 3 (yeah a really odd number) last night
Posted by: browndog sauntering about at December 20, 2024 04:01 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 03:58 PM (VNX3d)
https://is.gd/l2wa0l
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 03:59 PM (Odg76)
Broken. Ouch.
Posted by: Sponge
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Slapping hot iron work on a broken toe?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 04:01 PM (Dm8we)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 20, 2024 03:55 PM (y9nCu
Been seeing a few scholars say he was from Petra since that's where the oldest mosques face.
Posted by: ryukyu at December 20, 2024 04:01 PM (VBdzl)
Posted by: bonhomme
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Confirms my aversion for exercise.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 04:01 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:57 PM (GBKbO)
Let's not forget the busty beergarden hostesses!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
......
Can I use their bathroom? Beer makes me pee.
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 04:02 PM (v0R5T)
https://tinyurl.com/45xnucuc
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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I imagine I would get placed on a list somewhere.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 04:02 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Nelly at December 20, 2024 04:00 PM (bcr4y)
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Better barstool advice: don't have any heroes.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:02 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: bonhomme
As the kids say 🍆
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2024 04:02 PM (IG4Id)
Also, Nancy Mace told Trey Gowdy to STFU and STFD. Basically called him a faggot.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 20, 2024 04:03 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Nelly at December 20, 2024 04:00 PM (bcr4y)
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"I should have listened!"
-Neo-Nazi who tracked down Hitler hiding in South America but who is now just an incontinent old man with dementia
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:03 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 20, 2024 04:03 PM (9sGg5)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 20, 2024 04:03 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 20, 2024 04:03 PM (/U5Yz)
"You let Hillary get away with Benghazi. Sit your ass down."
"Which bathroom do you think Trey Gowdy uses?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2024 04:04 PM (KQk9m)
I predict 'drop foot' from here on out, get used to it.
Posted by: DanMan at December 20, 2024 04:04 PM (8uzBS)
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Boy, that Wisconsin shooter story sure disappeared fast, didn't it?
I think it was out of the news faster than the guys that shot Trump in the head.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Women, does your job make you feminine and inspirational or stressed and brittle? at December 20, 2024 04:04 PM (Y5LCy)
Posted by: bonhomme
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Confirms my aversion for exercise.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
*fist bump
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 20, 2024 04:04 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 03:59 PM (Odg76)
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I did that years ago, and my foot was killing me when I wore cleats. Turns out the broken bone trashed the joint, which had to be surgically replaced with a prosthesis.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:04 PM (YqDXo)
Nice! 470lbs for three is awesome. That's more than my current 1RM.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 04:04 PM (Odg76)
Christmas parades are an attractive nuisance in a modern society.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 04:05 PM (krQz2)
I think it was out of the news faster than the guys that shot Trump in the head.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Women, does your job make you feminine and inspirational or stressed and brittle? at December 20, 2024 04:04 PM (Y5LCy)
Just like the guy who drove through that christmas market in... wisconsin? a few years ago.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 04:05 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 20, 2024 04:03 PM (kTd/k)
That bitch fell out of the ugly tree and the tree got uglier.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 04:05 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
*fist bump
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 20, 2024 04:04 PM (/U5Yz)
I've never had a donut break my toe.
Posted by: Just Lily at December 20, 2024 04:05 PM (RvtZJ)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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There was this one night when I got drunk at the Haufbrau House. Funny thing about is that I have no idea what language the other guys at the table were speaking, and they spoke no more than pidgin English, but we had a great time.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 04:06 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 04:06 PM (XeU6L)
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It was nothing but an increasingly series of foul and imaginative insults in varying languages that no one could understand but just sounded funny to everyone else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:06 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: t-bird at December 20, 2024 04:07 PM (DojCf)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 20, 2024 04:07 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: Axeman
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In my Progressive little burg, we now have a 'Holiday Parade'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 04:07 PM (XeU6L)
https://tinyurl.com/m8fz286
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 03:56 PM (VNX3d)
That was a really shitty little gun, and the Feds paid Guide Lamp waay too much for it. They probably could have had one of the many makers of toy cap guns design and build a cheap-ass revolver that would fire 9 mm Luger cartridges. The user would at least be able to get off follow-up shots if the first failed to incapacitate the target.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 04:07 PM (8zz6B)
Will they ever change course? I doubt it. The transnational communists/globalists rule in Europe. And if a party opposes them -- they ban the party.
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Even if the opposing party wins they just refuse to let them govern, see Marine Le Pen's party in France.
Posted by: Decaf at December 20, 2024 04:07 PM (unUNN)
"There are 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide. That means, using your numbers, there are 18 million Jihadis."
"Um. Shut up."
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 04:08 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 03:59 PM (Odg76)
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Wow. At least the logistics were simple.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 04:08 PM (krQz2)
"Which bathroom do you think Trey Gowdy uses?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)
Awesome. Fuck that kewpie looking jerkwad.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 04:08 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 04:08 PM (bss/y)
The anabolic response to protein ingestion during recovery from exercise has no upper limit in magnitude and duration in vivo in humans
http://tiny.cc/7s82001
According to this, the theory that there's a 30-40mg of protein absorption limit per meal is likely false.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 04:08 PM (Odg76)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 20, 2024 04:09 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 04:09 PM (YzqWW)
Just because.
https://tinyurl.com/mrjvu59r
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 04:10 PM (jvJvP)
Wouldn't it be funny to learn that "they" is us?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 04:10 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 03:58 PM (VNX3d)
https://is.gd/l2wa0l
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Updated for 2025: https://is.gd/NajTrl
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:10 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 03:59 PM (Odg76)
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Face it, it's broken. Get thee to a quack, who will probably tape the injured toe to an adjacent uninjured one to prevent the broken one from healing crooked or otherwise badly.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:10 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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They opened one in Newport across from Cincinnati. I think it's the only one in the US. I had the pork shank.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 04:10 PM (Dm8we)
https://tinyurl.com/m8fz286
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 03:56 PM (VNX3d)
That was a really shitty little gun, and the Feds paid Guide Lamp waay too much for it. They probably could have had one of the many makers of toy cap guns design and build a cheap-ass revolver that would fire 9 mm Luger cartridges. The user would at least be able to get off follow-up shots if the first failed to incapacitate the target.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 04:07 PM (8zz6B)
Since it's Europe, that's probably a better choice, unless you select a common police round.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 04:10 PM (VNX3d)
Probably just fined thousands of Euros they don't have.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at December 20, 2024 04:10 PM (J9aKv)
Posted by: Volkswagen at December 20, 2024 04:11 PM (yxhux)
Posted by: Self driving at December 20, 2024 04:11 PM (EoQd1)
Posted by: Decaf at December 20, 2024 04:07 PM (unUNN)
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The National Front / National Rally has never won a presidential election and has never won a majority of seats in France's National Assembly. The best they've done was in the most recent parliamentary election, where they won a quarter of the seats, which makes them the single largest party but smaller than either the leftist coalition or the centrist coalition.
Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at December 20, 2024 04:11 PM (yhNYs)
In other news, 60 minutes until Christmas Scotch and Cigars with the crew at the pub. Not everything is f'd up.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 04:11 PM (e+6P0)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at December 20, 2024 04:11 PM (J9aKv)
Welcome to the good old days.
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 04:12 PM (v0R5T)
I'll just cut out the middleman and tape it myself.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 04:12 PM (Odg76)
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at December 20, 2024 04:12 PM (JNMXT)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 03:59 PM (Odg76)
I hope it gets better soon but now you have a new 'hobby' for hopefully a short while.
The fact you only hit one toe, the second one, is pretty impressive.
Bet you couldn't do that again if you tried.
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 04:12 PM (jvJvP)
Oh wait, it was the Germans. This is right up their alley then. Oh well, they are overdue for started a massive war in Europe. It’s almost 2025.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 04:13 PM (ZKG7+)
Must be his adaptation to German culture.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 20, 2024 04:13 PM (wBaIH)
Will they ever change course? I doubt it. The transnational communists/globalists rule in Europe. And if a party opposes them -- they ban the party.
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Europeans must be the stupidest people on earth (barring the obvious front-running ethnicity). They career from extreme right to extreme left, flitting in a nanosecond through a reasonable centrist phase.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:13 PM (YqDXo)
So is this a Republican bill or a Democrat bill? 🤔
Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie
Replying to @WallStreetMav
This was in fact correct when you tweeted it, but speaker Johnson flipped his decision after the meeting when he spoke to Hakeem Jeffries and realized he could get Democrat votes to pass all the legislation as one bill.
https://bit.ly/4fCvGWc
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 04:14 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 04:12 PM (Odg76)
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You want to make sure you get it straight.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:14 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
Yes! It's very cool and at the Seattle Center which has no access to motorized vehicles and there is visible security.
It's just beautiful.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 04:14 PM (ZzUF8)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 04:14 PM (wyMQY)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 04:14 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:13 PM (YqDXo)
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Their extreme right...what do these extreme right parties do in Europe?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 04:14 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: bonhomme
.......
Yeah, but who's going to prescribe the goofballs?
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 04:14 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
__________________________
I have the distinction of visiting the Haufbrau House in Munich (the original) and learning to skydive from a bunch of US soldiers who were stationed in the Fulda Gap by jumping off long tables. Jump, tuck and roll...take a sip....again.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 04:15 PM (dIske)
Welcome to the good old days.
Posted by: wth
I don't hate them. I just want them to experience some light water boarding at their townhalls until they stop fucking us.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 04:15 PM (e+6P0)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December
Uggdrasil. She dropped her right eye into a well beneath Uggdrasil's roots so she could become the ugliest creature in the world, and terrify all who behold her twisted physiognomy.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 04:15 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:02 PM (YqDXo)
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Nothing interesting proposition, Jay.
Especially as a child (and one with non-ideal parents & family), I turned to "heroes" in sports, history I'm in literature for inspiration and as ideals to strive toward (and only if they were good men of virtue).
But you're probably right that as an adult, it's probably more psychologically healthy to give up those fantasies -- and there sure are a hell of a lot less heroic individuals for me now.
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 04:15 PM (sf3p7)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 04:13 PM (ZKG7+)
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That massive war was postponed owing to the Pax Americana.
Yet another reason to cut Europe loose and let them have it out.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:15 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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They opened one in Newport across from Cincinnati. I think it's the only one in the US. I had the pork shank.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 04:10 PM (Dm8we)
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There is one in Vegas. Owned by the same guy as in Munich. Good food and great bier!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 04:16 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2024 04:16 PM (KQk9m)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 04:08 PM (bss/y)
Well, they over-built a zip gun that used ammo that would be unavailable other than what was provided with it. Also, a dead Kraut with a .45 slug in him = resistance. A dead Kraut with a 9 mm round in him might also be a vendetta amongst the troops.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 04:16 PM (8zz6B)
Until that happens, they will remain a target of Islam's lebensraum policy.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 20, 2024 04:16 PM (Vyll1)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 04:16 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 04:08 PM (Odg76)
There have been a number of articles on optimal protein intake hitting the media recently.
Stronger by Science, Barbell Medicine, Ali Gilbert, and many others have been out there on this topic.
Bottom line is:
You can use more than 30-40g, especially if you’re over “29” …
And unless your kidneys are already in the shitter, it won’t harm them either.
Posted by: browndog sauntering about at December 20, 2024 04:16 PM (TTAGa)
I'll just cut out the middleman and tape it myself.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 04:12 PM
You're not new here.
Hot iron. It's the only way to be sure.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2024 04:17 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 04:17 PM (sf3p7)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 04:14 PM (wyMQY)
Why don't Trump voters support downballot Republicans!!!!?
** enter someone telling me that if the Republicans had only sold us out a little...
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 04:17 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro,Vt at December 20, 2024 04:17 PM (FDlb9)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:02 PM (YqDXo)
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Nothing interesting proposition, Jay.
Especially as a child (and one with non-ideal parents & family), I turned to "heroes" in sports, history I'm in literature for inspiration and as ideals to strive toward (and only if they were good men of virtue).
But you're probably right that as an adult, it's probably more psychologically healthy to give up those fantasies -- and there sure are a hell of a lot less heroic individuals for me now.
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 04:15 PM (sf3p7)
________________
I have no heroes. I have people whom I respect, provisionally, recognizing the possibility that they're slime but I just haven't found that out about them yet.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:18 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Walter S at December 20, 2024 04:18 PM (i0F8b)
The video of that truck crashing through the crowds: holy shit.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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I had the impression the vid was sped up, but I could be wrong.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 04:18 PM (I87yH)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 03:59 PM (Odg76)
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I dropped a 30lb speaker on my big toe. I found out what it takes to break the bone in your biggie toe. And it hurts.
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at December 20, 2024 04:18 PM (+PfCm)
Me: "Doc, my back hurts."
Doc: "Your back is fine."
Me: "No, no, it really really hurts." *puppy dog eyes*
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 04:18 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Miklos von Munchen at December 20, 2024 04:18 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 04:18 PM (ZKG7+)
—Ace
Again.
This happens every year.
I know how to stop it -- ban
Cars.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 04:19 PM (jHelr)
This was in fact correct when you tweeted it, but speaker Johnson flipped his decision after the meeting when he spoke to Hakeem Jeffries and realized he could get Democrat votes to pass all the legislation as one bill.
...
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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How to end the deficit in 5 minutes.
_Warren Buffett
https://tinyurl.com/ykvvcsn6
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 04:19 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: AFlyingSQRL at December 20, 2024 04:20 PM (Cd6eq)
Posted by: JM
So a 29 lb speaker is safe?
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 04:20 PM (jHelr)
It's just beautiful.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 04:14 PM
At least until the river otters overrun the place.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2024 04:20 PM (a3Q+t)
Remember the government shutdown in 2019? Totally manufactured crisis.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 20, 2024 04:20 PM (yxhux)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at December 20, 2024 04:20 PM (gHSfI)
This happens every year.
I know how to stop it -- ban
Cars.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 04:19 PM (jHelr
Considering the Germans hatred of energy, switch everyone to Flintstone vehicles.
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 04:21 PM (jvJvP)
—Ace
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It's almost if the Muslims want to discourage observance of Christian holidays.
We should return the favor and tee off on them during Ramadan.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:21 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 04:22 PM (ZKG7+)
Posted by: Walter S at December 20, 2024 04:18 PM
We don't need no stinkin' nihilist toes.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2024 04:22 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot
The key Crisis Manufacturing Sector now accounts for 7.9% of the US GDP.
Posted by: the Federal Reserve Bank of Miklos at December 20, 2024 04:22 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: SimoHayha at December 20, 2024 04:22 PM (yf7Pm)
We should return the favor and tee off on them during Ramadan.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
One MOAB on the Haj...
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 04:22 PM (jHelr)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 04:22 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 20, 2024 04:22 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Miklos von Munchen at December 20, 2024 04:18 PM (xesY+)
Augsburg Hassenbrau.
Posted by: Diogenes von Augsburgerer at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Walter S at December 20, 2024 04:18 PM
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What for? I've already got 12.
Posted by: Former Chernobyl Worker at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 04:21 PM (jvJvP)
Handcarts within towns and cities, and horse-drawn carts and carriages between them.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (VNX3d)
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I remember when Gaetz ousted McCarthy being told by the GOP that Voting With Democrats™ was unspeakably evil. Oddly, I've never heard that from them before or since.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 04:23 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 04:22 PM (jHelr)
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NOW you're talking!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 04:24 PM (YqDXo)
No Mary, Obama and Big Mike were not there.....
Posted by: Buster Hymandd at December 20, 2024 04:25 PM (B77Ne)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 20, 2024 04:25 PM (yxhux)
The took an exceptional level of incompetence and bad luck. I am truly impressed. If you are going to screw yourself up this is how is should be done. Thank you for leading the way here. You are a hero.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 04:26 PM (e+6P0)
Posted by: A Camel at December 20, 2024 04:26 PM (yxhux)
We need better MAGA representatives
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 04:26 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Present at December 20, 2024 04:27 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 04:28 PM (fwDg9)
This fool bet his presidency, several thousand American lives and the future of his country on the idea that Muslims are compatible with civilization.
And I voted for him twice.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 04:28 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Archimedes
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Mine, too!
Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2024 04:29 PM (YoCnN)
This leads the average European to have a standard of living less than every US state except Mississippi.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Good lord. Get on it, Mississippi.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 04:30 PM (I87yH)
‘ Clearly the answer is to go to Mecca during the Hajj and do counterclockwise donuts.’
If you did, you’d kill 50x as many. They are packed tight , dangerously so.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 04:31 PM (jbnUc)
An Army with a State.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 20, 2024 04:25 PM (yxhux)
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You know who else had an Army with a State?
[Sounds like "Palestine."]
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 04:31 PM (rQHR5)
Beer is o.k
I would rather have Germany known for people of strong Christian faith such as exemplified in Protestant hymns, "Lift up your head, ye mighty gates" or a"Now thank we all our God." and "Ah, Holy Jesus"(- all written during the horrible 30 years was (1618-164
And no, I'm not wishing suffering, famine and disease on Germany, but it is is inspiring to me that people wrote these hymns during such dark, awful times.Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 04:35 PM (Z4sr+)
Just shocked. I never saw this coming, not even a little bit."
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I'm shocked they would say what country the culprit came from, too.
Not that the culprit came from there, if accurate, but that someone would print such information.
Posted by: Another Anon at December 20, 2024 04:37 PM (QNMaY)
Scrumpfengestictendorsengeflatten
Posted by: ace
That's what you say after the line has snarled up on the fishing reel. Pay extra for the good Shimano with magnetic and dynamic braking.
Posted by: DaveA at December 20, 2024 04:51 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2024 04:53 PM (jgmnb)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 05:07 PM (hwLGC)
👏. Hear, hear!
Thank you
Posted by: L - cellphone at December 20, 2024 05:20 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at December 20, 2024 05:25 PM (iNp3L)
Israel went from divided and borderline lovey-dovey with Palestine to outright warmonger.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (GBKbO)
That's what they want, because Israel can't fight forever before it is overrun.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 05:40 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:30 PM (VoAdT)
A missile strike on the vagina rock. Enough of this crap. FAFO. Again, this woman lays out the problem. Goes to Twitter.
https://tinyurl.com/528ztjps
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 20, 2024 05:46 PM (iODuv)
David Samuels: Barack Obama Created and Maintains an Echo Chamber Messaging System That Deranges and Perverts People's Thinking Every Day
David Samuels is the reporter who interviewed Obama's mental twin Ben Rhodes about Rhodes' creation of "echo chambers" to push the Iran deal and convince people that they were all wrong to think of the extremist Islamist terror state as a threat. In fact, Iran was and is a great Partner in Peace (TM) to the American people!
This is the interview that elicited Ben Rhodes' perfect explanation of how easy it is to change "elite" media opinion overnight -- "they literally know nothing," Rhodes said, so it is very easy to fill their heads with your propaganda. My own elaboration on that: Dummies and ignoramuses often know they're dumb and ignorant, and wish not to be. So if you give them some easy-to-understand (but completely false) slogans to fill that void, they will Seize and Pounce on those slogans uncritically. They felt intellectually empty and socially awkward; now you've empowered them with easy-to-understand propaganda that makes them feel In the Know and Part of the In Crowd. Because you're providing them a huge service -- you're allowing them to no longer feel stupid and ignorant. And they will reward you by repeating your mantras and propagandas with the fervor of a cultist. David Samuels now revisits those "echo chambers" deranging American thought and manufacturing "public opinion" out of nothing. The whole article is worth reading. It's terrific. I'll just excerpt the conclusory parts. But he builds up to this by noting, for example, how American "elite" opinion turned on Iran overnight. How did that happen? How did the so-called "elites" go to bed knowing that Iran was a jihadist terror state one night and wake up the next morning knowing with even more passion that Iran was a friend to the United States and an important Partner in Peace (TM)? So, as I said, read the whole thing over the weekend, but for now, here are the money paragraphs. He describes this as a revolution in communications -- specifically the communication of mass propaganda -- as important as any of the major developments in mass media, like the telegraph or even the printing press.He then talks about Obama's role in this. Obama was not the creator of this system of public derangement -- he was the first product it sold. The originator of this new style of Astroturf propaganda was Obama's mentor, the creepy David Axelrod. The neomarxist social media monopolies just allowed him to bring it to planetary scale through the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence.
The collapse of the 20th-century media pyramid on which Lippmann's assumptions rested, and its rapid replacement by monopoly social media platforms, made it possible for the Obama White House to sell policy--and reconfigure social attitudes and prejudices--in new ways. In fact, as Obama's chief speechwriter and national security aide Ben Rhodes, a fiction writer by vocation, argued to me more than once in our conversations, the collapse of the world of print left Obama with little choice but to forge a new reality online. When I wrote about Rhodes' ambitious program to sell the Iran deal, I advanced the term "echo chambers" to describe the process by which the White House and its wider penumbra of think tanks and NGOs generated an entirely new class of experts who credentialed each other on social media in order to advance assertions that would formerly have been seen as marginal or not credible, thereby overwhelming the efforts of traditional subject-area gatekeepers and reporters to keep government spokespeople honest. In constructing these echo chambers, the White House created feedback loops that could be gamed out in advance by clever White House aides, thereby influencing and controlling the perceptions of reporters, editors and congressional staffers, and the elusive currents of "public opinion" they attempted to follow. If you saw how the game worked from the inside, you understood that the new common wisdom was not a true "reflection" of what anyone in particular necessarily believed, but rather the deliberate creation of a small class of operatives who used new technologies to create and control larger narratives that they messaged to target audiences on digital platforms, and which often presented themselves to their targets as their own naturally occurring thoughts and feelings, which they would then share with people like themselves. ...
What I did not imagine at the time was that Obama's successor in the White House would not be Hillary Clinton but Donald Trump. Nor did I foresee that Trump would himself become the target of a messaging campaign that would make full use of the machine that Obama had built, along with elements of the American security state. Being physically inside the White House, it turned out, was a mere detail of power; even more substantial power lay in controlling the digital switchboard that Obama had built, and which it turned out he still controlled. During the Trump years, Obama used the tools of the digital age to craft an entirely new type of power center for himself, one that revolved around his unique position as the titular, though pointedly never-named, head of a Democratic Party that he succeeded in refashioning in his own image--and which, after Hillary's loss, had officially supplanted the "centrist" Clinton neoliberal machine of the 1990s. The Obama Democratic Party (ODP) was a kind of balancing mechanism between the power and money of the Silicon Valley oligarchs and their New York bankers; the interests of bureaucratic and professional elites who shuttled between the banks and tech companies and the work of bureaucratic oversight; the ODP's own sectarian constituencies, which were divided into racial and ethnic categories like "POC," "MENA," and "Latinx," whose bizarre bureaucratic nomenclature signaled their inherent existence as top-down containers for the party's new-age spoils system; and the world of billionaire-funded NGOs that provided foot-soldiers and enforcers for the party's efforts at social transformation. It was the entirety of this apparatus, not just the ability to fashion clever or impactful tweets, that constituted the party's new form of power. But control over digital platforms, and what appeared on those platforms, was a key element in signaling and exercising that power. The Hunter Biden laptop story, in which party operatives shanghaied 51 former high U.S. government intelligence and security officials to sign a letter that all but declared the laptop to be a fake, and part of a Russian disinformation plot--when most of those officials had very strong reasons to know or believe that the laptop and its contents were real--showed how the system worked. That letter was then used as the basis for restricting and banning factual reports about the laptop and its contents from digital platforms, with the implication that allowing readers to access those reports might be the basis for a future accusation of a crime. None of this censorship was official, of course: Trump was in the White House, not Obama or Biden. What that demonstrated was that the real power, including the power to control functions of the state, lay elsewhere. Even more unusual, and alarming, was what followed Trump's defeat in 2020. With the Democrats back in power, the new messaging apparatus could now formally include not just social and institutional pressure but the enforcement arms of the federal bureaucracy, from the Justice Department to the FBI to the SEC. As the machine ramped up, censoring dissenting opinions on everything from COVID, to DEI programs, to police conduct, to the prevalence and the effects of hormone therapies and surgeries on youth, large numbers of people began feeling pressured by an external force that they couldn't always name; even greater numbers of people fell silent. In effect, large-scale changes in American mores and behavior were being legislated outside the familiar institutions and processes of representative democracy, through top-down social pressure machinery backed in many cases by the threat of law enforcement or federal action, in what soon became known as a "whole of society" effort. At every turn over the next four years, it was like a fever was spreading, and no one was immune. Spouses, children, colleagues, and supervisors at work began reciting, with the force of true believers, slogans they had only learned last week, and that they were very often powerless to provide the slightest real-world evidence for. These sudden, sometimes overnight, appearances of beliefs, phrases, tics, looked a lot like the mass social contagions of the 1950s--one episode after another of rapid-onset political enlightenment replacing the appearance of dance crazes or Hula-Hoops. Just as in those commercially fed crazes, there was nothing accidental, mystical or organic about these new thought-viruses. Catchphrases like "defund the police," "structural racism," "white privilege," "children don't belong in cages," "assigned gender" or "stop the genocide in Gaza" would emerge and marinate in meme-generating pools like the academy or activist organizations, and then jump the fence--or be fed--into niche groups and threads on Twitter or Reddit. If they gained traction in those spaces, they would be adopted by constituencies and players higher up in the Democratic Party hierarchy, who used their control of larger messaging verticals on social media platforms to advance or suppress stories around these topics and phrases, and who would then treat these formerly fringe positions as public markers for what all "decent people" must universally believe; those who objected or stood in the way were portrayed as troglodytes and bigots. From there, causes could be messaged into reality by state and federal bureaucrats, NGOs, and large corporations, who flew banners, put signs on their bathrooms, gave new days off from work, and brought in freshly minted consultants to provide "trainings" for workers--all without any kind of formal legislative process or vote or backing by any significant number of voters. What mattered here was no longer Lippmann's version of "public opinion," rooted in the mass audiences of radio and later television, which was assumed to correlate to the current or future preferences of large numbers of voters--thereby assuring, on a metaphoric level at least, the continuation of 19th-century ideas of American democracy, with its deliberate balance of popular and representational elements in turn mirroring the thrust of the Founders' design. Rather, the newly minted digital variant of "public opinion" was rooted in the algorithms that determine how fads spread on social media, in which mass multiplied by speed equals momentum--speed being the key variable. The result was a fast-moving mirror world that necessarily privileges the opinions and beliefs of the self-appointed vanguard who control the machinery, and could therefore generate the velocity required to change the appearance of "what people believe" overnight. The unspoken agreements that obscured the way this social messaging apparatus worked--including Obama's role in directing the entire system from above--and how it came to supplant the normal relationships between public opinion and legislative process that generations of Americans had learned from their 20th-century poli-sci textbooks, made it easy to dismiss anyone who suggested that Joe Biden was visibly senile; that the American system of government, including its constitutional protections for individual liberties and its historical system of checks and balances, was going off the rails; that there was something visibly unhealthy about the merger of monopoly tech companies and national security agencies with the press that threatened the ability of Americans to speak and think freely; or that America's large cultural systems, from education, to science and medicine, to the production of movies and books, were all visibly failing, as they fell under the control of this new apparatus. Millions of Americans began feeling increasingly exhausted by the effort involved in maintaining parallel thought-worlds in which they expressed degrees of fealty to the new order in the hope of keeping their jobs and avoiding being singled out for ostracism and punishment, while at the same time being privately baffled or aghast by the absence of any persuasive logic behind the changes they saw--from the breakdown of law and order in major cities, to the fentanyl epidemic, to the surge of perhaps 20 million unvetted illegal immigrants across the U.S. border, to widespread gender dysphoria among teenage girls, to sudden and shocking declines in public health, life expectancy, and birth rates. Until the fever broke.
you dont hate these people enough, unless youre at the point where you cant put in writing what youd want to do pic.twitter.com/zznIw7PICH
— Michael Malice (@michaelmalice) December 20, 2024
The new narrative just dropped.
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) December 19, 2024
They are all referring to Elon as "President Musk" in order to get President Trump upset. Their goal is to drive a wedge between Trump and Elon.
Don't fall for it. https://t.co/bQ4ojCbHhp
Scott AdamsI'm sure everyone remembers the infestation of Astroturf propaganda deception agents who flooded the comments here in 2007-2008. All of these paid deceivers commented with the same script: "I'm a Concerned Christian Conservative who has voted Republican my entire life, but I see Obama as a different kind of Democrat who reflects true Christian Conservative values..." For years and years we used to sockpuppet "Concerned Christian Conservative" comments.
@ScottAdamsSays In August of 2020, Democrats told us Biden's brain was working fine and Trump was an insurrectionist Hitler. Both claims were absurd. Now we have the WSJ reporting that Biden was mentally disabled from day one of his administration, and the same Democrats are now claiming Trump is puppet of Elon Musk.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:17 PM (I87yH)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 20, 2024 02:18 PM (GYt5+)
I typed some extra letters because of the lengthy content.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:18 PM (I87yH)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 02:20 PM (iFTx/)
Because you're providing them a huge service -- you're allowing them to no longer feel stupid and ignorant. And they will reward you by repeating your mantras and propagandas with the fervor of a cultist.
I mean, I suppose you could take some time and do some research...naaahhhhh, that's crazy talk.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:21 PM (xCA6C)
Thanks for boiling it down, ace. I saw that article and knew I couldn't read it over coffee-and-a-bagel.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:21 PM (I87yH)
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 02:21 PM (jFCkp)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 02:21 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (YzqWW)
I was going to make this point. Obama lacks the wit and/or discipline and creativity to have studied the situation and come up with a solution. He's a tool, in every sense of the word; a tool with a very elevated sense of his own competence.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (I0ZPN)
Who's more creepy?
David Axelrod
Jim Messina
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)
It also helps that the "elites" are gutless non-entities, desperately afraid that they might be excluded from the next orgy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 02:23 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:24 PM (YzqWW)
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Probably the same way it happened that Joe Biden was trying to get Putin into the WTO for years and Hillary got herself all a-flutter over Putin, and she approved the deal of Uranium to Russia, and Bill got half-a-mill for one speech.
Until it was Putinbad.
And then everybody who hates DC is doing Putin's bidding.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 02:24 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 20, 2024 02:24 PM (Gqoy+)
All this from a childhood stutter.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 02:24 PM (+oR7L)
You have no idea what you're missing.
Posted by: Martha Raddatz at December 20, 2024 02:24 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: ShainS -- Vivek for Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (tIIi9)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (xCA6C)
And is married to a chick with a dick.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (j+LsA)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:24 PM
Obama went for Gilligan.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (+oR7L)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (j+LsA)
Back in the 80's.
Posted by: Obama at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (rj6Yv)
Sen. Chris Murphy just went on CNN and accused @elonmusk of "endorsing a neo-N*zi party” over Elon’s support of German political party AfD.
This is an insanely dishonest smear.
Murphy went on to fearmonger about the possibility of Trump supporting neo-N*zis:
"What we know is that what Elon Musk thinks tends to eventually be what the president of the United States thinks. And if the United States takes an official position in favor of neo-N*zis in Germany. I mean, it is absolutely catastrophic."
Democrats also called Trump H*tler and Republicans n*zis for the last four years, to put this outrageous slander into perspective.
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Well, I'm glad we got that straight.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (L/fGl)
Obama went for Gilligan.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (+oR7L)
I don't know. The doughy fatbodies that have come out having blown him, he seems more of a Skipper kinda guy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (j+LsA)
Obama went for Gilligan.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (+oR7L)
I don't know. The doughy fatbodies that have come out having blown him, he seems more of a Skipper kinda guy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)
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Obama's definitely a Thurston kind of guy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:27 PM (GBKbO)
David Axelrod
Jim Messina
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)
Messina defines creepy.
Axelrod is just a malicious dork.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:27 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:27 PM (j+LsA)
I am incapable of believing that The Lightwalker has even average intelligence, so I'm ready for that message.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (1bNHn)
Posted by: Hillary Africanus at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: electronic means at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (WVQot)
That's very apropos to Ace's post. These idiots have clearly all gotten marching orders to smear Elon. Why do you suppose that is? Could it be that he's insanely effective, and they fear him like no other, even Trump?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (j+LsA)
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What you are seeing is intrafactional rhetorical warfare, as different parts of the Democrat faction blame each other for the losses of this year.
The monolith has shattered, not that it was ever more than a monolith in more than name, and the Democrats are stabbing each other for control.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (GBKbO)
Probably a far right wing extremist
Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 20, 2024 02:29 PM (Vyll1)
Axelrod is just a malicious dork.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:27 PM (VoAdT)
Messina molested pajama boy during the shoot, I've heard.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)
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I'm pretty sure he draws a line at calling Big Mike "Lovey!"
Posted by: electronic means at December 20, 2024 02:29 PM (WVQot)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 02:29 PM (i0F8b)
Probably a far right wing extremist
Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (GUOwU)
Screaming "THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Hence El Rushbo's "The Montage".
A spliced clip of many, many, MANY different talking heads uttering the same specific phrase. Occasionally a variant, but 9 times out of 10, the same exact wording. EXACT wording.
It would be the different voices and a single sentence, or part of a longer sentence. You could hear the different newscasters and TV hosts. And you'd hear it for half a minute to a minute, covering the gamut.
The word gets out, but there's a kind of Mafia omerta in not ratting out the source and location of the mothership of this hivemind. Though "Journo-list" was probably one of those sources, at the time.
Posted by: Another Anon at December 20, 2024 02:29 PM (QNMaY)
David Axelrod
Jim Messina
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)
Kenny Loggins ?
Posted by: Columbia Records Exec. at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (TTAGa)
(I know, I bring this up a lot.)
This all goes back to the Treglia speech written up in the WSJ in 2005 (google "astroturf politics, pew, treglia")
This is how they got campaign finance reform through. My thinking is that many (or most) key people are in astroturf bubbles created by china, google, and cia. This would be very easy with modern tech.
(also, I think Mitch McConnell is in an astroturf bubble and that explains his positions.)
Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (s5wuY)
Not saying that this is what happens in these echo chambers, but I would be surprised if it didn't happen.
We know it happened with Reuters being bought to give bad press to Tesla. Shameful.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (fs1hN)
David Axelrod
Jim Messina
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)
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Que Es Mas Espeluznante?
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (krQz2)
What they did wasn't so much a major revelation and revolution of disseminating and controlling thought and opinion.
What Gay Lightbringer and his handlers did was adopt high school mean-girl tactics, and apply them to the political arena. The insular cliques, the ostracizing anyone deemed uncool, the back-stabbing and rumor-mongering, the basic narrative and what's "in" and "cool" controlled by a self-appointed group of vapid narcissists? It's all there. Every bit of it.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (iFTx/)
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7-Year-Old Girl Killed, 5 Others Injured in Elementary School Knife Attack: 'We Are Horrified'
Authorities said a 19-year-old was detained and put under police surveillance following the attack in Zagreb, Croatia
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It was an AR-15 knife.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (GBKbO)
Or, to put it another way - Time for a new delivery system for the same old drug.
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (rj6Yv)
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"Sparks of Divinity" and "Acts of Love" even;
Posted by: ShainS -- Vivek for Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (tIIi9)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (17s+e)
Kenny Loggins ?
Posted by: Columbia Records Exec. at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (TTAGa)
Well played.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)
The way to emasculate Obama and Axelrod is to consistently refer to them as purveyors of false information. Congenital liars, as it were.
Do this everywhere and all the time.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (i4sOa)
"When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity.
To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself.
One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded and even destroyed.
A society of emasculated liars is easy to control."
-- Theodore Dalrymple
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)
So that's why he was hugging that cocoa mug like it would tell him that everything is still OK and he's still a good person.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (YzqWW)
They want to con them as quickly as possible and move on to the next con.
And are now absolutely astounded that no one trusts them or their "experts".
We have the stupidest, worst ruling class in our history.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (kAFFE)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:17 PM (I87yH)
Somewhere in North Dakota, a nuclear missle silo just opened up.
Thanks Blondie!
Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (FCbAQ)
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7-Year-Old Girl Killed, 5 Others Injured in Elementary School Knife Attack: 'We Are Horrified'
Authorities said a 19-year-old was detained and put under police surveillance following the attack in Zagreb, Croatia
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It was an AR-15 knife.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (L/fGl)
It was worse. It was an AR-16 knife.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:32 PM (j+LsA)
Re: Obama - he still sucks.
Re: Pres. Musk. MSM thinks they are too cute by half. Buncha retards.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 20, 2024 02:32 PM (GTqXr)
A head-on train crash in eastern Germany killed 10 people and injured at least 33 others, eight of them severely, local firefighters said."
Government already calling it act of terror ... no word on the "... and it's a Muslim" driver.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 02:32 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:32 PM (j+LsA)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (VNX3d)
Even worse. It had the thing that goes up.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 20, 2024 02:33 PM (GTqXr)
One becomes a puppet when ....
A) one is weak. Weak in mind, weak of morals, weak in integrity, weak in principles.
B) one is desperate for attention, love, friendship, money, power, etc.
C) one is coerced because one is weak, or desperate.
Which of these describes Donald Trump?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 02:33 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Present at December 20, 2024 02:33 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:33 PM (YzqWW)
David Axelrod
Jim Messina
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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On looks only Messina by one ugly mile.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 20, 2024 02:33 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:17 PM (I87yH)
Somewhere in North Dakota, a nuclear missle silo just opened up.
Thanks Blondie!
Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (FCbAQ)
Do.You.Want.To.Play.A.Game. ...
Posted by: W.O.P.R. at December 20, 2024 02:34 PM (TTAGa)
They want to con them as quickly as possible and move on to the next con.
And are now absolutely astounded that no one trusts them or their "experts".
We have the stupidest, worst ruling class in our history.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (kAFFE)
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I think the elite cared about convincing us until 2010. The Tea Party was the breaking point when the uniparty decided that we had too much of a say, that we could undermine everything so much with a nearly 60 seat swing in one election, and they went overboard to "correct" that.
Obama was the focal point in 2012, to save his presidency. 2016 woke them up to realize that they weren't as powerful as they thought they were. They went nuts in 2020. 2024 saw the first real, organized pushback against the new regime that started in 2011.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:34 PM (GBKbO)
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This is almost always the case. No way Obama is some sort of evil genius. Evil yes. Genius... hardly. He's a pliable fool who once commanded the leftists with catchy phrases written by someone else. His voice was his/his/his stuttering incoherent bullshit.
Like *biden. And Harris.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 02:34 PM (Q4IgG)
Nothing new under the sun. It's part-and-parcel of the spiritual conflict. Once you perceive it, you can't unsee it.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 02:34 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: a wistful Barack writes on his journal at December 20, 2024 02:34 PM (Ybyk2)
And then without missing a beat: We'll be right back to Trump is a Bond Villain.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 02:35 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (j+LsA)
The Clintons and the Obamas have been fighting for control of the Democrat party for going on 16 years now. Hillary!'s losses in 08 and 16 set the Clinton's control of the party way back, but they are the ones that play the long game while the Obamas are the Veruca Salt's of the party and want their golden goose right now.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at December 20, 2024 02:35 PM (k1E2D)
Seems a nick I've not seen in a while.
Welcome back.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Like *biden. And Harris.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 02:34 PM (Q4IgG)
Obama still makes Dr. Evil look intelligent.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 02:35 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 02:36 PM (DopAq)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:34 PM (GBKbO)
I read that as 'fecal point.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)
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I heard E Jean called this a sexy sexy book
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:36 PM (j+LsA)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (VNX3d)
AR-220, AR-221, whatever it takes.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2024 02:36 PM (LxER7)
These lightweight current Dems are no different than the idiot Clinton, who polled where to take August vacations.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 02:36 PM (1m82a)
David Axelrod
Jim Messina
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)
Kenny Loggins ?
Posted by: Columbia Records Exec. at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (TTAGa)
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I'm alright. Don't noboody worry about me.
Posted by: Kenny Loggins at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:17 PM (I87yH)
You sunk my 3D battleship!!!
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (JRP2U)
And then without missing a beat: We'll be right back to Trump is a Bond Villain.
I mean, I'm right here! How come Elon gets all the hate/love? Buncha damn racists.
Posted by: Vivek at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (xCA6C)
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Yes. Another example is "Climate Change"
I mean, what can be more IN THE KNOW than SCIENCE?! Right?
Posted by: Jay in PA at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (i7Q7S)
I heard E Jean called this a sexy sexy book
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:36 PM (j+LsA)
Then used it as evidence against Trump.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)
David Axelrod
Jim Messina
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)
John "Pedodesta" Podesta.
Posted by: XTC at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (UnA8+)
This also raises serious alarms about AI snd reports that the feral government intends to take over many, if not all, aspects of its development.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (i4sOa)
It begins in Kindergarten and goes all the way through post-grad.
the educational system must be utterly purged of every single leftist and Democrat. Dissolve the damned teacher unions, the NEA and the Dept of Ed.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:38 PM (x0n13)
Seems a nick I've not seen in a while.
Welcome back.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Thanks. I lurk more than I post anymore.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 02:38 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 02:21 PM (jFCkp
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I know, right? It's almost like ace doesn't want me to read the content.
Posted by: Turn 2 at December 20, 2024 02:38 PM (JfxgE)
Hence El Rushbo's "The Montage".
A spliced clip of many, many, MANY different talking heads uttering the same specific phrase. Occasionally a variant, but 9 times out of 10, the same exact wording. EXACT wording.
GRAVITAS!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 02:38 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2024 02:38 PM (g07/a)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 02:38 PM (pJWtt)
Understandable. It happens.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)
What really must be done to the Left is what Bill Ayers said had to be done to 25 million Americans once he and the Weathermen overthrew America.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2024 02:38 PM (g07/a)
When did Republicans get upgraded to cats and other felines? I thought they were stuck at rodents.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (j+LsA)
They still do whenever they assure us that Uke drone forces will be in Moscow by or how it'd be totes okay to nuke Russia because they're a paper tiger.
Then, the next week, we're back to Putin is literally Genghis Khan, but worse because Khan was Mongolian and, therefore, Chinese (sort of).
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (WXNFJ)
"Until the fever broke. Today, Donald Trump is victorious, and Obama is the loser"
Indeed. TOTUS is a giant LOSER
Posted by: deadrody at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (OeYsY)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (i4sOa)
We need competing AI platforms, able to sniff out and counter malicious AIs.
I belive this is how some dystopian novels begin anyway.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 02:21 PM (jFCkp
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I know, right? It's almost like ace doesn't want me to read the content.
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Its his invisible barrel, it is.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (jFCkp)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (x0n13)
But, he was just Jenny from the block.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Big Penguin at December 20, 2024 02:41 PM (g07/a)
Posted by: Big Penguin at December 20, 2024 0
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"It's your fault we lost the election!"
-Big Luxembourg
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:42 PM (GBKbO)
What really must be done to the Left is what Bill Ayers said had to be done to 25 million Americans once he and the Weathermen overthrew America.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (x0n13)
And to think he came ***this close*** to achieving that wet dream.
Posted by: browndog kicks dirt on that piece of shite at December 20, 2024 02:42 PM (TTAGa)
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Remember this classic from DeathCare "Architect" & MIT "Economist" Jonathan Gruber a decade ago:
"Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage, and basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass."
Well, he wasn't wrong about that ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Vivek for Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 02:42 PM (tIIi9)
Failing up much?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 02:42 PM (VNX3d)
Failing up much?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 02:42 PM (VNX3d)
I question the timing.
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:43 PM (j+LsA)
Under no circumstances does the media want the public to know that they are indeed the 'enemy of the people' that Trump accused them of being. Now that Trump has ridden the preference cascade to a 55% approval rating, ABC paying $16 million to not have court discovery show that the Fifteen Minute Trump Hate was a media op is a small price to pay to keep their necks free from the lampposts that would be waiting for them if it were to come out.
They will ride Luigi as far as they need to, to save their own skins.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 02:43 PM (fJJtc)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (xCA6C)
And it might have worked... before Musk bought Twitter and started hanging regularly with Rogan.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 02:43 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: browndog kicks dirt on that piece of shite at December 20, 2024 02:42 PM (TTAGa)
He would've had to disarm us and be assured that the military circa 1968 would obey his orders.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:43 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:43 PM (YzqWW)
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Yes it is Ace. Thanks for sharing it.
Posted by: scampydog at December 20, 2024 02:44 PM (2bFN5)
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Yes. Another example is "Climate Change"
I mean, what can be more IN THE KNOW than SCIENCE?! Right?
Posted by: Jay in PA at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (i7Q7S)
One of Mrs. Cop's sisters and brother-in-law are raving loon Leftists. This brother-in-law was talking about the wonders of the electric car and didn't know how to respond to a mechanical engineer (me), a civil engineer (another brother-in-law) and a fire fighter captain (a nephew) all rebut his arguments and tell him EVs are a terrible idea.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 02:44 PM (pJWtt)
A head-on train crash in eastern Germany killed 10 people and injured at least 33 others, eight of them severely, local firefighters said."
Government already calling it act of terror ... no word on the "... and it's a Muslim" driver.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 02:32 PM (Cus5s)
You don't get head-on train crashes unless somebody on the line throws the switch at the wrong time.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 02:44 PM (8zz6B)
We need competing AI platforms, able to sniff out and counter malicious AIs.
Colossus vs Guardian
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 02:44 PM (63Dwl)
It doesn't much matter how much they outwardly and publicly "reflect" on their previous positions and reports. It was a lie before; they are liars forever more.
For example, Van Jones (not to pick on him alone but there will now be legions like him), who has been a chief spinner and propagandist and hopscotches to truth every once in a while when he sees the DNC position drifting too far into space. They are instrumental in this institutional communication lie machine. That they mouth some words after the conceived and applied operation has failed to reclaim lost "intellectual" ground remains as offensive as their initial crime.
They can continue to pound sand forever. They are crooked. That they now validate some position I/we had because it was truth is corrupt because the goal is simply repositioning for a more favorable future for themselves when they'll reinitiate the machine once again.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 20, 2024 02:44 PM (aXxgO)
David Axelrod
Jim Messina
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)
Kenny Loggins ?
Posted by: Columbia Records Exec. at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (TTAGa)
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I'm alright. Don't noboody worry about me.
Posted by: Kenny Loggins at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (krQz2)
Kenny loggins needs to lay off the filler or whatever he's doing to his face, he looks creepy.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 02:45 PM (1gLn1)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 20, 2024 02:45 PM (UKUm3)
Scott Jennings Drops the Mother of All Truth Bombs on CNN
Jennings zeroed in on Jayapal’s slip of the tongue. “She let the mask slip right at the end. She said, ‘Who’s the president right now?’” he noted.
Jennings went on to cite a recent Wall Street Journal exposé revealing that Joe Biden hasn’t actually been in charge over the past four years, and that unelected staffers and cabinet members have basically been running the government.
"Joe Biden, who we rarely hear from, The Wall Street Journal reported today has been diminished for the last four years, and we've had unelected people running around running the federal government, apparently."
Jennings didn’t stop there. He turned Jayapal’s criticism of Trump and Musk back on the Democrats, pointing out their glaring hypocrisy. “If that is what they’re worried about, if they’re worried about people who aren’t Donald Trump, you know, running the government or having influence, I wonder where they’ve been the last four years,” he quipped.
https://is.gd/U4L27e
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:45 PM (xCA6C)
Kenny loggins needs to lay off the filler or whatever he's doing to his face, he looks creepy.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 02:45 PM (1gLn1)
Seems his role on Archer went to his head.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:43 PM (x0n13)
Oh, I was bringing forward his vision to "COVID YEARS".
They almost grasped their Brass Ring right there.
Posted by: browndog kicks dirt on that piece of shite at December 20, 2024 02:46 PM (TTAGa)
"Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage, and basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass."
Well, he wasn't wrong about that ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Vivek for Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 02:42 PM (tIIi9)
Thank goodness for Elon. that mini porkulus CR might yet survive, but he derailed it by exposing it and opening a lot of heretofore LIV eyes at the sausage making process.
The Elites cannot abide by that. He is a real threat, as is of course PDT.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:46 PM (x0n13)
Well, he wasn't wrong about that ...
Posted by: ShainS"
Thankfully the Biden regime insanity manage to flip a few million Dems. The rest are even more stupid than when that was written.
Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2024 02:46 PM (GUOwU)
Gassss chamber > echo chamber
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 20, 2024 02:47 PM (9sGg5)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 20, 2024 02:45 PM (UKUm3)
What's even funnier is that Elon actually wanted to back out of his purchase of Twitter once he had a chance to look at the books. "No takebacks!" they said and threatened to sue him to force him to buy Twitter.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 02:47 PM (fJJtc)
Colossus vs Guardian
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 02:44 PM (63Dwl)
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Props for the obscure reference. Very underrated movie. Way ahead of its time.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 02:47 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:47 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:47 PM (YzqWW)
I mean, Owebama wasn't born here either.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)
Those diabolical cars out there just running people over willy-nilly. Somebody should do something.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 20, 2024 02:49 PM (CwhoI)
Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 02:49 PM (q177U)
Those diabolical cars out there just running people over willy-nilly. Somebody should do something.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 20, 2024 02:49 PM (CwhoI)
Common sense car control, NOW.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)
Colossus vs Guardian
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 02:44 PM (63Dwl)
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Props for the obscure reference. Very underrated movie. Way ahead of its time.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 02:47 PM (iFTx/)
Puny, compared to the M-5 ...
