The Morning Rant – Buck Shots [7/01/2022]

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But Isn’t Inflation Only 8.6%?

The Biden administration was widely mocked a year ago at the Fourth of July for trying to sell the notion that a holiday cookout was 16 cents cheaper in 2021 than in 2020. That same menu in 2022 now costs $10 more than in 2021.

Fourth of July BBQ price up $10 one year after White House celebrated 16-cent discount [Fox Business – 6/29/2022]

Team Biden is obviously quiet about the significantly higher cost.

The most significant thing to me about “The July 4th Cookout Index” is that this menu of typical American food is up 17% year over year, yet our government keeps ~~lying to us~~ trying to persuade us that inflation is only 8.6%.

4th of July Cookouts - 17 percent - Chart.JPG

With the price of gasoline up 49% from a year ago, electricity up 11%, the cost of rent up 15.3%, and food up 17%, how in the world is overall inflation only 8.6%. What products that are part of a typical American’s monthly budget are experiencing negligible inflation (or deflation) such that it pulls the overall inflation rate under 9%.

The 8.6% official inflation rate is a lie. Consumers know it’s a lie. And consumers know it’s the Biden administration that is lying to them.

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So, What Is Congress Focusing on In The Midst of This Economic Crisis?

With runaway inflation, supply shortages, and parents not even able to buy formula for their babies, what is Congress focused on? They’re focused on Donald Trump, of course.

While consumers are trying to decide what spending to cut, Congress appears to be trying to impeach Donald Trump for the third or fourth time. I’ve lost count. Impeaching Trump is pretty much all they do anymore, even though Biden is President.

So how is Congress’ indifference to the economic crisis playing out with normal Americans who live beyond the Beltway? Not so good apparently.

How the Jan 6 hearings are landing in one Virginia swing district [NPR – 6/21/2022]

Kimberly Berryman lives in the countryside outside Fredericksburg, Va., but drives 20 miles to the suburbs to do her shopping. For Berryman, it's worlds away from the hearings about the Jan. 6 insurrection going on at the U.S. Capitol. "I got other things to do," she said with a laugh.
Berryman, who works with special needs students, said she was shocked and scared by the attack at the Capitol. But she said she's more worried about price hikes and supply shortages than litigating Jan 6. "Just move on to something else," she said.

On the other hand, so long as Congress does nothing but hold hearings about January 6, and re-re-re-impeach Donald Trump, they are distracted from doing any more legislative harm to the country.

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Bed Bath & Beyond Gets Woke & Goes Broke

Remember when the cartel of woke retailers all simultaneously banished MyPillow from their shelves after the 2020 presidential election, because Mike Lindell didn’t effusively praise the integrity of the election as demanded by corporate America. Bed Bath & Beyond was one of the retailers that pulled MyPillow.

All over social media, conservatives responded by promising to boycott BB&B in response, but as it turned out, the boycott was…well…it was incredibly successful!

Bed Bath & Beyond earnings: ‘This company is going bankrupt,’ analyst says [Yahoo – 6/29/2022]

On Wednesday, Bed Bath & Beyond announced a loss of $224 million for its adjusted operating profits, and the company ended the quarter with a worrisome $107 million in cash.
"We are looking at a situation in which this company is probably not going to be around," Chukumba told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). "It’s not going to take years. We could be talking about months at this point. We are in the end days. These results were a dumpster fire, there is no other way to put it."

Get woke go broke.

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Swinging In To The Holiday Weekend

How ‘bout we swing in to the long holiday weekend with something that’ll put a smile on your face and get your feet moving.

The Quebe Sisters have the entire package – voices, harmonies, charm, fiddling skills, and of course, an upright bass in the band.

(buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com)

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 So, What Is Congress Focusing on In The Midst of This Economic Crisis?

With runaway inflation, supply shortages, and parents not even able to buy formula for their babies, what is Congress focused on? They’re focused on Donald Trump, of course.

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Let's be honest here, the GOP Congress is going to focus on things equally as important to voters next year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:01 AM (LvTSG)

2 On the other hand, so long as Congress does nothing but hold hearings about January 6, and re-re-re-impeach Donald Trump, they are distracted from doing any more legislative harm to the country.

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This is also why I don't care if the Democrats have full control over the committee. They are shooting themselves in the foot, and they are demanding attention while they do it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:02 AM (LvTSG)

3 Howdy

Posted by: Moonbeam at July 01, 2022 11:02 AM (rbKZ6)

4 In the top ten? Damn!

Posted by: Cranky J Anne at July 01, 2022 11:04 AM (YZH5A)

5 Commenting present, lunch time

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 01, 2022 11:04 AM (azd8a)

6 Munkey!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2022 11:04 AM (RkC6l)

7 All over social media, conservatives responded by promising to boycott BB&B in response, but as it turned out, the boycott was…well…it was incredibly successful!

I am one of the anti-Leftoids who stopped purchasing at BB&B. I wasn't a huge consumer of their product to start with, but even losing my measly $300/yr...multiply by millions, see what happens.

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022 11:05 AM (dCxaZ)

8 "You'll pay high gas prices until we get what we want in Ukraine"...

Greaaaaaaaat.

Posted by: Allie at July 01, 2022 11:05 AM (UnA8+)

9 We need more success stories like what is happening to BB&B.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 01, 2022 11:05 AM (N39Ws)

10 Let's be honest here, the GOP Congress is going to focus on things equally as important to voters next year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I'll be satisfied if they kick the leading dems off the committees.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 01, 2022 11:05 AM (dIit+)

11 Bed Bath and Behind.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 01, 2022 11:05 AM (lf83v)

12 The prices on meat seem way too low. I'm in CA.

Posted by: Max Power at July 01, 2022 11:05 AM (QCc6B)

13 Dems have spent the last 8 years trying to kneecap Trump...isn't it time to Move On?

Posted by: BignJames at July 01, 2022 11:06 AM (AwYPR)

14 All over social media, conservatives responded by promising to boycott BB&B in response, but as it turned out, the boycott was…well…it was incredibly successful!

Bed Bath & Beyond earnings: ‘This company is going bankrupt,’ analyst says

Yay! Get woke, go broke!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2022 11:07 AM (c8pZY)

15 Shadow stats has inflation at over 15%, based on the way it used to be calculated. Highest in the past 50+ years. (Beating early 1980s, which was the previous high at about 14.7%)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2022 11:07 AM (N1tpc)

16 John Cornyn will be focusing on staying out of the public 'mobs' for the next 3 years while trying to find his balls.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2022 11:07 AM (MkYsY)

17 Everyone watched J6 on TV or social media. All they saw was regular people walking around Congress and one weirdo in a buffalo hat.

And most people were cheering them on.

That's why no one cares about J6.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2022 11:07 AM (UuD2k)

18 Berryman, who works with special needs students, said she was shocked and scared by the attack at the Capitol.

Attack? She's just another LIV consumer of leftist propaganda.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 01, 2022 11:08 AM (Xrfse)

19 1
Let's be honest here, the GOP Congress is going to focus on things equally as important to voters next year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:01 AM (LvTSG)

You are 100% on the money. What has the GOP done? There is barely a whimper. My take is that they know the Dems are going to get destroyed in November - so why make any noise? That is until they stepped on their own dick and passed that gun control abomination. But even then, I think it was a calculated decision to burn some of the built-up capital they had and they figured they would still be OK.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 01, 2022 11:08 AM (N39Ws)

20 "The Quebe Sisters have the entire package – voices, harmonies, charm, fiddling skills, and of course, an upright bass in the band."

And they keep their elbows covered.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 01, 2022 11:08 AM (qH6FZ)

21 Berryman, who works with special needs students, said she was shocked and scared by the attack at the Capitol. But she said she's more worried about price hikes and supply shortages than litigating Jan 6. "Just move on to something else," she said.
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Just move on... to something else. In a nutshell this is what's wrong with society. Congress doesn't need to move on to anything because they fuck up whatever they touch.

If this broad had a clue she'd realize this.

Putting the GOP front and center changes nothing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2022 11:09 AM (BFigT)

22 13 Dems have spent the last 8 years trying to kneecap Trump...isn't it time to Move On?

It's not just to kneecap Trump, it's to discourage anyone who is MAGA-fied or Trumpian, IOW, a POTUS for the People and the US Constitution. This is what awaits anyone who isn't lockstep NWO/totalitarian

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022 11:09 AM (dCxaZ)

23 Willowed:

I'm waiting for Tony Danza to take the Mantle of "Oh My God Look at that Sad Geriatric Has-Been" when he succeeds Joe Namath in those supplemental Medicare Insurance ads.

They already have Jimmie Walker shouting "DY-NO-MITE!" I wish they'd get Todd Bridges, just so he could say to the audience, "Now, I know right about now you're saying, 'Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?'"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 01, 2022 11:09 AM (2JVJo)

24 How do July BBW prices compare?

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 11:09 AM (skf6d)

25 Someone yesterday said they call it "Sheets and shitters". His wife rolls her eyes every time. That second part made me laugh hard.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 01, 2022 11:10 AM (44ww/)

26 They're focused, funneling money to Ukraine and ultimately to themselves and their cronies, stoking WWIII, crushing dissent, destroying domestic energy production, and generally f**king shit up because they are soulless maniacs and perverts.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2022 11:10 AM (NZk6v)

27 What was the "beyond" part anyway? Ninja stars? Shrunken heads?

I could never find that section.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2022 11:10 AM (UuD2k)

28 But even then, I think it was a calculated decision to burn some of the built-up capital they had and they figured they would still be OK.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 01, 2022 11:08 AM (N39Ws)

It's a long way till November. They think people will forget.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 01, 2022 11:10 AM (DgWEj)

29 *$#@ Republicans and Democrats.
You can blame EVERYTHING that is going on, DIRECTLY on both of their groups...
As they've been the only ones in charge of this, for more than a century.

Posted by: Broken Apple at July 01, 2022 11:10 AM (DnZVA)

30 Someone yesterday said they call it "Sheets and shitters". His wife rolls her eyes every time. That second part made me laugh hard.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 01, 2022 11:10 AM (44ww/)

Heh. That was me. She loves my sense of humor.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trailer Trash Adjacent at July 01, 2022 11:11 AM (xPJvm)

31 Congress is also working on a "Tranny Bill of Rights." You know the important stuff.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 01, 2022 11:11 AM (WKPeU)

32 Let's be honest here, the GOP Congress is going to focus on things equally as important to voters next year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:01 AM (LvTSG)

Yep, they're already talking about who they're going to haul in front of congress, as if anyone gives a shit about congressional hearings anymore.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 01, 2022 11:11 AM (qH6FZ)

33 Woke up early today, and I have 4 days off. Decided the weather was decent, so got in a 21 mile bike ride.

I can see myself doing this when I retire. Since I naturally wake up at dawn, getting in a nice long ride in the morning before kicking back and enjoying the day.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 11:11 AM (5p7BC)

34 I mean, how did the democrats think this was going to go with their tribunal? People already didn't give a crap about the J6 thing except to be annoyed at the unconstitutional seizure of people kept without trial or bail. How was having EVEN MORE supposed to make them care, no matter how many Hollywood producers you have work on a show and how many actors showed up?

People paying 6+ dollars a gallon for gas care about that, not some stupid congressional hearing. Particularly when the people being grilled did nothing different than several other leftist groups have already done and did again after the hearings started.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:11 AM (llsW/)

35 19 You are 100% on the money. What has the GOP done? There is barely a whimper. My take is that they know the Dems are going to get destroyed in November - so why make any noise? That is until they stepped on their own dick and passed that gun control abomination. But even then, I think it was a calculated decision to burn some of the built-up capital they had and they figured they would still be OK.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 01, 2022 11:08 AM (N39Ws)

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To come slightly to their defense, it is the middle of primary season, not the general election. The focus is internal rather than external naturally.

Still, the best we can hope from our DC GOP "allies" is stasis. I hope to get some of that.

Any of that RE-form, we got to get from the lower levels of government. Imagine NM turning red and passing election integrity measures...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:11 AM (LvTSG)

36 What was the "beyond" part anyway?

Cookware!

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022 11:12 AM (dCxaZ)

37 This is Day 8 of my vacation. I'm in an uncharacteristically optimistic mood.

What if, stay with me here, The Repubs did only laws and regulation cancellations for 2 years. That is a platform I wpuld happily support.

Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at July 01, 2022 11:13 AM (WcGJT)

38 The Mavs crowd didn't seem to appreciate the Quebe sisters as much as I did.

Posted by: Muad'dib at July 01, 2022 11:13 AM (sjdRT)

39 What was the "beyond" part anyway? Ninja stars? Shrunken heads?

I could never find that section.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2022 11:10 AM

I remember one comedian from years ago:

"I used to work at Bed Bath & Beyond....I worked in the Beyond section. Customers would come up to me and ask where something was and I would say 'sorry...it's beyond me'."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2022 11:13 AM (RkC6l)

40 The fact that the hearings have so nothing to offer and they've stated outright that they will not refer Trump to the DOJ already, and you cannot get anyone interested. The fact that they've turned into a ludicrous parody with hilariously lame testimony about fanciful events doesn't help matters. It was always destined to fail.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:13 AM (llsW/)

41 Bed Bath and Beyond going down in flames.

$32 a share last July 1st.

$4.49 today -- going down.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 01, 2022 11:13 AM (lf83v)

42 32 Let's be honest here, the GOP Congress is going to focus on things equally as important to voters next year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:01 AM (LvTSG)

Yep, they're already talking about who they're going to haul in front of congress, as if anyone gives a shit about congressional hearings anymore.
Posted by: lowandslow at July 01, 2022 11:11 AM (qH6FZ)

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No one does. The larger public caring about a Congressional committee hearing is a once in a generation thing, and the parties both try to fill each Congress with these things. The only people who end up watching are partisans who think that the world will change because of some revelation. Nothing changes, though.

I do look forward to the Twitchy articles about Jim Jordon pwning some low level flunkey in the IRS, though. Should be lit AF.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:13 AM (LvTSG)

43 I know what's gonna be in my musical rotation today: Quebe Sisters

How can anybody not like those girls...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QANZnAKDvc8

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 01, 2022 11:14 AM (BgMrQ)

44 How does Ronna Romney get booted from the RNC? Honest question. What's the process?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2022 11:14 AM (MkYsY)

45 to stop inflation, interest rates will have to equal or exceed the rate of inflation

in the situation we find ourselves in today, that would crater the economy

and don't even think about the US being able to service the National debt

that service would rise to 3-4 times the defense budget

so gird your loins and cap your ass

Posted by: REDACTED at July 01, 2022 11:14 AM (us2H3)

46 Bed Bath & Beyond was a mall store. The only reason people would go in was if they were already strolling past looking at stores anyway. Without that draw, who'd go in? Their overpriced goods and overwhelming perfume stench were eye-watering anyway

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:14 AM (llsW/)

47 What was the "beyond" part anyway? Ninja stars? Shrunken heads?
I could never find that section.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2022 11:10 AM

Svimvear!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2022 11:14 AM (RkC6l)

48 37 This is Day 8 of my vacation. I'm in an uncharacteristically optimistic mood.

What if, stay with me here, The Repubs did only laws and regulation cancellations for 2 years. That is a platform I wpuld happily support.
Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at July 01, 2022 11:13 AM (WcGJT)

Well the President could veto any laws. They might be able to do regulation cancellations via the Congressional Review Act. Trump was the big guy on deregulating things though, so not sure how much they'd try to do without him.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 11:14 AM (b2nrj)

49 Is Bed Bath Beyond the company that's owned by middle eastern interests?

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 11:14 AM (skf6d)

50 "What was the "beyond" part anyway? Ninja stars? Shrunken heads?"

You know. Beyond. Right after Infinity.

Posted by: Buzz Lightyear at July 01, 2022 11:14 AM (lf83v)

51 $32 a share last July 1st.

$4.49 today -- going down.

That's even worse than Bitcoin

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:14 AM (llsW/)

52 45 to stop inflation, interest rates will have to equal or exceed the rate of inflation

in the situation we find ourselves in today, that would crater the economy

and don't even think about the US being able to service the National debt

that service would rise to 3-4 times the defense budget

so gird your loins and cap your ass
Posted by: REDACTED at July 01, 2022 11:14 AM (us2H3)

Yeah between the debt and monetary policy situation we don't really have a way out of this that doesn't involve inflation. Well, I guess we could cut entitlement spending in theory, but that's not going to happen.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 11:16 AM (b2nrj)

53 Hamburger prices are way over +17%. Close to 80% in my neck of WA state.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 01, 2022 11:16 AM (XvPQV)

54 Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 11:11 AM (5p7BC)

that's wonderful, Dave! In my yute I went on a bike tour where we logged about 16 miles/day, but a lot of it was hilly, so it became painful at times.

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022 11:16 AM (dCxaZ)

55 TJM, I believe the formulation is - you're far too young to be so cynical.

It's almost comical - in a dark way, the primary kind of humor left for the thoughtful - to see how big a "win" the GOP can accomplish while saying/calling for/promising absolutely nothing whatsoever.

