When Time Shall Count From The Date That The ONT Began To Hate

Greetings, and welcome to Thursday. Can you believe that tomorrow is July? Man, this year is going by so quickly that this just went up down the street.

Bullet Sponge

Liberals: bUt WhY DoEs AnYoNe NeEd MoRe ThAn 6 BuLlEtS?

A: Check out this body cam footage

3 clips, each of a different officer involved. Austin Texas. Aside from the fact that the officers managed to maneuver themselves into what amounted to a half circle, shooting at the guy in the middle (not really the best idea for avoiding friendly fire), and the officer in the second clip dumps all 15 rounds into/at the suspect and then stands there covering him with his slide locked back for about 10 seconds (props for a quick mag change when the suspect got up and he needed to shoot him some more, but he should have reloaded much sooner), they did a pretty good job. Guy just did not want to stay down.

Cooking Corner

Not to step on CBD's toes, but here at the ONT we're all about delectable dishes that are fun and easy to make. Like so:

You know this is old because a “large” coke is 10 oz. Call me crazy, but I'm actually tempted to make this. I mean, someobody somewhere must have thought that it tasted good, right? It made it into a cookbook at one point, right? How bad could it be?

I don't know if the above recipe is there, but if you like this kind of stuff, check out James Lileks' Gallery of Regrettable Food. It's a hoot.

Headline Of The Week

Topless breastfeeding mum in boxer shorts tackles bald eagle to save pet goose

Might be in the running for headline of the year.

Garbage List

Historians Rank Every President in US History

So, this list was composed by “142 historians, professors and professional observers of presidencies.“ WTF is a “ professional observer of presidencies”? Are there amateur observers of presidencies? What does it take to break into the high-paying League of Presidential Observers (LPO)? If you do so before graduating college do you forfeit any remaining years of eligibility?

Second, care to guess the political leanings of these “ historians, professors and professional observers of presidencies”? Go on, guess. C'mon, c'mon, take a shot. You'll never get it in a million years. What? You're kidding me, you got it first time. Amazing.

So, Lincoln is 1 and Washington 2. Well, that's wrong. Washington is #1. Coolidge is 2 (he placed 23rd) and then Lincoln. But #3 gives away the game: FDR. In a correct list, FDR only gets to the middle of the pack because of his wartime leadership, based on his first 2 terms he'd be rubbing elbows with James Buchanan (who is rightly listed dead last.) The rest of the top ten is fairly solid, although JFK is, as always on lists like these, ranked too high, and what Truman did to crack the top 10 is beyond me. Reagan gets surprisingly high on the list ( 8 ), but the SCOAMF is 9 and Fucking Wilson is 12. Wilson! You could argue that he was worse than Buchannan, and I wouldn't fight you on it. And yes, Trump is in the bottom five. What do you think of the list, and how would you re-rank it?

Now Showing

Get Woke, Go Broke: Hollywood Is Dying And They Deserve It

There have been many other moments of exposure since 2016, from the negative reactions to Comicsgate, feminist Ghostbusters, feminist Star Wars, woke Star Trek, woke Dr. Who, woke Batwoman, woke He-Man, woke Lord of the Rings, critical race theory in television, trans, LGBT and CRT propaganda in children's programming, etc. It's becoming endless. Around 95% of all popular entertainment contains multiple layers of leftist messaging. The market is utterly saturated with it.
This kind of overwhelming propaganda is familiar. It is a methodology used in communist regimes and authoritarian governments throughout the 20th century including the Soviet Union and Mao's China, and it almost slipped right under the noses of the majority of Americans and western nations. The goal is simple: Make EVERYTHING political.
Want to escape the real world for a couple of hours into a fantasy land? Want to see daring tales of classical heroes and villains? Want to experience history as it actually happened, or at least very close to the historical record? Are you looking for an archetypal experience, a mythological exploration of the human mind or the human heart – something that almost anyone could relate to? Sorry, you're not allowed to escape. You're not allowed to examine universal ideas and ideals. Every single story must be told within the narcissistic framework (or prison) of modern political ideology. Even in stories set a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
The extreme political left wants you to think about their beliefs and viewpoints all day everyday. They want you to assume that their ideology is the ONLY ideology. They want you to assume that the “majority” of the population thinks as they think. It's called manufacturing consensus.

Link to Zero Hedge, so the comments section is probably a shit show. I didn't read the comments on this article, but I've never seen a comment section over there that wasn't.

Racism

Calling Justice Thomas ‘Uncle Clarence’ exposes the rotten sham that is the progressive movement

They say that in times of stress, anger and anguish, you see who people really are. These moments are rare but special because you get to see how much of their rhetoric manifests in action and how much is lip service.
With overwhelming anger seeping through their pores, Democrats saw only one viable target who would satisfy their rage. There was only one person for whom they felt comfortable exposing themselves by lifting the veil of their true hatred and indifference for black people.
In a matter of hours, “Uncle Clarence” was trending on Twitter, a reference to the racist pejorative “Uncle Tom.” I witnessed multiple conversations between white progressives questioning if Clarence knows he’s black, chastising him for being married to a white woman and even going so far as to feel completely comfortable calling him a n—er.

I fucking hate the racism of the left with the heat of a thousand suns, mainly because I thought we'd beaten it. I came of age in the 80s, and by 1990 I really thought that we'd done it. My generation had internalized the message of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, and race just wasn't a thing anymore. Oh, there were scattered individual racists, to be sure, but on the whole, nobody cared. And then the left spent the next 30 years reversing all of the progress we'd made in the previous 30 years, and here we are today. I'll never forgive them for it.

TWIB

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) July 1, 2022

Dad raised that kid right.

Twitter Thread Of The Week

You're not going to like what comes next

Link goes to the last tweet in the thread, the first one doesn't display the whole thread properly because one tweet was removed, but the last one shows the whole chain. A modern take on Kipling's The Beginnings.

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by R. M. Huffman* (pretty sure he wrote this):

*Huff is a Moron, and an author. You should read his "Sweet Tooth" anthology, the omnibus is available on Kindle for something like $3-4, and it's a hoot.

Posted by: WeirdDave at 09:53 PM

Comments

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1

wa'Dlch!

Posted by: Zettai at June 30, 2022 09:54 PM (KuEk4)

2 2nd

Posted by: Theodore at June 30, 2022 09:57 PM (GJnvT)

3 3rd

Posted by: Theodore at June 30, 2022 09:57 PM (GJnvT)

4 4th

Posted by: Theodore at June 30, 2022 09:57 PM (GJnvT)

5 That was back when a "regular" Coke was 6oz. in the THICK bottle you would hammer nails with.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2022 09:58 PM (63Dwl)

6 If SMH is around:

Survival MD

https://bit.ly/3NE2Ypz

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2022 09:58 PM (5t6Zf)

7 Willowed:
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Whom DC would destroy they first put on "suicide watch".
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Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 09:58 PM (krQz2)

8 I'll be back after reading the content.

Posted by: Theodore at June 30, 2022 09:59 PM (GJnvT)

9 Top 10

Posted by: Lurking Cheshire Cat at June 30, 2022 09:59 PM (w3u3d)

10 Thanks, rick.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 09:59 PM (+my1P)

11 "There’s a saying about the danger of making people who want to be left alone get involved.
You’ve made us get involved.

So all of it, from here on out, is squarely on you.
Enjoy the whirlwind you have so deservedly reaped."

Amen.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 10:00 PM (+my1P)

12 Those three cops needed to give that meth-head in Austin a Candygram.

Posted by: Roy at June 30, 2022 10:00 PM (Ti+Tv)

13 and what Truman did to crack the top 10 is beyond me.

Well, he did set off a couple of atomic bombs. That has to be good for something.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2022 10:01 PM (+lVUW)

14 One large Coca-Cola is not ten ounces.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2022 10:02 PM (7bRMQ)

15 I want to point out that I have tomorrow, July 1st, in the Brian Stelter Gets Fired pool. A Friday before a three day weekend is the perfect day to roll out unfavorable stuff.

I wish me luck!

Posted by: Bilwis out in the corn field at June 30, 2022 10:02 PM (cupoy)

16 they did a pretty good job. Guy just did not want to stay down.

Not sure what that was all about. Dude should have been mort relatively quickly.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 30, 2022 10:03 PM (Xrfse)

17 Of course, I'm not a cop, but wouldn't a nice sharp hit with a billy club to the back of the next stop anyone?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2022 10:04 PM (7bRMQ)

18 I fucking hate the racism of the left with the heat of a thousand suns, mainly because I thought we'd beaten it. I came of age in the 80s, and by 1990 I really thought that we'd done it. My generation had internalized the message of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, and race just wasn't a thing anymore. Oh, there were scattered individual racists, to be sure, but on the whole, nobody cared. And then the left spent the next 30 years reversing all of the progress we'd made in the previous 30 years, and here we are today. I'll never forgive them for it.
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And it was all to keep neo-Marxism, aka the new European colonialism, alive.

It's explicit in the white writers like Marcuse, they have to get to the black man before he becomes a major stakeholder in the free market to convince them that he is shut out of the free market.

Thus they needed a new oppressor, and the Democratic Party no longer wanted to play that role, so they shoveled goodies at the minorities and told them the problem with racism is that the Republicans didn't want to pander to their crowds as much as they did.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 10:04 PM (krQz2)

19 good evening y'all

Posted by: wing at June 30, 2022 10:04 PM (PlW9M)

20 Let me guess... 9mm?

Posted by: davidt at June 30, 2022 10:04 PM (oTZbj)

21 President Trump is easily top 20.

Roe V Wade being overturned is a huge deal.

The people who've been praying consistently, for decades, for the abomination known as Roe V Wade to be overturned witnessed a miracle.

President Trump is the most consequential president in my lifetime.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:05 PM (5pTK/)

22 20 Let me guess... 9mm?
Posted by: davidt at June 30, 2022 10:04 PM (oTZbj)

I didn't see a lung laying on the asphalt.

Posted by: Roy at June 30, 2022 10:05 PM (Ti+Tv)

23 1) Washington
2) Coolidge
3) Polk
4) Reagan
5) Ike

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 30, 2022 10:05 PM (0snk2)

24 You know this is old because a “large” coke is 10 oz. Call me crazy, but I'm actually tempted to make this. I mean, somebody somewhere must have thought that it tasted good, right? It made it into a cookbook at one point, right? How bad could it be?
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I think that was back when a normal coke was 6 oz.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 10:05 PM (krQz2)

25 nice content WD.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at June 30, 2022 10:06 PM (UgAdJ)

26 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 30, 2022 10:06 PM (0snk2)

27

First > second, third, and fourth

Posted by: Zettai at June 30, 2022 10:06 PM (KoIJY)

28 Of course, I'm not a cop, but wouldn't a nice sharp hit with a billy club to the back of the next stop anyone?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2022 10:04 PM (7bRMQ)
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Cop I knew preferred a spring loaded baton to the knee. Tended to stop people in their tracks.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:06 PM (5pTK/)

29 13 and what Truman did to crack the top 10 is beyond me.

Well, he did set off a couple of atomic bombs. That has to be good for something.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2022 10:01 PM (+lVUW)

He beat a Republican, unexpectedly. And ordered the armed services integrated. So, two claims to Leftist sainthood (I am NOT complaining about his integration order). Those two achievements enable the Leftists to grudgingly ignore the A-bomb orders when voting on best POTUS.

Posted by: Ishmael at June 30, 2022 10:07 PM (AMIL/)

30 What ONT is this...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at June 30, 2022 10:07 PM (hOUT3)

31 Hey!
I'm a friggin' professor. Nobody asked me.
Dickheads.

Posted by: Uri at June 30, 2022 10:07 PM (anj39)

32 ONT!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 30, 2022 10:08 PM (kf6Ak)

33 wa'Dlch!
Posted by: Zettai

Your Welsh is improving

Posted by: Miklos , one too may vowels, though at June 30, 2022 10:08 PM (thbCK)

34 Topless breastfeeding mum in boxer shorts tackles bald eagle to save pet goose
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We were just trying to take it easy!

Posted by: The Eagles at June 30, 2022 10:08 PM (krQz2)

35 I think that was back when a normal coke was 6 oz.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 10:05 PM (krQz2)

The vending machine price for the 6 oz was 5 cents. Oh, the bygone days...

Posted by: Ishmael at June 30, 2022 10:09 PM (AMIL/)

36 A ranking of the preezys is akin to rating brussel sprouts recipes. Any recipe that still has brussel sprouts in the dish as the final step is a FAIL.

Woodrow Wilson is the worst preezy ever in my mind, but the current pResident is giving Woody a run for the money. But that's just a brussel sprout analogy. ymmv.

Thanks for the ONTs, weirddave.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 30, 2022 10:09 PM (F0YaR)

37 Hello Friends!
Pride month is over, so there's that. Take off your freak!

Posted by: ALH at June 30, 2022 10:09 PM (Krnar)

38 ...so Clarence Thomas doesn't know he is black because, what, abortion is needed cause black people can't be responsible for using the many forms of birth control because...?

Pretty much gives away that the left's view of blacks hasn't changed since the days of slavery when the left felt blacks were basically animals. But parties switched and all that...despite the racist thinking surviving.

Posted by: Bete at June 30, 2022 10:10 PM (a0KPx)

39 The vending machine price for the 6 oz was 5 cents. Oh, the bygone days...
Posted by: Ishmael at June 30, 2022 10:09 PM (AMIL/)

We shall never see their like again...

#moresthepity

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 30, 2022 10:10 PM (BgMrQ)

40 Your Welsh is improving

Posted by: Miklos , one too may vowels, though at June 30, 2022 10:08 PM

*glare*

Posted by: Trekkies Everywhere at June 30, 2022 10:10 PM (KoIJY)

41 40 Your Welsh is improving

Posted by: Miklos , one too may vowels, though at June 30, 2022 10:08 PM

*glare*
Posted by: Trekkies Everywhere at June 30, 2022 10:10 PM (KoIJY)

Welshie!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 30, 2022 10:10 PM (0snk2)

42 good night, all. i'm dog dead tired from the road trip and stress.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at June 30, 2022 10:11 PM (UgAdJ)

43 Pride month is over, so there's that.

Eh, there will be another victimization month shortly.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 30, 2022 10:11 PM (Xrfse)

44 Hey!
I'm a friggin' professor. Nobody asked me.
Dickheads.

Posted by: Uri at June 30, 2022 10:07 PM (anj39)

We weren't asking about spoon bending.

Posted by: Zombie Amazing Randi at June 30, 2022 10:11 PM (7bRMQ)

45 Sometimes people who are shot die quickly, sometimes not.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 30, 2022 10:12 PM (jTmQV)

46 July is Recession time! Just in time for the 4th.

Posted by: ALH at June 30, 2022 10:12 PM (Krnar)

47 I've tried and tried, but I've never been able to decide about Washington vs Lincoln, so I've decided it's a tie.

Granted, Lincoln probably succored the British children, but he was pretty badass anyway.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2022 10:12 PM (/NCI4)

48 Evening Horde!

Looks like my uncle G is going back into surgery soon. They now have to amputate his leg from below the knee. They tried to avoid this situation by amputating half of his right foot but it's gotten worse.

Hopefully he will be stable enough to survive.

Posted by: mpfs, We are not a serious people anymore at June 30, 2022 10:13 PM (79p/O)

49 President Trump is easily top 20.

Roe V Wade being overturned is a huge deal.

The people who've been praying consistently, for decades, for the abomination known as Roe V Wade to be overturned witnessed a miracle.

President Trump is the most consequential president in my lifetime.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

Plus he gives a damn good speech.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2022 10:13 PM (+lVUW)

50 What blows my mind with these some companies is that the CEO has to stand before the board regarding profits and stock prices.

So how do these companies continue to push out this whole crap, take loss after loss, and these people get away with it.

I've never understood that. I guess even if they were losing money left and right, the stock was artificially inflated which keeps the CEO from getting shitcanned.

But example after example exists of woke companies getting hammered by consumers from Gillette to Target, Netflix to Disney. The list is endless.

But watch ChikFilA or Tom Cruise play it straight and consumers rewards them handsomely.

I always thought the dollar rules all but somehow these woke assholes survive.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 30, 2022 10:13 PM (mE7cY)

51 yo

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at June 30, 2022 10:13 PM (YglAn)

52 Let me guess.. 9mm? Posted by: davidt at June 30, 2022 10:04 PM (oTZbj)

.355 Europellet. LeBang! LePow! (note, I ain't volunteering to get shot with so much as a Daisy Red Ryder!)

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 30, 2022 10:13 PM (tkOps)

53 The 'why would anyone need more than six bullets' reminds me of an argument Rekieta made during the Rittenhouse trial. 'Then your argument is that he should just die, then?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 30, 2022 10:14 PM (0snk2)

54 Sometimes people who are shot die quickly, sometimes not.

A solid hit to the vitals is 99.9% effective.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 30, 2022 10:14 PM (Xrfse)

55 WE be all wants to wish Justice Kuntja jacksin Braune a hardy congradukations for being the furst womyn of coler on this racist court...

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at June 30, 2022 10:14 PM (0vFtj)

56 Without Washington, there is no Lincoln.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 30, 2022 10:14 PM (mE7cY)

57 The flaw of the American system.

1. It is worthless and dangerous to argue with crazy people.
2. You have to argue with crazy people.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 10:14 PM (krQz2)

58 President Trump is the most consequential president in my lifetime.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

He's my favorite.

Posted by: ALH at June 30, 2022 10:14 PM (Krnar)

59 I also think Eisenhower doesn't get the respect he deserves as a president.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2022 10:14 PM (/NCI4)

60 50 Um, about Chic FIL A's CEO...

Posted by: Bete at June 30, 2022 10:15 PM (a0KPx)

61 39 The vending machine price for the 6 oz was 5 cents. Oh, the bygone days...
Posted by: Ishmael at June 30, 2022 10:09 PM (AMIL/)

We shall never see their like again...

#moresthepity

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 30, 2022 10:10 PM (BgMrQ)

My memory of those days is fading, but I recall a rack for empty bottles on the side of the machine - you did not have to pay the bottle deposit to the gas station or drug store if you drank the pop and put the empty bottle in the rack. Could be mistaken.

Posted by: Ishmael at June 30, 2022 10:15 PM (AMIL/)

62 Posted by: ALH at June 30, 2022 10:14 PM (Krnar)

He's pretty good isn't he?

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at June 30, 2022 10:15 PM (YglAn)

63 You read stories about people that have been shot like 26 times, and live.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 30, 2022 10:15 PM (jTmQV)

64 I always thought the dollar rules all but somehow these woke assholes survive.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Somehow Chapek got a 3yr extension this week

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 30, 2022 10:15 PM (MGB5H)

65

I'm surprised the first blast of the scattergun didn't cut the yidget in half!

It must have been birding shells were used...

Posted by: Zettai at June 30, 2022 10:15 PM (x2jjm)

66 That twitter link is just a bunch of people replying, "no you're wrong because you're white".

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2022 10:16 PM (0fVbu)

67 I also think Eisenhower doesn't get the respect he deserves as a president.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2022 10:14 PM (/NCI4)
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This is true.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:16 PM (5pTK/)

68 Washington
Lincoln
Reagan
Coolidge
Trump

Posted by: mpfs, We are not a serious people anymore at June 30, 2022 10:16 PM (79p/O)

69 Without Washington, there is no Lincoln.

True, but without Lincoln, Washington would have been much less important because the US wouldn't exist.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2022 10:16 PM (/NCI4)

70 The 'why would anyone need more than six bullets' reminds me of an argument Rekieta made during the Rittenhouse trial. 'Then your argument is that he should just die, then?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 30, 2022 10:14 PM (0snk2)
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Nothing would have pleased them more.

They don't like cops getting assaulted, except thousands of them who aren't the play-time cops at the Capitol.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 10:16 PM (krQz2)

71 Where did Teddy Roosevelt fall on the list?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 30, 2022 10:16 PM (mE7cY)

72 He's pretty good isn't he?
Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at June 30, 2022 10:15 PM (YglAn)

The man is not without flaws, but who isn't?
He is still fighting for us.

Posted by: ALH at June 30, 2022 10:16 PM (Krnar)

73 {{Bif}}

Posted by: jewells45 at June 30, 2022 10:17 PM (nxdel)

74 Calling Justice Thomas ‘Uncle Clarence’ exposes the rotten sham that is the progressive movement

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Good Morning America says that Jumanji is the first black justice in history.

https://bit.ly/3nuRLx9

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at June 30, 2022 10:17 PM (FVME7)

75 reminds me of an argument Rekieta made during the Rittenhouse trial. 'Then your argument is that he should just die, then?'

That's pretty much exactly what the DA argued in court except that he gave the angry mob the benefit of the doubt that they would stop with just a beating instead of a fatal beating.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2022 10:17 PM (nfrXX)

76 Woodrow Wilson is the worst preezy ever in my mind, but the current pResident is giving Woody a run for the money.

Wasn't Wilson pretty much brain dead toward the end of his presidency? That kind of puts him even with President Bidet.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2022 10:18 PM (+lVUW)

77 Without Washington, there is no Lincoln.

I go you one further, without Washington there is no Presidency, maybe even an America.