Posted by: zombie Richard Daystrom at December 20, 2024 02:50 PM (TTAGa)
The King is Dead; Long Live the King.
Yep. Now, the slot may be vacant of a body at the moment, but the crown and scepter is just waiting for the right mold to harden.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 20, 2024 02:50 PM (aXxgO)
Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 02:49 PM (q177U)
"What?"
- -- - - - - Claus Schwab Looking to Kill a few Billion
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)
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Jennings is pretty good at the panel of talking heads game, even always being outnumbered. To be fair though, his fellow panelists are idiots.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 02:51 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:51 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 20, 2024 02:51 PM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 02:51 PM (fs1hN)
If he's not careful, he'll wind up suiciding in a park somewhere.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:47 PM (YzqWW)
He can't; born in South Africa. Not a "native born" American citizen.
Of course that didn't stop a certain dusky-hued fellow who claimed to have been born in Kenya when he wrote a book and ran for U.S. Senate.
Besides, Elon Musk aspires to be Benevolent Dictator of Mars.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 02:52 PM (pJWtt)
Thank goodness for Elon. that mini porkulus CR might yet survive, but he derailed it by exposing it and opening a lot of heretofore LIV eyes at the sausage making process.
The Elites cannot abide by that. He is a real threat, as is of course PDT.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:46 PM (x0n13)
The USA owes Musk quite a lot of gratitude for buying twitter. I also think Musk would be in jail if Trump hadn't won the election.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 02:52 PM (1gLn1)
In other news, it appears that Islamic cultural enrichment has incurred in Madeburg, Germany when somebody drove a car into a Christmas market. And just like that, 2016 Berlin repeats itself.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 02:52 PM (e+6P0)
obama hasn't had an original thought in his life
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 20, 2024 02:52 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: zombie Richard Daystrom
Any computer that can be talked into offing itself is not that smart.
Posted by: Cap'n Quirk at December 20, 2024 02:52 PM (vFG9F)
I'll just excerpt the conclusory parts. But he builds up to this by noting, for example, how American "elite" opinion turned on Iran overnight.
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Notice how fast changes in usage occur. For example, people woke (?) up one morning and saying "of color" - i.e., a triumph of Marxist PR - became de rigeur. If the approved usage had been "of color" then Reds would demand the usage be "colored" - and the woke instantly comply. I suspect the Reds just to amuse themselves.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 02:52 PM (YqDXo)
In fact, we have done worse.
Actually, we ARE doing worse.
Posted by: pookysgirl, cuddled up with an arthritic cat at December 20, 2024 02:53 PM (dtlDP)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 20, 2024 02:45 PM (UKUm3)
What's even funnier is that Elon actually wanted to back out of his purchase of Twitter once he had a chance to look at the books. "No takebacks!" they said and threatened to sue him to force him to buy Twitter.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 02:47 PM (fJJtc)
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I recall that Musk even sued in DE chancery to get out of the deal. The whole thing was just so odd. Musk never really wanted to buy it. They never wanted to sell it. Then all of a sudden, they did want to sell it. Musk backtracked. They forced him to buy it.
I think they went from "Twitter is too awesome for Musk to own" to "Twitter is a basket case not worth pennies on the dollar, so we should stick Musk with this turd" in the space of 24 hours. Musk was always mostly along for the ride.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 02:53 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 02:53 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Emmie at December 20, 2024 02:53 PM (Sf2cq)
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Jennings is pretty good at the panel of talking heads game, even always being outnumbered. To be fair though, his fellow panelists are idiots.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 02:51 PM (fs1hN)
Anyone who comments here could do as good, or perhaps a better job against those mediocrities.
The question is:
Why is he, now, allowed to question the powers that be?
Posted by: browndog barking at December 20, 2024 02:53 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 02:43 PM (ExV1e)
One billionaire out of how many steps off the reservation, and he's suddenly the personification of capitalist evil.
All the other billionaires who foot the bill for your goofy bullshit are just lucky philanthropists, though. They're fine.
Scumbags.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:53 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 02:49 PM (q177U)
Or maybe they and we could stop importing people that want to destroy us and are incompatible with life in the west.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 02:54 PM (1gLn1)
Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 02:49 PM (q177U)
This should be true for any large open space where people can gather. Parks, sports fields, etc. Jersey barriers, bollards, fences, gates, whatever it takes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 02:54 PM (8zz6B)
This could be interesting.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - is a man who works and pays his bills strong and independent or just normal? at December 20, 2024 02:54 PM (EG0V3)
Posted by: Vivek at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (xCA6C)
It would be hilarious if he posted that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 02:54 PM (ExV1e)
control over digital platforms, and what appeared on those platforms, was a key element in signaling and exercising that power.
......
And then the fever broke.
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I wish there was someone to get into the Obamas' heads right now. Are they mad as hell that their game is up, or are they counting their millions and moving on? I guess we'll see in 2028.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:55 PM (I87yH)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (xCA6C)
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This. As said many times before, he's the CPUSA's lawn jockey. Born and bred, came up through the Red farm system, and ultimately made it to the show.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 02:55 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 02:55 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Corndog at December 20, 2024 02:55 PM (vCfXW)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 02:53 PM (iFTx/)
I do love the attitude of saying "welp, let's see what we can do with this pile of nonsense."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:55 PM (VoAdT)
http://tiny.cc/rk82001
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 02:56 PM (Odg76)
Posted by: miguel cervantes at December 20, 2024 02:56 PM (dJR17)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 02:54 PM (8zz6B)
Or just round up the sandmaggots and kick them the fuck out.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 02:56 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Citizen Cake
We must ban Christmas markets. For the children.
Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2024 02:57 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (I0ZPN)
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And how and why did he get elected? Because he's black(ish).
And how and why did he get selected by the Reds? Because he's black(ish).
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 02:57 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at December 20, 2024 02:57 PM (1VvJB)
This could be interesting.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - is a man who works and pays his bills strong and independent or just normal? at December 20, 2024 02:54 PM (EG0V3)
That's not who we are!
Posted by: Minnesota Republican Party at December 20, 2024 02:57 PM (fs1hN)
http://tiny.cc/rk82001
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 02:56 PM (Odg76)
He's got hairy legs.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:57 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 02:57 PM (e+6P0)
If you aren't properly blocking car access to European Christmas markets using bollards and fences, you are doing something very, very wrong. Almost seems intentional at this point.
Posted by: Max Power
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For years, people have been posting pictures on X of those ugly, interfering bollards in European Christmas markets. I guess Magdeburg had to FAFO.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:58 PM (I87yH)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 02:43 PM (ExV1e)
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It surprised the hell out of me when Rogan bit the bullet and endorsed Trump.
I felt that he was leaning that way. I felt that he was frustrated with the DNC-media complex, but I thought he would reserve endorsing a candidate.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (krQz2)
the CIA had been made dumb and blind, thanks to Deutch's purge, they ignored the Northern Alliance and the threat Obama posed,
Posted by: miguel cervantes at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (dJR17)
Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 02:49 PM (q177U)
Leftists will have some idea, "If this, then Utopia" and when reality intervenes, they have cognitive dissonance. Since Muslim migrants are good and peaceful, any actions to the contrary cannot be undertaken.
Case in point: look at the reaction of the DEI-hire police chief at Madison, WI. When asked if the school had metal detectors, his response was "Why would they need metal detectors since a school is a 'Safe Space(tm)'?" -- despite that fact that they just had a mass casualty event in a school a few hours earlier.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (j+LsA)
Back in the 80's.
Posted by: Obama at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (i0F8b)
And in 2022. This idea was what was beind the strategy that a few sanctions would cause Russia to collapse and Ukraine to be the army that would control the successor states for looting.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at December 20, 2024 02:57 PM (1VvJB)
What does this even mean? I've never met anyone in real life that speaks like this. I guess I'm sheltered.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (1gLn1)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (VoAdT)
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The trigger: when Putin banned adoption of Russian kids by Americans, because of the faggot problem.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 02:56 PM (BI5O2)
Well, that should be done in any case. But do you think that stooned coont in madison would not have used a car instead of a pistol, if she had the former and not the latter?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (8zz6B)
Article really needs an editor. Too much word salad like "... operatives could create and operationalize mutually reinforcing networks of activists and experts to validate a messaging arc that would short-circuit traditional methods of validation and analysis ..."
Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This
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Yes. I'm glad ace excerpted the good parts because I'm not sure I can read a whole long article like that.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (I87yH)
Rules For Radicals. It's a cookbook.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (LkLld)
That's very apropos to Ace's post. These idiots have clearly all gotten marching orders to smear Elon. Why do you suppose that is? Could it be that he's insanely effective, and they fear him like no other, even Trump?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (xCA6C)
Time for Musk to strike back with massive slander lawsuits. And, maybe have a couple of gentlemen have a little "talk" with Shitheel Murphy. Maybe tell him to calm down. Yeah. Calm down. *wink*wink*
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (iODuv)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 03:00 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Emmie at December 20, 2024 03:00 PM (Sf2cq)
Here's the thing - nobody is in charge of this process. The people generating these mems are also captured by them.
I've always thought, what possible advantage is it for the U.S. to advantage Iran? Even the advocates of that, aren't advantaged. The answer is the advocates are also captured by the ideology they push, right up to the top. Obama pushes it because he pushes it. There is no reasoning there. He's as captured by theses stupid ideas as everyone else.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:00 PM (nLFEI)
And how and why did he get selected by the Reds? Because he's black(ish).
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 02:57 PM (YqDXo)
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Unpossible. Our system hates black and blackish people!
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:00 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: browndog barking
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No way. Maybe most of us could in writing, but it's a totally different talent in that setting.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (Dm8we)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:00 PM (krQz2)
And they're not allowed to vote!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Corndog at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (vCfXW)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (RsS92)
Posted by: Emmie at December 20, 2024 03:00 PM (Sf2cq)
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It's an appeal to awakening narcissism.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (1VvJB)
No way. Maybe most of us could in writing, but it's a totally different talent in that setting.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (Dm8we)
He's not wrong, here.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (1gLn1)
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*removes card from envelope*
Words spoken by Shakespeare's editor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (GBKbO)
I am not ready to credit them with such generous attributes. Some, sure. Most? I am not so sure.
There are some gatekeepers who were more likely willing participants, and then you have the retarded newsreaders who will read and say anything for a check.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 20, 2024 03:02 PM (i24o9)
On CNN? Then nobody heard it.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 20, 2024 03:02 PM (CwhoI)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (VoAdT)
...and after that, the Gabor sisters.
Posted by: Consultant to the Stars at December 20, 2024 03:02 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 02:53 PM (iFTx/)
Twitter had always been designed to lose money, and to be a back door through which the FBI, DOJ, and all the other alphabet agencies could control the social networks. I suspect they decided Musk should go ahead and bankrupt himself on it, since no one believed it could be run profitably. All of those huge valuations were of the same cloth as Kamala's Iowa poll numbers.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 03:02 PM (wyMQY)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 03:02 PM (e+6P0)
The Dems aren't happy unless they're insulting someone.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (1gLn1)
its administrator-speak.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 03:03 PM (n7h9X)
Geez talk about going whichever way the wind blows...
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:04 PM (j+LsA)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 02:43 PM (ExV1e)
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It surprised the hell out of me when Rogan bit the bullet and endorsed Trump.
I felt that he was leaning that way. I felt that he was frustrated with the DNC-media complex, but I thought he would reserve endorsing a candidate.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (krQz2)
If Kamala had taken the opportunity to show up on Rogan's show, he would not have endorsed anyone.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 03:04 PM (fJJtc)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 03:02 PM (e+6P0)
Trains and camps and showers.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)
Iran supporters support Iran because Obama supports it. Obama supports Iran because Obama think he is smarter than everyone else, hence whatever he thinks is right must be right.
Supporting Iran is something Obama elaborately justifies to himself, then sells to others. What we get wrong is assuming there is some nefarious plan - there isn't. there enever was. It is all just heightened self-regard.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:04 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (j+LsA)
Its like the Blues Brothers "we have both kinds, country and western!" But in this case, its "we have both left and far left!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (RsS92)
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Thanks for the recommendation & reference, Ace.
[Tangentially related observation from sometime last year IIRC:]
Christopher Rufo makes an interesting point in his latest book "America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything" (heard him interviewed about it on radio).
The American Marxist cultural revolution of the '60s and '70s failed because they couldn't seize the means of PHYSICAL production -- the American middle class was too prosperous, despite the globalist elites War on Domestic Manufacturing (and prior to the information age economy).
They then "retooled and seized upon" Herbert Marcuse's strategy of taking over all the institutions beginning with the academy.
Now they've succeeded because they have effectively seized the means of KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION, and COMMUNICATIONS production.
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (QohHq)
Posted by: miguel cervantes at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (dJR17)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 03:04 PM (fJJtc)
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Even if she had becoming a puddled mess of nonsense, Rogan still wouldn't have taken a side because he would have found some wisdom or other in the word salad that doesn't actually mean anything.
Kamala was simply in a no win scenario. Show up, she reveals herself. Don't show up, she loses a chance to appeal to a powerful podcaster.
Maybe she shouldn't have sucked.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:06 PM (GBKbO)
On CNN? Then nobody heard it.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 20, 2024 03:02 PM (CwhoI)
Zelensky's Ukraine army in 2022 was about 30 percent actual N*zis. All the other German parties support Ukraine. Not sure of AfD's position on that, but they want out of NATO/EU.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 03:06 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (Dm8we)
Come to a MoMe, and listen to the well thought out, cogent arguments ... and the calling of BULLSHIT.
Yes, being on camera and being able to be articulate is an acquired talent, but it's not rocket surgery.
Posted by: browndog parries at December 20, 2024 03:06 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:06 PM (VoAdT)
"Stein... that's a jew name, isn't it?"
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 20, 2024 03:06 PM (9sGg5)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (j+LsA)
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More like...they did everything in their power to prevent Musk from buying Twitter while they told their True Believers that Twitter would collapse technologically without 20,000 censors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:06 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 02:56 PM (BI5O2)
Dude you have such a way with words. It always cracks me up. I'm so glad that your little girl is doing so well: when she was born it was sounding rather dire.
However, I do disagree with you on the individual oubliettes within the 1100 acres in DC. There would have to be dividing walls and that's just an unnecessary expense. Just excavate one giant pit and dump them in. Drop in a few edged weapons and tell them, "Bon appetit!"
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 03:07 PM (pJWtt)
Its like the Blues Brothers "we have both kinds, country and western!" But in this case, its "we have both left and far left!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (RsS92)
That goes back to the Clinton Era at least. Trump Derangement made it impossible to hide.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 03:07 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:07 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 03:02 PM (e+6P0)
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I see The Lord's hand in that.
I really don't know what America is to God, but it seems to be something He wants to keep around at least a little longer to show the benefits of a system that almost runs like the Meek have inherited the Earth (as opposed to the traditional rule of Strong Men).
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:07 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 20, 2024 03:08 PM (QAkQ3)
It helps to look back in time at the forces that shaped leftist thought. Post WW2 they were all convinced that the causes of the war and the rise of fascism came from borders, disparities in power, and individualism. If we got rid of all that, then war would cease.
For the leftists who back Iran (the Obama mob family) they think a powerful Iran will bring peace by unifying the Islamic world and giving a feeling of strength and self worth to Muslims.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:08 PM (RsS92)
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:08 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 03:04 PM (fJJtc)
I dunno.
If she did brazen it out, and make a complete ass out of herself as she does with everything she attempts.... it might have been an even more forceful endorsement of Trump anyway.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:08 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 03:08 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:08 PM (VoAdT)
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Rogan is borderline retarded and would have found common cause with Kamala.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:08 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (j+LsA)
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He lost $40 billion on that deal that saved free speech and helped Trump win this year -- and his wealth has increased by $200 billion since that election.
What an idiotic dumbass ...
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (QohHq)
But that is just delusion. They don't have a clue that will work.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: Akshulee Enpecey at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (OA79/)
Musk: Grand Inquisitor
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (QAkQ3)
The Trump era made them go full into it. Remember, the press used to try to hide their bias. With Trump's inauguration the New York Times ran a front page story about how they are abandoning everything to oppose Trump. That they weren't going to do news, they were going to do year-long anti-Trump projects to destroy him.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (RsS92)
Posted by: DaveA at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (FhXTo)
How many people didn't get caught because they used a free app to come up with a more random distribution of names.
Additionally, as one commenter noticed, one of the woman's fake voters was AUTOMATICALLY ACCEPTED BY THE SYSTEM because she didn't include a SSAN and a DOB. Other registrations lacking pertinent information trigger a HAVA letter which is sent to the registrant asking for more information.
http://tiny.cc/sl82001
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (Odg76)
CBC ... 'journalists' questioning one of our subhuman parasites....aggressively.
"Why is the Prime Minister avoiding talking to us? He's literally going to every backdoor in the city to avoid us!"
Trudeau is no stranger to backdoors, I'm sure.
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:29 PM
What was worse was that he never called me afterward!
Posted by: Pajama Boy at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (kgE5c)
Musk: Batman
Posted by: Josephistan at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (y9ksN)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:08 PM (GBKbO)
Counterpoint: She would likely have started talking smack about weed smokers while draining his studio dry of Buffalo Trace.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:10 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: browndog barking
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No way. Maybe most of us could in writing, but it's a totally different talent in that setting.
Concur. I often wonder if Jennings gets advance notice of the questions and issues to be discussed on a particular show, and then develops and practices his answers. If not, he's way out of the norm for being able to speak extemporaneously.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 03:10 PM (xCA6C)
Now they've succeeded because they have effectively seized the means of KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION, and COMMUNICATIONS production.
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (QohHq)
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Taking over institutions is Adorno's idea. IIRC.
Adorno predates the Frankfort School.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:10 PM (krQz2)
Musk: Batman
Posted by: Josephistan at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (y9ksN)
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Vance: Krypto
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Emmie at December 20, 2024 03:00 PM (Sf2cq)
There's a reason why Pride is usually ranked as the worst of the Deadly Sins.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 03:10 PM (pJWtt)
I'm not convinced Musk won't eventually make a butt load of money from Twitter.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:10 PM (nLFEI)
Musk: Batman
Posted by: Josephistan at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (y9ksN)
That makes Vivek Robin.
LULZ
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)
Yes, being on camera and being able to be articulate is an acquired talent, but it's not rocket surgery.
Posted by: browndog parries
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There are no libshits at a MoMe to piss you off. Jennings keeps his cool. If any of us was on a CNN panel it would turn into Jerry Springer.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 03:11 PM (Dm8we)
Well yeah, of course not. But they feel that its true, and are in such a titanium-clad bubble that they are convinced of their worldview. No one questions it, no one who matters.
Remember, they were ABSOLUTELY convinced that they were the majority, that the right was a tiny stupid dying minority of old white people, and that Trump only won by a technicality, not the support of the popular vote. Nobody THEY knew thought the way we do.
That's why they were so convinced that there could not have been fraud in 2020; of course Trump didn't win the popular vote, his supporters are a small minority. But this recent win... terrified and confused them. They are starting to understand that they are not the vast majority.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:12 PM (RsS92)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 03:10 PM (pJWtt)
And the worst season ever.
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 03:12 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Josephistan at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (y9ksN)
"Faster than a speeding bullet...."
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:12 PM (j+LsA)
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (nLFEI)
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SPOILER: It won't.
But they'll feel good that they *tried* despite all the carnage they've caused.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2024 03:12 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 03:13 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 03:11 PM (Dm8we)
Lol ...
Point taken.
Posted by: browndog parries at December 20, 2024 03:13 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 03:11 PM (Dm8we)
I would swing a chair at the average CNN host in a heartbeat.
"Good morning, thanks for joining u----"
***THWACK!!!*****
"Owww! You dick!"
"WARAIOTOKO RULES!!!!!"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:13 PM (VoAdT)
Ernst von Mansfeld?
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 03:14 PM (Odg76)
I'm not convinced Musk won't eventually make a butt load of money from Twitter.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:10 PM (nLFEI)
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That was his plan.
X-streaming has not been kicked off.
X as an pay exchange is still in the works.
He hasn't begun to make money with X, even though traffic was trending to the pre-exodus levels.
He named it X literally because he thought it could do about everything.
Like tweet your order to a pizza place, and the pizza place charges your X account.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:15 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: DRIED UP REPTILE JAMES CARVILL at December 20, 2024 03:15 PM (oOc/o)
They both creepy as hell.
Posted by: DRIED UP REPTILE JAMES CARVILL at December 20, 2024 03:15 PM (oOc/o)
Hello, Pot?
It's me. Kettle.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:15 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:12 PM (RsS92)
I think it has astounded all of us that Trump's win has knocked the stuffing out of them the way it has. They truly believed it was not possible.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 03:15 PM (wyMQY)
Yeah, that works really well on a lot of people. There are others who find this extremely annoying and off-putting, but that's not a majority.
I watched a video of a girl who was a leftist and eventually came to her senses. She explained what it was like to grow up that way: you felt helpless, hopeless, and endlessly frustrated. They are bombarded with a host of insoluable problems which no one person can possibly even hope to change: climate change, institutionalized racism, sexism, etc etc etc.
The only way she could find to cope was to find others of the same mind set to empathise with and demonstrate. It gave them a sense of use, purpose, and hope. Eventually she figured out it was all crap and lies, but until then it was this self-feeding madness that forced people to gather in these pods of like thinking and shut out anyone else.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:16 PM (RsS92)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (x0n13)
And to think he came ***this close*** to achieving that wet dream.
Posted by: browndog kicks dirt on that piece of shite at December 20, 2024 02:42 PM (TTAGa)
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See also Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Salvador Allende ...
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 03:16 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 03:15 PM (wyMQY)
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The biggest surprise since has been Democrat officials continuing to support the popular vote of presidents.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:16 PM (GBKbO)
There are no libshits at a MoMe to piss you off. Jennings keeps his cool. If any of us was on a CNN panel it would turn into Jerry Springer.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 03:11 PM (Dm8we)
I would lose my sh*t and be making faces and rolling my eyes and making jack off motions with my hands. I could never do that.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 03:16 PM (1gLn1)
David Axelrod
Jim Messina
They both creepy as hell.
Posted by: DRIED UP REPTILE JAMES CARVILL
John Podesta is creepier than both of them.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 20, 2024 03:17 PM (sAmhv)
The jobs offer annual salaries of up to $310,000 and could inflate the federal payroll by $160 million annually.
Daily Wire reporter @lukerosiak explains how the Biden administration is sabotaging the Trump administration before President Biden packs his bags.
"It seems like an effort to sandbag the Trump Administration in the same way as auctioning off pieces of the border wall or signing union contracts that extend through 2029."
https://bit.ly/49LrUbD
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 03:17 PM (P5BPp)
Like tweet your order to a pizza place, and the pizza place charges your X account.
Yeah X is more generic, it allows him to use it for a bunch of other products. Plus all the big advertisers are coming back LOL
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:17 PM (RsS92)
Its like the Blues Brothers "we have both kinds, country and western!" But in this case, its "we have both left and far left!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (RsS92)
That goes back to the Clinton Era at least. Trump Derangement made it impossible to hide.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 03:07 PM (n7h9X)
The beautiful irony is that by doing that, they killed it all.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 03:17 PM (wyMQY)
Failing up much?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 02:42 PM (VNX3d)
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David Hogg nods in approval.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 03:18 PM (YqDXo)
Maybe alien hardware is being used on the target population. A ray gun to keep the kids off your mental front yard.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 20, 2024 03:18 PM (ABbDT)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:19 PM (j+LsA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 03:19 PM (wyMQY)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 03:10 PM (pJWtt)
And the worst season ever.
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 03:12 PM (jvJvP)
I'd forgotten about those scumbags trying to re-purpose June from being dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus to the Sin of Sodom.
Homosexuals aren't intrinsically bad people, but it is a disordered sexual passion, and most of them were sexually abused during their formative years. We want to break the cycle of abuse rather than celebrating it.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 03:19 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 03:15 PM (wyMQY)
All the people who trusted in The Cheat to win it for their team, but are too little to have anything to do with The Cheat itself, are amazed that the people who actually do the heavy lifting decided it wasn't worth the candle to buy another four years of absolutely shit-canning the Democrat brand with some drunken prostitute they scraped off the streets of San Francisco.
Take the L. Take the draft picks. Call it a building year.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:19 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 02:57 PM (e+6P0)
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Because there's no need to elucidate the obvious.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 03:19 PM (YqDXo)
The jobs offer annual salaries of up to $310,000 and could inflate the federal payroll by $160 million annually.
This is one of those college girl "I'LL FIX THAT TRUMP" pipe dream things. They can't hire that many people in the three weeks they have before Trump takes office (holiday breaks etc) and he can just gire them all right away.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:19 PM (RsS92)
Now it's worth $9 billion and is likely to be profitable.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:20 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM
Video: https://bit.ly/4iQBf6b
Elon Musk @elonmusk
Deliberate mass murder
Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray
CONTENT WARNING: Gruesome footage of the moment a vehicle drove straight through the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 03:21 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 03:19 PM (wyMQY)
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I saw this meme using the urinal reference that everybody knows.
X: Two guys at a row of urinals with 3 urinals between each other.
Threads: Two guys pissing right next to each other.
Bluesky: Two guys turned toward each other, pissing on each other.
I laughed out load because that is so appropo of what I've been reading about Bluesky.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:21 PM (krQz2)
The jobs offer annual salaries of up to $310,000 and could inflate the federal payroll by $160 million annually.
The Federal hiring process can take months to years (no, I'm not kidding) so it will be interesting to see how they accomplish this in a month or two.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 03:21 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 20, 2024 03:22 PM (2NHgQ)
I know I'm being pedantic but ..... is there any fire that isn't a thermal fire? Isn't that the definition of fire, a thermal event? That is a vehicle fire or a battery fire. Can't even say a chemical fire as all fires are eventually chemical even if started by electrical or nuclear energy.
Posted by: Ciampino - Burn baby burn? at December 20, 2024 03:22 PM (i0xsb)
It really was better for the country that Trump lost to Biden.
Maybe he played some 3D chess on that one.
Posted by: E Buzz at December 20, 2024 03:23 PM (JROaS)
If you had one of those animated bar charts with relative influence or military power in the region, you'd see Iran, Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah reduced to virtually nothing much like we was the biggest companies in America eclipsed by Google, Amazon, Netflix, and Facebook, seemingly overnight.
Posted by: deadrody at December 20, 2024 03:23 PM (OeYsY)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 03:23 PM (VNX3d)
The jobs offer annual salaries of up to $310,000 and could inflate the federal payroll by $160 million annually.
The Federal hiring process can take months to years (no, I'm not kidding) so it will be interesting to see how they accomplish this in a month or two.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 03:21 PM (xCA6C)
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Heh. A DEI bureaucrat makes more than a Congresscritter. That's gotta stick in their craw.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2024 03:23 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 03:23 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 02:54 PM
Elon Musk @elonmusk
He did
Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray
Almost a decade ago, UAE Foreign Minister HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed warned Europe of what would happen if they continued down their path of suicidal altruism by inviting dangerous fanatics into their nations. They should have listened.
https://bit.ly/3P4xaO3
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 03:24 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 20, 2024 03:24 PM (iODuv)
Same thing with entertainment. They rammed into Ludicrous Speed to the left, locked down the entire country to regain power in the White House, and then had a huge strike in Hollywood. Its like watching Sideshow Bob walk into a whole street full of rakes. They did it all to themselves.
Now nobody watches network TV or cable any more, and streaming is dying of money starvation. Disney made a ton of money this year but they lost billions last year. They STILL haven't made one thin dime on Star Wars or Lucasfilm. The highest rated show in the world is... a podcast by a pot smoking knucklehead who just asks interesting questions and has fun.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:24 PM (RsS92)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (VoAdT)
...and after that, the Gabor sisters.
Posted by: Consultant to the Stars
In Hungarian, "dahlink" is "dragam".
Posted by: Miklos is happy for assist at December 20, 2024 03:24 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:07 PM (nLFEI)
The explanation is simple, and has a long history.
Case in point...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nKIX0QLGlzw
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 20, 2024 03:24 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Ciampino - Burn baby burn? at December 20, 2024 03:22 PM (i0xsb)
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Fires are defined by the fuels. Class A, B, C, and D. Effectively, EV fires are a Class D burning metal fire. That's what makes them so dangerous. Self sustaining at high temperatures and extremely difficult to extinguish
Posted by: deadrody at December 20, 2024 03:25 PM (OeYsY)
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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:06 PM (GBKbO)
Then she wouldn't have got very far at all.
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:26 PM (j+LsA)
People choose not to be influenced.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 20, 2024 03:27 PM (ABbDT)
Maybe she shouldn't have sucked.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:06 PM (GBKbO)
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Then she wouldn't have had any political career whatsoever.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 03:28 PM (YqDXo)
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Axelrod is creepy enough for this but it's hard to think that Bill Ayers & Wife were not hip deep in this nightmare creation.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 03:29 PM (Drm1A)
I'd say it was actually their greatest failure. By going sooo universally overboard against Trump (and the reality that MAGA/Trump brought because we were living it), everyone saw the endless lies. It was so outlandish and in your face - for years - that most normal people couldn't help but see the game being played. It made too significant a number of new critics to look at ALL media as dishonest and incredible.
There was no plausible deniability to hostile enemedia anymore.
I pray that the electorate doesn't forget this enemedia dynamic for the next forty to fifty years.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 20, 2024 03:29 PM (aXxgO)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 20, 2024 03:31 PM (NQtI0)
People choose not to be influenced.
Posted by: humphreyrobot
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They all should have been made to witness what they did to Danny Pearl. Not driving that home was a sin. Not obliterating them is Bush's shame forever.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 03:33 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (Drm1A)
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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (x0n13)
I'd like to start with Ayers.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 03:58 PM (hwLGC)
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LOL: MSNBC Reportedly Demands That Joy Reid, Stephanie Ruhle Take Pay Cuts to Keep Their Jobs
MSNBC's Joy Reid and Stephanie Ruhle will reportedly need to take a pay cut if they want to remain in their anchor chairs as the struggling cable network continues to cut costs. The left-leaning news channel -- which recently gave star anchor Rachel Maddow a $5 million-a-year haircut from her annual $30 million haul -- has been negotiating with Reid and Ruhle on new deals at reduced salaries, according to the Ankler newsletter. The controversial Reid is believed to be earning $3 million a year to host her nightly 8 p.m. show, "The ReidOut," according to the Washington Free Beacon. Reid, who has been with the network since 2011 and in primetime since 2020, recently raised hackles again with a pre-Thanksgiving rant in which she accused Republicans of worshiping Donald Trump "instead of Jesus." Ruhle, host of "The 11th Hour" at 11 p.m. weeknights, is thought to make $2 million a year, the Free Beacon reported. She has also been a frequent Trump basher but recently praised him for being more accessible to the press than President Biden. Ruhle revealed she was able to contact Trump on his cellphone -- though he told her to "go f--k myself" when she asked for an interview, she quipped. A third prominent host, Jonathan Lemire -- who was elevated this month to co-host "Morning Joe" from anchoring "Way Too Early" -- has also been offered a new contract at a reduced salary, the Ankler reported. An MSNBC spokesperson reached by The Post said the network would not comment on personnel matters. ... The reported lowball offers follow an exclusive story by The Post that staffers at MSNBC's headquarters at 30 Rock are in a panic over looming layoffs after parent company Comcast announced plans to spin off its cable properties. The upheaval has led to reports that MSNBC president Rashida Jones is considering leaving the network after Trump is sworn in on Jan. 20. A spokesperson for Jones denied she is leaving. Meanwhile, MSNBC's primetime ratings continue to nosedive, tanking more than 60% since last month's historic election victory by Trump. It fell behind ratings-challenged CNN in the coveted 25-to-54 demographic for the year in Total Day viewers.Lower than CNN? Ouch, that's terrible. Meanwhile, ABC also gave a new contract to professional defamation agent George Stephanopolous, but also with a big cut. And they only did that, per reports, to avoid having "his blood on their hands." In other words: They really wanted to fire him but thought the optics and backlash from fellow "Resistance journalist" Marxists would be too great.
Disney renews George Stephanopoulos' contract -- with pay cut -- despite $16M Trump settlement because it didn't want 'his blood on their hands': sourceHe is smaller than life. That's true. Which might be why he won't appear on camera in a group setting. His tiny manlet body would be exposed.
Disney decided to renew ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos' contract -- despite having to fork over a $16 million legal settlement -- because they didn't want "his blood on their hands," The Post has learned. Stephanopoulos, who hosts "This Week" and is a co-anchor on "Good Morning America," was handed a multi-year deal -- though he took a pay cut from his lofty $20 million annual salary, sources said. "No one wants a talent mess on their hands," one longtime network executive told The Post. "No one wants an angry George Stephanopoulos loose in the world. No one wants to humiliate George by firing him or to have his blood on their hands."
... "George is well-liked by the liberal-elite in Hollywood and The Hamptons. He's friends with Jerry Seinfeld, Michael J Fox and Netflix boss Ted Sarandos," the source said, adding that he operates in the same "bubble" as left-leaning Disney top brass. "George has carefully cultivated a relationship with [Disney CEO] Bob Iger and board members. He remains a respected member of the Disney family." But inside the halls of ABC News, staffers remain "livid" over Iger's decision to stand by Stephanopoulos and cave to Trump. "They paid off Trump for a mistake that George made. How many jobs could that $16 million have saved?" said a second network source, citing a fresh round of layoffs at the network. "I think people are angry at the humiliation of the settlement with Trump. People are angry with George's unforced errors and his defiance and that he's rewarded for his mistakes with another lucrative contract even if his salary has been cut," the first source said. The source said that even if the journalist is well-regarded by top brass, he isn't a favorite among staffers. Sources said Stephanopoulos is a "loner" who doesn't play well with others. They noted that Stephanopoulos won't take part in election night coverage or appear on air with "ABC World News Tonight" anchor David Muir. "Most great anchors are larger than life. George has always been smaller than life. And this humiliating settlement has made him even smaller," the network exec said.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2024 01:21 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 20, 2024 01:22 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 20, 2024 01:22 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 01:22 PM (6RwsA)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 01:23 PM (6RwsA)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 20, 2024 01:23 PM (GYt5+)
Translation: he has his face lodged firmly in Iger's rectum. At least he doesn't have to bend over; he just walks right up and smooches.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 01:23 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 01:24 PM (MQJVv)
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Don't worry. Corporate won't be too sore. Their new Mufasa movie's gonna make bank!
*looks at Thursday preview numbers*
Oh...Disney's gonna need a whipping boy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 01:24 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: RUReadingthis at December 20, 2024 01:24 PM (aQ25I)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 01:24 PM (6RwsA)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:24 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I'll hang up and listen... at December 20, 2024 01:25 PM (xPJvm)
After that I'm going to quit--I swear to God I'm going to quit.
So, just one, just give me one CR--a little CR?!
Could you help a legislature out?!
Posted by: Congress at December 20, 2024 01:25 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 01:25 PM (6RwsA)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 01:25 PM (hwLGC)
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 01:25 PM (QfvaV)
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 01:26 PM (2zWFh)
I can sympathize with that. Doesn't seem to have hurt his career at all, until now.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 20, 2024 01:26 PM (1VvJB)
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2024 01:26 PM (jgmnb)
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Maybe we insist that they believe:
1. It's not happening. Nobody is taking a paycut. Do you realize how many people would have to be in on a paycut?!
2. Okay, but it's small and temporary...
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:26 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 01:26 PM (2zWFh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:27 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 01:27 PM (hwLGC)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Joy Reid and Stephanie Ruhle should be sent a bill every month, not a paycheck.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 01:27 PM (+oR7L)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 01:27 PM (6RwsA)
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Why not?
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 01:27 PM (QTCRF)
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 01:27 PM (2zWFh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:27 PM (YzqWW)
Buried way down in there on page 1,142. And then again on page 1,647.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 01:27 PM (VoAdT)
None. I'm fairly sure it was budgeted for legal costs and would never be used for any other purpose.
Posted by: huerfano at December 20, 2024 01:28 PM (DKIGo)
Posted by: kathysaysso at December 20, 2024 01:28 PM (hzUuR)
The media is bought and paid for by left wing lunatics. In what sane world does Rocky Madcow get $25 MILLION a year to do what it does?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 20, 2024 01:28 PM (1VvJB)
Libs never fall down the stairs. They always fall upwards.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 01:28 PM (+oR7L)
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With larger cuts in the next CR proposal for when the current proposed CR fails. I could support that.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 01:29 PM (fs1hN)
"No one wants an angry George Stephanopoulos loose in the world. No one wants to humiliate George by firing him or to have his blood on their hands."
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Actually, a lot of people want that. Some of them work at MSNBC.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 20, 2024 01:29 PM (d4X7t)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2024 01:29 PM (D7oie)
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Really? That's odd.
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 01:29 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Puppet Show at December 20, 2024 01:29 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 01:27 PM (6RwsA)
A "read out" is some kind of commie thing, I think. Like the local commissar stands in the town square and reads out the names of everyone known to The People to be enemies of The People that week.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 01:29 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 01:29 PM (i0F8b)
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And the funny thing was that when CNN feinted toward the middle, so many Democrats started to prefer Mess-NBC where their comforting bias was more out in the open.
If they keep this up, Dems are going to get tired of people lying to them at some point.
I mean, theoretically....
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:30 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 01:30 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 20, 2024 01:28 PM
I think it's also what the press calls the daily message from TPTB.
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 20, 2024 01:30 PM (rbKZ6)
as for stephanie ruehle, if it wasn't for her piping up twice,I wouldn't know who she was
Posted by: miguel cervantes at December 20, 2024 01:30 PM (dJR17)
Someone should start the rumor that MSNBC is going to pay Joy Reid 3/5 as much as Stephanie Ruhle.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 01:30 PM (jbnUc)
Matt Lauer had the same problem. I think the Rape had something to do with it.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 01:30 PM (+oR7L)
But they don't want the bad press and accusations of RACISM that will inevitably come if they outright fire them. So they offer "pay cuts" that are designed to be unacceptable, hoping these turds will just up and quit.
It's been working so far. Let it continue en masse.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 01:31 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 01:27 PM (6RwsA)
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It nightly replicates Harry Reid getting knocked out with exercise equipment.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:31 PM (krQz2)
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Be fair, I wouldn't want to appear with Muir either.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 20, 2024 01:31 PM (1bNHn)
Posted by: miguel cervantes at December 20, 2024 01:31 PM (dJR17)
.......
Plus, he's a midget.
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 01:31 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 20, 2024 01:31 PM (Vyll1)
I sincerely hope for sabotage of his appearances on air!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 01:31 PM (d9fT1)
Akshully, I think The Redoubt would be an appropriate name for her show.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 01:31 PM (hwLGC)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 20, 2024 01:32 PM (1VvJB)
Posted by: Mr. Jefferson at December 20, 2024 01:32 PM (2zWFh)
Like Trump was impeached over a readout of the Zelenskyy call.
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 01:32 PM (QfvaV)
Posted by: The Name Game at December 20, 2024 01:32 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: electronic means at December 20, 2024 01:32 PM (WVQot)
Seriously, I don't get what's being said there. Are they saying they legitimately fear the little pocket-man? I swear, the legends these people manage to build around themselves.
Posted by: Ktgreat at December 20, 2024 01:32 PM (33LJY)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 20, 2024 01:28 PM (1VvJB)
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But penicillin can clear that up.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:33 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 01:30 PM (jbnUc)
Brilliant!
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 01:33 PM (hwLGC)
As far as SpinCo, Comcast is trying to shine the turd before selling it outright. I'm surprised they still have offices at 30 Rock and aren't broadcasting out of warehouse in Teaneck NJ.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 20, 2024 01:33 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 01:33 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 01:33 PM (2zWFh)
He's a sick f*ck.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Plainoldtoast at December 20, 2024 01:34 PM (44vKx)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 20, 2024 01:34 PM (mH21R)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 01:34 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 01:34 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 01:23 PM (6RwsA)
I shall attempt to use manlet in conversation five times today.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 01:34 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 01:34 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 01:35 PM (MQJVv)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 20, 2024 01:35 PM (1VvJB)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 01:27 PM (6RwsA)
It's a play on the the term 'read out.' Boy, are those TV folks clever or what? I vote for what.
Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2024 01:35 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I'll hang up and listen... at December 20, 2024 01:35 PM (xPJvm)
OK, we're back to normal.
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 01:34 PM (v0R5T)
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 01:35 PM (hovnC)
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Maybe an angry George might threaten to spill the beans on the Clintons. Then someone might have to literally get his blood on their hands to keep him quiet. Just spek-ulatin'
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 01:35 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:35 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 01:35 PM (2zWFh)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:36 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 01:36 PM (2zWFh)
No one looks up to him, that's for sure.
*HeyOhhhhhh!!*
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 01:36 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 01:36 PM (hwLGC)
That... Shouldn't be a thing.
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 01:35 PM (2zWFh)
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They're unionized in about 500 stores. There are about 16,000 Starbucks in the US.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 01:36 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: scampydog at December 20, 2024 01:36 PM (2bFN5)
Posted by: miguel cervantes at December 20, 2024 01:36 PM (dJR17)
I'm not even saying Georgie was a bad-looking guy. But he's such a mini-me midget weasel. It would be like putting Paulina Porizkova's face on a musty, 3-foot-tall Raggedy-Ann's body. I wouldn't be interested.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 01:37 PM (iFTx/)
That... Shouldn't be a thing.
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 01:35 PM (2zWFh)
I think it's awesome.
Screw starbucks. They deserve all that shit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 01:30 PM (jbnUc)
Brilliant!
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above!
Bee-worthy. 😄
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 20, 2024 01:37 PM (8XYYe)
A rounding error.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 20, 2024 01:37 PM (paSBy)
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 01:29 PM (yq9Cj)
There is, actually, if you can identify the actual customers. The audience is not a customer, it is the actual product that is delivered to the customers. The customer is who must be satisfied to continue receiving paychecks, and who's input is essential on continuing operations.
I suspect it is the major advertisers, like big harma, food and banking services that both advertise and extend operating credit, the other networks who rely on excluding competition and bundling, and the regulators.
The audience is just a product, and the only value they have is that they watch.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2024 01:37 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 20, 2024 01:37 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: miguel cervantes at December 20, 2024 01:36 PM (dJR17)
I've heard of Alternating Current and Direct Current. What's Gore's Current?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: XTC at December 20, 2024 01:37 PM (UnA8+)
Hopefully he'll become Robert O'Neill's concubine soon for protection.
And now loomer is claiming that MTG's intern ? that lives with her ??? is the one that did the doxing.
Don't know don't care.
What an amazing shit show soap opera all these grifter people can be. A plague on so many houses. SMH
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2024 01:37 PM (Y6IkP)
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 01:37 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 01:38 PM (j+LsA)
Posted by: Richard McEnror at December 20, 2024 01:38 PM (Yg12+)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:36 PM (krQz2)
Already happening. Apparently, management wants more 'republican' voices. Probably negotiating deals with Mittens and Kinzinger as we speak.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 20, 2024 01:38 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: electronic means at December 20, 2024 01:38 PM (WVQot)
That's how most reporters should be treated. Probably aroused her from being talked to like that however.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 20, 2024 01:38 PM (+4yJ5)
47yo billionaire Bryan Johnson when a team of scientists, instead of bestowing immortality, accidently give him turbo-cancer.
Gif: Norman Osborn screaming "Do you know how much I've sacrified?"
Being poked and prodded by doctors is not as dangerous as living like a hermit on a mountain ... but a restless person like Johnson is like a day-trader who gets wiped out because he won't take a day off during stormy financial weather. Courting those million-to-one catastrophic odds over and over again. His death at at 62 will be sudden yet inevitable.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 20, 2024 01:39 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 20, 2024 01:37 PM (paSBy)
I sure hope that Trump pulls our troops out of that sh*thole and uses air power to achieve whatever tactical goals are required.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 01:39 PM (d9fT1)
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I'm your huckleberry.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 01:39 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at December 20, 2024 01:39 PM (TN5A0)
No one looks up to him, that's for sure.
*HeyOhhhhhh!!*
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 01:36 PM (WXNFJ)
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[Looking around nervously]
-- Robert Reich
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 01:39 PM (iFTx/)
George is well-liked by the liberal-elite in Hollywood and The Hamptons. He's friends with Jerry Seinfeld
Not that there's anything right with that.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 01:39 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Do any serve a decent cup of coffee?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 01:39 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 20, 2024 01:39 PM (1VvJB)
Posted by: Seinfeld Reference at December 20, 2024 01:40 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:40 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at December 20, 2024 01:40 PM (5IFb9)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 01:40 PM (6RwsA)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Do any serve a decent cup of coffee?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 01:39 PM (WXNFJ)
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It's all black muck. So, no worse than anyone else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 01:40 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 01:41 PM (2zWFh)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 01:41 PM (hovnC)
I think the Joy Reid studio is going to lose it's cleaning deposit.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 01:41 PM (+oR7L)
Which might be why he won't appear on camera in a group setting. His tiny manlet body would be exposed.
_____________________________
He's a giant! And, a thief. F*cker stole my foot stool that I take to the grocery store to get soup off the middle shelf. Top shelf is out of play.
Posted by: Robert Reich at December 20, 2024 01:41 PM (dIske)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 01:39 PM (hovnC)
Hell no - I will not work with that asshat!
- Johnny 5
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2024 01:41 PM (RFPHU)
.......
They like having a pet.
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 01:41 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:41 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 01:41 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 01:41 PM (6RwsA)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 20, 2024 01:42 PM (fzQGK)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 01:40 PM (6RwsA)
Seems she was a bit fried eggy before the implants.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)
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Liz Cheney is available.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 01:42 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: miguel cervantes at December 20, 2024 01:31 PM (dJR17)
That is because Tucker is a sensible media savy operator, and knows that calling it "Free Thousand Hills Broadcasting" would go right over the heads of most of his audience.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2024 01:42 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 20, 2024 01:42 PM (8XYYe)
- Johnny 5
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2024 01:41 PM (RFPHU)
"Dismantle Georgy S!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 01:42 PM (DopAq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)
Who cares if she's over easy, as long as she's easy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 01:42 PM (VoAdT)
No one wants to humiliate George by firing him or to have his blood on their hands.
Soap will wash that right off.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 01:42 PM (63Dwl)
- Johnny 5
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2024 01:41 PM (RFPHU)
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No one's pants are blazing for George.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 20, 2024 01:42 PM (fzQGK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:41 PM (YzqWW)
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I can see that. But I still frequent that place for an Americano.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:42 PM (krQz2)
"The View From Down Here"
Posted by: electronic means at December 20, 2024 01:43 PM (WVQot)
A rounding error.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 20, 2024 01:37 PM (paSBy)
Pentagon spokesperson just found out.
Right.
The MACOM (I think Syria is CENT-COM) knows exactly how many people are deployed. Not in round numbers. Down to the decimal point.
So he's lying. I get it maybe the extra troops were classified and now they aren't. But he did not just find out.
But they really don't want you asking well if the number was 2000 and you told us 900, now that you tell us it's 2000 what's the real number?
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 01:43 PM (QfvaV)
All the other sociopaths just ADORE him!!!!!
Posted by: Ktgreat at December 20, 2024 01:43 PM (33LJY)
......
Well, Joy Reid doesn't need a haircut.
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 01:43 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 01:43 PM (nxgXe)
Posted by: mister peanut at December 20, 2024 01:43 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 01:41 PM (6RwsA)
Well played
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2024 01:44 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 01:44 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 01:44 PM (nxgXe)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2024 01:44 PM (KQk9m)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 01:44 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 20, 2024 01:45 PM (UKUm3)
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 01:43 PM (QfvaV)
We currently have an entire battalion on the border of Syria doing top secret hokey pokey drills. It's impossible to say who's in or out at any given moment.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 01:45 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 01:44 PM (i0F8b)
"Life Below Fog"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:45 PM (YzqWW)
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If only Joe Biden knew.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 01:45 PM (fs1hN)
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That perfectly illustrates the precious, navel-gazing bubble that these cretins call home. "Insular" doesn't begin to describe the solipsism.
Posted by: electronic means at December 20, 2024 01:45 PM (WVQot)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 20, 2024 01:45 PM (4p0Xq)
Tom Cruise likes hanging out with George Stephanopoulos because there are so few people he has to look down to speak with.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 01:45 PM (+oR7L)
All the other sociopaths just ADORE him!!!!!