The emptiness of a dead "two party" system starkly illustrated.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2022 11:16 AM (OTzUX)

56 41 Bed Bath and Beyond going down in flames.

$32 a share last July 1st.

$4.49 today -- going down.
I suppose that scented candles and overpriced spatulas aren't selling well in a poor economy. Should have kept Lindell's pillows.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2022 11:17 AM (MkYsY)

57 Svimvear!

Very nice.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:17 AM (llsW/)

58 Bed, Bath and Beyond needs to Build Back Better.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2022 11:17 AM (63Dwl)

59 Weirdly, something is going on at Heritage Foundation. There has been a change of leadership and they are pushing a MAGA plan for 2024.

They have teamed with a lot of other organizations, ones we generally have found to be good like Judicial Watch and some of the pro-life groups. They are putting a 100 day plan together to allow the next president to immediate enact EOs, personnel, and propose legislation to undo the damage Biden has done.

They don't say it is for Trump, but the policies are exactly the kinds of things he has done (e.g. tariff policy). Also they are not working with the usual suspects in the GOPe.

I'll be curious to see what becomes of this.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 11:17 AM (5p7BC)

60 55 TJM, I believe the formulation is - you're far too young to be so cynical.

It's almost comical - in a dark way, the primary kind of humor left for the thoughtful - to see how big a "win" the GOP can accomplish while saying/calling for/promising absolutely nothing whatsoever.

The emptiness of a dead "two party" system starkly illustrated.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2022 11:16 AM (OTzUX)

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I remember when I thought Trey Gowdy pwning someone in committee would lead to something. Then Hillary said, "What difference does it make?" and my eyes were opened.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:17 AM (LvTSG)

61 Bed Bath and Beyond going down in flames.

$32 a share last July 1st.

$4.49 today -- going down.

Clearly they need to make changes. I know, they should turn off the AC and make the customers sweat when they enter their store. That oughta do it.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:17 AM (/NCI4)

62 41 Bed Bath and Beyond going down in flames.

$32 a share last July 1st.

$4.49 today -- going down.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 01, 2022 11:13 AM (lf83v)

I just went to their site, and it's 50% OFF!! everything it seems. I think I'll go visit them with all those coupons they sent me over the years and exploit their misery.

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022 11:18 AM (dCxaZ)

63 Independence Day is a celebration of slavery and oppression . So it’s good that President Biden is ending this tool of white supremacy by making BBQs a relic of the past.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 11:18 AM (VLzZI)

64 I've got a double bass. It's kind of like living with a really large roommate, who never moves but at least doesn't eat.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 01, 2022 11:18 AM (p+1gI)

65 Clearly they need to make changes. I know, they should turn off the AC and make the customers sweat when they enter their store. That oughta do it.

Also, implement a gauntlet at checkout. If you make it to the end, you get 10% off.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:18 AM (/NCI4)

66 I'm gonna have nightmares about overly bright white teeth coming after me like the Langoliers.

Toe Fungus was bad enough.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2022 11:19 AM (4I/2K)

67 Wall Street's elite investors are convinced that the economy is spiraling out of control, a recession is inevitable, and the stock market's collapse has only just begun

Posted by: TYLER DURDEN at July 01, 2022 11:19 AM (RHGPo)

68 Literally on TV recently:

CNN: "What do you say to those families that say, 'listen, we can't afford to pay $4.85 a gallon for months, if not years?’"

BIDEN ADVISOR BRIAN DEESE: "This is about the future of the Liberal World Order and we have to stand firm."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:19 AM (llsW/)

69 >> Woke up early today, and I have 4 days off. Decided the weather was decent, so got in a 21 mile bike ride.

Nice. Cycling distances is a lot like meditation and anerobic excercise in one.
My normal loop is around 25 miles. (Road). But I spend a lot more time on trails these days.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 11:19 AM (3cG4M)

70 Didn't bed bath and beyond already go under? Or am I thinking of a different store like it?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 11:19 AM (VLzZI)

71 67 Wall Street's elite investors are convinced that the economy is spiraling out of control, a recession is inevitable, and the stock market's collapse has only just begun
Posted by: TYLER DURDEN at July 01, 2022 11:19 AM (RHGPo)

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Maybe signing onto the wholesale shutdown of the economy to get Trump was a bad idea?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:19 AM (LvTSG)

72 Answer: Bed Bath and Behind.

Answer from Carnak the Magnificent: What is Saturday night at Pete Buttigieg's house?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:20 AM (/NCI4)

73 Prediction - in 2024 the Ds will assert that trump actually won in 2020 and proclaim trump is ineligible to run for a third term. And oopsies we got 2020 wrong, there will be an editors correction on page A19 and a low level staffer in the Cincinnati office that doesn't exist will get the blame

Like how they went from trump vaccines are the devil to you are required to take the vaccine or we'll destroy your life. Or how they went from Russia is so 1980s to Russia is the biggest threat the world has ever seen.

Posted by: Who is Brandon Galt? at July 01, 2022 11:20 AM (0YDob)

74 Hamburger prices are way over +17%. Close to 80% in my neck of WA state.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 01, 2022 11:16 AM (XvPQV)

About the same here in Puyallup.

Posted by: Tip Jar at July 01, 2022 11:20 AM (anj39)

75 What was that other home goods store that went out of business about 15 years ago, leaving B B & B the only one?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 01, 2022 11:20 AM (txdEq)

76 >>Bed Bath and Beyond going down in flames.

To Insolvency and ... Beyond!

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 11:20 AM (3cG4M)

77 It would be funny if Mike bought BBB and turned it around.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 11:21 AM (skf6d)

78 "How does Ronna Romney get booted from the RNC? Honest question. What's the process?"
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2022 11:14 AM (MkYsY)

Same process they used to remove McConnell as Senate leader.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 01, 2022 11:21 AM (qH6FZ)

79 Bed Bath and Beyond going down in flames.

I don't understand their business model. The stores are somewhat cramped and poorly organized, and most of what they have is much cheaper at Wal-Mart or Target or Amazon.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 01, 2022 11:21 AM (ZGrMX)

80 10 year yield plummeted today. It’s at 2.9% right now and was 3.5% a couple if weeks ago. Good news for mortgage rates.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 11:21 AM (VLzZI)

81 How do July BBW prices compare?
Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 11:09 AM (skf6d)

Not too sweaty.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2022 11:21 AM (4I/2K)

82 Without the options of BB&B and Target I'm left with Walmart. I hate shopping on the intertubes and I hate going to Walmart. First world problem indeed.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 11:21 AM (iTCtr)

83 re 68: you beat me to it

I was going to add "Deese Nuts"

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 01, 2022 11:22 AM (Ynyl9)

84 BB&B will get bought out by BW3's.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:22 AM (LvTSG)

85 What was that other home goods store that went out of business about 15 years ago, leaving B B & B the only one?

BB&B isn't the only one, there's also the appropriately named Home Goods.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 01, 2022 11:22 AM (ZGrMX)

86 Must have a different BB&B where I am. Not over-priced at all, in select areas, easily the cheapest place for some things. Easily the best selection in certain categories, with the collapse of in-person retail, not even sure what the runner-up would be in those areas. Don't go often, but go for specific stuff that exists (usually) in small/pathetic quantities at the remaining alternative stores.

Seems likely the numbers pencil out this way in terms of cost, otherwise wouldn't have gone this way, but the near disappearance of in-person retail in so many areas, to me, represents an enormous step down. Things that were easy/robotic to get or replace my entire life are now a ridiculous online guessing game/shipping festival.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2022 11:22 AM (OTzUX)

87 73 Prediction - in 2024 the Ds will assert that trump actually won in 2020 and proclaim trump is ineligible to run for a third term. And oopsies we got 2020 wrong, there will be an editors correction on page A19 and a low level staffer in the Cincinnati office that doesn't exist will get the blame

Like how they went from trump vaccines are the devil to you are required to take the vaccine or we'll destroy your life. Or how they went from Russia is so 1980s to Russia is the biggest threat the world has ever seen.
Posted by: Who is Brandon Galt? at July 01, 2022 11:20 AM (0YDob)

I think they won't on account that it has less chance of working than arresting him for treason. At the end of the day, the electors cast their votes.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 11:22 AM (b2nrj)

88 Love the Quebe video. Thanks for posting.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 01, 2022 11:22 AM (x4LSC)

89 Then Hillary said, "What difference does it make?" and my eyes were opened.
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To be fair, the difference is made is that she was not able to win the Presidency. Libya was a contributor to public distrust of her that cost her the election.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 11:23 AM (5p7BC)

90 I saw a commercial yesterday where MyPillow is selling slippers for $50. No thank you.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 11:23 AM (iTCtr)

91 73 Brandon - interesting theory but Leftists never admit they were wrong

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 01, 2022 11:23 AM (azd8a)

92 Linens 'n Things crashed without a boycott.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2022 11:23 AM (63Dwl)

93 I hate shopping on the intertubes and I hate going to Walmart. First world problem indeed.

Unfortunately, cheap Chinese goods box stores have obliterated all the local shops that used to do this stuff. And these days, the local shops would all order from the same places that Wal*Mart does anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:23 AM (llsW/)

94 Someone yesterday said they call it "Sheets and shitters". His wife rolls her eyes every time. That second part made me laugh hard.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 01, 2022 11:10 AM (44ww/)

Heh. That was me. She loves my sense of humor.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trailer Trash Adjacent at July 01, 2022 11:11 AM (xPJvm)
***

Just mentioned this to Mrs. D.
She snorted. And she never snorts before noon

Posted by: Tip Jar at July 01, 2022 11:24 AM (anj39)

95 the price of a big bottle of Tanqueray has stayed steady

but limes have become prohibitive

Posted by: REDACTED at July 01, 2022 11:24 AM (us2H3)

96 36 What was the "beyond" part anyway?

Cookware!

very nice. up next: svimvear!

Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 01, 2022 11:24 AM (I38CQ)

97 What was the "beyond" part anyway?

Cookware!
Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022

***
Some of the stores have a Health & Beauty section. Hair color, shaving equipment (for guys too), deodorant, OTC pain pills, etc.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 01, 2022 11:24 AM (txdEq)

98 >>> What was that other home goods store that went out of business about 15 years ago, leaving B B & B the only one?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 01, 2022 11:20 AM (txdEq)

Linens & Things went under.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 11:24 AM (skf6d)

99 Sad to hear about Bed, Bath and Beyond. Was one of my audit clients during its heyday. They ousted all of the leadership I worked with, and now you see the end result.

Posted by: Tofer732 at July 01, 2022 11:24 AM (GcxM3)

100 I'm paying 50% more for groceries in 2022 then I was in 2021.

Yet somehow inflation is...8.6%.

Sure...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2022 11:24 AM (ESjRY)

101 Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2022 11:22 AM (OTzUX)

Amen!

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 11:24 AM (iTCtr)

102 89 Then Hillary said, "What difference does it make?" and my eyes were opened.
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To be fair, the difference is made is that she was not able to win the Presidency. Libya was a contributor to public distrust of her that cost her the election.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 11:23 AM (5p7BC)

=======

Feeding the idea that all of it is political, none of it is legal in nature, and the only hope is casting the other side as the bad guy.

The disaster of Libya was well known before the hearings, though. I question how much the committee, with the media going full-press defensive, actually moved any needles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:24 AM (LvTSG)

103 >>70 Didn't bed bath and beyond already go under? Or am I thinking of a different store like it?
Posted by: Joe XiDen

It was Linens and Thangs

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2022 11:24 AM (MkYsY)

104 Maybe Joe Biden could buy all of the Bed Bath and Beyond and turn them into federal abortion sites.

Posted by: AOC at July 01, 2022 11:25 AM (lf83v)

105 Kroger is running a special on Choice whole brisket for $1.87/lb. Looked at them yesterday and they were on the small side, mostly 9 - 12 pounds mostly.

Is this a sign that ranchers are dumping their stock early because they can't afford to feed them going through summer? Beef shortages in the fall?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2022 11:25 AM (4I/2K)

106 99 Sad to hear about Bed, Bath and Beyond. Was one of my audit clients during its heyday. They ousted all of the leadership I worked with, and now you see the end result.
Posted by: Tofer732 at July 01, 2022 11:24 AM (GcxM3)

They took the colleges, and with the colleges took corporate America.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 11:25 AM (b2nrj)

107 "Beyond" is where you had to park.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 01, 2022 11:26 AM (lf83v)

108 Unfortunately, cheap Chinese goods box stores have obliterated all the local shops that used to do this stuff. And these days, the local shops would all order from the same places that Wal*Mart does anyway.

I got some great high-thread-count sheet sets from Amazon not long ago that are made in India. Much better quality than any Chy-na sets I've seen too.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 01, 2022 11:26 AM (ZGrMX)

109 Then Hillary said, "What difference does it make?" and my eyes were opened.

There used to be a time when congressional hearings got things done and were important, but the problem is twofold.

First, congress decided to do too many of them about too trivial events, so they lost their impact. Kefauver mob hearings were impactful because they were significant and the hearings didn't happen too often.

Second, people figured out that all these were, were hearings, so they were pretty irrelevant. I mean, people figured out that congress couldn't actually do anything, so it was all just a show.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:26 AM (llsW/)

110 >>> I saw a commercial yesterday where MyPillow is selling slippers for $50. No thank you.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 11:23 AM (iTCtr)

I think $50 is a promotional price because I looked this morning and they were $70-$80. Kind of MyCrocks.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 11:26 AM (skf6d)

111 Wolfus - Linens n Things

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 11:26 AM (JYVw2)

112 Linens 'n Things crashed without a boycott.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2022

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That was the other one. Home Goods didn't pop up in my market until last year sometime, so B B & B has been pretty much the main source for household things for quite a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 01, 2022 11:26 AM (txdEq)

113 I saw a commercial yesterday where MyPillow is selling slippers for $50. No thank you.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 11:23 AM (iTCtr

...and that's w/$100 discount

Posted by: BignJames at July 01, 2022 11:26 AM (AwYPR)

114 Kroger is running a special on Choice whole brisket for $1.87/lb. Looked at them yesterday and they were on the small side, mostly 9 - 12 pounds mostly.

Check the flat to point ratio. Some people prefer one or the other, but I imagine they sell the less popular ones.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:26 AM (/NCI4)

115 Is this a sign that ranchers are dumping their stock early because they can't afford to feed them going through summer? Beef shortages in the fall?
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2022 11:25 AM (4I/2K)

Internetsays-

"What is happening in the beef industry?
Beef/Cattle: The forecast for beef production in 2023 is unchanged from the last month. However, current poor forage conditions and high operating costs continue to push producers' beef cow culling rates up, and calves are being placed on feed at a faster-than-expected pace"

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 11:26 AM (b2nrj)

116 it wasn't too many years ago that a guest on the Varney program described Sears as a fly in search of a windshield. Same for J C Penney's.

but it seems like some people decided that going to the store was actually preferable to buying stuff on Amazon.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 01, 2022 11:27 AM (Ynyl9)

117 scented candles are real deal breaker for me

Posted by: REDACTED at July 01, 2022 11:27 AM (us2H3)

118 God Bless him but, every time I've listened to Lindell he comes off like a raving lunatic.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2022 11:27 AM (MkYsY)

119 Speaking of Who's the Boss, David Spade's riff on the Charles in Charge theme was hilarious.

Charles in charge of our days and our night? Huh?
Charles in charge of our wrongs and our rights? What the fuck......

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 11:28 AM (JYVw2)

120 116 it wasn't too many years ago that a guest on the Varney program described Sears as a fly in search of a windshield. Same for J C Penney's.

but it seems like some people decided that going to the store was actually preferable to buying stuff on Amazon.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 01, 2022 11:27 AM (Ynyl9)

Well Sears did go bankrupt.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 11:28 AM (b2nrj)

121 Maybe Joe Biden could buy all of the Bed Bath and Beyond and turn them into federal abortion sites.

Bed, Birth and Babykill.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 01, 2022 11:28 AM (2JVJo)

122 I got some great high-thread-count sheet sets from Amazon not long ago that are made in India. Much better quality than any Chy-na sets I've seen too.

I'd prefer to buy Made in India over Made in China, but from the limited data set I've developed so far, India is much lower in terms of quality.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:28 AM (/NCI4)

123 Went to BB and B before Thanksgiving last year to shop for an anniversary present for my wife. The cookware selection was awful. I put away the stocking stuffers I picked out and left. Kroger had a better selection.

Posted by: Mishdog at July 01, 2022 11:28 AM (TjltE)

124 > I don't understand their business model. The stores are somewhat cramped and poorly organized, and most of what they have is much cheaper at Wal-Mart or Target or Amazon.

They're the store you go to if you're setting up a household and you want to look at some options. It's the newlywed store.

