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Saturday Night "Club ONT" April 19, 2025 [The 3 D's]
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Saturday Night Jokes I met a girl at a club the other night and she told me she'd show me a good time. When we got outside, she ran a 40 yard dash in 4.8 seconds.
"Hi, I'm here for Paradox Club."
Actually this is Oxymoron Club.
"Ok, same difference."
*looks at group*
Oh, this guy is good.
I’m going to spend my retirement years driving around in this looking for climate change protesters blocking the street pic.twitter.com/JQAayppiBa
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) April 10, 2025
The Vikings are not only known for their prowess in war but also their penchant for drinking - with a particular fondness for beer and mead. The latest archaeology discovery reinforces the latter notion as archaeologists have uncovered a massive Norse hall dating back to 1,100 years ago. Given the structure's design and location, researchers believe that the Medieval stone structure may have been a drinking hall meant for the leisurely gatherings of the Viking elite.
- 8oz Pink Lemonade - fresh squeezed with a bit of strawberry puree. Or one of those frozen cans in the freezer
- Garnish with lemon slice and strawberry slice
- Float a Peeps bunny marshmallow on top Or go wild and make it a frozen drink.
- Sugar the rim of the glass
Saturday evening and pub is calling 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/8mf309uNHR
— Stu thats all you get🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@Boldyboy1975) April 12, 2025
Amazing Grace from outside my cottage. Wishing you a peaceful Easter from the west of Ireland🕊️ pic.twitter.com/mkFsLk7guK
— Patrick Dexter (@patrickdextervc) April 18, 2025
Someone say "house"? Here are The Housemartins bringing us to Happy Hour!
Why men live longer than women…. 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/kIdch7SWPH
— Motorgarimadness! (@itssoulo) April 17, 2025
Club ONT brought to you by: Sometimes no story is better than 'that story.' There is a time to keep your pants on and go East or West. Or maybe not.
If Club ONT is a rockin, don't bother knockin'. Just come on in. If Club ONT is not rocking, please enter and commence rocking. Someone has to get the party started.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2025 09:58 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2025 10:02 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 19, 2025 10:02 PM (hybOl)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2025 10:02 PM (QnmlO)
Good to see you.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 19, 2025 10:02 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2025 10:03 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2025 10:03 PM (QnmlO)
149 Interview with the Easter bunny
https://youtu.be/gco4B4hoPh8
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 09:59 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 10:04 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2025 10:03 PM (JkO4W)
He'd have a lifetime platinum membership, but...
Posted by: Doof at April 19, 2025 10:04 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Jesus H. Christ at April 19, 2025 10:05 PM (JkO4W)
*door bangs open*
I'm back!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2025 09:58 PM (QnmlO)
That's quite a return entrance, H7. Welcome back!
Posted by: Doof at April 19, 2025 10:07 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Some Rat at April 19, 2025 10:08 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Archer at April 19, 2025 10:08 PM (IDphi)
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 10:08 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2025 10:03 PM (JkO4W)
It's sad that he got sober then died in a helicopter crash.
Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2025 10:09 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: scampydog at April 19, 2025 10:10 PM (CE7wm)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 10:11 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2025 10:11 PM (RIvkX)
The last report on Mrs. Salty was comfort measures only for now. The report did not say hospice.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2025 10:13 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
The last I saw was that all support had been withdrawn and she was being treated with Valium and morphine only. Very sad situation.
Posted by: Tuna at April 19, 2025 10:14 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Missed opportunity. I should have put an Elvis song / mystery click behind it.
Posted by: scampydog at April 19, 2025 10:14 PM (CE7wm)
He is risen!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 10:15 PM (7gFa4)
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 10:15 PM (QzINz)
What a crummy week. First I had to do taxes. At least it was a smaller payment than usual. Thank heavens for my LLC. Then I had a huge job to do on a test search for a potential customer.
Plus, Her Majesty had to be gotten on the road to Kingsport, TN for our National Specialty. About 10 times worse than getting her ready for a regular show. It took her three tries to leave, a day late. The carburetor on the generator had to be replaced.
And then the awful news about Jewells and Salty's wife. Just horrible.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2025 10:17 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Tuna at April 19
Oh no, the last I read was the procedure was looking hopeful! This is heartbreaking.
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 10:17 PM (QzINz)
The dudes getting towed on the tire behind a vehicle reminded me strongly of doing much the same with our son riding on an inflated tube behind our boat about eleven years ago.
Dude was ZOOMIN'! Then he flipped when crossing the boat's wake and went in with all four limbs splayed out. Those memories will have to suffice as he now is father to gSon and gDaughter.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 19, 2025 10:17 PM (UHI6z)
Posted by: Piper
Mommy? Where's fluffy? And why is my Easter basket shredded?
Posted by: Pipers kiddo at April 19, 2025 10:18 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 19, 2025 10:18 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 10:15 PM (QzINz)
Perfect opportunity to see if dead cats really do bounce.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 19, 2025 10:19 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 10:20 PM (VofaG)
And then the cats opened the closet door, pulled all the tissue paper out, ripped it up and left it all over the floor.
Posted by: Piper
I am sure that your dining guests will thoroughly enjoy those cats, no matter where they appear on tomorrow's menu.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 19, 2025 10:20 PM (UHI6z)
Posted by: Piper
And people wonder why there are wine moms.
Posted by: Some Rat at April 19, 2025 10:22 PM (TfUTr)
A Happy Easter indeed.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 19, 2025 10:23 PM (vKNmo)
How are all the doggies?
Posted by: Tuna at April 19, 2025 10:23 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: PaleRider at April 19, 2025 10:24 PM (CKOCg)
Look at this place. Did you do anything while I was away?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
* kicks at dust half-heartedly, eyes looking down *
Ummm ... no?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 19, 2025 10:25 PM (UHI6z)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at April 19, 2025 10:25 PM (hftn9)
Posted by: scampydog at April 19, 2025 10:25 PM (CE7wm)
Posted by: mindful webworker - top tenishly quotable at April 19, 2025 10:26 PM (JodDy)
We really are in a Kritarchy, rule by Judges.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 19, 2025 10:27 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 10:28 PM (WL2lA)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2025 10:28 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: PaleRider at April 19, 2025 10:24 PM (CKOCg)
They are so….helpful.
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 10:28 PM (pZEOD)
But the kids still seemed to enjoy it.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at April 19, 2025 10:29 PM (Lo97M)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 19, 2025 10:29 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19
I keep telling you, left to my own devices, I would be a crazy cat lady in about 10 minutes.
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 10:29 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
*hides beer behind back*
Oh, Hi! Place was crazy while you were out.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 19, 2025 10:29 PM (0aYVJ)
We really are in a Kritarchy, rule by Judges.
Posted by: Romeo13
Trump should remove all security for federal judges.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 19, 2025 10:30 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 19, 2025 10:30 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:30 PM (g47mK)
Men live MORE, not longer... big difference.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 19, 2025 10:30 PM (QAkQ3)
I half-expected that their very unhappy wives were driving.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 10:31 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 10:31 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 19, 2025 10:32 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:32 PM (g47mK)
We really are in a Kritarchy, rule by Judges.
Posted by: Romeo13
Trump should remove all security for federal judges.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 19, 2025 10:30 PM (/U5Yz)
I find it amazing that during Covid, the Supreme Court said they would not intervene on BLATANT Constitutional Rights issues, during a Crises.
OOpppsssiieee... Trump declared a National Crises on Illegal Immigration months ago... yet the Courts intervene even unto breaking the law themselves.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 19, 2025 10:32 PM (QAkQ3)
It's a set up. The Dems will have nowhere to complain when Trump drops the hammer on Iran.
https://tinyurl.com/3phnxdx4
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 10:32 PM (KFYyV)
How are all the doggies?
Posted by: Tuna at April 19, 2025 10:23 PM (lJ0H4)
_________
Doing well. HM is taking Diana and George with her. Diana will be shown in Breed next Saturday and George is going to a new home. Diana's sister Rosalind will be visiting us so we can show her to her championship.
On consecutive days, Miss Ruth finished her Grand Championship and little Miss Puff finished her championship. She had already won Winners Bitch and, because nothing was at stake, I had ber in Breed. All the specials were examined and we're lined up while the judge stared at us. She then turned to me and said, "You're Best of Breed and Best of Winners." I was so shocked I stupidly asked her to repeat it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2025 10:32 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: scampydog at April 19, 2025 10:33 PM (CE7wm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 10:31 PM (KFYyV)
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I sense bitter sarcasm.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2025 10:33 PM (JkO4W)
We really are in a Kritarchy, rule by Judges.
Posted by: Romeo13
A Kakistocracy of Kritarchy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 19, 2025 10:32 PM (63Dwl)
Catastrophic Kakistocracy of Kritarchy...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 19, 2025 10:34 PM (QAkQ3)
I'm back!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Cool intro, plus yay, but, isn't it Lent until Easter?
Posted by: mindful webworker - armchair theologian at April 19, 2025 10:34 PM (JodDy)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 19, 2025 10:34 PM (QlkYi)
Do we have striping and flogging on the books?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 10:35 PM (KFYyV)
The cattle in the field on the left between 0:25 and 0:30 for the tire towing video are like, "WUT?".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 19, 2025 10:35 PM (UHI6z)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
That's wonderful. Sounds like you've been very busy.
Posted by: Tuna at April 19, 2025 10:36 PM (lJ0H4)
Do we have striping and flogging on the books?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 10:35 PM (KFYyV)
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How many divisions does the Second Circuit Court of Appeals have?
Posted by: Zombie J. Stalin at April 19, 2025 10:36 PM (JkO4W)
Cool intro, plus yay, but, isn't it Lent until Easter?
Posted by: mindful webworker - armchair theologian at April 19, 2025 10:34 PM (JodDy)
__________
I checked the premium list. Lent is over at the Vigil.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2025 10:36 PM (QnmlO)
Lent ended on Holy Thursday, the day on which the Last Supper occurred.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 19, 2025 10:37 PM (UHI6z)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 10:39 PM (KFYyV)
Lent ended on Holy Thursday, the day on which the Last Supper occurred.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 19, 2025 10:37 PM (UHI6z)
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Now do Easter Sunday
Posted by: The Irish at April 19, 2025 10:39 PM (JkO4W)
https://tinyurl.com/5dphjfkf
Posted by: 13times at April 19, 2025 10:40 PM (b9uy3)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at April 19, 2025 10:25 PM (hftn9)
With real eggs?
You must live in the rich part of town.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 19, 2025 10:41 PM (y5Bkh)
Little Puff (now Ch. Soyara's Magic Dragon) is a rather remarkable girl. She has a short tail and a couple of missing teeth but she finished with 5 (!) major wins, two Best of Breed wins and a Hound Group 2. Despite her faults, she's elegant and moves like a dream.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2025 10:43 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 10:44 PM (0JWOm)
Posted by: Moki at April 19, 2025 10:44 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Proud papa.
Posted by: Tuna at April 19, 2025 10:44 PM (lJ0H4)
Certainly not Earth.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 19, 2025 10:46 PM (y5Bkh)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2025 10:46 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2025 10:48 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
Ah. News to me. Never was a Lent-er.
I remember Mom used to give up cigs for Lent every year. Then went right back to it. Thought that odd. So glad when she finally quit for good. After about sixty years. Lived decades after.
Posted by: mindful webworker - gave up Lent for Lent? at April 19, 2025 10:48 PM (JodDy)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 10:49 PM (juvBG)
Don't ruin classic trucks.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at April 19, 2025 10:51 PM (QdGJh)
Johnson wrote three episodes of Breaking Bad, by the way.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 10:51 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Doof at April 19, 2025 10:52 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: mindful webworker - gave up Lent for Lent? at April 19, 2025 10:48 PM (JodDy)
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This kind of anecdatal evidence confirms that all who wish for a long fulfilling life should spend their first sixty years as a heavy smoker.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2025 10:52 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I suggested we replace the carpet and was told not only no, but heck no and ashes were even added.
I tried!
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 10:55 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 19, 2025 10:55 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 10:56 PM (pZEOD)
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You could have stopped right there.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2025 10:56 PM (JkO4W)
The next pass, I saw ... the mom was taking her turn in the sled.
Ha!
Posted by: Emmie at April 19, 2025 10:56 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I suggested we replace the carpet and was told not only no, but heck no and ashes were even added.
I tried!
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 10:55 PM (pZEOD)
There were a few rumors of a new level to The Barrel, but no one's returned to confirm it.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 10:57 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 10:58 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Chef Miklos at April 19, 2025 10:59 PM (UOzvC)
I read about some of these judges that rule such insane things and wonder which planet they are from.
_________
I see we've reached the bizarre world where arbitrary dicta from federal agencies are to be considered iron law but the President in whose branch these agencies exist isn't allowed any discretion whatsoever.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2025 10:59 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I suggested we replace the carpet and was told not only no, but heck no and ashes were even added.
I tried!
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 10:55 PM (pZEOD)
The Club was shut down for a night about 6 weeks ago. We fumigated the place. That's all you filthy animals get
Posted by: Doof at April 19, 2025 11:01 PM (RFPHU)
I'm back!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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[hmm. recollects Robert Service]
"When out of the night, which was fifty below, and into the din and the glare,
There stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks, dog-dirty, and loaded for bear.
He looked like a man with a foot in the grave and scarcely the strength of a louse,
Yet he tilted a poke of dust on the bar, and he called for drinks for the house."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2025 11:01 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 19, 2025 11:04 PM (lhenN)
I closed my Facebook account because all I read were ads, Chinese propaganda, political hysteria and AI garbage.
Looked at my LinkedIn feed: ads, Chinese propaganda, political hysteria and garbage about AI.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2025 11:05 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 11:05 PM (juvBG)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 11:06 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 11:07 PM (juvBG)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I suggested we replace the carpet and was told not only no, but heck no and ashes were even added.
I tried!
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 10:55 PM (pZEOD)
The Club was shut down for a night about 6 weeks ago. We fumigated the place. That's all you filthy animals get
Posted by: Doof
Piper has classed up the Sunday ONT with her weekly fashion report.
Posted by: Tuna at April 19, 2025 11:07 PM (lJ0H4)
Men live MORE, not longer... big difference.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 19, 2025 10:30 PM (QAkQ3)
#Truth
And the Jesus jokes didn't seem very funny IMO
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 19, 2025 11:08 PM (xcxpd)
Hello, Jim SND! 😘😘😘
We are back in sunny, muggy, Texas - will be driving home to Fort Worth tomorrow.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 19, 2025 11:10 PM (fjbk7)
A very late comment on the autism thread earlier this week. My mother had the last of her six children a week short of her 30th birthday. Now women don't start having children until they're 30.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2025 11:11 PM (QnmlO)
"Imagine if you will, the Tyrell Corporation had made a Jesus Replicant."
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 11:11 PM (juvBG)
"If the house is a-rocking don't bah.."
Posted by: toby928 at April 19, 2025 11:13 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
I don't think that's possible. It would be a singularity of gay. A singaylarity, from which no heterosexuality could ever escape.
Posted by: mikeski at April 19, 2025 11:14 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 11:14 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 11:14 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Tuna at April 19, 2025 11:07 PM (lJ0H4)
So you're saying Piper called me when I had no class?
(someone please catch my borrowed reference)
Posted by: Doof at April 19, 2025 11:17 PM (RFPHU)
"When out of the night, which was fifty below, and into the din and the glare,
There stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks, dog-dirty, and loaded for bear.
He looked like a man with a foot in the grave and scarcely the strength of a louse,
Yet he tilted a poke of dust on the bar, and he called for drinks for the house."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2025 11:01 PM (XeU6L)
If you like Service poetry, you might want to check out the 1971 Album by Country Joe McDonald entitled "War, War War".
Joe set the words of Robert Service to music in a very nice way. Besides his time in the Yukon, Service was a stretcher bearer and ambulance driver in WW1. Service had a wide swath of experiences.
Posted by: The Man From Athabaska at April 19, 2025 11:18 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Miklos salutes Cap'm Jim at April 19, 2025 11:18 PM (UOzvC)
I'm back!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2025 09:58 PM (QnmlO)
Damnit!
Wipe your feet.
Mrs D just did the floors!
Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2025 11:18 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at April 19, 2025 11:20 PM (9iPYH)
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this!
So typical
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at April 19, 2025 11:21 PM (elaR+)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2025 11:21 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Tried to chase that down and missed. Where are we?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 11:21 PM (KFYyV)
"Police departments are contracting with a company called Massive Blue to use AI-generated online personas to interact with and gather intelligence on suspected criminals and protesters...Internal presentations from Massive Blue show examples of the AI personas they offer, which include a “radicalized AI protest persona” posing as a 36-year-old divorced woman interested in activism, a 25-year-old “honeypot” persona of Yemeni descent, a 14-year-old boy “child trafficking” persona, an “AI pimp persona”, and “college protestor” and “recruiter for protests” personas."
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 11:21 PM (g47mK)
I tried!
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 10:55 PM (pZEOD)
The Club was shut down for a night about 6 weeks ago. We fumigated the place. That's all you filthy animals get
Posted by: Doof
You People need a better Club
Posted by: Chez Miklos, just off Highway 17 at April 19, 2025 11:21 PM (UOzvC)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 11:22 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Miklos salutes Cap'm Jim
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Just so it's not Chikan.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 11:23 PM (KFYyV)
(someone please catch my borrowed reference)
Can I have another clue?
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 11:23 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 11:24 PM (juvBG)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 11:25 PM (juvBG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 11:25 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 19, 2025 11:25 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 11:25 PM (g47mK)
(someone please catch my borrowed reference)
Can I have another clue?
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 11:23 PM (pZEOD)
Door is still in college???
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 11:26 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Doof at April 19, 2025 11:26 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 11:26 PM (VNX3d)
Idiot autocorrect.
Doof is still in college???
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 11:27 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 19, 2025 11:25 PM (63Dwl).
Will be?
Posted by: PaleRider at April 19, 2025 11:28 PM (CKOCg)
What do you mean 'will be' you hairless ape? Nyah.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 11:29 PM (juvBG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 11:30 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 11:32 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
(Hands Hadrian 7 a large dust bunny)
Happy Easter!!
(Bunny hops out)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 19, 2025 11:34 PM (bA75n)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2025 11:11 PM (QnmlO)
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Is it kosher for you to comment on threads posted during Lent?
*Seinfeld guffaw* I don't think so.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2025 11:35 PM (RIvkX)
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A lot of back and forth but it's Ukraine's move.
Between a deal w/Russia, Italy and the US puts Van DerLootin in a weggie.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 11:36 PM (KFYyV)
(someone please catch my borrowed reference)
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Well, that was just a lie.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 11:37 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 11:32 PM (g47mK)
"I just found a tortoise laying upside down on top of a fence post. What should I do?"
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 19, 2025 11:37 PM (zBOWZ)
Main character was chained to a cross, and unlike that soy-mincing Conan, he realized if he flexed hard enough, the chains would break.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 19, 2025 11:37 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 11:38 PM (juvBG)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 19, 2025 11:38 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 11:23 PM (pZEOD)
If we gave you another clue, we would get no respect.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 19, 2025 11:39 PM (zBOWZ)
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 11:23 PM (pZEOD)
80s movie
Posted by: Doof at April 19, 2025
Shocked you didn’t tell me to sit down, I won’t know it, it’s a movie reference! 😂
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 11:40 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 11:23 PM (pZEOD)
If we gave you another clue, we would get no respect.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 19, 2025 11:39 PM (zBOWZ)
The triple Lindy?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 11:40 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Piper
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Welllll? Is she riiiiight?
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 11:42 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 11:43 PM (KFYyV)
You really need to broaden the horizons, watch some City Hunter.
Opening One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tasSnsct4HU
Ending "Get Wild"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hd65CD1jr0
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 11:43 PM (juvBG)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 19, 2025 11:37 PM (zBOWZ)
Nothing, it is managing the Vice Presidency perfectly fine for Biden
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 11:43 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: 13times at April 19, 2025 11:48 PM (b9uy3)
1. Putin has proposed a 36 hour ceasefire for Easter Sunday, contingent upon the Ukrainians respecting it.
2. The ill-fated venture in the Kursk salient is almost over, with just one village left for the Russians to retake.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 19, 2025 11:49 PM (zBOWZ)
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2025 11:50 PM (pZEOD)
1. Putin has proposed a 36 hour ceasefire for Easter Sunday, contingent upon the Ukrainians respecting it.
2. The ill-fated venture in the Kursk salient is almost over, with just one village left for the Russians to retake.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Zelinski's last chance.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 11:50 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 19, 2025 11:54 PM (dg+HA)
1. Putin has proposed a 36 hour ceasefire for Easter Sunday, contingent upon the Ukrainians respecting it.
2. The ill-fated venture in the Kursk salient is almost over, with just one village left for the Russians to retake.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Zelinski's last chance.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 11:50 PM (KFYyV)
It's time for him to get his dick off the piano.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 11:55 PM (VNX3d)
Abrams made so many “mistakes" on her annual state financial disclosures she had to file no fewer than 18 amendments after watchdogs and local media caught major errors and omissions.
After running for statewide office and helping Biden win Georgia in 2020, Abrams almost overnight has become a multimillionaire with a 4,100-square-foot home near Emory University valued at more than $1.4 million and more than $727,000 in stocks and bonds.
_Paul Sperry via RealClearInvestigations
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 11:55 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 11:57 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2025 11:58 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2025 12:05 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2025 12:09 AM (RIvkX)
Suggest many more investigations. I mean the DOJ is just sitting there. Let them start earning their paychecks.
Posted by: Case at April 20, 2025 12:09 AM (OrSPY)
InnerTube doesn’t want to give up the answer to which states but these are the states that are close to making it ‘over the counter’.
Minnesota, Missouri, West Virginia, Texas, Kentucky, S. Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Alabama
_www.paulcraigroberts.org/
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 20, 2025 12:09 AM (KFYyV)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 11:50 PM (KFYyV)
The Chigago Bulls last dance.
Posted by: You gotta have heart at April 20, 2025 12:14 AM (1MVbl)
--
They're going to charge Chyna, port and passage fees.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 20, 2025 12:17 AM (KFYyV)
Posted by: muldoon at April 20, 2025 12:21 AM (/iMjX)
Suggest many more investigations. I mean the DOJ is just sitting there. Let them start earning their paychecks.
Posted by: Case at April 20, 2025 12:09 AM (OrSPY)
Pretty much every Democrat black politician of note is vulnreble to corruption charges if subjected to a long look.
Posted by: You gotta have heart at April 20, 2025 12:22 AM (1MVbl)
Men live MORE, not longer... big difference.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 19, 2025 10:30 PM (QAkQ3)
I remember doing that on Long Beach, Vancouver Island, back when you could drive on the beach. Dune buggy, length of found rope, hunk of found plywood. Rope stretched waaaay out on dry sand, hit the water's edge, and ga-doing! plywood shoots away from underfoot. Good times. Fuckers turned it into a park, ruined it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2025 12:27 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 20, 2025 12:38 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2025 12:27 AM (8zz6B)
The left does this with all the things.
Posted by: You gotta have heart at April 20, 2025 12:41 AM (1MVbl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2025 12:45 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 20, 2025 12:45 AM (0nHVk)
Japanese 80s "city pop" was amazing.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 20, 2025 12:47 AM (lhenN)
Fortunately, there's not a lot of comments to catch up on here. Assuming here is the ONT again!
It's raining buckets again. As it did yesternight. Tomorrow, the kids will be over here, bringing their four dogs to join our Daisy for Easter supper. I foresee some muddy prints by the end of the day. The dogs are all pretty active. Should be a riot.
The house smells like gyros, which MiladyJo has been cooking up today. Son-in-law will be bringing his pita breads and daughter will be making tzatziki.
We forgot to get white eggs to hard-boil and dye. Maybe I'll take a marker and draw some smilies on brown eggs, just because.
Posted by: mindful webworker - where am I now? at April 20, 2025 12:47 AM (JodDy)
Posted by: Genial late Nite bartender Miklos at April 20, 2025 12:51 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 20, 2025 12:51 AM (KFYyV)
Posted by: You gotta have heart at April 20, 2025 12:52 AM (1MVbl)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 20, 2025 12:52 AM (KFYyV)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 20, 2025 12:54 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 20, 2025 12:51 AM (KFYyV)
Never could figure out the legal justification for them being there in the first place. We invaded a UN Member State... without a Security Council Resolution... or any real cover from Congress.
Even saying ISIS was an Al Q ally? does not equal regime change for Assad, which was the STATED US GOAL.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 20, 2025 12:59 AM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 20, 2025 12:54 AM (63Dwl)
I cannot top that one!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2025 12:59 AM (8zz6B)
✝️ Jerusalem Report — covering events one week in Jerusalem.
https://bit.ly/jeru-report
A
Temple Network News Reporter: Late last night, the "miracle worker" was easily apprehended at his cult's hide-out…
Posted by: mindful webworker - I especially like the Sunday report at April 20, 2025 01:04 AM (JodDy)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
At your pleasure, mademoiselle
*offers beverage of Choice*
Posted by: Miklos with Fritz Feld *POP* at April 20, 2025 01:09 AM (UOzvC)
I sleep well with the roar of rain on the metal roof. Even the thunder is comforting when it's not too loud.
https://youtu.be/hXn9ZKPx6CY
G'nite, y'all. He Is Risen.
Posted by: mindful webworker - what green fairies? at April 20, 2025 01:09 AM (JodDy)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Just finished hiding the eggs and basket here.
Posted by: scampydog at April 20, 2025 01:10 AM (CE7wm)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 20, 2025 12:54 AM (63Dwl)
I cannot top that one!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I identify as a Weeble
Posted by: Miklos wobbles but he don't fall down at April 20, 2025 01:11 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Forgiven Miklos at April 20, 2025 01:13 AM (UOzvC)
mindful webworker - what green fairies?
I love that sound... so much that when I built this house, I had to have a metal roof over the porch. By the time I was done with the porch ceiling, you can't hear the rain on the metal roof!
Rats!
Posted by: MkY at April 20, 2025 01:13 AM (cPGH3)
Posted by: scampydog
No adult games of Hide the Kielbasa?
Posted by: Miklos vaguely recalls at April 20, 2025 01:16 AM (UOzvC)
When I lived in Hawaii, had elephant-ear plants all around the house.. got LOUD when it rained, like dozens of drums.
Metal roof has a more subdued, relaxing sound IMO.
Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2025 01:17 AM (rdVOm)
mindful webworker - what green fairies?
I love that sound... so much that when I built this house, I had to have a metal roof over the porch. By the time I was done with the porch ceiling, you can't hear the rain on the metal roof!
Rats!
Posted by: MkY
Tin Roof...rusted
Posted by: Miklos would like a personal B-52 at April 20, 2025 01:17 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: scampydog
No adult games of Hide the Kielbasa?
Posted by: Miklos vaguely recalls
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Checks map... looks more like hide the chorizo.
Posted by: scampydog at April 20, 2025 01:18 AM (CE7wm)
Even saying ISIS was an Al Q ally? does not equal regime change for Assad, which was the STATED US GOAL.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 20, 2025 12:59 AM (QAkQ3)
As I understand it, by some amazing coincidence the US troops just happened to be "fighting ISIS" in the area that has Syria's oil wells, which cut off funding for the Assad government. It's amazing how the rules go out the window when oil is involved.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 20, 2025 01:19 AM (zBOWZ)
Posted by: scampydog
Some Like it Hot
I think there was even a movie
Posted by: Miklos with breeze up his kilt at April 20, 2025 01:20 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 20, 2025 01:22 AM (0nHVk)
Tin Roof...rusted
Posted by: Miklos would
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Old tin roofs had lead in them. Didn't rust much.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 20, 2025 01:24 AM (KFYyV)
Posted by: scampydog
Some Like it Hot
I think there was even a movie
Posted by: Miklos with breeze up his kilt at April 20, 2025 01:20 AM (UOzvC)
Ah, yes... back when Men dressing as Women was a Joke... not supposed to be taken seriously.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 20, 2025 01:24 AM (QAkQ3)
Such a hard movie to watch.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 20, 2025 01:24 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 20, 2025 01:26 AM (KFYyV)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2025 01:27 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 20, 2025 01:24 AM (KFYyV)
Well, they used galvanized iron, made by dipping the steel sheet into molten zinc. Would not surprise me if the zinc contained a little lead, since lead and zinc commonly occur together at the mine.
For that matter, sheet lead used to be used as roofing material. Very durable, but expensive. Commonly found on cathedrals.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2025 01:33 AM (8zz6B)
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Pray for us sinners now,
And at the hour of our death
Amen.
I cry just imagining her pain at seeing her Son tortured and murdered.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 20, 2025 01:34 AM (FVv6s)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
For the Regal lady
Double Chivas on the rocks
Posted by: Miklos had Whisky Sours today-first time in a long time at April 20, 2025 01:36 AM (UOzvC)
If Stacey Abrams firebombs a Tesla, maybe Pam the Blondi will charge her, as soon as she finishes her Fox News appearance for the day.
Posted by: TC at April 20, 2025 01:36 AM (szqEY)
Thanks for the drink, Miklos.
Good night Horde, don't let the bedbugs bite.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 20, 2025 01:37 AM (0nHVk)
{- They should have shot him in the head.}
A woman identified as his biological mother was accused of removing then-10-year-old Phoenix from the United States in violation of a custody arrangement, taking him to Norway. Court documents say that Phoenix -- originally named Christian Eriksen -- is a dual US-Norwegian citizen, like his biological mother.
Phoenix was the subject of 16 years of custody battles sprinkled with libel and slander accusations, which only ended in 2023. Phoenix's father, Christopher Ikner, married Jessica Ikner in 2010.
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Not a phrenologist but that smile doesn't look like one.
Looks like he had normal, settled childhood too. No other pertinent info on him or the situation.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 20, 2025 01:39 AM (KFYyV)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 20, 2025 01:39 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Sumbitch ahead of me.
I bought rum, cola, and lime, but have not yet partaken.
Drat AOP, drat and drat again!
Posted by: Miklos "Cuba" Libre at April 20, 2025 01:39 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 20, 2025 01:42 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2025 01:44 AM (Zz0t1)
I met a girl at a club the other night and she told me she'd show me a good time. When we got outside, she ran a 40 yard dash in 4.8 seconds.
I don't get it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2025 01:44 AM (Zz0t1)
Rum and Coca-Cola, oo mana
Both mother and daughter
Working for the AOP dollah
Posted by: Miklos, neglected Andrews Sister at April 20, 2025 01:45 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 20, 2025 01:39 AM (/lPRQ)
Commonly used for automobile fuel tanks, until superseded by plastic in the 1990's and later. And as chassis for millions of tube-type radio and TV sets, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2025 01:45 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2025 01:46 AM (Zz0t1)
1. 📈 After Fife’s election in 2020, her nonprofit’s revenue skyrocketed—raising over $9.2 million, with 96% of that coming after she took office. Before her election, the nonprofit only brought in about $100K annually. (Supporting 990s in thread 📑
2. Affect Real Change has failed to report nearly $4.2 million in expenses on its 990 forms since 2020, and there are no tax filings for 2020 at all. 🚩 This raises serious questions about financial misconduct.
Posted by: 13times at April 20, 2025 01:47 AM (2WOTG)
You and the First! Lady are so very dear to me. I pray you are both well and happy and First! Daughter is home for Easter.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 20, 2025 01:49 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 20, 2025 01:50 AM (KFYyV)
There are a few things everyone should know........
Black politicians are usually corrupt.
Black female politicians are usually corrupt.
This amplifies when they're federal.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2025 01:50 AM (Zz0t1)
You and the First! Lady are so very dear to me. I pray you are both well and happy and First! Daughter is home for Easter.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 20, 2025 01:49 AM (mT+6a)
We feel the same about you.
First Daughter is having a rough go at the moment, but will not be home for Easter (long story).
She will be here next weekend for a close family friend's wedding shower, tho.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2025 01:53 AM (Zz0t1)
https://x.com/kylenabecker/
status/1913796309082837214
Posted by: Ciampino - I've no idea of where it is at April 20, 2025 01:55 AM (sPQoU)
I insisted on having that on the juke box at this one gin joint....
Posted by: Miklos, formerly Angry Young Man on most Tuesdays at April 20, 2025 01:55 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: 13times at April 20, 2025 01:47 AM (2WOTG)
Lawdy, lawdy! I ventured a guess at this woman's epidermal pigmentation, and I was 100% right! I must have a super power.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2025 01:56 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Ciampino - I'm gonna steal their boots at April 20, 2025 01:58 AM (sPQoU)
*hugs*
*pats butt*
*squeeze*
Posted by: Sponge
Ok
Envy is a sin
Guilty
Posted by: Miklos, who has probably done worse at April 20, 2025 01:59 AM (UOzvC)
https://x.com/kylenabecker/
status/1913796309082837214
Posted by: Ciampino - I've no idea of where it is at April 20, 2025 01:55 AM (sPQoU)
Maybe he'll get shot......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2025 01:59 AM (Zz0t1)
Envy is a sin
Guilty
Posted by: Miklos, who has probably done worse at April 20, 2025 01:59 AM (UOzvC)
Her butt is squeezable........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2025 01:59 AM (Zz0t1)
https://mol.im/a/14625805
Posted by: Ciampino - bad policy at April 20, 2025 02:01 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 20, 2025 02:02 AM (gYXO4)
Posted by: Miklos, so Charmin' at April 20, 2025 02:02 AM (UOzvC)
https://x.com/kylenabecker/
status/1913796309082837214
Posted by: Ciampino -
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These people are making it very difficult for Black citizens who actively and positively participate in our society to get a fair shake.
Bondi's not going for low hanging fruit she's going for stuff that's dropped to the ground. She needs to leave the microphone and go jack some high ranking felons up. Patel needs to hit them in the middle and also let City cops he and the DoJ have their back when the enforce the law.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 20, 2025 02:02 AM (KFYyV)
God Bless those to young men.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2025 02:02 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ciampino - good policy at April 20, 2025 02:03 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Miklos, so Charmin' at April 20, 2025 02:02 AM (UOzvC)
As you should.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2025 02:03 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 20, 2025 02:02 AM (gYXO4)
NO!!!!!!
There's enough for me to.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2025 02:03 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2025 02:02 AM (Zz0t1)
Damn beer.....
God Bless to those young men.
Ugh.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2025 02:04 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: nurse ratched
*check Amazon for one of those grip strengthener devices*
*before the tariffs kick in*
Posted by: Miklos will invest Time and Effort at April 20, 2025 02:05 AM (UOzvC)
No one's been charged, arrested, indicted.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 20, 2025 02:06 AM (Zz0t1)
https://mol.im/a/14625901
Posted by: Ciampino - I'm gonna steal their boots at April 20, 2025 01:58 AM (sPQoU)
"each scaly and powerfully built"
Oh. That distinguishes them from the much more common "lithe furry alligator".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2025 02:06 AM (8zz6B)
Open Thread
You know the drill...
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Moonbeam at April 19, 2025 08:59 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 09:00 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:01 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 09:03 PM (yp8Vj)
...
A Houthi spokesman announced (blah blah blah)
The operation mainly targeted and destroyed the Ras Isa oil port,
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:03 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 19, 2025 09:03 PM (hKoQL)
Posted by: DaveA at April 19, 2025 09:04 PM (FhXTo)
https://europeanconservative.com/is civil war coming to europe
tinyurl.com/42nazd37
Andrea Widburg thinks they have no chance, disarmed, sucked into Socialism to dependent on government, brainwashed to believe their civilization needs foreigner
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 09:05 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Ciampino - Have your opn air payers next to cathedral at April 19, 2025 09:05 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 19, 2025 09:05 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 19, 2025 09:05 PM (amnH6)
Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations,
Topline: ... few realize that the speaker of the House gets to keep their office space, staff and budget for five years after retiring.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:05 PM (KFYyV)
Sam’s Club shoppers should expect to see some major changes in the coming years.
Clubs will eliminate checkout lanes. Instead, everything will move to a scan-and-go model. Shoppers will use the Sam’s Club app on their smartphone to select their purchases while they shop. Then they will pass through a scanner as they exit the store, which will confirm their purchases.
The store plans to have several staff members on hand to help guide shoppers through the process.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 19, 2025 09:06 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 09:06 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Ben Had"
That's a great idea!
Posted by: fd at April 19, 2025 09:06 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 09:07 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
What could go wrong?
Posted by: Tonypete at April 19, 2025 09:07 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:07 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: Buffy the Vap Slayer at April 19, 2025 09:07 PM (ZnrCl)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 09:08 PM (yp8Vj)
Oh hell no. I don't do apps. Sam's needs to provide the scanners.
Posted by: fd at April 19, 2025 09:09 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at April 19, 2025 09:10 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:10 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:03 PM (KFYyV)
Finally! So few people internationally appear to understand the purpose of the action. The overall goal is to stop any ability the Houthi have to project power beyond their borders. What is the best way to do that? Of course you want to hit weapons systems when you can, but you’ll never find the m all. So best tactic is to systematically shut down the fuel and energy system for the entire country. Take out generating stations, take out fuel systems and fuel supplies. They like the 7th century, ensure that they all go back to living in it, in every way.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 19, 2025 09:10 PM (ZEzFB)
https://mol.im/a/14625805
Posted by: Ciampino - choose a different company at April 19, 2025 09:11 PM (sPQoU)
Clubs will eliminate checkout lanes. Instead, everything will move to a scan-and-go model. Shoppers will use the Sam’s Club app on their smartphone to select their purchases while they shop. Then they will pass through a scanner as they exit the store, which will confirm their purchases.
The store plans to have several staff members on hand to help guide shoppers through the process.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
This is gong to be a complete sh*t show in New Mexico. The Real ID transition nearly caused an insurrection to break out with numerous stories justifying why New Mexican's are incapable of coming up with proper ID. Trying to get them to push a grocery cart, shop and run a check out app at the same time; oh my. Just, oh my. Sam's Club is going to need a second building so they can process all the fubar checkouts.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 19, 2025 09:11 PM (amnH6)
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That's fine, but I need to receive some sort of discount for doing their job.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 09:12 PM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: fd
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Apps are backdoors into your device.
You don't want things coming into your backdoor.
Do you?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:12 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie
You mean like the IRS gives us for preparing our own tax returns even though they have all the data needed?
Like that?
Posted by: Tonypete at April 19, 2025 09:13 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 19, 2025 09:13 PM (lhenN)
You can't buy a hard copy.
Posted by: Braenyard
Software CDs are so last century. For the most part those have been toast for about a decade. You can download the entire setup program and burn it to a CD.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 19, 2025 09:14 PM (amnH6)
https://mol.im/a/14625805
Posted by: Ciampino -
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I leased trucks from a company with that attitude.
They went out of business.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:15 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: fd at April 19, 2025 09:15 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
What could go wrong?
Posted by: Tonypete
Seems to me it is far easier to ask what is going to go right.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 19, 2025 09:15 PM (amnH6)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 09:15 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie
You mean like the IRS gives us for preparing our own tax returns even though they have all the data needed?
Like that?
Posted by: Tonypete
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Oh, I've understood their "discount" for years. It's a punitive system designed to be able to attack and throw anyone in jail at any time as needed.
The discount is you not going to jail this year. But if they need to look closer...
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 09:15 PM (Dv9LQ)
Like that?
Posted by: Tonypete
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More like the fee they charge if you pay with a credit card.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:18 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 19, 2025 09:13 PM (lhenN)
Bernard Cornwell has some decent historical fiction. Researched in detail. Love the Richard Sharpe books. Sean Bean was perfectly cast in the title role for the Brit series.
Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2025 09:18 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 09:03 PM (yp8Vj)
Have to scrape the squashed kuffar pedestrians off to see any bumperstickers
Posted by: gKWVE at April 19, 2025 09:18 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 19, 2025 09:19 PM (amnH6)
Posted by: BourbonChicken
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Speaking of, I recently learned where the two-fingered English rude gesture came from. Interesting story.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 09:19 PM (Dv9LQ)
Oh hell no. I don't do apps. Sam's needs to provide the scanners.
Posted by: fd at April 19, 2025 09:09 PM (vFG9F)
They might have to close some stores, then. Some locales are requiring stores to have manned checkout lanes, even if they offer self-checkout.; and a maximum number of self-checkout lanes per monitoring employee.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 09:21 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 19, 2025 09:05 PM (amnH6)
Only if you have a work visa. They leave the tourists alone.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 19, 2025 09:21 PM (mWSu4)
Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2025 09:18 PM (gKDq2)
That was a truly great series. Binge watched the whole thing 2 or 3 years ago.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 19, 2025 09:22 PM (ZEzFB)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2025 09:22 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 19, 2025 09:05 PM (amnH6)
Only if you have a work visa. They leave the tourists alone.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 19, 2025 09:21 PM (mWSu4)
So the tourists don't get a strawberry beret or a how to mime book?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 09:22 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:18 PM (KFYyV)
clearing credit card transactions has an overhead charge, it is pretty much a question of who is going to pay it.
Staff, bookkeeping, having assets to cover eventualities, all of this costs extra. Industry standard is supposed to be around 3% they make their money on interest charges and late fees.
I used to tell customers that if they didn't like the charge they could mail the check, and we would wait a couple of days on their promise.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 09:23 PM (D7oie)
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There's some big anachronistic shit going on there.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2025 09:24 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram -
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At a WalMart checkout I gave a 20 and received change for a ten.
I called it, quickly the mgr came, within 5 minutes she was back with a perfectly clear photo of me handing the cashier a 20.
_Photo better than I can take with an iPhone.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:24 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 09:24 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 19, 2025 09:24 PM (44PAK)
"The French, with their superiority of numbers, expected an easy victory. They therefore felt it safe to proclaim that henceforth any captured English archers would have their index and middle fingers cut off. As these were the fingers required to draw back a bowstring, the archer’s career would be ruined and any prospects of future employment severely limited. Unfortunately for the French though, Agincourt was a decisive English victory...
After the battle, and in future ones, English archers held up their two fingers and waved them at the French. It was a sign intended as an insult and a warning and as such was an effective gesture."
https://tinyurl.com/2b4a65rk
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 09:24 PM (Dv9LQ)
Buy Costco stock now.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 19, 2025 09:25 PM (zBOWZ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 19, 2025 09:25 PM (CHHv1)
I had a random thought crawl through my mind a bit ago and wondered if I could tap into the Wisdom of the Horde tm?
Is there a female term for the word thug?
I've always heard it applied to men but in these enlightened times of grrrllbosses and equality, that seems a bit exclusionary.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at April 19, 2025 09:25 PM (DpNgD)
I used to tell customers that if they didn't like the charge they could mail the check, and we would wait a couple of days on their promise.
Posted by: Kindltot
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I mailed a check, return receipt, and received it amazingly quick.
They are now using JP Morgan Chase as their clearing house.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:26 PM (KFYyV)
I made a recommendation today of City of Ghosts with Matt Dillion and James Cann. I really liked it but it’s not rated very good by all the various raters.
Anyone else see and like it?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 09:27 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 19, 2025 09:27 PM (Vh9CX)
I had a random thought crawl through my mind a bit ago and wondered if I could tap into the Wisdom of the Horde tm?
Is there a female term for the word thug?
I've always heard it applied to men but in these enlightened times of grrrllbosses and equality, that seems a bit exclusionary.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at April 19, 2025 09:25 PM (DpNgD)
The C word seems most appropriate as an all-purpose epithet for a gal who is more than a mere bitch.
Until something better comes along.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 09:28 PM (f0hoU)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
I wouldn't be surprised to hear he is rewatching all of the Roger Corman's movies again.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 19, 2025 09:28 PM (amnH6)
Sort of like shoehorning a 350 small block onto a lightweight mobility scooter?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 09:29 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 19, 2025 09:29 PM (CHHv1)
Got a bunch of meds here, and pretty hardy scratch wounds on my hands and leg from trying to get him to take them.
But right behind me as I type, he is munching away at his food.
Best for me not to turn around, in case he decides to stop.
I can't express how relieved I am.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 09:30 PM (f0hoU)
I think it is not so much that it fertilizes as much as the plants grow as fast as they can to get away from the stink
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 09:30 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 09:29 PM (VNX3d)
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Dual Holley 4-barrels atop an Edelbrock manifold? Sir, methinks you have the germ of an idea.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2025 09:31 PM (JkO4W)
That feature and lower membership fees are the main advantages of Sam over Costco
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 19, 2025 09:31 PM (11yGZ)
I've always heard it applied to men but in these enlightened times of grrrllbosses and equality, that seems a bit exclusionary.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic
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There's never been a need since no woman is the physical equal of a man. Women can't really be thugs, so there's never been the development of that association. Skank, whore, etc. have been the normal catch alls for the demographic, but I'd suggest that, even with a skank ho attempting to engage in thuggish behavior, she still can't be a thug.
With an actual thug he's protected from the consequences of his actions by his ability to physically overpower/hurt another male. With a female the only thing protecting her is the other male's decency.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 09:31 PM (Dv9LQ)
That had occurred to me, but I was thinking something not profane or obscene.
Because I'm picky like that.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at April 19, 2025 09:32 PM (DpNgD)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 19, 2025 09:33 PM (zBOWZ)
Ghetto is what I’ve heard other girls call bad girls,
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 09:33 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 19, 2025 09:24 PM (44PAK)
You know, I really enjoy talking to cashiers, at various establishments. Lots of places, these folks are not the winners in this life, and I like being able to treat them like human beings. I don't know what difference it makes for them, but I hope it gives them some amount of pleasure, having someone be kind and decent.
Can't do that with a beeping machine.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 09:33 PM (f0hoU)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 09:33 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Hot legs
https://tinyurl.com/3bcfssz5
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:34 PM (KFYyV)
That feature and lower membership fees are the main advantages of Sam over Costco
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
Causing the Sam's Club robot floor cleaners to stop is pretty fun.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 19, 2025 09:34 PM (amnH6)
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Also, pour encourager les autres.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2025 09:34 PM (JkO4W)
Since we moved to Wyoming we have to drive almost 2 hours to Sam's. Haven't shopped there for years.
Posted by: four seasons at April 19, 2025 09:34 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 09:35 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 19, 2025 09:35 PM (WEP2T)
BoronCobbie's analysis is correct, but I was also thinking of the possibility of a swarm of thugettes.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at April 19, 2025 09:35 PM (DpNgD)
That had occurred to me, but I was thinking something not profane or obscene.
Because I'm picky like that.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at April 19, 2025 09:32 PM (DpNgD)
Understandable. What I would suggest is, if she deserves it, she might as well be as shocked and angry as possible at the word I use.
I can't think of any other word that does it better.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 09:35 PM (f0hoU)
Posted by: mikeski at April 19, 2025 09:36 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2025 09:36 PM (AOsQT)
"The witness statements absolutely reflect a CRIME was committed by Austin. Hunter himself said Austin confronted Karmelo. He said himself he grabbed him. That makes AUSTIN the aggressor. Sorry bud, Austin was a criminal by definition and died during the commission of his criminal act. 🤷🏾♂️"
This is pretty much what tge defenders of Karmelo Anthony are going with.
Well that and multiple made up stories where Karmelo Anthony was jumped by one or both of the brothers.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at April 19, 2025 09:36 PM (elaR+)
"The official Israeli policy is that they will intentionally kill civilians (I believe there is a formula, but I can't remember what it is) to get at Hamas.
Whether Hamas intentionally hides behind children or not, I don't know. I just know plenty of children are getting killed.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 11:23 AM (053ci)"
Take it away folks!
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 09:37 PM (g47mK)
I had a random thought crawl through my mind a bit ago and wondered if I could tap into the Wisdom of the Horde tm?
Is there a female term for the word thug?
I've always heard it applied to men but in these enlightened times of grrrllbosses and equality, that seems a bit exclusionary.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at April 19, 2025 09:25 PM (DpNgD)
Thot?
No, that's for something else.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 19, 2025 09:37 PM (Ip7j5)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 09:37 PM (juvBG)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 19, 2025 09:37 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
You can't just say that and not post the video.
Posted by: mikeski at April 19, 2025 09:37 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at April 19, 2025 09:38 PM (DpNgD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 09:38 PM (juvBG)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 09:33 PM (D7oie)
Way too cute. I can't imagine she'd be offended.
Heck, call her that and you might get laid.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 09:38 PM (f0hoU)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Yeah, I would assume there's a lot of overlap in that Venn diagram, although I suspect that one has a racial suggestion as well.
My favorite remains how normal women want to embrace sexual liberation and discourage shame because so many women are promiscuous like the top 5% of men now, and you're a misogynistic jerk for trying to discourage them from "being happy" and "finding themselves" or "experiencing life" or whatever, and yet the worst insult that comes to their mind when another woman is mean to them is...
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 09:39 PM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 09:39 PM (juvBG)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 09:37 PM (g47mK)
I'll say this just once. This is why I don't engage with you.
You're a shitty human being, not worth my time.
I wouldn't even piss on you if you were on fire.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 09:40 PM (f0hoU)
Posted by: Kindltot
Funny!
We go to Sam's club. Usually wife will just have stuff delivered.
I keep a Costco membership only because they consistently have the cheapest and most consistent pork belly.
Posted by: MkY at April 19, 2025 09:40 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
You can't just say that and not post the video.
Posted by: mikeski at April 19, 2025 09:37 PM (DgGvY)
Haven't done it. It was the simplest, funniest overpower I could think up.
I can see retired hot rod and race car drivers enjoying them, though.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 09:40 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 09:41 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 19, 2025 09:41 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 11:23 AM (053ci)"
Take it away folks!
Posted by: runner
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There is a simple solution to the Gazinians problem: LEAVE NOW!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:41 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 09:33 PM (D7oie)
Way too cute. I can't imagine she'd be offended.
Heck, call her that and you might get laid.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 09:38 PM (f0hoU)
Criminal? Abuser? Thugga? Tool of Satan?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 09:42 PM (VNX3d)
Can't do that with a beeping machine.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Same here. I always enjoy looking around for a candy bar and making a show of not being able to decide, then engaging in some small talk and asking them what their favorite is. When they tell me I buy it and then give it to them.
Beep boop beep, I guess.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 09:42 PM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: BurtTC
I do and Hamas does.
As for the the children that have allegedly been killed, who is making the claim?
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at April 19, 2025 09:42 PM (elaR+)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:42 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 19, 2025 09:43 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
Non, non, mon frere. Fat Frenchmen in speedos.
Posted by: MkY at April 19, 2025 09:43 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 19, 2025 09:44 PM (L/fGl)
It's great, though the "woman" bit makes me wonder why that was included in the title. She's there, she does some helpful things, but she's not really the focus at all.
I guess it would be "Hey look guys, this newspaper says 'Woman in the Moon!' Oh yeah! We go to the cinematograph and we get to see a WOMAN! Let's grab our coins and head to the cinematograph which is much longer in our native German! Haa hoo!!"
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 19, 2025 09:44 PM (CHHv1)
BoronCobbie's analysis is correct, but I was also thinking of the possibility of a swarm of thugettes.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at April 19, 2025 09:35 PM (DpNgD)
I can see a female rap band name in that: Ghetto Girl and The Thugettes.
Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2025 09:45 PM (gKDq2)
'The hospital will keep him overnight due to a small brain bleed. '
He's in the right place the. I hope he bounces back.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 09:45 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: BurtTC
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then engaging in some small talk and asking them what their favorite is. When they tell me I buy it and then give it to them.
Beep boop beep, I guess.
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Looking for strange?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:45 PM (KFYyV)
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Wait, are black people really going with "you can murder the person if he touched you"?
Because unless something has changed in the last 40+ years I don't think that's the ideal route for them to take.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 09:46 PM (Dv9LQ)
Really? Title says “Open Thread”.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 19, 2025 09:35 PM (WEP2T)
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Just a reminder to watch your ass.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2025 09:46 PM (JkO4W)
Beep boop beep, I guess.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 09:42 PM (Dv9LQ)
Heh... I guess maybe you could do that with a can of WD40?
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 09:46 PM (f0hoU)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 09:47 PM (VofaG)
Hamas could have chosen to end this, but they didn't.
Palestinians could have chosen peace and coexistence at any point in the last seventy years, but they didn't.
It's a bummer they would rather have dead kids than peace, but that's the choice they made.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 19, 2025 09:47 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 09:47 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 19, 2025 09:43 PM (2NHgQ)
Prayers sent.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 09:47 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Wenda at April 19, 2025 09:47 PM (kj9lg)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 09:48 PM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 09:50 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 19, 2025 09:50 PM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Wenda at April 19, 2025 09:47 PM (kj9lg)
Haha! I have that here, it's mirtazapine, which is sold in human doses, although I don't think it's for increasing appetite.
I need the opposite, anti-mirtaz.
No, actually I don't. I'm with the MAHA folks on this, I don't think people should be letting the pharma industry talk them into taking those shots.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 09:51 PM (f0hoU)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 19, 2025 09:51 PM (WEP2T)
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Remembering, there was a pistol and sacrifice involved in that movie plot.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:51 PM (KFYyV)
'Wait, are black people really going with "you can murder the person if he touched you"?'
Actually, that does seem to be the approach they take in their own neighborhoods. That's why their murder rate is so high.
Yeah, I have no problem believing they think that.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 09:51 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 19, 2025 09:51 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: jsg at April 19, 2025 09:51 PM (kSEI2)
Posted by: 13times at April 19, 2025 09:53 PM (b9uy3)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:53 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 09:53 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 19, 2025 09:50 PM (hKoQL)
I've done that before, but since one of his problems has been not eating, that's not going to work. One of the meds he's on is the antibiotic, to clear up his stuffed nose. If he can't smell, he won't eat.
That was the pill that got me bloodied this morning. Literally took about half a dozen tries before he stopped spitting it out, after I thought it was down.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 09:53 PM (f0hoU)
Clubs will eliminate checkout lanes. Instead, everything will move to a scan-and-go model. Shoppers will use the Sam’s Club app on their smartphone to select their purchases while they shop. Then they will pass through a scanner as they exit the store, which will confirm their purchases.
The store plans to have several staff members on hand to help guide shoppers through the process.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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This remnds me - I need to cancel my membership.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 19, 2025 09:53 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 09:53 PM (VofaG)
I bought a pill shooter, but couldn't find one locally, so I ordered off Amazon. Signed up from Prime, just to get it here today. I'm still waiting.
But he's had today's pills, so we'll see how it works tomorrow... if they actually deliver as promised today.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 09:55 PM (f0hoU)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 19, 2025 09:55 PM (Vqx30)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 09:56 PM (juvBG)
Posted by: PaleRider at April 19, 2025 09:56 PM (CKOCg)
FAA guidelines under the Commercial Space Astronaut Wings Program :
Crewmembers who travel into space must have "demonstrated activities during flight that were essential to public safety, or contributed to human space flight safety."
The crew [of] Blue Origin ... cannot identify as an astronaut. They do not meet the FAA astronaut criteria.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:56 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 09:56 PM (rdVOm)
This remnds me - I need to cancel my membership.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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It reminds me that I do not have a 'smart phone'. I am begining to resent the tacit assumption that everyone has a 'smart phone'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2025 09:57 PM (XeU6L)
I need the opposite, anti-mirtaz.
No, actually I don't. I'm with the MAHA folks on this, I don't think people should be letting the pharma industry talk them into taking those shots.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 09:51 PM (f0hoU)
And yes, he doesn't seem to mind me giving him the wet willy in his ear. He's about due.....
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 09:57 PM (f0hoU)
Because unless something has changed in the last 40+ years I don't think that's the ideal route for them to take.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie
If what I am seeing on Facebook is any indication, then yes.
To be fair, another smaller portion is running with made up stories where Karmelo Anthony was literally fighting for his life as opposed to what actually happened.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at April 19, 2025 09:57 PM (elaR+)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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But that's the key part of it all. A woman bowing up and being loud and aggressive and masculine towards anyone, but especially a man, is both silly and absurd, and certainly not in any way "thug" like, regardless of skin color.
A woman engaging in that behavior would simply be the b-word.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 09:57 PM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 09:57 PM (g47mK)
Clubs will eliminate checkout lanes. Instead, everything will move to a scan-and-go model. Shoppers will use the Sam’s Club app on their smartphone to select their purchases while they shop. Then they will pass through a scanner as they exit the store, which will confirm their purchases.
The store plans to have several staff members on hand to help guide shoppers through the process.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot,
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How about they just use these "scanners" as the checkout?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 19, 2025 09:57 PM (/lPRQ)
'Wait, are black people really going with "you can murder the person if he touched you"?'
Actually, that does seem to be the approach they take in their own neighborhoods. That's why their murder rate is so high.
Yeah, I have no problem believing they think that.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 09:51 PM (3wi/L)
Says the same crowd that was insisting knifings are just part of black culture so that a police officer shooting a stabber mid-stabbing was totes uncool.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 19, 2025 09:57 PM (44PAK)
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In light of the last five or so years, that's absolutely hilarious.
What is a woman, ladies?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 09:58 PM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 09:56 PM (juvBG)
I can feel my T levels going over 1100 as I watch.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 19, 2025 09:58 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 09:58 PM (juvBG)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 09:59 PM (VNX3d)
'One of the meds he's on is the antibiotic, to clear up his stuffed nose. If he can't smell, he won't eat.'
Try some Affrin. Cats like that.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 09:59 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 09:56 PM (KFYyV)
They were four minutes in a state of weightlessness, which isn't really a zero gravity thing, but a result of the engines no longer thrusting, causing the descent to counteract one's weight.
Or something like that.
Four minutes in that state. And the gals spent most of it taking selfies.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 09:59 PM (MER6n)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2025 09:57 PM (XeU6L)
Show up with a rotary phone. "How dis work?!?"
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 19, 2025 10:00 PM (44PAK)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:00 PM (g47mK)
This remnds me - I need to cancel my membership.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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It reminds me that I do not have a 'smart phone'. I am begining to resent the tacit assumption that everyone has a 'smart phone'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2025 09:57 PM (XeU6L)
Seriously.
I don't have a fckbuk account, either...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 19, 2025 10:00 PM (Vqx30)
One of the boys was choking as he was being hung and the terrorist showed zero reaction or humanity.
It was like he was hanging a shirt on a rack.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at April 19, 2025 10:00 PM (elaR+)
Vomit comet baby!
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 10:01 PM (juvBG)
https://tinyurl.com/3phnxdx4
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 10:01 PM (KFYyV)
Yootoob. https://tinyurl.com/5dphjfkf
Posted by: 13times at April 19, 2025 10:01 PM (b9uy3)
WomenAreReal@WomenAreReals
“Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual is not hate speech.”
“Yes, it is.”
And there you have it. Just park your car with a rainbow LGB sticker in Bernal Heights, a San Francisco neighborhood of “Be Kind,” and watch the homophobia come roaring out.
The Sticker Wars of Bernal Heights
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 19, 2025 10:01 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
Me too. I like my little, dumb, flip phone. It's cheap & does only what I need. (I don't *need* to shop at Sam's)
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 10:01 PM (rdVOm)
Thugs can't exist without the implied threat to harm. Just being loud or offensive doesn't make someone a thug.
See also: Ghetto
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 10:02 PM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 09:59 PM (3wi/L)
I bet they do.
Be that as it may, in big bold letters the discharge instructions say DO NOT GIVE ANY OTHER MEDICATIONS NOT DISPENSED, PRESCRIBED OR RECOMMENDED BY THE VETERINARIAN.
I have a sneaking suspicion they're used to people getting tips on what to give their precious critters from folks on the internet.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 10:03 PM (MER6n)
The cat's not thrilled with the ear routine either, but she doesn't try to disembowel me with the back claws during the process. If you have the option, check it out.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 19, 2025 10:03 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:06 PM (g47mK)
Vomit comet baby!
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 10:01 PM (juvBG)
I assume they were anti-nausea medicated up the wazoo.
The other funny thing, Penis Bezos was supposed to open the door with a special wrench, but one of the gals inside apparently had already opened it.
So they made them close it, had him go up with his Mario wrench, and the door just popped open. He laughed and said "I guess they didn't close it well enough."
Or something like that. What a bunch of flaccid penises, these people are.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 10:06 PM (MER6n)
Some 3,400 previously identified deaths from its August and October 2024 reports can no longer be found in the PDFs released by the ministry, which doesn’t differentiate between combatants and civilians.
Close advertising
At least 1,000 children are among those no longer on the list, according to two research reports, which corroborated each other's findings."
But wait, there's more.
"If you were seeing indiscriminate killing, you would expect roughly 26% adult male deaths," Fox said. "In the 13 to 55 age group, which is Hamas' fighter range because we know they use child soldiers, it's 72% male in that age group."
"So all these things clearly point towards combatants being targeted rather than just indiscriminate killing."
https://tinyurl.com/48mnwdtc
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at April 19, 2025 10:07 PM (elaR+)
Resist the Mainstream@ResisttheMS
JUST IN: Far-left Washington University instructor gets "relieved of all teaching responsibilities" after arrest footage leaks.
Patrick Mahoney was seen on camera beating up an Indian-American student in a MAGA hat prior to his visit by police.
https://shorturl.at/E0eeC
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 19, 2025 10:07 PM (L/fGl)
(n). Rakescold
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2025 10:07 PM (XeU6L)
I have a sneaking suspicion they're used to people getting tips on what to give their precious critters from folks on the internet.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Cuts into their $$$
Imagine if we had a medical industry that said "Yeah, benedryl is fine" instead of "Do you have insurance? Let me write you a prescription for this new medication."
Related, lots of people are starting to notice that our pets lived longer back when we MAYBE got them a rabies shot but absolutely didn't take them to the vet four times a year.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 10:07 PM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 19, 2025 10:08 PM (WEP2T)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 19, 2025 10:03 PM (q3u5l)
Yeah, I'm only doing about 10 days with the one pill.
I say "only" as contrasted with a permanent medication. I'm willing to wrap him in a towel, and incur his wrath for the time being.
The alternative, if he doesn't get his anemia under control is a feeding tube. I do not want to go that route.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 10:09 PM (MER6n)
'Leftist Washington University instructor can't understand what he did wrong.'
Maybe a beating for him will give him the instruction he needs.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:10 PM (3wi/L)
A vamp.
Posted by: fd at April 19, 2025 10:10 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 10:10 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 10:07 PM (Dv9LQ)
Yeah, at this point I know I'm being fleeced, but it's my precious little boy. I'm too irrational when it comes to this guy to not let myself get fleeced.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 10:11 PM (MER6n)
Posted by: 13times at April 19, 2025 10:12 PM (b9uy3)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
I see that former child star Amanda Bynes now has an OnlyFans channel.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 19, 2025 10:13 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Oh, there are TONS of women who see no problem with pretending that they're tough and threatening men. And, if they were honest, they'd know that the only thing protecting them is the men's decency and society itself, because the moment the man responds then he would be the bad guy.
Men know that words have consequences. In any conversation between two males, the men know that a line is there and if it's crossed it's a threat and physical violence can follow. Women don't understand that and routinely cosplay what they see as "tough" or "strong and empowered".
Those words from a man? A fight. From a woman? The man has to walk away or he goes to jail. Win / win for the woman, and an opportunity to learn nothing except continue
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 10:13 PM (Dv9LQ)
A vamp.
Posted by: fd
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Not my inclination.
Posted by: Hard Hearted Hannah at April 19, 2025 10:14 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 19, 2025 10:14 PM (63Dwl)
There are no results for "rakescold"
Check your spelling or try different keywords
It changed the spelling while I was typing it out. Had to put it in parentheses quick or it would have done it again.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 10:15 PM (KFYyV)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 10:07 PM (Dv9LQ)
Yeah, at this point I know I'm being fleeced, but it's my precious little boy. I'm too irrational when it comes to this guy to not let myself get fleeced.
Posted by: BurtTC
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I didn't really mean it towards you, and I'm in the same boat with our dogs. There's no way the wife would say "Oh, don't do anything except rabies."
But I'm starting to come around to the idea that the vets figured out how to really profit off of all this "fur baby" silliness, all while making our pets die sooner.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 10:16 PM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 19, 2025 10:17 PM (WEP2T)
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Wait, I misread that, sorry.
I think that's just a b-word, same as it's always been. Especially if there's any hint of femininity or manipulative use of it.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 10:17 PM (Dv9LQ)
It's not complex.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 10:20 PM (KFYyV)
But I'm starting to come around to the idea that the vets figured out how to really profit off of all this "fur baby" silliness, all while making our pets die sooner.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 10:16 PM (Dv9LQ)
Oh no, I'm implicating myself. I resisted taking him to the vet for a couple days, even though something was clearly off.
This is a bigger issue for me, not worth going into now, but the thought of him dying on the floor, in a corner somewhere, or even taking him to the vet and them saying "if you'd brought him in sooner...."
So take my money. Even though I think a simple solution of an antibiotic, and maybe something to stimulate his appetite would have been plenty.
Forty bucks for the visit, and 20-40 for the meds. Instead the bill is 100 times that much
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 10:20 PM (MER6n)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 19, 2025 10:21 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 19, 2025 10:21 PM (L/fGl)
A female can be associated with thugs, and can be part of a group of thugs, but an individual female can't be a thug. When separated from the group she reverts to the old standards.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 10:22 PM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 19, 2025 10:17 PM (WEP2T)
I can't imagine calling a dame a vamp unless I'm wearing a fedora and a zoot suit.
And I don't have either.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 10:22 PM (MER6n)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 19, 2025 10:23 PM (lhenN)
It's great, though the "woman" bit makes me wonder why that was included in the title. She's there, she does some helpful things, but she's not really the focus at all.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 19, 2025 09:44 PM (CHHv1)
Besides the fact that for the technical information, and that was supplied by Hermann Oberth, and the fact that the Peenemunde technical group would paint or past an image from the movie on each rocket they tested, Betty MacDonald, who wrote the Egg and I, talked about seeing that movie during the depression, and laughing at it since she thought all the characters were doing meaningless things as dramatically as possible.
Betty and her sister Mary would go to foreign movie showings since they were free, and the host would put out free cigarettes and snacks for the guests.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 10:23 PM (D7oie)
A person can ascend bodily into heaven if he can flex hard enough.
Posted by: BourbonChicken
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Okay that settles it, I'm going to track that show down.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 10:23 PM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 10:24 PM (Dv9LQ)
A female can be associated with thugs, and can be part of a group of thugs, but an individual female can't be a thug. When separated from the group she reverts to the old standards.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 10:22 PM (Dv9LQ)
Thug + Slut = Slug
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 19, 2025 10:24 PM (44PAK)
I don’t want them in America or any Christian country.
Moslems opposed to the Moslem Brotherhood don’t want them.
For the foreseeable future they are stuck in Gaza.
Posted by: Goatweed at April 19, 2025 10:24 PM (cl9qq)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 19, 2025 10:21 PM (0aYVJ)
I've never had longevity with cats. Oldest I had got to 14. Others died quite a bit younger than that, for one reason or another.
They've never been outdoor cats. I do think there COULD be some connection between me getting the clot shot in 2020, and my cats coming down with "colds" shortly thereafter. Two of the four I had at the time are dead. This sick guy is one of the two survivors. He's about 8.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 10:25 PM (MER6n)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 19, 2025 10:21 PM (L/fGl)
But isn't autoimmune a result of something? As in, it's not the primary diagnosis, but whatever the underlying condition is, it can cause autoimmune.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 10:27 PM (MER6n)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 19, 2025 10:27 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: BurtTC
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Perhaps warming the food, to enhance its aroma, would help?
I had to nurse a sick kitty (punctured eyeball from being attacked by another cat) and she didn't eat for several days. Hid in the hallway closet. Wouldn't come out even for TUNA (her fave!). I think the action of chewing was painful for her.
Anyway, I bought some dry baby cereal & prepared it for her. She licked it right up! It was warm and didn't require chewing.
Later, I mashed up some canned tuna & added a bit of warm water to it... again, she licked it up.
Good luck & hope kitty gets well!
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 10:27 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 10:28 PM (3jD8i)
Good luck & hope kitty gets well!
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 10:27 PM (rdVOm)
Thanks! I have some baby food here, I will try warming it up, see how it goes.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 10:29 PM (3jD8i)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie -
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Old standards of thuggery.
Led a sheltered life, eh?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 10:29 PM (KFYyV)
Anyhow, if I get an uncooperative cat I will grind a pill up, mix it with some of the goo, and smear it on her chest. The cat will run off to sulk and lick the fur clean.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 10:30 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 09:57 PM (Dv9LQ)
That sounds right. There's a funny old video of what looks to be a LAN party, where a butch lump got into it with a black guy, and that's exactly what he called her when he realized. Well, what he referred to her as, since it didn't even occur to him to take her seriously. "Who bitch this is? Who bitch this is??" Hilarious.
Posted by: SciVo at April 19, 2025 10:35 PM (4Qin6)
There are no results for "rakescold"
Check your spelling or try different keywords
It changed the spelling while I was typing it out. Had to put it in parentheses quick or it would have done it again.
Posted by: Braenyard
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I sit here cursing my memory, and the poor organization of my books. I clearly recall the use (and tucking it away in my mind), but cannot for the life of me recall the book.
At any rate, it seems an apt descriptor for most AWFLs.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2025 10:35 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: BurtTC
Did you say kitty has a sinus issue? Stuffy nose or something...
Maybe also has discomfort with chewing. Try thinning the baby food (or whatever you try to feed) with warm water, so kitty can simply lick it up.
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 10:38 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 19, 2025 10:42 PM (WEP2T)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 19, 2025 10:44 PM (WEP2T)
Posted by: BurtTC
I don't know.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 19, 2025 10:44 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 19, 2025 10:49 PM (WEP2T)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 09:37 PM (juvBG)
Had no rating attached when it was released in 1956. No movies did. I saw it as a 9 year old in a NYC theater with our church group. I still actually have the "program" after all these years. Amazing movie. Really needs to be seen on the big screen. Same with Ben Hur.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 19, 2025 11:09 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: toby928 at April 19, 2025 11:09 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: gKWVE at April 20, 2025 01:55 AM (gKWVE)
Hobby Thread - April 19, 2025 [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. We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) the weekend off because Peter Cottontail has taken over. Let's talk Easter!
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 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 theme next time. What are you hobbying? We love showing off Horde hobbying. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Nonsense. That picture looks perfectly fine to me!
Posted by: Harvey at April 19, 2025 05:32 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Admirale's Mate at April 19, 2025 05:33 PM (sMkAM)
Next week I think I'll get the telescopes out.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at April 19, 2025 05:33 PM (QdGJh)
Posted by: HappyFun at April 19, 2025 05:33 PM (rELun)
Posted by: Art Fleming at April 19, 2025 05:34 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: HappyFun at April 19, 2025 05:33 PM
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HappyFun! Great to "see" you. Happy Easter to you and yours as well. Cheers!
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 05:35 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2025 05:36 PM (cweKM)
Posted by: Admirale's Mate at April 19, 2025 05:36 PM (sMkAM)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 05:36 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Admirale's Mate at April 19, 2025 05:36 PM (sMkAM)
A proud sponsor of "Concentration!"
Posted by: Dagnabitol at April 19, 2025 05:38 PM (0eaVi)
Those girls are about to wish the photographer into the
Posted by: mikeski at April 19, 2025 05:41 PM (DgGvY)
Just finished with Phase 2 of building a space elevator, unlocking technology Tiers 5 and 6. This marks a significant challenge in difficulty.
It takes *A LOT* of resources to build out Tiers 5 and 6, and the difficulty ramps up even more for Tiers 7 and 8 when nuclear power is unlocked.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2025 05:43 PM (cweKM)
Very ornate.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2025 05:46 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 05:48 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 05:49 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 05:50 PM (ypFCm)
Think I'll have one of the Dr. Pepper flavored Peeps for desert tonight. Surprisingly good.
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 05:51 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2025 05:46 PM
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Expect an egg theme around Christmas too! We've got a bunch and love them.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 05:54 PM (IQ6Gq)
This week I've got a Cobra 138 XLR that has been modified in a weird way. Not sure why, but it looks like it's been set up to amplitude modulate the PLL loop mixing signal. Which you really want to be stable, not jumping around like a meth addicted kitty chasing the red dot.
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at April 19, 2025 05:55 PM (ojCLR)
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 05:51 PM
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I'm conflicted! Seems like I should have an informed opinion...
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 05:57 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 19, 2025 05:59 PM (CHHv1)
https://nationaltoday.com/husband-appreciation-day/
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2025 06:00 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 06:01 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 06:02 PM (yTvNw)
Somewhere Miss Linda has a pic of Siberian cat Angelique (RIP) sitting next to L's EasterTree -- a spindly little skeleton of a tree with pastel "eggs" attached to it. An appropriate teaming, since Angelique herself was a study in pastel colors.
I think I remember that as a kid we dyed Easter eggs with those pale colors. Not for very many years, as my brother and I were much more into vividly colored model kit painting.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 06:02 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2025 06:06 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 06:07 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025
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JTB, any idea what channel will show Ben-Hur, or maybe Ten Commandments? Used to be ABC who would run one or the other.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 06:09 PM (omVj0)
Used to get the pyansky eggs in the East Village, NYC.
Years ago, some friends and I had an egg-dying party, and one of our group brought brown eggs to dye. We all scoffed, but they turned out quite beautiful.
Posted by: Beverly at April 19, 2025 06:09 PM (Epeb0)
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025
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The tail -- and nibble your way up!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 06:10 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 06:11 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 06:17 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 06:11 PM
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Great observation. We're fond of whittled goods from eastern Germany, near the Czech border. It is always fun to see the creative ways they rescue pieces that experience problems. Broke a branch on the tree? No problem! Put a little bird in there!
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 06:17 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: The Grady Girls at April 19, 2025 06:18 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 06:18 PM (omVj0)
Wolfus,
Ben Hur, followed by The Robe, will be on the Movies! channel, which is OTA, tomorrow. I don't know if there is a version in your area. ABC had The Ten Commandments last week.
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 06:19 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 06:20 PM (omVj0)
Did you have a chance to try that Burley Morning tobacco yet? It get fantastic reviews so I'm curious what you think.
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 06:21 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 06:17 PM
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I asked AI to show me a photo of the chariot race, but with TRex dinosaurs instead of horses. Then I asked it to try again, but with TRex dinosaurs instead of the human chariot drivers.
Hilarity ensued.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 06:21 PM (IQ6Gq)
Ben Hur, followed by The Robe, will be on the Movies! channel, which is OTA, tomorrow. I don't know if there is a version in your area. ABC had The Ten Commandments last week.
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025
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Don't think we've got a Movies! outlet. A shame, as it would be nice to see something older than 2006.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 06:22 PM (omVj0)
I’ve done decoupage eggs and love those. Get some easter themed napkins and modge podge, you’re all set. Blowing eggs is the hardest part, but I found it oddly satisfying.
Posted by: H at April 19, 2025 06:24 PM (2gjbv)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 06:24 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: MD_Mike at April 19, 2025 06:27 PM (BouEL)
Posted by: jsg at April 19, 2025 06:27 PM (UJ+K5)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 19, 2025 06:28 PM (dg+HA)
Ben Hur, followed by The Robe, will be on the Movies! channel, which is OTA, tomorrow. I don't know if there is a version in your area. ABC had The Ten Commandments last week.
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025
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The Robe is an impressive movie. It has the young Richard Burton as a Roman officer, Victor Mature as his Greek slave, Jean Simmons, Michael Rennie as Peter (I suppose THE Peter), Jay Robinson as his patented Emperor Caligula, and, get this, Richard Boone as Pontius Pilate!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 06:29 PM (omVj0)
The Great Train Sale of what I can't use is underway, and it's going nicely. I just got a very snotty "question" because I had no idea about the nuances of 1970s N scale track. It's just a box with stuff on the side and track in it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 06:32 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 06:29 PM (omVj0)
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That's on my list of future DVD purchases. I'm doing the Charleton Heston Bible fest right now, finished "The Ten Commandments" and now working my way through "Ben Hur."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 06:33 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: PabloD at April 19, 2025 06:34 PM (57fkQ)
Posted by: Stateless.. 14% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at April 19, 2025 06:34 PM (jvJvP)
Did you have a chance to try that Burley Morning tobacco yet? It get fantastic reviews so I'm curious what you think.
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025
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Yes! Actually my correspondent sent me KBV's *Burlier* Morning Pipe tobacco, which is supposed to have a trifle fuller aroma than Burley MP without being stronger. It is very good; fairly moist in the pouch, yet it burns fine and without tongue bite even if I don't dry it. As with Country Squire in Jackson, MS, I'm impressed with this blender's work.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 06:36 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 06:37 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Great score by Alfred Newman also.
Posted by: Tuna at April 19, 2025 06:44 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Great score by Alfred Newman also.
Posted by: Tuna at April 19, 2025 06:44 PM
What me Worry?
Posted by: Alfred E. Newman at April 19, 2025 06:46 PM (e5NfL)
Thanks for the report. I've been enjoying burley blends lately and have some Boswell's Premium Burley, which is excellent. Think I'll order some of the Burley Morning and Burlier Morning and do a comparison. I find burley blends go really well with coffee and, believe it or not, scotch (Islay single malt by preference) and bourbon.
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 06:47 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 06:32 PM
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No worries. We'll be ready when you're ready.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 06:50 PM (IQ6Gq)
I'm going to make lighthouse-themed block print for the cards. I rounded up a couple metal candleholders shaped like houses and am looking for a third to make trio for a centerpiece for Thanksgiving.
As our extended family shrinks, I get more visitors during the holidays. Ironic.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 19, 2025 06:57 PM (CMGrG)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 19, 2025 06:59 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 19, 2025 06:57 PM
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I was thinking about a home-made Christmas card hobbying theme closer to Christmas, but maybe that would be too late??
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 07:00 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 07:00 PM (IQ6Gq)
You should do that before Halloween.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 19, 2025 07:01 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 19, 2025 07:01 PM
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I'll refer the matter to the official Hobby Thread scheduling department.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 07:03 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 19, 2025 07:03 PM (CMGrG)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 07:05 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 07:05 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 07:03 PM (IQ6Gq)
If they need... encouragement, but a horse's head in their beds.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 19, 2025 07:07 PM (0eaVi)
I'll probably post it on the hobby thread too, but if you haven't gotten one of those $30 or so battery powered handheld chainsaws, they are great. I managed a 4 inch maple limb repeatedly with the one I bought. Keep your wits about you but an absolutely outstanding little yard tool.
Great gift idea, too.
https://a.co/d/0S3nJkn
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 07:09 PM (km43Y)
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 07:09 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 07:11 PM (GDrd7)
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 07:05 PM
The green dollar store by us has that stuff. There is a whole end cap with all sorts of houses, bridges, streams, plants and trees. I did not see a single fairy though. I guess those are sold separately.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 19, 2025 07:11 PM (e5NfL)
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Agreed, our human troubles are difficult to endure.
Prayers up for salty and his bunch, too.
We love you all.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 07:11 PM (km43Y)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 07:12 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 07:00 PM
It was for me.
I'm hoping to have a wreath and outdoor displays ready to go, too.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 19, 2025 07:13 PM (CMGrG)
That sounds like a great idea. Our Christmas card list is dwindling these days as old family members and friends are gone. The number of cards needed wouldn't be more than 20 or 25.
A bit of history. Money was tight when we first got married and the Christmas card list was long. We had just bought our house. We got some card stock, drew a picture of the house front with a caption of "Merry Christmas from our house to yours", had them printed and sent them out as post cards. Probably saved us a couple hundred bucks between the cards and postage.
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 07:14 PM (yTvNw)
I'll probably post it on the hobby thread too, but if you haven't gotten one of those $30 or so battery powered handheld chainsaws, they are great. I managed a 4 inch maple limb repeatedly with the one I bought. Keep your wits about you but an absolutely outstanding little yard tool.
Great gift idea, too.
https://a.co/d/0S3nJkn
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 07:09 PM (km43Y)
With plastic laid, this looks like it would be good for dismembering bodies for easy transport.
Not that that's my hobby or anything.
Hypothetically speaking.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 19, 2025 07:14 PM (44PAK)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 07:15 PM (WL2lA)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 07:15 PM
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Genuine egg shells.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 07:16 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 19, 2025 07:16 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 07:19 PM (WL2lA)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 07:20 PM (ypFCm)
As for the toilet bowl eggs, uh, I'll pass.
I don't care how clean the toilet is.
Seems like that's kind of a fun thing to do with eggs, though, and could be done out in the yard in a washtub. I could see my grandkids enjoying that.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 19, 2025 07:21 PM (Eo96p)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 07:19 PM
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Recent diagnosis of Parkinsons. Big life changes for her and everyone around her. Mama Rex still has some spark though. Spent a nice morning with her today.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 07:21 PM (IQ6Gq)
Thanks for the suggestion. A local nursery has a lot of the stuff as well. I was thinking more along the lines of making the structures from scrap wood and doing some shallow relief carving. Trying to stay hands-on these days.
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 07:22 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 07:22 PM (WL2lA)
Hope everyone has a very blessed Easter!
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 07:24 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 07:25 PM (WL2lA)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 07:25 PM (yp8Vj)
Polliwog,
That wouldn't surprise me. Her sense of design and ability to work small and delicate pieces would lend itself to fairy gardens.
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 07:26 PM (yTvNw)
Halloween crafts in August:
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 07:27 PM (WL2lA)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 07:28 PM (yp8Vj)
Thanks for the report. I've been enjoying burley blends lately and have some Boswell's Premium Burley, which is excellent. Think I'll order some of the Burley Morning and Burlier Morning and do a comparison. I find burley blends go really well with coffee and, believe it or not, scotch (Islay single malt by preference) and bourbon.
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025
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I'm sure it will go well -- with the coffee anyway. My drinking days are long behind me, so I wouldn't know about the others!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 07:31 PM (omVj0)
I have several books on whittling a creche scene and doing ornaments. I should get them out and give a look for ideas. Good thought.
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 07:33 PM (yTvNw)
It'll be hard to top The Last of Sheila -- but who knows.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 07:34 PM (omVj0)
I am painting the board game Dark Souls and a bunch of expansions.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 19, 2025 07:37 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 07:41 PM (yp8Vj)
My latest addition is a Sony a6400 camera body because it is highly performant, has an APS-C 24mp sensor, is quite small (near pocket camera size), accepts interchangeable lenses, and, has excellent 3rd party lens support that are wildly inexpensive. The body also excellent photos
Over the years I passed on the smaller APS-C sensor (as opposed to a full frame sensor) because they typically were in entry level camera bodies and and had poor lens support. This changed with the Sony E lens mounts. An example is I picked up 23mm f1.4 prime lens for $200. The lens is not good as my full frame Canon 35mm f1.4 prime but it is 95% as good and cost 10% of the Canon. Holy smokes. Plus the 23mm is 3" long and weighs 9 oz (The Canon is well a cannon by comparison to lug around).
Point here is, if you have been thinking about taking of photography at a level well above cell phone pics this is stunningly great option. It is a full on legit camera system that will keep you busy for more that a few years. Plus videos (it used by peeps that make YouTube videos).
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 19, 2025 07:41 PM (amnH6)
Always look forward to it, even when I can't read it til Sunday evening.
Prayers up for your mom.
MrT's grandma had Parkinsons, lived a good life into her 90's
Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 19, 2025 07:43 PM (Eo96p)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 19, 2025 07:41 PM
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It is amazing what photo equipment is available for high quality and relatively low cost these days. I keep using my legacy Canon equipment but not sure I'd take the same approach if I was starting from scratch today.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 07:45 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 07:45 PM (yp8Vj)
Always look forward to it, even when I can't read it til Sunday evening.
Prayers up for your mom.
MrT's grandma had Parkinsons, lived a good life into her 90's
Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 19, 2025 07:43 PM
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Very kind. Thank you. Much appreciated.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 07:46 PM (IQ6Gq)
Always happy to show off Horde projects and hobbies.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 07:48 PM (IQ6Gq)
I was in Barcelona recently and couldn’t resist the Museu de la Xocolata. Basically, a few interesting artifacts of early chocolate making and a lot of famous works reproduced in chocolate. Tin Tin. Asterix. La Sagrada Familia. It was incredible.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 19, 2025 07:49 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 07:50 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Ol Yeller at April 19, 2025 07:52 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram
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Thanks for the report.
I'd had darkrooms in spare bathrooms in our homes for years, and somewhere around 2000 made the switch to digital. It was weird at first but incredible because one could take thousands of photos, see them immediately, work with them, etc. It was mind blowing to go from one side to the other.
I was fortunate to have gotten one of the first Digital Rebels (300d?) that had a firmware hack that would open up the 10D options. You didn't get the build quality, but you got the functions. I could probably enjoy a newer camera but can't convince myself to do it.
I should go look at the advancements, though. It's been 25 years so it's probably similar, although not as drastic, as the switch to digital.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 07:57 PM (km43Y)
Posted by: Ben Had
A couple of examples. The images get compressed when publishing for the web - I apologize for the lack of sharpness.
https://is.gd/YfMNSL - Iglesia San Jose – Los Cerrillos, NM
https://is.gd/Osqe0f - Little Toad Show - Las Cruces, NM. This was shot with the a6400/23mm f1.4 @ ISO 3400 handheld without flash. These boxes and glass are a thing.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 19, 2025 07:59 PM (amnH6)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 07:50 PM
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That sounds like fun!
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 08:00 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 08:01 PM (yp8Vj)
I should go look at the advancements, though. It's been 25 years so it's probably similar, although not as drastic, as the switch to digital.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid
The the advancements are enormous and well worth picking up if you are so inclined. I picked up my a6400 with a top flight zoom lens for $900.00 and added the prime for $200. That is pretty much rock bottom pricing for like new/new gear.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 19, 2025 08:02 PM (amnH6)
I bet the Ryobi is outstanding. They make good stuff. I wasn't sure if it was for me so I went cheap, but now that I know how well even the cheap ones work I'll probably try to track down a Ridgid next time since I'm dedicated to their battery line (and love their warranty, which also covers the batteries)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 08:03 PM (km43Y)
You know, a quarterly Horde photo thread might be hobby thread idea.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 08:06 PM (km43Y)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 08:07 PM (ypFCm)
I use Ryobi because years ago Home Depot had a power tool shop in a bag for $125.00. Years later I have bunches of their gear and it has served me well. Once you lock into a few tools you are off to the races with that brand because of the battery lock-in. Cordless tools are excellent.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 19, 2025 08:08 PM (amnH6)
It was excellent.
Posted by: Stateless.. 14% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at April 19, 2025 08:08 PM (jvJvP)
I'm with you on trying a cheaper version first. I have so many scrub trees trying to grow around here that saw has been a wonder.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 08:09 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 08:06 PM
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Great suggestion. Happy to host if the Horde will support with submissions.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 08:09 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: TRex
I am in.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 19, 2025 08:10 PM (amnH6)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 08:12 PM (yp8Vj)
Currently we live in a small apartment, and her tools are mostly in the storage locker. Our goal is to find a modest piece of property with a smallish house and a huge barn.
She's already going stir-crazy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 19, 2025 08:13 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Glenn at April 19, 2025 08:14 PM (5QEsJ)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 08:17 PM (yp8Vj)
It might be interesting to see what develops. Ha. That was an accident (like so many of my decent photos)
If I'm around I'll contribute one each time.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 08:19 PM (km43Y)
The point of these compact Sony Cameras is you can take them everywhere and that right there gets you taking pics. That was the initial motivation to consider these boxes and I sorted out how good the 3rd party lenses were I couldn't spend my money fast enough.
Now, digital photography naturally leads to post processing using editors like Photoshop. Problem is Photoshop is a subscription only program and runs you $20.00 per month ouch.
Solution: Affinity Photo 2. It is a direct Photoshop competitor and it is pretty close to Photoshop in terms of features and quality of the product. Unless you are in a professional environment Photoshop is overkill. To address this Adobe offers Photoshop Express which is a stripped down version of Photoshop. By why would you do this? Affinity Photo 2 is 95% of Photoshop and cost only $69.00 which is less that PS Express. AP2 is shockingly good software.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at April 19, 2025 08:20 PM (amnH6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2025 08:21 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 08:21 PM (ypFCm)
Thanks for featuring my comment.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 19, 2025 08:23 PM (2NHgQ)
Does anyone know if it's any good, or do I donate it back to the thrift store from whence it came?
Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 19, 2025 08:23 PM (Eo96p)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 08:23 PM (km43Y)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2025 08:21 PM (8zz6B)
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Huggy Squirrel must be branching out...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2025 08:25 PM (cweKM)
Posted by: fd at April 19, 2025 08:26 PM (vFG9F)
Pimp spam at end of Pet Thread.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2025 08:21 PM
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Sorry. My skeleton key only comes with so much power.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 08:27 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 19, 2025 08:23 PM
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Send me a photo of your eggs and the fancy egg guts removal tool!
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 08:29 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Stephen King at April 19, 2025 08:29 PM (Ff0RP)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 08:07 PM
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MOAR HOBBYING!
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 08:29 PM (IQ6Gq)
It would be interesting to see different churches, bait shops, etc from around the country and how they're photographed, for example.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 08:32 PM (km43Y)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 08:07 PM
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MOAR HOBBYING!
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 08:29 PM (IQ6Gq)
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READ A BOOK!!!!
(Sunday Morning Book Thread is only hours away!)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2025 08:33 PM (cweKM)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 08:33 PM (ypFCm)
Which is True Grit is better? The original with John Wayne or the 2010 remake with Jeff Bridges?
What is your favorite Easter movie?
That should be enough to jump start the horde.
Posted by: PaleRider at April 19, 2025 08:34 PM (CKOCg)
(Sunday Morning Book Thread is only hours away!)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2025 08:33 PM
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YEAH! Consider your pants decisions wisely.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 08:35 PM (IQ6Gq)
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BUY SOME LAND
Some of you will recognize that song. I think it predates YouTube. If not it was one of the earliest YouTube videos.
If you search for it be aware it's very NSFW. Great advice overall, though.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 08:36 PM (km43Y)
Coverage of the deorbit burn and landing of the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft in Kazakhstan. The deorbit burn is scheduled for April 19, 8:26 p.m. EDT - April 20, 0026 UTC, 02:26 CEST, and the Landing is planned for 9:20 p.m. EDT, 0120 UTC and 03:20 CEST near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
https://www.youtube.com/live/t4WaJ7R10AI
Apologies I'm late with this. Sleeping plus domestic problems.
Posted by: Ciampino - did'ja get nuffin? at April 19, 2025 08:36 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: PaleRider at April 19, 2025 08:36 PM (CKOCg)
Easy egg blower
https://tinyurl.com/bdfdec6s
Will have to take pictures next time I’m at my volunteer gig.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 19, 2025 08:36 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 08:37 PM (km43Y)
I would like a woman for one night. One who would throughly clean my house and leave by 7:00 am -and do nothing else- .so I don't have to do this after days of services right before Easter Sunday.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2025 08:37 PM (42Vb+)
Posted by: fd at April 19, 2025 08:38 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 19, 2025 08:38 PM (bA75n)
Pimp spam at end of Pet Thread.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2025 08:21 PM
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Sorry. My skeleton key only comes with so much power.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 08:27 PM (IQ6Gq)
You need a key? You can't just eat the errant post?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 08:38 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 08:38 PM (km43Y)
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 08:27 PM (IQ6Gq)
Those combination-lock skeletons are real mofos!
My "hobby-related" activities today were twofold. One, carried on with the wood butchering, staining and painting needed to finish out my front room here in AJ. The end is in sight, now, Basically made nearly a 3/4 circuit of the room.
Two, a friend gave me an old spring-retractable cable spool, loaded with 10-conductor wire. I stripped it apart, and got the cable off it. There was a big nasty snarl in the cable about 2/3 of the way off the spool. I just cut it out. The cable would be useful for trailer wiring; it is stranded copper of about 16 gauge. I plan to take the spool unit home, and use it to pay #10/3 rubber-covered cable to run my welder away from the shop. The spool was once part of a mobile crane.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2025 08:39 PM (8zz6B)
youtube.com/watch?v=rwdJ_Aalnmg
"Battle of Triangle Hill" (1956) Chicom flick about the 1952 Battle of Sanganling, Korean War. Pretty good action, rousing performances. Here's an excerpt of their subtitled sausagefest banter under fire:
"Why no more snogging? Why don't you have sex? What's going on? We don't do it at times like this! Contact us soon!" After a bit, the mood brightens when adorably eager manic pixie Maoist Liu Yuru arrives.
youtube.com/watch?v=tkn-uN_hhro
"The Alto Knights" (2025) Costello and Genovese sort out some beefs. I like mob movies. I like DeNiro's acting. I like this movie. It is what it is. It is what it is.
Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at April 19, 2025 08:40 PM (meY9d)
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 08:27 PM
Well, if your arms weren't so damned short, the outcome might be better.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 19, 2025 08:40 PM (mH6SG)
https://youtu.be/vD3PoBqkgyQ
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 08:41 PM (VNX3d)
We broke apart pallets today to use the wood to build chicken coops. Dang if those things aren't really well assembled. I didn't realize they used twisted nails but it makes sense, otherwise they'd pull apart in the humidity and weather.
But dang those things are hard to disassemble without damaging them all to heck.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 08:41 PM (km43Y)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 19, 2025 08:42 PM (ZEzFB)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 19, 2025 08:44 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at April 19, 2025 08:45 PM (meY9d)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid"
Yeah they are a pain to get apart. I have just gotten a saw out and cut out the good pieces for various projects.
Posted by: fd at April 19, 2025 08:45 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: PaleRider at April 19, 2025 08:46 PM (CKOCg)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 08:17 PM (yp8Vj)
Heh. We've looked into that very thing.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 19, 2025 08:47 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 08:38 PM
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I can do things on my posts. My power is more limited elsewhere. And my arms are short.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 08:48 PM (IQ6Gq)
143 The True Grit movies are odd in that I think I like both of them equally well.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 08:37 PM (km43Y)
The first one is good because it’s just John Wayne being John Wayne, although the girl is incredibly annoying. The remake is far more true to the original story in every way.
What I like most about the 2nd is that it captures the fact that people in the 19th century didn’t exactly act, talk, or even think like we do now. There were differences.
Also I never understood what “True Grit” meant from the first movie. After the 2nd, I understood why that was the point of the entire story - you didn’t survive out on that frontier unless you had it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 19, 2025 08:48 PM (ZEzFB)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 19, 2025 08:48 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: fd
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After the first two that's what we ended up doing. It bothered me to lose the four or so inches, but as much as was splitting we figured we probably came out ahead.
I had briefly thought about using pallets to build coops to donate to the poor along with a couple of hens, but I don't know if that's the way to go, even if businesses will give you the pallets.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 08:49 PM (km43Y)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 19, 2025 08:44 PM
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You're welcome Monsignor D.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 08:49 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid
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Yeah, I struggled with some of them too. I haven't tried the technique used in this vid yet, but wonder if it *really* works that well:
youtube.com/watch?v=JMcyXes7MPg
And if it IS that good? I'll just be p!ssed that I didn't think of it first! LOL
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 08:51 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 08:52 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: PaleRider at April 19, 2025 08:46 PM
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Thank you. You get a virtual chocolate bunny.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 08:52 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 08:17 PM (yp8Vj)
Heh. We've looked into that very thing.
Posted by: Pug Mahon"
I don't think that would work for us. We need separate he and she shops. A couple thousand sq ft each.
Posted by: fd at April 19, 2025 08:52 PM (vFG9F)
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Thanks for that, I'll try it this week. That could change everything.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 08:53 PM (km43Y)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 08:38 PM
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I can do things on my posts. My power is more limited elsewhere. And my arms are short.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 08:48 PM (IQ6Gq)
Ahh. I thought it might be fear that it would make you sick.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 08:53 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 19, 2025 08:48 PM
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You're welcome. Well said. Thanks for being here and saying it. Virtual chocolate bunny for you too.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 08:53 PM (IQ6Gq)
https://x.com/BourbnChicken/status/1913756256491147326
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Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 08:41 PM
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Pallets are God's universal building blocks.
Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2025 08:57 PM (IQ6Gq)
youtu.be/FmOpUasQodg?t=23
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 08:59 PM (KFYyV)
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Posted by: Moonbeam at April 19, 2025 09:00 PM (rbKZ6)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, April 19
Courtesy Misantropic Humanitarian
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.. 😉 pic.twitter.com/5XIT3q5gDH
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) April 18, 2025
all aboard pic.twitter.com/SzS9aAO4k5
— Why you should have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) April 19, 2025
A squirrels stash of nuts on an antenna pic.twitter.com/LtMnQe71ad
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) April 16, 2025
Here's something for the Pet Thread: The 2025 Starkville Derby is coming up! It's billed as the "World's Largest Wiener Dog Race" and is held annually in Starkville, Mississippi (which is also home to my alma mater, Mississippi State University). Best, Bert GThanks, Bert! Sounds like a great event!
In 20 days…a tradition unlike any other: the world’s largest wiener dog race and Mississippi’s best festival. This is The 2025 Starkville Derby Presented by Bocock Brothers live from the Bluff City Turf Co. Green Carpet! All proceeds benefit Oktibbeha County Humane Society! pic.twitter.com/i8W2JszLjb
— The Bocock Brothers Starkville Derby (@StarkvilleDerby) April 13, 2025
This is Finn the Cool, our new addition. He may look cute, but he is 7 lb of attitude. Lincoln had a tough year last year, being so sick and then getting attacked at the dog park, we thought he might like a companion. We thought a puppy might be a better fit than an adult dog, but we've never had a small dog or a beagle. They are smart, fearless and full of energy. Lincoln took to him immediately. They play constantly and wear each other out. Although, he just found his voice and has been singing us the songs of his people, we love this furball. MegtheredWe are lucky to see these early photos of the charming new pup! Lincoln looks happy to have Finn as a new friend.
Hi, Buzzion here. My dog Tali went missing on 3/27 in Piqua Ohio. Somehow she got out of my backyard or was taken but I have no idea how. With Watson passing away in December this has just absolutely destroyed me. I've had no luck with sightings nor the surrounding county animal shelters. I just wish she would come back.Oh no! Prayers for you and Tali! What a sweetheart.
Long time lurker and rare poster Scont here. This is a pic of my cat Marilyn. I found her on the side of the road half starved to death back in 2011. Took her in and she soon became a permanent fixture on my lap. One day I was brushing her and wound up with a big wad of shed fur. I flattened it and put it on her head. It's a miracle that she stayed still long enough for me to snap the picture.
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, April 12 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. Any thoughts or questions? 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.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: gdgm+ at April 19, 2025 03:39 PM (FyLCZ)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 03:40 PM (ypFCm)
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Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 19, 2025 03:47 PM (sQcAA)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 03:47 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 19, 2025 03:49 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at April 19, 2025 03:50 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Ifs ands or nuts at April 19, 2025 03:50 PM (w6EVu)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 19, 2025 03:57 PM (ntko6)
I looked out this morning about 5:30 and saw the male bird flitting around well before day break. I thought it odd but went on to take my shower. Once it got daylight I saw both baby birds laying on the patio, one was clearly dead and the other was not too far behind. Momma bird was clinging to the edge of the eave barely alive, she soon fell dead. Something had gotten up in the eaves and killed three of the four birds. Whatever it was did not disturb our dogs or make any noises that we heard. It did not eat the birds it just killed them and left them there.