Posted by: ALH at June 30, 2022 10:18 PM (Krnar)

78 You read stories about people that have been shot like 26 times, and live.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 30, 2022 10:15 PM (jTmQV)
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But if you get past 6, game over. Time to accept that death is a part of living.

Except for 40 illegals in a refrigeration truck.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 10:18 PM (krQz2)

79 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at June 30, 2022 10:17 PM (FVME7)

Never forget that Janice Rodgers Brown would have been that first but Grandpa Rapefinger shut that down.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at June 30, 2022 10:19 PM (YglAn)

80 >>> Um, about Chic FIL A's CEO...
Posted by: Bete at June 30, 2022 10:15 PM (a0KPx)

They're a completely woke leftist org and have been for some time.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2022 10:19 PM (0fVbu)

81 The liberal Rage Meter is off the charts these days.

It's a sight to behold!

Posted by: ALH at June 30, 2022 10:19 PM (Krnar)

82 Wasn't Wilson pretty much brain dead toward the end of his presidency? That kind of puts him even with President Bidet.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2022 10:18 PM (+lVUW)
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Our first president from academia.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 10:19 PM (krQz2)

83 Wasn't Wilson pretty much brain dead toward the end of his presidency? That kind of puts him even with President Bidet.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Yah its a pretty widely held belief that the Mrs was running the show

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 30, 2022 10:19 PM (MGB5H)

84 Trump is the first citizen politician to be President, as the founders intended.

Posted by: davidt at June 30, 2022 10:19 PM (oTZbj)

85 I would call Andrew Jackson the most consequential president in our history. But for him the republic was lost in 1815.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 30, 2022 10:19 PM (jTmQV)

86 So a gentleman whose handle I've never seen before in my life, requested that I make a Clarence Thomas Flaming Skull gif - for obvious reasons. I believe he was echoing an earlier request from someone else.

I wasn't sure how to handle that so I produced this.

tinyurl.com/yckt2eck

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 10:19 PM (dscaa)

87 40 Your Welsh is improving

Posted by: Miklos , one too may vowels, though at June 30, 2022 10:08 PM

Never Welsh on a bet. PS -- I've never known why this is 'a thing'.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 30, 2022 10:19 PM (F0YaR)

88 Posted by: ALH at June 30, 2022 10:18 PM (Krnar)

If Washington became king? For sure, no America as we knew it.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at June 30, 2022 10:19 PM (YglAn)

89

"Malcolm XX" > "Jumanji"

Posted by: Zettai at June 30, 2022 10:20 PM (x2jjm)

90 In the end, America was a phenomenally lucky country to have two such men when she needed them most. Not to mention Hamilton, Franklin, and Madison.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2022 10:20 PM (/NCI4)

91 "what Truman did to crack the top 10 is beyond me"

Off the top of my head: Hiroshima (horrible, but necessary). NATO. The Marshall Plan. The Berlin airlift. Saving South Korea. Firing MacArthur (an insubordinate general cannot be tolerated). Executing the Rosenbergs. Recognizing Israel.

He made the tough decisions needed to end WWII and contain the USSR. Maybe not top ten, but certainly top 15.

Posted by: Nemo at June 30, 2022 10:20 PM (S6ArX)

92 That was quick.

Posted by: San Francisco is raining anchovies at June 30, 2022 10:20 PM (qfLjt)

93 Good evening morons and thanks wd

When I was a kid, race was a thing the NYC I grew up in was residentially segregated. Philadelphia was even worse. Newark too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2022 10:20 PM (EZebt)

94 Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 10:19 PM (dscaa)

That's pretty good.

Respectfully I think he needs the lightning bolts from the eyes.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at June 30, 2022 10:20 PM (YglAn)

95 68 Washington
Lincoln
Reagan
Coolidge
Trump

Posted by: mpfs, We are not a serious people anymore at June 30, 2022 10:16 PM (79p/O)

Whoever the President was who decided to beat-down the Barbary pirates gets in my Top 5. That made the US and the US Navy forces to be respected.

Posted by: Ishmael at June 30, 2022 10:21 PM (AMIL/)

96 One thing I give Truman credit for: He never second guessed himself, publicly, about dropping the atomic bomb.

But, Truman served in WWI, so, he knew a bit about what soldiers went through, and most likely, was under no illusions how many American lives would be lost, were Japan invaded. (I believe Truman also didn't think much of Wilson, because Wilson segregated the Army, again, after desegregation had already started)

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:21 PM (5pTK/)

97 From your "The Gallery of Regrettable Food" I think "Meat Fisting at Home" deserves some additional... attention or whatever.

Someone could maybe post pics.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2022 10:21 PM (BFigT)

98 Trump is the first citizen politician to be President, as the founders intended.

Posted by: davidt at June 30, 2022 10:19 PM (oTZbj)
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Just DC didn't.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 10:21 PM (krQz2)

99 Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 30, 2022 10:19 PM (jTmQV)

Explain please.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at June 30, 2022 10:21 PM (YglAn)

100 ...tinyurl.com/yckt2eck

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 10:19 PM

*nods in approval

Posted by: Zettai at June 30, 2022 10:21 PM (x2jjm)

101 ....

*SNORT* skeletor

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 30, 2022 10:21 PM (MGB5H)

102 38 ...so Clarence Thomas doesn't know he is black because, what, abortion is needed cause black people can't be responsible for using the many forms of birth control because...?

And the fact that Planned Parenthood puts most of its abortion factories in black neighborhoods is totally not racist.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2022 10:22 PM (+lVUW)

103 Whoever the President was who decided to beat-down the Barbary pirates gets in my Top 5. That made the US and the US Navy forces to be respected.

Posted by: Ishmael at June 30, 2022 10:21 PM

Jefferson...

Posted by: Zettai at June 30, 2022 10:22 PM (x2jjm)

104 Whoever the President was who decided to beat-down the Barbary pirates gets in my Top 5. That made the US and the US Navy forces to be respected.
Posted by: Ishmael at June 30, 2022 10:21 PM (AMIL/)

Interesting comment/nic combo.

And I think it was T. Jefferson.

Posted by: Emmie at June 30, 2022 10:22 PM (6RgRK)

105 Pride Month is over?

For shame.

Posted by: Progressive Miklos at June 30, 2022 10:23 PM (thbCK)

106 Britain had prevailed in that they had burned down the white house. They were moving to continue this in New Orleans where they would have control over the Mississippi river. Andrew Jackson and his militia defeated the most powerful army the world had ever known.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 30, 2022 10:23 PM (jTmQV)

107 Ok.
The baseball thing was kinda cool.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 30, 2022 10:23 PM (anj39)

108 Remain in Mehico was the last chance to save America. Scotus blew it bigly. There will be tens of millions of illegals entering yearly now.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 30, 2022 10:23 PM (hA/0f)

109 We will always have Pride Month.

Posted by: Ilsa at June 30, 2022 10:23 PM (oTZbj)

110 Jefferson...
Posted by: Zettai

Yes Weezy?

Posted by: George Jefferson at June 30, 2022 10:24 PM (thbCK)

111 Presidents:
1. Washington. We are what we are, or were, because of him. In fact, I say that he was the turning point of history, he ended the old order and began the new. All modern history resulted from his life and actions.

2. Lincoln. Because he kept the country together. I don't care about views on whether he broke laws or the states should have been free to leave. If we fell apart, the world would be less free than it is.

3. Reagan. Just because. The nasty Democrat lies couldn't stop him. America First came from him.

4. TR. Yeah, I know a lot of people on the Right don't like him, but he understood what our place in the world should be.

5. Trump. Because he showed what evil lurks in the republic. People just need to look, he exposed it. Only those willingly blind can't see it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2022 10:24 PM (7bRMQ)

112 The battle of New Orleans. It is legendary. Many songs written about the subject. Some of them are good.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 30, 2022 10:24 PM (jTmQV)

113 Washington
Lincoln
Jefferson
Jackson
Trump
Reagan
Kennedy (for the Moon landing)

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 30, 2022 10:24 PM (kf6Ak)

114 109 but the White House spokemuppet said the boarder is closed...

Posted by: Bete at June 30, 2022 10:24 PM (a0KPx)

115 The Bacchanalia of Woke has ended.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 10:24 PM (krQz2)

116 Linked in already has company logos back to normal. Even though there are a few hours left in pride month. I cant even right now with the anger Im feeling.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 30, 2022 10:25 PM (hA/0f)

117 Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2022 10:24 PM (7bRMQ)

The older I get the more I like Teddy.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at June 30, 2022 10:25 PM (YglAn)

118 I wasn't sure how to handle that so I produced this.

tinyurl.com/yckt2eck
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 10:19 PM (dscaa)

Somebody, maybe it was WD here, had a kinda NSFW one of that black pornstar image but with Thomas's head and displaying a yuuuge gavel.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2022 10:25 PM (0fVbu)

119 Calling Justice Thomas ‘Uncle Clarence’ exposes the rotten sham that is the progressive movement
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Also shows their utter lack of creativity because they didn't call him Uncle Thomas.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 10:25 PM (dscaa)

120 95
Concur

Posted by: mpfs, We are not a serious people anymore at June 30, 2022 10:25 PM (79p/O)

121 Wasn't Wilson pretty much brain dead toward the end of his presidency? That kind of puts him even with President Bidet.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2022 10:18 PM (+lVUW)
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I believe the evidence Wilson's wife was actually running the show is from letters Wilson's wife claimed were from Wilson. The letters bordered on illiterate, which Wilson's wife was known to be, and, obviously, made the letters suspect. (going from memory, so grain of salt and all that)

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:25 PM (5pTK/)

122 Any list that does not have GW as #1 is bullshit right off the bat.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 30, 2022 10:25 PM (hA/0f)

123 Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 30, 2022 10:25 PM (hA/0f)

Literally shaking?

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at June 30, 2022 10:26 PM (YglAn)

124 I'm with you WierdDave on the Left's open racism, which is used like a club or whip against any person of any ethnic group that dares to go against The Message or in any imply that changing the USA into the USSA would be bad for us, for our descendants, and for the world at large. I too thought that with Gen X we had gotten past that stuff, only to watch as the younger Gen Y and Gen Z were taught to use ethnic slurs and orc-speech against the chosen targets of the week.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 30, 2022 10:26 PM (W+kMI)

125 I clicked on the topless breastfeeder boxer in shorts but it wouldn't come up.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 30, 2022 10:27 PM (anj39)

126
Also shows their utter lack of creativity because they didn't call him Uncle Thomas.
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 10:25 PM (dscaa

Uncle Thom is what intelligent people would have thought of. But they are leftist. So.....

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 30, 2022 10:27 PM (hA/0f)

127 Pride month is over, so there's that.

Eh, there will be another victimization month shortly.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

I want to know when we get white woman month. I went grocery shopping today and I feel pretty oppressed by that white man in the oval office.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2022 10:27 PM (+lVUW)

128 Why on earth would the Reagan Library invite Cheney to speak? Traitors.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2022 10:27 PM (EZebt)

129 355 Europellet. LeBang! LePow! (note, I ain't volunteering to get shot with so much as a Daisy Red Ryder!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Jim, you know (of course) that the .357 Sig shoots the Europellet - at 1400 fps. I aint volunteering either.

Posted by: RI Red at June 30, 2022 10:28 PM (y7VJM)

130 and I feel pretty oppressed by that white man in the oval office.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2022 10:27 PM (+lVUW)

That's hot.

Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton at June 30, 2022 10:28 PM (dscaa)

131 .355 Europellet. LeBang! LePow! (note, I ain't volunteering to get shot with so much as a Daisy Red Ryder!)

Jim
Sunk New Dawn

I was shot from a foot away, with a Daisy, right in the sternum. I was about 10. It penetrated about a 1/4 inch. It hurt. Especially when mom dug the BB out.

I too don't recommend this procedure.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 30, 2022 10:29 PM (F0YaR)

132 My favorite comment from the "You're not going to like what comes next" thread:

Whether you personally think it should have been a federal right is irrelevant. It was for 49 years. First by a 7-2 SCOTUS decision (unlike the 5 votes to overturn Roe) & it was reaffirmed through other decisions. Your religious view re: abortion being murder is also irrelevant.

Weird - I seem to recall that the principle that marriage had to consist of one man and one women was an absolutely settled legal doctrine for centuries.

I bet the commenter didn't complain when Obergefell overturned centuries of precedent.

Posted by: The ARC Of History! at June 30, 2022 10:29 PM (I2/tG)

133 I want to know when we get white woman month. I went grocery shopping today and I feel pretty oppressed by that white man in the oval office.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2022 10:27 PM (+lVUW)

There aren't enough coupons in the world to bring down that grocery bill.

Posted by: ALH at June 30, 2022 10:29 PM (Krnar)

134 Washington was as far as the Brits were going to go in 1814. They got their asses kicked when they tried to move on Baltimore. Not downplaying the significance of New Orleans, but they shot their load in the East with burning the White House.

Posted by: Weirddave at June 30, 2022 10:29 PM (lkr42)

135 I was shot from a foot away, with a Daisy, right in the sternum. I was about 10. It penetrated about a 1/4 inch. It hurt. Especially when mom dug the BB out.

Did she at least give you a bottle of whiskey and a leather strap to bite on?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2022 10:30 PM (/NCI4)

136 Linked in already has company logos back to normal. Even though there are a few hours left in pride month. I cant even right now with the anger Im feeling.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 30, 2022 10:25 PM (hA/0f)

LOL

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 10:31 PM (dscaa)

137 'why would anyone need more than six bullets'

Easy, 3 armed teenagers forcing their way into your house. And most people aren't very good shots. Whoever can't understand why someone would need more than 6 bullets is living in fantasyland.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2022 10:31 PM (+lVUW)

138 Why on earth would the Reagan Library invite Cheney to speak? Traitors.

Paul Ryan is on the Board of Trustees, along with a bunch of other Uniparty types.

Posted by: The ARC Of History! at June 30, 2022 10:32 PM (I2/tG)

139 Whether you personally think it should have been a federal right is irrelevant. It was for 49 years. First by a 7-2 SCOTUS decision (unlike the 5 votes to overturn Roe) & it was reaffirmed through other decisions. Your religious view re: abortion being murder is also irrelevant.

Weird - I seem to recall that the principle that marriage had to consist of one man and one women was an absolutely settled legal doctrine for centuries.

I bet the commenter didn't complain when Obergefell overturned centuries of precedent.
Posted by: The ARC Of History! at June 30, 2022 10:29 PM (I2/tG)
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Uh, I thought Roe V Wade was 5-4?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:32 PM (5pTK/)

140 114 109 but the White House spokemuppet said the boarder is closed...

Posted by: Bete at June 30, 2022 10:24 PM (a0KPx)

The border IS closed. No one can openly walk across and disappear into the interior without being stopped.

Stopped, to be given a free pre-paid cell phone, some money, the phone number to ask for free immigration legal help, free food, free clothing, and a free ride to anyplace in the interior. (types/deletes)

Posted by: Ishmael at June 30, 2022 10:32 PM (AMIL/)

141 Weird - I seem to recall that the principle that marriage had to consist of one man and one women was an absolutely settled legal doctrine for centuries.

I bet the commenter didn't complain when Obergefell overturned centuries of precedent.

Posted by: The ARC Of History! at June 30, 2022 10:29 PM (I2/tG)
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In fact, they had to make a decorative collage out of Loving v. Virginia in order to argue that marriage was a "fundamental right" where the New Mexico verdict severed the thing that Loving ruled it was "fundamental to".

Hack with a machete and paste law.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 10:33 PM (krQz2)

142 Good evening everyone. I hope all had a great day.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2022 10:33 PM (Msys3)

143 This whole thing with inviting politicians to speak is all about bribery and money laundering, you guys know that,right?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 30, 2022 10:33 PM (kf6Ak)

144 A prayer for complete and speedy healing for Uncle G

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2022 10:34 PM (EZebt)

145 83 Wasn't Wilson pretty much brain dead toward the end of his presidency? That kind of puts him even with President Bidet.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Yah its a pretty widely held belief that the Mrs was running the show
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Wilson had a stroke while trying to make a popular appeal in person across the country. Six years later he could have made a series of radio addresses like FDR. He spent the last 1.25 years of his term as an invalid inside the White House. His second wife Edith Wilson controlled access to the President during the day, and she was a formidable gatekeeper. Frustrated legislators and members of the Executive Branch told the newspapers that she was making policy, not the president. And so the time to make a lasting peace following WW I slipped away.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 30, 2022 10:34 PM (W+kMI)

146 How bad could it be?

It could be...and probably is...very, very bad.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 30, 2022 10:34 PM (XIJ/X)

147 I believe the evidence Wilson's wife was actually running the show is from letters Wilson's wife claimed were from Wilson. The letters bordered on illiterate, which Wilson's wife was known to be, and, obviously, made the letters suspect. (going from memory, so grain of salt and all that)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:25 PM (5pTK/)
***

I remember asking a guy who was essentially my senior mentor (he flew fighters in WWI) about this. He said nobody cared. Only a third of America could read the papers, and radio was in its infancy. And the focus was on the flu.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 30, 2022 10:34 PM (anj39)

148 Hi Tonypete, my day was good. I love being retired!

Posted by: ALH at June 30, 2022 10:35 PM (Krnar)

149 Britain had prevailed in that they had burned down the white house. They were moving to continue this in New Orleans where they would have control over the Mississippi river. Andrew Jackson and his militia defeated the most powerful army the world had ever known.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 30, 2022 10:23 PM (jTmQV)

The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815. The Treaty of Ghent which ended the war had already been signed on December 24, 1814 in the Netherlands but no one over here knew it.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 30, 2022 10:35 PM (G0bXQ)

150 >>> 128 Why on earth would the Reagan Library invite Cheney to speak? Traitors.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2022 10:27 PM (EZebt)

Probably because it resides in what is now a very different CA. Having Cheney there would be acceptable, *if* there were a trap door and sharks involved.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2022 10:35 PM (llON8)

151 I'm not 100% on board with the videos where a predator has his next meal ready and someone "saves" it. I mean, there's this majestic eagle, settling down for a delicious meal and here comes Boobs Mcgee going crazy snatching the food out of his mouth.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2022 10:35 PM (0fVbu)

152 I clicked on the topless breastfeeder boxer in shorts but it wouldn't come up.

Works from here. *shrug*

Posted by: Weirddave at June 30, 2022 10:35 PM (lkr42)

153 Jimmy Carter gave us Paul Volker and Ronald Reagan, and went on TV to support the American textiles industry. That should be worth something.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 30, 2022 10:35 PM (KAi1n)

154
The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815. The Treaty of Ghent which ended the war had already been signed on December 24, 1814 in the Netherlands but no one over here knew it.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 30, 2022 10:35 PM (G0bXQ)

The original Janteenth

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 30, 2022 10:36 PM (kf6Ak)

155 I remember asking a guy who was essentially my senior mentor (he flew fighters in WWI) about this. He said nobody cared. Only a third of America could read the papers, and radio was in its infancy. And the focus was on the flu.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 30, 2022 10:34 PM (anj39)

That makes complete sense and at the same time is CRAZY to think about

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 30, 2022 10:36 PM (MGB5H)

156 The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815. The Treaty of Ghent which ended the war had already been signed on December 24, 1814 in the Netherlands but no one over here knew it.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 30, 2022 10:35 PM (G0bXQ)

What, it wasn't on the internet?

Posted by: RI Red at June 30, 2022 10:37 PM (y7VJM)

157 Did she at least give you a bottle of whiskey and a leather strap to bite on?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2022 10:30 PM (/NCI4)

Sheee-it. I was lucky I didn't get a switching to go with it. I think I did get some mercurichrome applied, which stung as much as getting shot.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 30, 2022 10:37 PM (F0YaR)

158 Hi Tonypete, my day was good. I love being retired!
Posted by: ALH

Wonderful! I counsel all that will listen: "The very first day that your family situation and finances allow, holler Geronimo! and bail out."

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2022 10:37 PM (Msys3)

159 4 more wins for the second amendment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoeJzyu6xv0

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at June 30, 2022 10:37 PM (ZEHVO)

160 Ginger Thursday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

*scroll down

Posted by: kbdabear at June 30, 2022 10:38 PM (qAR6u)

161 It's true that a peace treaty had been previously negotiated. In those days it took a month or so for the message to be received.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 30, 2022 10:38 PM (jTmQV)

162 Whether you personally think it should have been a federal right is irrelevant.
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This is the argument made to the point that it appears nowhere in the Constitution. That *I* have some personal opinion that it appears nowhere in the Constitution.
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It was for 49 years. First by a 7-2 SCOTUS decision (unlike the 5 votes to overturn Roe) & it was reaffirmed through other decisions.
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Plessy v. Fergusen.

For years and years and years the Court upheld that whatever the Democrats wanted to call "equal" was good enough to be kinda-sorta counted as "equal".