Unfortunately, it's not a good model for repeat customers.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 11:28 AM (eyxn4)

125 117 scented candles are real deal breaker for me

Really?

Posted by: Gwyneth Paltrow at July 01, 2022 11:28 AM (lf83v)

126 Bed, Bath Salts & Beyond

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 01, 2022 11:28 AM (txdEq)

127 Coming soon to a vacant store near you: Things N Things & Stuff

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2022 11:29 AM (4I/2K)

128 Those cookout costs are complete bullshit. Maybe that's the cost in the cheapest town in America, but it sure as hell ain't the costs in any significant town or city.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 01, 2022 11:29 AM (iFTx/)

129 I agree. I don't think the committee made any difference in itself.

The only marginal difference is it gave things to push into alternative media to get negative publicity into the public awareness. If the MSM had their way, Clinton would have taken no blame at all.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 11:29 AM (5p7BC)

130 Breaking911 @Breaking911
CNN: "What do you say to those families that say, 'listen, we can't afford to pay $4.85 a gallon for months, if not years?’"

BIDEN ADVISOR BRIAN DEESE: "This is about the future of the Liberal World Order and we have to stand firm."

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/
1542684948519419908
[19 seconds]

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 01, 2022 11:29 AM (yikp0)

131 Whatever MSM morning show Mrs. Wrecks was watching this morning was on about all the great bargains out there! $700 off an appliances at Lowe's! It's a buyer's market! To the extent any of this is true, it's indicative of Great Depression II: Starvation Bugaloo!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 01, 2022 11:29 AM (FVME7)

132 Hamburger prices are way over +17%. Close to 80% in my neck of WA state.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

10 lb chub of 90/10 is still $3.98 at Sam's.
$3.88 for 80/20.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2022 11:29 AM (c8pZY)

133 The disaster of Libya was well known before the hearings, though. I question how much the committee, with the media going full-press defensive, actually moved any needles.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:24 AM (LvTSG)

The thing that has always bothered me about Benghazi is Obama is hardly , if ever mentioned in the discussion. It's like Hillary was President when this happed.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 11:29 AM (iTCtr)

134 I think the top tier of the democrat party, which includes the press, is very angry that people are more focused on the ability to buy food and fuel than they are to buy into the lie that the election wasn't stolen.

The January 6 committee is a focused distraction from the election theft, and it isn't working. The fact that they keep pushing more and more aggressively is proof they know the election was fraudulent, and the fact that a majority of people in this country believe the election was stolen, and the number is growing by the day, is infuriating to them.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 01, 2022 11:29 AM (lTGtQ)

135 There won't be anything happening good in politics unless somehow the balance of power swings to populists. For decades people have gone into government to get rich and comfortable no matter what letter they sport. Most politics have nothing to do with ideals they have to do with different factions vying for money. The only thing they could unite behind was making sure Trump didn't mess up their business. The general crisis we are all facing is like when the top management of a company runs the business for their own benefit and doesn't worry about the company's survival. Eventually the company stops working and the execs leave with the cash.

Posted by: azjaeger at July 01, 2022 11:29 AM (3/XaG)

136 Is this a sign that ranchers are dumping their stock early because they can't afford to feed them going through summer? Beef shortages in the fall?
___

That's exactly what's happening.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 11:29 AM (ZVtrd)

137 Unfortunately, cheap Chinese goods box stores have obliterated all the local shops that used to do this stuff

I've come to believe we need a steep tariff on goods from third world hell holes.

Yes it is a form of welfare, but likely the least damaging kind. I'd rather my taxes indirectly pay someone to work, then DIRECTLY pay someone to not work.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2022 11:29 AM (ESjRY)

138 Wards, Penny's and Sears all started as catalog stores: you get a huge catalog, you pick out the stuff, and they ship it to you, up to and including entire houses. You build it.

Then when the malls became a thing, they were the big boy anchor store in a mall, and were powerful, getting rich off it.

When the malls collapsed and the internet became bigger, imbeciles at these stores thought they'd stay an achor store forever and totally forgot their roots. Amazon would have never been more than a nice online book store, had any ONE of these companies had the foresight of a gnat.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:30 AM (llsW/)

139 but it seems like some people decided that going to the store was actually preferable to buying stuff on Amazon.

There's also a lot of people who go to brick and mortar to compare items "in person" and then buy them cheaper online. Best Buy used to complain about that a lot, but they eventually just lowered their prices.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 01, 2022 11:30 AM (ZGrMX)

140 Conservative Inc., is asking what it would take to get us to pay attention to the Jan 6th show trial. I’d be happy to, right after the gavel-to-gavel, all-network, prime time congressional hearings on:

1) Steele, Fusion GPS, DNC, Perkins Coie, Hillary Clinton, Halper, Pientke, Page, Strzok, Obama, Rice, Biden, Clapper, Brennan, Comey, Haspel, Yates, McCabe, Orr, and their NY Times / WaPo co-conspirators.

2) Ciaramella, Atkinson, Schiff, Vindman, Yovanovitch, Hill, and their Brookings Institute enablers

3) The BLM riots, the National Lawyers Guild, and the entire panoply of communist front organizations that funded the riots, then turned them off as needed

4) The decision by blue state governors to send plague carriers into nursing homes; to shut down their economies in order to get rid of Trump; to outsource their vote counting to Mark Zuckerberg, and to illegally change and/or disobey their own laws to enable widespread vote fraud in 2020.

(continued)

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at July 01, 2022 11:30 AM (P8ANW)

141 131 Whatever MSM morning show Mrs. Wrecks was watching this morning was on about all the great bargains out there! $700 off an appliances at Lowe's! It's a buyer's market! To the extent any of this is true, it's indicative of Great Depression II: Starvation Bugaloo!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 01, 2022 11:29 AM (FVME7)

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I'm in the market for a 44. Somehow I doubt there will be doorbuster deals on them.

Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2022 11:30 AM (VJsqe)

142 42
Hearings could queue up a list of democrat law breakers for a good Justice Dept.(should that ever occur) to bring up on charges.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 01, 2022 11:30 AM (VNGpB)

143 5) The decision to let China off the hook for releasing the plague; out medical establishment funding the plague research, the refusal to use low cost effective treatments over expensive ineffective treatments, the refusal to perform any treatment at all prior to emergency hospitalization, the teacher-union demanded unnecessary school shutdowns, and the worthless vaccines, which led to a brilliant scientific redefinition of vaccine as something that does something other than prevent you from getting a disease.

6) The MSM cabal that let an Alzheimer’s patient campaign and then govern from his basement, ignoring and Big Tech companies suppressing video, audio, and written evidence of his and his family’s corrupt dealings with foreign governments, with their idea of a hardball question being if he really likes Rocky Road?

Excited for that TV season!

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at July 01, 2022 11:30 AM (P8ANW)

144 133 The thing that has always bothered me about Benghazi is Obama is hardly , if ever mentioned in the discussion. It's like Hillary was President when this happed.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 11:29 AM (iTCtr)

=========

I remember there were leaked emails from the SoS office that laid the whole thing out as Hillary's baby from the beginning. It was going to be her great foreign policy success that would launch her to the presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:30 AM (LvTSG)

145 SO in NL they are having protests over the government intentionally reducing food production...yes with hunger expected across much of the world this fall.

But, I don't think regular old protests are going to cut it as the protestors in Canada learned.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2022 11:30 AM (ESjRY)

146 Covers, Curtains and Cthulhu.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 01, 2022 11:30 AM (44ww/)

147 Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 01, 2022 11:29 AM (yikp0)

that's how you know the election was stolen.

That is *not* a winning message!

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022 11:31 AM (dCxaZ)

148 In my yute I did a biked a circle tour around Lake Superior. After mountain climbing it was probably the best experience in my life. Averaged between 90 to 110 miles per day. Out of the question now, of course, as I am now 29

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 01, 2022 11:31 AM (flINI)

149 Whole Tenderloin is $14.98/lb at Sam's.
That's about "during covid" price.

Pre-covid was $8 & change a lb.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2022 11:31 AM (c8pZY)

150 The Alarm was not "alt-rock." They had major label support and toured with U2 and The Police. That video got huge rotation on MTV. They were mainstream new wave. And they sucked.

Posted by: Morrissey Smith at July 01, 2022 11:31 AM (1dzqn)

151 Got some high thread count, high $$ sheets, damn things are like canvas.

Posted by: BignJames at July 01, 2022 11:31 AM (AwYPR)

152 When the malls collapsed and the internet became bigger, imbeciles at these stores thought they'd stay an achor store forever and totally forgot their roots. Amazon would have never been more than a nice online book store, had any ONE of these companies had the foresight of a gnat.

Sears *hock, spit* actually did try to develop a digital store, failed, and then came back to try again years later, when it was too late.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:32 AM (/NCI4)

153 Yes it is a form of welfare, but likely the least damaging kind.

Its the only kind of taxation that's valid for the federal government: taxes on foreign nations in imports. Because of the job of the federal government in the constitution. You can overdo it and seriously harm your own country but we're severely UNDER doing it right now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:32 AM (llsW/)

154 Check the flat to point ratio. Some people prefer one or the other, but I imagine they sell the less popular ones.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:26 AM (/NCI4)

Internetsays-

"What is happening in the beef industry?
Beef/Cattle: The forecast for beef production in 2023 is unchanged from the last month. However, current poor forage conditions and high operating costs continue to push producers' beef cow culling rates up, and calves are being placed on feed at a faster-than-expected pace"
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 11:26 AM (b2nrj)

Thanks. Will look them over carefully, maybe visit more than one Kroger today and tomorrow. Can't not buy one, or even a 2nd one to freeze, at those prices.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2022 11:32 AM (4I/2K)

155 I think the rise of online shopping such as QVC, Amazon , and virtually every manufacturer of goods having some type of online ordering has made having a retail store whose costs are competitive impossible. Clothing and shoes might be an exception but even there you drown in inventory due to needing sizes. What I do not understand is why I continue to see commercial and retail building occurring. Entire shopping centers are empty with new construction happening down the street on any empty lot.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 01, 2022 11:32 AM (x4LSC)

156 The thing that has always bothered me about Benghazi is Obama is hardly , if ever mentioned in the discussion. It's like Hillary was President when this happed.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 11:29 AM (iTCtr)

The inside baseball iirc is that the Libyan intervention was Hillary and the State department's show. Obama was not in favor of the intervention.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 11:32 AM (b2nrj)

157 continue to push producers' beef cow culling rates up, and calves are being placed on feed at a faster-than-expected pace"
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 11:26 AM (b2nrj)
***

Hmmmm.
Culling.
Now there's a word we may be hearing more often in the months ahead.

Posted by: Tip Jar at July 01, 2022 11:33 AM (anj39)

158 I'd watch the murder trials and public execution of the gestapo members involved in beating one woman to death and shooting another to death. Then on to trials and public executions of all the coup leaders leading up to it.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 11:33 AM (skf6d)

159 Sears *hock, spit* actually did try to develop a digital store, failed, and then came back to try again years later, when it was too late.

Imagine one of these giants doing their own website, selling at a loss like Amazon did for years, and using their stores as return and fulfillment centers. You could go in and look at specific products if you wanted to see them to order, and have some stuff in stock.

Its win/win, it would have made them so much money and goodwill. But the CEOs of all three companies were stupider than AOC's teeth.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:33 AM (llsW/)

160 I think the Wikileaks emails might have even supported that Hillary and the State Department was running the show there? Their reasoning was pretty dumb though.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 11:33 AM (b2nrj)

161 Amazon would have never been more than a nice online book store, had any ONE of these companies had the foresight of a gnat.

Sears and Pennys are exhibits 1 and 2 for "MBAs ruined everything". They had all of the infrastructure they needed to blow Amazon out of the water before it started but they didn't figure it out until too late.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 01, 2022 11:33 AM (ZGrMX)

162 "God Bless him but, every time I've listened to Lindell he comes off like a raving lunatic.
Posted by: Maj. Healey"
********
Doesn't mean he isn't right.

Posted by: Cosda at July 01, 2022 11:34 AM (LTkHc)

163 I'm in the market for a 44. Somehow I doubt there will be doorbuster deals on them.
Posted by: 496

Same. Ruger Vaquero in .357. Haven't seen one online at a gun store in over a year.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2022 11:34 AM (c8pZY)

164 Montana ranchers have 'culled back significantly' because of drought, high hay prices

http://tinyurl.com/mr3sssbx

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 11:34 AM (ZVtrd)

165 Sears *hock, spit* actually did try to develop a digital store, failed, and then came back to try again years later, when it was too late.
Posted by: Archimedes at July
01, 2022 11:32 AM (/NCI4)

***

Sears could have strangled Amazon in the crib but management was too fossilized

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 01, 2022 11:34 AM (flINI)

166 136 Is this a sign that ranchers are dumping their stock early because they can't afford to feed them going through summer? Beef shortages in the fall?

Yes. A 50ft trailer full of good hay was $8k last year. Neighbor was just quoted $11k yesterday for the same hay.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2022 11:34 AM (MkYsY)

167 But the CEOs of all three companies were stupider than AOC's teeth.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:33 AM (llsW/)

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She definitely whitens her teeth, so they're actually pretty bright.

Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2022 11:34 AM (VJsqe)

168 They don't say it is for Trump, but the policies are exactly the kinds of things he has done (e.g. tariff policy). Also they are not working with the usual suspects in the GOPe.

I'll be curious to see what becomes of this.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 11:17 AM (5p7BC)

Thanks for sharing that.. encouraging news.

Posted by: Inogame at July 01, 2022 11:34 AM (53oGX)

169 Bud, Bongs and Buttz.

Posted by: Snoop Dogg at July 01, 2022 11:34 AM (lf83v)

170 >>In my yute I did a biked a circle tour around Lake Superior. After mountain climbing it was probably the best experience in my life. Averaged between 90 to 110 miles per day.

When I was in College I rode from NYC to St. Louis and hit the highest point in each state we passed through. Friend of mine was on a mission to ride to the highest paved point in every state.
Those 100+ mile days, back to back to back were not easy.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 11:35 AM (Zawz2)

171 Everyone misses the point or Benghazi and doesn't ask the question of why they were there in the 1st place.

It wasn't just to overthrow Qaddafi. It was to get Lybia's arms transferred to Syria to overthrow Assad too. Arms which turned up in ISIS hands and even killed Americans in Afghanistan.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2022 11:35 AM (Y5qcH)

172 I think the rise of online shopping such as QVC, Amazon , and virtually every manufacturer of goods having some type of online ordering has made having a retail store whose costs are competitive impossible.

Agree. Personally, I feel no sympathy for the malls. They were a solution to a problem, but then a better solution came along. We'll find other things to do with that land, and the people who would have worked there will find other jobs. It isn't like most of them were highly paid.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:35 AM (/NCI4)

173 > Got some high thread count, high $$ sheets, damn things are like canvas.

SEE! This is why it's important to feel the sheets at a brick and mortar store. There are loads of sheets that claim high thread count (but really, who's going to count) and you feel them and they feel rough and stiff.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 11:35 AM (eyxn4)

174 Sears and Pennys are exhibits 1 and 2 for "MBAs ruined everything". They had all of the infrastructure they needed to blow Amazon out of the water before it started but they didn't figure it out until too late.
Posted by: Ian S

Sears, Penny AND Wal Mart

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2022 11:35 AM (c8pZY)

175 Bed Bath & Beyond Gets Woke & Goes Broke

To be honest, BB&B was slowly going broke for some time before they jumped on the woke bandwagon. The wokage just accelerated the process.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 01, 2022 11:35 AM (ZSK0i)

176 Clothing and shoes might be an exception but even there you drown in inventory due to needing sizes.

Here the issue is the lack of quality control and vanity sizing.

You can't compare a "34in waist" between two companies because one might really be 36in. And worse yet, from the SAME company a pair of pants listed as a 34in waist might be anywhere from 30-38.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2022 11:35 AM (ESjRY)

177 151 Got some high thread count, high $$ sheets, damn things are like canvas.
Posted by: BignJames

Are they stain proof?

Posted by: Amber Heard at July 01, 2022 11:36 AM (MkYsY)

178 >> Montana ranchers have 'culled back significantly' because of drought, high hay prices

Some have.

Also, there isn't a serious drought. We had 300+% snowpack through the entire srping in the rockies.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 11:36 AM (Zawz2)

179 Got some high thread count, high $$ sheets, damn things are like canvas.

SEE! This is why it's important to feel the sheets at a brick and mortar store. There are loads of sheets that claim high thread count (but really, who's going to count) and you feel them and they feel rough and stiff.
Posted by: bonhomme

Bamboo. Soft. Cool. Nearly indestructible.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2022 11:36 AM (c8pZY)

180 My Pillow sheets are made in India too. I really like mine. I think I've been in BB&B once to buy towels. I get those from My Pillow too. I wouldn't have ordered from My Pillow if it weren't for them boycotting him.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 01, 2022 11:36 AM (5HBd1)

181 I won't miss Bed Bath and Beyond since I never went in one.
Now I'm off to Fleet Farm to buy some socks, bolts, pistachios and some shop towels.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 01, 2022 11:36 AM (qH6FZ)

182 but limes have become prohibitive

Posted by: REDACTED at July 01, 2022 11:24 AM (us2H3)

there's a little outfit hereabouts called Produce Junction that is saving us.