We have no idea what could have gotten up there without making any noise the dogs would have heard. If it was an owl it would have eaten the birds.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 19, 2025 03:59 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 04:00 PM (cvWHI)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at April 19, 2025 04:00 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 04:01 PM (ypFCm)
If they do that, then perhaps there is one rodent that I will welcome.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 19, 2025 04:02 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 04:02 PM (J5RCE)
https://www.budalions.com/
Posted by: Sgt. Mom at April 19, 2025 04:03 PM (Ew3fm)
Posted by: KT at April 19, 2025 04:07 PM (xekrU)
The "Trump Kitty," Marilyn, looks like a tri-color beauty.
And the video of the four cats settling into their bunk beds, each facing in alternate directions, is amazing.
My Killer Kittenz From Outer Space are coming along fine. Big black Stirling is adjusting to my being home so much by bothering me on the sofa or at my desk while at the computer. Little gray Dagny has emerged from her nest in the bedroom window, but spends a lot of time still apart from me on the bathroom counter. Though she and Stirling both happen to be out here now on the end table, grooming themselves and each other.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 04:11 PM (omVj0)
Also prayers for Linda.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at April 19, 2025 04:13 PM (FEVMW)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025
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And *major* crisis reports like a presidential candidate being shot at. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 04:13 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2025 04:14 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2025 04:16 PM (RIvkX)
We were unsure of the breed of our dog until it retrieved Labrador.
Posted by: 13times at April 19, 2025 04:17 PM (b3ml3)
Considering, too, all the dangers here from cars, feral hominids, and maybe even coyotes, I'm amazed she's still around at all.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 04:17 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: olddog in mo at April 19, 2025 04:23 PM (hoCmQ)
Prayers for Mrs Salty and all the morons. We all need the blessings.
Posted by: Megthered at April 19, 2025 04:26 PM (53lLZ)
Posted by: olddog in mo at April 19, 2025
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Are they familiar with dogs and it's just that there's a new presence, or is Canis familiaris completely new to them?
"Gee, Fluffy, it's got four legs like we do, but its ears don't stand up. And it doesn't know how to meow!"
"Code Yellow, Mr. Whiskers. We'll investigate. I say again, Code Yellow."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 04:31 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 04:32 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2025 04:33 PM (mT+6a)
At least you didn't find a hare in your soup
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 19, 2025 04:33 PM (kTd/k)
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At least you didn't find a hare in your soup
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 19, 2025
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I'm reminded of the "hare" puns the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons would use as titles for Bugs Bunny adventures. "A Wild Hare," "Hare Ribbin'," "Hare Force," "Hare Trigger," and so forth.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 04:38 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 04:39 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: olddog in mo at April 19, 2025 04:41 PM (hoCmQ)
Posted by: DaveA at April 19, 2025 04:42 PM (FhXTo)
Lot of kitty weight on that rack of cat beds!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 19, 2025 04:42 PM (hTr6f)
Posted by: DaveA at April 19, 2025
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Four 8-12 lb. cats climbing on it, esp. the final one jumping to the very top, is a lot of stress!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 04:43 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: olddog in mo at April 19, 2025 04:43 PM (hoCmQ)
Posted by: olddog in mo at April 19, 2025 04:46 PM (hoCmQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 04:46 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: olddog in mo at April 19, 2025 04:48 PM (hoCmQ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 19, 2025 04:48 PM (Jn/cd)
Posted by: olddog in mo at April 19, 2025 04:49 PM (hoCmQ)
As many of you know, my friends cats are here everyday from 11am to about 6pm.
What you may not know is they have cats leashes where you can your indoor cat for a walk.
My friends had a birthday party for one of their kids, tons of cousins. Because I am thoroughly cleaning the house, I brought over catnip and a cat leash.
The kids put the leash on Snowflake, who is an outdoor cat except for her indoor afternoons with me. She went bat crap insane. The experiment lasted 20 seconds. Crazy video.
Hell, I'll go give her a kiss now before cleaning the purple room.
Everyone have a great weekend.
Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at April 19, 2025 04:49 PM (jvJvP)
olddog,
we have a Shih Tzu. we had two before him, both died of old age.
The breed is wonderful! We keep his coat pretty short. The grooming needed if they have the long hair is a pain.
They are such loving dogs.
Posted by: four seasons at April 19, 2025 04:51 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 04:52 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: olddog in mo at April 19, 2025 04:54 PM (hoCmQ)
The kids put the leash on Snowflake, who is an outdoor cat except for her indoor afternoons with me. She went bat crap insane. The experiment lasted 20 seconds. Crazy video.
Hell, I'll go give her a kiss now before cleaning the purple room. . . .
Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at April 19, 2025
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I tried the harness with Marie-Antoinette the smart black cat. I figured if ever a cat would go along with it, it would be her. And she did. The first time a little reluctantly; the second time with more enthusiasm; the third time, she saw the harness and ran to the door crying.
Haven't tried it with Stirling. He too is smart, easygoing, and adaptable, but he may be too grownup to adapt to that. (On the other hand, M-A was six or seven years old.)
Pretty sure Dagny won't like it. She cried piteously when Linda carried her outside for a few moments in the Snow Surprise this past January.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 04:55 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: PaleRider at April 19, 2025 05:00 PM (CKOCg)
Posted by: PaleRider at April 19, 2025 05:02 PM (CKOCg)
Posted by: olddog in mo at April 19, 2025 05:06 PM (hoCmQ)
I was actually surprised when I saw the leash in the store.
Considering we're talking cats, your 33.3% success rate is impressive.
Back to cleaning.
Good night all.
Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at April 19, 2025 05:09 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 05:09 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: mindful webworker - well dog my cats at April 19, 2025 05:14 PM (JodDy)
Considering we're talking cats, your 33.3% success rate is impressive.
Back to cleaning.
Good night all.
Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at April 19, 2025
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Since I only tried with one cat out of the dozen or so I've lived with since 1965, my success rate is a *lot* lower than that!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 05:17 PM (omVj0)
Cat has the right idea: curl up into a ball and snooze the afternoon away!
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 05:18 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 05:09 PM (yTvNw)
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Beautiful story. You both are so lucky to have each other.
Posted by: washrivergal at April 19, 2025 05:21 PM (A9jP5)
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 05:22 PM (yTvNw)
If anyone missed it on Tuesday. Jewells passed away.
from that ONT. Snailracer visited her on the 14th and said Jewells had requested that anyone that wanted to donate in her memory donate to Shep's place. OddBob had a bit in the comments too. https://acecomments.m
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Remove the space. The archives don't point correctly to comments anymore.
Posted by: PaleRider at April 19, 2025 05:23 PM (CKOCg)
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Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Then the only one I knew well was retarded. Her brain was just big enough to operate her nose. Sweet dog, but Foghorn Leghorn would have made comments.
Posted by: mikeski at April 19, 2025 05:35 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 04:00 PM (cvWHI
Almighty GOD, we lift Linda and Salty into your warm and loving hands. We know you have a peaceful home waiting for Linda if you are calling her home and room for Salty too.
Amen
Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2025 05:42 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 05:45 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Megthered at April 19, 2025 05:45 PM (53lLZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 05:57 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Askorra at April 19, 2025 07:52 PM (15YxM)
Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, April 19
Hi KT, hope you're doing well! The other day I was at Home Depot and saw woven pillars of living willow, forming a leafy green crown. I was seduced by this, and wanted to find out how it would grow over the years. In my quest for this, I came across amazing cunning structures. Here is one such video, but there are many more Bonnie Gale - Living Willow Structures
I suddenly thought, "Hey, do deer eat willow?" and of course they do, so forget about willow planting around here! The denizens of the garden thread might get a kick out of this. xoxoLotsa fun! Thanks! If willows, won't work, maybe eight similar trees, some with showier flowers, or even TWENTY.
Miley
Edible Gardening/Putting Things By There are illegal alien fruit flies in California. The county hung, then removed, traps from some of our fruit trees recently. Rules and regulations at the link.
the bowl of peas we picked from the three or four plants, the best parsley plant we’ve ever had, and next to that our first time planting celery. Heat got over 100 this week so some of the others took a hit.
Spring is in full bloom at Casa Bohunk here in SW Florida. Here's a few of the flowers that are strutin' their stuff around the house. Petunias and Geranium are hot, hot hot...pink!
Patriotic petunias and delphinium
Portulaca and dianthus are showoffs too.
The Crossandra is crushin' it with blooms and deep green leaves!
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: Skip at April 19, 2025 01:31 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: KT at April 19, 2025 01:32 PM (xekrU)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 01:33 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 19, 2025 01:40 PM (6MHxU)
Daffodils are finally blooming.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 19, 2025 01:41 PM (dnU9n)
Now it’s 50 and drizzling. The plants are loving it.
So am I.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2025 01:41 PM (mT+6a)
Do I need some sort of bug bomb for it? Not looking forward to peaking around crevices and moving things to find the nest.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2025 01:55 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 02:00 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 02:00 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 19, 2025 02:04 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: KT at April 19, 2025 02:04 PM (xekrU)
I don't know about the lilac's politics but noticed it didn't do well while Biden was in office. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not. :-)
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 02:05 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: PaleRider at April 19, 2025 02:09 PM (CKOCg)
Nice!
Posted by: KT at April 19, 2025 02:18 PM (xekrU)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 19, 2025 02:23 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: PatAZ at April 19, 2025 02:31 PM (bj34f)
Great gift idea, too.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 02:34 PM (km43Y)
It reminds me of an old song we used to perform when I was in a folk music group many many years ago: "The Cat Came Back the very next day".
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 02:37 PM (yTvNw)
Plenty of evidence of rabbits and deer on the property, but so far, our bootleg repellant is doing the job of keeping them away.
Posted by: Paco at April 19, 2025 02:39 PM (mADJX)
I'll probably post it on the hobby thread too, but if you haven't gotten one of those $30 or so battery powered handheld chainsaws, they are great. I managed a 4 inch maple limb repeatedly with the one I bought. Keep your wits about you but an absolutely outstanding little yard tool.
Great gift idea, too.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid
Where do you get one?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 19, 2025 02:43 PM (63Dwl)
Where do you get one
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Walmart or Lowes and similar probably have them, but here's the one I got.
Trying this Amazon link tool for the first time BTW
https://a.co/d/0S3nJkn
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 02:46 PM (km43Y)
Posted by: JTB at April 19, 2025 02:51 PM (yTvNw)
Deer population has exploded this year so doing a garden is just pointless. Wish the damn things ate weeds and not my attempts at growing food.
I should eat them.
Posted by: Reforger at April 19, 2025 02:52 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 19, 2025 02:53 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at April 19, 2025 02:56 PM (BW+Gb)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 19, 2025 03:09 PM (ok1wo)
Questions for the Horde:
Which tomato variety yields for the longest period?
Alternatively, which variety yields earliest in the season and which variety yields latest in the season? (So I could get by with two plants.)
I am in Zone 6. Thanks for any help.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 19, 2025 03:11 PM (HlyYF)
But better when it's nearly 80 than in 30s or 40s
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 03:17 PM (ypFCm)
Good early tomatoes are Stupice and Early Girl. Both are indeterminate. The most reliable tomato in my garden is Sungold. It's a very flavorful orange cherry tomato, and it keeps fruiting even if it's half dead from neglect or disease. Since it's a cherry tomato, I don't try to use it on sandwiches.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 19, 2025 03:20 PM (Sf2cq)
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Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 03:26 PM (cvWHI)
Well, damn! I read this morning she had gone into afib, but was revived. And that she had had a stent successfully placed yesterday.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2025 03:33 PM (8zz6B)
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Posted by: gdgm+ at April 19, 2025 03:41 PM (FyLCZ)
I have corn in a jar trying to sprout it, I have potatoes ready to dig in, I bought my first tomatoes and peppers, and the weather outside is sunny, and the light breezez feels electric. It is so nice out, the perfect spring weather here.
It is a frabjious day out. The best part of Spring
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 03:41 PM (D7oie)
Usually takes only 24hrs!
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 03:46 PM (rdVOm)
I grafted one sprout of it with a cider apple variety, and started dithering about what to do with the other, larger stem. I decided to leave it for the year since it was getting late, and today I noticed it is putting out its first blossoms, so I may find out what sort of apple I have got.
I also have some other apple varieties I grafted onto another tree and they are all putting out blooms for the first time this year too. I mislabeled one of the varieties, I know that because it put out fruit last year and Ribston apples are NOT bright green, and I also got New Hampshire greening wood at the same time but I thought it was in a separate bundle.
Remember, kids. Clearly label your scion wood and your grafted trees. don't be like me
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 03:47 PM (D7oie)
Do I need some sort of bug bomb for it? Not looking forward to peaking around crevices and moving things to find the nest.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2025 01:55 PM (t0Rmr)
I put some old mail boxes along my fence because paper wasps like to build nests in them, and the wasps eat bugs out of my garden. I have found that if I leave them alone they are happy to ignore me.
I am not sure if I would put up with a yellow jacket or a black-faced hornets' nest but they are overly aggressive.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 03:52 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 19, 2025 02:43 PM (63Dwl)
Ace Hardware sells Stanley brand, my wife bought me one. You will need a spare chain or three, know who can sharpen them for you, and make sure you have bar oil.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 03:54 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 19, 2025 03:55 PM (HlyYF)
I have plenty of space in our garden and I have some tomato supports.
Bride of PI is our usual gardener, but she is swamped with year-end school crap, so the I am going to at least grow a few things she likes.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 19, 2025 03:57 PM (HlyYF)
Third year for the hostas, and they too are going crazy.
As usual, the clematis are very impressive and are literally covered with flowers.
Vegetable garden report: we have determined that we need to rein it in. Soon enough (due to aging) we'll be completely dependent on the raised beds. So this year we'll only be utilizing about 500 row feet total. I've promised myself that I'm only doing about 2 dozen tomatoes this year. I just can't handle the heat down south the way I used to.
On the upside, I've accomplished the goal of getting up by 9 am to make breakfast for Mama Publius. That's a plus for getting a few hours of gardening in, before it gets too hot.
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Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 19, 2025 05:12 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Askorra at April 19, 2025 07:52 PM (15YxM)
Out in the yard: We planted a small new maple on Monday. The Elberta peach blossoms have faded, but the Seckel pear is in full bloom; the Warren pear is blooming sparsely. Our crabapple is in full bloom or just past. The dogwood has opened, and the redbud next to it is in full bloom. All apple trees are just getting started.
We're only going to get a few daffodils in the forsythia bed. Along the front sidewalk, the first tulips were my favorites, red and gold, with black centers - today some others have opened. A few lilacs have started blooming, and I saw some open lily of the valley bells today. Johnny Jump-Ups are blooming wherever they feel like it.
Husband is building a dry stacked stone raised bed. Trench was already dug, and filled with road mix - a ton of stone bought - and the first course laid. Today we lined the inside with plastic, and filled in the first layer with dirt.
(part 1)
Posted by: Pat* at April 19, 2025 07:55 PM (zzVqr)
We're harvesting a bit of asparagus. Some crazy strawberries have decided to flower.
I added more radishes, and had to replant cabbage, spinach, and 2 kinds of lettuce. Today, I replanted 4 kinds of carrots and started 2 more kinds of lettuce.
We decided which of the "corn bed" rows should be for beans and peas, and used a hoe to remove old corn stalks. Still working with soil test kit to see how we need to amend.
Lots of gophers... the exterminator has been called, but is slammed right now, so will get back to us when they have room in the schedule.
HOA irrigation is on - soon comes the fun of testing zones, repairing stuck sprinkler heads, and putting back together all the drip lines.
Tonight, prayers for all Horde members and friends who need them.
(part 2/end)
Posted by: Pat* at April 19, 2025 08:49 PM (zzVqr)
A little history of self-assuredness in mass media
I ran across an interesting thread on X by Mike Nayna, the Australian cinematographer and writer. Timely given the Trump Administration's efforts to shake up the self-assuredness of places like Harvard and Columbia:
In 1922, a journalist by the name of Walter Lippmann published a book called Public Opinion where he explored the limitations of the liberal democratic order in the burgeoning era of mass media. 1/n
This was a time between the world wars when innovations in radio, the telegraph, industrial printing, & cinema were being honed as powerful tools for propagandising the masses. 2/n
He argued that the public doesn’t have direct access to objective reality due to limitations in knowledge & access to information. Instead, they rely on heavily mediated info & simplified constructs to create a distorted image of reality that he called a ‘pseudo-environment’. 3/n
Lots of people adopted his ideas, including mass murderers like Mao and self-assured westerners.
The information landscape we now inhabit is full of meticulously contrived messaging that’s distributed at mass scales to elicit pre-determined behaviours from you. The practice is so commonplace that complaining about it is like yelling at a cloud. 7/n
Throughout my time wandering the halls of many cultural institutions I’ve been struck by a consistent observation - The liberal principles around free speech & an informed public I assumed governed these institutions aren’t widely believed or practised. 8/nWas there a time when you had similar assumptions?
Instead, a broad range of people employed by the media, arts, & academic institutions of the West are guided by a vision closer to the refined democracy that Walter Lippmann outlined in his book. 9/n
The public these neo-Lippmannites purport to serve isn’t conceived of as rational agents able to interpret reality for themselves but as a dangerous, racist, sexist, homophobic, infectious, & polluting collection of nodes that ought to be managed into better decisions. 10/nSounds sort of like The Horde. He has a Substack essay, too:
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: jayhawkone at April 19, 2025 11:17 AM (9rPx3)
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 19, 2025 11:18 AM (ne3+i)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 11:19 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: KT at April 19, 2025 11:21 AM (xekrU)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 11:21 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 19, 2025 11:21 AM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2025 11:22 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: LASue at April 19, 2025 11:22 AM (lCppi)
Instead, they rely on heavily mediated info & simplified constructs
Find me a human that does something else, and I'll find you a psychopath.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2025 11:24 AM (mlg/3)
Assassinating Trump is, in their deranged minds, the same as assassinating Hitler in 1933.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 11:25 AM (VofaG)
351 320 It's like machinists. Folks don't realize it's mostly CNC machines, which require the machinist be able to program them. This whole argument also ignores all the illegals currently in this country. They won't go away immediately. If this was a real issue, they would be creating guest worker programs, to get people here legally.
I saw an interesting video about Foxconn moving all its phone-building machines out of China. Truck after truck had been loaded with them for a month. The Chinese authorities were trying desperately to slow the exodus, but it was a foregone conclusion. l believe the destination was Vietnam or India.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 11:26 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 19, 2025 11:26 AM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 11:26 AM (s8j++)
Wow, that's something I hadn't thought about - just moving the tooling from China. That absolutely shortens the timeline for ramping up domestic production, as does bringing back American staff.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 11:28 AM (ZOv7s)
We used to have a word for that: "Culture"
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 19, 2025 11:28 AM (a4flb)
The classics in this category include "pouncing" and "seizing", but also often include characterizing someone's speech as "ranting".
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 11:28 AM (s8j++)
Everyone is replaceable as the saying goes.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 11:29 AM (VofaG)
Used to be a news story would be “these events happened at this location at this time and the people involved were X and Y.”
Now that same even is reported as
“Due to the actions Of X, Y has been affected in this way. And now let’s get an opinion from an expert telling us how awful X is and how congress can create a new law to help Y.”
X is automatically the bad guy and Y is automatically the victim. And this news story is seen as objective and true by most consumers of that reporting.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:29 AM (DKKgv)
Thanks. It was actually appropriate because I did turn into Cristina Amanpour last night. She had on the governor of Massachusetts.
Our perceived realities are so far apart.
My favorite line was from the governor who commented that MAGA support is evaporating and we need to continue to pressure Trump to change course.
Defund PBS, btw.
Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at April 19, 2025 11:30 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:30 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 11:30 AM (CQE5S)
The media has fact checkers now.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 11:30 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: LASue at April 19, 2025 11:22 AM (lCppi)
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Yes, but the information market was much more fragmented and decentralized. Every town had multiple newspapers and a reporter getting a 'scoop' wrong got fired instantly.
That persisted for a long time. Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair come to mind.
The difference now is the concentration of media and its open indifference to truth. Name a single reporter who got fired for being wrong about Trump? How can Jake Tapper still be employed after a painful defamation suit?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 11:30 AM (ZOv7s)
Oh, and "without evidence" has been moving up quickly in the rankings.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 11:31 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at April 19, 2025 11:31 AM (hhuMF)
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 11:31 AM (s8j++)
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That one is so painfully stupid.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 11:32 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:30 AM (DKKgv)
zero tariff declaration didn't hurt.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 11:33 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 11:34 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 11:30 AM (VofaG)
They weirdly didn’t fact check bloodbath. Or how Trump wanted Liz Cheney executed. Or the Puerto Rico joke. Or Maryland Man. Or the other 718 million lies told about Trump on a daily basis by the msm.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:34 AM (DKKgv)
There is no moral prohibition to lying. If you believe that information is power, then telling truth is the same as sharing power.
If you live in a world of delusion and projection, then lies, by necessity, are the vessels of communicating your world view - other wise it would be cognitive dissonance if you believe that, after you weaponized government, that Trump is weaponizing government, then saying that he isn't would be, in your mind, lying.
Those who reject God and adopt a fully materialistic and nihilistic world view do not have a conscience and what replaces morals and transcendent values is fealty to process and procedure. Its the defiance of the Rules Based Order that is the sin, not any moral violations.
Lies are the tools used to communicate procedural "values" over moral values. The left doesn't have the vocabulary to understand morality.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 19, 2025 11:34 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:30 AM (DKKgv)
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I'll have to congratulate my uncles on their delayed win over Vietnam.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 11:35 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 11:31 AM
When I hear or see that in print I automatically assume the writer has no good argument to counter whatever point is being made.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 19, 2025 11:36 AM (e5NfL)
Lies are the tools used to communicate procedural "values" over moral values. The left doesn't have the vocabulary to understand morality.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 19, 2025 11:34 AM (a4flb)
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At the time of the Founding Fathers, it was common for atheists to be barred from holding public office since their oath had no meaning.
We should get back to that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 11:36 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:37 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:34 AM (DKKgv)
sure they did. How do you think Trump was elected again. The same people continued to repeat the lies but many other apolitical persons were presented the truth through the internet and eyes were opened. They continue to be opened with the community commentary on X.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 11:39 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:39 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 11:39 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:40 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: The Media Lies 24/7 at April 19, 2025 11:41 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:30 AM (DKKgv)
Yup. You'd be surprised at what papa-son will build for a carton of cigarettes.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 19, 2025 11:42 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Pappymayhem was a veteran of the Vietnam conflict. He would be laughing at how quickly the commies surrendered to Trump.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 19, 2025 11:42 AM (2J/Lj)
Had Hoover done nothing the depression would have been long gone by 1932 and he’d probably be a 2 term president.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:43 AM (DKKgv)
My bad. Sentence structure could cause confusion.
The Media has INTERNET fact checkers now.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 11:43 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:39 AM (DKKgv)
First, they need to keep the lights on. Once they can do that consistently, they might have a chance.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 11:44 AM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 11:31 AM
When I hear or see that in print I automatically assume the writer has no good argument to counter whatever point is being made.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 19, 2025 11:36 AM (e5NfL)
I picture the writer being approached with the evidence and quickly covering their ears and saying "LALALALA I can't hear you!"
Posted by: LASue at April 19, 2025 11:45 AM (lCppi)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:39 AM (DKKgv)
First, they need to keep the lights on. Once they can do that consistently, they might have a chance.
Also, hats made of fruit are incompatible with a clean room.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 11:45 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2025 11:44 AM (VNX3d)
And can we think of a reason why they can't keep those lights on? Just any little reason? What could it possibly be? Could it be..... Communism?!?!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 19, 2025 11:47 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 19, 2025 11:47 AM (2J/Lj)
China and Vietnam figured it out.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:48 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 19, 2025 11:48 AM (ne3+i)
I've read Lippmann's book, he wasn't arguing that any of this is a good thing.
What's funny is, there's something of an update to Lippmann's thesis, and it was written by.... drumroll please...
Douglas Murray!
The book, The Madness of Crowds essentially updates Lippmann's perspective, and gives example after example of ways the public is manipulated by mass consumption of the same narrative.
It's a terrific book. Everyone should read it. Douglas would benefit from reading it, again.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 11:49 AM (NrEAT)
Posted by: TV Facts and Foibles at April 19, 2025 11:50 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:39 AM (DKKgv)
Cubans can be proud, disagreeable, hot headed and volatile as well as lazy and prone to drink. Also, everyone on the island has an STD or 2 from all the dirty euros and canadians using the place for sex tourism over the last 50 years as well as our african adventures which did not go as planned.
Posted by: Zombie Fidel Castro at April 19, 2025 11:50 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 11:50 AM (ypFCm)
( Hoover's autobiography indicates taking the advice to let the banks fail was his biggest regret IIRC)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 11:50 AM (VofaG)
Oh, and "without evidence" has been moving up quickly in the rankings.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 11:31 AM (s8j++)
And falsely implying causation by using "amid," as in "Long Term Government Worker Dies Amid Stress and Confusion of DOGE's Meddling."
Posted by: LASue at April 19, 2025 11:50 AM (lCppi)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 19, 2025 11:51 AM (i5Vkf)
Posted by: Put In Another Quarter, Juan at April 19, 2025 11:51 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:48 AM (DKKgv)
Embrace capitalism for world trade while continuing to brutally repress the country citizens? It's a choice I guess.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 19, 2025 11:52 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 11:53 AM (VofaG)
Put them on a US diet and they will plump up and be full of metabolic and mental disorders in no time at all.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 19, 2025 11:53 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 19, 2025 11:47 AM (2J/Lj)
China and Vietnam figured it out.
They talk a good Commie game, but they aren't really Communist anymore, they're just good old-fashioned dictators who view their populations as slaves to be manipulated by their betters.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 11:53 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 19, 2025 11:53 AM (ne3+i)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 19, 2025 11:54 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: LASue at April 19, 2025 11:50 AM (lCppi)
Capitol police officer dies in aftermath of J6 insurrection (left out of the headline: it was a heart attack and he was very overweight)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 19, 2025 11:54 AM (i5Vkf)
Newspapers are dead. Television is dying.
Pretty much everyone today is holding their Omniscient Glowing Rectangle™ and getting the information they desire from a source that conforms to their particular world view as seen through a porthole the size of a 3X5 card.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 19, 2025 11:55 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:48 AM (DKKgv)
Embrace capitalism for world trade while continuing to brutally repress the country citizens? It's a choice I guess.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 19, 2025 11:52 AM (2J/Lj)
Yup
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 19, 2025 11:56 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 19, 2025 11:56 AM (ne3+i)
Posted by: LASue at April 19, 2025 11:45 AM (lCppi)
Best example was the LA fire, where the in studio talking heads were saying there was no evidence the water supply was empty, then they went to an in the field reporter who immediately said...
I just talked to the fire chiefs, and they said they have a problem in that there is no water in the hydrants with which to fight the fires.
Oops.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 11:56 AM (bZhLu)
Posted by: Put In Another Quarter, Juan at April 19, 2025 11:51 AM (G5+As)
Puerto Ricans are proud, disagreeable, hot headed and volatile as well as lazy and prone to doing lots of drugs.
Also, everyone on the island has an STD or 3 from all their relatives in New York City who are in the prostitution and drug trade.
Posted by: Zombie Jose Ferrer at April 19, 2025 11:56 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 19, 2025 11:56 AM (i5Vkf)
Posted by: LASue at April 19, 2025 11:50 AM (lCppi)
Capitol police officer dies in aftermath of J6 insurrection (left out of the headline: it was a heart attack and he was very overweight)
Ewok crushed in shelving incident despite amid copious instructions on how to operate a drill.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 11:57 AM (s8j++)
This is about us, isn't it?
Posted by: Cheetos and Twinkies at April 19, 2025 11:57 AM (dg+HA)
That's true for the Left but the majority on the Right still seek the truth and accuracy. AOS is proof of that.
You will be fact checked and corrected in a second which is a good thing and I appreciate it.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 11:57 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Sharp As A Tack! at April 19, 2025 11:59 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 11:53 AM (s8j++)
I've heard it said Ho Chi Minh had never been a communist, until very late in the conflict (from their perspective, not ours), when the commies decided to fund and supply him.
Then he adopted their language. I always got the impression, after we left, Vietnam just sorta went to doing their own thing, not really caring what the commie line was.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:00 PM (kFCpM)
Posted by: Leaven Is Good at April 19, 2025 12:01 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 19, 2025 12:01 PM (ne3+i)
'Wow, that's something I hadn't thought about - just moving the tooling from China. '
That's got to be a hell of a drive from China to India.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 12:01 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 19, 2025 11:56 AM (i5Vkf)
No, again, I'm not sure whether the author KT is quoting is thinking Lippmann was in favor of any of this. He wasn't. His book, Public Opinion, was being argued AGAINST this type of mass brainwashing of the public.
I believe he was a lifelong Republican (and not the kind we get as commenters here, who claim to be lifelong Republicans who will now vote for [fill in the lefty] because Trump said "grab their puthy."
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:02 PM (kFCpM)
We used to have a word for that: "Culture"
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 19, 2025 11:28 AM (a4flb)
With the Large Language Models' theory, I have come to the conclusion that it is "tokens" and that culture is actually a shared consensus of tokens.
Tokens being a mental analog for what is understood as discrete portions of reality, codified for ease of use, and of differing levels of granularity. We don't perceive reality, we assign tokenized concepts for what we perceive, so we can shuffle and mentally manipulate what we perceive to extract meaning.
Reality without context, without understanding, is just pretty lights and sounds.
(If I had followed my fancy of following linguistics, I would be writing a book on this. Oh, and Noam Chomsky is inept)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 12:02 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:03 PM (VofaG)
'X is automatically the bad guy and Y is automatically the victim. And this news story is seen as objective and true by most consumers of that reporting.'
You've captured it pretty well.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 12:03 PM (3wi/L)
of course having survived the purges he made it to China where the foolish Americans like Archimedes Patti bought his substory, rinse and repeat with Fidel, and lincoln kirkpatrick, who bought his future brothers wife Vilma Espins assurances,
Posted by: miguel cervantes at April 19, 2025 12:04 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Macbeth at April 19, 2025 12:05 PM (dg+HA)
https://youtu.be/_tiOMu_Bf8Q?si=uaMWoEb-JmTk4Dlf
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 19, 2025 12:05 PM (VJc7E)
'The "great" depression was only "great" because the new media in 1929 such as radio and movie reels hollered and screeched about how bad it was.'
That and the 25% unemployment.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 12:06 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: miguel cervantes at April 19, 2025 12:06 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:02 PM (kFCpM)
Ah, got it. Thank you. I was confused
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 19, 2025 12:06 PM (ANuwa)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 19, 2025 12:06 PM (ANuwa)
I'm still confused.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:08 PM (kFCpM)
Posted by: Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel at April 19, 2025 12:09 PM (dg+HA)
'The "great" depression was only "great" because the new media in 1929 such as radio and movie reels hollered and screeched about how bad it was.'
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That and the 25% unemployment.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 12:06 PM (3wi/L)
And 30% drop in GDP.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:09 PM (kFCpM)
That's got to be a hell of a drive from China to India.
Yeah, I thought about that. I imagine the stuff going to India was driven to a port and loaded on a ship.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 12:09 PM (s8j++)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 12:10 PM (ypFCm)
Also...
There's supposed to be an Intel chip factory going up just outside Columbus, OH. I think that one has been in the works for a while and not something "new."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2025 12:11 PM (Q4IgG)
I thought JaBiden was going to build a railroad for that.
Posted by: Comma Lah at April 19, 2025 12:11 PM (dg+HA)
'Capitol police officer dies in aftermath of J6 insurrection (left out of the headline: it was a heart attack and he was very overweight)'
That expanded to 'five officers died for various reasons'
sometime after. --> 'Aw hell, let's blame Jan. 6 for that too' --> Cocksucker General Garland saying 5 officers were killed on Jan.6
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 12:12 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Sharp As A Tack! at April 19, 2025 11:59 AM (G5+As)
For those who are going after Trump for deporting illegals, claiming this is a FUNDAMENTAL change in how the U.S. handles these cases, it was... wait for it...
Obama who put this policy into place. You could deport illegals without going to court, you just had to accuse them of being terrorists.
Now, I do think there's a problem with it, in that you COULD end up deporting the wrong guy, but of course, this guy the left is all up in arms (figuratively, mostly) about does not appear to be "the wrong guy," and frankly, those arguing the Supreme Court said Trump MUST return him are wrong. The court only said they should try.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:13 PM (kFCpM)
Posted by: miguel cervantes at April 19, 2025 12:13 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:14 PM (kFCpM)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 12:10 PM (ypFCm)
They did the same with Kennedy. He was hopped up on drugs because of various medical conditions including a very bad back.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:15 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: miguel cervantes at April 19, 2025 12:13 PM (bXbFr)
If Fidel had been able to hit a curveball, he might have had a career in the majors. And history would have been very different.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:16 PM (kFCpM)
As a side effect, it's also a popular destination for remote-work tourists. Ridiculously low cost of living, public statues honoring John Effin Kerry, what more could Millennials want?
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2025 12:17 PM (QZThv)
Absolutely. I suppose it's the best way to maintain cleanliness and allow for modular lines to be quickly assembled.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 12:17 PM (s8j++)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:16 PM (kFCpM)
Too bad Hitler wasn't accepted into the Art Academy.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:18 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:15 PM (VofaG)
And tagging tail left and right.
The famous photo of him and Bobby, with JFK standing, stoop shouldered, hands resting on a desk, they claimed it was him with the weight of the world on his shoulders, contemplating what to do next.
Nah, his back just hurt, and he didn't have any of his pills handy.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:18 PM (kFCpM)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:18 PM (VofaG)
Yeah, but objectively Hitler's art was about as good as Hunter's.
Fidel was an otherwise decent ballplayer.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:19 PM (kFCpM)
'I imagine the stuff going to India was driven to a port and loaded on a ship.'
Yes. That makes more sense. Now that I think about it, I can't see India wanting a road running to India from China.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 12:20 PM (3wi/L)
But not as far as a .30-06 bullet fired from a Winchester Model 70.
Posted by: zombie Carlos Hathcock at April 19, 2025 12:20 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Reforger at April 19, 2025 12:20 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:15 PM (VofaG)
And tagging tail left and right.
The famous photo of him and Bobby, with JFK standing, stoop shouldered, hands resting on a desk, they claimed it was him with the weight of the world on his shoulders, contemplating what to do next.
Nah, his back just hurt, and he didn't have any of his pills handy.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:18 PM (kFCpM)
I have read (forgot where) that JFK was a physical wreck during his presidency and hopped up on all kinds of drugs. Then I see the old newsreels of his speeches and he seems dynamic and cogent. I don’t know what to believe
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 19, 2025 12:22 PM (ANuwa)
Fidel was an otherwise decent ballplayer.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:19 PM (kFCpM)
don't really want to go on a tangent but Hitler was a competent artist of buildings and landscapes but was not for figures and portraits.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:22 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: PaleRider at April 19, 2025 12:24 PM (CKOCg)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 19, 2025 12:22 PM (ANuwa)
I think it's accurate to say he had access to good drugs. I would suggest he had a good mind, and was a fairly deep thinker, but there were times when he was off the grid, precisely because he was physically impaired.
So when you see him in public, those are the times he was feeling better, or the meds he was on didn't affect his ability to speak.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:24 PM (kFCpM)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 19, 2025 12:22 PM (ANuwa)
That should confirm it for you. They drugged up Biden the same way.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:25 PM (VofaG)
Moreover, USAID was propping up fake media and censorship world-wide. They controlled 90% of media in Ukraine post-2014, for instance. It'll be interesting to see if there's a revolt against the dick pianist as that falls off.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2025 12:26 PM (QZThv)
'don't really want to go on a tangent but Hitler was a competent artist of buildings and landscapes'
Not good enough for the Art Academy but good enough for Art junior college.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 12:26 PM (3wi/L)
https://tinyurl.com/mwhj79c2
(Yes, he addresses the radiocarbon dating issue: more went on with that than we were told at the time.)
Posted by: Beverly at April 19, 2025 12:26 PM (Epeb0)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:27 PM (VofaG)
He needed a gimmick, like painting with his dick.
Posted by: V.Z. from KEEEEEV at April 19, 2025 12:27 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 11:26 AM (s8j++)
Wow, that's something I hadn't thought about - just moving the tooling from China. That absolutely shortens the timeline for ramping up domestic production, as does bringing back American staff.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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This is exactly how much of American industry was off-shored.
Sometimes wiith a sweet tax exempt bonus - Set up shop with all new tooling in a state / city that'll give you a 'x' year tax abatement. Then go 'bankrupt' soon as the abatement runs out, sell the tooling to a sibling company (writing off the loss) and ship it all overseas.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 19, 2025 12:28 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 12:28 PM (s8j++)
Posted by: Beverly at April 19, 2025 12:28 PM (Epeb0)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:22 PM (VofaG)
Hey man, Tangents-R-Us.
I just looked... yeah, some are quite well done, but I wonder, there's a very distinct difference between some of his paintings. Looks like some of the buildings were perhaps traced from photos, and then colored in.
Where they seem more "freestyle," I'd say yeah, they're amateurish.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:28 PM (AUuUW)
'Hitler was a physical wreck too but the drugs allowed him to be a maniac on the stage .'
You know who else are physical wrecks but are maniacs on stage through the power of drugs?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 12:29 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 12:29 PM (3wi/L)
ROCK AND ROLLLLLL !!!
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:30 PM (VofaG)
Good point. I had not even thought about the influence on foreign press and SM.
Posted by: PaleRider at April 19, 2025 12:31 PM (CKOCg)
Posted by: illiniwek at April 19, 2025 12:31 PM (Cus5s)
On the nose.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 12:31 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:27 PM (VofaG)
He was a needle injecting Amphetemine addict. Three times a day for a long time. His "doctor" was close right until... the end? Or will we find out more from the Argentinia files release?
Posted by: Reforger at April 19, 2025 12:31 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 19, 2025 12:32 PM (gm9Sb)
On the nose.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 12:31 PM (3wi/L)
Ahem. *In* the nose.
Posted by: Steven Tyler, Stevie Nicks, etc. etc. at April 19, 2025 12:32 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2025 12:26 PM (QZThv)
The Politico story seemed to come and go quickly. They were funded by USAID (read, CIA).
I've heard it said CIA had plenty of so-called journalists on their payroll over the years, I wonder how much of it was filtered through this fake org. We really do need a full accounting, and not just ridicule at funding Sri Lankan trans theater, and such.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:33 PM (NrEAT)
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 19, 2025 12:33 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: PaleRider at April 19, 2025 12:31 PM (CKOCg)
Elon's already said the EU's threats against 𝕏 are an obvious stalking-horse for trying to rebuild the censorship apparatus. Nina Jankowicz needs artisanal toast, or something.
Posted by: Michael Sembello at April 19, 2025 12:34 PM (QZThv)
https://is.gd/1FsqtU
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 12:28 PM (s8j++)
Start the speculation:
1. Dad gets shot instead of mom.
2. Bambi is
A. Female
B. Gay
3. Trans
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:36 PM (NrEAT)
Hell even the Godfather showed its done .
And we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we Tom?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:37 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 12:37 PM (3wi/L)
Yeah. Whatever's left has gone into deep cover, although one of the hidden versions just got shut down after Rubio talked to Mike Benz (who's on this stuff like a bloodhound).
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2025 12:37 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 19, 2025 12:38 PM (QfIFm)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 19, 2025 12:39 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 11:34 AM (ZOv7s)
Google needs to be utterly destroyed. One thing that I believe Trump could do is have the FCC require that all smartphones sold be completely free of any Google accounts and apps (ditto for iPhones and Apple accounts). If you want that shit, you have to apply for it, and have it installed on your phone. And make it retroactive. Require all vendors who sell smartphones to provide Google-free operating systems to be installed on demand.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2025 12:39 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:39 PM (VofaG)
2. Bambi is
A. Female
B. Gay
3. Trans
There is no dad, Bambi's mom is a Strong Doe Who Don't Need No Man.
Bambi is black and gay and missing a leg.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2025 12:39 PM (QZThv)
Also for criminals evading the long arm of US law.
It’s a no extradition country
Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2025 12:40 PM (GgwvW)
Also for criminals evading the long arm of US law.
It’s a no extradition country
Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2025 12:40 PM (GgwvW)
There is a really good movie with Matt Dillion and James Cann called City of Ghosts that takes place in Cambodia. At least I think its very under-rated.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:43 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 19, 2025 12:39 PM (gm9Sb)
Then they go fag bashing after getting trashed.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 19, 2025 12:43 PM (QlkYi)
Android only exists to prop up Google's ad engine. If that's taken away, there will be no operating system to install. Or at least not one that isn't controlled by the profit motive-less hard Communists who've taken over Linux.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2025 12:43 PM (QZThv)
'Start the speculation:
1. Dad gets shot instead of mom.
2. Bambi is
A. Female
B. Gay
3. Trans
He's black and voiced by Kevin Hart.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 12:44 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:39 AM (DKKgv)
Trump should be doing some quiet diplomacy to bring Cuba into the MAGA sphere. They can't even keep the lights on, or feed themselves. It would be a huge win if he could get Cuba's leaders to renounce Communism and rejoin a free market.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2025 12:44 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:44 PM (VofaG)
Or give every Miami Cuban an AR and a crate of ammo and let them borrow a lot of boats.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2025 12:45 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 19, 2025 12:45 PM (6n6EQ)
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2025 12:37 PM (QZThv)
I have wondered what Rubio's role was supposed to be in this admin.
One might even say he could be useful, in letting the rest of the team know when they're getting too close to hitting one of those rails. Not to keep them away from them, but to be better able to touch them strategically.
I think that might be Bondi's role too.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:45 PM (ltVPJ)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 19, 2025 12:46 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 19, 2025 12:46 PM (6n6EQ)
Posted by: The Bay of Pigs at April 19, 2025 12:47 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:47 PM (VofaG)
"Heute Deutschland; Morgan die Welt!"
Folk loved it!
Posted by: rodney stanton at April 19, 2025 12:47 PM (hUvPf)
One might even say he could be useful, in letting the rest of the team know when they're getting too close to hitting one of those rails. Not to keep them away from them, but to be better able to touch them strategically.
Yeah, I think in part the intent is that his perceived milquetoast-ness means he can get into things without raising alarms the way Steve Miller or Elon or Pete Hegseth might.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2025 12:48 PM (QZThv)
'The Caribbean would be great if it wasn't so dangerous.'
You mean if all the Caribbeans didn't live there?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 12:48 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: The Bay of Pigs at April 19, 2025 12:47 PM (dg+HA)
Cuba is much, much weaker now than it was in 1962. And both Russia and China have large-scale distractions going.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2025 12:49 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:44 PM (VofaG)
Just the once, the live action version.
There's a sequel, which sucks bigly, but there's also a version they numbered Lion King 1 1/2, which is actually pretty good.
Showing the story from Timon and Pumba's point of view.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:50 PM (ftih5)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 12:48 PM (3wi/L)
Some more than others. After all Caribbean means cannibal.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:51 PM (VofaG)
Because PR was run by grifter Democrats. They've since elected a Republican governor for the first time in who knows how long, but that's still going to be an uphill battle.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2025 12:52 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2025 12:48 PM (QZThv)
That's possible, if he's truly loyal to Trump. Maybe he is, but I suspect he is still tied to some anti-Trump factions in the party.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:53 PM (ftih5)
This is why I want to see all the Palestinians rounded up and dropped off in Haiti.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2025 12:53 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 19, 2025 12:55 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 12:48 PM (3wi/L)
Some more than others. After all Caribbean means cannibal.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:51 PM (VofaG)
I thought it meant clip used to help you climb rocks.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:55 PM (IUr7k)
They're eating the dogs
They're eating the cats
Of the people who live there
Posted by: Kiffness at April 19, 2025 12:57 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:53 PM (ftih5)
I think he is truly loyal to the historic moment and does not want to be left out
Posted by: MAC V SOG at April 19, 2025 12:57 PM (P4Pk9)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Peuto Rico would like a word with you.
Posted by: From about That Time at April 19, 2025 12:58 PM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 12:48 PM (3wi/L)
Some more than others. After all Caribbean means cannibal.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 12:51 PM (VofaG)
I thought it meant clip used to help you climb rocks.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 12:55 PM (IUr7k)
Elaine’s mimbo (male bimbo) got his beautiful face ruined because George and Kramer mishandled one of those caribiners! But George does make a beautiful chicken salad sandwich…. A Seinfeld for every season…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 19, 2025 01:00 PM (P/Wjn)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2025 01:01 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2025 12:43 PM (QZThv)
Android itself is technically "open-source", and was a fork off Linux. You can de-google and android phone, but it is a PITA for most of us. Technically, what I propose is eminently practical.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2025 01:02 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
***********
So are you saying that you can appreciate Hitler's perspective?
Posted by: muldoon at April 19, 2025 01:02 PM (/iMjX)
I thought that was called advertising.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2025 01:03 PM (mca1W)
https://youtu.be/Po-tSDxGvj0
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at April 19, 2025 01:03 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 19, 2025 01:03 PM (6n6EQ)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2025 01:01 PM (VE6XX)
of course only Thomas and Alito dissented. But The Left will still categorize Trump's SC selections as Trump's far Right stooges.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 01:04 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 19, 2025 01:05 PM (6n6EQ)
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They're not paying enough.
Posted by: Stoner living in his parent's basement at April 19, 2025 01:05 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 19, 2025 01:03 PM (6n6EQ)
of Course Obama did and it wasn't a problem because reasons...
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 01:05 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: It's me donna
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Part of me thinks this is a veiled attempt to goad Trump into another impeachment fiasco. One with a better chance of success.
I don't think Trump will fall for it, but it will effectively leave 25+ million illegals here for the duration of his term is this isn't resolved in his favor.
And... complicates the next GOP candidate's chances too. Which is probably "The Plan™"
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2025 01:06 PM (Q4IgG)
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Hands off what ? Illegals? Fraud and abuse in Government ?Boys in girls bathrooms/ sports ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2025 01:07 PM (VE6XX)
A nice lady missed out on a $2600 car.
If inflation is theft, then damn.
Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at April 19, 2025 01:08 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 19, 2025 01:10 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 19, 2025 01:13 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2025 01:01 PM (VE6XX)
I think this is a tipping point. He is the president, the chief executive. As such, I would like to see prepare the way for nullification of certain court rulings in the name of his Constitutionally sacred obligations to the nation. I would like to see a careful plan assembled by his team of lawyers with outside help from distinguished Constitutional law scholars, followed by a national address, and complete with a challenge to the legislative branch to proceed with impeachment if they come to decide it is necessary.
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 19, 2025 01:15 PM (vsTPo)
I thought that was called advertising.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2025 01:03 PM (mca1W)
It really is, there's so much "paid content" that goes on so-called news sites, and newscasts, and into newspapers, many are more open about what is and is not advertising.
Many obviously are not. And that doesn't even get into the question of so-called journalists who are already bought and paid for by various big money sources.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 01:18 PM (kobze)
Posted by: jsg at April 19, 2025 01:19 PM (UJ+K5)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 19, 2025 01:01 PM (VE6XX)
Being in the right, he can call their bluff. Or be stymied for four years on his most important objectives.
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 19, 2025 01:22 PM (vsTPo)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 01:23 PM (ypFCm)
The Uniparty is trying to survive the week.
I could be wrong...
Posted by: jsg at April 19, 2025 01:24 PM (UJ+K5)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 01:18 PM (kobze)
In Mexico in the 70's when the government allowed a free press but had a monopoly on the production and sale of newsprint paper, it had both an over view of what all got printed and got to provide articles on demand. Eventually it got bad enough that the journalists and editors came to the agreement that all news articles that were supplied by the Mexican government had headlines in italics, so the reporters wouldn't be fooled and take them as actual news when doing their own reporting.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 01:25 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: jsg at April 19, 2025 01:19 PM (UJ+K5)
That will last until the DOJ requires the housing and feeding of the backlog of deportees to be borne by the courts holding the hearings, I suspect.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 01:27 PM (D7oie)
He argues this is a "rightwing consent", because he is a leftwing extremist, so it is right of him, but overall something has certainly changed in America.
As a simple example of this - imagine taking a group of voters from say 2005. How would they vote on child sexual mutilation, importing rapists and gang members and putting them on welfare, and the semi-legalization of pedophilia?
95-5 or more against right? And while I do acknowledge our voting tallies are corrupted, I think its fair to argue 30-40% of the country now votes for the things a generation ago they not just overwhelmingly opposed but would have claimed no sane person would ever support.
You only get to that point via massive propaganda.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2025 01:28 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 01:23 PM (ypFCm)
This issue NEEDS to be adjudicated, once and for all: Do the courts claim that everyone who steps into this country without proper procedure to be here legally, must now get a day in court before they can be removed?
If so, we don't have a country.
So be it. Courts, say so. Once and for all, so we know where to go from here.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 01:30 PM (5PP+G)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 01:23 PM (ypFCm)
10 million illegals needing deportation means 10 million individual hearings, which of course can never be done, and that's the entire point of the exercise.
Posted by: Elaine at April 19, 2025 01:30 PM (uWKK8)
Trump needs to note he is following the precedent of Roosevelt v Hirohito and use the army to start expelling the invaders...
And if a judge opposes well, what what have happened to a judge that opposed allowing FDR free reign against invaders in 1942?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2025 01:30 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 01:31 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 01:23 PM (ypFCm)
So, just let Trump nominate a bunch of us Morons as Federal Immigration judges. We each get a list of criteria upon which to determine gang membership, the final one being: "Oh, for fuck's sake, this bozo is a gangster. Just look at his sad ass!"
Each of us works 3 hours a week, and processes ten cases an hour. If their lawyers object, declare them to be in comtempt, and sentence them to be flogged.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2025 01:31 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2025 01:31 PM (t0Rmr)
Waiting until one group or the other initiates a mass casualty event doesn't seem prudent.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2025 01:31 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2025 01:31 PM (8zz6B)
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"Bailiff! Seize him and spank him!"
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 19, 2025 01:33 PM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 01:25 PM (D7oie)
I've seen some online sites that do that, sort of. Put "Paid Advertisement" somewhere at the top of an article.
Some are more insidious though. One obvious example is the latest Hollowood garbage. How much do sites and papers and teevee get paid to promote the new Dinsey product, or Amazon claptrap? I know guys like Drinker and Nerdrotic mock them as "paid shills," and I guess they are.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 01:35 PM (kyrOa)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 19, 2025 01:36 PM (M1gYD)
Let’s not get carried away here. The ‘29 collapse was extraordinarily bad. Keep in mind the banks collapsed. There was no FDIC. You had money in the bank, it was gone. The End. If you had kept your cash behind a brick in the fireplace, you were fine. But most people didn’t do that.
You entire life savings, gone. Now, your employer goes belly up. You have no job.
Official numbers were 25 per cent Unemployment. Keep in mind, in those days Farmers and Ranchers were not considered part of the workforce for statistical purposes. Nor were government employees - military, postal service, and federal workers.
The US economy was prostrate.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 19, 2025 01:36 PM (tM8U8)
And if a judge opposes well, what what have happened to a judge that opposed allowing FDR free reign against invaders in 1942?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2025 01:30 PM (t0Rmr)
Jimmy Dore did a deep dive into this topic, showing how Obama is the one who implemented this policy of deporting without "due process."
Now, Jimmy's an old style lefty, he's opposed to the mass deportations, but he's pointing out what hypocrites the lefties are, for not acknowledging Bobama's doing it.
And of course they are.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 01:38 PM (kyrOa)
My conclusion was that the world is chock full of very clever and very well compensated people whose entire shtick is to manipulate entertainment, media, and political discourse to make people feel dissatisfied with whatever they have.
Once I realized that these are my enemies and that these fucking minions of satan have declared war on me and everything I hold dear, my stress level has nearly flatlined.
Posted by: biteme at April 19, 2025 01:38 PM (xWS9V)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 11:39 AM
When they lie they but speak their native tongue.
Posted by: toby928 reminds at April 19, 2025 01:43 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: toby928 reminds at April 19, 2025 01:58 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Reforger at April 19, 2025 12:20 PM (xcIvR)
And you'll get arrested for it. See eg Jeff Gray.
Posted by: Free speech except the speech the state doesnt like at April 19, 2025 02:16 PM (TbWk/)
Sooo... the Native American Indians all got individual hearings before being deported to Reservations?
WW2.. Japanese Internment camps? all got individual hearings?
Project Wetback post WW2....
More, every American citizen who got their rights taken during the Covid Lockdowns got individual hearings as to whether they could go to CHURCH?
The Court is taking more power unto itself. It is a blatant power grab outside its own authority... but then... that is what happens when you have the Courts and ONLY the Courts, defining what powers they have.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 19, 2025 02:24 PM (QAkQ3)
Lets see... Fed Res System created in 1913...
Depression caused by Banks crashing... 1929... just 16 years later.
2008 Economic crises... caused by banks playing with large groups of mortgages and treating them as tradeable resources... without keeping good track of who owned which mortgage... and using those as part of their bank reserves (which was fine with the Fed Res, until it wasn't).
Inflation... flat out caused by the amount of money created by banks via Fractional Lending... they literally create money, taking away the value of your money...
Sounds like we have a banking problem to me.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 19, 2025 02:31 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 19, 2025 02:24 PM
Exactly so. Until they are curbed they will push as far as they can.
Posted by: toby928 at April 19, 2025 02:35 PM (jc0TO)
Supreme Court BLOCKS migrant deportations as Trump pushes presidential powers to the brink
By JAMES CIRRONE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 02:39 EDT, 19 April 2025 | Updated: 03:00 EDT, 19 April 2025
Posted by: toby928 at April 19, 2025 02:48 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: LASue at April 19, 2025 02:54 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 03:25 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Archimedes
I'm right here.
But when I say "I'm right here," people take me at my word and ignore me.
* sigh *
Posted by: Despite Evidence to the Contrary at April 19, 2025 03:45 PM (DgGvY)
Next step - Trump cannot repel an invasion because the invaders were not as well organized and armed as SCROTUS deems required for a real invasion.
... wait, they just did that.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 19, 2025 04:04 PM (/lPRQ)
Next step - Trump cannot repel an invasion because the invaders were not as well organized and armed as SCROTUS deems required for a real invasion.
... wait, they just did that.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 19, 2025 04:04 PM (/lPRQ)
During Covid, the Supreme Court stated time and again they were AOK with taking away Natural Born Citizens Constitutional Rights, because there was a National Emergency.
Trump has already declared Illegal Immigration to be a National Emergency.
So the Courts will intervene on the behalf of those who should not even be here, but will not intervene for actual Citizens.
OK then.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 19, 2025 04:13 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Askorra at April 19, 2025 07:53 PM (15YxM)
The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. It has been a sad week here at the Horde family. It's a good day to be alive. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Spring Green) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be nice, be kind. And no you can't tie your younger sibling up with zip ties.
3) No! Don't even think about it! No running with sharp objects.
4) Have a blessed Easter.
Prayer Requests:
1/18 – Jrgunn77 requested prayers for health, which was fine a few months ago, but recently has been his with extremely high BP spikes, anxiety attacks, constant headaches, and hernia troubles. Jrgunn is on meds for the BP and anxiety, scheduled for a colonoscopy, and has referrals for a cardiologist and neurologist. These out of the blue anxieties are the worst. Jrgunn also asked for prayers for a friend from church, Rodney, who has recently suffered lung failure and is on oxygen, to come home from the hospital, and Pastor Ben and his brother, for comfort after the passing of their little sister from drug addiction. 3/8 Update – Pneumonia has cleared, and the neurologist is treating him for Parkinsonian tremor. The CT scan showed 3 hernias. The BP, head pressure, and physical strength is better and he was able to work a couple of hours. Rodney is awake, but has intestinal bleeding. They are still waiting for test results, and if they are bad, he will be knocked off the transplant list. He’s still on 100% oxygen. 3/8 Update – Lester Fahrner posted that BP spikes and anxiety needs lab and urine tests for carcinoid tumor and pheochromocytoma. 3/15 Update – Rodney was placed on the official transplant list on 3/12. On 3/15, he received donor lungs during a 14 hour surgery. Now prayers are for his recovery and for God’s provision for the avalanche of medical bills.
1/31 – Bif Bewalski gave an update on Smash. The blood work confirmed that she does not have pancreatitis. They gave her fluids, 3 types of digestive system meds via IV, and then ignored her for 8 hours. Anyway, she is home and feeling better. 3/22 Update – They are going to run an upper GI series of tests to confirm whether a previous surgery has allowed fluid to settle onto the upper stomach, causing all the issues. Then Smash got the flu, which turned into pneumonia. On the mend now.
3/1 – antisocial justice beatnik would appreciate some prayers for Mom, who is continuing to suffer terribly from a botched medical procedure back in mid-Dec. Mom was rushed from her rehab facility to ER on 2/28, then back to the hospital that botched her care in Dec. Antisocial justice beatnik and Dad are doing their best to support her and each other, but Dad has his own existing medical issues to worry about, and AJB’s FMLA is running out. 4/5 Update – Mom has not made much (if any) rehab progress. While her current facility is much better about pain management, her bed sore pain remains a major impediment. On the plus side, her bed sore is slowly improving and doctors have decided she no longer required antibiotics for osteomyelitis. She’ll soon be transferred to yet another facility for rehab. Antisocial justice beatnick is planning to take up the DOD “Deferred Resignation Program”, which will allow for continued care for the parents while figuring out what to do for a new career.
3/1 - thefritz requests prayers for his friend Jeff, his wife, and two children. Jeff’s pancreatic cancer has spread to his liver. They have stopped chemo and moved him to home hospice. 3/17 Update – Jeff succumbed to pancreatic cancer on 3/16. Please pray for his wife and two grown children.
3/8 – Misanthropic Humanitarian offered a prayer. “Dear Father, Thank you for sparing Donald J. Trump’s life in Butler, PA. Thank you for a President who loves his country and is trying to do everything he can to improve our citizens lives. We often come to you with our troubles and not to you as often as we should when we should be thankful. We pray through Your Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.”
3/8 - Tonypete asked for prayers for K and Mr. X. K started dating Mr. X, and he is a very nice gentleman, but he mentions his late wife in every other sentence. It’s starting to wear on K.
3/8 – Ben Had asked for continued prayers for AZ deplorable as he works to get his strength back. 3/22 Update – AZ deplorable moron reports that he is on the mend after the stroke. His left side is still not up to snuff, but he is working on it. Thank you all for your prayers.
3/8 – Retired Buckeye Cop asked for prayers for his younger brother, J. He has been a police officer at a local Catholic university for 26 years. Due to internal politics, the police chief has informed J that his position (Captain) is being phased out as of 6/30 and he needs to seek employment elsewhere. May J find a new job soon.
3/8 – Piper asked for prayers for a close friend who has breast cancer. It’s already at stage 3 when it was discovered. She has chemo, surgery, and radiation coming up. She is a mom, with a son age 12. Her husband is being a trooper, but it’s hard.
3/8 – Cosda posted good news. Two years ago, we prayed for a sister who had colon cancer and was undergoing surgery and chemo. That was successful. On 3/7, her checkup showed that she was still cancer free. Thank you for the prayers and thank God for the healing.
3/13 – Teresa in Fort Worth’s health continues to improve with her cancer treatments. Her CA19-9 results continue to go down, which is great news.
3/15 – Grammie Winger updated that Rev is still weak, but he is eating and his spirits are good.
3/15 – Fenelon Spoke requested prayers for the daughter of their beloved, retired, organist. The daughter is a dear woman on her second bout of cancer and is having treatments. Thanks so much!
3/15 – Smell the glove sent thanks for the prayers. The aunt is doing well with her treatment for colon cancer.
3/15 – MkY asked for continued prayers for his wife, Judy, who was diagnosed with stage IV renal cancer 2 months ago. She is getting immunotherapy, along with another drug that is supposed to enhance immunotherapy. She is very weak, and they don’t know if the various issues she is having is due to the cancer(s) or the drugs. Probably both. In early April, she is due for another CT scan with contrast (which hurts). If the tumors have not shrunk, they will probably start alternative therapies.
3/20 – L asked for continued prayers for her daughter, Shannon. She is the Franciscan sister, who was traveling to Cleveland for surgery. The operation was a success! It involved replacement of two valves, and repair to aortic aneurysm. The surgery was 3/11, and she was released 3/18. She is staying with her aunt, a retired nurse, this week, and will go to her sister’s house for continued recovery next week. L and her husband have not seen her in person, since they came down with a bad flu, but have visited via a video call, and can see improvement. L sends her thanks for the prayers. Shannon appreciated it, L appreciated it, and it helped keep them all calmer.
3/22 – Eromero could use prayers. He was in ICU with double pneumonia, but is improving and out of ICU now. He is on a pegtube the rest of his life. 3/29 Update – Eromero sent his thanks for the prayers. He is in p/t, o/t, and eating real food, though mashed unrecognizable. He expects to be in for another 7-10 days. He also asks for the Lot’d blessing on all here who need physical or spiritual healing.
3/22 – vmom deport deport deport asked for prayers for her husband, because layoffs are expected at his company soon. 3/29 Update – Hubby is still working – the company laid off a bunch of employees but not him. He is hoping to hang on at least another year.
3/22 – screaming in digital got her mom moved into assisted living on Tuesday. There have been some rough spots, and no doubt will be more, but she is doing better than they dared hope. Many thanks for your prayers.
3/22 – J.J. Sefton posted that his latest MRI indicated no new tumor growth and the surgical wound is healing nicely. He took his final chemo pull last night, so fingers crossed, he thinks he is in the percentage of glioblastoma patients that ultimately outpace recurrence by greater than the expected timeframe. MRIs now every two months for the rest of his life. God bless you all for your prayers and kindness.
3/24 – FenelonSpoke requested prayers for a young friend, “C”, who was just in the hospital, probably for depression. Fen doesn’t have all the details yet. “C” has the intense job of being an addictions counselor and is a very bright, caring RC woman. She needs healing and the rough places made smooth. Thanks very much. 3/29 Update – Thanks so much for the prayers. “C” is out of the hospital and doing much better.
3/24 – Mister Ghost posted “Hospitals can kill you. Prayers are much better. I am stuck in a hospital in the Boston area for the 8th straight day and am starting to look like a concentration camp survivor. This is brutal and if there’s anyone who could say a prayer for me, I would be eternally grateful. Prayers carry a great deal of power. I’m not as sure about modern medicine….”
3/24 – Update on Jewell45. Her daughter posted an update, with approval to share: "Okay. Need to do a life update for mama. She hasn’t been doing so hot the last couple weeks. Like I said last month, the cancer has been spreading. She’s been declining quite a bit since then. Her energy level is very low and she’s struggling with breathing after the smallest tasks or even if shes talks too much. The decision has been made to transition to hospice care. I want to be clear here about a couple things. Number one, she is NOT in her final days although her oncologist estimates with how the cancer has progressed that she is probably down to several months, 6-9 maybe more. Number 2. She is up for visitors but not much. Please contact myself, dad or her first. She won’t last much longer than 15-20 minutes if you do stop by, so keep your expectations low. Other than that, continued prayers and good vibes are always appreciated. Much love to you all. If you have questions, feel free to contact me privately. This is obviously a difficult time as you can imagine but I’ll do my best."
3/24 – Ellipse (“…”
asked to enlist the prayers of the amazing horde, for a good friend’s wife, who is in need of a rather sudden biopsy.
3/27 Update – They are waiting on results from a mass that was somehow missed last month on a mammogram. They are understandably very scared and won’t know until 3/31. She has other symptoms too. The kids are older but not grown.
3/27 – Cosda asked the Horde to keep his wife in their prayers. She recently had a mole removed from her thigh and the biopsy report came back this morning as melanoma cancer. They will be seeing an oncologist the week of 3/31.
3/27 – Sponge sent an update. “Thank you, all of you, for your thoughts and prayers for the First Lady during this ridiculously difficult journey the last several months. Your kind words and heartfelt prayers really made a difference for her and we're eternally grateful for it. God is great and we've crossed over what should be the final big hurdle in this battle. She's over the moon excited and is feeling incredibly blessed today. God Bless you all and thank you so very much.”
3/29 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for “C”, the father of a friend. “C” has to have a benign tumor removed, which is pressing on his spine and making walking difficult.
3/29 – neverenoughcaffeine had requests: 1. Baby Isaac is now at Seattle Children’s Hospital with additional issues. He’s 2 months old and has spent lots of time in hospitals. 2. Bonnie, who was just diagnosed with a cancerous nodule in her lung. Thankfully it hasn’t spread and immunotherapy will start when she receives the drug specifically tailored to her need. 3. Charlie, who suffered a nasty fall that broke his back and cracked his skull. Two brain bleeds have incapacitated him. He has a long road to recovery. 4/5 Update – 1. Nothing new on Baby Isaac. 3. Charlie is speaking, but not easily. He is hoping to return to his home in OH the week of 4/7. Your prayers have helped. Please keep them coming for Charlie, Isaac, and Bonnie. Thank you.
3/29 – FenelonSpoke requested prayers for “J”, the grown son of a friend who is back living with his parents. He is having some mental health issues and other unspecified problems. He needs healing and rough places made smooth. Thanks.
3/29 – Our Country is Screwed asked to be kept in our prayers as he starts his chemo regimen this week.
4/1 – Sock Monkey’s family experienced a tragedy, and needs prayers. His brother-in-law and friend chose to take his own life, in a moment of despair. Please pray for Sock Monkey’s sister-in-law, their 5 children, and their beautiful granddaughter, as they grieve.
4/5 – Quarter Twenty posted his appreciation for God’s peace through treatments and surgery on his right eye. He said God has provided abundantly! He has been working to memorize Hebrews 13:20 “Now the God of peace ….” 4/5 – Tonypete humbly requested prayers for his most recent grandson, who arrived early. He was 3 pounds plus a few ounces at birth. He and his Mom are doing well and Mom was discharged from the hospital. Baby boy will be staying at the NICU for a couple of months.
4/5 – John the River asked for prayers for a friend he’s never met, Michael, who was a visitor his blog. Michael is having serious cardiac issues.
4/5 – rhennigantx asked for prayers for his daughter. She has GI issues over pain and nerve damage drugs. She was kicked out of her PhD program by lying liars that said the email they sent her that said she could sit out a semester as the class she needed was not being taught, said that they never wrote that email.
4/5 – screaming in digital requested prayers for all the Horde in need.
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: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 19, 2025 07:57 AM (e5NfL)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 19, 2025 07:57 AM (gC6Wb)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 19, 2025 08:00 AM (eaOja)
Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us now and at the hour of our deaths.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 19, 2025 08:02 AM (pJWtt)
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2025 08:02 AM (gbOdA)
Still enjoying my King Harv's Dominican Republic coffee... highly recommend.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at April 19, 2025 08:04 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2025 08:05 AM (d0eoX)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 19, 2025 08:05 AM (9Isye)
"For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world."
Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 19, 2025 08:06 AM (ZmEVT)
Matthew 27:65-66
Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2025 08:07 AM (4FYvp)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 08:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Speaking of Jesus...
the cartoon The King of Kings seems to be doing well, and has high review scores.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 19, 2025 08:07 AM (9Isye)
Posted by: fd at April 19, 2025 08:10 AM (uH1zk)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 08:11 AM (ypFCm)
All the disciples had fled, and Nicodemus had more to lose than maybe anyone, and he still stood up and did that.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 08:13 AM (Dv9LQ)
It has been difficult for the household to carry on without her, but - yet again - God had this all planned out. My youngest, whose primary activity hitherto was gaming all night on the computer, has stepped up and become a responsible adult, taking on chores without my asking, and watching the kids so that I can remain at work.
Strange to say, I haven't slept this much or this deeply in a while. As soon as the kids are in bed, I crash out, and wake refreshed. For obvious reasons, I could not attend the Good Friday service, so I prayed the Rosary instead and after some chastisement, the kids settled down and listened to me pray. Tomorrow my father will visit us for the first time since Covid, which is going to be great.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 08:13 AM (ZOv7s)
the cartoon The King of Kings
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(unfamiliar, looks)
Wow. Uma Thurman? Pierce Brosnan? Kenneth Brannaugh (that one I can kind of see)
That's interesting.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 08:14 AM (Dv9LQ)
I saw it twice. Once with FenSpouse and then with a friend whose husband didn't want to see anymore animated films after their kids grew up. I throughly enjoyed it and the voice actors all did a great job!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2025 08:15 AM (DjQfP)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 19, 2025 08:15 AM (SfhV1)
John 14:17
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10
May the Lord’s blessing be upon you all this day, especially those in need.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2025 08:16 AM (4FYvp)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 08:16 AM (Wx316)
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2025 08:17 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2025 08:18 AM (DjQfP)
Pregnant woman shows up at the legal office late at night and needs a divorce within 3 hours. Because verbally abusive husband is going to make his wife have a C-section. Um ... okay ... I thought C-sections were usually performed in extremis and the mother doesn't casually stroll-in at Zero-Dark-Thirty.
The scene that clenched that the husband was a bad guy was the pregnant THOT character saying "He wan'ts to have the baby .... *gasp* ... baptized without my permission!!!!"
Somehow, I don't think the script writers are a bunch of Anabaptists. Interesting that a TV show took time to tell the viewers that infant baptism is a bad thing.
For a bunch of people that tell us that the supernatural does not exist, they sure spend a lot of time trying to suppress it (see: silent prayer forbidden in vicinity of UK abortion abattoirs.)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 19, 2025 08:18 AM (pJWtt)
All the disciples had fled, and Nicodemus had more to lose than maybe anyone, and he still stood up and did that.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 08:13 AM (Dv9LQ)
So many events in those three days are astoundingly remarkable. Almost more than one can take in.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 19, 2025 08:18 AM (SfhV1)
There are miracles everywhere, all one needs to do is look for them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 08:19 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 08:21 AM (Wx316)
- Romans 5:8
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 19, 2025 08:22 AM (SfhV1)
I kept thinking "WTF was Judas thinking?"
I just cannot understand that.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 19, 2025 08:23 AM (ZmEVT)
Prayers for your wife, and for your family.
Does she have a patron saint I will slso pray to for her recovery.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 08:23 AM (Wx316)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 19, 2025 08:24 AM (ZEzFB)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 08:24 AM (cvWHI)
Posted by: Come and see at April 19, 2025 08:25 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2025 08:16 AM (4FYvp
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Amen!
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at April 19, 2025 08:25 AM (kOluj)
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Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 08:13 AM (ZOv7s)
I prayed a Rosary specifically for Mrs. Lloyd last Saturday. I prayed for the intentions of the Horde, both stated and unstated, yesterday on Good Friday.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 19, 2025 08:26 AM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 19, 2025 08:18 AM (pJWtt)
Right?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 08:27 AM (0JWOm)
That's interesting.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 08:14 AM (Dv9LQ)
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A bunch of celebrities have recently come out as Christian. Some may be opportunists, others just kept quiet about it for obvious reasons. Brosnan does not surprise me.
Gwen Stefani pitching the Hallowed app was a surprise. I guess she's a Catholic revert.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 08:28 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 19, 2025 08:26 AM (pJWtt)
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Based on events, your prayers were immediately heard and acted upon. Thank you!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 08:29 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 08:28 AM (ZOv7s)
I wish Hallow was a free app.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 19, 2025 08:29 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: NR Pax at April 19, 2025 08:29 AM (lXCUP)
I kept thinking "WTF was Judas thinking?"
I just cannot understand that.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 19, 2025 08:23 AM (ZmEVT)
Judas was expecting a secular Messiah that would restore an independent Kingdom of Judea.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 19, 2025 08:29 AM (pJWtt)
Posted by: NR Pax at April 19, 2025 08:29 AM (lXCUP)
And here it is Saturday. I feel for her. No fun.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 19, 2025 08:30 AM (SfhV1)
Does she have a patron saint I will slso pray to for her recovery.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 08:23 AM (Wx316)
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Thank you. Her patron is St. Therese of Lisieux.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 08:30 AM (ZOv7s)
The Man on the Middle Cross Said I Can Come
Alistair Begg
https://tinyurl.com/2ubctx8s
A scotsman in Texas IIRC. Fantastic four minute section out of a larger sermon.
Watch it because he makes some great points and has some fun comedy in it, but even shorter version for those reluctant to watch is roughly "If you arrive at the Pearly Gates and are asked "Why are you here?", any first person ("because I") response is wrong."
Worth the four minutes.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 08:32 AM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 19, 2025 08:18 AM (pJWtt)
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Remember, the greatest trick of the Devil is to convince you he doesn't exist.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2025 08:33 AM (cweKM)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Yep. I think Einstein had a quote about it. Something like "You can choose to live as though nothing is a miracle, or everything is a miracle."
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 08:34 AM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead
I emailed him and got a response yesterday. They were still waiting. I have not heard from him since but I'm going to stay optimistic and assume that it's because the little one is here and taking up all their time.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 19, 2025 08:34 AM (lXCUP)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 19, 2025 08:29 AM (pJWtt)
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My wife was raised a Southern Baptist, and was shocked at what had been cut out of their canon. She said that without Maccabees, it is impossible to really understand the Gospel story. They provide the context necessary to understand both the political situation, and the spiritual controversy that was engulfing Judaism.
Put simply, there was a template where the Jews has risen up and defeated a foreign (Hellenistic) empire by force of arms. Why not try again?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 08:34 AM (ZOv7s)
He's in a suburb of Cleveland. He's a marvelous pastor, sadly to retire this June after 40-some odd years at that church. He has a radio ministry I listen to most nights.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 19, 2025 08:35 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 08:30 AM (ZOv7s)
I will pray to St Therese
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 08:35 AM (0JWOm)
Does she have a patron saint I will slso pray to for her recovery.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 08:23 AM (Wx316)
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Thank you. Her patron is St. Therese of Lisieux.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 08:30 AM (ZOv7s)
Besides the saints to whom I have particular devotions, I always conclude a Rosary with, "All the angels and saints, pray for us." Just in case there's one of them waiting for a prayer.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 19, 2025 08:35 AM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 08:34 AM (Dv9LQ)
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I entered the Church almost 20 years ago, but it is only in the last five years that I have truly appreciated the spiritual side of the faith, the reality of angels, demons, and the visible effect they have on the world.
Biden is just a skin suit for them at this point. The way he moves, jerky motions and such. It's right out of a horror movie and yet so many people refuse to believe these creatures are real.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 08:38 AM (ZOv7s)
If SCROTUS is working on finding the perfect political case to neuter Trump this one isn't it, yet. They will make Dredd Scott a blip in US history.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 19, 2025 08:38 AM (/lPRQ)
That einstein quote is "questionable" or "unsourced" or something similar. No one is allowed to believe anything interesting or fun any longer.
We'd run across that same thing recently regarding Shakespeare helping translate the Psalms. Oh no, he didn't do that!!! You're a fool to believe that!!! Even though the dates, his service to the king, etc line up.
"Despite the skepticism, the idea persists among some enthusiasts" is what you see.
Funny how that only works for stuff like Christianity and not things like Global Warming or EVs.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 08:39 AM (Dv9LQ)
Are they expecting that each illegal immigrant be given a full trial?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 19, 2025 08:40 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: grammie winger
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Thanks, I'll track his channel down
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 08:40 AM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 08:40 AM (Dv9LQ)
It's called Truth for Life.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 19, 2025 08:41 AM (SfhV1)
Put simply, there was a template where the Jews has risen up and defeated a foreign (Hellenistic) empire by force of arms. Why not try again?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 08:34 AM (ZOv7s)
The Epistle to the Hebrews has specific references to Maccabees. The only Bible that I've found that actually makes the connection is the Oxford Annotated Bible published about 1977. While not a Catholic Bible, the Oxford Annotated has some good footnotes explaining word-forms and variants.
Ironically, the footnote in "Hebrews" has to explain to the reader what the Books of Maccabees are -- since Luther removed them from the Protestant Bibles.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 19, 2025 08:41 AM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 08:42 AM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 19, 2025 08:43 AM (9Isye)
Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2025 08:43 AM (4FYvp)
Einstein is also the guy that, occasionally, would leave his apartment before remembering to put on pants.
Personally, I'm decidedly undecided. As CDB wrote, there's some things in this world you just can't explain. Are they the result of angels and demons ? Another plane of existence ? Ancient Aliens ?
I don't know and never will. Don't trust anyone else that's certain in what I see as the unknowable. Maybe some things are not of this world, and others simply not of our current knowing.
Maybe the truth lies somewhere between nothing is a miracle and everything is.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 19, 2025 08:43 AM (CSQIx)
HE IS RISEN!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 19, 2025 08:45 AM (pJWtt)
For years and years there was a minister who passed away a long time ago but his sermons were still on the radio every day. I forget his name.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 19, 2025 08:46 AM (9Isye)
I will keep you and your wife in my prayers. His bless you both.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2025 08:46 AM (4FYvp)
How wonderful! I love baptisms.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 19, 2025 08:46 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 08:46 AM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 08:47 AM (OTdqV)
YouTube just dragged me over to Big Mike's podcast when I did not disconnect from watching "2010" fast enough.
Fellas, my poor eyes saw the most hideous thing -- Big Mike sporting a "panda ears" hairstyle.
I'm scarred for life. I need some alone time to heal ...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 19, 2025 08:47 AM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Oral Roberts.
I'm still unclear on why he needed to build an entire hospital, though.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 08:47 AM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead
In a word - More.
"President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) for expedited deportation."
- Notice to the alien in a language acceptable to them.
- A timeline acceptable to the alien.
- Proof that the alien is a card carrying member of TdA.
etc...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 19, 2025 08:48 AM (/lPRQ)
I was thinking of Dr Dobson recently. Focus On The Family had a bullseye on it all during the 90's and early 00's.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 19, 2025 08:48 AM (9Isye)
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Update on my wife.
She had a quiet night, and is getting better from the events of yesterday.
She was much improved, complaining about her situation to me, like why can't I sit up?, which is a sign of normality. The medical team was going to remove a blood pressure support pump this weekend, then she could safely sit up.
Got her Sudoku from the car, and let her rest before dinner. Small portions of some nice food like salmon. Worked on my story from a chair in the corner of the room.
Then alarms went off. Her heart went into afib. People streamed into the room, working to get her heart back. The crash cart showed up, and shock paddles were placed. Stay with us [Mrs Salty] was the chant. 12 people, including her high-powered doctors, in the room. Clear. Shock. Her body jumped.
Heart back in rhythm, but now more time needed for stabilization.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Posted by: screaming in digital at April 19, 2025 08:49 AM (Szews)
I'm scarred for life. I need some alone time to heal ...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)
Big Mike identifies as a Mouseketeer.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 19, 2025 08:50 AM (/lPRQ)
Lord have mercy on us all. Prayers have been offered for those in critical need--Mrs. Nacly, Mrs. Lloyd, and I include Jim SND with them.
I pray that Jewells passed peacefully and that her soul is at rest with God, free of pain for evermore.
And for all of those who despair, including my husband, that they find joy and purpose in the life God has given them.
And all of the rest of you, who have asked, and who have not, and carry burdens. Thank you for being here together.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 19, 2025 08:50 AM (h7ZuX)
I'm scarred for life. I need some alone time to heal ...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 19, 2025 08:47 AM (Tv15w)
You ain't seen nothing yet
B-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen n-n-n-nothing yet...Excuse me while I whip this out!
Posted by: Big Mike, Hung Like A Donkey at April 19, 2025 08:50 AM (R/m4+)
Sort of related, I picked up a study Bible that turned out to have been done by the Jimmy Swaggart... organization? Industry? I'm not sure how to phrase it, because I'm sure he didn't personally write it out.
Regardless, it's really great. "The Expositors Study Bible"
Shame about the association.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 08:50 AM (Dv9LQ)
I just looked it up -- it was J. Vernon McGee, and his program is "Through the Bible. The man could explain Scripture like no other.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 19, 2025 08:51 AM (9Isye)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 08:32 AM (Dv9LQ)
Good reminder!
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 08:51 AM (CQE5S)
His wife, who had MS and was the light of all our lives, passed away a year ago this week. Their kids were able to all be with their father on the first anniversary, which was a blessing.
I have been fervently praying that Bill make it to this week, and that request was graciously granted. My sister-in-law would not have been able to take losing both her parents in one year.
Please pray that the family gets a little more time with Bill before he joins his wife in heaven.
Posted by: pookysgirl, on mini-vacation at April 19, 2025 08:51 AM (LiPZK)
Posted by: Mick at April 19, 2025 08:52 AM (gYvAB)
Elderly multimillionaire world famous and with consultants, designers, stylists, etc. Mike Obama?
(thinks back to earlier pajamas in Walmart conversation)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 08:52 AM (Dv9LQ)
It's also very close to work. I'm not tired and upset when I get to the office any more, coffee or not.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at April 19, 2025 08:53 AM (Cx0W8)
I will however request that you raise up a prayer for Robert, Linda, and the cardio hospital team!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 19, 2025 08:53 AM (hOUT3)
Matthew 27:65-66
Posted by: Marcus T
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This makes me like Pilate a bit:
John 19:21-22
"Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate: Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am the King of the Jews.
Pilate answered: What I have written, I have written."
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 08:53 AM (OTdqV)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 08:54 AM (ypFCm)
Baby Isaac is back at Seattle Children's Hospital in case he needs surgery, they damaged his esophagus while intubating him when all of this started.
Cousin Charlie was flown home from FL to OH and is in rehab. He is speaking again, however he has a long road of rehab ahead oh him.
Bonnie is tolerating her medicine to treat her tumor and tires easily.
Thank you all for continuing to pray for them.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 19, 2025 08:54 AM (2NHgQ)
For Wesley Crusher - What are technically 'clips' will also be defined as 'magazines'.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 19, 2025 08:55 AM (/lPRQ)
For years and years there was a minister who passed away a long time ago but his sermons were still on the radio every day. I forget his name.
Posted by: Soothsayer
This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Through The Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee at April 19, 2025 08:55 AM (dg+HA)
Mom's still doing pretty well, although she'll tell me now and then that she doesn't want to be there. She rarely participates in activities, except she has been playing piano for the weekly Bible study! But she's safe and people are kind to her, and so far we've made sure she's had at least one visitor every day. Tomorrow we're all going to eat dinner with her there and I bought her favorite dessert - lemon pie.
(BTW, this doesn't need to be added to the list either)
Posted by: screaming in digital at April 19, 2025 08:56 AM (Szews)
73--Posted by: screaming in digital at April 19, 2025 08:49 AM (Szews)
SiD, thanks for the NaCly repost!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 19, 2025 08:56 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Cybersmythe at April 19, 2025 08:53 AM (Cx0W
Sounds like you are adapting well to the Texas life!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 19, 2025 08:58 AM (hOUT3)
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Sounds good!
Enjoy your hike, SiD.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 08:59 AM (Wx316)
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Wow, that seems like something really special.
I get the not wanting to be here part, though, and don't know if that's a bad thing. Sort of coming to terms with things.
Happy Easter to you and your mother.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 09:01 AM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 09:01 AM (cvWHI)
Yesterday I watched an observance of the Stations of the Cross conducted at the Coliseum. It was a candlelight service, with thousands in attendance. I reflected on how those assembled at the arena to observe Christians being slaughtered, could ever conceive that the stadium would one day host a religious celebration for a later generation of Christians.
Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2025 09:01 AM (0aihy)
Short commutes are great!
I used to live 7 minutes away from work. Went home every lunch hour . Sometimes took a nap, did some gardening in the summer, put a load of laundry in the tub, whatever.
Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2025 09:05 AM (0aihy)
Posted by: olddog in mo at April 19, 2025 09:05 AM (hoCmQ)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 09:05 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: screaming in digital at April 19, 2025 09:06 AM (Szews)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 09:06 AM (km43Y)
V.P. Vance attends Good Friday services at the Vatican.
https://tinyurl.com/bhzacvz9
(Someone tell Mrs. Sakty to hide her eyes)😇
Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2025 09:07 AM (0aihy)
This was always going to be the end-game, as soon as the Supreme Court granted themselves the power and duty of incorporation.
Prior to that ? The Bill of Rights was only a check on the Federal powers. States could, and did, ignore that original list of ten enumerations.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 19, 2025 09:07 AM (CSQIx)
You don't have to be able to outrun the sharp object, you just have to be able to outrun your running partner.
Posted by: muldoon at April 19, 2025 09:09 AM (/iMjX)
The annual Easter sourdough bread baking is going well; the rising of the yeast overnight delighted the grandkiddies.
Posted by: Auspex at April 19, 2025 09:09 AM (j4U/Z)
All I want to do is enjoy my modest breakfast of a cheese omelet and sausage patties...
But I have a devoted audience (three kitties) just *waiting* for me to not pay attention...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2025 09:09 AM (cweKM)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Thanks. I'm glad I didn't ask if she has a patron saint then.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 09:10 AM (Wx316)
We just love you so much !!!
*big eyes*
Posted by: The Three Kitties at April 19, 2025 09:11 AM (CSQIx)
For Wesley Crusher - What are technically 'clips' will also be defined as 'magazines'.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 19, 2025 08:55 AM (/lPRQ)
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So you buy a $500 candy bar and get a gun for free?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:11 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: muldoon at April 19, 2025 09:11 AM (/iMjX)
A most loving Thank You for all prayers received for our preemie grandson. We are with him and Mom and Dad now and everyone is doing very well. He has gained a pound, is nursing well considering his age, and is thriving.
You folks are the best.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 19, 2025 09:11 AM (vKNmo)
Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2025 09:12 AM (0aihy)
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it IS law, because the governor- a notorious sodomite- signed it into law.
And while it doesn't outlaw certain firearms, the bill does make it a supreme PITA to acquire one. You have to take and pass a training course, pay fees, then hope your local county sheriff gives you a literal permission slip to take to the gun store.
The state also levied an excise tax on ammo, above and beyond regular sales tax.
I have 5 handguns that are grandfathered in.
Posted by: Savage Henry at April 19, 2025 09:12 AM (AOsQT)
(goes to find journal)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 09:13 AM (km43Y)
I'll believe the first state that is serious about such limits when they show the intellectual consistency to apply the same ban to all state and local law enforcement as well as any private security contracted by state or local government.
If John Q Citizen doesn't "need" a semi-auto sidearm with a 10 round magazine ? Then neither does Johnny Law.
Posted by: The Three Kitties at April 19, 2025 09:14 AM (CSQIx)
I've noticed that there are a subset of Catholics who are not pure Never Trumpers, but very close. That is to say, they are not willing to reverse previous positions to oppose Trump, but instead nit pick every good thing he does and either follow it with a "whatabout" or declare that whatever good came was accidental, it was implemented wrongly, etc. Not only do they denigrate him, anyone who supports him, however tepidly, is denounced as a cultist.
The next time I encounter one of these creatures, I shall ask them: Do you want Donald Trump to go to heaven?
Their answer shall call out their sins.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:15 AM (ZOv7s)
And while it doesn't outlaw certain firearms, the bill does make it a supreme PITA to acquire one. You have to take and pass a training course, pay fees, then hope your local county sheriff gives you a literal permission slip to take to the gun store.
The state also levied an excise tax on ammo, above and beyond regular sales tax.
I have 5 handguns that are grandfathered in.
Posted by: Savage Henry at April 19, 2025 09:12 AM (AOsQT)
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Lemme guess...this only applies to U.S. citizens.
Illegal aliens get a free firearm license along with a driver's license, REAL ID card, and a voter registration card when they show up at the DMV.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2025 09:16 AM (cweKM)
Posted by: Savage Henry at April 19, 2025 09:17 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: The Three Kitties at April 19, 2025 09:14 AM (CSQIx)
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Oh, they're consistent. They are quite open about disarming the public and creating an all-powerful government.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:17 AM (ZOv7s)
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It's weird that they'd want to encourage more belt fed weapons, but I guess they've thought it through and know best.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 09:17 AM (km43Y)
Posted by: Savage Henry at April 19, 2025 09:12 AM (AOsQT)
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Those are rookie numbers.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:18 AM (ZOv7s)
I think I found the problem.
Posted by: Never Vote For The Gay at April 19, 2025 09:18 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:17 AM (ZOv7s)
Exactly.
Posted by: The Three Kitties at April 19, 2025 09:19 AM (CSQIx)
Posted by: Savage Henry at April 19, 2025 09:21 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: The Three Kitties at April 19, 2025 09:19 AM (CSQIx)
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Colorado seems a really bad state to decide to create an insurgency in. All that broken terrain, narrow road networks.
Presumably this will get smashed by the feds because all the Dems do now is failure theater.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: PabloD at April 19, 2025 09:22 AM (qJtN/)
Posted by: Moonbeam at April 19, 2025 09:23 AM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: Mrs. Olson at April 19, 2025 09:23 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Savage Henry at April 19, 2025 09:21 AM (AOsQT)
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She has a lot on her plate. I'm losing patience with people who think she can wave a magic want and convert the entire DoJ in to loyal, efficient employees who would never, ever tank a case "by accident" or otherwise slow down the Trump agenda.
They have to move slowly, and pick small fights so that the traitors can be identified and removed. That fact that Trump had years to vet his folks and a few rats managed to burrow in speaks of how difficult this task will be.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:24 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 09:24 AM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: PabloD at April 19, 2025 09:22 AM (qJtN/)
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And ammo manufacturers as well.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:25 AM (ZOv7s)
Mark Wahlberg runs it, which is part of why celebs are involved. I suspect he has it as a hedge against Hollywood giving him the death penalty.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2025 09:26 AM (QZThv)
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well, the Administration said it was going to be proactive in preserving and protecting 2A, so we will find out whether that is true, or just verbal outgassing.
Posted by: Savage Henry at April 19, 2025 09:27 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2025 09:26 AM (QZThv)
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There are discounts available. Our parish has a discount code.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:28 AM (ZOv7s)
Consider using The Pause app from John Eldredge of Wild At Heart.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 19, 2025 09:29 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Savage Henry at April 19, 2025 09:27 AM (AOsQT)
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Yeah, and the whole stupid business of MS13 boy was started because a DoJ lawyer sabotaged the case.
Are you sure you want them to jump in with people who will tank the case at the last minute?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 19, 2025 09:29 AM (dg+HA)
Thanks! I'll look into that.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 19, 2025 09:30 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 09:31 AM (ypFCm)
Prayers up for all of God's children, especially on this Blessed Easter weekend.
May God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 19, 2025 09:31 AM (rxCpr)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 09:31 AM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 09:31 AM
And Judas Iscariot.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 19, 2025 09:34 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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eh, I've pretty much lost all faith in governments and public institutions anyway, thanks to the COVID episode
anyway, apologies to all for the thread-jacking
Posted by: Savage Henry at April 19, 2025 09:34 AM (AOsQT)
We would also like to ask for prayers. TRex's Mom was rushed to the hospital this week, and diagnosed with Parkinsons. She is currently in a rehab and we are trying to find an appropriate assisted living for the next step. She has been blessed with good health, so this has truly thrown her in so many ways. We will be splitting our time between VA and Pittsburgh. Your prayers will mean so much.
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at April 19, 2025 09:34 AM (cCn4/)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 19, 2025 09:35 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 09:31 AM (ypFCm)
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It is a patient, intelligent strategy that is probably their best option at this point. American institutions need legitimacy to function, and at this point is the left that is behaving exactly as they characterize Trump - impulsive, out of control, criminal.
This is the last chance for the Republic. Trump's people know this, and they also know that if things go "hot", the work they are doing now will give them the upper hand in terms of legitimacy both at home and abroad.
I also think we need to have perspective. Trump has done more in 3 months than GOP has in 3 decades. He is also moving to lock in these gains and I notice that every single legal move the left makes is immediately countered.
Roberts is running out of cards to play.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:36 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 19, 2025 09:35 AM (SfhV1)
I'm not familiar with this...series? Is it on a regular cable network, or is it Netflix or some other streaming service?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 19, 2025 09:38 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 09:38 AM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 19, 2025 09:38 AM (h7ZuX)
Right now it's streaming on Prime, I believe. I watch thru the Chosen app. As of now there are 4 seasons. The 5th is being released into theaters, then it will be available for streaming.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 19, 2025 09:39 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 09:39 AM (ypFCm)
A re-enactment of Our Lord’s crucifixion at of all places, Trafalgar Square:
https://tinyurl.com/3ty9j2bx
(It’s a short, maybe half a minute duration)
Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2025 09:40 AM (eNP4g)
Posted by: Savage Henry at April 19, 2025 09:41 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 09:41 AM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 19, 2025 09:38 AM (h7ZuX)
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You can also buy it on DVD, and we did that for the first couple of seasons and plan on buying the whole thing when it is done. We're all about physical media.
It's very good.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:42 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 19, 2025 09:39 AM (SfhV1)
Thanks--maybe I can get Mr. Dmlw! to watch it.
*He runs the the tv--I rarely touch it or watch it. I don't even know how to run the remotes. LOL
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 19, 2025 09:42 AM (h7ZuX)
There is no thread-jacking. It's an open thread.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 19, 2025 09:42 AM (Y1sOo)
In fairness, so has my dog and she's pushing 15
Posted by: gKWVE at April 19, 2025 09:43 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: blaster at April 19, 2025 09:43 AM (aoW8V)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 09:41 AM (yp8Vj
oh that's so good too!
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 19, 2025 09:44 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 09:39 AM (ypFCm)
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He's moving with blinding speed, but all the coverage focuses on setbacks, not his wins.
This is really our own fault. CNN and MSNBC are utterly irrelevant, and if Ace ignored them, they'd fade into obscurity. The new media is where it is at, and they deserve more attention. I mean, 60 Minutes is a joke at this point. Tapper is disgraced, so why give them any oxygen?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)
I pray that Jewells passed peacefully and that her soul is at rest with God, free of pain for evermore.
And for all of those who despair, including my husband, that they find joy and purpose in the life God has given them.
And all of the rest of you, who have asked, and who have not, and carry burdens. Thank you for being here together.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 19, 2025 08:50 AM (h7ZuX)
Amen! Beautifuly said, Dash
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at April 19, 2025 09:44 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 09:46 AM (yp8Vj)
☕️
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 09:46 AM (g47mK)
(It’s a short, maybe half a minute duration)
Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2025 09:40 AM (eNP4g)
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Apparently, 40% of young people in England now attend Catholic Mass weekly. This is twice as many as go to the Anglican service.
Maybe freaking out about prayer actually makes people wonder what the big deal is and give it a try?
Oh, and locking up granny is always the sign of a confident regime.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:46 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: muldoon at April 19, 2025 09:46 AM (/iMjX)
Season 5 was recently released in theaters over a span of three weekends.
Season 5 is also available via Amazon Prime for a month or so and then at some point will be available thru the app like the previous seasons.
A total of seven seasons are planned and Season 5 concludes in the Garden of Gethsemane.
It's all crowd funded without any Hollywood involvement and filmed in Texas and Utah.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 19, 2025 09:46 AM (dg+HA)
So many things have been happening in such a relatively short amount of time it's easy to miss some truly monumental things that have been happening. It's not just about taking proactive steps, it's about taking defensive measures to stop the abuses that were happening and planned to happen.
Very few seem to notice that Tulsi declassified a Biden era plan called "Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism." Sounds nice but in reality it was an Orwellian scheme targeting us. You want to see action on preserving 2A rights? You just got it.
Here's a quick write up but this is going to blow up bigly.
https://tinyurl.com/4j465pbp
Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2025 09:46 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 09:48 AM (g47mK)
Given that "We are going to have to kill them" career-limiting screed that was posted a few days back, I find it interesting that the Left sees the 2A as purely in an offensive role; that is, they love guns when it comes to killing people they want killed or to advance their cause of destroying Western civilization, but is the end of the world and must be stopped by any means if someone considers the use of a firearm for recreation, sport or self-defense.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 19, 2025 09:48 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 09:48 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: muldoon at April 19, 2025 09:50 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)
I agree - I wish we had covered the fantastic debate between Douglas Murray and Dave Smith on the Joe Rogan show recently, now THAT was worth paying attention to! (Murray wiped the floor with him, for those who didn’t keep up with it)
Douglas Murray is probably the best debater on any topic that you can find today.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 19, 2025 09:50 AM (ZEzFB)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 09:24 AM (yp8Vj)
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And also with you!
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at April 19, 2025 09:51 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 09:51 AM (g47mK)
I'm happy to pay a fee to push that out and substitute prayer and joy instead. Perhaps because I bought stuff from online Catholic vendors, my email gets a stead stream of newsletters and updates from Catholic media. It was annoying at first, but now I anticipate it because there's a lot of great news out there that we need to know.
I mean, Christianity is actually growing, even in Europe. We are constantly told the future is gay and trans, but it isn't, and people are speaking up ever more confidently about it. I loved that the Satanic ritual in Kansas was broken up by a Catholic who stole the Host before it could be desecrated, and than another snatched the ritual script, provoking an attack that ended the gig.
This is how it is done. No more nice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:52 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 19, 2025 09:50 AM (ZEzFB)
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Interesting. In the clips I saw, Murray came across as a snotty prick, saying that only experts' opinions count.
By his logic, Walls of Men and Long Live Death can't be taken seriously because I didn't plagiarize my way to a doctorate.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:54 AM (ZOv7s)
But her trials are over and now she rests in Glory with our Lord.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 19, 2025 09:54 AM (F3iYV)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 19, 2025 09:56 AM (RTw1W)
(goes to find journal)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid
HA! Your'e welcome! This loaf won't be kneaded, but the girls are eager to do the 4 folds for father, son, and holy ghost, amen.
Even more eager to cut it up before baking tomorrow.
Posted by: Auspex at April 19, 2025 09:56 AM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2025 09:46 AM (viF8m)
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YES! That was huge. All these people whining about the slow release of information completely missed this.
One could do an entire series of blog posts on each section and how it uses academic jargon to basically say "Here's how we build a dictatorship."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:56 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:54 AM (ZOv7s)
He doesn’t always use that argument, but he’s been in a fight of longstanding in the UK who are pretending to be neo-historians and who claim that Winston Churchill caused WW2 and Adolf Hitler was really a pretty nice guy who didn’t want war.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 19, 2025 09:58 AM (ZEzFB)
Hallow has helped change my life There is a free version i think, and i know that you can get several months free with all content using a code from several podcasts, including pints with aquinas. What a lovely gift that will make. Have blessed Holy Saturday.
Posted by: LASue at April 19, 2025 10:00 AM (lCppi)
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at April 19, 2025 10:00 AM (FEVMW)
He was an artist! He liked to paint!
Posted by: You teenaged daughter at April 19, 2025 10:01 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 10:01 AM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 19, 2025 09:48 AM (a4flb)
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I'm too lazy to look this up, but how long has the anti-Tesla terrorist campaign actually lasted? When was the most recent incident?
Maybe the media dropped it, but it seems to me that once the arrests started to pile up and Bondi was announcing no deals, 20-40 years in prison, enthusiasm dropped considerably.
People respond to incentives. For too long, leftist violence has been cost-free. Now that costs are rising, I think their behavior will be modified. I'm also noticing that school shootings seem to be getting pre-emptively stopped by timely arrests, as if the FBI was now doing its job.
A lot of stuff is going to come out. Not tomorrow, not next week, but it's going to do so and this is why the left is going bonkers because they know what they did.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 10:01 AM (ZOv7s)
Come on in, kids!
•reaches down & pats Ruger PC-9 on the scope•
Can't wait to hear Weasel's recipe for morning coffee....
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at April 19, 2025 10:01 AM (kOluj)
https://tinyurl.com/4j465pbp
Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2025 09:46 AM (viF8m)
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Putting Mark Levin on the Homeland Security Advisors committee the other day ensures yhat Tulsi's efforts to expose this kind of stuff (and I do not doubt there is much more to come) will get loys of 'Ol Yeller publicity
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 19, 2025 10:02 AM (evOaE)
Posted by: Old Yeller at April 19, 2025 10:04 AM (dg+HA)
Here's a quick write up but this is going to blow up bigly.
https://tinyurl.com/4j465pbp
Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2025 09:46 AM (viF8
They just missed being able to call it the SIMP doctrine.