Finally, one court called bullshit. Cited what was plain and ignored "equal" is not the same thing as equal.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 10:38 PM (krQz2)

163
Good Morning America says that Jumanji is the first black justice in history.

So they hate Thurgood Marshall too?
Or maybe they're just stupid. I'll go with they're just stupid.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2022 10:38 PM (+lVUW)

164 Good ole mercurochrome

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 30, 2022 10:38 PM (kf6Ak)

165 When Washington declined to be king and indicated that he would leave office, George III said "if he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world".

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2022 10:39 PM (/NCI4)

166 ZODTEENTH.

Posted by: ZOD at June 30, 2022 10:39 PM (Q/6pY)

167 why would anyone need more than six bullets'

Easy, 3 armed teenagers forcing their way into your house. And most people aren't very good shots. Whoever can't understand why someone would need more than 6 bullets is living in fantasyland.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2022 10:31 PM (+lVUW)
***
Three intruders. Six bullets.
One in the junction box, one in the pump house.
Each.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 30, 2022 10:39 PM (anj39)

168 Why on earth would the Reagan Library invite Cheney to speak? Traitors.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2022 10:27 PM (EZebt)
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They found somebody to wear the Reagan Library's corpse.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 10:39 PM (krQz2)

169 166 ZODTEENTH.
Posted by: ZOD at June 30, 2022 10:39 PM (Q/6pY)

How goes the battle Imperial one?

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 30, 2022 10:39 PM (BgMrQ)

170 I clicked on the topless breastfeeder boxer in shorts but it wouldn't come up.

I take it we are not doing phrasing tonight.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2022 10:39 PM (Msys3)

171 In those days many British soldiers traveled with their wives sometimes their entire families. Imagine having to return home to Britain without your soldier husband, father. They were slaughtered in their rows perfectly formed.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 30, 2022 10:39 PM (jTmQV)

172 The battle for New Orleans took place after the treaty of Ghent was signed. Only happened because of the slow communications of the day. Jackson's presidency was a dumptster fire and started whole lot of negative customs. His distrust of a central bank was a good call though.

Posted by: Van Down by the River at June 30, 2022 10:40 PM (arTH6)

173 Hilarious commercial about gerbil warbeling from the Libertarian candidate for Senate from New Hampshire:

"if you don't give the right people money and power then the earth will explode, it's called climate change"

https://tinyurl.com/7ewy2br3

Posted by: The ARC Of History! at June 30, 2022 10:40 PM (I2/tG)

174 The woke CEOs are finally being forced to explain to their Board of Directors why their stock prices have been cut in half. Up until now, what was the downside of going Woke? Even if a few projects did not meet projections, the CEOs still got 8 figure salaries and bonuses.

Kathleen Kenedy was handed a license to print money and she screwed it up. But she is still getting paid 8 figures a year, at least and if they do decide to make her go away, they will need to pay her a king's ransom to go away. What is the downside for her decision to attempt to file George Lucas's name off Star Wars and make it her own?

Posted by: JB1000 at June 30, 2022 10:40 PM (DXmQR)

175 Good ole mercurochrome
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

Glass bottle and glass dobber.

Posted by: Infidel at June 30, 2022 10:40 PM (r2IDy)

176 Zod, where the heck you been? Phantom Zone?

Posted by: RI Red at June 30, 2022 10:40 PM (y7VJM)

177 Members of the committee have expressed frustration with aspects of Ornato's previous testimony, and some have suggested he lacks credibility.
Florida Rep. Stephanie Murphy, a Democratic member of the committee, told NBC that Ornato was evasive with the committee about the incident in question.
"Ornato did not have as clear of memories from this period of time as I would say Ms. Hutchinson did," she said.

Cornbreads testimony about what ornato told her trump did is more credible than ornatos testimony about what he actually saw.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 30, 2022 10:40 PM (t3/qz)

178 "I was shot from a foot away, with a Daisy, right in the sternum. I was about 10. It penetrated about a 1/4 inch. It hurt. Especially when mom dug the BB out."

Cauterized with hot iron?

Posted by: davidt at June 30, 2022 10:40 PM (oTZbj)

179 We all thinks Presdent Obama was the best Presdent in US histery...

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at June 30, 2022 10:40 PM (/Qz4j)

180 Good ole mercurochrome
Posted by: vmom

That was one of Paul Simon's best!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2022 10:40 PM (Msys3)

181 Uh, I thought Roe V Wade was 5-4?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:32 PM (5pTK/)

I'm pretty sure the first post has it right, at 7-2. But I ain't looking it up for ya.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 30, 2022 10:40 PM (F0YaR)

182 Had the victory at New Orleans taken place before the treaty was finalized we might have gotten a better deal than just the restoration of the status quo.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 30, 2022 10:41 PM (Iaj3u)

183 ZODTEENTH?

Groovy.

What's the official food of ZODTEENTH?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:41 PM (5pTK/)

184 The older I get the more I like Teddy.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at June 30, 2022 10:25 PM (YglAn)

Back then, the Rs were the real progressives. Meaning working towards betterment, not like the current so-called progressives who just work for tyranny.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2022 10:41 PM (7bRMQ)

185 Jewells, willowed from a thread back.
Check this out! Finally!! A song with my name that doesn't totally suck!! This guy is good!

https://tinyurl.com/3s6n83e4
Posted by: jewells45
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Sounded good, but next video "Come a Little Bit Closer", sounds just the same, both written by Martin Sterken Studio's. Guy on piano on second video if you went there.
Also, Youngblood's did a song called Julia back around 1970, I remember liking it quite a lot.

Posted by: From about that time at June 30, 2022 10:42 PM (4780s)

186 171 In those days many British soldiers traveled with their wives sometimes their entire families. Imagine having to return home to Britain without your soldier husband, father. They were slaughtered in their rows perfectly formed.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 30, 2022 10:39 PM (jTmQV)

After 911, I have zero sympathy for the enemy, whomever they were.

Posted by: ALH at June 30, 2022 10:42 PM (Krnar)

187 In 1814, we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip'
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 30, 2022 10:42 PM (WF/xn)

188 I'm pretty sure the first post has it right, at 7-2. But I ain't looking it up for ya.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 30, 2022 10:40 PM (F0YaR)
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Surprisingly, leftoids got it right. 7-2. These people make stuff up so much I automatically assume they're wrong.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:43 PM (5pTK/)

189 >>How goes the battle Imperial one?
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 30, 2022 10:39 PM (BgMrQ)

I am winning, slowly. The Foe has taken ground I'll never recover, but "man lebt noch." Thanks for asking.

Posted by: ZOD at June 30, 2022 10:43 PM (Q/6pY)

190 Uh, I thought Roe V Wade was 5-4?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:32 PM (5pTK/)

I'm pretty sure the first post has it right, at 7-2. But I ain't looking it up for ya.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 30, 2022 10:40 PM (F0YaR)
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It was, with 4 judges signing on to the majority opinion and 3 concurrences.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 10:43 PM (krQz2)

191 Good Morning America says that Jumanji is the first black justice in history.

So they hate Thurgood Marshall too?
Or maybe they're just stupid. I'll go with they're just stupid.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2022 10:38 PM (+lVUW)

Nope. Lying.

There's a good 10-20% of people that will believe it and that's good enough for them.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 10:43 PM (dscaa)

192 Zerohedge comments section is where it's at

Posted by: Gen. Ripper at June 30, 2022 10:44 PM (s/fi3)

193 What's the official food of ZODTEENTH?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:41 PM (5pTK/)

Salmon patties

Posted by: ALH at June 30, 2022 10:44 PM (Krnar)

194 Any list of the greatest Presidents that doesn't have Polk in the top three is worthless.

Posted by: windbag at June 30, 2022 10:44 PM (KqFSS)

195 Another disconcerting fact.
Andrew Jackson's militia was comprised of whites, blacks and natives. Diverse.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 30, 2022 10:44 PM (jTmQV)

196 Good Morning America says that Jumanji is the first black justice in history.

So they hate Thurgood Marshall too?
Or maybe they're just stupid. I'll go with they're just stupid.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2022 10:38 PM (+lVUW)
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Research is not as fun as tweeting.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 10:45 PM (krQz2)

197 PSA FOR HUSBANDS: If you know your wife was supposed to get new glasses, and you think they look cute, notice it and compliment her.

Posted by: pookysgirl's husband failed his Perception check again at June 30, 2022 10:45 PM (XKZwp)

198 >>176 Zod, where the heck you been? Phantom Zone? Posted by: RI Red at June 30, 2022 10:40 PM (y7VJM)

Busy, friend.

Posted by: ZOD at June 30, 2022 10:45 PM (Q/6pY)

199 Isn't that the way the Supreme Court works? Like if 7 judges decide one way on a case and then 50 years later only 5 decide the other way, then the 7 judges win because 7 is more than 5?

This is still a Precious Democracy, isn't it? Or does tyranny win now?

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 10:45 PM (dscaa)

200 PSA FOR HUSBANDS: If you know your wife was supposed to get new glasses, and you think they look cute, notice it and compliment her.

Posted by: pookysgirl's husband failed his Perception check again at June 30, 2022 10:45 PM (XKZwp)
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"Cute" is already in my vocabulary.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 10:46 PM (krQz2)

201

200

Posted by: Zettai at June 30, 2022 10:46 PM (x2jjm)

202

Bugger me dead...

Posted by: Zettai at June 30, 2022 10:46 PM (x2jjm)

203 149 Britain had prevailed in that they had burned down the white house. They were moving to continue this in New Orleans where they would have control over the Mississippi river. Andrew Jackson and his militia defeated the most powerful army the world had ever known.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 30, 2022 10:23 PM (jTmQV)

The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815. The Treaty of Ghent which ended the war had already been signed on December 24, 1814 in the Netherlands but no one over here knew it.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 30, 2022 10:35 PM (G0bXQ)

In 1814, white men had not penetrated deeply enough into the Congo region to steal the telegraph and trans-ocean telegraph cable designs the natives had developed in the 3rd Millennia BC.

Posted by: BLM at June 30, 2022 10:46 PM (AMIL/)

204 >>193 What's the official food of ZODTEENTH?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:41 PM (5pTK/)

Bierocks. This is known.

Posted by: ZOD at June 30, 2022 10:46 PM (Q/6pY)

205 Maybe some marine can tell me why not use the rifle like a club for a butt stroke or pugil.stick on the guy with the knife? Or here's an idea, taser. Do you have to be Jack Reacher to take him alive?

Go ahead. Make fun of me. Would I do it? Well, I might, if I had training the cops do. I still think cops are too trigger happy.

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 30, 2022 10:47 PM (CyvLy)

206 Cauterized with hot iron?

Posted by: davidt at June 30, 2022 10:40 PM (oTZbj)

I know better than to ask medical advice from the Horde.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 30, 2022 10:47 PM (F0YaR)

207 Cornbreads testimony about what ornato told her trump did is more credible than ornatos testimony about what he actually saw.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 30, 2022 10:40 PM (t3/qz)

Note the best part. NBC is not saying any facts about Ornato or actually *saying* he has no credibility. Just relaying first and secondhand accounts of obviously partisan "opinions" about him.

Very similar to the Hearsay Tactic. Can't be on the hook for quoting people.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 10:48 PM (dscaa)

208 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: "This is about the future of the Liberal World Order and we have to stand firm."
https://tinyurl.com/427eedx3

Posted by: The New Liberal World Order at June 30, 2022 10:48 PM (qfLjt)

209 PSA FOR HUSBANDS: If you know your wife was supposed to get new glasses, and you think they look cute, notice it and compliment her.

Posted by: pookysgirl's husband failed his Perception check again at June 30, 2022 10:45 PM (XKZwp)
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And guys, if you screw that up, always...always compliment the shoes.
You'll thank me later.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 30, 2022 10:49 PM (anj39)

210 Bierocks. This is known.
Posted by: ZOD at June 30, 2022 10:46 PM (Q/6pY)
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I had to look it up. Looks good.

Approved.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:49 PM (5pTK/)

211 Bugger me dead...
Posted by: Zettai

Death by Snu Snu.

There's worse ways to go.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2022 10:49 PM (Msys3)

212 Haley Reinhart... https://tinyurl.com/2cwvftwu

Posted by: davidt at June 30, 2022 10:49 PM (oTZbj)

213 That dress never makes her ass look fat.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 30, 2022 10:49 PM (yQpMk)

214 Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2022 10:41 PM (7bRMQ)

Yeah. When I was younger I was against TR because I learned he was a progressive. Which, of course is icky, and against "conservative" orthodoxy.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at June 30, 2022 10:50 PM (YglAn)

215 I worked as a housekeeper in a hospital in my younger years. In the lab (where all the testing of fluids and tissues was done) there was a big glass jar with a dead baby in it, sitting on a shelf. It has always been a big part of why I am so opposed to abortion. Sure, the little baby may have been still-born rather than aborted, but why was it not given a proper burial?

It has bothered me for 30 plus years.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, from Butte, America at June 30, 2022 10:50 PM (x8Wzq)

216 But first, Boogah Boogah.

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 30, 2022 10:50 PM (CyvLy)

217 197 PSA FOR HUSBANDS: If you know your wife was supposed to get new glasses, ~~and you think they look cute~~, even if she looks like Sally Jessy Raphael, notice it and compliment her.

FTFY. From the man's POV, of course.

Posted by: Weirddave at June 30, 2022 10:50 PM (lkr42)

218 What's the official food of ZODTEENTH?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:41 PM (5pTK/)
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Mead

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2022 10:51 PM (EZebt)

219 "Cute" is already in my vocabulary.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 10:46 PM (krQz2)

Good! You're one step ahead of Pooky. He also sent me, unironically, a Megurine Luka video on glasses while I was out. And didn't notice my completely new glasses frames and style. *facepalm*

Posted by: pookysgirl will also accept "adorable" at June 30, 2022 10:51 PM (XKZwp)

220 And guys, if you screw that up, always...always compliment the shoes.

You let her wear shoes?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 30, 2022 10:51 PM (KFhLj)

221 205 Maybe some marine can tell me why not use the rifle like a club for a butt stroke or pugil.stick on the guy with the knife? Or here's an idea, taser. Do you have to be Jack Reacher to take him alive?

Go ahead. Make fun of me. Would I do it? Well, I might, if I had training the cops do. I still think cops are too trigger happy.
Posted by: JM in Florida at June 30, 2022 10:47 PM (CyvLy)

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Any of that shit worth taking the risk of getting stabbed to death?

Nope. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Posted by: ballistic at June 30, 2022 10:51 PM (oXNqT)

222 >>208 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?’"

Answer: You are petulant, but that can be broken out of you. When it is, you will adapt to your new status as serfs. You won't need cars, as you will be working the land. You're welcome.

Posted by: ZOD at June 30, 2022 10:51 PM (Q/6pY)

223 You let her wear shoes?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 30, 2022 10:51 PM (KFhLj)
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also implies she was let out of the kitchen.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:52 PM (5pTK/)

224 And you think they look cute?

No thinking. They are cute. Say it!

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 30, 2022 10:52 PM (CyvLy)

225 even if she looks like Sally Jessy Raphael, notice it and compliment her.

FTFY. From the man's POV, of course.

Posted by: Weirddave at June 30, 2022 10:50 PM (lkr42)

Ew, no. These are rimless on the bottom half and very specifically attractive, not the "I have Daddy Issues" type.

Posted by: pookysgirl grew up with an old-school fashion designer at June 30, 2022 10:53 PM (XKZwp)

226
87. Never Welsh on a bet. PS -- I've never known why this is 'a thing'.
Posted by: GnuBreed
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Might this be "welch" on a bet? Seems to be the way I remember it.

Posted by: From about that time at June 30, 2022 10:53 PM (4780s)

227 223 You let her wear shoes?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 30, 2022 10:51 PM (KFhLj)
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also implies she was let out of the kitchen.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:52 PM (5pTK/)

Your wives are saints.

Posted by: ALH at June 30, 2022 10:53 PM (Krnar)

228 Evening, Horde, and thanks WD for the ONT content. I've seen that baseball video before, but it never fails to provide the feels even upon repeat viewing. Guess there is honor in the cheap seats.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at June 30, 2022 10:54 PM (v23vE)

229
Ew, no. These are rimless on the bottom half and very specifically attractive, not the "I have Daddy Issues" type.
Posted by: pookysgirl grew up with an old-school fashion designer at June 30, 2022 10:53 PM (XKZwp)
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Umm, they could be Elton John castoffs and the proper response is always, "They look cute!"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:54 PM (5pTK/)

230 Might this be "welch" on a bet? Seems to be the way I remember it.

Posted by: From about that time at June 30, 2022 10:53 PM (4780s)

Oh grape. Now more etymology posts.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2022 10:54 PM (7bRMQ)

231 >>>
Bierocks. This is known.
Posted by: ZOD at June 30, 2022 10:46 PM (Q/6pY)

Oh shit, count me in! No one outside of Kansas, Nebraska, or old Prussia even knows what they are. They are hamburger, cabbage, and sexual gratification wrapped in a delicious soft pretzel like dough. Very very good.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2022 10:55 PM (0fVbu)

232 Your wives are saints.
Posted by: ALH at June 30, 2022 10:53 PM (Krnar)
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No, she's not reading over my shoulder.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:55 PM (5pTK/)

233 Just watched a 2 hr + interviews with Scott Ritter on a German podcast, ostensibly on the Russia/Ukraine conflict, but really going through a ton of recent history since Reagan up to the present, an analysis of our intelligence community, and a lot of fun war stories.

If you need something to play in the background while you fix dinner or work in the garage, I think you'll find it quite interesting.

Very extemporaneous and quite insightful if you like cloak and dagger stuff.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/RnpZndYTvVJe/

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 30, 2022 10:55 PM (GhG0Z)

234 You won't need cars, as you will be working the land. You're welcome.

There's some lovely filth over here.

Posted by: Dennis the peasant's wife at June 30, 2022 10:55 PM (/NCI4)

235 Korematsu was a 6-3 decision. The DemonRats doubtless think that decision also is precedent that can't be overturned.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at June 30, 2022 10:55 PM (ZEHVO)

236 The only ranking that matters in the is the list which aligns to the country's Biblical founding. Washington, Lincoln, and Trump (maybe unwittingly? or not?) adhered to moral stances which support a sustainable civic order. They like all of us are sinful...but they chose moral leadership on important topic despite immense pressure. Other have tried and some may have stumbled into it. In the end...there is a moral code a society and it's leaders can elect to follow...which leads to peace and love...and there's other paths to choose which lead elsewhere.

Posted by: techsan at June 30, 2022 10:56 PM (uNveu)

237 Oh shit, count me in! No one outside of Kansas, Nebraska, or old Prussia even knows what they are. They are hamburger, cabbage, and sexual gratification wrapped in a delicious soft pretzel like dough. Very very good.
Posted by: banana Dream

Sounds like a pasty

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 30, 2022 10:56 PM (MGB5H)

238 If you want to mess with your wife, compliment the weird stuff.

Wow, your ears look great! Did you do something different with them?

I love that belt buckle!

That's a really nice button on that coat!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 30, 2022 10:56 PM (mE7cY)

239 205 Maybe some marine can tell me why not use the rifle like a club for a butt stroke or pugil.stick on the guy with the knife? Or here's an idea, taser. Do you have to be Jack Reacher to take him alive?

Go ahead. Make fun of me. Would I do it? Well, I might, if I had training the cops do. I still think cops are too trigger happy.

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 30, 2022 10:47 PM (CyvLy)
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If you get withing 15 feet of someone adept with a knife then you might get stabbed, even if you shoot him.

Posted by: Ciampino - stab parry thrust lunge at June 30, 2022 10:56 PM (qfLjt)

240 Since Nancy died the Reagan Library has been taken over by RINO's and out n out Commie P**ko F*gs. (Liz on the board?)

Simi Valley should be ashamed for being such shitty stewards.

They should choke on the shame.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 30, 2022 10:57 PM (J00IM)

241 Haley Reinhart... https://tinyurl.com/2cwvftwu

Posted by: davidt at June 30, 2022 10:49 PM (oTZbj)

Did someone mention Haley Reinhart?

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 10:57 PM (dscaa)

242 Ew, no. These are rimless on the bottom half and very specifically attractive, not the "I have Daddy Issues" type.

PG, if my wife comes home with new glasses, I don't care if she dug them out of a newly discovered wardrobe from Elton John's 1975 world tour, I'm telling her they look cute. Life is short enough, I have no desire to make it shorter.

Same goes for haircuts, dresses, shoes.....

Posted by: Weirddave at June 30, 2022 10:57 PM (lkr42)

243 Next 10 days, low is forecast for 54 or 55 degrees. We epitomize the opposite of "don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes".

Posted by: SFGoth at June 30, 2022 10:57 PM (KAi1n)

244 Pookette admits that she should've taken the bet that Daddy wouldn't notice Mommy's new glasses. There was a Reese's cookie possibly at stake.