Posted by: Ktgreat at December 20, 2024 01:43 PM (33LJY)
IIRC "Hampton" is a British slang word for penis.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 01:45 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:41 PM (YzqWW)
A lot of milk and sugar cover that right up
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 01:46 PM (QfvaV)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 01:39 PM (WXNFJ)
They keep their espresso machines very clean, so if I am desperate I will have one of those. But I have given up on their regular coffee after probably 100 cups of it...all tasting like burnt, cheap coffee beans.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 01:46 PM (d9fT1)
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 01:46 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 01:43 PM (QfvaV)
The zeros at the end are a clue that they’re making stuff up. If they said 1,986 it’d be more believable. But both numbers provided (900 and 2000) are unbelievably round….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 01:46 PM (6RwsA)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 20, 2024 01:46 PM (1VvJB)
George is well-liked by the liberal-elite in Hollywood and The Hamptons. He's friends with Jerry Seinfeld
Not that there's anything right with that.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 01:39 PM (63Dwl)
And don't forget Jeffrey Epstein. He and his wife went to some swanky dinner parties at the Epstein townhouse in the good old days.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 01:46 PM (fJJtc)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 01:46 PM (hovnC)
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It's been a minute since we've had a botched withdraw.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 01:46 PM (QfvaV)
It still tastes like crap!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 01:46 PM (d9fT1)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 01:47 PM (nxgXe)
Oh, you're just figuring that out now -- that the millions spent on "talent" in front of the camera means the rest of you are far less compensated and expendable?
$16 million settlement is what, less than George's annual salary?
In other news, Brett Baier just sold his 2022 mega-mansion in NW DC for 25-30 million to Trump appointee Lutnick, after recently purchasing a second home in Palm Beach for approximately the same price. Is he really worth whatever they're paying him at Fox to afford that real estate and more?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 01:47 PM (u1uWe)
We currently have an entire battalion on the border of Syria doing top secret hokey pokey drills.
That's what it's all about.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 01:47 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:42 PM
Not a dime from me. Any woke ass place that also pays for employees abortion tourism can go horsefuck.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 20, 2024 01:47 PM (4p0Xq)
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 01:47 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 01:47 PM (2zWFh)
IIRC "Hampton" is a British slang word for penis.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 01:45 PM (x0n13)
Well THAT gives new meaning to the Sammy Hagar album "Standing Hampton."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Gif: Norman Osborn screaming "Do you know how much I've sacrified?"
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 20, 2024 01:39 PM (lhenN)
All that dork does is talk about his wang. It will be like in futurama but instead of a talking head all that will be left of Bryan is a talking penis in a robot bubble.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2024 01:48 PM (Y6IkP)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 01:45 PM (VoAdT)
Impossible for whom?
They know.
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 01:48 PM (QfvaV)
That's what it's all about.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 01:47 PM
To be fair, they only had the left foot in Syria.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 20, 2024 01:48 PM (4p0Xq)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 01:48 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 01:42 PM (DopAq)
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That seems to be the way things are heading.
The Lord again seems to be exposing DC through Trump's (and others') efforts.
I saw a rant by Stephen A Smith, who appears as trying to hold on to his identity as a Democrat, as he was irate that FIB assets were actually there on Jan 6. Seems like some conservatives were actually getting to him about how that was something you "couldn't" say prior to it becoming an official disclosure.
Smith was even irate that as a Democrat he wasn't supposed to find anything wrong with FIB assets being in the crowd on Jan 6.
But the Dems can't keep a story for too long, because they probably didn't remember that this was supposed to be a perilous tipping point of overthrowing the government rather than a situation that was monitored by Law Enforcement.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:48 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 01:48 PM (j+LsA)
In other news, Brett Baier just sold his 2022 mega-mansion in NW DC for 25-30 million to Trump appointee Lutnick, after recently purchasing a second home in Palm Beach for approximately the same price. Is he really worth whatever they're paying him at Fox to afford that real estate and more?
Posted by: Lizzy
They can pay him even more now that Cavuto is gone.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 01:48 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:48 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)
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Gives new meaning to a lot of things.
Posted by: Hugh Jampton at December 20, 2024 01:48 PM (fzQGK)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 01:45 PM (x0n13)
Well THAT gives new meaning to the Sammy Hagar album "Standing Hampton."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Noice! Great album.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I'll hang up and listen... at December 20, 2024 01:48 PM (xPJvm)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 01:39 PM (hovnC)
We get to watch him grabbing electric fences suitable for Brahma bulls?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 01:49 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:31 PM (krQz2)
You mean knocked out by his brother.
Posted by: Reforger at December 20, 2024 01:49 PM (xcIvR)
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At some point, you have made too much money.
Posted by: Barak H Obama at December 20, 2024 01:49 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 01:49 PM (nxgXe)
They know.
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 01:48 PM (QfvaV)
I don't think you read my joke literally enough, good sir.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 01:49 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: scottst at December 20, 2024 01:49 PM (qcvs8)
Yeah. Bye, Felicia.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 01:49 PM (jHelr)
Isn't Steffy married to some Hollywood D-lister?
Posted by: Jetto
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Alexandra Wentworth. She did some funny on SNL ages ago.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 01:49 PM (I87yH)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 01:46 PM (d9fT1)
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I can't compare. I've never tasted crap.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:50 PM (krQz2)
Is "well liked in the Hamptons" code for "he's connected so we don't want to get his pals angry at us?"
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 01:50 PM (u1uWe)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 01:50 PM (j+LsA)
Posted by: Lizzy
They can pay him even more now that Cavuto is gone.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 01:48 PM (63Dwl)
I can’t stand that tub of lard… even after he destroyed the camel in that interview
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 01:50 PM (6RwsA)
Donna Brazile@donnabrazile
Here’s my latest column: @JoeBiden is one of our greatest presidents — smears won’t tarnish his legacy
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Well, Fred Flintstone became an icon saying, "Yabba-dabba-do!" so I guess there's hope.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 01:51 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 01:51 PM (j+LsA)
Alexandra Wentworth. She did some funny on SNL ages ago.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 01:49 PM (I87yH)
Call 877 Cash Now
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)
"They paid off Trump for a mistake that George made.
Mitsake? Telling someone "Don't. Say. It." A dozen times isn't a mitsake.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 01:51 PM (jHelr)
Wasn't it MadTV or In Living Color?
IIRC, her mother was JFK's social secretary or something like that, so she has DC connections, too.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 01:51 PM (u1uWe)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 01:49 PM (VoAdT)
Ah.
Got it.
Heh!
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 01:52 PM (QfvaV)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 01:49 PM (I87yH)
Call 877 Cash Now
Posted by: Sponge
It's your money! Call now!
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 01:52 PM (jHelr)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 01:52 PM (j+LsA)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:52 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 01:51 PM (L/fGl)
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Fred had personality. And a hot wife.
Posted by: Hugh Jampton at December 20, 2024 01:52 PM (fzQGK)
Fred had personality. And a hot wife.
Posted by: Hugh Jampton at December 20, 2024 01:52 PM (fzQGK)
Betty > Wilma
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)
She's not wrong. Technically, sh*t doesn't tarnish.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 20, 2024 01:53 PM (k9OZB)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at December 20, 2024 01:53 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 01:53 PM (i0F8b)
with George Stephanopolous
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 01:52 PM (j+LsA)
George of the Jungle!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 01:53 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:53 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: scottst at December 20, 2024 01:49 PM (qcvs
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How easily it is to refit Jan-6 rhetoric against this situation.
Hey, if you don't want to be sued for defamation, don't defame people.
But, I know why this would fail. Because it should be fully legal to defame somebody who is going to "destroy democracy". Nobody should suffer for defaming Trump, because anything bad said about Trump is "probably true". (Which is how we got the New York "verdict", isn't it?)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:53 PM (krQz2)
Is "well liked in the Hamptons" code for "he's connected so we don't want to get his pals angry at us?"
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 01:50 PM (u1uWe)
Antifa in the Hamptons
youtu.be/Rjo8ev8Oi9Y
(nsf due to some cussing)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2024 01:53 PM (D7oie)
Heh, what's her angle?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 01:53 PM (u1uWe)
with George S.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:54 PM (Zz0t1)
Not surprising since we've been told Jesus was a liberal woke progressive Democrat
Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2024 01:54 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)
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I do not disagree. Wilma's still pretty hot, though.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 20, 2024 01:54 PM (fzQGK)
with George Stephanopolous
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 01:54 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 01:54 PM (nxgXe)
with George Stephanopolous
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 20, 2024 01:54 PM (1VvJB)
Wasn't it MadTV or In Living Color?
IIRC, her mother was JFK's social secretary or something like that, so she has DC connections, too.
Posted by: Lizzy
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Oh, it might have been. Y'know, one of those shows.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 01:54 PM (I87yH)
Posted by: Hugh Jampton at December 20, 2024 01:52 PM (fzQGK)
Betty > Wilma
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
—-/
Yep nobody says “Look at that Wilma at the bar!”
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at December 20, 2024 01:54 PM (17s+e)
When you sre only six inches taller than Little Jimmy Dickens, don't get uppity.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 01:55 PM (jHelr)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 01:55 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 01:49 PM (I87yH)
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She's still doing "something funny" at some frequency.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:56 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 01:56 PM (u1uWe)
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 01:56 PM (QfvaV)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:53 PM (YzqWW)
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Not catchy enough. Stefanopoulos on the Acropolis, maybe?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 20, 2024 01:56 PM (fzQGK)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)
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I do not disagree. Wilma's still pretty hot, though.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
Wilma put out. Barney had to adopt.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 01:56 PM (jHelr)
with George Stephanopolous
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 01:57 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 01:57 PM (jHelr)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:57 PM (YzqWW)
Compare those dates to the BLM timeline, lol.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 01:57 PM (u1uWe)
with George Stephanopolous
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 01:57 PM (fs1hN)
Nice.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:57 PM (Zz0t1)
with George Stephanopolous
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 01:57 PM (fs1hN)
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Legit LOL.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:57 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Captain Obvious
I was always envious of the mastodon that stuck his trunk through the hole in the walk to shower Wilma.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 01:58 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:58 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)
That was the first thing I thought of too!
Might have to dial that one up today. Outstanding cover of Piece of My Heart on that album.
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2024 01:59 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 01:59 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:59 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:57 PM (YzqWW)
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IIRC, yes.
Posted by: Axeman
It was a big thing when Wilma was pregnant.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 01:59 PM (jHelr)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 20, 2024 01:59 PM (XosWc)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 20, 2024 01:59 PM (XosWc)
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Yes
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at December 20, 2024 02:00 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:00 PM (j+LsA)
And last year she had negotiated a reduction in shows to 1 per week, iirc.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 02:01 PM (u1uWe)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 02:01 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:01 PM (Zz0t1)
@BNONews
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BREAKING: Car runs over people at Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. Reports of many victims
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2024 02:01 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 01:36 PM (GBKbO)
Which is exactly 16000 too many places to get burnt coffee and smug.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 02:02 PM (8zz6B)
@BNONews
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BREAKING: Car runs over people at Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. Reports of many victims
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2024 02:01 PM (IG4Id)
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The Amish?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 20, 2024 02:02 PM (fzQGK)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:02 PM (Zz0t1)
with George Stephanopolis
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at December 20, 2024 02:02 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 02:02 PM (63Dwl)
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This seems to be an annual thing in Germany.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 02:02 PM (jFCkp)
Speaking of crazy . . .
Donna Brazile@donnabrazile
Here’s my latest column: @JoeBiden is one of our greatest presidents — smears won’t tarnish his legacy
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My god, this woman got busted off TWO presidential campaigns for malpractice and she still has a top-level politics-adjacent career. If you or I made moves like that?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:02 PM (I87yH)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Those dang Moravian Brethren!
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 02:02 PM (v6JzV)
My god, this woman got busted off TWO presidential campaigns for malpractice and she still has a top-level politics-adjacent career. If you or I made moves like that?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:02 PM (I87yH)
Then you ain't black.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:02 PM (I87yH)
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"What can I say? I'm a fan."
-Paul Ryan
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:03 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2024 02:01 PM (IG4Id)
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Fucking cars running over people at Christmas!!
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 02:03 PM (krQz2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L40TWa9EiYM
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 01:59 PM (i0F8b)
242 Did Wilma have the bigger bust or something?
She was taller, I believe.
It just occurred to me that the Betty vs Wilma controversy is just another name for Maryanne vs Ginger.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:03 PM (xCA6C)
Or if they do decide to shill for the feds they lose their lucrative fed pension.
There are plenty of instances where this is the norm.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 02:04 PM (Q4IgG)
Is the car a refugee from the ME?
Recently saw that they were using water-filled barriers to protect Christmas markets in Germany. So people were knifing them to empty out the water and create a mess.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 02:04 PM (u1uWe)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 02:04 PM (v6JzV)
In other words: They really wanted to fire him but thought the optics and backlash from fellow "Resistance journalist" Marxists would be too great.
"Resistance" journalists and Marxists are the last remaining brand-loyal viewers ABC News has.
ABC doesn't give a sh*t about George's "blood" wherever it may be. All Disney cares about is their stock price, and I suspect that ABC isn't a major contributing factor in that regard.
This leads me to believe that Disney wants ABC tied up in bows and put in a pretty box labeled "Fire Sale!".
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2024 02:04 PM (rj6Yv)
@BNONews
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BREAKING: Car runs over people at Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. Reports of many victims
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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I'll guess that the police won't find a motive for the attack.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 02:04 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 02:04 PM (DopAq)
Or if they do decide to shill for the feds they lose their lucrative fed pension.
There are plenty of instances where this is the norm.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 02:04 PM (Q4IgG)
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Much more better:
No political staffers at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:04 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 02:04 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:05 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:05 PM (YzqWW)
@BNONews
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1m
BREAKING: Car runs over people at Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. Reports of many victims
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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I'll guess that the police won't find a motive for the attack.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 02:04 PM (fs1hN)
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They hate Trump?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 02:05 PM (iFTx/)
It just occurred to me that the Betty vs Wilma controversy is just another name for Maryanne vs Ginger.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:03 PM
so close...
it's actually cross bows vs. long bows
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 20, 2024 02:07 PM (tljrc)
Posted by: E Buzz at December 20, 2024 02:07 PM (JROaS)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at December 20, 2024 02:07 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: m at December 20, 2024 02:07 PM (VnUSN)
She took the thankless job of head of the DNC after DWS let Hillary take it over and steal the 2016 nomination for her. She knows A LOT about what they the DNC and Hillary were up to, to the point that at the time she was saying she didn't want to meet the same fate as Seth Rich. It appears she's found a way to make herself useful/leveraged what she knows to stay high up in the party...
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 02:08 PM (u1uWe)
We may never know.
Posted by: Archimedes
Probably related to climate change.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 02:08 PM (L/fGl)
They should deduct that from his salary, because he was told by ABC staff not to say Trump was found liable of rape.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 02:08 PM (krQz2)
With George Stephanopolis
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 02:08 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: kallisto at December 20, 2024 02:08 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis
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Now now... We've all misplaced a battalion before.
Posted by: Azathoth at December 20, 2024 02:08 PM (wb1YC)
We may never know.
Posted by: Archimedes
Probably related to climate change.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 02:08 PM (L/fGl)
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Like in Wisconsin, it was just a car. Car's don't have motives.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 02:09 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:09 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 02:09 PM (krQz2)
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This one does.
It was to protest open borders.
The only solution is to ban the AfD.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:09 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 20, 2024 02:09 PM (UKUm3)
Here’s my latest column: @JoeBiden is one of our greatest presidents — smears won’t tarnish his legacy
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The DNC loves this smears gag.
Classic talking past the sale in a single word. Any criticism must be a smear of a living holy man.
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:10 PM (j+LsA)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:10 PM (YzqWW)
by George Stephanopolous
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 02:10 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 02:10 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:10 PM (YzqWW)
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Obviously, it was autonomous and it's Musk's fault.
The only solution is to fine him $37 trillion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:10 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:10 PM (YzqWW)
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Don't call me Shirley.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 02:11 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:11 PM (j+LsA)
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She was kinda cute as Jerry Seinfeld's "Schmoopie" girlfriend on the Soup Nazi episode...30 years ago.
Posted by: Bigsmith at December 20, 2024 02:11 PM (1Au9i)
2 US English an official statement summarizing the points discussed during a meeting or phone call between diplomats or political figures: the White House readout of the call came after the prime minister postponed a key speech on the European Union.
Posted by: m at December 20, 2024 02:11 PM (VnUSN)
The only solution is to fine him $37 trillion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:10 PM (GBKbO)
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And take X away and give it to a neutral party like Mark Cuban.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 02:11 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 02:12 PM (v6JzV)
does anyone believe that Joyless Reid actually had the Donald's cell phone number, that he actually picked up when she called, and that he told her to eff herself?
Posted by: kallisto
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Actually, that was Ruhle, but it's equally odd.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:13 PM (I87yH)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 02:12 PM (v6JzV)
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Gen Marx approves.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 02:13 PM (krQz2)
It sounded horrendous. But it also sounded kind of awesome.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:14 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:14 PM (YzqWW)
He's what the Scots call a Wee Man. Even when he stands tall he casts a short shadow.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 02:14 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:14 PM (YzqWW)
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They sold out all of their energy interests to Russia?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:15 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Fritz at December 20, 2024 02:15 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Octochicken at December 20, 2024 02:15 PM (oCS0o)
It appears she's found a way to make herself useful/leveraged what she knows to stay high up
Posted by: Lizzy
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Ah. This probably explains a lot of people who remain at the top of any Democrat institution.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:15 PM (I87yH)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)
And if I managed to punctuate the possessives in that sentence correctly i'll eat my left sock.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:16 PM (VoAdT)
Here's something else funny. Congress is in the same boat. Even with the immediate uproar over the original craptacular CR they think they're going to be able to run business as usual. X and TikTok will eat them alive.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 02:16 PM (ExV1e)
What if Trump wants a shutdown? A shutdown keeps essential personnel and furloughs nonessential. Maybe, just maybe, a shutdown shows DOGE where to start chopping. If they aren't essential.. Well then they aren't essential.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 02:16 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 02:16 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Octochicken at December 20, 2024 02:15 PM (oCS0o)
You could call it two by four.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:14 PM (VoAdT)
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Makes me think of James Thurber's description of what happened to their car when they parked it too close to the streetcar tracks and the streetcar caught and dragged it: "Tires booped and whooshed, fenders queeled and graked, the steering wheel rose up like a specter and disappeared down [the avenue] with a melancholy whirring sound."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 20, 2024 02:17 PM (fzQGK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:17 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: Jetto
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Alexandra Wentworth. She did some funny on SNL ages ago.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office
So you're telling me he's strapped to her thigh, flicking her bean?
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 02:18 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 20, 2024 02:18 PM (GYt5+)
@cenkuygur 21h
Democrats were furious with me for suggesting Joe Biden's mental decline had already begun in 2020. Now, his own staffers admitted to @WSJ they thought he was in decline the minute he stepped into office. Remember their lies next time establishment Dems tell you they know best.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2024 02:18 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Azathoth at December 20, 2024 02:18 PM (wb1YC)
Posted by: Octochicken at December 20, 2024 02:15 PM (oCS0o)
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The back of a Volkswagen would do.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 20, 2024 02:18 PM (fzQGK)
Posted by: ShainS -- Vivek for Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 02:19 PM (il7BK)
Posted by: kallisto at December 20, 2024 02:08 PM (dCxaZ)
*Ruhle* revealed she was able to contact Trump on his cellphone -- though he told her to "go f--k myself" when she asked for an interview, she quipped.
Posted by: m at December 20, 2024 02:19 PM (VnUSN)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
It really looks like the Germans' only lasting solution is going to be to ban the AfD
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2024 02:20 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Octochicken at December 20, 2024 02:15 PM (oCS0o)
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Thumb and Thumber.
Posted by: ShainS -- Vivek for Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 02:21 PM (GvdiO)
Seriously. Bollards. You clowny kraut bastards have everything engineered to within a micron of its own pecker, and yet you can't manage to cram a damn pipe in the ground or something?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (VoAdT)
@BNONews
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BREAKING: Car runs over people at Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. Reports of many victims
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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I'll guess that the police won't find a motive for the attack.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 02:04 PM (fs1hN)
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They hate Trump?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 02:05 PM (iFTx/)
Germany? They were lead astray by the map app and were just following orders.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (pIfcn)
Gentlemen, I despise each and every one of you.
Posted by: JackStraw
That guy really needs to sell t-shirts.
Posted by: DaveA at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: DaveA at December 20, 2024 02:27 PM (FhXTo)
Do you see what I did there?
Posted by: wferrin at December 20, 2024 02:56 PM (lCdHU)
Leader of Bill Clinton's "Bimbo [sex assault victims] Eruptions squad."
Anyone else see the documentary "War Room," about the Clinton campaign back in those days? Most illuminating. Georgie was Clinton's rat terrier and hatchet man.
Posted by: Beverly at December 20, 2024 03:04 PM (Epeb0)
Posted by: Heresolong at December 20, 2024 03:20 PM (FSbq+)
Sources said Stephanopoulos is a "loner" who doesn't play well with others.
They noted that Stephanopoulos won't take part in election night coverage or appear on air with "ABC World News Tonight" anchor David Muir.
"Most great anchors are larger than life. George has always been smaller than life. And this humiliating settlement has made him even smaller," the network exec said.
He is smaller than life. That's true.
Which might be why he won't appear on camera in a group setting. His tiny manlet body would be exposed."
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This...is why I love AOSHQ.
Posted by: look whats not at December 20, 2024 03:49 PM (nakGR)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 20, 2024 05:28 PM (wGqjj)
Slimmed-Down Version of CR Fails, With 38 Republicans Voting Against It
I forgot that the House Speaker always must court Democrat votes for these bills because there is a bloc of Republicans who will not vote for any CR that raises the debt ceiling.
So Republicans defeated the more Republican version of the bill. But 38 Republicans voted against the bill. That's more than the 15-20 who just refuse to vote for any budget. I think some Republicans really want that pay raise and really want that Democrat spending.
A government spending bill supported by President-elect Donald Trump failed to pass the House of Representatives on Thursday night, intensifying concerns of a partial shutdown. The legislation required a two-thirds majority but fell short with a vote of 174-235. Divisions within the GOP and opposition from Democrats left Congress without a clear path forward ahead of the Friday deadline. Key Details: The bill, which extended government funding through March 14th and suspended the debt limit until January 2027, was opposed by 38 Republican lawmakers and most Democrats. Only two Democrats crossed party lines to support it. The proposed legislation included $110 billion in disaster relief aid, covering damage from storms Milton and Helene, and funds to rebuild Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge. However, it omitted provisions like a pay raise for Congress and a revitalization plan for Washington, D.C.'s RFK Stadium. A fringe group of Republicans defied the president-elect and rejected the bill, including Texas Rep. Chip Roy, Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles, and Montana Rep. Matt Rosendale. Diving Deeper: The House's rejection of Speaker Mike Johnson's Plan B budget proposal leaves Congress scrambling to avoid a government shutdown set to begin at 11:59 p.m. Friday. The failure of the measure highlights deep divisions within the House, as Democrats and conservative Republicans united in opposition to the plan. Johnson's proposal, unveiled hours before the vote, sought to fund the government at current levels through March 14, 2024, while suspending the debt limit for two years. It also included $100 billion in disaster relief and $10 billion for farmers. However, these provisions failed to garner necessary support. Democrats, led by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, dismissed the plan outright. "This proposal is laughable and unserious," Jeffries said, reflecting his caucus's frustration over what they see as inadequate responses to pressing issues. During a Democratic caucus meeting, lawmakers were reportedly heard chanting, "Hell no." Republicans also took issue with the debt limit suspension. Rep. Chip Roy, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, criticized the plan on social media, stating, "More debt. More government. Increasing the Credit Card $4 trillion with ZERO spending restraint and cuts. HARD NO."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2024 12:15 PM (KQk9m)
Posted by: Weasel at December 20, 2024 12:16 PM (1BE4H)
“Stay away from the stairways”
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 12:16 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: scampydog at December 20, 2024 12:16 PM (2bFN5)
as long as there's no back pay except for military
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (nXhwP)
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I still want the government shut down, even if Team Red got an L out of this stupid theater.
Johnson has had 10 months since he became speaker to return to regular budgetary order. Instead, he just continued the stupid fucking CR show.
I literally don't give a shit about the federal government getting funded. Hell, even from the stupid optics perspective, none of this matters since we're as far from an election as possible.
Shut it down. Shut it down forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Weasel at December 20, 2024 12:16 PM (1BE4H)
Board up the windows! Bar the doors!
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)
“Stay away from the stairways”
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Those chicks be crazy.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (jFCkp)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (zVPnY)
The 38 are getting torched today, but they did the right thing, imho.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (c6hLR)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (WnEm5)
Posted by: I AM A MEAT POPSICLE at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (+0goo)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (mH21R)
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (Yj6Os)
And make sure to barricade all the public and open air parks to make sure the people REALLY suffer.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)
This is what we say that we want. Over and over and over again we say that this is what we want. Then we will shit on the people trying to make this a thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (ExV1e)
"[Trump] stay away from the stairways." - Whoopi
https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1869778579162374383
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (RHGPo)
Just read that Massie's plan to break the CR into pieces will be put on the floor for a vote. This way Dems have to vote against things like Farm Aid, Hurricane Disaster aid, Cancer research etc.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2024 12:18 PM (t/2Uw)
Some? How about most? The pay raise was the bribe--the shiny object--to get these greedy felching limpdicks to vote in favor of the entire smelly mountain of excrement and dead skunks. They would get theirs. Fuck everyone else. You can't hate these cocksuckers enough.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 12:18 PM (iFTx/)
Committees pass individual budget bills per department. Those go to the floor individually. Those get voted on.
Snap. Snap.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:18 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Weasel at December 20, 2024 12:16 PM (1BE4H)
Board up the windows! Bar the doors!
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (Yj6Os)
Then set it on fire. 🔥
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 20, 2024 12:18 PM (zVPnY)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2024 12:18 PM (XV/Pl)
Agreed. The pain of the cuts that need to be done can't be worse than what we are dealing with now.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 20, 2024 12:18 PM (+4yJ5)
No one is going to care 2 years from now that the government shut down just before Trump's takeover.
Shut it down until Jan 20.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 20, 2024 12:19 PM (kAFFE)
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:19 PM (yq9Cj)
Posted by: Weasel at December 20, 2024 12:16 PM (1BE4H)
Board up the windows! Bar the doors!
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (Yj6Os)
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That too!
Posted by: Weasel at December 20, 2024 12:19 PM (1BE4H)
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at December 20, 2024 12:19 PM (nXhwP)
Posted by: Donald J. Trump at December 20, 2024 12:19 PM (Djkcg)
"[Trump] stay away from the stairways." - Whoopi
https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1869778579162374383
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (RHGPo)
They're literally mentally retarded.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)
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US debt limit increase is not the same as increasing a individuals credit card limit. I'd actually prefer to suspend the limit at least until the first Trump budget is passed. Which if things go as I expect, a debt limit reduction can go into place. I'm not liking the chance that the US could default on debt payments, even if unlikely. Just the fact that it is possible will add volatility to the world markets. Not a fun way to start Jan 21st.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 12:19 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 12:19 PM (jFCkp)
https://tinyurl.com/bdhffsap
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2024 12:20 PM (t/2Uw)
Call your congressional representatives now!
Posted by: P Diddy at December 20, 2024 12:20 PM (pUMay)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 20, 2024 12:20 PM (Vyll1)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 20, 2024 12:20 PM (ufFY8)
I never liked Frosty the Snowman. Even as a little kid, I thought he was weird and creepy. When I got a little older, I realized why: he's not wearing any fucking pants. It’s a naked dude playing with little kids. "Come with me, little boys! I got cookies and candy in my van." There's no way his character design wasn't intended as perverted groomer shit. None.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 12:20 PM (iFTx/)
DJT: The federal government has been shut down for one month. Anyone notice a difference? Neither did I. This goes to show how useless most of the federal government has become. RELEASE THE DOGE!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2024 12:20 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 12:20 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)
Arrest anyone attempting to view Mt Rushmore from a state hwy.
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 12:20 PM (Yj6Os)
Call your congressional representatives now!
Posted by: P Diddy at December 20, 2024 12:20 PM (pUMay)
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$5 says this is hidden in there already.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:20 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 12:20 PM (LkLld)
“Stay away from the stairways”
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Those chicks be crazy.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (jFCkp)
It's funny, but that's also basically the line that Vox Day and his crowd are pushing--not assassination, necessarily, but they hate Vance and Musk and are broadly hinting that Trump will be forced to step down so that Vance, who they're convinced is a backstabbing Gamma and the puppet of Musk, Shield, and others, can be installed; in their minds, this is the reason Trump was "allowed" to win.
Posted by: Wiese at December 20, 2024 12:20 PM (1pand)
2. Do not allow the Demoncrats to block an investigation into the J6 committee.
If you can't commit to those two things, GOPe, seek Canadian Healthcare.
Posted by: XTC at December 20, 2024 12:20 PM (UnA8+)
Suspension of the debt ceiling is off the table, as it should be.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 20, 2024 12:21 PM (paSBy)
I'd be just fine with expenditures balanced with the previous year's receipts ... and allocations per department accord to a tally of check marks on tax returns.
Bonus points to this system if only the Net Payers get to choose.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:21 PM (yq9Cj)
Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Present at December 20, 2024 12:22 PM (uL/4B)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 20, 2024 12:22 PM (j4BnS)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 12:22 PM (+oR7L)
Posted by: Weasel at December 20, 2024 12:22 PM (1BE4H)
Shut it down. Now.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 12:22 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Vlad at December 20, 2024 12:22 PM (Djkcg)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2024 12:22 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
Good morning! Are you feeling okay? Maybe a brisk walk. 😊
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 12:22 PM (p4NUW)
Hell keep it "shut down" for 4 years
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2024 12:23 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2024 12:23 PM (vFG9F)
Yeah...me neither.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 12:23 PM (W/lyH)
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They make a lot more than the average citizen, who is going to have a smaller Christmas this year owing to inflation's remaining effect.
This is a bad look.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 12:23 PM (krQz2)
Government? Government? We don't need to steenkin' government!
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On a more serious note, how about a limited CR, supporting just DoD, NWS, CBP, INS, and the service that handles import/export/tariffs. We might also want to keep the NICS system up, but limited other parts of the BATFE.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 12:23 PM (VNX3d)
https://tinyurl.com/bdhffsap
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2024 12:20 PM (t/2Uw)
I don't see this as a bad thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 12:24 PM (ExV1e)
Yeah...me neither.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 12:23 PM (W/lyH)
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Trump shut it down for a month against Paul Ryan.
The entire American society did not collapse for some reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:24 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at December 20, 2024 12:24 PM (P7Iz+)
Posted by: Frosty at December 20, 2024 12:24 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Weasel at December 20, 2024 12:16 PM (1BE4H)
Board up the windows! Bar the doors!
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (Yj6Os)
Then set it on fire. 🔥
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 20, 2024 12:18 PM (zVPnY)
Put the CR in an EV that's in an underground parking garage near Capitol Hill
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 20, 2024 12:24 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Boulder Terlit Hobo at December 20, 2024 12:25 PM (jMXjc)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 12:25 PM (+oR7L)
Posted by: Weasel at December 20, 2024 12:16 PM (1BE4H)
Board up the windows! Bar the doors!
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (Yj6Os)
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That too!
Posted by: Weasel at December 20, 2024 12:19 PM (1BE4H)
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Scatter caltrops throughout The Hill.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 12:26 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 20, 2024 12:26 PM (ufFY8)
>>Can't they even settle on one thing that needs funding?
Nah, you can't hide massive amounts of graft in a 10 page bill, that's why the vomit out multi-thousand page CR's at the 11th hour.
Johnson's a sh*tweasel and should be gone from the speaker position in the next congress, the problem is there are no other people who are not sh*tweasels in congress.
That's why Trump, Vance, Musk and Vivek, need to take control of the budgeting process and basically sideline these ridiculous POS.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2024 12:26 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Frosty at December 20, 2024 12:24 PM (vFG9F)
And how!
Posted by: Lily Phillips, in training at December 20, 2024 12:26 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 12:20 PM (iFTx/)
It gets worse. He's fat and can't see his dick. He's Gerald Nadler.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 12:26 PM (ExV1e)
unseen1 @unseen1_unseen Dec 19
Let me explain the debt ceiling to you since it's pretty clear most of you have no idea what is going on.
As of now, there is no debt ceiling.
Let me repeat that for all of those "true conservative" supporters. As of right now, there is no debt ceiling.
The debt ceiling was suspended back in June of 2023.
As things stand now, as of Jan 1st, 2025, the debt ceiling will return, and it will be whatever it was when it was suspended plus whatever spending Biden and the dems did since June of 2023. That new debt ceiling is estimated to be hit by June of 2025 if not earlier.
What the CR wanted to do is push the redemption of the debt ceiling back for 2 years.
This would allow massive tax cuts that Trump wants to make. Things like no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime, a 15% tax bracket for companies who built here, and to stop the Trump tax cuts from expiring.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 12:26 PM (hovnC)
DoD ? The same group that just had to admit they'd lied about how many troops we have in Syria ? We'll never get meaningful reform until the friggin' DoD stops being held up as a sacred cow.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:26 PM (yq9Cj)
You see, the government idiots consider tax cuts as government spending. So if you do $4 trillion in tax cuts, the government considers that $ 4 trillion in spending.
The debt ceiling redemption on Jan 1st will make Trump have to figure out how to pass the tax cuts without going over the debt ceiling and triggering a default. Do you get it now?
By not moving the non-existent debt ceiling back two more years, the "true conservatives" just stopped you from getting more of your money returned to you by tax cuts and they kept more money in the government for a bigger gov. In effect, they just voted for the exact opposite of what they tell you they want and don't for a second think they don't know that.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 12:26 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (nXhwP)
Slimmed down?! Thats fat shaming!
Posted by: Whoopie at December 20, 2024 12:26 PM (M0/da)
Hey, that CR isn't going to suck itself!
Posted by: Congress to the Voters at December 20, 2024 12:27 PM (+oR7L)
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Bouncing Bettys would be a firmer statement.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 12:27 PM (jFCkp)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 12:27 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at December 20, 2024 12:28 PM (5IFb9)
For every billion the *debt* goes down every congress cretin gets $10K.
And if the debt increases? We take 1% of the total wealth of every member of congress that voted for the last budget/spending bill for every billion the debt goes up.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2024 12:28 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 20, 2024 12:28 PM (WPL6O)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 20, 2024 12:28 PM (j4BnS)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 12:20 PM (iFTx/)
Your description of Frosty also applies to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Donald Duck, Porky Pig and other beloved cartoon characters…. I think it’s because they’re animals. I don’t believe Walt Disney was into pedo stuff or grooming
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:28 PM (ZtAny)
Posted by: Josephistan at December 20, 2024 12:29 PM (y9ksN)
https://tinyurl.com/bdhffsap
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2024 12:20 PM (t/2Uw)
I don't see this as a bad thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Neither do I. We need to get by the next 30 or so,days til Trump gets inaugurated. Why burn it down before he has a chance to make things happen. Dems are using this to frustrate us with things that will not actually happen once Trump takes office. Take a breath people.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2024 12:29 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 20, 2024 12:28 PM (j4BnS)
Assuming its all the usual suspects ? Now tell me the downside.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:29 PM (yq9Cj)
Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt
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Comes off like he's booing the vote, thinks the compromise should've passed... The ones that voted against are Freedom Caucus / conservatives, not RINO's. Seems hard to believe that one could support any fiscal constraint (lowering debt, balanced budget, etc.) but not support what these guys are doing. Trump doesn't care about fiscal constraint, but I would think 'we' do...
Posted by: bearski at December 20, 2024 12:29 PM (Bhsk7)
Representatives Upset Spending Bill Killed By The People They Represent
https://tinyurl.com/4mhs4t9c
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 12:29 PM (VNX3d)
The House will now vote all the bills separately today.
CR
Ag Bill
Disaster Bill
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 12:29 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 12:30 PM (jHelr)
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Which allows for plenty of time to reduce spending, it spending reduction is really what Trump wants to do.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 20, 2024 12:30 PM (paSBy)
>>Not dealing with the debt ceiling now means that the Dems and their Republican gimps will use it later to keep Trump from deporting illegals, finishing the wall, or basically doing anything he was elected to do. Congratulations on your fiscal responsibility.
Again, there is not adequate time to debate and analyze what these f**king retards are trying to do.
As usual, they've pushed everything to the last minute into a must pass CR, vomited forth at the 11th hour.
Let's shut down the government, swear in Trump and his pipehitters and let Musk, Vivek and Vance get pliers and blow torches and go Medieval on these ridiculous clowns.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2024 12:30 PM (XV/Pl)
This would allow massive tax cuts that Trump wants to make. Things like no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime, a 15% tax bracket for companies who built here, and to stop the Trump tax cuts from expiring.
That's nice and all, but the two aren't mutually exclusive.
Pay for the tax cuts with the skills of unemployed federal employees and keep the debt ceiling in place.
Posted by: Vlad at December 20, 2024 12:31 PM (Djkcg)
The Truth@TruthPromoter
Here is a detailed breakdown of the spending allocations in the American Relief Act 2025:
1. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Community Development Fund: $12,039,000,000 for disaster recovery.Includes $45,000,000 for administrative costs.
$1,850,000 for the disaster recovery data portal.
$7,000,000 for auditing by the Office of Inspector General.
$25,000,000 for capacity building and technical assistance.
2. Department of Agriculture
Emergency programs: Forestry: $356,500,000.
Watershed protection: $920,000,000.
3. Department of Justice
U.S. Marshals Service: $12,000,000 for protection of Supreme Court Justices' residences.
Federal Prison System: $64,795,500 for disaster-related expenses.
4. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Construction and restoration for disaster-damaged facilities: $740,200,000.
5. Department of Defense
Recovery for storms and disasters: Army: $451,900,000.
Navy: $1,454,000,000.
Air Force: $487,300,000.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 12:31 PM (hovnC)
The Truth@TruthPromoter
6. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration: Emergency Relief Program: $8,086,020,000 for infrastructure repairs, including damage to the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
The Truth@TruthPromoter_ 1h
7. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Disaster Relief Fund: $29,000,000,000 for major disasters.
Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire Assistance Account: $1,500,000,000.
8. Department of Health and Human Services
Child Care and Development Block Grant: $250,000,000 for disaster recovery.
9. Department of Interior
National Forest System: $2,523,000,000 for disaster recovery.
Capital improvements: $3,525,000,000.
10. Small Business Administration
Disaster Loans Program Account: $2,249,000,000.
11. Fisheries and Environmental Programs
Fisheries Disaster Assistance: $300,000,000.
12. Food and Nutrition Services
Emergency Food Assistance Program: $25,000,000.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 12:31 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 12:31 PM (jHelr)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:31 PM (ZtAny)
This would allow massive tax cuts that Trump wants to make. Things like no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime, a 15% tax bracket for companies who built here, and to stop the Trump tax cuts from expiring.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC)
Exactly right. This is why Trump wants it. It is a good,thing in this case so DOGE can do it's job.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2024 12:31 PM (t/2Uw)
Congressmen do not have a salary commiserate with the power and responsibility they hold. Find me the private sector man who is as powerful as a congressman, and tell me what his salary is.
You can pretend that honest money does not compete with bribery and insider trading, and right now we are PRETENDING AS HARD AS WE CAN.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 20, 2024 12:32 PM (lhenN)
If you want to stop your husband or wife from bouncing checks ? You don't give them two more years of checks.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:32 PM (yq9Cj)
>>A member can make a motion to suspend the rules only if the Speaker of the House allows them to. Once a member moves to "suspend the rules" and take some action, debate is limited to 40 minutes, no amendments can be offered to the motion or the underlying matter, and a 2/3 majority of Members present and voting is required to agree to the motion.
https://tinyurl.com/3kjuztf5
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 12:32 PM (LkLld)
We need $1.9 billion for a Drones over New Jersey study
Posted by: Congress to the Voters at December 20, 2024 12:32 PM (+oR7L)
But, do not under any circumstance allow passage of language that restricts investigation into the J6 Committee and their criminal acts. Force Biden to pardon them.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 12:32 PM (W/lyH)
I may have lost the plot, but I’m not seeing the downside here.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 20, 2024 12:33 PM (DJPFk)
As usual, they've pushed everything to the last minute into a must pass CR, vomited forth at the 11th hour.
One of the ways you can tell the GOPe isn't a serious party is exactly this. Why not start on budgeting months before it is needed?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2024 12:33 PM (oZhjI)
Where are they going to get the employees necessary to block off the outdoor monuments and put up fencing to guard at Mount Rushmore? At this late date most of them already have plans for the holidays. They'll have to offer them triple time to work through the shutdown!
Do I need the s/ tag?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 20, 2024 12:33 PM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 12:33 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 20, 2024 12:28 PM (j4BnS)
On Monday, December 23rd:
You think you're tough for eating beans every day? There's half a million scarecrows in Denver who'd give anything for one mouthful of what you got. They've been under siege for about three days. They live on rats and sawdust bread and sometimes... on each other. At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky. It's medieval.
Posted by: Col. Andy Tanner at December 20, 2024 12:33 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:33 PM (GBKbO)
Then I realize the best laid plans of mice and men theory exists. So smart people, what are the pros and cons, for real. Not hyper emotionally charged invective, you know, the stuff I normally toss into the ring.
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 12:33 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 12:34 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 12:34 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 12:32 PM (W/lyH)
Exactly how we got into this shit-show of a fiscal position. Exactly that - from both parties, for generations.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:34 PM (yq9Cj)
As usual, they've pushed everything to the last minute into a must pass CR, vomited forth at the 11th hour.
One of the ways you can tell the GOPe isn't a serious party is exactly this. Why not start on budgeting months before it is needed?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2024 12:33 PM (oZhjI)
B/c for now, the Senate would sit on all bills and not pass them...and the House has more true Dems than true Rs...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 12:34 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at December 20, 2024 12:34 PM (EmT/E)
Slimmed down?! Thats fat shaming!
Posted by: Whoopie at December 20, 2024 12:26 PM (M0/da)
hey FAT!!!
-- sleepy Joe...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at December 20, 2024 12:34 PM (nXhwP)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2024 12:33 PM (oZhjI)
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Gaetz kicked off the coup against McCarthy because of the CR. This led to Johnson becoming Speaker who promised a return to regular budgetary order.
Now, it's December and we have to hear wailing about how non-essential federal employees might not get paid on Christmas, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:34 PM (GBKbO)
>>I trust Trump so go with what he wants.
But, do not under any circumstance allow passage of language that restricts investigation into the J6 Committee and their criminal acts. Force Biden to pardon them.
Again, don't pass anything at this point, these clowns have shirked their constitutional duty, let shut the government down, let's let the new administration take power, and then basically take over the responsibility of crafting budgets, because obviously the people in charge of The House are not capable of crafting budgets on time or on budget.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2024 12:35 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: andycanuck
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The debt ceiling shuffle is simply a tool that will never truly be used effectively and has not since it was passed during WWI. Congress always extends the debt ceiling because if the fed government ever defaults, interest rates will spike substantially and long lasting.
Similar to a nuke and like Putin's nuclear posturing, it became less and less effective as a tool when presented as a periodic empty threat.
There are other dubious practices such as using static tax analysis by the CBO, Paygo, and various other stupid opaque rules adopted over the years to obfuscate spending, borrowing, and taxes.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 12:35 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis,"
Lets see some other results and then talk about the debt ceiling.
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2024 12:35 PM (vFG9F)
Good luck rebranding the Trump Shutdown. What an assclown. Everyone knows it's his fault, along with President Musk.
Nope, it'll stick to Joe. The orange piece of shit gets away with EVERYTHING. If the Government does shut down it’ll be Biden’s fault. 🤬
Republicans are already blaming it on Musk. A defeatist attitude gets us nowhere. The general public is at least smart enough to know it's the Republicans fault.
He created the problem, and he wants to blame Biden. It's time for Biden to take the boxing gloves off and explain it to the American people. One little tweet won't do, he needs to use his bully pulpit and explain to the American people why Trump wants the debt limit raised and how he raised the deficit the last time he was president.
I hope Zelensky and our allies are watching. The US under Trump can't be trusted.
What I want is for Joe to get in front of the cameras and turn into Dark Brandon - annihilate & publicly lambast this asshole of a mango.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 20, 2024 12:35 PM (JCZqz)
TBH I'd be fine with substantial increases in the salary of Congress with the following caveats:
1) All assets have to go into a blind trust so they can't pull a Pelosi and get rich of insider trading
2) There are massive personal penalties for increasing the national debt - as I suggested above they lose not just salary but WEALTH if they allow more debt.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2024 12:35 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:35 PM (Zz0t1)
I will lose my remote work option, must go to hybrid and be in the office in Boulder 3x/week. I can live with it, but it is annoying to hear them going "its because of evil Elon and orangeman bad" Of course it is beyond considering that it might actually be better to be located in Oklahoma since the mission is weather research.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 20, 2024 12:36 PM (UKUm3)
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Alternatively, we could just leave the government "shut down" and save some deficit spending (and the inflation it causes) that way.
Posted by: Methos at December 20, 2024 12:36 PM (Dnobf)
>>Senior House Republican source says the trifecta of bills “would have to pass by suspension.” That means they need 2/3. Also, no Rules Committee process. That would slow it down and prompt a shutdown because the House couldn’t deal with this until after midnigh
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 12:36 PM (LkLld)
exactly tubal
shut that garbage hole DOWN
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 12:36 PM (Pv3Rg)
He's not in power yet, you imbecile.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:37 PM (Zz0t1)
There was originally a gap from early Nov until March 4 between election and inauguration. That was obviously unworkable so they moved up inauguration to Jan 20…. I think it oughta be moved up even further. Make it Jan 1…. This gap is ridiculous
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:37 PM (P/Wjn)
As usual, they've pushed everything to the last minute into a must pass CR, vomited forth at the 11th hour.
One of the ways you can tell the GOPe isn't a serious party is exactly this. Why not start on budgeting months before it is needed?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2024 12:33 PM (oZhjI)
They flat out SUCK at brinkmanship.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 20, 2024 12:37 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 20, 2024 12:35 PM (JCZqz)
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Do these people now think the NYT is fake news?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:37 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 12:37 PM (PCK5/)
B/c for now, the Senate would sit on all bills and not pass them...and the House has more true Dems than true Rs...
Let the Senate sit on the bills then. That doesn't excuse the house not doing its job
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2024 12:37 PM (oZhjI)
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BREAKING: The European Union has approved the use of ‘self-replicating’ RNA jabs that spread ‘like a virus’ to unvaccinated people without their consent
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 12:37 PM (krQz2)
Johnson has had 10 months since he became speaker to return to regular budgetary order. Instead, he just continued the stupid fucking CR show.
I literally don't give a shit about the federal government getting funded. Hell, even from the stupid optics perspective, none of this matters since we're as far from an election as possible.
Shut it down. Shut it down forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (GBKbO)
There's no reason to have a debt ceiling that nobody ever respects anyway. If we did, we wouldn't have 30+ trillion USD in debt right now, so I don't buy Chip Roy's rant for one second. Trump's right - just get rid of it, and give Dems a 'win' that never costed us anything in the first place.
Second, we should shut the gov't down. Now. Sharyl Atkisson had a great tweet yesterday on how this whole thing was theater created by Obama, with the suggestion of the media who wanted to paint the Rs as the heels in this WWE drama. The gov't doesn't 'shut down', only non-essential services. The people need to see that now.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 12:37 PM (fJJtc)
Absolutely not. We elect this jerks under the notion that they'll represent US - the voters - from the various states.
So why do so many of you constantly pivot back to the idea of them getting paid by the Federal Treasury ? They are PRECISELY there to be OUR check on the Federal Treasury !!!
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:37 PM (yq9Cj)
whig have I told you how much I appreciate you recently? your analysis is invaluable
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 12:38 PM (Pv3Rg)
I saw some lefty news org announcing that we now had "Trumpflation"
Which is funny because they had been denying there was any inflation up until that point and of course to your argument Trump isn't president yet to do anything about inflation
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2024 12:38 PM (oZhjI)
I will lose my remote work option, must go to hybrid and be in the office in Boulder 3x/week. I can live with it, but it is annoying to hear them going "its because of evil Elon and orangeman bad" Of course it is beyond considering that it might actually be better to be located in Oklahoma since the mission is weather research.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 20, 2024 12:36 PM (UKUm3)
Everyone is being forced back in by both parties...no one can float the cost of city budgets without employees in them...it doesn't matter that some work is better remote. It just matters that cities don't make budget cuts or go bankrupt...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 12:38 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 20, 2024 12:36 PM (UKUm3)
My neighbor had that happen a year or so ago. New female executive needed to make her presence felt, so she ruled that anyone living within a 30 mile radius from ANY office would need to come in, and scan their badge, at least 3 times a week.
Nevermind the guy's been working remote, including on call schedules, for 15 years.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:37 PM (GBKbO)
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"The President" can veg out on a beach for ~ 3 weeks, and this doesn't phase them?
They think Biden somehow has the presence of mind to counter this?
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 12:39 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 12:20 PM (iFTx/)
Your description of Frosty also applies to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Donald Duck, Porky Pig and other beloved cartoon characters…. I think it’s because they’re animals. I don’t believe Walt Disney was into pedo stuff or grooming
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:28 PM (ZtAny)
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Yes, but they are animals. Frosty was a SnowMAN. He was clearly intended as a man made out of snow. That's weirder than naked cartoon animals. Animals are naturally naked. It's not like Elmer Fudd had no pants.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 12:39 PM (iFTx/)
Early Merry Christmas, morons.
I'm heading to Minneapolis to visit family and will be offline for a week.