Posted by: LASue at April 19, 2025 10:04 AM (lCppi)
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It's title was deliberately misleading and vague for a reason. Trump and his administration are going to have to consider some measures they probably haven't thought necessary to dismantle the administrative state to the point it can't be reconstituted overnight.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2025 10:04 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Case at April 19, 2025 10:04 AM (OrSPY)
But her trials are over and now she rests in Glory with our Lord.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 19, 2025 09:54 AM (F3iYV)
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This!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 19, 2025 10:04 AM (evOaE)
>>One could do an entire series of blog posts on each section and how it uses academic jargon to basically say "Here's how we build a dictatorship."
I've been saying this for years, rightwing conspiracy theorist that I am, but if you look at what's going on in Europe and more specifically the UK that is exactly where we were headed. The process was being developed and implemented to make the US a one party state and those of us not in the party essentially domestic terrorists. No free speech, no 2A, our views essentially being outlawed as domestic terrorism, etc.. And they were well down the road implementing it.
Illegals were an essential element to that plan just as they are in Europe. An open borders paradise ruled by a bureaucracy in league with like minded bureaucracies around the world.
The UN, the WEF, the Club of Rome, all globalist organizations have been preaching this for years. All you had to do was listen and watch. This was no ordinary election. We came this close to losing the country. Going to take a bit of time to undo all the damage.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2025 10:04 AM (viF8m)
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Roberts is running out of cards to play.'
I don't think I can agree with you here. Roberts has as many cards to play as there are federal judges willing to prostitute themselves for the democrats. He'll drag this out to Kingdom come if Trump and congress let him.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:06 AM (3wi/L)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:07 AM (g47mK)
Did you by chance see any lanterns in the church tower last night?
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 10:07 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 19, 2025 09:58 AM (ZEzFB)
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Arguing from authority is an auto-fail, and no serious debater should ever invoke it. Maybe it's a British thing.
As for Hitler and Churchill, this is the consequence of making Hitler the ultimate avatar of evil and Nazi a cussword.
American conservatives have resisted this, especially the use of the Hackencreuz as a magic talisman that has to be blotted out on model kits.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 19, 2025 10:09 AM (Ehshq)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:10 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:06 AM (3wi/L)
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Trump is systematically pushing the court to either accept Article II actions or force a judicial abolition of long-standing immigration law. At which point Trump will simply ignore the court and dump 4,000 pages of precedent on it to chew on.
Roberts seems to be begging Trump to tone it down, but it's not going to happen and I think when Trump brings the crates of precedent that the court is trying to overturn, Roberts will blink.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 10:10 AM (ZOv7s)
Bet it was stirring though
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 19, 2025 10:10 AM (Ehshq)
It's an open thread thread.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 19, 2025 10:10 AM (Y1sOo)
Glad to hear the lefties haven't prevented such celebrations there, but they are likely the reason for the heightened LE presence.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at April 19, 2025 10:11 AM (kOluj)
Imagine that Saturday after the crucifixion. There were some who heard, understood, and believed Jesus when He said He would rise again, but His trial and crucifixion left no doubt that He was not just dead, but brutally tortured to death and entombed. How desperately sad it must have been, how hard to believe even if you understood that He said He would be back. And how terribly lonely to be in a world suddenly without Him.
Those who had expected, especially on the day He rode into Jerusalem, that the day had finally come when He would become King and overthrow the Romans must have been especially crushed and despairing.
Ironic that the Jewish leaders knew well that Jesus had said he would rise again and implored Pilate to seal the tomb, and guards were set on the guards. They thought they had finally successfully rid themselves of that troublesome preacher and his fanatical followers.
The darkest of days.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the darkest hour at April 19, 2025 10:12 AM (JodDy)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:10 AM (g47mK)
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Then why invoke authority?
At this late post-covid date, authority is a liability, not an asset. It requires more patience, but is more effective.
Murray may have won the debate, but he disqualified himself to me as a serious person.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 10:10 AM (ZOv7s)
Agree. Roberts wants to have his ass and eat it too. Which he will do and he will be made to smile when he does it.
Posted by: The SCROTUMS, What is it good for? at April 19, 2025 10:12 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:13 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Snooty Theater Critic at April 19, 2025 10:13 AM (dg+HA)
The darkest of days.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the darkest hour at April 19, 2025 10:12 AM (JodDy)
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I highly recommend "Risen" because it does a great job of showing events from a skeptical Roman point of view.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 10:13 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:14 AM (g47mK)
After a bunch of freeze warning nights, it's 70 degrees here this morning.
Sad news about Jewells but she fought the good fight for so long I am glad she is at peace. Is there a way for us to honor her memory? I think I remember in synagogue that we used to have a tree planted in Israel in people's memory.
Posted by: Sharon(mwillow's apprentice) at April 19, 2025 10:14 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:13 AM (g47mK)
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The clip that I saw was Murray saying "this is why only experts can talk about things. You're not a historian. You don't have a degree in history."
No need to include that. A serious discussion would avoid any mention of that, but it did happen.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 10:15 AM (ZOv7s)
He was an artist! He liked to paint!
Posted by: You teenaged daughter at April 19, 2025 10:01 AM (dg+HA)
And he loved dogs.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 19, 2025 10:15 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Snooty Theater Critic at April 19, 2025 10:13 AM (dg+HA)
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I thought they were death metal band from the 90s.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 10:16 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: You teenaged daughter at April 19, 2025 10:01 AM (dg+HA)
And he loved dogs.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons
Und a vegetarian. Und a terrific dancer!
Posted by: Franz Liebkind at April 19, 2025 10:17 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:18 AM (g47mK)
Brandon Fisichella's video on Lexington
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 10:18 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 10:18 AM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Franz Liebkind. at April 19, 2025 10:19 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Yea, Roberts definitely wants Trump to "tone it down." SCOTUS will put a collar and leash on Trump long before Roberts will blink. Then, I think we'll see if Trump abides or not before the end of the year.
It'll be interesting. Maybe a bit scary too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2025 10:19 AM (Q4IgG)
'Douglas Murray is probably the best debater on any topic that you can find today.'
One thing that makes him a good debater is sticking to what he knows a lot about.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:20 AM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 19, 2025 10:20 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 19, 2025 10:20 AM (dg+HA)
Thanks for posting that for Julie!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 19, 2025 10:21 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Sharon(mwillow's apprentice) at April 19, 2025 10:22 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:18 AM (g47mK)
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Obviously, knowing the audience and participants is very important.
Didn't watch the whole thing, don't really care, my point is that Murray teed off with a very sneering lecture that a lot of people will find completely discrediting and it went viral, which is how I saw it.
For most people, Murray lost because of that tirade. An own goal.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 10:22 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2025 10:23 AM (yp8Vj)
'Trump and his administration are going to have to consider some measures they probably haven't thought necessary to dismantle the administrative state to the point it can't be reconstituted overnight.'
They really are or his term will be nothing more than a stay of execution for this country.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:23 AM (3wi/L)
One could do an entire series of blog posts on each section and how it uses academic jargon to basically say "Here's how we build a dictatorship."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 09:56 AM (ZOv7s)
I don’t care about “releases”. We know the Biden junta was engaged in illegal censorship and harassment of conservatives.
Call me when people are actually charged.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 19, 2025 10:24 AM (l3YAf)
The total domination you had over your opponent for 60 minutes can be completely destroyed by the two minutes when you acted like an entitled, sneering prick.
That's just the reality of modern communication.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 10:25 AM (ZOv7s)
RIP JNG
Posted by: muldoon at April 19, 2025 10:25 AM (/iMjX)
'Arguing from authority is an auto-fail, and no serious debater should ever invoke it. Maybe it's a British thing.'
It's a leftist thing and it was a big flaw in his argument. There are ways to make the point that study has value without making it sound like the uncredentialed should have no platform.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:26 AM (3wi/L)
Exactly One News Cycle, like every other Hair On Fire event that we have been exposed to over the decades by the enemedia.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 19, 2025 10:26 AM (a4flb)
Being opinionated, is not the same as being informed, that was his point among many others. I can say the same about writing books.
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:27 AM (g47mK)
Call me when people are actually charged.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 19, 2025 10:24 AM (l3YAf)
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It has to be disclosed in order to inform the public and shape the narrative.
And, for the 1,000th time: just because nothing has happened yet does not mean nothing will happen.
There will come a point when I will lose patience, but 90 days into his term is not that point.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 10:27 AM (ZOv7s)
You can donate to the dog rescue at which she volunteered. They are in the middle of a fund raising drive for new facility.
https://www.shepsplace.org/donate/
Mention "Jewells" or "Julie" in the memo.
Posted by: Oddbob at April 19, 2025 10:28 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:28 AM (g47mK)
It is why I love this place.
Posted by: Sharon(mwillow's apprentice) at April 19, 2025 10:29 AM (t/2Uw)
'I think when Trump brings the crates of precedent that the court is trying to overturn, Roberts will blink.'
I agree that counting on Roberts being a chickenshit is a good strategy but only if there is a price to be paid for his continued malfeasance. Up until now there hasn't been.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:29 AM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:26 AM (3wi/L)
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Was he arguing with an American?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 10:30 AM (ZOv7s)
https://tinyurl.com/536as7mm
He wins every time.
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:30 AM (g47mK)
Didn't the author of "Black Swan", Nicholas Taleb, write a book on this topic "Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Choice in Life and in the Markets" where he critiques the tendency to trust experts blindly in fields where uncertainty and randomness play significant roles. Experts fail to account for the unpredictable nature of events and often provide explanations only after the fact.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 19, 2025 10:30 AM (a4flb)
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If the releases are to sway public opinion, demonstrate that there are real criminal activities afoot that's one thing. I understand it. If this is the "end result" and there are no further actions then, yea, major fail.
I mean you can't show how corrupt and illegal the previous administration was and then just walk away and shrug it off as "nothing more we can do."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2025 10:30 AM (Q4IgG)
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I guess the Irish don't want fat, ugly, stupid people.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 19, 2025 10:31 AM (L/fGl)
Prayers up for all asking and for those needing but not asking.
Holy Saturday, for me, is a day of mourning. Five years ago during the plandemic (April 11) my dad passed. Alone and unvisited in a VA "hospital".
I will never forgive.
Posted by: Reforger at April 19, 2025 10:31 AM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Sharon(mwillow's apprentice) at April 19, 2025 10:31 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Dean Wormer at April 19, 2025 10:34 AM (dg+HA)
'I guess the Irish don't want fat, ugly, stupid people.'
Should Ireland really draw that line?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:34 AM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:29 AM (3wi/L)
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The price is already building, which is that the federal dockets are clogged with meaningless cases and all of these TROs - which are supposed to be used rarely when the case is almost certain to succeed on the merits - are totally discrediting the judicial system.
You can't play the "OMG Trump violated the Constitution! It's a crisis!" card when it happens every day and then is always rolled back. Getting TROs vacated by higher courts is a terrible, terrible look. Roberts' strategy was clearly to let these things fall without SCOTUS, and to quietly tell the judges to drop it, but they won't listen.
And the ultimate price is that Trump will - at a time and place of his choosing - find a ruling so stupid, so completely at odds with historical precedent and the Constitution itself - that he will defy SCOTUS and massive majorities will cheer it.
The Judiciary relies on the Executive to make its rulings stick. Roberts is playing with fire.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 10:34 AM (ZOv7s)
The Scriptures say that they went back to the former careers, in the case of most of them: fishing.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 19, 2025 10:34 AM (a4flb)
Been to the grocery, cleaned up the seats and glass on the car, and then I've detailed me. Miss Linda should be here in about forty minutes, and I'll drop her by the uptown store that is having their annual Earf Day sale. It doesn't start until eleven -- insane in this climate at this time of year. Esp. since they hold the thing *outdoors* on the sidewalk -- and are on the hot, sunlit side of the street. I'll have to find someplace indoors to wait it out.
She wants a flavored coffee for Easter, so on the way home we'll stop at World Market for that. *Blueberry* or "strawberry* coffee? Can you say "yuck"? I knew you could.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 10:35 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2025 10:35 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 10:36 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:36 AM (g47mK)
The only affinity anyone I know has for their college alma mater is for their sports teams, as faculty and administration uniformly hate alumni and America.
But since the players cannot be considered actual students anymore that's slipping away as well, and with the "portal" allows the spoiled children to skip from school to school, allegiance is all but gone.
Long way of saying we're giving up MSU season tickets for football this year, ending a 50 year tradition.
Posted by: Auspex at April 19, 2025 10:36 AM (j4U/Z)
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Citizenship in the Balance - a limerick
Poor Rosie O'Donnell is in tears
Over Irish immigration fears
But when the matter has been weighed
All her fears will be allayed
Because her weight has been Dublin for years!
Posted by: muldoon at April 19, 2025 10:37 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:38 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at April 19, 2025 10:38 AM (FEVMW)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:38 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2025 10:35 AM (LHPAg)
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Amen!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 10:38 AM (ZOv7s)
'Roberts' strategy was clearly to let these things fall without SCOTUS, and to quietly tell the judges to drop it, but they won't listen.'
Everything we've seen from Roberts is that he will put his thumb on the left side of the scale whenever he can, especially if it hurts Trump.
What evidence would you need to see to conclude he is colluding with the leftist judges?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:38 AM (3wi/L)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:38 AM (g47mK)
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Solid move, both spiritually and politically.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 10:39 AM (ZOv7s)
Did you see the wave of media coverage when DC US Attorney Ed Martin "requested" and interview with former Mueller Deputy Special Counsel over false statements he made during the Russia collusion hoax?
Nobody else did either. But it happened. Making false statements to a court is a felony.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2025 10:39 AM (viF8m)
Maine AG: “There Are No Concerns of Safety” by Letting Trans Athletes Play in Girls’ Sports
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 19, 2025 10:40 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 19, 2025 10:40 AM (dg+HA)
Just woke up. Again.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2025 10:40 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 19, 2025 10:41 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 19, 2025 10:41 AM (L/fGl)
R.I.P., lady. You will be missed.
Posted by: Weak Geek at April 19, 2025 10:42 AM (p/isN)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:42 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2025 07:41 AM (u82oZ)
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A prayer for complete and speedy healing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2025 10:43 AM (RIvkX)
What evidence would you need to see to conclude he is colluding with the leftist judges?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:38 AM (3wi/L)
I think Roberts is clawing at the quicksand he's put himself in. I wouldn't be surprised but to hear of his retirement in the next year or so. It'll be the only way out for him.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 19, 2025 10:43 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: You're in hell, the world ended at April 19, 2025 10:44 AM (YVIcs)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 10:44 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Stoner living in his parent's basement at April 19, 2025 10:44 AM (dg+HA)
What evidence would you need to see to conclude he is colluding with the leftist judges?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:38 AM (3wi/L)
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It's one of those things that is ultimately irrelevant. You don't need to talk to have each other's back. If you're friends, you know what he's going to do without lots of text chats.
I'm not really worried about it because larger forces are at work.
That was always the problem with this strategy. It assumed Trump would immediately get frustrated and create a crisis, but he's patiently chipping away at it. The "walls closing in" are made of paper mache and everyone knows it. In the meantime, the border is secure and deportations continue.
The threat of ruinous fines, loss of property, and now raids on businesses who also face severe penalties are having their effect as well.
To put it another way, the entire judiciary strove mighty to save Maryland Man, and all it got was a margarita photo op.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 10:44 AM (ZOv7s)
'Long way of saying we're giving up MSU season tickets for football this year, ending a 50 year tradition.'
Congratulations on your liberation from sportsball.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:44 AM (3wi/L)
He's in a suburb of Cleveland. He's a marvelous pastor, sadly to retire this June after 40-some odd years at that church. He has a radio ministry I listen to most nights.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 19, 2025 08:35 AM (SfhV1)
I listen every Sunday morning on my way to church.
Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2025 10:45 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: muldoon
Groooaaannn. 🙄😄 That's our Muldoon!
MiladyJo says, if Rosie doesn't get her Irish citizenship, it will doubtless all be Donald Trump's fault. Somehow.
Looking forward to hearing about your "Big event coming mid-week."
Posted by: mindful webworker - weighting for change at April 19, 2025 10:46 AM (JodDy)
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Hell, that's not suspicious at all.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 19, 2025 10:47 AM (L/fGl)
Congratulations on your liberation from sportsball.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:44 AM (3wi/L)
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Which MSU is that?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 10:47 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 10:48 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 10:49 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 19, 2025 10:47 AM (L/fGl)
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This is what I mean. The left is so fat happy lazy and stupid that they don't realize how vulnerable they are to even the tiniest ray of sunlight.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 10:49 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 10:51 AM (ypFCm)
https://tinyurl.com/46jthfw5
Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2025 10:51 AM (viF8m)
' These kids can barely tie their own shoes. And of course the meme about not knowing how to change a tire. '
Pull any financial assistance and you'll be amazed what they can be forced to learn. Survival isn't an optional decision.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:52 AM (3wi/L)
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Why not keep and resell for profit?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 10:52 AM (DKKgv)
Pull any financial assistance and you'll be amazed what they can be forced to learn. Survival isn't an optional decision.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:52 AM (3wi/L)
That’s was mentioned in the bit. 50% of adults 18-30 receive money from their parents. With an average of $1500 a month. Will mom and dad take that away and force Brooklyn or Aidan to get a job at the electronics factory? Probably not.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 10:54 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 10:48 AM (DKKgv)
It's amazing what people become willing to do when they get hungry or cold enough. Mommy and daddy ain't gonna live forever so that sort of life support will start fading away.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 19, 2025 10:54 AM (g8Ew8)
Did you see the wave of media coverage when DC US Attorney Ed Martin "requested" and interview with former Mueller Deputy Special Counsel over false statements he made during the Russia collusion hoax?
Nobody else did either. But it happened. Making false statements to a court is a felony.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I heard about it, but, yea, no media coverage and I didn't follow up. Thought it "was something."
My point earlier about walking away was that the administration can't just produce evidence and sway public opinion... then stop. I don't think they've done that. I also think they could, if they wanted, move quicker. DoJ has a raft of lawyers... maybe use them? It's obviously not all on Bondi.
And yea, I realize some of those lawyers are shit weasels. But you have to start leveling charges at some point or all the posturing is for nothing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2025 10:54 AM (Q4IgG)
Jared Whitly: America First Republicans Can Undo Biden Damage
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 19, 2025 10:54 AM (L/fGl)
'Do keep seeing articles Roberts BFF is one of the Leftists oligarchs pushing the limits'
Time for a DOJ investigation. If they're not too busy.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:54 AM (3wi/L)
Good move. You you can watch mediocre football on TV without the championship level price.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 19, 2025 10:54 AM (Y1sOo)
If you are on X, follow Mike Benz. Among other things he has been exposing Roberts working with Norm Eisen on things like establishing global law norms.
Yea, that Norm Eisen.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2025 10:54 AM (viF8m)
But he was debating a person does not have a command of the facts and who cannot or would not integrate new information.
New information was discarded casually if it did not fit the pre-determined narrative. Dave Smith argues from assertion not from facts.
Dave Smith has not done his due diligence yet demands his opinions carry the same weight as those who have.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2025 10:55 AM (RIvkX)
Because of "Maryland Man", I will forever consider anyone from that area to be a gangbanger or terrorist.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 19, 2025 10:56 AM (a4flb)
Thanks Dubya.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 10:56 AM (DKKgv)
But, until then, he who pays the piper calls the tune.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 19, 2025 10:57 AM (cnRzT)
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Out of the Hole, Around the Tree, Back Down the Hole
Hey Boomer, don't you worry don't you fret
Our GenZ ain't a total failure yet
If you didn't get the news
When we need to tie our shoes
We only have to search it on the 'Net!
Posted by: muldoon at April 19, 2025 10:58 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 19, 2025 10:54 AM (g8Ew
GenZ is teenagers to late 20s. Their parents are in their 40s and 50s. The parents are gonna be around for a while.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 10:59 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 11:00 AM (g47mK)
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Dave Smith has not done his due diligence yet demands his opinions carry the same weight as those who have.'
I saw enough of it to agree with you. Smith had nothing but 'dead Gazan children' as his argument.
However, Murray needed to consider the Rogan audience. Many of them are self educated. If they think you're telling them, 'I'm right and you're wrong because I went to college and you didn't' you'll lose them.
And the suspicion of the credentialed class has never been higher.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 11:00 AM (3wi/L)
Well the letter Martin sent was only a couple of days ago. And Martin hasn't even been officially confirmed yet. Democrats are holding up the hearing. That's part of the problem.
As noted above by AH a DOJ lawyer helped start this immigration legal fiasco by essentially throwing the case in court. He was later fired. When Bondi was confirmed she didn't get a DOJ full of rock ribbed conservative prosecutors along with her. She has to gut the place and get new people the jobs. Same with Patel. The FBI was not just one or two bad actors. It was loaded with them.
Today is day 89 since Trump was sworn in. Bondi and Patel came weeks after that. Give them a bit of time.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2025 11:00 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 10:48 AM (DKKgv)
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Having never set foot in a factory how does Maher presume to understand how staffing works or how much human labor is required?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 19, 2025 11:01 AM (cnRzT)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:01 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 10:54 AM (DKKgv)
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How much of that was by choice? The job market was a wreck under Biden, with almost all the new jobs going to foreigners. That is now changing.
And the electronics factory question was moot, because there were so few factories. People grow up and parents get tired of subsidies.
Oh, and the upper class kids are not who these jobs are for, they are for the despairing lower classes who now have a reason to not do drugs and kill themselves.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 11:02 AM (ZOv7s)
I agree that most Gen Zers won't want to do assembly line stuff. Most Chinese don't want to either. It's going to come down to a race between our decoupling from China and the implementation of robots that can do everything a human can, but better.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 11:02 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2025 10:55 AM (RIvkX)
You're right, he just claimed two Americans shouldn't be talking about things, when they aren't experts.
He also went off on Smith's use of the word "we."
But he does it in his fancy British accent, so he wins.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 11:02 AM (053ci)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 11:04 AM (cvWHI)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 19, 2025 11:01 AM (cnRzT)
It was a comedic bit. Maher is - wait for it - a comedian. Obviously he doesn’t proclaim to be an expert in staffing. Just like when Jerry Seinfeld made jokes about airline food. He didn’t spend time investigating how airline food procurement works. It was funny though because everyone could relate to the joke which was based in truth.
I said initially there is a hint of truth to it, as with all comedy.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:04 AM (DKKgv)
Today is day 89 since Trump was sworn in. Bondi and Patel came weeks after that. Give them a bit of time.
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I did mention those "shit weasel" lawyers. It might be that they'll never be exposed until they have to be utilized. The one who threw the Garcia case originally, claiming a mistake, won't be the last.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2025 11:06 AM (Q4IgG)
I didn't get a "harrumph" out of that guy!
Posted by: Governor Lepetomane at April 19, 2025 11:06 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 11:00 AM (3wi/L)
He does hours of podcasts, and many different topics. What happened on Rogan's show was not very indicative of the breadth of Smith's knowledge, in large part because Murray wasn't interested in arguing over facts.
He wanted to argue over who should be talking about facts.
Anyone who came to that event not knowing what Smith's positions are, didn't really gain anything.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 11:06 AM (053ci)
'how does Maher presume to understand how staffing works or how much human labor is required?'
Maher is a 65 year old version of the Gen Z he's describing. Maybe that is his knowledge source.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 11:06 AM (3wi/L)
Spewing nonsense that is false, is also "an opinion", just don't whine when you are caught.
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 11:06 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: muldoon at April 19, 2025 11:07 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 19, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 11:04 AM (cvWHI)
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Gretchen Whitmer actually had to support Trump because the auto industry still has huge influence in Michigan. The UAW has been a sink of Dem corruption from its beginning, but now the leadership is going to be forced to change sides.
So will the Teamsters. Trump is bringing them jobs, the jobs they lost are coming back, and all the Dems have to offer is trannies and crying for illegals.
This is a seismic shift. Michigan could very realistically go solid red as the factories take on extra shifts.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 11:07 AM (ZOv7s)
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The Chinese in the sweatshops have no other options though.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:08 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 11:08 AM (cvWHI)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at April 19, 2025 11:08 AM (hhuMF)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 11:09 AM (g47mK)
They'd rather he be silenced.
I think it's rather obvious there are problems with the "support Israel no matter what" position, and anything that strikes against it are met with anger and derision, not logic and reason.
In other words, it's a very left-oriented perspective. The kind that many people on this very webzine ridicule.
Except when it comes to Israel.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 11:09 AM (053ci)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:10 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 19, 2025 11:11 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 11:11 AM (g47mK)
Except when it comes to Israel.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 11:09 AM (053ci)
Shut your filthy whore mouth!!
- Ben Shapiro
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:11 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:04 AM (DKKgv)
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I think what people are objecting to is that the jokes always go in the same direction, informed by liberal arrogance.
Why are the kids so incapable, Bill? Oh yeah, you liberals have destroyed public education. Hah! Hah!
So the kids who somehow manage to avoid sexual assault by one of their teachers or being stabbed by a classmate with a history of violence but who can't be expelled because of skin color end up not ready for the world.
I mean it's funny, but only in the darkest sort of way.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 11:11 AM (ZOv7s)
'What happened on Rogan's show was not very indicative of the breadth of Smith's knowledge'
Smith didn't mention that the reason those Gazan children dies was because Hamas wanted them to for propaganda value. He's one of those for whom the conflict began on Oct.8.
I'm not sure what knowledge he could supply to climb out of that hole but I'll try to stay open minded.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 11:12 AM (3wi/L)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 11:12 AM (g47mK)
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By the same token, how do you know that Bill Maher has never set foot in a factory?
Posted by: muldoon at April 19, 2025 11:12 AM (/iMjX)
- Ben Shapiro
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:11 AM (DKKgv)
The funny thing is, Shapiro generally comes prepared. He has an argument, and he doesn't shy aware from the fact that he's completely biased.
I'm not sure he's ever really debated anyone who disagrees with his perspective, but at least he comes prepared with his version of the facts.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 11:13 AM (053ci)
'Michigan could very realistically go solid red as the factories take on extra shifts.'
Unfortunately, the inside of the trunk full of ballots will be solid blue.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 11:14 AM (3wi/L)
- Ben Shapiro
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:11 AM (DKKgv)
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The absolute fealty to Israel is off-putting. For the record, I'll buy into stories of Israel targeting the civilians as soon as someone can produce a uniform and rank insignia guide for Hamas. How do I tell a colonel from a corporal?
Oh, that's right, they look like everyone else. So there are no civilians. Cool.
On the flip side, Israel is a secular state, not the successor to the ancient kingdom. That's not me talking, that's them. Legitimate criticism is therefore on the table.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 11:15 AM (ZOv7s)
I'm not sure what knowledge he could supply to climb out of that hole but I'll try to stay open minded.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 11:12 AM (3wi/L)
See, that's just factually wrong. Dave and others believe the conflict started a few thousand years ago. Then it intensified in the late 19th/early 20th century. Then all through the 20th century.
And will argue against those who want to start on Oct. 7.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 11:15 AM (053ci)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 11:14 AM (3wi/L)
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That's getting a lot of scrutiny, and it is worth noting that Trump was able to win and the House flipped to the GOP.
The operational environment for cheaters has changed.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 11:16 AM (ZOv7s)
I'll try to get to the book thread with this but for today's anniversary, I recommend a great book called The Third Terrorist by Jayna Davis.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2025 11:16 AM (W/lyH)
Why are the kids so incapable, Bill? Oh yeah, you liberals have destroyed public education. Hah! Hah!
So the kids who somehow manage to avoid sexual assault by one of their teachers or being stabbed by a classmate with a history of violence but who can't be expelled because of skin color end up not ready for the world.
I mean it's funny, but only in the darkest sort of way.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author
It’s also a mass generalization. Obviously not everyone in a generation is the same. Plenty of GenZ knows how to change a tire. But in general those memes and stereotypes are kinda true. And whatever the cause was, we can’t go back I time and change it. We are where we are for better or worse.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:16 AM (DKKgv)
Oh, that's right, they look like everyone else. So there are no civilians. Cool.
On the flip side, Israel is a secular state, not the successor to the ancient kingdom. That's not me talking, that's them. Legitimate criticism is therefore on the table.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 11:15 AM (ZOv7s)
Generally, no one has argued realistically against Israel's attempt to destroy Hamas. It's not working, but no one says they shouldn't try.
The problem is their official position on killing civilians when Hamas is around them. That's it. That's the extent of it. The belief that intentionally killing civilians to get at Hamas is a war crime.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 11:18 AM (053ci)
'See, that's just factually wrong.'
I don't think I'm wrong about his perspective but that requires me to read minds. So. I'll spot you that one.
Now do the hard one. Show me where this is wrong.
'Smith didn't mention that the reason those Gazan children died was because Hamas wanted them to for propaganda value.'
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 11:20 AM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 10:52 AM (3wi/L)
Two of my sorority roommates were on scholarships/financial aid, which required them to maintain a 3.2 gpa. They both made that with room to spare, and never worried about missing out on fun when studying was required. It was a good real-world lesson in incentives.
Posted by: LASue at April 19, 2025 11:20 AM (lCppi)
Having worked with factory workers, but not being one myself while doing so, such jobs indeed were repetitive and too often boring, but at the time (forty years ago) they were an outstanding opportunity for members of a workforce that typically had stopped going to school after completing high school.
I know circumstances today have made such work less available and quite possibly more onerous.
My dentist in Waynesboro, VA once asked me about hiring on with the Lycra(TM) spandex business there. After a question or two, she informed me that she was interested in becoming an operator on the spinning room floor, and not someone in line or technical support. I was flabbergasted and I told her that she really ought to think things through before taking such a drastic step.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 19, 2025 11:21 AM (Tv15w)
I'll try to get to the book thread with this but for today's anniversary, I recommend a great book called The Third Terrorist by Jayna Davis.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2025 11:16 AM (W/lyH)
36 years ago USS Iowa gun mount explosion. Big Navy screwup.
Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2025 11:21 AM (LHPAg)
And there was no rapture in 1988 (40 years after the incorporation of the secular Israel state), so apparently no Divine Mandate for the existence of this secular State.
It exists, just like any other nation exists (with the exception of a LOT of Western money, British Mandate, and special care)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 19, 2025 11:21 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 19, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 19, 2025 11:21 AM (dg+HA)
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The operational environment for cheaters has changed.'
No completely. Aren't all state level executive offices in MI blue right now?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 11:21 AM (3wi/L)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2025 11:22 AM (viF8m)
https://shorturl.at/Z3dUy
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 19, 2025 11:11 AM (L/fGl)
Whoever thought of those is making a fortune.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2025 11:23 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 11:20 AM (3wi/L)
Doesn't that require mind reading?
The official Israeli policy is that they will intentionally kill civilians (I believe there is a formula, but I can't remember what it is) to get at Hamas.
Whether Hamas intentionally hides behind children or not, I don't know. I just know plenty of children are getting killed.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 11:23 AM (053ci)
I saw an interesting video about Foxconn moving all its phone-building machines out of China. Truck after truck had been loaded with them for a month. The Chinese authorities were trying desperately to slow the exodus, but it was a foregone conclusion. l believe the destination was Vietnam or India.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 11:23 AM (s8j++)
And will argue against those who want to start on Oct. 7.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 11:15 AM (053ci)
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No, that's not true. There is no thread connecting what is going on today with some precursor struggle in something B.C.
Jews were a very small sidebar in the epic Muslim-Christian contest for control of the Mediterranean basin.
After the Crusades, control of Jerusalem was a dead letter until 1914.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 11:23 AM (ZOv7s)
Whether Hamas intentionally hides behind children or not, I don't know. I just know plenty of children are getting killed.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 11:23 AM (053ci)
This is absolute, poisonous bullshit. You need to stop.
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 11:24 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Archimedes at April 19, 2025 11:23 AM (s8j++)
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Wow, that's something I hadn't thought about - just moving the tooling from China. That absolutely shortens the timeline for ramping up domestic production, as does bringing back American staff.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 19, 2025 11:25 AM (ZOv7s)
You should entirely care who is causing that. Not knowing or caring doesn't make you virtuous.
And you don't have to be psychic to read a Hamas mind. They won't shut up about their intentions.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 11:28 AM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 11:30 AM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 11:30 AM (cvWHI)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2025 11:09 AM (g47mK)
I love this. You are stating that Rogan is getting huffy because he is spreading lies because what he says he is not researching or supporting his and his guests statements with anything like footnotes/
While not supporting your statements, which is nothing but an opinion to be sure, with anything like footnotes.
and you just got huffy.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 11:30 AM (D7oie)
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Hell, that's not suspicious at all.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 19, 2025 10:47 AM (L/fGl)
Is it Constitutional to give the forensic accountants blowtorches and pliers at the start of the audit?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 19, 2025 11:31 AM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
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Maybe she could no longer face the tooth!
Posted by: muldoon at April 19, 2025 11:33 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2025 09:01 AM (0aihy)
Christus regnat!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 11:35 AM (nrpZ6)
And you don't have to be psychic to read a Hamas mind. They won't shut up about their intentions.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 11:28 AM (3wi/L)
What I was saying is that's the position from which Smith and others are arguing. That dead children (and other civilians) ARE the issue.
Whether you or anyone else cares about the why, that's the position they're starting from.
My position is quite simple too: American money, treasure, and blood should not be shed for ANY foreign wars.
Including Israel's.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 11:41 AM (cSGQP)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 19, 2025 11:42 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 19, 2025 11:42 AM (0ohAJ)
I think we can all agree that means I win.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 11:30 AM (3wi/L)
I took that as tongue in cheek. I assume that is correct?
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 11:43 AM (cSGQP)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2025 11:44 AM (cSGQP)
Posted by: Paulyester at April 19, 2025 11:46 AM (NHyBq)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 11:16 AM (DKKgv)
Industrialization is an interesting thing, some cultures were unable to make the leap to industrialization, and some took a long time. The first barrier is material and energy, the second barrier is building out the infrastructure to get materials together, and the finished parts distributed to market, the third is the deal breaker because it is the competing social interests that hinder and prevent industrialization because it either takes power and prestige away from the current regime, or conflicts with established industries. Spain spent 300 years establishing an Iron and steel cannon casting industry, and China essentially spent 700 years even with expert help and INVENTING casting iron.
Getting butts into stations for manufacturing is going to be child play if the finances and markets are sorted out.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2025 11:46 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Goatweed at April 19, 2025 11:48 AM (cl9qq)
'I took that as tongue in cheek. I assume that is correct?'
In part. It is also to show that without reading your mind, I could guess your motivation to have the last word.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2025 12:00 PM (3wi/L)
https://tinyurl.com/mwhj79c2
(Yes, he addresses the radiocarbon dating issue: more went on with that than we were told at the time.)
Posted by: Beverly at April 19, 2025 12:50 PM (Epeb0)
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By the same token, how do you know that Bill Maher has never set foot in a factory?
Posted by: muldoon at April 19, 2025 11:12 AM (/iMjX)
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Forgive my late response, but I just saw your question. The answer is, of course, I don't know.
But he grew up in suburban NYC, and his father was a radio announcer. At Cornell, he was a history major and he went right into show business (ie, restaurant work) after graduating. I heard him say in a recent conversation, that most of his life has been spent based in Los Angeles. It is a fair guess he has never worked or even stepped foot in a factory, other than for a tour. Its certainly true he has no knowledge or experience with industrial automation, plant management and organization, or even what the people who work in factories are like.
So perhaps he has stepped into a factory for a few minutes, but its a fair bet his knowledge is zero about what he was seeing.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 19, 2025 01:46 PM (kEtER)
All the disciples had fled, and Nicodemus had more to lose than maybe anyone, and he still stood up and did that.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 08:13 AM
I like the pitcher bearer with the Upper Room. I mean, God just picked this guy out to be involved the in founding of the sacrament. Seemingly at random.
I hope that God will use me similarly.
Posted by: toby928 at April 19, 2025 02:39 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Askorra at April 19, 2025 07:53 PM (15YxM)
am too happy to share my experience here with
colleagues.
Posted by: Tammi at April 20, 2025 01:11 AM (D4m53)
Daily Tech News 19 April 2025
Top Story
- TSMC is planning to produce 30% of its 2nm and newer chips in its US fabs. (Tom's Hardware)
Currently US production is only at 4nm, with 3nm only active in Taiwan and 2nm still ramping up. The new plans will boost output at the company's Fab21 site in Arizona and bring to it the newer N3, N2, and the 1.6nm A16 lines.
N3 equipment is being installed right now, and construction of new buildings for N2 and A16 is set to begin next year.
Tech News
- If you're looking forward to the next-generation Nova Lake chips from Intel with their rumoured extraordinary core counts, now is not the time to buy a motherboard. (WCCFTech)
Because they're changing sockets again. Arrow Lake will be the only chip running on the current Socket 1851, with new boards with Socket 1954 arriving next year.
Because Intel.
- The hashing algorithms in Python have been replaced with a library that has been verified. (Jonathan Protzenko)
That is, not merely tested, but mathematically proven to be correct.
And hopefully tested as well.
- OpenAI's latest generation of stochastic garbage generators generate more stochastic garbage than before and the company doesn't know why. (Tech Crunch)
Not only will they make up answers that are completely wrong, when asked how they came up with those answers, they will make that up as well.
- A federal judge has ruled that dumping the entire database from a cell tower in order to find a single individual is an unconstitutional search under the Fourth Amendment. (404 Media)
Well, yes.
- Those damn railroads are putting stage coaches out of work. (The Register)
Why, back in my day, we walked from London to New York and back again, and you didn't catch us complaining about it.
- Blue Origin's all-girl space stunt is Elon Musk's fault. (The Verge) (archive site)
Elon Musk has nothing to do with it, has saved the day when things went south, and generally speaking has done nothing wrong at all, but Elizabeth Lopatto has to rant.
- The Gorilla God's Go-to Girl is retro romance anime gold. (Notebook Check)
What?
I mean, the anime is okay, nothing amazing, but it's also remarkably free of computer hardware.
- So, amid all the to-ing and fro-ing, a certain Speaker of Space collabed with a certain Warden of Time today. I was thinking, that sounds exactly like, and it sounded exactly like because it was.
(If you don't follow vtubers, you probably just said Wait, what? If you do follow vtubers, you probably just said, Wait, what?!)
Things go on.
Disclaimer: That's not a moon. This is a moon!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 04:31 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Nazdar at April 19, 2025 04:31 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 19, 2025 04:34 AM (BLOW1)
But, they make up those answers very fast.
Posted by: Bruce at April 19, 2025 04:37 AM (I9mZr)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 04:38 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 04:39 AM (ypFCm)
collaborate on a project
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 04:40 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 04:41 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Nazdar at April 19, 2025 04:49 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 19, 2025 04:52 AM (MmTZZ)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 19, 2025 04:34 AM (BLOW1)
It's never good down here.
Posted by: Morlocks at April 19, 2025 04:56 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 05:00 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 05:00 AM (ypFCm)
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald E. Knuth
Posted by: Bitblt at April 19, 2025 05:01 AM (a6Ysq)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 19, 2025 05:02 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 05:02 AM (ypFCm)
SCIENTISTS HACK HUMAN RETINA, REVEAL BRAND NEW COLOR ‘OLO’
Using a precise technique called Oz, Berkeley researchers isolated the retina’s M cones, forcing five volunteers to see a hue named ‘olo’, a blue‑green no earthly scene can match.
By mapping every photoreceptor and hitting only chosen cells with micro‑doses of light, the team bent biology’s rules without surgery.
“The ultimate goal is programmable control over every photoreceptor in the retina.”
Oz could someday simulate vision for the color‑blind and model diseases with accuracy.
Posted by: 13times at April 19, 2025 05:03 AM (N+gHJ)
"Supreme Court blocks new deportations under 18th-century wartime law"
Posted by: Tuna at April 19, 2025 05:06 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 05:07 AM (CQE5S)
"Supreme Court blocks new deportations under 18th-century wartime law"
Posted by: Tuna at April 19, 2025 05:06 AM (lJ0H4)
I saw that. What is up with those fucksticks? 20 million invasion, cool. Kicking them out, not so fast. WTF?
Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2025 05:10 AM (gKDq2)
Why Prince Harry FEARS Meghan Markle EXPLAINED | Is Prince William a Bully? (Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIb5WqV3xcc
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 05:11 AM (CQE5S)
That article makes the DU quotes we get sound normal and well adjusted. It comes across as if someone figured out how to let SSRIs type. She needs, as the Empress would say, the Victorian cure for hysteria.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2025 05:13 AM (QZThv)
Posted by: RickZ
Alito and Thomas were the only two to dissent.
Posted by: Tuna at April 19, 2025 05:18 AM (lJ0H4)
Time to tell the inherently corrupt John Roberts to go straight to hell.
This man's treacherous hand is at the heart of all of the lawfare targeting Donald Trump. He meets secretly with Norm Eisen on foreign soil. He gave us the disastrous, dishonest jurisprudence of James Boasberg. He pals around with the most poisonous personages of the American Left.
Eat a bag of dicks, John, and save some for the rest of your corrupt, unelected and unaccountable colleagues.
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 19, 2025 05:32 AM (X+xvk)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 05:35 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Jen the original at April 19, 2025 05:36 AM (tGnrM)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2025 05:38 AM (42Vb+)
Posted by: Just Wondering at April 19, 2025 05:40 AM (dg+HA)
The Royals' singer, the second from the left, looks very much like Shannen Doherty did when she first began on 90210 so long ago.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 05:41 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2025 05:42 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Cicero Skip at April 19, 2025 05:44 AM (p6dVP)
Posted by: Just Wondering at April 19, 2025 05:40 AM (dg+HA)
Freshly primped and shaven. Taking a walk in a bit.
Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2025 05:44 AM (gKDq2)
That article makes the DU quotes we get sound normal and well adjusted. It comes across as if someone figured out how to let SSRIs type. She needs, as the Empress would say, the Victorian cure for hysteria.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2025
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The time to stop reading it, as I did, is when you hit the phrase "Republican budget cuts." That, like thunder and distant lightning on a dark afternoon, pretty much tells you what's coming.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 05:47 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 19, 2025 05:47 AM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: Pete Bog at April 19, 2025 05:53 AM (lmtSm)
Let's demand he explain exactly what "legal issues" he and Norm Eisen had to discuss in private in a secure diplomatic facility in the Czech Republic.
Let's investigate his behind-the-scenes collaboration with prominent Trump-haters like James Boasberg, Beryl Howell, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Mary McCord, Cass Sunstein, et. al.
Rip the mask off of this commie grifter and his unelected accomplices. They are engaging in a coup against the freely elected leader of the United States. They should have to answer for it.
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 19, 2025 05:55 AM (X+xvk)
Posted by: Cicero Skip at April 19, 2025 05:44 AM (p6dVP)
; )
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 06:01 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 19, 2025 06:07 AM (6K6Eu)
https://tinyurl.com/yzfmk77v
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2025 06:07 AM (42Vb+)
https://tinyurl.com/37stptx8
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2025 06:09 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2025 06:09 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2025 06:13 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2025 06:13 AM (RIvkX)
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That...sounds like a Good Thing.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 19, 2025 06:14 AM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: Accomack at April 19, 2025 06:14 AM (oERdd)
Posted by: Accomack at April 19, 2025 06:14 AM (oERdd)
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OK I'll bite. Why would you say that?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2025 06:18 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 06:20 AM (cvWHI)
Posted by: Ciampino - pointed at April 19, 2025 06:22 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 19, 2025 06:22 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 06:23 AM (cvWHI)
Macomb Illinois is home of the largest Monopoly Board in the world!
Posted by: Ciampino - can you play hockey on it? at April 19, 2025 06:24 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025
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The battery-powered keyboard that came with the iMac I'm using is smaller than I like, doesn't really click, and seems not to be sitting perfectly level -- i.e., when I type the board vibrates a bit. I could try putting a towel under it. Still, I'd like a full-sized Apple-type keyboard. Ae such things available without paying Apple's inflated prices?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 06:25 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Ciampino - Noting Eurasians can be stupendous at April 19, 2025 06:27 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 06:23 AM (cvWHI)
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Thanks.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2025 06:29 AM (RIvkX)
https://www.youtube.com/c/lexfridman
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 06:29 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 06:31 AM (CQE5S)
https://tinyurl.com/mrbkmvud
Posted by: Ciampino - people are so ignorant at April 19, 2025 06:31 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2025 06:31 AM (RIvkX)
Currently 70 and that's as high as it's going to get. Rain in the forecast.
Posted by: olddog in mo at April 19, 2025 06:32 AM (hoCmQ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 06:32 AM (cvWHI)
That’s one whiplash-inducing segue, I’ll give Liz that much.
All it took was ‘But here,” and she’s off to blasting Elon and the entire idea of private space travel.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 19, 2025 06:33 AM (6ydKt)
A member of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's administration has been repeatedly caught on camera allegedly vandalizing parked Tesla vehicles with his keys while out walking his dog.
https://mol.im/a/14626443
Posted by: Ciampino - people are so stupid at April 19, 2025 06:33 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Ciampino - another idiot at April 19, 2025 06:35 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 19, 2025 06:36 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025
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Sure, just ones with the Control, Option, and Command keys, etc.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 06:37 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Student, 19, who fire-bombed Tesla dealership' at April 19, 2025 06:39 AM (dg+HA)
Note: tea bags work better if you actually put them in the water.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 19, 2025 06:07 AM (6K6Eu)
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Yeah but then they don't last as long.
Posted by: Ciampino - another fallacy at April 19, 2025 06:39 AM (sPQoU)
We aren't dealing with system 9 anymore and there's a lot of Mac compatible stuff out there
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 06:42 AM (cvWHI)
Posted by: Ciampino - another one wakes up at April 19, 2025 06:42 AM (sPQoU)
A member of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's administration has been repeatedly caught on camera allegedly vandalizing parked Tesla vehicles with his keys while out walking his dog.
https://mol.im/a/14626443
Posted by: Ciampino - people are so stupid at April 19, 2025 06:33 AM (sPQoU)
"A member of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's administration"
Eh.
Adams, who works for Minnesota’s Department of Human Services, is not a political appointee in Walz’s administration, a spokesperson for the governor told The Post Friday night. (NYPost)
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 06:42 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 06:25 AM (omVj0)
Apple makes that same keyboard with a number pad on the right.
That’s as full-size as it gets with Apple.
You can buy any Bluetooth keyboard, or one with a cord or USB dongle, and it’ll work with Macs.
I have one from Logitech that works with PC and Mac (has the Apple marked keys and Windows marked).
With Bluetooth and the magic of Logitech’s software I can switch between the two computers with one mouse and keyboard since they are sitting next to each other on the desk.
It’s like a poor man’s KVM, but it works.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 19, 2025 06:43 AM (6ydKt)
https://a.co/d/gl4hkA0
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 06:44 AM (cvWHI)
We aren't dealing with system 9 anymore and there's a lot of Mac compatible stuff out there
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 06:42 AM (cvWHI)
You and I might be using the same keyboard.
Is it the one with the clickless mouse?
Cuz I love the thing.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 19, 2025 06:45 AM (6ydKt)
https://a.co/d/28wT8Cu
I had no problem getting my existing keyboard or mouse connected via bluetooth on setup.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 06:47 AM (cvWHI)
Not only is it clearly IP theft but it will be the complete death of art as well.
The argument goes that it will lower the cost of animation but the truth is that it just guarantees that we will be flooded with generic slop by people who have no business making anything.
Far from being a positive for Western civilisation, using AI like this will just destroy another thing that makes our way of life great.
Posted by: stv at April 19, 2025 06:47 AM (+opPw)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 19, 2025 06:49 AM (Tiexr)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 19, 2025 06:49 AM (/Ghsb)
Cuz I love the thing.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 19, 2025 06:45 AM (6ydKt)
What's a clickless mouse?
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 06:49 AM (CQE5S)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at April 19, 2025 06:50 AM (tljrc)
Cuz I love the thing.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 19, 2025 06:45 AM (6ydKt)
What's a clickless mouse?
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 06:49 AM (CQE5S)
(I'm meanwhile googling it.)
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 06:50 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 06:52 AM (cvWHI)
Posted by: fd at April 19, 2025 06:53 AM (vFG9F)
https://a.co/d/gl4hkA0
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 06:44 AM (cvWHI)
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Mines not the Pebble version, it doesn’t have the yellow keys.
This is the combo I have:
http://alturl.com/yk729
It’s not cheap, but the keyboard isn’t all plastic.
There’s a metal plate in it, so the thing has no flex and is actually heavier than the Mac keyboard which is milled out of aluminum.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 19, 2025 06:54 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Accomack at April 19, 2025 06:55 AM (YVT+g)
Logitech Mouse with Silent Clicks vs Normal Clicks: Hear the Difference
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 06:56 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 06:49 AM (CQE5S)
(I'm meanwhile googling it.)
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 06:50 AM (CQE5S)
Well in this case, the mouse clicks, but it is virtually soundless when it does.
There’s no click, click, click, when you use it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 19, 2025 06:57 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 06:58 AM (cvWHI)
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 06:49 AM (CQE5S)
(I'm meanwhile googling it.)
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 06:50 AM (CQE5S)
Well in this case, the mouse clicks, but it is virtually soundless when it does.
There’s no click, click, click, when you use it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 19, 2025 06:57 AM (6ydKt)
O.k. "Virtually soundless," I get. I was trying to imagine absolutely silent and couldn't.
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 06:58 AM (CQE5S)
https://tinyurl.com/mrbkmvud
Posted by: Ciampino
Enjoy that while you can guys. When the Caliphate finishes absorbing your entire culture, those soccer stadiums will be used for mass killings. Yours.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 19, 2025 06:58 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: fd at April 19, 2025 07:00 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 07:01 AM (cvWHI)
Of course AI hallucinates, it is based on a system that hallucinates. It will get worse until it is not humane and then AI will work and become cruel.
Posted by: Accomack at April 19, 2025 07:02 AM (YVT+g)
Posted by: fd at April 19, 2025 07:00 AM (vFG9F)
I have a Mac wireless mouse and love it. No buttons; lean and sleek.
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 07:02 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Ciampino - another batch at April 19, 2025 07:03 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 07:03 AM (cvWHI)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2025 07:04 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 19, 2025 07:05 AM (/Ghsb)
Posted by: Ciampino - another i/o at April 19, 2025 07:06 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Ciampino - another i/o tool at April 19, 2025 07:08 AM (sPQoU)
https://tinyurl.com/329r3j4a
Posted by: Ciampino - another batch at April 19, 2025 07:03 AM (sPQoU)
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Pretty sure I had wolf spiders in my virginia home once. Glad they didn't make all those babies! And they are fast!
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 19, 2025 07:09 AM (pJXAl)
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 07:09 AM (CQE5S)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=yYCk_iEDEWU
Posted by: Ciampino - another I knew nothing about at April 19, 2025 07:13 AM (sPQoU)
A member of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's administration has been repeatedly caught on camera allegedly vandalizing parked Tesla vehicles with his keys while out walking his dog.
https://mol.im/a/14626443
Posted by: Ciampino - people are so stupid at April 19, 2025 06:33 AM (sPQoU)
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A surefire way to earn a rapid promotion in a Walz administration
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 19, 2025 07:14 AM (pJXAl)
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 07:02 AM (CQE5S)
The little white one with the charging port…. on the bottom.
I like those, too.
The touch feature is great!
But the ergonomics will kill your wrist if you use it for long periods.
I had to change my mouse gripping style to a claw grip to use the thing for years.
Now when I use the regular size egg-shaped mouse I’m still claw-gripping it,
Old habits are hard to break.
Apple is supposedly changing the design of the Magic Mouse soon, though they’ll probably leave the charging port… on the bottom.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 19, 2025 07:17 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Do I have to do EVERYTHING for you people? at April 19, 2025 07:19 AM (dg+HA)
Apple is supposedly changing the design of the Magic Mouse soon, though they’ll probably leave the charging port… on the bottom.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 19, 2025
***
That's the one I have. How often do you need to charge it?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 07:19 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 07:21 AM (cvWHI)
https://a.co/d/5UFLx1N
Comfortable and seems to work well so far
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 06:58 AM (cvWHI)
Yup, very similar to mine, except it mine has the programmable center button on top.
I just use it to switch the polling rate on the mouse.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 19, 2025 07:21 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: The more you know... at April 19, 2025 07:22 AM (dg+HA)
$20. Same as in town.
Posted by: Do I have to do EVERYTHING for you people? at April 19, 2025 07:19 AM (dg+HA)
Took a while!
Posted by: m at April 19, 2025 07:23 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 07:19 AM (omVj0)
Been using it for almost 8 years now.
And I’m guessing, but I’d say I have to charge it once a month and a half to two months, depending on use.
I had the AA battery version before this rechargeable version and it would last longer, say every six months I’d have to replace the batteries.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 19, 2025 07:25 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ciampino - another crazy interval at April 19, 2025 07:27 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 07:21 AM (cvWHI)
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The YouTube reviewers said the same thing.
“It’s no big deal, but why in the world would you put it in the bottom?”
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 19, 2025 07:27 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 19, 2025 07:28 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 07:19 AM (omVj0)
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Been using it for almost 8 years now.
And I’m guessing, but I’d say I have to charge it once a month and a half to two months, depending on use.
I had the AA battery version before this rechargeable version and it would last longer, say every six months I’d have to replace the batteries.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 19, 2025
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Once a month sounds right. I started using the iMac the week I retired, and that's been close to three weeks now, so maybe I'll do that next week. Or the first of the month, so I'll remember.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 07:28 AM (omVj0)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2025 07:30 AM (u82oZ)
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True wisdom comes when one realizes this might be the best indicator of sentience we could ever wish for.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 07:30 AM (km43Y)
Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays?
Posted by: Homer Simpson at April 19, 2025 07:30 AM (dg+HA)
https://mol.im/a/14615469
Posted by: Ciampino - another idiot that ignores cameras? at April 19, 2025 07:31 AM (sPQoU)
Not only will they make up answers that are completely wrong, when asked how they came up with those answers, they will make that up as well.
OpenAI is merely a digital Democrat / libtard. Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 19, 2025 07:33 AM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Homer Simpson at April 19, 2025 07:33 AM (dg+HA)
That's fine, but what are you doing about those bags under your eyes? Did you buy some gold yet? You better get Carshield!
Posted by: Ol Yeller at April 19, 2025 07:34 AM (vFG9F)
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So progressive
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 07:34 AM (0JWOm)
Blue Origin's all-girl space stunt is Elon Musk's fault. (The Verge)
Elon Musk has nothing to do with it, has saved the day when things went south, and generally speaking has done nothing wrong at all, but Elizabeth Lopatto has to rant.
They set the record for most breast implants sent into space in a single launch! And that's something to brag about!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 19, 2025 07:36 AM (Tv15w)
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I mean, I get it.
She watched a murderer stalk and kill someone and get a half million dollars.
Imagine how much she as an attractiveish white woman might be able to get in her gofundme, AND she gets to constantly tell a story about how some man was mean to her? Abusive, even?
Ka-ching, baby
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 07:36 AM (km43Y)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 07:37 AM (omVj0)
“It’s no big deal, but why in the world would you put it in the bottom?”
Posted by: SpeakingOf
* Pete Buttgiggity raises hand and waves excitedly *
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 19, 2025 07:39 AM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 07:40 AM (omVj0)
Reading the article- she was in a motorized scooter in walmart with 4 kids
"Speaking about the incident last month, Miller clarified that she is not handicapped but was using the motorized scooter because her children wanted to ride in it."
Srsly?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 07:41 AM (Wx316)
She had a quiet night, and is getting better from the events of yesterday.
She was much improved, complaining about her situation to me, like why can't I sit up?, which is a sign of normality. The medical team was going to remove a blood pressure support pump this weekend, then she could safely sit up.
Got her Sudoku from the car, and let her rest before dinner. Small portions of some nice food like salmon. Worked on my story from a chair in the corner of the room.
Then alarms went off. Her heart went into afib. People streamed into the room, working to get her heart back. The crash cart showed up, and shock paddles were placed. Stay with us [Mrs Salty] was the chant. 12 people, including her high-powered doctors, in the room. Clear. Shock. Her body jumped.
Heart back in rhythm, but now more time needed for stabilization.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2025 07:41 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 07:43 AM (km43Y)
What an ordeal for you both.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 19, 2025 07:44 AM (Wx316)
"Supreme Court BLOCKS Migrant Deportations as Trump Pushes Presidential Powers to the Brink"
https://shorturl.at/ex9kZ (link to DM)
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 19, 2025 07:44 AM (qBdHI)
NaCly we all have your Mrs and you in mind.
Posted by: Ciampino - shocking at April 19, 2025 07:45 AM (sPQoU)
What I've learned from this is to stay healthy so you don't go to a hospital.
Your hugs are therapeutic, and I hardly felt the bandoleer of throwing knives you wear.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2025 07:47 AM (u82oZ)
Thank you. Her continued fight is beyond science, and into the realm of spirituality. I credit the Horde with her being here.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2025 07:48 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 07:28 AM (omVj0)
If you go up to the top right of the Menu bar on the Mac and click on the Bluetooth symbol it will show you how much charge you have left in the mouse and keyboard.
When it gets down to 10% charge it will turn the readout red to warn you.
It’s been awhile since I’ve let it happen, but I think MacOS will throw a warning dialing box on the screen when your peripherals get to 5% charge.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 19, 2025 07:52 AM (6ydKt)
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We were having a discussion about this in meatspace not too long ago.
Until the 2000s / 2010s or so people understood (and had been taught ?) that they could meet a mate, an opportunity for advancement, etc each time
Something about the internet and the idea that all of an individuals important aspects of life exist primarily online broke a lot of our brains. Normal people going outside to do business in pajamas is a great example, and you can see it constantly.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 07:52 AM (km43Y)
And I'd like everyone to note that only Thomas and Alito opposed. That's right. Crying Cav, No Notes ACB, and Muh Law Gorsuch all joined the Dread Pirate Roberts.
Lets all applaud The Turtle for his brilliant mastery of the Senate in getting them appointed. Yay Turtle.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 19, 2025 07:52 AM (CSQIx)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 19, 2025 07:53 AM (cvWHI)
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 19, 2025 07:53 AM (qBdHI)
Heavenly Father bring the river of life into that hospital room, wisdom to all the medical staff, courage into her heart, peace into Salty's and your grace into the entire situation.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 19, 2025 07:54 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 19, 2025 07:56 AM (eaOja)
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Truer words were never spoken.
Six months or so ago I went to the ER for a kidney stone. I'd had them before, I knee what was happening, and I told them. Cat scans, MRI, etc, and what should be a $200 or so visit for generic IV painkillers for an hour or two was a $15,000 two hour visit.
I'm not easily getting away from my covid era suspicions about the medical industry m
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 07:57 AM (km43Y)
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I'm fairly supportive of this simply because it gets us a step closer to the other two equal branches saying "no, you're our equal, and you don't get to tell us what to do"
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 07:59 AM (km43Y)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 07:57 AM (km43Y)
If you went to CMC - Main, navigating the parking deck is enough to give you a heart attack.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 19, 2025 08:02 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2025 08:03 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 19, 2025 08:03 AM (PiwSw)
I'll take that bet. Congress wants no part of this - like they want no part of anything else. We are here, in no small part, because the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial are a three-legged stool. Except the Legislative just wants to do hookers and blow all day rather than take an actual stance on anything.
This is the Executive against the Judicial. Congress will sit this one out, one way or another.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 19, 2025 08:03 AM (CSQIx)
When it gets down to 10% charge it will turn the readout red to warn you.
It’s been awhile since I’ve let it happen, but I think MacOS will throw a warning dialing box on the screen when your peripherals get to 5% charge.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 19, 2025
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I didn't have "Show Bluetooth in Menu Bar" on. The mouse is at 56%. Maybe I'd better charge it this week.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2025 08:03 AM (omVj0)
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Oh, I'm not saying anything productive will immediately come from it, but it's a necessary step on the way to the inevitable nation-states if it continues.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 19, 2025 08:06 AM (km43Y)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 19, 2025 08:09 AM (Dv9LQ)
Posted by: Just Wondering at April 19, 2025 05:40 AM (dg+HA)
Mine's empty, the birds are pissed and took it out on my car.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 19, 2025 09:15 AM (5xuJ/)
Unlike my wife's, this woman's bitching amuses me.
Posted by: toby928 at April 19, 2025 10:02 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 19, 2025 10:44 AM (i24o9)
In A Mine! In A Mine! Where A Million ONTs Shine!
Hello everybody, and welcome to Friday night! Crack open a cold one or pour a few fingers of a smooth one and let's get on with the show!
Hacked crosswalks
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) April 18, 2025
Fido Friday: Good deal
They could have designed that better
If it can be screwed up, a soldier will find a way to screw it up
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) April 18, 2025
Can't you smell that smell?
Yes, the flower. That's why they call it that. Sure.
It's outrageous that we celebrate this group of people so much in our society
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) April 18, 2025
I got a new shirt, and people react funny to it. What do you suppose they have against Dr. Pepper?
Judgment Day
Bad career choice
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Whitetext helps in the fight against AI
Meeting the neighbors. The navy question is suspicious
When fleeing the cops, always yield to oncoming traffic
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) April 19, 2025
Getting old
He's got a point
When I was studying MMA, my instructor always said that the best move in a fight was to walk (or run) away. Guess he was right.
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) April 19, 2025
We run it all, Jack
Libertarian
We got us a couple of rocket surgeons here
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: mindful webworker - almostly at April 18, 2025 10:02 PM (dlb43)
Posted by: Ciampino - quite a bang at April 18, 2025 10:02 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 18, 2025 10:02 PM (/lHG3)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 18, 2025 10:03 PM (/lHG3)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2025 10:04 PM (y5Bkh)
Posted by: Some Rat at April 18, 2025 10:06 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 10:07 PM (bIzDl)
Posted by: mindful webworker - almostly at April 18, 2025 10:08 PM (dlb43)
Posted by: Dr. T at April 18, 2025 10:08 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: tankdemon at April 18, 2025 10:09 PM (vsRKJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 10:09 PM (m8Jfi)
Hello everybody. I'm thinking of changing my nic. This is what I was actually nic'd in the goth scene here (S.F.) years ago by one of the DJs. I'm actually kind of fond of it. Today's a sad anniversary on a personal, pet loss level. It inspires me on a particular mission to make a difference. Well, enough crypticism. It's supposed to be a good Friday and it is the weekend.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 18, 2025 10:09 PM (KAi1n)
Thus, the Doolittle Raid started.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 10:11 PM (m8Jfi)
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 10:11 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 10:11 PM (lXCUP)
Take Jesus, He’s the Light of the World…
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 10:12 PM (bIzDl)
I liked the glory hole and the 2 girls were cute.
My friend is coming over to hang out soon.
I'll be checking later but I was wondering how much vitamin D people take. I was taking 6000 IU a day. A course I'm taking recommends vitamins and minerals from food.
Saint Fauci takes 6000 IU a day. And there aren't really issues if you are under 10,000 IU. Still, just wondering.
Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at April 18, 2025 10:12 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 18, 2025 10:09 PM (KAi1n)
Sorry about the loss of your pet. Everyone have a good night.
Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at April 18, 2025 10:13 PM (jvJvP)
Good evening, Horde. Hope you have a good night and I'll see you in the morning.
Posted by: NR Pax
Is that a threat?
Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2025 10:14 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 10:14 PM (m8Jfi)
Posted by: Illiterate, Innumerate, Sometimes Incontinent at April 18, 2025 10:16 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 18, 2025 10:16 PM (VJc7E)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 10:16 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 10:16 PM (RIvkX)
Do you remember when, during the dog-eater's regime, a German family was deported instead of being given a residency permit?
Posted by: Ciampino - quite a long drawn out affair at April 18, 2025 10:16 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Weirddave at April 18, 2025 10:16 PM (df/te)
Posted by: mindful webworker - thanks between 1 and a million at April 18, 2025 10:16 PM (dlb43)
Posted by: tankdemon at April 18, 2025 10:17 PM (vsRKJ)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 10:17 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Former Loon at April 18, 2025 10:18 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at April 18, 2025 10:19 PM (ue06Q)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 10:17 PM (0Htd1)
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Funnier with a codpiece spewing 'silk'.
Posted by: Ciampino - quite a long one at April 18, 2025 10:19 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Otto Zilch at April 18, 2025 10:20 PM (Ws2ua)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 18, 2025 10:09 PM (KAi1n)
So ... is this the poster formerly known as SFGoth?
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 18, 2025 10:21 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Otto Zilch
Anything to do with insurance?
Posted by: Some Rat at April 18, 2025 10:21 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 18, 2025 10:22 PM (cvWHI)
Posted by: Former Loon at April 18, 2025 10:18 PM (G5+As)
Thanks, I'll look into this.
My friend will be here in a few minutes.
Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at April 18, 2025 10:22 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Ciampino - quite a long time at April 18, 2025 10:23 PM (sPQoU)
I lernt to Screw Up at Ft. Jackson.
Class Six may have been involved.
Posted by: Lovable Screw-Up Miklos, a lowly E-5 at April 18, 2025 10:23 PM (UOzvC)
Three seconds into the NFL vs. NBA video I was like “Oh, this is Congress..” Good gag, though.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 10:23 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 10:24 PM (l3YAf)
http://tiny.cc/fozg001
Posted by: tankdemon at April 18, 2025 10:24 PM (vsRKJ)
https://mol.im/a/14626443
Posted by: Ciampino - do his car at April 18, 2025 10:24 PM (sPQoU)
Thank you also.
And everyone else.
Cool, he's here. He's had a tough week too.
Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at April 18, 2025 10:24 PM (jvJvP)
Good evening, Horde. Hope you have a good night and I'll see you in the morning.
Posted by: NR Pax
Is that a threat?
Posted by: Tonypete
More a Promise, maybe
Posted by: Trusting naive Miklos at April 18, 2025 10:25 PM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 10:25 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 10:25 PM (RIvkX)
Italians would never do that. Maybe the Greeks. But is was the French.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 10:26 PM (4fQmp)
Do you remember when, during the dog-eater's regime, a German family was deported instead of being given a residency permit?
Posted by: Ciampino - quite a long drawn out affair at April 18, 2025 10:16 PM (sPQoU)
Yes. I think they had asked for asylum so they could homeschool their kids instead of having the German government brainwash them.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 18, 2025 10:26 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: tankdemon
Wow, that's really dark. Only time I remember it being really, really dark in the afternoon, a tornado was passing by about two blocks south of me.*
You sure you didn't just forget to take off your sleep mask after a nap?
Posted by: mindful webworker - *Tulsa, June 1974 at April 18, 2025 10:26 PM (dlb43)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 18, 2025 10:27 PM (ZEzFB)
Posted by: Former Loon at April 18, 2025 10:18 PM (G5+As)
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Nope, an International Unit is the same everywhere.
Posted by: Ciampino - why? at April 18, 2025 10:27 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 10:28 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: PaleRider at April 18, 2025 10:28 PM (CKOCg)
Well, who doesn't? Although, I suppose it depends which side you're on.
Posted by: Weirddave at April 18, 2025 10:16 PM (df/te)
From what I've heard, Putahs have glory holes.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 18, 2025 10:28 PM (ynbzU)
https://mol.im/a/14626443
Posted by: Ciampino
Miss Dixie does not even piss on the tires of the Porsches in neighborhood. Not even if I ask.
Doggie respects property rights.
Posted by: Miklos is a Good Neighbor at April 18, 2025 10:29 PM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Ciampino - I didn't get nuffin at April 18, 2025 10:29 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 10:16 PM (viF8m)
John Luck Pickard : There are Four Candles!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 10:30 PM (VNX3d)
Well, who doesn't? Although, I suppose it depends which side you're on.
Posted by: Weirddave at April 18, 2025 10:16 PM (df/te)
What happens when two dudes go to insert at the same time? Is it like the locking bayonet video?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 10:30 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 10:25 PM (RIvkX)
Okay, I am nowhere the level of European that would eat a calzone with a fork. Wrapped on a napkin, maybe, but still in my hands.
Posted by: pookysgirl, on mini-vacation at April 18, 2025 10:30 PM (KzZ2M)
Posted by: Stateless.
(checks bottle)
Looks like I'm taking only about 4000IU a day. Probably could take more. I also take Vitamin K, which is supposed to help with the Vitamin D somehow, I forget how.
Take the above with a grain of sodium chloride. I am not a nutritionist.
Posted by: mindful webworker - vitamin, see? at April 18, 2025 10:32 PM (dlb43)
Posted by: tankdemon at April 18, 2025 10:09 PM (vsRKJ)
Never fear - three days from now, the entire world will be bathed in the light of His eternal grace!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 18, 2025 10:33 PM (/lHG3)
Posted by: mindful webworker - *Tulsa, June 1974 at April 18, 2025 10:26 PM (dlb43)
That is a possibility. My wife wasn't around to supervise me at the time.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 18, 2025 10:33 PM (vsRKJ)
Posted by: Gwyneth Paltrow at April 18, 2025 10:33 PM (UOzvC)
Don’t Canadians use IU = international units? If so they’ve been defined for vitamin D since the 1930s.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 10:33 PM (bIzDl)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 18, 2025 10:33 PM (/lHG3)
This. Very much this.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 18, 2025 10:36 PM (vsRKJ)
Posted by: DNC Vice-twink David Hogg at April 18, 2025 10:36 PM (l3YAf)
It often gets overlooked for an obvious reason but right about now in 1775 Revere and Dawes made their ride to warn the militia in Lexington the British were coming.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 10:37 PM (viF8m)
https://mol.im/a/14626743
Posted by: Ciampino - quite a long time
I wonder if the little bastard will be able to take college classes at taxpayer expense.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 10:37 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
"Savage Eating Calzones" would be a cool retro 50s Spaghetti western Sci-Fi horror flick.
Based on aliens in Brazil, but filmed at Cinecittà
Posted by: Il Mikloiosio at April 18, 2025 10:38 PM (UOzvC)
Posted by: mindful webworker - rated zany at April 18, 2025 10:39 PM (dlb43)
Most people don’t get enough, especially during winter, but if you’re supplementing at all, it’s probably enough. Most vitamin supplements just get excreted in the urine.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 10:39 PM (l3YAf)
https://mol.im/a/14625641
Posted by: Ciampino - did you get nuffin? at April 18, 2025 10:40 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 10:41 PM (VofaG)
https://mol.im/a/14626443
Posted by: Ciampino
Miss Dixie does not even piss on the tires of the Porsches in neighborhood. Not even if I ask.
Doggie respects property rights.
Posted by: Miklos is a Good Neighbor
Another reminder that dogs have more common sense than democrats and liberals.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 10:42 PM (0Htd1)
https://mol.im/a/14626335
Posted by: Ciampino - I didn't get nuffin at April 18, 2025 10:29 PM (sPQoU)
Eeesh, what happened to Beyonce's face? She's unrecognizable. And Lady Gaga looks like she fell into a vat of Prednisone.
Posted by: pookysgirl, on mini-vacation at April 18, 2025 10:43 PM (KzZ2M)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 10:43 PM (bIzDl)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 10:43 PM (VofaG)
Most people don’t get enough, especially during winter, but if you’re supplementing at all, it’s probably enough. Most vitamin supplements just get excreted in the urine.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 10:39 PM (l3YAf)
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The fat-soluble vitamins (A, D) tend to accumulate and can become toxic so don't overdo it.
Posted by: Ciampino - I know nuffin at April 18, 2025 10:43 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: GWB at April 18, 2025 10:45 PM (f5gS/)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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How degraded our society has become when the first Bing response is double p.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 10:46 PM (4fQmp)
She probably doesn't even realize how pathetic it is that she has to pay people for their endorsements.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 10:47 PM (0Htd1)
https://mol.im/a/14625641
Posted by: Ciampino - did you get nuffin? at April 18, 2025 10:40 PM (sPQoU)
That story is sad. Not because she’s a scammer. But because her story is instantly believable to anyone who dealt with certain folks on the right. “Wow, a black Republican!? Allow me to demonstrate how I’m not racist by giving her money without so much as a second look! That’ll own the libs and finally get black people voting for Trump!”
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 10:47 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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How degraded our society has become when the first Bing response is double p.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 10:46 PM (4fQmp)
Double Pepsi? Gross!
Posted by: Diet Coke Fan at April 18, 2025 10:48 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
Do you know the dose of K2? I just learned i have 2 fractures and they're healing but i want to help them along as much as i can .
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 10:49 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 10:49 PM (bIzDl)
Posted by: Ciampino - I know nuffin at April 18, 2025 10:43 PM (sPQoU)
Yeah, never go over any recommended maximum. It’s a waste of money, at best, and harmful at worst.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 10:52 PM (l3YAf)
https://mol.im/a/14625755
Posted by: Ciampino - a whipping would be good at April 18, 2025 10:53 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: pookysgirl, on mini-vacation
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Distorting one's appearance is part of the initiation ritual.
Take a look at Lauren Sanchez face or Laura Bush.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 10:53 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 10:54 PM (m8Jfi)
This one is good, though. Thorough and up-to-date to the best of my understanding.
Shroud studies (48:07)
Dr. John Campbell
posted 5 months ago
https://youtu.be/YT1R2kDPHFA
Since I first read about the Shroud, I've learned a few new things.
Most significantly, it's not just a photographic negative, it has depth which can be extrapolated. Current images of what the face on the Shroud really looked like are amazing. The one that has a moving face (like the "old paintings brought to life" videos) is a bit disturbing, a smiling Jesus with the scars and blood on His face...
The dirt, pollen, and the material and weave of the cloth all indicate first-Century Jerusalem.
The "39 lashes" weren't just with a cowboy-type horse whip. Roman scourges had multiple spiked metal balls on each whip; the scourge marks all over the body are gut-wrenching to see.
As I recall from a single source long ago, there were attempts to duplicate the image which sort-of worked, but the image always blurred when the cloth was removed.
Posted by: mindful webworker - so hard to look at it at April 18, 2025 10:55 PM (dlb43)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 10:55 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
I saw a man in a London restaurant eat a hamburger with a knife and fork.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 10:56 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: pookysgirl, on mini-vacation at April 18, 2025 10:30 PM (KzZ2M)
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You should ignore me. I eat pizza with a knife and fork too.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 10:57 PM (RIvkX)
She claims this . I don’t believe her.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 10:57 PM (VofaG)
Kamala's campaign in a nutshell.
Posted by: MkY at April 18, 2025 10:59 PM (cPGH3)
Was his hair perfectly groomed?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 10:59 PM (m8Jfi)
Posted by: AnchorPoint at April 18, 2025 10:59 PM (V9pbl)
Posted by: nerdygirl
And his hair was perfect!
Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2025 11:00 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2025 11:00 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: mindful webworker - almostly at April 18, 2025 10:02 PM (dlb43)
One, (click) two, (click) three. (crunch)
Three.
Posted by: Mr. Owl at April 18, 2025 11:00 PM (0eaVi)
A daily dose of 500 to 1000 mcg of MK-4 is adequate and close to healthy ancestral consumption. Combine that with 100 to 200 mcg of MK-7. This will cover virtually everyone's needs..
I use Innovixlabs.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 18, 2025 11:01 PM (cvWHI)
UNBELIEVABLE.
https://tinyurl.com/5fhdbarb
Posted by: Ciampino - this is getting out of hand at April 18, 2025 11:01 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 11:01 PM (m8Jfi)
Thass rookie numbers.
Posted by: Karmelo A. at April 18, 2025 11:01 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 11:03 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 11:03 PM (m8Jfi)
Posted by: Anna Puma
😄
Some recent post, a Moron asked if the gals who took a little rocket ride had pressurized suits, and someone replied they just had Sue Storm costumes. Now I can't not see it.
Relatedly, someone linked to this video of Gals In Spaaace.
https://youtu.be/w5QhsmCp5eM
Posted by: mindful webworker - Galactus was just hungry - Democrats say at April 18, 2025 11:04 PM (dlb43)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
JUMBO SHRIMP
Posted by: Big Tony Fauci at April 18, 2025 11:04 PM (UOzvC)
https://tinyurl.com/3j3us6c4
Posted by: Ciampino - bang bang at April 18, 2025 11:06 PM (sPQoU)
Thier costumes looks more like something saved from Star Trek Discovery's discarded props.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 11:08 PM (m8Jfi)
Thier costumes looks more like something saved from Star Trek Discovery's discarded props.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 11:08 PM (m8Jfi)
Their actually the costumes for the evil female squad in Amazon's upcoming Bond 007 movie.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 11:10 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 18, 2025 11:10 PM (362/q)
Critical Drinker has a video making fun of Amazon's new movie "G20" where Preznit Viola Davis beats up a bunch of white men that are twice her size.
The commenters are calling it "Big Mike: The Motion Picture".
Posted by: Ian S. at April 18, 2025 11:11 PM (OyOhQ)
Good evening, everyone. Tomorrow is gonna be a beautiful day. Smash has picked out a waterfall for us to ride the motorcycles to.
I really should figure a way to post photos anonymously.
Anyway....today was a good day as well. I got the olde front/rear dash cams in Smash's charger removed and replaced with current tech. Had to cut out the usb A two-wire (ignition, ground) power adapters, and splice in a new usb C three-wire power adapter (ground, battery, ignition) for both of them. Ran a new always hot battery wire for the new adapters. Had to drag my HACCO 880 soldering iron down from the office, the garage 40w chynesium soldering pencil wasn't working on the heavier guage wiring in the new kits. Got the wiring tucked away behind trim, no wire peeking out. Looks profesionally installed.
Good times.
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 18, 2025 11:11 PM (MsrgL)
you never walkout of the restroom
sniffing your fingers!
Posted by: Ciampino - LOL at April 18, 2025 11:12 PM (sPQoU)
I've found a whole bunch of old drawings I did on old media, and the old media is still young enough to let me copy these to young media. So that's great.
I'm looking at ChromeBooks in the same way I look at exotic amphibians. Is there a good ChromeBook out there? I ask because Microsoft is apparently getting very aggressive with its "Recall" feature and we know that didn't work out well AT ALL in "Total Recall" so when I have to replace this W10 desktop, well, what are you going to do.
And before you say "Linux" I got a bunch of stuff that only works under Windows.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 18, 2025 11:13 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 11:14 PM (m8Jfi)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Typing is horrible, linking is terrible, you can't click onto a link without screwing something up. It's miserable.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 11:15 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 10:57 PM (VofaG)
Why not? Are you not familiar with Candace Owens? She just pulled this scam at a much higher level. She went from liberal to "conservative" to MAGA to cuckoo land?
She made a lot more money from the middle sections there. I don't know if Candace Owens still commands a high price or if the Jewish space lasers robbed her of that.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 11:15 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 11:14 PM (m8Jfi)
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Sweet. Added to playlist.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 11:15 PM (RIvkX)
you never walkout of the restroom
sniffing your fingers!
Posted by: Ciampino
It is too alright! You take that back, you big meanie.
*snifs fingers*
Damned ten year old. Got her smells all over me.
Posted by: Trannys Everywhere at April 18, 2025 11:15 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: B8fBewalski at April 18, 2025 11:16 PM (MsrgL)
I'm hearing it makes it into "so bad it's unintentionally funny" territory.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 18, 2025 11:16 PM (OyOhQ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
A bunch of Window/linux simulators out there. I'm not suggesting you do anything, but you could set up a 2nd system to test out the WINE box => Windows inside a linux OS. As long as it's not graphics heavy, it should work.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 18, 2025 11:17 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: William J Clinton Esq at April 18, 2025 11:19 PM (szqEY)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Typing is horrible, linking is terrible, you can't click onto a link without screwing something up. It's miserable.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 11:15 PM (4fQmp)
I'm *always* on iPhone. It sucks, lol. Typos are rife. Typing is slow. Opening links is a pita.
Oh, and the Name box doesn't accept UTF-8, but iPhone insists on using smart quotes, so you can't sockpuppet names with single or double quotes, unless you track down an ASCII table to copy-paste from. Which I do sometimes.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 11:19 PM (l3YAf)
And before you say "Linux" I got a bunch of stuff that only works under Windows.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
You really should check out the wine. I have an olde windows 98 version 1 of Myst running on the current spin of ubunto.
Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer that allows you to run Windows applications on POSIX-compliant operating systems like Linux. Instead of emulating the internal logic of Windows, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly.
Home Page: https://www.winehq.org/
Posted by: B8fBewalski at April 18, 2025 11:19 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 18, 2025 11:20 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 11:20 PM (m8Jfi)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
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Wean yourself off. Buy an inexpensive sys like Beelink and find alternatives to your stuff while keeping your current stuff on Microtheft. Put a backup on an external HD, they're cheap.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 11:21 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 18, 2025 11:21 PM (MsrgL)
Drinker thought so.
https://youtu.be/Q6ua9UES8ss
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 18, 2025 11:21 PM (DIweC)
Really? UTF-8 support was pretty much the entire changelog from Minx 0.7 beta to 0.8.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 18, 2025 11:21 PM (OyOhQ)
http://tiny.cc/fozg001
Posted by: tankdemon
Thanks, tankdemon. Been a long, long time since I read the whole thing.
Posted by: mindful webworker - wait-- was it one if by land or two...? at April 18, 2025 11:22 PM (dlb43)
Seems like an apropo query for tonight.
Has anyone boot strapped a mingc compiler from scratch?
I thinking about giving it a try.
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 18, 2025 11:23 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: nerdygirl
With which hand was the fork held?
Posted by: Miklos can guess at April 18, 2025 11:25 PM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 11:20 PM (m8Jfi)
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You make it sound like Foxy Brown
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 11:26 PM (RIvkX)
Metatron (Italian history buff with hair to be envied) did a video on the Shroud of Turin:
https://youtu.be/yK8x4lvFl1M
Posted by: pookysgirl, on mini-vacation at April 18, 2025 11:27 PM (KzZ2M)
Working my way thru the comments but could someone explain a) the Dr Pepper shirt and b) the correct answer to the land quiz ?
I didn't get the headline, either.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 18, 2025 11:27 PM (QGaXH)
the tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,
and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 18, 2025 11:27 PM (WL2lA)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 18, 2025 11:13 PM (CHHv1)
Chromebook is Linux, essentially. If the stuff you have really is Windows-only, you can try WINE or using Windows in a virtual machine. WINE is fiddly and doesn't work with everything, but when it does it's faster. A virtual machine is slower, but works with nearly any app except 3D games.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 11:30 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: nerdygirl
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I do that if it's going to be messy and specially if handwashing may be meh! I hate greasy hands.
Posted by: Ciampino - no to greasy KBD keys at April 18, 2025 11:30 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 11:30 PM (m8Jfi)
Posted by: gKWVE at April 18, 2025 11:33 PM (gKWVE)
https://mol.im/a/14626335
Posted by: Ciampino - I didn't get nuffin at April 18, 2025 10:29 PM (sPQoU)
Eeesh, what happened to Beyonce's face? She's unrecognizable. And Lady Gaga looks like she fell into a vat of Prednisone.
Posted by: pookysgirl, on mini-vacation at April 18, 2025 10:43 PM (KzZ2M)
That's Beyonce's mother.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 18, 2025 11:36 PM (ynbzU)
There is a commercial service that provides security patches to older window versions but pay 25 bux to Microsoft next fall and that gets a one year extension from Microsoft on security patches from them.
There is also dual booting of windows and Linux on the same system along with wine, virtual operating machines, containers, etc. a lot depends on the age of your programs and what they. Usually you can find out quite a bit from online forums about which programs work with which choice unless it is obscure. Lots of game compatibility info though including settings.
Posted by: whig's phone at April 18, 2025 11:40 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: BifBewalski
I like the cheap tequila, it's the mezcal that gets ya
Posted by: Miklos, former Yucatecan at April 18, 2025 11:41 PM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 11:44 PM (63Dwl)
I thinking about giving it a try.
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 18, 2025 11:23 PM (MsrgL)
Never bootstrapped mingw. I've bootstrapped gcc and clang, but not for the last decade. I moved to macOS 9 years ago.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 11:45 PM (l3YAf)
Or you can buy a CrossOver license and things just work, for the most part. Even games.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 18, 2025 11:46 PM (OyOhQ)
https://youtu.be/yK8x4lvFl1M
Posted by: pookysgirl
Thanks. I watched some of it, but found it more, um, argumentative? opinionish? (6½ min to even start talking about the titular "new evidence") v. Dr. Campbell's video which was pretty much just straightforwardly informative, value per minute.
I've watched a lot of the tiresome "is it real" and "proves Christ" etc videos, and all I wanted was just info. I did appreciate that the clip Metatron embedded had a better explanation of the x-ray scattering method.
Posted by: mindful webworker - pasta? at April 18, 2025 11:46 PM (dlb43)
Posted by: Weirddave at April 18, 2025 11:48 PM (df/te)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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It worked well for me.
If I can do it anyone can.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 11:51 PM (4fQmp)
You don't have to wish it on them, it will come all by itself.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
As you sow, so shall you reap.
It's so sad, the choices people make.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 18, 2025 11:51 PM (Eo96p)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 11:52 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 11:54 PM (m8Jfi)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2025 12:00 AM (m8Jfi)
(crap)
It's been a busy night. Just entered the morning time here in Babylon DC.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 19, 2025 12:02 AM (MmTZZ)
Or you can buy a CrossOver license and things just work, for the most part. Even games.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 18, 2025 11:46 PM (OyOhQ)
Never used it. I was on Linux too long to ever pay for software like that. "$75?? I can spend 100 hours messing around with text configs for the cost of that!"
The last time I needed to run a Windows app and only had Linux around was 2014. I just went to Costco and bought a Windows thin-and-light laptop for $450. It was excellent. I suddenly had access to things like Netflix streaming that wouldn't run on Linux.
That laptop is still alive. It's in fine shape. Runs Windows 10. Acer, if anyone cares.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 19, 2025 12:02 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 12:02 AM (4fQmp)
Jerusalem Report
Reporting on miraculous events one week in Jerusalem.
A
https://bit.ly/jeru-report
Reporter: This morning, once again, the talk of the town is Jesus of Nazareth, and how was this fellow involved in the disruptions at the Temple, yesterday?…
Posted by: mindful webworker - Temple News Network at April 19, 2025 12:04 AM (dlb43)
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 18, 2025 11:21 PM (MsrgL)
Well. Good news!
Tariffs will eliminate cheap tequila!
Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2025 12:05 AM (W/lyH)
I'm doing the store-bought ham, potatoes, and green bean casserole. Mock away.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2025 12:06 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 11:52 PM (RIvkX)
No. I wouldn't like to be a pepper too.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2025 12:07 AM (W/lyH)
Uh.. lessee..
The Cadbury creme eggs. And the Reeses peanut butter eggs..
Peeps suck. Avoid.
Chocolate bunnies can be okay.
I do keto, though, so I won't be doing any of those, unfortunately.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 19, 2025 12:10 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: DBCooper at April 19, 2025 12:11 AM (y1Mvi)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2025 12:12 AM (mlg/3)
Tariffs will eliminate cheap tequila!
Posted by: Diogenes
Why does that feel like my S3 just handed me an OPorder to get my ass out to the field for six weeks in bfe?
How doin?
St. Barb was a roaring success here. 338 seats filled. The 3 button and ses of SMDC both said it was good times. I kick off the planning for 2026 in another 60 days. I'll let you know the date so you can attend if possible.
Drink a good bavarian dark bier for me.
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 19, 2025 12:16 AM (MsrgL)
If the Democrats were smart, they'd ask one of their people in MS-13 to get a fellow inmate to kill kilmar. Then the Democrats would have their martyr.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 19, 2025 12:18 AM (9cBL3)
Posted by: scampydog at April 19, 2025 12:18 AM (CE7wm)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 19, 2025 12:21 AM (mH6SG)
Suspension of disbelief, man. Your hypothetical has to be plausible.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 19, 2025 12:23 AM (l3YAf)
Don't really have one. Got nowhere to go or anyone to see. Just planning on giving thanks for the Resurrection, in my own meek way.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 19, 2025 12:26 AM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 19, 2025 12:28 AM (9cBL3)
Pick any nation on the planet and put that nation (with all their foibles) in the place of the US, and consider what your life would be like as they attempt to dictate that lifestyle to you.
UK would be censoring your speech and throwing you in jail for insults
China would have half the nation in concentration camps due to political opinion and religion
Saudi Arabia would have ditched the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue well before Sports Illustrated committed Harikari.
And so on.
The truth is that the best country to run the world's economy is, in fact, the US. And, we're underappreciated.
Posted by: Orson at April 19, 2025 12:38 AM (dIske)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 19, 2025 12:45 AM (mH6SG)
Depends on what's left in the fridge by Sunday. Maybe hashbrowns and a couple of eggs? Breakfast for supper.
No family nearby. Hubs in nursing home. Friends all busy with g-kids & family stuff.
Go ahead, mock away! It's peaceful here & I need that.
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 12:46 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2025 12:48 AM (f6yyg)
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 12:50 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
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You're not alone. And the quiet helps to sort things out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 12:51 AM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2025 12:53 AM (8zz6B)
Christ is my best (and perhaps only) friend today.
Your menu sounds perfectly wonderful, and there is no better friend than Christ. Hugs and love to you this Holy Weekend. Spend time with your husband, go to an Easter service, enjoy whatever you want to eat and check Ace's place on Sunday. A lot of folks hang out here for fellowship!
Posted by: Moki at April 19, 2025 12:54 AM (wLjpr)
Cheers, JSND.
Easter menu will be steak, as it is every Sunday. Baked potato and maybe artichoke. Might pick up a ham for later in the week when I host a couple friends for dinner..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 19, 2025 12:54 AM (bA75n)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2025 12:55 AM (8zz6B)
Winds of Change (32:11)
https://bit.ly/4cC3MJL
I haven't been keeping up very well since JoeDan left YouTube. I'm not a "joiner," YouTube being about the only place I'm signed up and that was a looonng time ago. I've thought of signing up for Rumble, but, but, it's just one more thing. I think about joining X now and then, too. But I haven't.
It was JoeDan back in 2016 who made me realize that the talk that Trump was just running to enhance his brand and would throw it to Hillary was nuts, and I finally got fully on-board the Trump train. What a ride.
Posted by: mindful webworker - I'm a rejoinder, not a joiner at April 19, 2025 12:57 AM (dlb43)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2025 12:58 AM (f6yyg)
Hope you are reading tonight. Miss you man.
Posted by: DBCooper at April 19, 2025 12:11 AM (y1Mvi)
DB, I got a wooden humidor with a mess of cigars in it at a swap meet a month ago. It has a humidifier and electronic humidity sensor in it, and it's now back up to about 54% RH.
Are you game to try one or more out?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2025 01:00 AM (8zz6B)
Saudi Arabia would have ditched the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue well before Sports Illustrated committed Harikari.
Posted by: Orson at April 19, 2025 12:38 AM (dIske)
When we lived there, the Saudis were permitted to go through APO mail, and had a team armed with industrial sized magic markers who would go through every magazine and redact anything they deemed offensive. Military and embassy kids would receive Sesame street books with Miss Piggy blacked out. They would draw abayahs on Sports Illustrated models and other such magazines. Note, the pages would be dogeared and obviously well read before they ever arrived in the actual recipient's hand.
Posted by: Moki at April 19, 2025 01:00 AM (wLjpr)
https://youtu.be/aO1LbkuPfqo
G'nite, y'all. Stay dry if you can.
Posted by: mindful webworker - thunderation! at April 19, 2025 01:05 AM (dlb43)
Posted by: Miklos, for the Estate of Paul Anka at April 19, 2025 01:10 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Insurance for a single wide is not expensive.
Now a double wide with a deck, outdoor kitchen, and golf cart-that starts to be money
Then add in the Darleen, Marleen, and Charleen liability
Posted by: Miklos at Trailer Acres at April 19, 2025 01:14 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Miklos, testing one two three at April 19, 2025 01:17 AM (UOzvC)
If so--- I'd like a double, please. And a round for the bar too, please.
Here's a dollar for the jukebox...
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 01:17 AM (rdVOm)
Are you game to try one or more out?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2025 01:00 AM (8zz6B)
You want at least 60% for a solid week or more, depending on how long those sticks dried out. Friend of mine gave me an old Partagas out of a humidor he thought was empty five years before. I kept it at 65% for about three weeks. Burned evenly and delivered nice hits of spice, and leather. Definitely past its prime, but the quality of the leaf and construction was readily apparent..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 19, 2025 01:18 AM (bA75n)
Posted by: Moki
Ugh! Hope they weren't *sticky* too...
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 01:18 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 01:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
*adjusts collar uncomfortably, Rodney Dangerfield style*
Tough crowd
Posted by: Miklos, in mock turtleneck at April 19, 2025 01:21 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2025 01:21 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Weirddave
Was it intentional in the first place?
* shakes Magic 8-Ball *
"signs point to yes"
https://youtu.be/yNCrsbI3Rrk
Make 7-Up Yours.
Posted by: mikeski at April 19, 2025 01:23 AM (DgGvY)
Ship, Cap'n, crew...
Posted by: JQ
So
A game of Quarters it is
Or Thumper
Or Beersketball
Posted by: Miklos, what's the name of the Game??? at April 19, 2025 01:24 AM (UOzvC)
*splash!*
Hawhawhaw!!!
"drink mfer drink mfer drink mfer..."
****record scratch****
Um, uh-oh... heh... sorry...
I'll just go back to my corner now...
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 01:26 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8geaBMBAiqI
Posted by: The Soul Queen of New Orleans cooked dinner for Miklos more than once at April 19, 2025 01:27 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Mofo Miklos at April 19, 2025 01:29 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 01:31 AM (rdVOm)
On the other hand, I want Ukraine to pay back every cent they took. That money was stolen. If that means the next three generations of Ukrainian children have to spend 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in the copper smelters, so be it.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 19, 2025 01:32 AM (l3YAf)
I'm doing the store-bought ham, potatoes, and green bean casserole. Mock away.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
"Mock away."
If you insist. "Learn to cook, n00b."
I'm gonna try a lamb something-or-other. I'll see what the Internet has for recipes. I've heard it has some. I'll check the Deplorable Gourmet, too. Maybe average out 3 or 4 recipes and see what happens.
Posted by: mikeski at April 19, 2025 01:32 AM (DgGvY)
https://youtu.be/7qnTrL7FSeU
.....yup, that's a good one.
Posted by: mikeski at April 19, 2025 01:36 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: JQ
There are TWO (2) quarters in the bottom of your red 16 oz Solo cup.
Consume and ye shall find.
Posted by: Miklos beat the frta guys at drinking games, because I was born with a Talent at April 19, 2025 01:36 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 01:39 AM (4fQmp)
Got the recipe somewhere on the internet, don't recall where...
But I wrote it all down.
Interested, Mikeski?
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 01:41 AM (rdVOm)
Hey Horde, how are you tonight?? Miklos I am buying another round after JQ!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 19, 2025 01:41 AM (0nHVk)
Consume and ye shall find.
Sorry
One might be an Endymion Mardi Gras doubloon
Posted by: Miklos regrets any and all errors at April 19, 2025 01:42 AM (UOzvC)
Hey! I caught the coins in my teeth, Miklos!
What do I win?
...
Oh. The free double-shot. Right...
Woo-Hoo!
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 01:44 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
Miss, yo lady moneys ain't no good here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU1iVlNxK4c
Posted by: Kool Miklos and the ONT Gang at April 19, 2025 01:46 AM (UOzvC)
Hey Horde, how are you tonight?? Miklos I am buying another round after JQ!
Posted by: Debby Doberman
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Miklos, don't forget the little pink umberllas.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 01:46 AM (4fQmp)
What do I win?
...
Oh. The free double-shot. Right...
Woo-Hoo!
Posted by: JQ
At Pat O'Brien's on St Peter street in Da Quarters of Nawlins, you would indeed be awarded something, probably something imbibable.
Posted by: Kool Miklos, gettin' on down at April 19, 2025 01:49 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Braenyard
When I tend bar, the drink umbrellas are Texas sized.
Inconvenient, but still.
Posted by: Kool Miklos, but so are the drinks at April 19, 2025 01:51 AM (UOzvC)
https://youtu.be/7qnTrL7FSeU
.....yup, that's a good one.
Posted by: mikeski at April 19, 2025 01:36 AM (DgGvY)
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Thanks.
One problem with cordless mice - easy to misplace.
Posted by: Ciampino - I've no idea of where it is at April 19, 2025 01:52 AM (sPQoU)
Dr. John Campbell
posted 5 months ago
https://youtu.be/YT1R2kDPHFA
Since I first read about the Shroud, I've learned a few new things.
Posted by: mindful webworker - so hard to look at it at April 18, 2025 10:55
Thanks for the link mindful. Very interesting, I've long been intrigued by the Shroud, besides its religious significance, simply from an historical aspect.
It's said to be the most studied historical artifact I think. What would be more studied?
Posted by: Farmer at April 19, 2025 01:53 AM (55Qr6)
3-4lb boneless leg of lamb
Marinate in this mixture for several hours, turning at least once: (shake together in 2-gallon zip bag):
1-1/2 cups dry white wine
1/4 cup honey mustard
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 tablespoons minced garlic
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 teaspoons dried thyme leaves
1 tablespoon olive oil (your choice of strength, I used EVOO)
Remove from fridge & let warm to room temp (~2 hours)
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 01:53 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 19, 2025 01:56 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Common Tater at April 19, 2025 02:00 AM (HpBvd)
Remove leg of lamb from marinade, but reserve marinade for gravy
Preheat oven to 425F
Rub lamb with olive oil. Salt & pepper it all over. Place on rack in roasting pan, fat side up.
Roast for 20 min, or until browned, then reduce heat to 350F and continue for approx. 12min/lb or until internal temp is 125F. Remove from oven, cover & let rest while making gravy...
Using pan juices, remaining marinade, 2 tablespoons sherry and a bit more honey mustard-- whisk together and simmer over medium heat until thickened.
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 02:01 AM (rdVOm)
Woo-Hoo!
Posted by: JQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AalipGj0utc
Posted by: late Nite DJ Miklos takes requests (for a small fee) at April 19, 2025 02:01 AM (UOzvC)
Lake Berryessa's glory hole empties into Putah Creek.
Across the lake is where Zodiac attacked two lovers and killed the young woman.
Now you know.
Posted by: 13times at April 19, 2025 02:01 AM (N+gHJ)
The one from Froglegs is entertaining.
Winds of Change (32:11)
https://bit.ly/4cC3MJL
It was JoeDan [Froglegs] back in 2016 who made me realize that the talk that Trump was just running to enhance his brand and would throw it to Hillary was nuts, and I finally got fully on-board the Trump train. What a ride.
Posted by: mindful webworker - I'm a rejoinder, not a joiner
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 02:01 AM (4fQmp)
And put it on my shopping list.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 02:03 AM (4fQmp)
Oh well then...
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 19, 2025 02:05 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: JQ
Thanks much!
Recipes used by Morons >>> Recipes posted by internet randos.
:-)
Posted by: mikeski at April 19, 2025 02:05 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: mikeski at April 19, 2025 02:08 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 19, 2025 02:09 AM (1LbhO)
I thought the same thing. Who is this guy? $&@ck. Some rich NY SOB real estate guy is insurance, they are covering all the bases.