Posted by: pookysgirl knows the stakes at June 30, 2022 10:57 PM (XKZwp)

245 If you get withing 15 feet of someone adept with a knife then you might get stabbed, even if you shoot him.
Posted by: Ciampino - stab parry thrust lunge at June 30, 2022 10:56 PM (qfLjt)
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run from a knife, run toward a gun.

The late Jimmy Hoffa

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 10:58 PM (5pTK/)

246 If you want to mess with your wife, compliment the weird stuff.

Wow, your ears look great! Did you do something different with them?

I love that belt buckle!

That's a really nice button on that coat!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 30, 2022 10:56 PM (mE7cY)

She'd either laugh or call 911

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 10:58 PM (dscaa)

247 If you get withing 15 feet of someone adept with a knife then you might get stabbed, even if you shoot him.

If it's a single assailant, it's OK to empty the magazine into him. You might get stabbed anyways, but not due to lack of effort on your part.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 30, 2022 10:58 PM (Bd6X8)

248 like cloak and dagger stuff.

And JOOOOS

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at June 30, 2022 10:58 PM (HnE9b)

249 baseball video? gives me hope for the future.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2022 10:59 PM (oHd/0)

250 I really like the seam on those pants! Look at that stitching!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 30, 2022 10:59 PM (mE7cY)

251 >>> Sounds like a pasty
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 30, 2022 10:56 PM (MGB5H)

I've tried to get bierrocks to adhere to my nipples but they always fall off. Someday, I know, perseverance will pay off.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2022 11:00 PM (0fVbu)

252 208 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: "This is about the future of the Liberal World Order and we have to stand firm."
https://tinyurl.com/427eedx3
Posted by: The New Liberal World Order at June 30, 2022 10:48 PM (qfLjt)

I'm actually overjoyed to see them say shit like this, this is an honest to god Marie Antoinette "let them eat cake" moment. (whether or not she actually ever said that) I would be worried if they were trying to deny it, but they are doubling down on their insanity. They're proud of it!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2022 11:00 PM (r46W7)

253 Since Nancy died the Reagan Library has been taken over by RINO's and out n out Commie P**ko F*gs. (Liz on the board?)

I'll bet she's even got a commie flag, tacked up on the wall inside of her garage.

Posted by: Zombie Charlie Daniels at June 30, 2022 11:00 PM (7bRMQ)

254 >>The only ranking that matters in the is the list which aligns to the country's Biblical founding.
Posted by: techsan at June 30, 2022 10:56 PM (uNveu)

This is incorrect.

Posted by: ZOD at June 30, 2022 11:00 PM (Q/6pY)

255 243 Next 10 days, low is forecast for 54 or 55 degrees. We epitomize the opposite of "don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes".
Posted by: SFGoth at June 30, 2022 10:57 PM (KAi1n)

wow, I was overjoyed when our low got back down to 79.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2022 11:01 PM (r46W7)

256 Haley Reinhart... https://tinyurl.com/2cwvftwu

Why she didn't win American Idol is simply beyond my understanding.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at June 30, 2022 11:01 PM (ZEHVO)

257 200 PSA FOR HUSBANDS: If you know your wife was supposed to get new glasses, and you think they look cute, notice it and compliment her.

Posted by: pookysgirl's husband failed his Perception check again at June 30, 2022 10:45 PM (XKZwp)
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PSA = Prostate-Specific Antigen

Posted by: Drop your pants and bend over at June 30, 2022 11:01 PM (qfLjt)

258 Might this be "welch" on a bet? Seems to be the way I remember it.

Posted by: From about that time at June 30, 2022 10:53 PM (4780s)

Grr. I was hoping someone else would do this lookup work. But yes, I've heard and seen it spelled both ways. Now for the explanation:

Etymonline.com says of welch:

1857, racing slang, "to refuse or avoid payment of money laid as a bet," probably a disparaging use of the national name Welsh.

And of Welsh:

Among the English, Welsh was used disparagingly of inferior or substitute things, hence Welsh rabbit (1725), also perverted by folk-etymology as Welsh rarebit (1785).

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 30, 2022 11:02 PM (F0YaR)

259 247 If you get withing 15 feet of someone adept with a knife then you might get stabbed, even if you shoot him.

If it's a single assailant, it's OK to empty the magazine into him. You might get stabbed anyways, but not due to lack of effort on your part.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 30, 2022 10:58 PM (Bd6X

Sorry, but not if you have learned ANYTHING about basic blade work.

I have scars on my arm, because I did NOW know how to defend meself'''... Now? Please... after 35 years of playing with swords and knives? bring it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2022 11:02 PM (oHd/0)

260 235 Korematsu was a 6-3 decision. The DemonRats doubtless think that decision also is precedent that can't be overturned.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at June 30, 2022 10:55 PM (ZEHVO)

Get at least five Prog Justices on SCOTUS and we'll learn that the left suddenly considers stare decisis obsolete, racist, misogynist, and just plain evil.

Posted by: BLM at June 30, 2022 11:02 PM (AMIL/)

261 Same goes for haircuts, dresses, shoes.....

Posted by: Weirddave at June 30, 2022 10:57 PM (lkr42)

THIS ASSUMES THAT YOU NOTICE. And Pooky is so dang clueless that he didn't notice me chasing after him yesterday, barefoot, hollering his name because he'd forgotten his self-reporting log for his therapist appointment. Yes, he had earbuds in, but he didn't notice my texts or attempted phone calls for four blocks.

My feet still hurt from the blisters....

Posted by: pookysgirl with ice packs on her feet at June 30, 2022 11:02 PM (XKZwp)

262 I've tried to get bierrocks to adhere to my nipples but they always fall off. Someday, I know, perseverance will pay off.
Posted by: banana Dream

Pasty >>>>>>> pastie

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 30, 2022 11:02 PM (MGB5H)

263 Grr. I was hoping someone else would do this lookup work. But yes, I've heard and seen it spelled both ways. Now for the explanation:

Etymonline.com says of welch:

1857, racing slang, "to refuse or avoid payment of money laid as a bet," probably a disparaging use of the national name Welsh.

And of Welsh:

Among the English, Welsh was used disparagingly of inferior or substitute things, hence Welsh rabbit (1725), also perverted by folk-etymology as Welsh rarebit (1785).
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 30, 2022 11:02 PM (F0YaR)

Now, time for a round of "Taffy was a Welshman".

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 30, 2022 11:03 PM (ZSK0i)

264 257 200 PSA FOR HUSBANDS: If you know your wife was supposed to get new glasses, and you think they look cute, notice it and compliment her.

Posted by: pookysgirl's husband failed his Perception check again at June 30, 2022 10:45 PM (XKZwp)
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PSA = Prostate-Specific Antigen
Posted by: Drop your pants and bend over at June 30, 2022 11:01 PM (qfLjt)

Tell them they look like a sexy librarian... then say can we go back to the book stacks?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2022 11:03 PM (oHd/0)

265 I never realized how expensive fireworks are😳😳
Of course I still bought some, $129 for about 5 minutes of entertainment....

Posted by: lin-duh at June 30, 2022 11:03 PM (UUBmN)

266
If you get withing 15 feet of someone adept with a knife then you might get stabbed, even if you shoot him.
Posted by: Ciampino - stab parry thrust lunge at June 30, 2022 10:56 PM (qfLjt)

The "adept" factor is major. But no taser?

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 30, 2022 11:04 PM (CyvLy)

267 The Bacchanalia of Woke has ended.
Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 10:24 PM (krQz2)

The Eternal Optimist should be your nic.

Posted by: Jacks Tire Iron and Rebar Supply Shack at June 30, 2022 11:04 PM (MFphb)

268 PSA FOR HUSBANDS: If you know your wife was supposed to get new glasses, and you think they look cute, notice it and compliment her.

(emphasis added)

But wait until you're sure that she actually has gotten them first.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2022 11:04 PM (nfrXX)

269 >>My feet still hurt from the blisters....
Posted by: pookysgirl with ice packs on her feet at June 30, 2022 11:02 PM (XKZwp)

You could amputate your feet.

Posted by: ZOD at June 30, 2022 11:05 PM (Q/6pY)

270 If you want to mess with your wife, compliment the weird stuff.
Wow, your ears look great! Did you do something different with them?
I love that belt buckle!
That's a really nice button on that coat!
Posted by: AlaBAMA

While cleaning out the house in a big way, I found a previously well hidden Glamor Shot of the lovely Mrs. from the 80's complete with feather boa, off the shoulder gown, and full war paint.

I told her how lovely of a pic it was. She was horrified.

If she dies first, that baby will be at the head of the casket during the viewing.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2022 11:05 PM (Msys3)

271 The "adept" factor is major. But no taser?
Posted by: JM in Florida at June 30, 2022 11:04 PM (CyvLy)
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If the knife is out and the gun is holstered, within 15 feet, you're going to lose.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 11:05 PM (5pTK/)

272 265 I never realized how expensive fireworks are😳😳
Of course I still bought some, $129 for about 5 minutes of entertainment....
Posted by: lin-duh at June 30, 2022 11:03 PM (UUBmN

Hunter Biden prices.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 30, 2022 11:05 PM (mE7cY)

273 I told her how lovely of a pic it was. She was horrified.

If she dies first, that baby will be at the head of the casket during the viewing.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2022 11:05 PM (Msys3)

That is incredible! You should take a picture of it and make it your phone wallpaper.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 30, 2022 11:06 PM (mE7cY)

274 Tell them they look like a sexy librarian... then say can we go back to the book stacks?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2022 11:03 PM (oHd/0)

This is the video Pooky sent to me while ignoring my new glasses. It also didn't dawn on him that this was a video for guys with a librarian fetish:

youtu.be/a3P5Nlwul5s

Posted by: pookysgirl, from the Land of the Utterly Clueless at June 30, 2022 11:06 PM (XKZwp)

275 You could amputate your feet.

Protip: You can still complement your special lady's footwear if she amputates her feet. You should.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 30, 2022 11:07 PM (KFhLj)

276 the english have been throwing shade on the welsh for at least 800 years, probably more. The welsh are probably the surviving descendants of the romanized britons, who fled there as the saxons took over.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2022 11:07 PM (r46W7)

277 If the knife is out and the gun is holstered, within 15 feet, you're going to lose.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 11:05 PM (5pTK/)

Unless you can pee and vomit on the knife wielder first, right?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2022 11:07 PM (7bRMQ)

278 But watch ChikFilA or Tom Cruise play it straight and consumers rewards them handsomely.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 30, 2022 10:13 PM

You must have missed the whole "Now go home and get your shine-box" thing from their CEO.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 30, 2022 11:07 PM (hOAT3)

279 13 and what Truman did to crack the top 10 is beyond me.

Well, he did set off a couple of atomic bombs. That has to be good for something.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 30, 2022 10:01 PM (+lVUW)
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He didn't know about the Manhattan Project until FDR actually died. In Truman's shoes I would have been pissed.

Posted by: I would have loved to have been there when he was told about the bombs at June 30, 2022 11:08 PM (qfLjt)

280 247 If you get withing 15 feet of someone adept with a knife then you might get stabbed, even if you shoot him.

If it's a single assailant, it's OK to empty the magazine into him. You might get stabbed anyways, but not due to lack of effort on your part.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 30, 2022 10:58 PM (Bd6X

Not if you are the instructor in this WWII U.S. ARMY & MARINE CORPS HAND TO HAND COMBAT DISARMING TECHNIQUES TRAINING FILM

https://tinyurl.com/ys6zfta2

Posted by: BLM at June 30, 2022 11:09 PM (AMIL/)

281 Scott Ritter - a lot of marines believe he was framed. If he's the man I'm thinking of

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 30, 2022 11:10 PM (ZAWJi)

282 He didn't know about the Manhattan Project until FDR actually died. In Truman's shoes I would have been pissed.

"Hot crackers, I take exception to that!"

Posted by: President Truman at June 30, 2022 11:10 PM (ZSK0i)

283 >>> 281 Scott Ritter - a lot of marines believe he was framed. If he's the man I'm thinking of
Posted by: JM in Florida at June 30, 2022 11:10 PM (ZAWJi)

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Top Men and Whammen of the Eff.Bee.EYE at June 30, 2022 11:11 PM (llON8)

284 >>277 If the knife is out and the gun is holstered, within 15 feet, you're going to lose. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 11:05 PM (5pTK/)

"When you take Jhoon Rhee self-defense/then you too can say/nobody bodda me/nobody bodda me...."

Posted by: ZOD at June 30, 2022 11:11 PM (Q/6pY)

285

Speaking of eyeglasses, I think Kat is sporting a new pair...

See? I noticed!

Posted by: Zettai at June 30, 2022 11:12 PM (pQgBh)

286 >>> 284 >>277 If the knife is out and the gun is holstered, within 15 feet, you're going to lose. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 11:05 PM (5pTK/)

"When you take Jhoon Rhee self-defense/then you too can say/nobody bodda me/nobody bodda me...."
Posted by: ZOD at June 30, 2022 11:11 PM (Q/6pY)

"Call ... something or other one thousand/Jhoon Rhee is might for right!"

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2022 11:12 PM (llON8)

287 16 they did a pretty good job. Guy just did not want to stay down.

Not sure what that was all about. Dude should have been mort relatively quickly.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 30, 2022 10:03 PM (Xrfse)
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The copy with the long gun was firing non-lethal ammo. The other cops eventually used their sidearms. The guy was looking for 'death-by=cop' and kept yelling in Spanish to shoot him.

Posted by: A lucky shot with a beanbag to the nogging would have been effective at June 30, 2022 11:12 PM (qfLjt)

288 Not if you are the instructor in this WWII U.S. ARMY & MARINE CORPS HAND TO HAND COMBAT DISARMING TECHNIQUES TRAINING FILM

https://tinyurl.com/ys6zfta2

Posted by: BLM at June 30, 2022 11:09 PM (AMIL/)

go to 3:00 to learn how to disarm a guy charging you with a bayoneted rifle. Easy-peasy!

Posted by: BLM at June 30, 2022 11:13 PM (AMIL/)

289 Scott Ritter - a lot of marines believe he was framed. If he's the man I'm thinking of

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 30, 2022 11:10 PM (ZAWJi)

Towards the end of the podcast, he goes into his resignation from intelligence and the explicit warning he was given about how the FBI would "f*ck him in the arse" as soon if he chose to leave the 3 letter agencies.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 30, 2022 11:13 PM (GhG0Z)

290 Is marriage worth it when you have to compliment someone even when they look like shit?

There's a reason the vast majority of married men don't recommend marriage to their single friends.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 30, 2022 11:14 PM (cMXNt)

291 My top 10 presidents:
1) Washington
2) Thomas Jefferson
3) Lincoln
4) Ronald Reagan
5) Calvin Coolidge
6) Teddy Roosevelt
7) James Monroe

James Madison
9) John Adams
10) FDR (he does deserve some credit for successfully prosecuting WW2)

Trump gets an asterisk because he was blocked from doing most of what he wanted during his first term.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2022 11:14 PM (r46W7)

292 go to 3:00 to learn how to disarm a guy charging you with a bayoneted rifle. Easy-peasy!
Posted by: BLM at June 30, 2022 11:13 PM (AMIL/)
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I've long wondered what the attrition rate due to injuries sustained during basic training is. I'm willing to be it's not an insignificant number.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 11:14 PM (5pTK/)

293 As a side note, I really liked the Coca-Cola Salad. For me it'd have to be Coke Zero Salad, but still, it sounds good.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 30, 2022 11:14 PM (W+kMI)

294 AntiFa scrunt who illegally posessed a weapon and resisted arrest pled guilty, then had her charges dropped on the day of sentencing.

Remember this if you ever have to deal with these people. They are US sponsored terrorists, so don't plan on US laws of self defense protecting you.

https://bit.ly/3uf1r2B

Posted by: bonhomme at June 30, 2022 11:15 PM (i0wNm)

295 How dare a new month begin so close to Pride Month!!

Harrumph!! The very affrontery. I just can't even!!

(Really, aren't you glad that prolapsed colon/anal fissure/exotic disease month is finally over?)

Posted by: Sharkman at June 30, 2022 11:16 PM (i+HwW)

296 Since Nancy died

Posted by: Zombie Charlie Daniels at June 30, 2022 11:00 PM (7bRMQ)

I read this opener and had a whole different picture for a couple seconds. It was like someone injected Calgon straight into my veins.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 11:16 PM (dscaa)

297 >>> Scott Ritter - a lot of marines believe he was framed. If he's the man I'm thinking of
Posted by: JM in Florida at June 30, 2022 11:10 PM (ZAWJi)

About him bidening kids at fast food joints? There was also a lot of squirrely stuff going on with inspections and foreign countries.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2022 11:16 PM (0fVbu)

298 (Really, aren't you glad that prolapsed colon/anal fissure/exotic disease month is finally over?)
Posted by: Sharkman at June 30, 2022 11:16 PM (i+HwW)
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I've long known STD's were a huge issue for the male homosexual community. I only recently learned, though, in retrospect, it should have been obvious, the problems male homosexuals have with their anuses.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 11:18 PM (5pTK/)

299 10) FDR (he does deserve some credit for successfully prosecuting WW2)

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Look how fucked up our war fighting has been since then.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 30, 2022 11:18 PM (cMXNt)

300 Bonk bonk on tha head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 30, 2022 11:18 PM (vuisn)

301 I compliment my wife when she looks like shit because I adore my wife however she looks. Besides she never looks like shit to me - just good days and bad days like everyone else.

And it's never a matter of "have to" if she treats you good back.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 11:19 PM (dscaa)

302 Get at least five Prog Justices on SCOTUS and we'll learn that the left suddenly considers stare decisis obsolete, racist, misogynist, and just plain evil.

Posted by: BLM at June 30, 2022 11:02 PM (AMIL/)
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Plus "stare" is like the Male Gaze!

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 11:19 PM (OaZlZ)

303 270 If you want to mess with your wife, compliment the weird stuff.
Wow, your ears look great! Did you do something different with them?
I love that belt buckle!
That's a really nice button on that coat!
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Are you married?

Posted by: nurse ratched, just call me Pollyanna at June 30, 2022 11:19 PM (U2p+3)

304 The baseball video is outstanding.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 11:19 PM (5pTK/)

305 Is marriage worth it when you have to compliment someone even when they look like shit?

There's a reason the vast majority of married men don't recommend marriage to their single friends.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 30, 2022 11:14 PM (cMXNt)

W

Posted by: pookysgirl, from the Land of the Utterly Clueless at June 30, 2022 11:20 PM (XKZwp)

306 (Really, aren't you glad that prolapsed colon/anal fissure/exotic disease month is finally over?)
Posted by: Sharkman at June 30, 2022 11:16 PM (i+HwW)

Hell yes.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 30, 2022 11:20 PM (DgWEj)

307 For something a bit different.

Lupin III Part 5 Ending 'Adieu'

https://youtu.be/oSVhN_Sibt0

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2022 11:21 PM (vjloV)

308 Later!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 11:21 PM (5pTK/)

309 I've long known STD's were a huge issue for the male homosexual community. I only recently learned, though, in retrospect, it should have been obvious, the problems male homosexuals have with their anuses.
Posted by: blake

That hole is for shit to go out of, not in to. This should be obvious.

Posted by: Infidel at June 30, 2022 11:21 PM (r2IDy)

310 Kat has new glasses tonight.

Posted by: Theodore at June 30, 2022 11:21 PM (GJnvT)

311 306 (Really, aren't you glad that prolapsed colon/anal fissure/exotic disease month is finally over?)

Posted by: Sharkman at June 30, 2022 11:16 PM (i+HwW)

Henceforth, Pro-Life Month.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 30, 2022 11:21 PM (GhG0Z)

312 195 Another disconcerting fact.
Andrew Jackson's militia was comprised of whites, blacks and natives. Diverse.
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I first learned this fact from a conservative historian. Funny how it never got mentioned in any of my K-12 history classes. Or in the Project 1619 info.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 30, 2022 11:21 PM (W+kMI)

313 I heard that Ritter complained that, uh, images were planted on his computer. But no federal agency would do that, right?

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 30, 2022 11:22 PM (ZAWJi)

314 Evening.

Got back from Top Gun: Maverick.

Wwwwwooooooo!!!!!!! Loved it!

First let me start by saying the story is 20 kinds of stupid. It's modestly better than the original simply because the original contained nothing resembling a moral of message. This one does. There is something almost approaching a character arc. It does, in a fashion, relate back to the first film. All of it is mostly a cheap excuse.

So why see this movie? The planes. Oh my lord, the planes. So *fucking* beautiful. There are so many excellent shots that I would be stunned if this movie didn't win every possible award for cinematography. The shots they get in the cockpit are ssoooooooo freakin' cool that I wish I saw it in IMAX. There's some CG. There's some Su-57s that are CG. Some of the aerobatics I wasn't sure was CG or not. If it is it's very convincing.

Anyway, if you haven't seen this I'd highly recommend it. This isn't high art, but if you want to see lots of jaw dropping F-18 footage you will not be disappointed.

And Jennifer Connelly is...*mwah*...tres magnifique.