Have fun, buy ammo just in case though.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 20, 2024 12:39 PM (xcxpd)
If true ? Congrats. That's how we all die. Not joking. That's a true Global Pandemic just waiting to happen. It'll take less than a decade.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:39 PM (yq9Cj)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 12:40 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:40 PM (P/Wjn)
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No one here is addressing the reason why it is Trump's preference to have the debt limit increase. Curious.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 12:40 PM (SsHSK)
As for all the Federal employees, minus the military and border patrol, no back pay. Nobody in their right mind is going to pay people for not doing anything; effectively a government shutdown for the employees is no different that a major corporation laying off people. Suck it up buttercups.
And the CR should be for 30 days. Let this BS be revisited over and over and over and over until Congress starts behaving in a manner that is beneficial for the long term national health. Without drastic fiscal and government culture changes we are headed into a catastrophe that will make the current disaster, that is the Federal government, look like a utopia.
And if not, shut it down for the next year, two, or three. This will eventually get Congress focused on what matters. And in the interim the essential parts of the government will get funded and the unessential will wither away.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 12:40 PM (e+6P0)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:34 PM (GBKbO)
Considering 'federal employees'... (with apologies to a couple 'rons who are gov employees) fuck em.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 12:41 PM (bss/y)
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It's almost as if Trump isn't president yet!
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 12:41 PM (hovnC)
I'm dreaming, I know.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 12:41 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 20, 2024 12:41 PM (NWqJf)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:40 PM (P/Wjn)
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Two people outside of government pointing to how those inside government are fucking those outside government are not the ones creating a crisis.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:41 PM (GBKbO)
The message being...you folks have no idea what you're doing, so I feel obligated to try and educate you for the good of the country and your constituents.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 12:41 PM (dIske)
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No one here is addressing the reason why it is Trump's preference to have the debt limit increase. Curious.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 12:40 PM (SsHSK)
I think this might fall under the awkward category.
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 12:41 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 12:42 PM (XMpgl)
Posted by: Tj at December 20, 2024 12:42 PM (jqIMt)
so the gov asshole types (R and D) don't fuck him over with the debt ceiling BS for a year like they did last time, wasting his time until they got all the goodies they wanted?
Im thinking that's why
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 12:42 PM (Pv3Rg)
If true ? Congrats. That's how we all die. Not joking. That's a true Global Pandemic just waiting to happen. It'll take less than a decade.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:39 PM (yq9Cj)
Everyone is starting to look cross wise at the Vax and you decide to do a self-blowing one?
Too stupid to live. Darwin's waiting room.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 12:42 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 12:42 PM (XMpgl)
The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, signed into law in 2019, guarantees that furloughed government employees receive backpay once a shutdown ends. You WILL pay them b/c this law won't be overturned by a 2 vote House and Senate majority...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 12:42 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 12:40 PM (SsHSK)
I think this might fall under the awkward category.
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 12:41 PM (PCK5/)
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Because, at this point, the debt ceiling is stupid and meaningless.
If it gets raised every time we get close, then it's not a ceiling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:42 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 12:40 PM (SsHSK)
Because he wants to cut taxes and tax cuts are considered spending by congressional rules. So in order to deliver the tax cuts to the American People he would have to raise the debt limit.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 20, 2024 12:42 PM (pVWRI)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 20, 2024 12:35 PM (JCZqz)
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LOL!
The Cult of Biden.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 12:42 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 12:41 PM (bss/y)
Step-sis is a civilian contractor for the Army and Step-brother is one for Space Force.
Sorry about your chosen path, but this is necessary for the future of the republic.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 12:42 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (NWqJf)
they clearly are. they've proven to be so for my entire life, even the ones I thought I liked end up showing their true colors. they are thieves and liars and fakes.
but sure. this is trump's fault
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (Pv3Rg)
Dems are in a worse position. With Trump as president-elect and January 20 fast approaching, they'll finally figure out that they will get the blame for a shutdown by voting against a "clean" CR. The MSM has been utterly discredited. Trump has a record-level approval rating. The Dems will lose control of the Senate, and Slow Joe is still president and vice-president Harris is still in office. Push harder, Republicans.
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (SsHSK)
TBH I'd be fine with substantial increases in the salary of Congress with the following caveats:
1) All assets have to go into a blind trust so they can't pull a Pelosi and get rich of insider trading
2) There are massive personal penalties for increasing the national debt - as I suggested above they lose not just salary but WEALTH if they allow more debt.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2024 12:35 PM (oZhjI)
A Moron (Kindltot?) made this case this week, so it's worth repeating. If you pay a Congressman $175K, it's not a big lift to get people to vote for a bartender to take the job. If you pay a Congressman $500K, you'd best believe you'll think twice before you vote for a midwit to get far more money than the average person makes. Besides, you'll make it worth the while of a competent middle or senior manager (or small company CEO) to throw their hat in the ring. The skills a businessperson has translate very well to government work - much better than even a career politician.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (fJJtc)
If it gets raised every time we get close, then it's not a ceiling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:42 PM (GBKbO)
But it makes them FEEL better about it. After all, everything is about the FEELZ now.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 12:39 PM (iFTx/)
I admit; you’re right! Didn’t think about that aspect. Probably because I always like Frosty as a kid
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (+kWhq)
He's not in power yet, you imbecile.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:37 PM (Zz0t1)
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It's amazing the double-think these limpdicks have for Trump. On the one hand, Trump's a megalomaniac would-be strongman who tries to control and manipulate everything. But as we see from this quote, he's also a weak fence-sitter looking to avoid taking charge. Well: which is it, you fucksticks??
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 12:40 PM (SsHSK)
Because he wants to cut taxes and tax cuts are considered spending by congressional rules. So in order to deliver the tax cuts to the American People he would have to raise the debt limit.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 20, 2024 12:42 PM (pVWRI)
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Bingo!
"Spending in the tax code" is how tax cuts are often phrased on the floor.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (exHjb)
This time lets not let the Euros have self government afterwards - they don't know how to use it or maintain it.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (oZhjI)
It's not awkward. He wants to renew his tax cuts.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 12:44 PM (LkLld)
This time lets not let the Euros have self government afterwards - they don't know how to use it or maintain it.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (oZhjI)
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Nah.
Let 'em be.
We've got bigger problems. Let Europe sort itself out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:44 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:40 PM (P/Wjn)
Do you really think Biden was elected?
Or that he has led for the last 4 years?
Posted by: Vlad at December 20, 2024 12:44 PM (Djkcg)
Yeah...me neither.
Sharyl Atkisson said today on X that for the shutdown in 2014 the media helped Obama come up with things to shut down so they could then report that the Republicans were mean.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 20, 2024 12:45 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
That would make it a heck of alot easier for the two Bobs.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 20, 2024 12:45 PM (goY6W)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (iFTx/)
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Here's what I noticed about Prog psychology.
It's both. Both of them say that Trump is a bad man. Thus they are consistent with the case that Trump is a bad man. Thus they both get at what they view as the essential Orangemanbad truth.
Which, oddly enough is The Truth, not just "Their truth".
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 12:45 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:42 PM (GBKbO)
But it makes them FEEL better about it. After all, everything is about the FEELZ now.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (Zz0t1)
Plus, without the debt ceiling... well it might be better in the long run. No one will ever address spending and just spend more and more and more until the whole thing collapses. Practically, I think that is the only way anything ever changes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 12:45 PM (bss/y)
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This.
If Trump wants tax cuts, and they have to be 'paid for' then do it with further cuts to other federal spending. If this results in higher receipts, then use those to pay off the national debt.
This is not hard to understand.
Posted by: Methos at December 20, 2024 12:45 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: Nova Local
Yep. It is a rigged game. The solution it seems is to shut it down until they quit.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 12:46 PM (e+6P0)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
I think you put the carrot in the wrong place.
Posted by: front toward enemy at December 20, 2024 12:46 PM (TIizU)
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This.
If Trump wants tax cuts, and they have to be 'paid for' then do it with further cuts to other federal spending. If this results in higher receipts, then use those to pay off the national debt.
This is not hard to understand.
Posted by: Methos at December 20, 2024 12:45 PM (Dnobf)
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Crisis and opportunity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:46 PM (GBKbO)
If it gets raised every time we get close, then it's not a ceiling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:42 PM (GBKbO)
But it makes them FEEL better about it. After all, everything is about the FEELZ now.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (Zz0t1)
No matter who it is, when they get in power they spend like drunken sailors because it is other people’s money… what differs is what they spend it on.
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 12:46 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 20, 2024 12:46 PM (j4BnS)
Posted by: E Buzz at December 20, 2024 12:46 PM (JROaS)
Europe has the governments we allow them to have. The best thing for them, and us, is to be released from the post-war arrangement.
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at December 20, 2024 12:46 PM (5IFb9)
Ace's go-to description of trannies as "men wearing a Party City wig" hardest hit.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 20, 2024 12:46 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:40 PM (P/Wjn)
Good cop, bad cop. Trump is comfortable letting everyone fight it out, while Daddy sits back and makes the final decision when necessary. Nothing is happening without his knowledge and consent, even now.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 12:46 PM (fJJtc)
This time lets not let the Euros have self government afterwards - they don't know how to use it or maintain it.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (oZhjI)
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Nah.
Let 'em be.
We've got bigger problems. Let Europe sort itself out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher
Except for military bases, what do they really offer us? WEF? Snobbery?
The only part I'd miss is some of the architecture and works they made when they were relevant.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 12:47 PM (VNX3d)
and yet his appointments and EOs and thousands of pardons are somehow ok!???
we need to make a fucking stink about this. it's high treason by a whole fuckton of people
sorry im really mad about this! and I blame both parties in govt for this as well! Rs knew too!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 12:47 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 12:47 PM (nxgXe)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 20, 2024 12:45 PM (2ocoG)
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I remember reporters camping out in front the DC monuments looking for vacationers who came to Washington and couldn't view anything. They, also, camped out at the entrance to national parks to get the same reaction....only you could still enter the National Parks at the time, so they were making it up.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2024 12:47 PM (dIske)
I think this is not actually true. At issue is the mistaken belief that the purpose of the debt ceiling is to limit debt. It isn't. The purpose is to provide Congress with an impending crisis which allows them to betray the voters. It's worked perfectly every time.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 12:47 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 12:40 PM (SsHSK)
He's a tax and spend guy. If left unchecked, the debt will rise under him. Not by any accounting trick ... it'll go up.
The budget has to balance, or this country dies. I really don't care if that pisses off Trump or his supporters either.
Did I address it plainly enough ?
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:47 PM (yq9Cj)
Posted by: Nova Local
Yep. It is a rigged game. The solution it seems is to shut it down until they quit.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 12:46 PM (e+6P0)
Unlikely they'll quit knowing it's paid vacation for most.
More likely to get them to quit ending remote work, which requires government to be open.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 12:47 PM (exHjb)
We didn't okay that shit in this country. And they'd still be infectious.
Come to think of it, there is probably a way to do it under laws about traveling while infectious.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 12:47 PM (krQz2)
Shutting down memorials, which were zero-maintenance before they started keeping people out, was a taste of 2021 coof fuckery.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 20, 2024 12:48 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 12:48 PM (QTCRF)
Or that he has led for the last 4 years?
Posted by: Vlad at December 20, 2024 12:44 PM (Djkcg)
No I think Biden stole 2020. I was talking about Trump
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:48 PM (+kWhq)
It's not awkward. He wants to renew his tax cuts.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 12:44 PM (LkLld)
Oooh, I like tax cuts!!! I benefit directly from those..
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 12:48 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 12:48 PM (QTCRF)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2024 12:48 PM (KQk9m)
Posted by: From about That Time at December 20, 2024 12:48 PM (4780s)
Im thinking that's why
Posted by: BlackOrchid
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I recall reading that it would have tied Trump's hands for 2 years but 1 year is as bad.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 12:49 PM (hovnC)
The Truth@TruthPromoter
Here is a detailed breakdown of the spending allocations in the American Relief Act 2025:
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 12:31 PM (hovnC)
$8,000,000,000 to build a Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement in Baltimore, per a tweet Instapundit posted today. Jeebus.
Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2024 12:49 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2024 12:49 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 20, 2024 12:49 PM (hAS73)
well said runner
how about the Rs in congress who continue to facilitate this? they aren't eating shit they are ALSO STEALING
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 12:49 PM (Pv3Rg)
A Moron (Kindltot?) made this case this week, so it's worth repeating. If you pay a Congressman $175K, it's not a big lift to get people to vote for a bartender to take the job. If you pay a Congressman $500K, you'd best believe you'll think twice before you vote for a midwit to get far more money than the average person makes. Besides, you'll make it worth the while of a competent middle or senior manager (or small company CEO) to throw their hat in the ring. The skills a businessperson has translate very well to government work - much better than even a career politician.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (fJJtc)
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True, but no matter how much you paid these John Gacy clowns, you would continue to get the same low-quality scumbags. The entry to politics is such that anyone with half a brain is filtered out. Especially in heavily populated areas, where getting a foot in the door is almost solely machine politics. Sure, there are some exceptions, but they are exceptions. If you raised the pay to $500k, you would still overwhelmingly get bartenders and shitheads and retards.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 12:49 PM (iFTx/)
I am ordering a pizza for the first time in months (maybe a year.) The tracker thingee has messages as it progresses. The current one is 'The Quality Captain is checking your order.'
I wonder if at shift change the oncoming qa guy looks at the one from the prior shift:
'Cap'n'
The other nods back manfully.
'Cap'n'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 12:49 PM (bss/y)
The Truth@TruthPromoter
Here is a detailed breakdown of the spending allocations in the American Relief Act 2025:
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 12:31 PM (hovnC)
$8,000,000,000 to build a Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement in Baltimore, per a tweet Instapundit posted today. Jeebus.
Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2024 12:49 PM (aBgBM)
Maryland is requiring it to be DIE-built - that triples the cost...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 12:49 PM (exHjb)
Shutting down memorials, which were zero-maintenance before they started keeping people out, was a taste of 2021 coof fuckery.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 20, 2024 12:48 PM
Didn't they block the view of Mount Rushmore too?
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 12:49 PM (xrl61)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2024 12:49 PM (gm9Sb)
She should be near the top of the list of non-essential employees.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 12:50 PM (VNX3d)
Vox Day believed wholeheartedly in Q. I used to read him but never got the Q fixation. Had a friend (brilliant, heavily autistic)who kept telling me to trust the plan. Well Vox would regularly post Q crap and the past due date would happen and nothing so I told him it’s a psyop. Vox may even have been involved
He’s not as brilliant as he likes to think he is.
Posted by: Justin Pinochet Castreau at December 20, 2024 12:50 PM (l5yVc)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 12:37 PM (krQz2)
Sounds like we need to ban all travel to/from the EU or any nation which permits travel to/from the EU.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 12:50 PM (ExV1e)
Let 'em be.
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If the Europeans introduce a "vaccine" that transfers to others without their consent, the best way to deal with them is nuclear annihilation for the continent. It's the only way to be sure to stop the spread.
Posted by: Methos at December 20, 2024 12:50 PM (Dnobf)
god forbid they sue the commies who sent that freighter thru there. easier to just bill me.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 12:50 PM (Pv3Rg)
Ding.
It's a House rule. Here's another House rule.
Any bill that is passed under suspension, suspended rules, requires a 2/3 Yea vote by representatives present for the vote. Not a simple majority, 2/3.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 12:50 PM (LkLld)
I’m not kidding that’s a thing that our govt spends billions on. Storage of cheese.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 12:50 PM (nxgXe)
Chip Roy is trying to respect it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 12:51 PM (ExV1e)
god forbid they sue the commies who sent that freighter thru there. easier to just bill me.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 12:50 PM (Pv3Rg)
Supposedly, MD will be giving fed gov back all insurance and lawsuit wins...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 12:51 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Debt ceiling increases are always where the GOP cannot win as it highlights their hypocrisy in a way that Democrats never have a problem with.
Trump prefers that the Senate Dem majority has its fingerprints on a debt ceiling increase that mutes the effect during the Biden administration just like the GOP always rolls over with Dem presidents due to default risk spiking interest rates.
Trying to pass a legislative agenda of shutting off the border, renewing tax cuts due to expire, etc. requires legislative capital to build success on Capitol Hill.
Expending it in March on a useless debt ceiling increase is pointless and harmful to Trump's agenda including DOGE.
Those are my guesses on Trump's motives.
I think conflating the tax cuts with debt ceiling is incorrect from what I remember about House budgetary rules. Long story but basically congressional rules on reconciliation, paygo, and budget scoring treat tax cuts statically as expenses instead of dynamic scoring which is better.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 12:51 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 12:39 PM (iFTx/)
I admit; you’re right! Didn’t think about that aspect. Probably because I always like Frosty as a kid
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (+kWhq)
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:-)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 12:51 PM (iFTx/)
and yet his appointments and EOs and thousands of pardons are somehow ok!???
we need to make a fucking stink about this. it's high treason by a whole fuckton of people
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 12:47 PM (Pv3Rg)
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I'm willing to. It's the Dem-sphere that's trying to yawn about it.
But it's not "treason" as our Constitution addresses what constitutes "treason".
It's most definitely some kind of fraud, though.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 12:51 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: bearski at December 20, 2024 12:51 PM (Bhsk7)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 20, 2024 12:51 PM (ZmEVT)
yeah as if that will happen in our lifetimes
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 12:52 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 12:52 PM (PCK5/)
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And Trump has the biggest ego in the universe but he's kowtowing to Musk, telling him what to do.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 12:52 PM (hovnC)
The budget has to balance, or this country dies. I really don't care if that pisses off Trump or his supporters either.
Did I address it plainly enough ?
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:47 PM (yq9Cj)
Hi, Scogg.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 12:52 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 12:52 PM (jFCkp)
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 12:52 PM (jFCkp)
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But he's yellow!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:52 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 12:53 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Just like Ole Chip respected the rule of law in Texas by supporting Phelan's impeachment of Paxton.
A hint that you have a showhorse on Capitol Hill rather than a workhorse is that they pose before the cameras rather than do the work behind the scenes for no public credit. Chip is a show pony.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 12:53 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 12:53 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 12:53 PM (jFCkp)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 20, 2024 12:51 PM (ZmEVT)
Trump signed that law in...I think he wanted to end the "think of all the starving military folks" line every time there is a shutdown.
And he really doesn't like hurting the little man. And you have to remember, there are also a lot of little people (like janitors, secretaries, military privates, etc) working for fed gov...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 12:53 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 12:53 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Debt ceiling increases are always where the GOP cannot win as it highlights their hypocrisy in a way that Democrats never have a problem with.
Trump prefers that the Senate Dem majority has its fingerprints on a debt ceiling increase that mutes the effect during the Biden administration just like the GOP always rolls over with Dem presidents due to default risk spiking interest rates.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 12:51 PM (ctrM5)
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I agree and think Trump himself made the point: he's not in favor of debt-limit increases, but if they are gonna happen -- and I think it's a dead-lock that at least one more will happen -- then it's better to have it on Biden's "watch." He's not wrong about that.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 12:53 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at December 20, 2024 12:53 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 20, 2024 12:54 PM (UKUm3)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 12:53 PM (xCA6C)
Okay… can I go to Sam’s Club??
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 12:54 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 12:53 PM (bss/y)
Watch out where the huskies go.
Don't you eat that yellow snow.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)
and yet his appointments and EOs and thousands of pardons are somehow ok!???
we need to make a fucking stink about this. it's high treason by a whole fuckton of people
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 12:47 PM (Pv3Rg)
Joe has intellectual shrinkage. His brain was in the pool! In the pool!!!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:54 PM (ZtAny)
how about the Rs in congress who continue to facilitate this? they aren't eating shit they are ALSO STEALING
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 12:49 PM (Pv3Rg)
That is a different issue, I suspect they are stupid and intransigent, a bunch of poseurs, who do not understand that it will take a bit of time for Trump agenda to 1) be implement and 2) produce results . And Trump won't be able to mover forward, unless there is a room to maneuver.
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 12:54 PM (QTCRF)
Here we go - the old "political capital" thing again. Funny, Dems never need "political capital". They just wake up in the morning, decide what they want to fight for, and then fight like Hell. Then they go to bed, and the cycle repeats.
But with Republicans, there is always the excuse of
political capital". And plenty of apologists willing to chant it in unison.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:54 PM (yq9Cj)
I saw some lefty news org announcing that we now had "Trumpflation"
Trump was poised to inherit a strong economy. Then things got rocky and he added to the uncertainty
https://t.ly/WyXwb
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 12:54 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2024 12:54 PM (KQk9m)
All such actions were properly authorized by me.
Posted by: President Professor Doktor Jill Bilden, Ed.D. at December 20, 2024 12:55 PM (pUMay)
More likely to get them to quit ending remote work, which requires government to be open.
Posted by: Nova Local
Fire them. This is a black and white moment and a time as good as any to set fire to all these sacred cow protections. Not one of these employees is so essential that can't be cut lose. The fact that these rotten rules exist highlights how out of touch the Federal government as become. Or we can wait until the debt reaches a point where it is the forcing function that makes all this happen.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 12:55 PM (e+6P0)
Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 12:55 PM (q177U)
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 12:55 PM (QTCRF)
Do you think the average person remembers who raised the debt ceiling? I'm sure they don't.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 12:55 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
Do you mean besides me? I have to go back and check responses to my question. I was getting ready to post a counter argument to my blog boyfriend (lol) on x and was wondering if I shouldn’t make that a more private argument here at home. You know, on this blog.
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 12:55 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 12:55 PM (QTCRF)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 12:53 PM (bss/y)
Wendy's now sells their chili in a can at the grocery store. However, they don't sell their spicy chili sauce. They're chili is average without the chili sauce, so it's a mistake, imo.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:55 PM (Zz0t1)
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Originally build with private funds, yet tolls collected since the day it was opened until destroyed.
New one will also collect tolls, in addition to the tax dollars Marylanders (and the rest of us) will pay to build it, and then pay those tolls for the privilege of using it after it's paid for.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 12:55 PM (Q4IgG)
More likely to get them to quit ending remote work, which requires government to be open.
Posted by: Nova Local
Fire them. This is a black and white moment and a time as good as any to set fire to all these sacred cow protections. Not one of these employees is so essential that can't be cut lose. The fact that these rotten rules exist highlights how out of touch the Federal government as become. Or we can wait until the debt reaches a point where it is the forcing function that makes all this happen.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 12:55 PM (e+6P0)
You also can't fire. You can end departments/programs and RIF. But again, you need government open to begin a RIF process.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 12:56 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 12:56 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (GBKbO)
*subscribed*
Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 12:56 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 12:53 PM (xCA6C)
Okay… can I go to Sam’s Club??
Absolutely. I'm sure things will be very different there.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 12:56 PM (xCA6C)
251 If snow smells- it's not snow.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 12:53 PM (bss/y)
Watch out where the huskies go.
Don't you eat that yellow snow.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)
Can’t remember the first time I read that great book: Holes in the Snow… by I.P. Straight
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:56 PM (ZtAny)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 12:56 PM (PCK5/)
That's who you can fire with a government shutdown. And like gov employees, there are also many contractors not needed. so you could start there...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 12:57 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: whig
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I didn't realize Chip was against Paxton. He should've been primaried for that... Still, a number of pro-Trump reps voted against this CR.
Posted by: bearski at December 20, 2024 12:57 PM (Bhsk7)
Posted by: bearski
Don't treat their votes as principled. Essentially the slim bill was dead because the Dems would not support it under suspension of rules requiring a 2/3rds vote.
Simple shitbaggery by House GOP leadership team that really wanted their pay increase apparently and got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. Their plan B was half hearted and pushed forward without even trying for success via sending it to the Rules Committee (removing the need for a 2/3rds majority) first before the floor vote.
Now you get the sullen reaction by Congress creeps denied their Christmas plum because Trump has made it clear that he wants a clean CR, a debt ceiling increase granted on the same terms that FJB got, etc.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 12:57 PM (ctrM5)
Can’t remember the first time I read that great book: Holes in the Snow… by I.P. Straight
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:56 PM (ZtAny)
Women are jealous of men because it's so much harder for them to sign their names in the snow.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:58 PM (Zz0t1)
You know what I need even less than the BATF ? The guy mopping the floors at the BATF.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:58 PM (yq9Cj)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at
It’s canned chili…and the chili is made from hamburgers that didn’t sell, so the canned version has to be even less enticing, which is pretty hard to do in this story.
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 12:58 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2024 12:58 PM (gm9Sb)
Meanwhile today Biden is giving another billion dollars to Ukraine and canceling more student loans and announcing an end of term vacation in Italy.
Jan 20can't come to soon.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2024 12:59 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:55 PM (Zz0t1)
I remember the flat, square burgers. I can almost taste them... mmmm.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 12:59 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 12:59 PM (nxgXe)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 12:56 PM (PCK5/)
I still think there is a nonzero chance that once Trump has his team in place and sees progress in MAGA/MAHA he'll assess where he wants to be in 2026. If things are going well, I can see him stepping aside to give Vance a chance to run the country for ten years (two terms plus two years). No lame duck time then. The ultimate George Washington move.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 12:59 PM (fJJtc)
It’s canned chili…and the chili is made from hamburgers that didn’t sell, so the canned version has to be even less enticing, which is pretty hard to do in this story.
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 12:58 PM (p4NUW)
I like it, so mmmmllllaaaaaaah.
*sticks out tongue*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)
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Which shouldn't have been made in the first place.
Break the 'obligations,' they have no moral weight any way.
Posted by: Methos at December 20, 2024 12:59 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 12:59 PM (PCK5/)
Meanwhile today Biden is giving another billion dollars to Ukraine and canceling more student loans and announcing an end of term vacation in Italy.
Jan 20can't come to soon.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2024 12:59 PM (t/2Uw)
Funny how this needs no voting. LOL- we are fucking ridiculous.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 01:00 PM (bss/y)
Trump's tax cuts from his previous term expire in 2025. Democrats and even some so called Republicans who don't know dick about economics don't want them renewed.
That's why Trump wants the debt ceiling raised.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 01:00 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)
god forbid they sue the commies who sent that freighter thru there. easier to just bill me.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2024 12:50 PM (Pv3Rg)
Supposedly, MD will be giving fed gov back all insurance and lawsuit wins...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 12:51 PM (exHjb)
But the proposed budget for bridge is still $8 Billion! I just looked-up the current estimated cost for a new Ford-class nuclear aircraft carrier. $13.3 Billion. Holy cow.
Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2024 01:00 PM (aBgBM)
Meanwhile today Biden is giving another billion dollars to Ukraine and canceling more student loans and announcing an end of term vacation in Italy.
Jan 20can't come to soon.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2024 12:59 PM (t/2Uw)
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Not enough pieces.
3 pieces isn't enough.
I want votes on the individual pieces of the CR itself. Like TARP reauthorization.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 01:00 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 12:43 PM (exHjb)
OMG. How am I ever going to transition if I can't get my Party City wig?
Anyways...
Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 20, 2024 01:00 PM (FCbAQ)
I remember the flat, square burgers. I can almost taste them... mmmm.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 12:59 PM (bss/y)
I was a big fan of their spicy chicken sandwich as well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Zombie Tom Petty at December 20, 2024 01:00 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: bearski
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See my comment above.
Essentially though, who you see on TV (where the job does not require it like leadership) are the people that pose and prance claiming muh principles.
Old Rooster Tail, now on Fox as his dayjob, is a perfect example. Bloviate in public, be a craven little bitch for the Obama administration and Killary behind the scenes.
We have not had serious GOP leadership in Congress since DeLay was forced out during the pedo Hastert reign.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 01:01 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 01:01 PM (xCA6C)
Not enough pieces.
3 pieces isn't enough.
I want votes on the individual pieces of the CR itself. Like TARP reauthorization.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 01:00 PM (GBKbO)
I'm old enough to remember when they tried to barbecue GWB for his desire for Line Item Veto.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)
I miss spicy chicken sandwiches that had the spices in the breading- not a sauce they sploooge onto the chicken.
It is just wrong.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 01:01 PM (bss/y)
When Swedes have to transmit electricity to Germany according to EU agreement, and southern Swedes pay 195X more for their juice than northern Swedes because of the German draw - that's trouble. Existential trouble. When a 10-minute hot shower already costs US5$ in Gothenberg and the Germans scream for more watts, then Vax jab problems become background noise.
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2024 01:02 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:01 PM (Zz0t1)
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I feel like that would require a constitutional amendment.
But a line item veto at the federal level would be interesting, at least.
States with it don't fall apart.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 01:02 PM (GBKbO)
It is just wrong.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 01:01 PM (bss/y)
McDonald's new spicy chicken sandwich hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)
3 pieces isn't enough.
I want votes on the individual pieces of the CR itself. Like TARP reauthorization.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I want good health too, but that is unlikely to happen.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 01:02 PM (ctrM5)
Funding for ObamaCare should be a piece. Funding for the Patriot Act should be a piece.
All the pieces. And a big scoreboard, showing the grand total. It should be like this every year, honestly.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 01:02 PM (yq9Cj)
It is just wrong
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To sploooge is never wrong. Love is love.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 01:02 PM (jFCkp)
It is just wrong.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Heh. Now do bbq.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 01:02 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2024 01:02 PM (gm9Sb)
Do you know where you are?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 01:02 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 01:02 PM (nxgXe)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 01:03 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 01:03 PM (GBKbO)
Doesn't it also include the American Reinvestment and Recovery act?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 12:53 PM (xCA6C)
Okay… can I go to Sam’s Club??
Absolutely. I'm sure things will be very different there.
Posted by: Archimedes
The fights are better at Walmart stores.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 01:04 PM (e+6P0)
If the government shuts down so does the federal register. No more last minute crap to destroy the country.
https://tinyurl.com/yc26z9u7
Posted by: Just Lily at December 20, 2024 01:04 PM (RvtZJ)
3 pieces isn't enough.
I want votes on the individual pieces of the CR itself. Like TARP reauthorization.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Agree.
Posted by: scampydog at December 20, 2024 01:04 PM (2bFN5)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 01:03 PM (GBKbO)
Doesn't it also include the American Reinvestment and Recovery act?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)
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There's a big reason Congress won't go back to budgets, and it's not because it's hard work.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 01:04 PM (GBKbO)
The fights are better at Walmart stores.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 01:04 PM (e+6P0)
Also known as 'bum fights.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sharkman at December 20, 2024 01:05 PM (hzt9x)
The debt ceiling redemption on Jan 1st will make Trump have to figure out how to pass the tax cuts without going over the debt ceiling and triggering a default. Do you get it now?
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 12:26 PM
So doesn't this mean that we just need to go through the budget and cut out all the overspending on nonsense in order to fund the tax cuts? We know there is billions upon billions of waste in the government budget. Go through all that first and cut all the waste and see how much that allows for new spending without going over the debt ceiling. May not be $4 Trillion, but I would guess there is hundreds of billions at least that can be cut.
How many hundreds of billions have we sent to Ukraine alone over the past 3+ years? How many billions spent on illegal aliens? How many billions spent on foreign aid overall?
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 01:05 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 20, 2024 01:05 PM (UKUm3)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:05 PM (YzqWW)
Repeated for clarity.
This will be the same rule likely used for any bills coming up in the next few days.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 01:05 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Sponge
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GOP Congress actually gave that power to Billy Jeff via Enhanced Rescission Authority. Scotus shot it down when a recipient of government largess sued over Clinton's use of it.
Funny how all the attempts of policy innovations like Gramm Rudman Hollings or the legislative veto that are extra constitutional that hamper big Fed government are taken out and shot by Scotus rulings.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 01:05 PM (ctrM5)
The only time it comes into play is that sometimes Republicans say "hey will only vote to raise the debt ceiling if you cut x or y or z" and they (we) get our asses handed to us on it.
Absent a debt ceiling increase all Trump initiatives like no tax on tips gets scored against it by CBO.
Doesn't anyone here know how to play this game?
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 01:05 PM (QfvaV)
Or... withdraw. Let them stew in their own juices. No money, no lives lost, nothing. Americans can freely travel to Europe but may not return.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 01:06 PM (ExV1e)
They have no shame.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2024 01:06 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: bearski
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See my comment above.
Essentially though, who you see on TV (where the job does not require it like leadership) are the people that pose and prance claiming muh principles.
Old Rooster Tail, now on Fox as his dayjob, is a perfect example. Bloviate in public, be a craven little bitch for the Obama administration and Killary behind the scenes.
We have not had serious GOP leadership in Congress since DeLay was forced out during the pedo Hastert reign.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 01:01 PM (ctrM5)
Preach it, whig. I cannot stand Foghorn Leghorn on FOX. Never could. I put Jim Jordan in that category as well. A total show horse.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 01:06 PM (fJJtc)
"To be in accordance with Loper, this ream of federal regulation, and all of its employees, is hereby rescinded. They are no authorized explicitly by statute. Bring on the next ream."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 01:06 PM (GBKbO)
Me. It was how this shit show got going. The original $800 billion deficit, Ws parting gift, was then instituted as the standard budget under Barry.
But wow - the debt ceiling is just awful. You've all heard the smart kids tell you why its silly to talk about balancing the budget and how it just can't be done and blah and blah and blah.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 01:06 PM (yq9Cj)
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You know what I need even less than the BATF ? The guy mopping the floors at the BATF.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:58 PM (yq9Cj)
I think they'll be necessary, at least until the building(s) is sold.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 01:06 PM (VNX3d)
I found this, not sure how accurate:
As of September 30, 2024, the U.S. Ukraine response funding totals nearly $183 billion, with $130.1 billion obligated and $86.7 billion disbursed.
Congress appropriated $174.2 billion through the five Ukraine supplemental appropriation acts enacted FY 2022 through FY 2024, of which $163.6 billion was allocated for OAR and the Ukraine response. Additional funds of $18.2 billion were allocated from annual agency appropriations and $1.1 billion was allocated from other supplemental appropriation acts.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 01:06 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 01:06 PM (v0R5T)
The biggest contributor to the waste is the "chain", which is usually thrown away or used for stock. I bought neckbones for stock at H-Mart, but the oxtails were $16/lb! IOW, they're approaching tenderloin levels. They used to be cheap.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 01:06 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2024 01:06 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: The Dark Lord at December 20, 2024 01:06 PM (DBAaD)
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Not specifically, and I would assume no one pays any attention to it, but my first thought when Elon said he could easily cut 2 trillion dollars from the federal budget was that extra trillion 'emergency' obama got in his first year and the extra trillion Biden got for covid scams both of which get mindlessly rolled over (and increased to beat inflation) in every CR since.
Because that's what a CR is. We continue all the spending currently being done plus a bit more.
Posted by: Methos at December 20, 2024 01:07 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 20, 2024 01:07 PM (wtvvX)
It is inbelievable how much damage the Biden administration is going to be able to do over the next 30 days.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2024 01:07 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 01:07 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: JackStraw
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That is simply shitbaggery by the GOP leadership. They can go to Rules Committee with their legislation instead and have the bills only requiring a majority to pass. My guess is some GOP idiots on the Rules Committee are being an ass is why or the GOP leadership wants a shutdown now to force the Dems in the Senate to come forward with their own bill first.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 01:08 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 01:08 PM (fs1hN)
BeSt eCoNoMy iN 25 yEaRs!
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 01:08 PM (2zWFh)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)
Trump? The guy who cut taxes, submitted budgets with spending cuts, and shut down the government to try and make progress? That guy is tax and spend?
Well, if you say so.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 01:09 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 01:09 PM (W2Pud)
They have no shame.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2024 01:06 PM (t/2Uw)
$40 of which might actually be spent on Amazon.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 01:09 PM (nxgXe)
All is right with the blog.
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 01:07 PM (v0R5T)
Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)
They just write it off.
Posted by: Kramer at December 20, 2024 01:09 PM (DobEs)
Posted by: Methos at December 20, 2024 01:10 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2024 01:10 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 01:09 PM (W2Pud)
"I'll buy that for a dollar!"
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 01:10 PM (fJJtc)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:10 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 01:10 PM (yq9Cj)
I thought we liked it when water and power is cut off to Muslims?
Posted by: Israel at December 20, 2024 01:10 PM (Djkcg)
No stocking stuffers this year, suckers.
Posted by: Congress to the Voters at December 20, 2024 01:10 PM (+oR7L)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2024 01:11 PM (BpYfr)
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Don't play the game.
End the game.
Posted by: Methos at December 20, 2024 01:10 PM (Dnobf)
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Republicans, Democrats: they're all just spokes on a wheel. This one's on top, then that one's on top, and on and on it spins, crushing those on the ground.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 01:11 PM (GBKbO)
As usual, they've pushed everything to the last minute into a must pass CR, vomited forth at the 11th hour.
Let's shut down the government, swear in Trump and his pipehitters and let Musk, Vivek and Vance get pliers and blow torches and go Medieval on these ridiculous clowns.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2024 12:30 PM
Abso-fucking-lutely.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 01:11 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 20, 2024 01:11 PM (UKUm3)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:11 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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If I watched tv for political news anymore, I would die of apoplexy shortly due to the shitbags parading themselves on camera.
But, the problem predates the current era way back. Those that talk the most and wave their hands around are those least likely to actually do much legislative work.
Note that the failure to get spending bills out by committees and thus requiring a CR in the first place is the fault of the GOP members of those committees to complete their work in a timely fashion.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 01:11 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Don't Care
I thought they did put it up for a vote last year and it failed.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2024 01:12 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Israel at December 20, 2024 01:10 PM (Djkcg)
Only the dickhead Muslims. Kurds aren’t dickhead like the fake pallyworld folks.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 20, 2024 01:12 PM (nxgXe)
Posted by: Nova Local
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That's sad. We've got little kids and they were the best one-stop shop for birthdays, seasonal parties, Halloween... Sure, most comes from China. But more reliable under their brands than the straight Alibaba-ish cr*p that dominates Amazon now...
Posted by: bearski at December 20, 2024 01:12 PM (Bhsk7)
BeSt eCoNoMy iN 25 yEaRs!
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 01:08 PM (2zWFh)
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9xQlcvNlxg
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 20, 2024 01:13 PM (wtvvX)
Good times. Good times.
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 01:13 PM (QfvaV)
Could be. I'm trying to keep one eye on what Trump/Vance are doing.
Last night's "skinny bill" was pure kabuki. It was never going to pass and anyone who knew the rules knew it from the jump.
The CR process is a tired, destructive game that takes us to the brink and then miraculously a bi-partisan agreement emerges at the 11th hour that always bones us in the ass.
The process can't be fixed. It can only be broken. If there's one thing we have learned about Trump is he likes to break things and do it his way.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 01:13 PM (LkLld)
The shutdown of the federal government has forced the Department of the Interior to dynamite the Mount Rushmore sculptures and set fire to Redwood National Forest. They had no choice.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 20, 2024 01:13 PM (uz6ub)
Break the 'obligations,' they have no moral weight any way.
Posted by: Methos at December 20, 2024 12:59 PM (Dnobf)
Let me make it clearer, obligations made by previous Congress.
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 01:13 PM (QTCRF)
He's evolved.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 01:14 PM (yq9Cj)
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And Trump has the biggest ego in the universe but he's kowtowing to Musk, telling him what to do.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 12:52 PM (hovnC)
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Again, it's both. Trump's a fool for bringing on Musk only to be back-seated by him, and Trump is a megalomaniac that is going to put shackles on everybody.
Both of them say "Trump has serious mental problems" and Musk putting Trump in their place is the comeuppance they want so badly for Trump.
Dems have put themselves into a ready-state for doublethink.
They don't come here for the thinking.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:14 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:15 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: whig
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Agreed. I think that was a promise from McCarthy that he didn't fulfill, which was one of the stated reasons for kicking him out. Johnson I believe made that promise as well and early this year there were reports that the committees were working hard on making that promise. Don't know what happened between then and now.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 01:15 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 01:15 PM (hwLGC)
The average person can't remember who the President is.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 01:15 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 20, 2024 01:15 PM (1VvJB)
Shutting down memorials, which were zero-maintenance before they started keeping people out, was a taste of 2021 coof fuckery.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 20, 2024 12:48 PM
Didn't they block the view of Mount Rushmore too?
Posted by: CaliGirl
That 'shutdown' where they paid OT to block views of things otherwise wide open should have exposed team Obama to be the vicious authoritarian thugs that they are. Unfortunately to this day almost half the country supports that.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2024 01:15 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 20, 2024 01:11
Fingers crossed PaleRider,
In my area the bonus has been the pausing of an off shore wind farm. Maybe some of the craziness will stop even here.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 01:15 PM (1gLn1)
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Truuuuuuuuuuuump!!!
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:15 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 20, 2024 01:15 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:16 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: Israel at December 20, 2024 01:10 PM (Djkcg)
Only the dickhead Muslims. Kurds aren’t dickhead like the fake pallyworld folks.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
This was done by Muslim expansionist Turkey which thinks it should be bigger. Kind of like Russia invading Ukraine. The Kurds are the good guys in this scenario. The Druze in Syria have already said they would prefer to be part of Israel. Will be interesting if Syria ends up being carved up.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2024 01:16 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 01:13 PM (LkLld)
That is the most optimistic take I've read. Don't know if I believe it - but I'd like to. Because we are at a "flip the money changers tables" moment. Culturally and financially.
All those that take comfort in telling us the rules are not helpful. All those advising how to play within the rules are not helpful. The game is rigged against us. We're fools to keep playing.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 01:16 PM (yq9Cj)
Where are all the trannys supposed to get their wigs from now?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 01:16 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - NEXT Year in Corsicana - again at December 20, 2024 01:16 PM (rOtXe)
Posted by: Weasel at December 20, 2024 01:17 PM (1BE4H)
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2024 01:17 PM (QTCRF)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 01:15 PM (ExV1e)
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Well, the last 6 months, it hasn't been obvious.
You even had a gal running on being an incumbent outsider, running on the record of the Presidency that she otherwise didn't have the power to control.
Which added to the confusion.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:17 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 12:58 PM (p4NUW)
Is that a challenge? Cuz it sounds like a challenge.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 01:18 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 01:18 PM (MQJVv)
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 01:18 PM (2zWFh)
But this goatrope is a sign of Trumps mental illness?
I can't even.
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 01:18 PM (QfvaV)
Just because its a GOP idea doesn't make it a good idea. I'm glad this Shit Idea Part Deux failed.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 01:18 PM (yq9Cj)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 20, 2024 01:18 PM (1VvJB)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:18 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Who's this guy on Fox? I don't watch it so outta the loop I guess... But yeah, Jim Jordan is full of it. Credit to ace for illuminating that. I guess they're all full of it but if we conservatives can't support pushes for fiscal responsibility, we're all just playing on borrowed time and screwing the future...
Posted by: bearski at December 20, 2024 01:19 PM (Bhsk7)
Posted by: fd
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You can find good information on X by some congressional insiders leaking to reporters. Musk turning his AI Grok model onto the Christmas tree bill and then subsequently the 'clean' CR is a welcome advance as well.
Any congressional law, especially spending bills, uses obscure and often misleading provisions because they alter existing laws outside of the bill. Piecing together what these CRs do in effect requires literally iterative searches of the pre existing laws and spending bills to figure out what in the hell the current bill will actually do.
This is where the staffs, k-street lobbyists, a few congressional leaders like Schumer or McConnell, etc. and interest groups negotiate before teh bill ever reaches the floor. It is designed to mislead, panic the markets and people, and ultimately force a shit sandwich down the throat of voters to enrich insiders and their friends.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 01:19 PM (ctrM5)
Gentlemen, I despise each and every one of you.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 01:19 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 01:15 PM (fs1hN
"Working hard"...Haha.
And, they lied. That's what happened.
They can't help it, it's what they do. It's all they do.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 20, 2024 01:19 PM (FCbAQ)
He's evolved.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 01:14 PM (yq9Cj)
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What's the next form for an Ewok pokemon?
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:19 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 20, 2024 01:18 PM (1VvJB)
*Wal-Mart has entered the chat.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 01:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 12:59 PM (fJJtc)
This sounds a lot like what Democrats were saying about Biden/Harris in 2020.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 01:20 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Not that you know of anyway.
*wink*
Posted by: Joe Biden at December 20, 2024 01:20 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:20 PM (YzqWW)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2024 01:15 PM (/lPRQ)
I remember that and you are absolutely correct in that it showed how vicious a thug Obama was. And is. I also remember veterans not being allowed to visit a WWII memorial IIRC. Sadly, most don't remember and the thug Obama maintains a favorable impression among too many.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 01:20 PM (hwLGC)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:18 PM (YzqWW)
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Joe can fix that problem.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 01:20 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Jetto at December 20, 2024 01:21 PM (2zWFh)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Hey! Hey!
*snaps fingers*
I'm over here. Sheesh.
Posted by: your computer monitor at December 20, 2024 01:21 PM (v0R5T)
I can't even.
Posted by: blaster
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Nope. It is failure theater brought to you by the GOP House failing to do their committee spending bills on time. Trump simply wants this shit over with before he takes office with a clean extension and the same debt ceiling suspension that the GOP House willingly gave Biden for two years.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 01:21 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 01:21 PM (ctrM5)
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Weird how this happened after Johnson promised that one more CR in the summer was all they needed in order to have the time to go to regular budgetary order.
Just...weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 01:22 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 01:22 PM (QfvaV)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 20, 2024 01:22 PM (1VvJB)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:23 PM (YzqWW)
And, they lied. That's what happened.
They can't help it, it's what they do. It's all they do.
Posted by: OneEyedJack
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We need an indefatigable reporter on X covering the lying congressional Republican beat, to keep the heat on them. Someone that can do what Julie Kelly does on the J6 political prisoners.
Posted by: Joe Biden at December 20, 2024 01:23 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 01:15 PM (fs1hN
"Working hard"...Haha.
And, they lied. That's what happened.
They can't help it, it's what they do. It's all they do.
Posted by: OneEyedJack
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DC has become addicted to the CR to hide its spending and borrowing and before that is was the Budget Omnibus which had all sorts of crap inserted at the last minute.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 01:23 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 01:23 PM (6RwsA)
But I thought maintaining the internationally recognized sovereign borders was essential to maintaining the global order and that separatist regions couldn't just vote to join another country?
Posted by: So Confusing at December 20, 2024 01:24 PM (Djkcg)
Break it up into single issue bills.
Posted by: torabora at December 20, 2024 01:24 PM (0Gnoc)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 01:19 PM (LkLld)
Wow. The circle is closed. We're in complete agreement, and I'll foot the bill for herb while we tool around on your boat listening to Jerry Garcia.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 01:24 PM (yq9Cj)
Posted by: runner
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The U.S. should do that. Then use the place as a dumping ground for nuclear waste and criminals.
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2024 01:25 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 01:25 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 01:21 PM (ctrM5)
No. No more kiting checks. Not even to "make it fair". This isn't hard to understand.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 01:26 PM (yq9Cj)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 01:23 PM (YzqWW)
The Income Tax Constitutional Amendment does not have to be repealed to zero-out the Federal Income Tax. All that needs to be done is enact a law that eliminates Federal Income Tax.
Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2024 01:27 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2024 01:00 PM (aBgBM)
How about just don't replace the bridge at all? Will Baltimore turn into a shithole?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 01:36 PM (8zz6B)
THE MORNING RANT: EV Fire in Parking Garage Causes Terrifying Nighttime Rescues at a Chattanooga, TN Apartment Building
Heavy smoke made its way into the building where some residents needed assistance to escape. Some residents had to evacuate by climbing down an aerial ladder from multiple stories up. Residents expressed their gratitude for the firefighters response.
"There were multiple vehicles on fire," said Lindsey Rogers with the Chattanooga Fire Department. "The smoke from the vehicle fires made its way throughout the building, so we had half of our crews in the sub-level garage working to extinguish those car fires. We had the other half of our crews working to do multiple rescues."The electric vehicle that started the fire was determined to be a Kia EV. Following the awful night that the residents endured, almost all of them soon learned that their cars had been damaged too.
Two other vehicles next to the EV burned, and most of the cars in the garage suffered heat damage, in the early morning hours of November 22nd. Fire officials identified the car that caught fire as a Kia.The greatest peril in a multi-family building is fire. That risk has now been compounded by the fact that a trendy EV parked in an apartment’s garage might spontaneously erupt into an unextinguishable inferno at any time. I know that I will be receiving the usual emails reminding me that there are more fires involving gasoline-powered (“ICE”
cars than from EVs. Of course there are, because there are so many more ICE cars on the road than EVs, and when ICE cars get in wrecks, the gasoline sometimes combusts.
But ICE cars just don’t spontaneously burst into flames like EVs do. There is essentially no risk that a parked ICE car in a garage will burst into flames, while there is a very real, greater-than-zero risk that an EV will spontaneously combust, and cause tremendous damage to everything around it. And above it.
For safety reasons and for insurance purposes, buildings with covered parking garages really need to start considering a ban on EVs.
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Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)
Or is it just a continuous betrayal?
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 11:02 AM (jvJvP)
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Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 20, 2024
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Or, you know, apropos.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 11:02 AM (J2vNu)
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Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 11:05 AM (e8mjv)
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:04 AM (ctrM5)
Joe Xiden hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)
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Well, positive development in terms of process, methinks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:05 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2024 11:05 AM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 11:05 AM (jFCkp)
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Saudis drive Audis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqJDuZIcQ34
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:05 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:04 AM (ctrM5)
Weird… just up in smoke..