It's one of those "no-frills" places where you can't always pick the exact apple you want. But when you get 6 apples for 3 bucks a bag, if you get one with spots you just cut it up and use it for applesauce or something

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022 11:36 AM (dCxaZ)

183 Yes it is a form of welfare, but likely the least damaging kind. I'd rather my taxes indirectly pay someone to work, then DIRECTLY pay someone to not work.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2022 11:29 AM (ESjRY)

Perhaps.

But another good argument in favor of this is that free trade is a beautiful thing - when it's between countries with similar labor markets, regulatory regimes, and trade policies.

Zero tariff barriers with a country that uses slave labor and has no rules about safety or resource extraction, and a government that systematically institutes predatory trade policies and IP theft, etc... that's just an invitation to get sodomized, and run up a huge trade deficit.

And it makes no sense to do so - unless the country getting bent over has a bunch of politicians taking bribes from the country doing the bending, of course.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 01, 2022 11:37 AM (IXpV7)

184 171 Everyone misses the point or Benghazi and doesn't ask the question of why they were there in the 1st place.

It wasn't just to overthrow Qaddafi. It was to get Lybia's arms transferred to Syria to overthrow Assad too. Arms which turned up in ISIS hands and even killed Americans in Afghanistan.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2022 11:35 AM (Y5qcH)

Iran got a big share of arms there too. My read is more that the Europeans wanted it to support their oil interests there but later ended up unwilling to be involved in stabilizing the place.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 11:37 AM (b2nrj)

185 We all out of cornbread?

That was quick

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 01, 2022 11:37 AM (sJHOI)

186 If they admit what the true inflation figures are, they have to increase social security payments. Not going to happen.

Posted by: Two Weeks at July 01, 2022 11:37 AM (95sdB)

187 Getting off of a bike after a 100 miles day was painful. Some days I'd of rather stayed on the bike

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 01, 2022 11:37 AM (flINI)

188 I'll BBQ the brisket, but it will give me a sadz. Likely the last time it will be available and affordable under the Biden administration.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2022 11:37 AM (4I/2K)

189 >>> Got some high thread count, high $$ sheets, damn things are like canvas.

Wash them a few times and don't use fabric softeners.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 11:37 AM (Zawz2)

190
Thank you everyone for your great suggestions last thread.

They are much appreciated!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 01, 2022 11:38 AM (5NkmN)

191 >>Getting off of a bike after a 100 miles day was painful. Some days I'd of rather stayed on the bike

Yep. And.
Getting on it after 4-5 of them is, even moreso.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 11:38 AM (Zawz2)

192 Jeez! You people are worse than I thought!

Lauren Hough@laurenthehough
I just don't see any evidence that democrats understand who and what they're dealing with here. These aren't rational people. They're clinic bombers in robes. They're terrorists in suits. And they're a whole lot more effective than a few hijackers.
. . . .
They've never hidden this. I mean yeah they'll lie to congress. Oaths mean nothing to them. Paul said it's fine to lie to the Romans. But they've never hidden who they are and what their goal is and it's not a fictional gilead. It's Bible approved genocide.
. . . .
I'm not being paranoid. Ask any evangelical what the endgame is here. It's genocide and Jesus comes back to take them to heaven while we burn. They truly believe this and they are working to make this happen and I do not know how to make you understand it and act accordingly.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 01, 2022 11:38 AM (FVME7)

193 God Bless him but, every time I've listened to Lindell he comes off like a raving lunatic.

We're in an age where Alex Jones is right more often than CNN. It turns out a lot of what the Democrats have been doing for 50 years now is cartoony and weird (Ted Kennedy calling the Kremlin to ask them to "do something about" Ronaldus Magnus) but it doesn't mean they aren't doing it.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 01, 2022 11:38 AM (ZGrMX)

194 Hillary could well have beaten a non-Trump in 2016, any of the other clowns or drones vying for the nomination. Walker was the only interesting candidate besides Teh Donald, and he imploded in a fashion that remains astonishing (and perhaps educational) to this day.

Remove mass illegal migration/no border and "economic nationalism" from the menu (as would be the case with the non-Trumps), Hillary likely wins.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2022 11:38 AM (OTzUX)

195 Sears was analog Amazon. All they had to do was create a website and they would have BEEN Amazon.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 11:39 AM (VLzZI)

196 10 lb chub of 90/10 is still $3.98 at Sam's.
$3.88 for 80/20.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2022 11:29 AM (c8pZY)

I'm envious. More like $5/lb for that here and that's at Walmart.

Costco beef 80/20 was over $6/lb and I paid it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 01, 2022 11:39 AM (XvPQV)

197 102 Feeding the idea that all of it is political, none of it is legal in nature, and the only hope is casting the other side as the bad guy.

The disaster of Libya was well known before the hearings, though. I question how much the committee, with the media going full-press defensive, actually moved any needles.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:24 AM (LvTSG)

"What? Who's Ben Ghazi?"

Posted by: Allie at July 01, 2022 11:39 AM (UnA8+)

198 I am amused at all the chinese made solar cells going up in my area.

We've outsourced the environmental impact to China...but then we pretend the real reason for them is their better environmental impact.

First think President 18-1 would work on is a massive tariff for Chinese solar cells. Either they are worth it to make them here...and pay Americans to make them...or they aren't worth it at all.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2022 11:39 AM (ESjRY)

199 You can't compare a "34in waist" between two companies because one might really be 36in. And worse yet, from the SAME company a pair of pants listed as a 34in waist might be anywhere from 30-38.

Yeah this has never made sense to me. I have found a few (very few) companies are consistent and have real measurements, especially Wrangler whose shirts and jeans I buy exclusively. They fit, and they are comfortable as opposed to Levis.

But I mean, size is size, why does it vary so insanely? Its not like the size is an arbitrary assignment like Bra Cup sizes. Its in inches, they don't change.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:39 AM (llsW/)

200 It's one of those "no-frills" places where you can't always pick the exact apple you want. But when you get 6 apples for 3 bucks a bag, if you get one with spots you just cut it up and use it for applesauce or something
Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022 11:36 AM (dCxaZ)

that's OK for some stuff but I kinda particular about melons

Posted by: REDACTED at July 01, 2022 11:39 AM (us2H3)

201 Sears could have strangled Amazon in the crib but management was too fossilized
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 01, 2022 11:34 AM (flINI)
__________________________________

That's true of almost every major brick-and-mortar facing newer, online-based competition. See Exhibit 1: Blockbuster. The covid lockdowns didn't help them, and I believe they were a concerted effort by the Amazons of the world -- companies with a vested interest in keeping you from leaving your home -- to unfairly penalize their brick-and-mortar competition.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 01, 2022 11:40 AM (iFTx/)

202 163 I'm in the market for a 44. Somehow I doubt there will be doorbuster deals on them.
Posted by: 496

Same. Ruger Vaquero in .357. Haven't seen one online at a gun store in over a year.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2022 11:34 AM (c8pZY)

gunbroker.com has them

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 01, 2022 11:40 AM (N39Ws)

203 Woke up early today, and I have 4 days off. Decided the weather was decent, so got in a 21 mile bike ride.

I can see myself doing this when I retire. Since I naturally wake up at dawn, getting in a nice long ride in the morning before kicking back and enjoying the day.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 11:11 AM (5p7BC)

That's been my retirement plan for the last 5 years.

Posted by: yara at July 01, 2022 11:40 AM (hBsVD)

204 88 Love the Quebe video. Thanks for posting.
Posted by: Jen the original
___________

They're great. They just need a few Bob Wills "ah-ha"s.

Posted by: Furious George at July 01, 2022 11:40 AM (9vQJW)

205 >>that's OK for some stuff but I kinda particular about melons

Clams, too. Gotta get a good smell in before you commit to one

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 11:40 AM (Zawz2)

206 >>> 155 I think the rise of online shopping such as QVC, Amazon , and virtually every manufacturer of goods having some type of online ordering has made having a retail store whose costs are competitive impossible. Clothing and shoes might be an exception but even there you drown in inventory due to needing sizes. What I do not understand is why I continue to see commercial and retail building occurring. Entire shopping centers are empty with new construction happening down the street on any empty lot.
Posted by: Jen the original at July 01, 2022 11:32 AM (x4LSC)

Random thoughts:
1) employment and/or housing for the "undocumented"
2) CHYna has been building quite a lot in the past few years, too, how's that working out?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2022 11:40 AM (llON8)

207 "Getting off of a bike after a 100 miles day was painful. Some days I'd of rather stayed on the bike"
*******
At 20 I did a 100 mile bike ride, rough camped a night and did fifty miles the next day. I haven't rode a bike since.

Posted by: Cosda at July 01, 2022 11:40 AM (LTkHc)

208 Immediately thought of the Andrews sisters.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2022 11:40 AM (LBaHn)

209 Here in the Bluegrass I've noticed a lot of pasture has been planted with corn this year. In some fields this is the first time I've ever seen an actual crop in what was always grass.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2022 11:41 AM (BFigT)

210 192 I'm not being paranoid. Ask any evangelical what the endgame is here. It's genocide and Jesus comes back to take them to heaven while we burn. They truly believe this and they are working to make this happen and I do not know how to make you understand it and act accordingly.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 01, 2022 11:38 AM (FVME7)

========

They can ask me. Granted, I'm not an evangelical, but us Catholics have our own share of shadowy mischief, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:41 AM (LvTSG)

211 Ask any evangelical what the endgame is here. It's genocide and Jesus comes back to take them to heaven while we burn.

If you actually ask an evangelical they'll also tell you it's super easy to avoid burning, barely an inconvenience.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 01, 2022 11:41 AM (ZGrMX)

212 Bed, Bath and Beyond Bankruptcy!

Posted by: The Mitch at July 01, 2022 11:41 AM (cDITE)

213 But she said she's more worried about price hikes and supply shortages than litigating Jan 6. "Just move on to something else," she said.

"How DARE you worry about something so meaningless? We're trying to get to the bottom of the worst attack on Our Sacred Democracy! This was not only Pearl Harbor wrapped around 9/11 but it was LITERALLY Hitler! Why do you care about not affording things? You're probably selfish and hate poor people!"

How did I do? Good impression?

Posted by: NR Pax at July 01, 2022 11:41 AM (4olE8)

214 Lauren Hough@laurenthehough

Another dope who is Biblically illiterate shrieking about evangelicals.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2022 11:41 AM (FZ2cV)

215 How does Amazon sustain Free Delivery when gas is $7?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2022 11:41 AM (MkYsY)

216 172 I think the rise of online shopping such as QVC, Amazon , and virtually every manufacturer of goods having some type of online ordering has made having a retail store whose costs are competitive impossible.

Agree. Personally, I feel no sympathy for the malls. They were a solution to a problem, but then a better solution came along. We'll find other things to do with that land, and the people who would have worked there will find other jobs. It isn't like most of them were highly paid.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:35 AM (/NCI4)

While many people think that online shopping is how most people buy things, it's not even close - physical shopping is still more than 75% of the market, even after the Plandemic. Malls are definitely in trouble all over the country, but there are some stores that compete very successfully against Amazon - Walmart fall into that category. Buy online, pick up in the store, and continue to shop while there.

Retail is definitely changing, but people by and large still want to look and feel before they buy.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2022 11:41 AM (f5iMo)

217 that's OK for some stuff but I kinda particular about melons

Clams, too. Gotta get a good smell in before you commit to one

PHRASING?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2022 11:41 AM (ESjRY)

218 Amazon was happy taking losses for a long time. Brick and mortar retailers don't know from that.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 11:41 AM (v2fyE)

219 >>>I'll BBQ the brisket, but it will give me a sadz. Likely the last time it will be available and affordable under the Biden administration.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2022 11:37 AM (4I/2K)

=======

Average price here for a brisket is $3.99/lbs for choice. I picked one up last night for $3.48/lbs.

Posted by: Turn two at July 01, 2022 11:41 AM (NWtPx)

220 After mountain climbing it was probably the best experience in my life. Averaged between 90 to 110 miles per day. Out of the question now, of course, as I am now 29

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 01, 2022 11:31 AM (flINI)

Yes, I consider my bike tour a peak experience. It wasn't exactly a basic experience, because every night we stayed at a chateau hotel. The countryside we rode through was just breathtaking.

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022 11:42 AM (dCxaZ)

221 199 But I mean, size is size, why does it vary so insanely? Its not like the size is an arbitrary assignment like Bra Cup sizes. Its in inches, they don't change.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:39 AM (llsW/)

200 that's OK for some stuff but I kinda particular about melons
Posted by: REDACTED at July 01, 2022 11:39 AM (us2H3)

Some days, the comment sequence in this place gives me the chuckles!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2022 11:42 AM (4I/2K)

222 And worse yet, from the SAME company a pair of pants listed as a 34in waist might be anywhere from 30-38.

-

The two pants may have the same company label on them but they are made by two separate subcontractors. Hence the wide variety in what sizes mean.same for shoes .

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 11:42 AM (VLzZI)

223 Sears was analog Amazon. All they had to do was create a website and they would have BEEN Amazon.

Nope. What Bezos figured out early on was that the key was logistics, not catalogs. That's why they made no money for so long: every penny of profit went into fulfillment centers, package movers, etc. That means it's a very expensive game to get into now, and it's probably impossible to beat Amazon at that game.

Sears would just have continued to use the Post Office and some guy in a chaotic warehouse.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:42 AM (/NCI4)

224 While the hope for Jan. 6 Committee stuff by the Dems might have included helping them in the 2022 midterms, the main point was probably always 2024 - i.e., damaging Trump.

Maybe it demonstrates misplaced priorities, but it's not like congressional Dems have any policy solutions for lowering gas prices or fighting inflation more generally. Can't drill (or even refine more) because that would go against their Climate Change Church. And if any policy proposal doesn't involve sloshing at least a couple of billion dollars to their progressive allies and NGOs as matter of course, then it has no hope of passing ... but how exactly might you fight inflation by throwing more printed money at it?

Posted by: Match Checksout at July 01, 2022 11:42 AM (IK4m/)

225 170 >>In my yute I did a biked a circle tour around Lake Superior. After mountain climbing it was probably the best experience in my life. Averaged between 90 to 110 miles per day.

When I was in College I rode from NYC to St. Louis and hit the highest point in each state we passed through. Friend of mine was on a mission to ride to the highest paved point in every state.
Those 100+ mile days, back to back to back were not easy.
Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 11:35 AM (Zawz2)

I use to be a serious cyclist and would annually ride the bike ride across Iowa. What a beautiful state and yes there are some serious hills. That was the best legal fun an adult could have for an entire week.

Posted by: 7man at July 01, 2022 11:42 AM (qwO6y)

226 How does Amazon sustain Free Delivery when gas is $7?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2022 11:41 AM (MkYsY)

Watch what happens to their annual Prime membership fee.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 01, 2022 11:42 AM (ZSK0i)

227 Clothing and shoes might be an exception but even there you drown in inventory due to needing sizes.

Here the issue is the lack of quality control and vanity sizing.

You can't compare a "34in waist" between two companies because one might really be 36in. And worse yet, from the SAME company a pair of pants listed as a 34in waist might be anywhere from 30-38.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2022 11:35 AM (ESjRY)

Jah, the 'Project Farm' guy on YouTube did a jeans comparison. Only two brands he tested were true to advertised size. All the rest were larger than advertised. Maybe because they're being sold in America, we fat.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 01, 2022 11:43 AM (XvPQV)

228 She hasn't figured it out yet, but the entire reason for overturning Roe v Wade is to get AOC "knocked-up" as to silence her.

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2022 11:43 AM (RHGPo)

229 They truly believe this and they are working to make this happen and I do not know how to make you understand it and act accordingly.

First off, this is a small section of Christians, although overrepresented in the USA.

Second, they don't believe in genocide, they believe that a powerful one-world tyrant is going to arise and dominate the planet.

That eschatology is pretty recent (late 1800s) and its pretty unknown outside the USA.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:43 AM (llsW/)

230 228 She hasn't figured it out yet, but the entire reason for overturning Roe v Wade is to get AOC "knocked-up" as to silence her.

well, some things go without saying

Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 01, 2022 11:43 AM (I38CQ)

231 "Getting off of a bike after a 100 miles day was painful. Some days I'd of rather stayed on the bike"
*******
At 20 I did a 100 mile bike ride, rough camped a night and did fifty miles the next day. I haven't rode a bike since.
Posted by: Cosda
------

Myself and a buddy stopped by a third friend's house. While we were there, he showed us his new bicycle. My friend looked at it and said, 'gee, that's real nice...but without an engine, what good is it?'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2022 11:44 AM (wcs7v)

232 215 How does Amazon sustain Free Delivery when gas is $7?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2022 11:41 AM (MkYsY)

Cuz it is not free. It never has been.
It’s like how there is no such thing as free health cate.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 11:44 AM (VLzZI)

233 How does Amazon sustain Free Delivery when gas is $7?

Its a net loss and has been for a while now. Prime damages their bottom line, but they make most of their money on "cloud" services these days anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:44 AM (llsW/)

234 Sears was analog Amazon. All they had to do was create a website and they would have BEEN Amazon.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 11:39 AM (VLzZI)

-----------

Sears was too busy acquiring stock brokerages and insurance companies to have time to examine strategies that might actually have fit with its core business.