Posted by: Robert, the Devil on your shoulder at June 30, 2022 11:22 PM (1Yy3c)

315 I've made Coca-Cola chocolate cake which is pretty good but I never tried Coke Salad. Not a big fan of Jell-O.

Posted by: JuJuBee at June 30, 2022 11:22 PM (Weib8)

316 Jaimie Lissou just coined the phrase the January 6th Hearsaying.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 11:22 PM (OaZlZ)

317 Best presidents?

Washington is obviously #1.

The rest of the top ones, not in order: Jefferson, Monroe, Coolidge, Reagan, Trump

Worst, also not in order: Buchanan, Clinton, Obama, Biden, Carter, Wilson

One interesting point - in the early US the quality of the president didn't matter much. In the later US the success of the country is tied tightly to the success of the president. Presumably because the government has gotten so much stronger and influential.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2022 11:22 PM (ESjRY)

318
Do we have a drive belt expert in the house? I need a new belt for one of my air compressors. Turned them on, and one kept running after the other got to shut off. It sounded a bit slow.

It was. Belt was slipping. Now, this is one of those 6 grove poly-v jobs, a "6J". Length as is about 50.5".

But the adjustment is all the way out. I think I want a 49" belt (that would be a 490J6). I have no idea what the specs for that belt it is, and these things are both nearly as old as me. No numbers left legible on the belt.

I don't think those things stretch that much. But I'm wondering if maybe I want a 48".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 30, 2022 11:22 PM (Mzdiz)

319 He didn't know about the Manhattan Project until FDR actually died. In Truman's shoes I would have been pissed.

When he was read-into Manhattan project, he was kind-of pissed that Sec of War Stimson had kept the true purpose from him while he was Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee before becoming VP. Stimson had such a reputation for honesty and playing-straight that Truman trusted him with all that money each year without getting a detailed explanation. Boy, just try to find anyone in DC with such a reputation today.

Posted by: Ishmael at June 30, 2022 11:23 PM (AMIL/)

320 In modern police training, the classic 21 ft. "Tueller Drill" has now been extended to a 27 ft. danger-range.

Someone comes up "threat" with a knife, you shoot to stop the threat, and two in the heart, one in the head, is a pretty good stop. If you improve your weapons skill to where you don't miss much right to left/left to right, then just start at the base of the sternum, and ride the recoil up the centerline.

Multiple assailants? Conserve ammo. One center mass, one CNS, as quickly as you can see the front sight on the target. Study human anatomy, so you really can hit the internal targets from any angle. They ain't always squared up to you in the fight.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

*knives scare the fk outta me, fuck the tazer, I'm not volunteering to get cut!

Posted by: Jim at June 30, 2022 11:24 PM (tkOps)

321 Why she didn't win American Idol is simply beyond my understanding.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at June 30, 2022 11:01 PM (ZEHVO)

The prevailing wisdom is that the producers hated her and at least two of the judges tried to screw her week in and week out (both fairly self-evident) and that she lost to the final two because of tween girl "power" voting which was apparently a thing. I mean, it's American Idol, of course that's a thing.

Also some say it was rigged. Even some people who don't like me very much say it was a rigged. A lot of people are saying that. It's true.

Honestly I know way too much about this subject but at one time it was kind of a fun show. I loved her on AI and never watched another minute of it after all that bs.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 11:24 PM (dscaa)

322
There's a reason the vast majority of married men don't recommend marriage to their single friends.

Marriages has pluses and minuses for both men and women. But over the last 40 years the courts and society have completely reshaped those pluses and minuses so it is almost all upside for women and risky for men.

So yes...as a man there is little reason to marry anymore, outside of your religious views. Which might be enough. But you better pick the right woman.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2022 11:24 PM (ESjRY)

323 Anyway, if you haven't seen this I'd highly recommend it.
___

Fuck Hollywood.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:25 PM (KL6QW)

324 Carlson's Raiders, reason they even had a chance is because one of FDR's sons was part of the unit. By the end of the war, the manpower strapped USMC had rolled the surviving Raiders into the regulars.

Another FDR son commanded the destroyer escort Ulvert M. Moore. This ship was named after one of the Torpedo Eight pilots who lost their life at Midway. It was aboard Ulvert M. Moore at sea in the Pacific he would learn of his father's death.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2022 11:25 PM (vjloV)

325 Is marriage worth it when you have to compliment someone even when they look like shit?

There's a reason the vast majority of married men don't recommend marriage to their single friends.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 30, 2022 11:14 PM (cMXNt)

When you come back to the frame room, help your wife choose glasses frames, then don't notice two weeks later after she picks up the frames that you helped choose... yeah, a wife feels underappreciated. Don't tie it into MGTOW, especially when the wife compliments *his* new frames and tries her hardest to help take care of them.

Posted by: pookysgirl, trying vainly to stop glasses-cleaning on a sweater at June 30, 2022 11:26 PM (XKZwp)

326 >>> 323 Anyway, if you haven't seen this I'd highly recommend it.
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~~Fuck~~ SMOD Hollywood.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:25 PM (KL6QW)

;P

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2022 11:26 PM (llON8)

327
Good ole mercurochrome
Posted by: vmom

We used Merthiolate

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2022 11:26 PM (63Dwl)

328
Fuck Hollywood.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:25 PM (KL6QW)

There it is.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 11:26 PM (dscaa)

329 Scott Ritter - a lot of marines believe he was framed. If he's the man I'm thinking of

Krugman(?) had kiddie porn on his computer. He loudly claimed it was planted there by...someone. And the FNM believed it.

But...Ritter seemed to have...issues.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2022 11:27 PM (ESjRY)

330 Oh, and one thing...

As I was fiddling with the kiosks to buy my tick I saw that there was a Fathom Event for an anime. Macross Frontier.

MACROSS FUCKING FRONTIER?!?!?!?

Really????? The fuck?????

Why didn't I hear about this? I heard some time back that the fights for Macross are finally being somewhat disentangled from Harmony Gold, but I had no idea they were going to broadcast a freakin' movie into theaters. Came *this* close to seeing that instead. I didn't cause I haven't seen a single anything from Macross Frontier snd would be totally confused.

Also, much as I love the sci-fi zoomies of Macross, I decided real life zoomies are best zoomies.

Still, had I known before I would have sure found a way to see both.

Posted by: Robert, the Devil on your shoulder at June 30, 2022 11:27 PM (1Yy3c)

331 >>> I heard that Ritter complained that, uh, images were planted on his computer. But no federal agency would do that, right?
Posted by: JM in Florida at June 30, 2022 11:22 PM (ZAWJi)

Could be, but he was caught twice trying to communicate with minors about sexual things and trying to setup a meeting. The last time he admitted to it and said he thought the person was an adult role playing as a kid. The dude had major issues and would have been easy to compromise.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2022 11:27 PM (0fVbu)

332 307 For something a bit different.

Lupin III Part 5 Ending 'Adieu'

https://youtu.be/oSVhN_Sibt0
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It's a great one, Anna. But my friend & I prefer the fourth ending, with Fujiko acting as torch singer.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 30, 2022 11:27 PM (W+kMI)

333 ...I don't think those things stretch that much. But I'm wondering if maybe I want a 48".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 30, 2022 11:22 PM

I'd go with the 49 incher...

Posted by: Zettai at June 30, 2022 11:28 PM (Rhl0l)

334 That too, Helena.

I will never spend a dime on any movie out of Hollyweird, no matter what bullshit hooah-hooah 'Murica movie is put out.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:28 PM (KL6QW)

335 Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2022 11:22 PM (ESjRY)

I am with you on everything but I don't see how that cocksucker Bush gets a pass. His second term has got to be one of the worst *terms* of any president ever.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 11:29 PM (dscaa)

336 Publius. How much would the maximum adjustment run on the hardware, from full slack to fully taut?

Axle to axle measure the distance. Then the half the circumference for each pulley diameter.

That should give you the minimum belt and the maximum belt lengths. Nomenclature though? I've nary a clue.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 30, 2022 11:29 PM (tkOps)

337 stare decisis is fundamentally dumb.

Either the constitution allows whatever is in question, or it doesn't.

If it does, then it doesn't matter what 5 judges said before. And if it doesn't then...it also doesn't matter what 5 judges said before.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2022 11:29 PM (ESjRY)

338 The little cat that visited my yard what led to it and PG both biting my hand has returned. PG was growling so i closed the window on her, went outside and am feeding the interloper. Short-haired ginger with a striped tail and ears not tipped but wearing a neon-green collar. Very friendly though skittish. Probably wary of PG.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 30, 2022 11:29 PM (KAi1n)

339 person was an adult role playing as a kid. The dude had major issues and would have been easy to compromise.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2022 11:27 PM (0fVbu)

I see.

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 30, 2022 11:29 PM (ZAWJi)

340 I will never spend a dime on any movie out of Hollyweird, no matter what bullshit hooah-hooah 'Murica movie is put out.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:28 PM (KL6QW)

I'm not even feeling the "America" thing anymore anyway. Ain't coming back, don't give a fuck. My allegiance is to a Higher authority.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 11:30 PM (dscaa)

341 78 You read stories about people that have been shot like 26 times, and live.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 30, 2022 10:15 PM (jTmQV)
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I do remember a case a very long time ago, some perp high on PCP (angel dust) got shot multiple times and still managed to attack the cops.

Posted by: Bidet: they should have shot the knife out of his hand. Actors do it all the time at June 30, 2022 11:31 PM (qfLjt)

342 Marriages has pluses and minuses for both men and women. But over the last 40 years the courts and society have completely reshaped those pluses and minuses so it is almost all upside for women and risky for men.

So yes...as a man there is little reason to marry anymore, outside of your religious views. Which might be enough. But you better pick the right woman.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2022 11:24 PM (ESjRY)

Unfortunately this.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2022 11:31 PM (VwHCD)

343 I'm not even feeling the "America" thing anymore anyway. Ain't coming back, don't give a fuck. My allegiance is to a Higher authority.
Posted by: ...
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This^

All. This.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:31 PM (KL6QW)

344 325 Is marriage worth it when you have to compliment someone even when they look like shit?

There's a reason the vast majority of married men don't recommend marriage to their single friends.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 30, 2022 11:14 PM (cMXNt)

I think you have to continue courting your wife even after marriage. And I think women should continue to honor and respect their men and not take them for granted.

You should be kind to each other.

Posted by: nurse ratched, just call me Pollyanna at June 30, 2022 11:31 PM (U2p+3)

345 315 I've made Coca-Cola chocolate cake which is pretty good but I never tried Coke Salad. Not a big fan of Jell-O.
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Would take the glucose it to try a piece of that cake.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 30, 2022 11:31 PM (W+kMI)

346
I'm not even feeling the "America" thing anymore anyway. Ain't coming back, don't give a fuck. My allegiance is to a Higher authority.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 11:30 PM (dscaa)

The UN?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2022 11:31 PM (7bRMQ)

347 >>> Don't tie it into MGTOW, especially when the wife compliments *his* new frames and tries her hardest to help take care of them.
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying vainly to stop glasses-cleaning on a sweater at June 30, 2022 11:26 PM (XKZwp)

They'd have to be pretty heavy glasses to affect MGTOW.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2022 11:31 PM (0fVbu)

348 Big West, Sony, and Harmony Gold decided to bury their legal hatchets last year to make sure they all make money.

There should be two Macross Frontier movies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2022 11:32 PM (vjloV)

349 This cat appears to be an unfixed male.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 30, 2022 11:32 PM (KAi1n)

350 The only ranking that matters in the is the list which aligns to the country's Biblical founding.
Posted by: techsan at June 30, 2022 10:56 PM (uNveu)

This is incorrect.
Posted by: ZOD at June 30, 2022 11:00 PM (Q/6pY)

No, techsan pretty much has it correct. America is founded on the idea of God-given Rights, and you cannot have God-given Rights without a God who gives Rights, and you cannot claim any Right God doesn't give.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2022 11:32 PM (kOpft)

351 252 208 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: "This is about the future of the Liberal World Order and we have to stand firm."
https://tinyurl.com/427eedx3
Posted by: The New Liberal World Order at June 30, 2022 10:48 PM (qfLjt)

I'm actually overjoyed to see them say shit like this, this is an honest to god Marie Antoinette "let them eat cake" moment. (whether or not she actually ever said that) I would be worried if they were trying to deny it, but they are doubling down on their insanity. They're proud of it!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2022 11:00 PM (r46W7)

Biden and his clowns Blinken, Sullivan, Austin, and Milley have no viable winning end game strategy right now. (Not that they ever had one) They know it but of course will not admit it, probably not even to themselves. Even if Blinken and Sullivan magically came up with a good plan for a winning end game, it is unlikely Stubborn Joe will immediately buy it. Buckle-up for continued heavy turbulence.

Posted by: Ishmael at June 30, 2022 11:32 PM (AMIL/)

352 I told a person on reddit that saying they were female even though they arent was the same as wearing black face and pretending to be black. It got downvoted.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at June 30, 2022 11:33 PM (buTO7)

353 TAX DOLLARS TO PROMOTE ATHEISM OVERSEAS: Hard to believe, but the U.S. State Department is handing out grants of as much as $500,000 to organizations promoting atheism overseas. Can you imagine if these grants were instead to promote Christianity?

Epoch Times

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:33 PM (KL6QW)

354 The UN?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2022 11:31 PM (7bRMQ)

LOL

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 11:34 PM (dscaa)

355 I am with you on everything but I don't see how that cocksucker Bush gets a pass. His second term has got to be one of the worst *terms* of any president ever.

Shrub has an interesting arc. He inherited a bloated government and a fully operational terror movement.

He basically passed on fixing the bloated government, but routed AQ in the US in short order...by quickly doing a bunch of RAYCISS! stuff...like kicking all the illegals from muslim countries out of the US (oh yes he did that).

Then he got us into a couple of wars with no idea how to win them. We just...wait them out...right? Because America is good at that and no one will ever elected an incompetent lefty congress or president...right?

And then he had the mortgage melt down...which to his credit he did try to address...but he didn't try very hard.

He was positioned to be another great - give Reagan or Trump the presidency in 2000 and we'd see a very different outcome. But he threw it all away.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2022 11:34 PM (ESjRY)

356 Can you imagine if these grants were instead to promote Christianity? [/i{

No.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 30, 2022 11:35 PM (GhG0Z)

357 And if mom tells to you quietly, "I don't want you to be miserable in your marriage." Don't blow her off. She's seen a lot of sh^t in her day.

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 30, 2022 11:36 PM (d6sK7)

358 I worked as a housekeeper in a hospital in my younger years. In the lab (where all the testing of fluids and tissues was done) there was a big glass jar with a dead baby in it, sitting on a shelf. It has always been a big part of why I am so opposed to abortion. Sure, the little baby may have been still-born rather than aborted, but why was it not given a proper burial?

It has bothered me for 30 plus years.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, from Butte, America at June 30, 2022 10:50 PM (x8Wzq)

The Kunst Kamera Museum in St Petersburg Russia has some horribly disturbing exhibits. Stillborn babies with cleft pallets, deformed babies, etc...all preserved from the 1700s in glass jars.

Posted by: Mishdog at June 30, 2022 11:36 PM (uwW33)

359 Anyway, if you haven't seen this I'd highly recommend it. This isn't high art, but if you want to see lots of jaw dropping F-18 footage you will not be disappointed.

And Jennifer Connelly is...*mwah*...tres magnifique.
Posted by: Robert, the Devil on your shoulder at June 30, 2022 11:22 PM (1Yy3c)
***

Pppffttt
F-18...F-19... What evs.
Put a camera in a Abrams tank and add a dozen T-80s maneuvering as targets. Now you got a movie!
Throw in a couple women because tankers are tankers afterall, now you got a movie!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 30, 2022 11:36 PM (anj39)

360 LOL

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 11:34 PM (dscaa)

Well, it's either that or the WHO....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2022 11:36 PM (7bRMQ)

361 And since I'm just going to ramble about movies, a few notes....

The pre-trailers ads were a disgrace. All gay shit all the time. One ad for an AirBNB type vacation website had a rather unfortunate implication of underage mid-teen lesbian sex. If these people don't want to be called groomers then they should stop fucking acting like groomers.

All the trailers were kind of stupid. Not interested in any of them. And they were all alike. Russo Bros. Have s new film coming out. It had a plot just like three other movies, including the next Mission: Impossible. There was one called Bullet Train. That was moderately amusing. I'm sure all the good bits are in the trailer and the movie sucks.

All the films featured actors I mostly didn't recognize. Who are these people and where did they came from?

Hell, the main feature featured actors I mostly didn't recognize. I thought Miles Teller was one of the black dudes from Black Panther. Shit, color me surprised!

Posted by: Robert, the Devil on your shoulder at June 30, 2022 11:37 PM (1Yy3c)

362 I told a person on reddit that saying they were female even though they arent was the same as wearing black face and pretending to be black. It got downvoted.

Remember the Belgian guy that claimed to be trans-age? Basically he looked younger then he was and demanded the government accord him the age he felt he was.

I remember by lefty cow-workers laughing that up...because age is something you can't change just because you want to...unlike your sex!

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2022 11:37 PM (ESjRY)

363 Is marriage worth it when you have to compliment someone even when they look like shit?
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Well as I've yet to see a human literally look like shit, let alone my wife, the lack of freedom to choose that hyperbole to disparage my wife is baffling a burden.

I guess you just have to love your wife enough that "looking like shit" isn't the first thing that crosses your mind.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 11:38 PM (OaZlZ)

364 "what Truman did to crack the top 10 is beyond me"

He nuked Japan. TWICE. That pushes him higher than he otherwise deserved.

Posted by: GWB at June 30, 2022 11:38 PM (BJd6U)

365 There should be two Macross Frontier movies.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2022 11:32 PM (vjloV)

I will watch out for that second one, for sure!

Posted by: Robert, the Devil on your shoulder at June 30, 2022 11:39 PM (1Yy3c)

366 And yes in a marriage or any sort of romantic relationship...don't take the other person for granted. That can start a downward slope.

Obviously you can't be on your "dating best" all the time when married or living with someone. But give them a reason to want to be with you.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2022 11:39 PM (ESjRY)

367 Saint Lincoln was the ultimate centralizer and despot and accomplished what FDR only wished he could. Lincoln was no friend of liberty. The “Civil War” was unnecessary and caused more so by protectionist tariffs and northern grifting, of which Lincoln greatly benefitted and the south bore the burden, than anything else. Lincoln pushed the country away from Jeffersonian federalism more so than any other President and we suffer for it today. He deserves to be at the bottom of the list.

Posted by: Breakfast Burrito at June 30, 2022 11:39 PM (G1+y3)

368
You're gonna want to see this tweet:

https://tinyurl.com/2zhdvhs2

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 30, 2022 11:39 PM (8GBH4)

369 Yes 30+ minutes of trailers and ads all the while you are munching through the popcorn you bought for the movie. So by the time Maverick has been booted to Top Gun, the popcorn is gone and your bladder is requesting permission to piss due to the soda you sucked down.

That was nicht gut.

BTW. Top Gun is now rolled into an expanded syllabus that is run out of Fallon NAS called Strike U. No more Miramar and no more volleyball on the beach.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2022 11:40 PM (vjloV)

370 There was no excuse to attempt Amnesty in 2005, throwing away Congress, and *then* follow *that* up by passing all the Pelosi bullshit that he did. For those things ALONE he is in the bottom 5.

Add in the "wars", not fighting his bullshit image in the media, and letting the R's be branded with all his dire sickness and herp derpism, paving the way in Gold for The Secret Muslim, and you have one seriously lowlife scumbag asshole dickface president.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 11:41 PM (dscaa)

371 Why does she look like shit?
Is she exhausted from taking care of a sick child all night? Did her parent die last week and she has to take care of her alcoholic father? Is she worried about her husband working long hours and trying to make ends meet?

Wtf. Don't be an asshole.

Posted by: nurse ratched, just call me Pollyanna at June 30, 2022 11:41 PM (U2p+3)

372 Is she worried about her husband working long hours and trying to make ends meet?

Wtf. Don't be an asshole.
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Isn't being an asshole a prerequisite here?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:42 PM (KL6QW)

373 Well, it's either that or the WHO....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2022 11:36 PM (7bRMQ)

I was always more of an Allman Bros guy

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 11:43 PM (dscaa)

374 "Make EVERYTHING political."

We can't go to watch archetypal explorations of the human condition, nor can we observe the stories that speak to the primordial, atavistic and common values of all cultures; rather, the Hero of a Thousand Faces has been replaced by the Being/Thing of a Thousand Genders (and only one Face need Apply), aka The Message.
I'm so sick of this shit, but apparently still civilized enough to not run over the bicyclist who insisted on using most of the lane at a busy cross-section, then
arrogantly chastising me for getting too close to him (I didn't, not by a long shot): "Watch it! This is D@v!$"
"No shit, dumb fuck! If it were Sparta, your pencil neck ass would be part of the pavement! Share the road works both ways!" Grrrrr...not the first time yelling at spandex elitists in this town. Do they not realize my shop van will always win? It has dents for a reason. Whatever. I'm just whining, sorry.