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 11:05 AM (PCK5/)
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Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 11:06 AM (kUr/o)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)
Watchdog barking. Do he bite?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 20, 2024 11:06 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 11:05 AM (e8mjv)
ever mixed powdered chlorine with motor oil?....don't!
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 11:08 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 11:08 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Robert Reich at December 20, 2024 11:08 AM (PiwSw)
https://tinyurl.com/nha9ztpt
(There is also an instrumental:
https://tinyurl.com/mu2p46bd)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 11:08 AM (J2vNu)
Which is an argument they like to make.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 20, 2024 11:08 AM (+4yJ5)
Expensive riders.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 11:08 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 11:08 AM (L/fGl)
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*burps in the form of a volcanic eruption*
-Erf
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:08 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Octochicken at December 20, 2024 11:08 AM (oCS0o)
The aquarium is awesome. Don't recall much else from a visit many years ago.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 11:08 AM (/y8xj)
The aquarium is awesome. Don't recall much else from a visit many years ago.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 11:08 AM (/y8xj)
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Lookout Mountain is well worth the trip.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:09 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 11:09 AM (jFCkp)
Come for the ability to hear every noise on your floor.
Stay for the built-in surprise gas chamber.
Posted by: sifty boones at December 20, 2024 11:09 AM (ceGpQ)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 11:08 AM (/y8xj)
Oh, I'd mostly want to visit the battle sites.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2024 11:10 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at December 20, 2024 11:10 AM (TN5A0)
Posted by: Sponge
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There was also that odd Mr. Jacks or something like that who would pop up from time to time.
Hope you and your wife are doing well and that your family has a peaceful Christmas full of joy.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:10 AM (ctrM5)
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I wonder how the pay raise for X-treme Hakeem slice will do.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 11:10 AM (L/fGl)
ever mixed powdered chlorine with motor oil?....don't!
Posted by: BignJames
Nope! We actually don’t have a lot of chlorine because we have a copper ionizer and don’t need much.
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 11:10 AM (e8mjv)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:10 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: George Snaffalopogous at December 20, 2024 11:11 AM (G5+As)
The aquarium is awesome. Don't recall much else from a visit many years ago.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 11:08 AM (/y8xj)
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Lookout Mountain is well worth the trip.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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You forgot ROCK CITY!!!!!
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:11 AM (ctrM5)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqJDuZIcQ34
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:05 AM (GBKbO)
Expected Remy. Was not disappoint.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 11:11 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 11:11 AM (ExV1e)
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What's with all the dudes in brown flipflops!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:12 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 11:12 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 11:08 AM (Yj6Os
What concoction is created by that?
Posted by: Cypress Hill at December 20, 2024 11:12 AM (/6GbT)
Hope you and your wife are doing well and that your family has a peaceful Christmas full of joy.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:10 AM (ctrM5)
She's having a rough go this week. She was supposed to do chemo yesterday, but her white count was too low. She's got sniffles and a light cough currently, which becomes a bit scary with her being immunocompromised like that. She's incredibly tired.
But I appreciate your kind thoughts.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)
You'd think so, wouldn't you? It usually comes up only in health insurance discussion, but -- there is a lot of internal politics with insurance. If something is officially blessed, like certain personal practices, or dangerous but well-intentioned tech revolutions, magically the risk will be spread across everyone in the market. Only those innovations unliked by The Committee result in special extra charges just for the practitioners.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 20, 2024 11:13 AM (zdLoL)
"That's what Hell looks like.".
No thank you! I'll stick to my thirty acres of rural farm land and "learn" to live without Thai food at three AM.
psst... I don't give a fuck about Thai food and if I'm awake at 3 am, it's either because I had to pee or Hubbymayhem woke me up.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 11:13 AM (4XwPj)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024
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The name "Remy" now always makes me think of Olivia Wilde as Remy Hadley, "Thirteen" on House.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 11:13 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 20, 2024 11:13 AM (sagpo)
Posted by: George Snaffalopogous at December 20, 2024 11:11 AM (G5+As)
Dual Stromberg carbs...they the shizz!
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 11:13 AM (Yj6Os)
What's with all the dudes in brown flipflops!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:12 AM (GBKbO)
SLOWLY I turn........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 11:13 AM (Yj6Os)
Unless you have to repair / retune them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Axeman
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He would keep closer tabs on that for obvious reasons than I do.
But making batteries with lithium ingredients is not the only way to make them. Part of the biggest problem, I understand with using other means is that they weigh more which obviously affects mobile use.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:14 AM (ctrM5)
They should not be allowed near any stand of forest, especially in summer.
That's a lot of resources , wildlife and people threatened.
Posted by: Derak at December 20, 2024 11:14 AM (fm8gk)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 11:14 AM (j+LsA)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024
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"I Can't Dance, She Can't Vote" is one of my favorites.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:14 AM (krQz2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqJDuZIcQ34
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You've opened a window to your soul to me, TJM. I'm am grateful.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 11:15 AM (jFCkp)
But I appreciate your kind thoughts.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
She is such a bright light, I am praying for her.
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 11:15 AM (e8mjv)
Yea know, it's almost all like these regulations in the name of "health and safety" are nothing more than cover for more sinister motivations.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 11:15 AM (iFTx/)
When Government Chooses Your Car
https://is.gd/N5c1Uh
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 11:15 AM (e+6P0)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 11:15 AM (63Dwl)
"I Can't Dance, She Can't Vote" is one of my favorites.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:14 AM (krQz2)
I've been seeing a lot of ACLU and SLPC ads on teevee declaring that voting rights are being stripped away everywhere and we must ACT to stop the oppression.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 11:16 AM (e+6P0)
Posted by: Cypress Hill at December 20, 2024 11:12 AM (/6GbT)
fire....and chlorine gas
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 11:16 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 11:15 AM (e8mjv)
Thank you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)
.. I thought they told us the ocean would rise, not have the building sink
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 11:16 AM (RHGPo)
Gonna admit that since I saw that the first time, years ago, that is how I pronounce Audi.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 11:16 AM (ExV1e)
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Always park it on a hill.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 11:17 AM (jFCkp)
One wonders how long it will be, before the Insurance companie(s) for (the building) will not allow/insure buildings that have EVs parked below...
Posted by: PETE at December 20, 2024 11:17 AM (0Ctrb)
But I appreciate your kind thoughts.
Posted by: Sponge
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Chemo is a tough regimen and I am sure that you and your family's support and love makes all the difference in the world.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:17 AM (ctrM5)
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Kill Bill: MSNBC’s Jen Psaki Laments ‘Threat’ Voters Pose to Unresponsive Elected Officials
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Damn voters getting uppity!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 11:18 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)
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They are probably talking about the attempt to "take the vote away" from illegal aliens in the states that gave them a vote in local elections.
That's what I would wager.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:18 AM (krQz2)
They're called MG Little People! -- Karen
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 11:18 AM (ExV1e)
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Damn voters getting uppity!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 11:18 AM (L/fGl)
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"The politicians should rule the people."
-progressivism
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:18 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:17 AM (ctrM5)
We're certainly trying. Anything I can do to make her giggle......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cypress Hill at December 20, 2024 11:12 AM (/6GbT)
fire....and chlorine gas
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 11:16 AM (Yj6Os
Chlorine reacts with oil and it combusts? Door prize black chlorine gas of doom? Fun
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 20, 2024 11:18 AM (/6GbT)
And E-bikes are bad too. Their fires have killed people. https://tinyurl.com/5h7t2pjr
Posted by: PJ at December 20, 2024 11:18 AM (RRCAT)
.. these talks ought to be really productive ... NOT
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 11:18 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 11:18 AM (L/fGl)
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Even the black ones?
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:19 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)
Is she ticklish?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 11:19 AM (ExV1e)
Is she ticklish?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 11:19 AM (ExV1e)
Anything but that. She HATES being tickled.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 20, 2024 11:20 AM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 11:21 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 11:21 AM (jbnUc)
And so would all the diesel vehicles used to rape the earth to harvest the lithium required for the batteries.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: kallisto at December 20, 2024 11:22 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Of course they are. Some of the assholes pushing this are in it for financial gain while pseudo aristocrats do it to punish the plebes and put them in their place. Government creeps are in it for bigger budgets and more power to do the same.
And Media are paid propagandists for the whole shebang.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:23 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Can't Trust A Fart at December 20, 2024 11:23 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Can't Trust A Fart at December 20, 2024 11:23 AM (G5+As)
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Taking off his pants first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:23 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 20, 2024 11:18 AM (/6GbT)
There were some fatalities a decade or so back when someone's jug of pool chlorine got broken and the jug of transmission fluid leaked into it in the back of a car.
I have been told it is not something that happens every time it gets mixed, but it will happen
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2024 11:23 AM (D7oie)
Since when is Bidet and Jorge Roman Catholic. Both are effing evil POSs, and need to spend eternity in that hot place.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at December 20, 2024 11:23 AM (TN5A0)
oh no
the Pope must have a poopy pants fetish
Posted by: kallisto at December 20, 2024 11:24 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Can't Trust A Fart at December 20, 2024 11:23 AM (G5+As)
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Taking off his pants first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:23 AM (GBKbO)
Ah.....a classic.
https://youtu.be/A1veW1s24Xo
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:24 AM (Zz0t1)
‘ Notice that the EV shills have disappeared lately from AOS. Wonder why that is.’
My understanding is that they were banned.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 11:24 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 11:21 AM (jbnUc)
Not that it's relevant but, imagine all the carbon put into the atmosphere from the fire started by that EV.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 11:24 AM (ExV1e)
-progressivism
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:18 AM (GBKbO)
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People have become so used to the idea of "ideology" being something that every politics has. It's not though.
Ideology is actually a theory on how people should be governed, almost always academic, and almost always opposing whatever pragmatic opposition that may arise from the implementation of that agenda.
If you have an ideology, that's what's important, meeting the goals of the theory. Not responding to the pushback of the people.
Marxism is an ideology, Fascism is an ideology, Self-rule is not. Self-rule is an idea of the purpose of government, and doesn't demand any outcome, necessarily.
So, progression, along a theory will always try to grab power to execute that agenda, and that means any popular opposition to that agenda, must be made illegitimate somehow.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:25 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 11:24 AM (ExV1e)
And mix in the fact they don't have a solution for actually putting the fire out.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)
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Braxton Bragg > Alvin Bragg
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 11:25 AM (L/fGl)
words I never thought I'd see strung together in that order
Posted by: kallisto
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Chattanooga used to be a distribution point and industrial center due to its river and its rail network access.
When the old smog producing industries went under, the city did not do well at first and only gradually recovered by shifting to lifestyle and tourism promotion. Did not hurt after TennCare crashed and burned that Tennessee has no state income tax for those relocating.
Still has a high crime rate in some areas which can spill over to the tourist areas on occasion.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:26 AM (ctrM5)
A perp could be crouched between vehicles and you'd never even expect it when he rolls up behind you.
I hate those garages. I used them almost entire life but never considered the safety issue until I was in my own little building of 8 units' garage. I was getting out of my car and I saw a shady dude right on the sidewalk but I managed to hit the button to close the door before he could duck under it.
Posted by: kallisto at December 20, 2024 11:26 AM (dCxaZ)
oh no
the Pope must have a poopy pants fetish
Posted by: kallisto at December 20, 2024 11:24 AM (dCxaZ)
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I recently heard that that's not all Joe did. The current scuttlebut is that Joe threw up on the Pope first.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:26 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 20, 2024 11:27 AM (+4yJ5)
Mufasa is underperforming badly based on Thursday previews.
Let the news stories calling Disney a dumpster fire that completely ignore the three massive hits they've had this year return!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:27 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at December 20, 2024 11:27 AM (P7Iz+)
Oh wait, never mind. Ya pays yer money and takes yer chancesz
Posted by: Common Tater at December 20, 2024 11:27 AM (fjEsA)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Get some nail polish and "paint" her toe nails some outrageous color. The two of you are the only ones who will see it and know you did it. Just don't tickle her feet while doing this. She might just smile every time she looks at her toes.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 11:27 AM (4XwPj)
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Damn voters getting uppity!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
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We should always let the experts in government make all decisions for us. They know what's best and should never be questioned.
At least that's what the propaganda media tells us when the dems are in power.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 20, 2024 11:28 AM (Lo97M)
Mufasa is underperforming badly based on Thursday previews.
Let the news stories calling Disney a dumpster fire that completely ignore the three massive hits they've had this year return!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:27 AM (GBKbO)
That money was spent covering for last year's bombs. At Disney budgets, every movie has to hit or it starts getting bad for them...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 11:29 AM (exHjb)
Posted by: Office of the White House Physician at December 20, 2024 11:29 AM (G5+As)
At least that's what the propaganda media tells us when the dems are in power.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 20, 2024 11:28 AM (Lo97M)
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Even if they lock down the country and check passports on every corner like Nazis...
Experts know best.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:29 AM (krQz2)
This is one last big crap down our throats by Scranton Joe Biden, noted futurist and, energy and technology expert, as he heads out the door that will completely screw up the energy and transportation sectors of the economy if allowed to stand. Plus driving up our costs and making our lives generally far worse.
Nobody voted for this. Biden, I mean, Obama, dictated this is what are doing and if you don't like it you can go to hell. Leftist democracy at work.
https://is.gd/Nf1G8C
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 11:29 AM (e+6P0)
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 11:29 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 11:29 AM (j+LsA)
Now you've gone to meddling.
Posted by: Residents of Teslatown at December 20, 2024 11:30 AM (dg+HA)
it's hard to believe that the Pope wants this crash test dummy, a proven NWO LOSER in his vicinity. It's gotta be the cabal of advisers that gave Bergoglio some word salad reason that the barely conscious shell of a loser "POTUS" needs to show up anywhere on the Italian peninsula.
My guess is that they see it as some kind of rebuke to Trump, or at least try to even up the optics because Trump stole the show at the Notre Dame events.
Posted by: kallisto at December 20, 2024 11:30 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Can't Trust A Fart at December 20, 2024 11:23 AM (G5+As)
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Taking off his pants first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Enemas will be involved.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 11:30 AM (e+6P0)
They had a battery fire.
Said fire melted some important equipment.
They might have to temporarily shut down.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 20, 2024 11:31 AM (elaR+)
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No federal bailouts when they all collapse.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 20, 2024 11:31 AM (Rvj4u)
Amazon Workers Strike As Union Threatens Christmas Package Delays
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 11:32 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: SamIam at December 20, 2024 11:32 AM (oasF3)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 11:29 AM (j+LsA)
Populism is the heart and soul of fascism donchaknow
(I do love the way the MSM conflates populism with majoritarianism)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2024 11:32 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 11:33 AM (BPWTa)
Posted by: Can't Trust A Fart at December 20, 2024 11:23 AM (G5+As)
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Taking off his pants first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Enemas will be involved.
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Upside, there is a shit ton of Italian marble and stonework available to break an ancient hip.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 11:33 AM (jFCkp)
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 11:33 AM (Yj6Os)
The rate of spontaneously ignition of vehicle fires for EV's is much, much higher than ICE vehicles. ICE vehicles catch on fire "more frequently" due to accidents and arson. Even then, most ICE vehicle fires are put out easily before any collateral damage is incurred.
Whereas with EV fires, and more terrifyingly - VCE (Vapor Combustible Explosions) start seemingly by themselves with the vehicle at rest.
The South Korean Insurance industry just last year found that EV fires do in fact out-pace ICE fires - and when they do catch fire, the cost of the damage is much, much worse.
The only thing keeping the rest of the world from recognizing this obvious fact is the FUD emanating from the EVangelist lobby.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 20, 2024 11:34 AM (4Ehg5)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: please wait at December 20, 2024 11:34 AM (/7KEl)
Insurance co. will play ball, if Wuhan Flu debacle is any guide.
They could have easily declined to pay out on Covid deaths. Engineered bioweapons are not covered under Life Insurance. (Nor experimental emergency vaccines, for that matter)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 20, 2024 11:34 AM (fjEsA)
Ideology is actually a theory on how people should be governed, almost always academic, and almost always opposing whatever pragmatic opposition that may arise from the implementation of that agenda.
Posted by: Axeman
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Just like to add to your excellent summary that ideology beliefs in people create a causal mechanism in their mind between their beliefs in how the world works and specific policies meant to forward putting their 'principles' into action.
It is a relatively small percentage of a given population at any time that are ideologues--estimates are about 10-15 percent while most people have broad outcome preferences (peace, prosperity, etc.) but not much idea how to bring those about.
Average people can decide eventually what policies they do not like or what policies they do like based on experiences. Vietnam War is an example.
Once they have come to public judgment on a matter, it becomes very difficult (and frustrating for ideologues with a 'better' way) to change their minds.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:34 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 20, 2024 11:34 AM (Rvj4u)
Amazon Workers Strike As Union Threatens Christmas Package Delays
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
I don't care what your contract bitches are with Amazon, but if you ruin Christmas for hundreds of thousands of people, I will not piss on you if you were on fire.
What a shit show of a day so far.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 11:35 AM (jHelr)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 20, 2024 11:34 AM (Rvj4u)
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Return to 1914 levels of spending relative to GDP or bust.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:35 AM (GBKbO)
What a shit show of a day so far.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 11:35 AM (jHelr)
Stay strong and keep the faith, brother.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:35 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 11:35 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 11:29 AM (j+LsA)
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Because people who listen to the voters are "On the Right" where fascists are.
It's illiterate logic.
Also, thanks to James Lindsay's podcast, I now know the manipulation that Engels put on "The State".
So, in Engels view, if you can't establish that the formal power is "the lower classes for the benefit of the upper classes" then you (rolls eyes) "Don't have 'A State'!"
Because Engels defined "The State" as that power that oppresses the lower classes for the benefit of the upper classes. So, you can have the Dictatorship of the Proletariat until Jesus comes to claim His Throne, and the "Government has withered away" because in theory it's no longer "oppressing the lower classes".
So, as long as the authority of the Organ Formerly Known As The State mandates that nobody question that there is not a lower class being oppressed for the benefit of another class, the "State" has "withered away" and we have Engelian "Utopia".
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:35 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: kallisto at December 20, 2024 11:30 AM (dCxaZ)
The Vatican is going broke too. I wonder if Francis is trying to re-establish some sort of "Peter's Pence" agreement, or get the Vatican Bank included in some sort of USAID programs.
Maybe to give Biden some sort of legacy they will call it "Biden's Pence" but it won't work. Pence is owned by the same people who own Biden
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2024 11:36 AM (D7oie)
It makes me think of the opening of "Smallville."
Or Gambit.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 20, 2024 11:37 AM (WPL6O)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 11:37 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 11:37 AM (kgE5c)
"Funny. Jim NEVER has a second cup of coffee at home."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:38 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 11:39 AM (BI5O2)
https://is.gd/wYjNle
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 11:39 AM (e+6P0)
Both giant messes.
One wants to lecture. The other is mostly just blindly searching for ways to entertain.
Case study in "auteurs" going mad with money in Current Era.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:39 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
How about this: Federal bailout but it's completely funded by the dissolution of the EPA and liquidating their assets?
Posted by: NR Pax at December 20, 2024 11:39 AM (+4yJ5)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
And mix in the fact they don't have a solution for actually putting the fire out.
Posted by: Sponge
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Lithium battery fires are far more toxic than a gasoline fire. And as Sponge points out, the only way to actually put it out is massive doses of water to cool the ingredients down past the combustion point.
But, pouring water on an electrical system can cause shorting in the remaining cells which can reignite the fire so putting out a lithium multicell fire becomes an exercise in futility until it burns itself out eventually.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:39 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Sponge
Will do! Work is trying to switch over to SAP S4 on Jan 1 and out HR department is trying to seitch over our time keeping to a different program on Monday the 23rd. HR is putting out two different instructions and IT is tied up with SAP.
How about NOT trying to start two huge programs for a 10k employee multinational company at the same time DURING Christmas???
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 11:40 AM (jHelr)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: please wait at December 20, 2024 11:40 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Sixiron at December 20, 2024 11:41 AM (c4Wfm)
*considers making tea happen*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 11:37 AM (kgE5c)
Tea does not "happen". Tea is intentional.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2024 11:41 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 11:43 AM (4XwPj)
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A decade in the future. A lot can, and probably will happen between now and then. And if it comes to fruition it'll start with early adopters trying to beat the rest of the market introducing whatever solutions they've got prior to 2035.
And those solutions will not all be privately owned EV's.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 11:43 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: please wait at December 20, 2024 11:40 AM (/7KEl)
think it's 8 eastern
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 11:43 AM (Yj6Os)
The lib/schmucks are all hoping it was a Tesla so they can rage hate on Elon Musk. I do hate the left.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 11:43 AM (+oR7L)
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there's talk of a 'snowless winter' here in my AO in CO
don't tease me
Posted by: Don Black. Message: please wait at December 20, 2024 11:44 AM (/7KEl)
Mufasa is underperforming badly based on Thursday previews.
Let the news stories calling Disney a dumpster fire that completely ignore the three massive hits they've had this year return!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:27 AM (GBKbO)
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LOL, I had the same thought. I was assured a few months ago that Disney was dead and buried. Since then, the company had some yuge hits. Its stock is up over 25% percent. Where's all the "Disney is dead!" commentary?
As for Mufasa, it seems like a dumb story that even Lion King fans don't care about. Plus, I didn't even heard about it until I saw a shitty promo poster on a taxicab. There seemed to be no big marketing push or buzz.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 11:44 AM (iFTx/)
How about NOT trying to start two huge programs for a 10k employee multinational company at the same time DURING Christmas???
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 11:40 AM (jHelr)
I'm old enough to remember when the end of the year meant a freeze on any and all changes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Electrical shorts in aging cars or via manufacturing defects can cause it.
Sometimes it comes from gas vapors escaping to somewhere that a spark or smouldering fire exists.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:44 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: please wait at December 20, 2024 11:44 AM (/7KEl)
‘ Biden shit his pants in front of the Pope last time. How can he top that?
Posted by: Can't Trust A Fartt
Taking off his pants first’
“Can I sit on your throne?”
Posted by: Joe Biden at December 20, 2024 11:44 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 11:45 AM (+oR7L)
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:34 AM (ctrM5)
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Yup.
And that's how you get "Lysenkoism". You start insisting that reality really coincides with your enlightened view and that what everybody has believed about reality before is simply the witchcraft of the Structure of Oppression.
So, Lysenko earnestly believed that nature was really at base more cooperative than what "Capitalists" had made dogma. And as head of Soviet Agriculture insisted that all people who had formerly applied themselves as skilled farmers, heed the "True Cooperative Nature of Nature" more consistent with Marx's theory.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:45 AM (krQz2)
think it's 8 eastern
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 11:43 AM (Yj6Os)
CBS Sports app says 7 PM in the best time zone, so yes, you're correct.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:45 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 20, 2024 11:45 AM (zVPnY)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 11:46 AM (e+6P0)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Of course they are. Some of the assholes pushing this are in it for financial gain while pseudo aristocrats do it to punish the plebes and put them in their place. Government creeps are in it for bigger budgets and more power to do the same.
And Media are paid propagandists for the whole shebang.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:23 AM (ctrM5)
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Surely you knew I was being sarcastic with my "it's almost all like" comment? LOL. I of course meant "it's surely and indisputably like . . . ."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 11:46 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:46 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: please wait at December 20, 2024 11:46 AM (/7KEl)
Like having a resident who gets drunk and smokes in bed living below you.
Posted by: COL. SANDERS at December 20, 2024 11:46 AM (oOc/o)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 11:44 AM (iFTx/)
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The director, Barry Jenkins, who won the Oscar for his movie Moonlight (gay black man coming of age story), has been ardently defending himself for selling out for two years.
Until last week when he finally admitted that he just took the cash and the whole process was deadening and he'll never make a movie like it again.
This combines with stories like the woman who directed The Marvels talking about how she ghosted the entire production at a certain point and let the producers run the show without her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:46 AM (GBKbO)
The people buying these things are at worst upper middle class. There’s no way your average family can afford one, even if they weren’t potential fire hazards
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 11:46 AM (+kWhq)
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Geez! It's not like the Republicans need any help to look bad.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 11:46 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 11:44 AM (iFTx/)
You must not watch much TV.
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 11:47 AM (Yj6Os)
The budget CR's always went smoothly before Elon Musk stuck his nose in it!
-Nobody
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 11:45 AM (+oR7L)
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"We could have forced this through with just a rumble of controversy, quickly forgotten, before people started paying this close of attention. This isn't how we're supposed to rule you!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:47 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 11:47 AM (e+6P0)
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:47 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 11:13 AM
ELAINE: Of course I support your decision to change your name.
JOEL: After the Giant game I realized that this--this problem isn't going away.
JOEL: O.K. you got your list?
ELAINE: Yeah. Yeah. 10 names.
JOEL: Right.
ELAINE: O.K. And if somebody objects, you can just veto it.
ELAINE: O.K. O.K. Remy.
JOEL: Remy Rifkin? Should I get a beret?
https://bit.ly/3DrHZHr
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 11:47 AM (P5BPp)
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A decade in the future. A lot can, and probably will happen between now and then. And if it comes to fruition it'll start with early adopters trying to beat the rest of the market introducing whatever solutions they've got prior to 2035.
For example, Trump's EPA could rescind the waiver on the basis that the EPA lacks the authority to grant it. Put the onus back on Congress to be responsible for stupidity rather than throwing their arms in the air and saying 'bureaucrats".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 11:48 AM (ExV1e)
As for Mufasa, it seems like a dumb story that even Lion King fans don't care about. Plus, I didn't even heard about it until I saw a shitty promo poster on a taxicab. There seemed to be no big marketing push or buzz.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Corporations often get a dead cat bounce and one of the virtues of a conglomerate like Disney is that earnings from one unit can offset poor performance in another for a time.
Eventually though, amputations are needed to exit dying businesses like cable/broadcast tv or the whole conglomerate starts to disintegrate.
The mighty Intel is currently mired in such a situation despite its current profits. The longer term prognosis though is more serious unless serious changes are made including deciding whether or not to exit the Foundry business.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:48 AM (ctrM5)
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6h
Democrats, media allies push talking point that Elon Musk is truly incoming president instead of Trump
Posted by: Don Black. Message: please wait at December 20, 2024 11:49 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2024 11:49 AM (jgmnb)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 11:49 AM (+kWhq)
Posted by: Sponge
Yeah. Our pricing analysts, who close out the monthly and year end sales books, are going to look like Samuel L. Jackson's character in Jurassic Park trying to go thru Wayne Knight's 20 million lines of code.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 11:50 AM (jHelr)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:46 AM (GBKbO)
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A Coming of Fag story.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:50 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 11:50 AM (hovnC)
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6h
Democrats, media allies push talking point that Elon Musk is truly incoming president instead of Trump
Posted by: Don Black. Message: please wait at December 20, 2024 11:49 AM (/7KEl)
Heh. Yeah. Keep going with that one. How many world leaders has he met with one on one thus far? Trump's met with a few. And we also have had 4 years of Trump's presidency, so we're aware of how he functions.
The left is dumb is an understatement.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:50 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 11:50 AM (jHelr)
Heh.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:51 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 11:44 AM (iFTx/)
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The director, Barry Jenkins, who won the Oscar for his movie Moonlight (gay black man coming of age story), has been ardently defending himself for selling out for two years.
Until last week when he finally admitted that he just took the cash and the whole process was deadening and he'll never make a movie like it again.
This combines with stories like the woman who directed The Marvels talking about how she ghosted the entire production at a certain point and let the producers run the show without her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:46 AM (GBKbO)
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If you want a director for a new installment of a blockbuster, family-friendly, musical cartoon about anthropomorphic animals, the obvious choice is a wildly overrated, racist, art-house hack director of "whitey sucks" bullshit.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 11:51 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2024 11:51 AM (jgmnb)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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I had not noticed that you are a working practitioner of sarcasm.
I will revise my programming to consider everything from you in the future should be run through the sarcasm filter first before commenting on your posts.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:51 AM (ctrM5)
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Democrats, media allies push talking point that Elon Musk is truly incoming president instead of Trump
Posted by: Don Black. Message: please wait at December 20, 2024 11:49 AM (/7KEl)
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Why are they repeating themselves like that?
I think in the Biden's-been-senile-the-entire-time story the media was outed as being water carriers for whatever the DC Party wants.
The media is repeating baseless DNC-strategy spin.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:52 AM (krQz2)
The people buying these things are at worst upper middle class. There’s no way your average family can afford one, even if they weren’t potential fire hazards
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 11:46 AM (+kWhq)
Tesla does not sell the roadster any more and while the Model 3 is theoretically a $35k car transaction prices are higher.
Camrys can be cheaper but those transaction prices are closer to $40k.
The car in this story was a Kia and it doesn't say what model but it's going to be priced mid-50s. Which if you look at prices of mid size SUVs in any dealership is about middle of the pack.
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 11:52 AM (QfvaV)
‘ This one outlines how leftists should go about hectoring us’
This makes the gigantic leap that anyone but leftists are listening to leftists.
They need to look up the word ‘discredited’.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 11:52 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 11:49 AM (+kWhq)
I have to go for ND as Pedd State shouldn't have a program due to running a child sex farm for decades and SMU got the 'death penalty' for paying players.
I hope SMU makes a long run, but don't think they're talented enough to.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)
A race based "hate" crime was a hoax? Well knock me over with a feather. That hasn't happened since the last race based "hate" crime.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 11:53 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 11:53 AM (PCK5/)
Democrats, media allies push talking point that Elon Musk is truly incoming president instead of Trump
Posted by: Don Black
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Meh, works best with Commies and/or Europeans, not so well with normies that like successful businessmen.
Commerce is not a dirty word in the US except in Democrat havens of academia, media, and in the bureaucracy.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:53 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 11:40 AM (jHelr)
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Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:53 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: DaveA at December 20, 2024 11:54 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:47 AM (GBKbO)
Now that they've gotten an AI (Grok, I believe) rigged up to analyze legislation, I assume Congress will ban AI.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 11:54 AM (ExV1e)
The purple-haired lady is unhappy:
“President Musk said don't do it! Don't do it! Shut the government down! Imagine! What does he know about what people go through when the government shuts down?!”
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Rosa DeLauro. The "purple-haired" part I understand but "lady"?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 11:54 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:50 AM (Zz0t1)
I don't think their little talking point will have the effect they intend.
Elon, Vance, Tulsi, Vivek, deSantis...any one of them is better than a White House full of Obama travelers
Posted by: kallisto at December 20, 2024 11:54 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 11:54 AM (ExV1e)
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Regulate it so that only Google can use it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:54 AM (GBKbO)
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And so it begins...
Posted by: Axeman
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Then the murders started.....
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:54 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 11:48 AM (ExV1e)
The right needs to use the "Sue and Settle" strategy that the left has employed whenever they are in power.
Essentially our aligned groups sue the bureaucracies and agencies over a rule they don't like - and instead of fighting it in court, the agency simply "settles" the case by relenting to the "aggrieved" party.
The problem is not a single f*cking spineless ICE manufacturer (maybe Ram, with Kuniskis back at the helm) will do that.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 20, 2024 11:54 AM (cUb+5)
I will root for Indiana because I'm tired of ND rolling out the 4 horsemen which haven't been relevant since the 30's.
I'll see myself out.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)
Trump has a knack for listening to the wrong people. Musk will burn the American People at some point.
But this is nothing new. Nobody - and I do mean nobody - has influenced American policy and politics more in the last 15 years than Valerie Jarrett. And that bitch never won a single vote.
So, per usual, all the right people can blow it out their ass.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 11:56 AM (yq9Cj)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 11:56 AM (PCK5/)
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Yes, sir. Rayovac 69!
Posted by: Whitey Sucks at December 20, 2024 11:56 AM (hovnC)
But this is nothing new. Nobody - and I do mean nobody - has influenced American policy and politics more in the last 15 years than Valerie Jarrett. And that bitch never won a single vote.
So, per usual, all the right people can blow it out their ass.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 11:56 AM (yq9Cj)
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Compromise:
No elected official may have staff. All work must be done by the elected officials themselves.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:56 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: please wait at December 20, 2024 11:49 AM (/7KEl)
https://youtu.be/Ram7AKbtkGE
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 11:56 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: kallisto at December 20, 2024 11:54 AM (dCxaZ)
Your point is valid.
The main thing I hope this Trump demolish of Harris did was destroy the myth that Owebama was smart and the light bringer for democrats forevermore.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)
I just went through buying a car. I bought a top of the line gasoline Toyota RAV4 and I paid 40K out the door. A reasonable comparison is the VW ID.4. I looked at some on the lot prices and they were 10K to 15K more. And if you look at the range specs deduct 20%.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 11:57 AM (e+6P0)
Posted by: Stanley Steemer, Too! at December 20, 2024 11:57 AM (G5+As)
Elon announced the return of the roadster.
4 years ago.
It's still not here. Just like the $30k Model 3, self driving Cybercuck, and a shedload of other promises Tesla/Musk has made and never delivered on.
Despite all of his recent antics, I'm still not an Elon fan. He single-handedly made this EV nonsense possible.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 20, 2024 11:57 AM (cUb+5)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 11:57 AM (jbnUc)
Democrats, media allies push talking point that Elon Musk is truly incoming president instead of Trump
Posted by: Don Black. Message: please wait at December 20, 2024 11:49 AM (/7KEl)
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Why are they repeating themselves like that?
I think in the Biden's-been-senile-the-entire-time story the media was outed as being water carriers for whatever the DC Party wants.
The media is repeating baseless DNC-strategy spin.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:52 AM (krQz2)
I know right? Dems think this is some sick burn, yet again don't realize they are playing to their looney base.
Elon is a smart guy and owns a platform that speaks directly to the people without an msm filter. That makes him powerful as long as he resonates with the population. If he doesn't resonate then he would be as popular as maddow and mika.
Rosa delauradangerhair is a clown.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 20, 2024 11:58 AM (OA79/)
Posted by: rickb223
Never stick your dick in crazy is a dare for some people.
Posted by: DaveA at December 20, 2024 11:58 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Stanley Steemer, Too! at December 20, 2024 11:57 AM (G5+As)
Pope Frankie gonna sell him some major indulgences for his upcoming actions… maybe some good Fire insurance…
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 11:58 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Axeman
Yeah. No vacations this week thru Jan 6th.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 11:58 AM (jHelr)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 11:49 AM (+kWhq)
I'm looking forward to tomorrow's game- an all orange stadium
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Posted by: LASue at December 20, 2024 11:58 AM (lCppi)
When Kamala outspent Trump 3-to-1.
How does paying a lot less than competition "buy the Presidency"?
He got it at a voter-initiated discount?!
Proof that the DNC works for non-thinking people, because getting the voters to agree with the campaign spread through money *IS* our system.
Who cares what words mean when you're trying to "craft a message"?!
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:58 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 11:53 AM (PCK5/)
Reliable is pretty sexy in a car.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 11:59 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 11:59 AM (VNX3d)
I think they will turn that up to 11 now
Posted by: Don Black. Message: please wait at December 20, 2024 11:59 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 11:59 AM (jHelr)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2024 11:59 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Axeman
Yeah. No vacations this week thru Jan 6th.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 11:58 AM (jHelr)
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Are they boiling people in their own figgy pudding?
Have they mentioned the sufficiency of prisons to house the poor?
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 12:00 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
I noticed that Musk application of AI and that is exactly how to apply it as an expert system rather than diddling around with general AI answering stupid questions as on reddit and quora.
Computers are extremely good at fitting in the gobbledygook of bills in a timely fashion if they have been trained on the existing US Code and spending authorization bills. Sort of like the other AI techniques in upscaling images (use the current graphic info to infer what a higher resolution pix would be etc.)
So, Grok could get a good summary quick of a current bill and how it affects current existing law (including spending bills) going forward.
Nice application of it and empowering to people. Has to scare the shit out of DC and its power mongers.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 12:00 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 12:00 PM (jFCkp)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 11:46 AM
Great discussion here by Rush Limbaugh when President Trump threatened a government shut down over illegal immigration and the border wall.
July 2018: https://bit.ly/4ggSNGN
So Trump is taking the exact opposite route. He is saying he would be willing to do it. The key is over what? Immigration. Trump is showing he’s not afraid of a government shutdown — which, believe me, the base of this party loves. The base of the Republican Party… We know now, by the way, any poll shows Trump has 85 to 92% support the Republican Party. The Republican base is Trump’s now.
It’s not a bunch of populist nationalists. It’s the mainstream of the Republican Party that’s for Trump, and they hate this cowering before the Democrats and the media over government shutdowns. They hate giving up every policy idea in the face of the blackmail of the government shutdown.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 12:00 PM (P5BPp)
I will root for Indiana because I'm tired of ND rolling out the 4 horsemen which haven't been relevant since the 30's.
I'll see myself out.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)
Yours are perfectly respectable positions! Hope the First Lady is feeling better
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:01 PM (WnEm5)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 11:59 AM (ExV1e)
I own a Toyota.
And a Land Rover, and a Hummer.
The Toyota is always the last vehicle I pick to drive. It's f*cking boring. In fact the only thing I do with it anymore is use it to drive to the dump and back.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 20, 2024 12:01 PM (cUb+5)
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Posted by: LASue at December 20, 2024 11:58 AM (lCppi)
There ya go! Don't think my Tigers are up to the task...we shall see...
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 12:01 PM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:01 PM (WnEm5)
Just woke up from a nap. Sounds terrible, but says she's feeling ok.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Pass a bill that prevents non-critical civilian federal employees and contractors from back pay from government shutdowns. If they weren't important enough to be kept on during a shutdown, they don't deserve to be paid for it.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 12:02 PM (VNX3d)
Have they mentioned the sufficiency of prisons to house the poor?
Posted by: Axeman
LOL.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 20, 2024 12:02 PM (jHelr)
Posted by: Sixiron
Trust. But you can put those out
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 20, 2024 12:02 PM (JkCto)
https://is.gd/kXybR7
Lipstick on a pig.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 12:02 PM (L/fGl)
I think they will turn that up to 11 now
Posted by: Don Black. Message: please wait at December 20, 2024 11:59 AM (/7KEl)
This time Musk is going to have some power of his own.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 12:03 PM (zQ3t+)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 12:03 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Sixiron
The Porsche 911 GT3 had an issue with that. Germans use shitty wiring at a risk, but don't really care.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sixiron
Trust. But you can put those out
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal
I have a cousin that is a fireman. They are terrified of EV fires.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 12:03 PM (e+6P0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 12:04 PM (J2vNu)
No elected official may have staff. All work must be done by the elected officials themselves.
There's something to that. I don't have a solution, but you definitely hit on part of the problem. All these dweebs seem to be able to manufacture positions, with salary and access, out of thin air.
For Senators and Reps - it's seemed obvious to me for my entire life. There should be no Federal money involved. States can pay salaries and expenses as they each see fit. That's very obvious to me.
For the Executive ? I don't know. Seems like a jealous House and Senate would raise Holy Hell about every dollar.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:04 PM (yq9Cj)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Corporations often get a dead cat bounce and one of the virtues of a conglomerate like Disney is that earnings from one unit can offset poor performance in another for a time.
Eventually though, amputations are needed to exit dying businesses like cable/broadcast tv or the whole conglomerate starts to disintegrate.
The mighty Intel is currently mired in such a situation despite its current profits. The longer term prognosis though is more serious unless serious changes are made including deciding whether or not to exit the Foundry business.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 11:48 AM (ctrM5)
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I haven't bought Disney stock because I despise the company. But there's upside to the stock.
I bought some Intel near its bottom, at $20. I think it's worth at least $30. $40 if it can get its ass back in gear. We'll see.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 12:04 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 12:03 PM (PCK5/)
I've said it for years. You want a replacement for gasoline, come up with something BETTER and I'll listen. Batteries are not BETTER than gas. Gas is still king.
End the ethanol mandates, NOW. That stuff is trash. They knew it in the 1800s.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 20, 2024 12:01 PM (cUb+5)
My wife is a Toyota fangirl. The last 8, or so, vehicles I've bought have all been Toyotas. Had each one for over a decade without issues. I don't look to my cars for excitement. Not intended as a diss toward you - different strokes and all that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 12:05 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: whig
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XLNT observation
they can't hide the pork barrel projects anymore
Posted by: Don Black. Message: please wait at December 20, 2024 12:05 PM (/7KEl)
Elon is a smart guy and owns a platform that speaks directly to the people without an msm filter. That makes him powerful as long as he resonates with the population. If he doesn't resonate then he would be as popular as maddow and mika.
Rosa delauradangerhair is a clown.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 20, 2024 11:58 AM (OA79/)
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I'm okay with them doing that these days though. Because as more comes out about media corruption and collusion with the Democrat message, and the more they distort contexts to make their message, the greater the likelihood that they cause a few more would-be drones to walk away.
I saw this video the other day of a guy who was said that his last day as a Democrat was a DNC debate. The context is that he had lost his ample-coverage-low-premium health insurance under "Obamacare". And he replaced it with a plan that cost (I think) 12 times more for a 6 times larger deductible.
What he saw was every Democrat on stage raised their hands to give illegal aliens free health care. And that was his "Last Day as a Democrat".
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 12:05 PM (krQz2)
There's something to that. I don't have a solution, but you definitely hit on part of the problem. All these dweebs seem to be able to manufacture positions, with salary and access, out of thin air.
For Senators and Reps - it's seemed obvious to me for my entire life. There should be no Federal money involved. States can pay salaries and expenses as they each see fit. That's very obvious to me.
For the Executive ? I don't know. Seems like a jealous House and Senate would raise Holy Hell about every dollar.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:04 PM (yq9Cj)
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How effective would Mitch be without his staff? How long ago would he have been a non-entity in the Senate?
Who elected his staff?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:05 PM (GBKbO)
mguy just had a video today about a hurricane flood damaged Tesla exploding inside of a shipping container in Miami. Thankfully nobody was hurt but it could have been much, much worse.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 20, 2024 12:05 PM (cUb+5)
Guidance from Harris' aides said she would 'receive briefings and conduct internal meetings with staff’. It came as the fate of a congressional effort to fund the federal government remains uncertain and a shutdown looms.
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 12:06 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 12:04 PM (J2vNu)
My 96 Ranger is uncomfortable and moderately gutless, but the 5 speed and Flowmaster exhaust makes it fun. I love that little thing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:06 PM (Zz0t1)
What he saw was every Democrat on stage raised their hands to give illegal aliens free health care. And that was his "Last Day as a Democrat".
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 12:05 PM (krQz2)
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I saw that.
Dude's a fucking moron.
His last day as a Democrat should have been the day he lost his health insurance. It took almost a decade.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:06 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sixiron
Go take an open gallon of gas into your backyard. Now throw a lit cigarette into it.
The gas will probably quench the cig. Gasoline is awesome for a variety of reasons. It takes work to ignite gasoline - but you get a tremendous return on investment when you do.
What you'll never see - absolutely damn never - is a gallon of gas create its own heat and thus its own ignition source.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:07 PM (yq9Cj)
‘ This time Musk is going to have some power of his own.’
I’m ambivalent about Musk. I’m glad he’s on our side and he’s very talented. But I don’t want him to give the impression that the Trump is in his pocket.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 12:07 PM (jbnUc)
Who elected his staff?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:05 PM (GBKbO)
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I ...
Oh wait....
Posted by: M Lewinski at December 20, 2024 12:07 PM (krQz2)
Note to self: Quit giving the kids our old cars when we get new ones.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 12:07 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 20, 2024 12:05 PM (cUb+5)
A battery Porsche lit on fire in a container on a ship in the middle of the ocean.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:07 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 12:08 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Sixiron
My friend's H1 caught fire on the trail in Moab when his turbo oil seal started leaking onto his exhaust. Smoke followed by fire. Thankfully we all carry fire extinguishers on board and after about a minute of deployed extinguishers, the flames were out. Minimal damage was done to a wiring harness and the body underside insulation. About 2 hours of trailside repair... an the truck was back on the trail - albeit heading back to the parking lot.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 20, 2024 12:08 PM (cUb+5)
You're nailing it - Mitch got all that staff with Federal money. Nobody from Kentucky had the slightest say about it.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:08 PM (yq9Cj)
Dude's a fucking moron.
His last day as a Democrat should have been the day he lost his health insurance. It took almost a decade.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:06 PM (GBKbO)
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I'd still rather have him as an ex-Democrat than a "true believer" still.
And he's putting it out there for future-former Democrats.
Ideology and breeding can take a lot to wear off.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 12:09 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: please wait at December 20, 2024 12:09 PM (/7KEl)
You're nailing it - Mitch got all that staff with Federal money. Nobody from Kentucky had the slightest say about it.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:08 PM (yq9Cj)
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"It'd be too hard to read 5000 page bills and manage my fundraising without a staff!"
"There's a solution looking you right in the face, there, bub."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:10 PM (GBKbO)
Guidance from Harris' aides said she would 'receive briefings and conduct internal meetings with staff’. It came as the fate of a congressional effort to fund the federal government remains uncertain and a shutdown looms.
Posted by: SMOD
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Her job will be to serve up word salads on the ongoing government shutdown and CR negotiations. Biden is not up to the task of doing even this menial service. I'm thinking Biden is going to the Vatican in hopes of receiving last rites.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 12:10 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:10 PM (WnEm5)
And he's putting it out there for future-former Democrats.
Ideology and breeding can take a lot to wear off.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 12:09 PM (krQz2)
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I'd rather have a flatworm on our side than that guy.
It took a decade of pain for him to finally say, "the ACA didn't deliver on its promises."
He should just stop voting. That's the best scenario. He deserves no voice in American governance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:10 PM (GBKbO)
they can't hide the pork barrel projects anymore
Posted by: Don Black
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Now consider AI narrow applications to state and local government including a reporting function for money going to friends, donors, and family from the public checkbook.
If Musk really wants to make a difference, unleashing such an AI on the world would make a MASSIVE difference in improving governance.
Much of the current grifting, treachery, and scumbaggery of legislative and bureaucratic actions are hidden by a veil requiring insider knowledge and someone publishing that knowledge to be revealed.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 12:11 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 12:04 PM (J2vNu)
As Ed Bolian of VinWiki said: "EV's are vehicles thought up, designed, engineered, built, bought and driven by people who consider driving a *chore*".
They are special use case appliances. Like your built-in coffee maker that is integrated into your kitchen cabinetry.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 20, 2024 12:11 PM (cUb+5)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:10 PM (WnEm5)
He thinks he's someone. He acts accordingly.
He's no one. Hasn't figured it out yet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:11 PM (Zz0t1)
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Well, Liz Cheney is available.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 12:11 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 12:11 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Always appropriate to make fun of Murdoch family tools. Toadies and mediocrities that rely on misleading people that Faux is actually conservative.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 12:12 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 12:07 PM (WXNFJ)
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When I bought my first Honda, Honda's were hands down the most reliable car.
My wife is a Toyota-girl and has been buying Toyota's as long as I have been Hondas.
I have to say that Honda has fallen to 5th, I think.
Still, in decades of buying Hondas, I think it spent one night in the shop for an electrical recall.
Still, strongly considering making a Toyota my next car.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 12:13 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:10 PM (WnEm5)
But he's in the smartest 10% of retards that inhabit FNM.
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 12:13 PM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 12:13 PM (+oR7L)
The aquarium is awesome. Don't recall much else from a visit many years ago.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 11:08 AM (/y8xj)
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Lookout Mountain is well worth the trip.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Tennesee Valley Railroad. Lots to see there, rides. Heres some rolling stock:
https://www.tvrail.com/equipment/
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2024 12:13 PM (XeU6L)
16 years. 16 YEARS.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 12:13 PM (+oR7L)
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I believe every CR reauthorizes TARP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:13 PM (GBKbO)
Most people deserve no voice in the implementation of government power to compel their neighbor against their will. Which is all, really, the only thing that government can do.
Most people, my entire life on any topic, will make statements in certain tones that let you know "don't question this". You know how to send most people into absolute meltdown ? Question it anyway. Then don't let the topic change.
That's it. Most people are slaves to their emotion. They don't think their way through life. They feel their way through.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:14 PM (yq9Cj)
He's no one. Hasn't figured it out yet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:11 PM (Zz0t1)
His genius take on the radio just now is we have to stop a government shutdown so all those guv workers will get paid… that’s quality stupidity
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:14 PM (WnEm5)
D9 cat
D9 is just too big. You would need to be able to maneuver better and fit in things like parking garages
Posted by: SamIam at December 20, 2024 12:14 PM (oasF3)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:14 PM (WnEm5)
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But...they always get paid after a shutdown is over.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 12:14 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 12:15 PM (Zz0t1)
16 years. 16 YEARS.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 12:13 PM (+oR7L)
I imagine we will not have another until the Democrat Party is outlawed… oh, I said the quiet part out loud!!!
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 12:15 PM (PCK5/)
Turkey’s President Erdogan Calls for Trade Embargo of Israel
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 12:15 PM (L/fGl)
Bring it to the northeast. Then it will look like a rustbucket like my FJ Cruiser does.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 20, 2024 12:15 PM (cUb+5)
So, therefore, we should just go ahead and push through all of what Elon can't get a staff to read through or something.