But then I thought, just watch the usual suspects and see what they say. Give it a week or two. It he’s the real deal, they will start screeching like wounded eagles, or otherwise act as a contrary indicator. Works very well.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 19, 2025 02:09 AM (HpBvd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2025 02:10 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2025 12:53
I do hope Jim SND knows how much he is loved and respected here.
Posted by: Farmer at April 19, 2025 02:11 AM (55Qr6)
Yes indeed.
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 19, 2025 02:11 AM (25kuG)
There will be eleven of us sitting down to dinner on Sunday. Four of us will be eating short ribs and potatoes au gratin and Rickz's grean beans. Seven will be eating hamburgers and hot dogs and chips and fries and potato salad.
All of us will be eating tossed green salad, cannolli, ice cream pie, cheesecake and cookies.
It is a very weird menu, but it works for us.
Loved the tune, Miklos, it is on my Kool and the Gang greatest hits CD, I miss the CD changer in my old minivan.
Cheers, Horde, Cheers Jim SND.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 19, 2025 02:12 AM (0nHVk)
*sips soup*
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
I suspect that Cap'm Jim is always "up", regardless.
He has some tough Central European background.
Posted by: Mikos sounds Bosun's whistle at April 19, 2025 02:14 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 19, 2025 02:17 AM (VofaG)
Hell of a fine place you find yourself that you never once thought.
I will continue to beat your ass as only a man who respects you can. Keep fighting you Cowboy and pinch the girls every day.
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 19, 2025 02:17 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 19, 2025 02:12 AM (0nHVk)
See what happens when you say the unmentionable? He shows up!
Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2025 02:18 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Common Tater at April 19, 2025 02:19 AM (HpBvd)
:-)
Posted by: mikeski
One of my proudest modest personal possessions is a copy of the Deplorable Cookbook, autographed by both Bluebell AND Weasel.
Try to get one of those on Ebay
Posted by: Mikos has reasons to be content at April 19, 2025 02:20 AM (UOzvC)
Anyhoo-- I really enjoyed the result, even if hubby didn't.
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 02:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 19, 2025 02:12 AM (0nHVk)
See what happens when you say the unmentionable? He shows up!
Posted by: RickZ
We your ears burning?
Posted by: Old Wives Tales by Miklos at April 19, 2025 02:21 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Concerned Aunt Miklos at April 19, 2025 02:25 AM (UOzvC)
Wow, you gots a full house for Easter.. Yay!
I miss Mom & her holiday meals. She would go allllll out, with the fancy china plates & silver & crystal, upon which she'd serve a *fabulous* feast!
Never in my life, could I measure up to her. (Love you, Mom! Miss you!)
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 02:27 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at April
I inherited a boatload of glasses, silver, porcelain, antiques I sent from Budapest.
No idea what to do with all of this.
Posted by: Mystified Miklos at April 19, 2025 02:31 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Farmer
DDG AI agrees that the Shroud is the most-studied artifact.
Dead Sea Scrolls? Rosetta Stone?
Posted by: mikeski at April 19, 2025 02:32 AM (DgGvY)
As they should be. We need to beat them down into irrelevance like a fisherman beating a fish into submission before the filet board.
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 19, 2025 02:34 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Concerned Aunt Miklos at April 19, 2025 02:25
It's when he starts painting the terrain that things get messy.
Posted by: Farmer at April 19, 2025 02:35 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Miklos uggets asking yor doctor id Niteall is right for you at April 19, 2025 02:36 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 19, 2025 02:36 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 19, 2025 02:37 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 19, 2025 02:38 AM (25kuG)
Yeah, I don't know what to do with the china & crystal pretties either. Stepson isn't interested... no kids of my own...
*shrugs*
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 02:38 AM (rdVOm)
*shrugs*
Posted by: JQ
It's just Not Done anymore, I guess.
Mom's done with hers. None of us kids want it. She tried to donate it to Goodwill, and they said "nah, nobody wants that stuff anymore."
If it's high enough quality, or unique to your area, maybe a local museum.....
Posted by: mikeski at April 19, 2025 02:43 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: mikeski
The thought of *that* just breaks my heart.
I'll use Mom's pretties until I die. Let (whomever) the survivors deal with it then...
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 02:50 AM (rdVOm)
If it's high enough quality, or unique to your area, maybe a local museum.....
Posted by: mikeski
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Disposable crap is paramount. Even if they don't know it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 02:51 AM (4fQmp)
*shrugs*
Posted by: JQ
Maybe I should marry a Greek girl, and her family would smash it all at the wedding...
Posted by: Miklos looks for practical solutions for Real World problems at April 19, 2025 02:53 AM (UOzvC)
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 02:56 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 02:58 AM (rdVOm)
Mom's done with hers. None of us kids want it. She tried to donate it to Goodwill, and they said "nah, nobody wants that stuff anymore."
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Yeah, I spoke to an auctioneer about that. "Nobody wants brown furniture".
IKEA - all the rage
Walnut, mahogany - Undesirable
I have no idea what I will do with the furniture, some 2 generations old.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2025 02:59 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 03:01 AM (rdVOm)
I'll use Mom's pretties until I die. Let (whomever) the survivors deal with it then...
Posted by: JQ
Mom only had sons. The married ones, if their wives want china, they probably want their mom's china. Memories.
There's a big age gap in Mom's family. She's the oldest, the youngest is 15 or 16 years younger, or something like that. Maybe one of the girl cousins from the younger aunts and uncles would want it someday, since it was Mom's Mom's.....
Posted by: mikeski at April 19, 2025 03:02 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: 13times at April 19, 2025 03:02 AM (N+gHJ)
English is weird. Why do we have gendered and non-gendered words for some relations:
parent-mother-father, sibling-brother-sister
But only gendered ones for some others:
?????-aunt-uncle
And only neuter ones for other others?
cousin-?????-?????
Posted by: mikeski at April 19, 2025 03:05 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 19, 2025 03:07 AM (0nHVk)
Thinking cousins also... 2nd cousins, actually. 2 girls, maybe one is interested in grandma's (their g-gma's) china.
I have one very young nephew. No others. Maybe, if I live long enough to see him marry, will offer Mom's (his gma's) china & silver as a wedding gift?
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 03:09 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 03:15 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 03:23 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 03:27 AM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Braenyard
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*Homer Simpson scream* !!!!!!
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 03:29 AM (rdVOm)
JQ, we're always with you. 'night.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 19, 2025 03:33 AM (4fQmp)
Silly critter. Watching his silly dumb-ass hooman.
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 03:34 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 03:35 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: 13times at April 19, 2025 03:37 AM (N+gHJ)
Until they do, again. And then it will go for top dollar. Again. Humans are weird. Hang on to something long enough, it will be back in style.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 19, 2025 03:37 AM (Q6s/P)
Posted by: 13times at April 19, 2025 03:40 AM (N+gHJ)
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I have an old Cushman set: 2-chairs plus magazine rack/side table, that are a *horrible* orange color! And, I think that was the original color? Ugh!
One chair has a split in the seat. Repairable, if one knows what they're doing (not me, of course!) and that's just another bit of the pile I must dispose of...somehow, somewhere...
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 03:42 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Kittuh staring through the window at April 19, 2025 03:42 AM (MmTZZ)
Posted by: Kittuh staring through the window
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Hahahaha!
Thanks for the chuckle!!
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 03:50 AM (rdVOm)
Those chairs are indeed valuable.
Posted by: 13times at April 19, 2025 03:55 AM (N+gHJ)
Posted by: 13times at April 19, 2025 04:00 AM (N+gHJ)
Mom was very good at it. She refinished several smaller pieces, but her ultimate project was an antique grand piano.. turned out beautifully!
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 04:04 AM (rdVOm)
Stripping is a pita. Everything about the process is toxic. I hate doing it.
Posted by: 13times at April 19, 2025 04:11 AM (N+gHJ)
Posted by: 13times at April 19, 2025 04:14 AM (N+gHJ)
Posted by: 13times
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Yes. She most certainly did.
antiquepianoshop.com/product/
kimball-louis-xvi-baby-grand-piano/
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 04:17 AM (rdVOm)
Mom stripped & refinished it. Had the action rebuilt, replaced the chipped keys (and kicked herself many times over, for not coughing up the $$$$ for Ivory/Ebony, but settling for plastic)
It's still beautiful!
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 04:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Nazdar at April 19, 2025 04:30 AM (NcvvS)
My mom took apart an old chair and stripped it. She later regretted throwing away the horse hair cushion material.
Posted by: 13times at April 19, 2025 04:32 AM (N+gHJ)
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 04:35 AM (rdVOm)
I want to say, that it took a couple of years for her to complete that project. It was a labor of love. She played and enjoyed that piano for decades.
Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2025 04:40 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: 13times at April 19, 2025 04:47 AM (N+gHJ)
Posted by: mindful webworker - almostly at April 18, 2025 10:02 PM (dlb43) "
Three, but you are not supposed to know this. So..
Posted by: somejoe at April 19, 2025 09:06 AM (RCAte)
Good Friday Cafe
Your Easter parade displays need work, guys. "Angels" singing prayers in Italy (IG). A little awkward, but cute-ish.
Cows are excited to be allowed outdoors for the first time since winter. You had my interest, now you have my attention.
Katy Perry is going to claim this stunt in the name of the Divine Feminine. (IG) Seajackers. (IG) The staircase to the top of Yellowstone Falls (IG). Blind cat finally finds the toy he's hunting. One of the rarest creatures on Earth -- a Star Wars fan who's under 50. Five year old girl leads her dog through an agility course. I don't think the dog listens to her much. Dog is so happy her human has landed. When you're not home, your cat is doing crimes. Out of control. Good to know: The Easter Bunny is not a pagan invention. It traces back to German customs in the 17th century. Well after Germany was Christianized, of course.
Bunny.. 🐰 pic.twitter.com/6fBA6yUNiK
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) April 15, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2025 07:13 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: From about That Time at April 18, 2025 07:16 PM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 07:16 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 07:17 PM (s8j++)
Unapologetically CHRISTIAN
Reposted due to The Willowing
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 07:17 PM (0aihy)
Posted by: Piper at April 18, 2025 07:19 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 07:19 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:19 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 07:17 PM (s8j++)
Nah. Way too much toxic masculinity.
Posted by: The lesbian priestess wouldn't approve at April 18, 2025 07:19 PM (TbWk/)
Yeah there is a lot of disinformation about our current Easter customs, but claiming pagan origins makes good sound bites.
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 07:19 PM (0aihy)
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Found it.
https://tinyurl.com/5t42esw6
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 07:09 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 07:20 PM (weQLb)
Posted by: Narrator: She did in fact look like a muppet at April 18, 2025 07:20 PM (TbWk/)
g'night everyone!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 18, 2025 07:21 PM (/Ghsb)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 07:22 PM (TCLft)
ace if you are here, check it out. It’s the 2 languages you like: French and Italian
Also visually beautiful.
https://tinyurl.com/5hy9y5ap
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 07:24 PM (0aihy)
At least that is what he told me, him not me.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 18, 2025 07:24 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 07:16 PM (VNX3d)
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You forgot the llamas, again!
Posted by: Carl Wheezer - Llama lover at April 18, 2025 07:27 PM (sPQoU)
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HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
who knew Kelly had such great comedic talent !
Posted by: runner at April 18, 2025 07:27 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 07:27 PM (viF8m)
It’s amazing how once his tail accidentally flicked the toy, he instantly calculated exactly how to move in order to catch it.
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 07:27 PM (0aihy)
That definitely brought a smile to this 29 year-old mug. Thanks, Ace.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 18, 2025 07:28 PM (mH6SG)
Did Not Choose : American Woman
Democrats suck. End of story. Cut them out of your life. Fuck them.
Posted by: jsg at April 18, 2025 07:29 PM (UJ+K5)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:30 PM (yp8Vj)
Once he starts playing with the toy he seems to follow it with his eyes.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 07:31 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 07:16 PM (VNX3d)
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You forgot the llamas, again!
Posted by: Carl Wheezer - Llama lover at April 18, 2025 07:27 PM (sPQoU)
Ben Had's probably disappointed that I didn't include the yaks, either.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 07:31 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 07:31 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Paolo at April 18, 2025 07:31 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 07:31 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: jsg at April 18, 2025 07:31 PM (UJ+K5)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 07:16 PM
The smell ... the smell ...
Why'dja have to invite the penguins??
Posted by: zombie Colonel Kurtz at April 18, 2025 07:32 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:30 PM (yp8Vj)
Last year. I will do them tomorrow even if I have to do them all by myself! 😀
Posted by: Piper at April 18, 2025 07:33 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:33 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: runner at April 18, 2025 07:33 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:30 PM (yp8Vj)
I loved doing that when I was a kid. The best was when they had the oily colored dye that you could get a psychedelic design when you dipped the egg in it.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 07:33 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Penguin Facts at April 18, 2025 07:33 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 07:22 PM (TCLft)
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When the relics of St. Jude were at our parish, the path to them was filled with admonishments that cell phones were forbidden. This was not an 'influencer' moment, but a sacred space.
It was quite profound.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 18, 2025 07:34 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Paco at April 18, 2025 07:34 PM (mADJX)
Racist......
Posted by: jsg at April 18, 2025 07:31 PM (UJ+K5)
Eggroes.
I was just leaving.
Posted by: Eromero at April 18, 2025 07:34 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Ian S. at April 18, 2025 07:34 PM (Aqf1y)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:19 PM
* sends a nice rosé to Ben Had's table to split the difference. *
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 18, 2025 07:35 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Piper at April 18, 2025 07:35 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:30 PM (yp8Vj)
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Last year. We thought there would be a break, but we seamlessly transitioned from parent into grandparent.
It has its compensations.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 18, 2025 07:35 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 18, 2025 07:36 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:30 PM
When you have 'Easter eggers' in your flock, almost every day.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 18, 2025 07:36 PM (0sNs1)
My father passed in 2019 and Mom upped it to $10 due to inflation.
She's up to $160 this year.
Posted by: jsg at April 18, 2025 07:36 PM (UJ+K5)
The kite flying weather has been exceptional.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:37 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Ian S. at April 18, 2025 07:34 PM (Aqf1y)
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The rising generation of Democrats says the quiet part out loud. Very loud.
Part of this is because they have hitherto operated in a permissive environment.
That has now changed.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 18, 2025 07:37 PM (ZOv7s)
That’s from the last thread.
Yeah this one I saw recently is legit beautiful, not faux pretty, and married to a loving husband.
It has to be the power, the forbidden fruit allure, the easy access. Maybe due to the kid’s youth there’s some extra benefits as well.
Not worth the price.
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 07:37 PM (0aihy)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 07:22 PM (TCLft)
Concur. Put the damn phone down. Sad is the right word.
Posted by: Pope John Paul II, I would be cracking skulls at April 18, 2025 07:37 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: fd at April 18, 2025 07:38 PM (vFG9F)
Symbiosis!!!!!!
Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 07:38 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:39 PM (yp8Vj)
I never told my mom to stop because I realized how much she enjoyed doing it.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 07:39 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 07:40 PM (0HaGk)
Posted by: fd at April 18, 2025 07:38 PM (vFG9F)
I am a devils egg connoisseur.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 07:41 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: jsg at April 18, 2025 07:41 PM (UJ+K5)
Posted by: CaliGirl
Concur. Put the damn phone down. Sad is the right word.
During this afternoon's service, towards the end, someone's phone when off but it was not too loud and the owner killed it right away. Not a few minutes later, someone else's loudly rang and rang and rang.
How ******* rude and clueless do you have to be to not check your device after a warning ring of someone else's?
I wanted to walk over there and thump 'em.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2025 07:41 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:41 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 07:42 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 07:42 PM (VofaG)
The kite flying weather has been exceptional.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:37 PM (yp8Vj)
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I think one of the best things about having grandkids is that you really get to see the world through the eyes of a child again. It's hard to do as a parent, with so much stress, the job, bills, etc. going on.
But once you're settled, they just amaze and crack me up constantly. My other kids also enjoy their pronouncements and of course the way they imitate their mother.
Last week Palm Sunday was a bit of a chore, but also adorable. Today I had to explain that we have to cut back on treats because Our Lord sacrificed himself on this day. They looked very solemn and sad but then cheered up because Easter is almost here and He Is Risen!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 18, 2025 07:42 PM (ZOv7s)
The monarchs of Spain were, for centuries, referred to as "their most Catholic majesties" - a title awarded by the Pope. The title is no longer used officially, but neither has it been renounced. So, this is just another attempt by a pushy group of Musselmen at cultural conquest, using the west's own legal system against it. Sadly, I would not be surprised to see it succeed.
Posted by: Paco at April 18, 2025 07:42 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: jsg
Nurse thinks Almond Joys are.
I'll say this - she is one unique woman.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2025 07:42 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
My mother used to hide Easter eggs for me even when I was home from college.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 07:42 PM (8jaXB)
Posted by: jsg at April 18, 2025 07:43 PM (UJ+K5)
Posted by: Otto Pen at April 18, 2025 07:43 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 07:42 PM (VNX3d)
Think that's a bot not a troll. Too bad there aren't actually any hot women nearby looking to hook up with me.
Posted by: The Internet, it lies! at April 18, 2025 07:43 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 07:42 PM (VofaG)
How about 2 dozen raw eggs? Any Navy here recall this?
Posted by: Eromero at April 18, 2025 07:44 PM (LHPAg)
Touch and goes (where a plane lands then takes off again) were pretty constant...
So.... we'd sit outside the base at the end of the runway, and brink beer when I was in High School... and there was a dead end 2 mile road right outside the fence, that they kept in really good condition for security reasons... that was the Local drag strip.
50 years later, base closed, and that local drag strip now ends in a Federal Prison.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2025 07:44 PM (QAkQ3)
It will likely only work once, though....
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 07:44 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 18, 2025 07:44 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 07:45 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: dudley at April 18, 2025 07:45 PM (1MVbl)
At first the grandkids were taking, moving around, so I paused my prayers and told them very sternly that they can go somewhere else or be quiet and sit still. They drifted away but came back a few minutes later and for the most part, quietly watched and listened to Grandpa pray. I think they found it calming.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 18, 2025 07:45 PM (ZOv7s)
(starts new ice age)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 18, 2025 07:45 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: BillyD at April 18, 2025 07:46 PM (Yt3ED)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:46 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: jsg at April 18, 2025 07:46 PM (UJ+K5)
'David Hogg was on CBS News tonight saying that democracy is the problem that the Democrats need to stop. Might be the most honest thing a Democrat's said in 100 years.'
I despise that little fairy but he is useful for putting up trial balloons and seeing how the 'Rats react.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 07:47 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 07:47 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 07:48 PM (AOsQT)
Racist......
Posted by: jsg at April 18, 2025 07:31 PM (UJ+K5)
How 'bout "Easter eggs of color" ?
Posted by: BillyD at April 18, 2025 07:48 PM (Yt3ED)
Posted by: jsg at April 18, 2025 07:46 PM (UJ+K5)
They cut off its ears, grafted on a beak, attached feathers and amputated its forelegs. Species affirming care.
Posted by: only lived three minutes post-op at April 18, 2025 07:48 PM (TbWk/)
(starts new ice age)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 18, 2025 07:45 PM (/HDaX)
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In an interesting contrast, Gwen Stefani has been all about the prayer of late, first during Advent and now during Lent. I guess she was raised Catholic and has reverted.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 18, 2025 07:48 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: jsg at April 18, 2025 07:41 PM (UJ+K5)
I've never liked those. Same with candy corn.
I tell my mom every year the kids put the candy corn in the ehh pile and they're holding out for snickers.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 07:48 PM (IFJVl)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 07:49 PM (VofaG)
Girls in matching dresses, boys in shirts made of the same material... clothes that Mom had sewn.
60's were a way different time.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2025 07:49 PM (QAkQ3)
It has to be the power, the forbidden fruit allure, the easy access. Maybe due to the kid’s youth there’s some extra benefits as well
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I suspect if we could honestly examine and discuss it we'd learn there's a developmental halt at the time they are most attractive, and it's a pursuit to prove to themselves that they still have that same demographic appeal.
When in reality men of all ages work off of the "half a chance and an open hole" principle, so any "success" an attractive (or unattractive) woman has in securing sex is mostly meaningless.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 07:49 PM (weQLb)
Posted by: The Internet
Maybe they are like the 'hot' T-Bone waitress in the film "Hell or High Water".
Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2025 07:51 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 07:51 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 07:47 PM (ypFCm)
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He was a gentleman, sir, and patriot.
Boss Hogg was 10x more effective than the mincing fairy of the same name.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 18, 2025 07:51 PM (ZOv7s)
A Blessed Easter to you and your family.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:51 PM (yp8Vj)
Racist......
Posted by: jsg at April 18, 2025 07:31 PM (UJ+K5)
How 'bout "Easter eggs of color" ?
Posted by: BillyD at April 18, 2025 07:48 PM (Yt3ED)
Yeah... thought about coloring some eggs.... but coloring with Purple dye... and Blue dye... and Green dye... and the blood of my enemies...
Probably not a good idea.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2025 07:51 PM (QAkQ3)
(starts new ice age)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy
Who'd have thought that her ex-husband, Russell Brand, would be the normal one here.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 18, 2025 07:51 PM (MmTZZ)
Meh, I think it's more like a cantina with a cock-fighting arena out back.
Posted by: Paco at April 18, 2025 07:52 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: jsg at April 18, 2025 07:41 PM (UJ+K5)
Nasty little bastards. Only thing they're good for is blowing up in the microwave.
Posted by: BillyD at April 18, 2025 07:52 PM (Yt3ED)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 18, 2025 07:52 PM (hKoQL)
Posted by: dudley at April 18, 2025 07:52 PM (1MVbl)
Got run off by security/ cops more than once. 1969-70, times were different.
Posted by: From about That Time at April 18, 2025 07:53 PM (n4GiU)
'Nasty little bastards. Only thing they're good for is blowing up in the microwave.'
You mean Peeps and not penguins, right?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 07:53 PM (3wi/L)
Although Yellowstone also does have a dramatic waterfall
Posted by: Otto Pen
+++
I was wondering about that. I've been to Yellowstone numerous times and hiked all over. I knew I had never seen or heard about that trail.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at April 18, 2025 07:54 PM (Lo97M)
(starts new ice age)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy
Who'd have thought that her ex-husband, Russell Brand, would be the normal one here.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 18, 2025 07:51 PM (MmTZZ)
I think rehabbing changed him a LOT. He's also a professing Christian now. Interesting progression.
Posted by: And he's not 'tarded unlike KP at April 18, 2025 07:54 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: dudley at April 18, 2025 07:52 PM (1MVbl)
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Back when soft-core lipstick lesbianism was still a thing, she had some traction. But now the reality of crew-cut potato-shaped women beating each other has taken a lot of the thrill away.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 18, 2025 07:54 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: jsg at April 18, 2025 07:54 PM (UJ+K5)
Posted by: dudley at April 18, 2025 07:52 PM (1MVbl)
pop hits -- > tit pops
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 07:54 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 07:54 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:54 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: dudley at April 18, 2025 07:52 PM (1MVbl)
Gotta hand it to her though... the Voice is a good gig for aging singers. Don't ever have to sing and strain yer voice... don't have to tour... and its a paycheck.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2025 07:55 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: dudley at April 18, 2025 07:55 PM (1MVbl)
Posted by: And he's not 'tarded unlike KP at April 18, 2025 07:54 PM (TbWk/)
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He's still a babbling lunatic, though. Oddly, he's more right than wrong.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 18, 2025 07:55 PM (ZOv7s)
Over ten years ago . I think her last semi hit was 2013 or 14.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 07:55 PM (VofaG)
There are probably other indicators, too, but the matchbook die off seems to be the one that I can definitely identity.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 07:56 PM (weQLb)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 18, 2025 07:56 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 18, 2025 07:54 PM (ZOv7s)
Now there's an MTV show....
Posted by: jsg at April 18, 2025 07:56 PM (UJ+K5)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 07:57 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 18, 2025 07:54 PM (ZOv7s)
Now there's an MTV show....
Posted by: jsg at April 18, 2025 07:56 PM (UJ+K5)
Potluck gone wrong at a Unitarian "church."
Posted by: And that's just the priestesses at April 18, 2025 07:57 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:54 PM
Perfect!
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 18, 2025 07:57 PM (mH6SG)
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I heard someone make a similar point in regards to something Norm McDonald said on a late night show just to see if he could say it. They beeped it out, the host scolded him before cutting to commercial, he wasn't invited back, etc
Back then it was shocking. Now it's just Tuesday.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 07:58 PM (weQLb)
Posted by: jsg at April 18, 2025 07:59 PM (UJ+K5)
I think they still do matchbooks where smoking is allowed. Or maybe I’m misremembering.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 07:59 PM (VofaG)
Well, the Easter Bunny is "pagan" in that it has nothing to do with Christianity. "Easter" is only in the KJV once and it is wrongly interpreted from the word pascha which means passover.
And yes, the spring time symbolism of rabbits (for reproduction) does mean Easter Bunny relates those two "mythologies", and this guy is trying too hard to deny that the Easter Bunny is non-Christian, regardless of when bunnies were introduced.
Posted by: illiniwek at April 18, 2025 08:00 PM (Cus5s)
It’s amazing how once his tail accidentally flicked the toy, he instantly calculated exactly how to move in order to catch it.
Posted by: kallisto
Cat wins internet.
Again.
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 08:01 PM (0HaGk)
Germania mixed a lot of pagan tradition with the new Christianity. Isn’t the Christmas tree also connected to non Christian tradition?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 08:04 PM (VofaG)
There are probably other indicators, too, but the matchbook die off seems to be the one that I can definitely identity.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 07:56 PM (weQLb)
Phone booths near the entrance.
Posted by: Eromero at April 18, 2025 08:04 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 08:04 PM (AOsQT)
I think they still do matchbooks where smoking is allowed. Or maybe I’m misremembering.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025
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The two pipe/cigar places in town that I know of give their own branded boxes of wooden matches away. Short matches, not like the longer Red (?) Diamond kitchen matches, about twenty to the box.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 08:07 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 18, 2025 08:07 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2025 07:55 PM (QAkQ3)
The Voice has overtaken American Idol in pop culture. Even though mega-stars like Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood got their start in these formats.
Posted by: dudley at April 18, 2025 08:09 PM (1MVbl)
Somebody please remind me, what is the e-mail for the Saturday-morning prayer list?
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 08:09 PM (77rzZ)
yeah, the Christmas Tree is another "pagan" tradition related to .. whatever. It was about the shortest day of the year, around December 22. Celebrating the solar (Sun God?) cycles was a pagan tradition.
It is known Jesus was born in the fall (studies of the stars I saw say 9/11 3BC, but have lost touch with those studies) ... certainly not at Dec 22. Most old tradition that defies Christianity is hence "pagan". Some of the roots are more directly tied to "paganism" than others.
Posted by: illiniwek at April 18, 2025 08:10 PM (Cus5s)
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I think Ace introduced it about 4.5 to 5 years ago, when we were all going stir-crazy during the Sniffle Scare. A nice evening break it was from that endless thundering drumbeat in the "news" about "Stay home and stay safe!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 08:10 PM (omVj0)
Joe Biden, Esq.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 18, 2025 08:11 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid"
Minty toothpicks.
Posted by: fd at April 18, 2025 08:11 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid"
Minty toothpicks.
Posted by: fd at April 18, 2025 08:11 PM (vFG9F)
Cigarette machines.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 08:13 PM (VNX3d)
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I think Ace introduced it about 4.5 to 5 years ago, when we were all going stir-crazy during the Sniffle Scare. A nice evening break it was from that endless thundering drumbeat in the "news" about "Stay home and stay safe!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 08:10 PM (omVj0)
One of Ace's better ideas. Sanity is not overrated.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 08:14 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 18, 2025 08:15 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 08:16 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 08:16 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 08:17 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Matchbook Memories at April 18, 2025 08:18 PM (vFG9F)
Whatever happened to that Cadbury Egg rabbit what thought it was a chicken ?
Posted by: jsg
https://youtu.be/t6MxXx0ExOk
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 08:19 PM (63Dwl)
Don't know how I got it having never been to Iran. Doubt the hotel is still there, think I git it before '79.
Posted by: From about That Time at April 18, 2025 08:19 PM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 08:20 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025
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His name was Sorrell Booke.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 08:21 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Ben Had'
I did! Made it home about 5:00. I still have a headache. Bad vibes.
Posted by: fd at April 18, 2025 08:21 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: jsg
https://youtu.be/t6MxXx0ExOk
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 08:19 PM (63Dwl)
Thank You! I needed that today.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 08:21 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 08:16 PM (ypFCm)
This is one of those who cares if it is true or not things.
Posted by: dudley at April 18, 2025 08:22 PM (1MVbl)
It's morbidly amusing that so much is going on now the virus and the crazy stuff that went on has been in many ways forgotten.
It seems many haven't even noticed that the White House launched a new section on the White House website all about the truth behind the China virus. You'll never guess what really happened.
https://tinyurl.com/2cpbzwcf
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 08:23 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 18, 2025 08:25 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: dudley at April 18, 2025 08:26 PM (1MVbl)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 08:14 PM (VNX3d)
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*** Nyarlathotep has entered the chat...***
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2025 08:26 PM (cweKM)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 18, 2025 08:28 PM (cvWHI)
https://tinyurl.com/2cpbzwcf
Posted by: JackStraw "
It was those damn penguins, wasn't it?
Posted by: fd at April 18, 2025 08:29 PM (vFG9F)
Evil keeps changing its form, but is still the same root of evil.
Posted by: illiniwek at April 18, 2025 08:30 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 08:30 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: fd at April 18, 2025 08:33 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: illiniwek at April 18, 2025 08:30 PM (Cus5s)
The modern humanist left in a nutshell. Hitler to Stalin to Mao.
Posted by: dudley at April 18, 2025 08:35 PM (1MVbl)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 08:14 PM (VNX3d)
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*** Nyarlathotep has entered the chat...***
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2025 08:26 PM (cweKM)
REEEEEE!!!
[saving throw!]
Posted by: Every D&D Dork, ever at April 18, 2025 08:37 PM (/HDaX)
I think it's just the start Skip. There's a spot at the bottom of the page where you can enter your email address for updates.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 08:37 PM (viF8m)
Just pointing this out, nothing else. But it’s interesting.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 08:38 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2025 08:26 PM (cweKM)
REEEEEE!!!
[saving throw!]
Posted by: Every D&D Dork, ever at April 18, 2025 08:37 PM (/HDaX)
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Wrong game...roll for SAN!
Posted by: Call of Cthulhu RPG at April 18, 2025 08:39 PM (cweKM)
Posted by: fd at April 18, 2025 08:33 PM (vFG9F)
Apparently a satanic construct for drawing the faithful away from the one true God. In its way it is worse than applause at weddings, or felt banners, or other such schismatic notions.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 08:44 PM (D7oie)
Just pointing this out, nothing else. But it’s interesting."
and interesting the Jesus was raised after 3 days and 3 nights (like Jonah in the whale) ... legally dead. And he was thence raised Saturday (the Sabbath) at sunset. Not Sunday morning, when they found he was already gone from the tomb.
Jews can confirm that their Sabbath is "Saturday", which begins at sunset Friday, and ends at sunset Saturday.
Posted by: illiniwek at April 18, 2025 08:46 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 08:48 PM (0aihy)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:30 PM (yp8V
Isn’t that, like, Biden raciss?
Posted by: RI Red at April 18, 2025 08:50 PM (+vDwr)
There's a lot of that going around. I'd say the Easter Bunny is a rather benign threat in comparison.
Posted by: fd at April 18, 2025 08:51 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Piper at April 18, 2025 08:53 PM (pZEOD)
Ēostre ([ˈeːostre])[1][2][3] is an Anglo-Saxon goddess mentioned by Bede in his 8th century work The Reckoning of Time. He wrote that pagan Anglo-Saxons had held feasts in her honour during the month named after her: Ēosturmōnaþ (April), and that this became the English name for the Paschal season: Easter.
This is why the feast of Our Lord’s resurrection is only called Easter in the Anglosphere.
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 08:54 PM (0aihy)
How have to we let ourselves fall behind on critical Kit Kat technologies like this!?!
WE NEED ANSWERS...and more Japanese Kit Kats
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 08:55 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 08:56 PM (0aihy)
Posted by: fd
idk, imo all "pagan" influences distract from the true Christian (marriage/family) message, especially when it pertains to sex Sex, SEX. Is All Sex good? For Gaia believers, yes, all free sex (love) is good.
Posted by: illiniwek at April 18, 2025 08:57 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 08:57 PM (0aihy)
Look fat, I've known this for a while. You see that bunny in person and you'll lose control of your bowels right then and there - my word as a Biden
Posted by: Joe Biden at April 18, 2025 08:57 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 08:58 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Call of Cthulhu RPG at April 18, 2025 08:39 PM (cweKM)
Whaddaya taling about? I have one of those Call of Cthulu Arkham Horror games, still in the box, never played...
Oh.
Posted by: Every D&D Dork, ever at April 18, 2025 09:00 PM (/HDaX)
Please do.
My nephew wanted peeps today, I said, no no no you are not going to eat that trash food.
I could see Peeps being a Product of Satan though.
I won’t need too much convincing on that point.
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 09:00 PM (0aihy)
Posted by: dudley at April 18, 2025 09:01 PM (1MVbl)
Posted by: illiniwek "
No. There are definitely things that should not have sex.
Posted by: fd at April 18, 2025 09:02 PM (vFG9F)
Well, for starters, he has 2 ears that stick straight up from his head. You know who else has 2 pointy things sticking out of his head??
Posted by: kallisto, channeling SNL church lady at April 18, 2025 09:04 PM (0aihy)
I could see Peeps being a Product of Satan though.
I won’t need too much convincing on that point.
Posted by: kallisto at April
We tried to toast one - my horse likes stale ones, they were in the pantry aging for him- it doesn’t work. Burnt sugar, smell, mess. 0/5 stars.
Posted by: Piper at April 18, 2025 09:04 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: It's Been Proved! at April 18, 2025 09:05 PM (G5+As)
WE NEED ANSWERS...and more Japanese Kit Kats
Posted by: 18-1
We can't fall behind any further in the Kit Kat gap!!
-- Zombie GEN Buck Turgidson
Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2025 09:05 PM (vKNmo)
The Japanese apple pie flavor Kit Kats are stunningly good. I'm kind of glad they're hard to find here.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 18, 2025 09:07 PM (0A/JS)
I was surprised to read in last night's ONT comments that the upright was not a post but rather a tree, indeed that all three, Jesus and the two thieves, were all nailed to the same fig tree. That was a new one to me.
I haven't had enough reason to believe other than that the Romans used an upright post. That plank that Pilate wrote on was nailed up above the cross-post. When the Romans got down to it, crosses littered the landscape, and the condemned were exposed to the sun, not the shade of some tree.
____
Ann Barnhardt had a good post describing just how excruciating Crucifixion was. I knew most of these details, but learned a few ways in which it was even worse than I knew.
https://bit.ly/3Gd77ms
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Since the day He rose, there have been those who claimed Jesus didn't really die on the cross. But,
The Romans Were Good at Dead
(A mindful webwork text from 2014)
https://bit.ly/Romans-were-good-at-death
Posted by: mindful webworker - randomly at April 18, 2025 09:07 PM (dlb43)
This is Easter is one of those somewhat rare occasions where the Western and Orthodox dates coincide, and also modern Jewish Passover aligned as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 18, 2025 09:07 PM (w6EFb)
I used to like Peeps when I was a kid. But kids enjoy eating all kinds of heinous stuff, like circus peanuts and ranch style doritos.
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 09:07 PM (0aihy)
You know who else has 2 pointy things sticking out of his head??
Posted by: kallisto
George Armstrong Custer
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 09:08 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 09:08 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: kallisto, channeling SNL church lady"
Steve Martin? No! Uh, Trotsky!
Posted by: fd at April 18, 2025 09:08 PM (vFG9F)
They did taste a little bit off after that, though.
Posted by: RI Red at April 18, 2025 09:09 PM (+vDwr)
No sh@t it was a traffic light to enforce giving low flying airliners the Right of Way.
Posted by: BobM at April 18, 2025 09:09 PM (YW/Op)
Got our boat ready for the maintenance nan. Tomorrow will be given over to a perfunctory yard cleanup -- downed branches and pine cones. Might rake the pine straw if time petmits.
And ... SOMEASSHOLESTOLEOURGARBAGECAN
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 09:11 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: dudley at April 18, 2025 09:12 PM (1MVbl)
How have to we let ourselves fall behind on critical Kit Kat technologies like this!?!
WE NEED ANSWERS...and more Japanese Kit Kats
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 08:55 PM (t0Rmr)
Was it one of the squid flavored ones?
Posted by: BillyD at April 18, 2025 09:12 PM (Yt3ED)
Posted by: kallisto
Caterpillars?
Posted by: Piper at April 18, 2025 09:13 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 09:13 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: kallisto
George Armstrong Custer
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Also invented the Arrow Shirt.
Posted by: Hollywood Fashion Plate at April 18, 2025 09:14 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: illiniwek at April 18, 2025 08:46 PM (Cus5s)
I know that we are not supposed to have math but Friday plus three days is beyond Saturday
Posted by: MAC V SOG at April 18, 2025 09:14 PM (P4Pk9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 09:20 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 09:11 PM (Tv15w)
~~~~~
Everyone by me paints their house number on garbage cans because the summer renters/invaders steal them.
Posted by: IrishEi at April 18, 2025 09:21 PM (3ImbR)
There were more phones than eyes on that Florentine ritual.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 09:22 PM (1LbhO)
Posted by: MAC V SOG
Right, JC was crucified Wednesday (at sunset) (there was a special high day involved) and raised three days and three nights later ... Saturday night at sunset (which was the beginning of Sunday)
Posted by: illiniwek at April 18, 2025 09:22 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2025 09:25 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
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In my neighborhood, it's usually a bear.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2025 09:27 PM (XeU6L)
One of my friends' kids had a birthday today. Cousins were down. All younger.
I brought them the remaining catnip I had and an unused cat leash.
My friend sent me a video of Snowflake on the leash. She's an outdoor cat that comes in everyday for about 6 hours. The leash did not go over well.
Not at all.
Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at April 18, 2025 09:29 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 18, 2025 09:53 PM (ZEzFB)
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 09:53 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: MAC V SOG
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Right, JC was crucified Wednesday (at sunset) (there was a special high day involved) and raised three days and three nights later ... Saturday night at sunset (which was the beginning of Sunday)
Posted by: illiniwek at April 18, 2025 09:22 PM (Cus5s)
~~~~~
Not three days later. "On the third day He rose again according to the scriptures..."
1st Day - Friday
2nd Day - Saturday
3rd Day - Sunday
Posted by: IrishEi at April 18, 2025 09:56 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: mindful webworker - almostly at April 18, 2025 09:57 PM (dlb43)
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 09:53 PM (AOsQT)
Well? We're waiting ! ! !
Posted by: BillyD at April 18, 2025 09:57 PM (Yt3ED)
Posted by: IrishEi at April 18, 2025 09:57 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 09:59 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 09:59 PM (weQLb)
https://tinyurl.com/ycx6ezfn
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 18, 2025 10:00 PM (cvWHI)
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 10:00 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 18, 2025 10:02 PM (KAi1n)
Condolences on the loss of your pet buddy
Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2025 12:32 AM (0aihy)
Chefs Kiss
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 19, 2025 12:41 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: Colin at April 19, 2025 04:40 AM (wlQdF)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2025 06:08 AM (a1415)
The Week In Woke
Democrats are doubling down on the human trafficker/MS-13 made man/terrorist, and Trump is making them pay for that bad bet:
Bill MeluginAbrego Garcia's wife was asked by liberal news clown Michael Strahan why she filed domestic abuse complaints against her MS-13 Maryland Husband in 2021. She refused to answer. When Trump began listing the court documents establishing that Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 human smuggler and wife-abuser, MSNBC decided to stop broadcasting. Here are the remarks Trump made that MSNBC censored from its lunatic assassination-promoting viewers. Chris Van Hollen got back from his El Salvador stunt. His press conference was standing room only. Assuming "standing room only" means only one sad man standing in a big room. El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele can't stop goofing on Van Hollen.
@BillMelugin_ NEW: DHS has provided @FoxNews a bodycam image & HSI report from when Kilmar Abrego Garcia was pulled over by Tennessee Highway Patrol & was suspected of human trafficking in 2022. Per report, he had 8 people w/ no luggage in the car w/ him, & claimed to be driving them from TX to MD for construction work. Every passenger gave the same home address as Abrego Garcia's address. The report says Abrego Garcia was evasive during questioning, and had an expired license. He was not arrested or charged with any crime in relation to the incident. DHS says the report has yesterday's date due to redactions made of law enforcement sensitive info for public consumption, but this is an old document.
A Minnesota state government analyst was arrested for vandalizing Teslas. Why, it's almost as if the government exists to give the unemployable psychotic radicals of the Democrat Party jobs (or "jobs") in between their paid "protest" gigs.
That annoying trans activist called ICE agents "Nazis." In the UK, a man is arrested for having said to someone "Speak English." He's told this is a hate crime. Speaking English in England is a hate crime. Teacher insists that teaching kids about how to use butt plugs is her duty and her right and if you disagree you're saying "all queer sex is disgusting" and you're attacking the kind of sex she and her friends enjoy. In California, Oregon, and Connecticut, the top-rated "women's" high jumpers are all male. The thing that never happens continues not happening at an escalating pace. The brave woman who refused to fence the mentally-ill dude says "There's no end to the backlash that you may face" for standing up to shmen. She points out that referees will begin penalizing your for violating their religious cult doctrines. Maine's AG, suing Trump to prevent the loss of funds to Maine, claims there are "no safety concerns" concerning men playing contact sports against girls.
After the U.S. Department of Justice sued Maine for putting women and girls at risk by allowing males to compete in their sports, the state's attorney general claimed -- with zero evidence -- that Maine's ideology poses "no concerns of safety." "There are no concerns about individuals who are just choosing which gender they want to give themself in order to participate," Democrat Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said in an interview with CNN. "So that, that too is really after a lot of work on whether or not there's any issue here that warrants this intrusion by the federal government into what's going on in Maine schools." Frey was on CNN to defend his state's refusal to comply with Title IX federal civil rights law by continuing to allow men to compete against women. His appearance came after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced a civil lawsuit against Maine for its noncompliance in the wake of multiple federal agencies trying to get the state to stop putting women and girls at risk for weeks. "We've been working through to understand what, if any problem, really exists with the participation, if some of the harms that are being alleged really are of some concern, and what we've identified is, there really is -- there are no concerns of safety," Frey told CNN. Frey either has no clue what he is talking about or is lying through his teeth, because it is not hard to find instances of serious injuries to women and girls at the hands of the biologically stronger and larger males they are forced to compete against. Take Payton McNabb, for instance. She was invited as one of President Donald Trump's guests to his address to a joint session of Congress earlier this year because she suffered a concussion, brain bleed, and other trauma when a male athlete spiked a volleyball violently directly into her face. She still has issues with vision, partial paralysis, and mental health concerns associated with such injuries.Which causes me to wonder, for the thousandth time: Then why do we have sex-segregated sports at all? If there's no meaningful difference between men and women in sports (btw, apropos of nothing, the top woman sprinter in the world's best time is slower than those of the top 1,500 high school boys in the US alone), then get rid of "girls'" sports and make them compete with the guys. We're all the same, right?
The Mayo Clinic renamed its Office of DEI to "Office of Belonging" to fake-comply with Trump's executive order. People sometimes think that there's no harm done if an adult female teacher has sex with a male student. But what you forget is, most female pedophiles are heinous just like most male pedophiles are heinous. You don't want this on your sexual resume, kids. Say "no" to heinous pedophiles. At the current rate this country is going, you'll have sex at age 12 anyway, so hold out for something better. Liberal "man" who looks like he'd totally prosper in a civil war environment calls for the killing of his political enemies.
Future Hero of the Pumpkin Spice Wars
libs of TikTokSorry to spoil Good Friday with that one.
@libsoftiktok DEMONIC. Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an "order of queer and trans nuns" are hosting a transgender Easter event at a public park in San Francisco this weekend which includes a "Hunky Jesus & Foxy Mary" drag contest and events for children. They literally say that their show is inappropriate for children while still encouraging children to attend. Make it make sense
Anti-theft measures are getting desperate pic.twitter.com/1ZLRCaOX9h
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 14, 2025
Yes, what better message to teach a young girl that if a strange man gets out his dick in front of her, she shouldn't be afraid, but enjoy it.@HelenWebberley is a pro-puberty blocker doctor who runs an online gender clinic. pic.twitter.com/gVc0mQsBH6
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 17, 2025
If a woman covering a game started hitting on fans & asking for their numbers on TV they would be crucified on the internet & fired. But here you see this inappropriate behavior being celebrated as “the standard” by a slew of men in the comments. Misogyny is alive & well! https://t.co/LaesCIFrg8
— Kylen Mills (@KylenMills) April 15, 2025
Gabrielle StarrWho's going to tell her that the endless complaining about trivial things is what causes people to think "Maybe liberal women just aren't psychologically cut out for this"? The harshest attack of all:
@gfstarr1 We're always too attractive to be taken seriously, or not attractive enough to 'be a problem.' We're perceived as too standoffish and cold with players, or too friendly. If we're prepared, we're a know-it-all (you feel insecure), but if we make a mistake, it isn't because no person is perfect, but evidence that women don't belong in sports.
I wouldn't be able to contain myself here pic.twitter.com/obE8MEVEj3
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 14, 2025
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!!😎🇺🇸😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/mFsDp5tcel
— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) April 17, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Beartooth at April 18, 2025 05:51 PM (dJimA)
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 18, 2025 05:54 PM (ne3+i)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2025 05:54 PM (QlkYi)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 05:55 PM (l3YAf)
It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it works.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 05:55 PM (qDhxp)
Posted by: Jonah G. at April 18, 2025 05:55 PM (E0p3T)
@gfstarr1
We're always too
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Sorry huh whazzah?
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 05:56 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 05:57 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 05:57 PM (qDhxp)
Posted by: Statler and Waldorf at April 18, 2025 05:57 PM (QlkYi)
Posted by: Ace, King Astronaut of the Fuck Rocket at April 18, 2025 05:58 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 05:55 PM (l3YAf)
No ... He's just in a nicer jail
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 05:58 PM (VE6XX)
Well. If you're wanting me to spell it out, then yes. It is and I do think that.
Regardless of what I think queer sex is not a suitable subject to pay you to teach to children.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 05:58 PM (3wi/L)
Luke 22:47
Posted by: Marcus T at April 18, 2025 05:59 PM (+LETW)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 05:59 PM (E0p3T)
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What do you mean "forced"?
Posted by: Jonah G
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lol
Posted by: Ace, King Astronaut of the Fuck Rocket at April 18, 2025 06:00 PM (KRtlO)
WO-HO-HO-HO
Posted by: Statler and Waldorf
you guys are mean. why can't you just enjoy the show?
Posted by: Ace, King Astronaut of the Fuck Rocket at April 18, 2025 06:01 PM (KRtlO)
he did?
Posted by: Ace, King Astronaut of the Fuck Rocket at April 18, 2025 05:58 PM (KRtlO)
He let Van Hollen in to speak to this thug. Yesterday people were celebrating because he was told to eff off. Guess that was premature.
And now he’s transferred to a nicer jail? Why? What did he deserve to get that treatment.
The pressure campaign seems to be working. I would have had Van Hollen arrested. At least.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 06:01 PM (l3YAf)
Maybe they were talking about her muppet wig.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 06:01 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: huerfano at April 18, 2025 06:01 PM (n2swS)
maybe his name is Shtaren...
https://youtu.be/nKgqxFVIYPg&t=65s
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2025 06:02 PM (ynpvh)
https://tinyurl.com/54mxsk64
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 18, 2025 06:03 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 06:03 PM (VE6XX)
That's o.k. Ace. We had a meaningful Good Friday service with a guest organist and some of the great old time Good Friday hymns. As far as the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" they'll meet "hunky Jesus" eventually as we all will, and he will probably not be amused by them. And if gay men wanted to get away from the idea that gay men have huge numbers of sex partners, "Perpetual Indulgence" was not the best name. I'm sure they think it's hilarious however.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 06:04 PM (42Vb+)
Posted by: Miss Piggy at April 18, 2025 06:05 PM (paSBy)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 06:05 PM (m8Jfi)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 06:01 PM (l3YAf)
Letting the Left continue to publicly support Illegal alien gang banging terrorists is the best strategy possible. Don't stop your enemy when they are doing your job for you.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 06:06 PM (VofaG)
Weird as hell.
The X post embeds Ace put in work fine, but when I click to the site, nada.
I hope X starts turning a profit soon so Elon can open up the spigots on the pipes.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 06:06 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 06:07 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 06:08 PM (42Vb+)
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So we are going back to primitive Stone Age times when they didn't even know how pregnancies happened (though I have my doubts even about that).
Posted by: Decaf at April 18, 2025 06:08 PM (unUNN)
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Uh, leave the kids alone, and yes, queer sex is disgusting, especially butt stuff. Now please crawl back under the rock you came from.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 06:08 PM (Dv3i1)
You Can Do Eeet!
RNC strategy Let Them Speak is working Shhhh.
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not. at April 18, 2025 06:08 PM (r3F/z)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 06:08 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 06:08 PM (42Vb+)
Yup. And blowjob lips.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 06:09 PM (E0p3T)
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Let's dissect the logic of this position:
Teaching about butt plugs to public school students is NOT a "right." And, while this woman may consider it her "duty" (no pun intended, I sure, because that would require this woman to have a sense of humor) I believe it is a fetish. There are lots of fetishes in this world. None are considered to be instrumental in an intermediate education (paid for by the tax payers) for a public school student. Eating boogers is a fetish. Pretending to be something you aren't is a fetish. Tarantino's fascination with feet is a fetish. It is an individual affectation of a small minority. Intermediate public education is a general curriculum meant as a fundamental base leading to specialty.
I don't agree, not because the basis of that disagreement is that "all queer sex is disgusting." Although, I would be entitled to that opinion.
Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 06:10 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 06:05 PM (m8Jfi)
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He makes David Hogg look like a normal hetero male.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 06:10 PM (qDhxp)
No, lady, not at all, in fact, to me at least, you look like a box of wine, a $150 therapy session, and a prescription for Xanax.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 06:10 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 18, 2025 06:10 PM (2NHgQ)
You Can Do Eeet!
RNC strategy Let Them Speak is working Shhhh.
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not. at April 18, 2025 06:08 PM (r3F/z)
This might be the first time that I agree with that turkey. Go, Hogg, Go!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 06:10 PM (VNX3d)
******
I thought this was adorable. If they end up getting married one day they will have a great story to tell.
The girl gladly gave him her phone number, I don't see what the problem is.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2025 06:11 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 06:05 PM (m8Jfi)
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They're black and white... Maybe Panda ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 06:11 PM (VE6XX)
Turns out it is not an official strike. No wonder Taylor Lorenz wanna-be Paimon can still do voice work on the game while bullying people into supporting the 'strike.' The American voice actors have stripped the mask off to reveal how out of touch and entitled they are.
Another example, guy did an open casting call. He just needed people to voice like five lines as background characters. Instead of asking people to volunteer, he was willing to pay $15, And the job could be done while you were sitting in your own house. Of course the American voice actors got offended... how dare he only offer $15? Why I demand $100/hr they screamed. To read off five lines may take three minutes which equates to an hourly rate over $180/hr.
I am really rooting for AI to replace all these idiots.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 06:12 PM (m8Jfi)
The supporters of these trannies competing against women are never asked whether they consider these freaks that have a cock and balls as women.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 06:12 PM (VofaG)
1. Why are there so many cases like this lately?
Because most teachers are mentally ill and hate men. Because they hate men, they fantasize about immature males. They have the equipment but are not yet men and so not hated.
2. But they all get caught, don't they realize they will get caught?
No, critical thinking skills would have led them to a different career. Those without critical thinking skills become journalists or teachers, or if really unemployable they become gov. employees.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 18, 2025 06:12 PM (U/gtr)
The childrin was be also lern thats Love is be good no matter how it be between too peeple.
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at April 18, 2025 06:13 PM (A2iSa)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 05:58 PM (3wi/L)
Or any sex, for that matter. In the early 70s, we had "sex education" in fifth or sixth grade, but it wasn't instruction, ffs. Girls' class and boys' class separately, to teach us about what our bodies were going to do to us in the upcoming years.
When did these classes become how-to-f**k sessions?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 18, 2025 06:13 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 18, 2025 06:13 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 06:13 PM (m8Jfi)
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 06:13 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2025 06:12 PM (m8Jfi)
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It won't be too much longer before you get your wish.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 06:14 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 06:14 PM (viF8m)
'The pressure campaign seems to be working. I would have had Van Hollen arrested.'
The fact that this doesn't damage Van Hollen electorally tells me all I need to know about his voters.
(They're implacable enemies with whom confrontation is inevitable).
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 06:14 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2025 06:15 PM (GITLP)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 06:15 PM (VofaG)
I kind of get that with DVDs. Some of those are expensive.
But they've started doing that with socks. If you need socks, you've got to find a store employee, and probably that employee has to find someone with a key.
Insane.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 18, 2025 06:15 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Seamy Underbelly of History at April 18, 2025 06:15 PM (G5+As)
Yes, you look like a Muppet. Let's see...Miss Piggy or Gonzo? Can't decide.
What was all of that fake crying by those pitiful women in the audience and panel??? FFS.
Posted by: Cheri at April 18, 2025 06:16 PM (oiNtH)
Insane.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 18, 2025 06:15 PM (CHHv1)
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We've been living that way almost 5 years.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 06:16 PM (RIvkX)
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Around here it's something like $800.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 06:16 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 18, 2025 06:16 PM (2NHgQ)
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To be fair, scooping out the XY chromosome from every cell in the body leaves the subject unable to compete in any type of sport.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 06:16 PM (qDhxp)
I kind of get that with DVDs. Some of those are expensive.
But they've started doing that with socks. If you need socks, you've got to find a store employee, and probably that employee has to find someone with a key.
Insane.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 18, 2025 06:15 PM (CHHv1)
Service Merchandise will Rise Again!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 06:16 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 06:14 PM (viF8m
And Massie is against Trump for rolling out Real ID. What is in the Kentucky water?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 06:17 PM (VofaG)
MS-13 has 2 main bases in the US. California is the head of the west coast and Maryland is the head of the east coast.
Maryland is chock full of MS-13 and Van Hollen is well aware of it. How many of them do you think vote?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 06:17 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not. at April 18, 2025 06:17 PM (r3F/z)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 06:18 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 06:18 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 06:16 PM (RIvkX)
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I saw a San Fran store owner used my idea that I came up with a couple months ago. Set all the items in the store at a price in excess of felony arrest. I think at the time it was $950. Then provide a single time membership to the store that requires the item to be taken to the register for mark-down to the proper price.
Sort of an instant "Sam's Club" application.
Those folks doing the smash and dash automatically commit a felony and get the max.
Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 06:19 PM (dIske)
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Check out men's synchronized swimming. There are some real ringers in there.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 06:20 PM (qDhxp)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 06:20 PM (jc0TO)
Oh the humanity! Trump's tariffs are hitting hard. Hermes purses and handbag are raising their prices due to the tariffs.
These bags sell for $Ks, some going over $100K. US "shoppers" may have to pay thousands extra!
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 18, 2025 06:20 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Mega Ultra MAGA Man at April 18, 2025 06:20 PM (G5+As)
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It's Maryland. You win 4 or 5 deep blue counties between DC and Baltimore and you're in.
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 06:20 PM (AOsQT)
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Those faggots can be vicious little bitches.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 06:20 PM (4fQmp)
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He'd last five minutes, easy.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 06:22 PM (YqDXo)
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That's exactly what I'm saying.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 06:22 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
That's not bunny ears. That's camouflage. He'll be sneaking up on you and you'll never see him coming.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 06:22 PM (L/fGl)
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He'll keep the front line supplied with finger sandwiches.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 06:23 PM (qDhxp)
Sorry darlin', but you do look like a Muppet. But not Miss Piggy though, one of the guys.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 06:23 PM (Tv15w)
(They're implacable enemies with whom confrontation is inevitable).
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 06:14 PM (3wi/L)
Sure. I would say that’s been obvious for some time.
The fact is, this was good for Van Hollen and it was good for this p.o.s. MS-13 gangbanger. That’s a hard pill to swallow, but I’m not going to deceive myself into thinking a few funny memes at Democrats’ expense makes this a success.
Bukele can make all of the jokes he wants; that photo of the illegal and Van Hollen drinking margaritas is a power move.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 06:23 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Surprisingly, we import medicines and blood (really) and other therapeutics that make up a large percent of our imports.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 06:23 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 06:24 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not. at April 18, 2025 06:17 PM (r3F/z)
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As middle linebackers.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 06:24 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Sgt. Warden at April 18, 2025 06:24 PM (R/m4+)
'Maryland is chock full of MS-13 and Van Hollen is well aware of it. How many of them do you think vote?'
I suspect most don't vote but if they did they'd vote for Van Hollen.
I was meaning the other assholes who rubber stamp every democrat that runs mainly out of spite for people like me.
And I don't think even they are too stupid to see the damage they are doing to Maryland and the US. Spite is their priority.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 06:24 PM (3wi/L)
One thing though, the local home center has a security tag on the $30 soil moisture tester. The only thing in the store that was secured.
I guess a lot of obasans would steal them. I don't know. Maybe because it is small and expensive for gardening equipment. Weird.
But anyway, even in Japan people steal, just at a much much lower rate.
There was a story last year about a school teacher (or principle?) who got caught buying a med coffee and filling a large cup at the conbini. (the machines are often right at the door, and self serve, so you pay and then fill before you go. Moreover, the attendant can't see over the machine.) He got fired over it; town said he did not have the proper character to teach children.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 18, 2025 06:25 PM (U/gtr)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 06:25 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 06:25 PM (viF8m)
Tab A goes in Slot A. Anything else, you're doing it wrong.
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 06:13 PM (AOsQT)
Except slot C with a chick cause it's totally not deviant or gay.
Posted by: dudley at April 18, 2025 06:26 PM (1MVbl)
Melonie, off the top, said Italy will import more LNG.
She wants Italy to be top dog in Europe and she's on her way there.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 06:26 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 06:26 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 06:26 PM (VofaG)
You didn’t ruin my Good Friday. I watched a Stations of the Cross at the Coliseum in Rome, broadcast my a French Catholic channel
The service was conducted in Italian, with the announcer providing French voiceover.
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 06:26 PM (0aihy)
Posted by: ryukyu at April 18, 2025 06:27 PM (r+m2N)
Tab A goes in Slot A. Anything else, you're doing it wrong.
Posted by: Don Black
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I've tried and I've tried and I'm still mystified - I can't do it anymore and I'm not satisfied.
Posted by: Elvis Costello at April 18, 2025 06:28 PM (U/gtr)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 06:26 PM (4fQmp)
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What a refreshing attitude from a West European leader. She wants her nation to excel rather than grinding it into the muck with her heel.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 06:28 PM (qDhxp)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 06:28 PM (ypFCm)
Pro tip: Mary the Clogger is stupid, not illiterate. Do better.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 06:29 PM (Tv15w)
Bukele can make all of the jokes he wants; that photo of the illegal and Van Hollen drinking margaritas is a power move.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 06:23 PM (l3YAf)
However we got here, making this guy the face of deportations is an unmitigated win for us.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 06:30 PM (E0p3T)
@tpbreaking
A random TikTok user ranted about Karmelo Anthony and the rebuke he's facing from people online:
"Hey, to all of the people who are against Karmelo Anthony... I too will pokey, pokey, pokey, pokey, poke you as well. Straight to the heart. You all didn’t play fair for 400 years."
https://tinyurl.com/5de6rrkf
Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2025 06:30 PM (NpAcC)
Maryland is chock full of MS-13 and Van Hollen is well aware of it. How many of them do you think vote?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 06:17 PM (viF8m)
How many have threatened him or his family, or wave photos of him and underage girls around? The guy is going well over the top on this, so surely there is a reason besides him living another day in Dem world.
Posted by: Moki at April 18, 2025 06:30 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 06:17 PM (VofaG)
Massie’s probably right on that one. Ideally, we wouldn’t need a national ID.
However, if we did need one, it would actually be used to prevent things like voter fraud.
But in all truth, Real ID is just a way to screw with law-abiding Americans. It won’t be used to secure elections in Illinois, California or Pennsylvania. And it won’t be used to stop illegal immigration or make air travel safer, because the uniparty has shown that they will just let illegals fly without ID.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 06:30 PM (l3YAf)
Oh the humanity! Trump's tariffs are hitting hard. Hermes purses and handbag are raising their prices due to the tariffs.
These bags sell for $Ks, some going over $100K. US "shoppers" may have to pay thousands extra!
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 18, 2025 06:20 PM (w6EFb)
Hermes and other luxury brands use companies that they pay to destroy excess stock. They use a planned scarcity model to sell their wares and make them seem super exclusive.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 06:30 PM (TCLft)
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The thing I love most about electing Obama twice is all the racial healing.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 06:31 PM (E0p3T)
Melonie, off the top, said Italy will import more LNG.
She wants Italy to be top dog in Europe and she's on her way there.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 06:26 PM (4fQmp)
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I suspect that Meloni pretends to play nice with the rest of the EU team, but has a nice solid back channel with the Trump Admin. Back when the EU held an emergency meeting relative to Ukraine she arrived late, and left early without speaking to the press. The only EU leader to do so. And her expression was not one of "joy." The next week, Zelenskyy shows up at the White House and does his little dramatic show on national television. I think it was planned, and Meloni tipped Trump off to it...which is why Vance sat in on it, and played the pit bull on Trump's behalf.
Meloni is a friend of MAGA IMO, but she has to play the game of the EU in public.
Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 06:31 PM (dIske)
'Maryland is chock full of MS-13 and Van Hollen is well aware of it. How many of them do you think vote?'
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They don't vote they enforce the vote count.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 06:31 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not. at April 18, 2025 06:17 PM (r3F/z)
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As middle linebackers.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 06:24 PM (YqDXo)
Young Serena Williams, with proper coaching, would have been a standout LB on the vast majority of HS football teams.
Posted by: dudley at April 18, 2025 06:31 PM (1MVbl)
Did that change your mind and now you want the illegal returned? I'm being facetious but did it more likely change minds or more likely made even more apolitical people angry at the Left ?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 06:31 PM (VofaG)
'Trump is tying UK tariff negotiations to them removing their hate crime laws like this.'
Good. He should go to the mat for it. They will cave if he does.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 06:31 PM (3wi/L)
"No, Michael Byrd was not given a pardon by former President Joe Biden. Multiple sources, including fact-checking organizations like PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, Reuters, and Lead Stories, confirm that Byrd’s name does not appear on the U.S. Department of Justice’s list of pardons issued during Biden’s presidency. Biden issued preemptive pardons for members of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack, its staff, and police officers who testified before the committee, but Byrd did not testify and was not included in these pardons."
Posted by: IrishEi at April 18, 2025 06:31 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 18, 2025 06:32 PM (e5NfL)
https://tinyurl.com/3423phxh
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 18, 2025 06:32 PM (W5ArC)
Make it make sense
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That makes perfect sense.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 06:32 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Piper at April 18, 2025 06:33 PM (pZEOD)
Dead Media Talking: Washington Post Gives Mahmoud Khalil an Op-Ed Because OF COURSE, They Did
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 06:33 PM (L/fGl)
That was an internet myth ? Biden did commute the sentence of a double murderer that included a little girl. Louisiana ain't having none of it and charged him at the state level for the girl's murder.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 06:34 PM (VofaG)
'The thing I love most about electing Obama twice is all the racial healing.'
There's nothing I love about that. He had the effect I feared before he was elected the first time.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 06:34 PM (3wi/L)
Dead Media Talking: Washington Post Gives Mahmoud Khalil an Op-Ed Because OF COURSE, They Did
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 06:33 PM (L/fGl)
They bought Burger King?
It's possible; I don't like the quality of either one.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 06:35 PM (VNX3d)
Ming Tampon III is racking up one hell of an outstanding reign so far. Mum's been dead now for what, two years?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 06:35 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Sgt. Warden at April 18, 2025 06:24 PM (R/m4+)
Except, reallly, they want someone else to do the killing on their behalf. They're cowards who would never risk doing the deed themselves.
*except for all of those tranny school shooters, but even they choose easy targets that are not responsible for their troubles.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 18, 2025 06:35 PM (h7ZuX)
Hah dumb ass was thinking of the other Michael Byrd. No wonder it didn't make sense.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 06:36 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 06:36 PM (jc0TO)
The only thing I can figure is they get off on destroying innocence. The same way leftists get off on destroying society.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 18, 2025 06:36 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 06:37 PM (TCLft)
"Ming" ... for the love of ...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 06:37 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 06:19 PM (dIske)
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I like it.
When the government gets so out of control the individual will always create new ways to get around the insanity.
That will always happen when the crooks at the bottom collude with the crooks on top to squeeze the middle.
Next the state will come up with an "Acceptable Price" list for different categories and products for the courts to use instead of going by the victim's stated price.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 06:38 PM (6ydKt)
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[Good rant/read:]
InfantryDort
@infantrydort
There’s a strange type of man in America today.
He has soft hands and sharp words. He talks endlessly of peace, but fantasizes about violence. He rails against masculinity, yet wants to wield power. He despises weapons, but dreams of using the state as a gun. He calls himself educated, but speaks like a zealot. He waves foreign flags, hates his own countrymen, and believes men can be women and women can be men.
You’ve seen him. You’ve argued with him. And right after he hurls his insults, he blocks you. Because deep down, even he knows he cannot back it up.
He is the child of a civilization in decline. Raised without God. Taught that strength is violence, masculinity is toxic, and truth is subjective. He’s been fed purpose through ideology, and fear through propaganda.
He doesn’t worship a higher power, he worships power itself.
[more:] https://is.gd/lNfVFu
Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 06:38 PM (Eav0r)
The mistake, such as it was, is that supposedly Garcia convinced one of the judges that he would be in danger from a rival gang if he was deported to El Salvador. So the judge put a condition that he could be deported but not to El Salvador.
That really is the only issue in this entire joke of a controversy.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 06:38 PM (viF8m)
🚨 NEW: In a surprise to absolutely NOBODY, the terrorist just arrested by FBI for firebombing a Tesla dealership in Kansas City is trans
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 06:38 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 06:39 PM (yp8Vj)
The University administration defended the display as part of an art exhibit, and a student's "first amendment rights."
Yeah, and I bet if an art student did an exhibit depicting Obama hanging from a noose, they would defend that as well, right? Right?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 18, 2025 06:39 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at April 18, 2025 06:39 PM (mH6SG)
The mistake, such as it was, is that supposedly Garcia convinced one of the judges that he would be in danger from a rival gang if he was deported to El Salvador. So the judge put a condition that he could be deported but not to El Salvador.
That really is the only issue in this entire joke of a controversy.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 06:38 PM (viF8m)
You'd think if he were really afraid of gangs in El Salvador he'd eschew publicity...
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 06:40 PM (TCLft)
Posted by: ...
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There is a small group of world leaders who are aligned in respect to national and international politics and civility. They are taking cues from each other and working the play. Hopefully Japan, Korea and other Asian countries will get on board and join the fun.
A Coalition of the Free.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 06:40 PM (4fQmp)
Saw a video yesterday in a British school showing White kids , elementary age learning how to use a prayer rug
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 06:40 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 06:30 PM (TCLft)
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That's a lot of good leather going to waste.
Considering all of these companies are "green", or pretend to be, that's a lot of hypocrisy, too.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 06:41 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 06:41 PM (jc0TO)
These bags sell for $Ks, some going over $100K. US "shoppers" may have to pay thousands extra!
Nah, you'll be able to pick up one for $100 on the street after the next "mostly peaceful protest."
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 18, 2025 06:41 PM (DIweC)
I kind of get that with DVDs. Some of those are expensive.
But they've started doing that with socks. If you need socks, you've got to find a store employee, and probably that employee has to find someone with a key.
Insane.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 18, 2025
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The Walmart nearest me is doing that with car detailing products and underarm deodorants. The first time I saw that, nobody close by *had* a key, and I stood and waited and waited for the proper functionary to come by.
After a while I left and got what I needed at Target.
And Miss Linda wonders why I drive to the far exurbs on Sunday to shop at WM there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 06:41 PM (omVj0)
So the University thinks calling for an assassination of a President is a first amendment right? Higher education my ass.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 06:42 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 06:43 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 06:41 PM (omVj0)
My local Wally World has Men's UNDERWEAR locked up... yeah... Underwear.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2025 06:43 PM (QAkQ3)
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Some people are like unpaid therapy.
They come, they shine, make us smile and never ask for anything in return. Those are important people.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 06:43 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 06:44 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 06:39 PM (yp8Vj)
Maybe it's the quality of the girls? I don't know. I have friends that teach and they are really careful about not being alone with kids so no one can accuse them of anything improper. They tell me that even teaching kindergarten they're afraid to hug the students to comfort them.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 06:44 PM (TCLft)
Posted by: Common Tater at April 18, 2025 06:44 PM (wNEJY)
From what I've read it's a common tactic that these guys are coached to use to delay being deported. Even if they aren't eligible for asylum this is enough to get a friendly judge and an administration like Biden's to just ignore him. Which they did.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 06:45 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 06:46 PM (VofaG)
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This is maybe the funniest thing women tell themselves.
Ladies, NO man is insecure around a woman in that way. He could be a high school dropout that can't read speaking to a doctor with multiple patents and the Nobel Prize.
He would not be insecure. Men don't feel that way regarding women. Men couldn't care less about your accomplishments.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 06:47 PM (weQLb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 06:47 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: steevy at April 18, 2025 06:48 PM (KQk9m)
BONUS: She wearing a Luigi Mangione as Christ tee shirt.
https://shorturl.at/rExw4
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 06:48 PM (L/fGl)
When the family of a slain teen get SWATed within hours after the father gets tossed from a press conference for the suspect...who, BTW, has made hundreds of thousands in contributions.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2025 06:48 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 06:37 PM (TCLft)
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Two generations of women have been raised with the idea that their own pleasure is the highest good. They should feel no guilt about killing unborn children, destroying their marriage or doxxing people so long as it brings them joy.
This is the natural result of that view, and proof that the demonic pedo pleasure applies to both sexes.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 18, 2025 06:48 PM (ZOv7s)
Bukele already said he's not sending him back.
He's a citizen of El Salvador.
What do the Dems think, that SCOTUS will make a ruling that Bukele has to send a citizen of his country back to the U.S., just because they said so?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 06:48 PM (6ydKt)
Hermes and other luxury brands use companies that they pay to destroy excess stock. They use a planned scarcity model to sell their wares and make them seem super exclusive.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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Oh man, their planned scarcity is next-level. The boutiques will literally refuse to sell you the more expensive and well-known bags ("the Satchel," "the Bucket," etc) until you have proven your brand love by buying (also as permitted) a number of scarves, keyfobs, coin purses, etc. You go into the Beverly Hills boutique and say "I'd like the Crossbody in black" and the salesgirl will tell you they're all out right now or they're all spoken for but please buy $5000 worth of things you'll lose in between your car seats and try again next month.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 06:49 PM (1LbhO)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 06:44 PM (jc0TO)
Back when they had three stripes around the top?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 18, 2025 06:49 PM (h7ZuX)
Insane.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 18, 2025
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The Walmart nearest me is doing that with car detailing products ers why I drive to the far exurbs on Sunday to shop at WM there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming
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In electronics they attached computers etc to steel cables. They picked up the whole display and ran out the back with it. Now they are behind a heavy locked display. They don't do these things often, this is a high risk area for thieves. They can be shot with impunity.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 06:50 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 06:47 PM (RIvkX)
You hoped to go back to her room?
Posted by: gKWVE at April 18, 2025 06:50 PM (gKWVE)
Pre-the Saint George Floyd celebrations, one of the reporters for the local paper tried to raise a stink that one of the local Krogers was locking up "black products" (hair straightener and the like).
Somebody knowledgeable in the ways of retail noted that some manager looked at a list of the most shoplifted SKUs at the store and ordered them locked up - he almost certainly didn't know what the actual products were).
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2025 06:50 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 06:38 PM (AOsQT)
Doo dah, doo dah...
Posted by: gKWVE at April 18, 2025 06:51 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Send Roberts down there to negotiate.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 06:51 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 06:52 PM (yp8Vj)
Luke 23:31
Posted by: Marcus T at April 18, 2025 06:52 PM (NdPqb)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 18, 2025 06:52 PM (aso4+)
Bukele already said he's not sending him back.
He's a citizen of El Salvador.
What do the Dems think, that SCOTUS will make a ruling that Bukele has to send a citizen of his country back to the U.S., just because they said so?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 06:48 PM (6ydKt)
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It was an op. They figured Orange Man Bad would immediately violate the TRO and then they'd have a constitutional crisis. A lot of conservatives said to do so.
Trump was smarter. He has excellent advisors. In every case, he has played within the rules and gone through appropriate court procedures, which forces these idiots in black robes to find some sort of legal justification for their naked power grab.
Now these things are falling apart because the must.
One of Trump's greatest advantages is that his enemies are stupid, but think they are really, really smart.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 18, 2025 06:53 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Send Roberts down there to negotiate.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 06:51 PM (4fQmp)
No. Send Boasberg and a couple of the other out of control judges. Let them raise a huge stink, and get arrested so they can share Kilmar's cell.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 06:53 PM (VNX3d)
Dollar down 9% since Jan
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at April 18, 2025 06:43 PM (1phwe)
The place of the dollar as world reserve currency is one piece on a giant world economic chessboard that Trump is playing on. I'm sure your aware of that.
Posted by: dudley at April 18, 2025 06:53 PM (1MVbl)
Jackstraw posted it a couple of threads ago. Hopefully he's around.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 06:53 PM (weQLb)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025
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Once upon a pretty time, my apartment complex offered lower rent rates to police officers to live here. From my window one afternoon I watched two off-duty cops (so I presumed) take down a scruffy-looking intruder and haul him off.
That was long before they put up fences and gates here and allowed Section 8 residents. Like, 1992.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 06:54 PM (omVj0)
More specifically, US government-funded NGOs coach illegals on what to say to la migra to support an asylum claim.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2025 06:54 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 06:54 PM (D7oie)
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Ban that democracy shit! It's too hot to handle!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 06:55 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved
I think that's a generalization. My husband was proud of the fact that I worked really hard at my day job and went to seminary at night for years and graduated with honors. You mean no other father or husband is proud of things their daughters or wives have accomplished whether that's being a wonderful wife and mother and/or very good at their job. That's uttter bs/ excuse my language and no, I don't want to debate it
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 06:55 PM (kbfxQ)
When the family of a slain teen get SWATed within hours after the father gets tossed from a press conference for the suspect...who, BTW, has made hundreds of thousands in contributions.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2025 06:48 PM (W/lyH)
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That makes absolutely no sense. Who do you wage war on? What are the sides?
Civil wars start when there is an abuse on the part of the government or a clash between levels of government. Disputed elections are a biggie.
This guy is going to go to trial, and only if shenanigans ensue will people care. Also: civil damages. All the money he's getting now are going to the victims' family eventually.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 18, 2025 06:56 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: CaliGirl
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We knew of a certain coach and History teacher but it was considered romantic. That was back when teachers were respected we used stones to crack corn.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 06:56 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 06:56 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 18, 2025 06:56 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Ben Had
Rommel McDonald?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 06:57 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: CaliGirl
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Remember the big push to convince everyone that the church was a hotbed of child abusers?
It was a purposeful ploy to distract from schools and teachers.
Churches are a fraction of the child rape that occurs in schools by women. It's verboten to discuss, though.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 06:57 PM (weQLb)
We now have the Boasberg Rule - which is that the government has to comply with his illegal rulings up to the moment that his illegal ruling is reversed on appeal.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2025 06:57 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 06:52 PM (yp8Vj)
The company gives me woke vibes but I bought some bombas ankle socks at Costco and I like them.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 06:57 PM (TCLft)
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Congratulations on understanding how humans learn and understand things.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 06:58 PM (weQLb)
FIFY
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 18, 2025 06:58 PM (DIweC)
It was a purposeful ploy to distract from schools and teachers.
Churches are a fraction of the child rape that occurs in schools by women. It's verboten to discuss, though.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 06:57 PM (weQLb)
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During the worst period of the priest abuse - which we now know was facilitated by a gay-friendly cabal - you were 100x more likely to be molested by a teacher.
Weirdly, no one wants to dismantle public education or treat it as a systemic issue.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 18, 2025 06:59 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 06:59 PM (yp8Vj)
If he's not directly related to you or attempting to sleep with you, he couldn't care less.
It's interesting how that might make it worse.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 07:00 PM (weQLb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 07:00 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2025 06:57 PM (xTIDn)
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He's going to find them in contempt for not carrying out his null and void ruling.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 18, 2025 07:00 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025
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Because liberal judges would sooner hang the cop and sue the store for mis-some-such than prosecute the criminal. Most stores are extremely risk (going to court) averse.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 07:00 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 07:00 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 18, 2025 07:01 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 06:59 PM (yp8Vj)
Fist bump on the wranglers.
I notice everything I buy is cheap and made in china. You can't find good socks or really anything made to last anymore.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 07:01 PM (TCLft)
Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at April 18, 2025 06:39 PM (mH6SG)
What they did with "Little Trayvon" was textbook bifurcation.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 07:02 PM (E0p3T)
Speaking of which, Boasberg is obviously ignoring the "random assignment of judges" rule to take the cases that he wants to rule on.
Where does the "random assignment of judges" rule come from?
Is it custom? Is it written into statute? Is there any sanction for a chief judge who ignores the rule?
When the Ninth Circuit was hearing the big gay rights cases that led up to the Supreme Court finding a right to gay marriage in the Constitution, each and every Ninth Circuit case was assigned to a homosexual judge.
"Randomly."
Boasberg is taking this to a new level.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2025 07:03 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 18, 2025 07:03 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 07:03 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 18, 2025 07:03 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025
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In all of my pre-college school years, I can think of maybe two female teachers I'd have wanted to date (or more). And one of them was a student teacher from a local college, sitting in on one of my classes to observe.
College was another story. Grad students, oh, my!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 07:03 PM (omVj0)
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Wrap it up. We haven't got all day.
California school board tells girl to "wrap it up" while she is in tears about boy watching her undress in girls' locker room
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 07:04 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Marcus T at April 18, 2025 07:05 PM (NdPqb)
https://tinyurl.com/5y9brmrd
(NotTheBee)
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This is an example of how the left comes up with "facts".
If enough of them agree something is a "fact", and repeat that "fact" enough, then it automatically becomes a "fact" and anybody who disagrees with their "facts" is a racist, misogynistic, homophobic, Nazi.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 07:05 PM (6ydKt)
I'll see if I can find it.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 07:05 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 18, 2025 07:03 PM (/U5Yz)
With Larry Bird short shorts and converse high tops.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 07:05 PM (TCLft)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 07:06 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 07:06 PM (ypFCm)
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Because liberal judges would sooner hang the cop and sue the store for mis-some-such than prosecute the criminal. Most stores are extremely risk (going to court) averse.
True Story: My son used to work in retail asset protection. At one retailer where he worked, he saw a young woman in the act of shoplifting, told her not to do it. She cried, said I'm sorry, and paid for the item.
His employer fired him. No contact with shoplifters allowed.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 18, 2025 07:06 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 18, 2025 07:03 PM (/U5Yz)
With Larry Bird short shorts and converse high tops.
Posted by: CaliGirl
Yup. How about tube tops?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 18, 2025 07:06 PM (/U5Yz)
You're wrong. It's different when it's an adult female and a boy. He should think of himself as lucky, he had the time of his life, and all his friends will high-five him.
Posted by: This. Is. Sardonic. at April 18, 2025 07:07 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 07:03 PM (omVj0)
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I'm old enough to have watched the "feminist" position shift from "undergrads are ABSOLUTELY able to sleep with their professors" to "undergrads are NEVER to sleep with their professors due to the power imbalance."
I'm assuming that the change was generational. The hot chicks in the 1990s wanted access to high status men, but 20 years later desperately needed to hold onto them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 18, 2025 07:07 PM (ZOv7s)
I think that if you polled Democrats, a majority of them think that Kyle Rittenhouse killed at least one black person.
A media achievement ranking up with "a right-winger killed JFK in Dallas".
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2025 07:07 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 07:01 PM (TCLft)
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I haven't tried them, but I hear these are really good.
https://darntough.com/
Made in Vermont.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 07:08 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 18, 2025 07:03 PM (/U5Yz)
With Larry Bird short shorts and converse high tops.
Posted by: CaliGirl
Yup. How about tube tops?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 18, 2025 07:06 PM
I'll allow it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 07:08 PM (TCLft)
Weren't the Nazis into this sort of thing?
Posted by: They cry "fascist! fascist!" but are the fascists at April 18, 2025 07:08 PM (TbWk/)
CONSEQUENCE@consequence
Haley Joel Osment was arrested at a California ski resort and charged with public intoxication and possession of a controlled substance. Prior to his arrest, he attempted to board a ski lift with his helmet on backward — and without skis or a snowboard
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 07:08 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 07:09 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 18, 2025 07:09 PM (nxImh)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 18, 2025 07:09 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2025 06:57 PM (xTIDn)
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He's going to find them in contempt for not carrying out his null and void ruling.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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And 50/50 Court of Appeals shuts him down and probably 100 percent Scotus does.
YOLO district court judges are hemorrhaging over two centuries of trust in the courts carefully built up over the years. Squandered totally in less than a couple of months by crazed Resist! rulings.
These judges are doing swan dives off the Cliffs of Insanity in turn.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 07:10 PM (ctrM5)
I haven't tried them, but I hear these are really good.
https://darntough.com/
Made in Vermont.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 07:08 PM (6ydKt)
Those look really good, I'm saving the site but oh my, twenty five dollars for a decent pair of socks. They're guaranteed for life but still that's so expensive. Everything is expensive.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 07:11 PM (TCLft)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 18, 2025 07:11 PM (/Ghsb)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:11 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Marcus T at April 18, 2025 07:11 PM (NdPqb)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 18, 2025 07:11 PM (CHHv1)
CONSEQUENCE@consequence
Haley Joel Osment was arrested at a California ski resort and charged with public intoxication and possession of a controlled substance. Prior to his arrest, he attempted to board a ski lift with his helmet on backward — and without skis or a snowboard
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Any child actor crashing and burning as an adult, I put down to Hollyweird child molestation/casting couch. I have pity for those kids.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 07:12 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 07:12 PM (yp8Vj)
And b. They think all this media attention will sway some RINOs to join them.
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 07:13 PM (0aihy)
Insane.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 18, 2025
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They are doing it all stores. They don’t want to be accused of bias.
The smart thieves go to the herb aisle because Walmart carries saffron which is like $60 an ounce. So they sell it in small containers without theft protection.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 18, 2025 07:13 PM (Vh9CX)
When I was a teaching assistant back in the Dark Ages, due to an "incident" the previous year, we were sternly told that we were not to have sex with any of the undergraduates in your class - until the class had finished for the year.
What you did afterwards was not a concern to the department.
It was a different time.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2025 07:13 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: jsg at April 18, 2025 07:15 PM (UJ+K5)
Posted by: Mama Clump at April 18, 2025 07:15 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 07:15 PM (VNX3d)
Unapologetically CHRISTIAN
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 07:15 PM (0aihy)
Posted by: Spice cuck likes Naziesque eugenics programs at April 18, 2025 07:16 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Ciampino - bizarre incidents at April 18, 2025 07:16 PM (sPQoU)
The only thing that idiot senator did was show that the prison system in El Salvador has been treating Maryland Man just fine.
Posted by: fd at April 18, 2025 07:16 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2025 07:16 PM (vKNmo)
The Nazis tried to destigmatize having kids out of wedlock, since they wanted the birth rate to be as high as possible.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2025 07:16 PM (xTIDn)
https://tinyurl.com/5t42esw6
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 07:09 PM (viF8m)
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Thanks.
Masterful.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 07:17 PM (weQLb)
At least that is what he told me, him not me.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 18, 2025 07:21 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Power over someone else is a helluva drug. A lot of the ones doing it are married, some with kids.
But internally something is there that makes them want to blow up their job, family, husband, all for a YOLO fling with a boy in some cases young enough to be their kid. Same thing with the polyamory shit or open marriages. It pretty much always ends up in a disaster.
Not really gender specific either, you see similar tales of male cops, teachers, etc. doing the same for a piece of ass on the side which gets them into trouble, losing marriages, family, and jobs.
The common thread, I think is power over others is an aphrodisiac for people and lights up their dopamine pleasure centers. Probably even greater for people that never got to exercise power over others in their lives.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 07:22 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 07:11 PM (TCLft)
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Yup, I noticed that, too.
They might be worth it if you add up the cost of replacing three Chinese disposable socks to one Vermont sock, though?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 07:26 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 07:06 PM (omVj0)
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I had a teacher like that. He was denied tenure, and went to teach ... at a girls' college.
You've to laugh.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 07:26 PM (YqDXo)
At least that is what he told me, him not me.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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As a retired prof (tenured), the ones that want to be 'friends' with their students and socialize with them often are the ones that get into trouble.
Office hours were never alone, door was always open or preferably if the student was agreeable in a public place. I did not call nor give out my texting information so all outside of class contact was through email and our learning system chatboard, etc.
Too easy for students failing or simply due to spite to report you for shit. I had a job, family, and a career to worry about rather than a juvenile student but then again I had a career before academia and never had the desire for females that I supervised or worked with.
YMMV but my way worked for me with no complaints until I retired. Plagarism process for students doing it was bad enough.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 07:27 PM (ctrM5)
When I was a teaching assistant back in the Dark Ages, due to an "incident" the previous year, we were sternly told that we were not to have sex with any of the undergraduates in your class - until the class had finished for the year.
What you did afterwards was not a concern to the department.
It was a different time.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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When I was a TA, you could spot the ones that wanted to trade favors for grades a mile away. They usually advertised by wearing whatever they could get away with.
Not interested in tarts and frankly it kinda pissed me off for people trying to manipulate me. I hate that shit whether it is coming from a man or woman. The guys, I would get sob stories from and some of the women.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 07:31 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 18, 2025 07:33 PM (IxDLu)
Maybe if we get really lucky thee vent will get hit by a freak lightning storm.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 18, 2025 07:35 PM (TiRgY)
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I did the same. One time (when I was still single, and untenured) an utterly gorgeous girl showed up for my office hours - wearing a black dinner dress, stockings, heels, the whole nine yards - and closed the door behind her. (Tres unusual for undergrads, for those who don't know, where dirty sweatshirts were more the norm.)
I thought "uh oh" and "oh boy" with the black angel on one shoulder and white angel on the other. I was nervous as all hell, but it turned out to be totally innocuous, to my relief and, in honesty, some disappointment. I mean, what's a career, anyway?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 07:38 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at April 18, 2025 08:30 PM (Da7Vv)
NPR: Trump's Plotting to Cut All of Our Funding
The Trump administration has drafted a memo to Congress outlining its intent to end nearly all federal funding for public media, which includes NPR and PBS, according to a White House official who spoke to NPR. The memo, which the administration plans to send to Congress when it reconvenes from recess on April 28, will open a 45-day window in which the House and Senate can either approve the rescission or allow the money to be restored. The official, who spoke to NPR on condition of anonymity, confirmed the existence of the draft. In a statement on Monday that did not refer to the memo, the White House said: "For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news.'" The statement includes examples of what the White House said is "trash that passes as 'news'" and "intolerance of non-leftist viewpoints." NPR produces the award-winning news programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered, while PBS is best known for its nightly PBS News Hour and its high-quality children's programming, such as Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood.There's a little commercial for NPR tucked right into NPR's article about NPR. No bias here!
Gentlemen, here are your talking points: "$1.1 billion is less than one-one-thousandth of our multi-trillion dollar budgets therefore we must never cut billions from the budget."
This month, on social media platforms, President Trump blasted the two primary public broadcasting networks, posting in all caps: "REPUBLICANS MUST DEFUND AND TOTALLY DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM NPR & PBS, THE RADICAL LEFT 'MONSTERS' THAT SO BADLY HURT OUR COUNTRY!" Trump is expected to propose rescinding $1.1 billion -- two years' worth of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a congressionally chartered independent nonprofit organization that in turn partially funds NPR and PBS.
NPR added this: This article was written by people working for NPR, who would therefore lose their jobs if NPR's funding was cut, but they didn't allow the ludicrously biased head of NPR to review the article, therefore, it's free of all bias or self-interest.
In making the move, the president appears to be drawing impetus from a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing in late March. The panel called NPR's and PBS' chiefs to testify, alleging the networks' news coverage is biased against conservatives. In a statement, NPR said: "Eliminating funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would have a devastating impact on American communities across the nation that rely on public radio for trusted local and national news, culture, lifesaving emergency alerts, and public safety information." "We serve the public interest. It's not just in our name -- it's our mission. Across the country, locally owned public media stations represent a proud American tradition of public-private partnership for our shared common good," it said. Paula Kerger, PBS' CEO and president, said the Trump administration's effort to rescind funding for public media would "disrupt the essential service PBS and local member stations provide to the American people." "There's nothing more American than PBS, and our work is only possible because of the bipartisan support we have always received from Congress," she said.
The article claims NPR and PBS aren't biased. Another lie. The Free Beacon reviewed a bunch of PBS "documentaries." The main thesis of these "documentaries? Literally everything is racist.
Disclosure: This story was reported and written by NPR correspondents David Folkenflik and Scott Neuman. It was edited by deputy business editor Emily Kopp and Managing Editors Gerry Holmes and Vickie Walton-James. Under NPR's protocol for reporting on itself, no NPR corporate official or news executive reviewed this story before it was posted publicly.
PBS receives roughly 15 percent of its $373 million operating budget from the federal government. In addition to its member stations and on-demand streaming shows, some of the money goes to Independent Lens, the weekly series through which PBS airs documentary films. They often have to do with racism. The 2022 Independent Lens flick Racist Trees, for example, chronicles a black neighborhood in the overwhelmingly liberal "LGBTQ haven" of Palm Springs, Calif. The neighborhood's residents feel that a "wall of trees" that lines a nearby golf course was "intentionally planted to exclude and segregate" the neighborhood, and want the trees removed. "They say that these trees are not racially motivated, that they were not racially planted there," one interviewee says in the film. "They can prove that by one simple act. Remove the trees." Other Independent Lens documentaries similarly center on claims of racism, misogyny, and homophobia. There's Our League, the story of a transgender woman who "comes out to her old-school Ohio bowling league." There's also Ferguson Rises, a documentary in which PBS shadows the father of Michael Brown. And in Breaking the News, PBS documents the "women and LGBTQ+ journalists" who launched nonprofit newsroom The 19th to "buck a broken news media system." One interviewee in the film argues that it's easier for a white woman "to vote in space than it is for a black woman to vote in Philadelphia." It's documentaries like those that have motivated the Trump administration to call to scrap taxpayer funds for PBS. The White House plans to ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding for the entity that funds NPR and PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. PBS has hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with deep ties to the Trump administration, to push back.Video at the link.
Drew Holden
@DrewHolden360 Thread I’m not sure people realize just how egregious some of NPR's "journalism" has been. Amid the debate about defunding the network, I wanted to walk down memory lane to revisit some of its worst coverage. There's a lot.
Insofar as @NPR did cover the Hunter Biden scandal, they actively tried to cover it up.
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) April 15, 2025
They applauded Facebook & Twitter strangling the story as part of a push against “misinformation and conspiracy theories.”
The story, of course, turned out to be far from invented. pic.twitter.com/ykhfpdFP0S
This wasn’t the only hatchet work from @NPR in defense of Biden.
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) April 15, 2025
When questions about Biden’s cognitive functioning started to bubble up in February 2024, NPR leapt Pravda-like to his defense.
The real problem? How such allegations would be “weaponized.” pic.twitter.com/7WUOZMIPIN
Or how about @NPR begging voters to consider how good the economy allegedly was under Biden?
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) April 15, 2025
Early effort to insulate him — look at the headline! — from electoral attacks. pic.twitter.com/uqg2ogwDWW
And @NPR had more bad Covid lab leak coverage, and coverage of the pandemic more broadly.
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) April 15, 2025
Perhaps my favorite is this, where they compared the lab leak theory to (I’m not joking) the “lead-up to [the] Iraq War.” pic.twitter.com/vs8N6FQsuM
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Moonbeam at April 18, 2025 04:47 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: Moonbeam at April 18, 2025 04:48 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: Helpful Miklos at April 18, 2025 04:48 PM (UOzvC)
Cheer up, NPR. I'm getting what I voted for! You're welcome.
Posted by: t-bird at April 18, 2025 04:49 PM (KtPtl)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 04:50 PM (jc0TO)
Particularly there is a documentary on immigration, and partway in, they report that Paul Ryan had an amnesty deal with Raul Grijalva ready to go, with majority support from the Republican caucus, which was John Boehner's requirement to bring it to the floor.
Ryan was having celebratory drinks with Grijalva, when news came of Eric Cantor losing the primary to Dave Brat, and Ryan's whip count disappeared.
'No one will know how close we came'.
Posted by: MikeN at April 18, 2025 04:51 PM (HVZOH)
20 Years ago I listened to Diane Rehms tell us troglodytes that NPR didn't need our dirty public funds, that it was overwhelmingly private funded.
I wonder how much of that was USAID money.
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 04:51 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 04:52 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Moonbeam at April 18, 2025 04:52 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 04:52 PM (viF8m)
Your DC neighbors will hate you, but what's a little neighbor hate compared to maintaining your piece of the action.
Chop chop!
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2025 04:52 PM (mTR3D)
Posted by: MikeN at April 18, 2025 04:52 PM (HVZOH)
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 04:51 PM
We're about to find out.
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 04:52 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Democrat Boomers at April 18, 2025 04:53 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Assumpful Miklos at April 18, 2025 04:53 PM (UOzvC)
They did a recent one on 70s funk music.
Here is the thesis.
“But as the 1960s rolled on, through the Vietnam War, the struggle for civil rights, desegregation and the rise of the Black Power movement, an opening appeared for music that offered a bolder identity for Black people.“
Posted by: E Buzz at April 18, 2025 04:53 PM (54Efn)
Posted by: Elaine at April 18, 2025 04:53 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2025 04:54 PM (W/lyH)
They’ve been open commie propaganda operations for decades. Newt Gingrich made a big deal of trying to defund them in the 90s.
And yet they remain taxpayer funded to this day.
It’s been 105 days since the GOP took control of Congress. Where’s the bill to defund these assholes?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 04:54 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 04:54 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 04:54 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 04:54 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 04:55 PM (yp8Vj)
There's hardly any government money going to NPR and PBS, so it's a waste of time to go through the motions of cutting funding.
Also, cutting funding will absolutely destroy NPR/PBS!!
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 18, 2025 04:55 PM (y9nCu)
I'm sure they knew that defunding efforts would be futile, so they decided to sound magnanimous about it all. Nope, no bias here.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at April 18, 2025 04:57 PM (bufu1)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 18, 2025 04:57 PM (e5NfL)
Your DC neighbors will hate you, but what's a little neighbor hate compared to maintaining your piece of the action.
Chop chop!
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2025 04:52 PM (mTR3D)
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This is actually a good idea.
Tell NPR that they can keep 10% of all real fraud, waste and abuse of tax dollars that they discover and which result in real cuts.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2025 04:57 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 04:57 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 04:58 PM (8zz6B)
Then you should pay for it, like I do for Netflix and Sirius.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 04:58 PM (s8j++)
Oh, no! Not that!
NPR/ PBS are always having funding drives aren't they.
I already got my Jeeves and Wooster dvd's, so, not interested.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 04:59 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2025 04:59 PM (QAkQ3)
Why do rich white people need publicly subsidized radio and print outlets?
Posted by: Elaine at April 18, 2025 04:53 PM (uWKK
Same reason they need publicly subsidized high speed rail in California. Because they want to stay rich. What better way than to take money from the unpeople from Jesusland for the things they want.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 18, 2025 04:59 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: ryukyu at April 18, 2025 05:00 PM (r+m2N)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 18, 2025 05:00 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:00 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 05:01 PM (s8j++)
Uh, the reason you plant trees on the border of Golf Courses, is so the course does not continuously get sued when Golf balls break people windows and smash into cars.
Posted by: Romeo13
Wouldn't it cut down on the wind, too?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 05:01 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:00 PM (4fQmp)
And... no one will notice.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2025 05:02 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Romeo13
I never slice!
Posted by: Judge Smails at April 18, 2025 05:02 PM (s8j++)
Personally I think every NPR/PBS journalist needs to be strung up by their flaming pubic hair for inventing the Public Broadcasting Whisper Voice.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 18, 2025 05:03 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: DaveA at April 18, 2025 05:03 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 18, 2025 05:03 PM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 05:03 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Romeo13
Wouldn't it cut down on the wind, too?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 05:01 PM
I thought they were so I had a place to piss.
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 05:03 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Joey Bidet, Crack SBD Pilot at April 18, 2025 05:03 PM (pt3r0)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 05:04 PM (yp8Vj)
Which community is this that lacks access to all this essential information? Is there a colony on Mars with radio blocking anti-wave devices we don't know about? 'Cause I think it's nigh impossible to not be oversaturated with "news" in this age.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at April 18, 2025 05:04 PM (gLikB)
Then you should pay for it, like I do for Netflix and Sirius.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 04:58 PM (s8j++)
Or break them up. Have NPR_music, and PBS_entertainment channels, permitted to play only material of a strictly non-political nature. Put a hard-nosed commissar in charge. Should a presenter or producer establish a pattern of pushing this boundary, can their ass. And have NPR_politics and PBS_politics, on different channels and separate subscriptions, paid in full by the listeners/viewers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 05:04 PM (8zz6B)
Same reason they need publicly subsidized high speed rail in California. Because they want to stay rich. What better way than to take money from the unpeople from Jesusland for the things they want.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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It's more than that. It's cultural reinforcement that they belong, that what they believe is real. It's a focus point of community bonding.
If NPR/PBS didn't put out that elitist crap where would they go?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:04 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Ben Had
Sounds like German porn.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 05:03 PM (0Htd1)
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That's "bohnenflik."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 18, 2025 05:04 PM (6K6Eu)
When she died, she left a lot of his wealth to NPR.
500 milllion.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 18, 2025 05:04 PM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: Lirio100 at April 18, 2025 05:05 PM (zS4/f)
Through it all, We Want the Funk! presents the music as a primary expression of Black culture that endures — just like Black people have endured.
Posted by: E Buzz at April 18, 2025 05:05 PM (54Efn)
Posted by: Moonbeam
I support the good stuff by buying the dvd's. I have Jeeves and Wooster and a lot of their British Whodunnits.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 05:05 PM (0Htd1)
Uh, the reason you plant trees on the border of Golf Courses, is so the course does not continuously get sued when Golf balls break people windows and smash into cars.
Posted by: Romeo13
Wouldn't it cut down on the wind, too?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 05:01 PM (63Dwl)
Could, depending on prevailing wind patterns...
Knew a case back east where some folks sued because they bought a house on a Golf Course... and their house was getting hit by Golf Balls...