Beer me, please.

Posted by: Armchair Sinner at June 30, 2022 11:43 PM (Nig2g)

375 Frightening But 100% True Facts About Guns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmyyEbvDgr8

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:44 PM (KL6QW)

376 78 You read stories about people that have been shot like 26 times, and live.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 30, 2022 10:15 PM (jTmQV)

There was a story of a woman who shot an intruder with a .45, emptied the mag, and reloaded twice more. The cops asked, why all the shooting?
She said, i had to; when I shot him, he kept moving.

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 30, 2022 11:44 PM (d6sK7)

377 I just spent way too much time laughing at the crazy recipes and food photos at that gallery of regrettable food. What the hell were people thinking in the 60s and 70s?

Posted by: PabloD at June 30, 2022 11:44 PM (ySCnP)

378 Lincoln pushed the country away from Jeffersonian federalism more so than any other President and we suffer for it today. He deserves to be at the bottom of the list.
Posted by: Breakfast Burrito at June 30, 2022 11:39 PM (G1+y3)

[ ] Shots Fired!
[ ] And then the murders began.
[ ] Refighting the war of Northern Agression ...and GO

Posted by: Jacks Tire Iron and Rebar Supply Shack at June 30, 2022 11:45 PM (MFphb)

379 I think you have to continue courting your wife even after marriage. And I think women should continue to honor and respect their men and not take them for granted.

You should be kind to each other.
Posted by: nurse ratched, just call me Pollyanna at June 30, 2022 11:31 PM (U2p+3)

Having been married exactly zero (0) times, I think I am nonetheless qualified to expound on the wisdom of the ages passed down through time.

One thing I've heard consistently from happily married men is to always do the things yo make your old lady feel appreciated and cherished. It doesn't seem to have to be terribly complex at all. It's always something as simple as buying your old lady flowers every day. It's nothing grandiose or even sexual, just simple yet fairly constant and consistent romantic gestures that make your chick feel beautiful and loved.

Posted by: Robert, the Devil on your shoulder at June 30, 2022 11:45 PM (1Yy3c)

380 'Sup y'all?

Posted by: Muldoon at June 30, 2022 11:45 PM (kXYt5)

381 I seem to recall when I was younger that Hollywood was constantly making movies I wanted to see. And now...not so much.

Looking at the top films of 2002 by box office I see a bunch of movies I liked: LotR, Back Hawk Down, We Were Soldiers, Spider Man, Men in Black II, Austin Powers Gold Member, Signs, The Ring

Comparing that to 2022 I see err...nothing. Maybe Elvis? Or Top Gun?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2022 11:45 PM (ESjRY)

382 >>> Isn't being an asshole a prerequisite here?
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:42 PM (KL6QW)

I think Asshole and Looks Like Shit would make a really cute couple actually. They've already got a lot in common.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2022 11:46 PM (0fVbu)

383 "whether you personally think it should have been a federal right is irrelevant. It was for 49 years."

but even then abortion had limitations, which were often ignored. (Goznell laughing about 'that one was able to walk to school" or some such) ...

I don't think the Bible is as clear as we prefer it to be. The OT does say if someone causes a woman to lose her child in her womb, it is a fine, but if he causes her to be harmed it is an eye for an eye.

I heard someone here argue "no, that is only if he accidentally caused her to lose her fetus/child", but that is not the scripture as I had read it. Would be glad to be shown otherwise.

First usage in the Bible .. God formed the body of the dust of the ground, THEN breathed into it the breath of life, and man became a living soul. THAT has been the standard .. .Birth Day.

But idk, there is at least a vibrant body life before birth, whether or not that is "soul life", idk ... it is all quite a miraculous process.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2022 11:46 PM (Cus5s)

384 rofl

Who knew guns had Nazi antennas and death rails.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:47 PM (KL6QW)

385 >>> 375 Frightening But 100% True Facts About Guns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmyyEbvDgr8
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:44 PM (KL6QW)

#1 is 'they have a thing that goes up', right???

Posted by: leftists at June 30, 2022 11:47 PM (llON8)

386 What do you think of the list, and how would you re-rank it?

*********

I'd ship those historians out to a Siberian salt mine so that they would get their minds right.

After all, they love some socialism (Wilson, FDR, SCOAMF) so let them experience it firsthand.

As for ranking, you pretty much covered it.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at June 30, 2022 11:48 PM (xxG/v)

387 Lincoln: suspended habeas corpus, instituted the draft. And most important, he did not allow states the freedom to secede.

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 30, 2022 11:48 PM (d6sK7)

388 ..Isn't being an asshole a prerequisite here? Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:42 PM
(KL6QW)

I do try to make up some for my lack, by being either a smartass, or a dumbass, as circumstance might require.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 30, 2022 11:49 PM (tkOps)

389 87. Posted by: GnuBreed
Much obliged for the effort.

Posted by: From about that time at June 30, 2022 11:49 PM (4780s)

390 But idk, there is at least a vibrant body life before birth, whether or not that is "soul life", idk ... it is all quite a miraculous process.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2022 11:46 PM (Cus5s)

"Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you" is pretty powerful testimony. There are other examples.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2022 11:50 PM (dscaa)

391 Can you imagine if these grants were instead to promote Christianity?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:33 PM (KL6QW)
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So much boilerplate in court decisions over the years has proudly claimed that the government may neither endorse nor disparage religion, and this decision has upheld that standard no matter how full of shit the judge is.

That has created the weird impression in me that the government is supposed to be neutral on the subject of religion.

And the government comes up full of shit again.

Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 11:50 PM (OaZlZ)

392 Didn't bother to look at the Presidents list.

If it were left to me, Lincoln would be at the bottom...just below FDR. Before it's over, Joe might actually displace Lincoln.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2022 11:50 PM (K25Wn)

393 Can we invite Britain back to Washingington?

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at June 30, 2022 11:50 PM (3Or4S)

394 I went to HS with a Melendez that played for the Dodgers for a bit. Love that guy.

Posted by: NC Ref at June 30, 2022 11:51 PM (2kkiJ)

395
Back then, the Rs were the real progressives. Meaning working towards betterment, not like the current so-called progressives who just work for tyranny.

Much of politics, and business, and many other human endeavors, especially in our modern era, is nothing more than the art of crafting lies around defining terms as the opposite of what they actually are. "Progressive" now means effectively "Returning to feudalism with an Aristocrat class and a Peasant class". " Liberalism " means "Only certain ideas and behaviors will be tolerated and there will be harsh penalties for not supporting them"

Posted by: azjaeger at June 30, 2022 11:51 PM (3/XaG)

396 #1 is 'they have a thing that goes up', right???
Posted by: leftists
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Watch and find out.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:52 PM (KL6QW)

397 Letter arrived in today's mail, WD. Many thanks!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2022 11:53 PM (llc0G)

398 Sitting here watching the sunset I just realized I'm not hearing any fireworks going off. Usually this close to independence day it sounds like the opening rounds of the Stalingrad encirclement by this time in the evening. Come to think of it I haven't heard anything all week.

Posted by: Beartooth at June 30, 2022 11:53 PM (DWXXm)

399 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmyyEbvDgr8

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:44 PM

I note the AR-15s in that vid are the Newyorkistan S.A.F.E. Act-compliant ones (no pistol grip)...

Posted by: Zettai at June 30, 2022 11:53 PM (h5L9i)

400 [ ] Shots Fired!
[ ] And then the murders began.
[ ] Refighting the war of Northern Agression ...and GO
Posted by: Jacks Tire Iron and Rebar Supply Shack at June 30, 2022 11:45 PM (MFphb)

I don’t intend to defend the confederacy. I just don’t appreciate government taking power under the guise of “necessity” because the power never gets relinquished. Can anyone argue that the prevailing interpretation of the constitution reflects much of the original understanding? Did the federal government relinquish power after Lincoln’s time?

Posted by: Breakfast Burrito at June 30, 2022 11:54 PM (G1+y3)

401 And another way to look at the decline of movies...the last Oscar winner I liked was Birdman in 2014. That's been 8 years now...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2022 11:54 PM (ESjRY)

402 C'mon, coppers! Just shoot the knife outta his hand!!

Posted by: Sharkman at June 30, 2022 11:54 PM (u6r/e)

403 I note the AR-15s in that vid are the Newyorkistan S.A.F.E. Act-compliant ones (no pistol grip)...
Posted by: Zettai
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Yet somehow, you can use .50 cal rounds in them!

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:54 PM (KL6QW)

404 C'mon, coppers! Just shoot the knife outta his hand!!

I can't count the number of times I've heard a leftist say that...seriously.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2022 11:56 PM (ESjRY)

405 403 I note the AR-15s in that vid are the Newyorkistan S.A.F.E. Act-compliant ones (no pistol grip)...
Posted by: Zettai
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Yet somehow, you can use .50 cal rounds in them!

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:54 PM (KL6QW)

Belt-fed from a 100 round clip, right?

Posted by: Ishmael at June 30, 2022 11:56 PM (AMIL/)

406 Lincoln: suspended habeas corpus, instituted the draft. And most important, he did not allow states the freedom to secede.
Posted by: JM
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Quite intentionally brought about an unnecessary war...excuse me, a 'rebellion', which cost 650,000 American lives, and resulted in misery, suffering, and societal instability which exists even to today.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2022 11:57 PM (tFWfv)

407 They'd have to be pretty heavy glasses to affect MGTOW.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 30, 2022 11:31 PM (0fVbu)

Birth Control Glasses?

https://tinyurl.com/yckms2u6

Posted by: pookysgirl has seen BCGs in the wild at June 30, 2022 11:57 PM (XKZwp)

408 Sitting here watching the sunset I just realized I'm not hearing any fireworks going off. Usually this close to independence day it sounds like the opening rounds of the Stalingrad encirclement by this time in the evening. Come to think of it I haven't heard anything all week.
Posted by: Beartooth
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In a lot of places, firework shows are cancelled due to...supply chain issues.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:57 PM (KL6QW)

409 ""Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you" is pretty powerful testimony. There are other examples.
Posted by: .."

sure, but imo that is about foreknowledge, not ... "you were always alive, even before conception".

Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2022 11:57 PM (Cus5s)

410 Lincoln: suspended habeas corpus, instituted the draft. And most important, he did not allow states the freedom to secede.
Posted by: JM in Florida at June 30, 2022 11:48 PM (d6sK7)

Amen. …protectionist tariffs, quartered soldiers in the south, etc. Lincoln pretty much covered all of infractions committed by England that led to the Revolution. But now he’s treated as Jesus 2.0.

Posted by: Breakfast Burrito at June 30, 2022 11:58 PM (G1+y3)

411 What do I think of the list? Well..
C-SPAN anonymously surveyed 142 historians, professors and professional observers of presidencies. No further comment needed. I am not a fan of lists in general. They don't mix well with my ADHD. Mrs. Sock likes lists. Things Sock Monkey should do today. Things Sock Monkey did or said thirty years ago . Things Sock Monkey should stop doing. She came home the other day and asked what I had done all day. Told her I spent most of the day looking for my list.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at June 30, 2022 11:58 PM (uZxq5)

412 Belt-fed from a 100 round clip, right?
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Nope.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 30, 2022 11:58 PM (KL6QW)

413 Topless breastfeeding mum in boxer shorts tackles bald eagle to save pet goose
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We were just trying to take it easy!
Posted by: The Eagles at June 30, 2022 10:08 PM (krQz2)

The Mirror story at the link mis-spells Saanich. (correct spelling). Which is an Indian name, come to us via the Chinook jargon. I am sure there is now some unreadable and unpronounceable "authentic Indian" rendering of the town name, because, reasons. Spoiler: the Indians of the northwest Coast had no written forms of language.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2022 11:59 PM (llc0G)

414 I like Grover Cleveland. He vetoed a lot of stuff. Handled a depression by fixing treasury issues and not handing out money. He came in as a 40yo bachelor and got 21yo wife while presidentin', nice. "Hey baby, ever hung out with a president? Because I could arrange that, being I'm the president."

I consider an elected official good if they leave me the fuck alone. The less they do or say the greater they are.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 12:01 AM (0fVbu)

415 Gonna have to find a death rail attachment that can launch bibles and MAGA hats.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 12:01 AM (KL6QW)

416 A solid hit to the vitals is 99.9% effective.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 30, 2022 10:14 PM (Xrfse)

All good things take time. You pretty much have to KO the central nervous system to put down a tango in zero time.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2022 12:02 AM (llc0G)

417 heh, I guess the tweet was done seen.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 01, 2022 12:02 AM (8GBH4)

418 movies...the last Oscar winner I liked was Birdman in 2014. That's been 8 years now...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2022 11:54 PM (ESjRY)
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And I didn't like that one that much either.

Some very good performances, especially Keaton.

Just a little too artsy and pretentious to me. And the ambiguous ending really didn't work for me.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 12:03 AM (OaZlZ)

419 I consider an elected official good if they leave me the fuck alone. The less they do or say the greater they are.
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You can kiss that goodbye.

Besides, it's for your own good that they are all up in your business.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 12:03 AM (KL6QW)

420 I consider an elected official good if they leave me the fuck alone. The less they do or say the greater they are.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 12:01 AM (0fVbu)

I'm number one!!!

Posted by: Willaim Henry Harrison at July 01, 2022 12:03 AM (7bRMQ)

421 I don't think the Bible is as clear as we prefer it to be. The OT does say if someone causes a woman to lose her child in her womb, it is a fine, but if he causes her to be harmed it is an eye for an eye.

I heard someone here argue "no, that is only if he accidentally caused her to lose her fetus/child", but that is not the scripture as I had read it. Would be glad to be shown otherwise.

Exodus 21:22 (KJV) If men strive, and hurt a woman with child so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow, he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. v23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, etc.

That looks to me like two men are fighting and the woman is injured incidental to their fight, which is backed up by the lack of further attack against her. If she is attacked further, then the punishment ramps up (and it's not clear what limits are put on the husband's demand in the first instance).

The Bible also indicates that God knew us before we were knit in our mother's womb, so in that sense we existed in His mind before even conception.

Posted by: Methos at July 01, 2022 12:04 AM (kOpft)

422 "Friends don't let friends buy magic white man fire sticks"
lol

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 12:04 AM (KL6QW)

423 heh, I guess the tweet was done seen.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 01, 2022 12:02 AM

It needs to be seen by millions of voters, along with a great deal of other things suppressed by the media...

Posted by: Zettai at July 01, 2022 12:05 AM (IP7Gi)

424 I can't count the number of times I've heard a leftist say that...seriously.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2022 11:56 PM (ESjRY)
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Except when it's "mutual combat" of urban kids going through that "knife-fight phase".

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 12:05 AM (OaZlZ)

425 White House Economic Council Chair Says Biden 85% Disapproval Irrelevant When Making Economic Transition to New and Permanent U.S. Energy Program

https://tinyurl.com/25xa3vdu

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 12:08 AM (KL6QW)

426 Sitting here watching the sunset I just realized I'm not hearing any fireworks going off. Usually this close to independence day it sounds like the opening rounds of the Stalingrad encirclement by this time in the evening. Come to think of it I haven't heard anything all week.

Posted by: Beartooth at June 30, 2022 11:53 PM (DWXXm)

You need to come to my street. The Hispanic family has been heavily patronizing the fireworks shack on the grocery store parking lot. 10:00 every night, like clockwork!

Posted by: pookysgirl, listening for the booms to quiet down at July 01, 2022 12:09 AM (XKZwp)

427
I think I'm ordering the 49". There's about maybe an 1" of adjustment on the motor base, maybe a little more.

This thing is rather low gear ratio. 3450 RPM motor, and compressor speed is about 850 RPM (I remember that figure when I had to get a new pump -- well I've replaced the pumps on both, as well as the motors, and replumbed one of the old things over the years). Tiny little pulley on the motor, big one on the pump.

The difference in diameter is such that there's quite an angle there, and you'd need to do little cosine on the angle to get the actual straight line length pulley to pulley.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 12:09 AM (Mzdiz)

428 The Bible also indicates that God knew us before we were knit in our mother's womb, so in that sense we existed in His mind before even conception.

Posted by: Methos at July 01, 2022 12:04 AM (kOpft)
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Pro-aborts often say "Of course God knew David in the womb!"

They become demi-Calvinists that David was never going to not be born. So God obligated for e- knows the kids that are going to be kids.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 12:10 AM (OaZlZ)

429 Hilarious commercial about gerbil warbeling from the Libertarian candidate for Senate from New Hampshire:
"if you don't give the right people money and power then the earth will explode, it's called climate change"
https://tinyurl.com/7ewy2br3
Posted by: The ARC Of History! at June 30, 2022 10:40 PM (I2/tG)

this is more effective than wearing a boot on your head and changing your name to "vermin"

this is not your uncle's Libertarian party. It is a squirrel. It's attending a penguin rave.

Send me money too.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 01, 2022 12:11 AM (xhaym)

430 Gas Stations Running Out and Sold Out Completely of Diesel Fuel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7-niOMVL4M

Also, for some reason some lefties are boycotting gas between July 3 and 5.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 12:11 AM (KL6QW)

431
IIRC, the max speed on those pumps is 1050 RPM. I replaced with a Speed-Aire pump (single state, two cylinder). Anyway 850RPM was the design speed of the old pumps.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 12:11 AM (Mzdiz)

432 Trump gets an asterisk because he was blocked from doing most of what he wanted during his first term.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2022 11:14 PM (r46W7)

Removes asterisk.

Trump got to appoint enough Supreme Court Justices to:

1) Overturn Roe v. Wade;
2) Claw back the 2nd Amendment to an 'I want' right not an 'I need' request;
3) Told the Bureaucracy (EPA) they do not have the authority to make laws and that Congress should do their jobs and make laws.

These are three co-equal rulings of great long-term import.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2022 12:12 AM (ldL4g)

433 Also, for some reason some lefties are boycotting gas between July 3 and 5.

It's so the rest of us have a chance at getting where we're going. They don't frame it like that, but that's the practical result.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 01, 2022 12:12 AM (Bd6X8)

434
The Bible also indicates that God knew us before we were knit in our mother's womb, so in that sense we existed in His mind before even conception.
Posted by: Methos

INDIANAPOLIS — As Indiana lawmakers prepare to pass a potential abortion ban, local faith leaders are speaking out about concerns for congregations across the state.

“It’s very troubling to think that we would be legislating one religious belief over another,” said Rabbi Brett Krichiver, senior rabbi at the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation.

"The Jewish community would argue that the Bible states very clearly that an unborn child is more similar to property than it is to a human being and that really what's at stake here is women's ability to control their own access to healthcare," he added.

https://tinyurl.com/4x9zs58b

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2022 12:13 AM (63Dwl)

435 268 PSA FOR HUSBANDS: If you know your wife was supposed to get new glasses, and you think they look cute, notice it and compliment her.

(emphasis added)

But wait until you're sure that she actually has gotten them first.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 30, 2022 11:04 PM (nfrXX)

My wife appreciates my compliments even when she knows I'm lying. My wife, I think I'll keep her.

https://youtu.be/_lNfpQ_8tEw

Posted by: Javems at July 01, 2022 12:13 AM (AmoqO)

436 Gonna have to find a death rail attachment that can launch bibles and MAGA hats.
Posted by: SMH
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Kinda related:

"Bible drop: Christian group takes to sky to sneak Gospel into North Korea" :https://tinyurl.com/32n83z4w

50,000, so far, they say.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2022 12:13 AM (YsLD1)

437 C'mon, coppers! Just shoot the knife outta his hand!!

I can't count the number of times I've heard a leftist say that...seriously.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2022 11:56 PM (ESjRY)

Danny Glover, a big time Leftoid, in a couple of Lethal Weapon flicks.

He was NOT acting in those flick scenes. Mel Gibson saved his retarded ass a bunch of times; gotta give the director some cred for highlighting them.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 01, 2022 12:13 AM (F0YaR)

438 ...The difference in diameter is such that there's quite an angle there, and you'd need to do little cosine on the angle to get the actual straight line length pulley to pulley.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 12:09 AM

I don't suppose you've taken an ordinary tailor's tape around the pulleys, have you?

Posted by: Zettai at July 01, 2022 12:13 AM (IP7Gi)

439 Dick Chenney

He still hunts?....Naw

Mostly puzzle pieces I would gather from his wheel chair these days....his daughter is well...compost...next election cycle.....sorry DICK! Sorry Liz, you effin traitor.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 01, 2022 12:13 AM (J00IM)

440 ..The difference in diameter is such that there's quite an angle there, and you'd need to do little cosine on the angle to get the actual straight line length pulley to pulley.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 12:09 AM (Mzdiz)

Weasel can solve that in his external ballistics app.