There's a reason why Democrats keep messages short. So you can't think much in that time.
However, some people suggest that Vivek actually read the entire bill and Elon just posted Vivek's call outs.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 12:16 PM (krQz2)
Mike Engleman @RealHickory Dec 19
The bill is 116 pages, and it looks pretty clean of the BS!
Here's the bill!
https://tinyurl.com/36ytrvvu
Catturd ™ @catturd2 38m
Look how fast Grok can summarize a spending bill. These turds can’t hide their pork now.
https://tinyurl.com/33ndatmn
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 12:16 PM (hovnC)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 12:14 PM (WnEm5)
My mother works at the census bureau. I don't care of she draws another check. Its a "service" I don't want, and resent paying for.
Posted by: Don't Care at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (yq9Cj)
I bought some Intel near its bottom, at $20. I think it's worth at least $30. $40 if it can get its ass back in gear. We'll see.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 12:04 PM (iFTx/)
I can't figure out Disney stock.
They are massive and diversified, and are facing a shitload of problems in 2025. Their main profit center, Disney World, will face competition from Epic Universe opening this spring, as Disney raises prices and tries to chisel every nickel from brain dead pixie dusters.
Movies lately have been doing meh (breaking even/modest profit), but their are not many big flicks on deck for '25.
D+ is a disaster. The Hulu merger is not synergistic.
Then there is ESPN ( I am not familiar with it enough to judge) and ABC ( a POS network).
Having said that, the company can turn itself around if they Pinochet Eiger and their woke-ass cadres and start 1. Telling good stories and 2. Responding to what customers want at a reasonable price.
That my $0.02.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 20, 2024 12:17 PM (ufFY8)
Note to self: Quit giving the kids our old cars when we get new ones.
Posted by: Tonypete
Treat cars with care and basic maintenance, many can last for over a decade. Cars from the 90's to the early 00's, perhaps 300k-500k miles without major work on engines or transmissions.
But, I do think that there has been a general deterioration in auto reliability over the last ten years or so which is caused by government required geegaws for safety or EPA hoops, poor parts sourcing from dubious quality suppliers in third world countries like China or Mexico, and the massive increase in electronics of all sorts in cars.
Posted by: whig at December 20, 2024 12:18 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 20, 2024 12:18 PM (ufFY8)
It happens to the best of us.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2024 12:23 PM (jbnUc)
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Which means ultimately that a battery has caused the problem, same as EVs.
Not that that means anything.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 20, 2024 12:24 PM (4780s)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 20, 2024 12:27 PM (8uqoP)
Posted by: George Snaffalopogous at December 20, 2024 11:11 AM (G5+As)
My first car was a '64 MG Midget. I learned a LOT about working on cars with that thing. My hands were small enough that I could replace the starter motor without having to remove the distributor. I lived at Pick-n-Pull.
Posted by: kathysaysso at December 20, 2024 12:32 PM (hzUuR)
Fire extinguished rather quickly, even if the responding fire fighters originally couldn’t be bothered with actually spraying the water on the flames vs. on the closed hood.
Posted by: PMRich at December 20, 2024 01:10 PM (eh5ud)
2. ...causing insurance companies to consider telling building owners that their fire policies will no longer cover EVs parked in garages of those buildings.
3. Pro-EV wokiez in the biden regime threaten an Executive Order banning that, claiming it "unfairly discriminates" against people who own electric vehicles. Since "unfair" is a winning buzz-word for wokiez, Americans don't object.
4. Insurance companies go to Plan B: raising premiums on those buildings.
5. biden's handlers have him sign an Executive Order barring insurance companies from doing that, claiming it "unfairly discriminates against people who own EVs."
6. Barred from raising premiums on the source of the problem, insurance companies--understandably unwilling to lose money--raise insurance premiums on ALL buildings with underground garages.
7. biden's woke handlers congratulate themselves on "saving duh Erf" by nullifying yet another reason NOT to own an EV--by forcing all Americans to pay the true cost of owning an EV.
8. biden's woke Democrat staffers laugh.
Posted by: sf44 at December 20, 2024 01:27 PM (X9nCc)
Posted by: George V at December 20, 2024 01:56 PM (ugbqN)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 20, 2024 05:31 PM (wGqjj)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait Rabbit In Mustard Sauce (lapin à la moutarde)
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:30 AM (v6JzV)
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Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:32 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 09:32 AM (aD39U
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Apocalyptically?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:32 AM (GBKbO)
Shhh. Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits.
Posted by: Elmer at December 20, 2024 09:33 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:32 AM (PCK5/)
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Needs some nice taters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:33 AM (GBKbO)
Title: Rabbits on a Log
Artist: Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (American (born England), Liverpool 1819–1905 Yonkers, New York)
Date: 1897
Culture: American
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 10 x 12 in. (25.4 x 30.8 cm)
Posted by: Yosemite Sam at December 20, 2024 09:33 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 20, 2024 09:33 AM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2024 09:33 AM (dxSpM)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:32 AM (PCK5/)
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Needs some nice taters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:33 AM (GBKbO)
Haha.. well played..
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:33 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 09:33 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2024 09:34 AM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Pack o' Coyotes at December 20, 2024 09:34 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 09:34 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 20, 2024 09:34 AM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Bert G at December 20, 2024 09:34 AM (VARTN)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:33 AM (GBKbO)
Haha.. well played..
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:33 AM (PCK5/)
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PO-TAY-TOES.
Boil 'em. Mash 'em. Stick 'em in a stew.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:34 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bugs at December 20, 2024 09:34 AM (dg+HA)
Artist: Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (American (born England), Liverpool 1819-1905 Yonkers, New York)
Date: 1897
Culture: American
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 10 x 12 in. (25.4 x 30.8 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. J. Augustus Barnard, 1979
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She was a real saint!
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 09:34 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)
you should hear them boil!
Posted by: Cra Cra GF at December 20, 2024 09:34 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:33 AM (GBKbO)
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What's "taters," Precious?
Posted by: Smeagol at December 20, 2024 09:34 AM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Frog at December 20, 2024 09:34 AM (i0F8b)
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at December 20, 2024 09:34 AM (EmT/E)
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 20, 2024 09:34 AM (MsrgL)
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Just got the 4K of the movie from England.
Very pretty.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:34 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2024 09:34 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:35 AM (PCK5/)
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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2024 09:35 AM (dxSpM)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2024 09:34 AM (NpAcC)
So close to pride month?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: That's Upstate! at December 20, 2024 09:35 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 09:35 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: huerfano at December 20, 2024 09:35 AM (DKIGo)
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 09:35 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2024 09:36 AM (Y6IkP)
Kill da wabbit
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 09:36 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:36 AM (v6JzV)
Kill da wabbit
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 09:36 AM (gbOdA)
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I'm always up for high art and opera.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:36 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 09:35 AM (aD39U)
She switch to meat chickens?? They are a bit easier.
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:36 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: huerfano
The cooks in our brigade mess hall got pretty good at cutting up rabbit so it looked like chicken when they served it. Couple of mistaken selections, and I'm okay with rabbit on the menu.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 20, 2024 09:37 AM (MsrgL)
I've never seen rabbits that looked like that. They look like cats.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2024 09:37 AM (nZUAs)
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 20, 2024 09:37 AM (b1qe9)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:36 AM (GBKbO)
Every thing I know about high art and opera I learned from cartoons.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 09:37 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:36 AM (PCK5/)
She was already doing chickens, both meat and eggs.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 09:37 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: huerfano at December 20, 2024 09:38 AM (DKIGo)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 20, 2024 09:38 AM (+4yJ5)
Posted by: Duck Season at December 20, 2024 09:38 AM (jxRfg)
“Let’s have different color rabbits, George.”
Posted by: Lennie Small at December 20, 2024 09:38 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: weew at December 20, 2024 09:38 AM (/uwTS)
Posted by: weew at December 20, 2024 09:38 AM (/uwTS)
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*bloody cartoon animal jaws intensifies*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:38 AM (GBKbO)
No idea if it's true or not, but it's one of those things that has always stuck with me.
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:38 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 09:39 AM (iziT8)
Posted by: Bunny Wales at December 20, 2024 09:39 AM (/uwTS)
https://tinyurl.com/4y79s8cw
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait's "On Point" (1874)
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait was a prominent 19th-century artist known for his detailed depictions of wildlife and rural American life. "On Point," created in 1874, exemplifies Tait's mastery in the use of oil on wood, a medium that allowed him to achieve remarkable detail and texture. The painting captures a moment of intense focus and anticipation, characteristic of Tait's ability to convey narrative through animal subjects. Tait's work is significant for its contribution to the American sporting art genre, reflecting the cultural and social interests of the period. His paintings often served as a bridge between European artistic traditions and the burgeoning American art scene. Tait's influence extended beyond his lifetime, as his works continue to be celebrated for their technical skill and evocative portrayal of nature.
https://tinyurl.com/437uz7wu
colour version
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 09:39 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie, amused that people think the point is the trannies and not the media at December 20, 2024 09:39 AM (hIXll)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 09:39 AM (aD39U)
That's hot, amirite?
Posted by: David French at December 20, 2024 09:40 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2024 09:40 AM (Y6IkP)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:40 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 20, 2024 09:40 AM (GTqXr)
Would hang though. The bunnies are cute
Thx CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 09:40 AM (DopAq)
Posted by: Taggart at December 20, 2024 09:40 AM (HcoTw)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 09:40 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 20, 2024 09:41 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 09:41 AM (hovnC)
No idea if it's true or not, but it's one of those things that has always stuck with me.
Posted by: Bulg
If bees can be fish, why not rabbits?
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 20, 2024 09:41 AM (b1qe9)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie, amused that people think the point is the trannies and not the media and government at December 20, 2024 09:41 AM (hIXll)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2024 09:41 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: The Farm Cat at December 20, 2024 09:42 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 09:42 AM (Yj6Os)
And instead of a sniper, there's a great horned owl in the tree in the left corner of the painting.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 09:42 AM (u1uWe)
Daffy Duck
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 09:43 AM (B6amU)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:40 AM (PCK5/)
Depends on how you kill em, no?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 09:42 AM (Yj6Os)
That you, Kripke???
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:43 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. Today is not that day! Dangerous Radical at December 20, 2024 09:43 AM (89Sog)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:43 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Hot Crazy Matrix at December 20, 2024 09:43 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 09:43 AM (u1uWe)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie, amused that people think the point is the trannies and not the media and government at December 20, 2024 09:41 AM (hIXll)
Until they're not. Little bastards almost killed me.
Posted by: Jimmuh Carter at December 20, 2024 09:44 AM (GTqXr)
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 09:42 AM (Yj6Os)
It's like you don't read the comments.......
9 Wabbit season!
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 09:31 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2024 09:44 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie, amused that people think the point is the trannies and not the media and government at December 20, 2024 09:41 AM (hIXll)
Until you have to clean up after them........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Flesh-eating Zombies at December 20, 2024 09:44 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at December 20, 2024 09:44 AM (LAl97)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:40 AM (PCK5/)
Depends on how you kill em, no?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)
Really dunno… I think it’s some OT thing that God came up with for the Hebrews back when… he was always giving them hoops to jump through..
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:44 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:44 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: The Farm Cat at December 20, 2024 09:44 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 09:42 AM (Yj6Os)
51 and 52
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 09:45 AM (gbOdA)
9 Wabbit season!
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 09:31 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)
welp
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 09:45 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie, amused that people think the point is the trannies and not the media and government at December 20, 2024 09:41 AM (hIXll)
*****
Yes they do. I had 2 growing up which is why I won't ever eat rabbit.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2024 09:45 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 09:45 AM (u1uWe)
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Until you have to clean up after them........
Posted by: Sponge
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They can be litter box trained pretty easily. No joke.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie, amused that people think the point is the trannies and not the media and government at December 20, 2024 09:45 AM (hIXll)
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 09:42 AM (Yj6Os)
See #20.
Posted by: Elmer at December 20, 2024 09:45 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: daffy duck at December 20, 2024 09:45 AM (hovnC)
Lock and load!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2024 09:44 AM (LxER7)
*fist bump*
Especially Peter...little fucker.
Posted by: Mr. MacGregor at December 20, 2024 09:45 AM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 20, 2024 09:45 AM (j0SZn)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:46 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 20, 2024 09:46 AM (p9rFX)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:46 AM (PCK5/)
Buddy of mine's cow was named "Ribeye." I'm told he made some damn good ones.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Taggart at December 20, 2024 09:46 AM (HcoTw)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 09:47 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 09:45 AM (Yj6Os)
HeHe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)
Guess I get a zero for the day
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 09:47 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: dantesed at December 20, 2024 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)
Guess I get a zero for the day
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 09:47 AM (Yj6Os)
Andrew Breitbart would've been very disappointed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)
My wife shared a house with a friend of hers who had a rabbit. She said it was vicious, and would stamp its foot into its own pee to cause it spray on someone coming close to its cage.
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:47 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Flesh-eating Zombies at December 20, 2024 09:44 AM (G5+As)
Already happened. https://youtu.be/LNClI4KBKy4
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 09:47 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:40 AM (PCK5/)
No cloven hoof.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:47 AM (d9fT1)
Posted by: weew at December 20, 2024 09:47 AM (/uwTS)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 20, 2024 09:47 AM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Master Scatologist at December 20, 2024 09:47 AM (jxRfg)
Kill da wabbit
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 09:36 AM
Kill da wabbit...?
Posted by: Bugs at December 20, 2024 09:47 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2024 09:47 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 09:47 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 20, 2024 09:48 AM (i0F8b)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2024 09:48 AM (Y6IkP)
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 09:48 AM (QfvaV)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:40 AM (PCK5/)
No cloven hoof.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:47 AM (d9fT1)
Hoof??
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:48 AM (PCK5/)
My brother had a few French lop rabbits when we were kids. We let them run around the yard. They're huge.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 09:48 AM (u1uWe)
What's that song that goes the rabbit done died?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2024 09:48 AM (nZUAs)
Posted by: Carlos Mencia at December 20, 2024 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)
Also rabbits make fantastic pets. Quiet and sweet.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie, amused that people think the point is the trannies and not the media and government at December 20, 2024 09:41 AM
can confirm
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 20, 2024 09:49 AM (tljrc)
heh ditto. But alas, here we are hanging out in Moronville.
Posted by: weew at December 20, 2024 09:49 AM (/uwTS)
Anyone else think of that scene from Lord Of The Rings when Sam starts making rabbit stew and Gollum starts freaking out?
What's taters, Precious?
Posted by: Robert at December 20, 2024 09:49 AM (xYBK4)
Posted by: Confoosed at December 20, 2024 09:49 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: dantesed at December 20, 2024 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)
It certainly isn't for the rabbit
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 09:49 AM (QfvaV)
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 09:50 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: The Farm Cat
Disgusting! Eating your daughter's poop is so much better!
-- Beto O'Rourke
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:50 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024
***
It's one of the great adventure novels of all time -- a thriller with rabbit heroes and villains. I first read it in 1978, and was at the climactic scenes when one of my favorite TV shows at the time, one I *never* missed, was starting . . . and I skipped the show to find out how things would come out for Hazel and his band.
"My Chief Rabbit has told me to defend this run, and until he says otherwise I shall stay here."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 09:50 AM (J2vNu)
What's that song that goes the rabbit done died?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2024 09:48 AM (nZUAs)
Sweet Emotion
Posted by: Dude Looks Like a Lady at December 20, 2024 09:50 AM (GTqXr)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 20, 2024 09:50 AM (WPL6O)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2024 09:48 AM (nZUAs)
Aerosmith. Sweet Emotion.
"Ya can't catch me cuz da rabbit dun died."
Posted by: Carlos Mencia at December 20, 2024 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 09:50 AM (Yj6Os)
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Night of the Lepus?
RedLetterMedia did it on a Best of the Worst.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:50 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: The bunny trail at December 20, 2024 09:50 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at December 20, 2024 09:51 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: BignJames
Night of the Lepus. Think it also had DeForest Kelly in it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:51 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:51 AM (d9fT1)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:51 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 09:47 AM (hovnC)
In the future all replies are WABBIT!
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2024 09:51 AM (Y6IkP)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 20, 2024 09:52 AM (wDJaI)
Posted by: Confoosed at December 20, 2024 09:49 AM (dg+HA)
No; that's why they aren't Kosher!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:52 AM (d9fT1)
Posted by: The Bear at December 20, 2024 09:53 AM (HcoTw)
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at December 20, 2024 09:53 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:51 AM (v6JzV)
I think they electro-fried them in the end.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2024 09:53 AM (Y6IkP)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:53 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: JTB at December 20, 2024 09:53 AM (yTvNw)
Musta been those Jimmy Carter swamp rabbits.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2024 09:53 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024
***
Night of the Lepus? I didn't know Stuart Whitman was in that, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 09:53 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:51 AM (PCK5/)
Local N. Italian joint near me does a rabbit cassoulet.. It is ridiculously delicious.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 20, 2024 09:53 AM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 20, 2024 09:53 AM (NQtI0)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 09:53 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie, amused that people think the point is the trannies and not the media and government at December 20, 2024 09:54 AM (hIXll)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:48 AM (PCK5/)
Yup.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:51 AM (d9fT1)
Lots of… odd.. things in the OT, different times, different people… not meant to be a negative comment although I’m sure some would take it as such.
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:54 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:54 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:40 AM (PCK5/)
And they're vicious killers.
Posted by: LOOK AT THE BONES!!! at December 20, 2024 09:54 AM (UKe2c)
Posted by: King Arthur at December 20, 2024 09:55 AM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:56 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Confoosed
Yes, but because they are cute...we call them hoofsee woofees.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 20, 2024 09:56 AM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Jessica R at December 20, 2024 09:56 AM (i0F8b)
We've heard this album commercial so many times, our brains could anticipate each next song:
https://is.gd/skcGVR
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2024 09:56 AM (nZUAs)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 09:53 AM (kgE5c)
We have a good poultry farm about 10 minutes away, and they carry fresh rabbit. I haven't checked the price recently, but it wouldn't surprise me that it has shot up significantly.
I think the Pel-Freez frozen stuff is pretty mediocre.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:56 AM (d9fT1)
Reminds me of the mornings before work started when I was a kid on the farm raking hay. I hated to start the little Ford tractor and scare all the animals.
Just a 10yo kid with a pb sammich and a frozen milk jog of water and 120 acres of alfalfa to rake.
Today, they would throw everyone in the family in jail for child labor violations.
Posted by: sifty boones at December 20, 2024 09:56 AM (Weon8)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:52 AM (d9fT1)v
Don't pigs have hooves?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Robert at December 20, 2024 09:57 AM (xYBK4)
We have a good poultry farm about 10 minutes away, and they carry fresh rabbit. I haven't checked the price recently, but it wouldn't surprise me that it has shot up significantly.
I think the Pel-Freez frozen stuff is pretty mediocre.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:56 AM (d9fT1)
Have you ever eaten ostrich, or emu??? I really like it… red meat, cook it like beef.
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:57 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 09:58 AM (hovnC)
It was know by the end of the 2020 run Joe was done.
His was literally being rolled into fund raisers, handed cards with the questions and answers that he still got wrong.
Several Secretaries never met with Joe, on the handlers.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 09:58 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:54 AM (PCK5/)
I didn't take it as negative. Why would it be?
Jewish dietary laws are sometimes odd.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:58 AM (d9fT1)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:58 AM (d9fT1)
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So many dishes to clean...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:58 AM (GBKbO)
Local N. Italian joint near me does a rabbit cassoulet.. It is ridiculously delicious.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 20, 2024 09:53 AM (GTqXr)
That is French!
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 09:59 AM (e8mjv)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:58 AM (GBKbO)
I thought they just broke them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:59 AM (Zz0t1)
In the future all replies are WABBIT!
Posted by: banana Dreamwoofers.
What color is a green wabbit?
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 20, 2024 09:59 AM (MsrgL)
Posted by: tubal
I had an ostrich burger at Fuddruckers 29+ years ago. It was good.
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:59 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:57 AM (PCK5/)
Ostrich...yes. Emu...nope.
I think I have an ostrich steak in my freezer!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:59 AM (d9fT1)
Posted by: Oh, no. Wabbit punz? at December 20, 2024 09:59 AM (dg+HA)
I think the Pel-Freez frozen stuff is pretty mediocre.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:56 AM
I'll have to look around up here. Our brand isn't Pel-Freez. I've seen Gonsalves and one other I can't recall. We used to have an old Portagee in town who had a great fresh fish truck and occasionally had beautiful fresh rabbits, but he shut down a few years back.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 09:59 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 20, 2024 09:59 AM (MsrgL)
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Blue.
No, yellow!
AHHHH!
*thrown into Gorge of Eternal Peril*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 10:00 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024
***
He was obsessed with creating a "safe" place for the rabbits under his control. Not the same thing as being none too bright. We're shown that he was a good strategist, and his Owsla team (some of whom were scum, yes) admired him and would follow him into almost anything.
The General, remember, had a chance to combine Efrafa, his warren, with Hazel's, to establish what he imagined was his dream . . . and he turned it down in favor of remaining dictator over his own warren. He was a "crack-brained slave driver," yes. But not dumb.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 10:00 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 10:00 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 10:00 AM (kgE5c)
That happened to my neighbor when I lived out in the country in Michigan. He'd dropped a very large oak tree and had de-limbed the entire thing, hauling all the brush to the burn pile. All that remained was for him to buck up the huge trunk with his chainsaw.
The trunk was laying on an incline and he was standing on the downhill side of the trunk (big mistake) to buck. The trunk rolled onto his foot, trapping him as it continued to roll, stopping on his chest. His wife watched the whole thing happen, but was powerless, of course, to do anything to save him.
Posted by: one shot kill at December 20, 2024 10:00 AM (Y1sOo)
No, yellow!
AHHHH!
*thrown into Gorge of Eternal Peril*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 10:00 AM (GBKbO)
No yellow. This is correct.
Posted by: Hunter Biden at December 20, 2024 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)
https://youtu.be/WANNqr-vcx0?si=rkSXLndL76uNIxQR
Posted by: Don Black. Message: not found at December 20, 2024 10:02 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 10:02 AM (/y8xj)
And Coon Tail antenna decorations? PETA blowz..
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 20, 2024 10:02 AM (wDJaI)
If she couldn't beat a convicted felon, an adjudicated sexual assaulter, and a man of dubious mental capacity and stability, what in the world would lead anybody to believe she could beat a competent candidate?
Agree...sadly this country has too many racist sexist bigots that would vote no for a woman POTUS. We’ve got to win in ‘28!
Surely there must be another 70-80 something we can run instead.
Charisma. Is there no other Dem with more charisma than Harris? Her 2020 campaign floundered over that issue. Gavin Newsom is going to turn 61 in October 2028. Look for him to declare upon finishing his 2nd term.
The real blame should be the Talabangelical married straight white males. They're the ones who came out in the millions to vote for the orange douchè.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 20, 2024 10:03 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Oddbobrabbit?
We're Morons, and easily distracted.
Look, AOC is top less over there.
*points randomly*
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 20, 2024 10:03 AM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 10:03 AM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: The one on the log at December 20, 2024 10:03 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 10:04 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: one shot kill
This is terrible!
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:04 AM (e8mjv)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 20, 2024 10:04 AM (fQmeC)
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2024 10:04 AM (RFPHU)
If she couldn't beat a convicted felon, an adjudicated sexual assaulter, and a man of dubious mental capacity and stability, what in the world would lead anybody to believe she could beat a competent candidate?
Agree...sadly this country has too many racist sexist bigots that would vote no for a woman POTUS. We’ve got to win in ‘28!
Surely there must be another 70-80 something we can run instead.
Charisma. Is there no other Dem with more charisma than Harris? Her 2020 campaign floundered over that issue. Gavin Newsom is going to turn 61 in October 2028. Look for him to declare upon finishing his 2nd term.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 20, 2024 10:03 AM (JCZqz)
========
Dems still like Kamala.
Plus the $20 million book deal, which shows establishment support, and Kamala ain't goin' nowhere.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 10:04 AM (GBKbO)
And Coon Tail antenna decorations? PETA blowz..
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It!
I had a coonskin cap and buckskin shirt when I was a kid. Hand-me-downs from the Disney Davy Crockett craze.
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 10:04 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 10:04 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 20, 2024 10:05 AM (O7YUW)
Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal
🚨 MILEI DELIVERS: ARGENTINA’S POVERTY PLUMMETS UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP
Big win for @JMilei as Argentina’s poverty rate drops to 38.9% in Q3, a dramatic improvement from 54.8% in Q1 and 51% in Q2, according to INDEC.
Indigence has also taken a nosedive, falling to 8.6% from 20.2% earlier this year. These results showcase the power of Milei’s bold economic reforms, proving skeptics wrong and reigniting hope for Argentina’s economy.
Source:
@SPettovelloOK
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 10:05 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 20, 2024 10:05 AM (kTd/k)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 10:05 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Arthur Tait at December 20, 2024 10:05 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 10:05 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Robert at December 20, 2024 10:05 AM (xYBK4)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 20, 2024 10:06 AM (O7YUW)
And Coon Tail antenna decorations? PETA blowz..
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It!
Junior-ette got one of those rabbit foot key chains at a tourist trap up in Pigeon Forge. MegaRoy instantly claimed it as his tribute and new toy when he "found" it in her suitcase. She kept trying to get it back, but The Meg was disinclined to acquiesce to her request.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 20, 2024 10:06 AM (MsrgL)
Source:
@SPettovelloOK
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 10:05 AM (hovnC)
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I can't wait for Argentina to vote for militant communists in less than a decade because they feel bad for the poor and think the government needs to do more to help.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 10:06 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2024 10:04 AM (RFPHU)
Cute bunnies brought Doof out from hiding! Yay!
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:06 AM (e8mjv)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 20, 2024 10:05 AM
He'll do you a treat, mate!
Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at December 20, 2024 10:06 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 10:06 AM (hovnC)
Can't unsee those reverse spellings now.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 20, 2024 10:06 AM (O7YUW)
Our work here is done!
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2024 10:07 AM (RFPHU)
Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal
🚨 MILEI DELIVERS: ARGENTINA’S POVERTY PLUMMETS UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP
Big win for @JMilei as Argentina’s poverty rate drops to 38.9% in Q3, a dramatic improvement from 54.8% in Q1 and 51% in Q2, according to INDEC.
Indigence has also taken a nosedive, falling to 8.6% from 20.2% earlier this year. These results showcase the power of Milei’s bold economic reforms, proving skeptics wrong and reigniting hope for Argentina’s economy.
Source:
@SPettovelloOK
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 10:05 AM (hovnC)
Proof that free markets fail utterly.
Posted by: Power Hungry Authoritarians From All Parties at December 20, 2024 10:07 AM (xYBK4)
Posted by: Power Hungry Authoritarians From All Parties at December 20, 2024 10:07 AM (xYBK4)
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Late stage capitalism is failing!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 10:07 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2024 10:07 AM (Y6IkP)
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Yes, the blame should be placed on the part of the population that created this nation, that does almost everything to maintain this nation, and that is expected to fight the wars to protect this nation.
They're the problem!!!
Posted by: Boron Cobbie, amused that people think the point is the trannies and not the media and government at December 20, 2024 10:07 AM (hIXll)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. My favorite bier in Germany was Hassenbrau. A perfect helles.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2024 10:08 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:06 AM (e8mjv)
Had to step away from X for a while. Thanks for helping me sling some arrows out there!
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2024 10:08 AM (RFPHU)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 10:06 AM (GBKbO)
Keep Milei from marrying a dancehall girl....
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 10:08 AM (QfvaV)
Reminds me of:
Chickery chick, cha-la, cha-la
Check-a-la romey in a bananika
Bollika, wollika, can't you see
Chickery chick is me?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2024 10:08 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2024
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Has the late '70s animated film ever been shown on TV? I can imagine it would frighten a kid -- the General frightened *me* as a grownup, just reading about him, and his depiction in the film is just as bad.
There was a new multi-part adaptation a few years ago, and I watched a few parts on YooToob. All the rabbits looked alike, the lighting was that dim greyish stuff you see in all the live-action films now, and the whole thing turned me off. I have no idea how they depicted the General.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 10:08 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: rabbi al sharpton, puerto rico at December 20, 2024 10:09 AM (hovnC)
One study participant showed spike protein in their bloodstream more than 700 days after their last mRNA shot, while others had spike protein present 450+ days later.
What if long CV is really vax induced CV?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 10:09 AM (gbOdA)
🚨 MILEI DELIVERS: ARGENTINA’S POVERTY PLUMMETS UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP
Big win for @JMilei as Argentina’s poverty rate drops to 38.9% in Q3, a dramatic improvement from 54.8% in Q1 and 51% in Q2, according to INDEC.
Huh. Who ya gonna believe? I heard a story teaser on NPR the other day saying that poverty was rising in Argentina even while they had to admit that inflation was down.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 10:10 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2024
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Secret of NIMH could almost be classed as science-fiction; WD is fantasy, superb stuff. Never having seen The Rescuers, I don't know where it would fit.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 10:10 AM (J2vNu)
And Coon Tail antenna decorations? PETA blowz..
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 20, 2024 10:02 AM (wDJaI)
Turned out I was allergic to it. As a kid my allergies were crazy.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2024 10:10 AM (Y6IkP)
Big win for @JMilei as Argentina’s poverty rate drops to 38.9% in Q3, a dramatic improvement from 54.8% in Q1 and 51% in Q2, according to INDEC.
Indigence has also taken a nosedive, falling to 8.6% from 20.2% earlier this year. These results showcase the power of Milei’s bold economic reforms, proving skeptics wrong and reigniting hope for Argentina’s economy.
Source:
@SPettovelloOK
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 10:05 AM (hovnC)
And what did he do?
SHRUNK GOVERNMENT.
Posted by: Hunter Biden at December 20, 2024 10:10 AM (Zz0t1)
More than half of Canada's naval and air fleets are now unfit to 'meet training and readiness requirements'
A new report finds that while the Department of Defence is making steady progress on all its new "equity and diversity" goals, morale is plummeting and the Canadian military has reached new lows in terms of its ability to actually deploy forces.
For the first time, more than half of Canada's naval and air fleets were marked as being unfit to "meet training and readiness requirements," according to the military's latest Departmental Results Report, published Tuesday.
More at the article:
https://tinyurl.com/54r9t75n
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 20, 2024 10:11 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 10:11 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 20, 2024 10:11 AM (wDJaI)
🚨 MILEI DELIVERS: ARGENTINA’S POVERTY PLUMMETS UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP
Big win for @JMilei as Argentina’s poverty rate drops to 38.9% in Q3, a dramatic improvement from 54.8% in Q1 and 51% in Q2, according to INDEC.
Huh. Who ya gonna believe? I heard a story teaser on NPR the other day saying that poverty was rising in Argentina even while they had to admit that inflation was down.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 10:10 AM (/y8xj
So you are saying they do not understand math or even arithmetic…
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 10:11 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Beverly at December 20, 2024 10:11 AM (Epeb0)
We get two new cats and one of them was really fascinated with the rabbit. My wife went down to the basement and the cat was racing upstairs. She looked at the rabbit and he stared at her with a mouth full of cat fur and a pissed off look.
She let him keep his war trophy.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 20, 2024 10:12 AM (+4yJ5)
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That came out a year or so ago. Doctors were discovering that "long covid" was just the vaxx re-activating viruses and diseases that the body had defeated.
Shingles was the one that got the ball rolling.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie, amused that people think the point is the trannies and not the media and government at December 20, 2024 10:12 AM (hIXll)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:12 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: rhennigantx
The medical establishment will never recover from it's lies surrounding the Wuflu.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 10:12 AM (WXNFJ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_-EpnzlEPU
That's Vox Day, BTW. Trying to horn in on some of that sweet, sweet Baby Shark demographic money? LOL it's an ear worm, too!
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 20, 2024 10:12 AM (8XYYe)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 10:12 AM (DopAq)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2024 10:07 AM (Y6IkP)
The Secret Of NIMH is about a mouse trying to get her home moved by genetically engineered super intelligent rats in order to save her sick son. She stumbles on a whole fuck ton of political intrigue. There's only a little killing.
She pals around with a crow voiced by Dom Deluise.
One of my ten favorite movies and my all time favorite animation. Don Bluth is king!
The book, by the way, is a sort of libertarian treatise for kids.
Posted by: Robert at December 20, 2024 10:13 AM (xYBK4)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 20, 2024 10:13 AM (EDVlj)
One study participant showed spike protein in their bloodstream more than 700 days after their last mRNA shot, while others had spike protein present 450+ days later.
What if long CV is really vax induced CV?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 10:09 AM (gbOdA)
Covid did NOT require a vaccine. Period. That was the ball that got the murder of 'too many humans' the left elite have been clamoring for.
Bill Gates, laughing, spreads his wings.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:13 AM (Zz0t1)
*sigh*
Amazing how they continue to restate the same ugly sentiment for decades. . . Anyone who thought the trendy, open Jew hatred on campuses and social media would distract them from hating white, Christian men would be mistaken. They have room in their empty chest to hate all of us.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 10:13 AM (u1uWe)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 20, 2024 10:11 AM (wDJaI)
How about they do what they're constitutionally bound to do and pass a f*cking budget?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:14 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 10:13 AM (u1uWe)
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Confirmed:
Lizzy is a dude.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 10:14 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM
I have a cookbook that is old enough to have a recipe for hasenpfeffer.
Nice art!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 10:14 AM (4XwPj)
"Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
- Kamala Harris cancels trip and races to the White House, sirens blaring
- Joe Biden rushed to the White House from Delaware
What’s happening?"
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 10:15 AM (exHjb)
Posted by: JROD at December 20, 2024 10:15 AM (IlL6s)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 10:10 AM (J2vNu)
I know. And completely different sorts of critters too. But my brain says "I'm not remembering all that" and lossly compresses it all into one amalgamation of all the stories. I think I need to defrag muh nogin.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2024 10:15 AM (Y6IkP)
Posted by: Lizzy
Also Dems- why are whites, and especially white men, voting against us so much!?!?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 20, 2024 10:16 AM (JCZqz)
Lizzy is a dude.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 10:14 AM (GBKbO)
"Then he can play in women's volleyball!"
- - - - The NCAA
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ciampino - No? Then no roasted rabbit today at December 20, 2024 10:17 AM (i0xsb)
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Jill encouraging Joe to turn on the deep state offers opportunity for first woman president.
It will be interesting to see what pardons happen now, especially if he remains alive.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie, amused that people think the point is the trannies and not the media and government at December 20, 2024 10:17 AM (hIXll)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 10:17 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2024 10:15 AM (Y6IkP)
You called?
Posted by: Jack Daniels at December 20, 2024 10:17 AM (xYBK4)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:06 AM (e8mjv)
Had to step away from X for a while. Thanks for helping me sling some arrows out there!
Posted by: Doof at December
To all 130 of my followers! 🤪
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:18 AM (BgmlQ)
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My Sarcasm-Meter just hit "11".
Posted by: rabbi al sharpton, puerto rico at December 20, 2024 10:18 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 10:17 AM (bss/y)
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It's only a model.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 10:18 AM (GBKbO)
Lizzy is a dude.
Heh. Hey now!
I suppose the DU'ers would consider me a "Karen" as an older, white female.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 10:18 AM (u1uWe)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 10:18 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:19 AM (BgmlQ)
DU, the real blame should be placed on the overwhelming majority of all Americans. Feel better?
Posted by: t-bird at December 20, 2024 10:19 AM (MZXFo)
Posted by: rabbi al sharpton, puerto rico at December 20, 2024 10:19 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)
I believe she said she was off on a Christmas trip to see family. I would expect her back in a couple weeks unless she comments via phone at some point.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 10:19 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 10:19 AM (ExV1e)
Good deal.
Thanks!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 10:20 AM (j+LsA)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 10:21 AM (GBKbO)
Why not bask in, "Chip Roy is leading to smaller government" or some variation thereof? Or, "I still want the federal government to shut down"?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:03 AM
I noticed that yesterday as well. Checked my X groups to find Jack Posobiec calling Nancy Mace a "fed" because she voted against the crap CR. And now his timeline for the past day has been full of him ripping into Nancy Mace and Mace ripping him. It's why I don't trust any of these "conservative" influencers anymore. Seems to be all about drama and clicks, instead of principles.
That said, Mace does have some pretty stupid takes on issues in her past. Including supporting sending money to Ukraine, praising Zelensky and pushing George Floyd racism nonsense.
https://bit.ly/4iKLwR4
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 10:21 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Piper
Have the cats been behaving themselves around the tree?
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 10:21 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 20, 2024 10:21 AM (ufFY8)
Post
"See new posts
Conversation
David Alandete
@alandete
The president was expected to return to Washington, D.C., and be here on Thursday, nothing that wasn’t planned. The vice president canceled her trip due to the shutdown, as she presides over the Senate."
At least, that's the story for now...sirens, though, at o-dark-thirty...weird...or egotistical to wake everyone up...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 10:21 AM (exHjb)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I don't know, since I regularly refresh my drinks before I've drained the glass. Maybe 3-4 drinks a day, total.
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 10:22 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 10:22 AM (j+LsA)
It's basically an adventure film. I don't think it had any fantasy elements in it, except, of course, talking animals.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 20, 2024 10:23 AM (WPL6O)
25th? Give Kamala a few days as President?
Posted by: t-bird at December 20, 2024 10:23 AM (MZXFo)
Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM
I have a cookbook that is old enough to have a recipe for hasenpfeffer.
Nice art!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 10:14 AM
The Deplorable Gourmet has a good recipe for wabbit with leeks and mustard. Just throwing that out there.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 10:23 AM (kgE5c)
It's basically an adventure film. I don't think it had any fantasy elements in it, except, of course, talking animals.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 20, 2024 10:23 AM (WPL6O)
Haven't seen that since I was a kid. Bob Newhart's in it, isn't he?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2024 10:24 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 10:12 AM (DopAq)
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I saw that early in its life and it left no impression at all so when it came back to TV I watched it and I still cannot remember any part of it.
Posted by: Ciampino - It wasn't a giant Harvey at December 20, 2024 10:25 AM (i0xsb)
@EricLDaugh
- Kamala Harris cancels trip and races to the White House, sirens blaring
- Joe Biden rushed to the White House from Delaware
What’s happening?"
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I'm doing Joe's bar mitzvah. I've converted him!
[I knew not taking off that sock would come in handy for another comment!]
Posted by: rabbi al sharpton, puerto rico at December 20, 2024 10:25 AM (hovnC)
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Age is just a state of mind...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 20, 2024 10:25 AM (VE6XX)
Haven't seen that since I was a kid. Bob Newhart's in it, isn't he?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2024 10:24 AM (LxER7)
Me neither, but I believe you're correct. He does the voice for the main character, I think.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 10:25 AM (hovnC)
Anyone that says other is a lying MFer!
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 10:26 AM (gbOdA)
John Candy and George C. Scott were in the sequel.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 20, 2024 10:26 AM (WPL6O)
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Age is just a state of mind...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 20, 2024 10:25 AM (VE6XX)
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I love that they now thing that old age is a positive after having spent the last 3 months convinced it was a negative.
They'll end up rallying behind some ancient progressive while Vance takes up the mantle in 2028, convinced that the age issue benefits them over Vance's inexperience.
And then they'll wonder why their old fart isn't performing at the polls like Trump did.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 10:27 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2024 10:24 AM (LxER7)
Me neither, but I believe you're correct. He does the voice for the main character, I think.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:25 AM
You are correct, sir! Eva Gabor voices the female lead.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 10:27 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 10:27 AM (WXNFJ)
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Are we no longer doing phrasing??
Posted by: rabbi al sharpton, puerto rico at December 20, 2024
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The rabbits' fur, people! The rabbits fur!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 10:27 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Ciampino - It wasn't a wascally Harvey at December 20, 2024 10:27 AM (i0xsb)
Anyone that says other is a lying MFer!
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 10:26 AM (gbOdA)
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Shutdowns are always about discretionary spending. Non-discretionary spending is automatic and a massive problem.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 10:27 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 20, 2024 10:28 AM (WPL6O)
Anyone that says other is a lying MFer!
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 10:26 AM (gbOdA)
The Democrats ALWAYS lie about what happens in a government shutdown.
what I DIDN'T know was that military retirees lose their payments until it's resolved. They do get back payments at that point, so they don't lose anything, just suffer for a bit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:28 AM (Zz0t1)
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I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 10:28 AM (hovnC)
"I would like a Rabbit Sandwich!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Nmhip8MjI
(rare uncensored ending of Bugs Bunny's "Hare Ribbin")
Posted by: naturalfake at December 20, 2024 10:28 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2024 10:28 AM (gm9Sb)
You are correct, sir! Eva Gabor voices the female lead.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 10:27 AM (kgE5c)
Memories of that movie are starting to come back, ever so slightly......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)
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I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 10:28 AM (hovnC)
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I don't think it was.
They have no idea how to process what happened.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 10:29 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 10:27 AM (WXNFJ)
My favorite Candy movie is now Uncle Buck, having finally seen it within the last few years.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2024 10:29 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher
Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor. Geraldine Page voiced the villian.
Pat Butram voiced Orville the albatross.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 10:29 AM (4XwPj)
You had me until 'Rabbit In Mustard Sauce (lapin à la moutarde)' 😬
A nice week of art. Thanks.
Posted by: L - Rooster one day, Feather duster another at December 20, 2024 10:30 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024
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Is the same true of SS payments?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 10:30 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: JROD at December 20, 2024 10:15 AM (IlL6s)
They still make that?.....22 Hornet?
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 10:30 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 20, 2024 10:30 AM (WPL6O)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024
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Memories of that movie are starting to come back, ever so slightly......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024
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There was a dragonfly or some flying creature called "Evinrude" . . .?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 10:31 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 20, 2024 10:13 AM (EDVlj)
And a nice white Bordeaux?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 10:32 AM (d9fT1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:29 AM
Fun fact, the actress who voiced the little girl appeared in Airplane!, saying that she likes her coffee black...like her men.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 10:32 AM (kgE5c)
Is the same true of SS payments?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 10:30 AM (J2vNu)
I don't believe so. I think those still go out. Medicare isn't affected either.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:32 AM (Zz0t1)
Embleer Frith. Oh Prince with a Thousand Enemies how many times have they butchered Hazel's story now?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2024 10:32 AM (DKe4e)
Posted by: Piper
Have the cats been behaving themselves around the tree?
Posted by: Bulg at December
I should send you a picture of the bottom of the tree.
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:32 AM (GMx4K)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 20, 2024
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Deforest Kelley and Paul Fix? Or was that an early appearance by Gates McFadden?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 10:32 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 20, 2024 10:32 AM (WPL6O)
This is kind of disturbing. What is different about rabbit meat (is there a word for rabbit meat?) that it would need its own recipe? I'm hoping the difference is not in the presentation, where you leave the bunny ears on.
Posted by: t-bird at December 20, 2024 10:33 AM (D7mYu)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 10:27 AM (GBKbO)
Now hold on a moment...
Posted by: Ron Desantis ain't down for the count at December 20, 2024 10:33 AM (xYBK4)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 10:32 AM (kgE5c)
HA!
Isn't the boy that she says that to the one reading Nun's Life?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 20, 2024 10:33 AM (WPL6O)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 10:33 AM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 10:31 AM
Yes...the engine for their little swampmobile thingy.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 10:33 AM (kgE5c)
Embleer Frith. Oh Prince with a Thousand Enemies how many times have they butchered Hazel's story now?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2024
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Anna, I presume you mean the recent multi-part version. The '79 film was fast-paced and very solid all around.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 10:33 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 10:30 AM (Yj6Os)
The first time I ever saw or shot a LH bolt action rifle...a 22 Hornet made by Anschutz.
Gorgeous. I should find one and buy it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 10:33 AM (d9fT1)
I should send you a picture of the bottom of the tree.
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:32 AM (GMx4K)
Well, you know the rules.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:34 AM (Zz0t1)
@EricLDaugh
- Kamala Harris cancels trip and races to the White House, sirens blaring
- Joe Biden rushed to the White House from Delaware
What’s happening?"
====
I'm doing Joe's bar mitzvah. I've converted him!
[I knew not taking off that sock would come in handy for another comment!]
Posted by: rabbi al sharpton, puerto rico at December 20, 2024 10:25 AM (hovnC)
Ole preznit ruprect is gonna resign and make Carmella acting prezzie so she can pardon him.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 20, 2024 10:34 AM (OA79/)
Posted by: Bulg at December
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We've never had issues with our cats and trees. However, this is our first Christmas with our new dog and he's got a tail on him like a chopper blade - keeps whacking ornaments off!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2024 10:34 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2024 10:35 AM (DKe4e)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Which is why I was very specific about the tree part. 😂
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:35 AM (GMx4K)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:33 AM
Can't confirm. Now I'll have to rewatch.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 10:35 AM (kgE5c)
Can't confirm. Now I'll have to rewatch.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 10:35 AM (kgE5c)
An ass whippin' you're willing to take, I'm sure.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:33 AM
Can't confirm. Now I'll have to rewatch.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 10:35 AM (kgE5c)
Yes, and there's a nun reading Boys' Life, too.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2024 10:36 AM (LxER7)
Gorgeous. I should find one and buy it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 10:33 AM
When it comes to bolt guns, I'm a Walther guy, but Anschutz does make some purty rifles.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 10:37 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 10:31 AM (J2vNu)
Evinrude the outboard dragonfly! The movie was set in the Louisiana swamp.
First time I saw that movie was at the drive-in movie. It was a double feature with Herbie the Love Bug. Mom and Dad in front seat. Me in the middle of the back seat with Thing One and Thing Two. We didn't even fight over the popcorn!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 10:37 AM (4XwPj)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:44 AM (PCK5/)
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For most of the Jewish laws there was a practical application for them.
Almost anybody should know that pig is harder to safely cook than cow. That people can get violently sick from eating certain types of seafood.
That it was good to bury your offal. And that pissing against a wall--given the chemicals in urine--could weaken the structure of the wall, and ruin the purpose for which it was built.
Also, the late Dr. Michael Heiser has a good treatment of the ritual observances and "unclean" laws. To sum it: it was the things of mortality and humanness that made you ritually "unclean". Because the Lord was always trying to illustrate his holiness (separateness).
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 10:37 AM (krQz2)
Yes, and there's a nun reading Boys' Life, too.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2024 10:36 AM (LxER7)
No. Different kid reading Nun's Life.
https://is.gd/ITTxFA
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:37 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:32 AM (GMx4K)
Well, you know the rules.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Bottom of the TREE, sponge.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 10:37 AM (hqWSh)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2024 10:38 AM (gm9Sb)
First time I saw that movie was at the drive-in movie. It was a double feature with Herbie the Love Bug. Mom and Dad in front seat. Me in the middle of the back seat with Thing One and Thing Two. We didn't even fight over the popcorn!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 10:37 AM
Ha! I also saw that at a drive-in the first time.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 10:38 AM (kgE5c)
Gorgeous. I should find one and buy it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 10:33 AM (d9fT1)
I was thinking 17mag put a hurt on those "boutique" 22 cals.
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 10:38 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:39 AM (11JP3)
Bottom of the TREE, sponge.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 20, 2024 10:37 AM (hqWSh)
Shucks.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:39 AM (11JP3)
Just pray it doesn't burn their house down.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2024 10:38 AM (gm9Sb)
Thanks!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 10:40 AM (d9fT1)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 10:40 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:39 AM (11JP3)
You know she's gonna guess what it is before Christmas.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 10:40 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 10:40 AM (kgE5c)
#WINNING
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Dr_No at December 20, 2024 10:41 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 10:42 AM (jFCkp)
The '79 version changed the sequence of the ending a bit. Poor Fiver.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2024
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I don't recall that. I do remember that one of Hazel's original escapees from the first warren is caught and killed (offscreen) by an owl in an early scene of the film, whereas in the novel, all the rabbits who followed Hazel out of their doomed home survived the adventure. As Adams's children specified, "None of *our* rabbits should die."
To me, such a small thing doesn't matter. The filmmakers captured the look of the rabbits and their world, they kept the oral traditions of the rabbits and El-Ahrairah, and it was *exciting.*
"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and when they catch you they will kill you. But first, they must catch you."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 10:42 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2024 10:42 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Stupid censorship at December 20, 2024 10:43 AM (EoQd1)
That Cabela's Used Guns site is a very bad thing. I could spend a lot of money there!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 10:43 AM (d9fT1)
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 10:42 AM (jFCkp)
How does Sugur get out of the motel room? Where is he?
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 10:43 AM (Yj6Os)
You're allowed to drink? I haven't had a drink since my diagnosis over a year ago (sob). By doc was very stern: no libations!
Posted by: Wenda at December 20, 2024 10:43 AM (An3sz)
Someone can correct if I'm wrong* but I don't the 25A actually removes the President from office but only temporarily transfers powers until the elected President is again deemed fit. That is, Kammie would only be acting President, not the 47th President. So not really any symbolic, spit-in-DJT's-face value to it.