Synergy, baby. Synergy!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2022 11:44 AM (P7T1m)

235 that's OK for some stuff but I kinda particular about melons

Posted by: REDACTED at July 01, 2022 11:39 AM (us2H3)

melons is one of the things they let you choose yourself

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022 11:44 AM (dCxaZ)

236 218 Amazon was happy taking losses for a long time. Brick and mortar retailers don't know from that.
Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 11:41 AM (v2fyE)

Bezos pulled off a very nice trick - one that nobody was really able to execute before. He got Wall Street to buy into his vision of what retail was going to look like, while he was still in the process of building the infrastructure behind it. He could have gone under at any time, but what saved him was AWS. They were minting cashflow for AMZN while they were still trying to make money on the retail side. It bought just enough time for the model to really prove out during the pandemic.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2022 11:45 AM (f5iMo)

237 >>> When I was in College I rode from NYC to St. Louis and hit the highest point in each state we passed through. Friend of mine was on a mission to ride to the highest paved point in every state.
Those 100+ mile days, back to back to back were not easy.
Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 11:35 AM (Zawz2)

I knew a guy from when I was living in Kansas who bragged about hiking to the highest elevation in Kansas and every surrounding state......

..... but one.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 11:45 AM (skf6d)

238 Canada too for our national day, today, too! Thanks, Justin!

Using prices gathered by Statistics Canada, the cost of hosting a Canada Day barbecue with eight adults and eight children today would cost $302.04 -- more than 17 per cent higher than in 2021, when the bill came to $257.27.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 01, 2022 11:45 AM (yikp0)

239 Nope. What Bezos figured out early on was that the key was logistics, not catalogs. That's why they made no money for so long: every penny of profit went into fulfillment centers, package movers, etc. That means it's a very expensive game to get into now, and it's probably impossible to beat Amazon at that game.

—

Sears had all that too didnt it?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 11:45 AM (VLzZI)

240
Amazon is a great example of what I'm talking about, too - especially because they are (technically) American (whatever that means anymore).

You have an American company that retails products designed and made by Americans, and then their Chinese palz just file the serial numbers off the patents and sell the products cheaper, by virtue of substandard materials and manufacturing, and LOTS of good, old-fashioned slave labor.

That would be a logical time for the government to step in and bring the pain to China on the tariff side, and Amazon on the USPTO side, and keep the beatings up until the behavior improves.

But that's sort of difficult when every Congressman gets paid in yuan and has a Fang-Fang tonguing his fartclam.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 01, 2022 11:45 AM (IXpV7)

241 gunbroker.com has them
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Yeah. Over a grand each. Bud's Guns had them for $698.00. I don't want one bad enough to pay $1k+.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2022 11:46 AM (c8pZY)

242 30 Someone yesterday said they call it "Sheets and shitters". His wife rolls her eyes every time. That second part made me laugh hard.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 01, 2022 11:10 AM (44ww/)

I've never been there, but I may have to check it out.

Posted by: Amber Heard at July 01, 2022 11:46 AM (SOV+T)

243 Sears had all that too didnt it?

Did you ever order from Sears? The experience was in no way comparable.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:47 AM (/NCI4)

244 that's OK for some stuff but I kinda particular about melons

Mine are always ready for squeezing!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at July 01, 2022 11:47 AM (2JVJo)

245 I knew a guy from when I was living in Kansas who bragged about hiking to the highest elevation in Kansas and every surrounding state......

..... but one.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 11:45 AM (skf6d)

Smart guy.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 01, 2022 11:47 AM (AiZBA)

246 239 Nope. What Bezos figured out early on was that the key was logistics, not catalogs. That's why they made no money for so long: every penny of profit went into fulfillment centers, package movers, etc. That means it's a very expensive game to get into now, and it's probably impossible to beat Amazon at that game.

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Sears had all that too didnt it?
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 11:45 AM (VLzZI)

Amazon didn't particularly win out in the logistics game. They have good logistics but not uniquely so. It was the web transition plus Amazon pricing for no profit.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 11:47 AM (b2nrj)

247 and I do not know how to make you understand it and act accordingly.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 01, 2022 11:38 AM (FVME7)

Just set ur megaphone on blast and REEEEEEEE!! a little harder, honey!

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022 11:47 AM (dCxaZ)

248 Sears had all that too didnt it?

Did you ever order from Sears? The experience was in no way comparable.

And no, they really didn't. Like I said, Post Office and Barney Fife.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:47 AM (/NCI4)

249 Sears had all that too didnt it?

Yes, and they didn't have to build any of it. They could have easily done it but their executives like for all those big box stores were hidebound and stuck in the past. Its so upsetting to me because I LIKED all those stores, and Amazon could use some competition.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:47 AM (llsW/)

250 215 How does Amazon sustain Free Delivery when gas is $7?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2022 11:41 AM (MkYsY)

It's not.
You pay for the shipping in the price of the item.
On top of that, you're suckered into a prime membership for "2 day delivery"
Which I never get anymore. It's a scam.

Posted by: GMan at July 01, 2022 11:48 AM (GfWuY)

251 make most of their money on "cloud" services these days anyway.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:44 AM (llsW/)

Aws accounts about 15% of all AMZN revenue.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 11:48 AM (VLzZI)

252 "melons is one of the things they let you choose yourself"

A miracle of modern medicine.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2022 11:48 AM (sn5EN)

253 Melons and smelly clams.

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Stacey Abrams at July 01, 2022 11:48 AM (ubW6Z)

254 235 that's OK for some stuff but I kinda particular about melons

Posted by: REDACTED at July 01, 2022 11:39 AM (us2H3)

melons is one of the things they let you choose yourself

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022 11:44 AM (dCxaZ)

now, where exactly is this place and do they take debit cards ?

Posted by: REDACTED at July 01, 2022 11:49 AM (us2H3)

255 "Attack at the Capitol" -- I find this infuriating. The only attacking going on was by the capitol police, instigated by antifa infiltrators or FBI glowies. Otherwise, pretty tame stuff by Summer of Love standards.

Posted by: FriscoYoda at July 01, 2022 11:49 AM (S7une)

256 I think a package shipping company could get into the sales business and outdo Amazon in retail sales. But you can't stop Amazon that way because they're supported heavily by AWS. Distributed, anonymous storage will probably end AWS over time.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 11:49 AM (skf6d)

257 They can ask me. Granted, I'm not an evangelical, but us Catholics have our own share of shadowy mischief, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:41 AM (LvTSG)

I knew there was something off about you...besides your online trolling and your love of horrible, horrible Ridley Scott movies.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 01, 2022 11:49 AM (XvPQV)

258 Amazon didn't particularly win out in the logistics game. They have good logistics but not uniquely so.

I'm aware of no other company with same day delivery. Also, I do occasionally order from other online retailers. None of them, not one, comes close to matching Amazon's delivery time.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:49 AM (/NCI4)

259 251 make most of their money on "cloud" services these days anyway.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:44 AM (llsW/)

Aws accounts about 15% of all AMZN revenue.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 11:48 AM (VLzZI)

But has traditionally been most of their profit. If you hooked Wal-mart up to Apple, Apple brings nearly all the profit and Wal-mart brings most of the revenue.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 11:49 AM (b2nrj)

260 Nope. What Bezos figured out early on was that the key was logistics, not catalogs. That's why they made no money for so long: every penny of profit went into fulfillment centers, package movers, etc. That means it's a very expensive game to get into now, and it's probably impossible to beat Amazon at that game.

—

Sears had all that too didnt it?
Posted by: Joe XiDen

Yes they did. Every store was a distribution hub/fulfillment center. If they'd have had foresight.

Old saying: "amateurs talk tactics, pros talk logistics".

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2022 11:49 AM (c8pZY)

261 Most people I know here who used to do road biking have stopped or cut back, and/or limit themselves to a few areas. Drivers. The speed/ineptness/recklessness/distraction of drivers, as well as traffic volume, have made biking terrifying in many places that used to be OK.

There are beautiful rides, with enough terrain for a workout but still enjoyable, but like so many other things ruined by more people and lower quality people, it's now a decision vs. hey let's do that great ride again.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2022 11:50 AM (OTzUX)

262 And when was the last time Lauren actually did speak to an Evangelical and/or had a discussion about the Book of Revelation and the End Times with them?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2022 11:50 AM (FZ2cV)

263 Can't help but think of Biden's head on Kevin Bacon's body with his arms up in Animal House saying "All is well. All is well."

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 01, 2022 11:50 AM (NW9xb)

264 258 "Amazon didn't particularly win out in the logistics game. They have good logistics but not uniquely so."

I'm aware of no other company with same day delivery. Also, I do occasionally order from other online retailers. None of them, not one, comes close to matching Amazon's delivery time.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:49 AM (/NCI4)

I look at logistics more from the scale/cost perspective. Maybe that was the competitive edge, but I figured it had more to do with ease of use and prices.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 11:50 AM (b2nrj)

265 Sure Sears in 1995 didnt have the logistics of Amazon in 2022. But it had a solid foundation on which it could build. It could have been amazon had they realized the potential. But as someone. Oted above instead they bought insurance companies and brokerages for some odd reason.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 11:50 AM (VLzZI)

266 Walmart has amazing logistics as well. Rivals Amazon.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 11:51 AM (VLzZI)

267 The misunderstanding and ignorance of Christianity is amazingly widespread these days. In a lot of ways, we're back in the Roman days when people thought Christians were cannibals (give them time to trot that one out again).

Its a rich field for evangelism these days. We need to bring all those missionaries home.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:51 AM (llsW/)

268 Amazon didn't particularly win out in the logistics game. They have good logistics but not uniquely so.

I'm aware of no other company with same day delivery. Also, I do occasionally order from other online retailers. None of them, not one, comes close to matching Amazon's delivery time.
Posted by: Archimedes

Same day? If you are in a big enough city, try 2 hours.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2022 11:51 AM (c8pZY)

269 Clams, too. Gotta get a good smell in before you commit to one
Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 11:40 AM

Presumably you're talking about the non-flatulating ones.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2022 11:51 AM (a3Q+t)

270 I remember there were leaked emails from the SoS office that laid the whole thing out as Hillary's baby from the beginning. It was going to be her great foreign policy success that would launch her to the presidency.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:30 AM (LvTSG)

I agree that Hillary was a major part of that clusterfuck prior to the actual attack but when it occurred the response and aftermath should have been all Obama. If that prior incompetence is the President's responsibility.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 11:51 AM (iTCtr)

271 I almost blew the 16 cents I saved last year on something stupid. I'm glad I held onto it now.

Posted by: Simple Stevo at July 01, 2022 11:52 AM (SOV+T)

272 It could have been amazon had they realized the potential.

This is true of almost all huge companies that dominate a market segment. They get fat and sloppy, and don't see the opportunities, because hey, they're making lots of money.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:52 AM (/NCI4)

273 Shameless plug here. I have been buying sheets from Redland Cotton for a while now. Yes they are w expensive but they are unbelievable high quality , are thick and substantial, and wear like iron. And I am supporting Alabama farmers, and all the fabric and sewing industries located here in the US.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 01, 2022 11:53 AM (/zVn0)

274 Do they cook hot dogs for Canada Day?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 11:53 AM (5p7BC)

275 >>> 273 Shameless plug here. I have been buying sheets from Redland Cotton for a while now. Yes they are w expensive but they are unbelievable high quality , are thick and substantial, and wear like iron. And I am supporting Alabama farmers, and all the fabric and sewing industries located here in the US.
Posted by: Jen the original at July 01, 2022 11:53 AM (/zVn0)

Buying things that will last instead of cheap imports isn't a terrible idea, especially now.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2022 11:54 AM (llON8)

276 265 Sure Sears in 1995 didnt have the logistics of Amazon in 2022. But it had a solid foundation on which it could build. It could have been amazon had they realized the potential. But as someone. Oted above instead they bought insurance companies and brokerages for some odd reason.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 11:50 AM (VLzZI)

AMZN had something else that S didn't, which was a very high stock price. They could pay smart people in stock, they could finance growth in the bond markets, and finance that with AWS' positive cashflow. No other retailer, other that WMT, has the ability to do that.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2022 11:54 AM (f5iMo)

277 I'm aware of no other company with same day delivery.

They didn't start that way, and Sears could have easily built that if they chose to. They already had most of the infrastructure in place (including delivery). The fact that it sucked doesn't mean it HAD to or would stay that way if they had smart leadership.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:54 AM (llsW/)

278 Still waiting for the Amazon drone deliveries. I guess that pretty much crashed and burned.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2022 11:54 AM (MkYsY)

279 Also = if

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 11:54 AM (iTCtr)

280 Jen - thanks for that info. Going to check out Redland Cotton.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2022 11:54 AM (OTzUX)

281 Do they cook hot dogs for Canada Day?
Posted by: Dave in Fla

They sous vide maple syrup.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2022 11:54 AM (c8pZY)

282 Do they cook hot dogs for Canada Day?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 11:53 AM (5p7BC)

They're called Poutine Dogs.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 11:55 AM (VLzZI)

283 AMZN had something else that S didn't, which was a very high stock price. They could pay smart people in stock, they could finance growth in the bond markets, and finance that with AWS' positive cashflow. No other retailer, other that WMT, has the ability to do that.

But they had that high stock price precisely because investors could see that they were focused on the right things, and had huge potential.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:55 AM (/NCI4)

284 Remember that the Amazon that we know today wasn't the Amazon that started out. They built up the warehousing and distribution and logistics over years. So no, it's not fair to compare Amazon's delivery experience today (which is increasingly shitty, btw) with someone like Sears who didn't spend decades building up their logistics (but which could have if they wanted to).

Plus, even when Amazon first started out, it was backed by serious capital and other business support. I'm convinced it started out as a way for book publishers to by-pass the big bookstores of the day by selling direct to the customer. Publishers were never fans of the big bookstores and hated the power they had to promote certain books over others.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 01, 2022 11:55 AM (iFTx/)

285 Still waiting for the Amazon drone deliveries. I guess that pretty much crashed and burned.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

"Skeet with Prizes" killed it.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2022 11:56 AM (c8pZY)

286 257 I knew there was something off about you...besides your online trolling and your love of horrible, horrible Ridley Scott movies.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 01, 2022 11:49 AM (XvPQV)

=========

Don't forget The Last Jedi.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:56 AM (LvTSG)

287 278 Still waiting for the Amazon drone deliveries. I guess that pretty much crashed and burned.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2022 11:54 AM (MkYsY)

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Urban skeet shooters probably put the kibosh on that idea. They'd make porch pirates look like pikers.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2022 11:56 AM (P7T1m)

288 The year after I did the Lake Superior Trip we were going to bike from Sioux St Marie to Vancouver. We had to stop as it was too dangerous. No shoulders on many parts of the Trans Canada Highway

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 01, 2022 11:56 AM (flINI)

289 Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have made the rare decision to waive cabinet confidentiality and “release the evidence it used to justify invoking the Emergencies Act to crush the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa earlier this year.”
According to a press release from the Public Order Emergency Commission, the government will finally release the real reason behind the application of the war-time Emergencies Act in February.
In essence, everyone involved with the debacle in federal parliament is slowly being revealed as a liar and peddler of disinformation. However, the further we get from the event itself, the longer the Liberals have to deny, deny, deny, until enough time passes that everyone forgets.

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2022 11:57 AM (RHGPo)

290 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:51 AM (llsW/)

I agree with you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2022 11:57 AM (FZ2cV)

291 I mean its ludicrous to compare Amazon now to what it started like (a small book store with ZERO delivery service). Amazon starting up compared to Sears / Wards / Pennys is like comparing a kid's lemonade stand to McDonalds. Everything Amazon had to build up to, these companies already had in place, down to usually SEVERAL fulfillment centers in town. They could have smeared Amazon off the map if they wanted to.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:57 AM (llsW/)

292 The thing with Bed Bath & Beyond -- using their pique to virtue signal half of their customers while pissing off the other half -- is that they were on shaky ground to start with. If you can't afford to lose customers, it behooves you to keep your yap shut. It's like Disney completely underestimating what part of their base was families with kids and what portion was militant gay/trans. So when they say, "We'll indoctrinate your kids if we want to!" and DeSantis says, "Oh yeah?" I think they really thought they had indomitable leverage. Effed around and found out.