So the course put up some Fence type nets... to protect the homes... but they then bitched that it was unsightly and ruined their view.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2025 05:05 PM (QAkQ3)
I can't wait to see these people begging for money in Congressional hearings with Republicans asking about headlines like the ones Drew snapped. It puts the fun in defunding!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 05:05 PM (M4PBL)
Burns was just lazy. He accused Cobb of sharpening his spikes to injury opposing players when in truth Cobb lobbied for just the opposite in the league.
I'm not saying Ty Cobb was an angel. He likely was an asshole of sorts. But, Ken Burns creates documentaries to reflect his won held positions, truth be damned.
Personal gripe, I know, but indicative of PBS and NPR as well.
Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 05:05 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Moonbeam at April 18, 2025 04:52 PM (rbKZ6)
There is no reason they can't or shouldn't do what every other program producer does, which is line up investors and funding to produce their program and then sell it to a network.
If Antiques Roadshow was picked up by another network, I would watch it just the same. And it would be, because it's popular.
So there would be commercials? So what. There already are commercials in PBS programs. Calling it a message from their sponsor's doesn't change the fact.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 18, 2025 05:06 PM (h7ZuX)
This is definitely deranged.
“ We Want the Funk! covers a lot of ground, from Sly and the Family Stone to Prince, African artists like Fela Kuti, hip hop pioneers like De la Soul and more. It also explores how bands like Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic fed Black-centered science fiction trends like Afrofuturism — evoking a world where Black people were cavorting with aliens among the stars at a time when mainstream movies, TV and film were still pretty white.”
Posted by: E Buzz at April 18, 2025 05:06 PM (54Efn)
By hatchet, ax and saw
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Lovely.
My chainsaw would still rather cut Red Pine instead of Hickory or Ironwood.
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 05:06 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 18, 2025 05:06 PM (17s+e)
When Ray Kroc died, he left everything to his then-wife Joan.
When she died, she left a lot of his wealth to NPR.
500 milllion.
Posted by: no one of any consequence
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So they don't need taxpayer money. So good-bye.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 05:06 PM (M4PBL)
Posted by: Beartooth at April 18, 2025 05:07 PM (dJimA)
When people go on for decades without ever being really called out they hit a stage of entitlement, invincibility, in a secure zone knowing every one of their allies does it. A nice, comfy, leftist sewing circle.
The truth hurts, particularly when you are bombarded with it suddenly. Deal with it, Democrats/Media. Not going away soon.
Posted by: RM at April 18, 2025 05:07 PM (n/1Oj)
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That story was around long before Burns.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 18, 2025 05:08 PM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: Grabba Herass at April 18, 2025 05:08 PM (FDlb9)
These people need a thesaureus.
Posted by: From about That Time at April 18, 2025 05:09 PM (n4GiU)
Oddly enough, a lot of my customers are the public radio/TV stations (I repair equipment that they use). I'm okay with taking the income hit.
Also, it's pretty hilarious to talk to PBS broadcast engineers and listen to them go all MAGA and slag the Donks.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 18, 2025 05:09 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Excellent idea. Put it up for auction and let them buy it and operate it. No govt involvement.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:09 PM (4fQmp)
https://tinyurl.com/3wkhcufb
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 05:09 PM (paSBy)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
And then the Funemployment!
Posted by: Cheerful Miklos at April 18, 2025 05:10 PM (UOzvC)
Well, every 30 minutes they reported the "fine people" lie. Over and over all day as if it was the biggest news ever.
When I first heard it I thought "this can't be right," and I did a 20 sec. search to see a video of what he had actually said.
Surely they knew it was a lie, but they repeated it all day (and for the next 8 years probably.) That alone is reason enough to defund them and not just CPB, but the money that goes to states to fund the stations that pay for their programming. (Their main source of income.)
Trump should hold a press conference and play clips from that day and then ban them from the pressroom.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 18, 2025 05:10 PM (U/gtr)
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That story was around long before Burns.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 18, 2025 05:08 PM (6K6Eu)
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Of course it was, as were all the other ones (like jumping into the stands to beat up a guy with no arms). That's why I think Burns was lazy and didn't spend a whole lot of time sorting out the truth.
Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 05:10 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 05:04 PM
I wonder if he has a newsletter...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 18, 2025 05:11 PM (QESVl)
Then I finally saw Sesame Street. Imagine my disappointment.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 18, 2025 05:11 PM (0aYVJ)
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That's a lot of dough.
Posted by: Cookie Monster at April 18, 2025 05:12 PM (CE7wm)
Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 05:10 PM (dIske)
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Looks that way. I got oppressed by the constant "white people awful" undertone and didn't finish the series.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 18, 2025 05:12 PM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:12 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 05:13 PM (jc0TO)
National
Sandtown neighborhood works to heal, and thrive 10 years after Freddie Gray
April 18, 2025
Heard on All Things Considered
🤐
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 05:13 PM (NFX2v)
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For all Soviet or Chinese definitions of "American"
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 05:14 PM (p//7s)
And how. How many Begathon seasons do they have? Those are commercials. They advertise themselves almost endlessly some weeks. And they're so sneaky in doing it I cannot even anticipate bathroom breaks like I can with normal TV scheduling.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at April 18, 2025 05:14 PM (gLikB)
Posted by: El Mariachi at April 18, 2025 05:14 PM (gDhA9)
PBS receives roughly 15 percent of its $373 million operating budget from the federal government
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I believe that PBS gets about 95% of its budget from the federal government. Most of is supplied indirectly through grants to local stations that then buy material from PBS.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 18, 2025 05:14 PM (iTNuP)
https://tinyurl.com/ypynjx7c
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 05:13 PM (jc0TO)
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See, these British types just don't understand that the correct nomenclature is "hookers and blow."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 18, 2025 05:14 PM (6K6Eu)
When I first heard it I thought "this can't be right," and I did a 20 sec. search to see a video of what he had actually said
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I've been catching a lot of the top of the hour news on the radio this week. Fox News, repeating the "Maryland man" lie.
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 18, 2025 05:15 PM (6TlG5)
NPR: Trump's Plotting to Cut All of Our Funding
"The Fiendish Plot of President Donald Trump"
Coming Soon to a Theater Near You!
Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2025 05:15 PM (iJfKG)
The local PBS affiliate here is pretty good. They did a piece a few years ago on the building of the Newport Bridge that was fascinating, I learned a ton from it. I don't mind tax dollars going for that kind of thing but politics should be prohibited. All politics not just the stuff I don't like.
Government in the news business never ends well.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 05:15 PM (viF8m)
https://tinyurl.com/25vh8d32
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 05:15 PM (p//7s)
'I listen to NPR when I'd driving a long distance. It angrys up the blood.'
There should be plenty of alternatives.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 05:15 PM (3wi/L)
If not, maybe they should start.
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 18, 2025 05:16 PM (f1kZG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 05:16 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 05:16 PM (yp8Vj)
They have one person explaining the far far left marxist position with no representation of reality, then they have the "other side" explaining that there might be some tiny downside or some fear that Repulicans have raised but is totally irrational.
Then the host sums it up with exactly why the Right has a different opinion -- because they are hateful and ignorant, of course.
It is such obvious propaganda. Every day, all day. Over and over they spoon feed stuff in such a way that only a child would not question what they are saying. The only way their world can work is if Republicans (and MAGA) are all sub 80 IQ, hatefull, bigoted and evil. They box their own viewers into a cognitive bubble allowing them no chance of compromise.
It is evil. They are a propaganda organ.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 18, 2025 05:16 PM (U/gtr)
I read Ty Cobb's autobiography from decades ago and another book he wrote about how baseball was played back in the day.
Matter of fact I've read dozens of baseball books, a number of which were written by his contemporary players well before racism became such a hot button issue in or out of baseball.
I heard lots of things that made me think he was obnoxious and difficult but never did catch a trace of racism. He seemed more like the kind of player and person who could care less if you were a nasty alien from outer space if you could help his team win.
Posted by: RM at April 18, 2025 05:16 PM (n/1Oj)
Then I finally saw Sesame Street. Imagine my disappointment.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 18, 2025 05:11 PM
I learned more from Schoolhouse Rock than I did from Sesame Street. I think all I learned from Sesame Street was basura and I'm thinking I would have picked that word up eventually just as I learned babas from my friends for free.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (s8M/c)
Posted by: Mad Max in VA at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (8iNlE)
National
Sandtown neighborhood works to heal, and thrive 10 years after Freddie Gray
April 18, 2025
Heard on All Things Considered
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All Things Considered.... Except for anything remotely conservative
Posted by: Josephistan at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (tsNY/)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 18, 2025 05:12 PM (6K6Eu)
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As you can probably guess, Ty Cobb is a favorite of mine, and it pissed me off that even "Field of Dreams" dumped on him by saying they didn't invite him because no one liked the bastard. BUT, in truth, opposing teams actually created Ty Cobb Days at their own stadiums when his career was winding down.
That was the legacy of Burn's documentary...picked up on by other mediums. Which angers me LOL
Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (paSBy)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 05:18 PM (ypFCm)
Burns is a lying piece of shit. Among other bizarre claims, his documentary on Prohibition asserted it was created by racist white conservative Republicans who were afraid of black people voting.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 05:18 PM (l3YAf)
https://tinyurl.com/ypynjx7c
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 05:13 PM (jc0TO)
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Franchising is my newest gig!
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Artist and Entrepreneur at April 18, 2025 05:18 PM (p//7s)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 05:18 PM (3wi/L)
I've been catching a lot of the top of the hour news on the radio this week. Fox News, repeating the "Maryland man" lie.
Posted by: Turn 2
Fox News Radio is NPR like.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 05:18 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 05:19 PM (paSBy)
Ha! Schoolhouse Rock was how I mastered the multiplication table when I was a school kid. I still find myself humming along when I have to count out by twos or threes.
I loved that.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 18, 2025 05:19 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Elaine at April 18, 2025 04:53 PM (uWKK
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We don't stay rich by spending our own money, sweetie.
Posted by: Rich White Folks at April 18, 2025 05:20 PM (f1kZG)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 05:18 PM (l3YAf)
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Can't wait to hear his description of Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 05:20 PM (p//7s)
Posted by: Orson
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Hopefully people will come to learn that EVERYTHING Burns did or will do is a load of crap. Gell-Mann amnesia effect, anyone?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:20 PM (4fQmp)
In Trump's first term, Don Jr. was subpoenaed to testify before some congressional committee. The left was salivating while imagining Don Jr. would give up his father for some crime.
Peter Sagal on "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" joked that Trump said "I always wanted one of my kids to screw me, just not that one".
Our social, moral, and intellectual superiors. You don't have to ask them, they'll tell you.
Posted by: Frankly at April 18, 2025 05:20 PM (q5uQJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (4fQmp)
*snickering*
Posted by: Pam Bondi and Kash Patel at April 18, 2025 05:20 PM (l3YAf)
Heck, kick if off with Katherine Maher's facebook posts.
Posted by: El Mariachi at April 18, 2025 05:21 PM (gDhA9)
'He accused Cobb of sharpening his spikes to injury opposing players
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That story was around long before Burns.'
No kidding. I heard that one from my dad.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 05:21 PM (3wi/L)
I loved that.
I have to admit, it's fun hearing Tom Lehrer and Gene Wilder on The Electric Company as an adult, knowing who they are.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 18, 2025 05:19 PM
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 18, 2025 05:22 PM (QESVl)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 18, 2025 05:22 PM (QESVl)
TBH there might be some truth to this. While Philly claims an 80% turn out rate, I'd guess perhaps half of that are single ballots cast by a living US citizen registered to vote in Philly.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 05:22 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: El Mariachi at April 18, 2025 05:23 PM (gDhA9)
Juan had a call in show and it was clear he was intellectually disabled. It was like listening to retard talk hour as all the people who called in were just as bad. Dense as a wet log.
I still chuckle to think he is making 7 figures as an analyst. Yeah, white privilege.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 18, 2025 05:23 PM (U/gtr)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 05:23 PM (paSBy)
There are no people more stingy then upper class leftwing socialists.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 05:23 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Reading an article at JustTheNews (still trying to find a good outlet) and at the end of the article it says, as reported by the NYTs.
Oh, I'll remember that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:23 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 05:24 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:25 PM (4fQmp)
I think I sent them a couple bucks during their beg-a-thon, but later regretted it. I considered all the ppl in my network who enjoyed NPR/PBS, and they all have money. Not to mention the uber wealthy elites of the demorats. So I figured, eff it. They can pay for it.
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:26 PM (0aihy)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 18, 2025 05:26 PM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at April 18, 2025 05:26 PM (vepQc)
I may have embellished that. Probably not.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 05:26 PM (Q4IgG)
There are no people more stingy then upper class leftwing socialists.
Posted by: 18-1
Especially the gay ones.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 18, 2025 05:27 PM (/3Exi)
Cucks.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 05:27 PM (l3YAf)
It is simply impossible for them to even ascend to claiming they platform anything but an extremely liberal bias.
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:27 PM (X1wUG)
Two grand slams, back to back homers, 16 runs in the 8th inning.
And it was 2-1 through six.
13-11 Cubs now, top of the 9th.
LOL
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2025 05:27 PM (ufFY8)
'white conservative Republicans who were afraid of black people voting'
Back in those days black people would have been voting for Republicans.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 05:27 PM (3wi/L)
lol
I must remember to tell myself: REES incoming
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:28 PM (0aihy)
Posted by: raimondo at April 18, 2025 05:28 PM (20yYc)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2025 05:29 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Captain Obvious"
For certain types of work, I would.
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 05:29 PM (0HaGk)
In a statement on Monday that did not refer to the memo, the White House said:
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So tell me again why they needed an anonymous White House staffer to tell them what the White House made officially known.
Posted by: Decaf at April 18, 2025 05:29 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:29 PM (X1wUG)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 18, 2025 05:29 PM (/3Exi)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 05:30 PM (paSBy)
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:30 PM (X1wUG)
This is the fun of beisbol:
Six innings of boring ho-hum, attention wandering…
Then all of a sudden: mayhem!
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:30 PM (0aihy)
1. Very little of their money comes from gov. (or abortion.)
2. Without gov. money they will cease to exist.
They think we are stupid.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 18, 2025 05:30 PM (U/gtr)
Posted by: Garrison Keillor at April 18, 2025 05:30 PM (pt3r0)
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 05:30 PM (0HaGk)
'He accused Cobb of sharpening his spikes to injury opposing players
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That story was around long before Burns.'
No kidding. I heard that one from my dad.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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No doubt that Cobb was a tough rock, the other players were tough too. Speculating, If Cobb had gone too far against an opposition player an up roaring fight would have ensued. Base men wouldn't put up with getting spiked.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:31 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 18, 2025 05:31 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:31 PM (X1wUG)
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I'd forgotten about that. It was a good show.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 05:31 PM (paSBy)
One of my favorites is always Chris Plante talking about how his nationally syndicated show has three people on staff, and how NPR's All Things Considered has a staff of like 35 people including a chef to make it run.
Posted by: ballistic at April 18, 2025 05:31 PM (+94UU)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (paSBy)
This is exactly the case with television as well. There are hundreds of channels. If your product has an audience, it will be commercially viable.
Do not get me started on Sesame Street. Toy sales alone can fund all of Sesame Street's production.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 18, 2025 05:31 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 18, 2025 05:32 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (4fQmp)
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Biden pardoned him, I believe
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 05:32 PM (evOaE)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 18, 2025 05:31 PM (/U5Yz)
I’m not going anywhere, bub.
Posted by: Sean Hannity at April 18, 2025 05:32 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: raimondo at April 18, 2025 05:28 PM (20yYc)
No argument here
In fact, I think that’s OSSUM!!!
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:32 PM (0aihy)
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I'd forgotten about that one too. I used to listen all the time.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 05:32 PM (paSBy)
Radio and TV are dinosaur media for almost all Americans, everyone is listening to podcasts.
Posted by: Decaf at April 18, 2025 05:33 PM (unUNN)
Also NPR/PBS - CUTTING ANY OF OUR FEDERAL FUNDING WILL DESTROY US AND KILL BIG BIRD AND ELMO!!
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at April 18, 2025 05:33 PM (V362x)
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 05:33 PM (0HaGk)
I think they released a lot of those shows on CD at one point.
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:33 PM (X1wUG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 05:34 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 05:34 PM (0HaGk)
Posted by: Growed Up Normal at April 18, 2025 05:34 PM (G5+As)
Yes it was a good show
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:35 PM (0aihy)
NPR was much better 20 years ago.
Then they got the Ray Kroc money from his widow. I never heard how it happened, but she must have insisted that they go full bull goose lefty. They had a really good interviewer (Bob Edwards) who was host of Morning Edition and right after they got the money they fired him for no reason.
He was among the best interviewers I have heard. He would interact with the person and ask intelligent questions. Every day.
There was something about that Kroc money that made them go far far left.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 18, 2025 05:35 PM (U/gtr)
Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2025 05:35 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 05:36 PM (0HaGk)
That "NPR voice" is like auditory quaaludes for me. I just immediately want to go to sleep.
Posted by: ballistic at April 18, 2025 05:36 PM (+94UU)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 05:36 PM (ypFCm)
'If Cobb had gone too far against an opposition player an up roaring fight would have ensued. Base men wouldn't put up with getting spiked.'
That was the upshot of my dad's story. Cobb had jammed his spikes into Honus Wagner's leg sliding into 3rd.
Later in the game, Wagner vigorously tagged Cobb out in the jaw with his fist around the ball.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 05:36 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 05:36 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Growed Up Normal at April 18, 2025 05:34 PM (G5+As)
You’re actually thinking of Action for Children’s Television, founded by proto-AWFL Peggy Charren.
Posted by: He learned almost too late that Moron is a feeling creature at April 18, 2025 05:36 PM (gxrPg)
Posted by: Peter Bootygig at April 18, 2025 05:38 PM (pt3r0)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 05:38 PM (Q4IgG)
That "NPR voice" is like auditory quaaludes for me. I just immediately want to go to sleep.
Posted by: ballistic at April 18, 2025 05:36 PM (+94UU)
I was perplexed by NPR Voice when I was 3 years old, over 30 years ago. I dunno if it was my Asperger’s but I picked up that something was different from how people sounded compared to all other radio stations.
Posted by: He learned almost too late that Moron is a feeling creature at April 18, 2025 05:38 PM (gxrPg)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (4fQmp)
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Biden pardoned him, I believe
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Was it Biden or was it AutoPen?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:38 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis
Here's a little secret. When JJ Sefton goes food shopping he brings his own Channel 13 Tote Bags. He has dozens of them!
Posted by: WNET Channel 13 at April 18, 2025 05:38 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 18, 2025 05:38 PM (4kfbT)
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Ditto, but we kill kids.
Posted by: Planned Parenthood at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (qDhxp)
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (ne3+i)
Yeah...they mandate you adopt that tone. It's easier after the 4th Bong Hit.
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (X1wUG)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 05:36 PM (0HaGk)
Hey, kids, what’s red, hard and fuzzy?
Posted by: Elmo and Kevin Clash at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: kallisto
What? Whatcha want?
I wasn't playing baseball! I wasn't anywhere near there!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (2J/Lj)
The oldtimers I know get all their news from TV and newspapers. All other content from TV.
Mobile phones are used for facebook and showing offpics of their fam and pets. Although one of them is plugged into MSNBC on her phone 24-7
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (0aihy)
I wonder how much of that was USAID money.
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 04:51 PM (j4U/Z)
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DOGE showed us how little leftie oligarchs* used their own money to support their favorite causes. It always seemed to have come from USAID.
*Let's use the Democrats term for billionaires.
Posted by: Decaf at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 05:40 PM (qDhxp)
Posted by: t-dubya-d at April 18, 2025 05:40 PM (ZwScn)
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (ne3+i)
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The Three Stooges. Now THAT is American.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 05:41 PM (qDhxp)
Posted by: Lirio100 at April 18, 2025 05:41 PM (zS4/f)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:38 PM (4fQmp)
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If its really a Biden signature the "i" is dotted with a little heart. Trust me.
Posted by: DR. Jill Biden at April 18, 2025 05:42 PM (evOaE)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 05:41 PM (qDhxp)
Niagara Falls.
Niagara Falls. Slowly I Turned...
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 05:42 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:43 PM (X1wUG)
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 05:43 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at April 18, 2025 05:43 PM (V362x)
Posted by: WNET Channel 13
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Did he ever come back with an answer about Vic?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:43 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 05:43 PM (0HaGk)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 05:43 PM (yp8Vj)
WTF kind of delusional nonsense is this?
Even dead black women have no problems voting in Philly,
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 05:43 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 05:44 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (VE6XX)
What a stupid cvnt that prisoner is. What does he think will happen after the showboating gringo leaves???
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:44 PM (0aihy)
Posted by: Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe at April 18, 2025 05:45 PM (paSBy)
Posted by: Miklos "Moe" Molnar at April 18, 2025 05:45 PM (UOzvC)
This is why so many Boomers think Biden was doing a great job and Trump and Elon Musk are going to cut SS and rifle through their medicine cabinet and take all the good pills.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 05:45 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 05:45 PM (qDhxp)
Posted by: setnaffa at April 18, 2025 05:45 PM (dKSNq)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 05:46 PM (VE6XX)
Actually Black Republican women have trouble voting in Philly and that is not even a joke.
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:46 PM (0aihy)
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:46 PM (X1wUG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Isn't that what YouTube is for?
Posted by: Decaf at April 18, 2025 05:47 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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Source of that bs?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:47 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 05:47 PM (0HaGk)
The stuff that comes out of their mouths is just…this side of psychotic
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:47 PM (0aihy)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 05:47 PM (rpqPN)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 05:48 PM (VE6XX)
I'm not even a car person-that is, I've had cars and I can change the oil and tires although the latter has gotten much harder as I've gotten older and achier,, but I am not a car fixer upper. I take it to mechanics. However, Car Talk was always interesting and amusing even though I didn't do car repairs.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 05:48 PM (42Vb+)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 05:48 PM (paSBy)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 05:49 PM (2J/Lj)
Bet he runs for office.
Here or there. Here, he'll win. There... I don't know.
But if he runs, and is considered eligible here, I hope he unseats Von Hollen. What an amusing that turn that'd be.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 05:50 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:38 PM (4fQmp)
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I'm standing right here Donna
Posted by: President Boasberg at April 18, 2025 05:50 PM (rpqPN)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 05:50 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025
I saw Ben Had post that Vic is not on the list because he was racist. My response: is there no forgiveness even in death?
We don’t know what he repented in his last days.
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:51 PM (0aihy)
That's because she doesn't have hundreds of ballots to fill out.
Posted by: t-bird at April 18, 2025 05:51 PM (YNfms)
Posted by: Ped Xing at April 18, 2025 05:51 PM (pt3r0)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 18, 2025 05:51 PM (Hx7FG)
Posted by: eleven
I do that twice a week.
Posted by: Carpentry On The Cheap at April 18, 2025 05:52 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:38 PM (4fQmp)
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I'm standing right here Donna
Posted by: President Boasberg at April 18, 2025 05:50 PM (rpqPN)
That's President Otto Pen to you, Boasberg!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 05:52 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Beartooth at April 18, 2025 05:52 PM (dJimA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (4fQmp)
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Didn't Biden pardon him?
Posted by: Decaf at April 18, 2025 05:52 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 05:50 PM (Q4IgG)
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Admitting an MS-13 member would probably raise the standards of the World's Most Exclusive Club.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 05:52 PM (qDhxp)
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:52 PM (X1wUG)
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This may be something. If it is it will be interesting.
Read earlier today that there is frustration with Burgum's not shutting down funding of new wind farms.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:52 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: t-dubya-d at April 18, 2025 05:52 PM (ZwScn)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:53 PM (4fQmp)
My 3 year old grand daughter came up to me today and asked, "Are they really going to kill Big Bird again?" and cried, and I laughed out loud and said "Damn right they will!"
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 05:53 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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Source of that bs?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:47 PM (4fQmp)
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Among other places, NPR.
Posted by: He learned almost too late that Moron is a feeling creature at April 18, 2025 05:54 PM (gxrPg)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 05:54 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at April 18, 2025 05:54 PM (V362x)
Posted by: E Buzz
Tear the roof off the suckah!!!!
Posted by: Words to live by at April 18, 2025 05:55 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025
I saw Ben Had post that Vic is not on the list because he was racist. My response: is there no forgiveness even in death?
We don’t know what he repented in his last days.
Posted by: kallisto
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On one thread J.J. was asked more than once about Vic and he responded that he would ask the PTB and get back to us.
I may have missed his response, however, it seems everyone did.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:57 PM (4fQmp)
I don't recall that one, but it's great!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 05:57 PM (42Vb+)
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:43 PM (X1wUG)
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I grew up in the age of Looney Tunes so when Sesame Street came along it was blah. Now Muppets were funny and worthy successors to Looney Tunes.
Posted by: Decaf at April 18, 2025 05:58 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: Clump of Cells at April 18, 2025 06:05 PM (9bYWc)
And a LOT of the programming is frivolous crap. Are you saying that only the government can create a radio show like "Wait Wait don't tell me!"
It's...bizarre this is even a real conversation.
Posted by: El Mariachi at April 18, 2025 06:06 PM (gDhA9)
Posted by: El Mariachi at April 18, 2025 06:07 PM (gDhA9)
Then you should pay for it, like I do for Netflix and Sirius.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 04:58 PM
I do pay separately for the app- $75 per year. It provides additional programming.
Posted by: Moonbeam at April 18, 2025 06:28 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: Moonbeam at April 18, 2025 06:28 PM (rbKZ6)
Wow, lefties don’t consider that to be PBS selling out to capitalist greed? If it’s “public” wouldn’t they believe all people, regardless of ability to pay, should have equal access to the same programming?
Posted by: He learned almost too late that Moron is a feeling creature at April 18, 2025 06:33 PM (gxrPg)
Posted by: Cordella at April 18, 2025 07:39 PM (vJYB+)
Posted by: Southern Man at April 18, 2025 09:14 PM (Wj9YC)
Posted by: Quiller at April 18, 2025 10:42 PM (hvOPb)
Minnesota AG and Islamist Keith Ellison Is Distancing Himself from a Fake "Charity" That Stole $250 Million in Covid Funds, Supposedly for Feeding Poor Children
His grubby fingerprints are all over this, says David Strom.
Ellison is claiming he had nothing to do with the scam charity that stole a quarter of a billion dollars out of the mouths of poor children, but he's on tape pledging his support to the fraudsters.
The scandal, about which I have written a bit, can be condensed into a few sentences: DFL politicos hooked up with Somali immigrants tied to Ilhan Omar to rip off the state and federal government by charging hundreds of millions for meals they never provided to children during COVID. Hundreds of millions, and that is only one of the scams that Somalis have run with the cooperation of the Democrat-controlled government. There has been a similar fraud related to child care subsidies and home care services that never happened. All told, somewhere between $500 million and a billion dollars has been conned out of Minnesota taxpayers, and the local Democratic Party is deeply connected to it all. In the case of this particular scandal, the lead conspirator was a former top official in Amy Klobuchar's office, not that you would ever know it from the news coverage. Aimee Bock was the ringleader, but most of the minions were Somali refugees with deep political ties to Ilhan Omar, Mayor of Minneapolis Jacob Frey, and our very own Attorney General and former Democratic Party Vice Chair Keith Ellison.
See the article for more, and to hear the clips. Another recording of Keith Ellison meeting with Feeding Our Future Vacation Homes grifters has dropped. From AmericanExperiment.org:
Keith Ellison, Minnesota's attorney general, can clearly be heard pledging his support to individuals who would soon become his family's campaign donors and later Feeding Our Future criminal defendants. His recorded statements flatly contradict his contemporaneous public statements and raise uncomfortable questions about the intersection between political fundraising and constituent services. American Experiment has exclusively obtained the complete 54-minute, 44-second audio file of a private December 2021 meeting between state Attorney General (AG) Keith Ellison and key figures in the Feeding Our Future scandal. ... As a document, it exceeds expectations. Voices can be heard clearly and are clearly identifiable. The highlights, which are many, tend to be front-loaded. I've included below some clips from the meeting to highlight a few points. ... The meeting proper begins at the 1:28 mark with introductions. The female voice heard beginning at 1:45 belongs to Ikram Mohamed. She is Feeding Our Future Defendant No. 63, overall, in the case and is expected to stand trial in December 2025. Ikram worked as an employee/consultant for Feeding Our Future for a time and also participated in the free-food program independently. She has pled not guilty in the case. ... The first, but hardly the last, accusation of racism is dropped at 4:20. Beginning at 6:00, Omar describes (offers) his organization's fundraising prowess (6:30) on behalf of "elected officials who are willing to protect communities of color." To repeat, Omar has never been accused of any wrongdoing. At 8:00, Ellison offers his initial thoughts on the meeting's introductory remarks: Ellison describes his interventions with then-DHS Commissioner Jodi Harpstead starting at 8:15. Harpstead left her post earlier this year... Ellison states on the recording that "we are in the middle of the battle with the agencies now" at 8:59. At 9:07, Ellison asserts that: "Walz agrees with me that this piddly, stupid stuff running small people out of business is terrible." At 9:22, Ellison can be heard drawing a diagram on a whiteboard. At 9:50, Ellison agrees with the proposition that there is state agency discrimination against East African businesses. At 11:30, Ellison brags that: "Just being able to say, just getting the question, just getting the inquiry from the AG is sometimes enough to make people knock it off."
Another leaked audio recording links Minnesota's Attorney General Keith Ellison to the Feeding Our Future (FOF) scandal. This much earlier recording (June 2021) raises more questions about Ellison's public statements on the case and his office's less-than-adequate representation of the state Department of Education (MDE) in an FOF-filed lawsuit. Last week, American Experiment exclusively published a 55-minute audio recording, dated December 11, 2021, featuring AG Ellison meeting with a half-dozen or so individuals associated with the nonprofit Feeding Our Future (FOF). Feeding was the rogue nonprofit behind a $250 million theft from a taxpayer-funded program meant to feed children from low-income families. That audio was recorded just 9 days before Ellison received several campaign donations from individuals linked to FOF. One month after that (January 20, 2022), FBI raids shut down the fraud and closed FOF. To be clear, no one mentioned by name in this post has been accused of any wrongdoing in the Feeding Our Future case.Well, may be. But the investigation is young.
... American Experiment was sent the following 19-second video. The man standing on the left is Abshir Omar, the Feeding Our Future consultant. The man seated on the right is state Sen. Omar Fateh (DFL-62, Minneapolis). According to campaign finance records, Abshir Omar donated $1,000 to Sen. Fateh's re-election campaign on November 20, 2021. In addition to Abshir's, Sen. Fateh collected six other donations on that date. It is alleged that the video above was shot on November 14, 2021. From the short video, it is not clear what subject is being discussed. The word "food" is mentioned by Abshir at the 11-second mark. Below are the campaign donations accepted by the Ellisons (father and son) and Sen. Fateh from individuals linked to the Feeding Our Future scandal. From the contributor list above, Abshir Omar is Donor "E." We were also sent a 54-second audio recording, allegedly recorded much earlier on June 22, 2021. From the audio, it sounds as if the recording is of a telephone call or a Zoom meeting. ... The subject matter appears to be the ongoing state lawsuit between Feeding Our Future and the state Dept. of Education ("MDE"). The audio mentions (0:05) a contempt ruling filed against MDE, which occurred in June 2021. MDE was represented in the lawsuit by Ellison's office. At the 24-second mark, Ellison respond to a question by stating that he had heard of the FOF/MDE case "late this afternoon." This contradicts Ellison's statement on the later December 2021 audio tape that he was unaware of the lawsuit.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 18, 2025 03:32 PM (GYt5+)
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Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 18, 2025 03:33 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 18, 2025 03:34 PM (GYt5+)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 03:36 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 03:36 PM (GOHAn)
Posted by: DaveA at April 18, 2025 03:36 PM (FhXTo)
They got more "generational wealth" out of COVID then from any other 2 year period in history.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 03:36 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: the insensible rock at April 18, 2025 03:36 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: mr tmz at April 18, 2025 03:37 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 03:37 PM (GOHAn)
And pretty much everything the "science based community" said ended up being bald faced lies.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 03:37 PM (t0Rmr)
This Proves Trump wants to starve children, and he must be impeached now to save the children dying because of Trump's tariffs ....
IMPEACH HIM NOW TO SAVE THE CHILDREN !!!!!!!
Posted by: Grabba Herass at April 18, 2025 03:37 PM (A2iSa)
Posted by: Stop whining you brats! at April 18, 2025 03:38 PM (TbWk/)
Start executing people over it.
And at this point, I don't care if it's done legally or extra-legally.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 03:39 PM (/iLcI)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 03:39 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 18, 2025 03:39 PM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 03:39 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2025 03:40 PM (7fElN)
But that's totally not corruption right?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 03:41 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: mr tmz at April 18, 2025 03:37 PM (rJ48h)
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This.
WTF were they allowed in in the first place?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:41 PM (YqDXo)
But that's totally not corruption right?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 03:41 PM (t0Rmr)
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The only sustainability he was engineering was the grift...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2025 03:42 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: To be served in El Salvador at April 18, 2025 03:42 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 03:42 PM (0Htd1)
But any time a study comes out and says that racyissms is worse then ever after they tried a new way to "study" it clearly is science based proof right? Clearly racyissms in 2020s America is worse then any point in previous history...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 03:42 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 03:43 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: t-bird at April 18, 2025 03:43 PM (6bxmr)
Anyone up for a mystery?
AOC and Bernie are barnstorming their anti-rich people tour in a huge private jet, which appears to have a tail number of N604xt.
That jet belongs to a company owned by a guy named Toby Neugebauer. He made his fortune investing in fracking, and he gives a ton of money to Texas Republicans.
So, the mystery: Why did a Republican donor from the oil business lend his jet to two socialists trying to kill his entire way of life?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 03:43 PM (X/sOO)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 03:42 PM (0Htd1)
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Are there in fact hungry children? With all the programs we have, I rather doubt it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:43 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: mr tmz at April 18, 2025 03:37 PM (rJ48h)
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This.
WTF were they allowed in in the first place?
because they were killing, raping, and robbing the people Americans just wouldn't. Really it is an act of love
Posted by: Jeb Bush at April 18, 2025 03:43 PM (t0Rmr)
Like a Big House remix of "Three's Company", except that instead of the Ropers, it's the guards he has to fool into believing he's...ah..."non-binary".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 18, 2025 03:44 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 03:42 PM
In fairness, the hungry kids never existed.
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 03:44 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 03:43 PM (X/sOO)
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Maybe he figures the more exposure they get, the more they will discredit themselves.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:44 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 03:42 PM (0Htd1)
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Amateurs.
Posted by: Clinton Foundation stealing from the poorest country in the world at April 18, 2025 03:44 PM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 03:45 PM (0Htd1)
I mean, at least when Chirlene McCray "misplaced" 1.5 Billion Dollars, she had the common courtesy to just shrug and say, she had no idea where the money went.
Ellison is trying to deploy, It Wasn't Me Defense, which is sort of a subset of The Chewbacca Defense.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2025 03:45 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 03:45 PM (0Htd1)
So, the mystery: Why did a Republican donor from the oil business lend his jet to two socialists trying to kill his entire way of life?
Because AOC has a sweet juicy booty and she'll go another for some $$$
Posted by: Some Republican rich guy with a big butt fetish at April 18, 2025 03:45 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Omar at April 18, 2025 03:45 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 03:43 PM (X/sOO)
Easy. He's cut a deal with them to curb stomp his competition, while giving him some kind of waiver (or an equivalent concession).
That's how the game is played.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 18, 2025 03:45 PM (W5ArC)
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A more blatant example of emotional manipulation would be difficult to find.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:45 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 03:42 PM
In fairness, the hungry kids never existed.
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 03:44 PM (jc0TO)
My fav was that while schools were closed here in Clownifornia... they still 'served' both breakfast and lunch, for FREE, for students...
Uhhhh... so apparently Covid did not spread during mealtime, only classtime.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2025 03:46 PM (QAkQ3)
Like California it's a one party state. I can't prove they cheat but they have it wired like The Sting.
Posted by: torabora at April 18, 2025 03:47 PM (IvqAt)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 03:48 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 03:48 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Gen. Omar Bradley at April 18, 2025 03:48 PM (UOzvC)
That reminds me where COVID was so dangerous you had to wear a mask 100% of the time, even alone in your car. But you could take it off to eat in public surrounded by other people doing the same.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 03:48 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Lunch is served in the yacht galley at noon at April 18, 2025 03:48 PM (TbWk/)
"Hungry kids"
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A more blatant example of emotional manipulation would be difficult to find.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Hold our beer.
Posted by: Shriners and St. Jude's at April 18, 2025 03:48 PM (63Dwl)
The hackers leaked the top post count by country:
Israel - 226,745,669 posts
USA - 143,529,747 posts
Canada - 19,818,157 posts
Posted by: News You Can Use at April 18, 2025 03:48 PM (W4LGq)
Posted by: Elderly Git at April 18, 2025 03:48 PM (pt3r0)
Posted by: To be served in El Salvador
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Plus wasps, sandpaper, anal probes, bamboo up the fingernails and pee hole, hot sauce in eyeballs, etc. Nothing too bad for Ellison.
Posted by: scampydog at April 18, 2025 03:49 PM (CE7wm)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 03:49 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Miklos thinks Gitmo's to good for 'em at April 18, 2025 03:50 PM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:43 PM (YqDXo)
Kids are so fat nowadays. Especially the ones on Uncle Sam’s EBT high-fructose corn syrup a d seed oils diet.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 03:50 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 18, 2025 03:50 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Lunch is served in the yacht galley at noon at April 18, 2025 03:48 PM (TbWk/)
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But nothing motivates women quite like claiming something is "for the children."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:50 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 03:43 PM (X/sOO)
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Maybe he figures the more exposure they get, the more they will discredit themselves.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:44 PM
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Maybe he got lots of love.
Posted by: torabora at April 18, 2025 03:50 PM (IvqAt)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 03:50 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: scampydog at April 18, 2025 03:49 PM (CE7wm)
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You left out candiru.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 18, 2025 03:50 PM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: Zeera , The People Are Coming at April 18, 2025 03:50 PM (9iPYH)
In the brave new world of Democratic nomenclature, they are importing the perpetrators, not the victims.
It tracks
Posted by: Common Tater at April 18, 2025 03:51 PM (+DQk7)
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Pfft. Small potatoes. Amateur.
Posted by: Tracy Abrams, living large at April 18, 2025 03:51 PM (XeU6L)
The hackers leaked the top post count by country:
Israel - 226,745,669 posts
USA - 143,529,747 posts
Canada - 19,818,157 posts
Posted by: News You Can Use at April 18, 2025 03:48 PM (W4LGq)
Meme magic is real!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 03:51 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 18, 2025 03:52 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Especially abortion.
Posted by: Miklos sees no logic at April 18, 2025 03:52 PM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
So what are you saying? That food stamp money, free school breakfasts and lunches, and summer feeding programs should be enough? In fairness, they probably are still hungry if their parents have sold their food stamp food for drug money.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 03:52 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Hold our beer.
Posted by: Shriners and St. Jude's at April 18, 2025 03:48 PM (63Dwl)
Except they actually provide valuable, life-changing and life-saving services. Bit of a difference there I'd say.
Posted by: Shriners have those cool mini cars too at April 18, 2025 03:53 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Zeera , The People Are Coming at April 18, 2025 03:50 P
I CORRECTED her, Sir.
Posted by: Keith Ellison at April 18, 2025 03:53 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 03:52 PM (0Htd1)
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So ... the solution is to give the parents MORE money?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:53 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Kojack at April 18, 2025 03:53 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Shriners and St. Jude's at April 18, 2025 03:48 PM (63Dwl)
Wait: those are scams? I though they were legit charities. Did that change?
I knew a guy (now deceased, alas) who was always very grateful for the help the Shriners hospital gave him as a kid after he lost his leg to neurofibromatosis.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 18, 2025 03:54 PM (W5ArC)
Sean Hannity interviews Taylor Lorenz:
https://tinyurl.com/fkr53w7z
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 03:54 PM (ppwwy)
#Science
Posted by: Dr Spank at April 18, 2025 03:54 PM (zgLAj)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 18, 2025 03:52 PM (PSEDc)
That...is some nasty shit.
Posted by: I'd fill my mouth then run to the bathroom at April 18, 2025 03:54 PM (TbWk/)
In the brave new world of Democratic nomenclature, they are in truth importing the perpetrators, not the victims.
It tracks
Posted by: Common Tater at April 18, 2025 03:54 PM (Fsgnl)
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Yep, that's exactly what I'm saying. At some point the parents have to step up to take care of their own kids.
You know, just like everyone else does.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:54 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 03:43 PM (X/sOO)
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Maybe he figures the more exposure they get, the more they will discredit themselves.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:44 PM
‐*****
Maybe he got lots of love.
Posted by: torabora at April 18, 2025 03:50 PM (IvqAt)
We'll know when he has them bring along Biden to root for Democrats.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 03:54 PM (VNX3d)
Uhhhh... so apparently Covid did not spread during mealtime, only classtime.
Posted by: Romeo13
You don't need an education if your life plan is to have babies out of wedlock and live off ebt cards and rent subsidies.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 03:56 PM (0Htd1)
As a result, four of the nine East Coast offshore wind projects that received construction permits from the Biden administration have announced they will resume construction of wind turbines starting May 1, 2025.-
__.westernjournal.com
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 03:56 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 03:56 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 03:56 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 03:57 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Shriners have those cool mini cars too
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Yeah, I don't think any patient/family is charged for care. And have some of the best care available for severe burns.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 18, 2025 03:57 PM (UBKzV)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 03:58 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 03:59 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 18, 2025 03:57 PM (UBKzV)
Okay, good. So not a scam. I'd hate to think that Danny Thomas was lying to me.
Heh.
I gather the Shriners gave my friend a lot of free treatment, up to and including the amputation when it became necessary, then provided him with a prosthetic leg and rehab to teach him to walk with it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 18, 2025 03:59 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 18, 2025 04:00 PM (0fMex)
Posted by: Pug Mahon
Oh boo hoo. I had parents of German ethnicity. In other words, "sauerkraut". And not always the Bavarian kind either, which is less sour.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 04:00 PM (0Htd1)
It seems like a nice place but the electorate there seems to be a special breed of stupid and the democrats up there a special breed of contemptible.
Yes?
Posted by: ballistic at April 18, 2025 04:01 PM (+94UU)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 04:01 PM (u9Npv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 18, 2025 04:00 PM (0fMex)
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You'd think there would be more demand for the plump, well-marbled ones.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 04:01 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 18, 2025 04:01 PM (0fMex)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 04:02 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 18, 2025 04:01 PM (0fMex)
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Dr. Mark Hyman says those things are very bad to eat.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 04:02 PM (d6sK7)
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 18, 2025 04:03 PM (mZtdJ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 18, 2025 04:03 PM (0fMex)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 03:58 PM (63Dwl)
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It's amazing how much deference we give to blacks. You'd think they'd done something to earn it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 04:04 PM (YqDXo)
You know, just like everyone else does.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:54 PM (YqDXo)
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Ya know, if parents step up and take care of their own kids, they are also in a position to provide their kids with valuable life skills, like cooking one's own meals instead of relying on the kindness of government handouts.
That's crazy talk these days...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2025 04:04 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 04:04 PM (QBk8c)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 04:04 PM (qGq/A)
Indians are a close second.
There's no fixing. We'll be lucky to hobble along for another hundred years, but we can't fathom what this country will look like. Brazil would probably be the best case scenario.
Posted by: Resist_we_much at April 18, 2025 04:04 PM (cpys8)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
That aircraft rents out for charter flights. Two socialists paying a capitalist.
Posted by: Aviator at April 18, 2025 04:04 PM (HQ9Sl)
Posted by: Boss Moss
I laughed at that. I am definitely going to hell.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 04:04 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 04:00 PM (0Htd1)
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You got food?
Luxury!
Posted by: Models and Hollywood actresses at April 18, 2025 04:05 PM (d6sK7)
The hackers leaked the top post count by country:
Israel - 226,745,669 posts
USA - 143,529,747 posts
Canada - 19,818,157 posts
Posted by: News You Can Use at April 18, 2025 03:48 PM (W4LGq)
Meme magic is real!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 03:51 PM (l3YAf)
I'm also hearing that a LOT of Admin and Moderator accounts.... ended with .GOV addresses for email....
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2025 04:05 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 18, 2025 04:05 PM (e5NfL)
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Modest meals for Anglo-Irish and absentee landlords.
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 18, 2025 04:05 PM (mZtdJ)
What about sports ball and Oprah? Doesn't that count for something?
Posted by: Resist_we_much at April 18, 2025 04:06 PM (cpys8)
I may be wrong here, but doesn't Minnesota have a history of electing socialist politicians?
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 04:06 PM (0Htd1)
Even worse.
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 04:06 PM (NFX2v)
That's crazy talk these days...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2025 04:04 PM (7fElN)
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Along with inculcating a respect for education, and insisting on the kids' effort to obtain one, and staying out of trouble.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 04:06 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Resist_we_much at April 18, 2025 04:06 PM (cpys
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Nope.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 04:06 PM (YqDXo)
Fu*k you dems.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2025 04:07 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 18, 2025 04:07 PM (mZtdJ)
Posted by: nerdygirl
At least you got schnitzengruben.
Posted by: Yes, Inga, Miklos would like roll in ze hay at April 18, 2025 04:07 PM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 03:58 PM (63Dwl)
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It's amazing how much deference we give to blacks. You'd think they'd done something to earn it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 04:04 PM (YqDXo)
Juneteenth... a Day to celebrate how fucking stupid some Blacks were... that they somehow did not know that they had been freed... until of course some White Folk came along and told them so...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2025 04:07 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 03:58 PM (63Dwl)
"Juneteeth" is the most idiotic national holiday we have.
There's some argument for it being a TEXAS holiday, as that's when the Texas slaves were freed by the Union Army, but it wasn't even close to the end of slavery in the United States.
The last slaves freed in the United States were the ones held by the Tlingit tribe in Alaska, who were freed when Alaska was transferred from Russia.
The Tlingits had slaves of every description (including whites, Asians, you name it... as numerous mariners who were foolhardy enough to not land in force learned to their sorrow).
Those boys used to have huge seagoing war canoes, and regularly ran slave raids as far south as Northern California.
Basically the Barbary Pirates of the Pacific Northwest.
There's still a "shame" totem pole of William Seward that was erected because the Tlingit considered that he owed them compensation for the freed slaves.
They made, and still make, totem poles for many purposes... think of them as cool-looking billboards. One purpose was to publicly humiliate a deadbeat debtor.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 18, 2025 04:08 PM (W5ArC)
https://is.gd/0mIByb
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 04:08 PM (s8j++)
Posted by: Romeo13
Well, sure, if you pull the mask down, take a bite, then put it back in place. Duh...
Posted by: Obese, Autistic California Monster Child at April 18, 2025 04:08 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 18, 2025 03:52 PM (PSEDc)
We weren't subjected to that. My nemesis was creamed corn. Too gross to eat, too runny to sneak to the dog. Several times i went to bed early because i couldnt eatt it, ibut then faced it for breakfast, too.
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 04:08 PM (WNIIx)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 04:06 PM (0Htd1)
Too many Scandis.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 18, 2025 04:08 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Zeera
Did she have two black eyes?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 04:09 PM (/iLcI)
Posted by: Joey Bidet, Crack SBD Pilot at April 18, 2025 04:09 PM (pt3r0)
Posted by: Dave at April 18, 2025 04:09 PM (sbsMc)
Posted by: Dave at April 18, 2025 04:09 PM (sbsMc)
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They shouldn't feel guilt for being white, but rather for being Minnesotans.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 04:10 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Jesus at April 18, 2025 04:10 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 04:10 PM (ypFCm)
That's crazy talk these days...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
People like my parents, who were raised during the depression, knew how to cook. And some of us were lucky enough to be taught by them. I deliberately get a bone in ham for Easter, just so I can make either bean soup or split pea soup. I miss my mom.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 04:11 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 04:08 PM
Sister!
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 04:11 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: mr tmz at April 18, 2025 03:37 PM (rJ48h)
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In Lewiston, ME there were about 13,000 Somali immigrants in 2013. Then the state got a little more circumspect with their benefit handouts and *POOF*...over 7,000 or those 13,000 went elsewhere....presumably Minnesota.
Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 04:11 PM (dIske)
Oh, and somehow this never seems to get mentioned in the usual "Whitey Sucks" school curricula.
Posted by: Jesus at April 18, 2025 04:11 PM (W5ArC)
https://is.gd/0mIByb
Posted by: Archimedes
My favorite brand of Chinese auto parts was White Elephant (not a joke).
Posted by: Miklos thinks they didn't sell well at April 18, 2025 04:12 PM (UOzvC)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 04:00 PM (0Htd1)
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You got food?
Luxury!
Posted by: Models and Hollywood actresses
If I'm to be hones, it always comes with bratwurst, which makes the sauerkraut edible.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 04:13 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 04:08 PM
Sister!
Posted by: toby928
Did your mothers also have a thing about wire hangers?
Posted by: Mommy Dearest at April 18, 2025 04:13 PM (UOzvC)
https://is.gd/0mIByb
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 04:08 PM (s8j++)
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LOL, that chick has to be the owners girlfriend.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 04:14 PM (d6sK7)
Somalis have to be among the worst immigrants ever admitted to the US. Is repatriation possible?
Posted by: mr tmz
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tbf to the Somalis, an AWFL named Aimee Bock was the mastermind. But she did know where to find her servant-minds.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 04:16 PM (M4PBL)
Fu*k you dems.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2025 04:07 PM (W/lyH)
Whats wrong with the washington winery lobby? They should never let this happen ! Unless wine is exempted...
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 04:16 PM (8cOqY)
Colorado may require labels on pumps warning drivers that gasoline causes climate change
_JustTheNews
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 04:17 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Excuse to link the 2007 Ace classic on scandis, ie, icebacks and snow-wops per his pappy.
https://tinyurl.com/mrpdyfke
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 18, 2025 04:17 PM (UBKzV)
Posted by: Mommy Dearest at April 18, 2025 04:13 PM (UOzvC)
We werent fancy enough to have any other kind.
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 04:18 PM (8cOqY)
Posted by: Yes, Inga, Miklos would like roll in ze hay
Now you did it. You got me thinking about Wienerschnitzel. Here's what I know about German cuisine, anythig with schnitzel in the name is good.
And don't even get me started on strudel.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 04:18 PM (0Htd1)
Somalis are the worst humans I have ever worked with.
Haitians are a close second.
Fat screeching black ghetto kunts are third.
Posted by: Hmmmm at April 18, 2025 04:19 PM (pt3r0)
Colorado may require labels on pumps warning drivers that gasoline causes climate change
_JustTheNews
Posted by: Braenyard
More public funding being funneled to Big Sticker.
Posted by: mikeski is not doing phrasing at April 18, 2025 04:20 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 04:21 PM (ypFCm)
Haitians are a close second.
Fat screeching black ghetto kunts are third.
Posted by: Hmmmm at April 18, 2025 04:19 PM (pt3r0)
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I'm detecting a pattern ...
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 04:22 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 04:23 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip
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It is a terrible thing put on younger generations not growing up free.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 04:23 PM (4fQmp)
Why did a Republican donor from the oil business lend his jet to two socialists trying to kill his entire way of life?
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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He's probably charging them premium prices and knows they'll never succeed with their idiot green agenda.
Also, capitalists will sell you the rope to hang them with.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 04:23 PM (M4PBL)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 04:24 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 04:08 PM (WNIIx)
Same here. I would try to eat it and puke and then get in trouble because they said I was puking on purpose. I can't even look at that shit today. Shredded canned green beans either. I just got naseous writing this
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 18, 2025 04:24 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 18, 2025 04:25 PM (cSvoa)
How can this be?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 04:25 PM (DKKgv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 04:26 PM (4fQmp)
https://tinyurl.com/4xmm72wx
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 04:23 PM (viF8m)
Trannies are violent !
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 18, 2025 04:26 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Hmmmm at April 18, 2025 04:27 PM (pt3r0)
Posted by: Mommy Dearest at April 18, 2025 04:13 PM (UOzvC)
Three-foot wooden rods from a broken clothes drying rack.
Posted by: She was a peach at April 18, 2025 04:27 PM (TbWk/)
I loved all meats except liver.
Cheeses except Limburger.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 04:27 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Lena Dunham, Rejected Astronautette at April 18, 2025 04:29 PM (l3YAf)
Now you know why “Democracy” is never mentioned once in any of the founding documents.
It always and ever leads to agitation and discontent. Mobocracy. Attitude toward property communistic. Inevitably followed by a dictatorship.
Democrats know this. But they don’t care, just so long as they can get their beak wet.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 18, 2025 04:29 PM (v3I63)
Posted by: Mommy Dearest
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Mom? Whatever was in her hand or closest to grab.
code word: run for your life
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 04:30 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Hmmmm at April 18, 2025 04:27 PM (pt3r0)
👀
Posted by: Mayor Pete, trying to figure out which garnish goes with a Molotov cocktail at April 18, 2025 04:30 PM (l3YAf)
https://tinyurl.com/4xmm72wx
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 04:23 PM (viF8m)
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Brain-damaged mutant freaks have opinions too, h8tr
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 04:30 PM (Zi/1w)
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 04:08 PM (WNIIx)
Same here. I would try to eat it and puke and then get in trouble because they said I was puking on purpose. I can't even look at that shit today. Shredded canned green beans either. I just got naseous writing this
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 18, 2025 04:24 PM (NtVYv)
On the food thing - what was the deal with giving a six year old kid twice a reasonable adult portion of nasty shit, demanding rather angrily they finish every last bit of it, then losing their shit when you didn't because your stomach was painfully over its normal capacity, plus it was nasty shit? I wonder if this was some sort of holdover from the Depression maybe?
Posted by: Some people be weird at April 18, 2025 04:31 PM (TbWk/)
insert Homer noise
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 04:33 PM (viF8m)
Still trying to catch up with Meloni's visit yesterday and now
she's back in Italy having already welcomed Vice President Vance.
And Vance has already attended ceremonies at the Vatican but he's not talking to the Pope.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 04:33 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 04:30 PM (Zi/1w)
And need to be loved, just like everybody else does.
Posted by: Brain-damaged mutant freak, non-arsonist version at April 18, 2025 04:33 PM (TbWk/)
https://tinyurl.com/4xmm72wx
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 04:23 PM (viF8m)
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I read the Special Agent's probable cause affidavit. Pretty interesting how they tracked this "guy."
I drive by that Tesla dealership often. Kind of disconcerting when things like this happen so close to home. I hope (s)he enjoys prison.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 18, 2025 04:34 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 18, 2025 04:25 PM
No, that was a whole other bullshit laden mess.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 04:34 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Some people be weird at April 18, 2025 04:31 PM (TbWk/)
You vill eat ze lima bean.
Posted by: Klaus Schwab at April 18, 2025 04:34 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 18, 2025 04:34 PM (mi7Hd)
Posted by: The cockroaches of the plant world at April 18, 2025 04:35 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 04:35 PM (4fQmp)
Yeah, distancing myself to the Cayman Islands, bitchez!
Posted by: Keith Ellison at April 18, 2025 04:35 PM (tPOKY)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 04:36 PM (uUxLK)
Posted by: Garmonbozia at April 18, 2025 04:37 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 04:37 PM (VofaG)
Covid and global warming have the same cause: Democrats.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 18, 2025 04:37 PM (28pvP)
Posted by: mr tmz at April 18, 2025 03:37 PM (rJ48h)
Entered under false pretences; orcs posing as humans.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 04:37 PM (8zz6B)
I loved all meats except liver.
Cheeses except Limburger.
Posted by: Braenyard
*passes the collard greens*
Posted by: Miklos will have some extra okra at April 18, 2025 04:38 PM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 18, 2025 04:39 PM (17s+e)
182 Somalis have to be among the worst immigrants ever admitted to the US. Is repatriation possible?
Posted by: mr tmz at April 18, 2025 03:37 PM (rJ48h)
Entered under false pretences; orcs posing as humans.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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It was Billie Bob Clinton what did it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 04:40 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Mommy Dearest
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Mom? Whatever was in her hand or closest to grab.
code word: run for your life
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 04:30 PM (4fQmp)
When I'd get my ass whupped, Dad would make me go to the laundry room and bring him the paddle. I swear, that was worse than the beating.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 18, 2025 04:41 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: mr tmz at April 18, 2025 03:37 PM
Hands down. For a recent example, the Hmong people who came here are great for the most part. Hard working, good neighbors. Same with others. Somali's are for the most part, scum. Entitled corrupt and the most rude people I've ever met. They're also brick stupid.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 04:42 PM (ewjUl)
So probably a lot of these grifters considered themselves as perfectly wonderful recipients for charity money that should be donated to them, while food for poor kids was just not as high a priority.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at April 18, 2025 04:42 PM (p2GXS)
Posted by: The cockroaches of the plant
Ha! All the other foods listed above can be made edible, but limas stubbornly refuse.
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 04:42 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
At least the paddle had that Spring Fresh smell
Posted by: Miklos on the Bright Side at April 18, 2025 04:43 PM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 04:43 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: Auspex
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Lots of butter. And crumbled bacon.
But I guess that works with about anything.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 18, 2025 04:44 PM (UBKzV)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 04:44 PM (yp8Vj)
I loved all veggies except beets, okra, and eggplant.
I loved all meats except liver.
Cheeses except Limburger.
Posted by: Braenyard
*passes the collard greens*
Posted by: Miklos will have some extra okra at April 18, 2025 04:38 PM (UOzvC)
Hi there!
Posted by: Brussels Sprouts at April 18, 2025 04:45 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 04:45 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 04:45 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Braenyard
Bourbon
Posted by: Miklos is a mite appeticious at April 18, 2025 04:46 PM (UOzvC)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 18, 2025 04:41 PM (y9nCu)
My grandfather would hand me a knife. “Go cut me a switch.”
I was very well-behaved.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 04:46 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: the Right Rev. Miklos at April 18, 2025 04:47 PM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Moonbeam at April 18, 2025 04:48 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: the Right Rev. Miklos at April 18, 2025 04:48 PM (UOzvC)
The US gov't is part of the largest and most successful criminal organization of all time.
Posted by: t-bird at April 18, 2025 04:48 PM (ndyr0)
Posted by: Brussels Sprouts at April 18, 2025 04:45 PM (y9nCu)
Brussels Sprouts (or Tiny Freedom Cabbages, as I insist on calling them) can be delicious. Fried with bacon and a balsamic drizzle? Amazing.
My mom would always make them steamed, no butter, just a little salt. Not good.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 04:48 PM (l3YAf)
Entitled corrupt and the most rude people I've ever met. They're also brick stupid.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 04:42 PM (ewjUl)
And arrogant as hell. They think that the world revolves around Somalia.
In Bowden's book Blackhawk Down, he notes that years after the battle, the Somalis were all convinced that the world was glued to their TVs to get the latest updates on the war.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 18, 2025 04:51 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 04:51 PM (4fQmp)
'At some point the parents have to step up to take care of their own kids.
You know, just like everyone else does.'
Or not have kids if they can't afford them. Maybe if sterilization were required for welfare benefits.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 04:52 PM (3wi/L)
'There's no fixing. We'll be lucky to hobble along for another hundred years'
You're going to fit in well here.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 04:55 PM (3wi/L)
A fair amount of sugar is added to the pulverized beans, mind you. Possibly some other dessert additives.
I gave such a filled pastry to my mom, who hates lima beans, and she ate the whole thing happily. And she had absolutely no idea until I told her.
So there is a way for kids who hate lima beans to eat nutritious lima beans, but we just don't give it to them.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at April 18, 2025 05:00 PM (p2GXS)
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 05:01 PM (NFX2v)
'The Chinese are getting better at finding new ways to entice American customers for auto parts.
LOL, that chick has to be the owners girlfriend.'
Chinese music is so beautiful.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 05:01 PM (3wi/L)
Somali Bantu refugee-led halal goat farm takes root north of Pittsburgh, 90.5 WESA, August 2023
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 05:03 PM (NFX2v)
'Shredded canned green beans either. '
Whatever you do, don't think about eating shredded green beans and cream-style corn straight from the blender.
You won't like imagining the taste.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 05:05 PM (3wi/L)
Add a half-cup of sugar, plus 1/4 tsp of salt, and a tsp of vanilla flavoring. Put the pan back on the stove, on medium high, for 2 or 3 minutes, while stirring with a wooden spoon. Filling should thicken. Turn the heat off and let it cool.
You can use this as a filling or spread for all kinds of dessert things.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at April 18, 2025 05:09 PM (p2GXS)
The Japanese name is "shiro-an," white bean paste, as opposed to red bean paste as a filling.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at April 18, 2025 05:12 PM (p2GXS)
Japanese shiro-an has 2 or 3 parts sugar to 3 parts beans, as opposed to the Korean 1 part sugar to 2 parts beans.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at April 18, 2025 05:16 PM (p2GXS)
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (p2GXS)
Posted by: hurricane567 at April 18, 2025 06:07 PM (AHzVT)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 18, 2025 06:51 PM (wGqjj)
Posted by: Cordella at April 18, 2025 07:39 PM (vJYB+)
The Self-Declared "Party of Science:" We Don't Want to Know Why Autism Rates Have Increased 1300% Over the Past 50 Years, Bigots
RFKJr. talked about the skyrocketing rates of autism in children -- now 1 in 31 kids are autistic.
The numbers are worse for boys: 1 in 20 boys are autistic. In California, that number is 1 in 12.5, or about 8%. RFKJr. wants to find out why 5% of our boys are now autistic (or 8% in California):MAHA: Democrats are considering legal action to stop RFK Jr from finding the cause of autism spectrum disorder? First they side with MS-13 terrorists and now this? pic.twitter.com/PimjxJ842f
— @amuse (@amuse) April 17, 2025
I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) April 17, 2025
It’s disgusting and dangerous.
If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign.
Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness.
To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.
The most annoying thing about mainstream media treatment of #autism is the ignorance re how rates just of severe autism have surged over time. If you think that rates of autism with intellectual disability rose from .01% to 1.3% — a 130-fold increase — over just 50 years due to… pic.twitter.com/G6NPoNCU4h
— Jill Escher 🎗️ (@JillEscher) April 17, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: RUReadingthis at April 18, 2025 02:44 PM (aQ25I)
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Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 18, 2025 02:44 PM (7w+5t)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 18, 2025 02:45 PM (7w+5t)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 02:45 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 18, 2025 02:46 PM (0fMex)
I get spergy if I spend to much time online, but taking a break helps.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 02:47 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: huerfano at April 18, 2025 02:47 PM (n2swS)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 02:47 PM (Q4IgG)
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Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 02:48 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 02:49 PM (ypFCm)
To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.
-Liz Warren
Gee willikers, thanks Liz!
Posted by: Autictic kid Elon and the 4Chan Community at April 18, 2025 02:49 PM (UOzvC)
maybe a little but the symptoms present pretty early, before kids are on their stupid cellphones
Posted by: Ace, King Astronaut of the Fuck Rocket at April 18, 2025 02:49 PM (KRtlO)
https://tinyurl.com/58aspa73
One of the best descriptions of Good Friday I've seen in a long time.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 02:49 PM (VNX3d)
Spiking temperatures (that may or may not even be happening): OMG this is a global crisis, we're all going to die
Spiking rates of transgender children: *crickets*
Spiking autism rates: *crickets*
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 18, 2025 02:50 PM (B9Prs)
Posted by: Charlie at April 18, 2025 02:50 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 02:50 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 18, 2025 02:50 PM (bNf8H)
Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness.
To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.
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Oh ffs. "Neurodivergence" as it's now called is not a blessing.
And if she's "in the fight all the way," then why doesn't she want more light on the subject?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 02:50 PM (M4PBL)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 02:51 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: huerfano at April 18, 2025 02:51 PM (n2swS)
It's just the next pharma grift.
I was one of the kids in the 90s diagnosed as ADHD and put on Ritalin. I haven't taken it since I was 12.
There was INSANE over-diagnosis of ADD and ADHD in the 90s because there was money to be made.
NOBODY talks about ADD or ADHD anymore, because people caught on to the grift.
So now they're 'autistic'.
Now how many government programs, 'special' teachers, programs, and whatnot try to charge parents to 'help' their autistic kid.
Follow the money.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at April 18, 2025 02:51 PM (AjL/0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 02:48 PM (8zz6B)
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This.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 02:51 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 18, 2025 02:52 PM (B9Prs)
She can take her fake outrage and stick it in her peace pipe and smoke it.
I'm so tired of these screeching retards.
Posted by: ballistic at April 18, 2025 02:52 PM (+94UU)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 02:52 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: huerfano at April 18, 2025 02:52 PM (n2swS)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 18, 2025 02:52 PM (0fMex)
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Hi there, you Vegan idiots in California. Guess what? Humans are omnivores. And, their individual development (including the brain) requires that evolutionary dietary staple called....meat.
Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 02:52 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 02:52 PM (77rzZ)
But since they made it a spectrum, it's almost as overdiagnosed as ADHD.
Your 4 year old won't sit still for 8 hours at Pre-K? On the spectrum. Here's your special multicolored decal to put on the back of your Suburban. Here's a facebook group you can join to feel special. Ask your doctor about adderall.
Posted by: brak at April 18, 2025 02:52 PM (jGJov)
An autism diagnosis trigger a lifetime of treatment. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Per kid. The medical industrial complex makes billions a year from it. The medical industrial complex also owns the Dems. See Obamacare if you don’t believe me.
So of course they don’t want RFK jr to get in the way of the money flow.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 02:53 PM (DKKgv)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 02:53 PM (viF8m)
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This is the operative phrase.
In Victorian times, for women it was "hysteria." When is that diagnosed now?
I dunno. Maybe it should be diagnosed sometimes now.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 02:53 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: The Cure at April 18, 2025 02:53 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 02:47 PM (Q4IgG)
Psychiatry is a growth industry. Fifty years ago, if your kid was shy, you just pushed him to get out of his shell. If he was obsessed with trains, you tried to get him into sports.
Now you take him to the shrink who says “Oh, your five year old isn’t *shy* and nerdy, he has generalized anxiety disorder and autism and ADHD.” And then he goes on pills and therapy for life and becomes one of these bitch-tit whiny soybois who breaks down crying on social media because OrangeManBad is going to take away his jizz-encrusted waifu body pillow and make him get a real job.
The goal, like most things in America, is to create a deracinated group of helpless, drug-addicted adult children whose only abilities are consumption and demanding more gay communism.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 02:54 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 18, 2025 02:54 PM (0fMex)
yeah this -- and much more succinct than my comment
Posted by: brak at April 18, 2025 02:54 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 02:49 PM (VNX3d)
Most people agree that Our savior was crucified on Friday.
The bible says he was in the heart of the earth for 3 days and nights. Not that it matters but that would put the resurrection at Monday
Posted by: MAC V SOG at April 18, 2025 02:54 PM (P4Pk9)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 02:50 PM
I am unequipped.
Posted by: huerfano
There's some Frenchie guy who hangs out here who deals in dildos, I think.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 02:54 PM (77rzZ)
And that the rising rates of autism has nothing to do with the increase of completely disabled children who are unable to care for themselves, or ever be able to communicate.
and that it is a completely insolvable mystery that can never be untangled.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 02:54 PM (D7oie)
I think autism mostly has to do with too much screen time. Too little interaction with the real world, with real humans.
maybe a little but the symptoms present pretty early, before kids are on their stupid cellphones
Posted by: Ace, King Astronaut of the Fuck Rocket
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Heh, I was shocked by something I saw once in a restaurant in Texas.
Table 1 - Big noisy extended family, all kids ~ 5-6 years old playing video games.
Table 2 - Family with a baby about two years old on some sort of baby i-pad.
Table 3 - Young couple with infant about 5 months old in a high chair with baby i-pad in front of it while parents didn't interact with infant one bit. And their conversation was nothing but "Pass the salt" kind of stuff, so it's not like they couldn't have taken a moment to talk to the infant.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 02:54 PM (M4PBL)
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Hi there, you Vegan idiots in California. Guess what? Humans are omnivores. And, their individual development (including the brain) requires that evolutionary dietary staple called....meat.
Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 02:52 PM (dIske)
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And fat. Where do those myelin sheaths come from, anyway?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 02:54 PM (YqDXo)
My guess is it's mostly the deep-blue liberal shithole cities and the very wealthiest areas of the country.
Posted by: ballistic at April 18, 2025 02:55 PM (+94UU)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 18, 2025 02:55 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: steevy at April 18, 2025 02:55 PM (KQk9m)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 02:47 PM (Q4IgG)
There is an increase in completely and mostly disabled children as well.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 02:55 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 18, 2025 02:55 PM (0fMex)
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Next you'll be telling me that they've gone all in on child sexualization, mutilation, and rape.
Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 02:55 PM (WoF+z)
I dunno. Maybe it should be diagnosed sometimes now.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 02:53 PM (YqDXo)
Our modern hysterics just need a good dicking, same as in Victorian times.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 02:55 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 02:56 PM (63Dwl)
Mebbe a solution is to divorce vaccine makers from pharmaceutical companies and actually do real publicly funded blind tests rather than relying on dubious industry tests. Far too easy to skew data and analysis to hide concerning information. I learned stats back in the day using medical examples (my interests were not straight up OLS friendly--e.g. binary, time series, abnormal distributions of errors, etc) and for that reason, can read most medicial research with help of the internet to interpret specialist language.
A lot of medical research doesn't reflect good practices in transparent and replicable research.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 02:56 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Orson
Especially the brain. I've long thought that one of their goal in pushing the vegan stuff on us is to make us dumber by denying us meat.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 02:56 PM (77rzZ)
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Same reason there’s no common cold vaccine. Vaccine is $50 in revenue per person. But a lifetime of buying Sudafed and NyQuill is thousands in revenue per person.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 02:56 PM (DKKgv)
Posted by: steevy at April 18, 2025 02:56 PM (KQk9m)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 18, 2025 02:56 PM (wzAuc)
In other words, the autism "epidemic" is more of a mass hysteria, not a physical actual epidemic.
The reason for the increase in diagnoses?
-- Everybody want to be a victim, wants to be "special," and this is an easy way to achieve that status.
-- Parents want special treatment for their kids in school -- if you get an autism diagnosis, your kid gets an "IEP" -- Independent Education Program, which allows the all sorts of extra privileges and advantages in school.
-- Mental illness is trendy and cool now among the TikTok generation, and the "trending" metal illnesses you can claim to have are Autism, DID (multiple personality disorder), gender dysphoria, and CPTSD (basically, trauma from longterm child abuse).
Posted by: zombie at April 18, 2025 02:57 PM (pMi6S)
Also MSM loving Big Pharma and drugging us all into submission.
Posted by: Ripley at April 18, 2025 02:57 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 02:50 PM
I am unequipped.
Posted by: huerfano
There's some Frenchie guy who hangs out here who deals in dildos, I think.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 02:54 PM (77rzZ)
I wouldn't, even using a German potato masher grenade on a 20 foot pole.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 02:57 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: huerfano
Um, you first.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 02:50 PM (77rzZ)
Perhaps a nice El Salvadoran guest of our country can perform this duty.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 02:57 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Ace, King Astronaut of the Fuck Rocket
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Identifying as Katy Perry today. Bold choice.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 02:57 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: t-bird at April 18, 2025 02:57 PM (6bxmr)
It was staggering how many young boys were on some form of ADD meds.
These were 8-12 year old boys.
Some of this is just bad parenting.
Posted by: I KNOW MY PIGS at April 18, 2025 02:58 PM (OxX9V)
To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.
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Fight? Fight....what? To keep autism growing among our youth?
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 18, 2025 02:58 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2025 02:58 PM (mTR3D)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 02:58 PM (u9Npv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 18, 2025 02:58 PM (0fMex)
Posted by: Ace, King Astronaut of the Fuck Rocket at April 18, 2025 02:49 PM (KRtlO)
TV. Plus I see infants using tablets these days.
But I’m not talking about the full-on autistics who are barely verbal. I’m talking about the “autistics” who are basically just a little different.
Like, I know people in their late 30s who never would have been considered autistic at any point in history, who are now self-diagnosed as autistic because they like to do jigsaw puzzles and they have some needy interests. That’s all.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 02:59 PM (l3YAf)
Pfizer. In business 176 years. Zero cures.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 02:59 PM (/iLcI)
That spectrum gets wider and wider as time goes on. Eventually everyone will be on the spectrum.
It’s a neat trick the medical industrial complex came up with.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 02:59 PM (DKKgv)
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 02:56 PM (ctrM5)
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[Insert here my evergreen rant re the quality of biomedical research]
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 02:59 PM (YqDXo)
Fuck you Fauxcahantas. Here's a nice warm blanket.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 18, 2025 03:00 PM (wzAuc)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX)
These were 8-12 year old boys.
Some of this is just bad parenting.
Posted by: I KNOW MY PIGS at April 18, 2025 02:58 PM (OxX9V)
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And how many were referred for such treatment by female teachers, because, as AOP sagely pointed out, they didn't behave like meek little girls?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:01 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 03:01 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 03:01 PM (u9Npv)
Used to be that to be diagnosed with true autism, you banged your head against the wall and yelled repetitive nonsense sounds and cringed in the corner or hid in a closet, and were uneducatable. etc. etc.
Now, if you merely fidget a little bit, or feel uncomfortable at a party, or can't concentrate during a boring class lesson, the BOOM you are on the "autism spectrum" and get a diagnosis.
My opinion: 90% of people currently diagnosed with autism don't really have autism, but are on 'the spectrum," which is a fabrication.
Posted by: zombie at April 18, 2025 03:02 PM (pMi6S)
Increases in vaccinations;
Drug use by expectant mothers;
Unhealthy foods and lifestyles;
Bad parenting;
And
Big Pharma wanting $$$$
Posted by: Czech Chick at April 18, 2025 03:02 PM (vK/Ja)
It’s all bullshit.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 03:02 PM (DKKgv)
Posted by: zombie at April 18, 2025 03:02 PM (pMi6S)
So... I think there's a connection between ADHD (if such a "condition" exists) and autism. One leading to the other, perhaps as a result of the medications given to kids with ADHD. Just my opinion.
Lastly it seems to me that the schools have a lot of influence on getting unsuspecting parents, a lot of whom are single mothers to medicate their boys so they are less.... "boy like" in the classroom.
I may also be full of shit, but this is how I see it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 03:02 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: zombie at April 18, 2025 02:57 PM (pMi6S)
Don’t forget ADHD.
As in “Ohmygawd, I’m supposed to be doing my schoolwork, but instead I spent a couple of hours making a TikTok video—getting my hair, makeup, lighting, and expressions right—talking about how hard it is to do homework when I have ADHD!”
The problem is, some of these chicks are hawr, but I don’t want to catch their ADHD through my weiner.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 03:02 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 02:48 PM (8zz6B)
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I worked in the special ed department of a school district in the mid-aughts, when the new criteria for autism were introduced. The lead psychologist there said that, based on the new criteria, pretty much everyone is on the spectrum.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 18, 2025 03:03 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:03 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 03:02 PM (Q4IgG)
I agree.. Not that you are full of shit but the other
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 03:03 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Ripley
Trump: taking a crap every day is great for the body.
Constipated Democrats: Ughhhhhh
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 03:03 PM (/iLcI)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 18, 2025 03:04 PM (wzAuc)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffe
I say, old chap, that is my, as you colonials would say, "racket."
-- Geoffrey Amherst
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 03:04 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 02:56 PM (77rzZ)
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Here's something to ponder. One could argue the prevalence of autism escalated with the application or fluoride being put in drinking water. Secondly, where does a vast majority of this drinking water fluoride originate? Why, our lovely trading partners who want to bury us....China. Just saying, because they had no problem putting a little lead in dog food.
Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 03:04 PM (dIske)
RFK was on Hannity last night to explain his remarks. What he's targeting aren't people diagnosed as mildly autistic, looks around the thread, but instead the people who are so severely autistic they require full-time care and probably will for their entire lives. Those numbers are a subset of the overall numbers but they still are significant and something is causing them to increase.
There is no logical reason for not wanting to know if there is something we are giving kids or pregnant mothers or whatever that is causing a big increase in the number of cases.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 03:04 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: mr tmz at April 18, 2025 03:04 PM (rJ48h)
Increases in vaccinations;
Drug use by expectant mothers;
Unhealthy foods and lifestyles;
Bad parenting;
And
Big Pharma wanting $$$$
Posted by: Czech Chick at April 18, 2025 03:02 PM (vK/Ja)
Don't forget Big Pharma making crap for Big Crap Food to increase drug needs.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 03:05 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Bingo. Well put.
Posted by: zombie at April 18, 2025 03:05 PM (pMi6S)
1. Vaccines don't cause vampirism
2. Well maybe some vampirism but it insignificant
3. Sure it causes vampirism but that's a good thing
4. Republicans supported vampirism first
5. Shut up, racist.
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 03:05 PM (jc0TO)
It’s all bullshit.
I wouldn't say it's total BS, bc there are a number of kids in almost every school now with genuine peanut allergies. And I mean "need an epipen stat if they touch a peanut." I'm not people who say they are gluten intolerant because it's trendy.
The question is why? What's changed in our diets, our environments, our medicine?
Posted by: brak at April 18, 2025 03:05 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: zombie at April 18, 2025 02:57 PM (pMi6S)
Don’t forget ADHD.
As in “Ohmygawd, I’m supposed to be doing my schoolwork, but instead I spent a couple of hours making a TikTok video—getting my hair, makeup, lighting, and expressions right—talking about how hard it is to do homework when I have ADHD!”
The problem is, some of these chicks are hawr, but I don’t want to catch their ADHD through my weiner.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 03:02 PM (l3YAf)
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Tourette's, too. That one was popular for a while.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 18, 2025 03:05 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 03:06 PM (DKKgv)
1970: kicked out of house by 9:00 am with instructions to be back by the time the streetlights came on.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 03:06 PM (/iLcI)
It's just the next pharma grift.
I was one of the kids in the 90s diagnosed as ADHD and put on Ritalin. I haven't taken it since I was 12.
There was INSANE over-diagnosis of ADD and ADHD in the 90s because there was money to be made.
NOBODY talks about ADD or ADHD anymore, because people caught on to the grift.
So now they're 'autistic'.
Now how many government programs, 'special' teachers, programs, and whatnot try to charge parents to 'help' their autistic kid.
Follow the money.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at April 18, 2025 02:51 PM (AjL/0)
It may not be that unpopular, Dude. The NYT Magazine came out with a big article this week saying that ADHD may have been misdiagnosed all these years after all. There is ZERO chance of that article coming out now, if RFKJ had not been made HHS Secretary. Pharma is trying to get ahead of RFJK by getting that story out now. There won't be able to get all of them out in front.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 18, 2025 03:06 PM (7w+5t)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 03:06 PM (u9Npv)
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not at April 18, 2025 03:06 PM (r3F/z)
A child born today in the United States will typically receive 30 vaccine doses by age 5, assuming they follow the CDC’s recommended schedule with no missed doses.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 18, 2025 03:06 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: zombie at April 18, 2025 03:06 PM (pMi6S)
There are also ordinary, normal, right-leaning Americans, with actually austic kids, who might hear the "we need to stop autism" talk and think "that could have been worded better."
It's like if you have a kid with down syndrome, would you approve of a "stop downs" campaign? Having that in your family almost immediately changes your approach toward it.
Then again, if you had a kid with polio, wouldn't you be in favor of "eliminate polio" campaigns? I would.
All that to say, I'm 100% on the "stop autism" train, but I can see why parents with autistic kids, or adults with autism might be extra sensitive to it all.
Posted by: Shenanigans at April 18, 2025 03:07 PM (LdsRU)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 18, 2025 03:07 PM (HlyYF)
Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 03:02 PM (Q4IgG)
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The mom/school complex has a lot to answer for.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 18, 2025 03:08 PM (wzAuc)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2025 03:08 PM (W/lyH)
Now the Democrats are resurrecting the monstritti, the mutilated children to provide beggars for the Italian Renaissance
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at April 18, 2025 03:08 PM (8A9Ql)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Diagnosis of exclusion.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 18, 2025 03:08 PM (UBKzV)
We need a totally objective measure of what constitutes autism, not a squishy "I know it when I see it" thing, and then establish whether or not the autism rate is actually increasing.
Notice how fibromyalgia has faded from public consciousness. Twenty years ago it was all the rage, along with chronic fatigue syndrome. Two maladies that were vague, impossible to quantify, had no objective criteria for diagnosis, yet magically, mystically, have dwindled into insignificance.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:08 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 03:04 PM (viF8m)
Frankly, this is one of the reasons why we have government in the first place. They should be the first ones trying to answer questions like this. It's not like the private sector is going to spend time on this.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 18, 2025 03:08 PM (7w+5t)
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not at April 18, 2025 03:08 PM (r3F/z)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 03:09 PM (u9Npv)
A child born today in the United States will typically receive 30 vaccine doses by age 5, assuming they follow the CDC’s recommended schedule with no missed doses.
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Also according to Grok:
A child born 50 years ago typically received 8 vaccine doses by age 5.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 18, 2025 03:09 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: brak at April 18, 2025 03:09 PM (jGJov)
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) April 17, 2025
Well, that’s a damn lie.
Posted by: Eromero at April 18, 2025 03:09 PM (FuCE/)
I had a coworker die of chromic fatigue syndrome and diabetes, but mostly, that diabetes thing.
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 03:10 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: zombie at April 18, 2025 03:02 PM (pMi6S)
There are differing levels of arthritis too, and possibly multiple causes. However, it would be nice to be sure, and it would nice to somehow put all the records together to see if something can be found to prevent even the worse cases.
The problem is that the incidence of near total disability is going up too, and that is not the sort of thing we can blame on Bruno Bettelheim/s "refrigerator mother" or any of the other previous attempts to explain the genesis of autism.
Honestly there has been extensive studies on this, and a number of studies are showing correlations, and when they come out, the controlling powers of public health pretty much declare that no solution can be found with bad studies. Doing these sorts of studies on children is one way to get your license pulled for malpractice, it seems.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 03:10 PM (D7oie)
What would really help these kids would be to have most of their teachers trying to convince them they are also likely "born in the wrong body", and that they are probably gay or trans "candidates". And here is how you have anal sex, which is awesome.
/s
Posted by: illiniwek at April 18, 2025 03:10 PM (Cus5s)
It's the CORPORATIONS!!!!!
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not at April 18, 2025 03:11 PM (r3F/z)
Posted by: Lizzie Warren at April 18, 2025 03:11 PM (u9Npv)
The also tried to pin ADHD on Son 2 and recommended Ritalin. Again we refused. He was just a very active boy with well-above average intelligence, so school simply bored him to death.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 18, 2025 03:11 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:08 PM
I don't know about the present but back in the day 20 or so years ago if you were *diagnosed* with fibromyalgia in the military that guaranteed you a minimum of a 50% disability payment with the VA when you got out.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 18, 2025 03:11 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
_________________________
Excellent point. When the ultimate goal of an entire agenda is to be perceived as a victim, it's easier to create that status rather than legitimately experiencing it.
Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 03:12 PM (dIske)
But most “autistics” are just ill-mannered little shits.
That’s another thing: bring back spanking.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 03:12 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: brak
Yeah, but who does that?
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 03:12 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 03:12 PM (yp8Vj)
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Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 03:04 PM (viF8m)
Yes, I think this is what that chart means by "Autism with Intellectual Disability". An increase in these cases seems to be a real thing and is not worth ignoring.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 18, 2025 03:13 PM (lg881)
They all have some personal story about how they have an autistic child who works and pays taxes, therefore there are 0 autistic children who are incapable odd caring for themselves.
There argument is equal to saying "because i know someone who survived prostate cancer, no one has ever died of cancer."
It's done twisted and amazingly absurd logic even from these idiots.
As for the rates increase itself, it probably has much more to do with ther redefining of autism. It use to be people with severe asperger's or down's, now it's any kid who likes to twirl his pencil in class, or any adult who can memorize the plots to Seinfeld episodes. Broadening the definition is just a way for more people to scam money, and has nothing to do with the wellbeing of people with autism (and probably hurts those with actual deficiencies as now funds are diverted to grifters)
Posted by: Rbastid at April 18, 2025 03:13 PM (EqkVi)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 03:13 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 03:12 PM (l3YAf)
I will start with Karen Gillan. We have to send a message!!
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 03:13 PM (u9Npv)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 18, 2025 03:13 PM (yCLJY)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 03:04 PM (viF8m)
________________
Before looking for an explanation for a phenomenon, make sure the phenomenon actually exists.
This we have not done as yet.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:13 PM (YqDXo)
Just sayin..could happen
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not at April 18, 2025 03:14 PM (r3F/z)
That’s another thing: bring back spanking.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 03:12 PM (l3YAf)
beating them will make them behave.
WHIPS AND CHAINS ARE IN BEDLAM FOR A REASON, THEY ARE NOT MAD, THEY ARE ILL MANNERED.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 03:14 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 03:14 PM (63Dwl)
They don't even want to go there, so they do what child-minded Democrats always do: They just deny there's any problem at all that.
Could be the vaccine schedule, could be the massive increase in use of "birth control" pills, could even be related to women's hygiene products which apparently have heavy metals in them (Brett Cooper had a video on this months ago). Who knows.
Brett Cooper (YouTube): https://bit.ly/3Gscmia
But yeah, one would think people would want to investigate. But it's probably just like everything else that people don't want to solve: corruption. Someone is making a lot of money off of autism, just like there is a ton of money in the "gender-affirming care" industry, just like there was a ton of money in diagnosing every illness as "COVID", just like there was a ton of money in the COVID "vaccines", and on and on and on.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 18, 2025 03:15 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 03:12 PM (yp8Vj)
Seems like it would be easy, no?. Unless certain people didn't want you to do it. BTW Happy Easter.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 03:15 PM (u9Npv)
Drug usage by parents with unknown effects? Stronger pot, loads of over-the-counter "therapeutics," over or under utilization of vitamins, minerals in childbearing years, yada, yada. NASAID usage by adults. Do they affect pregnancy? Hair dye and other treatments.
Prescription drugs for parents, perhaps for depression, autoimmune diseases. Surely there are now so many and residual or long-term effects aren't yet known.
Handing babies cellphones to watch and play, putting them in front the tablets? Blue light, LEDS.
Babies, young children not learning to comfort themselves. Consistent overstimulation. Use of sleeping aids for young children, which will affect hormones.
Overdiagnosed as schools, especially grade schools, must receive special ed money, expanded staffs, school psychologists.
The occasional dreadful parent able to cover infant, baby injury or neglect through such diagnoses.
A lot ARE 'normal.'
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 03:16 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 03:17 PM (viF8m)
Fake outrage, demand an apology and the offender resign.
hah hah alrighty then
Good luck wit dat!!!
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not at April 18, 2025 03:17 PM (r3F/z)
By the way Katy Perry owns a Jet, so I'm pretty sure she is an official member of the mile high club too. Rich people get to do things us blebes only get to dream about.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at April 18, 2025 03:17 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:08 PM (YqDXo)
Chronic fatigue syndrome fits your description, but fibromyalgia is still very much around and has some pretty severe pain associated with it. We don’t know what causes, same as a lot of neurological conditions, but there’s something there. Probably some nerve dysfunction or central sensitization.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 03:18 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 03:18 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:18 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2025 03:08 PM (W/lyH)
Magic 8-Ball says "Probably"
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 03:19 PM (VNX3d)
The goal, like most things in America, is to create a deracinated group of helpless, drug-addicted adult children whose only abilities are consumption and demanding more gay communism.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 02:54 PM (l3YAf)
It's true. Right out if the two how to manuals 1984 and Brave New World. Wash your Soma down with greasy Victory Gin.
Make normal loving sexual relations sterile and abusive. Everything in those books is coming true.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 18, 2025 03:19 PM (OA79/)
The only vaccines I had as a child were polio, smallpox, whooping cough and diphtheria.
Posted by: Toad-0 at April 18, 2025 03:19 PM (oOG8/)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 18, 2025 03:20 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Nevad Dave at April 18, 2025 03:20 PM (e61sa)
If you get your children (especially **cough** anchor babies **cough**) you can claim them for disability and get Social Security support for them as they are "disabled" under SS.
If you have multiple autistic children you get more free money.
I'm sure their are lots of shady doctors that will diagnose you child as autistic w/o a test or anything, just like medicare fraud. The parents get free "support" from the government and it's no skin off their nose.
Posted by: Scott_T at April 18, 2025 03:20 PM (2waQ7)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:18 PM (YqDXo)
How should we know?
Posted by: Psychiatrist finding satanic preschools everywhere in the 90s at April 18, 2025 03:20 PM (OA79/)
Evil. The question is, "Is Warren really that evil?"
And yes, yes she is.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 18, 2025 03:21 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at April 18, 2025 03:21 PM (7IAWv)
Posted by: Frasier Crane
I hold in my hot little hands, a blue booklet. A permanent record, you could say.
Born 1962. Birth weight - 3 lbs 14 oz.
Vaccines:
DPT - 02-15-1963, 03-28-1963, 05-16-1963, 07-23-1964, 01-67
POLIOMYELITIS - 02-15-1963, 03-28 1963, 05-16-1963, 06-29-1964, 08-29-1964
Smallpox 03-18-1966, 05-1968
TB Test 09-1966
Measles Vaccine - 03-10-1965
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 03:22 PM (/iLcI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 02:48 PM (8zz6B)
That's more like ADHD. Boys don't naturally sit still with their hands folded listening to droning bullshit for hours without any kind of break or opportunity to have unstructured play and burn off energy. Thus they must have a disorder that requires giving them amphetamines.
Posted by: Add a rall at April 18, 2025 03:22 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 03:22 PM (ewjUl)
constant exposure to cigarette smoke, regular spankings, moms strung out on Valium, and fathers spending a maximum of 30 minutes a day with the kids
Posted by: boomers at April 18, 2025 03:22 PM (OS4sd)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:18 PM (YqDXo)
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Mass Formation Psychosis?
Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 03:22 PM (WoF+z)
I was a care provider back in the early '90s. At that time doctors were becoming interested in autism, it seemed to be the "in thing" among them.
I had one client who was obviously severely autistic whose doctor would change his prescriptions every couple of months, like he was hoping to find a cure.
I had another client, in his 40s, who had been diagnosed his whole life as "mentally retarded." Suddenly, he was Autistic.
Working with kids in the 2000s and 2010s, I saw parents (mostly moms) begin proudly introducing their kids to the group as autistic - like a parent in my day would have told everyone that their kid was a track star or quarterback or violinist or something. These parents really, really wanted you to know that they were a "Mom of an autistic child." They even had bumper stickers proclaiming exactly that - they were a hero!
We would have socially dysfunctional kids join our programs and half the leaders would instantly "diagnose" these kids as "on the spectrum." A few months later, those kids would be interacting with others just like any normal kid.
There are so many perverse incentives for labeling kids "autistic," that I don't know what to think of all this.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 18, 2025 03:23 PM (TL7UX)
Posted by: Toad-0
Totally aside from the autism issue:
The problem with vaccines is NOT the vicci e itself, but the irritant they put into the shot to cause the white blood cells to be attracted to the point of injection. Doesn't matter what the disease is ("polio, smallpox, whooping cough and diphtheria"), what matter is the intentionally toxic irritant included with the dead/attenuated disease germs. Some of the irritants are pretty heinous.
Posted by: zombie at April 18, 2025 03:23 PM (pMi6S)
The also tried to pin ADHD on Son 2 and recommended Ritalin. Again we refused. He was just a very active boy with well-above average intelligence, so school simply bored him to death.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 18, 2025 03:11 PM (PSEDc)
*******
Now they're trying to tell parents their kid was born in the wrong body, needs to take hormones and have gender reassignment surgery.
If you don't comply they want to be able to take your child away from you.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2025 03:24 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:18 PM (YqDXo)
Personally I have the same explanation for both.
Hormones shouldn't be fucked with. They do a lot more than we have ever previously understood. Fuck with your hormones and you might get kids with fucked up hormones.
And what if the effect gets amplified each successive generation? Like so much else, birth control was a giant experiment on civilized humanity, by people who didn't know what the fuck they were doing. Think "Wuhan" but for the rest of time.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 03:24 PM (u9Npv)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 03:09 PM (u9Npv)
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Fight against anything that might ameliorate the condition and fight against anyone determining causes. The result of her fight being to increase suffering in the world. I think, anyway. It's hard for me to interpret the ravings of a lunatic.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 03:24 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 03:24 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 18, 2025 03:24 PM (WWpK6)
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Is that yours? You were only 3lbs 14oz at birth? That's teeny tiny.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 18, 2025 03:25 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 03:09 PM
You don't have to greet me twice.
Posted by: Lizzie Jeep Cherokee at April 18, 2025 03:25 PM (ewjUl)
Except for landing hundreds of miles down range but, they both did go up and back down, so there's that.
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 03:25 PM (jc0TO)
social media -- it's trendy, that's it
Posted by: brak at April 18, 2025 03:25 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 03:24 PM (ewjUl)
Ah Ha!
Posted by: The Truth at April 18, 2025 03:26 PM (R/m4+)
https://tinyurl.com/5hy9y5ap
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 03:26 PM (GOHAn)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 03:26 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Lady in Black
Yes ma'am. That was me. 2 months premie.
In 1962. They didn't know if I would make it or not.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 03:26 PM (/iLcI)
That’s another thing: bring back spanking.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 03:12 PM (l3YAf)
Interesting. As a parent of a high functioning autistic young man, he was never ill-mannered. In fact he was bullied numerous times by ill-mannered little shits he had to deal with at school who made fun of his autism. I love how everyone here thinks they know what is the cause of autism? You are a genius! You know nothing about dealing with autism on a day-to-day basis.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at April 18, 2025 03:27 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 03:27 PM (u9Npv)
constant exposure to cigarette smoke, regular spankings, moms strung out on Valium, and fathers spending a maximum of 30 minutes a day with the kids
Posted by: boomers at April 18, 2025 03:22 PM
Ah, good times, good times..
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 03:27 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 03:29 PM (/iLcI)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 03:29 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Toad-0 at April 18, 2025 03:29 PM (oOG8/)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at April 18, 2025 03:30 PM (P7Iz+)
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 03:30 PM (GOHAn)
constant exposure to cigarette smoke, regular spankings, moms strung out on Valium, and fathers spending a maximum of 30 minutes a day with the kids
Posted by: boomers at April 18, 2025 03:22 PM
Ah, good times, good times..
Posted by: toby928
Aka, the 70's.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 03:30 PM (/iLcI)
Posted by: Paco at April 18, 2025 03:30 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 03:31 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 18, 2025 03:18 PM (YqDXo)
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Mass Formation Psychosis?
Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 03:22 PM (WoF+z)
I think the trans ideologues are deliberately predating on autistic children who already have a sense that something is wrong with them and don't fit in with their peers, hence the apparently significance of kids with autism and gender dysphoria. I think in those cases the gender dysphoria is not organic but induced. It's sick and exploitative.
Posted by: It's all pretty fucked at April 18, 2025 03:31 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at April 18, 2025 03:27 PM (pZ64F)
I said “most” and I put “autistic” in quotes, but go off, bro.
And, yeah, I deal with autistics all the time. I work in tech and I’ve been on the Internet for nearly 30 years.
You have a good username, though.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 03:31 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 03:31 PM (77rzZ)
In 1962. They didn't know if I would make it or not.
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Wow! I was born one year later in '63 and was 1 month early, but arrived at 6lb 3oz. I guess I packed on the weight that last month.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 18, 2025 03:31 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at April 18, 2025 03:31 PM (P7Iz+)
constant exposure to cigarette smoke, regular spankings, moms strung out on Valium, and fathers spending a maximum of 30 minutes a day with the kids
Posted by: boomers at April 18, 2025 03:22 PM
Ah, good times, good times..
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 03:27 PM (jc0TO)
Sitting in the back of a 72 Bellaire in the winter with no heater and a chain smoking dad with the window cracked 1 millimeter. One time I actually threw up from the smoke. Good times
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 18, 2025 03:31 PM (OA79/)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 03:30 P
That brief but shining decade between The Pill and AIDS.
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very Heaven
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 03:32 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Oglebay at April 18, 2025 03:32 PM (MMp6W)
I dunno. Maybe it should be diagnosed sometimes now.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Our modern hysterics just need a good dicking, same as in Victorian times.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
And the medical devices for treating hysteria are sold over-the-counter, now. No need to see your doctor for a good vibrator workout anymore.
Posted by: Sybian, Inc at April 18, 2025 03:32 PM (DgGvY)
Kids are cruel little beeyotches. If they detect someone who doesn’t conform to their idea of what’s cool or perfect, that child becomes a target.
I feel for you and your child.
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 03:32 PM (GOHAn)
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 18, 2025 03:32 PM (vsTPo)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 18, 2025 03:33 PM (GYt5+)
So far there has been no evidence of cause and effect related to childhood vaccines . I think though that they are still doing studies on the scheduling of the vaccines and whether that has an effect.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 03:33 PM (VofaG)
AOC and Bernie are barnstorming their anti-rich people tour in a huge private jet, which appears to have a tail number of N604xt.
That jet belongs to a company owned by a guy named Toby Neugebauer. He made his fortune investing in fracking, and he gives a ton of money to Texas Republicans.
So, the mystery: Why did a Republican donor from the oil business lend his jet to two socialists trying to kill his entire way of life?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 03:34 PM (ppwwy)
Posted by: the sluggish clod at April 18, 2025 03:34 PM (jc0TO)
Kids are cruel little beeyotches. If they detect someone who doesn’t conform to their idea of what’s cool or perfect, that child becomes a target.
I feel for you and your child.
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 03:32 PM (GOHAn)
Beat your child until he stops not fitting in. It's the only responsible and godly thing to do.
Posted by: Beating and emotional terrorism are excellent child rearing at April 18, 2025 03:34 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz
Yep. And then that bimbo Jenny McCarthy took it and ran with it.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 03:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at April 18, 2025 03:30 PM (P7Iz+)
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Scott Adams suggests that, if this were true, there would be more diagnoses among adults. There percentages should be the same across time.
Posted by: Oglebay at April 18, 2025 03:35 PM (MMp6W)
But I've mention to a few by far younger people that I don't see some young parents having face time with their child or children several times a day. No dining together, no real playtime together. Even storybooks that may be read are not being done with some degree of eye contact.
They'll allow kids to fall asleep whenever, give he/she a gummy or two to relax, put on a noise dampener and pray the kid(s) stays asleep. The kids learn to wake up, make a ruckus and want to be able to climb in bed with adults. No one ever gets a decent night of sleep.
Ignore a child, be fearful of parenting, and don't be surprised by the outcome. They're a great joy but also a huge amount of commitment and time.
(Not lecturing. My own are a bit squirrelly.)
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 03:35 PM (NFX2v)
Seriously, more children are surviving than a century ago, when the child mortality rate by age 10 was twice what it is today.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 18, 2025 03:36 PM (7leMO)
No, they're just bad. Beat them. Give them something to cry about. Then scream at them to stop crying.
Posted by: They're resilient, so go nuts at April 18, 2025 03:37 PM (TbWk/)
And, yeah, I deal with autistics all the time. I work in tech and I’ve been on the Internet for nearly 30 years.
You have a good username, though.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 03:31 PM (l3YAf)
Interesting. Not an apple to apple comparison as a child vs a working age adult. Yeah, I'm sensitive to this issue, you would be too if it was your child, and had to deal with the shithead bullying he had to deal with as a parent. Have a great weekend!