Might be some worthwhile math, you'll end up with the minimum and maximum belt lengths that'll work. I'd buy the minimum (it'll stretch) and the medium (it'll stretch, too) Maximum is right out, as you'll have no turns left on the tensioner to make it work once it also stretches, which it will.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 01, 2022 12:14 AM (tkOps)

441 This whole thing with inviting politicians to speak is all about bribery and money laundering, you guys know that,right?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 30, 2022 10:33 PM (kf6Ak)

Well, until the floor of the platform falls away, and they drop seven yards into a running wood chipper.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2022 12:14 AM (llc0G)

442 "The Bible also indicates that God knew us before we were knit in our mother's womb, so in that sense we existed in His mind before even conception." Posted by: Methos

yes, God knew us before we existed. That is about foreknowledge. I don't think it overrules free will. "Many are called but few are chosen". How does that work, exactly? ha, idk.

I think there is another OT section on a man causing a woman to lose her child, just a fine. But in any case, "negligent homicide" was a fine, not murder. OT had harsh rules, but that was very lenient.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2022 12:15 AM (Cus5s)

443 Nice chatting with y'all. Later.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 01, 2022 12:15 AM (kXYt5)

444 Well, until the floor of the platform falls away, and they drop seven yards into a running wood chipper.

I wasn't planning on smiling tonight, but now I am.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 01, 2022 12:15 AM (Bd6X8)

445 It's so the rest of us have a chance at getting where we're going. They don't frame it like that, but that's the practical result.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
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It will not matter.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 12:16 AM (KL6QW)

446 97 From your "The Gallery of Regrettable Food" I think "Meat Fisting at Home" deserves some additional... attention or whatever.

Someone could maybe post pics.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2022 10:21 PM (BFigT)
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That surely has to be a Gay Pride month thing if there ever was.

Posted by: fisting is like packing poop at July 01, 2022 12:17 AM (qfLjt)

447 Got reefer trucks just sitting at truck stops, with food spoiling in them, because of no diesel.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 12:17 AM (KL6QW)

448 The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815. The Treaty of Ghent which ended the war had already been signed on December 24, 1814 in the Netherlands but no one over here knew it.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 30, 2022 10:35 PM (G0bXQ)

Shit like that was probably an impetus to the construction of undersea telegraph cables.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2022 12:17 AM (llc0G)

449 I don't know if the above recipe is there, but if you like this kind of stuff, check out James Lileks' Gallery of Regrettable Food. It's a hoot.

Yeah he has a couple books out about food and interior decoration that are just great.

But that coca cola salad sounds like it might actually be pretty good. Sounds interesting at least

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 12:18 AM (llsW/)

450 425 White House Economic Council Chair Says Biden 85% Disapproval Irrelevant When Making Economic Transition to New and Permanent U.S. Energy Program

https://tinyurl.com/25xa3vdu
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 12:08 AM (KL6QW)
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That's how the Dems are "saving democracy". When 85% of Americans don't like something, they just need to "remember" something the person they have elected never ran on-- even to the point of calling his opponent a liar for suggesting he would make this push.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 12:18 AM (OaZlZ)

451 Something happened to entertainment in 2015. Looking back it's impossible not to see the "firewall" right around that point.

Thing is it was all in preparation for the ascent of The Hag and the ensuing 50 years of commie rule. In fact I wrote here in these very pages around 2012 that there was going to be a Woman Woman Woman push from Hollywood/Media starting in 2014 and slowly snowballing and it was going to be grotesque.

I thought they were going to go big on making Domestic Violence a national issue (by using some celebrity or big case) but they went straight to r*pe with Cosby - and it was so obvious in hindsight they would go straight to "r*pe" with all its disgraceful accusations and connotations, I really should have seen it coming. Then they followed with the Weinstein exposure and the non-organic "metoo" movement. Which they pretended was a response to Trump but was actually all well in the works before Trump burst their bubble.

I had always said "Women Women Women" wasn't really going to take off until 2016-2017 so that it could appear like President Hag had "changed the world" when in fact it was all planned and fake and no such thing had occurred.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 12:18 AM (dscaa)

452 Liz Cheney will lose the primary and get a job at a K street firm making $450k plus appearance money on cnn and msnbc.

This is why they give no fucjs if they lose elections. They win even when they lose.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 12:18 AM (hA/0f)

453 >> I don't suppose you've taken an ordinary tailor's tape

That's exactly what I did, Zettai to see what the length was now, the stretched length of course. It was a little under 50.5".

Adjustment is all the way out. I'm just lazy, and not wanting to tear into it until I have the new belt. I could take it off, run the motor adjustment all the way back in, then measure around with the tape.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 12:18 AM (Mzdiz)

454 I am maxed out on "give a f**k" and for the record "giving 2 F**ks"

So I shant give!

Just my point.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 01, 2022 12:19 AM (J00IM)

455 The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815. The Treaty of Ghent which ended the war had already been signed on December 24, 1814 in the Netherlands but no one over here knew it.

Several ship battles happened at sea after wars were over, the book Beat to Quarters by Forrester features something like that happening.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 12:20 AM (llsW/)

456 This Summer Is Going To Get UGLY... DIESEL SHORTAGES and PRICE INCREASES = Food Shortages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CpALcQhJpQ

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 12:20 AM (KL6QW)

457 Then they followed with the Weinstein exposure and the non-organic "metoo" movement. Which they pretended was a response to Trump but was actually all well in the works before Trump burst their bubble

Yeah Trump was a side benefit that never played out for them, the MeToo thing was all wound up and fired off because Hillary was going to walk into the White House against a ridiculous loser, and it completely backfired on them

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 12:21 AM (llsW/)

458 yes, God knew us before we existed. That is about foreknowledge. I don't think it overrules free will. "Many are called but few are chosen". How does that work, exactly? ha, idk.

I think there is another OT section on a man causing a woman to lose her child, just a fine. But in any case, "negligent homicide" was a fine, not murder. OT had harsh rules, but that was very lenient.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2022 12:15 AM (Cus5s)

I think "foreknowledge" is kind of taken as read with God (not that He is above reminding us of these things) and that there is twenty cajillion different ways to demonstrate or discuss foreknowledge, and that due to the specific one chosen, there is a far deeper meaning there than you are crediting.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 12:21 AM (dscaa)

459 ... run the motor adjustment all the way back in, then measure around with the tape.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 12:18 AM

Can you measure the new belts before you buy? I shouldn't be surprised if the nominal size is significantly greater or lesser than the actual size...

Posted by: Zettai at July 01, 2022 12:22 AM (mPpOD)

460 So no trial?

Posted by: Jeff Gillooly at July 01, 2022 12:23 AM (z9V4B)

461 Anyway putting religion aside and maybe going a little tangential, science demonstrates that 100% of "that thing growing inside a woman"s that survive the process are human beings. 100%. In all of recorded history.

Nothing is 100%, but that sure as fuck is. And I believe that number is enough to be not only statistically but also morally significant.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 12:25 AM (dscaa)

462 Can you measure the new belts before you buy? I shouldn't be surprised if the nominal size is significantly greater or lesser than the actual size...
Posted by: Zettai
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I generally run a piece of string around the OD of the current belt ad use that as a direct measure of the replacement.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2022 12:25 AM (kT5Bb)

463 Pride Night at T-Mobile Park.
If only the M's could score like Barney Frank at a Boston Bath House.

Posted by: Jeff Gillooly at July 01, 2022 12:26 AM (z9V4B)

464 The Jewish community would argue that the Bible states very clearly that an unborn child is more similar to property than it is to a human being

There are many leaders in Christian denominations that have turned their back on God in order to serve their political preferences, too.

Posted by: Methos at July 01, 2022 12:26 AM (kOpft)

465
I just sketched that calculation with different pulley diameters -- easy peasy, just a hypotenuse calculation. Say distance between pulley centers is 'l', and the difference in pulley radii is 'r'. Square root of the sum of the squares, then double it for both sides, and then add half the circumference of each.

No big deal.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 12:27 AM (Mzdiz)

466 150 more minutes of pride.

I hate what those assholes have done to summertime.

Posted by: nurse ratched, just call me Pollyanna at July 01, 2022 12:28 AM (U2p+3)

467 ..I generally run a piece of string around the OD of the current belt ad use that as a direct measure of the replacement. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2022 12:25 AM (kT5Bb)

Buys same as High School 32" belt on MH's advice.

Umm, no. Nopety Nope, No.

*kicks size 38 rock* OW!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 01, 2022 12:29 AM (tkOps)

468

The No-Maths Rule is more of a mere suggestion these days, innit?

Posted by: Zettai at July 01, 2022 12:30 AM (mPpOD)

469 Got reefer trucks just sitting at truck stops, with food spoiling in them, because of no diesel.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 12:17 AM (KL6QW

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And the illegals are all going bad before Bite 'Em can ship them out to purple districts around the nation.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2022 12:31 AM (XG2Fi)

470 I think that was back when a normal coke was 6 oz.
Posted by: Axeman at June 30, 2022 10:05 PM (krQz2)

IIRC, actually 6 1/2 oz (none of this decimal stuff)..

Posted by: Fox2! at July 01, 2022 12:31 AM (qyH+l)

471 " twenty cajillion different ways to demonstrate or discuss foreknowledge, and that due to the specific one chosen, there is a far deeper meaning there than you are crediting."

OK,, no idea what you mean. I say God may know we will choose Him, in advance (or not in "advance, if God as light, sees all time at once, in a "at the speed of light, time stands still, per Einstein theory" sense). BUT it is still our free will choice.

"Man's Day" is now, when (free will) man chooses to believe or not. The notable day of the Lord is later ... (Lord's day is not Sunday, it is basically judgement day, afaik).

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2022 12:31 AM (Cus5s)

472 Crap. Forgotted.

H.S. belt was a 28 inch. I've routunded, since then.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 01, 2022 12:31 AM (tkOps)

473 I've long known STD's were a huge issue for the male homosexual community. I only recently learned, though, in retrospect, it should have been obvious, the problems male homosexuals have with their anuses.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 11:18 PM (5pTK/)

If you keep using a wrench as a hammer, eventually you will get a broken wrench.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2022 12:32 AM (llc0G)

474 >> I shouldn't be surprised if the nominal size is significantly greater or lesser than the actual size...

With these, they are on the money. A 490J6 is pretty much 49" in length. There's a tolerance, but it's pretty small. The J6 specifies the width and configuration. That means 6 little v ribs, and the width works about to be about 9/16".

I got to looking in the Grainger catalog at the specs for these things, and they don't stretch much. I'm pretty sure it's a 49" new.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 12:32 AM (Mzdiz)

475 I miss the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, the circus.

Taken down by the Enviro NAZIS as planned by the said Enviro Nazis Global warming Commie Pinko F*gs

YES I SAID IT!....Commies took down our American Circus.
Deep State worked overtime on that move...

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 01, 2022 12:34 AM (J00IM)

476 I enjoyed the discussion of sea cruises Wednesday night. Maybe I'll go on one some day. Berserker, thanks for warning me about the lousy conditions for musicians on sea cruises.

Posted by: Theodore at July 01, 2022 12:34 AM (GJnvT)

477 Gonna have to find a death rail attachment that can launch bibles and MAGA hats.
Posted by: SMH

I have a box of 100 pocket NT/Psalms/Proverbs stashed away for the burning times. I figure there will be a demand for them.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at July 01, 2022 12:35 AM (uZxq5)

478 I enjoyed the discussion of sea cruises Wednesday night. Maybe I'll go on one some day. Berserker, thanks for warning me about the lousy conditions for musicians on sea cruises.
Posted by: Theodore at July 01, 2022 12:34 AM (GJnvT)

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The topic tomorrow night is leather cruising.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2022 12:37 AM (XG2Fi)

479 I have a box of 100 pocket NT/Psalms/Proverbs stashed away for the burning times. I figure there will be a demand for them.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at July 01, 2022 12:35 AM

Only if they also include a rooskie phrase book, too...

Posted by: Zettai at July 01, 2022 12:37 AM (mPpOD)

480 Never Welsh on a bet. PS -- I've never known why this is 'a thing'.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 30, 2022 10:19 PM (F0YaR)

Bust a deal, face the wheel.

Posted by: Aunty Entity at July 01, 2022 12:38 AM (qyH+l)

481 156 The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815. The Treaty of Ghent which ended the war had already been signed on December 24, 1814 in the Netherlands but no one over here knew it.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 30, 2022 10:35 PM (G0bXQ)

What, it wasn't on the internet?

Posted by: RI Red at June 30, 2022 10:37 PM (y7VJM)
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How could it when Al Gore wasn't even born yet. Sheesh!

Posted by: Ciampino - definitely gluten-free books at July 01, 2022 12:38 AM (qfLjt)

482 The Jewish community would argue that the Bible states very clearly that an unborn child is more similar to property than it is to a human being

Posted by: Methos at July 01, 2022 12:26 AM (kOpft)
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Well it's arguable that the Jewish scriptures/OT is more tolerant of humans as property in general, even if the NT is less than directly opposed.

So, the fetus as property does not directly conflict with the the fetus as human within the tradition of humans as property.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 12:38 AM (OaZlZ)

483 The topic tomorrow night is leather cruising.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2022 12:37 AM

The day AFTER Pride Month has ended??

Posted by: Zettai at July 01, 2022 12:39 AM (mPpOD)

484 Transition to New and Permanent U.S. Energy Program
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Might be new, but it sure as hell won't be permanent.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 12:40 AM (5p7BC)

485 Taken down by the Enviro NAZIS as planned by the said Enviro Nazis Global warming Commie Pinko F*gs
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Ah. That triggers the now occasionally-posted excerpt from Mickey Spllane's 'One Lonely Night':

"I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hand. I shot them in cold blood and enjoyed every minute of it. I pumped slugs in the nastiest bunch of bastards you ever saw and here I am calmer than I’ve ever been, and happy too. They were Communists, Lee. They were red sons of bitches who should have died long ago..."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2022 12:40 AM (K25Wn)

486 " "that thing growing inside a woman's that survive the process are human beings. 100%. In all of recorded history."

all life is spirit, but not all spirit life is eternal life spirit?

idk, is there a separate body life, then a soul life, and for Christians a born again holy spirt, sonship life? That is my Bible teaching of old. New Birth ... body and soul man is imperfect. ... We continue to drag around "this body of death" (Paul). But the renewed mind seeks the higher calling.

In any case, women and men should protect the new life, before birth.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2022 12:41 AM (Cus5s)

487 ..Only if they also include a rooskie phrase book, too...
Posted by: Zettai at July 01, 2022 12:37 AM (mPpOD)

West of the Rockies, you'll need 'em in Chinese, mostly.

Go South enough, and you've got some Texas and New Mexico to deal with. Don't disparage NM's libtardism. It'll be Red Dawn Central in terms of guerilla resistance.

Texas? Why go guerilla, when you can turn out damn near the whole state as Regulars?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 01, 2022 12:41 AM (tkOps)

488 150 more minutes of pride.

I hate what those assholes have done to summertime.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Buy a bunch of sploddy stuff and rockets red glare stuff and enjoy it. Celebrating our glorious freedom pisses the alphabet mafia and all there friends off.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at July 01, 2022 12:41 AM (uZxq5)

489 So in Commiefornia (I repeat myself)

The Punta AG posted ALL the Concealed Weapon Permit carriers on the STATE web-site with all of their personal information including home addresses, phone numbers, Date of Births,

F**king PUNTA...accident my ass.

Punta Newsome.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 01, 2022 12:42 AM (J00IM)

490
I'm just thinking. My father got one of those compressors in the '70s when I was just a kid. It's close to 50 years old. Then, a neighbor had one just like it, a little later model. It didn't run too well, and he gave it to me. I got it going, figure that was in the early 90s.

I've put new pumps and motors on both of them since then, but it's the same tanks. I run them together. Independent pressure controls, with a check valve on the output, so one won't pump the other up.

I got the pressure switches tuned to come on and cut off as close in sync as possible, but I learned that temperature varies that. Even for the same pressure switch model, looks like.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 12:42 AM (Mzdiz)

491 OK,, no idea what you mean. I say God may know we will choose Him, in advance (or not in "advance, if God as light, sees all time at once, in a "at the speed of light, time stands still, per Einstein theory" sense). BUT it is still our free will choice.

"Man's Day" is now, when (free will) man chooses to believe or not. The notable day of the Lord is later ... (Lord's day is not Sunday, it is basically judgement day, afaik).

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2022 12:31 AM (Cus5s)

I am hardly what one would call a Biblical Scholar... shit, I'm lucky I can tie my own shoes or understand a rhomboid comment... but I see a much deeper meaning in "knowing you before I formed you in the womb" than a mere expression of foreknowledge.

God can express His foreknowledge in many ways.

And He could have, for example, said, "I knew you before you were born". But He didn't. He chose to mention formation in the womb. But maybe we're just talking at cross purposes here. I do that sometimes.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 12:42 AM (dscaa)

492 >>>
Texas? Why go guerilla, when you can turn out damn near the whole state as Regulars?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 01, 2022 12:41 AM (tkOps)

What about Austin?

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 12:43 AM (0fVbu)

493 350 The only ranking that matters in the is the list which aligns to the country's Biblical founding.
Posted by: techsan at June 30, 2022 10:56 PM (uNveu)

This is incorrect.
Posted by: ZOD at June 30, 2022 11:00 PM (Q/6pY)

No, techsan pretty much has it correct. America is founded on the idea of God-given Rights, and you cannot have God-given Rights without a God who gives Rights, and you cannot claim any Right God doesn't give.

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Discussion appreciated. Primary point: foundations matter. Build your foundation on rocks and not sand.

Posted by: techsan at July 01, 2022 12:43 AM (uNveu)

494 The No-Maths Rule is more of a mere suggestion these days, innit?

Posted by: Zettai at July 01, 2022 12:30 AM (mPpOD)

I've paid it a bit of lip attention to it (not oral stuff, you fags), but this IS a smart military blog.

Firing solutions involve fucking MATH. Logistics require MATH.

Okay, I'll shut up again.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 01, 2022 12:43 AM (F0YaR)

495 125 I clicked on the topless breastfeeder boxer in shorts but it wouldn't come up.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 30, 2022 10:27 PM (anj39)
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Did you try Viagra?

Posted by: Ciampino - sildenafil is gluten-free at July 01, 2022 12:43 AM (qfLjt)

496 Hello ONT Cruisers

And destroyers.

And as my submariner friends would say, targets.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 01, 2022 12:43 AM (Jzz++)

497 Might be new, but it sure as hell won't be permanent.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 12:40 AM (5p7BC)

In a way it might be permanent for them.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 12:43 AM (dscaa)

498 Also, for some reason some lefties are boycotting gas between July 3 and 5.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 12:11 AM

Good stay off the road with your fucking Subaru's and Volvo's. Then I don't have to even see or smell your pachouli coated jorts. GFY.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 01, 2022 12:44 AM (GwxCX)

499

The Houston Regiment isn't much better than Austin's, I suppose...

Posted by: Zettai at July 01, 2022 12:45 AM (mPpOD)

500 What about Austin?

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 12:43 AM (0fVbu)

Target practice.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2022 12:45 AM (ldL4g)

501 Truman didn’t just recognize Israel when nationhood was declared, but he was the first to do so in 1948. IIRC, news arrived in DC around 3am. How he was awake at the time I cant recall.

Posted by: Rex B at July 01, 2022 12:46 AM (yWv01)

502 Also, for some reason some lefties are boycotting gas between July 3 and 5.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 12:11 AM

I'm sure that will please Mother Gaia or upset Don Jr. Or something.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 12:46 AM (dscaa)

503 The link for "the topless breastfeeder boxer in shorts" didn't work for me either.

Posted by: Theodore at July 01, 2022 12:47 AM (GJnvT)

504 "I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hand. I shot them in cold blood and enjoyed every minute of it. I pumped slugs in the nastiest bunch of bastards you ever saw and here I am calmer than I’ve ever been, and happy too. They were Communists, Lee. They were red sons of bitches who should have died long ago..."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2022 12:40 AM (K25Wn)

I know you were quite sick for a bit, but now...

Things are back in their proper orbits.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 01, 2022 12:47 AM (F0YaR)

505 The No-Maths Rule is more of a mere suggestion these days, innit?

Posted by: Zettai at July 01, 2022 12:30 AM (mPpOD)
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Well this site does have a sort of pirate theme. So a concomitant pirate code would be fitting.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 12:47 AM (OaZlZ)

506 485
Takes a deep breath...looks out the window into the setting sun.. and takes a long draw from the whiskey glass...and nods.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 01, 2022 12:47 AM (J00IM)

507 Serious question to follow:
Do Jews believe in an afterlife?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 01, 2022 12:48 AM (jTmQV)

508 I got to looking in the Grainger catalog at the specs for these things, and they don't stretch much. I'm pretty sure it's a 49" new.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 12:32 AM (Mzdiz)

Vee-belts, and Poly-vee or "serpentine" belts don't hardly stretch at all. But the contact surfaces wear away, causing them to sit deeper in the sheaves, which mimics the effect of stretch.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2022 12:48 AM (orIbx)

509 It’s obvious that an unborn baby is a human and to kill it intentionally, even if to save yourself, is murder. Don’t need the Bible to clarify that.