Posted by: red speck at July 01, 2022 11:57 AM (gS3OW)

293 Biking is a recovery day for me, I'm in Phoenix with mountains everywhere and I'm addicted to running them since I started my gainZzz again this year. Dropped 35 lbs to 12% bf from major clean diet (except I still drink like a sailor) and the trails were a big part of that.
Planning to attempt a double crossing of the grand canyon (rim to rim to rim) in late September across 2 days

Posted by: Who is Brandon Galt? at July 01, 2022 11:57 AM (0YDob)

294 278 Still waiting for the Amazon drone deliveries. I guess that pretty much crashed and burned.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2022 11:54 AM (MkYsY)

It’s starting in some pilot areas in Cali this year. They just recently for FAA approval.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 11:57 AM (VLzZI)

295
I'm in the market for a 44. Somehow I doubt there will be doorbuster deals on them.
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2022 11:30 AM (VJsqe)

There's always the Automag, which is coming back. And apparently in a non-malfunctioning form.

Ian at Forgotten Weapons reviews a dealer sample.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORUCly0nrbI

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2022 11:57 AM (n+4am)

296 283 AMZN had something else that S didn't, which was a very high stock price. They could pay smart people in stock, they could finance growth in the bond markets, and finance that with AWS' positive cashflow. No other retailer, other that WMT, has the ability to do that.

But they had that high stock price precisely because investors could see that they were focused on the right things, and had huge potential.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:55 AM (/NCI4)

Yes. And that is why Bezos is - deservedly so - one of the three richest men in the world. What he pulled off was as paradigm-shifting as Sam Walton's insight was.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2022 11:57 AM (f5iMo)

297 Leaving all the (wildly incompetent and stupid) higher level policy blunders aside, just the narrow concrete issue of a chief of mission, in the Libya of that time, going to Benghazi without a heavy personal security detail, remains completely incomprehensible and inexplicable. SOP globally, but especially in that region, had long been for rolling very heavy if you even were considering going into a place like that. It remains a stunning disaster in that narrow respect.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2022 11:57 AM (OTzUX)

298 Get woke go broke. And go DIAFF.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 01, 2022 11:58 AM (nByzo)

299 Dave: that's interesting news about The Heritage Foundation.

My dad auto-contributed $10/ month for years. I stopped it a few years before he passed because I thought they are become part of the RINO contingent.

Posted by: Iris at July 01, 2022 11:58 AM (foa6+)

300 Internet? Pffft it’s just a silly fad.
- Sears Execs circa 1997 (probably)

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 11:58 AM (VLzZI)

301 Buck is a great addition to the COB line up. I really enjoy Buck shots.

Posted by: keena at July 01, 2022 11:58 AM (RiTnx)

302 I mean its ludicrous to compare Amazon now to what it started like (a small book store with ZERO delivery service). Amazon starting up compared to Sears / Wards / Pennys is like comparing a kid's lemonade stand to McDonalds. Everything Amazon had to build up to, these companies already had in place, down to usually SEVERAL fulfillment centers in town. They could have smeared Amazon off the map if they wanted to.

You're arguing something I didn't say. Of course, Amazon had to start somewhere, and, of course the biggies could have wiped them out. The point is that they were too fat and happy to bother competing with Amazon until it was too late.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:59 AM (/NCI4)

303 297 Leaving all the (wildly incompetent and stupid) higher level policy blunders aside, just the narrow concrete issue of a chief of mission, in the Libya of that time, going to Benghazi without a heavy personal security detail, remains completely incomprehensible and inexplicable. SOP globally, but especially in that region, had long been for rolling very heavy if you even were considering going into a place like that. It remains a stunning disaster in that narrow respect.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2022 11:57 AM (OTzUX)

Wasn't that also down to it being one of Hillary's people? I remember she was bringing people on to things who Obama didn't want hired.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 11:59 AM (b2nrj)

304 Still waiting for the Amazon drone deliveries

They are still working on that and trying to make it happen, which is hilarious to me. Its a bit tougher to rob a truck on the street, but shooting down a drone is nothing and hey, its like a pinata, who knows what you'll get!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 11:59 AM (llsW/)

305 262 And when was the last time Lauren actually did speak to an Evangelical and/or had a discussion about the Book of Revelation and the End Times with them?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2022 11:50 AM (FZ2cV)

It wouldn't help her, because there's as many interpretations as there are Evangelicals.

One example: Rapture: yes...or no?

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022 11:59 AM (dCxaZ)

306 like Disney completely underestimating what part of their base was families with kids and what portion was militant gay/trans. So when they say, "We'll indoctrinate your kids if we want to!" and DeSantis says, "Oh yeah?" I think they really thought they had indomitable leverage. Effed around and found out.
Posted by: red speck at July 01, 2022 11:57 AM (gS3OW)

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Thanks. I get a heady rush of schadenfreude every time I think about how DeSantis smacked down Disney.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2022 11:59 AM (P7T1m)

307 On Thursday, CNN International’s Christiane Amanpour warned that the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling last week would result in the Taliban no longer respecting the United States.

Amanpour told “CNN Newsroom” that overturning Roe v. Wade was a “really serious” moment not only for American women but also “America’s ability to hold its head up as a democracy that respects the rights of every constituent.”

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2022 11:59 AM (RHGPo)

308 Don't forget The Last Jedi.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 11:56 AM (LvTSG)

I'm scheduling a targeted lobotomy just so I can forget TLJ

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 01, 2022 11:59 AM (XvPQV)

309 All over social media, conservatives responded by promising to boycott BB&B in response, but as it turned out, the boycott was…well…it was incredibly successful!

--

I was one of those people very angry at BBB for what they did to Lindell's company. On principle alone. I'm being completely honest in saying I was at BBB quite often. I have not been back since they pulled that stunt. Not once. And I won't. They deserve everything they're getting.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2022 11:59 AM (sVtYq)

310 Yes. And that is why Bezos is - deservedly so - one of the three richest men in the world. What he pulled off was as paradigm-shifting as Sam Walton's insight was.

Posted by: Darrell Harris

Agree. He's behaved like a d***, but give credit where it's due.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 11:59 AM (/NCI4)

311 Lauren just needs to amp the power on her megaphone and REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE harder, that's all.

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022 11:59 AM (dCxaZ)

312 You're arguing something I didn't say.

Okay?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 12:00 PM (llsW/)

313 None of them, not one, comes close to matching Amazon's delivery time.

We pee in bottles to get it there on time!

Posted by: Amazon Drivers at July 01, 2022 12:00 PM (Xrfse)

314 If buggy whip manufacturers had gone to an all internet model back in 1897 they would be a Fortune 500 industry right now.

But nooooo...

Posted by: Muldoon at July 01, 2022 12:00 PM (kXYt5)

315 261 Most people I know here who used to do road biking have stopped or cut back, and/or limit themselves to a few areas. Drivers. The speed/ineptness/recklessness/distraction of drivers, as well as traffic volume, have made biking terrifying in many places that used to be OK.

There are beautiful rides, with enough terrain for a workout but still enjoyable, but like so many other things ruined by more people and lower quality people, it's now a decision vs. hey let's do that great ride again.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2022 11:50 AM (OTzUX)

So true and I gave it up after a serious accident and I live in a beautiful area at one time perfect for biking

Posted by: 7man at July 01, 2022 12:01 PM (qwO6y)

316 284 Remember that the Amazon that we know today wasn't the Amazon that started out.

They thought their value was in the price of their books. Turns out 99.9% of the company's value is supply chain management.

Posted by: red speck at July 01, 2022 12:01 PM (gS3OW)

317 314 If buggy whip manufacturers had gone to an all internet model back in 1897 they would be a Fortune 500 industry right now.

But nooooo...
Posted by: Muldoon at July 01, 2022 12:00 PM (kXYt5)

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They didn't synergize their paradigm shift in their move to new markets.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 12:01 PM (LvTSG)

318 All over social media, conservatives responded by promising to boycott BB&B in response, but as it turned out, the boycott was…well…it was incredibly successful!

I am highly skeptical that any conservative boycott had anything to do with this. They had a business model that required mall traffic and that went away. Turns out a store full of overpriced crap cannot compete with online shops.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 12:01 PM (llsW/)

319 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 01, 2022 11:38 AM (FVME7)

Oh, yes, Lauren missed the point that the Right To Life Clinics are being bombed by radical pro abortionists, but let's pretend the SC is throwing bombs at PP clinics. More egregious projection . I hope she got denounced on Twit

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2022 12:01 PM (FZ2cV)

320 Posted by: red speck at July 01, 2022 11:57 AM (gS3OW)

their loss is my gain though.

they have some great July 4 sales going on, like a nice olivewood set of kitchen utensils for 5 bucks. WUT

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022 12:01 PM (dCxaZ)

321 I'm in the market for a 44. Somehow I doubt there will be doorbuster deals on them.
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2022 11:30 AM

Do you feel lucky, 496? Well, do you?

Posted by: Harold Callahan at July 01, 2022 12:02 PM (a3Q+t)

322 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 12:01 PM (LvTSG)

OT: Is your webzone eating comments or did you turn on comment moderation?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 01, 2022 12:02 PM (XvPQV)

323 Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2022 11:57 AM (OTzUX)

Totally agree. Normally a President would be held responsible for those deficiencies. Obama received zero consequences from the opposition. Zero. To this day if you mention Benghazi to anyone on the Right it's all about Hillary.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 12:02 PM (iTCtr)

324 Amanpour told “CNN Newsroom” that overturning Roe v. Wade was a “really serious” moment not only for American women but also “America’s ability to hold its head up as a democracy that respects the rights of every constituent.”

Somehow, I think we'll carry on.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 12:02 PM (/NCI4)

325 Yes our elites should all be awarded for their richness
Soon it will trickle down on us
If it doesn't? Then we just need to eliminate taxes on tge super rich

Posted by: Paul at July 01, 2022 12:03 PM (u+NMK)

326 I mean, you could order a stove at Sears and get it delivered the same day too (if they had it in stock, which they often did). That didn't happen often, because they only had one truck and delivery was a really small priority, but it could happen. Again it was bad leadership and poor priorities that hurt them, not the lack of ability.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 12:03 PM (llsW/)

327 > If buggy whip manufacturers had gone to an all internet model back in 1897 they would be a Fortune 500 industry right now.

Seriously.

Amazon was built from the ground up to be what they are. You don't just take a 100+ year old company, set up a couple of server farms, and viola, you're Amazon.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 12:03 PM (eyxn4)

328 Do they cook hot dogs for Canada Day?
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Yes...

The Globe and Mail @globeandmail
Hot-dogs🌭: A pack of wieners (around 400g) is up from $3.76 in 2021 to $4.09 this holiday (a 9.9% increase). Buns, meanwhile, saw an 11.1% rise from $3.03 for 675g to $3.37

https://twitter.com/globeandmail/status/
1542599947073232902
[400g is about 1 pound]

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 01, 2022 12:03 PM (yikp0)

329 322 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 12:01 PM (LvTSG)

OT: Is your webzone eating comments or did you turn on comment moderation?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 01, 2022 12:02 PM (XvPQV)

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I dunno...Looking...

Your comment went to spam for some reason...Weird...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 12:03 PM (LvTSG)

330 Right wing boycotts don't work. Left wing ones do. Diff is companies fear the left but not the right. Worse case a con will shop at your competitor. Worst case scenario is a lib will burn your store down.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 12:04 PM (VLzZI)

331 Hey I saw the last Fantastic Beasts and Where to Fuck Them last night. That reveal that Dumbledick was gay and in love with the bad guy was LIT, yo! I only wished they went further, like was he the top or the bottom? Who sucked who's dick? Like come on, if you're gonna go the woke gay route then go all the way.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 01, 2022 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

332 America was great when taxes on businesses were higher.
They had a choice with what to do with their profits : reinvest it in the business or pay it in taxes

Posted by: Paul at July 01, 2022 12:04 PM (u+NMK)

333 We pee in bottles
Posted by: Amazon Drivers at July 01, 2022 12:00 PM

We do, too.

Posted by: Urology patients at July 01, 2022 12:04 PM (a3Q+t)

334 Amanpour told “CNN Newsroom” that overturning Roe v. Wade was a “really serious” moment not only for American women but also “America’s ability to hold its head up as a democracy that respects the rights of every constituent.”

Yea, making states able to choose how they handle a topic through democratically elected representative is much less free and democratic than having a panel of 9 unelected judges decide from on high.

This makes sense if you're a dimwitted anti-American fool.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 12:04 PM (llsW/)

335 today would cost $302.04
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Using my freshly-acquired knowledge (last night's ONT), I make that to be 150 toonies.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2022 12:05 PM (FyHyH)

336 > Do you feel lucky, 496? Well, do you?

NOBODY GETS THIS QUOTE RIGHT!

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 12:05 PM (eyxn4)

337 The dems are scared shitless of Trump running in 2024. A Trump/Desantis ticket would obliviate the dems. So they are going to take a chainsaw to any of the repubs endorsing him or trying to be like him.

Posted by: megthered at July 01, 2022 12:05 PM (AdxHD)

338 333 We pee in bottles
Posted by: Amazon Drivers at July 01, 2022 12:00 PM

We do, too.
Posted by: Urology patients at July 01, 2022 12:04 PM (a3Q+t)

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We don't do mail order.

Posted by: Russian Prostitutes at July 01, 2022 12:05 PM (P7T1m)

339 Amazon was built from the ground up to be what they are.

And those box stores did too... over a hundred years before Amazon existed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 12:05 PM (llsW/)

340 Amanpour is a communist.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2022 12:05 PM (sVtYq)

341 331 Hey I saw the last Fantastic Beasts and Where to Fuck Them last night. That reveal that Dumbledick was gay and in love with the bad guy was LIT, yo! I only wished they went further, like was he the top or the bottom? Who sucked who's dick? Like come on, if you're gonna go the woke gay route then go all the way.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 01, 2022 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

Which one eat-a the poopoo?

Inquiring Ugandan Pastors want to know.

Posted by: Allie at July 01, 2022 12:05 PM (UnA8+)

342 banana Dream

That's funny.

Plenty of climbing groups rope up for Mount Sunflower. For the laughs. Elevation gain of 1 foot from the parking lot. Mount Elbert in Colorado laughs and laughs.

Around me in the Flint Hills, we have a lot of vertical changes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 12:06 PM (u82oZ)

343 I once saw a guild in World of Warcraft called Blood Bath and Beyond.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at July 01, 2022 12:06 PM (6boWp)

344 now, where exactly is this place and do they take debit cards ?

Posted by: REDACTED at July 01, 2022 11:49 AM (us2H3)

SEPA, NoDel, and South Jersey:

https://www.producejunction.com/locations

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022 12:06 PM (dCxaZ)

345 The tabard wasn't nearly as good as the one for Gnome Depot, though. They got the color _exactly_ right.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at July 01, 2022 12:06 PM (6boWp)

346 You could order a house from Sears back in the day and have it delivered in a relatively short time.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 12:07 PM (iTCtr)

347 REDACTED - they do take debit cards but I never use plastic at my local place bcuz I don't trust the personnel.

I've been burned by skimmers before

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022 12:07 PM (dCxaZ)

348 Speaking of amzn...

In the UAE, any search for lbgtqabc123xyz products returns no results. Amazon hs banned them all.

Lol

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 12:08 PM (VLzZI)

349
Leaving all the (wildly incompetent and stupid) higher level policy blunders aside, just the narrow concrete issue of a chief of mission, in the Libya of that time, going to Benghazi without a heavy personal security detail, remains completely incomprehensible and inexplicable. SOP globally, but especially in that region, had long been for rolling very heavy if you even were considering going into a place like that. It remains a stunning disaster in that narrow respect.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2022 11:57 AM (OTzUX)

I'm coming to the sneaking suspicion that Frau Gruppencankles consciously sent Amb Stevens out to die. I mean, in some of his last communications, he was complaining about the totally inadequate security arrangements.

Why? I dunno. He must have had info that would have put her in prison if it'd come out.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2022 12:08 PM (n+4am)

350 346 You could order a house from Sears back in the day and have it delivered in a relatively short time.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 12:07 PM

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You could order a house brand car from Sears too. The brand was Allstate.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2022 12:08 PM (P7T1m)

351 Using my freshly-acquired knowledge (last night's ONT), I make that to be 150 toonies.
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Yes; I wanted them to be called doubloonies, BTW, but loonie-toonie won out.

Another blow to historical education caused by the cartoon industry!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 01, 2022 12:09 PM (yikp0)

352 You could order a house from Sears back in the day and have it delivered in a relatively short time.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 12:07 PM (iTCtr)

Pre-assembled?