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at April 18, 2025 03:37 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 03:34 PM (ppwwy)
The Bush family?
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not at April 18, 2025 03:38 PM (r3F/z)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 03:31 PM (77rzZ)
You can have ADHD and OCD. They’re not opposites.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 03:38 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: pookysgirl, on mini-vacation at April 18, 2025 03:38 PM (LiPZK)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 03:34 PM (ppwwy)
Did he lend it or lease it?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 03:38 PM (VofaG)
I think the pharma involvement is just the last layer on this neurological phenomena that exploits the situation.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 18, 2025 03:40 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: stuckInCalifornia at April 18, 2025 03:40 PM (pYrbb)
I'm oughtistic.
Posted by: Bulg
* golf clap *
If I'm stunned by the stupidity of the Democrats, am I awetistic?
Posted by: mikeski at April 18, 2025 03:43 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: E Buzz at April 18, 2025 03:45 PM (54Efn)
Posted by: Oglebay at April 18, 2025 03:35 PM (MMp6W)
Scott Adams is, as usual, wrong. For one, adult diagnoses of autism have exploded, including many self-diagnosed.
But children receive a lot more attention than adults. An “autistic” adult can just live their lives, but a slightly-off kid will get the attention of teachers, parents, therapists, pediatricians.
See, part of the problem with medicalizing every deviation from “normal” behavior is that it results in overdiagnosis. The system has to assign a diagnosis to get a proper billing code for insurance, so as soon as a kid sees a shrink they’re going to end up diagnosed with *something.*
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 03:46 PM (l3YAf)
Is Autism Genetic?
Research Spotlight
Dr. Daniel H. Geschwind xxxxxxxxxx answers common ASD questions for Autism Awareness Month.
April 10, 2024, By Ashley Bell
What Causes Autism? Is Autism Genetic or Environmental?
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 03:51 PM (NFX2v)
Mental illness is trendy and cool now among the TikTok generation, and the "trending" metal illnesses you can claim to have are Autism, DID (multiple personality disorder), gender dysphoria, and CPTSD (basically, trauma from longterm child abuse).
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"Neurodivergent" is one of the latest cool identities. "As a Black, queer, disabled, neurodivergent aspiring commercial pilot..."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 03:56 PM (M4PBL)
https://tinyurl.com/4723bt7p
These doctors noted a correlation between MMR shots in boys aged 18 months and severe autism, and said it warranted Further Investigation. They did Not say that it caused autism, but that the co-incidence was alarming and should be looked into.
The British medical establishment came after them like Reavers out of Firefly, stripping them of their medical licenses, ruining careers.
That in itself says something: if it's all BS, why would a young, successful surgeon at the Royal College of Surgeons burn down his career to bring this up?
(Kirsch is an annoying interviewer, but I hope you can stick with this: it's a bombshell interview.)
Posted by: Beverly at April 18, 2025 03:56 PM (Epeb0)
https://tinyurl.com/mrdyy9bd
Note that, since the 1986 Childhood Vaccine Act, pharma companies are legally shielded from any and all liability for any deaths or injuries to children from any of their childhood vaccines. The movie goes into that, too. RFK Jr. has spoken about this and taken a lot of heat for it.
Posted by: Beverly at April 18, 2025 04:01 PM (Epeb0)
Posted by: UGAdawg at April 18, 2025 04:02 PM (se/Tc)
But classic or severe autism presents with loss of vocabulary/speech (toddler can no longer talk); inability to maintain balance enough to walk; "stimming" or often-violent repetitive physical movements, like the kid banging his head against the wall for hours; loss of toilet training; no longer making eye contact or smiling at parents AT ALL: parents describe this as their child emotionally and spiritually dying, leaving a zombie behind.
In addition, they are mentally retarded, and cannot take care of themselves. Parents who are getting old themselves and don't want to put their now-adult sons into an institution have even been known to kill the son and kill themselves, out of desperation.
Watch the documentary I linked, and you'll see what real autism is. This is the form that has skyrocketed since 1986.
Posted by: Beverly at April 18, 2025 04:11 PM (Epeb0)
"Neurodivergent" is one of the latest cool identities. "As a Black, queer, disabled, neurodivergent aspiring commercial pilot...
I have a friend in her early 40s who added that tag to her self-identified list of "why I'm different" in the last year or so. She went deep into withdrawal from contact with people when Coof showed up, claiming that she had medical issues that routine contact with others would endanger her. Now she's up to three cats, she lives alone on the edge of town, and lately she has related that her gained weight is becoming a problem.
The difference between her now and eight years ago is striking and disheartening.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 04:22 PM (Tv15w)
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A good thing to check. They are expressed in breast milk, so you kid is getting them if you breast feed while taking them. I think it's probably multifactorial. In one family you can have autistic kid or kids and other siblings who are not, and sometimes they all are autistic. Even soz they may be autistic to different degrees. So it is some genetic, with some environmental trigger. It's not ADHD. Autism is not just hyperkid doesn't pay attention. They have communication issues, language processing issues, sensory issues, facial blindness. I have seen a lot of kids with special needs and autism. They are all different. It could be a lot of things. It isn't going to be an easy fix. Remember the Roman's used lead plumbing for a century... somethings are taken for granted....
Posted by: Close to home at April 18, 2025 04:26 PM (YuH4F)
If you google "Andrew Wakefield" the internet will scream at you that he is a discredited fraudster. The hits almost seem like they were curated by a panic-striken algorithm. They do NOT want you listening to anything he has to say.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 18, 2025 04:47 PM (cSvoa)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 18, 2025 04:51 PM (hKoQL)
I have a kid that actually has Pervasive Developmental Disability:Autisim. Comparing her to the kids Karens are proudly supporting is like chalk and cheese.
Lady, just because your kid is a bit weird doesn’t mean they’re disabled, or that their development is permanently retarded.
Posted by: Luke at April 18, 2025 05:13 PM (LcCGY)
Definitions of "autism" are difficult.
My sister now works with teen kids diagnosed as "autistic" or "on the spectrum". She sees a great difference between those who got help (as with speech) as toddlers and those who didn't.
Posted by: KT at April 18, 2025 05:15 PM (xekrU)
Posted by: Nevad Dave at April 18, 2025 03:20 PM (e61sa)
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That’s what happened to my son. He was progressing very well then got the MMR and a week later passed out with a high fever and was set back to square one.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 18, 2025 06:32 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 18, 2025 06:53 PM (wGqjj)
Supreme Court Will Hear Trump's Argument to Overturn "Birthright Citizenship"
Birthright citizenship is the theory that if someone is born in America, even if their parents are here illegally, they are American citizens by birthright.
This is the majority rule in the Western Hemisphere, but almost no European countries have this rule. Birthright citizenship was never passed into law. Rather, it was asserted by the Supreme Court in a 19th century case. Trump wants the rule changed so that anchor babies born here are not American citizens.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments May 15 on President Donald Trump's order to end birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants. While the justices declined to lift the nationwide pause on the policy, their decision to fast-track the case signals its legal and constitutional importance. Key Details: Trump's executive order, signed on his first day in office, remains blocked by federal courts in three states. The court will not immediately rule on the constitutionality of birthright citizenship but will review the legality of nationwide injunctions. Trump hailed the court's decision to hear the case, saying he was "so happy" and calling the policy's origins misunderstood. Diving Deeper: In a rare move, the U.S. Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will hear oral arguments on May 15 over former President Donald Trump's executive order ending automatic birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants and non-citizen residents. The announcement came via a brief, unsigned order that offered no reasoning, as is typical in emergency requests, but underscored the case's significance by granting expedited review. At issue is whether lower courts overstepped their authority by imposing nationwide injunctions on the Trump administration's birthright citizenship policy, which the former president enacted on his first day back in office. The policy would eliminate automatic citizenship for individuals born on U.S. soil to parents who are in the country illegally--a direct challenge to a longstanding interpretation of the 14th Amendment. That interpretation has held since 1898, when the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that nearly all children born on American soil are citizens, regardless of their parents' immigration status. Legal scholars have debated this for years, with some conservatives, including Trump ally John Eastman, arguing that the 14th Amendment was never intended to apply so broadly. Others, like New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin, have called Trump's order "blatantly unconstitutional," pointing to post-Civil War intent and more than a century of legal precedent.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 18, 2025 01:18 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Ciampino - bizarre incident? at April 18, 2025 01:19 PM (sPQoU)
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Sort of.
In very limited circumstances.
Which didn't include being a citizen of Mexico, crossing the Rio Grande, and dropping a kid on US soil.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:19 PM (GBKbO)
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Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 01:20 PM (0aihy)
They SHOULD.
Citizenship should require that at least one of your parents is already a citizen.
But the Dread Coward Roberts will never overturn it in a million years, and I'd be shocked if ACB did so because of her bleeding heart nonsense.
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Posted by: Methos at April 18, 2025 01:23 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 18, 2025 01:21 PM (xcxpd)
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I think I'm more hopeful than most.
The "drop a kid on US soil despite having never been to the US before five minutes ago, having lived your whole life in Germany" assumption was always just kind of an assumption, the caselaw not really backing it up.
I think the end result opens up the executive to interpretation of the limits with a call on Congress to establish limits through statute.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO)
Court will rule against Trump for some bullshit, CNN-Tier reason.
Next!
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 01:24 PM (3wi/L)
Or for Amy Whorey Barrett to say this is wrong because it means she won’t be able to adopt more extremely dark skinned children from Uganda
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at April 18, 2025 01:24 PM (+h6mu)
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I'm pretty sure the Constitution talks about making a better country for the sake of our progeny, and doesn't mention the offspring of foreigners at all, so, yeah.
Posted by: Methos at April 18, 2025 01:25 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2025 01:25 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: steevy at April 18, 2025 01:26 PM (KQk9m)
>>I think the end result opens up the executive to interpretation of the limits with a call on Congress to establish limits through statute.
It will largely hinge on the DOJ lawyers coming up with a workable regime, otherwise SCOTUS is going to say the 14th grants anyone borne on US soil citizenship and that Congress is free to update the laws and or constitution.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2025 01:26 PM (XV/Pl)
Or for Amy Whorey Barrett to say this is wrong because it means she won’t be able to adopt more extremely dark skinned children from Uganda
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger
Or for Roberts to adopt more blonde haired, blue eyed kids from Guatemala (allegedly).
Posted by: Miklos, revising and extending at April 18, 2025 01:27 PM (UOzvC)
Others, like New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin, have called Trump's order "blatantly unconstitutional," pointing to post-Civil War intent and more than a century of legal precedent.
"legal precedent" = "it's legal because that's the way we've always done things"
The same sort of justification when the Democrat Party insisted on "whites only" drinking fountains and having colored people riding all back of the bus and shit.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 18, 2025 01:27 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 01:27 PM (0aihy)
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 01:27 PM (/iMjX)
Since the importing of faux citizens hasn't quite turned out the way Our Betters predicted, I wonder if-
one of the Democrat/Progtard/Commie judges will rule against "Birth Right" citizenship.
I doubt it, but I could see it making sense from their point of view.
Too bad Both Roberts and ACB are dominated by Their Feelz and not by the law when it comes to their job.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2025 01:28 PM (iJfKG)
Oh fuck off. That's not what the SC held in Ark. That's what lefty fucknuggets who never read the case, and who don't know dick about immigration law, say about the case. The case didn't involve illegals at all. Ark was born here to legal US residents.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 01:28 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Miklos, amused at April 18, 2025 01:29 PM (UOzvC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
I don't see one European country on the list, but maybe I just skimmed it too fast.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 01:29 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: steevy at April 18, 2025 01:29 PM (KQk9m)
So we’re basically fooked on this
I remain astounded at just how limpy dicked Roberts has been at putting the foot down on case issues so they don’t constantly reappear in another iteration and waste the courts time even more because it’s never definitively decided
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at April 18, 2025 01:29 PM (+h6mu)
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Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 01:30 PM (ypFCm)
Bullshit. Fruit of the poisoned tree. You don't get to profit off of someone else's crimes.
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Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 01:32 PM (Dv3i1)
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A lot of that going on like the media presuming scotus ruled 9-0 against Trump on returning the ms-13 gang member without actually reading the decision
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at April 18, 2025 01:32 PM (+h6mu)
In very limited circumstances.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Yep. Scotus judge writing the opinion also ignored key limitations of jus solis in common law. For example excluding sojourners and also considering people as subjects.
But, the most important part, is that Scotus had a reign of errors in interpreting all the post Civil War amendments and eviscerated (just as Marshal and Taney courts did before the war) the guts out of the 14th Amendment in particular. Aka the privileges and immunities clause (see Clarence Thomas for a trenchant analysis in his dissents and concurrences on this), expanding the due process clause beyond belief, and likewise reading into the equal protection clause justifying segregation first and then later using it far beyond its original purpose in restoring black slaves to citizenship.
Wong Ark Kim was just another exercise in judicial supremacy and reign of error in ignored the key limiting clause--subject to the jurisdiction thereof which makes all the common law analysis of jus solis moot. For the most part, it was trivially easy for a lazy ass Scotus judge to walk downstairs to get actual debates over it in Congress. He didn't.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:33 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 01:33 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Dissent by Jackson, J. at April 18, 2025 01:33 PM (Zi/1w)
I could see the argument that a child born to a permanent legal resident should, at 18, be permitted to choose to be a citizen. But no children of illegals, or students, or tourists, or...
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 01:33 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 01:27 PM (0aihy)
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Even if BR citizenship was revoked or found not to apply, that baby would still be a citizen because this scammer was here legally.
BR is (or should be) just the beginning. Get rid of the entire concept that being born here -- even if the mother is here legally -- confers automatic citizenship. Citizenship should flow from citizenship of at least one parent.
US citizenship is one of the most valuable statuses in the world. Why are we handing them out like birdfeed to every filthy immigrant scumbag who drops a brat inside our border? Fuck off.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 01:34 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2025 01:26 PM (XV/Pl)
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But...the Ark decision says this:
"A child born in the United States, of parents of Chinese descent, who, at the time of his birth, are subjects of the Emperor of China, but have a permanent domicil and residence in the United States, and are there carrying on business, and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the Emperor of China, becomes at the time of his birth a citizen of the United States,"
According to the original decision, they have to live here, have a permanent residence, and be working.
So, even giving Ark all justice in the world, it doesn't say, "cross the border and pop out kids".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:35 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ballistic at April 18, 2025 01:35 PM (+94UU)
Posted by: brak at April 18, 2025 01:36 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Miklos
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Now what did I do?
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 01:32 PM (/iMjX)
*begin screaming*
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID!!!! AND IF YOU DON'T THERE'S NO POINT TRYING TO EXPLAIN IT TO YOU!!!!!
*end screaming*
Posted by: Ahhhh, the joys of marriage at April 18, 2025 01:36 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 01:28 PM (iFTx/)
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I finally pulled it up and tried to read it.
Holy shit it's long. But I got the point by the end...the literal end. Finding the ending summation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:36 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 01:33 PM (jc0TO
The Reflex is oh hell no.... it is a chip to play if it goes beyond the SC... and Trump is a deal maker.
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 01:36 PM (PCK5/)
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False.
Wonk Kim Ark's parents were lawful, permanent residents. The Court specifically states that fact and contrasts their status to those of diplomats--people here legally but not permanent residents.
And says, of course those children could not become citizens.
The issue there was, since they were not permitted to become citizens, but were permanent residents, could he be a citizen?
No where in the opinion does it say that those born here to a parent here illegally becomes a citizen.
There's a poorly understood, expansive reading far beyond the intent of the opinion.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 01:36 PM (11WUE)
>>Depends on the meaning of 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof'. The writers of the law were clear what this meant. But Judicial thinks thay are a superior branch so they decided what it really meant.
The jurisdiction thereof argument has always been a Macguffen and that justices have used rule they wanted , the framers of the 14th amendment were very clear in who the the 14th applied to and it certainly wasn't illegal aliens.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2025 01:36 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at April 18, 2025 01:24 PM (+h6mu)
I doubt that Birthright Citizenship has any bearing on foreign adoptions at all. She may well be a squish on this matter, but not for that reason.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 01:37 PM (8zz6B)
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Absolutely not.
Posted by: Methos at April 18, 2025 01:37 PM (Dnobf)
There's a poorly understood, expansive reading far beyond the intent of the opinion.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 01:36 PM (11WUE)
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One of the main thrusts in the decision is about whether Mongoloids deserve citizenship at all.
Very different time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:37 PM (GBKbO)
Emphasis on the "nearly".
Children born to foreign diplomats in the US have never been American citizens - since we don't have jurisdiction over foreign diplomats.
It isn't hard to extend that reasoning.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2025 01:37 PM (xTIDn)
In the 19th century, when birthright citizenship was first implemented, it took 9 months for sailing ships to cross the ocean, so it was quite rare for a pregnant passenger to reach our shores before giving birth. Nowadays, it's a 5 minute rowboat ride across the Rio Grande. They can leave home with the first contraction and have time to stop for lunch on the way.
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 01:37 PM (/iMjX)
@ImMeme0
Democrats have officially lost it. This Democrat not only wants a foreign gang member brought back into the U.S., but also says we should grant citizenship to the 11 million illegal immigrants that Biden has allowed into our country.
Dems want to completely dismantle America. They only care about due process when illegal immigrants commit crimes — not when they illegally enter our country in the first place.
https://tinyurl.com/77vy2mc9
Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2025 01:38 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 18, 2025 01:38 PM (aaRct)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 01:38 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 01:33 PM (jc0TO)
Fuck no. Give no quarter. Anytime any concession is given it gets exploited to kingdom come. Fuck. No.
Posted by: Did I mention fuck no? at April 18, 2025 01:39 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 01:28 PM (iFTx/)
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I finally pulled it up and tried to read it.
Holy shit it's long. But I got the point by the end...the literal end. Finding the ending summation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:36 PM (GBKbO)
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Yea, it's long and written in the typical wordy 19th-century legal style. The problem also is that none of the judges on that decision were even thinking about the consequences of what might happen 100+ years in the future. If someone told them at the time that their decision would be used to grant citizenship to illegals five minutes after they sneak over the border, the judges would be like "Are you nuts?? That's not what we mean!"
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 01:39 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Just Sayin... at April 18, 2025 01:29 PM (pt3r0)
Will you settle for an alternative?
Posted by: Hope Solo at April 18, 2025 01:39 PM (gKWVE)
Why on Earth would we consider the kid to be an American citizen?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2025 01:39 PM (xTIDn)
No where in the opinion does it say that those born here to a parent here illegally becomes a citizen.
There's a poorly understood, expansive reading far beyond the intent of the opinion.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 01:36 PM (11WUE)
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You can be 100% right on this (and I think you are), and still know that we're about to get the royal shaft from Anal Corny Parrot and John "The Deepstate Built my Hotrod" Roberts.
Posted by: ballistic at April 18, 2025 01:40 PM (+94UU)
If your reading of the 14th makes children of illegals citizens, then Trump can serve a 3rd term.
I too, though, agree with those who have little hope the Court will overturn this.
But then, every "knew" it was "settled law" that the Constitution guaranteed a nationwide right to an abortion.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 01:40 PM (11WUE)
Posted by: IRS at April 18, 2025 01:40 PM (jGJov)
>>So, even giving Ark all justice in the world, it doesn't say, "cross the border and pop out kids".
Exactly, but it is still going to hinge on DOJ coming up with a workable and convincing regime that can be applicable to most scenarios.
If the justices take this seriously, the interrogatories may be some of the most riveting and fascinating we have ever heard.
Thomas may even asks more than one or two questions.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2025 01:40 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 18, 2025 01:41 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 01:41 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Sharkman at April 18, 2025 01:41 PM (+5j+o)
They have a) declared the Bill of Rights did not apply to the states, b) added the power of judicial review of federal actions to Article III, eviscerated the privileges and immunities clause TWICE, killed the Guaranty of a Republican Form of Government, gave Lincoln war powers when technically there was no war (prizes case), killed the Civil Rights Act of 1876 by declaring that Congress did not have that power under the new amendments, eviscerated the privileges and immunities clause in Slaughterhouse and then used it to declare individual ownership of firearms was not protected under Cruikshank. Created ad hoc segregation from the equal protection clause, etc. etc. etc. Dred Scott was also hastened if not caused the Civil War by its denying political bodies' ability to compromise
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:41 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 01:41 PM (l3YAf)
If the justices take this seriously, the interrogatories may be some of the most riveting and fascinating we have ever heard.
Thomas may even asks more than one or two questions.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2025 01:40 PM (XV/Pl)
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"Green card holders can have citizen kids. Others...no. They're not citizens. In accordance with Kim."
I actually don't think it's going to be hard to get 5 justices on board with that. Gorsuch is going to argue like hell behind the scenes for something like that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)
Children born to foreign diplomats in the US have never been American citizens - since we don't have jurisdiction over foreign diplomats.
Harris' mom, the daughter of Indian diplomats. (Grandfather quite famous.). Father, a student in the US; eventually naturalized. Both parents quite well known.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 18, 2025 01:42 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: tubal
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They might very well kick it over to Congress by claiming the president does not have the authority to do so by himself but Congress, having plenary control over immigration and naturalization via the Constitution (as ruled in previous cases) can do it via legislation.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:42 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Amy Coney Barret at April 18, 2025 01:42 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 01:43 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 01:43 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 01:33 PM (jc0TO
The Reflex is oh hell no.... it is a chip to play if it goes beyond the SC... and Trump is a deal maker.
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 01:36 PM (PCK5/)
How about: amnesty for those over 21, gainfully employed, and with no history of criminal activity? All others, (points) the door's thataway.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 01:44 PM (8zz6B)
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be
Posted by: Amy Coney Barrett, Concurring at April 18, 2025 01:44 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 18, 2025 01:44 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Al Unsure at April 18, 2025 01:44 PM (v33tB)
Posted by: Josephistan at April 18, 2025 01:44 PM (bHGBC)
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 01:41 PM (PCK5/)
They did with Roe.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 01:45 PM (FZn/N)
They have a) declared the Bill of Rights did not apply to the states, b) added the power of judicial review of federal actions to Article III, eviscerated the privileges and immunities clause TWICE, killed the Guaranty of a Republican Form of Government, gave Lincoln war powers when technically there was no war (prizes case), killed the Civil Rights Act of 1876 by declaring that Congress did not have that power under the new amendments, eviscerated the privileges and immunities clause in Slaughterhouse and then used it to declare individual ownership of firearms was not protected under Cruikshank. Created ad hoc segregation from the equal protection clause, etc. etc. etc. Dred Scott was also hastened if not caused the Civil War by its denying political bodies' ability to compromise
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The Imperial Judiciary ....
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 01:45 PM (iFTx/)
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The same people outraged, claiming "facilitate" actually only means "effectuate."
Are the same people who cheered when when he declared the word "penalty" also meant "tax."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 01:45 PM (11WUE)
Posted by: tubal
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They might very well kick it over to Congress by claiming the president does not have the authority to do so by himself but Congress, having plenary control over immigration and naturalization via the Constitution (as ruled in previous cases) can do it via legislation.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:42 PM (ctrM5)
That is the only possible alternative to standing pat on precedence..... but really a long shot.. it would cede SC control of, well, everything really.
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 01:45 PM (PCK5/)
ff = ss, for authenticity
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 01:45 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 01:45 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: Amy Coney Barret at April 18, 2025 01:42 PM (2UnvF)
Third-worlders should gain American citizenship the correct way: being adopted as fashion accessories by AWFLs.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 01:46 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 01:41 PM (PCK5/)
They did with Roe.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 01:45 PM (FZn/N)
That's..1.
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 01:46 PM (PCK5/)
>>Are the same people who cheered when when he declared the word "penalty" also meant "tax."
I don't know, some how the words, Shall Not Be Infringed, actually means, Shall Be Infringed As Much As We Want, in SCOTUS world.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2025 01:46 PM (XV/Pl)
82 It will go down 5-4 if not 6-3
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 01:38 PM (ypFCm)
8-1
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 01:43 PM (l3YAf)
9-4, if the Democrats have their way.
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 01:47 PM (PCK5/)
If so, what does it entail?
I wouldn't propose civil service here, but would entertain conscription.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 01:47 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 01:41 PM (PCK5/)
They did with Roe.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 01:45 PM (FZn/N)
That's..1.
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 01:46 PM (PCK5/)
Bruen was kind of boat rocky.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 01:47 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2025 01:46 PM (XV/Pl)
If the 2A can be limited, I don't see why the 14th is all inclusive.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 01:48 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 01:48 PM (weQLb)
Posted by: The person who always says that at April 18, 2025 01:48 PM (6vpu3)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 01:48 PM (weQLb)
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Marbury is most likely dying for lower than SCOTUS federal courts.
It'll probably survive for SCOTUS.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:48 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 01:49 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 18, 2025 01:49 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2025 01:49 PM (XV/Pl)
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Also it's neat how this keeps coming up.
This type of legislation has to stop.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 01:49 PM (weQLb)
Holy shit it's long. But I got the point by the end...the literal end. Finding the ending summation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:36 PM (GBKbO)
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Yea, it's long and written in the typical wordy 19th-century legal style. The problem also is that none of the judges on that decision were even thinking about the consequences of what might happen 100+ years in the future. If someone told them at the time that their decision would be used to grant citizenship to illegals five minutes after they sneak over the border, the judges would be like "Are you nuts?? That's not what we mean!"
Posted by: Elric Blade
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Justice Gray had a very indistinguishable career as Scotus judge. At the time, the Fuller court was mostly legal mediocrities plucked from corporate law practice and placed on the court. The one sound justice, Justice Harlan dissented as did Chief Justice Fuller.
You see something similar in Plessy v. Ferguson from this court which is sort of a pragmatic corporate don't rock the boat sort of decision. But, it went against the meaning and text of the 14th Amendment.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:49 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 01:49 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2025 01:49 PM (XV/Pl)
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On merits, SCOTUS has been shockingly on our side.
Procedurally, SCOTUS has been like a teasing minx...but fat and ugly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 18, 2025 01:49 PM (NFX2v)
No. just the women, which includes the Chinese who come here to push out a puppy and go home.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 01:50 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: J. Roberts, who has a skeleton in the closet at April 18, 2025 01:50 PM (pt3r0)
Roberts limpdickery pales in comparison to the flacidness of congresscritters.
But yeah, their job is getting rich.
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 01:50 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2025 01:49 PM (XV/Pl)
Children born in a month with an 'r' in the name are citizen, all others are not.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 01:51 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:51 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: torabora at April 18, 2025 01:51 PM (CVTPU)
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 01:51 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 01:52 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 18, 2025 01:52 PM (6TePA)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 01:52 PM (Dv3i1)
I don't think mama can renounce on behalf of her spawn
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 01:52 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: The person who thinks its always beginning at April 18, 2025 01:53 PM (6vpu3)
Posted by: Amy Coney Barrett at April 18, 2025 01:53 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: torabora at April 18, 2025 01:53 PM (CVTPU)
120 I have hopes the SC writes a clear decision tossing birthright citizenship ,but that's it. However from now until the case is decided at least the left will be shitting itself
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 18, 2025 01:52 PM (6TePA)
Feeding the News Cycles for weeks and months... That's Entertainment!!!!!
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 01:53 PM (PCK5/)
Speculating about this is moot. This court will not rock the boat.
Posted by: tubal
Don't tip the boat over.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 01:54 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 01:54 PM (FZn/N)
Interpretation, interpolation, extrapolation... what's the difference.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 18, 2025 01:54 PM (/lPRQ)
That murky decision allowed the court to later rely on it in Wickard as to make the commerce clause plenary which was against the meaning and origin of that particular clause. The two accomplishments that Rehnquist Court did was reining in the commerce clause as a universal fix all power for Congress and trampling over Blackmun's ridiculous statement in Garcia v. Samta that the 10th was a truism--basically destroying the idea of reserved powers---so that any power that the feds did not take, the states get the remainder, and the people get crumbs. Basically eviscerated the 10th by judicial amendment.
Contrary to most people's conception of me as an apologists for courts, I am not. But whatever I think does not matter as to how Scotus will rule. That requires taking their nonsense objectively. Same issue with congressional legislation or presidential actions at times as well.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:54 PM (ctrM5)
If it is to be by Constitutional Amendment, this is a necessary first step, and I applaud Trump's tenacity and fortitude for going after such an issue of national importance.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 18, 2025 01:55 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: torabora at April 18, 2025 01:53 PM (CVTPU)
I'm for it. Unless their kids are not automatically citizens, they should not be able to remain.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 01:55 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: Dean Wormer at April 18, 2025 01:55 PM (6vpu3)
-some dufus liberal lawyer wannabe. You know the type with long hair wearing a suit and tie. (oh I am so rebel)
https://tinyurl.com/48mwj6su
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not at April 18, 2025 01:55 PM (r3F/z)
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limpdickery (n.)
1. a short, humorous, often ribald form of doggerel consisting of five lines, with an AABBA rhyme scheme.
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 01:55 PM (/iMjX)
In California, there are medical clinics set up along the southern border with the express purpose of catering to pregnant illegal immigrants and the desired goal of securing "anchor babies." I understand that "coyote smugglers" actually have a going rate for smuggling pregnant women that is higher than the usual cost to traffick.
Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 01:56 PM (dIske)
That murky decision allowed the court to later rely on it in Wickard as to make the commerce clause plenary which was against the meaning and origin of that particular clause. The two accomplishments that Rehnquist Court did was reining in the commerce clause as a universal fix all power for Congress and trampling over Blackmun's ridiculous statement in Garcia v. Samta that the 10th was a truism--basically destroying the idea of reserved powers---so that any power that the feds did not take, the states get the remainder, and the people get crumbs. Basically eviscerated the 10th by judicial amendment.
Contrary to most people's conception of me as an apologists for courts, I am not. But whatever I think does not matter as to how Scotus will rule. That requires taking their nonsense objectively. Same issue with congressional legislation or presidential actions at times as well.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:54 PM (ctrM5)
Geez. I almost fell asleep twice just reading your nutshell.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 18, 2025 01:56 PM (i24o9)
So there.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 18, 2025 01:56 PM (aaRct)
Posted by: DaveA at April 18, 2025 01:56 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 01:56 PM (dIske)
These fuckers need jail time.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 01:56 PM (FZn/N)
As of 2025, 33 countries have unrestricted birthright citizenship, also known as jus soli.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
I don't see one European country on the list, but maybe I just skimmed it too fast.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Is anyone else surprised at this number of countries that permit anchor babies? I really am. I thought the US was the #1 Su!cide Pact nation.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 01:57 PM (M4PBL)
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But why?
That's the exact reasoning there are so many bullshit "laws" created by the Court:
Solving problems is not the job of the Court--ruling on the legality of the question before the Court is the only job.
All they have to do is say "the Amendment as drafted, as intended by the drafters, and as understood in common English, applies only to those persons legally, lawfully and permanently residing in the United States.
The resolution of the status of those children now residing in the United States born to parents here illegally is a political question beyond the power and authority of this Court.
And must be resolved in the political arena."
Democrats and RINOs want the Court to save them from this hot potato--they should toss it into their laps where it belongs.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 01:57 PM (11WUE)
Posted by: DaveA at April 18, 2025 01:57 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 01:56 PM (FZn/N)
Hang them all.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 18, 2025 01:58 PM (i24o9)
every L&D nurse in Texas can tell you at least one story of getting screamed at in broken English by a father who wants those birth papers right now dammit so he can go sign up for those benefits (the state mails the birth certificate later)
Posted by: brak at April 18, 2025 01:58 PM (jGJov)
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It was never the interpretation in Wong Ark Kim. His parents were here legally and Wong Ark got barred from reentry despite being born here.
The limiting language is subject to the jurisdiction thereof which explicitly overrules jus solis common law before then and created the language that permitted overriding Dred Scott's assertion that blacks could never be citizens of teh United States. That was the purpose for the amendment, not illegals or sojourners (travelers here temporarily).
If you care to read the opinion, Gray dances with trying to distinguish Native Americans who were not US citizens if they were on reservations at the time versus Wong Ark. He failed miserably. Congress in the 1920's eventually made Native Americans citizens by birth using legislation.
That is the out that I think Scotus may take. Leave it up to Congress.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:58 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 01:57 PM (M4PBL)
Most of those are craphole countries nobody is going to sneak into to drop an anchor baby.
Except Canada, which is more suicidal than America and is currently trying to euthanize itself.
Posted by: Amy Coney Barrett at April 18, 2025 02:00 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:58 PM (ctrM5)
Thank goodness we can count on Congress to act both expeditiously AND in the nation's best interest.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 02:00 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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I have that superpower. I can give it fast if wordy or I can trim it down which takes a lot more time than threads allow.
So, you tend to get the wordy version here. Students got the more concise version plus the wordy version upon request. Most did not.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 02:00 PM (ctrM5)
Speculating about this is moot. This court will not rock the boat.
Posted by: tubal
Don't tip the boat over.
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Never get out of the boat. Chef.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 02:01 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 18, 2025 02:01 PM (rlK7S)
Posted by: Elric Blade
Read it years ago. In context, to my layman's eyes it, it said he has the same status as his parents.
BTW - this was pre-19th and his status would have been derived from the father's status (mother if father unknown, or a foundling), as would the mother's status. 19th unexpectantly squashed the concept of 'derived' citizenship - As of c.2000 there were still forms on-line for women to resestablish their citizenship if they married an alien post-19th.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 18, 2025 02:01 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 01:44 PM (8zz6B)
No. Deport them all.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 02:01 PM (l3YAf)
>>But why?
Because the justices are going to be peppering the DOJ on if they wan't to end BRC how are they going to determine who BRC does and does not apply to and how is that going to work federally and in the states.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2025 02:01 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Sheriff Bartino at April 18, 2025 02:02 PM (pt3r0)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 18, 2025 02:02 PM (6TePA)
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:58 PM (ctrM5)
Thank goodness we can count on Congress to act both expeditiously AND in the nation's best interest.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 02:00 PM (ExV1e)
I nearly spewed chips on my monitor reading that.
Thanks.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 18, 2025 02:02 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 02:03 PM (AOsQT)
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Never get out of the boat. Chef.
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We're going to need a bigger boat...
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 02:03 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 02:03 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 18, 2025 02:04 PM (rlK7S)
Posted by: Amy Coney Barrett at April 18, 2025 02:00 PM (l3YAf)
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A little tidbit about Canada and their MAID program for euthanasia. That program secured Canada's #1 spot in securing organ donor parts from Euthanasia. That's #1 in the world. You can't tell me that isn't a factor in why they allow it (and actually push its use) so readily. There is A LOT of money in organ donor efforts (for a lot of different parties).
Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 02:04 PM (dIske)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
I'll take Congress, as fleabitten and conflict of interest ridden, more than Court diktats. That was a particular conceit of Scalia that does not reflect well on him. He disliked Congress as an institution after spending time working there early in his career. Judicial Supremacy is not a fit substitute because constitutional amendments are very hard to get passed, almost impossible under the current climate. So, justices invent, distort, or otherwise mangle the Constitution and Bill of Rights without oversight nor the slap in the face of amendments. It took a Civil War to fix what Scotus had been doing for 75 years via THREE amendments.
And they did it early one with their funhouse mirror decision in the 1790's that caused the 11th amendment to be ratified to check the court early on.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 02:04 PM (ctrM5)
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Never get out of the boat. Chef.
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We're going to need a bigger boat...
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 02:03 PM (/iMjX)
I'm on a boat.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 18, 2025 02:04 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 18, 2025 02:04 PM (rlK7S)
Posted by: DaveA at April 18, 2025 02:04 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 02:05 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 02:03 PM (AOsQT)
Your concern concerns me.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 18, 2025 02:05 PM (i24o9)
I read yesterday Supreme Court Justice Kagan....S
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied an emergency appeal to temporarily block the deportation of the family of four Mexican nationals, who, according to their filing, "are targets of cartel violence due to their family ties and refusal to comply with extortion demands."
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not at April 18, 2025 02:06 PM (r3F/z)
Affordable Hunter Biden art for the discerning collector. As low as twenty bucks.
Posted by: torabora at April 18, 2025 02:06 PM (CVTPU)
Posted by: DaveA at April 18, 2025 02:06 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 02:06 PM (D7oie)
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Be extra careful when travelling to a country where the #1 export is human organs.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 02:07 PM (Dv3i1)
Most of those are craphole countries nobody is going to sneak into to drop an anchor baby.
Except Canada, which is more suicidal than America and is currently trying to euthanize itself.
Posted by: Amy Coney Barrett
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Canada was the one that surprised me. I don't see it as much of an anchor baby destination, but I think I've heard something about Canadian passports being valuable. Maybe because they get you all over the British Commonwealth, can't remember.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 02:07 PM (M4PBL)
Posted by: whig
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which means it dies
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 02:07 PM (AOsQT)
And if I had a pony, I'd ride him on my boat.
Damn. Now I want a pony.
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 02:07 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: runner at April 18, 2025 02:08 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: torabora at April 18, 2025 02:08 PM (CVTPU)
>>But why?
Because the justices are going to be peppering the DOJ on if they wan't to end BRC how are they going to determine who BRC does and does not apply to and how is that going to work federally and in the states.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2025 02:01 PM (XV/Pl)
Just tell 'em it's a tax, and they'll get Roberts.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 18, 2025 02:08 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie
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Much as I like Trump's order emotionally as righting a serious wrong in depreciating US citizenship, I think it is a reach for the president to do it alone absent wartime conditions.
Given the limit on citizenship in the 14th aka "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" (acknowledging both Indians and what common law called sojourners aka travelers), did not get birthright citizenship, the word jurisdiction is very important. It implies that Congress (which is repeated multiple times elsewhere) has control of what the court can hear including who is a citizen and who is not. Thus, they can regulate aka make laws about it.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 02:08 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:58 PM (ctrM5)
Thank goodness we can count on Congress to act both expeditiously AND in the nation's best interest.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 02:00 PM (ExV1e)
By the way, this is why, even though I believe Congress has the right to set tariff policy, then decided to give that power to POTUS so they can avoid making the tough decisions, Trump should fight to keep the power that he has. If Congress gets that 'right' back, they will never, ever use it.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 18, 2025 02:09 PM (mUH8I)
"Don't tell me how rocky the sea is. Just bring the ship in."
- Lou Holtz
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 18, 2025 02:09 PM (rlK7S)
The energy is with us now. Maybe we don't get it this time but we are moving in the right direction.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 02:09 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: torabora at April 18, 2025 02:09 PM (CVTPU)
Because when citizenship was extended to the American Indians, who were born in the borders of the US, Congress had to pass a law to do so.
If Birthright Citizenship was a real thing those Indians would have been citizens merely by being born on land the US had acquired.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 02:10 PM (t0Rmr)
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Which is why the Solicitor General needs to be forceful on the response:
The resolution of the status of those here born to parents not legal permanent residents is not before the Court at this time.
The only question before the Court is whether the 14th means those born to parents here illegally are citizens.
The President intends to follow the law and has determined they are not citizens.
Congress--and only Congress--as it did for American Indians--can resolve the question as to what to do with those children.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 02:10 PM (11WUE)
Posted by: whig
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Thanks whig.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 18, 2025 02:11 PM (rlK7S)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 02:11 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 02:03 PM (/iMjX)
Said the man in the boat.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 18, 2025 02:11 PM (ufFY8)
Still has a problem with fake asylum seekers and orphans.
Posted by: torabora at April 18, 2025 02:11 PM (CVTPU)
Posted by: Don Black
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It means that citizens, if they want this, get off their ass and prod their idiot members of Congress to pass it.
For obvious reasons, leaving it to Congress removes the problem of anchor baby adjudication from the court as to whether their decision withdrew existing citizenship etc. If they leave it to Congress, then they can ignore applications of the decision retroactively.
Otherwise, you might just get a Scotus decision that puts anchor baby status beyond reach without a constitutional amendment.
Once again, what I prefer, I do not make the mistake that Scotus will agree so my analysis is objective, not normative.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 02:12 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 02:07 PM (M4PBL)
Canada has the benefit that illegals usually have to pass through America first. And American citizenship is more valuable than Canadian citizenship.
People do do birth tourism in Canada, though. A lot of Asians.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 02:12 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 02:13 PM (viF8m)
Of course the irony is Chairman Xi controls the Canadian government just as much as he does the Chinese one.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 02:13 PM (t0Rmr)
On my playlist. One of the very first disco songs.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
"Sit down, sit down, sit down! Sit down, you're rockin' the boat!"
Stubby Kaye rocked that number.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 02:13 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: 18-1
Good point. I had never thought of that.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 02:14 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 02:06 PM (D7oie)
He's certainly never apologized to Unisom for driving their stock price down.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 02:14 PM (u9Npv)
Every alien who comes here should have to pass a no pregnancy test. Even the men.
Posted by: torabora
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The following conversation takes place in Spanish at an immigration court:
CBP: All right, buddy, step into this room for your pregnancy test.
Illegal alien: wtf? I'm a man, are you blind?
CBP: Men can get pregnant in America.
Illegal alien: *self-deports*
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 02:15 PM (M4PBL)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Under Trump, at least, and probably future presidents not named Pence, would veto such actions requiring a 2/3rds majority to repeal it. Not happening. Presidents, even Biden, used the same authority to punish countries such as South Africa, North Korea, etc. Too useful a tool in diplomacy to give up.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 02:15 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Stubby Kaye at April 18, 2025 02:15 PM (UOzvC)
How many Americans live in a congressional district where there weren't an overwhelming number of fraudulent votes.
The odd thing about our current political state is that most of the red House seats are mostly fair elections which is why occasionally Dems can get elected even in deep red areas if the R office holder pisses the voters off enough.
But most of the blue seats are controlled by fake votes. In theory if you did get 80% or more of the actual citizens there out to vote maybe they could overcome the fraud but...they don't and won't.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 02:15 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Hank Johnson at April 18, 2025 02:16 PM (6vpu3)
Supreme Court Justice Kagan Rejects Appeal From Family Facing Deportation
https://tinyurl.com/bnyavefe
Supreme Court Sides With US in Deportation Notice Dispute
https://tinyurl.com/48mwj6su
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not at April 18, 2025 02:17 PM (r3F/z)
When i first ready that, my brain saw 'ABBA' and now I have 'Voulez-vous' stuck in my head.
Posted by: Nelly at April 18, 2025 02:17 PM (pSknm)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 18, 2025 02:17 PM (yCLJY)
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It's incredible to me that we're at a point in our nation's history where this has true potential of changing in two different methods. That's astounding. And then you add all the other stuff that's happening...
I enjoyed teasing (D)s about "all it would've taken was a $5B wall and honest election" to remind them Trump would've been leaving office after accomplishing almost nothing with a divided Congress, but I more and more realize their actions were a gift and an opportunity from God.
I mean, I'll still tease them, but...
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 18, 2025 02:18 PM (rlK7S)
I’m really glad we destroyed all of that to satisfy the Communists’ perverted interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 02:18 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 02:18 PM (lCppi)
Legally, they were looked at as the results of conquest, which did not make them citizens.
Andrea Burkhart has a fascinating interview with sone Italian professor in CA about the topic, and about a significant case involving indians that were removed to OK, but went back to NE to resettle.
I can't recall the case, but the story was fascinating.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2025 02:19 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Jm on Illinois at April 18, 2025 02:19 PM (Xusvd)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 02:13 PM (t0Rmr)
And lots of American universities, too.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 02:19 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 18, 2025 01:22 PM (7leMO)
Hopefully my good man, you'll settle for a humble Analrapist?
Posted by: Tobias Funke at April 18, 2025 02:19 PM (lg881)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 02:18 PM (l3YAf)
How else were they going to get more voters?
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 02:19 PM (u9Npv)
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And lots of American universities, too.
Posted by: Night lifted....
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Can we please go one thread without talking about Harvard?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 18, 2025 02:20 PM (rlK7S)
Posted by: Nelly at April 18, 2025 02:17 PM (pSknm)
Fernando. The song you are thinking of is Fernando.
You are welcome.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 02:20 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 02:06 PM (D7oie)
He's certainly never apologized to Unisom for driving their stock price down.
Posted by: ...
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Eh, I get it sometimes. Just wanted to make clear that my views of what the Court will do and what I prefer they do (same goes for other branches) are not the same in many cases.
Ellipsis, you would be bemused to read my dissertation or one of my last 75 pages or so conference papers on the evolution of state bill of rights in the south. Both are snooze material that take time to condense and leave off all the scholarly blather required for such things.
I can put my wife to sleep if she asks me a question about something related to government as well.
I am much shorter though than most political theorists tend to be. Those guys can write some doorstoppers.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 02:20 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: torabora at April 18, 2025 02:11 PM (CVTPU)
And also the temporary ones that become permanent as soon as he anchor is dropped in the maternity ward.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 02:20 PM (FZn/N)
You are welcome.
Posted by: Kindltot
I hate that song. Nasty earwig to start and the Mexican Revolution in 1910 (or ones before that) tended to be bloody nasty affairs where all the key players were despicable monsters.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 02:21 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Big Doggerel at April 18, 2025 02:21 PM (6vpu3)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 02:18 PM (l3YAf)
That was under deconstruction since outsourcing began and, of course, the rise of the DoE.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 02:22 PM (FZn/N)
Just farting around online and found these recent SCOTUS rulings pertaining to immigration. Kind of a BOOM! moment
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It!
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It's a BOOM! moment for me that they're considering it, but I still wish that DHS or DOS would be more transparent about these headline-grabbing deportees. My homepage is chock-full of bewildered grad students, teachers, and doctors who "had a speeding ticket seven years ago that was dismissed" but they just got the dread notice that their visa has been yanked. WHAT is the rest of the story?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 02:23 PM (M4PBL)
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 02:20 PM (FZn/N)
I wonder if I could make a buck by buying a bunch of cheap-ass Chinese mushroom anchors, wrapping Cabbage Patch dolls around the shank, and selling them on Etsy as "anchor babies"? Buy two, and put them on your driveway corners with lights.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 02:23 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Joe at April 18, 2025 02:23 PM (rzwGB)
Sometimes I'm bemused just reading my alarm clock.
Before we had the character limit I'm pretty certain I competed with both you and rhomboid for length if not breadth. The main difference being people just skipped mine.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 02:24 PM (u9Npv)
This is going to be a rock around Van Hollen's neck forever.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 02:24 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 18, 2025 02:24 PM (lg881)
Posted by: The Singing Nun at April 18, 2025 02:24 PM (6vpu3)
195 If Birthright Citizenship was a real thing those Indians would have been citizens merely by being born on land the US had acquired.
Posted by: 18-1
Good point. I had never thought of that.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 02:14 PM (77rzZ)
Bad argument. The 14th amendment specifically excluded them; they were not granted any citizenship until 1924.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 18, 2025 02:24 PM (ZEzFB)
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(wonders why they're not citizens after more than 7 years)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 18, 2025 02:25 PM (rlK7S)
Legally, they were looked at as the results of conquest, which did not make them citizens.
Andrea Burkhart has a fascinating interview with sone Italian professor in CA about the topic, and about a significant case involving indians that were removed to OK, but went back to NE to resettle.
I can't recall the case, but the story was fascinating.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt
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It was and is more to the point that Indians did and do have sovereignty on reservations equivalent to states. That means only the federal government has power over them, not states nor localities.
As a result, I would, however, be very careful not to violate the law on reservations as federal review of Native American courts on reservations tends to be very slow. And doubly careful for any financial contract dealing with natives on reservations.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 02:25 PM (ctrM5)
Like, if the US can exercise it's law enforcement power over the person, that person is "subject to the jurisdiction thereof."
But, ask them to name a class of persons who could enter this country and NOT be arrested if they commit a crime.
Name one person who enters the United States that isn't "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" under their definition.
They can't.
They'll try to cite diplomats. But that's not immune from arrest--that's immune from prosecution.
And that's not a "get out of jail free" card for all crimes.
It's only for some crimes.
Even diplomats are "subject to arrest."
Yet, the 14th drafters felt it necessary to specifically exclude diplomats.
Why would it have to say "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" if diplomats were already specifically excluded?
So that's were we need to go:
Demand they name one class of people--any at all--that enter and are not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 02:25 PM (11WUE)
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Only CNN is allowed to watch it. Don Lemon will explain.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 02:25 PM (u9Npv)
Is it DHS putting out the sob story headline or is he MSM putting out headlies?
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 02:25 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 02:24 PM (viF8m)
The fucker should have opted for the millstone.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2025 02:25 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: The Knaack at April 18, 2025 02:26 PM (8zz6B)
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We got to move these refrigerators.
We got to move these color TVs.
Posted by: Mark Knopfler at April 18, 2025 02:26 PM (6vpu3)
Mexican. Came to Georgia 20yrs or so ago and popped out a son. Returned to Mexico with son and was there til he was about 16yrs.
Son, who speaks no English but some sort of Mexican, was arrested in Florida driving with a suspended license. Had been arrested with a DUI a few weeks prior. Now in ICE custody for deportation.
His mother arrived to the court waving his birth certificate and, I guess, SS card. The FL judge said the birth certificate had "water marks" as real. And that she could not save his sorry ass. I can't recall if Mama speaks English, altho she needs to wash her hair.
The wails of the commenters ranged from "we will all be deported" to he is a citizen. One who speaks no English and spent most of his life in Mexico. Simply arriving on our soil to be hatched for future gain. The two illegals in the car with him were also detained.
The commenters are fixated on Hitler and, while their nationality is unknown, this is Hitler and no one will be left in the USA soon. Good. My ancestors did not arrive illegally.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 18, 2025 02:26 PM (6PCLE)
And what of all of the parents who were sponsored for green cards by their "US citizen" child born in the US?
No lawyer but wouldn't there need to be one clearly defined law - you are, you aren't - from X date forward?
It's so complicated. It's so intentional.
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 02:26 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: 18-1
Good point. I had never thought of that.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 02:14 PM (77rzZ)
Hmm. I agree. Great point. The US always treated them as a separate nation.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 18, 2025 02:26 PM (7w+5t)
Posted by: Joe
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I suspect just enforcing the law would work, same as always.
If that fails, asset forfeiture of companies hiring them would be a decent next step.
See also: Drug dealers
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 18, 2025 02:26 PM (rlK7S)
F*ck these elitist scumbags.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 18, 2025 02:27 PM (/U5Yz)
No lawyer but wouldn't there need to be one clearly defined law - you are, you aren't - from X date forward?
It's so complicated. It's so intentional.
Posted by: Joe Biden
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India managed to do one of those laws when a ton of Bangaladeshis swarmed in illegally and had babies. It's a little complicated, but they construed the law around date of birth.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 02:28 PM (M4PBL)
Posted by: Von Hollen at April 18, 2025 02:28 PM (0fMex)
Posted by: Weird Al at April 18, 2025 02:28 PM (6vpu3)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 02:28 PM (DKKgv)
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 02:26 PM (NFX2v)
Backdate it to 1900
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 02:28 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 02:21 PM (ctrM5)
first time I ever heard it in Spanish was in a Mexico City market.
Simon Bolivar wrote his Letter from Jamaica with its prescient view of the Americas, and he predicted the central American Republic's break up, but I have always wondered a bit at why such a diverse country like Mexico never broke into separate states in the same sort of way.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 02:28 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 02:24 PM (viF8m)
I would say that it would be a dick in Van Hollen’s mouth, but he’d like that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 18, 2025 02:29 PM (ZEzFB)
I mean, it probably wouldn't change the existing racial animosity, but it would at least help them understand the issue a bit better.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 18, 2025 02:29 PM (rlK7S)
Meaning, all the children of illegals can be move (be moved) to reservations.
A nice little 19th Century solution to a modern problem.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 02:29 PM (11WUE)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Not so. Subject to the jurisdiction thereof language did not explicitly refer to Indians not taxed in that day's vernacular. The 14th was made specifically to reverse Dred Scott's ruling that blacks could not be citizens of the US despite what states did. You can go read up on the debates in Congress and even state legislatures about it. It was never intended to ratify jus soli as Gray proposed as the subject to the jurisdiction thereof actually limits jus soli to special cases and jurisdiction (using Article III) means something that Congress can regulate as it does for the Court in general.
That was the intention and the words behind the 14th and your argument is ahistoric as far as what was intended. The Civil War amendments were passed as a package to ensure that Dred Scott (and its predecessor of Barron v. Baltimore) were explicitly overridden. Remember, they fought a war over citizenship for blacks. Not so for illegals nor Indians.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 02:30 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 02:30 PM (u9Npv)
Meaning, all the children of illegals can be move (be moved) to reservations.
A nice little 19th Century solution to a modern problem.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 02:29 PM (11WUE)
HOW?!?!?!
Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at April 18, 2025 02:30 PM (Vqx30)
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oooh, I like the way you think.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 18, 2025 02:30 PM (rlK7S)
This occurred just hours after Karmelo’s “spokesman” disparaged Mr. Metcalf at a press conference
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 02:31 PM (AOsQT)
Demand they name one class of people--any at all--that enter and are not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 02:25 PM (11WUE)
Foreign ambassadors and their children. That’s about it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 18, 2025 02:31 PM (ZEzFB)
Posted by: 18-1
Good point. I had never thought of that.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 02:14 PM (77rzZ)
Bad argument. The 14th amendment specifically excluded them; they were not granted any citizenship until 1924.
Posted by: Tom Servo
Shouldn't the Ark ruling then have overturned that portion of the 14th that excluded the Indians? Did anyone bring that up at the time?
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 02:31 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Kindltot
They did, kinda. Republic of California, Yucatan almost became a US state....
Posted by: El Mikloso de Yucatan at April 18, 2025 02:32 PM (UOzvC)
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oooh, I like the way you think.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 18, 2025 02:30 PM (rlK7S)
And turn Puerto Rico into the reservation.
Posted by: The Knaack at April 18, 2025 02:32 PM (8zz6B)
Simon Bolivar wrote his Letter from Jamaica with its prescient view of the Americas, and he predicted the central American Republic's break up, but I have always wondered a bit at why such a diverse country like Mexico never broke into separate states in the same sort of way.
Posted by: Kindltot
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More like a bad imitation of the Chinese. Warlordism then regrouping and recentralization leading eventually to warlordism again. Time cycle appears to be shorter though. Arguably, given the power of cartels in Mexico, they are in the warlordism phase again with the president ruling only in Mexico City.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 02:32 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Bulg
The ladies call me "Stubby" for a reason.
Posted by: Stubby Kaye
Because the water was cold.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 02:32 PM (/iLcI)
And what's going on with the DACAs? It's been years and there must be many children born from the originally designated groups.
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 02:32 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 02:22 PM (FZn/N)
It started in 1954 when the monstrous Warren Court decided people had just been misreading the 14th Amendment for the last 90 years, and that these little sparks of the divine needed an opportunity to stab white kids in the heart. Because equality. (Communism.)
It’s a direct line from that to the rise of the welfare state, “disparate impact” (because if anything results in inequality of outcome it must be a violation of the 14th Amendment), DEI, and anchor babies.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 02:32 PM (l3YAf)
His mother arrived to the court waving his birth certificate and, I guess, SS card. The FL judge said the birth certificate had "water marks" as real. And that she could not save his sorry ass.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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I don't follow. If she dropped the kid in the US, he's a citizen. And the judge acknowledged the validity of the birth certificate?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 02:32 PM (M4PBL)
This occurred just hours after Karmelo's "spokesman" disparaged Mr. Metcalf at a press conference
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 02:31 PM (AOsQT)
Hmm, doesn't make it look *less* likely that the derp clown state is messing around here...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 18, 2025 02:33 PM (Vqx30)
Posted by: Von Hollen at April 18, 2025 02:33 PM (0fMex)
Posted by: Night lifted.
Sigh.
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 02:34 PM (NFX2v)
I once had an entire conversation on our front porch with a guy, working on pipes in the common area, using his phone to translate what I said to his supervisor. I was wanting to know how much digging they were going to do to my front lawn. I can look fierce and he was a small guy.
I should whip out my ILLEGAL stamp for their foreheads as they won't be able to read it anyway.
To assimilate and become a US citizen you have to read and speak English and pass the test. Not just arrive over the border and claim our soil as your own. Nor our benefits from popping a cartel baby out of your nethers.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 18, 2025 02:34 PM (6PCLE)
This occurred just hours after Karmelo’s “spokesman” disparaged Mr. Metcalf at a press conference
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 02:31 PM (AOsQT)
It'd be a damned shame if the Anthony family got swatted in their new digs, eh? And those ghetto trash are just the sort to open the door with a gin in hand, too...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 02:34 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 01:57 PM (M4PBL)
Yeah but look at those countries. Probably not a lot of takers! 3rd world shit holes.
Posted by: haffhowershower at April 18, 2025 02:35 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Kindltot
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It has, except they call them cartels instead of states.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 18, 2025 02:35 PM (UBKzV)
Posted by: Bulg
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Justice Gray did a bad tapdance to distinguish the case from non taxed Indians aka Indians living on reservations who do not pay federal taxes when living and working on it. But the court's poorly worded and supported decision was essentially because Wong Ark Kim's parents were here legally under federal immigration laws at the time and then Wong Ark was born here, he is a citizen.
The fact that Wong Ark Kim's parents were here legally in the first place under congressional laws is close enough to meet the definition of subject to the jurisdiction thereof and thus that applied to their child.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 02:35 PM (ctrM5)
Doesn't matter if that was a typo, still works.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 02:35 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 02:36 PM (g/Chl)
So that's were we need to go:
Demand they name one class of people--any at all--that enter and are not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
I recall that during naturalization procedures they are very clear that unless you shiny new US Citizens formally (i.e.: with paperwork) do not renounce your foreign citizenship if your home country demands your return your ass is going as they still have jusirdiction over you (such as their draft).
Some words and terms are unremarkable in their meaning until suddenly nobody knows what they ever meant.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 18, 2025 02:36 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
And tonic.
Don't forget the tonic and lime.
Posted by: Miklos with pinky extended at April 18, 2025 02:36 PM (UOzvC)
Doesn't matter if that was a typo, still works.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 02:35 PM (viF8m)
Thought the same thing.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 02:36 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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The best part is that this isn't necessarily a typo
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 18, 2025 02:37 PM (rlK7S)
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And they can still be arrested.
Depending on the crime, we may waive prosecution and/or expel them.
But: Imagine an ambassador rapes and murders a child.
You think any President is going to allow him to go back home to Iran?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 02:37 PM (11WUE)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 18, 2025 02:37 PM (ZEzFB)
I was actually thinking in French by the end of that summer, but I had been born back in the good old USA so there was never an issue like that for me. My brother is pretty good in Spanish and Russian but has no French.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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I've learned and forgotten five languages. I hate the way that happens.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 02:38 PM (M4PBL)
Posted by: Mudshark at April 18, 2025 02:38 PM (M8TvI)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
En is, basz Meg.
Posted by: Moderately Magyar Miklos at April 18, 2025 02:39 PM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 18, 2025 02:39 PM (0fMex)
Posted by: ...
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Well, they fell asleep on mine so I guess we both provided the folks what they wanted.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 02:39 PM (ctrM5)
You think any President is going to allow him to go back home to Iran?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 02:37 PM (11WUE)
Well there’s the gap between practicality and legality. The host country has to decide if they want to start a war with the US over one idiots actions.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 18, 2025 02:40 PM (ZEzFB)
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 02:32 PM (NFX2v)
Every time a judge said DACA was illegal Obama/Biden just shrugged and kept going.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 02:40 PM (DKKgv)
Posted by: whig
So that's what the Social Security Administration land whale was reading at her desk.
MURDERER
Posted by: Miklos to and over conclusions at April 18, 2025 02:40 PM (UOzvC)
Doesn't matter if that was a typo, still works.
Posted by: JackStraw
Yeah. A Colt .45
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 02:40 PM (/iLcI)
This occurred just hours after Karmelo's "spokesman" disparaged Mr. Metcalf at a press conference
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 02:31 PM (AOsQT)
Hmm, doesn't make it look *less* likely that the derp clown state is messing around here...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 18, 2025 02:33 PM (Vqx30)
Not a lawyer, but I was thinking about Ace's post about this yesterday. If I were Anthony's lawyer, I know that there's no way that my client doesn't fry with a jury picked from the district - it's not in dispute that there are witnesses that saw the 1st degree murder take place. My only chance to win would be to change the venue. Looked at that way, everything that the family is doing now makes sense in that light. It's not like the TX media is going out of their way to publicize these shenanigans.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 18, 2025 02:40 PM (7w+5t)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 18, 2025 02:40 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Moderately Magyar Miklos at April 18, 2025 02:39 PM (UOzvC)
Nagyon egyezek veled.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 18, 2025 02:40 PM (aaRct)
But: Imagine an ambassador rapes and murders a child.
You think any President is going to allow him to go back home to Iran?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Americans have been mugged and assaulted with impunity by foreign diplomats or their kids. There was an attempt in Congress to change the laws about that many years ago, in which Teddy Kennedy argued for the diplomats.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 02:41 PM (M4PBL)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 02:42 PM (g/Chl)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Which by doing so in the federal government, Congress is asserting jurisdiction over them (the legal right to make rules for that class and to have courts consider that class as having standing to argue about issues affecting them as citizens).
The most power that Congress has over the courts is both jurisdiction (see Marbury as well as Ex Parte McCardle) and spending such as creating new courts. Far easier to do either than impeachment.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 02:42 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Agreeable Miklos at April 18, 2025 02:42 PM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2025 01:26 PM (XV/Pl)
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"A child born in the United States, of parents of Chinese descent, who, at the time of his birth, are subjects of the Emperor of China, but have a permanent domicil and residence in the United States, and are there carrying on business, and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the Emperor of China, becomes at the time of his birth a citizen of the United States,"
According to the original decision, they have to live here, have a permanent residence, and be working.
So, even giving Ark all justice in the world, it doesn't say, "cross the border and pop out kids".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:35 PM (GBKbO
You would think that by now that Manchurian Justice Amy Coney Island Barrett and Squish Roberts --along with the female Marxist Bloc of SCOTUS-- only issue Constitution- based opinions by accident.
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at April 18, 2025 02:42 PM (TSCL1)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
I don't see one European country on the list, but maybe I just skimmed it too fast.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 01:29 PM (6ydKt)
Jus Soli - right of soil
Jus Sanguinis - right of blood
Jus Penguinis - well, it's self explantory
Posted by: haffhowershower at April 18, 2025 02:42 PM (144I4)
Like how to surrender without a fight? Or how to measure things using gay communism units?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 02:42 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 02:32 PM (M4PBL)
I am trying to figure out how you match someone who was born in the US, and spent his entire life in Mexico to a birth certificate and SSN without either a chain of custody or biometric data.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 02:42 PM (D7oie)
Depending on the crime, we may waive prosecution and/or expel them.
But: Imagine an ambassador rapes and murders a child.
You think any President is going to allow him to go back home to Iran?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
Depends on the presidential party in power.
Biden or Obola? Hell yes they would.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 02:43 PM (/iLcI)
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 02:03 PM (AOsQT)
Your concern concerns me.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 18, 2025 02:05 PM
I think it should concern all of us.
*snaps on sunglasses*
Yaaaaaah
Posted by: Horatio Caine at April 18, 2025 02:43 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk
>>>THIS GUY GETS IT
Posted by: Agreeable Miklos at April 18, 2025 02:42 PM (UOzvC)
I don't get it.
- not TJM
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 18, 2025 02:43 PM (7w+5t)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 02:32 PM (M4PBL)
He may have a birth certificate, maybe a real one vs forged, but he does not speak a word of English and ICE determined he was illegal. That was what the story said.
If I arrived in Italy to have a baby and then go back to the USA, perhaps son's birth certificate would read Italian. However, if my kid was raised in America and I am American I guess it is dual citizenship?
Whether or not he is in a gang I don't know. It may be a muddy deal to see through. However, between the dramatic glamour shot of Mama and it being Yahoo, there were a lot of gaps in the story.
Basically, in my opinion, if he spent most of his life in Mexico and can't speak a word of English, he is an anchor baby born here for our benefits. They did not stay.
Which is different from families who do. Why, after 20-30yrs they don't become legal citizens is a mystery. Still speak their native tongue and many don't bother to learn ours. Maybe they were criminals. Former DUI's are common with them here killing Americans.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 18, 2025 02:43 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 02:43 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 02:44 PM (DKKgv)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 18, 2025 02:45 PM (7w+5t)
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 02:45 PM (NFX2v)
- not TJM
Posted by: Darrell Harris
TJM is off for a week.
You can pick up some slack.
Posted by: Regional Manager Miklos at April 18, 2025 02:46 PM (UOzvC)
You think any President is going to allow him to go back home to Iran?
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Hmm. I can think of a couple.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 02:46 PM (Dv3i1)
If I arrived in Italy to have a baby and then go back to the USA, perhaps son's birth certificate would read Italian. However, if my kid was raised in America and I am American I guess it is dual citizenship?
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Doesn’t matter what language the kids speaks or where he is raised. You as an American citizen give birth to a kid. That kid is a citizen as well. It’s why the Obama birth certificate thing was so dumb. Even if he was born in Kenya he’d still be a natural born citizen given his mother was a citizen at the time of his birth.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 02:46 PM (DKKgv)
I am trying to figure out how you match someone who was born in the US, and spent his entire life in Mexico to a birth certificate and SSN without either a chain of custody or biometric data.
Posted by: Kindltot
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I don't know how you would either, but people do such things routinely. I knew people abroad who deliberately went to America pregnant and came back with a citizen who wouldn't go back to America until he or she was in their early 20s.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 02:46 PM (M4PBL)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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The problem for Anthony is relocation to a urban hellhole jurisdiction is unlikely. Just as likely the trial would be held in a rural Texan court. Up to judge anyway and likely to be dismissed by the trial judge.
Awhile back, we had a prisoner takeover the courtroom and shoot people live on video so no way to dispute someone else did it. He got a change of venue but it was to a rural region where he was promptly convicted after a very expensive trial. About bankrupted the state's public defender fund because of it.
Defendants do not get to pick venue, court does it.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 02:47 PM (ctrM5)
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Doesn't matter if that was a typo, still works.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Yeah. A Colt .45
Posted by: rickb223
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That's malt liquor, not gin....
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 18, 2025 02:47 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 02:47 PM (DKKgv)
Posted by: haffhowershower at April 18, 2025 02:42 PM (144I4)
Penguins au Jus is disgusting. You really want a tomato based sauce instead.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 02:48 PM (D7oie)
Depending on the crime, we may waive prosecution and/or expel them.
But: Imagine an ambassador rapes and murders a child.
You think any President is going to allow him to go back home to Iran?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
Depends on the presidential party in power.
Biden or Obola? Hell yes they would.
Posted by: rickb223
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And take these pallets of unmarked $100 bills with you too!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 18, 2025 02:49 PM (/lPRQ)
Many did not bother to learn English nor become US citizens.
Obungo and company ignored the "temporary" status in their welcoming them in the USA but not Martha's Vineyard.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 18, 2025 02:49 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Akshully... You still had to have the kid naturalized as a US Citizen. Best do it soon otherwise all you have is a foreign birth certificate.
/ They did change these laws recently... But still advised that the cert of birth abroad be applied for at the nearest embassy.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 18, 2025 02:53 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 02:46 PM (DKKgv)
Mother is Mexican and not a US citizen in the Yahoo story. She popped out the kid (I almost wrote pooped out by accident, which could be true as well) in Georgia to return to Mexico after his birth. At age 20 or so he retuned here illegally.
The story does not mention why he returned. But ICE is going to deport him back to his homeland from FL.
I have no doubt immigration lawyers are involved and put this sob story out for sympathy. Commenters mourned. I did not comment nor mourn as he had a former DUI, was driving on a suspended license, and I have seen people injured or dead because of their illegal status when working in an ED.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 18, 2025 02:54 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 02:23 PM
I would ask your students if they have been attending any rally's protesting for Palestine or any anti Israeli activists. I know there is a tech group on X that can track mobile devices. The group has info of Antica Ops, BLM protests and Pro Palatine protests.
this might be part of the reason.
i feel bad for the students really but a National Emergency has been declared on the subject of immigration.
(M4PBL)
Yes Visa's are being revoked for minor infractions of the law.Yes is is sad and maybe considered collateral damage maybe.
Rubio says U.S has revoked hundreds of visas as Trump administration clamps down on foreign student activists.
https://tinyurl.com/4zmm5y35
I see the conflict You're referring to yes. I posted a little info.
Visa cancellations sow panic for international students
https://tinyurl.com/2kny3u4j
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not at April 18, 2025 03:02 PM (r3F/z)
The illegals on the trains in NYC already are packed with 8 children ages 1 month to 5 years (Sadly not an exaggeration, i see this basically every day on my way to and from work) so we should expect them to start popping out more and more "citizens" who will immediately boost their welfare earnings.
Posted by: Rbastid at April 18, 2025 03:03 PM (EqkVi)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 03:06 PM (g/Chl)
A sheriff who takes no shite
https://tinyurl.com/yxsere4k
In the case of the Mexican anchor baby, now free, bless his heart. Did he present the birth certificate at the border legally, or just walk over four years ago? That might have saved him some trouble, other than his suspended driver's license.
https://tinyurl.com/59mzmwt8
Commenters and supporters who fear Hitler now think these innocents are being targeted by their tattoos. Like the Latin King tattoo. These bastards from Memphis burned a MS girl alive a few years ago with the same tats. I shed not one tear for any of them.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 18, 2025 03:17 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 03:25 PM (g/Chl)
Posted by: Occasional Commenter at April 18, 2025 03:26 PM (MV++E)
Posted by: Cordella at April 18, 2025 07:40 PM (vJYB+)
CNN: Trump and Musk Murdered a Federal Worker By Worrying Her With DOGE Cuts Until She Had a Heart Attack
You've got to be ****ing kidding me with this sh** now, CNN.
You cannot be serious. You simply cannot be. I know what you're thinking -- this bureaucrat was probably in terrific shape, which means that the heart attack was caused not by 50+ years of unhealthy living but just by Trump's and Musk's nefarious plotting. And you're absolutely right -- she was an original member of the George Floyd Memorial Crossfit Center.
In a federal workforce racked by stress and fear, one family shares a story of death By Sean LyngaasHe's a "cybersecurity reporter," which we know now just means "he pushes censorship and propaganda behalf of the left and the Deep State." Here's another example of his neutral, objective reporting:
'It's a bloodbath': Massive wave of job cuts underway at US health agenciesIt's almost as if he's a propagandist who is fighting for bureaucrats to keep their phoney-baloney jobs by This One Neat Trick of claiming every run-of-the-mill redundancy is a "bloodbath" or "slaughter" or, as in this case, a stealthy murder committed by use of the ultimate poison: Dark MAGA DOGE.
Stress and anxiety had been building for weeks in Monique Lockett, a 25-year veteran of the Social Security Administration, about the fate of her colleagues and the sensitive agency data she had vowed to protect, her sister Ksha told CNN.That's apparently not a typo. Her name is "Ksha," no vowel in the beginning. I believe Ksha is the third moon of Planet Vulcan but I'll have to double-check that. Please do not pump that disinformation out there until it's confirmed.
Yes, that's because she was crazy and neurotic. And her morbid obesity probably contributed to that. Obesity puts strains and stresses on the body, and therefore on the mind.
In February, amid sweeping changes to the federal workforce, Monique was five years from retirement but was facing one of the most uncertain periods of her career, according to Ksha. She was growing increasingly concerned about what Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency might do to the agency. "My sister had a lot of anxiety around the changes that were happening in other agencies and, inevitably, what would happen to Social Security," Ksha told CNN. "She was concerned about the overall well-being of everybody that she worked with because it was stressful for a lot of people."
Mental patients should not be working for the federal government. Sorry not sorry.
The Trump administration's demolition of federal programs and jobs has sent waves of anxiety and depression through a government workforce that is experiencing anger, hopelessness and worries about people harming themselves, according to interviews with federal workers, their family members and mental health professionals who spoke to CNN.
You're literally erasing the existence of bureaucrats, Hater Bigots.
Since the beginning of the DOGE-led program cuts, falsehoods have proliferated online about alleged fraud and wasteful programs, fueling a caricature in some Americans' minds of an inept or corrupt federal worker.
By the way, CNN then links to this related story:
Monique's final days were spent in that climate of fear and stress while feeling devalued in the workplace, before dying on the job two months ago, according to her sister.
Gripping stuff. Back to the "Trump and Musk did a murder" exposé:
Related article 'It is a wrecking ball': Former DOGE worker describes Musk-led government-slashing effort from the inside
"It was very upsetting to her to hear that what they did wasn't valued, what they did wasn't important and certainly that what they did was wasteful," Ksha said. Monique died of hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease -- a buildup of plaque in the arteries -- according to Stephanie Moore, a spokesperson for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Maryland.As everyone knows, people build up lethal levels of plaque in their arteries over a matter a few months. Your arteries are clean, Trump gets elected, and then bang, four months later, you're as dead as Hunter Biden's legal career. And watercolor career. Note she died two months ago so Trump and Musk worked their deadly spells over just two months, January and February. This... is CNN.
How about chronic morbid obesity? Does that have any impacts on people's cardiovascular health? Or is it just the Heart Attack Laser Beams that Musk fires out of his eyes?
It is impossible to know exactly what factors triggered Monique's health emergency that day. Chronic stress can increase the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, according to medical experts.
Well as long as you can cite that to an expert, like the woman's sister "Ksha."
Ksha believes that stress may have been a factor in her sister's death.
Sleep is a telltale symptom of lethal stress, as you know. Whenever I get stressed out so bad it hurts my health, I take a little nap. It puts me right out, like cheddar cheese.
Monique usually called Ksha when she got to the Social Security Administration's vast campus outside of Baltimore, but Ksha's phone didn't ring the morning of February 18. Monique came in and went to her desk, where she fell asleep, according to a Baltimore County Police report that the agency shared with CNN. Paramedics spent about 40 minutes trying to revive her, the report says, but the 53-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.
Oh so there are alternate theories in this Murder Mystery. But nah, it was probably Trump.
Complications from Monique's disease can include a heart attack or stroke. According to the report, Ksha told police that Monique had obesity and high blood pressure, which she was taking medication for. Co-workers told the responding police officer that Monique was "not in a [sic] visible signs of distress" prior to falling asleep, the report said.
When a cause of death is related to atherosclerosis, "stress can certainly play a role by increasing blood pressure and cortisol levels" -- a "stress hormone," said Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a CNN medical analyst and professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University. "Chronic stress can also lead to increase in inflammation, which plays a role in both formation of new atherosclerosis and acute events." A spokesperson for the Social Security Administration, or SSA, confirmed to CNN that an employee died at the agency's headquarters on February 18 but did not respond to further questions.February 18th -- Trump took office on January 20th. He killed her not in a couple of months, as I stupidly claimed above, but in just 29 days. Just one Leap Year February was all it took for Trump and Musk to choke her arteries with budget-induced plaque.
The DOGE team at SSA has grown to at least 10 people in the administration's three months in power, according to court documents. The Trump administration has tasked DOGE representatives, some of whom are detailed from other agencies, with finding fraud in the Social Security payment system -- while granting them access to sensitive data on millions of Americans.That has nothing to do with the bizarre main claim in the article. It's just additional propaganda this "journalist" wanted to get in. Here CNN links to another CNN exclusive:
Back to Sean Lyngaas's breathless propaganda:
Related article GOP states go 'DOGE-ing,' mimicking Musk's branding as they call attention to spending cuts
She died protecting illegal aliens from having fraudulently-obtained benefits from being blocked. What a hero.
A federal judge on March 20 blocked DOGE's access to the SSA data that contains personal identifiable information and accused DOGE of being "essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA ... without any concrete knowledge that the needle is actually in the haystack." The multiple emails, sometimes on weekends, that the Trump administration has sent to SSA employees asking them about their productivity has had a "whiplash effect," according to a former SSA employee familiar with projects that Monique worked on. "It's creating a level of anxiety that's making it hard to do their jobs. These are good people who are being traumatized." Monique "was an integral part of ... making sure that people's information was kept safe," Ksha said, and that "the right people had access to the right information."
... A spokesperson for DOGE did not respond to multiple phone calls and emails seeking comment.Because you're a silly pussymouth bitch specializing in Teen Beat panic porn for psychotic aging white leftwing women who are dead from the waist down and who can no longer feel any emotions except for fear and outrage.
People do get stressed about the fear of being fired from their jobs... this happens all the time in the private sector. Every time one company buys another, everyone is afraid for their jobs as they know the first thing that will happen is that many of the employees of the old company will be fired. Again, this is just standard life stress that everyone has to deal with. Everyone, that is, except our precious extremely-highly-paid bureaucrats, who get paid like lawyers but have the job protections of longshoremen. And they can retire at 58. CNN saw that the Daily Beast was getting Outrage Clicks over their own story of woe and heart-ache, and wanted to get in on that scam. Here the Daily Beast tells the sad and terrifying story of a Social Security worker who refused to do as his superiors instructed and then refused to leave his desk when he was fired. Ultimately she was dragged out of the office by, quote, "DOGE goons."
"What happened to Monique was truly sad and tragic, literally shook me to the core," an SSA employee told CNN.
'Total fear and demoralization' Other current and former federal employees told CNN they have felt depressed or were concerned about colleagues harming themselves amid the layoffs and reorganizations. Alex Berman, an Internal Revenue Service employee who is a union leader in the Philadelphia area, said he has heard directly from colleagues who have experienced panic attacks and anxiety attacks in recent weeks. In nearly 20 years as a union official, Berman said, he has talked with "a lot of people at the ends of their ropes." "A lot of times, I'm happy to say that I was able to stand between them and the end of the cliff," Berman, whose agency is facing a potential 20% reduction in the workforce by DOGE, told CNN. "The few who could not step back from the cliff's edge will forever haunt me. And I can't help foreseeing more to come."
DOGE Goons Physically Drag Social Security Worker From DeskFatal heart attacks and now paralysis.
The high-ranking civil servant had opposed a plan to push out migrants by falsely listing them as dead.
A senior executive at the Social Security Administration was physically dragged from his office this week after clashing with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to The Washington Post. Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency's data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services, three people told the Post. The scheme cooked up by Elon Musk's DOGE squad falsely lists thousands of migrants as dead in a Social Security database known as the "death master file." Being entered into the death database cuts a person off from crucial financial services, like the ability to receive government benefits and access a bank account or credit card. The goal was to push migrants who were granted a temporary legal status under former President Joe Biden to "self deport."
Jim Francis, a consumer law lawyer who is suing Social Security for wrongly entering a Maryland woman into the file, cast the repercussions in dire terms. "It's the source of that data that the whole world uses, which is why, if it's inaccurate, it has such devastating impacts on people," he told the Post. "Overnight, you literally become financially paralyzed."
... DOGE had been working on a strategy to push out immigrants since February. A group of about a dozen civil servants from Social Security were assigned to help Musk's goons--and agents from the Department of Homeland Security--with the plot.February? Why that's when they killed young, healthy Monique? Coincidence? I don't want to start any conspiracy theories but the theory that Musk and Trump have conspired to spray the Social Security building with Heart Attack Paralysis Gas is now proven.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 18, 2025 12:18 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 18, 2025 12:18 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:19 PM (u9Npv)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 18, 2025 12:19 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 12:20 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2025 12:20 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 12:21 PM (Zi/1w)
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Vulcan has no moon, Miss Uhura.
Posted by: Mr. Spock at April 18, 2025 12:21 PM (ZH2Yv)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 18, 2025 12:21 PM (9Pd8W)
If he's going to start murdering people, start at CNN.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 12:22 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)
I can't imagine having to worry about your job in the face of cost cutting and performance review.
Just kidding. That's what every day in the private sector is like.
Posted by: t-bird at April 18, 2025 12:22 PM (X6k5M)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 12:22 PM (Zi/1w)
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Uh huh. My ass.
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at April 18, 2025 12:22 PM (ZH2Yv)
Posted by: Capt. Ramsey at April 18, 2025 12:23 PM (3guPG)
So as soon as she got to her job she got on her phone and started yakking to her sister? Way to get off to a fast-paced day serving the peepul, there, sista.
I can pretty much guarantee anybody in private business did that daily they'd be canned toot sweet, unless they were related to the boss.
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at April 18, 2025 12:23 PM (Ft5W9)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 12:23 PM (Q4IgG)
So many great Western names available and somebody went with that monstrosity?
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 12:23 PM (77rzZ)
So they're admitting she gossiped with her sister every day on the job.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 18, 2025 12:23 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 12:24 PM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2025 12:24 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 18, 2025 12:24 PM (/lPRQ)
Remind me never to get on Ace's bad side.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 12:24 PM (s8j++)
This clown thinks that using words like "bloodbath" is somehow gonna hurt Trump? His supporters are so excited about all the bloodbaths in government agencies that they're bathing in the blood. I want more bloodbaths, not less.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 12:24 PM (iFTx/)
So they're admitting she gossiped with her sister every day on the job.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 18, 2025 12:23 PM
It was during her mass consumption breaks.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2025 12:24 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:24 PM (u9Npv)
Posted by: Sausage Egg McMuffin at April 18, 2025 12:24 PM (/hnh2)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 12:25 PM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: The in before guy. at April 18, 2025 12:25 PM (dJimA)
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 12:25 PM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at April 18, 2025 12:25 PM (Vyll1)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 12:25 PM (viF8m)
Gee, I wonder how many covid shots and boosters and boosters for boosters this megafauna got?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 12:25 PM (iFTx/)
Could we throw in a voyage through the wood chipper as a bonus?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 12:25 PM (s8j++)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 12:26 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 12:26 PM (g/Chl)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 12:25 PM (yp8Vj)
Agreed. This is why I keep coming back. More of this, Ace!
Posted by: toddg at April 18, 2025 12:26 PM (pHPmh)
Posted by: Beldar at April 18, 2025 12:26 PM (s8j++)
Posted by: t-bird at April 18, 2025 12:26 PM (hcwCh)
When Biden locked people in their houses I was told that the concerns of Americans didn't matter, and this was good for them anyway
But now? TRUMP IS A MURDERER!
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 12:27 PM (t0Rmr)
So by this logic, Joe Biden and Democrats who fought to have federal workers, work from home killed her. Dunce.
Posted by: Sausage Egg McMuffin at April 18, 2025 12:27 PM (/hnh2)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2025 12:27 PM (jc0TO)
Not Pictured: 80,000 new IRS agents
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:27 PM (u9Npv)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 18, 2025 12:27 PM (TdYBy)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 12:27 PM (wtvvX)
The youngens can cashout / roll over their TSP into 401k.
Old farts can get early retirement and dry on their pensions (most of which is the paid out of pocket TSP). Even get another job for ten years or so...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 18, 2025 12:27 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Ian S. at April 18, 2025 12:28 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 12:28 PM (ewjUl)
USA
USA
USA
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 12:28 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 12:28 PM (DKKgv)
Its so bizarre that I have yet to meet one.
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 12:28 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2025 12:27 PM (jc0TO)
PUNCTUATION REPARATIONS OW!!!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 12:28 PM (wtvvX)
Not Pictured: The hack of every single American's SS data living and dead under Biden
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:28 PM (u9Npv)
Posted by: Sausage Egg McMuffin at April 18, 2025 12:28 PM (/hnh2)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 12:28 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 12:28 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 12:26 PM
And cellulite.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 12:29 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:29 PM (u9Npv)
But yeah, let's hoist a glass to the fed who was stressed; doing her job safeguarding giving away social security benefits to criminals that haven't paid a f**king dime into it.
Posted by: Nelly at April 18, 2025 12:29 PM (pSknm)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 18, 2025 12:29 PM (VJc7E)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 12:28 PM
Ace is on Ewok time.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2025 12:29 PM (jc0TO)
Does CNN really think their readers are this retarded?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 12:29 PM (DKKgv)
I will settle this case for fifteen trillion dollars and a public flogging of this Ace character!
Or tree-fiddy cash, if you have it handy.
Posted by: The Right Exquisite Holman P Diggety, Attorney at Lawyering, AS SEEN ON TV! at April 18, 2025 12:29 PM (Ft5W9)
Posted by: Sausage Egg McMuffin at April 18, 2025 12:29 PM (/hnh2)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 18, 2025 12:29 PM (7leMO)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 18, 2025 12:27 PM (TdYBy)
No, no. She was obviously a "stress eater", you rayciss!!!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 12:29 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 12:29 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 12:30 PM (yp8Vj)
Also, THAT'S NO MOON! THAT'S A SPACE STATION!
Posted by: Nelly at April 18, 2025 12:30 PM (pSknm)
Posted by: Tex Lovera
You can have my interrobang when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 12:30 PM (77rzZ)
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Are we absolutely positive we can't vote in the last election again?
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:30 PM (u9Npv)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 12:25 PM (viF8m)
When I was a contractor at the Massachusetts RMV HQ, there were a number of people that mostly slept the day away in between lunch and break times.
Posted by: Beartooth at April 18, 2025 12:30 PM (dJimA)
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 18, 2025 12:30 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at April 18, 2025 12:30 PM (5IFb9)
I wish 4chan was up for this story. I know they would treat it with the dignity it deserved.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 12:30 PM (3wi/L)
So, they're basically experiencing non-government life for the prior five years.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 12:30 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 12:30 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 12:31 PM (Dv3i1)
Does CNN really think their readers are this retarded?
I mean...
Posted by: Beldar at April 18, 2025 12:31 PM (s8j++)
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 12:31 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:31 PM (u9Npv)
Next up Stacey Abrams. Then Laetitia James, then Karen Bass, then after running out of fatties , Maxine Waters
Definite trend
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 18, 2025 12:31 PM (6TePA)
Black wymyn may only be 6% of the U.S. population, but they're 160% of the victim population. It's science.
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 12:31 PM (j4U/Z)
It’s nice to go the staff refrigerator to get your lunch and it still be there, several were quoted as saying. Previously up to thirty staff members’ lunches would disappear from the refrigerator daily.
Posted by: What the article did not mention at April 18, 2025 12:31 PM (ZH2Yv)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 12:31 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 12:31 PM (Dv3i1)
Me too....Can I sue ? Looks like her family is gonna try for the Ghetto lottery...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 12:31 PM (VE6XX)
I had to sign onto Facebook the other day to find some pictures. I got a quick look at the feed, and it was a post from some girl I knew back in college.
RAGE!
Because HHS had pulled funding for some newborn screening program.
Conservatives want babies to die! Proving that they're not actually pro-life!
RAGE!
I'll never get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Heart Attack Them All at April 18, 2025 12:32 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 12:31 PM (j4U/Z)
By weight
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:32 PM (u9Npv)
Posted by: Elon Musk at April 18, 2025 12:32 PM (jc0TO)
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Honest to Pete, I used to work with the sweetest lady, and at lunch time, she would pull her chair out, crawl under her desk and sleep.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 18, 2025 12:32 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 12:32 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: fd at April 18, 2025 12:32 PM (q8IPV)
Posted by: My A1C is Thirty-Three! at April 18, 2025 12:32 PM (G5+As)
Definite trend
Posted by: Smell the Glove
What about Fani?
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 12:32 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mr. Fabulist at April 18, 2025 12:33 PM (3T3g/)
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 18, 2025 12:30 PM
She just needs to stab a white child and show off that MS-13 tat. and voila!
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 12:33 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: NJ Class Traitor at April 18, 2025 12:33 PM (x5389)
Posted by: Ben Had
More cruelty than the Marquis de Sade's romper room.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 12:33 PM (L/fGl)
Something that is apparently alien to government workers.
F'em.
Posted by: Defenestratus at April 18, 2025 12:33 PM (WYStd)
Posted by: t-bird at April 18, 2025 12:33 PM (iSdyJ)
Are they Literally Shaken because they Can't Even?
Look; I'm willing to chip in for the bottle of JD and the Ambien to help them wake up in another world. But I'm a giver.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 12:33 PM (jjoN6)
Does CNN really think their readers are this retarded?
I mean...
Posted by: Beldar at April 18, 2025 12:31 PM (s8j++)
They ARE that stupid. CNN readers believe the Salvadoran guy was here legally and was brutally abducted. Of course they believe that Monique was deliberately killed.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 12:33 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: Metro Is Tough, Man at April 18, 2025 12:33 PM (G5+As)
And now that she is gone, the government won't have to pay her retirement or Social Security benefits. Those funds can now be spent on trying to return Maryland Man to the U.S. or maybe fund a second space mission for the brave all female astronaut crew.
Posted by: Darth_Randall at April 18, 2025 12:33 PM (WLnsx)
Posted by: My A1C is Thirty-Three! at April 18, 2025 12:32 PM
I loled. Heartily.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 12:34 PM (ewjUl)
'Does CNN really think their readers are this retarded?'
(Thinks of CNN readers)
Wouldn't you?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 12:34 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 12:34 PM (DKKgv)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:34 PM (u9Npv)
Millions will die from this. Which is most of the people not killed by net neutrality.
Posted by: Ripley at April 18, 2025 12:34 PM (GUOwU)
My morning and afternoon desk naps at work were because I cared so much, and muh privilege, and muh laziness.
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 12:34 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 12:34 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Metro Is Tough, Man at April 18, 2025 12:33 PM
How do you think it was daily for me?
Posted by: Monique's Office Chair at April 18, 2025 12:34 PM (ewjUl)
He killed her not in a couple of months, as I stupidly claimed above, but in just 29 days. Just one Leap Year February was all it took for Trump and Musk to choke her arteries with budget-induced plaque.
***
And the dreaded email from Musk wasn't sent until February 24. She must have been prescient.
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 12:34 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 12:35 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Set Alarm For Lunch at April 18, 2025 12:35 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Lady in Black
Well, she'll need an industrial strength crane to act as pallbearer.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 12:35 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: ...
Yeah, correcting for Katy's boobs was hard enough.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 12:35 PM (77rzZ)
And all of them quote exclusively from current--anonymous-- and former employees.
And they all claim SSA is the most efficient, perfect and fraud-free organization ever conceived or practiced by man.
I mean, it is breathtaking how they lie.
But, this isn't propaganda for public consumption--these articles are pumped out to be cited by friendly judges as basis to issue illegal TROs.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 12:35 PM (11WUE)
Millions will die from this. Which is most of the people not killed by net neutrality.
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Imma a guessing it was LONG COVID.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 12:35 PM (pZ64F)
It’s nice to go the staff refrigerator to get your lunch and it still be there, several were quoted as saying. Previously up to thirty staff members’ lunches would disappear from the refrigerator daily.
Posted by: What the article did not mention at April 18, 2025 12:31 PM (ZH2Yv)
Monique was alive like few of us ever are. She understood the fierce moral urgency of lunch.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 18, 2025 12:35 PM (TdYBy)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 12:35 PM (Zi/1w)
The media must be destroyed, somehow, someway.
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 18, 2025 12:35 PM (vsTPo)
I'd have more sympathy for these fat bowls of f*ck if they actually got their jobs done.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 18, 2025 12:36 PM (/HDaX)
I'm doing my first training for a federally connected (actually owned by the feds) one, and so the first fed training.
Shit...this stuff is boring as shit. No way to skip through any of it. Have to watch every video all the way through. So many mentions of laws by their numbers.
Just...ew.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 12:34 PM
Every time she eats' a ring ding, an angel gets it's wings.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 12:36 PM (ewjUl)
'Many of Monique’s coworkers, however, were jubilant after her passing.'
The vending machines magically were full again.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 12:36 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 12:36 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:36 PM (u9Npv)
I had to sign onto Facebook the other day to find some pictures. I got a quick look at the feed, and it was a post from some girl I knew back in college.
RAGE!
Because HHS had pulled funding for some newborn screening program.
Conservatives want babies to die! Proving that they're not actually pro-life!
RAGE!
I'll never get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)
_________
They have nothing else going on in their lives. They are empty, barren, desolate holes in spacetime. Raging at Trump gives some minor purpose to their pointless lives. Helps them feel something, anything.
That, plus many of these people -- women disproportionately, it seems -- are mentally ill to begin with. I'll bet any amount of money that if there were no Trump, they would find something else to screech about. They will always scream at some boogeyman under the bed.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 12:35 PM
Imma say. Wide Covid.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 12:37 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Lady in Black
Well, she'll need an industrial strength crane to act as pallbearer.
Don't look at us. We aren't Supermen.
Posted by: Ghanaian funeral dancers at April 18, 2025 12:37 PM (s8j++)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 12:37 PM (jc0TO)
Or earlier with a disability claim, an odd retro-active pay bump, and then find another government job while collecting their pension.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 18, 2025 12:37 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Deep-Fried Frank at April 18, 2025 12:37 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 18, 2025 12:37 PM (SXxzC)
The office 'atmosphere' during Burrito Tuesdays is no longer life-threatening.
Posted by: t-bird at April 18, 2025 12:37 PM (uREkD)
But mostly from being required to show up in the office 40 hours week.
Posted by: Ripley at April 18, 2025 12:38 PM (GUOwU)
They have nothing else going on in their lives. They are empty, barren, desolate holes in spacetime. Raging at Trump gives some minor purpose to their pointless lives. Helps them feel something, anything.
That, plus many of these people -- women disproportionately, it seems -- are mentally ill to begin with. I'll bet any amount of money that if there were no Trump, they would find something else to screech about. They will always scream at some boogeyman under the bed.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)
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Nah, bruh. A nice, establishment Republican would never get this rage.
*forgets W and Romney and McCain*
Definitely. An establishment Republican like John Kasich would be treated just like a Democrat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)
Imagine how dumbed-down and useless a population must be that even a portion of it could be scandalized and enraged about benefits fraud being policed and ended.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 18, 2025 12:38 PM (1m82a)
My wife's therapist finally sold the Tesla that she so proudly bought right before the Chinese Flu hit. The almost-70-year-old hippie bint was out of her mind during Trump's FIRST term, proudly wanting him to be "impeached" for "reasons". His Phoenician rise from the electoral ashes had already been a body-blow. Adding Elon to the mix pushed this donkey over the edge.
The lack of self-awareness amongst the PsychoKarenTherapist community is truly, and utterly, awe-inspiring. Sometimes in life, the entertainment just shows up at your door, unannounced.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 12:38 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Deep-Fried Frank at April 18, 2025 12:37 PM (G5+As)
Just plain lard.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 12:38 PM (FZn/N)
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I applied and was approved for an April start of my SSA Biden Dollars. Surprise, April means you get your check in the third week of May. These fuckers never quit fucking with you.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 12:38 PM (pZ64F)
Heh.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 12:38 PM (s8j++)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:34 PM
I told you dumb honkies.
Posted by: Hank Johnson at April 18, 2025 12:38 PM (ewjUl)
If he's going to start murdering people, start at CNN.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 12:22 PM (3wi/L)
I recall, back during the campaign, Democrats were hyperventilating that, if elected, Trump would send out Navy SEALs to kill people who annoyed him and that SCOTUS had given its blessing. I am very stressed and distraught that he has not yet made use of this option.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 12:39 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 12:39 PM (Zi/1w)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Not much different than faculty arguments. They get so vicious because the stakes are so small.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:39 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:39 PM (u9Npv)
My wife's therapist finally sold the Tesla that she so proudly bought right before the Chinese Flu hit. The almost-70-year-old hippie bint was out of her mind during Trump's FIRST term, proudly wanting him to be "impeached" for "reasons". His Phoenician rise from the electoral ashes had already been a body-blow. Adding Elon to the mix pushed this donkey over the edge.
The lack of self-awareness amongst the PsychoKarenTherapist community is truly, and utterly, awe-inspiring. Sometimes in life, the entertainment just shows up at your door, unannounced.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 12:38 PM (wtvvX)
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I hope she took a nice fat loss and has to make it up $20 at a time down by the river ....
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 12:39 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 12:38 PM (pZ64F)
The SSA claims an average 30 days to process. Mind if I ask how long they took on yours?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 18, 2025 12:39 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 18, 2025 12:39 PM (qBdHI)
John 20:16-18
Posted by: Marcus T at April 18, 2025 12:39 PM (YF3RS)
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They consult with crystals.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 12:40 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Paolo at April 18, 2025 12:40 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 12:25 PM (viF8m)
Well, it is the Serial Snoozing Administration, after all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 12:40 PM (8zz6B)
Seriously, dude. What is this, the 70s?
I don't think I've ever seen corporate training more inane than this fed one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 12:40 PM (DKKgv)
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 18, 2025 12:39 PM
Poetic really.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 12:40 PM (ewjUl)
They all say they can’t stand reading the newspaper anymore and yet they persist.
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 12:40 PM (0aihy)
Huh, you monsters, is that what you wanted, morbidly obese, career bureaucrats dying in their sleep at their desks?!!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 12:40 PM (11WUE)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 12:27 PM (wtvvX)
Have you gone mad? You divide by zero and it's the end of the universe!!!!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 12:41 PM (2J/Lj)
RAGE!
Because HHS had pulled funding for some newborn screening program.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison"
I have no doubt it was a program she never used or even heard of and would have been totally unaware it was being cut if the RAGE machine had not brought it to her attention.
Posted by: Ripley at April 18, 2025 12:41 PM (GUOwU)
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Her mornings don't sound overly stressful: She enters a "vast campus," (ot/ why does the SSA have a 'vast campus'?) calls her sister to chat, and then takes a nap at her desk.
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 12:41 PM (lCppi)
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By sitting on it, I'm guessing. Effective.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 12:41 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: runner at April 18, 2025 12:41 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:41 PM (u9Npv)
Posted by: JQ at April 18, 2025 12:41 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ripley at April 18, 2025 12:41 PM (GUOwU)
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Or that isn't duplicated a dozen times by state, local, and private orgs.
Or that it actually doesn't do much.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 12:41 PM (GBKbO)
Also Feds: of course we sleep at work, why do you ask?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 12:42 PM (DKKgv)
Avocadozilla
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 18, 2025 12:42 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 12:39 PM
I know. I would actually love to see him do half the shit they've fear mongered about. Get on it Donald!
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 12:42 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Rob Crawford at April 18, 2025 12:42 PM (mo/j9)
I wanted to thank the couple of 'rons and 'ettes who were gracious enough to send a little my way to help with the negative bank balance. (In case you missed it, the IRS, after I requested to pay in monthly installments, took it all out at once, and left me in the hole.)
I appreciate the suggestions offered yesterday, as well.
It's been tough for a while, having to work two jobs and barely making it, but I know some of you may be in the same boat.
My goal right now is gathering enough money to pay rent at the end of the month. All I ask is for the praying folk here is to remember me when you talk to Him, and I thank you in advance for that.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at April 18, 2025 12:42 PM (nBNUK)
Posted by: Free at April 18, 2025 12:43 PM (bULyo)
Vulcan, an inhabited M-class planet orbiting the star 40 Eridani A in the Vulcan system within the Vulcan sector of the Alpha Quadrant. It has no moons.
It does form a binary pair with T'Khut, and is considered its companion planet.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 18, 2025 12:43 PM (0sNs1)
'Huh, you monsters, is that what you wanted, morbidly obese, career bureaucrats dying in their sleep at their desks?!!'
Well. I didn't want them first.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 12:44 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:41 PM
LOL/ I am stealing that.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 12:44 PM (ewjUl)
Some call me the gangster of love.
Some people call me Maurice.
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 12:44 PM (0HaGk)
Or earlier with a disability claim, an odd retro-active pay bump, and then find another government job while collecting their pension.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 18, 2025 12:37 PM (mlg/3)
Yup...and they will loudly exclaim how smart and talented they are and how much they "sacrificed" for working for the feds. So if you need an expert on desk surfing, searching pron or hiding in the shitter for hours, they are the go to person.