* the most unnecessary words ever written on the Internet
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 10:44 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:39 AM (11JP3)
Just pray it doesn't burn their house down.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December
They have always had 1 car, always electric, he owns some online technical business, she is doing her residency, so they got by with only 1. They had a Tesla before, then they got a Lucid. They are conservatives, but he is a techie type.
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:44 AM (e8mjv)
Is that why the "little drummer boy" ornament looks so happy?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 20, 2024 10:44 AM (O7YUW)
Tesla drivers are my new hate objects.
What is wrong with them?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2024 10:42 AM
vegan cyclists look at tesla drivers and are all like "dude..."
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 20, 2024 10:44 AM (tljrc)
Someone can correct if I'm wrong* but I don't the 25A actually removes the President from office but only temporarily transfers powers until the elected President is again deemed fit. That is, Kammie would only be acting President, not the 47th President. So not really any symbolic, spit-in-DJT's-face value to it.
* the most unnecessary words ever written on the Internet
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 10:44 AM (/y8xj)
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As long as the president can write a letter calling himself cogent, he can retain the presidency under the 25th.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 10:45 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 10:45 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:44 AM (e8mjv)
I'm a techie type as well, however, I will NEVER own an electric car of any make.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)
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Which hotel? Del Rio or the one across the border?
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 10:45 AM (jFCkp)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2024 10:45 AM (LxER7)
- Kamala Harris cancels trip and races to the White House, sirens blaring
- Joe Biden rushed to the White House from Delaware
What’s happening?
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Wine cellar was breached?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 10:45 AM (L/fGl)
vegan cyclists look at tesla drivers and are all like "dude..."
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 20, 2024 10:44 AM (tljrc)
Heh.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:44 AM (e8mjv)
I'm a techie type as well, however, I will NEVER own an electric car of any make.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
I actually think Teslas look cool. Every now and again I think I should trade my mini in on one, because I think they are cool. I will let you know if I ever do it. 😂
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:46 AM (e8mjv)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2024 10:46 AM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2024 10:45 AM (LxER7)
That's better than leaving one floating in the pool.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 10:45 AM (jFCkp)
The one at the end. Is he hiding behind the door?
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 10:47 AM (Yj6Os)
- Kamala Harris cancels trip and races to the White House, sirens blaring
- Joe Biden rushed to the White House from Delaware
What’s happening?
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Wine cellar was breached?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 10:45 AM (L/fGl)
Wine taasting and elementary school tour I’d bet…
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 10:47 AM (PCK5/)
I actually think Teslas look cool. Every now and again I think I should trade my mini in on one, because I think they are cool. I will let you know if I ever do it. 😂
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:46 AM (e8mjv)
I really don't like their look, but will admit. They're a toy that's fun to drive. Just don't have a flat or violate the rules of Tesla, or you're in for a rough time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)
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Agree, but I temper it to: I'm not planning on buying an electric car soon.
However, in my travels a Ford Focus hybrid used to be my "home car" for a period of years.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 10:48 AM (krQz2)
I do like the take someone posted above- resign and have Kamala pardon him, in the spirit of Musk's "most entertaining outcome" rule.
Posted by: t-bird at December 20, 2024 10:49 AM (xw/ji)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 10:49 AM (4XwPj)
In Germany, new elections will be held in February, with polls giving Conservatives and the AfD landslide support.
(link -TPM - The Political Movement)
LINK: https://tinyurl.com/bdhdjbca
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2024 10:49 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 10:49 AM (4XwPj)
My condolences…
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 10:50 AM (PCK5/)
However, in my travels a Ford Focus hybrid used to be my "home car" for a period of years.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 10:48 AM (krQz2)
I think that's the direction, if they're forcing that shit upon us, they should go. Not full electric. That's just not sustainable.
California will die if they outright ban the ICE. It would take them a week to transport something the length of the state. That's just not feasible.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:50 AM (Zz0t1)
- Kamala Harris cancels trip and races to the White House, sirens blaring
- Joe Biden rushed to the White House from Delaware
What’s happening?
I checked the streaming news so you don't have to. Nobody is saying anything about big news. Nobody is hair on fire.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 10:50 AM (ExV1e)
I actually think Teslas look cool. Every now and again I think I should trade my mini in on one, because I think they are cool. I will let you know if I ever do it. 😂
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:46 AM
I really don't like their look, but will admit. They're a toy that's fun to drive. Just don't have a flat or violate the rules of Tesla, or you're in for a rough time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:47 AM
true fact: Hyundai / Kia builds better vehicles than Tesla
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 20, 2024 10:50 AM (tljrc)
For use around my property.
Being quiet would be an advantage...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 10:50 AM (Q4IgG)
I do like the take someone posted above- resign and have Kamala pardon him, in the spirit of Musk's "most entertaining outcome" rule.
Posted by: t-bird at December 20, 2024 10:49 AM (xw/ji)
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The different factions have always hated each other, and the combination of the coup and the election loss is just making it obvious that there's no real reason to act like they like each other anymore.
Snubs are rampant. Sniping is increasing. Leaks are getting more interesting (like Jill wanting to burn the Obamas).
That's all to say: Biden and Kamala are not on the same side. I'd say it's more likely that Biden leaks information about some Kamala corruption than Biden trusts Kamala to help him in anyway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 10:51 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 10:06 AM (GBKbO)
Per MercoPress:
The Chilean Government of President Gabriel Boric Font sent a protest note through diplomatic channels to Argentina after Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo dubbed the leftwing leader a “Communist” who was sinking his country. [Chile] said Caputo made “inappropriate and inaccurate statements” during a radio interview with a Buenos Aires broadcaster.
In addressing the issue of the “cultural battle,” Caputo said Chile was an example: “Today they are practically governed by a Communist who is about to sink them” and insisted that President Javier Milei's administration was victorious in that regard, whereas Chile had chosen to neglect it.
“A note of protest was formally delivered to the Ambassador of Argentina in Chile, Jorge Faurie, expressing the rejection of the Government of Chile to the inappropriate and inaccurate statements made by the Minister of Economy of Argentina, Luis Caputo,”
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2024 10:51 AM (D7oie)
Yay, now it's a gun thread! .22 Hornet is the opposite of "boutique." It's one of the oldest .22 centerfire cartridges. Personally, I want a Ruger 77/22 in Hornet and have it rechambered to a K Hornet which is admittedly rather boutiquey.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2024 10:51 AM (/y8xj)
It's snowing!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 10:49 AM
I'm sorry this is happening to you
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 20, 2024 10:51 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 10:45 AM (jFCkp)
The one at the end. Is he hiding behind the door?
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Del Rio. He is in the closet. He is confused since he left his dime on the floor and does not know what to do when Ed Tom Bell returns to the scene of Llewelyn's death. Ed Tom is sitting on the foot of the bed looking at the ventilation screen, screws and the dime. Ed Tom decides to leave and quit being a Sheriff. Chigur is death. He has rules.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 10:52 AM (jFCkp)
Keith Olbermann@KeithOlbermann
So @elonmusk you also suck at politics lol fuck you fascist
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Replying to @KeithOlbermann
You elevate Tourette’s to poetry
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And I see Olbermann has deflounced. (Unflounced?)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 10:52 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 10:52 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2024 10:51 AM
I hope it was answered "Get fucked. Love, Javi"
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 10:53 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 10:52 AM (L/fGl)
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The child pron on Bluesky was too much even for Olbermann, I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 10:53 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench
We have a high of 61. I am freezing. It is going down to 35 tonight.
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:53 AM (e8mjv)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 10:53 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: AltonJackson
I love my Kia. I loved my Subaru until the boy spawn outgrew it. One should never have to fold, spindle or origami ones offspring to fit them in the car.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 10:53 AM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2024 10:51 AM (D7oie)
But was it strongly worded?
Posted by: Robert at December 20, 2024 10:53 AM (xYBK4)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024
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Madame M, I wish I were there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 10:53 AM (J2vNu)
So @elonmusk you also suck at politics lol fuck you fascist
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Ah, the arguable President of the Society For Not Knowing What Fascism Is.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 10:54 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 20, 2024 10:54 AM (Lhi+E)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024
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Madame M, I wish I were there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 10:53 AM
Snow inbound here, too, with some single digit lows.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2024 10:55 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 10:55 AM (PCK5/)
Through its oversight and investigations, the Select Subcommittee found numerous instances of the federal government being weaponized against the American people.
For example, the Select Subcommittee:
-Highlighted censorship by Big Tech that led to Mark Zuckerberg admitting Facebook was pressured by the Biden-Harris White House to censor Americans.
-Empowered whistleblowers to come forward and have their voices heard despite retaliation by the Department of Justice and the FBI.
-Protected the First Amendment, leading to the dissolution of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and other organizations that worked to censor Americans' speech.
-Revealed the weaponization of federal law enforcement against the American people, leading to important policy changes from the Department of Justice and IRS.
-Uncovered evidence that the Biden campaign coordinated with 51 former intelligence officials to interfere in the American electoral system weeks before the 2020 presidential election
https://bit.ly/3BtRlSr
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 10:56 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 10:50 AM (ExV1e)
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Someone's hair literally on fire might be newsworthy...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2024 10:56 AM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Piper
I think 35 is supposed to be our high today.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 10:56 AM (4XwPj)
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For Christmas some 55 or 60 years ago, I got a single shot .22 rifle. It hasn't been fired in 50 years but I'm taking it to a gunsmith this afternoon to check it out and clean it up. I'm going to give it to my grandson.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 10:56 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 10:50 AM (ExV1e)
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Someone's hair literally on fire might be newsworthy...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2024 10:56 AM (BpYfr)
Maybe Rosa Delauro??
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 10:56 AM (PCK5/)
LINK: https://tinyurl.com/27efszcz
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2024 10:57 AM (rj6Yv)
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He will shoot his eye out.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 10:57 AM (jFCkp)
Posted by: AltonJackson
I love my Kia. I loved my Subaru until the boy spawn outgrew it. One should never have to fold, spindle or origami ones offspring to fit them in the car.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 10:53 AM (4XwPj)
We've never had a Kia, but have had five Hyundais over the years. We would drive one, sell it (cheap) to one son, then drive another, do the same for other son. Great cars, and not ridiuclously expensive. Wife's Elantra has almost 150k miles on it, and other than routine maintenance and new tires, has been a dream.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Needs theme music at December 20, 2024 10:58 AM (xPJvm)
So @elonmusk you also suck at politics lol fuck you fascist
So stunning, so brave, calling Musk a fascist on a platform wholly owned by Musk. His bathtub must be surrounded by sandbags so he can hold his position until the end.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 10:58 AM (ExV1e)
Because they are just proving themselves to be parrots for Stalin's big charge that Soviet interference was saving the world from fascism.
We shouldn't allow people to get away with such dronery without a mention that "The Right" is only the Non-Left.
There is "a Left", the Left, post-Marx, is defined as those people who want to progress through Marx's 6 "Stages of History" and get to "Communism".
But everybody who wants the monarchy to come back, and everybody who wants to remain in a constitutional republic, until we see a better idea, and everybody who is influenced by Gentile's "Concrete Idealism" and the role of the State to lead the collective, simply does not want to "progress" to Marx's 6th and final "Stage of Man".
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 10:59 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: BruceWayne at
Are you going to The Exchange? I miss that little place. They let us go on the basement once where all the bank stuff was still everywhere.
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 10:59 AM (e8mjv)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 10:59 AM (PCK5/)
So @elonmusk you also suck at politics lol fuck you fascist
The better response would've been "Douchebag says what?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)
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As was pointed out by my wife's uncle, KIA stands for Killed In Action. Caveat Emptor.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 10:59 AM (jFCkp)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Needs theme music at December 20, 2024
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The current model Sonata has styling I like, and a reasonable amount of room for a modern sedan.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 10:59 AM (J2vNu)
Because they are just proving themselves to be parrots for Stalin's big charge that Soviet interference was saving the world from fascism.
We shouldn't allow people to get away with such dronery without a mention that "The Right" is only the Non-Left.
There is "a Left", the Left, post-Marx, is defined as those people who want to progress through Marx's 6 "Stages of History" and get to "Communism".
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 10:59 AM (krQz2)
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Orwell got the misuse of fascist down in the 40s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 11:00 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2024 11:00 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2024 11:00 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at December 20, 2024 11:01 AM (nXhwP)
Hell fucking yeah he'll like it!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Needs theme music at December 20, 2024 11:01 AM (xPJvm)
Posted by: Piper
I think 35 is supposed to be our high today.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December
Snow is so pretty. It’s a shame it’s darn cold!
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2024 11:01 AM (e8mjv)
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism
Seems pretty Biden administration, to me.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 10:56 AM (L/fGl)
J.C. Higgins? Ted Williams?....'member those?
Posted by: BignJames at December 20, 2024 11:01 AM (Yj6Os)
1. Publicized parts of the bill that not only he didn't like, but that alarmed numerous citizens and voters.
People saying that this is somehow "government" are really threatening a totalitarian state where nobody with sufficient power outside the system is supposed to affect what happens inside the system, even simply using their own assets.
2. Elon threatened to run people against them, you know, like in an election? Thus, it's a "threat" that can't be made good unless your fucking constituents agree!!
So, they are saying that nobody who did not scam their way into elective office should be able to change the minds of the voting public?
Fascism, straight up.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:04 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 20, 2024 11:05 AM (1FWWQ)
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism
Seems pretty Biden administration, to me.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)
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Europe has had this model for years--although not the suppression so much as recently. And this is the form that "progressives" in America have admired, the system where the government "has enough power to DO SOMETHING".
The American Left typically hates Checks and Balances and Separation of Power, because it gets in the way of its agenda.
But it's the lack of Separation of Power that has allowed the countries of Europe to become what they are. They moved from well-meaning Fascism (the symbol of strength in unity) to its more repressive form.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 11:08 AM (krQz2)
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Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 11:10 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 10:50 AM (ExV1e)
Stalin is dead.
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The Morning Report — 12/20/24
Funding Bill Includes Cash For a DOZEN Biolabs to ‘Research’/Engineer New Viruses . . It’s unclear whether the final bill will include the same provisions.Well, we know the Democrats will likely fight tooth and nail for it, because as the author notes:
. . . the government has proven it cannot be trusted to conduct this research without releasing powerful bioweapons that it will later use as a pretext to roll out experimental pharmaceutical products for windfall profits and to enact unprecedented social control measures in the form of lockdowns, mandates, etc.And because as we are all well aware, too many globalist RINOs are getting spitroasted by Big Pharma and the Chi-Coms or otherwise can't be bothered to actually read word for word hundreds of pages of a bill too close to a holiday or cocktail hour.
Ironically, it was the Dems who helped kill the replacement bill in an effort to ding Johnson as well as Trump and then cast the blame for the government shutdown which will have essentially zero effect on the average citizen despite what mouth breathing inbred hacks like Joe Scarborough and his bimbo concubine Mitzi Baryshnikov declare as they jack off Al Sharpton under the MSNSDAP anchor desk. Meanwhile, in another part of the forest:
An 18-year-old freshman at George Mason University in Virginia was arrested Tuesday for allegedly plotting a mass casualty attack on Israel’s general consulate in New York City, which he described as “a goldmine of targets,” according to a report. Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, an Egyptian national, was charged with one count of demonstrating how to manufacture an explosive with intent to murder internationally protected persons after allegedly instructing an undercover FBI agent in November to target the consulate with explosives, the Washington Post reported Thursday. “Two options: lay havoc on them with an assault rifle or detonate a TATP [suicide] vest in the midst of them,” Hassan allegedly told the agent posing as a terrorist sympathizer on Nov. 27, prosecutors alleged in court documents obtained by the outlet. Hassan, who had been facing deportation proceedings, was arrested by the FBI in Falls Church and subsequently banned from campus, according to the report.Frankly, I'm rather surprised the FBI had the time and resources, let alone the will, to catch this freak, considering that at least for the past four years they've been preoccupied with creating false flag insurrections and railroading innocent Americans for the high crime of believing the first amendment applied to them, be it at the Capitol where they were entrapped in a sting operation, or at school board meetings or praying in front of abortion abattoirs. Back in the halcyon days of the late 60s, when college students were in an hallucinogenic induced haze, the popular expression on campus was "Bring the War Home!" Here we are nearly 60 years later and far too many of those students are in our government, the C-suites and most disastrously Academia raping the minds and in many cases bodies of American children, from pre-school through post-graduate. While bring the war home at the time meant Vietnam, and since 10/7/23 the Gaza pogrom against Israel and really world Jewry, in point of fact, as I have elucidated in my writings and podcast ravings the War is not only home but is about the very existence and nature of our home in the first place:
Americans reacted with horror this week to a new poll that found young voters evenly divided on the righteousness of Luigi Mangione’s cold-blooded assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. To me, the result was no surprise: I’m seeing far worse on my Ivy League campus every day — the logical result of the morality crisis running rampant throughout “elite” academia and among many of my generation. The Emerson College poll found 41% of voters age 18 to 29 saw Thompson’s murder as “acceptable,” while just 40% found it somewhat or completely “unacceptable.” But here at Princeton, a poll of nearly 1,500 students on the Fizz social network revealed that 25% found Mangione’s action “completely justified,” with another 22% saying Thompson’s death was “deserved.” Only 13% managed to say the killer was purely “in the wrong.” . . . Of course, leftist college students — particularly Ivy Leaguers — have for generations fancied themselves revolutionaries. But this outright glorification of violence marks a significant escalation. And I believe I know why. To far-left young Americans, on any given issue, the world is divided into two buckets: oppressor and oppressed. There is little room for nuance, and next to none for negotiation. I’ve seen this phenomenon firsthand in my role as president of Princeton’s premier pro-Israel student organization. . . . . . And while this oppressor-oppressed dynamic is not new, the extent of its application absolutely is. Throughout the West, anti-Israel protesters have chanted for the past year that “all resistance is justified.” In New York City, posters and stickers have declared “rape is resistance.” Now the same rationale is being applied to justify Brian Thompson’s murder. In the current climate, many people my age see Mangione as a resistor, something of a martyr, while capitalist CEOs like Thompson are framed as the unquestionable oppressors. Just as my fellow Princeton student dismissed the notion of conversing with someone like me, Brian Thompson, as a member of the class of oppression, was not entitled to a conversation. Instead, he was condemned without trial, his murder rationalized as resistance by a privileged young person with two Ivy League degrees. That so many students and other young people are failing this basic moral test is a searing indictment of our education system and “elite” institutions. . . . . . This is not just a campus problem, but one with far-reaching consequences. The institutions tasked with educating our (supposedly) brightest minds have instead become breeding grounds for moral equivocation.
Amen. A well-written piece. Not only that, but it gives those who label themselves as "elite" the absolute moral authority to invoke the credo of "By Any Means Necessary" in the eradication of anyone and anything they view as a threat to that authority, which they label as EVIL. Hence, the planned terrorist attack, the cold blooded assassination of UHC CEO Thompson, the Madison school shooting and all the other ignored or explained-away attacks against anyone and anything that is non-Leftist/Democrat aligned or approved, this of course in diametric opposition to the righteous acquittal of Daniel Penny.
Beyond the sick and twisted mindset of Leftists there is sadly a concomitant moral vacuum among those who are in positions of power who should know better yet go along to get along or otherwise equivocate outcomes and make excuses to do the wrong thing. I'm looking at people like John Roberts who in one egregious and notorious instance rather than doing the right thing and declaring the Obamacare mandate unconstitutional, supposedly feared a violent backlash and instead turned the Constitution he swore on a Bible to preserve, protect and defend on its ear by rewriting the law to make it kosher instead of sending it back to the House to be rewritten and then voted on. It's why I'm rather amazed that Daniel Penny was exonerated and why I think Derek Chauvin doesn't stand a chance. Not only because the autopsy on the criminal bastard child of LBJ's Great Society aka George Floyd, would prove Chauvin's innocence, but because doing so would not merely touch off yet another wave of violence, arson and murder over the specious blood libel of America as a racist white-supremacist society, but because in freeing Chauvin it would deal a major, if not death blow to said blood libel. And that is too powerful a weapon that the Marxist bastard Left bitterly cling to in order to maintain and attain even more political power. And Trump's victory was due in no small part with disaffected black and other minority Democrats for once seeing and feeling the disaster of who and what they vote for directly affecting them. Will it last, can it last will Trump build on that? It depends if you see things as half-full or half-empty. If we can take back the schools, stop further brainwashing and then deprogram the last few generations of American youth, we have a shot at salvation. Lastly, a shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know. Have a great weekend!
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- Given that he deliberately allowed Iran to flood America with deadly drugs and grow its nuclear program, it’s easy to argue that he is. (The entire Democrat party, going back to 1860 - jjs)
Is Barack Obama Guilty of Mass Murder and Treason?
- Robert Spencer: Waiting for the sign that the Dems have learned one single thing from the election. (the Universe will have ended by then, sir - jjs)
Harris Aide: Dems Need More Spox Like the Activist Who Said ‘America Deserved 9/11’
- The legacy media has lost all ability to influence the public. With Trump's win, a concerted effort to censor alternative media and citizen journalists will intensify.
Trump Wins—and the Censorship Begins
- ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN
- The Houthis have fired nearly 400 ballistic missiles and drones at Israel.
Israel Launches Intense Airstrikes Against Houthi Terrorists In Yemen* * * * * - The information technology major was skilled at concealing his online activity and at accessing the dark web for things like step-by-step video instructions on how to make a bomb with the greatest kill rate in a crowd, according to the FBI. Hassan allegedly sent the undercover agent an Islamic State propaganda video in mid-November calling for the death of Jewish people, the newspaper reported.
George Mason freshman, 18, busted for plotting attack on Israel’s NYC consulate — as he was facing possible deportation (Thank You Biden + Democrats, and their RINO Remoras - jjs) ASSAD REGIME COLLAPSES" - An internet user posted a video of Syrian flags proudly displayed at the scene of a Christian event. People in the packed crowd had their phones up in anticipation of the Christmas tree lighting, and that’s when things got real. The song “Hotel Room” by Pitbull began blaring out of the speakers as the crowd that had gathered rejoiced in their Christian celebration. This has to be the most bizarre song choice. The tune boasts lyrics that are completely inappropriate, yet good old American culture prevails once again.
Western Culture Reins Supreme As Syrian Christians Blast Pitbull At Christmas Tree Lighting In Surreal Video
- "I usually hate this cliche, but this is the closest thing we have to a ticking time bomb," a senior US counterterrorism official told Politico.
US officials warn ISIS jailbreak will unleash a 'terrorist army' in Syria WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - To walk the streets of Dublin, Paris, or Rome today is to witness entire societies falling apart. (80 years on, Islam is finishing what Hitler started - jjs)
Traditional Europe is disappearing
- Radical Islamist preacher Haitham al-Haddad founded one of the most prominent Sharia courts in the UK, has not only been labeled an extremist but was among several British Muslims to visit the Taliban after they captured Afghanistan. He once stated in a lecture that a man should be allowed to hit his wife physically and that others should not interfere and mind their own business.Sharia courts do not have any legal jurisdiction in Britain but are still used by Muslims to work out issues of divorce, marriage, and more. Some have expressed concern that the courts are forming a parallel legal system within the country.
Islam’s Western Capital: At Least 85 Sharia Courts in UK, 100,000 Sharia Marriages Conducted. CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION - The report tells in granular detail the tale of that entire day in 2021, when feds were manipulating, framing, and conducting what was an information and propaganda operation against the people who attended Donald Trump's speech, and then went on to gaslight the American public.
Report: The Feds Lied About the National Guard on January 6
- One need not think hard about how a corrupt national security apparatus could use the predicate of an illegal leak to spy on political foes.
IG Report Reveals FBI Could Still Be Spying On Congress And Leaking To Help Democrats
- During that panic, too many Americans on the left became addicted to the uncontrolled power they had obtained, and as a mob began to use it in many illegal and immoral ways to destroy those the mob did not like. That mob action however was illegal and immoral, and with time it is going to cost the mob a lot of money and time. Justice will not be done in every case, but it will be done enough times to hopefully dissuade the power-hungry from nonchalantly attempting to do it again.
Pushback: Blacklisted doctor gets lawsuit reinstated by higher court
- Larry Elder: Making God into your own image.
The False Gods of Leftism UHC CEO MURDER - To far-left young Americans, on any given issue, the world is divided into two buckets: oppressor and oppressed. There is little room for nuance, and next to none for negotiation. I’ve seen this phenomenon firsthand in my role as president of Princeton’s premier pro-Israel student organization. (Bring the war home is not just Vietnam or Israel: It's about America itself! - jjs)
I’m an Ivy League undergrad — here’s why my campus sides with Luigi Mangione - While the state murder trial will take precedence, Mangione will potentially face the death penalty in the federal prosecution. New York abolished its death penalty in 2004.
Federal Murder Charges Filed Against Luigi Mangione, Signaling No Faith in Alvin Bragg.
- “You are going through a lot right now, but we wanted to let you know that we set up a legal defense fund for you”
Leftists are Raising Legal Funds for Alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooter Luigi Mangione
- National surveys by Rasmussen, Emerson College Polling and Economist/YouGov all found significant empathy for Thompson’s murder and suspect Luigi Mangione
More Murders of Business Leaders Are Coming, Americans Warn CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - Daniel Greenfield: The single greatest mass jailbreak of corrupt scammers in history.
Biden Frees Men Who Scammed $5 Billion With Over 1 Million Victims (You better believe that Joe Big Guy got a nice thank you 10% from a Cayman Islands or Swiss bank account - jjs) "BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY - Hanson argued that Homan’s focus on Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will set a precedent, emphasizing that the incoming border czar is listening to Democratic constituents concerned about illegal immigration in their city. . .
Hanson argued that Homan’s focus on Democrat Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will set a precedent, emphasizing that the incoming border czar is listening to Democrat constituents concerned about illegal immigration in their city.
Victor Davis Hanson Explains Why He Thinks Tom Homan Is Targeting Major Dem City First For Deportations (in a way, this is what Biden did to Eric Adams, but in reverse! - jjs)
- Oklahoma Republican Markwayne Mullin told the outlet his “serious” project could replace the fast-track reconciliation bill that is now expected to massively fund border security and enforcement in early 2025.
GOP Sen. Mullin Drafting ‘Very Secret’ Border Bill with Democrats
- Federal immigration authorities are accusing New York City officials of releasing a convicted child sex offender living unlawfully in the United States back onto city streets, sparking backlash from federal agents and even — Democrats.
NYC Officials Let Illegal Migrant Child Molester Go Back Home To … Queens, ICE Says
- The bill is part of a broader effort coordinated by President-elect Donald J. Trump and Congressional Republicans to end incentives for foreign nationals to enter and stay in the country illegally. In effect, [Mike] Lee’s legislation could result in many of those in the U.S. illegally self-deporting to their home country.
This Senate Republican Wants to Block Illegal Immigrants from Public Benefits.
- He's putting up billboards across Mexico discouraging illegals to come, warning them of the consequences.
Texas's governor, Greg Abbott, ahead of the curve ... again BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS - Joe Biden will never forgive the Democrat Party for dumping him from the ticket, and he’ll never forgive the American people for handing the keys back to Donald Trump. As far as he’s concerned, we’re gonna get what we deserve — and maybe, after everything is a charred, broken-down mess and the world’s on fire, we’ll realize how wonderful we had it when good ol’ Joe was in charge.
Joe-ker Biden: Insider Claims That the President Will ‘Burn the Whole Thing Down’
- Some of Biden's own cabinet secretaries were not allowed to talk to him.
New Details Emerge About White House’s Cover-Up Of Biden’s Cognitive Decline
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION - For months critics have been calling for Willis to be called off the case for a host of issues, including her romantic relationship with a special prosecutor, Nathan Wade.
Georgia Court of Appeals Disqualifies Fani Willis from RICO Case Against Donald Trump
- Democrats are trying to insulate their Jan 6. probe from scrutiny because they know they destroyed and suppressed evidence.
The Failed Omnibus Would Have Let The J6 Committee Off The Hook For Framing Trump FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - We find it hard to believe, but according to Mike Benz, a former State Department official, the Biden White House lavished a multinational media syndicate with hundreds of millions of dollars. For its “investment,” the junta apparently received hit pieces against a political enemy.
Where’s Our $300 Million?
- Cavuto, one of the original hosts on Fox News, has hosted his program, “Your World,” since the network’s launch in 1996 and also hosts “Cavuto Coast to Coast” on the Fox Business Network and “Cavuto Live” on Saturdays. The host’s last day at the network is reportedly Thursday, which he intends to announce on his program later in the afternoon, Mediaite first reported.
Neil Cavuto Is Leaving Fox News After 28 Years THE ECONOMY, STUPID - Trump can use a famous treatise on war to be effective in an entirely different area.
What Trump Can Do with Clausewitz
- The IRS should be an ally of taxpayers, not a source of fear and frustration. It’s time for a new era of taxpayer-centric leadership, and Billy Long is the right leader for the job.
Trump’s IRS Chief Will Be a Blessing for Small Businesses
- The company says the strike is not expected to impact Christmas deliveries.
Amazon Workers Strike As Union Threatens Christmas Package Delays
- Federal policies should better accommodate the self-employed.
The Case for Gig Worker Benefits RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM - Trump should "IMPOUND" Obama's el-cheapo podium sign, From the Office of President-Elect and declare on national TV: NULL AND VOID!!! - jjs
Biden Commits U.S. to New Climate Goals 31 Days Before Trump’s Return
- As media pushes fear about record “hot” temperatures, a review of the science shows our main focus should be energy security.
Coal Use Hits Record High in 2024 Thanks to India and China
- This exchange perfectly illustrates the hypocrisy of the climate alarmist elite. They don’t believe their own scare tactics. Dr. Keys owns a home in a flood zone and dismisses average Americans as “low-information morons.” Kennedy’s grilling wasn’t just entertaining; it exposed how little credibility these so-called experts have when they refuse to practice what they preach.
WATCH: Sen. Kennedy Delivers Masterclass in Destroying Climate Change Hypocrites AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS - This is the kind of research that we now know almost without a shadow of a doubt, as confirmed most recently by the findings of Congressional inquiry, birthed the SARS-CoV-2 virus in a dingy CCP lab funded by Anthony Fauci’s NIAID, funneled through his close personal friend Peter Daszak’s “nonprofit” EcoHealth Alliance and will almost certainly be the providence of the next much-promised pandemic, a gift to the incoming Trump administration.
Funding Bill Includes Cash For a DOZEN Biolabs to ‘Research’/Engineer New Viruses - The conversation, occurring in early February 2020, suggests the virus had efficiently spread in humans from its inception. This adaptation of the novel coronavirus was a potential indication that it did not originate at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. However, despite this evidence, Fauci—along with other public health officials, the corporate media, and some lawmakers—dismissed theories that the virus could have resulted from gain-of-function research and a subsequent escape event at the Wuhan lab.
Fauci Knew COVID was Human-Adapted by February 2020, Messages Reveal. SECOND AMENDMENT - Despite its popularity, the AR-15 is wildly misunderstood.
Does anyone really need an AR-15? I did EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - The Idaho State Board of Education voted to approve a measure banning diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at all public universities in the state. The resolution forbids universities from establishing DEI offices, basing student resource centers on DEI ideology or using “‘personal identity characteristics’ (race, color, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, or gender identity) over individual merit” in hiring and admission decisions.
Another Red State Deals Crippling Blow To DEI Bureaucrats’ Stranglehold On Public Universities
- Universal parental choice remains the surest route to strengthening curricular standards in schools. (abolishing all teacher unions - jjs)
What’s the Best Way Forward for Education Reform?
- The class fulfills a 'social and historical studies' graduation requirement
Indiana University Requires Students To Detail How Their Privilege Caused 'Oppression' Over 'Subordinate Groups' (Dreaming of Bobby Knight wielding a tire iron - jjs) ABORTION - The Biden junta is using taxpayer dollars to push lies about abortion and is suing Idaho over its pro-life law.
Biden Junta Attacks Idaho’s Pro-Life Law With Taxpayer-Funded Lies About Emergency Care DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY - Degenerate Drunken Sot Democrat AG Dana Nessel accuses the lawmakers of taking 'literally criminal' actions. Republican leader fires back.
Michigan Dems’ Last-Minute Push For Leftist Legislation Crippled As Lawmakers Skip Session
- Representative Jasmine Crock-o'shett (D-TX) has claimed that a potential government shutdown on Saturday will result in Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers, air traffic controllers, and border security officials ceasing work, disrupting travel and undermining national security. This is false.“[L]et me tell you, wh
FACT-CHECK: No, Air Traffic Control, TSA, and Border Patrol Do Not Stop Working During Shutdowns. POLITICS - The whole point of this exercise is to detonate the status quo. Trump has decided to get a head start and begin the process of nuking the status quo early. If that means partially shutting down the government, so be it.
Trump's Stop-Gap Funding Power Play a Wake Up Call for Both Parties
- Many Republicans who voted no — coming from all corners of the conference — may have felt free to do so because the bill was doomed to failure, or in protest of Johnson’s handling of the process.
Johnson Speakership on the Brink Spending Bill Without Special Interest Pork Goes Down in Flames 38 Republicans Vote with Democrats
- Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah are calling for Elon Musk, who led the charge against Johnson’s spending bill, to take over as House speaker during the upcoming Congress. Lee has also floated Vivek Ramaswamy, co-head of President-elect Donald Trump’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with Musk, for the speakership role.
Republican Lawmakers Float Johnson’s Replacement With ‘DOGE Speaker’
- Biden has faced low approval ratings throughout his tenure in the Oval Office. Following his exit from the 2024 presidential election, Biden’s approval rating in a Gallup survey dipped to 36 percent. It was 38 percent in the February Gallup poll.
New Low For Joe: Approval Drops To Lowest Level
- Will former intern Olivia Nuzzi join his campaign?
Pervert Alert: Convicted Sex Offender Anthony Weiner Running for New York City Council
- Victor Davis Hanson: So why is newly elected Trump a veritable cultural hero in 2024 in a fashion unimaginable eight years ago when the media had rendered him a near demon? One, Trump is seen now as a welcome relief.
What Was So Different This Time About Trump’s Election? FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - The largest U.S. embassy in the world.
New U.S. embassy, new U.S. ambassador in Mexico City
- Referring to an empty chair after Freeland’s resignation on the very day the Fall Economic statement was to be delivered, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre asked: “Who are you?” And that is indeed the fundamental question. Who is Chrystia Freeland?
Chrystia Freeland’s Closet DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS - And they covered it up.
Video: CIA Whistleblower Pins Execution of Seal Team Six on Hillary, Brennan, Obama and Biden - The U.S. government’s “porous” vetting process allows many individuals involved in Chinese talent recruitment plans to fall through the cracks and access federal funding, according to L.J. Eads, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst.
EXCLUSIVE: US Gov’t Awarded Sensitive Research Grants To Scientists In Chinese Communist Party Talent Programs (A big chink in our armor - jjs)
- The incoming president’s pick to run the Air Force does not inspire confidence.
A flop among Trump nominees? DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - The scam stopgap measure included a pay hike for Congress and a provision allowing members to opt out of Obamacare.
The Crumbled Omnibus Carcass Is A Mess Of Speaker Johnson’s Own Making HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE - The action was taken after the first case of severe bird flu was reported in Louisiana…in an elderly patient with pre-existing conditions.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom Declares State of Emergency over Bird Flu ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - The real question that local journalists should be asking is where are these groups getting their money for all their lawsuits?
Activists sue Texas commission for allowing SpaceX to use its Superheavy deluge launch system
- NASA yesterday awarded the rocket startup Firefly a $179.6 million contract to carry six NASA science instruments to the Moon on its Blue Ghost lunar lander, the third lander contract the company has won and the fourth Moon contract overall.
Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander wins its fourth lunar NASA contract FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY - "My only regret is that I didn't speak out sooner."
5 Years Ago, J.K. Rowling Took A Stand Against Trans Thugs. She Hasn’t Backed Down. CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - Bill Maher’s exchange with popular [hack pseudo-] science commentator [blowhard propagandist] Neil deGrasse Tyson underscores how extraordinarily unscientific scientists can be.
The Left’s Takeover Of ‘Science’ Is Obvious When It Comes To Sex Differences
- "Fresh off a $15 million defamation settlement, ABC allows The View to fantasize about assassination plots against President-elect Trump."
Repulsive Degenerate, Fat Albert Speer Whoopi Airs Fever Dream On Live TV, Says Musk And Vance Could Be Plotting Hostile Takeover HITHER & YON - People from the Neolithic era may have reconstructed part of the stone circle between 2620 to 2480 BC to unite ancient Britons as new European settlers began to inhabit the British Isles, according to CNN, citing a paper published in Archaeology International. (Ibram Ex-krement sez: If they Weren't ETs of Color, then racist!- jjs)
Stonehenge’s mysterious origins may finally be solved — as new study poses unifying theory
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 07:36 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 07:37 AM (ExV1e)
Personally, I have no problems with things being shut down. Given that we aren't told why a lot of the things that were added to the CR that got shut down are so vital to Our Sacred Democracy!™ they can deal with the consequences of people not showing up.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 20, 2024 07:38 AM (+4yJ5)
ESPONJA!!1!!11!!!
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 20, 2024 07:39 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Inogame at December 20, 2024 07:39 AM (53oGX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2024 07:39 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2024 07:40 AM (JR3OV)
Now, my favorite morning read, the Sefton editorial. I even have some fresh coffee for the occasion.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2024 07:40 AM (wa8ai)
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Pure poetry JJ.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2024 07:41 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 07:41 AM (iziT8)
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Modern poetry
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2024 07:42 AM (wa8ai)
I think there may be some confusion here, understandable given the bills came out so close together. The newer, Trump supported, CR was only about 7% of the page count of the original "Dem wish list" bill and removed a bunch of the shit. It still spent more than is, likely, actually "needed" for the period it claims to cover.
No doubt the folks who complain, daily, about Chip Roy and Thomas Massey will continue to do so but I'm not completely convinced that they're in the wrong here.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 07:44 AM (ExV1e)
>> To far-left young Americans, on any given issue, the world is divided into two buckets: oppressor and oppressed.
That one sentence is what’s wrong in a nutshell. That is the core of DEI… it sows division and hate. It’s crept into almost everything. The CEO of my very large employer doubled down on it in a recent town hall. I heard on the radio yesterday there’s a Fort Worth school district that has 10+ full time DEI staff. In Fort Worth!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 07:45 AM (nrfI8)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: not found at December 20, 2024 07:45 AM (/7KEl)
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Wait, whut?
-Ghetto culture
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2024 07:45 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 20, 2024 07:46 AM (dg+HA)
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Just ask Pete Hegseth.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2024 07:47 AM (ZzMvU)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 07:47 AM (ExV1e)
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You have marvelous taste in prose.
But your close tag-fu is lacking padawan.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2024 07:47 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Deport, Expel And Ban at December 20, 2024 07:48 AM (rqga2)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 20, 2024 07:49 AM (Rcnd3)
STOP doing things!!!!!!!!
Stop doing horribly stupid and alarmingly bad things.
Am I crazy?
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 07:49 AM (iziT8)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 20, 2024 07:49 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 07:49 AM (j+LsA)
Trump is anything but intuitive when it comes to governing.
Posted by: Vlad at December 20, 2024 07:50 AM (Djkcg)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2024 07:50 AM (ZzMvU)
US officials warn ISIS jailbreak will unleash a 'terrorist army' in Syria
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You know, didn't I read that Biden essentially opened the "refugee" floodgates to the world a week or so ago?
Eh, probably nothing.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 20, 2024 07:50 AM (hIXll)
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 07:51 AM (iziT8)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 07:52 AM (nrfI8)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2024 07:50 AM (ZzMvU)
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Today is going to be a good day!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2024 07:52 AM (RIvkX)
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We may never know the motive.
Peaceful Muslims worry about backlash from tomorrow's terrorist attack.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 20, 2024 07:53 AM (+4yJ5)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 20, 2024 07:53 AM (hIXll)
Working at Villanova today
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2024 07:53 AM (dE0/D)
Of course it will. They. Have. Nothing. Else.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2024 07:54 AM (UseAb)
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 07:55 AM (iziT8)
If only they'd realize which one is which. Won't that be a kick in the head!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 07:55 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2024 07:56 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Vlad at December 20, 2024 07:50 AM (Djkcg)
This could use some elaboration.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2024 07:56 AM (UseAb)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: not found at December 20, 2024 07:58 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 07:58 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Here's an idea at December 20, 2024 07:58 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Ordinary American"
We know he delegates. Other than that I don't know what the implication is.
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 07:59 AM (iziT8)
Posted by: grammie winger
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Unless it says something about that specific position, I would think we'd cross that bridge when we come to it.
Which means that it will be a massive distraction and waste six to eight months of legislative time etc.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 20, 2024 07:59 AM (hIXll)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2024 07:56 AM (SfhV1)
He'd be skipped over, to the next in line. Same as when Kissinger was SoS for Nixon.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 20, 2024 08:00 AM (Aqu9a)
Yet when Israel says the obsessive Israel-hate of Ireland’s rulers has a whiff of prejudice to it, these people run for the fainting couch.
-Brendan O'Neill
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The Irish brouhaha is getting under my skin because I know so many wonderful Irish individuals.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2024 08:00 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 20, 2024 07:53 AM (hIXll)
Remember, Obama sent park rangers out to block off open air monuments in DC to inconvenience the public so they'd know that the government was shut down.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:00 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Kneel Cavuto at December 20, 2024 08:00 AM (jxRfg)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2024 07:56 AM (UseAb)
The public is tired of deficit spending, money printing, and the ever-tightening household budget, He rightly noticed this and played to it during his campaign.
And yet before he's even taken office, he's already pushing for a MAGA-brand debt ceiling suspension.
Posted by: Vlad at December 20, 2024 08:01 AM (Djkcg)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2024 07:56 AM (SfhV1)
It would skip him since he's ineligible.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:01 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 20, 2024 08:02 AM (hoCmQ)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2024 08:02 AM (SfhV1)
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Did the FBI merely catch him or did they create him?
One has to ask.
Posted by: Evil Incarnate at December 20, 2024 08:02 AM (YrqgQ)
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2024 08:03 AM (jgmnb)
Parallels is Virtual Machine (VM) software for the Mac. It allows me to run Windows, Linux and old versions of MacOS on my Mac.
I was banned from Parallel's support forum for asking why Parallels Desktop for Mac connects to a Chinese website (parallels.cn) when it starts up. I showed a screen capture of Parallels trying to connect to the site.
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 08:03 AM (o0+oQ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2024 08:04 AM (gm9Sb)
Was it faster than the guys who shot Trump in the head?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 20, 2024 08:04 AM (hIXll)
Posted by: Vlad at December 20, 2024 08:01 AM (Djkcg)
I'm gonna cut Trump some slack on this one since it's likely to be nearly impossible to get rid of the entire deficit in one go so some amount of additional debt is inevitable. He doesn't want to have the deal with Senate Democrats while he is Prez to get it done.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:04 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 20, 2024 08:04 AM (1VvJB)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2024 08:05 AM (gm9Sb)
Free cookies and juice tho, to pump up my A1c.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 20, 2024 08:05 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 08:05 AM (QfvaV)
Posted by: Vlad at December 20, 2024 08:01 AM (Djkcg)
I'm gonna cut Trump some slack on this one since it's likely to be nearly impossible to get rid of the entire deficit in one go so some amount of additional debt is inevitable. He doesn't want to have the deal with Senate Democrats while he is Prez to get it done.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:04 AM (ExV1e)
I'm also going to trust him on this one.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2024 08:06 AM (UseAb)
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Next time you're in the hospital see if they'll cut you a discount on the $1200/unit they're selling on their end
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 20, 2024 08:07 AM (hIXll)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 08:07 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Ordinary American"
He got this far. I'm not going to second guess him.
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2024 08:07 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: not found at December 20, 2024 08:07 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 08:08 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 20, 2024 08:08 AM (dg+HA)
And now i have bright red skin in place of a mustache and goatee. I look like Ronald fricking McDonald.
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 08:08 AM (QfvaV)
She was apparently a radical feminist. Not a tranny.
And there have been several posts on this blog about it.
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 08:08 AM (iziT8)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2024 08:05 AM (gm9Sb
Drones were probably a deepstate op to keep America distracted and confused while preparing the ‘bigger’ op.
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2024 08:09 AM (jgmnb)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 08:09 AM (WdMlw)
And now i have bright red skin in place of a mustache and goatee. I look like Ronald fricking McDonald.
Posted by: blaster at December 20, 2024 08:08 AM (QfvaV)
Ah.. just scraped it right off, eh?? No trimming way down first? Oops..
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 08:10 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2024 08:09 AM (jgmnb)
Wasn't there an extension/expansion of government drone control working it's way through Congress? Was that part of the original craptacular CR or something separate?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:10 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:04 AM (ExV1e
Rand Paul routinely shows that a nickel out of every dollar spent in the federal budget will clear up the deficit.
I disagree with the inevitability of more debt,
That being said, Trump could merely have renounced the omnibus bill without trumpeting the praises of the alternate bill with flaws. It creates a false dichotomy that we must choose the lesser of two steaming piles of shit.
Posted by: Vlad at December 20, 2024 08:11 AM (Djkcg)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 20, 2024 08:11 AM (mlHCU)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2024 08:11 AM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 20, 2024 08:11 AM (hIXll)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2024 08:13 AM (SfhV1)
27% of U.S. likely voters say Thompson’s murder “was an understandable reaction to the high cost of health care in America.”
17% of U.S. voters say Thompson’s murder at least “somewhat acceptable,” including eight percent who consider it “completely acceptable.”
Seems to me 60 years of teaching marxism has worked.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 08:14 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 08:09 AM (WdMlw)
I understand your take on this; the real problem is that he’s an extraordinarily weak speaker, and any other speaker will have the same problem. Steve Scalise doesn’t want the job because he couldn’t do any better.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 08:14 AM (zQ3t+)
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 08:14 AM (iziT8)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 08:09 AM (WdMlw)
I don't care for Johnson. I think he's controlled. Sadly, he's also likely to be the best we're going to get. An actual fiscally responsible Republican representative wouldn't get enough support within the caucus to even get nominated, let alone elected.
I would like to see the Speakership reduced to something of more a ceremonial role. It should be the job of the majority leader to "get things done" and the job of the Speaker to sample the different bottles in the House Bar.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:15 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:10 AM (ExV1e)
I’d guess just one of a series ‘panic events’ , some with enormous dame potential, every few days in the effort to avoid the inauguration of President Trump.
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2024 08:15 AM (jgmnb)
Johnson has a new improved plan to prevent a "shut down" . Vote at 10am.
Then the Senate still controlled by Dems will be in the spotlight. Maybe Manchin and Sinema can be peeled off
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 08:15 AM (DopAq)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 08:15 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 08:15 AM (iziT8)
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Well, when people on the "right" just continue believing scientists who get it wrong, again and again, but won't let go of the foundation for theories...
Only 10 minutes and even a bit of humor.
https://tinyurl.com/n86jjdt6
Posted by: TeeJ at December 20, 2024 08:15 AM (ytKo6)
Video: CIA Whistleblower Pins Execution of Seal Team Six on Hillary, Brennan, Obama and Biden
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Holy Smokes. I have only heard rumor up until now.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 08:16 AM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 20, 2024 08:11 AM (mlHCU)
No social security checks for 2 years.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 08:17 AM (zQ3t+)
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The radicalization of students via our academic institutions is going to pay huge dividends for the eventual terror attacks perpetrated by those we've allowed to enter illegally. The cosplay terrorists currently supporting Palestine are only one faction. The support being voiced for the CEO murderer is another.
I have no doubt they will enjoin with terrorists to provide whatever support they can. It is the thrill of a lifetime for them. And contemplate this; they comprise the largest support network the potential terrorists have ever seen.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 08:17 AM (Q4IgG)
Was it faster than the guys who shot Trump in the head?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where
Did they EVER release the demographics of the victims like they've done immediately for every killing on the planet for our entire lives or nah bro
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 08:17 AM (j+LsA)
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Well, when people on the "right" just continue believing scientists who get it wrong, again and again, but won't let go of the foundation for theories...
Only 10 minutes and even a bit of humor.
https://tinyurl.com/n86jjdt6
Posted by: TeeJ at December 20, 2024 08:15 AM (ytKo6)
What is Lisle’s alternative theory?
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 08:17 AM (PCK5/)
Free cookies and juice tho, to pump up my A1c.
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Nutter Butter for the WIN!
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 08:18 AM (jFCkp)
Just of the two that were killed, as far as I know.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2024 08:18 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 08:19 AM (j+LsA)
Video: CIA Whistleblower Pins Execution of Seal Team Six on Hillary, Brennan, Obama and Biden
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Holy Smokes. I have only heard rumor up until now.
Posted by: Chuck Martel"
Now this I believe.
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 08:19 AM (iziT8)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2024 08:19 AM (UseAb)
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 08:20 AM (iziT8)
Posted by: Bah, Humbug! No that's too strong at December 20, 2024 08:20 AM (jxRfg)
Considering how forthright the authorities have been, I'm definitely comfortable with the explanation!