Posted by: BignJames at July 01, 2022 12:09 PM (AwYPR)

353 Amanpour ... “America’s ability to hold its head up as a democracy that respects the rights of every constituent.”

Well, we respect the rights of constituents without heartbeats enough to let them keep voting, maybe we can start respecting those who's hearts just started beating?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2022 12:09 PM (a3Q+t)

354 >>> Plenty of climbing groups rope up for Mount Sunflower. For the laughs. Elevation gain of 1 foot from the parking lot. Mount Elbert in Colorado laughs and laughs.

Around me in the Flint Hills, we have a lot of vertical changes.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 12:06 PM (u82oZ)

The flint hills os KS may not be great for climbing but it is a pretty and majestic-looking part of the country. Mount Elbert is an easy climb. You can do it in one day but two days is leisurely and you have time to stop and see the sights.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 12:09 PM (skf6d)

355 NOBODY GETS THIS QUOTE RIGHT!
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Quotes? We don't need no stinking quotes!

Posted by: mexican internet commenters at July 01, 2022 12:10 PM (yikp0)

356 332 America was great when taxes on businesses were higher.
They had a choice with what to do with their profits : reinvest it in the business or pay it in taxes

Posted by: Paul at July 01, 2022 12:04 PM (u+NMK)

oh gee, I wasn't aware that their boards only started awarding the C-suite with fat salary/bennie packages AFTER their taxes were cut!

u r geenyus, Paul. I bet you write for IBD

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2022 12:10 PM (dCxaZ)

357 > They are still working on that and trying to make it happen, which is hilarious to me. Its a bit tougher to rob a truck on the street, but shooting down a drone is nothing and hey, its like a pinata, who knows what you'll get!

The military already developed a fairly simple and VERY effective anti-drone method. I don't think it would be hard to imitate. Basically you send up your own drone and it shoots these long streamers made of somewhat tough but pliable plastic. Some of the streamers get caught up in the drone's propellers and DOWN SHE GOES.

https://youtu.be/pXkBu8QSEYY

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 12:10 PM (eyxn4)

358 You could order a house from Sears back in the day and have it delivered in a relatively short time.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 12:07 PM (iTCtr)

Pre-assembled?
Posted by: BignJames at July 01, 2022 12:09 PM (AwYPR)

Kits. I think they stopped when WW2 started.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 12:10 PM (iTCtr)

359 I used to shop at Bed Bath from time to time, they have blankets that I like. Then they played leftist games, and won leftist prizes in the form of an embargo. GG lads, ya did it to yaselves.

Posted by: CppThis at July 01, 2022 12:11 PM (UewuT)

360 Dumb question.

Is the term Cratsman House, named that because of Sears houses?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 12:11 PM (VLzZI)

361 Next year when rhe Republicrats are running the Congressional show, they can have show trials of Pelosi and Schumer concerning their refusal of Trump's request for National Guard presence as security for Jan 6th. They allowed the Insurrection to take place and need to be impeached at the very least.

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 01, 2022 12:11 PM (dOOGp)

362 350 The Allstate car was a Henry J with Allstate badging. They sold Allstate mopeds (Puch, IIRC).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2022 12:12 PM (lz5hY)

363 This comment might be spam:

"I also think thence, perfectly indited post!"

Maybe...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 12:12 PM (LvTSG)

364 The classic quote goes "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do you, punk?", but that's not quite as fun to say.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2022 12:13 PM (a3Q+t)

365 Dumb question.

Is the term Cratsman House, named that because of Sears houses?
Posted by: Joe XiDen

There is no such thing as a dumb question.

Posted by: Inquisitive idiot at July 01, 2022 12:13 PM (VYjdj)

366 You could order a house from Sears back in the day and have it delivered in a relatively short time.

******

The trusses had optional underwire support.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 01, 2022 12:13 PM (kXYt5)

367 Dumb question.

Is the term Cratsman House, named that because of Sears houses?
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 12:11 PM (VLzZI)

No. Craftsman was an architectural style.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 12:13 PM (iTCtr)

368 Is the term Cratsman House, named that because of Sears houses?

Posted by: Joe XiDen

No, it was a style from the late 19th century which emphasized the joinery and was simpler than other styles.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 01, 2022 12:13 PM (lTGtQ)

369 Haven't read the content or even the comments but I have to share my shame. I have been Canadianized. It all started so innocently, watching the heavy wrecker shows on TV. Now, over the course of a couple of days, I signed the "Free Tamara Lich" petition, ordered a Canadian Red Ensign flag (apparently a "hate symbol" now) and subscribed to Rebel News. I worry - are moose steaks and poutine in my future? Happy Dominion Day to the Canadian Morons!

Posted by: Plum Duff, North America's newest cryptid at July 01, 2022 12:14 PM (ssmWM)

370 Like most people in real life, this very busty blonde in a black dress knows that "core inflation" is meaningless at the grocery store and gas pump - and no amount of "insurrection" talk or data massaging can change that:
https://is.gd/4XwBVO

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 01, 2022 12:14 PM (WWh8n)

371 This comment might be spam:

"I also think thence, perfectly indited post!"

Maybe...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 12:12 PM (LvTSG)

A little sus

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 01, 2022 12:14 PM (XvPQV)

372 Berryman, who works with special needs students, said she was shocked and scared by the attack at the Capitol.

There was no attack at the Capitol, so this persyn was shocked and scared by something that didn't happen.

Posted by: spindrift at July 01, 2022 12:14 PM (MIAfU)

373 Most of my comments are head cheese and could only aspire to be spam one day.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 12:14 PM (skf6d)

374 Like most people in real life, this very busty blonde in a black dress knows that "core inflation" is meaningless at the grocery store and gas pump - and no amount of "insurrection" talk or data massaging can change that:
https://is.gd/4XwBVO
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 01, 2022 12:14 PM (WWh8n)

Wow wow wow. Wow.

Rack and thighs.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 01, 2022 12:15 PM (XvPQV)

375 During "good" times there are stores that market as "middle class aspirational". You shop at them to feel better and not like " poors" at Wal-Mart. Of course you pay more but not as much as at "rich people" stores. Times get tight and money can be saved by not going to the aspirational stores.

Posted by: azjaeger at July 01, 2022 12:15 PM (3/XaG)

376 346 You could order a house from Sears back in the day and have it delivered in a relatively short time.
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One of Henry Ford's innovative ideas was to sell products in square glass bottles that could later be used as bricks. Beyond a few demonstration houses, I don't think the idea took off, but I'm not sure why. It seems like a good idea to me.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 01, 2022 12:15 PM (sWM8x)

377 "We are looking at a situation in which this company is probably not going to be around," Chukumba told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). "It’s not going to take years. We could be talking about months at this point. We are in the end days. These results were a dumpster fire, there is no other way to put it."
++++
Their wokeness is secondary, but not helping. Low-margin businesses with high debts that depend on consumer activity in the high-middle income group - that is, businesses like 3B - are toast.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 01, 2022 12:15 PM (WWh8n)

378 I scored gas for $4.29 a gallon in Denison Texas.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 01, 2022 12:16 PM (bVYXr)

379 Once Amazon started delivering toilet paper, the Sears catalog, and therefore their business model, was doomed.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2022 12:16 PM (a3Q+t)

380 What's the house style where the rood shingles go all the way to the ground?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2022 12:16 PM (UuD2k)

381 "361 Next year when rhe Republicrats are running the Congressional show, they can have show trials of Pelosi and Schumer concerning their refusal of Trump's request for National Guard presence as security for Jan 6th. They allowed the Insurrection to take place and need to be impeached at the very least.
Posted by: Darth Randall at"

Pelosi and Schumer impeached or embarrassed by their actions.

I don't think a Rep/Senator could be impeached by their cohorts in the House/Senate.

They could be outed for the BS they have pulled, but all that will do is embarrass them. Not that they care, they'll pull a Harry Reid quote "It worked didn't it?"

Posted by: Scott_T at July 01, 2022 12:16 PM (2waQ7)

382 Philly has already had 204 murders in the first half of 2022, yet their murder rate per 100k residents is LESS THAN HALF THAT OF N'AWLINS.

https://bit.ly/3ui6iQA

Get out of the damn cities.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 12:16 PM (eyxn4)

383 Like most people in real life, this very busty blonde in a black dress knows that "core inflation" is meaningless at the grocery store and gas pump - and no amount of "insurrection" talk or data massaging can change that:
https://is.gd/4XwBVO

If it wasn't for the baby face, she'd have a Bond Girl vibe going on.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 01, 2022 12:17 PM (2JVJo)

384 Pre-assembled?

Nope, the train came and dropped off all the parts and you had to move it to the location and build it yourself. Ikea ain't in it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 12:17 PM (llsW/)

385 Thx Buck

Based on the 1980 model the current inflation is at least 17%.

Rule of 72
72/17=4.23

So prices could DOUBLE in 4.2 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 01, 2022 12:17 PM (ex2Cx)

386 >>> Like most people in real life, this very busty blonde in a black dress knows that "core inflation" is meaningless at the grocery store and gas pump - and no amount of "insurrection" talk or data massaging can change that:
https://is.gd/4XwBVO
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 01, 2022 12:14 PM (WWh8n)

Her expression:
"Quick! You there! Do you see a tarantula climbing up the inside of my thigh under my dress, because I keep feeling this scritchy movement, right down here. [holds open dress]"

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 12:17 PM (skf6d)

387 384 Pre-assembled?

Nope, the train came and dropped off all the parts and you had to move it to the location and build it yourself. Ikea ain't in it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 12:17 PM (llsW/)

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Sounds like a good ole fashioned barn raisin'.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 01, 2022 12:18 PM (LvTSG)

388 What's the house style where the rood shingles go all the way to the ground?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2022 12:16 PM (UuD2k)

Hobbit?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 12:18 PM (iTCtr)

389 Like most people in real life, this very busty blonde in a black dress knows that "core inflation" is meaningless at the grocery store and gas pump - and no amount of "insurrection" talk or data massaging can change that:
https://is.gd/4XwBVO

I don't think she is a virgin.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2022 12:18 PM (anj39)

390 Cratsmen house is where oriental cat men live.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2022 12:18 PM (a3Q+t)

391 Those pre fab delivered to your site homes Sears sold inspired others. There was an outfit back in Ohio that would drop the whole deal at your lot. Trouble was, some enterprising folks out of Youngstown figured if they could deliver it with a flat bed and forklift, you could steal it with a flatbed and forklift. "Okay, what did you goombahs do today productive?" "Hey boss, my crew stole a house." "No shit, Rocco, you're a good earner."

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2022 12:18 PM (lz5hY)

392 What's the house style where the rood shingles go all the way to the ground?

I've seen some A-frames that go almost that far down.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 01, 2022 12:18 PM (Bd6X8)

393 What's the house style where the rood shingles go all the way to the ground?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2022 12:16 PM (UuD2k)

burnt down?

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 01, 2022 12:19 PM (ex2Cx)

394 Consumer's Distributing but pre-internet so malls won out. Despite the dates given I only remember them being successfully around in the '70s although into the '80s might have been true too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Consumers_Distributing

The catalogue included a plain, 6" white vibrator called -- in a Don Draper turn of phrase -- a 'facial massager' that we used to mock in school.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 01, 2022 12:19 PM (yikp0)

395 > What's the house style where the rood shingles go all the way to the ground?

A Frame?

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 12:19 PM (eyxn4)

396 Huh. Interwebs says that's called a shingle style house.

You'd think that would be something I could remember.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2022 12:19 PM (UuD2k)

397 Yes; I wanted them to be called doubloonies, BTW, but loonie-toonie won out.

Another blow to historical education caused by the cartoon industry!
Posted by: andycanuck
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Lol. I like 'doubloonies' a lot.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2022 12:19 PM (ENHSe)

398 What's the house style where the rood shingles go all the way to the ground?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2022 12:16 PM (UuD2k)
++++
Unattractive, IMO.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 01, 2022 12:19 PM (WWh8n)

399 What's the house style where the rood shingles go all the way to the ground?

--

Collapsed?

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2022 12:20 PM (sVtYq)

400 scracth my itchy asshole, dickhead!!!

Posted by: rood shingles at July 01, 2022 12:20 PM (yikp0)

401 "What's the house style where the rood shingles go all the way to the ground?"

Der Wienerschnitzel?

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2022 12:20 PM (OTzUX)

402 Sounds like a good ole fashioned barn raisin'.

It often was, the whole community joining in to build a home. I put a few sample house designs from catalog stores in Western Hero, some of them were really impressive.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 12:20 PM (llsW/)

403 380 What's the house style where the rood shingles go all the way to the ground?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2022 12:16 PM (UuD2k)

A frame or Alpine?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 01, 2022 12:20 PM (XvPQV)

404 Like most people in real life, this very busty blonde in a black dress knows that "core inflation" is meaningless at the grocery store and gas pump - and no amount of "insurrection" talk or data massaging can change that:
https://is.gd/4XwBVO

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 01, 2022 12:14 PM (WWh8n)

Because she has big brains.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 01, 2022 12:21 PM (nByzo)

405 280 Jen - thanks for that info. Going to check out Redland Cotton.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2022 11:54 AM (OTzUX)

I've got a set of sheets from them.

Good stuff...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 01, 2022 12:21 PM (BgMrQ)

406 Nope, the train came and dropped off all the parts and you had to move it to the location and build it yourself. Ikea ain't in it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 12:17 PM (llsW/)

Like the Stooges in The Sitter-Downers.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 01, 2022 12:21 PM (2JVJo)

407 How come the Liberal World Order closely resembles Socialism?

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 01, 2022 12:21 PM (ex2Cx)

408 Carlinville, Illinois has the largest number of Sears Craftsman homes still standing in one neighborhood.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2022 12:22 PM (BFigT)

409 What's the house style where the rood shingles go all the way to the ground?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2022 12:16 PM (UuD2k)

A frame or Alpine?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 01, 2022 12:20 PM (XvPQV)

Like this?

https://bit.ly/3ugMI7s

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 01, 2022 12:22 PM (nByzo)

410 The Quebe sisters did put a smile on my face! But also a tears in my eye to know that this type of great music is slowly dissapearing from America as the freaks and weirdos takeover.

Posted by: mike at July 01, 2022 12:22 PM (tAUXl)

411 Ummm . . . the "pre-built home" thing is huge huge business. Normally it's associated with poor trailer parks, but they have moved up in size and price.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 01, 2022 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

412 "whew July, now we can go back to our normal packaging!"
--Virtue signalling businesses

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 12:23 PM (llsW/)

413 #369 Thanks, Plum Duff.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 01, 2022 12:23 PM (yikp0)

414 I introduce the new Director of the Nuclear Spent Fuel Program

http://tinyurl.com/yckzkctj

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 01, 2022 12:23 PM (ex2Cx)

415 There was no attack at the Capitol, so this persyn was shocked and scared by something that didn't happen.

This is how "our betters" roll. Lies, upon lies. Seems to work pretty well. A disinformed populace is a dead one.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 01, 2022 12:24 PM (Xrfse)

416 We usually watch this on Independence Day:
https://youtu.be/s7vqzJC0r7A

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 01, 2022 12:24 PM (WWh8n)

417 Yeah you can get pre-made "mobile" or "modular" homes that can be quite nice but they're nothing like what Sears was putting out

http://tinyurl.com/nrd3fy3v

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 12:24 PM (llsW/)

418 414 I introduce the new Director of the Nuclear Spent Fuel Program

http://tinyurl.com/yckzkctj
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 01, 2022 12:23 PM (ex2Cx)

It's a brilliant idea to put on of the Martians from Mars Attacks in charge...

Posted by: Allie at July 01, 2022 12:24 PM (UnA8+)

419 I wasn't thinking of A-Frame. It's actually just called "shingle style". Basically the entire outside is covered in shingles.

Sounds like a pain to keep up.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 01, 2022 12:25 PM (UuD2k)

420 414 I can't do tinyurl. Tatts and piercings?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2022 12:25 PM (lz5hY)

421 Like most people in real life, this very busty blonde in a black dress knows that "core inflation

She's very pretty and looks quite young, but your confidence in her brains may be overestimated, Joe. I expect if she ever mentions "core" it has to do with exercises for her core.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2022 12:25 PM (FZ2cV)

422 Is this what little people do when they get bored?

https://bit.ly/3NxM5wR

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 12:25 PM (eyxn4)

423 I can't do tinyurl. Tatts and piercings?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2022 12:25 PM (lz5hY)

Dude who dresses like a butt-ugly woman.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 01, 2022 12:26 PM (nByzo)

424 ...Democrats seem out of touch with the voters' main concerns

I think the phrase they are looking for is: "depraved indifference".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 01, 2022 12:26 PM (AHeqJ)

425 423 The Admiral Levine has two jobs?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2022 12:27 PM (lz5hY)

426 Dude who dresses like a butt-ugly woman.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 01, 2022 12:26 PM (nByzo)
++++
And the "pet play" aspect where he pretends to be a dog.