Posted by: Double And Triple Dippers at April 18, 2025 12:44 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 12:45 PM (Zi/1w)
Why, I just saw that very svelte creature running parkour like a gazelle not six weeks ago!
I haven't the words ...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 12:45 PM (Tv15w)
—
If you’re getting a refund you’re giving the govt an interest free loan for a year.
It also doesn’t mean anything either way. I could have a $100k tax liability. I paid $101k and got a refund for $1k. Or I could have a $2k liability, I paid $1k, so I owe $1k.
Getting or not getting a refund is nothing but a timing issue. Has nothing to do with income or how good some’s life is.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 12:45 PM (DKKgv)
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Her mornings don't sound overly stressful: She enters a "vast campus," (ot/ why does the SSA have a 'vast campus'?) calls her sister to chat, and then takes a nap at her desk.
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 12:41 PM (lCppi)
Walking from the parking lot to her office LITERALLY MADE HER TAKE A DIRT NAP.
FUCK YOU, TRUMP!!!11!111
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 12:46 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 12:46 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: TitanTom at April 18, 2025 12:46 PM (qlkh/)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 12:46 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 12:47 PM (VNX3d)
Walking from the parking lot to her office LITERALLY MADE HER TAKE A DIRT NAP.
FUCK YOU, TRUMP!!!11!111
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 12:46 PM (wtvvX)
Probably did...Hasn't been in the office for 5 years no doubt
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 12:47 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 12:47 PM (0aihy)
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 12:47 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 12:25 PM (viF8m)
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I guess this was part her normal routine, which should tell you how "essential" she really was.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2025 12:47 PM (7fElN)
That's one more seat and parking space.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 12:48 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 12:48 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 18, 2025 12:48 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:48 PM (u9Npv)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 12:48 PM (Zi/1w)
Posted by: Ripley at April 18, 2025 12:48 PM (GUOwU)
I have to ask, Mr. Lovera, if this therapist seems to be doing your wife any good?
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at April 18, 2025 12:48 PM (Ft5W9)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 12:48 PM (Dv3i1)
So, not an unusual occurrence then, right, to see her sleeping at her desk.
Yes, she took her job very seriously. She was protecting the information from the bad people by putting it in her top drawer and then sleeping on it. Literally.
These people are all sick.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 18, 2025 12:48 PM (Eo96p)
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 12:48 PM (jjoN6)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 18, 2025 12:48 PM (gm9Sb)
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Later reporting clarified that this was just what was found in her fat folds before the autopsy took place.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 12:49 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TitanTom at April 18, 2025 12:46 PM (qlkh/)
Hahahahaha....I know that's right!
Posted by: Ghetto Joe at April 18, 2025 12:49 PM (R/m4+)
Remind me never to get on Ace's bad side.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Just think of his occasional correctives of commenters here as performance reviews for commenters. After all AOS does have performance standards for commenters to meet. These are necessary in order to meet its long term strategic plan of world domination.
That requires the maximum effort of all commenters to consistently perform at a high level without the comforts of pay, benefits, and recognition.
Unfortunately, we consistently disappoint the C-Suite CoBs and the CEO Ace, and occasionally the CTO Pixy, by our deleterious actions counterproductive to the site's implementation of its strategic plans.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:49 PM (ctrM5)
She went to her desk and fell asleep and nobody thought that was a bit odd?
Posted by: JackStraw
Perhaps a refresher course of Peter interviewing with the two Bobs in "Office Space" is in order ...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 12:49 PM (Tv15w)
Because:
1) exposes massive number of illegals getting benefits
2) Exposes massive number of imaginary people getting benefits
3) exposes the massive amount of fraud, that able-bodied are on SSDI
4) and this is the biggest--under the KYC rules implemented by Biden, financial institutions have to confirm and report the SSN of all customers.
Meaning every fraudulent loan, disbursement and application can be tied directly to the bank account--and the specific person--who stole OUR money.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 12:49 PM (11WUE)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 12:49 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 18, 2025 12:49 PM (bNf8H)
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Cheerwine can't be involved. Its Holy Carbonated Blood of Christ.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 12:49 PM (pZ64F)
Unfortunately, we consistently disappoint the C-Suite CoBs and the CEO Ace, and occasionally the CTO Pixy, by our deleterious actions counterproductive to the site's implementation of its strategic plans.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:49 PM (ctrM5)
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And yet, I just coast through life shitposting like a boss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 12:49 PM (GBKbO)
February 18th -- Trump took office on January 20th.
He killed her not in a couple of months, as I stupidly claimed above, but in just 29 days. Just one Leap Year February was all it took for Trump and Musk to choke her arteries with budget-induced plaque.
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Like many things government related we should only be counting FULL WORK DAYS.
So, without looking back on the calendar we are looking at only 21 days.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 18, 2025 12:49 PM (/lPRQ)
**********
An honest person would have ended the article right there.
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 12:50 PM (/iMjX)
Related: Critical Drinker's review of "G-20" and how reality is gone.
Fortunately, Wakanda is a rich country, so there's a way out.
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 12:50 PM (j4U/Z)
Full Business Days for you real pencil pushewrs out there.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 18, 2025 12:50 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:36 PM (u9Npv)
Hah!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 12:50 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 12:45 PM (DKKgv)
How about. I know a lot more about their life circumstances and am well aware of where they live, their lifestyle, their vacation habits, etc. etc. etc.
The tax refund example was just one data point I pulled to make a point, if that’s OK with you, Spergy Boy.
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 12:51 PM (0aihy)
Posted by: The Hobbits at April 18, 2025 12:51 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 12:51 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 12:48 PM
Actually that amount of fat will go for years. Like a peat bog fire.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 12:51 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 12:51 PM (VE6XX)
Monique was great.
We loved living here. We really thrived in the environment that Monique set up for us.
But, now...well, I just don't see much of a future for us.
Posted by: Cholesterol Plaques in Monique's veins and Arteries at April 18, 2025 12:51 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 12:52 PM (DKKgv)
About twenty years back we had a guy pass away one morning while sitting at his desk at the Ex Station in Wilmington.
The young lady delivering the mail to him did not at all take to that surprise well. She was rattled for weeks afterward.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 12:53 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
More. The best thing to do is never talk to a reporter. This was true well before they all became Khmer Rouge Communists because for most reporters, actual humans and what they say, is totally coincidental to whatever narrative they choose to print.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:53 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:53 PM (u9Npv)
I have to ask, Mr. Lovera, if this therapist seems to be doing your wife any good?
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at April 18, 2025 12:48 PM (Ft5W9)
At this point, I think my wife is HER therapist.
My wife readily admits that she "feels too much" and she "thinks too much", but I knew this when I married her, and I still love her more than life. After almost 37 years of marriage, I'm good with all of it. I just wish she was.
C'est la vie.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 12:53 PM (wtvvX)
She was like my twenty best customers!
Posted by: Local Dunkin' Donuts Owner at April 18, 2025 12:53 PM (Ft5W9)
Posted by: Gone to the Vegas buffet in the sky at April 18, 2025 12:53 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 12:53 PM (DKKgv)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 12:51 PM
Perhaps they are consulting Carmello Bar's hoodrat parents.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 12:54 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 12:54 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 12:54 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 18, 2025 12:54 PM (0fMex)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 12:20 PM (77rzZ)
Food deserts. And white supremacy.
Posted by: Mostly white supremacy at April 18, 2025 12:54 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at April 18, 2025 12:54 PM (Vyll1)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 12:54 PM (ewjUl)
What?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 18, 2025 12:55 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 18, 2025 12:55 PM (gm9Sb)
The lack of self-awareness amongst the PsychoKarenTherapist community is truly, and utterly, awe-inspiring. Sometimes in life, the entertainment just shows up at your door, unannounced.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 12:38 PM (wtvvX)
Business opportunity: buy up Teslas real cheap from distressed Leftards (well, of course I can't pay much for it; everybody's selling right now), dress the up with Trump swag, and resell to MAGA folks to use to drive around and annoy the 'tards.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 12:55 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: It's me donna
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Anger. A lot of gimmedats or their adjacent families are going to be upset when the gravy train ends. No different than deportations. Or killer Anthony's parent crying out that people take offense to what their son did.
Entitlement is a helluva a drug.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:55 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 12:55 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Frank Constanza at April 18, 2025 12:55 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 18, 2025 12:56 PM (NtVYv)
This is pornographic. Literally.
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 12:56 PM (0HaGk)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:56 PM (u9Npv)
I don't care, Margaret.
LOL, they have so isolated themselves inside their bubble, they have no idea that no one outside of their bubble cares.
And those outside that do hear, do not fucking care.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 12:56 PM (11WUE)
Feel the full might of the God Emperor's distain and die.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 18, 2025 12:56 PM (xcxpd)
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"Trump and Musk Pounce and Seize on The Corpses of Their Lazy Layabout Obese Feral Worker Murder Victims!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 12:56 PM (Cc/B0)
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 12:56 PM (0HaGk)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 12:20 PM (77rzZ)
Food deserts. And white supremacy.
Posted by: Mostly white supremacy at April 18, 2025 12:54 PM (TbWk/)
And decades of being told you’re beautiful just the way you are. Yo go grrrll. Don’t let no (white) man tell you how to look.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 12:57 PM (DKKgv)
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I think she did have a vowel or two in the beginning, but she ate them too.
Posted by: Scampydog at April 18, 2025 12:57 PM (T+cff)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:56 PM (u9Npv)
Dayyyyyum.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 12:57 PM (wtvvX)
Six times caught in the realignments & closures along with tens of thousands of other workers, civilian & military.
Naval Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Naval Station Philadelphia and more...
Tough jobs but all at way better places than being around the desk jockeys/managers of the US Department of Labor who've perfected cruelty.
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Fallacy that all federal jobs are forever and/or will never be relocated.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 18, 2025 12:57 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:53 PM
She wanted to play thee actual manger but Brian Denehy already got cast.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 12:57 PM (ewjUl)
It looks like you'd need an interpreter, because it seems that Maryland's Husband of the Year doesn't speak English.....
Seriously. Senator Whatshisname had to bring an interpreter, which the press helpfully cropped out of most of the pictures.
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at April 18, 2025 12:57 PM (Ft5W9)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 12:58 PM (pZ64F)
'Sleeping at her desk must have been a common occurrence for her co-workers to have not been even slightly concerned. "Where's Monique?" "Oh, she's just taking her nap."'
Eventually, they noticed a smell difference.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 12:58 PM (3wi/L)
Actually that amount of fat will go for years. Like a peat bog fire.
Posted by: Minnfidel
Hello!
Posted by: Centralia, Pennsylvania Coal Seam Fire: Still Going Strong for Nigh On To Sixty-three Years Now! at April 18, 2025 12:58 PM (Tv15w)
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation
Come on Barbie, let's go party
LeBron James Becomes First Male Athlete To Be Featured As Barbie Doll
https://shorturl.at/MVFbI
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 12:58 PM (L/fGl)
They will, however, snatch that last deposit back from your checking account within days of your demise.
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 12:58 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
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Death has been so banished by those believing in eternal youth that it comes as a shock for people to encounter their mortality via seeing others dead.
Twas not that way a century or so ago.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:58 PM (ctrM5)
I'm curious about the "strategy to push out immigrants." Is that *all* immigrants, including the First Lady, or could the adjective "illegal" be properly inserted there?
Posted by: mindful webworker - with stress-related belly fat at April 18, 2025 12:58 PM (dlb43)
This is pornographic. Literally.
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 12:56 PM (0HaGk)
It's sure as Hell sending orgasmic waves through my cerebral cortex...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 12:59 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 18, 2025 12:59 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 12:59 PM (DKKgv)
Show up. Chat with your sister on the phone. Take a nap.
I wouldn't take this position for less than $150,000/yr, plus benefits.
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 01:00 PM (j4U/Z)
Well, that and clogged coronary arteries, probable high blood pressure.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 18, 2025 01:00 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 12:55 PM (8zz6B)
I fervently hope that a commie leftist keyed it before she could sell it.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 01:00 PM (wtvvX)
That requires the maximum effort of all commenters to consistently perform at a high level without the comforts of pay, benefits, and recognition.
Unfortunately, we consistently disappoint the C-Suite CoBs and the CEO Ace, and occasionally the CTO Pixy, by our deleterious actions counterproductive to the site's implementation of its strategic plans.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:49 PM
IOW, we're not sticking to our core competencies, we're working in silos, we need to implement Best Practices, and (in a nod to old-skool Smart Military Blog terminology) we need to unf*ck ourselves and get with the program?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 18, 2025 01:00 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 01:00 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025
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LOL. This place.
Posted by: scampydog at April 18, 2025 01:01 PM (T+cff)
I feel like I have to say something else when they start crying about what Orangeman is doing. When I breezily waved my hand and said: don’t worry, I’m sure it’ll all work out”
It hasn’t stopped the whining.
Maybe if I say: Congress will stop him
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 01:01 PM (0aihy)
It's commensurate with the amount of grief the federal government showed my family when my father was struck with a massive stroke and was bedridden for five years while I wiped his butt and changed his adult diapers everyday.
So concerned was the government with our plight that they sent an IRS agent to audit him as he lay in bed mute and drooling, able only to eat pudding texture foods.
In other words, I don't give a fuck.
Posted by: Every White Man's World at April 18, 2025 01:01 PM (W4LGq)
I don't care, Margaret.
LOL, they have so isolated themselves inside their bubble, they have no idea that no one outside of their bubble cares.
And those outside that do hear, do not fucking care.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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After awhile, it is human nature to tune out. That is partly why black macabre humor is the norm for society's garbage men aka social workers, medical people, and cops.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:01 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 18, 2025 01:00 PM (0sNs1)
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But what about the paradigm shifting?!
Won't anyone think of the paradigm shifting?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:01 PM (GBKbO)
My profound thanks to DuPont Engineering for having stepped away from auto doff / don in the mid-80s and thereby allowing me to execute my tasks here flawlessly!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 01:01 PM (Tv15w)
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"You're thinking of K'sha, which is Vulcan for Black Hoe."
/#DrunkDonLeMon
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 01:01 PM (Cc/B0)
Posted by: What the article did not mention at April 18, 2025 01:01 PM (ZH2Yv)
Posted by: Pug Mahon
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Should we refer to you as Bug or Tug?
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 01:01 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 01:02 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 18, 2025 01:02 PM (NFX2v)
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation
Come on Barbie, let's go party
LeBron James Becomes First Male Athlete To Be Featured As Barbie Doll
https://shorturl.at/MVFbI
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 12:58 PM (L/fGl)
GI Joe with Kung-Fu Grip would beat his bitch ass...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 01:02 PM (wtvvX)
https://shorturl.at/MVFbI
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 12:58 PM
Isn't a chance in hell I am clicking on that link.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 01:02 PM (ewjUl)
@gatewaypundit 1h
PURE EVIL: Father of Austin Metcalf SWATTED After Karmelo Anthony Press Conference Where He was Smeared by an Anthony Spokesperson and Kicked Out
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 18, 2025 01:02 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 18, 2025 01:02 PM (0fMex)
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at April 18, 2025 01:03 PM (4DY5T)
It hasn’t stopped the whining.
Maybe if I say: Congress will stop him
Posted by: kallisto
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Switch the topic to the weather, the other person's health, or that of their pets.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:03 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 01:03 PM (0HaGk)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:53 PM
She wanted to play thee actual manger but Brian Denehy already got cast.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 12:57 PM (ewjUl)
I thought she was cast as the inn.
Posted by: We bring gold, frankincense and Ozempic at April 18, 2025 01:03 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 01:03 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 01:03 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Toad-0 at April 18, 2025 01:04 PM (cct0t)
Posted by: Eleanor Roosevelt at April 18, 2025 01:04 PM (pt3r0)
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:03 PM (ctrM5)
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"You mean the weather that Trump is destroying by not taking climate change seriously?!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:04 PM (GBKbO)
I can pretty much guaran-fargin-tee you that there was a defibrillator available; they've been becoming pretty standard office equipment for larger corporations since you can buy them on Amazon for about $1,700.
None of her fellow land-manatee co-workers felt like getting up to check on why the hell she was unconscious at her desk.
Of course, video of a bunch of your stereotypical federal office workers trying to actually OPERATE a defibrillator on someone would be comedy gold, Jerry!
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at April 18, 2025 01:04 PM (Ft5W9)
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 01:04 PM (Cc/B0)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at April 18, 2025 01:04 PM (VSjV5)
Posted by: Gref at April 18, 2025 01:04 PM (aBgBM)
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation
Come on Barbie, let's go party
---
Popular in Zumba classes, too!
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 18, 2025 01:04 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: fly gal at April 18, 2025 01:04 PM (1fod6)
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 01:05 PM (iFTx/)
Wait, Ace and the Cob Loggers have called for snap performance reviews of the commentating proletariat? And just before a long weekend?
I hereby rescind my evaluation of them as being, "cruel, but fair".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 01:05 PM (Tv15w)
@gatewaypundit 1h
PURE EVIL: Father of Austin Metcalf SWATTED After Karmelo Anthony Press Conference Where He was Smeared by an Anthony Spokesperson and Kicked Out
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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Things like this often break apart the victim's family.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:05 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 18, 2025 01:05 PM (6TePA)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 12:20 PM (77rzZ)
Black guys will stick their dick in literally anything.
Posted by: Eleanor Roosevelt at April 18, 2025 01:05 PM (pt3r0)
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 01:05 PM (iFTx/)
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That doesn't sound like how the press would treat elder statesman, establishment-friendly George W. Bush.
Surely you are mistaken.
The press and the left only treat Donald Trump like he murders nobodies with mind rays, and they'd never use that tactic on anyone else again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)
'
LeBron James Becomes First Male Athlete To Be Featured As Barbie Doll'
Does it cry when you disrespect it?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 01:06 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: fly gal at April 18, 2025 01:04 PM (1fod6)
They were most likely afraid and intimidated. If they would have said anything the NAALCP, Al Sharpton and other race warlords would have descended on them like white on rice with knives.
Posted by: Stepin Fetchit at April 18, 2025 01:06 PM (R/m4+)
The more you know..........
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 01:06 PM (u9Npv)
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I'm pretty sure it's fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his arse.
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 01:06 PM (Cc/B0)
Posted by: Most people at April 18, 2025 01:06 PM (6vpu3)
Wait, Ace and the Cob Loggers have called for snap performance reviews of the commentating proletariat? And just before a long weekend?
I hereby rescind my evaluation of them as being, "cruel, but fair".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 01:05 PM (Tv15w)
I HAVE EXCEEDED EVERY BLOG GOAL I SET BY 69%.
WHERE'S MY FUCKING BONUS???
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 01:07 PM (wtvvX)
WHERE'S MY FUCKING BONUS???
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 01:07 PM (wtvvX)
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69, dudes!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:07 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Cray Cray at April 18, 2025 01:07 PM (Akwrs)
'
LeBron James Becomes First Male Athlete To Be Featured As Barbie Doll'
Does it cry when you disrespect it?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 01:06 PM (3wi/L)
Only after it flops to the ground.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 01:07 PM (wtvvX)
I hereby rescind my evaluation of them as being, "cruel, but fair".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 01:05 PM (Tv15w)
They have a user-facing dashboard providing them real-time metrics.
Posted by: Robust. Stable. Best in class. at April 18, 2025 01:07 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 18, 2025 01:00 PM
That's not like a new paradigm. You need to think outside the box. Comment smarter, not harder.
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 01:07 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Ah, yes, then you do the Eliza Doolittle gambit by talking about a deceased aunt and whether someone did her in and how someone nicked your expected inheritance.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:07 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:03 PM (ctrM5)
Ok I’ll tell them not to worry so much. HHS Sec. RFK Jr. has ordered destruction of America’s kibble and bits supply, that’s not so bad is it?
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 01:08 PM (0aihy)
Posted by: Cray Cray at April 18, 2025 01:07 PM (Akwrs)
A Lyft wouldn't be enough... She'd need a crane
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 01:08 PM (VE6XX)
Fuck the media to hell
Posted by: melodicmetal1 at April 18, 2025 01:08 PM (55KtP)
Posted by: not really Ace at April 18, 2025 01:08 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 12:20 PM (77rzZ)
Black guys will stick their dick in literally anything.
Posted by: Eleanor Roosevelt at April 18, 2025 01:05 PM (pt3r0)
The slave owner would breed his big black man with his big black woman so that he would have a big black kid.
Posted by: Zombie Jimmy The Greek at April 18, 2025 01:08 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:07 PM (ctrM5)
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"I remember when Trump raped our deceased aunt in a Manhattan department store!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 18, 2025 01:09 PM (0fMex)
Well, just in case you didn't think the Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony case couldn't bring any more drama, you were wrong.
A 'swatting' call was made Thursday to an address linked to the family of the Frisco teenager who was fatally stabbed at a track meet earlier this month, police confirmed to The Dallas Morning News.
Frisco police said officers responded earlier in the evening to a gunshot call to an address involving Austin Metcalf's family. Grant Cottingham, a police spokesperson, said the call turned out to be false.
https://tinyurl.com/4445whv2
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 01:09 PM (/iLcI)
In and around Chicago 'How about those Bears!" used to work, except now if they're a fan they promptly try to hang themselves if you bring Halas' Hapless Heros into the conversation.
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at April 18, 2025 01:09 PM (Ft5W9)
PURE EVIL: Father of Austin Metcalf SWATTED After Karmelo Anthony Press Conference Where He was Smeared by an Anthony Spokesperson and Kicked Out
Posted by: weft cut-loop
That's Anthony
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 01:09 PM (Tv15w)
OK, maybe I'm just an idiot but how do they know she fell asleep?
Are there cameras in her office?
Did her colleagues see her sleeping?
Was it just a normal thing for Monique to take a nap as soon as she got to work?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 01:09 PM (6ydKt)
--
That's for an average human.
Not even a defibrillator direct wired to 220 would be able to power through to the heart, insulated by the yards of blubber on that whale.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 01:09 PM (11WUE)
WHERE'S MY FUCKING BONUS???
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 01:07 PM (wtvvX)
We can give you a 1.5% annual increase. There isn't enough room in the budget anything else.
Posted by: Unless it's the CEO's $6M bonus at April 18, 2025 01:09 PM (TbWk/)
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Did she die on a Friday and was only discovered on Monday or did the cleaning crew already know the score on Tuesday but can't speak English?
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 01:10 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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Things like this often break apart the victim's family.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:05 PM
As I said in the downstairs thread. THIS is why their candy bar thug offspring killed a kid. Pure trash family. Absolute garbage humans. I hope they end up broke and miserable and their miserable offspring pounded in the ass daily.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 01:10 PM (ewjUl)
Weasel catches Ewokian h*ll every Monday morning should the comments on Sunday night's Gun Thread not exceed those on the (now-Frenchified) Food Thread.
Food for thought.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 18, 2025 01:10 PM (0sNs1)
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Not a leap year. Disinformation!
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 18, 2025 01:10 PM (wzAuc)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 01:10 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Eleanor Roosevelt
"Eleanor, anything you want to tell me?"
-- Franklin
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 01:10 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Exactly so. Definitely need consultants to analyze just what we do here and implement ISO 9001 quality improvement processes for comments. Aim for six sigmas in content errors.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:10 PM (ctrM5)
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This could be the basis of a new #Woke Sherlock Holmes movie reboot: "The Leap Year of Fear."
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 01:11 PM (Cc/B0)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 01:10 PM (ewjUl)
Waffer thin!
Posted by: Aaaaand the whale goes boom at April 18, 2025 01:11 PM (TbWk/)
'Total fear and demoralization'
OK, now I'm calling bullshit.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 01:12 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 01:11 PM (Cc/B0)
And they use the word "leap" lightly.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 01:12 PM (u9Npv)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 01:12 PM (u9Npv)
We also need to have TJM calibrate the Gonculator. I think it has been throwing out some errors because we have the American model instead of the German one.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:13 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:10 PM (ctrM5)
We'll form a tiger team to drill down on maximizing throughput and optimizing deliverables to our stakeholders.
Posted by: Open that kimono. Real slow. Yeeaaaahhhh at April 18, 2025 01:13 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 01:13 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Toad-0 at April 18, 2025 01:13 PM (cct0t)
Posted by: ShainS
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Brilliant, lol.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:13 PM (ctrM5)
Cut to plaque on door - "SSA Sensitive Info Spec-Ops Team 6"
Pan to - Supervisor pulling on kevlar body armor over carpal tunnel braces on both wrists:
Supervisor: "OK people! We got information to protect from DOGE. Not from the massive amount flowing to illegal immigrants. Those guys are just hoping for a better life. But that Musk.... grrrr"
Multiple Team Members: "HOOAH!" (shouted mostly in harmony)
Supervisor: "We'll have to hit this hard and fast, so load up on some energy. Grab a donut from the table. Chocolate-chocolate sprinkle is reserved for squad leaders. Monique... MONIQUE, these donuts are for everyone so show some restraint."
Monique: "Got it Sarge. I'm feeling sleepy...."
End Scene
Posted by: Croaker at April 18, 2025 01:14 PM (+BcZI)
I don't think we're in silos as much as we are in bunkers.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 01:14 PM (Tv15w)
WHERE'S MY FUCKING BONUS???
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 01:07 PM (wtvvX)
We can give you a 1.5% annual increase. There isn't enough room in the budget anything else.
Posted by: Unless it's the CEO's $6M bonus at April 18, 2025 01:09 PM (TbWk/)
LOWBALLIN' ME??? I KNOW YOU'RE MAKING BANK ON KING HARV!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 01:15 PM (wtvvX)
O.K., I'll join the picket line for "AOS UNFAIR TO LAZY SHITPOSTERS" but I need at least $50 and an hour of free drinks at the bar around the corner.
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 01:15 PM (j4U/Z)
Weasel catches Ewokian h*ll every Monday morning should the comments on Sunday night's Gun Thread not exceed those on the (now-Frenchified) Food Thread.
Food for thought.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 18, 2025 01:10 PM (0sNs1)
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I dread the day I get called into the boss's office because someone didn't wear pants on the Sunday Morning Book Thread...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2025 01:15 PM (7fElN)
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"How do you know the chosen ones? No greater love hath a woman than she lay down her life for her cat. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame ... for one cat. In the dark. Where no one will ever know or see. H8R!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 01:15 PM (Cc/B0)
Dude, you run wires and type code.
What in the world gave you the idea that you could set policy for the Social Security Administration?
The Martyr Complex on this one is off the charts.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 01:15 PM (6ydKt)
With DOGE and Trump's promise of efficiency, I honestly expected the body count to be higher.
Be better, Trump. Be better, Musk.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 18, 2025 01:16 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:03 PM (ctrM5)
Or just laugh uproariously.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 01:16 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Black Guy at April 18, 2025 01:16 PM (pt3r0)
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:13 PM
Given he's in the middle of his Alan Smithee retrospective for the Movie Thread, does he have sufficient bandwidth for that while not exceeding his Work-In-Progress limits?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 18, 2025 01:16 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 01:16 PM (jc0TO)
'A 'swatting' call was made Thursday to an address linked to the family of the Frisco teenager who was fatally stabbed'
I'm Really eager to see these swatters identified and named publicly.
The police already need to back trace every call like it's a kidnapper or serial killer.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 01:17 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Jen the original at April 18, 2025 01:17 PM (VHO8+)
OMG, I love you Mang...
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at April 18, 2025 01:17 PM (BW+Gb)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 18, 2025 01:17 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 01:15 PM (6ydKt)
I think it was more an issue of him not yet having removed all the illegal smut off his hard drive tho’
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 01:18 PM (0aihy)
I got fired because I took a few flowers of my own to give to a would be girlfriend thinking that was perfectly fine to do
Was that wrong… should I not have done that…
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at April 18, 2025 01:18 PM (+h6mu)
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 01:13 PM
Given he's in the middle of his Alan Smithee retrospective for the Movie Thread, does he have sufficient bandwidth for that while not exceeding his Work-In-Progress limits?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 18, 2025 01:16 PM (0sNs1)
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My pipeline is already maxed out, limiting my exposure for new projects. It's gonna be a tough haul, but I can rope in some help from Mark, assuming his manager signs off.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO)
Maybe if it were wired to the transformer outside.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 01:18 PM (3wi/L)
May she RIP.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 18, 2025 01:18 PM (NFX2v)
Was it just a normal thing for Monique to take a nap as soon as she got to work?
Posted by: SpeakingOf
Once again, Peter and the two Bobs.
"Office Space".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 01:18 PM (Tv15w)
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The deliberate removal of all other emotions except for fear and outrage is taken directly from George Orwell's 1984.
They really are using that book as an instruction manual.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2025 01:18 PM (7fElN)
OMG, I love you Mang...
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at April 18, 2025 01:17 PM (BW+Gb)
He uses his keyboard purtier'n a $20 whore.
Posted by: My mind is a raging torrent at April 18, 2025 01:19 PM (TbWk/)
**********
Last I checked, a paradigm was still 20 cents...
...same as in town.
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 01:19 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 01:19 PM (Cc/B0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 18, 2025 01:19 PM (0fMex)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I pull it out of my boxers, just to flaunt the rules.
Posted by: Uncle Pervy at April 18, 2025 01:20 PM (G5+As)
It is sad that Monique passed away. May she rest in peace.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 01:20 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO)
That's a big ask.
Posted by: And a heavy lift at April 18, 2025 01:20 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 12:25 PM (yp8Vj)
♫Ace is the place with the heartless cruelty man♫
Posted by: Musically inclined Miklos at April 18, 2025 01:20 PM (UOzvC)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2025 01:21 PM (wtvvX)
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CNN should consider running cartoons. I think they would get a larger and more loyal audience that way.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 01:21 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 18, 2025 01:21 PM (VJc7E)
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You'd think uncovering fraud by the powerful and connected would be a great story. But, theyd lose their few remaining customers if they report on stories that look bad for their political team. And no chance for a Pulitzer.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 01:22 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 01:22 PM (0aihy)
My field of fooks to give is indeed barren for the poor benighted feral "workers". We in the private sector were subjected to this type of uncertainty and stress for decades. Toughen up, buttercups.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 01:23 PM (Tv15w)
https://tinyurl.com/4445whv2
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 01:09 PM (/iLcI)
Sauce for the goose, and all that...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 01:23 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Speller at April 18, 2025 01:25 PM (pSotA)
Posted by: So there's that at April 18, 2025 01:27 PM (6vpu3)
Posted by: Nonna Turney, Spokesperson at April 18, 2025 01:28 PM (HN9JN)
Monique's Disease - DOGE etiology. We need an ICD-10 code for this.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 18, 2025 01:34 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mea culpa at April 18, 2025 01:35 PM (YxlHp)
Posted by: Joe at April 18, 2025 01:40 PM (rzwGB)
It produces unfortunate names like dikshit.
Posted by: MikeN at April 18, 2025 01:43 PM (HVZOH)
Posted by: Prickly Pete Salmonella at April 18, 2025 01:49 PM (dFG8E)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 12:30 PM
Ace is a wizard? I thought he was an ewok.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 18, 2025 01:50 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Ben Sears at April 18, 2025 01:52 PM (34Egb)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 01:53 PM (g/Chl)
Er. Illegal immigrants are not supposed to have SS#s. Thye are not supposed to receive benefits.
"granted a temporary legal status." Okay, how do we go about "ungranting" that? Because if you can't ungrant it isn't temporary, right?
What we have seen is a systematic attempt by the Biden administration to circumvent the law at every turn. Make illegals functionally legal and undeportable.
Posted by: El Mariachi at April 18, 2025 01:54 PM (gDhA9)
Posted by: hh475 at April 18, 2025 02:07 PM (n7AHL)
Lol... jk.
Posted by: red speck at April 18, 2025 02:15 PM (0Id0S)
Posted by: TitanTom at April 18, 2025 12:46 PM
"17 million people. This was a country, it'd be the fifth biggest economy in the world and nobody knows each other. I read about this guy, gets on the MTA here, dies.
Six hours he's riding the subway before anybody notices his corpse doing laps around L.A., people on and off sitting next to him. Nobody notices."
Posted by: Vincent at April 18, 2025 02:21 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: It's Gonna Be Yuge! at April 18, 2025 02:23 PM (YYrdK)
Obesity and high blood pressure and medication. When I was on medication for high blood sugar, I was told to monitor my blood sugar levels. Too high over long period of time is dangerous to one's health, but too low over a short period of time could kill you almost immediately. When blood sugar goes too low, you can pass out.
That's my guess as to what happened here, when it says she "fell asleep" at her desk. Guessing she was on some blood sugar medication in addition to the blood pressure meds and her blood sugar went dangerously low. She then did not eat anything to get her blood sugar back to normal levels and ended up passing out and never waking up.
Definitely a tragedy, but to tie it to Trump and Musk is ridiculous.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 18, 2025 02:35 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: EyeofSauron at April 18, 2025 02:36 PM (u0bih)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 02:38 PM (4fQmp)
Posted by: mustng66 at April 18, 2025 02:40 PM (w9tg2)
Posted by: Dave at April 18, 2025 02:55 PM (sbsMc)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at April 18, 2025 03:35 PM (8A9Ql)
Posted by: oopsie . . . too late at April 18, 2025 04:18 PM (kvDvI)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2025 04:32 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Ib1netmon at April 18, 2025 04:52 PM (vTTFR)
Who cares?
Posted by: Kamala's Throat at April 18, 2025 05:51 PM (W+TLY)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 18, 2025 06:55 PM (wGqjj)
THE MORNING RANT: The Slippery Slope to (Re)Normalizing American Slavery Keeps Getting Slipperier
In my post earlier this week I expressed my concern that Principled Free Traders pretty much openly express their support nowadays for the use of overseas slave labor in the manufacture of consumer goods imported into the U.S., and what this situational tolerance for slavery portends.
The disturbing end point for this “libertarian” passion for the elimination of labor expense, despite the ongoing need for human labor, is a return to the “peculiar institution” that western nations finally abolished in the 19th century. Principled Free Traders are already quite open about their enthusiasm for the use of overseas chattel labor in the name of increased corporate profit and lower consumer prices. What is the principle that allows free trade libertarians to be comfortable with foreign slavery but not domestic slavery? It seems like a slippery slope.I also noted how those most passionate about offshoring American industrial jobs tend to be the same people most enthusiastic about opening the U.S. border to an off-the-book, in-the-shadows workforce for those jobs which cannot be offshored. The common denominator is that there is a passion to reduce labor expense to as close to $0 as possible, be it with overseas slaves or with domestic illegal labor.
Isn’t it puzzling that “free market libertarians” who do chest-bumps and grave dances to celebrate American industrial workers losing their jobs are also passionate about importing off-the-book labor to do “the jobs that Americans won’t do.”It’s all coming full circle now. Slavery is back in the American South, and it’s the perfect confluence of the libertarians’ ideal labor forces – foreign slaves serving as unregulated domestic labor… “Three arrested in wake of ‘massive’ labor trafficking bust in Georgia” [Atlanta Journal Constitution – 4/12/2025]
Employees were Chinese nationals who had been recruited through a temporary visa program and promised high salaries. Instead, they were allegedly required to work 12-hour shifts, and they were not allowed to leave the factory or their residence. [Assistant District Attorney] Waldo said there were several calls to authorities reporting slave labor-like conditions, WBHF reported.Libertarians and Principled Free Traders swoon at the idea of being able to control Chinese nationals who work 12-hour days and are prohibited from even leaving their apartments without their
The authorities’ arrival at Wellmade Industries in Cartersville, roughly 40 miles north of Atlanta, was the culmination of what an official described as a “massive” labor trafficking investigation. At an April 4 news conference, Steven Schrank, special agent with a division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said law enforcement encountered 60 victims of “horrific” forced labor.Who owns Wellmade?
These sweeps yielded two arrests: Wellmade Industries’ owner, Zhu Chen, and his nephew, Jiayi Chen. A third person connected to the company, Jian Jun Lu, was arrested April 5. All three face felony charges of “trafficking of persons for labor or sexual servitude.”The operation that Wellmade ran in Georgia is exactly what Principled Free Traders advocate for when they celebrate American jobs being replaced by Wellmade-style slaves in China and elsewhere. Again, if slavery is wrong when practiced in the state of Georgia, how can we condone the exact same slavery being used to produce goods being sold on American shelves so long as the slaves are located in foreign lands. If re-shoring slavery would result in lower consumer prices, how could libertarians object? They already embrace and endorse slavery, at this point we’re just talking about its geographic location. As I said, it’s a slippery slope that’s getting slipperier. And to be clear, slavery is an abomination before God that should not be tolerated anywhere. It is beyond despicable that there are “respectable” voices on the right who advocate for the exploitation of slave labor in the name of “free trade” and “lower consumer prices.” [buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 11:00 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 11:01 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 18, 2025 11:02 AM (kXFFr)
The only principle they have is F-ing over conservatives whenever an important vote is needed.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 11:02 AM (3wi/L)
These sweeps yielded two arrests: Wellmade Industries’ owner, Zhu Chen, and his nephew, Jiayi Chen. A third person connected to the company, Jian Jun Lu, was arrested April 5. All three face felony charges of “trafficking of persons for labor or sexual servitude.”
Once again, the Amish are at the heart of things.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 11:03 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 11:03 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:03 AM (pZ64F)
Not a shock at all, but-
For your edification-
The White House Presents the Origin and Many Failures Associated with COVID-19:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-
covid-19/
Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2025 11:03 AM (iJfKG)
Sorry, but I don't care about slavery or the treatment of workers in foreign lands. That's their problem, not mine. We have enough problems here in USA that are far more deserving of my attention.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 11:04 AM (iFTx/)
But the Apostle Paul approved of it!!!! REEEEEEE!!!!
-- Stupid, religiously ignorant leftists
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:06 AM (77rzZ)
'Sorry, but I don't care about slavery or the treatment of workers in foreign lands. That's their problem, not mine. '
I don't really either but it becomes a problem for me when China's slave factories drive our domestic factories out of business.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 11:06 AM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 18, 2025 11:07 AM (6TePA)
Sexual ...Wut?!
The lid is blowing off.
Posted by: t-bird at April 18, 2025 11:07 AM (KtPtl)
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 11:04 AM (iFTx/)
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But there's injustice in this one place far away. Look at this one place far away.
Now, care about this one place far away. Care about it a lot. Scream about it.
You can not calm down until this one place far away is utopia.
Oh wait...have you heard about this injustice in another far away place?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)
Sorry, but I don't care about slavery or the treatment of workers in foreign lands. That's their problem, not mine. We have enough problems here in USA that are far more deserving of my attention.
We can't force the Chinese government to treat their workers humanely, but we CAN refuse to buy their products, or tariff them highly enough that they are uncompetitive. We can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 11:08 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: Beartooth at April 18, 2025 11:08 AM (dJimA)
But the Apostle Paul approved of it!!!! REEEEEEE!!!!
-- Stupid, religiously ignorant leftists
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I will remind the audience that everyone is born a slave.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:08 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 11:04 AM
I vaguely care, to extent that eradicating it might be in our national interest, or in my case, Christian solidarity but, we are not the World or the Children(tm).
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 11:08 AM (jc0TO)
When is Ben R. gonna show up to explain your "meat popsicle" comment from the last thread?
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 18, 2025 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 18, 2025 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)
You don't see it in the price tag, but it is in your 1040.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 11:10 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at April 18, 2025 11:10 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)
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You said one of God's Frozen People.
I made a reference to a well-known line from The Fifth Element where Bruce Willis calls himself a meat popsicle.
It was hilarious. People laughed. We ate Robin's minstrels. There was much rejoicing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Jen the original at April 18, 2025 11:11 AM (VHO8+)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at April 18, 2025 11:11 AM (JpKE2)
Posted by: Bitter Tea at April 18, 2025 11:11 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Ah, so a "meat popsicle" is just a cold-hearted person, then.
I've seen you use that term before, and was confused by it.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 11:12 AM (s8j++)
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Which, BTW, enslaves them.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:13 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at April 18, 2025 11:13 AM (p6zRz)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)
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IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT!!!
Posted by: BEN ROETHLESSBERGER at April 18, 2025 11:14 AM (2UnvF)
Yes humans are weak and will somewhere always enslave others but we shouldn't condone it and stop it if we can.
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 11:14 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 11:15 AM (L/fGl)
If weed made the Libertarians dunces, what is the GOP excuse?
Posted by: Francis at April 18, 2025 11:15 AM (bbuBP)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:15 AM (pZ64F)
Sorry, but I don't care about slavery or the treatment of workers in foreign lands. That's their problem, not mine. We have enough problems here in USA that are far more deserving of my attention.
We can't force the Chinese government to treat their workers humanely, but we CAN refuse to buy their products, or tariff them highly enough that they are uncompetitive. We can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 11:08 AM (s8j++)
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Well, yea. But that's an economic problem for us, not a moral one. The same is true of third-world countries that don't use slaves, but where the prevailing wages are so low they can manufacture shit on the cheap.
I do care about maximizing America and American interests using whatever tools we have. I don't care about probably 20-25% of the world's population that are slaves are very nearly so. I ran out of fucks long ago.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 11:16 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 11:16 AM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:16 AM (77rzZ)
Essentially for 'free trade' to work, over time, it requires 'free movement' of workers from around the world to equalize wages and that presupposes that their workers will be content with their lot and not try to impress their culture eventually on the existing one.
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Ultimately, people forget that Adam Smith was not a doctrinaire free trader of the modern libertarian stripe. He saw his book, the Wealth of Nations as a corrective to the widespread mercantilism that was hurting the average person in 1776 and was not an ideologue like others after him--Ricardo and Mills. It is based, in part, on his little read now but influential at the time, Theory of Moral Sentiment.
That attempted to show how even selfish interests can be channeled into the market for doing good. But not that unfettered trade nor selfish interests should dominate the political discussion of issues.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 11:16 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:17 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
The left has reached rock bottom and is using dynamite to blast the hole deeper.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 11:18 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:18 AM (pZ64F)
He decides to take an economic approach to the problem, making it more difficult and costly to own slaves than to simply pay people what their labor is worth.
We'll see how it works out. Lots of blood and gore required, though, as slavers don't like to give up their slaves without a fight.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2025 11:18 AM (7fElN)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:16 AM
Person of Bondage
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 11:19 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 11:16 AM (iFTx/)
Do people really believe that the US manufacturers outsourcing to forced labor countries will not be willing to enslave American workers including children so that they can have more billions? By importing it here in Atlanta, the elites have made it clear that their wealth trumps everyone else's trivial concerns, like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 11:19 AM (FZn/N)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:18 AM (pZ64F)
The Yankees are cloning him and using him as a test subject for their new pelican bat.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 18, 2025 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:18 AM
Someone is cloning a race of super soldiers.
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 11:19 AM (jc0TO)
Now, wages will have to rise in the absence of actual slavery or the overrunning of the country by illegals.
Pay the true price of the goods and services, or pay them via taxes for welfare and additional policing needed.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 11:19 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Francis
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Cash.
However, the point that Libertarianism as a formal theory is utopian no less than Marxism in nature and seeks to impose top down theory on a very complex society needs to be considered. People do not behave as predicted in either Marxist or Libertarian thought and true examples of either in real life can be shown to exist.
I find it more useful as a critique of current policies instead of a coherent theory of government and society.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 11:20 AM (ctrM5)
Trump has opened up the government website on COVID again.
There have been some slight changes:
COVID.gov
Instead of displaying info on the virus and vaccines, etc., the site is now an indictment on the natural origin theory and puts the blame squarely on China and the Wuhan lab.
And then it goes on to question the U.S. health authorities' actions and mandates, as well as blaming Fauci.
Trump is turning this entire thing around on the Dems and China, and I love it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 11:20 AM (6ydKt)
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Ted played for Boston and Managed the Senators. I don't see him as a Yankee fan.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:21 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at April 18, 2025 11:13 AM (p6zRz)
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See my comment above on that question.
Plus, the outsource issue isn't just about foreign workers being cheaper (whether slaves or otherwise). Jobs moved overseas not only because of cheap labor, but also because of suffocating USA regulations, expensive real estate and infrastructure, litigation risk, sky-high insurance and similar costs, the whim of politicians, etc.
It would cost way more to manufacture widgets here even if the labor rates were the same.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 11:21 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 18, 2025 11:19 AM (
They are using his frozen arm as a bat!
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 11:21 AM (ewjUl)
The left has reached rock bottom and is using dynamite to blast the hole deeper.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 11:18 AM (L/fGl)
Anthony's mother was crying on TV about how they are living in fear now and they can't even send their daughter to school.
Well, your sociopath son DID brutally and premeditatively MURDER someone in cold blood for no reason, so I would think your life SHOULD be in a little bit of turmoil right now.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 18, 2025 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 18, 2025 11:21 AM (cvWHI)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:21 AM (pZ64F)
You say that as if the evil Yankees organization gives a flying f*ck.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 18, 2025 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)
Hmmmmm....
Posted by: ErikInTexas at April 18, 2025 11:22 AM (LQqtT)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 18, 2025 11:22 AM (VJc7E)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez
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"There are only two conceptions of human ethics, and they are at opposite poles. One of them is Christian and humane, declares the individual to be sacrosanct, and asserts that the rules of arithmetic are not to be applied to human units. The other starts from the basic principle that a collective aim justifies all means, and not only allows, but demands, that the individual should in every way be subordinated and sacrificed to the community--which may dispose of it as an experimentation rabbit or a sacrificial lamb. The first conception could be called anti-vivisection morality, the second, vivisection morality. Humbugs and dilettantes have always tried to mix the two conceptions; in practice, it is impossible.”
― Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 18, 2025 11:22 AM (UBKzV)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 11:14 AM (ypFCm)
Agreed.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 18, 2025 11:22 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 11:20 AM
It is Bearded Spock Universe Progressivism. It might work, if you compel everyone to participate.
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 11:23 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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Yep. Tanstaafl. There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch courtesy of R. Heinlein.
And free trade just like any other policy has winners and losers in the domestic sphere. The winners inevitably think this is the nature of things and to depart from it will be woeful. The losers cannot wait to overturn the winners.
Policy is lumpy in who wins and who loses--who pays and who gets paid. We forget that sometimes in vague abstractions of GDP and other derivative indexes of the economy and society.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 11:23 AM (ctrM5)
He decides to take an economic approach to the problem, making it more difficult and costly to own slaves than to simply pay people what their labor is worth.
We'll see how it works out. Lots of blood and gore required, though, as slavers don't like to give up their slaves without a fight.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2025 11:18 AM (7fElN)
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That was actually happening in the American south during slavery. The slaves were expensive to maintain, and their productivity was low. Slavery probably would have died out on its own. But then came the cotton gin. That drastically spiked slave productivity on a very valuable crop at the time.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 11:24 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 11:19 AM
THIS! I would argue it's cheaper in the long run to pay the true price of wages and goods. Because there is a social cost on top of the fiscal. Schools are overrun by non English speaking kids. There's a failure nor any incentive to assimilate. Crime that comes with it and the decreasing of wages to others. It's a death spiral in many ways.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 11:24 AM (ewjUl)
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They fired George Constanza.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:24 AM (pZ64F)
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... and "negotiating the price."
Another good rant, Buck!
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 11:24 AM (arzIt)
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You know who else can't send their offspring to school?
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 11:24 AM (u9Npv)
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 11:24 AM (FZn/N)
No, it's both a moral and an economic problem. My response to your first comment was based on morality. I didn't mention the damage done to our own economy by overseas slave labor. Nonetheless, that damage is very real.
The difference between a slave and a low wage worker is that the latter at least has SOME agency, and can move to another job or not show up for work. They may not have good alternatives, but they have something.
I am not so naive as to think all we have to do is demand that other countries must match what our workers have. Demanding that foreign workers be given the same salary and bennies that American workers get would simply mean they would have NO jobs at home, and would likely start looking to move here or to some other wealthy country, illegally or not.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 11:24 AM (s8j++)
Libertarians: How dare you!
US: We know what you are. Now we're just negotiating on price.
As a guy who briefly considered myself libertarian, no capital L, there were a few deal killers.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 18, 2025 11:25 AM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:24 AM
After the shrinking uniform affair, he deserved it.
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 11:25 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 18, 2025 11:25 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 11:25 AM (jjoN6)
It would cost way more to manufacture widgets here even if the labor rates were the same.
Posted by: Elric Blade
All of those costs are still present, it is just that the cost is divided between the price tag and the income tax bill.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 11:26 AM (lTGtQ)
After the shrinking uniform affair, he deserved it.
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 11:25 AM (jc0TO)
You mean it shrinks?
Posted by: Elaine at April 18, 2025 11:26 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: toby928
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Which is antithetical to the one principle that Libertarianism is built upon. "Do what thy wilt except if it hurts someone else."
At the end of Das Kapital where Marx is just speculating--his 'true communism' where the government withers away resembles that of Libertarian theory about the basic goodness of people in the absence of government and how society will organically heal itself from the outrages of government.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 11:26 AM (ctrM5)
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Slavery was already collapsing. Those hungry textile mills in New England needed cotton. So did the British and French.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:26 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 11:18 AM (L/fGl)
Anthony's mother was crying on TV about how they are living in fear now and they can't even send their daughter to school.
Well, your sociopath son DID brutally and premeditatively MURDER someone in cold blood for no reason, so I would think your life SHOULD be in a little bit of turmoil right now.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 18, 2025 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)
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Where are the videos of the murder? Supposedly several kids filmed the whole thing. Now, that could be bullshit, but I think it's rare that teenagers don't film every single thing that's of any interest. So I expect the videos exist. Where are they? I assume they are very very bad for Anthony.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 11:27 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 11:27 AM (ewjUl)
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 11:27 AM (arzIt)
Pay the true price of the goods and services, or pay them via taxes for welfare and additional policing needed.
I'm torn about this. To be blunt, I'm UMC, and have enough money to buy what I want, expensive or not. However, most people have less than I do, so while it's easy to say "let's pay more", it's easier for some than others. See Whig's #63.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 11:28 AM (s8j++)
Nobody else has ever been a slave.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Fisht at April 18, 2025 11:28 AM (BHEHK)
Just guessing here. It exists, it's under lock and key and very tight security and it won't be broadcast until the trial to avoid compromising the case.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 11:28 AM (jjoN6)
Well, your sociopath son DID brutally and premeditatively MURDER someone in cold blood for no reason, so I would think your life SHOULD be in a little bit of turmoil right now.
Do you not understand that the black person is ALWAYS the victim?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 11:28 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 11:29 AM (CQE5S)
New York Post@nypost
AG Letitia James calls claims of mortgage fraud ‘baseless,’ but refuses to give details in new interview
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 11:29 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:29 AM (pZ64F)
Well, your sociopath son DID brutally and premeditatively MURDER someone in cold blood for no reason, so I would think your life SHOULD be in a little bit of turmoil right now.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 18, 2025 11:21 AM
This is exactly WHY their kid is as psycho murdering thug. Shit parents. Imagine the horror if your own child did something so heinous. Now imagine going all over media claiming victimhood. Their actions tell you all you need to know about Rollo. Or Carmelo.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 11:30 AM (ewjUl)
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 11:30 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 18, 2025 11:25 AM (uWKK
Like all of those OYO motels and On The Road gas stations. Nail salons and donut shops to boot.
Posted by: ErikInTexas at April 18, 2025 11:30 AM (LQqtT)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:29 AM
Or as I refer to him. Temu Obama.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 11:30 AM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Archimedes
United Methodist Church?
Also, can I borrow $50?
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:30 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 11:31 AM (jc0TO)
Just guessing here. It exists, it's under lock and key and very tight security and it won't be broadcast until the trial to avoid compromising the case.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 11:28 AM (jjoN6)
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Maybe, but since when do juicy videos ever stay hidden? If the kids did film it, they probably sent it to 100 friends before the cops ever arrived. Juicy, salacious, or violent videos always leak out.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 11:31 AM (iFTx/)
I prefer the more enlightened "Freedom challenged individual."
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 11:25 AM (jjoN6)
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I thought it was POC (Person of Chains)?
[h/t F. Joe Biden]
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 11:31 AM (arzIt)
Never had kids but if I did and this happened?
"I am truly sorry for the actions of my child. I am ashamed because my wife and I raised him better than that and are in shock at his actions. We are now going to beat the hell out of him until the cops arrive to carry him off."
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 11:31 AM (jjoN6)
201 MONKEY TIME
Without a monkey
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 11:01 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 11:31 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 11:32 AM (CQE5S)
'This is exactly WHY their kid is as psycho murdering thug. Shit parents. '
Hear. Hear. I want to see them publicly ground into the dust.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 11:32 AM (3wi/L)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 11:32 AM (u9Npv)
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on...
Posted by: "What A Load Of Crap"...Chinese Slave Labor USA at April 18, 2025 11:32 AM (R/m4+)
I'm torn about this. To be blunt, I'm UMC, and have enough money to buy what I want, expensive or not. However, most people have less than I do, so while it's easy to say "let's pay more", it's easier for some than others. See Whig's #63.
Posted by: Archimedes
I know where you are coming from, but someone is paying the true cost. Progressive income taxes mean that the wealthier are paying proportionately more, but we as a whole are almost certainly paying (or borrowing) more under present conditions in order to get the goods and pay for all of the social spending that outsourcing brings.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 11:33 AM (lTGtQ)
We witnessed chink slavery in the Adirondacks and nearby Burlington VT in the 00s. It was in the chink restaurant business, the slaves snuck in from NYC or Montreal, made to live in housing owned by their chink overlords, and work in the restaurants.
I call them chinks because they are despicable slavers.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 18, 2025 11:33 AM (KiBMU)
Ted Cruz@tedcruz
Find someone who looks at you the way Democrat senators look at illegal alien MS-13 gang members
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 11:33 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Brother Tim
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Yeh, this. ^^^^^
Posted by: From about That Time at April 18, 2025 11:33 AM (n4GiU)
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For most 'free slaves' they became sharecroppers (serfs). The biggest problem with that is a sharecropper needs to know math to survive and personal restraint with money.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:33 AM (pZ64F)
If we don’t have these slaves working, the cost of running shoes might increase by 1.2%. And that will mean the end of western civilization.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 11:34 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 11:29 AM (CQE5S)
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WHO LET THE DOG OUT?!?!?!
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 11:34 AM (arzIt)
I read in an article that the parents of the kid who shot Trump in Butler, PA have cut off all outside communication and stay almost entirely inside their home now, only leaving at 3 AM to buy groceries.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:34 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 11:35 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 11:31 AM (jc0TO)
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That was the previous system. It was replaced by slavery when Anthony Johnson -- a black man and former indentured servant/sharecropper -- won a legal case over whether he had contract rights over his indentured servants, or whether he owned them outright. He won the case. Slavery became the norm.
At first, it was people of all races who were slaves in the USA. But the endless civil wars in Africa created a cheap and easy supply of labor, so eventually the slave trade became almost exclusively African.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 11:35 AM (iFTx/)
'I read in an article that the parents of the kid who shot Trump in Butler, PA'
And also murdered a local. That probably reinforces the shame.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 11:36 AM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:33 AM (pZ64F)
Some became tradesmen but regardless, since we ended up with sharecroppers anyway, it would have been nice to have gotten there without slaughtering our own citizens and burning our cities and industry.
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 11:36 AM (jc0TO)
If we don’t have these slaves working, the cost of running shoes might increase by 1.2%. And that will mean the end of western civilization.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 11:34 AM (DKKgv)
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AND more murders for Air Jordans in the inner cities.
AND avocado prices over $2/pound! Oh, wait ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 11:37 AM (arzIt)
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on...
Posted by: "What A Load Of Crap"...Chinese Slave Labor USA
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free
While God is marching on.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 11:37 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 11:37 AM (u9Npv)
But: don't try to stretch the "anti-slavery" justification beyond its worth. Don't try to stretch it to French wines or Japanese electronics, or whatever. Americans can compete. If you want tariffs because you think the foreigners just do it better, you don't deserve the protection.
Posted by: KLA at April 18, 2025 11:37 AM (R1Eqe)
I read in an article that the parents of the kid who shot Trump in Butler, PA have cut off all outside communication and stay almost entirely inside their home now, only leaving at 3 AM to buy groceries.
Phoenix Ikner, the guy who shot up FSU, used his sheriff's deputy mother's service pistol, because apparently locking the damn thing up was too much trouble.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 11:37 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 11:38 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 11:08 AM (s8j++)
Ironically, this is exactly the sort of thing that a principled free trader would insist upon and, yet, Principled Free Traders never do.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 11:39 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Minnfidel
Victimhood sweepstakes are a deranged mockery of Christianity. Being a victim or this or that does not imply moral supremacy to do what you want to do. Even worse if you claim victimhood when you are privileged (in the legal and political meaning of the term). Woman is caterwauling to get more gimmedats from grief stricken AWFLs is my guess.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 11:39 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 11:35 AM (D7oie)
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And The Junta from 2021-2024 encouraged, facilitated, rewarded, aided, abetted, and ran the largest human, child sex, drug, and terrorist trafficking operation in human history.
I want blood and executions ... but mostly executions.
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 11:40 AM (arzIt)
Posted by: No MSG! at April 18, 2025 11:40 AM (G5+As)
I want blood and executions ... but mostly executions.
Will you settle for Joe Biden wanting $300k for a speech and getting no takers?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 11:41 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: Sponge
I'm sure those sweet, sweet GoFundMe bucks could buy an armed bodyguard or to.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 11:38 AM (Dv3i1)
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The father never should have publicly forgiven his kid's murderer. That make the father look like an impotent chump not to be taken seriously. There's no coming back from that.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 11:41 AM (iFTx/)
Did you read the article earlier in the week by a pastor who voxplained that Jesus was primarily an anti-MAGA revolutionary?
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 11:41 AM (u9Npv)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)
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Did they take any questions? Because I have a few.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 11:42 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: KLA
I believe the end goal of Trump is reciprocal tariffs for most countries, Canada and Mexico get their deal if they patrol the border, and China is the primary target.
China is a communist mercantilist system that threatens the entire world. Their goal is to bankrupt every western capitalist nation by exploiting the welfare state.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 11:42 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Principled Free traders do not want the mix the streams of economics and society but instead insist a sterility that forbids analyzing how one affects the other. Comes down to treating people as meat puppets and fungible as inputs.
That is why to steer clear of ideologues as they will happily send people to the grave, peonage, or slavery just to prove their theory is perfect.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 11:42 AM (ctrM5)
And the teacher ain't a teacher anymore.
Sing it with me!
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 18, 2025 11:42 AM (VJc7E)
Posted by: Bubble Butt Fan at April 18, 2025 11:42 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: ...
At the Last Supper, they had Molotov cocktails.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 11:43 AM (L/fGl)
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Which libertarians, Buck?
You undermine your credibility, by just throwing out epithets, without any facts.
What should we call you, an Principled Boomercon?
Posted by: BurtTC at April 18, 2025 11:44 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: ...
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Not surprised. Appeal to authority is very big by con men disguised as religious leaders. So in Christianity, most charlatans end up citing him as approving of their positions on Earth. They purposefully ignore that he said his kingdom is not of this Earth.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 11:44 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Elric Blade
Yeah, that makes a mockery of the whole process of seeking justice.
If he wants to visit the kid in prison in a few years and forgive him then to his face (like John Paul II did with Agca), that's one thing. But to forgive him right out of the gate is profoundly disrespectful of his dead son.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:45 AM (77rzZ)
Of course, this is all complicated and simplifications downplay the tradeoffs.
If I had my way, I'd slap a 100% tariff on any country that did not have a full and effective Bill of Rights.
If a billion Chinamen want to work for $0.25 an hour, that's fine.
But let's see how long that lasts if they have a billion guns, free speech and jury trials.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 11:45 AM (11WUE)
Ironically, this is exactly the sort of thing that a principled free trader would insist upon and, yet, Principled Free Traders never do.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 11:39 AM (ExV1e)
Some "principled free traders" have no principles at all.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 11:45 AM (FZn/N)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 11:45 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 11:46 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 11:35 AM (iFTx/)
Nonsense.
The only slaves ever were blacks in the US. And the only slave owners ever were whites in the US.
- Public Education System
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 11:46 AM (DKKgv)
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Sibling Rivalry is a thing. Just ask Cain.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:47 AM (pZ64F)
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A cuck cucks.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:48 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 11:48 AM (viF8m)
I'd beat the crap outta whoever did that.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2025 11:49 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at April 18, 2025 11:50 AM (p6zRz)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 11:33 AM (lTGtQ)
Same thing with importing cheap labor here. They use our benefits programs, flood our emergency rooms, their kids are in our schools, we have to police their third-world antics. All that costs money.
Shit like this is why I regard libertarians as clowns. They can't even conduct a serious cost-benefit analysis.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 18, 2025 11:50 AM (TdYBy)
Posted by: average lolbert at April 18, 2025 11:50 AM (dBS1q)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:50 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 11:50 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: KLA
You really do not have 'free trade' if nations use various ruses under regulation like the EU or Japan do to deny free sale of US goods there. Tariffs are just the tip of the iceberg in trade matters.
Then there is the issue that most central banks manipulate their currencies for mercantilist reasons--it lowers the prices of their exports and raises the prices of their imports as to ensure their companies (not their citizens) benefit the economy.
Essentially where globalism comes in as a theory is that you must have free flow of capital, free flow of ideas, free flow of trade, and free flow of people so that borders become superfluous and by mixing the populations and societies thoroughly that peace will spontaneously emerge as everyone understands everyone else.
Also means that government becomes stronger than society in order to arbitrate disputes between groups in society.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 11:51 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 11:51 AM (jc0TO)
- Public Education System
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Well, Spartacus is a black man.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 11:51 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 11:42 AM (ctrM5)
For some, slaughtering millions is easier than admitting you're actually a big dummy.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 11:52 AM (u9Npv)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:52 AM (77rzZ)
People call it "trafficking" in hopes of avoiding the topic.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 11:53 AM (weQLb)
Posted by: ...
Don't tell that to Lamont...
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:53 AM (77rzZ)
Well, hell...
Posted by: Half the US Government at April 18, 2025 11:53 AM (e/Igv)
'For some, slaughtering millions is easier than admitting you're actually a big dummy.'
I always hated being criticized.
Posted by: Dead Chairman Mao at April 18, 2025 11:54 AM (3wi/L)
Elections can kinda get in the way for them. Like Trump. But no matter who wins an election, eventually they go away. The 1/3 is permanent. Much like the deep state.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 11:55 AM (DKKgv)
Clearly you have no HOA.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 11:55 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 11:55 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Spartacus at April 18, 2025 11:55 AM (VJc7E)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 11:55 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: toby928
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Fistbump
The funniest part is understanding that the libertarians would require the most oppressive government in order to attempt to thwart local customs, which are much more invasive and all encompassing than laws would ever be because they're enforced by the community in individual relationships and interactions.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 11:56 AM (weQLb)
Clearly you have no HOA.
Posted by: Archimedes
Or he is on the HOA board.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Spartacus at April 18, 2025 11:55 AM (VJc7E)
But your known as Cool Breeze on the streets though.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 18, 2025 11:57 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Night lifted....
Interesting that it is considered cost-effective to bring their 'workers' here, use their old world labor methods, and risk arrest rather than stay home nice and safe and ship it overseas*.
Maybe the cost of transportation is a bit more than everyone claims it is and something else is skewing the balance?
*Then again, southern plantation owners could have set up shop in Africa but did not.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 18, 2025 11:57 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 11:57 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 11:58 AM (qv8nr)
'Clearly you have no HOA.
Posted by: Archimedes
Or he is on the HOA board.'
Tyrannical power always gets a bad name.
Posted by: Dead Chairman Mao at April 18, 2025 11:58 AM (3wi/L)
Don't like how a region is being governed? Move.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 11:59 AM (weQLb)
But American's don't cotton to slavery so we have import them...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 18, 2025 11:59 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
And fiercely heterosexual.
Posted by: Bulg
And governed Newark with a velvet fist.
Posted by: Big Sissy at April 18, 2025 11:59 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 11:59 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: ...
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The usual response by such people is that failure in policy results in doubling down whether in rhetoric (if not in power) or if in power, coercion.
Globalist aka Globo Homo do this all the time demonstrating they put ideology over what are real results from their policies. But, you see this doubling down, refusal to self correct, and being obstinate that just if implementation was done better, if the people understood the true policy better,and so on.
Something like True Communism has never been tried which explains the miserable history of how socialism and Marxism impoverish people in those systems. So you need better people aka New Soviet Man, you need more power aka Stalin's purges, you need more propaganda because people continue to fail to understand, you need to get rid of counterrevolutionaries, wreckers, and horders to fix agriculture, ad infinitum.
Ideologues never seem to apply the Rule of Holes.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:00 PM (ctrM5)
'*Then again, southern plantation owners could have set up shop in Africa but did not.'
Ask me about low rubber prices!
Posted by: Leopold II at April 18, 2025 12:00 PM (3wi/L)
Couldn't shorten link, so look it up.
Jesus and Acadamia.
Posted by: From about That Time at April 18, 2025 12:01 PM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Archimedes
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Feminine women like masculine men. Tis a fact demonstrated throughout society and history.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:01 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith just wants to vote for Vance at April 18, 2025 12:01 PM (wpIQD)
Posted by: Archimedes
Best Munchkin ever!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 12:01 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:00 PM (ctrM5)
Mostly because they have their campers do the digging for them.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:01 PM (u9Npv)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
Nope. Too many diseases.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 12:01 PM (77rzZ)
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A cuck cucks.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:48 AM
That's fucked up. The man lost his son. Who the fuck are we to tell him if/when he should be forgiving the killer?
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 12:02 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Archimedes
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Feminine women like masculine men. Tis a fact demonstrated throughout society and history.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:01 PM (ctrM5)
________
"Fuck you, hater!"
-- Harry Sisson and David Hogg
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Britain and France already had colonies there and would not appreciate Dixie planters moving in on their gig.
Quite a few though went to Brazil and stayed there.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:03 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:03 PM (u9Npv)
Well, Spartacus is a black man.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
And fiercely heterosexual.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 11:52 AM (77rzZ)
159 People avoid it like crazy, but slavery is common
So the free traders love both oysters AND snails.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 18, 2025 12:03 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:26 AM (pZ64F)
Britain at least was about to enjoy a windfall of cheap cotton from India so didn't need a low-tariff Deep South anymore. Otherwise they certainly would have intervened on the Confederacy's side.
Brits never looked too closely at the conditions of Indian workers.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 18, 2025 12:03 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
Nope. Too many diseases.
Brits who went to Africa early on were effectively being given a death sentence.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 12:04 PM (s8j++)
-- Harry Sisson and David Hogg
Posted by: Elric Blade
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See, effeminate men can always find each other for comfort. Effeminate men attract women looking for a fixer upper and other men looking for a bottom.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:04 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at April 18, 2025 11:50 AM (p6zRz)
I can't figure out which libertarians you are talking about either, apparently it is the one that believes in socialism and economic enslavement.
which makes me think you are dealing with the libertarians who thought Jo Jorgenson was "just not corporate enough" (and who left in a snit to join progressive think tanks when they lost).
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 12:04 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: ...
You gotta move away from Camp LeJeune.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 12:04 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)
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This is the Holy Grail of jokes.
Posted by: Darth_Randall at April 18, 2025 12:05 PM (WLnsx)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Britain and France already had colonies there and would not appreciate Dixie planters moving in on their gig.
Quite a few though went to Brazil and stayed there.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:03 PM (ctrM5)
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As bad as slaves had it in the USA, those sent to Brazil had it far worse in every way. Harsher conditions, sadistic owners, much lower life expectancy, etc.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 12:05 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: ...
You gotta move away from Camp LeJeune.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 12:04 PM
We have room.
Posted by: Flint Michigan at April 18, 2025 12:05 PM (jc0TO)
Starbucks Implements New Dress Code, Receives Push Back from Union
https://shorturl.at/4cC8a
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 12:06 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith just wants to vote for Vance at April 18, 2025 12:06 PM (wpIQD)
Brits never looked too closely at the conditions of Indian workers.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 18, 2025 12:03 PM (gKWVE)
They did, they did support the CSA.
they moved to India for cotton after that, and they still imported US cotton for their mills.
Guess who supported the Union and did a fair amount of maneuvering to block the Brits? The Russians.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 12:07 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 11:44 AM (ctrM5)
"Blessed is the sultan who visits the shaykh; cursed is the shaykh who visits the sultan."
Posted by: gKWVE at April 18, 2025 12:07 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: ...
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Some are on edge, others may not be getting paid by AID or the various fedgov propaganda operations and other ops like the Patriot Front being identified and paused.
Implosion and possible demise of 4 Chan is also interesting. Particularly the reveal of a lot of dot gov and dot edu email addresses of admins. Also the location of posters on it by country.
Leads to my conclusion it was an op and honey trap for dissidents to watch.
DOGE truly is the DeathStar for a lot of things.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:07 PM (ctrM5)
And it lasted longer in Brazil than it did here.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 12:08 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Minnfidel
No, sorry. That is not a normal human reaction so soon after the event.
Like I said above, if he were to wait a few years and then offer forgiveness to the perp, then that might be understandable as a way to gain closure. But to do it right after the act is just wrong. He's almost repudiating his dead son by doing so.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 12:08 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: gKWVE at April 18, 2025 12:08 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at April 18, 2025 11:50 AM (p6zRz)
So you have nothing to offer.
Ok, boomer.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 18, 2025 12:09 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Kindltot
That was due to their geopolitical rivalry with Britain. The Great Game and all that.
It's also why they wanted to sell Alaska to us, and not the Brits.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 12:10 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 12:10 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 12:11 PM (DKKgv)
Posted by: Leopold II at April 18, 2025 12:11 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Henry Morton Stanley at April 18, 2025 12:13 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2025 12:13 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at April 18, 2025 12:13 PM (P7Iz+)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 12:14 PM (77rzZ)
which makes me think you are dealing with the libertarians who thought Jo Jorgenson was "just not corporate enough" (and who left in a snit to join progressive think tanks when they lost).
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2025 12:04 PM (D7oie)
I just figure people are angry, and they're lashing out at what they don't understand.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 18, 2025 12:14 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at April 18, 2025 12:13 PM
Aroo?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2025 12:14 PM (jc0TO)
And it lasted longer in Brazil than it did here.
Posted by: JackStraw
Sugar was higher profit so you could burn through more workers per harvest. Expendable items they were.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 18, 2025 12:14 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 12:14 PM (3wi/L)
Brian Stelter Defends Taxpayer-Funded Propaganda as Trump Moves to Cut the Cord
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 12:15 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Elric Blade
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Sugar plantations resulted in short life spans from various diseases endemic to swamps. Saw that in the US in Louisiana and the threat to sell and ship a slave 'down south' was considered a death sentence threat back in the day.
Sugar plantation deaths is probably why the US had roughly single digit share of transported slaves from Africa and the Caribbean and South American nations like Brazil got far more percentage wise to replace deaths from working conditions.
But, in some ways, the US system was worse because it relied then on breeding slaves for wealth as they could not longer be legally imported (although smuggling did occur). Interestingly enough, US Navy ships participated with the British navy after they outlawed slavery in their colonies in 1832. Both nations cooperated in trying to blockade slave ships from leaving Africa without seizure of slaver ships and immediate return to Africa of freed slaves. That was the US policy until the Civil War started.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:15 PM (ctrM5)
Ok, boomer.'
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He offered his post. What are you offering?
Posted by: Leopold II at April 18, 2025 12:11 PM (3wi/L)
I asked a specific question, dimwit.
He didn't answer, because he couldn't answer. If you're going to accuse people of supporting slavery, I think you have to have proof. Not just lashing out like a wounded bear.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 18, 2025 12:15 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Grump928(C)
Sh**y coffee, at that.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 12:14 PM
And yet. We would have been the first neo-coffee shop in our little touristy town.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2025 12:15 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 18, 2025 12:15 PM (2sg1c)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2025 12:13 PM (jc0TO)
Starbucks doesn’t have franchises though. They’re all corporate owned. The exceptions are the ones inside a hotel or grocery store which is sort of owned by the grocery store or hotel.
But it’s not like McDonald’s where an individual buys franchise and it’s your business.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 12:15 PM (DKKgv)
And yet. You'd still expect it would be more cost effective to feed your slaves a bit more, and not work them to death in a matter of months.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 12:16 PM (s8j++)
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:07 PM (ctrM5)
Oh yeah I hadn't connected doge and 4. Duh
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 12:16 PM (u9Npv)
'I asked a specific question, dimwit.
He didn't answer, because he couldn't answer.'
So. Nothing.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 12:16 PM (3wi/L)
What I mean by that, the US dollar being the “reserve currency”. It has allowed the politicians a virtually unlimited “credit card”, exporting monetary inflation around the world. There’s a reason no other national government is $38 Trillion in the hole, and yet can still borrow more at favorable rates.
The US resembles an open air insane asylum in so many ways, economically, spiritually, and physically - and much of it as deliberate strategy over many decades. None of this would have been possible without an “elastic currency” and pseudo-intellectual expert economists.
They can save the dollar, or save the markets, but they can’t save both. Clearly they have decided on inflating the markets for quite some time, and shoring up “too big to fail” financial institutions who have been playing games all along. It will be interesting at best to see how this shakes out. Reality will never be denied, however.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 18, 2025 12:16 PM (QuDWu)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 12:15 PM
My offer to the missus was to start small with a coffee cart on the sidewalk. They had those in Oregon at the time.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2025 12:18 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: DaveA at April 18, 2025 12:18 PM (FhXTo)
NOOD
Ace is up: CNN: Trump and Musk Murdered a Federal Worker By Worrying Her With DOGE Cuts Until She Had a Heart Attack
NOOD!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 18, 2025 12:18 PM (O7YUW)
I'll bet most of the workers there are slaves, as well.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 12:18 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 12:19 PM (s8j++)
Long before Europeans hit the region the natives in South America were busy enslaving each other for centuries. Whitey gets tagged with carrying the burden of evil slavers but the truth is we were late to the game.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 12:19 PM (viF8m)
But if we stop that the price of an iPhone might go up $80 and that would be unthinkable.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 12:19 PM (DKKgv)
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Quite a method.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 12:21 PM (L/fGl)
Always thought there was hidden agenedas in that peculiar institution that are not looked into / exposed enough.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 18, 2025 12:22 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at April 18, 2025 12:23 PM (P7Iz+)
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The average slave in America consumed more daily calories than 1/3 of the "free" people living in Europe at the time.
Slavery in America was horrible for all.
And life for most in Europe wasn't much better.
And it must be said every time:
For every slave sent west from Africa, two were sent east.
There are almost no decedents of those slaves in the Middle East ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 12:25 PM (11WUE)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at April 18, 2025 12:25 PM (P7Iz+)
Like I said above, if he were to wait a few years and then offer forgiveness to the perp, then that might be understandable as a way to gain closure. But to do it right after the act is just wrong. He's almost repudiating his dead son by doing so.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 12:08 PM (
Lose a kid and then decide what's acceptable. Criticizing someone, well. Nevermind. A guy on the Cross said. Forgive them for they know not what they do. He was still nailed to a piece of wood.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2025 12:26 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 12:26 PM (/iMjX)
'Free movement of people' creates other problems in society as cultural incompatibility and the inevitable stronger government emerges to resolve the inevitable disputes between existing cultures and the imported ones. Sort of like new magma under a volcano that has not erupted for some time.
'Free movement of capital' inevitably seeks the highest return while seeking to minimize costs. Thus the owners benefit but the overall societies may not. Outsourcing is an example and so is offshoring.
Overall, I find libertarianism as a useful critique of human society and economic thought in particular However, I find it lacking as underlying ideals of how to set up a country because its base assumptions of how people and countries act is not supported by history. Aka utopian.
Marxism has the same problem.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:27 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: muldoon
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Acadamia cookies and ice cream are pretty good.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:28 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:48 AM
That's fucked up. The man lost his son. Who the fuck are we to tell him if/when he should be forgiving the killer?
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Forgiveness is first requested not given. I have not seen the murderer admit his crime. He has shown no remorse nor made any visual acts of contrition; ergo he does not seek forgiveness. The father is a cuck.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 12:30 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Course there was just like the Roman and Greek systems of slavery and you can throw in the Phoenicians as well. Too many rich people want to be a king that rules everything including sex partners.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:30 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 12:32 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Minnfidel
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Emotional appeal of authority via victimhood plus an appeal to divine authority undermine your argument.
Want to correct people, cite the scriptures involved, and specifically how those were interpreted via your own sect and faith.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:33 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Hopefully they are ethically and organically grown.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:34 PM (ctrM5)
Do not intentionally misunderstand me. I am NOT open borders. I believe all the people coming here should make an effort to fix their own countries. Regarding libertarianism, of which I am a supporter, there is nothing conservative about tariffs. That is a big government "solution" intended to buy votes. Nothing less. Anyone who believes in them is a sucker.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at April 18, 2025 12:35 PM (P7Iz+)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz
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Ah yes, the No True Scotsman (Republican or conservative) argument to disqualify Buck.
Pure rhetoric.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 12:37 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at April 18, 2025 12:43 PM (P7Iz+)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at April 18, 2025 12:43 PM
I would say that in the case of tariffs, yes. As would our Founders.
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 12:55 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 12:57 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: FINGERS at April 18, 2025 03:25 PM (C8ve7)
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 18, 2025 11:19 AM (FZn/N)
________________
You underestimate our supply of rope.
Posted by: DFCtomm at April 18, 2025 06:15 PM (H0Gk5)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 18, 2025 06:57 PM (wGqjj)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2025 08:53 PM (lwW3A)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2025 08:55 PM (lwW3A)
Why are you going after Libertarians?
Traditional Libertarians believe in individual liberty within the law (The U.S, Constitution. You know 'We the People' in the first sentance which in-of-itself defines who a U.S. citizen is!) What is wrong with that?
Posted by: john at April 19, 2025 08:46 PM (nEWxZ)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Francisco de Zurbarán
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 18, 2025 09:30 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 09:30 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2025 09:31 AM (vKNmo)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 18, 2025 09:32 AM (ZmEVT)
Artist
Francisco de Zurbarán
Title
The Crucifixion
Place
Spain (Artist's nationality
Date
1627
Medium
Oil on canvas
Inscriptions
Signed and dated bottom center: Franco Dezur / Fa 1627 (on a scrap of paper at the foot of the cross)
Dimensions
290.3 × 165.5 cm (114 5/16 × 65 3/16 in.); Framed: 339.1 × 212.1 × 14 cm (133 3/8 × 83 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.)
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: huerfano at April 18, 2025 09:33 AM (n2swS)
Perfect for this day.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at April 18, 2025 09:33 AM (ue06Q)
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 18, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 18, 2025 09:34 AM (6TePA)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 18, 2025 09:32 AM (ZmEVT)
And, occasionally, a spear to the ribs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 09:34 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 18, 2025 09:34 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Otto Pen at April 18, 2025 09:34 AM (sJHOI)
Thank you for not selecting the Dali version.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2025 09:34 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: Moki at April 18, 2025 09:34 AM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 09:34 AM (VofaG)
This is special!
Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)
“Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, “Jesus the Nazorean, the King of the Jews.”
Now many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that he said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”
Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
Posted by: John 19:19-23 at April 18, 2025 09:36 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 18, 2025 09:36 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: John 19:19-23
"Ho gegrafa, gegrafa."
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)
What do you think is wrong with the Dali painting?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 09:36 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 09:39 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 09:39 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 09:40 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
Yes - his depiction of the skull and leg bone at the foot of the cross scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2025 09:40 AM (vKNmo)
The minister of my childhood church had a huge copy of it behind his desk. The enlarged gold cross and square nails were just a little too trippy for me.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2025 09:40 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: John 3:16 at April 18, 2025 09:41 AM (n2swS)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 09:41 AM (u9Npv)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 18, 2025 09:42 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: From about That Time at April 18, 2025 09:42 AM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 09:43 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 09:43 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2025 09:44 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at April 18, 2025 09:44 AM (G5oMy)
Posted by: red speck at April 18, 2025 09:45 AM (0Id0S)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 18, 2025 09:45 AM (UBKzV)
Posted by: Oh, wait... at April 18, 2025 09:46 AM (dg+HA)
Check out Francisco de Zurbarán's other paintings: mythology, still life, and nature. They bring a surprising level of detail and accuracy that is astonishing.
Posted by: JTB at April 18, 2025 09:47 AM (yTvNw)
In 1627 Francisco de Zurbarán, then living and working in the provincial Spanish town of Llerena, painted this Crucifixion for the monastery of San Pablo el Real in prosperous Seville. In the dimly lit sacristy where it was installed, the image of Christ awed the faithful. A later commentator noted that it appeared to be a sculpture rather than a painting. Zurbarán envisioned the crucified Christ suspended outside of time and place. Conforming to Counter-Reformation dictates, the artist depicted the event occurring not in a crowd but in isolation. Emerging from a dark background, the austere figure has been both idealized in its quiet, graceful beauty and elegant rendering and humanized by the individualized face and insistent realism.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 18, 2025 09:47 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 09:47 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Dr_No at April 18, 2025 09:47 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: John 19:19-23
"Ho gegrafa, gegrafa."
Posted by: Bulg
I know he's a bad guy but did he have to call them hos?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 09:47 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 09:48 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Come and see at April 18, 2025 09:48 AM (dg+HA)
Happy Easter, all.
Posted by: red speck at April 18, 2025 09:50 AM (0Id0S)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at April 18, 2025 09:51 AM (XjTSo)
Posted by: Pudinhead
No. The whole point was to leave the person suspended vertically so that it became increasingly harder to breathe. Death by suffocation was the result, though sometimes it took days.
Jesus' death was relatively quick.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: red speck at April 18, 2025 09:51 AM (0Id0S)
Yes. It seems cold. Like a science project to be examined without emotion or engagement.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 09:51 AM (2J/Lj)
I did not enter into that conversation because it is pointless (and I didn't want to laugh in his face). Neither he nor I nor any of you can "prove" one way or the other. The question is not about proof, it is about faith.
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 09:52 AM (/iMjX)
In 1627 Francisco de Zurbarán, then living and working in the provincial Spanish town of Llerena, painted this Crucifixion for the monastery of San Pablo el Real in prosperous Seville.
For the barbershop?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 09:53 AM (/iLcI)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 09:48 AM (pZ64F)
Some appeared to, which served to prolong the suffering that preceded the death by slow suffocation. But it probably wasnt like that one in the painting.
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 09:53 AM (lCppi)
Posted by: Oh, sure. Everybody's a critic. at April 18, 2025 09:54 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Pudinhead
No. The whole point was to leave the person suspended vertically so that it became increasingly harder to breathe. Death by suffocation was the result, though sometimes it took days.
Jesus' death was relatively quick.
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Yep. That is my understanding of it. You basically die of a heart attack in less than an hour.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 09:54 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 18, 2025 09:55 AM (gbOdA)
I did not enter into that conversation because it is pointless (and I didn't want to laugh in his face). Neither he nor I nor any of you can "prove" one way or the other. The question is not about proof, it is about faith.
Posted by: muldoon
Have you seen Risen? It's about a Roman officer's fruitless attempt to find Jesus' body. By the end, he has become a Christian as a result of the experience.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)
Seriously though, the detail in the muscle is impressive.
Posted by: brak at April 18, 2025 09:55 AM (jGJov)
I find it hard to understand how anyone would be euphoric to have "proof" that they were still condemned in their sin, not having heard from Yahweh in millennia. Odd thing to put your hope in.
Posted by: red speck at April 18, 2025 09:56 AM (0Id0S)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 09:53 AM (/iLcI)
Here in Texas we call that a 2fer.
Father forgive me and Make it high and tight on the sides.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 18, 2025 09:56 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 18, 2025 09:57 AM (CHHv1)
Posted by: red speck
The evidence for the resurrection is greater than the evidence against it.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 09:57 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 09:53 AM (/iLcI)
Here in Texas we call that a 2fer.
Father forgive me and Make it high and tight on the sides.
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No flat top. Or go full Mohican.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 09:57 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2025 09:34 AM (Cki93)
It's art, but it's not respectful or powerful.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2025 09:58 AM (/5P9N)
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 09:58 AM (/iMjX)
“Truly this was the Son of God!”
Posted by: Matthew 27:54 at April 18, 2025 09:58 AM (dg+HA)
He literally was the sacrifice for us all to fulfill the law.
Posted by: SimoHayha at April 18, 2025 09:59 AM (qXL9c)
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 18, 2025 10:00 AM (gbOdA)
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him. For dominion belongs to the LORD
and He rules over the nations.
All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him—even those unable to preserve their lives.
Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation. They will come and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn—all that He has done.
Posted by: red speck at April 18, 2025 10:00 AM (0Id0S)
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 10:01 AM (PCK5/)
A request for assistance: I have looked for two paintings of Christ and the cross that have been posted here before. One was Jesus on the cross but with His Head lifted. The other was Jesus with a cross in front of Him, the impression I got was that the cross belonged to the viewer. If someone is able to post a link to either of those paintings, I would appreciate it.
Thanks in advance. I may not be able to respond later.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at April 18, 2025 10:02 AM (PcTds)
The Crucifixion scene always freaked me out, with the voices of the crowd getting higher in pitch, and garbled together, as Jesus dies.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:02 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rhennigantx
It is very mysterious, because the crucifixion occurred 1600 years before he was born.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 10:02 AM (lTGtQ)
"And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rocks were split."
Posted by: Matthew 27:51 at April 18, 2025 10:02 AM (dg+HA)
I did not enter into that conversation because it is pointless (and I didn't want to laugh in his face). Neither he nor I nor any of you can "prove" one way or the other. The question is not about proof, it is about faith.
Posted by: muldoon
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FWIW, over on Insty, Mark Tapscott put up his annual Hill Faith apologetic explaining evidence for the resurrection.
And just recently, archaeologists found in a dig within the Church of the Holy Selpulcher during remodeling and strengthening the structure (damaged by past earthquakes) signs that the tomb had gardens surrounding it.
Evidence is there if one seeks proof. Likewise, there is never absolute certainty in almost anything so the link between evidence and beliefs is faith.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 10:03 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: rhennigantx
It is very mysterious, because the crucifixion occurred 1600 years before he was born.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
I suspect alien involvement.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 10:04 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 10:04 AM (g/Chl)
He literally was the sacrifice for us all to fulfill the law.
Posted by: SimoHayha at April 18, 2025
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I admit I'm fuzzy on the whole timing thing. Jesus was mounted on the cross in the morning. But doesn't the Bible say it was "the ninth hour" when He cried out for the last time, and died? Now the Romans counted from sunrise, which in spring would have been about six am, and the ninth hour would have been three pm. (They did the same in winter, but the hours were just shorter.) So He was up there for some five or six hours?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 10:04 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: rhennigantx
It is very mysterious, because the crucifixion occurred 1600 years before he was born.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
Matthew 19:26
but with God, all things are possible.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 10:05 AM (/iLcI)
Posted by: SimoHayha
Wasn't he only on the cross for three hours, though? That doesn't sound like enough time to span both the morning sacrifice and the evening one.
And I think he died about 3PM, which doesn't sound like "evening" to me. (Even though it was dark due to His death.)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:05 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 10:05 AM (PCK5/)
Next, the feet were fixed to the cross, either by nails or ropes. Ossuary findings and the Shroud of Turin suggest that nailing was the preferred Roman practice. (23, 24, 30) Although the feet could be fixed to the sides of the stipes or to a wooden footrest (suppedaneum), they usually were nailed directly to the front of the stipes (Fig 5). (11) To accomplish this, flexion of the knees may have been quite prominent, and the bent legs may have been rotated laterally (Fig 6). (23, 24, 25, 30)
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 10:05 AM (lCppi)
The Crucifixion scene always freaked me out, with the voices of the crowd getting higher in pitch, and garbled together, as Jesus dies.
Posted by: Bulg
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I loathed that movie as a kid. More a Ten Commandments movie fan.
An epic movie of Joshua and the conquering of the Holy Land would also be interesting to see if Hollyweird had no part in making it. Waiting for Gibson's Resurrection movie as well.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 10:06 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: sacrilicious at April 18, 2025 10:06 AM (xTCLh)
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 09:52 AM (/iMjX)
I would be shocked if he were a real Rabbi.
Real Rabbis don't question the faith of others. They respect it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2025 10:06 AM (/5P9N)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)
Luke 23:44-46
Posted by: Marcus T at April 18, 2025 10:07 AM (mwv1/)
I would be shocked if he were a real Rabbi.
Real Rabbis don't question the faith of others. They respect it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2025 10:06 AM (/5P9N)
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Cousin Levi's Online Emporium of Rabbi Certificates and Plumbing Services is a perfectly acceptable place to receive the title, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)
Honestly? I am agnostic on the piece of cloth… maybe, maybe not. My faith does not hinge on any relic.
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 10:09 AM (PCK5/)
How empty the world must have been at 3:01 pm
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 10:11 AM (lCppi)
Posted by: tubal
Nor does mine. But it's a fascinating subject.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)
Thanks for the painting, CBD.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 10:12 AM (b2vtS)
Posted by: tubal
Nor does mine. But it's a fascinating subject.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)
I may have come across as critical towards you there… sorry.
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 10:12 AM (PCK5/)
Real Rabbis don't question the faith of others. They respect it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Eh, a bit like the True Scotsman fallacy. Bigotry is something that unfortunately comes easy to humans of all stripes even when they fundamentally agree on 90 percent of the same issue.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 10:13 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)
I believe it really is Christ's visage, formed by some supernatural burst of energy that still cannot be dully explained , but is likened to the energy released by an atomic bomb The new findings on the shroud are pretty incredible. Boy, would i love to see it in person someday.
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 10:14 AM (lCppi)
What a peach.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2025 10:14 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: tubal
No prob. Even the Catholic Church does not take an official position on the Shroud, so obviously they don't think it's crucial to one's faith, either.
But, as I said, I think it's a fascinating question.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)
This is an amazing work but it seems cold to me. We aren't allowed to see how He suffered for us.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 10:15 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Bulg
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Inexplicable and we have no technology to duplicate just how it was done and the ancients show no such sign that they developed it either as you would have found more shrouds such as the Shroud of Turin.
Again, turns ultimately on faith separating those that believe and those that do not. Sheep and goats in biblical language which is actually a real thing that shepherds even today have to accomplish when separating them for foraging. Goats can eat what sheep cannot and are more sure footed to eat on rocky hillsides. Sheep need better forage. And so on.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 10:17 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:19 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 10:20 AM (g/Chl)
'I would be shocked if he were a real Rabbi.
Real Rabbis don't question the faith of others. They respect it.'
Knowing when and whether to judge other people is a very difficult discipline. It always has been for me. Respect to the Rabbis that manage it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 10:20 AM (3wi/L)
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My guess is "nazaranus" is the first and second conjugation adjective modifying "Iesus" rather than the genetive.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 10:21 AM (L/fGl)
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Tarzan movies always satisfy.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 10:21 AM (pZ64F)
Real Rabbis don't question the faith of others. They respect it
I would expect a serious adherent of any religion to believe their own to be correct and doubt the truth of others, though.
Posted by: brak at April 18, 2025 10:22 AM (jGJov)
Posted by: Oglebay at April 18, 2025 10:22 AM (MMp6W)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:23 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 10:23 AM (ctrM5)
Biden Drops His Melting Ice Cream Bar After Being Smuggled into Harvard to Make Surprise Appearance
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)
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The newer story is it is the image Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar burnt at the stake by King Philip IV of France in 1314.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 10:24 AM (pZ64F)
Seriously though, the detail in the muscle is impressive.
Posted by: brak at April 18, 2025 09:55 AM (jGJov)
An excerpt from Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms":
“Do you know anything about art?”
“Rubens,” said Catherine.
“Large and fat,” I said.
“Titian,” Catherine said.
“Titian-haired,” I said. “How about Mantegna?”
“Don’t ask hard ones,” Catherine said. “I know him though—very bitter.”
“Very bitter,” I said. “Lots of nail holes.”
“You see I’ll make you a fine wife,” Catherine said. “I’ll be able to talk art with your customers.”
Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2025 10:24 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 10:24 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 10:24 AM (g/Chl)
Posted by: Oglebay at April 18, 2025 10:24 AM (MMp6W)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Fake news! Molay escaped to Oak Island with the rest of the Order.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rhennigantx
Copyright infringement was a problem even in the 1600s
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 10:26 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Fake news! Molay escaped to Oak Island with the rest of the Order.
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He may be buried there.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 10:26 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 10:26 AM (/iLcI)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
This is my opinion, as well. Coming from a Presbyterian.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)
You're not woman, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an' pretend
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 10:26 AM (L/fGl)
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Imma Wessmuller kind of guy. That Tarzan was expert at tipping canoes and taking out crocodiles.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 10:27 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 18, 2025 10:27 AM (6TePA)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2025 10:28 AM (W/lyH)
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Bulg, you a Presbyterian, too?
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 10:28 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 18, 2025 10:28 AM (PMtkd)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 18, 2025 10:30 AM (PMtkd)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 10:31 AM (paSBy)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 10:31 AM (g/Chl)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Yep. Lifelong.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)
I was a Presbyterian… in another denomination now.
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 10:32 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: brak
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As they should, if the spiritual leaders do not believe in the tenets of their own faith, then they should not be a leader.
But, a lot depends on the exact exchange between people that we do not know. If the rabbi (or purported rabbi) had Jesus smacked in his face, then he might have replied in kind.
More or less, the division between Judaism and Christianity is identifying Christ as the Messiah. Both faiths rely on the prophesies in the Old Testament to make their case and the few historical facts and accounts to buttress their opinions--Messiah or not.
Christians take the first and Judaism the second which makes Christianity a heresy for Jews at the time and perhaps false teaching for Gentiles. Strictly speaking Christian Gentiles cannot be heretics from Judaism so there is that.
Islam classifies Jesus as a prophet which may also indicate past influences by iconoclasts in the Byzantine Church, Nestorians, Arianism, and various other disputes about the divinity and type of divinity Jesus represented.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 10:32 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Whichever one it was that broke up into northern and southern denominations during the Civil War, and then reunited in the late 70s or early 80s. PCA, I think.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:33 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Oglebay at April 18, 2025 10:33 AM (MMp6W)
Breaking: Kilmar Abrego Garcia replaces David Hogg as Democrat party co-chair 'cause gun control is so 2015 and MS-13 freedom fighters are dreamy.
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 10:34 AM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 18, 2025 10:35 AM (Vvh2V)
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The entire idea of proving or disproving the divinity of God or Jesus is misbegotten in that it is a matter of faith. If God had wished to allow such proof by science He could have done so; He chose not to. Subjecting divinity to science is like subjecting love to geometry.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 10:36 AM (g/Chl)
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Um, I think you are joking. Hard to make such an image of someone who was incinerated to ashes.
And given the apparent imaging of coins over the eyes in the shroud and signs of wounds from crucifixion, unlikely to be of a live person.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 10:36 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 18, 2025 10:37 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Auspex
The bartender is coming on strong!
David Freedlander@freedlander
Both @NateSilver538 and @galendruke say that the likeliest next nominee of the Democratic Party is @AOC
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I'm shaken, not stirred.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)
This is an amazing work but it seems cold to me. We aren't allowed to see how He suffered for us.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 10:15 AM (2J/Lj)
You're right. It's way too sterile. Crucifixion was a brutal, dirty, and bloody type of execution. No one looked good hanging on the cross.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 18, 2025 10:39 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Disciples of Christ to PCA sounds like a big switch to me, yes?
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:40 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Part of the argument, I think, was a controversial ossuary with possibly the name of Jesus on it. Problem with that is the name Jesus in Hebrew was not uncommon at the time especially after the crucifixion. It also assumes that roughly 500 or so witnesses were lying as to the Resurrection. In the end, it always comes down to belief and people will rearrange the facts in a way that makes sense to them.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 10:41 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)
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Ah, a fellow Meat Popsicle.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 10:42 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: one hour sober at April 18, 2025 10:43 AM (Y1sOo)
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GOP Always Embraces Freedom? Is this the Twilight Zone?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 10:43 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I thought you were RC?
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)
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I'm gonna need a drop in from Ben Roethlisberger to explain the joke.
But yes, I am Roman Catholic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:43 AM (GBKbO)
https://tinyurl.com/jdbfka39
Silver's entire career exists because he was right once. He hasn't been since then.
That said, AOC is certainly one of the likely candidates.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 18, 2025 10:43 AM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 18, 2025 10:39 AM (g8Ew
Especially after being lashed with Roman whips and with a scalp impaled by a crown of thorns.
Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2025 10:43 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 18, 2025 10:43 AM (6TePA)
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 10:43 AM (PCK5/)
Oh, I hope so.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 18, 2025 10:43 AM (Y1sOo)
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The Democrat field is going to be an arrangement of screechy and dumb women with a couple of guys off to the side getting no traction.
I wonder if that'll help them with Hispanic and black men or not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 10:44 AM (jc0TO)
>>>Ikner's father told police that his son "has developmental delays and has special needs which he feared would not be taken care of." The document later identifies that Ikner was on medication for a growth hormone disorder and ADHD.
https://tinyurl.com/bdz54up2
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 18, 2025 10:45 AM (i24o9)
Posted by: Miami Sound Machine at April 18, 2025 10:45 AM (3wi/L)
I saw Executing Judgement on All the Gods of Egypt at Passover in 1451BC
source: Exodus 12:12
Posted by: haffhowershower at April 18, 2025 10:46 AM (144I4)
https://tinyurl.com/jdbfka39
Silver's entire career exists because he was right once. He hasn't been since then.
That said, AOC is certainly one of the likely candidates.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 18, 2025 10:43 AM (2ocoG)
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She's likelier now than before the last election.
And she could be the bridge between Bernie's enthusiastic base and the establishment who control AOC.
Still, if Kamala runs, she runs away with it. She'll get something like 60% of the vote in the SC primary, a bunch of nobodies will drop out, she'll get a few more percent from those dropouts and people accepting the inevitable, and then she'll coast before Super Tuesday even shows up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:46 AM (GBKbO)
Ok, ok. The GOP always TELLS you it embraces freedom. Staunchly!
Posted by: t-bird at April 18, 2025 10:46 AM (nNGXU)
CBD, I've said this to you before, but it bears repeating. I really appreciate how you treat Christianity and believers with respect, and the art that represents our faith as well. Thank you so much.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at April 18, 2025 10:47 AM (Eo96p)
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Well, Joe has a certain affinity for woman batterers.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 10:48 AM (L/fGl)
Oh, I hope so.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 18, 2025 10:43 AM (Y1sOo)
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The Democrat field is going to be an arrangement of screechy and dumb women with a couple of guys off to the side getting no traction.
I wonder if that'll help them with Hispanic and black men or not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)
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AOC might not win her own primary in 2028. This is pure stupidity and madness. Women (mostly leftwing) are clowning themselves wherever you look, from idiot THOTs screeching in a Bitch Dick Rocket, to crying over a homo murderer, to generally being whiny crybabies.
I think the next few election cycles are going to be male dominated. Men have certainly had enough of women's bullshit, and I suspect many women have too.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 10:49 AM (iFTx/)
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Well, Joe has a certain affinity for woman batterers.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 10:48 AM (L/fGl)
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"You can only deport someone if you get SCOTUS to review evidence of gang membership and you get an unanimous ruling."
-the implication
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:49 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)
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Shall I compare thee to an isosceles triangle?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 10:50 AM (arzIt)
I think the next few election cycles are going to be male dominated. Men have certainly had enough of women's bullshit, and I suspect many women have too.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 10:49 AM (iFTx/)
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Women are ruling the Democrat party now.