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 08:20 AM (j+LsA)
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(wonders if it's Modern Science's Big Bang Theory is the alternate hypothesis that routinely keeps failing but is not rejected because shut up it's Science)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 20, 2024 08:20 AM (hIXll)
Posted by: one shot kill at December 20, 2024 08:20 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 20, 2024 08:20 AM (mlHCU)
Who is the fuckin idiot that let Uncle Joe have matches again?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 08:21 AM (gbOdA)
He's making a list
Checkin it twice
Gonna find out who to turn over to ICE
Tom Homan is coming to town !
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2024 08:21 AM (XTmTf)
Nobody cares about those.
Posted by: Change my mind at December 20, 2024 08:21 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 08:22 AM (o0+oQ)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2024 08:22 AM (vFG9F)
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It is my personal belief that anyone that engineers new viruses to be unleashed upon the human race should be executed.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 20, 2024 08:22 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 08:23 AM (o0+oQ)
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Yet these people have the nerve to call Elon Musk "dangerous".
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 08:23 AM (j+LsA)
Also I'd like an explanation of why there is a hexagon on Saturn, but the chaos into beauty is the main one.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 20, 2024 08:23 AM (hIXll)
So, if you become a CEO, liberal elite retards, and I don't like the way you do business, YOU CAN BE KILLED.
That's what you're saying.
You're truly a retard.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 08:23 AM (jFCkp)
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My intelligence privilege allows me to dunk on those mouth breathing low IQ idiots. My looks privilege allows me greater access to poon than the uggos have.
How's that?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 08:24 AM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 20, 2024 08:11 AM (mlHCU)
No social security checks for 2 years.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 08:17 AM (zQ3t+)
Man, that's a pretty good argument for privatization.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:24 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2024 08:24 AM (NpAcC)
I'm not sure this could've been put any better.
Nicely done, JJ.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 08:23 AM (jFCkp)
A Mr Hankey visitation…
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 08:25 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 08:25 AM (iziT8)
Islam’s Western Capital: At Least 85 Sharia Courts in UK, 100,000 Sharia Marriages Conducted
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BFD.
Counterexample in the good old USA:
1) Required by contract Arbitration "courts"
2) The Elvis Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas
As long as they don't try criminal cases (and have their own "police" forces to enforce any rulings) who gives a shit.
When they do cross the line, land on 'em with both feet.
Posted by: buddhaha at December 20, 2024 08:26 AM (Ii0B5)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 08:26 AM (x0n13)
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Wait, people who never paid into the scam would continue to receive welfare checks, free housing, etc, but people who worked their entire lives would see the mandatory contractual taxpayer agreement stop?
That sums up so much wrong with so many things so perfectly.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 20, 2024 08:26 AM (hIXll)
Owebamacare created the environment you're fighting against. You fought for Owebamacare. You're incredibly stupid.
#BarrelMouthTrigger. Do us all a favor.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 08:27 AM (o0+oQ)
If I told you God did it would you believe me?
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 08:27 AM (iziT8)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 08:26 AM (x0n13)
I'm always in awe of those that put what's in my brain in a way that I couldn't fathom.
I salute you, sir.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: That'll wake 'em up at December 20, 2024 08:28 AM (dg+HA)
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Not sure this is a trope. See Zelensky.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 08:28 AM (jFCkp)
10 to 15 crimes right there.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 08:28 AM (gbOdA)
I have to go back and forth between email and here to grab links.
But check out the one I put up. Goes back to original JWST predictions.
Also gonna grab on on dinosaurs for ya. Saw your interest yesterday.
Boron Cobbie - yep. And, btw, your one word comment, Kind?, blew past everyone but nailed it.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 20, 2024 08:28 AM (ytKo6)
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 08:29 AM (o0+oQ)
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The George Floyd that was alive during the ambulance ride and for quite a while after reaching the hospital?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 20, 2024 08:29 AM (hIXll)
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 08:22 AM (o0+oQ)
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They will therefore hire Liz Cheney.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2024 08:29 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: eleven at December 20, 2024 08:25 AM
They found the black hole?
Posted by: Don LeMon at December 20, 2024 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 08:29 AM (WdMlw)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 08:17 AM (PCK5/)
GOD.
In the video it points out that, prior to getting data from the James Webb telescope, he made a couple predictions consistent with a created universe but at odds with the big bang theory. Specifically, that Webb would discover large galaxies far earlier than should be possible AND that it would discover heavy elements far earlier than should be possible. Both of those predictions have turned out to be correct.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:29 AM (ExV1e)
The George Floyd that was alive during the ambulance ride and for quite a while after reaching the hospital?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 20, 2024 08:29 AM (hIXll)
The same George Floyd that was found to have over 3.5 times the human limit for fentanyl in his system at the time of death?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 08:31 AM (o0+oQ)
He's making a list
Checkin it twice
Gonna find out who to turn over to ICE
Tom Homan is coming to town !
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2024 08:21 AM (XTmTf)
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Excellent!
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2024 08:31 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2024 08:19 AM (UseAb)
Not retarded. For over 100 years this has been the modus operandi for members of Congress... say one thing, do another. Congress was able to contain Trump in his first term, why would things be different now? If your only source of information is the MSM...
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:32 AM (ExV1e)
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Not sure this is a trope. See Zelensky.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 08:28 AM (jFCkp)
Why I root for this to be Iran Iraq 2. Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and much of the old Pale of Settlement is drenched in Jewish blood, including my ancestors' I feel bad for the truly decent and innocent people caught up in this war, but to hell with Ukraine and Russia.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 08:32 AM (x0n13)
ProTip: if your full name is something like “Wayne Lee Ray” you probably ought to turn yourself in just on general principles. Your local community will be grateful.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 20, 2024 08:32 AM (Ay1cE)
It's a dying industry being run by scared incompetents. Don't expect sanity, moral clarity or common sense.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2024 08:33 AM (UseAb)
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Ah, I think I see the problem.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 20, 2024 08:33 AM (hIXll)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2024 08:19 AM (UseAb)
I've got to believe there's video evidence of him molesting his adopted black child..........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Jonah at December 20, 2024 08:33 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 08:32 AM (x0n13)
*raises glass*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)
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My opinion of Yankees follows your logic.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 08:34 AM (jFCkp)
Rant off. For now.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 20, 2024 08:34 AM (iODuv)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 20, 2024 08:23 AM (hIXll)
I have to assume that GOD, chuckling, said "figure this one out".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:34 AM (ExV1e)
Personally, I "root" for peace, not further death and destruction.
To each their own, I suppose.
Posted by: Vlad at December 20, 2024 08:35 AM (Djkcg)
ABC needs to keep their Gay and Tranny acting talent happy
Posted by: Jonah at December 20, 2024 08:35 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Lifelong democrats and moochers at December 20, 2024 08:35 AM (rqga2)
Is this about us?
Posted by: Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan at December 20, 2024 08:35 AM (dg+HA)
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Pliable.
I presume every politico has kompromat on every other politico. Blackmail is probably the most heavily traded commodity in Congress.
Either that or kids.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 08:36 AM (Q4IgG)
ABC needs to keep their Gay and Tranny acting talent happy
Posted by: Jonah at December 20, 2024 08:35 AM (YCxFk)
George, much like Dan Crenshaw, can't possibly LIVE with the pay cut he's taking to stay with ABC. Please. For a few pennies a day, you can help $8 million Dan live the life he so richly deserves.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)
Idaho, Wyoming, Neb, OK, SD etc.. Should be all hardcore right wingers
Posted by: Jonah at December 20, 2024 08:37 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)
How does it go? Either a living girl or a dead boy…. Or the other way around?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 08:37 AM (O1oUp)
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at December 20, 2024 08:37 AM (V6W16)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 20, 2024 08:37 AM (rJ48h)
Rant off. For now.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 20, 2024 08:34 AM (iODuv)
did not the other cocksucker from OK have a deal to let 2 million in annually and called it a secure the boarder deal.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 08:37 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Jonah at December 20, 2024 08:38 AM (YCxFk)
Free cookies and juice tho, to pump up my A1c.
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My mom told me, during the war they used to get a pint of stout after to replenish the blood!
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 08:38 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 08:32 AM (x0n13)
LEt me adjust this to say I'm not rooting for Iran Iraq 2 but that I don't really care if it continues to devolve that way. Senseless bloodshed is indeed horrendous for the truly innocent and decent on both sides. But my sentiments regarding those countries and their treatment of my antecedents stands.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 08:38 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 08:37 AM (gbOdA)
The LOVE act. To save our democracy.
Let
Others
Violently
Encapsulate
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)
It probably stemmed from the August investigation for the school vandalism. Once you turn over a rock, you find other things you weren't expecting. And Fairfax cops are well funded (and you don't want them continuing to show you up, like they did for the vandalism and then terrorism finding for that family from that)...
And yes, this adult has also been thrown off GMU's campus permanently. They don't wait...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 08:39 AM (exHjb)
I root for peace but as long as we're not funding it I don't much care.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:39 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 08:39 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 08:17 AM (zQ3t+)
Man, that's a pretty good argument for privatization.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:24 AM (ExV1e)
I get your point, and theoretically correct. But we’ve spent 80 years now building time bombs in the system and making a large part of the population totally dependent on Government support. Remember that Trump has said over and over again that he won’t touch SS, and anyone who tries is going to have to fight him directly.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 08:39 AM (zQ3t+)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 20, 2024 08:32 AM (Ay1cE)
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You're talking whole states.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2024 08:39 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Jonah at December 20, 2024 08:38 AM (YCxFk)
She didn't get chemo this week because her white count is too low. She has the sniffles and a cough. She has little energy.
I hate every minute of this.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 08:40 AM (gbOdA)
Dems on the other hand are the Borg. Lockstep
Posted by: Jonah at December 20, 2024 08:40 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:39 AM (ExV1e)
My wife, an unexpected grammar nazi, says that I should specify that I oppose us funding the conflict, not the peace.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:40 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 08:14 AM (zQ3t+)
So, the budget notwithstanding, now would be a good time to change that calculus. The Speaker doesn't even need to be a member. If I'm Trump, I come after the Party viciously and publicly before I even take office.
Make a statement along the lines of "listen up, homos. I know your cuck game. My base knows your cuck game. They didn't vote for you. They voted for me. Now it's game over for cucks.
I want Johnson gone, and I want him replaced by the Hulk Hogan before January 20th. Any of you cucks who I deem insufficiently enthusiastic about meeting this absurd demand will face the full force of my campaign apparatus, and the end of your precious grift.
Kneel, you servile swine. Do it now."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 08:40 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Jonah at December 20, 2024 08:41 AM (YCxFk)
AMF
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 08:40 AM (gbOdA)
IF a bear shits in the woods and no one is there, does it stink?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2024 08:42 AM (RIvkX)
"Dramatically increasing my risk of being assassinated and engaging in politics are not what I want to do.
I do not have a death wish but the stakes are so high that I really feel I have no choice but to do it."
一 Elon Musk
Posted by: Don Black. Message: not found at December 20, 2024 08:42 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 08:42 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: Siren Song at December 20, 2024 08:42 AM (G5+As)
Nobody can do better than him with these narrow numbers
Posted by: Jonah at December 20, 2024 08:43 AM (YCxFk)
The Chargers got a free kick field goal, the first time it happened in 48 years. Oddly the last time it happened was also a Charger
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 08:43 AM (DopAq)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 08:43 AM (zQ3t+)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 08:40 AM (BI5O2)
https://youtu.be/qdbfJeI1Y1I
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 08:39 AM (zQ3t+)
Marathon, not a sprint.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:43 AM (ExV1e)
Who will kill the spiders?
Posted by: Let's play Stump The Misandrist at December 20, 2024 08:44 AM (dg+HA)
A 20 YO today should have a way to opt out.
I was looking at an American Fund 2040 retirement fund.
Since 2009 it is up around 220%.
Another idea is to buy people off. I have paid in around $600k (I have been a contractor many yrs) and would gladly accept half that to be paid over 5 years.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 08:46 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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and it was the start of the Broncos' complete collapse in the 2nd half
Posted by: Don Black. Message: not found at December 20, 2024 08:46 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at December 20, 2024 08:37 AM (V6W16)
This whole exercise makes me worried about who Trump is listening to about the economy. Sick of inflation making my wages less than stagnant.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at December 20, 2024 08:47 AM (oq4R2)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 08:47 AM (HSqCq)
Here's the one on dinosaurs. Gets into things like actual size and design of the ark, genetics (see boron cobbies comment "kind" yesterday) and dinosaurs recorded by humans, in different ways going back to Job and forwarding to not that long ago.
https://tinyurl.com/hahh6mpm
Gonna take a bit to find one on distant starlight, but I'll get there.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 20, 2024 08:47 AM (ytKo6)
Posted by: Siren Song at December 20, 2024 08:42 AM (G5+As)
Grandma got run over by Santa on a fire truck is a Christmas favorite.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 08:47 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: not found at December 20, 2024 08:47 AM (/7KEl)
Separate the bills and vote on them individually.
one vote on the clean CR
one vote on the debt limit
one vote on disaster relief
one vote on farm bailouts
Radical right? Individual bills for each issue.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 20, 2024"
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at December 20, 2024 08:47 AM (V6W16)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:39 AM (ExV1e)
My wife, an unexpected grammar nazi, says that I should specify that I oppose us funding the conflict, not the peace.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:40 AM (ExV1e)
I didn't think it was ambiguous. If your intended meaning was anything *other* than peace then it needed to be specified. Otherwise I don't think so.
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 08:48 AM (j+LsA)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 08:48 AM (hovnC)
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My favorite on that one is to ask the speed of light.
Spoiler alert: No one knows
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 20, 2024 08:48 AM (hIXll)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Was at a bar, so that's the only reason I saw it. WTF was that? Because it was a defensive penalty after the clock expired, they got a basically free 3 points? Guess I've never seen that rule applied because it's stupid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)
@ImMeme0
Liberalism is a hellava mental disorder.
https://tinyurl.com/mvscrymy
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2024 08:49 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Blockhead Jones at December 20, 2024 08:49 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 08:49 AM (j+LsA)
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at December 20, 2024 08:37 AM (V6W16)
Seriously? Chip Roy is a fake. He's an attention seeking establishment turd
Posted by: spypeach at December 20, 2024 08:49 AM (UuB/1)
Was it faster than the guys who shot Trump in the head?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where
Did they EVER release the demographics of the victims like they've done immediately for every killing on the planet for our entire lives or nah bro
Posted by: ... at December 20,
Did they ever catch the Las Vegas shooter?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 20, 2024 08:50 AM (OA79/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 08:43 AM (zQ3t+)
Too many people think the primaries aren’t important. And that’s why Iowa is stuck with Grassley and Ernst.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at December 20, 2024 08:50 AM (oq4R2)
Posted by: Blockhead Jones at December 20, 2024 08:49 AM (G5+As)
I remember walking past Morley Safer at JFK airport and I swear his head was the size of a watermelon.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 08:50 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at December 20, 2024 08:37 AM (V6W16)
But it IS what Roy ran on. Should he abandon his pledge?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:50 AM (ExV1e)
https://tinyurl.com/e6upyx5j
Posted by: Don Black. Message: not found at December 20, 2024 08:47 AM (/7KEl)
Who is that? Don’t recognize. She doesn’t look like Mace
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 08:51 AM (HSqCq)
Liberalism is a hellava mental disorder.
https://tinyurl.com/mvscrymy
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2024 08:49 AM (NpAcC)
This page doesn't exist.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 08:52 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:50 AM (ExV1e)
My impulse is to say yes.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2024 08:52 AM (SfhV1)
Did they ever catch the Las Vegas shooter?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 20, 2024 08:50 AM (OA79/)
They killed him so they didn't have to interview him.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)
A certain member of Congress is described as the "purple-haired mummy."
Can you guess who it is?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2024 08:52 AM (OBYON)
"But that's racist! And it will cut into Our Sacred Vacation Time!™"
Posted by: NR Pax at December 20, 2024 08:52 AM (+4yJ5)
I understood what you were saying, but your wife's clarification is noted.
Frankly, I just tire of the muh ancestors stuff.
Every country and every culture has their perspective on who is to blame for what past wrong can justify their future wrong.
Russian pogroms justified Bolshevism, right?
This is the message of Christ, none are righteous, be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Posted by: Vlad at December 20, 2024 08:52 AM (Djkcg)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 08:52 AM (hovnC)
Complications 12 years later while not spending the entire 12 years in a coma seems a bit odd.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)
Game can't end on a defensive penalty so they got a free play? If they chose to use that to kick a field goal, so be it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:53 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
It will always be Idlewild to me.
Posted by: Blockhead Jones, Local 257 at December 20, 2024 08:54 AM (G5+As)
Who did not know by around May or June of 2020 that the spike was there to bind to HUMANS.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 08:54 AM (gbOdA)
Liberalism is a hellava mental disorder.
https://tinyurl.com/mvscrymy
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2024 08:49 AM (NpAcC)
This page doesn't exist.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)
When you see a tat like that, it reminds me of the farside cartoon, "How nature says do not touch". Don't know how to imbed links but it's pretty appropo of many things in society these days.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 20, 2024 08:54 AM (OA79/)
I contend that is why Joe and Mika went to kiss Trump's ring a while ago. To avoid being let go for their own libel.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 08:54 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 20, 2024 08:50 AM (OA79/)
They killed him so they didn't have to interview him.
Posted by: Sponge
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Ah yes, the one where audio of automatic gunfire continued for something like 7 minutes after the cops' bodycams recorded the breach of the (ahem) shooter's hotel room?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 20, 2024 08:55 AM (hIXll)
Game can't end on a defensive penalty so they got a free play? If they chose to use that to kick a field goal, so be it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:53 AM (ExV1e)
Well, that wasn't a field goal, it was an open warm up style 'meh, lets give it a shot' uncontested thing. I had no idea that was the rule. I know the period can't end on a defensive play, but wasn't aware that you could just choose to come out and have an uncontested free kick.
The NFL sucks.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)
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Biden's had two or three and he's been braindead for at least the past four years!
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 08:55 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:53 AM (ExV1e)
Penalty had nothing to do with it. On the fair catch, there’s a little used rule for a free kick. Doesn’t usually get used because when are you ever in range after a punt?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at December 20, 2024 08:55 AM (oq4R2)
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 08:49 AM (j+LsA)
She's called off the hit.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:56 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 20, 2024 08:54 AM (OA79/)
I can't see it as I get "This page doesn't exist."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: andycanuck
Who will replace him?
Posted by: Who's On Deck? at December 20, 2024 08:56 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Reforger at December 20, 2024 08:57 AM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Bela Lugosi at December 20, 2024 08:58 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: U Don't Know - 3rd base at December 20, 2024 08:58 AM (dg+HA)
It's starting to feel as it was in late 2023'ish when all the biggest covid tyrants/Karens were admitting that maybe they were just a tad passionate about it and, no harm no fowl, we need to forgive and move on.
No, we will NOT forgive and forget all of the people who enabled a brain-damaged man run our country for four years while simultaneously destroying the lives of anyone who questioned the 2020 election, including trying to bankrupt, jail, maybe even execute Trump.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 08:58 AM (u1uWe)
Can you guess who it is?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2024 08:52 AM (OBYON)
At a guess, Rosa DeLauro - of Connecticut.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 08:58 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 20, 2024 08:59 AM (2NHgQ)
And what would that involve?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 09:00 AM (MQJVv)
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at December 20, 2024 09:00 AM (EmT/E)
Assuming she shows up and doesn't send one of her flunkies out to do this briefing.
Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2024 09:00 AM (aBgBM)
Some think of the Roman Empire every day.
Others keep getting reminded of Roman Hruska.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 20, 2024 09:00 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at December 20, 2024 09:00 AM (EmT/E)
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No one else wants it.
The CR process allows for so much graft, so much more than regular order before TARP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:01 AM (GBKbO)
@EndWokeness
A NEW ERA IN CALIFORNIA:
Now that Prop. 36 passed, police have started to arrest and jail all shoplifters regardless of how much they stole
https://tinyurl.com/ytkt88zx
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2024 09:01 AM (NpAcC)
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 1h
Rep. McCormick (R), a NO vote on the spending bill: “Last time I checked, Elon Musk doesn’t have a vote in Congress. Now, he has influence and he’ll put pressure on us to do whatever he thinks is the right thing is for him.”
Catturd ™ @catturd2 1h
They always run to CNN to cry right after they stab you in the back.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 09:01 AM (hovnC)
And what would that involve?
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Honestly, Biden may be remembered as the guy that destroyed Obama. That would be a good thing. Dittos - real justice was served with Nanzi breaking her hip. Life is interesting.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 09:01 AM (jFCkp)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:02 AM (d9fT1)
ICE: 16 suspects in Aurora apartment invasion arrested for being in the country illegally
https://is.gd/KGAEk5
This bit is odd:
" ICE says 16 detained in Aurora are suspected Tren de Aragua associates"
Associates? Maybe the gang has changed its name to Wal Mart de Aragua.
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2024 09:02 AM (991eG)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 09:02 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at December 20, 2024 09:00 AM (EmT/E)
The reason they combine them is to get stuff that a lot of people DON'T want so they can get the stuff they do. If they split the bills, people can vote for the stuff they support and against the stuff that they don't.
That's fascist. /sarc
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 09:02 AM (ExV1e)
For us old guys who are still learning to code, please post the link to the Tip Jar. The lefthand section of the page with "Donate to Ace of Spades" does not take me to the tipping link.
God Bless you all today and fine thoughts as always, JJ. 👍
Posted by: Tracy at December 20, 2024 09:03 AM (7HoDq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 09:03 AM (DopAq)
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 1h
Rep. McCormick (R), a NO vote on the spending bill: “Last time I checked, Elon Musk doesn’t have a vote in Congress. Now, he has influence and he’ll put pressure on us to do whatever he thinks is the right thing is for him.”
Catturd ™ @catturd2 1h
They always run to CNN to cry right after they stab you in the back.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 09:01 AM (hovnC)
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This is a weird part of the right.
We were, yesterday, cheering on the idea of the federal government shutting down. Then, when Team Red gets a loss, we turn on the members of the caucus who vote against a bloated CR (yes, it's still bloated at incredible spending levels that even rids themselves of the debt limit for 2 years, it's just less bad than what was before, but still bad).
Why not bask in, "Chip Roy is leading to smaller government" or some variation thereof? Or, "I still want the federal government to shut down"?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:03 AM (GBKbO)
https://tinyurl.com/yck4k9fe
He mentions his website in this vid. Highly recommended.
Click on the hamburger then topics. Various fields of study and articles on them.
Now to go back up to my first comment to ya and start reading.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 20, 2024 09:03 AM (ytKo6)
They always run to CNN to cry right after they stab you in the back.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 09:01 AM (hovnC)
I'm surprised Crenshaw hasn't had him killed yet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)
Are we allowed to ask this -- what is the demographic makeup of ivy league campuses today? They've been quite busy purging traditional Americans (white men in particular) and bumping up diversity quotas with foreigner/foreign born students. Same goes with the ivy league professors, where some of the most America/Western civilization-hating are reaching these kids.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 09:04 AM (u1uWe)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:02 AM (d9fT1)
As I've said, GMU don't play.
If you want your kids at a safe school that 1000% protects the 1st amendment as well, GMU is it.
It's the number one reason I won't move til my kids are done. There's no other school in the nation at this price that would provide such value for non-liberal kids.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 09:04 AM (exHjb)
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2024 09:04 AM (991eG)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2024 08:52 AM (OBYON)
She represents New Haven, which means Yale, so her maniacal leftism is just perfect for those idiotic champagne socialists.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:05 AM (d9fT1)
Boy this man hater really had it in for girls didn't she.
Funny how we didn't get demographics for any victims for four days but got the "manifesto" within hours, as is custom.
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 09:06 AM (j+LsA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 09:03 AM (DopAq)
My issue is the fact that it was uncontested. I didn't know that was the rule. Yes, Harbaugh knew the rule and took advantage, but the fact that the holder was just able to hold it and there was no snap, no defense and no chance of failure other than the kicker just messing up, shocked me. I deemed it stupid in my feeble little brain.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)
I hate every minute of this.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)
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May the lord bless her with a rapid return to health and pickleball.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2024 09:06 AM (cNcGv)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:05 AM (d9fT1)
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How can we take someone seriously who won't focus on the real important fight: Ridding Yale of its slave past and changing its name to George Floyd University?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:06 AM (GBKbO)
Case closed!!
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 09:06 AM (j+LsA)
All these Congressmen on both sides of the aisle whining about a billionaire Musk interfering is rich.
How many of you have met with Alex Soros, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos. . . .? At least with Musk it's out in the open, on X, not behind closed doors.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 09:06 AM (u1uWe)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)
My Fantasy opponent got 5 points for it. In the semifinal no less. So I'm with you.
My best to your wife.
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 09:07 AM (j+LsA)
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Don't forget the Pritzkers.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 09:07 AM (jFCkp)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:03 AM (GBKbO)
Lots of people get emotional about things when they shouldn't. The 2nd proposed CR, the one which was actually voted on - apparently without them counting the votes - was a "win" over the first. Having it voted down took the cookie away from from people... particularly people who already don't like Roy/Massie.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 09:08 AM (ExV1e)
Haven't seen him in years, but I distinctly remember that episode.
(I actually taped the Oct 19, 1987 episode on a VHS tape at the time but that got lost/tossed years ago).
Just nostalgia.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at December 20, 2024 09:08 AM (xA5g+)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2024 09:06 AM (cNcGv)
Thank you. Maybe I should get her a paddle for Christmas as a hint.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)
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Ridding not Riding?
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 09:09 AM (jFCkp)
Here is a link to Ace's Tip Jar. It goes right to the PayPal page.
https://is.gd/KT77gi
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:09 AM (d9fT1)
Now to go back up to my first comment to ya and start reading.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 20, 2024 09:03 AM (ytKo6)
Thanks. Will check it out. I was a religious pariah when I opened my mouth… had to change churches… learned to keep my mouth shut about certain topics.. need to get my mind right, or keep quiet, I guess.
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:09 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:03 AM (GBKbO)
Lots of people get emotional about things when they shouldn't. The 2nd proposed CR, the one which was actually voted on - apparently without them counting the votes - was a "win" over the first. Having it voted down took the cookie away from from people... particularly people who already don't like Roy/Massie.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 09:08 AM (ExV1e)
It's only a win if the 3rd is better...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 09:09 AM (exHjb)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)
You have a foot fetish AND you are into BD?
Wow.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:10 AM (d9fT1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)
********
My computer froze and I had to reboot.
Try this-
https://tinyurl.com/mvscrymy
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2024 09:10 AM (NpAcC)
Apparently, much like The President, The SOH doesn't really run anything or have any control or input, so even if we get someone who is, say, 15-20pct less of a Sh*tWeasel, it's not going to matter, because the administrative state component of congress actually runs congress and not the elected SOH.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2024 09:10 AM (XV/Pl)
Wow.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:10 AM (d9fT1)
Progressive.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)
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All in favor of that idea. Chile has it and its done very well. Obviously there has to be some transition arrangements so current SS recipients know their plan will stay solvent, but does anyone, anywhere, really think the government should manage anything so vital as retirement monies? Yikes.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2024 09:10 AM (ZzMvU)
Try this-
https://tinyurl.com/mvscrymy
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2024 09:10 AM (NpAcC)
Still says page doesn't exist. Must be my script blocker.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)
Apparently, much like The President, The SOH doesn't really run anything or have any control or input, so even if we get someone who is, say, 15-20pct less of a Sh*tWeasel, it's not going to matter, because the administrative state component of congress actually runs congress and not the elected SOH.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2024 09:10 AM (XV/Pl)
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Speaker has become incredibly powerful over the last 20-30 years.
If a Speaker can't get his caucus on board with something, it's because he doesn't want to get his caucus on board.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:11 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 09:11 AM (DopAq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 09:11 AM (DopAq)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2024 09:12 AM (aBgBM)
I'm sick of this sh*t, it's the same f**king GOP goat rope, every f**king time.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2024 09:13 AM (XV/Pl)
put a generous amount of habanero sauce on
Posted by: Don Black. Message: not found at December 20, 2024 09:13 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)
*******
Leftist getting a Luigi Mangione tattoo with the song My Hero playing in the background.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2024 09:14 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
As long as those pennies a day go to primary challenges against Eye Patch McCaine, so that he lives in a pallet and blue tarp 3x7 hobo house under the bridge...I'm all in.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 20, 2024 09:14 AM (MsrgL)
I'm sick of this sh*t, it's the same f**king GOP goat rope, every f**king time.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2024 09:13 AM (XV/Pl)
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Which is why I don't get the anger at someone like Roy.
I get it from Trump. Trump's playing the game, trying to get things done from a very practical point of view.
Not from us, though. Fuck the feds. Fuck their graft. The newest deadline is no excuse to do another CR. 10 months ago we went through this with McCarthy, and in those 10 months Johnson did not return to regular order at all.
Johnson could have forced that. He did not. If Johnson can't get anything done in the last second, well he's got no one to blame but himself.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:14 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TeeJ at December 20, 2024 09:03 AM (ytKo6)
Thanks. Will check it out. I was a religious pariah when I opened my mouth… had to change churches… learned to keep my mouth shut about certain topics.. need to get my mind right, or keep quiet, I guess.
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:09 AM (PCK5/)
That’s a shame. Churches shouldn’t do that… my dad’s a preacher and he’d never do that… unless some person was advocating child sacrifice…. One nice thing about Protestant churches is supposed to be individual conscience regarding nonessentials….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 20, 2024 09:14 AM (nrfI8)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2024 09:14 AM (NpAcC)
Ah....Ok.
May he be shot for having the wrong thought at work, then.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)
>>If a Speaker can't get his caucus on board with something, it's because he doesn't want to get his caucus on board.
Maybe Pelosi, maybe Jeffries, but it seems like GOP SOH don't control sh*t.
They all talk a good game but at the end of the day it's the same sh*t for the last 20 plus f**king years.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2024 09:15 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: not found at December 20, 2024 09:15 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:15 AM (v6JzV)
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Wow! Talk about burying the lede.
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2024 09:16 AM (991eG)
And so many more we don't even know about, both foreign and domestic.
And then there's the fact that a lot of the people in Congress and/or their spouses are ridiculously wealthy.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 09:16 AM (u1uWe)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:15 AM (v6JzV)
Might as well have. I'm shocked he didn't issue a postmortem pardon to Bin Laden.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)
They all talk a good game but at the end of the day it's the same sh*t for the last 20 plus f**king years.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2024 09:15 AM (XV/Pl)
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The main power is control of the calendar.
10 months Johnson's had to get back to regular order. His first CR was combined with the promise to return to regular order, and here we are in December with another must pass CR.
If Johnson is not powerful, it's because he chooses to be not powerful. Force committee heads to do budget work to craft individual budget bills. Remove those who don't do the work and replace them with those who will.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:17 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2024 09:17 AM (ZzMvU)
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2024 09:16 AM (991eG)
LOL seriously
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 09:17 AM (j+LsA)
Can you guess who it is?
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Good precis here:
Kyle Becker @kylenabecker 11h
Here is the woman who refuses to pass a clean CR and is holding hurricane relief hostage.
Get a good look. This is the enemy.
https://tinyurl.com/yn87je9x
18 seconds; photo meme too.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 09:18 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2024 09:17 AM (ZzMvU)
Forever riding the "we must pass it to see what's in it" bandwagon.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)
My guess, admittedly based on absolutely nothing, is that they have skin in the game. There's some federal spending that keeps them in ValuRite and they're pissy about the risk to their stash.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 09:18 AM (ExV1e)
If a Speaker can't get his caucus on board with something, it's because he doesn't want to get his caucus on board.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:11 AM (GBKbO)
Speaker of the Uniparty has been powerful.
That has never been an R speaker for 30 years...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 09:18 AM (exHjb)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)
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A month is plenty of time for the Bin Laden family to cough up a bribe
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2024 09:19 AM (ZzMvU)
Get a good look. This is the enemy.
https://tinyurl.com/yn87je9x
18 seconds; photo meme too.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 09:18 AM (hovnC)
Another mummy being kept alive with tana leaves. Why are we so f*cking retarded that we keep putting these antique pieces of shit in power?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)
https://tinyurl.com/y2bn5zxt
Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2024 09:12 AM (aBgBM)
******
Haha
That's perfect!
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2024 09:20 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 09:20 AM (i0F8b)
Guitarist Slim Dunlap of The Replacements has died at 73 of complications from a 2012 stroke.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 08:52 AM
another grim milestone for the biden-harris administration
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 20, 2024 09:21 AM (tljrc)
Budgets must be out of committee by April 1st. If not, we go to 4 day work weeks. On May 1st we go to 5 day work weeks. On June 1st, 6 day weeks.
You want to go home, do your fucking job.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 09:21 AM (ExV1e)
How old is Rosa Delauro? She's looked like the crypt keeper for years.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 09:21 AM (u1uWe)
Get a good look. This is the enemy.
https://tinyurl.com/yn87je9x
18 seconds; photo meme too.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 09:18 AM (hovnC)
Another mummy being kept alive with tana leaves. Why are we so f*cking retarded that we keep putting these antique pieces of shit in power?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)
That’s… horrifying… Ebenezer Scrooge has a sister… who knew??
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:21 AM (PCK5/)
GOD is the most popular alternative theory in every field.
A whole industry has sprung up around its application.
Over the years it has not done much for GOD's reputation.
There is also SATAN. Safer to use, some say, and more fun.
Scientific validity, roughly equal.
It is absolutely necessary that Samantha The Shooter be trans.
I do not like transusses, you see, and whatever offends me must be the font of all evil in the world. "I told you so."
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 20, 2024 09:22 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: tubal
He did, actually, named Fan. She died in giving birth to Scrooge's nephew Fred.
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:22 AM (v6JzV)
It is for new football fields.
But none of it ever reaches the children.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 09:22 AM (gbOdA)
That’s… horrifying… Ebenezer Scrooge has a sister… who knew??
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:21 AM (PCK5/)
I was going to say "Musk can't be president because he wasn't born here" but, Owebama threw that rule out the window.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Siren Song at December 20, 2024 08:42 AM (G5+As)
When do the "Give Her Expensive Jewelry on Valentine's Day!!!" ads begin? During NFL games this Sunday? Christmas Eve?Yesterday?
Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2024 09:23 AM (aBgBM)
If you want your kids at a safe school that 1000% protects the 1st amendment as well, GMU is it.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 09:04 AM (exHjb)
https://diversity.gmu.edu/
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:23 AM (d9fT1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Since the NFL has turned the kickoff into a farce, let's add a little drama: if the kicker can get it between the goalposts, they get 1 point.
Posted by: buddhaha at December 20, 2024 09:23 AM (Ii0B5)
Try this-
https://tinyurl.com/mvscrymy
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2024
Still says page doesn't exist. Must be my script blocker.
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No, that means the original tweet was deleted by the original poster or censored by X.
I think Red might still see it because it's saved in her cache [or whatever].
But here's a version that should be visible to ALL, comrades!!!
https://tinyurl.com/yes6rs4t
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 09:24 AM (hovnC)
Why don't you take a look at who has shot Christian Kids the last eight times before making blanket pronouncements?
Or just attack like you always do. Your way is more fun if not somewhat limiting.
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 09:24 AM (j+LsA)
https://diversity.gmu.edu/
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:23 AM (d9fT1)
OOOOH!
Sick burn!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)
GOD is the most popular alternative theory in every field.
A whole industry has sprung up around its application.
Over the years it has not done much for GOD's reputation.
I will say that, in this case, he made actual scientific predictions based on the text of Genesis which, unlike the predictions of pretty much the entire cosmology field, have been correct.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 09:25 AM (ExV1e)
I doubt this time will be much different than the last 20 or 30 times.
Congress gave up legislating decades ago and now just runs the largest criminal syndicate on the planet.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 09:25 AM (Q4IgG)
If you want your kids at a safe school that 1000% protects the 1st amendment as well, GMU is it.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 09:04 AM (exHjb)
https://diversity.gmu.edu/
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:23 AM (d9fT1)
Yup, they let in everyone. The area is more diverse than the school. It's also one of the few schools with more men than women in the whole nation (that isn't a military school). You have to commit, work hard, or get out, b/c they let almost everyone in (thus having a naturally very diverse school b/c no one is rejected)...
They fail people. They expel people. They don't care. It's college from 20-40 years ago.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2024 09:25 AM (exHjb)
Only 13% managed to say the killer was purely “in the wrong.”
I'm not say that I approve of this but, I understand.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 09:25 AM (aD39U)
---At a guess, Rosa DeLauro - of Connecticut.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
That's the Goblin!
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2024 09:26 AM (nZUAs)
https://tinyurl.com/yes6rs4t
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 20, 2024 09:24 AM (hovnC)
that worked.
May he meet a bus induced coma or a fatal injury from lead pipe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)
I'm not worried about God's reputation. He can handle that Himself. I'm also not concerned about needing scientific proof for God's existence. And from what I've read the shooter wasn't trans-just some girl with a very messed up family background who REALLY didn't like men, (Her family background didn't help with that.)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 09:26 AM (MQJVv)
This morning, I feel great. Got up, took a shower, and got dressed much earlier than usual.
So, I'm incentivized to keep at it. An hour and day, then done. With a view to eventually total or mostly abstinence.
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:26 AM (v6JzV)
I doubt this time will be much different than the last 20 or 30 times.
Congress gave up legislating decades ago and now just runs the largest criminal syndicate on the planet.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 09:25 AM (Q4IgG)
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Which bill mandated alcohol detectors in ever car? Happened in the last couple of years.
Had to pass it or the grannies at the Pentagon would have to do a bake sale to maintain our jet fighters over Ukraine for freedom.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:26 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: buddhaha at December 20, 2024 09:23 AM (Ii0B5)
Players should be paid based on their fantasy football value and should be able to change teams between plays.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 09:26 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2024 09:27 AM (gbOdA)
Threadwinner
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 09:27 AM (u1uWe)
>>Remove those who don't do the work and replace them with those who will.
Yeah, this has got to stop, and I think with Musk becoming fully MAGA, it's going to stop or Deep State is going to take him out stop him from making these clowns look like sh*tweasels.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2024 09:28 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: buddhaha at December 20, 2024 09:23 AM (Ii0B5)
and kick again from five yards back.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2024 09:28 AM (aD39U)
---At a guess, Rosa DeLauro - of Connecticut.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
That's the Goblin!
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2024 09:26 AM (nZUAs)
A loose rule of thumb is that voters vote for people who look, act, and think like them… note to self, do NOT go to Connecticut…
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2024 09:28 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 09:26 AM (ExV1e)
So, NIL deals and the portal.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Rosa DeLauro at December 20, 2024 09:29 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:26 AM (v6JzV)
Quitting is for losers.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:29 AM (d9fT1)
Quitting is for losers.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2024 09:29 AM (d9fT1)
I guess he wouldn't have sat with me at the bar for 8 hours yesterday.........sad.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
Maybe I wouldn't have noticed if they had told us the gender of who she had shot within the first few days (or minutes like every other shooting in our lives).
But you know what, we should just blindly trust the authorities on this.
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 09:30 AM (j+LsA)
More like a Goldsteinmine of targets, amiright?
Posted by: Tasteless humor at December 20, 2024 09:30 AM (UKe2c)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at December 20, 2024 09:30 AM (luW68)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 20, 2024 09:30 AM (VAkB9)
Good for you! That's a positive attitude.
And as far as the job situation, had you thought of working with a temp agency, temporarily, I mean?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 09:30 AM (MQJVv)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:31 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at December 20, 2024 09:30 AM (luW6
He's not, so no.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 09:32 AM (ExV1e)
Several of you absolutely could not keep it in your pants when a fresh murder made the charts. You've got a score card to mark.
You have this so bad, you can't even see how sick you are.
I refer you to my translated Latin aphorism above, and bid you to mouth it until the Lord reaches through your dark mind and gooses you. Mad, bro. Climb out from under the rock.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 20, 2024 09:34 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Fen, several months ago, I was on track to work with a legal temp agency. Then they told me they had a hiring freeze. I'm still in contact with them, once in a while. No one seems to want me.
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:35 AM (v6JzV)
If this is about the helicopter full of SEALs that was shot down by terrorists, Marcus Luttrell names and describes each of the fallen in the beginning of his book "Lone Survivor." He served with them, knew some of them well, and we lost many incredible men that day.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 09:35 AM (u1uWe)
The "scientific evidence" you referred to earlier has, in many fields, been put forth by those who will only accept a naturalistic explanation for the existence of the universe and life on this planet. Those same people control the sciences in our education system and the major scientific publications. Discoveries that go against the narrative get "the pillow."
Another lesson, when God spoke through the prophets, including the 2nd greatest of all, Moses, take Him at His word.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 20, 2024 09:35 AM (ytKo6)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 20, 2024 09:35 AM (NQtI0)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie, amused that people think the point is the trannies and not the media at December 20, 2024 09:38 AM (hIXll)
Just wait -- the MSM is going to rediscover inflation and unemployment again!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2024 09:39 AM (u1uWe)
I lived in that region for the last 25 years and was shocked by the shift from mostly establishment GOP control toward looney Bolshevik control in Fairfax and Loudoun. Arlington has been a Bolshevik stronghold for decades but the disease crept westward and engulfed neighboring counties. Everything in this region is measurably worse over the last 25 years. We finally had to leave.
Posted by: WarEagle82 at December 20, 2024 09:42 AM (YcfMX)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 20, 2024 09:42 AM (ZmEVT)
Not based just on Genesis. The physics of Einstein allow for his distant starlight theory. People who don't know this just readily accept what the naturalists tell them.
See also hundreds of millions of years of evolution.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 20, 2024 09:45 AM (ytKo6)
Posted by: Bulg at December 20, 2024 09:35 AM (v6JzV)
I'm sorry; It's very hard for older workers right now. I have a woman in my congregation-in her sixties, (I know you're not that old) and like you-from what I can perceive-very intelligent and quite articulate and has done a lot of good work in her past, but she has been out of work for about a year. I am praying for you and hope you will continue to check in here. I am concerned about you because of our being affected by depression ((In the past I have been hit hard by that as well.) And yes, people want you. Your family does (even if it may be stressful right now, your friends do and the gray box people, do too. We just can't pay you for a job. God needs you too, so stay around.
I am praying for you. So are others.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2024 09:51 AM (MQJVv)
I call things like I see them. I have no card and will not shut my mouth, but appreciate your input just the same.
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 09:57 AM (j+LsA)
Willowed
230 If the Gov. shuts down do EBT cards get reloaded? If not I can see wholesale theft and riots by the usual minorities in the blue cities.
Question: are there any Red cities?
City = population 800,000 or more.
Posted by: Ciampino - Weirdly worded wink at December 20, 2024 10:02 AM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Bulg
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And New Years Eve almost here...
https://youtu.be/VmW-ScmGRMA
Posted by: buddhaha at December 20, 2024 10:09 AM (Ii0B5)
The plan by Chuck-the-Schmuck was to have a Christmas tree during the "lame duck" session.
Everybody knew it in September.
Ending the Biden Administration with a government shutdown does seem appropriate, however.
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 10:09 AM (RHGPo)
We were, yesterday, cheering on the idea of the federal government shutting down. Then, when Team Red gets a loss, we turn on the members of the caucus who vote against a bloated CR (yes, it's still bloated at incredible spending levels that even rids themselves of the debt limit for 2 years, it's just less bad than what was before, but still bad).
Why not bask in, "Chip Roy is leading to smaller government" or some variation thereof? Or, "I still want the federal government to shut down"?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 09:03 AM
I noticed that yesterday as well. Checked my X groups to see Jack Posobiec calling Nancy Mace a "fed" because she voted against the crap CR. And now his timeline for the past day has been full of him ripping into Nancy Mace and Mace ripping him. It's why I don't trust any of these "conservative" influencers anymore. Seems to be all about drama and clicks, instead of principles.
https://bit.ly/4iKLwR4
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 10:16 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 20, 2024 10:17 AM (gfztU)
If it is true that Jill Biden wants to burn it all down, a Biden "veto" may still be in the offing.
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2024 10:18 AM (RHGPo)
A whole industry has sprung up around its application.
Over the years it has not done much for GOD's reputation.
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The "God" that fills in the holes for physics doesn't really have a "reputation" to speak of. He's a functional being. A Creator.
It isn't necessary that It has a plan for the future, or at least an extra-functional one.
So it seems to me that your expression is an equivocation.
I'm not an advocate of "Creation Science" or even "Intelligent Design" and I'm skeptical on how much a material record can show.
However, using the Mathematic discipline of Computation, materialism is incoherent--or at least should be incoherent to Mankind taking itself as "thinking".
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 10:20 AM (krQz2)
"They" - the grifting bastards who are taking away our real civil rights (and lives, liberty and at least a stab at happiness) and replacing them with new, peculiar theories and promises as they build an army of robotic, unthinking & unfeeling idiots around themselves and all that is theirs - don't care. They intend to behave as if they'll remain in power, probably because they believe they are & may, now and forever.
>The Times of India, 'Hillary Clinton slams Elon Musk's role in govt shutdown drama: 'Republican party taking orders from the world's richest man'
In part, "Government shutdown looms as House Speaker Johnson unveils a revised continuing resolution, facing opposition from both Democrats and conservatives influenced by Elon Musk. The new proposal extends funding for three months and suspends the debt limit for two years, drawing criticism for increasing debt without spending cuts."
The f**king nerve.
And all over MSM: Trump lost with his debt limit ploy! Ho, ho, ho!!
Posted by: L - Rooster one day, Feather duster another at December 20, 2024 10:28 AM (NFX2v)
>Philadelphia residents react as City Council approves 76ers area plan, 12/19/24.
Serving billionaires; lousy for Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, the PA collar counties & especially the ethnic groups long living in the area.
>But on the other hand: Philadelphia Today, Published November 27, 2024 - "The Washington Post: African Immigrants Thrive in Southwest Philadelphia's Vibrant "Africatown" By Jensen Toussaint
>WHYY, Philly's Africatown gets $9 million state grant, Nov. 25, 2024
>Inquirer dot com: $22 million in public, private funds will build new Africa center in Southwest Philly, developer says
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Are locals overjoyed? No, they're not.
A huge area of the city, perfect area for a new 76ers Stadium - ground transport (SEPTA, AMTRAK), near the airport, immediately off of I95, the old refinery almost completely cleared & building commencing - but, no, the politicians shall create a huge center for 'new' immigrants.
For Philadelphia IS a 'Welcoming Center.'
Posted by: L - Rooster one day, Feather duster another at December 20, 2024 10:28 AM (NFX2v)
And, another thing to remember good taxpayers: PBGC Approves SFA Application for Teamsters Local 11 Plan
Teamsters Local 11 Plan Preserves Benefits Through Receipt of Special Financial Assistance, For Immediate Release, Date December 13, 2024
"Through December 13, 2024, 33 pension plans covering approximately 538,000 Teamsters across the country have received a total of $48.7 billion in special financial assistance. Thanks to the American Rescue Plan and the SFA Program, these Teamsters have been saved from cuts to their earned pension benefits." (Read in entirety.)
NOW: KTLA5 - Teamsters union launches historic nationwide strike against Amazon, 11 hours ago
Are Amazon drivers part of a/the union? (Only) "Amazon drivers at the company's DGT5 facility in Atlanta have formed a union with the Teamsters."
That's it.
Local demands? They'll take $40 a hour plus tons of benefits for starters.
Thank Joe's Teamsters. Next, the East Coast ports.
Clintons, O & Joe, others of their ilk aren't going away.
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Please do not forget the Hama hostages. 🙏
Good weekend, all! 🤗
Posted by: L - Rooster one day, Feather duster another at December 20, 2024 10:28 AM (NFX2v)
See also hundreds of millions of years of evolution.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 20, 2024 09:45 AM (ytKo6)
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Science is modern salvation, and even Christian-ish people can absorb it from their society.
Some Christian-ish people even project or blend the Authority of God into the Authority of Science and believe that Science and God and the two become this unassailable foundation of reality that "God gave us".
So, all my life it's been sort of embarrassing to bring up the dependencies and the gaps in Science as a natural understanding of "reality", because everybody has their own set of takes on what is "obvious". And you risk just being dismissed as a "Science-denier", or some sort of summary conclusion, just for pointing out the incompleteness of the system of Naturalism.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 10:29 AM (krQz2)
Well put. This is absolutely essential to victory.
Posted by: AWOL Civilization at December 20, 2024 10:31 AM (ZQ3a+)
The Office of the
PRESIDENT ~ EJECT
Of the United States
Joseph R. Biden
The Office of the
PRESIDENT ~ REJECT
Of the United States
Kamala D. Harris
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 20, 2024 11:21 AM (gfztU)
She was an MSNBC regular during the Obama years.
Posted by: Old Man Mike at December 20, 2024 11:55 AM (C9Oe7)
The only new things that were in the revised CR, were hurricane relief, farm relief, and a continuation of the suspension of the debt ceiling. While the last part is, on its face, egregious, it's necessary because the debt ceiling has been suspended for the last 2 years and it is about to snap back in place with not 1 bit of space for Trump to implement the agenda that he was elected to implement. That agenda will save money over time, but it's going to cost money at the start to implement things like mass deportations and tax cuts... which the federal government quite insanely considers us keeping more of our own money. to be "government spending".
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