YD calls him "Atomic Tranny Dogboy" and I think it's apt.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 01, 2022 12:27 PM (WWh8n)

427 May be of interest to publius:

https://www.howbad.info/

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 01, 2022 12:27 PM (Bd6X8)

428 420 414 I can't do tinyurl. Tatts and piercings?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2022 12:25 PM (lz5hY)

try the first link on citizens free press

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 01, 2022 12:27 PM (ex2Cx)

429 Amanpour is only 64. I figured she was well past 70.

Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2022 12:27 PM (VJsqe)

430 banana Dream

I've aged out of my climbing days. And biking days.
Canoeing is still OK, on rivers.

Where in Kansas did you live?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 12:27 PM (u82oZ)

431 Arizona legislature passed a comprehensive school choice bill for parents. Basically the money that would be spent on a school is put in a special account that can only be drawn upon for education for your child.

http://tinyurl.com/2kxnujcw

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 12:28 PM (llsW/)

432 The "liberal world order". There's a concept and phrase from another era.

I guess the seizure of Crimea didn't, somehow, threaten this "order". But, but - Lugansk and Donetsk, now that's a barrel of entirely differently colored horses!

Is this airhead not sure that South Ossetia (lovely place) opting to become part of RUSSIA! isn't *also* a threat to his precious order? If not, why not?

There can be threats to interests, some of which take the form of annexing entire states in the absence of any real claims or issues whatsoever, and thereby placing your dagger at the jugular of the world economy, which fall into the category of imperiling some aspect of world order.

Nasty long-running alley fights along ethnic lines between unsavory and low-capability types, in ho-hum geography, don't qualify.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2022 12:28 PM (OTzUX)

433 I scored gas for $4.29 a gallon in Denison Texas.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 01, 2022

***
$4.25 for E10 87 this morning in Gretna. I paid the extra .13/gal. for E0, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 01, 2022 12:29 PM (txdEq)

434 How did they get the inflation rate down to 8.6%?

Easy. They swapped bugs for chicken meat in their calculation.

Posted by: Zuckerberg Dropboxes at July 01, 2022 12:29 PM (RyUxO)

435 How do July BBW prices compare?
Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 11:09 AM (skf6d)

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 01, 2022 12:29 PM (nByzo)

436 No cheese, no bread for my cheeseburger.

Posted by: Eromero at July 01, 2022 12:29 PM (gktX6)

437 I think the left is kind of shocked by this avalanche of wins for us, but they are dumb if they are.

This has been building for years, its finally cresting now and efforts to get this stuff done are taking place finally. The left's radical extremist activist types pushed and pushed and pushed and finally people are pushing back.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 12:29 PM (llsW/)

438 Miles Homes still sells kit houses. One advantage of Miles is that it's traditional construction, so bank financing (once built) is a snap. That's not true of a lot of new designs that incorporate non-traditional building methods.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 01, 2022 12:30 PM (sWM8x)

439 Gavin Newsom may have broken the law by simply holding this AR-15.

https://bit.ly/3Ag8eg7

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 12:30 PM (eyxn4)

440 Arizona legislature passed a comprehensive school choice bill for parents. Basically the money that would be spent on a school is put in a special account that can only be drawn upon for education for your child.

http://tinyurl.com/2kxnujcw

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 12:28 PM (llsW/)

I posted this yesterday. Instead of limiting it to only students in "underperforming schools," this expands the programs to all students, including home school, from what I read. It is a really big deal.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 01, 2022 12:31 PM (nByzo)

441 >>> Where in Kansas did you live?
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 12:27 PM (u82oZ)

I was born and raised in Wichita. My girlfriend and later my wife is from Saline County. So I'm a little familiar with the area between Wichita up to Salina.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 12:31 PM (skf6d)

442 A new trend is putting those "tiny houses" on wheels and calling it an RV.

The RV crowd ain't buying it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2022 12:31 PM (BFigT)

443 rhomboid

Donetsk has unexploited hydrocarbon reserves. ISTR they need fracking technology, but it is there.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 12:31 PM (u82oZ)

444 Gavin Newsom may have broken the law by simply holding this AR-15.

https://bit.ly/3Ag8eg7

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 12:30 PM (eyxn4)

We are post law, comrade.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 01, 2022 12:32 PM (nByzo)

445 Yeah between the debt and monetary policy situation we don't really have a way out of this that doesn't involve inflation. Well, I guess we could cut entitlement spending in theory, but that's not going to happen.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 11:16 AM (b2nrj)

Restructure under the threat of default. Trump might be able to broker this deal. Biden cannot, and never could.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 01, 2022 12:32 PM (xhaym)

446 I am up to about 14 or 15 lies Cassidy told. What a bunch of bullshit!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 01, 2022 12:32 PM (ex2Cx)

447 No cheese, no bread for my cheeseburger.
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Keto!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 01, 2022 12:32 PM (yikp0)

448 We usually watch this on Independence Day:

Awesome and poignant at the same time. What happened to us? Rhetorical question. No response required.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 01, 2022 12:32 PM (Xrfse)

449 Miles Homes still sells kit houses. One advantage of Miles is that it's traditional construction, so bank financing (once built) is a snap. That's not true of a lot of new designs that incorporate non-traditional building methods.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 01, 2022 12:30 PM (sWM8x)

Is "Kingsbury" still in bidness? I worked summers while in HS for a contractor putting these kits together.

Posted by: BignJames at July 01, 2022 12:33 PM (AwYPR)

450 The "liberal world order". There's a concept and phrase from another era.

It actually works now though, given that all of the "liberal democracies" apparently have used Ukraine as a corrupt piggy bank since at least 2014 when Victoria Nuland overthrew the government with Obama's blessing. Said governments, including the Biden junta, would be in trouble if Putin seized those accounts and sent the statements to Wikileaks or something.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 01, 2022 12:33 PM (ZGrMX)

451 banana Dream

The pronunciation difference between Saline River or County and Salina is a tell.

Last time I was in Wichita was to watch the B-29 Doc take off.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 12:33 PM (u82oZ)

452 Off damnable Zuckerberg sock!

Today's blonde in the ever lovely Natalie, with her oversized

Seahorse tattoo.

You thought I was going to mention something else?

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at July 01, 2022 12:33 PM (RyUxO)

453 444 Gavin Newsom may have broken the law by simply holding this AR-15.

https://bit.ly/3Ag8eg7

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 12:30 PM (eyxn4)

We are post law, comrade.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 01, 2022 12:32 PM (nByzo)

This happens all the time a reporter or govt official carries a gun the wrong way or to the wrong place or even has an illegal part!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 01, 2022 12:33 PM (ex2Cx)

454 A new trend is putting those "tiny houses" on wheels and calling it an RV.

The RV crowd ain't buying it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
___

Kinda like slapping tits on a dude and calling him a woman.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 12:34 PM (zYA/b)

455 Alright! I reasoned out that ISTR is "I seem to recall/remember" without net searching!

[I'm easily pleased.]

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 01, 2022 12:34 PM (yikp0)

456 I stopped at a lot that had a bunch of factory built storage sheds, offices, and tiny houses. Now, a tiny house might be a good idea for a senior divorced guy like me, but everyone they had on display had sleeping in a loft. Guess they have never heard about the prostate in your senior years, and falling off a fucking ladder in the middle of the night.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2022 12:34 PM (lz5hY)

457 Last time I was in Wichita was to watch the B-29 Doc take off.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 12:33 PM (u82oZ)

Was that when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 01, 2022 12:34 PM (ex2Cx)

458 Some non-entity named Douglas Murray writing in the New York Post today that the "Trump era is over" and that the GOP has a "deep bench" of true conservatives ready to lead the party into the future.

What is he smoking?

Posted by: JoeF. at July 01, 2022 12:34 PM (mR6Gs)

459 I was born and raised in Wichita. My girlfriend and later my wife is from Saline County. So I'm a little familiar with the area between Wichita up to Salina.

--

Train don't run outta Wichita...lessen you're a hog or a cattle. Train runs outta....Stubbville.

Posted by: Owen at July 01, 2022 12:35 PM (sVtYq)

460 This happens all the time a reporter or govt official carries a gun the wrong way or to the wrong place or even has an illegal part!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 01, 2022 12:33 PM (ex2Cx)

There was that turd propagandist who held a 20 or 30 round AR mag in DC or NY. Bupkis.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 01, 2022 12:35 PM (nByzo)

461 Great music, Buck!

Still not Old Time Fiddling.

Posted by: KT at July 01, 2022 12:35 PM (rrtZS)

462 Saline, Saline
Prettiest drip I ever seen

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 01, 2022 12:35 PM (yikp0)

463 Hi Salty!

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 12:35 PM (zYA/b)

464 ACE is here

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 01, 2022 12:35 PM (ex2Cx)

465 Last time I was in Wichita was to watch the B-29 Doc take off.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 12:33 PM (u82oZ)

Was that when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 01, 2022 12:34 PM (ex2Cx)

They were stopped by the Wichita Linemen

Posted by: JoeF. at July 01, 2022 12:35 PM (mR6Gs)

466 >>> 454 A new trend is putting those "tiny houses" on wheels and calling it an RV.

The RV crowd ain't buying it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
___

Kinda like slapping tits on a dude and calling him a woman.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 12:34 PM (zYA/b)

Heh.

"If this is a woman (pic of Richard Levine) then this is a fishing pole (pic of scary EBR with thing that goes up)."

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2022 12:35 PM (llON8)

467 It actually works now though, given that all of the "liberal democracies" apparently have used Ukraine as a corrupt piggy bank since at least 2014 when Victoria Nuland overthrew the government with Obama's blessing. Said governments, including the Biden junta, would be in trouble if Putin seized those accounts and sent the statements to Wikileaks or something.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 01, 2022 12:33 PM (ZGrMX)

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Do we have an extradition treaty with Russia?

/

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at July 01, 2022 12:35 PM (U+s6u)

468 rhennigantx

You're on a roll. You did take liberties with your dates (note the plural). Right?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 12:35 PM (u82oZ)

469 nood

oregon

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 12:36 PM (skf6d)

470 What is he smoking?

Posted by: JoeF. at July 01, 2022 12:34 PM (mR6Gs)

Pole.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 01, 2022 12:36 PM (nByzo)

471 tiny houses

Smaller than a jail cell and double occupancy expected. Murder factories.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at July 01, 2022 12:36 PM (HnE9b)

472 nood

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 01, 2022 12:36 PM (OgrpQ)

473 Dumb question. Is the term Cratsman House, named that because of Sears houses?
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 12:11 PM (VLzZI)

I think it predates Sears but I could be wrong.

Sears was not the only company that did this sort of thing, a number of lumber companies also designed and sold houses, and a few other companies like Aladdin also did designs and builds.

This is the online wishbooks I drool over: the plans are in the sidebar on the right

http://www.bungalowhomestyle.com/index.htm

Posted by: Kindltot at July 01, 2022 12:36 PM (xhaym)

474 Team Biden and the so called "elites" in washington are insulated from things like inflation and the rise in prices, shortages, etc. They really do not know what to say because they really don't know what all that means in real life.

They throw money around like Hunter Biden in Da Scrip Clubs.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 01, 2022 12:37 PM (R/m4+)

475 {{{ SMH at what's coming}}}

Been paying attention to you. We still have plenty of Angus around us, but that will change late this fall, according to ranchers I know.

Hope Ex-Ex is safe in the City.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 12:37 PM (u82oZ)

476 It could be worse, Congress, FJB, et al, could actually be trying to fix the economy.

Reset your thermostat to 68, break out your sweaters, and know whether you're an odd or even to buy gas.

Posted by: Angels three five and holding, out at July 01, 2022 12:38 PM (9X60i)

477 378 I scored gas for $4.29 a gallon in Denison Texas.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 01, 2022 12:16 PM (bVYXr)

Local station here in Tyler is doing $4.09 from 6pm to 10pm nightly.

Posted by: redchief at July 01, 2022 12:38 PM (Pks/C)

478 Is "Kingsbury" still in bidness? I worked summers while in HS for a contractor putting these kits together.
---
I'm not familiar with them, but I know it used to be common for contractors to build the kits. It was big business for a while.

Builders also used to build "shell homes" on spec. The exterior was complete, but the interior was left unfinished for the buyer to DIY. I don't see these any more, probably due to financing problems.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 01, 2022 12:40 PM (sWM8x)

479 AFAIK, the term craftsman house comes from the Arts and Crafts art movement. Frank Lloyd Wright was Prairie School, which is basically Arts and Crafts Architecture.

The movement was a rejection of Mass Production and Industrialization and preferred hand made/craftsman produced stuff. So, dark oak furniture held together with wooden pegs, hand hammered copper vases or lamp bases, lots of brown and muted greens. The movement just predates Art Nouveau and Art Deco which are much more ornamental.

Posted by: Bilwis out in the corn field at July 01, 2022 12:43 PM (cupoy)

480 Builders also used to build "shell homes" on spec. The exterior was complete, but the interior was left unfinished for the buyer to DIY. I don't see these any more, probably due to financing problems.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 01, 2022 12:40 PM (sWM8x)

"Jim Walters" was a national? company that did that...think they went tits up a while back.

Posted by: BignJames at July 01, 2022 12:45 PM (AwYPR)

481 ..Gavin Newsom may have broken the law by simply holding this AR-15. https://bit.ly/3Ag8eg7
Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 12:30 PM (eyxn4)

I'll posit that it's a State of CA owned AR (California Highway Patrol/example), and as the Chief Executive OF the State of California, he'd be more than authorized to hold the damn thing. Even on the Capital Grounds, in Sacramento.

In Texas, a regular CHL holder cannot "carry" into a bar with a "51%" sign posted. That's a bar that gets more than 1/2 it's revenue from grog. OK to carry to Chili's, not OK to carry into the Dew Drop Inn, etc. Unless you're a commissioned or retired Texas Peace Officer. Then, your credential allows you to carry there, at voting places and all the normally prohibited zones.

Government people are just extra special equaler.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 01, 2022 12:47 PM (tkOps)

482 Some non-entity named Douglas Murray

He's not a non entity. He's British and works for "Spectator." As with a number of Brit conservatives he doesn't like Trump. The term "Brash American" comes to mind. However, he
wrote a fine editorial the other day about "being over the rainbow". He's gay but he's sick of all the LBGT stuff and not on board with transgenderism and the grooming of kids.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2022 12:51 PM (FZ2cV)

483 Jim SND @ 481- You are correct sir. Last time I drank anything at a resturant while carrying was in Galveston with you. Long time. I drink at home. Easy to reach though.

Posted by: Eromero at July 01, 2022 12:55 PM (gktX6)

484 Redchief @ 477- I got a dollar off with Brookshire points on Tuesday.

Posted by: Eromero at July 01, 2022 12:58 PM (gktX6)

485 I used to like Bed, Bath and Beyond, especially when I once had one right across the street from my apartment once upon a time. I might have troubled myself to go to one’s near me has they just kept their mouths shut about politics. But they just HAD to yap.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 01, 2022 01:24 PM (CdZ4i)

486 481: The way it was explained to me in LTC class was that if at a Chili’s per your example, carrying concealed is OK if seated at a table; not OK at the bar.

Unless you are a TX Peace Officer which I guess are immune from alcohol per the State Legislature.

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Posted by: escorts at July 01, 2022 01:43 PM (Ufu8t)

488 Like most people in real life, this very busty blonde in a black dress knows that "core inflation" is meaningless at the grocery store and gas pump - and no amount of "insurrection" talk or data massaging can change that:
https://is.gd/4XwBVO
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 01, 2022 12:14

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Holy razor stubble

Posted by: Bigsmith at July 01, 2022 02:46 PM (MINe5)

489 The prices on meat seem way too low. I'm in CA.

Here in the West, due to water restrictions/drought that are killing pastures, the cost of fuel to produce fodder, lack/cost of fertilizer, and Bill Gates standing behind the curtain, a lot of ranchers started selling off their livestock over a year ago.
Slaughterhouses processing plants had a many months long waiting list. Ranchers were and still are being forced to dump the herds at very low prices. Some are being forced to euthanize animals so that they do not starve go death.
Two months ago, a granddaughter in Lodi saw a dump truck loaded with unprocessed cattle carcasses going through town, probably on the way go a rendering plant or a pit for burial.
Beef is cheap now.
This winter it will be expensive...as the Green Lobby wants.

Posted by: waepnedmann at July 01, 2022 03:42 PM (gn1VW)

490 295
I'm in the market for a 44. Somehow I doubt there will be doorbuster deals on them.
Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2022 11:30 AM (VJsqe)

There's always the Automag, which is coming back. And apparently in a non-malfunctioning form.

Ian at Forgotten Weapons reviews a dealer sample.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORUCly0nrbI
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2022 11:57 AM (n+4am)

Back in another century, when the Automag was relatively new, a CIA buddy of my squad leader's dad gave him an Automag. My squad leader/friend was not a gun guy. Automags came in a wooden case. He described these three steel cylinders that were in one of the compartmenst of the case. He had no idea what they were. I explained that they were loading dies and that you had to manufacture your own ammo by cutting down .308 Winchester cartridge cases.

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