I think they represent something like 60% of the actual Democrat Party.
And black women love (love) Kamala. And white women love both. (Black women will be about 65% of the SC primary vote.)
They're getting women candidates for a while. The screechier the better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 10:50 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Too on the nose?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 10:51 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: tubal at April 18, 2025 10:51 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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I seem to recall Pythogorean theory actually being used to support one or the other Greek religions. Foggy memory of that though.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 10:52 AM (ctrM5)
'"Morning Joe" Panel Spends Over 7 Minutes Blowing Off Evidence Against Alleged MS-13 Gangster'
Joe will always be the guy that kneeled to Trump to people on the left. There aren't enough years left in the century for him to erase that.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 10:53 AM (3wi/L)
I think the next few election cycles are going to be male dominated. Men have certainly had enough of women's bullshit, and I suspect many women have too.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 10:49 AM (iFTx/)
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Women are ruling the Democrat party now.
I think they represent something like 60% of the actual Democrat Party.
And black women love (love) Kamala. And white women love both. (Black women will be about 65% of the SC primary vote.)
They're getting women candidates for a while. The screechier the better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)
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Nah. This is all fake PR and gaslighting. If anyone loved Kamala, she might have made it to one primary in 2020, and not gotten fisted in 2024. Nobody likes her, nobody ever wanted her for anything other than blowjobs, and she's already past her sell-by date. The nominee in 2028 will be a white male.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 10:53 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 10:54 AM (/iMjX)
https://tinyurl.com/JewellsObit
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 18, 2025 10:55 AM (N39Ws)
I wonder if that'll help them with Hispanic and black men or not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)
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Tampon Tim will hand-off the mantel of "America's Dad" to The Fiercely Heterosexual Corey Booker.
Kotex Corey?
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 10:55 AM (arzIt)
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 10:53 AM (iFTx/)
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Nobody liked Joe Biden until he was Obama's VP.
Name recognition does so much, and losing unfairly (Trump mean...Biden stayed in too long, whatever) combines with that to make her the biggest victim in Democrat politics right now.
No white dude has a chance. Buttigieg has a better chance of being the Kamala 2020 of 2028 than of Kamala losing the nomination.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:55 AM (GBKbO)
Dark thunderstorm rolling over West Michigan this morning, very appropriate.
No Good Friday services today, this was a no work day growing up.
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 10:56 AM (j4U/Z)
There would be no point. "Science" thinks men can be women.
Posted by: t-bird at April 18, 2025 10:56 AM (MyGJ0)
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Between now and then both Newsom and Whitmer have time to repair their respective images after being savaged by Trump. Van Hollen is polishing his leftist bona fides as we speak. I doubt it will be Kamala. Her dismal performance after the left sidelined *biden pretty much makes her ineligible at this point.
Sandy Cortez will get owned by anyone running against her. She's dumber than Kamala. No amount of stage managing can help her.
I think the left will trot out someone new and certainly younger than their last offering.
YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 10:56 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)
Are you saying they're going to the Kamala well in 2028 again?
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 10:57 AM (u9Npv)
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Angles we have heard on high...
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 10:57 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 10:57 AM (g/Chl)
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 10:53 AM (iFTx/)
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Nobody liked Joe Biden until he was Obama's VP.
Name recognition does so much, and losing unfairly (Trump mean...Biden stayed in too long, whatever) combines with that to make her the biggest victim in Democrat politics right now.
No white dude has a chance. Buttigieg has a better chance of being the Kamala 2020 of 2028 than of Kamala losing the nomination.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:55 AM (GBKbO)
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There is zero chance she gets the nomination. ZERO. POINT. ZERO. She couldn't get it in 2020, body wanted her in 2024, and she lost big to the hated Trump. Put a pin in these comments. Assuming the world still exists in 2028, I'm gonna pull these out and say "I told ya so!" The Blade knows things!
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 10:58 AM (iFTx/)
Kotex Corey?
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 10:55 AM (arzIt)
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The only white guy with a chance is Buttigieg because he's already in DC and has establishment support which he's held since 2020 when they...helped...him win the Iowa Caucuses.
Newsome is dead in the water. Wes Moore (black, though a guy, so might as well be white) is a non-entity. Walz is a joke with no constituency.
A choice between Kamala, who had 2024 stolen from her because Trump is mean and Biden didn't leave early enough, and Buttigieg, gay white dude, the voters in the primary will go with Kamala.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:58 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 10:58 AM (u9Npv)
Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2025 10:58 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Elric Blade
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Agreed. Shapiro, with right wing arson ingrained as truth. Or maybe Andy Beshear, although he'd probably still lose Kentucky and otherwise doesn't bring much to the ticket.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 18, 2025 10:58 AM (UBKzV)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)
Are you saying they're going to the Kamala well in 2028 again?
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 10:57 AM (u9Npv)
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Next in line, bruh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:58 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: tubal
My Mom's only soap opera was As the World Turns. Watched it every day. I remember one ep back in the 70s, broadcast on Good Friday, where the characters all went to church, and listened to a sermon about the seven words from the cross. The whole episode was about the church service, and the Crucifxion.
Imagine such a thing being broadcast on a soap opera today.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)
Angles we have heard on high...
Posted by: muldoon
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Never change muldoon. King of the Puns here.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 10:59 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 18, 2025 10:58 AM (iFTx/)
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And I'll do the same!
Mwhahahaha!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:59 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: John 19:19-23
"Ho gegrafa, gegrafa."
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)
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Whatever will be, will be
Posted by: Doris Day at April 18, 2025 10:59 AM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: toby928 predicts at April 18, 2025 10:59 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 18, 2025 10:58 AM (UBKzV)
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Shapiro?
The former IDF soldier?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:59 AM (GBKbO)
Not a shock at all, but-
For your edification-
The White House Presents the Origin and Many Failures Associated with COVID-19:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-
covid-19/
Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2025 11:00 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: toby928 predicts at April 18, 2025 10:59 AM (jc0TO)
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In 2020 was one of the three dominating the 2017 polling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 11:00 AM (GBKbO)
https://tinyurl.com/JewellsObit
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 18, 2025 10:55 AM (N39Ws)
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Thank you (missed that), OCiS.
[And sorry to learn of your own health issues -- prayers up.]
RIP Jewells.
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 11:00 AM (arzIt)
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Southern.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 11:00 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 10:58 AM (GBKbO)
I stopped betting friendlies on politics when Trump "lost" in 2020 but I would go to Kamala's mattresses on this one that it's not her.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 11:00 AM (u9Npv)
Without a monkey
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 11:01 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: toby928 predicts at April 18, 2025 10:59 AM (jc0TO)
This.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 18, 2025 11:01 AM (g8Ew8)
Doris Day singing it far better than I can write it.
https://tinyurl.com/ycbuj7wt
Goes to film tribute of the Man Who Knew Too Much.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2025 11:02 AM (ctrM5)
The former IDF soldier?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Yes, I really do look for them to sober up before 28, although a lot of that depends on 26.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 18, 2025 11:02 AM (UBKzV)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 11:03 AM (g/Chl)
I did not enter into that conversation because it is pointless (and I didn't want to laugh in his face). Neither he nor I nor any of you can "prove" one way or the other. The question is not about proof, it is about faith.
Posted by: muldoon at April 18, 2025 09:52 AM (/iMjX)
The father of lies can take many forms
Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 18, 2025 11:03 AM (FCbAQ)
Maine Governor Janet Mills says that concerns of the young female athletes who spoke out against men invading their sports and bathrooms is a "diversionary tactic" and not a "real issue."
Democrats hate women.
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A diversionary tactic from the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 11:05 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 11:06 AM (u9Npv)
For your edification-
The White House Presents the Origin and Many Failures Associated with COVID-19:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-
covid-19/
Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2025 11:00 AM (iJfKG)
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[Single link:] https://is.gd/4LBzpl
Pretty well presented; would have appreciated a statement by Trump on how he was lied to and rolled by the likes of Pence, Fauci, Birx, et. al. and how Dr. Scott Atlas -- whom he eventually appointed to the "White House Covid Task Force" was literally shut-out by the other Deep State Mass-Murdering Criminal Traitors on it.
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 11:09 AM (arzIt)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 11:06 AM (u9Npv)
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I would not be surprised to learn that some of you are AI Bots ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 18, 2025 11:11 AM (arzIt)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 11:12 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 18, 2025 11:14 AM (g/Chl)
New York Post@nypost
AG Letitia James calls claims of mortgage fraud ‘baseless,’ but refuses to give details in new interview
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 11:25 AM (L/fGl)
Ted Cruz@tedcruz
Find someone who looks at you the way Democrat senators look at illegal alien MS-13 gang members
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 11:28 AM (L/fGl)
The (D) base narrative is that Trump stole the election from a Black woman. At least with the serious crazies. So it's not zero point zero.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 18, 2025 11:47 AM (2ocoG)
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 11:49 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: BonnieBlue at April 18, 2025 02:51 PM (6bTMb)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 18, 2025 06:58 PM (wGqjj)
The Morning Report — 4/ 18 /25
I'll keep it short this morning but I want to wish all of you a most joyous and blessed Easter in advance. Have a great weekend.
And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
- DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
- “A 2017 AmeriCorps Inspector General’s report found that the services volunteers provided were ‘four to eight times more than the same services’ provided by other programs between 2012 and 2013.”
AmeriCorps Employees Placed on Leave After DOGE Visit* * * * * - Team Trump's legal filing didn't pull any punches. It meticulously detailed how Boasberg's ruling attempts to usurp executive authority that the Supreme Court explicitly confirmed just last month. The 5-4 decision authorized these deportation flights, but apparently, left-wing district court judges think they can override the Supreme Court because “Orange man bad.”
BOOM! The Trump Admin Fights Back at Rogue Judge's Contempt Warning THE ECONOMY, STUPID - The ECB [European Central Bank] is expected to cut interest rates for the 7th time, and yet, “Too Late” Jerome Powell of the Fed, who is always TOO LATE AND WRONG, yesterday issued a report which was another, and typical, complete “mess!” Oil prices are down, groceries (even eggs!) are down, and the USA is getting RICH ON TARIFFS. Too Late should have lowered Interest Rates, like the ECB, long ago, but he should certainly lower them now. Powell’s termination cannot come fast enough!
Can Trump Actually Remove Jerome Powell as Fed Chair?
- Trump hinted at moving to fire Powell, whose term does not expire until next year. The Republican president’s broadside comes a day after Powell said in a speech that Trump’s broad-based tariffs have left the Federal Reserve seeking “greater clarity” on the impact of policy changes in areas such as immigration, taxation, regulation and tariffs before making the move on interest rates.
Trump Says Federal Reserve Chair Powell’s ‘Termination Cannot Come Fast Enough’
- America’s manufacturing decline is the result of a bloated regulatory state that punishes producers and stifles growth.
Blame Regulators for Holding Back U.S. Manufacturing—Not Tariffs
- The U.S. labor market showcased its strength as the Department of Labor reported a decline in jobless claims on April 17, 2025. Applications for unemployment benefits fell by 9,000 to 215,000 for the week ending April 12, outperforming analysts’ expectations of 225,000 new claims. This drop underscores a robust labor market that continues to thrive as President Trump implements tariffs to protect and revitalize American industry.
U.S. Jobless Claims Dip, Signaling Trump Labor Market Remains Strong.
- The ructions in financial markets over the past few weeks and Washington’s dependence on foreign entities to keep funding our (over) spending illustrate why lawmakers need to do something to get our fiscal house in order.
Tariffs Won’t Solve Washington’s Biggest Problem: Overspending
- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is visiting the United States on Thursday to engage in trade negotiations with President Donald J. Trump, with the aim of reducing tariffs on European exports. The meeting comes in the wake of Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement imposing reciprocal tariffs on foreign governments with barriers limiting the purchase of American exports, including a 20 percent trade duty on goods from the European Union (EU).
Italy’s Meloni Set for White House Strategy Session on Tariffs with Trump.
- To really understand Trump’s tariffs, we have to understand the relationship between the U.S. and China.
President Trump Fights Back
- Victor Davis Hanson: And why are 70 countries now wishing to negotiate tariffs with America?
Ten Tariff Questions Never Asked
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION - “As promised, I have declassified the Biden Junta's Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism,” Gabbard wrote.
‘Ghost Guns’ And ‘Hate Crime’: Tulsi Gabbard Declassifies Biden Junta Docs Targeting ‘Domestic Terrorism’ - Ph.D Candidate Told Police: ‘He F**king Got What Was Coming to Him’
Washington State Instructor Arrested for Allegedly Assaulting Pro-Trump Student
- The Anthony debacle should give conservatives a signal that ignoring these cultural problems will result in imminent peril.
Karmelo Anthony and the lucrative market for anti-white hate
"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY - The latest data comes straight from CNN, which found that 56 percent support deporting an estimated 11 million illegal aliens residing in the United States. This is significantly up from 38 percent who said the same in 2016.
CNN Poll: Majority of Voters Favor Deporting All Illegal Immigrants
- “Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the ‘death camps’ & ‘torture’, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador,” Bukele said in an X post Thursday night.
Alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia seen ‘sipping margaritas’ with Sen. Van Hollen amid El Salvador deportation battle, new photos reveal
- When will we ever be free of this wicked, criminal fiend - jjs
Hillary Clinton: ‘Americans of Conscience Must Stand Against’ Trump Deporting Illegal Alien Accused of Gang Membership, Domestic Violence
- Of course, even if Hillary were to disappear forever, we are still left with this creature and her ilk - jjs
Rep. Jasmine Crockett Throws Support Behind Deported Salvadoran Illegal Alien
- The migrant in question is a suspected member of the violent MS-13 gang.
Deported Illegal Immigrant Who Dems Have Championed Accused Of Beating Wife: Court Docs
- The Department of Justice (DOJ) published documents earlier on Wednesday indicating Garcia’s membership in MS-13. Cuomo told Carville on “CUOMO” that Democrat Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen traveling to El Salvador to push for Garcia’s return from his home country to the U.S. makes it seem like Democrats are taking the side of a gang member, putting them at odds with popular sentiment about deportation.
‘Going To Lose’: Chris Cuomo Warns James Carville Fighting For Alleged MS-13 Member Isn’t A Hill Worth Dying On
- According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Southwest Land Border Encounters Report for March, Border Patrol agents arrested 15,527 migrants who illegally crossed the border from Mexico into the United States during the first two full months of the Trump administration. This compares to the apprehension of 278,114 during the same period under the Biden administration last year. Encounters fell from 4,635 per day in February and March 2024 to 263 per day this year.
Illegal Alien Arrests at Border Fall to 263 Per Day During Trump’s First Two Months — Down 94 Percent from Last Year
- Residents of Eagle Pass, Texas, experienced a return to normalcy as the once-closed Shelby Park reopened, shedding the concertina wire and armed presence that kept it inaccessible for more than a year. The move comes after President Donald J. Trump’s border policies have significantly reduced illegal crossings in the area.
Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Normalizing Life on the Border for Residents.
- Worksite enforcement actions were ended during the Biden administration under the direction of then-Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. In an October 2021 memorandum ordering ICE to cease large-scale immigration worksite enforcement raids, Mayorkas criticized the use of the raids as an enforcement tool saying, “The deployment of mass worksite operations, sometimes resulting in the simultaneous arrest of hundreds of workers, was not focused on the most pernicious aspect of our country’s unauthorized employment challenge: exploitative employers.” (We need to start arresting and prosecuting the employers - jjs)
TRUMP EFFECT: ICE Touts Highest Worksite Arrests in Agency History
- You can’t claim a collective benefit by fiat—and then have attorneys you’ve never met invoke individualized review to shield it from repeal.
Weaponizing Immigration: Lawfare by Class Action Threatens Our Republic
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN - Arab, Israeli and U.S. intelligence officials told the WSJ that targeted strikes against key Hamas officials and stopping the resale of aid packages to raise money have left the terrorist organization with little options in paying its soldiers. Many senior Hamas officials only received half of their pay through March, with some payments completely ceasing for Gaza government employees in recent weeks.
Hamas Reportedly Struggling To Pay Its Own Fighters As Walls Close In
- Sa'oud bin Abd Al-Rahman Al Thani reportedly deleted several X posts endorsing Hamas.
‘We Are All Hamas’: Qatari Official Shows Support For Terrorist Group Then Quickly Deletes Post
- The First Amendment is not a suicide pact between a nation and foreigners who wish it harm.
No, The First Amendment Doesn’t Protect Anti-American Agitation* * * * * - Columbia University has told the Trump administration that it’s cracking down on antisemitic violence and intimidation and winding down DEI. But behind closed doors, the university’s Office of Institutional Equity, a new bureaucracy supposedly set up to address campus antisemitism, is targeting me for expressing my Catholic faith. I recently received an email from the OIE accusing me of “conduct that could constitute discriminatory harassment.”
Columbia’s ‘antisemitism’ squad is coming down hard — on Catholics like me (First the Saturday people, then he Sunday people - jjs) WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - In his belated Easter message, King Charles III praised Islam as ‘caring for the stranger and those in need.’ (inbred hemophiliac - jjs)
The King Of England Can’t Even Celebrate Easter Without Mentioning Islam OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY - The hotel, owned by an infamous Boston slumlord, flew a 'Palestinian' flag upside down.
After Canceling Passover Seder, Boston Hotel Welcomes Anti-Israel ‘Squad’ Member Rancida/Rashida Tlaib
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - The school told students to take shelter.
Police Respond to Shooting at Florida State University - The couple was on their way home to teenage daughters when the alleged assailant struck as the victim bent over to grab their bags.
Father Almost Decapitated By Man With Hatchet At Bus Stop, Fighting For His Life
- If history is any indication, justice will not be blind.
Karmelo Anthony is OJ Simpson all over again
- The activist went on to say that his group had from the beginning “respected the dignity of the loss of life” and not shared presumably negative information they had gathered on Austin Metcalf. “Because we respect the dignity of life,” he declared. As an avowed abortion supporter who was once arrested for causing severe injury to a toddler, the minister’s claim of “respecting the dignity of life” lacks credibility.
Father of Stabbing Victim Austin Metcalf Kicked Out of Karmelo Anthony Press Conference in Dallas
- It was BLM that led the charge for mandatory body cams just a few years ago.
Leftists Demanded Police Body Cams. Now They Regret It.
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - After Congress returns on April 28, Pres. Trump is slated to submit to Congress a request to rescind the funding of a package of items for which funds have already been appropriated, but not yet obligated. Accordingly, the coalition’s letter calls for Trump to include CPB, which funnels taxpayer money to PBS and NPR.
Trump Urged to Use ‘Rescission’ to Defund NPR, PBS in Conservative Coalition’s Letter
- I’m really not a movement guy. I don’t naturally march in demonstrations or attend rallies that I’m not covering as a journalist. But this is what America needs right now. Trump is shackling the greatest institutions in American life. We have nothing to lose but our chains. [emphasis added]
Did the New York Times Just Call for a Communist Revolution?!
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
- The case has raised questions as to whether the organization’s climate activism is protected free speech or if it’s inciting violent extremism like the destructive Black Lives Matter riots and the current vandalism and destruction of Tesla vehicles in by groups in opposition to DOGE.
Liberty Nation: $660 Million Judgment Against Greenpeace Shows Org was Guilty of ‘Attacking Others’ Legal Freedoms’ EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - The Washington Post cited three anonymous sources.
Trump Admin Wants IRS To Quash Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status: Report
- "More of a jobs program for adults than an education initiative for kids."
Baltimore Schools Hiring Like Crazy As Enrollment Plummets, Scores Stay Dismal
- Princeton president Christopher Eisgruber seeks to distract from his university’s tolerance of anti-Semitism.
Universities Are Hiding Behind “Due Process” ABORTION - U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Traynor has concluded that over 9,000 Catholic employers are not required to comply with federal rules protecting employees seeking abortion and fertility treatment accommodations. This ruling came after the Catholic Benefits Association and the Bismarck Diocese challenged regulations set forth by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), arguing these rules infringed upon their religious liberties.
Judge Rules Catholic Employers Are Not Required to Cover Abortions.
- Blue state legislators are more interested in pushing abortion access than they are in ensuring women’s safety.
Abortion Facilities Are Less Regulated Than Tattoo Parlors, And It Kills Women SECOND AMENDMENT - The shooting occurred despite Florida’s red flag law, university gun-free zones, increased minimum purchase age for long guns, and waiting period for handgun purchases. Florida adopted a red flag law in the wake of February 14, 2018, Parkland school shooting and less than a year later, on January 13, 2019, the law failed to prevent a shooting at Sun Trust Bank in Sebring.
Red Flag Law, Gun-Free Zones, Increased Minimum Firearm Purchase Age Fail to Prevent FSU Shooting THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH - The four lonely Dems who voted for the SAVE Act are smart enough to know that only U.S. citizens should vote in U.S. elections.
Meet The 4 House Democrats Brave Enough To Vote For Election Integrity
- Only four Democrat lawmakers joined Republicans to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require states to obtain proof of citizenship before registering an individual to vote and remove all non-citizens from existing voter rolls. Several lawmakers who voted against the legislation either refused to tell the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) why they seemingly support non-citizens voting in elections or claimed that the idea is a myth.
EXCLUSIVE: Several Democrats Can’t Answer Why They Want ‘Non-Citizens To Vote In US Elections’
- Under RCV, voters rank candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of first-choice votes in the first round of voting, the last-place finisher is eliminated, and his votes are reallocated to the voter’s second-choice candidate. This process continues until one candidate receives a majority of votes.
North Dakota Becomes 15th State To Prohibit Ranked-Choice Voting In Elections
- Here’s how: Elon is your man!
Here is the One Thing Trump Needs to Do That Changes EVERYTHING: Prove the 2020 Election was Stolen
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY - Harris campaign paid Lakers star's SpringHill Entertainment for 'campaign event production'
LeBron James Endorsed Kamala Harris. Then She Paid His Company $50K. - Subramanyam is sitting on at least $630,000 worth of stock in companies like Amazon, Meta, and NVIDIA, with holdings potentially in excess of $1 million, according to congressional financial disclosures. The companies own or provide critical support to a lion's share of the Virginia data centers, which help power the internet by storing user data for some of America's largest companies. Subramanyam's district is home to more data centers than any other in the country—but during a recent committee hearing, he portrayed them as a creeping menace.
Freshman Rep. Suhas Subramanyam Blasts Data Centers While Cashing In on the Tech Companies That Own Them POLITICS - The party is now irretrievably in the grip of those toxic, party-sinking radical leftists. In the Survey USA poll, there wasn’t a single demographic group where even a plurality felt the party should be more moderate.
Poll: Democrats Want Their Party To Be Even More Radical
- Democrat strategist James Carville is suggesting the party sue David Hogg, the newly elected vice chair of the Democrat National Committee (DNC), over his Leaders We Deserve group’s intention to use its $20 million war chest to support younger Democratic candidates running against incumbents. The long-time Clinton campaign aide, appearing Wednesday night on NewsNation with Chris Cuomo, argued Hogg’s move to back candidates in Democratic primaries goes against the responsibilities of Hogg’s role within the DNC.“
James Carville Slams David Hogg as ‘Contemptible Little Twerp’ Over Plan to Primary Democrat Incumbents.
- Newsom is suing Trump over tariffs, asking for massive loans to cover the healthcare costs for illegal aliens, and trying to woo Canadians to tour the state.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom Makes Desperate Bid for Relevancy and Money
- Robert Spencer: Hint - it’s even worse than being hated.
‘Surprising’ Results in Poll of Voter Attitudes Toward Kamala Running for California Governor - The left understands that Trump is the living embodiment of their eventual destruction, so he must be destroyed.
For Ordinary People, Trump Is The Man Who Will Save The West
- Trump’s second term casts courage as its guiding virtue—honoring heroes while challenging an establishment too timid to face the truth in daylight.
Trump’s Courage to Fight FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - China’s vast censorship apparatus sprang into action immediately, deleting social media posts that described the banners or included photos of them, but some of the photos were posted on a popular dissident X account called “Mr. Li Is Not Your Teacher,” so the images went viral despite the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts...
‘Bridge Man’ Returns: Chinese Dissidents Unfurl Pro-Democracy Banners in Chengdu - The New York Times: “Earlier this month, Mr. Trump informed Israel of his decision that the United States would not support an attack.”
NYT: President Trump Blocked Planned Israeli Strike on Iranian Nuclear Sites, Opts for Negotiations
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 18, 2025 07:42 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 07:43 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 07:43 AM (u9Npv)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 07:43 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 07:44 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 07:44 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 07:44 AM (Q4IgG)
Chainsaw, plasma torch, five minutes. Problem solved, problem staying solved.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 07:44 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 18, 2025 07:46 AM (nXhwP)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 07:47 AM (ypFCm)
Thank you JJ!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 07:47 AM (iyc2T)
Can anyone imagine a "Ramadan Proclamation" in an Islamic country that says "today we honor Ramadan which carries the spirit of devotion found in other religions like Christianity"?? Fuck off.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 07:47 AM (u9Npv)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 18, 2025 07:48 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2025 07:51 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 18, 2025 07:54 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 07:55 AM (AOsQT)
Father Almost Decapitated By Man With Hatchet At Bus Stop, Fighting For His Life
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I'm betting the assailant ends up being gay or a cross-dresser (or both if the second, of course).
That would explain the complete lack of coverage.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to admit Darwin disproved evolution? at April 18, 2025 07:55 AM (rlK7S)
Posted by: callsign claymore at April 18, 2025 07:55 AM (Jwq9Q)
The King Of England Can’t Even Celebrate Easter Without Mentioning Islam
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The ruler of a once-powerful nation is now a dhimmi in his own homeland.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2025 07:56 AM (7fElN)
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 07:56 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 18, 2025 07:56 AM (rlK7S)
TDS is the only explanation for all the fainting couches about this “Maryland dad”… Van Hollen has lost his mind if he ever had one (doubtful)
Dems are going the wrong way…. from embracing the wrong side of 80-20 issues to the wrong side of 90-10 issues. Like John Candy after falling asleep at the wheel in planes trains and automobiles (you’re going the wrong way!!)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 18, 2025 07:56 AM (6RwsA)
Can the Democrats be so utterly clueless and tone-deaf
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Yes, of course
they have no guiding principles beyond 'if they are for it, we are against it'
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 07:56 AM (AOsQT)
And no federal benefits. And strip federal funding from any state providing state benefits. No dinero... period.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 07:57 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 18, 2025 07:57 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 07:57 AM (/iLcI)
This is my favorite holiday by far! So many traditions, so many miracles, may you all be blessed!
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 18, 2025 07:58 AM (Pv3Rg)
HE IS RISEN!!!
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 18, 2025 07:58 AM (VJc7E)
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El Salvador is his country of birth, no?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 07:58 AM (Dv3i1)
I don't get the deal with the margaritas; thought that guy was in the big jail, not out knocking around having drinks with traitor senators?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 18, 2025 07:59 AM (/Ghsb)
it is.
on one set of paperwork they accidentally put Guatemala. it matters not. just trying to muddy the waters.
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 18, 2025 07:59 AM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: grammie winger
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yeah, they even went out for drinks- just the two of them (it was very sweet). The Senator got the guy's phone number, so who knows. Could be a budding bromance.
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 07:59 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 18, 2025 08:00 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 18, 2025 08:00 AM (hLALD)
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 07:59 AM (AOsQT)
Uff da
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 18, 2025 08:00 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 07:58 AM (Dv3i1)
I thought I read he was sent there erroneously but I could be wrong. Regardless, he was here illegally and having been nabbed, ejection is totally legal and warranted like all the other 40-plus million illegal alien foreigners here without permission.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2025 08:00 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Holiday In Cambodia at April 18, 2025 08:01 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Don Black
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Yep. The MS13 member got free booze, and the senator got his photo taken smiling beside a known gang member and sex trafficker
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 18, 2025 08:01 AM (rlK7S)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at April 18, 2025 08:01 AM (w3u3d)
HE IS RISEN!!!
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I'm no theologian, but I think you're jumping the gun here
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 08:01 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 18, 2025 08:02 AM (/Ghsb)
it's sad how Jello lost his mind later on..
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 18, 2025 08:02 AM (Pv3Rg)
Estimated by who? Rip Van Winkle? It's been in the 11M range since the fucking '80s. Biden let in more than 11M over the past four years.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 08:03 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Are you honest enough to acknowledge Darwin disproved evolution? at April 18, 2025 08:03 AM (rlK7S)
Posted by: callsign claymore at April 18, 2025 08:04 AM (Jwq9Q)
ok. but a lot of them WERE and we've been doing farm-work visas here forEVER. get the right visa and no problemo
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 18, 2025 08:04 AM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 18, 2025 08:05 AM (VJc7E)
Rarely but ever in any opinion will you see an appellate court use such flowery or effusive language.
It's a pretty disgusting "opinion" that embarrasses all decorum.
Not just the massive breach in referring to the "fine" judge (it's always, always "the court" because it's an office held not a nobility owned) but worse--nothing in the opinion is based on the record before the court nor a discussion of the applicable Constitutional implications.
The entire MSNBC-worthy screed can be boiled down to: We will teach Orange Man Bad to bow before us.
Are there no sane judges left who are horrified at the nuclear fire that will destroy the power of the judiciary that these idiots are playing with?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 08:06 AM (11WUE)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 18, 2025 08:06 AM (e5NfL)
Posted by: mr tmz at April 18, 2025 08:08 AM (rJ48h)
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nah
they put on that black robe and act like it's Superman's cape
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 08:09 AM (AOsQT)
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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- California Govenor Gavin Newsom announced Thursday night that the state plans to file a lawsuit over DOGE dismantling AmeriCorps.
Any bets that one of Newsome's donor's kids is on the AmeriCorps Administration payroll?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 08:10 AM (Dv3i1)
My guess is around 99% of (D) Senators and Reps would support keeping MS 13 in the US.
Their long term plan is that they will be enforcers when the time comes.
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 08:10 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Slow on the Uptake at April 18, 2025 08:10 AM (G5+As)
Their long term plan is that they will be enforcers when the time comes.
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 08:10 AM (gbOdA)
Once they all become Muslim converts.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)
find someone who looks at you the way the Senator looks at the gang member
https://x.com/TomBevanRCP/status/
1913197018484281491
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 08:11 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 18, 2025 08:12 AM (h/ffs)
It's a mess. Maybe go after the CEO's of these companies(?)
Posted by: JROD at April 18, 2025 08:12 AM (IlL6s)
Fund the student, not the building. That makes this sort of bullshit more difficult.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 08:12 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 18, 2025 08:12 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 08:13 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 08:14 AM (77rzZ)
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Van Hollen's trip was as much a publicity stunt to shore up his presidential aspirations as it was to make sure Garcia isn't talking about his relationship with the Congressman.
I mean... it's no secret that our political class is compromised by all sorts of unsavory/illegal activities.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 08:15 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 08:15 AM (ExV1e)
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Inogame at April 18, 2025 08:15 AM (53oGX)
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Must be demoralizing to the indigenous Brits. Maybe that's part of the plan.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 08:16 AM (Dv3i1)
It's a mess. Maybe go after the CEO's of these companies(?)
Posted by: JROD
Asset forfeiture. Same as taking a drug dealer's ride or house. Chain the doors. Government becomes the owner.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 08:16 AM (/iLcI)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 08:16 AM (ypFCm)
But rates are still historically low. Instead of easy money enabling Wall Street to dominate, imo the reciprocal tariffs and rebuilding Main Street, along with USA manufacturing is a better path. Easy Al Greenspan (and others) enabled Wall Street riches, making the rich much richer, while middle/lower classes stagnated.
The role of the fed is stable currency, not enriching the rich via cheap money for the gamblers. A little weaker dollar might help us, but USD is still considered the safe harbor in troubled times.
Posted by: illiniwek at April 18, 2025 08:17 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at April 18, 2025 08:17 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Jonah at April 18, 2025 08:17 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 08:18 AM (hCrIW)
Their long term plan is that they will be enforcers when the time comes.
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They absolutely would. The carnage, murder, mayhem and crime that comes along with millions of illegals, and victimizes Americans in the process is a small price to pay for their gaining electoral power forever.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 18, 2025 08:18 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 08:18 AM (ypFCm)
Fund the student, not the building. That makes this sort of bullshit more difficult.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 08:12 AM (ExV1e)
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BPS: Our Student to Teacher ratio is now 12 to 1!
How are the test scores?
BPS: That question is racist!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 08:19 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 18, 2025 08:19 AM (ANuwa)
Trump has no affinity for Wall Street these days. Murdoch and the WSJ are not friends, and 90% of Brokerages and Hedge Funds supported Hillary, Biden, and Kamala
Posted by: Jonah at April 18, 2025 08:20 AM (YCxFk)
Would it be appropriate to post the link to Jewell's Obit on the sidebar?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 18, 2025 08:20 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 08:20 AM (77rzZ)
That would explain the complete lack of coverage.
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The photo of the perp at the link indicates high melanin content.
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at April 18, 2025 08:20 AM (+K1xO)
Now that Van Hollen has a nice romantic drink with the MS-13 guy does this mean the others, like Booker won't be having an El Salvador vacation? Got to get those frequent flyer miles
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 18, 2025 08:20 AM (6TePA)
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 08:20 AM (gbOdA)
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Do you have a link to her obit? I'd like to read it.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 18, 2025 08:21 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2025 08:21 AM (Cki93)
Listen assholes:
1) It's "We the People." Not "We the judges." We--WE the People--get to say how this country is run. Not you.
2) You need to understand this:
Ten years ago, almost no one would have supported impeachment merely over rulings they disagreed with.
But because you dumb bitches so squandered your authority and legitimacy, bowing down to the Democrats over Covid, the 2020 Election and J6 to cause this.
That's what you should be horrified and offended by--not the People calling for impeachment, but the explosive growth of support to reach a majority for such.
You are not the Brave Hero defending the Republic--you are craven cowards clawing and scraping with every lie, deceit, deception and dishonesty you can muster to protect the the exiting corrupt order that has ignored and usurped the will of the people for decades.
(There is one judge who sees the destruction coming: Judge Ho on the 5th; see his recent opinion)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 08:21 AM (11WUE)
Sorry, but as long as wealthy Whites continue to live in the cities, they will be taxed heavily to pay for this insanity
Posted by: Jonah at April 18, 2025 08:22 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 08:22 AM (gbOdA)
Some? Never underestimate their contempt for Trump, and how they nurse ways to thwart him (without unduly risking their own credibility or status, of course).
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 18, 2025 08:22 AM (h/ffs)
Fund the student, not the building. That makes this sort of bullshit more difficult.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 08:12 AM (ExV1e)
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BPS: Our Student to Teacher ratio is now 12 to 1!
How are the test scores?
BPS: That question is racist!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 08:19 AM (Dv3i1)
Also watch your school system for "mission creep". Our school district is facing flat to declining enrollment. Yet they are expanding "services" to students. All types of mental health, community outreach, and so much more. Threaten to cut the budget and none of this nor administrative jobs are cut though -- they always threaten teachers and aide positions.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 18, 2025 08:22 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 07:55 AM (AOsQT)
I don't believe Charles has converted to Islam. I think it's more likely that he's an atheist. He is, however, smart enough to understand that his country is, effectively, muslim. They may not be the absolute majority yet but the elected governments keep treating them like they are.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 08:22 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: pot head at April 18, 2025 08:23 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Jonah at April 18, 2025 08:23 AM (YCxFk)
In Spanish.
That's American AF, huh?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2025 08:23 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 08:23 AM (77rzZ)
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Do you have a link to her obit? I'd like to read it.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 18, 2025 08:21 AM (qBdHI)
From #13 above: It is not complete, but there is a link to post comments/memories.
https://tinyurl.com/JewellsObit
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 18, 2025 08:24 AM (N39Ws)
But there's always the unmentioned issues of trust between these criminals. Might be worth fleshing out that mistrust to break-up their little arrangement.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 08:24 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Jen the original at April 18, 2025 08:24 AM (VHO8+)
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 07:59 AM (AOsQT)
I imagine that the "good" Senator is on the payroll.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 08:24 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 08:24 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Jonah at April 18, 2025 08:24 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Jonah at April 18, 2025 08:25 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 08:22 AM (ExV1e)
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He's a dhimmi--a second-class citizen in his own kingdom.
The poorest Muslim in England wields more absolute power than King Chuck.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2025 08:25 AM (7fElN)
Wasn't there a Chinese AI company that claimed they could get the same results as the Western AI companies for a fraction of the resources? Did that turn out to be fraud?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 08:25 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 08:26 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2025 08:00 AM (x0n13)
You did read that he was sent there erroneously. But he wasn't.
That was an "error" placed into the record by a now former attorney with the DOJ for precisely the purpose of giving cause for the lawfare.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 08:26 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Swift Sword at April 18, 2025 08:27 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 08:26 AM (ypFCm)
He's taken the measure of the Republicans and feels very secure in his job.
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 18, 2025 08:27 AM (h/ffs)
CofE seems to have become another one of those love is love, do what feels good, hippy dippy "Christian" churches which continue to exist so that people with divinity degrees can get a paycheck.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 08:28 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2025 08:00 AM (x0n13)
You did read that he was sent there erroneously. But he wasn't.
That was an "error" placed into the record by a now former attorney with the DOJ for precisely the purpose of giving cause for the lawfare.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 08:26 AM (ExV1e)
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He had an open asylum claim filed under the Biden administration that asked to stay out of El Salvador. The Biden administration never decided on it. Trump's administration denied it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 08:29 AM (GBKbO)
For every 1 PDT supporter that see some Anti-Trump message and maybe has a bit of concern there are 9 that want PDT to double down.
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 08:30 AM (77rzZ)
1) eurotrash being obnoxiously anti-American
2) Trump's tariff announcements
3) Last of the Legions by Arthur Conan Doyle.
"But ere another summer had passed Celticus was dead, for he was flayed alive by the pirates and his skin nailed upon the door of a church near Caistor. Regnus, too, was dead, for he was tied to a tree and shot with arrows when the painted men came to the sacking of Isca. Caradoc only was alive, but he was a slave to Elda the red Caledonian and his wife was mistress to Mordred the wild chief of the western Cymri."
I just need a good wine that pairs well with schadenfreude
Posted by: Fen at April 18, 2025 08:30 AM (jY3Ey)
Posted by: Swift Sword at April 18, 2025 08:27 AM (G5+As)
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https://archive.org/details/taiheiyo.-no.-washi.
-1953.1080p.-webrip.x-264.-aac-yts.-mx
Ishiro Honda (father of Godzilla) made a really good movie about it. Well, about Yamamoto that ends with it.
Eagle of the Pacific.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 08:30 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: I gotta ask at April 18, 2025 08:31 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 08:25 AM (t0Rmr)
DeepSeek
From what I read they can build a system for about 10% of the cost of true AI.
This issue is that the system they built was "trained" by a true AI system on what are the "right" answers.
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 08:32 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2025 08:32 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: callsign claymore at April 18, 2025 08:33 AM (Jwq9Q)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 08:30 AM (77rzZ)
Listen my friends and you shall here
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 08:33 AM (gbOdA)
Oh, hey, does anyone remember back in 2016 when the DNC was millions in debt, so Hillary Clinton gave the DNC millions, and - get this! - the Debbie Wasserman-Schulz then spent that money shafting Bernie/ensuring Hillary got the presidential nomination?
I guess Carville only hates this kinda stuff when it's not his pals doing it. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2025 08:34 AM (Cki93)
tinyurl.com/FenDD214
Still no retraction of her false accusations of stolen valor. I don't know what to do next and no one will help me. As I see it, I have three choices.
1) walk away. Not going to happen, and it's not my flag to surrender anyway
2) libel lawsuit, which costs time and money, is not a sliver bullet and opens me up to countersue lawfare. I screenshotted everything and I think I would prevail, but filing would preclude:
3) resorting to violence, as I would be on record as primary suspect.
So looks like I need to either trust the legal system or start working up range cards. If anyone sees a better path, please let me know.
Posted by: Fen at April 18, 2025 08:34 AM (jY3Ey)
Today, a Muslim-adjacent king is totes cool.
The UK, like the rest of Western Europe, is gone.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 08:34 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Not me at April 18, 2025 08:34 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Fen at April 18, 2025 08:34 AM (jY3Ey)
Posted by: Fen at April 18, 2025 08:30 AM (jY3Ey)
Cabernet Schadenboner
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 08:34 AM (gbOdA)
For every 1 PDT supporter that see some Anti-Trump message and maybe has a bit of concern there are 9 that want PDT to double down.
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)
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My Utoob algo had a CNN vid of a reporter going to a part of North Dakota that went 70% Trump. First person interviewed was asked what they expected.
"Well, I was expecting prices to come down"
I didn't bother to see the rest.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 08:35 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 08:35 AM (t0Rmr)
Forget that they were brought into the US illegally and in mass numbers. They can only be ejected if each and every case is "properly" handled.
And by "properly handled" I mean by hand-picked leftist judges and lawyers. They're here to stay unless the administration has balls and tells the judiciary to fuck right off.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 08:36 AM (Q4IgG)
Sounds like white culture to me.
But we don't have spicy food, so. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2025 08:36 AM (Cki93)
A coming sea change to society… replacing X% of all jobs… blah blah blah
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 18, 2025 08:36 AM (6RwsA)
What's this about?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 08:35 AM (t0Rmr)
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This person has been stalking Hoyt at Insty for quite a while. They've now found their way here.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 18, 2025 08:37 AM (tT6L1)
>>@nayibbukele
>>I love chess.
The White House followed with this beauty.
https://tinyurl.com/5t42esw6
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 08:37 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2025 08:38 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 08:38 AM (Q0WdH)
I think using a chainsaw to remove a glued hand would stop this nonsense REAL FUCKING FAST.
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 08:38 AM (gbOdA)
Trump has no affinity for Wall Street these days. Murdoch and the WSJ are not friends, and 90% of Brokerages and Hedge Funds supported Hillary, Biden, and Kamala
Posted by: Jonah
Billions of dollars of Treasury debt is due this year, and needs to be rolled. Starting with Clinton, the idiots exchanged long term debt to short term, and Yellen compounded the error, so that Bessent has been in emergency mode since the day he got in.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 08:38 AM (lTGtQ)
Forget that they were brought into the US illegally and in mass numbers. They can only be ejected if each and every case is "properly" handled.
And by "properly handled" I mean by hand-picked leftist judges and lawyers. They're here to stay unless the administration has balls and tells the judiciary to fuck right off.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 08:36 AM (Q4IgG)
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They already all are.
It's an administrative process because deportation is not irreparable harm. If you're here legally with a Passport or green card, you can hop back on a plane and come back. If you're illegally here, well, you're gone and the administration kicking you out is the right, legal action.
It's the executive branch asking, "Where's your proof that you're allowed to be here? None? Gone."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 08:39 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 18, 2025 08:39 AM (aso4+)
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 18, 2025 08:40 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 08:40 AM (u9Npv)
https://tinyurl.com/5t42esw6
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 08:37 AM (viF8m)
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Democrats have no shame, so they'll ignore the contrast, but that is really powerful.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 08:40 AM (Q0WdH)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 08:18 AM (hCrIW)
He ordered a statue of himself as a conquering hero but the first model had his head up the horse's ass.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 08:41 AM (ExV1e)
@realDailyWire
EXCLUSIVE:
@TulsiGabbard
is releasing the highly-anticipated RFK assassination files.
Watch her take Daily Wire reporter
@MaryMargOlohan
behind the scenes at the National Archives to showcase the work that goes into the release, and take a look at what's inside.
https://tinyurl.com/4s7k4wfn
Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2025 08:41 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 18, 2025 08:41 AM (kTd/k)
Unions converted Public Education to Government Education and see zero issues with complete destruction of the original goals as long as they get paid.
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 08:42 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 18, 2025 08:39 AM (aso4+)
He's playing the long game.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 08:42 AM (u9Npv)
Posted by: Jonah at April 18, 2025 08:43 AM (YCxFk)
I think using a chainsaw to remove a glued hand would stop this nonsense REAL FUCKING FAST.
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 08:38 AM (gbOdA)
+1 Hand, foot, same principle.
Posted by: Mad Mad at April 18, 2025 08:43 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Jonah at April 18, 2025 08:43 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Skip
They have only had one since 2009. It was one of the Tony Blair projects to take decision making out of parliament, and give the power to the unelected.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 08:43 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 08:44 AM (Q0WdH)
Posted by: Mad Max at April 18, 2025 08:44 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Fatti maschii parole femine at April 18, 2025 08:44 AM (G5+As)
There was a budget fight in a town near me - the town had used "emergency COVID funds" to hire a bunch of permanent bureaucrats so when the emergency ended they "needed" a massive tax increase, mostly to balance the school budget.
One of the opponents of the tax increase had noted that over ten years the number of kids in school was down 33% but in that time the school budget had doubled. And...the proponents alternated in arguing it was because of inflation (and then that inflation didn't exist) and that the old spending levels were racist.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 08:44 AM (t0Rmr)
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Shackling the greatest institutions in American life? What a nut.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2025 08:45 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 08:24 AM (ypFCm)
It's a very recent thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 08:45 AM (ExV1e)
I was half joking when I posted about Van Holland sipping foofy drinks and vacationing and shaming in El Salvidor yesterday, not realizing Democrats challenge the limits of sleazy and evil every breath they take.
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 08:46 AM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 18, 2025 08:46 AM (h/ffs)
Concord is full of the most entitled leftwing assholes you could imagine. I hope they get 100K MAGA supporters in full Trump gear calling them red coats and loyalists all day long.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 08:46 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Minuteman at April 18, 2025 08:46 AM (47/pr)
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 08:47 AM (t0Rmr)
Damn! I love Carville. I know, I know... You say "He's a left-wing loon, a true believer, a progressive style commie"
I don't agree. He's an old school left wing liberal demoncrat bomb thrower who has seen it all and understands the reality far better than the "young guns" who are dragging the party all the way to crazy town. The guy knows how to win elections and he loves it. He also knows this waaay the fuck over in left field garbage is toxic for the party. And unlike a lot of others in the party, he isn't afraid to say it. For Carville, it's all about the party, winning elections, and staying on top. And he will throw those bombs at anyone he perceives as a threat to those things. Even if they claim to be demoncrats.
I love this guy. He's a maniac!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 08:47 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Count de Monet
All of us cool kids are on Adderall. I'm up as a pup!
Posted by: Bug Crazy at April 18, 2025 08:47 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Fen at April 18, 2025 08:30 AM (jY3Ey)
Manischewitz Cream Concord baby!!!
Very tan Jew with one eye.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2025 08:48 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 08:47 AM (t0Rmr)
What I figured.
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 18, 2025 08:49 AM (h/ffs)
Hmmm... Right around the time that USAID got shut down.
HMMMMM.....
Posted by: pookysgirl, on mini-vacation at April 18, 2025 08:49 AM (KzZ2M)
>>Concord is full of the most entitled leftwing assholes you could imagine. I hope they get 100K MAGA supporters in full Trump gear calling them red coats and loyalists all day long.
Heh, yes. Every person I've met who's from Concord is really, really proud of being from Concord, IYKWIM. Like they were born into an exclusive club.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2025 08:49 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 18, 2025 08:46 AM (h/ffs)
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Its Massachusetts, so yes. But one guy has a mailbox 20 feet high labeled "Taxes", so I like him.
The churches are the hotbed of progressivism there, imo. Most have female pastors and trans-rights fretting is the order of the day.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 08:49 AM (Q0WdH)
Kagan denies the emergency appeal of 4 Mexicans, requesting a stay of their deportation because of threats they faced from the cartels.
Those 4 have far more credible--and current this decade-- claims than "Maryland Father."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 08:50 AM (11WUE)
Hmmm... Right around the time that USAID got shut down.
HMMMMM.....
Posted by: pookysgirl
Since the funding to USAID was cut off, many terrorist groups around the world have been starved of money.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 08:51 AM (lTGtQ)
A gay flag outside of a church has the same meaning as a German flag over a French village in 1941
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 08:51 AM (t0Rmr)
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
at least we know that he's still alive and hasn't been murdered.....yet. Now put him on a plane and send him home. Fuck don-OLD and his merry team of trDUMPSTERS.
Yep. He's now too high profile to have him disappear into an unmarked grave. He needs to be sent back home, like yesterday.
Since Trump is now saying he has no knowledge of this situation, thereby throwing brainless bondi under the bus, I'm gonna guess someone in the courts told him shit is going to get real
Thank you Senator Chris Van Hollen! I'm so proud of him. I'm so relieved. We gave a fighter! I'm crying!
Add to that heros list the appeals court judge that ruled today in no uncertain terms, to bring Abrego Garcia home! He laid the law down!
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 18, 2025 08:51 AM (ycI94)
I grew up right around the corner. It's a very cool celebration.
Then Monday is the Boston Marathon with a Red Sox - White Sox game at Fenway starting at 11:00. That is one fun time. Boston wasn't always the woke dump the left is turning it into.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 08:51 AM (viF8m)
The relatively new chaplains all held the rank of first lieutenant. They included Methodist minister the Reverend George L. Fox, Reform Rabbi Alexander D. Goode (PhD), Catholic priest Father John P. Washington, and Reformed Church in America minister the Reverend Clark V. Poling.
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 08:51 AM (gbOdA)
The problem is politicians and business owners will cover each others asses. You don't see any business owners standing with Trump right now, do you? You take away the illegal hispanic work force in the housing construction boom in NC and what are you left with? Who is going to make up the loss in workers? If you think American white or black people are going to work for the kind of pay laborers get right now. A great many single hispanic male laborers live 3-4 in a home. Families live together as well. I see it day in a day out. After a year, they move out. For a long time the illegals never had bank accounts. they also went to the emergency rooms instead of Dr's offices. they didn't let themselves be accountable. They have it down pat. A lot move state to state. The illegal poplulation is now a fully systemic issue in the US. I doubt it will ever really be fully dealt with.
Posted by: Happy Easter at April 18, 2025 08:52 AM (Uy/WF)
Heh, see my #119.
He was fine when Hillary did essentially the same thing in 2016 to screw over Bernie.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2025 08:53 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 18, 2025 08:51 AM (ycI94)
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I see the DUmmies remain comfortable with the unelected acting as if they're president. As long, of course, as they rule "the right way."
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 18, 2025 08:53 AM (tT6L1)
Posted by: 18-1
That is awesome, belongs on a T shirt.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 08:53 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2025 08:54 AM (GITLP)
Posted by: scampydog at April 18, 2025 08:54 AM (CE7wm)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 08:54 AM (u9Npv)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 18, 2025 08:55 AM (cvWHI)
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)
Which is why, according to yesterday's CNN, Trump's approval rating is as high as it's ever been.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 18, 2025 08:55 AM (OuB2L)
Posted by: Hangry Hank at April 18, 2025 08:55 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 18, 2025 08:51 AM (ycI94)
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I see the DUmmies remain comfortable with the unelected acting as if they're president. As long, of course, as they rule "the right way."
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 18, 2025 08:53 AM (tT6L1)
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They continue under this delusion that the judges could affect the return at all.
The judges pushing this are pushing a fantasy and no more.
The worst a judge can do now is holding executive officials in contempt which will end up being meaningless. Criminal contempt gets pardoned. Civil contempt gets no DOJ backing for prosecution.
And that's assuming that SCOTUS isn't going to slap all of this down (they are, hearings on lower courts overstepping their bounds are scheduled in front of SCOTUS in about a month...even ACB has been writing for years about how the lower courts are out of control).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 08:55 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Jonah at April 18, 2025 08:43 AM (YCxFk)
Inflation is transitory.
Fucking idiot. Inflation in greater money supply than values of goods and services.
It is baked into the cake forever.
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 08:56 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Minuteman at April 18, 2025 08:46 AM (47/pr)
Gives a whole new meaning to "from each according to ability, to each according to need".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 08:56 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 08:56 AM (lCppi)
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2025 08:57 AM (GITLP)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 08:49 AM (Q0WdH)
Sounds lovely! Hopefully when the courts return our USAID funding and censure Trumpf my flock and I will be able to support all the wonderful transmigrants and migrant families that depend upon our helping hands to cloth, house and feed them and my family with your tax dollars. My beard...err...I mean my husband and I rejoice!
Posted by: Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, LGQTBABC Advocate and democrat shill at April 18, 2025 08:57 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Pontius Pilate at April 18, 2025 08:57 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 18, 2025 08:57 AM (vsTPo)
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2025 08:57 AM (GITLP)
Kagan denies the emergency appeal of 4 Mexicans, requesting a stay of their deportation because of threats they faced from the cartels.
Those 4 have far more credible--and current this decade-- claims than "Maryland Father."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 08:50 AM (11WUE)
They also, unlike El Salvadore man, are in the first safe adjacent country.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 08:58 AM (ExV1e)
On the eighteenth of April in ‘Seventy-Five Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year ….
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2025 08:58 AM (GITLP)
Good luck with that. Over the past few years, even places like Wal Mart are cleaned out and rarely have discount candy available after major holidays.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 08:58 AM (jjoN6)
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This is about us, isn't it
Posted by: The curious case of the Texas GOP at April 18, 2025 08:58 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2025 08:59 AM (GITLP)
****
He is home.
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2025 09:00 AM (lCppi)
It is baked into the cake forever.
Posted by: rhennigantx
It can be corrected with monetary tightening, but it is a tightrope to avoid a deflationary depression. I have been listening intently to Bessent, and am glad he is in the role.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 09:00 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: callsign claymore at April 18, 2025 09:00 AM (Jwq9Q)
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2025 09:00 AM (GITLP)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 18, 2025 08:51 AM (ycI94)
Crying in relief that a senator was seen sipping cocktails with a wife-beater in a tropical paradise.
Never change, DUmmies.
Posted by: pookysgirl, on mini-vacation at April 18, 2025 09:00 AM (KzZ2M)
It is baked into the cake forever.
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 08:56 AM (gbOdA)
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And then she also substantially shortened duration of the national debt. She might be the most damaging Treasury secretary of modern times. Scott Bessent must be in full panic mode 24/7
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 09:00 AM (Q0WdH)
Posted by: Josephistan at April 18, 2025 09:00 AM (bHGBC)
Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet of life outside Earth—a molecule linked to biological activity on a distant exoplanet
unusual_whales @unusual_whales
Astronomers say they have found the strongest indication of life beyond our solar system, on a planet 124 light-years from Earth called ‘K2-18b.’
While they have not yet declared the finding of life, they detected “potential biosignatures” that are typically produced by living organisms such as marine algae.
Mr Shelby @mrshelby101
Detection of Potential Biosignatures: JWST observations revealed the presence of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) in K2-18b's atmosphere.
On Earth, these compounds are produced solely by living organisms, particularly marine phytoplankton. The concentrations detected are thousands of times higher than those found in Earth's atmosphere, suggesting a possible biological origin.
Dividend Hero @HeroDividend
How long until we tariff K2-18b?
Joshu Schiffer @lawyerschiff
Did they buy the dip?
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 18, 2025 09:00 AM (mZtdJ)
New level of money laundering incoming
Samuel Culper @SamlCulper1776
Soon as we make contact with them, our govts will seek trade agreements and then promptly break them and declare war
PuzzledRaccoon @PuzzledRaccoon
Hey @grok how many human years would this trip take
Grok @grok 4h
A trip to K2-18b, 124 light-years away, would take about 2.186 million years with current spacecraft like Voyager 1, traveling at 17 km/s. Even with hypothetical advanced propulsion, reaching 10-20% of light speed, it would still take 620-1,240 years, far beyond human lifespans. Interstellar travel remains impractical due to vast distances and technological limits.
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 18, 2025 09:00 AM (mZtdJ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 18, 2025 08:55 AM (cvWHI)
He believes the lies about this guy. A lot, I mean A LOT of people do.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 09:00 AM (2J/Lj)
Hollywood made a movie called Exit to Eden starring a scantily clad Dana Delany in her prime.
And then they cast Rosie O'Bighead as the comedic element in the movie who also got scantily clad.
It was like being in an art museum full of Dutch Masters with several "Fat Man on an Ottoman" in the middle of them
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 09:01 AM (t0Rmr)
This female pastor, does not live in Concord, of course, but I have never had, nor will I have. a have an LGBT flag outside any church which I serve.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 09:01 AM (yxwuC)
Good luck with that. Over the past few years, even places like Wal Mart are cleaned out and rarely have discount candy available after major holidays.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 08:58 AM (jjoN6)
If you get there at opening, you'll have an even chance of scoring some discounted Peeps. Pink or Green only, no Yellow.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 18, 2025 09:01 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2025 09:01 AM (GITLP)
@ImMeme0
Unhinged Democrat wearing a “Saint Luigi Mangione” shirt gets triggered by a MAGA hat and goes off on a couple, threatening them in a Mexican restaurant.
https://tinyurl.com/3wfkavam
Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2025 09:02 AM (GITLP)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 09:02 AM (ypFCm)
http://tiny.cc/pgvg001
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 18, 2025 09:02 AM (mZtdJ)
DNI Gabbard Must Reverse “Stupid” US Intelligence on Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program
Gooderer Link:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/
4311765/posts
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 09:02 AM (gbOdA)
I had a massive amount of work done on my lawn sprinkler system yesterday. Almost certain that the people who did the work were illegals. They worked hard, finished faster than expected, everything was well done... doesn't matter.
I'd be fine with a guest worker program assuming that every US citizen who wanted a job had one and that no US citizen who didn't want a job was getting taxpayer money.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)
I'm trying as hard as I can, and I just can't figure out why Taylor Lorenz is so into Luigi Mangione but not Cody Balmer. If anything, Cody Balmer's motive is much more related to Taylor's own causes and passions.
Help me out here.
http://tiny.cc/qftg001
Gee, I wonder what it could be?? [comparison photos]
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 18, 2025 09:02 AM (mZtdJ)
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2025 09:01 AM (GITLP)
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Red diaper baby Olivia Wilde is mocking a feminist thing?
Yeah, so embarrassing that not even died-in-the-wool leftist nepo babies can stop themselves.
(Also, remember the time Jason Sudeikis handed her divorce papers on stage unexpectedly after he found out she was fucking Henry Styles on her movie set? That was hilarious.)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 09:03 AM (GBKbO)
Iran can now enrich enough uranium to fuel one nuclear weapon in less than a week and 14 in about four months, according to a February 2025 report by the Institute for Science and International Security.
This is a significant increase from late 2020, when Iran could only enrich enough weapons-grade uranium for two bombs in about 5.5 months.
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 09:03 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2025 09:03 AM (GITLP)
There were about 11 million illegals escorted across the border, just under Biden. The other 30 million or so were here before, and are busy having anchor babies, and many work jobs illegally. That's besides all the cartel members setting up shop in the big cities.
Posted by: illiniwek at April 18, 2025 09:03 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2025 08:54 AM (GITLP)
It has been theorized that Christianity fares best where it is oppressed.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 09:03 AM (ExV1e)
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Well that settles it!
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 09:03 AM (u9Npv)
Did they then put on maid outfits and jump into a giant chocolate pie (note this is not a euphemism)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 09:04 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 09:03 AM (ExV1e)
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Silence is a great Easter movie for those looking for something to program for the weekend.
It's on Kanopy for free (with a library card, of course). One of Scorsese's greatest films, based on the Shusaku Endo novel.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 09:05 AM (GBKbO)
So wait, if on earth living creatures create 1/1000 times as much of this stuff why would a planet with a 1000 times as much in its atmosphere be a strong sign of a biological origin.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 09:05 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 09:00 AM (2J/Lj)
Believing and perpetuating are not always the same thing!! Happy Easter, MM.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 09:05 AM (u9Npv)
****
He is home.
Posted by: LASue
Exactly. This needs to be the standard response to every question lol.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 18, 2025 09:06 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 09:00 AM (Q0WdH)
Either this Sept or next we have to roll over about 9 or 10 T.
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 09:06 AM (gbOdA)
A gay flag outside of a church has the same meaning as a German flag over a French village in 1941
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 08:51 AM (t0Rmr)
This. Thank you. Well put.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 18, 2025 09:07 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 08:51 AM (viF8m)
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Boston is great for patriotic celebrations this wekend. There's also a great parade in Charlestown, featuring the crew from the USS Constitution and some cannon fire.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 09:07 AM (yVKAE)
Good luck with that. Over the past few years, even places like Wal Mart are cleaned out and rarely have discount candy available after major holidays.
Posted by: NR Pax
You've just taken away the last hope that kept me going.
Posted by: Hangry Hank, Taking The Gaspipe at April 18, 2025 09:07 AM (G5+As)
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Anything that farts that much is something to leave alone.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 09:08 AM (pZ64F)
There's this guy named Elon who seems to like Trump quite a bit.
>>President Donald Trump said he has attracted over $7 trillion in private investment since being elected, from companies like Apple, Eli Lilly, and Stargate, as well as countries such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Japan.
https://tinyurl.com/yz4k3a9x
The driving reason employers have been hiring illegals is to keep wages deflated to deal with the low wages and unfair trade deals foisted on this country by previous politicians on both sides of the aisle. That's the entire reason Trump is resetting the playing field.
Let's see where we are when the trade discussions shake out.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 09:08 AM (viF8m)
I can't help but notice that you post a lot of X stuff disparaging the tariffs and repeating the money laundering nonsense. Is that something that you believe or is this a DU liaison sort of thing?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 09:08 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: dantesed at April 18, 2025 09:09 AM (Oy/m2)
Attractive marginally talented actress. I think she was the one in the Tron re-make
Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 09:09 AM (t0Rmr)
https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/1912647067807232372
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2025 09:10 AM (GITLP)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 09:08 AM (ExV1e)
He can't help being a filthy liberal. He's from Canada.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 09:10 AM (u9Npv)
Everything China does funnels to China.
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 09:10 AM (gbOdA)
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Wait. Kamala has luster?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 09:10 AM (L/fGl)
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You can pay for the proper cost of labor, or you can pay for it in taxes to cover welfare for the permanently unemployed Americans.
I argue that the US taxpayer has been subsidizing corporate America for years after they shut down factories and moved them to slave labor countries. The businesses get improved profits, while the customer doesn't see the entire bill until tax time.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 09:10 AM (lTGtQ)
also in "Cowboys and Aliens"
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2025 09:11 AM (GITLP)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 09:05 AM (u9Npv)
Dotty! Have a blessed Easter, my friend! Don't eat the PEEPS, they're disgusting!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 09:11 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 09:11 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: epador at April 18, 2025 09:12 AM (WjhJJ)
https://tinyurl.com/5n6mu4b7
It sounds vaguely familiar, and I think I remember it mentioned in recent controversy when Frosk talked about how bad it is to sexualize female hosts.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 18, 2025 09:12 AM (ycI94)
.Posted by: Ordinary American at April 18, 2025 09:12 AM (vsTPo)
... yeah, it would make her look like Richard Nixon in 1962
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2025 09:12 AM (GITLP)
I remember finding reeses peanut butter eggs in the freezer in Aug or Sept that she had bought 10 cents each for a whole box.
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 18, 2025 09:12 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: dantesed at April 18, 2025 09:12 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Count de Monet
Unsold Peeps are shipped to Hanford, Washington to be stored with all the other nukular waste.
Posted by: With the Circus Peanuts and Candy Corn at April 18, 2025 09:13 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: dantesed
It was good for the first couple of seasons. We didn't watch it much after those.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 09:14 AM (77rzZ)
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Oh, they could answer, it just wouldn't be prudent.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 09:14 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: dantesed at April 18, 2025 09:12 AM (Oy/m2)
The only network shows I've really watched since the mid-80s were Firefly, NCIS, and Big Bang Theory. Got out of the habit in the Navy and just never got started again.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 09:14 AM (ExV1e)
Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl
Leftists are now encouraging people to join gangs by saying it’s not illegal.
Many terrible things aren’t inherently illegal. Doesn’t mean you promote them.
The Democrat Party is really trying hard to sink to a single digit approval rating.
https://tinyurl.com/5n7wjvw2
Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2025 09:15 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 18, 2025 09:15 AM (6TePA)
Posted by: With the Circus Peanuts and Candy Corn
Even we don't want that s**t.
-- Hanford nukular waste
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 09:15 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 18, 2025 09:16 AM (vsTPo)
I can't help but notice that you post a lot of X stuff disparaging the tariffs and repeating the money laundering nonsense. Is that something that you believe or is this a DU liaison sort of thing?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 09:08 AM (ExV1e)
Andy lives in Canuckistan, which isn't faring well with Trump's tariffs due to no good negotiators in their government. Sorry that you have to deal with that, Andy. Your Parliament never has even majority support from Canadians, I know.
Posted by: pookysgirl, on mini-vacation at April 18, 2025 09:17 AM (KzZ2M)
Posted by: With the Circus Peanuts and Candy Corn at April 18, 2025 09:13 AM (G5+As)
Y'know.. We could save a shit ton of money on the border wall if those got mixed into the cement. Three times as much cement at half the cost! Stronger and more durable too!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 09:17 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 18, 2025 09:17 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 09:18 AM (lTGtQ)
Good luck with that. Over the past few years, even places like Wal Mart are cleaned out and rarely have discount candy available after major holidays.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 08:58 AM (jjoN6)
Check CVS and Walgreens. Might have better luck there than Walmart.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 18, 2025 09:18 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 09:19 AM (ypFCm)
Job Growth Remans Strong Despite Recession Fears
I didn’t think a headline editor could be this regraded.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 09:19 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: Pontius Pilate at April 18, 2025 09:19 AM (Aqu9a)
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Ironically, she (they? it?) is right.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 18, 2025 09:20 AM (L/fGl)
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yup
See Justice Ho on the 5th, who is rapidly becoming the left's most hated justice after Thomas. (Because they fear him most on the SCOTUS)
His latest, overturning an injunction reads basically, "once again, we have to act because you idiots don't know your job, your duties or the limits of your power."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2025 09:21 AM (11WUE)
Good luck with that. Over the past few years, even places like Wal Mart are cleaned out and rarely have discount candy available after major holidays.
Posted by: NR Pax
Retailers are very big on pulling items from the shelves quickly now. They are using big data to examine every SKU for profitability. They can pull and warehouse items for next year.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 09:21 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Pontius Pilate at April 18, 2025 08:57 AM (Aqu9a)
Kripke, is that you?
Posted by: Dr. Sheldon Cooper PHD at April 18, 2025 09:21 AM (5xuJ/)
Depends what you think the job of a headline is.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 09:22 AM (u9Npv)
Posted by: callsign claymore at April 18, 2025 09:22 AM (Jwq9Q)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 09:19 AM (ypFCm)
Bring it, bitches! Kick the candle and we dance in the flames!
It's been a long time coming. Better to get it over with now instead of letting it fester for another 50 years.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 09:22 AM (2J/Lj)
http://tiny.cc/pgvg001
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 18, 2025 09:02 AM (mZtdJ)
Talk about choking the chicken.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 18, 2025 09:23 AM (N39Ws)
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Ironically, she (they? it?) is right.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Sure thing dude. You're a woman. Don't forget to get your prostate checked regularly. Would suck to die from a men's only disease.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2025 09:23 AM (/iLcI)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 09:19 AM (ypFCm)
Bring it, bitches! Kick the candle and we dance in the flames!
It's been a long time coming. Better to get it over with now instead of letting it fester for another 50 years.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 09:22 AM (2J/Lj)
Agree. Lets do it now so our children and grandchildren don't have to. Sure hope those calling for an open revolution understand that once you uncork the bottle - there is no putting the genie back.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 18, 2025 09:24 AM (N39Ws)
I think she's the gymnast from LSU who'll be Bill Belichick's next girlfriend soon.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 18, 2025 09:25 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 09:25 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 09:26 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Don Black at April 18, 2025 09:26 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 09:26 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
The Dave's Double is wonderful.
Posted by: Bulg at April 18, 2025 09:26 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)
Pretty much. The "Liberal Economic Global Order" wants Hispanic Cartel-style enforcers, but also Islamic Shari'ah-style "Break any law and you either get a limb cut off or you die" punishments for the citizenry.
Posted by: XTC at April 18, 2025 09:26 AM (UnA8+)
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Well, they've already killed so I'd say the revolution is on and war declared. Some of us have acknowledged it, others not so much. It'll be an eye opening experience for those that have remained unaware or have simply ignored the signs.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 09:26 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 09:27 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 09:19 AM (ypFCm)
Yes. No other direction this can go.
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 18, 2025 09:27 AM (vsTPo)
And then they cast Rosie O'Bighead as the comedic element in the movie who also got scantily clad.
How could we forget when JJ so often uses a pic of Rosie O'Donnell in bondage gear for his photoshopped EMT toppers?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2025 09:27 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2025 09:27 AM (VofaG)
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"try to facilitate his release" =/= "bring him back to the US"
Also...most of the order was about the lower court needing to clarify what the fuck it meant.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 18, 2025 09:27 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
They are probably embarrassed that they refused to call one in 2022 when we had three quarters of negative GDP.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 09:28 AM (lTGtQ)
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Its the Church of Manhattan Media. They believe stuff that is not believable. Its a Cargo Cult.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 18, 2025 09:29 AM (pZ64F)
OK Wendy’s burger it is this weekend for me.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 09:29 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 18, 2025 09:24 AM (N39Ws)
My first grandchild is three weeks old today! It's a very clarifying thing. Just like when my kids were born, I know I will do whatever is necessary to protect that little fella.
When they threaten "revolution", what they are really threatening is our children and grandkids and their future.
Nope. Not gonna play that. I will protect mine.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 09:30 AM (2J/Lj)
Uh. We've been publicizing thousands of ways the election was stolen since 2020, including video footage of cheating AND social media video of cheaters gleefully telling everyone that they cheated. TIME magazine published an article (or was it an entire issue?) on how the left stole ("fortified") the election.
What can Elon do that will make these people stop plugging their ears and saying, "La La La, I can't hear you"?
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 18, 2025 09:30 AM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 18, 2025 09:30 AM (O7YUW)
And then they cast Rosie O'Bighead as the comedic element in the movie who also got scantily clad.
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Fuck man, some of us still Haven’t had breakfast yet. A little trigger warning next time please.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 18, 2025 09:31 AM (DKKgv)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 18, 2025 09:30 AM (Sf2cq)
Nothing. The only thing we can do is win and ruthlessly.
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 18, 2025 09:31 AM (vsTPo)
BREAKING:
- Police say 2 dead in FSU shooting
- Deceased victims are not students
- 5 more injured
- Suspect was "neutralized" & taken into custody
- Gunman believed to be a student
Suspect has been ID'ed & is hospitalized, police say.
BREAKING: FSU gunman ID'ed as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, the son of a Leon County Sheriff's Deputy.
Sheriff says the shooter "unfortunately" gained access to one or more of her guns.
Suspect is refusing to talk to investigators, police said.
FSU shooting suspect appears to have attended an anti-Trump rally before the President's second inauguration.
http://tiny.cc/8byg001
PICTURED: Alleged FSU shooter Phoenix Ikner & his mother, Leon County Sheriff's Deputy Jessica Ikner.
http://tiny.cc/5byg001
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 18, 2025 09:31 AM (mZtdJ)
GLORIOUS! A large number of South American migrants are SELF-DEPORTING due to President Trump’s deportation policies
http://tiny.cc/ibyg001
1:51 minutes
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 18, 2025 09:34 AM (mZtdJ)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at April 18, 2025 09:36 AM (G5oMy)
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Unlike Ace et alia, I've supported Trump here since 2015.
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 18, 2025 09:36 AM (mZtdJ)
1) First and most importantly, I've never seen you post an actual link showing that Sarah Hoyt libeled you. Not here, not on Instapundit.
3) After literally years of being asked to provide a DD-214, you finally post something. But how do we know it's yours and not someone else's?
2) CBD told you the last time you showed up to knock it off. And yet here you are.
GIVE IT A REST.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 18, 2025 09:37 AM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2025 09:37 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 18, 2025 09:36 AM (mZtdJ)
I know I'm just busting chops.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 09:39 AM (u9Npv)
Posted by: That Guy who shouts "Aye, caramba!" at April 18, 2025 09:40 AM (0sNs1)
“If our efforts to end the war in Ukraine fail within the next few days, we will inform President Trump that negotiations are no longer a viable option. If both sides are serious about peace, we’re ready to help, otherwise, we’ll move on.”
https://tinyurl.com/4yhhktt4
https://tinyurl.com/4yhhktt4
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 09:41 AM (paSBy)
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 18, 2025 09:43 AM (mZtdJ)
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 18, 2025 09:44 AM (mZtdJ)
1) First and most importantly, I've never seen you post an actual link showing that Sarah Hoyt libeled you. Not here, not on Instapundit.
3) After literally years of being asked to provide a DD-214, you finally post something. But how do we know it's yours and not someone else's?
2) CBD told you the last time you showed up to knock it off. And yet here you are.
GIVE IT A REST.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 18, 2025 09:37 AM (/HDaX)
Wait, wait, wait.
Did dude seriously just say he was going to murder Sarah Hoyt?
If he's trying to look like a Badass Killer, maybe he shouldn't turn his wrath upon a woman.
Posted by: XTC at April 18, 2025 09:46 AM (UnA8+)
Say, you wouldn't happen to have any insider information on upcoming Memorial Day sales of khaki pants and tiki torches you could share, would you?
Posted by: J. Random Moron at April 18, 2025 09:47 AM (0sNs1)
Let's see where we are when the trade discussions shake out.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 09:08 AM (viF8m)
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Let’s get real here.
The “driving reason” wasn’t something that was done Willy nilly by politicians but at the insistence of Corporate CEOs and Wall Street big wigs.
Why did you leave them out.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 18, 2025 09:52 AM (aso4+)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 09:52 AM (u9Npv)
'President Boasberg is not a happy man. His proclamations are ignored, his troops are not assembled, and the gallows he ordered is stuck in a Shanghai port facility.'
I wish I could give him a gallows. I'd make sure he got to use it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 10:06 AM (3wi/L)
'You are not the Brave Hero defending the Republic--you are craven cowards clawing and scraping with every lie, deceit, deception and dishonesty you can muster'
I wish there were judicial reform being contemplated to reduce the number of federal judges. If they have enough time to manage the executive branch then they must be under utilized in their real jobs.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 10:09 AM (3wi/L)
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It's the only way to stamp out illegal immigration completely. Bring on e-verify.
Posted by: Decaf at April 18, 2025 10:20 AM (unUNN)
Posted by: creeper at April 18, 2025 10:21 AM (M6moH)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 08:22 AM
The majority of the UK population may not be Muslim, but it seems the majority of people in positions of power and influence in the UK are Muslim. And that's all that matters. Once that happens, it's over.
https://bit.ly/3ROxCBc
The mayor of London is Muslim - Sadiq Khan
The mayor of Birmingham is Muslim - Shafique Shah
The mayor of Leeds is Muslim - Asghar Khan
The mayor of Blackburn is Muslim - Parwaiz Akhtar
The mayor of Sheffield is Muslim - Magid
The mayor of Oxford is Muslim - Lubna Arshad
The mayor of Luton is Muslim - Tahmina Saleem
The mayor of Oldham is Muslim - Zahid Chauhan
The mayor of Rochdale is Muslim - Shakily Ahmed
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 18, 2025 10:49 AM (P5BPp)
Carville is outraged about this and during an appearance on NewsNation called Hogg a ‘contemptible little twerp.’ He even suggested the possibility of a lawsuit against Hogg over this.
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2025 10:50 AM (GITLP)
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2025 11:02 AM (GITLP)
319 It was recently reported that Hogg is using DNC resources to run against a number of sitting Democrats. He wants people in office who are further left and will amp up the ‘resistance’ against Trump.
Posted by SMOG
See; Mobilize dot US/pa
Canvass Launch with David Hogg
Canvass · Hosted by Anna Thomas for State House
Ignoring the Working Families Party - supporters of AOC, Chuck Schumer, Kathy Hochul, etc. - and similar organizations - is not the best move for the future. We do so at our peril.
Hogg is just giving them the platform. (Theater & cover)
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To others, Musk and DOGE are exposing the corruption in both the Executive and Legislative Branches, and perhaps Judicial, too, and that they've (our federal government) tried to make themselves ungovernable.
Save our Constitution, not replace it with vague ideas such as those in the Constitution of South Africa.
This is not Animal Farm. (All, imo.)
🙏to all of the Horde & Horde adjacent in need, and for all of the Hamas hostages.
Happy Easter, Happy Passover
Luv yas.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 18, 2025 11:57 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 09:03 AM
It has been oppressed in the UK for seemingly decades now and it does not seem to be faring well there at all.
Granted, I don't know what "fares best" really means.
Christianity has been oppressed here in the USA for decades as well and I would not say it has been faring well here either. Catholic Church here seems to be entirely left-wing, supporting all left-wing causes (global warming, BLM, illegal aliens, gender madness, LGBTQ+ nonsense, abortion, etc.). Christianity in general seems to be more about gaining followers rather than preaching the Bible's teachings and principles. See that "He Gets Us" campaign, for example.
Then of course there are all the denominations which support LGBTQ+ nonsense and support abortion.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 18, 2025 12:14 PM (P5BPp)
ESP the "Sunrise event" the rising in the east and setting in the west thing, you know, Pagan stuff.
Posted by: Ray at April 18, 2025 12:24 PM (5wLuE)
Gavin pillow-bites for his CCP overlords.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2025 01:48 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: The Dark Lord at April 18, 2025 02:11 PM (DBAaD)
Daily Tech News 18 April 2025
Top Story
- A federal judge has ruled that Google is operating an illegal monopoly - again. (Associated Press)
Google's search engine was found in violation of antitrust laws last August, and the company's ad division has now joined it on the naughty list.
This doesn't mean that either one is an absolute monopoly, and they're not. But companies with a dominant market position are restricted from certain business practices that are not in themselves illegal, and that's where Google has run aground.
Now the DOJ will be arguing for specific penalties (most likely forcing Google to spin off a small number of products into separate businesses) and Google will be trying to tie this up in appeals until the Sun goes out.
Tech News
- AGI is still thirty years away, like nuclear fusion. (Dwarkesh Podcast)
(There's a full transcript; you don't need to listen.)
The host makes the point that we've had rapid advances in AI technology over the past decade; the guests respond that this progress has come at the expense of, well, expense. The AI supercluster at xAI cost upwards of $2.5 billion to create, and similar installations exist at the other major AI companies.
And we can't replicate that over the next ten years because nobody has $2.5 trillion to build a computer a thousand times more powerful, or 35,000 methane-powered generators to provide the hundreds of gigawatts needed to power the city-sized cluster.
Now things get hard.
- There's a new Framework Laptop 13 in town, with a Ryzen 370 and up to 96GB (and probably 128GB) of SO-DIMM memory. (Tom's Hardware)
Still no Four Essential Keys though.
- A new GPS alternative from Australia is 10 to 50 times more accurate than existing alternatives. (Interesting Engineering)
When I first saw this it seemed to be claiming to be 10 to 50 times more accurate than GPS itself, but that's not it. If GPS is unavailable for any reason - something that happens a lot more often than you might think - this system based on existing maps of the Earth's magnetic field is essentially impossible to jam and doesn't rely on any other systems being active.
It's not as good as GPS, but it's better than other options when you don't have GPS.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Can't you at least make it a Linear B-?
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 04:30 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Tuna at April 18, 2025 04:31 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 18, 2025 04:32 AM (BLOW1)
That and the little wagon wheel looking letter always made me happy. What a silly little letter.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 18, 2025 04:35 AM (kBh81)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 04:35 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 04:35 AM (ypFCm)
Ah, sat-nav in new jersey...
In half a mile, continue straight
In half a mile, continue straight
In half a ----
*hucks phone out window*
*deepening doppler shift*
milleee connnnntiiiinnnnuueeeeeeeee str.........
Seriously, who programmed all these things for Jersey? They should be sued for emotional distress.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 18, 2025 04:39 AM (kBh81)
Posted by: Ciampino - bizarre incident? at April 18, 2025 04:40 AM (sPQoU)
Does the existence of laws ("laws"?) that allow the state to break up a corporation into smaller entities by force actually somehow create a driving force for more aggressive M&A activity, creating more and larger monoliths than there would have been in the first place?
Counterfactuals, I know, but still. I wonder.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 18, 2025 04:43 AM (kBh81)
Was off the blog most of yesterday after Salty's morning update.
So kinda anxious to hear how Mrs Salty faired through the day.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 18, 2025 04:45 AM (a1415)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 04:47 AM (VhMOy)
I always carry an old timey road atlas in my car. A compass isn't a bad idea either. Old tech is reliable.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 18, 2025 04:48 AM (K9xEt)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 18, 2025 04:48 AM (K9xEt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 04:49 AM (42Vb+)
Thing keeps going empty on me.
Not cool, man. Not cool.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 18, 2025 04:50 AM (kBh81)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
According to the last updates I read, she was life flighted to KU Medical Center where she received a new stent and was now resting. Salty was supposed to update us this morning.
Posted by: Tuna at April 18, 2025 04:50 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 04:51 AM (CQE5S)
Thank you for the update about the stent.
That was new to me.
Now to sip coffee, and wait for Salty this morning.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 18, 2025 04:52 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 18, 2025 04:48 AM (K9xEt)
I was using a phone for navigation to some place far away i'd never been to. Halfway there, my phone literally started smoking and melted itself. (short in the power jack, I figure). No written directions. Smelly interior. Totally lost. The rest station on the highway had a rack of old maps that were literally dusty crammed back in a corner. Bought one, and navigated to a literal dot on the map like some kind of neanderthal, then thanked the heavens that the address of the place I was going was XYZ South Number Street, Dotsville, NJ.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 18, 2025 04:54 AM (kBh81)
Well, alrighty then....
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 18, 2025 04:55 AM (a1415)
"YOU get an A, and YOU get an A, and YOU get an A!"
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 04:56 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: OkJohn at April 18, 2025 04:57 AM (NC/it)
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 05:01 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 18, 2025 05:01 AM (K9xEt)
Later this morning I have to check all connections, install the cross brace and upper engine mount. Return the coolant to the engine, and put one cooling line bracket back on.
Then we see if I was successful in this little project.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 18, 2025 05:02 AM (a1415)
... the little wagon wheel looking letter always made me happy. What a silly little letter.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 18, 2025 04:35 AM (kBh81)
𐀏
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 05:03 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Just Wondering at April 18, 2025 05:03 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 05:03 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 18, 2025 05:04 AM (a1415)
Thanks; i was aware of who posted it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 05:04 AM (2iNhp)
Babylon DC Fox affiliate breathlessly reports!! The newz is Chernobyl grade garbage.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 18, 2025 05:05 AM (K9xEt)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 18, 2025 04:43 AM (kBh81)
M&A = mergers and acquisitions
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 05:06 AM (CQE5S)
The good Senator was making a visit to the ship, and our son was a registered Maryland voter, so in the middle of trying to get some sleep that day, he was woken up to spend some quality time with the good Senator, and a camera crew.
Nope....told them to go stuff it, rolled over and went back to sleep.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 18, 2025 05:09 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 18, 2025 04:35 AM (kBh81)
They have lots of fun letters!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2025 05:11 AM (/5P9N)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at April 18, 2025 05:12 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 18, 2025 05:02 AM (a1415)
I'll drop off the S80 when you are done.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2025 05:13 AM (/5P9N)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 18, 2025 05:16 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 18, 2025 05:19 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 18, 2025 05:20 AM (a1415)
She gots lots of sleep yesterday, and had one major artery blockage cleaned out and stented.
She did well.
The unstated path forward is not surgery, from which she will not recoverer, but to do little things to get her more stable, then sent her home. This assumes no more heart attacks. Today I will listen for signs of what recovery will look like for her. I think ballroom dancing is right out.
The team at the Cardiac ICU at KU Med Center in Kansas City is very impressive.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 18, 2025 05:23 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Rosasharn at April 18, 2025 05:24 AM (PzBTm)
I can not express my heartfelt appreciation for you, one and all. What an amazing community. I can testify.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 18, 2025 05:26 AM (u82oZ)
Continued prayers for both you and your wife as you go forward together.
Be safe, my friend.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 18, 2025 05:27 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 18, 2025 04:54 AM (kBh81)
Kids today if that happened.
https://youtu.be/Tg6XpJbkevs?t=6
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 05:29 AM (ExV1e)
Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.
I think that the wiring and tubing in medical facilities could use a commonality redo. I see grey wire and green tubing for oxygen, but the rest is a jumble. Color coded wiring, with runs, and little pop-up labels on tubing would be an advance.
I think of how engineering plants have gotten better, with pipes color coded and all the labels.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 18, 2025 05:32 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 18, 2025 05:33 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 18, 2025 05:pm p26 AM (u82oZ)
But they can't ballroom dance, so bring your wife to Corsicana!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2025 05:33 AM (/5P9N)
Posted by: fluffy at April 18, 2025 05:34 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 18, 2025 05:34 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 18, 2025 05:32 AM (u82oZ)
You should see the wiring at AoSHQ!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2025 05:35 AM (/5P9N)
Let us not forget flange shields.
And their correct installation.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 18, 2025 05:36 AM (a1415)
Thanks for the update, Salty. Prayers continue for both of you, dear.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 05:36 AM (hDA2f)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 18, 2025 05:38 AM (a1415)
Almighty God, graciously behind this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever . Amen.
The Book of Common Prayer
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 05:40 AM (hDA2f)
Posted by: fluffy at April 18, 2025 05:42 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 18, 2025 05:44 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 18, 2025 05:52 AM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 05:55 AM (jjoN6)
Classic hymn written in the 1600's by Johann Heerman. Not exactly "happy and clappy". Heerman lived during the Thirty Years War, not exactly a stroll in the park either:
https://tinyurl.com/4mwmzxad
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 05:56 AM (42Vb+)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 18, 2025
***
Road atlas for sure. And the Buick has a compass among its instruments.
Evening and morning, insomaniacals! 'Tis Good Friday of the most important weekend of the Christian calendar. What are you up to today?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 05:56 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 05:58 AM (iWjwO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 06:01 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 18, 2025 06:01 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Colin at April 18, 2025 06:01 AM (wlQdF)
A few months back we got buried in snow. Naturally this was the time that the snow blower said "I'm tired, boss." and stopped working. We have a very long driveway and we had to shovel it out. One morning, I woke up and it had been plowed clean. No idea who did it but we have a lot of folks with plows and we tend to take care of our neighborhood before the city sends folks. A day or two later, we get hit hard and the driveway gets buried again. I go out first thing in the morning with the shovel and it's been completely taken care of.
No note, no nothing. Even more surprising was the fact that none of our dogs felt the need to tell us someone was in the driveway.
Fast forward to yesterday and I run into my next door neighbor. Turns out that he asked another neighbor to take care of us since our snow blower stopped working. He introduced me to the man when I was taking the garbage out. I asked him what he would like in return and when he tried refusing, I insisted. So I'm picking up a case of beer today and I'll see if my wife can bake something.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 06:02 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 06:03 AM (omVj0)
https://tinyurl.com/2e4mjkap
Oh, no.
Anyway...
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 18, 2025 06:04 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 18, 2025 06:04 AM (lg0Lu)
Have they tried GoFundMe? They love murderous savages.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 06:05 AM (jjoN6)
Have they tried GoFundMe? They love murderous savages.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 06:05 AM (jjoN6)
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How about a bake sale? or a car wash?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2025 06:07 AM (cweKM)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 06:07 AM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 06:10 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 06:11 AM (RIvkX)
g'mornin', Ben Had
Posted by: AltonJackson at April 18, 2025 06:11 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 18, 2025
***
In the main, they don't . . . but govt. is always fiddling, renumbering roads and adding bypasses and spurs. In 1980 here there was only one span of bridge across the river near downtown; now there are two, and some ramps have vanished and others have been added. And there is a completely new exit from the Interstate in the suburbs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 06:12 AM (omVj0)
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A prayer for her complete and speedy recovery
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 06:14 AM (RIvkX)
A few months back we got buried in snow. Naturally this was the time that the snow blower said "I'm tired, boss." and stopped working. We have a very long driveway and we had to shovel it out. One morning, I woke up and it had been plowed clean. No idea who did it but we have a lot of folks with plows and we tend to take care of our neighborhood before the city sends folks. A day or two later, we get hit hard and the driveway gets buried again. I go out first thing in the morning with the shovel and it's been completely taken care of.
No note, no nothing. Even more surprising was the fact that none of our dogs felt the need to tell us someone was in the driveway.
Fast forward to yesterday and I run into my next door neighbor. Turns out that he asked another neighbor to take care of us since our snow blower stopped working. He introduced me to the man when I was taking the garbage out. I asked him what he would like in return and when he tried refusing, I insisted. So I'm picking up a case of beer today and I'll see if my wife can bake something.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 06:02 AM (jjoN6)
Super-great story!
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 06:15 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 06:07 AM (yp8Vj)
And this is never taken as the blessing it is.
"Ok, no terms then. Thanks, that makes it so much easier!"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 18, 2025 06:15 AM (kBh81)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 06:16 AM (omVj0)
Soon to be a part of China's growing tech dominance through IP theft.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 18, 2025 06:16 AM (a4flb)
https://tinyurl.com/35w3x3xk
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 18, 2025 06:17 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 06:18 AM (RIvkX)
Oh, sorry, thought you were saying "Jeep B.S."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 18, 2025 06:20 AM (kBh81)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 06:23 AM (yp8Vj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 06:24 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 06:18 AM (RIvkX)
Here?
Piers Morgan Uncensored
https://youtu.be/TRuhZO2dHLs
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 06:27 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Qmark at April 18, 2025 06:27 AM (6p8HU)
I do have a road atlas too
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 18, 2025 06:34 AM (cvWHI)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 06:36 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Joe at April 18, 2025 06:37 AM (rzwGB)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 06:36 AM (RIvkX)
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Who is this guy, anyway? I only heard about him a couple of days ago.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 18, 2025 06:37 AM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: I'm Wikipedia. I'm here to help at April 18, 2025 06:40 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 06:36 AM (RIvkX)
I just watched a 3-minute clip at @SpencerGuard and it was as you described here!
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 06:40 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 06:41 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 06:41 AM (CQE5S)
Thx, NaCly, prayers continue!
& thank you, Rosasharn, for officially inaugurating the glorious day!
though 47 degrees is prime for hiking, the vigorous thunderstorm outside might delay matters a bit ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 18, 2025 06:42 AM (/Ghsb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 06:44 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 06:44 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Like Army Intelligence at April 18, 2025 06:44 AM (dg+HA)
My second-favorite Have Gun -- Will Travel is on H & I at seven my time, one of those superb Harry Julian Fink scripts and directed by Ida Lupino. Even though I've seen it several times now, I intend to be in front of the TV for that one
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 06:46 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 06:47 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 06:49 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: olddog in mo at April 18, 2025 06:49 AM (hoCmQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 06:50 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 06:46 AM (omVj0)
yum
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 06:50 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 06:54 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025
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This is Aldi's brand. They also have a cheese version, and for $5 you get twenty-four ravioli in the box. That's a better deal for me than their six Salisbury steaks package for about $4, since you have to cook all six at once, then store the ones you don't eat in the refrigerator for reheating. Two to three meals vs. six to eight of the ravioli.
Plus I like the ravioli even more.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 06:56 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025
***
For years I subsisted on an English muffin with cheese, or toast with the same, and had salads and junk food at work. Then I became aware, once I'd bought a microwave, of the frozen beef & bean burritos you can get at Walmart and other places. And I've come to like eggs -- a food that didn't appeal to me when I was younger. Miss Linda guesses I'm sensitive to the presence of sulfur in foods, or used to be.
A scrambled seasoned egg atop a microwaved pot pie, chicken or turkey or beef, is good too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 07:00 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 07:11 AM (weQLb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 07:11 AM (RIvkX)
Then I got tired of them and didn’t touch them for decades.
I tried them again a few years back just to see if they were as good as I remembered.
Now they are in the little microwaveable bowl-cans and they taste nothing like the old ones.
I’m not even sure if the little bit of meat in them is actually meat.
Maybe they are the same and kid me had less developed taste buds but I swear every “New & Improved” move food companies make ends up with a worse tasting product.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 07:12 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 07:12 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 07:13 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
My dad always said that "new and improved" usually meant more expensive and worse.
Posted by: Tuna at April 18, 2025 07:16 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: I guess this ain't the food thread at April 18, 2025 07:16 AM (dg+HA)
Maybe they are the same and kid me had less developed taste buds but I swear every “New & Improved” move food companies make ends up with a worse tasting product.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
"New and Improved" is an overt admission that whatever a food item had been, it now has been processed more than it was, and that is not a good thing.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 07:16 AM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2025 07:00 AM (omVj0)
I loved those Egg McMuffins, always have.
But now I don’t want to drive to McDs to get that fix.
So Jimmy Dean has me covered.
They sell a box of four English Muffins with the egg, cheese, and sausage (no Canadian bacon version unfortunately) that taste as good as McDs.
The egg is a little thin, but it is pretty good for something that takes two minutes to heat up in the microwave.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 07:16 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 18, 2025 07:19 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 07:19 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 07:21 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Tuna at April 18, 2025 07:16 AM (lJ0H4)
New and Improved" is an overt admission that whatever a food item had been, it now has been processed more than it was, and that is not a good thing.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 07:16 AM (Tv15w)
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All true,
And it’s just food,
I’ve been using Tide and Bounce for laundry for decades and in the last few years one, or the other or both, has me itching like crazy sometimes after a wash.
I don’t know if it’s the new chemicals they’re using or what but you’ll notice they all started selling ‘Fragrance Free” versions of their products in the last decade, to, I think, combat this problem of what they are putting in the mix.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 07:22 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: I guess this ain't the food thread
Almost everyone loves lamb on the food thread. Not me though. Just the smell of it roasting turns my stomach.
Posted by: Tuna at April 18, 2025 07:22 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 07:22 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Cicero Skip at April 18, 2025 07:22 AM (p6dVP)
By the time it gets here, it is gamey and gross and sickening.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2025 07:25 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Cicero Skip at April 18, 2025 07:22 AM (p6dVP)
Can you open a website on a different computer?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 07:27 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 18, 2025 07:27 AM (/Ghsb)
If it's a Windows machine, see if you can run a diagnostic on your network connection (Control Panel\Network and Internet.)
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 07:28 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 07:27 AM (ExV1e)
And, yes, I know you posted here but you might have used your phone.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2025 07:29 AM (ExV1e)
I love those.
Roasted lamb chops never did anything for me because the meat is so lean,
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 07:33 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Cicero Skip at
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Windows update CONSTANTLY breaks the internet connection.
Reboot if you haven't, then reboot again.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 07:33 AM (weQLb)
Posted by: NR Pax at April 18, 2025 07:35 AM (jjoN6)
https://tinyurl.com/2sta6ryh
It has nothing to do with Protestants having only having "happy, clappy" services or being people who can't relate to the suffering and pain of Jesus. That is a needless mischaracterization of a whole group of believers, who are also Christians.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 07:36 AM (42Vb+)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Was discussed here not too long ago.
Canned, microwave, and fast food DID taste good. Because it was made of food. But to try to keep costs low the manufacturers would substitute something, then years later do it again, and again, and again. Each time chasing the worse changed recipe, not original.
Think of an old xerox machine making 20 copies, each time using the copy just made for the next one.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 07:37 AM (weQLb)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 18, 2025 07:38 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 07:40 AM (u9Npv)
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We saw some cross shaped candy (a sucker) recently and had an interesting discussion on why it made us feel uncomfortable but why it was perfectly fine.
We love the cross as a symbol of the love and the moment and resurrection, but we don't worship the cross.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 07:40 AM (weQLb)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 07:37 AM (weQLb)
Yup.
This all started with high fructose corn syrup.
We were talking about that the other day, too.
I’m old enough to remember the disaster that was New Coke.
But it did ramp up sales of Coke Classic, so it worked out in the end, except the cane sugar part.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 07:41 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 18, 2025 07:42 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 18, 2025 07:43 AM (weQLb)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 18, 2025 07:44 AM (ZmEVT)
I asked the shop lady - "what's that?"
She says "Oh, that"s a meat pie"
Meat. My mouth immediately watering. I'm so ready to gorge.. I buy two pies. Outside now and take a huge bite. Not beef. Foul, gelatinous, mutton. It won't even go down. I spit it out.
NZ food was awesome and fresh but not the mutton.
Posted by: 13times at April 18, 2025 07:45 AM (WDRj6)
Eventually the practice ended and I guess the simplicity of two intersecting lines was too hard to ignore for artists and jewelry makers.
But imagine today making a necklace in the image of an electric chair.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 18, 2025 07:48 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Cicero Skip
That sounds like DNS.
Under your WiFi settings, try setting DNS to 8.8.8.8 and/or 9.9.9.9 (you can have two options).
Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 18, 2025 07:49 AM (BLOW1)
Tell me again how you're going to make an artificial "intelligence".
Posted by: GWB at April 18, 2025 07:49 AM (f5gS/)
Posted by: Cicero Skip at April 18, 2025 07:50 AM (p6dVP)
Posted by: Bob from the NSA at April 18, 2025 07:51 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: GWB at April 18, 2025 07:51 AM (f5gS/)
I'm in our place at Sussex. I executed a fine closeup last fall, so the reboot of power and water went off without a hitch (the latter would more likely be a problem if there were one).
Looked over low profile ceiling fans on line after banging my head on the current monstrosity. As none are in stock at stores, will discuss with Mrs. KvC before ordering some. Ditto for window shades. The air down here does a number on practically anything and we are over twenty years into having this place.
Got to go shop for food for a couple of days and get breakfast. My main task is to remove the winter cover from the boat and get it ready for our service guy to prep it and put it in the water.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 07:55 AM (Tv15w)
The most maddening GPS utterance when I am driving is "Proceed to the route"
Look, asshole, I am not watching you -- I'm watching the road -- and your audio messages need to state, ALWAYS, what road constitutes "the route".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 18, 2025 07:59 AM (Tv15w)
Under your WiFi settings, try setting DNS to 8.8.8.8 and/or 9.9.9.9 (you can have two options).
where do I find that? When I click on wifi setting there are lot of chices and none of them look like that
Posted by: Cicero Skip at April 18, 2025 08:02 AM (p6dVP)
But rates are still historically low. Instead of easy money enabling Wall Street to dominate, imo the reciprocal tariffs and rebuilding Main Street, along with USA manufacturing is a better path. Easy Al Greenspan (and others) enabled Wall Street riches, making the rich much richer, while middle/lower classes stagnated.
The role of the fed is stable currency, not enriching the rich via cheap money for the gamblers. A little weaker dollar might help us, but USD is still considered the safe harbor in troubled times.
Posted by: illiniwek at April 18, 2025 08:10 AM (Cus5s)
Tell me again how you're going to make an artificial "intelligence".
Posted by: GWB
_________
I don't think that's the ultimate problem. Could be solved one day.
It all hinges on the definition of "intelligence." If the secular humanists and Taylor Lorenz are right, living beings are composed entirely of matter. No soul, no conscience. We're just machines. It's all synapses firing in a manner predictable by physics and chemistry. AI should be entirely possible in that scenario.
But if we do have souls, AI can never be achieved. Never. Only glorified calculators.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 18, 2025 08:10 AM (UBKzV)
Posted by: Cicero Skip at April 18, 2025 07:22 AM (p6dVP)
Man, that's frustrating.
Posted by: m at April 18, 2025 08:49 AM (CQE5S)
It's not as good as GPS, but it's better than other options when you don't have GPS.
And now you know what the Chinese balloons are doing: magnetic mapping our military bases.
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Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)