Posted by: Breakfast Burrito at July 01, 2022 12:48 AM (G1+y3)

510 The link for "the topless breastfeeder boxer in shorts" didn't work for me either.
Posted by: Theodore at July 01, 2022 12:47 AM (GJnvT)

sadly, there was no boobage.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2022 12:49 AM (orIbx)

511 "Well it's arguable that the Jewish scriptures/OT is more tolerant of humans as property in general, even if the NT is less than directly opposed."

right, and that is kinda why I say God is "pragmatic", dealing with mere mortals on terms they understand, humans completely controlled by the zeitgeist of their culture. (fortunately we now know all via internet and "true science", and have no preconceived ideas ... hahahahaha ... cough, choke)

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2022 12:49 AM (Cus5s)

512 ..What about Austin? Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 12:43 AM (0fVbu)

Read my "damn near" as an instructive.

We reduce Austin, early in the order of things. Austin is difficult, there is much to save there, not all is to be shattered to ruin. Both human and material, the wisest of Commanders shall be required. Believe it or not, Rick Perry ain't a bad Field Commander for this.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 01, 2022 12:50 AM (tkOps)

513 I'd rank William Henry Harrison near the very top. He was only around for a month.

Posted by: Lee Also at July 01, 2022 12:50 AM (HLEOi)

514
I know you were quite sick for a bit, but now...

Things are back in their proper orbits.
Posted by: GnuBreed
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A steady diet of enmity and bile have restored my strength...mostly.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2022 12:51 AM (2e5RV)

515 I'm going to drink A lot more and then cruise up from the depths like a Great White on a snorkel spear fisherman.

Wow...

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 01, 2022 12:52 AM (J00IM)

516 Did the federal government relinquish power after Lincoln’s time?

Well as a point of fact, it did. All of those things he did were measures for the duration. He did what was necessary to preserve the union, and the union was worth preserving. If he had just let the south go, we would live in a Balkanized continent today. How many more wars do you suppose would have been fought here in the last 160 years? WWI with the US allied with the Central Powers and the Confederates allied with the Entente Powers, trench warfare across Md, Wv, Ky and Mo? Bet on it.

What we often fail to realize is that our concerns are not the concerns of a century and a half ago. Our biggest threat is leviathan govt, and so we see that in Lincoln's actions. Leviathan govt didn't exist in 1860, and however a small version of it Lincoln created was gone by the time reconstruction failed.

(Cont)

Posted by: Weirddave at July 01, 2022 12:52 AM (lkr42)

517

I just tried the goose rescuer vid in an unmodified Librewolf installation and it won't open, yet curiously it will open in FF with the arkenfox user.js applied (but only in a private window in which my extensions are not enabled)...

??

Posted by: Zettai at July 01, 2022 12:52 AM (qefFi)

518 Our current trajectory was started under Wilson, not Lincoln.

OTOH, slavery was a moral stain on the ideals upon which this country was founded and it HAD to be eradicated. And don't give me revisionist bullshit about "states rights". The only "states right" that couldn't be resolved short of war was slavery. Because of Lincoln, slavery is a dead letter today, and so we don't generally factor it into our thinking, instead focusing on the huge threat to our freedoms, leviathan govt. "America" as we think of it would be a quaint 19th century experiment that tore itself apart in 80 years without Lincoln. And the entire world would be a much darker place because of it.

Posted by: Weirddave at July 01, 2022 12:52 AM (lkr42)

519 sadly, there was no boobage.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2022 12:49 AM (orIbx)

Well, the kid did okay, even if you didn't.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 01, 2022 12:53 AM (LOVUx)

520 Had the victory at New Orleans taken place before the treaty was finalized we might have gotten a better deal than just the restoration of the status quo.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 30, 2022 10:41 PM (Iaj3u)

All of Canada worth having?

Posted by: Aunty Entity at July 01, 2022 12:54 AM (qyH+l)

521 My local gas station is $5.30 regular, $5.69 plus, and $6.19 Supreme.

Posted by: Theodore at July 01, 2022 12:54 AM (GJnvT)

522 "for example, said, "I knew you before you were born". But He didn't. He chose to mention formation in the womb. But maybe we're just talking at cross purposes here. I do that sometimes." Posted by: ..

I don't think it is that complicated. People know when a woman is "expecting", so God says ... "I knew you even before you were "expected". God knew before there was an indication we were to come. ... I don't see it as a more complicated an expression (figure of speech) than that.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2022 12:55 AM (Cus5s)

523 149

In 1814, white men had not penetrated deeply enough into the Congo region to steal the telegraph and trans-ocean telegraph cable designs the natives had developed in the 3rd Millennia BC.

Posted by: BLM at June 30, 2022 10:46 PM (AMIL/)
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And don't forget that Moses talked to his sons via cellphone according to some Muslim cleric or professor.

Posted by: Ciampino - need to look for fossil cellphone towers at July 01, 2022 12:56 AM (qfLjt)

524 "I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hand. I shot them in cold blood and enjoyed every minute of it. I pumped slugs in the nastiest bunch of bastards you ever saw and here I am calmer than I’ve ever been, and happy too. They were Communists, Lee. They were red sons of bitches who should have died long ago..."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2022 12:40 AM (K25Wn)

I've been listening to a few Spillane Hammer audiobooks lately while doing unspeakably nerdy stuff. Pretty enjoyable tales. And as part of my recent Columbo kick, it turns out Mickey Spillane was also on a Columbo episode ... playing a thriller author who gets whacked.

Posted by: spindrift at July 01, 2022 12:56 AM (noXlA)

525 Good Night, Horde.

Posted by: Theodore at July 01, 2022 12:57 AM (GJnvT)

526
You can see a little side-boob when she runs out. But not really worth the time.

It's the Daily Star, a competitor of the Daily Mail. They did have a click bait blurb in the middle about "Mum face plants during race on sports day and exposes bum."

I didn't even click on that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 12:57 AM (Mzdiz)

527 Maybe not...The chest is heavy

time for bed...night

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 01, 2022 12:57 AM (J00IM)

528 >>> Ah. That triggers the now occasionally-posted excerpt from Mickey Spllane's 'One Lonely Night':

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2022 12:40 AM (K25Wn)

The man really hated commies. He was friends with Ann Rand. I read a hard case crime novelette, "The Consummata" where the enemy are also cuban commies. It was started by Spillane in the 60s but not finished until 2011 by a friend. It's one of the Morgan Raider series. Cubans, sex, deep state foes, S&M clubs, a wild ride.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 12:58 AM (0fVbu)

529 My local gas station is $5.30 regular, $5.69 plus, and $6.19 Supreme.
Posted by: Theodore at July 01, 2022 12:54 AM (GJnvT)

Gas actually came down 2 cents a liter here. Was 1.859, down to 1.839 per liter.

I would have passed a little fart of rejoicing, but I didn't have it in me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2022 12:58 AM (orIbx)

530

$4.92 - $4.95/gallon in Newyorkistan's Southern Tier, which is down a bit this week...

Posted by: Zettai at July 01, 2022 12:59 AM (qefFi)

531 507 Serious question to follow:
Do Jews believe in an afterlife?
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 01, 2022 12:48 AM (jTmQV)

Sorta, and it depends. Jews as a category vary greatly. The Jews before the fall of the Second Temple had divergent opinions, hence the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and then those crazy Essenes. Essentially, the afterlife was when you went down to Sheol and lived as a shade, so your progeny were your real "afterlife." The Pharisees had some notion of heaven and the possibility of getting there, but it wasn't really a tenet of the faith. the Essenes, who the heck knows what they were up to, but they didn't like sex so they didn't last too long.

Somebody else will have to explain modern Jews, since there are many varieties of them as well. Not quite like the 20,000 denominations of Christians, wo believe all sorts of odd things, but still.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 01, 2022 12:59 AM (LOVUx)

532
Jack Cassidy did the whacking in that episode.

He made one hell of a murderer.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 12:59 AM (Mzdiz)

533 Primary point: foundations matter. Build your foundation on rocks and not sand.
Posted by: techsan

Indeed !

https://tinyurl.com/y9dh4dru

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at July 01, 2022 01:02 AM (uZxq5)

534 >>> Essentially, the afterlife was when you went down to Sheol and lived as a shade, so your progeny were your real "afterlife."

And that's ... sad, you see.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 01:02 AM (0fVbu)

535 If you get withing 15 feet of someone adept with a knife then you might get stabbed, even if you shoot him.
Posted by: Ciampino - stab parry thrust lunge at June 30, 2022 10:56 PM (qfLjt)

I thought the critical radius was 21 feet (7 meters)

Posted by: Fox 2! at July 01, 2022 01:03 AM (qyH+l)

536 "He did what was necessary to preserve the union, and the union was worth preserving. If he had just let the south go, we would live in a Balkanized continent today."

OR, what if he had changed the tariff structure to not serve the railroad oligarchs and Northern manucturing (BigTech?) giants, not broken so much of the constitution, and found a resolution that would have ended slavery more "graciously" over 20 years.

idk, but the idyllic portrayal of Lincoln choosing the only possible course to "Save the Union" ... seems --revisionist.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2022 01:04 AM (Cus5s)

537
Please, someone, explain to me how the SCOTUS, by allowing Biden to end Title 42, could overrule the Hawaiian judge, who forbade Trump from ending DACA.

Posted by: Arbalest at July 01, 2022 01:04 AM (FlRtG)

538 226
87. Never Welsh on a bet. PS -- I've never known why this is 'a thing'.
Posted by: GnuBreed
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Might this be "welch" on a bet? Seems to be the way I remember it.

Posted by: From about that time at June 30, 2022 10:53 PM (4780s)
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Both spellings are correct.

Posted by: The Grammar & Spelling NAZI at July 01, 2022 01:05 AM (qfLjt)

539 >>> It's the Daily Star, a competitor of the Daily Mail. They did have a click bait blurb in the middle about "Mum face plants during race on sports day and exposes bum."

I didn't even click on that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 12:57 AM (Mzdiz)

It had a cookie wall and I noped out. Any kind of cookie wall, nosey spy wall, pay wall, can be roughly translated as "buh bye".

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 01:06 AM (0fVbu)

540 right, and that is kinda why I say God is "pragmatic", dealing with mere mortals on terms they understand, humans completely controlled by the zeitgeist of their culture. (fortunately we now know all via internet and "true science", and have no preconceived ideas ... hahahahaha ... cough, choke)

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2022 12:49 AM (Cus5s)
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I see that God created and understands us as "empirical beings". This describes to me why the Knowledge of Good and Evil is not a data download. It's not an academic course. It is an immersive, learning experience.

And it also covers all the little illustrative tasks the Lord asks of his prophets like Ezekiel and Jeremiah.

It probably concerns the difference between the principle that aw, God just forgives you, and the Incarnation. The first is abstract and linear, the second is full.

It is the illustration within the task, or "the walk". And we walk with the shekinah weight of God's glory "in his time".

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 01:06 AM (OaZlZ)

541 510 The link for "the topless breastfeeder boxer in shorts" didn't work for me either.
Posted by: Theodore at July 01, 2022 12:47 AM (GJnvT)

sadly, there was no boobage.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2022 12:49 AM (orIbx)

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So was this Mayor Pete?

All lactation, no boob.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2022 01:07 AM (XG2Fi)

542 230 Might this be "welch" on a bet? Seems to be the way I remember it.

Posted by: From about that time at June 30, 2022 10:53 PM (4780s)

Oh grape. Now more etymology posts.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2022 10:54 PM (7bRMQ)
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If you don't stop bitching we might start on Math.

Posted by: The Grammar & Spelling & Calculus NAZI at July 01, 2022 01:07 AM (qfLjt)

543

IIRC correctly, there's some passage in the OT about the past, present, and future all being one and the same in God's eyes, i.e. actual time is not linear as mortals perceive it, so no "afterlife" as there is no real 'after', or 'before' for that matter...

Posted by: Zettai at July 01, 2022 01:08 AM (PzYGK)

544 Uncle Clarence is the reason Planned Parenthood is in the hood. Can't depend on the uppity ones.

Posted by: Marooned at July 01, 2022 01:08 AM (w6hJ9)

545 If you get withing 15 feet of someone adept with a knife then you might get stabbed, even if you shoot him.
Posted by: Ciampino - stab parry thrust lunge at June 30, 2022 10:56 PM (qfLjt)

It might depend what you shoot him with.

Posted by: Sean Courtney's Rigby .450 Nitro Express at July 01, 2022 01:09 AM (noXlA)

546 Both spellings are correct.
Posted by: The Grammar & Spelling NAZI
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The logical extension:

bet n.m.f. (cyngwystlon, cyngwystlau)

Yeah, I'm not going to pronounce that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2022 01:09 AM (Mgbo4)

547 "Do Jews believe in an afterlife?"

I think King David believed/stated he would see his (dead) son in the afterlife. .. Long ago I tried to study up on some Jewish academics who were a little outside the mainstream perhaps, in their beliefs in the afterlife.

afaik, "afterlife" actually is part of OT text, but I could be wrong. No OT verse leaps to mind (only "do I need another drink?" leaps to mind ... hiccup). heh

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2022 01:10 AM (Cus5s)

548 IIRC correctly, there's some passage in the OT about the past, present, and future all being one and the same in God's eyes, i.e. actual time is not linear as mortals perceive it, so no "afterlife" as there is no real 'after', or 'before' for that matter...
Posted by: Zettai at July 01, 2022 01:08 AM (PzYG

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Per modern relativity theory, time and space are merely an overlay on something more fundamental.

Something with neither time nor space.

Wrap your head around that one.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2022 01:11 AM (XG2Fi)

549 ..If you don't stop bitching we might start on Math.
Posted by: The Grammar & Spelling & Calculus NAZI at July 01, 2022 01:07 AM (qfLjt)

Maths.

*brits highbrow imperial sniff* /aluminium

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 01, 2022 01:12 AM (tkOps)

550 518 Our current trajectory was started under Wilson, not Lincoln.

Weirddave and I agree, to the point that Wilson was possibly the most evil preezy in our history. That's why I picked him as #1 on my Shit Preezy list. He was a racist (the real kind), and the first Progressive.

I can't whole heartedly endorse Lincoln, as I AM a Southerner and he unleashed some evil bastards on the South. But at the same time, slavery was a human sin and most states in the Confederacy explicitly objected to the end of slavery in their Succession From The Union declarations.

I'll just say, I'm a Southerner with an ability to read.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 01, 2022 01:12 AM (F0YaR)

551 My local gas station is $5.30 regular, $5.69 plus, and $6.19 Supreme.
Posted by: Theodore at July 01, 2022 12:54 AM (GJnvT)

Gas actually came down 2 cents a liter here. Was 1.859, down to 1.839 per liter.

I would have passed a little fart of rejoicing, but I didn't have it in me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Gas has dropped from $5.39 to $5.19 in the last ten days here. Diesel hasn't moved. It is still $6.29. This country runs on diesel. Keep a little money in your pocket when you fill up. Give it back when you buy groceries.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at July 01, 2022 01:13 AM (uZxq5)

552 Do Jews believe in an afterlife?"

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This is a great question without a clean, simple answer.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2022 01:13 AM (XG2Fi)

553 I think King David believed/stated he would see his (dead) son in the afterlife.
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Absalom? Hard to imagine a cheery meeting.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2022 01:13 AM (Mgbo4)

554
And the truth continues to trickle out. New paper in the NEJM:

https://tinyurl.com/27fzkcuo

The Boosted take the longest to clear the Covid virus. Unvaccinated clear it the fastest, followed by vaxxed by a little, but the boosted stretch the infection way out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 01:15 AM (Mzdiz)

555 In the era of and following the Babylonian captivity, a subset of Jews adopted a version of the afterlife that was similar to that of the Sumerians, Babylonians and later, the Greeks. It was the idea of a shade existence in the underground.

To Jews it was Sheol. To the Greeks it was Hades.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2022 01:16 AM (XG2Fi)

556 401 And another way to look at the decline of movies...the last Oscar winner I liked was Birdman in 2014. That's been 8 years now...
Posted by: 18-1

I have no idea who won what oscars in the past 10 years at least.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 01:16 AM (hA/0f)

557 Do Jews believe in an afterlife?

Yes. Once a JAP discovers the "orgasm", she'll always remember her first trip to Neiman Marcus, on daddy's credit card.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 01, 2022 01:16 AM (tkOps)

558 Please, someone, explain to me how the SCOTUS, by allowing Biden to end Title 42, could overrule the Hawaiian judge, who forbade Trump from ending DACA.
Posted by: Arbalest at July 01, 2022 01:04 AM (FlRtG)
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You're right. The left should be worried about that "overreach", but it went their way (as it should have), and they aren't known for their consistency.

I think it's laughable that Remain in Mexico is "cruelty" as well as insulting to Mexicans. Because "refugee" status is not a means to just pick a new country of choosing, and again as long as they are not suffering the alleged persecution in their home country, Mexico might not comprise an "inhuman condition". Heck, there are probably resorts in Acapulco you can show to "refute" the horrible of Mexico, much like the resorts of Haiti "proved" it was not so bad.

But it was a legit ruling.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 01:17 AM (OaZlZ)

559 Gas actually came down 2 cents a liter here. Was 1.859, down to 1.839 per liter.

We're still more than a toonie/liter (litre?) here in Darkest Ontario.

Didn't seem to faze the guy in the full-size Ram who thundered by me on the commute home for unreasonably doing only 30 over the limit.

Posted by: spindrift at July 01, 2022 01:17 AM (noXlA)

560 553

This was the first child Bathsheba bore to David:
Then his servants said to him, "What is this thing that you have done? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept; but when the child died, you arose and ate food." And he said, "While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, 'Who knows, the LORD may be gracious to me, that the child may live.' "But now he has died; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.

Posted by: Emmie at July 01, 2022 01:18 AM (6RgRK)

561 277 If the knife is out and the gun is holstered, within 15 feet, you're going to lose.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 11:05 PM (5pTK/)

Unless you can pee and vomit on the knife wielder first, right?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2022 11:07 PM (7bRMQ)
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You would expose your pecker to a guy running at you with a knife? I think most guys would prefer to be stabbed in the heart and not suffer 'the unkindest cut of all'.

Posted by: In the harem stand perfectly still, like a statue otherwise .... at July 01, 2022 01:20 AM (qfLjt)

562 We're still more than a toonie/liter...
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I'm adding 'toonie' to my word list.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2022 01:21 AM (K25Wn)

563
Yep, it started with Wilson. That was the beginning, thanks to the first Progressive Era, of the technocratic elite administrative state. The idea that experts would govern us via the executive branch. This abomination all began with Wilson and the first Progressives.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 01:21 AM (Mzdiz)

564 Pride month is over in 1/2 the country. Does the other half still have to celebrate?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 01:21 AM (hA/0f)

565 Emmie - Thanks, and I do know that verse, but Absalom got all of the press, so he came to mind.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2022 01:22 AM (K25Wn)

566 551 My local gas station is $5.30 regular, $5.69 plus, and $6.19 Supreme.
Posted by: Theodore at July 01, 2022 12:54 AM (GJnvT)

Wow that is a massive spread between grades. For me it’s only 30-40 cents duff between 87 and 91

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 01:23 AM (hA/0f)

567 >> time and space are merely an overlay on something more fundamental.

You call it spacetime. It's a 4 dimensional Riemannian space with signature (1,3) in the lingo. Your "distance" works out to be time^2 - space^2. This distance can be zero or negative. Light it turns out, follows such a zero distance, null path.

There are invariant time-like and space-like qualities. Spacetime always has one time-like and 3 space-like dimensions. Coordinates shift those around. One man's space is another man's time, but that invariant distinction remains.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 01:24 AM (Mzdiz)

568 Didn't seem to faze the guy in the full-size Ram who thundered by me on the commute home for unreasonably doing only 30 over the limit.
Posted by: spindrift at July 01, 2022 01:17 AM (noXlA)

Probably a leased truck, and fuel paid by employer, or self-employed guy who is able to write off fuel against income.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2022 01:24 AM (orIbx)

569 "I shall go to him, but he will not return to me."

I don't remember my old teaching, but I think that was taken to mean ... he will not return here (on this earthly plain), but I will go to him (in the afterlife).

but idk much about Jewish belief in the afterlife, except there are "scholars" that did believe in it. As someone said ... Pharisees did believe, but not sure what their scriptural evidence was. ..

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2022 01:27 AM (Cus5s)

570 565 Emmie - Thanks, and I do know that verse, but Absalom got all of the press, so he came to mind.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2022 01:22 AM (K25Wn)

Yes, I think Absalom is the most famous after Solomon.

Posted by: Emmie at July 01, 2022 01:27 AM (6RgRK)

571 I saw a Dem shill on the TV that was so inept his words could be taken to mean that South Americans fleeing persecution would not be relieved of that persecution if they had to remain in Mexico, a totally different country.

From time to time I try to examine my reflex against the left, and part of it is idiots like this guy, who is so badly trying to make an argument he can't make. So you get a word salad.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 01:28 AM (OaZlZ)

572 Left: every culture is equal and wonderful

Also left: it is inhumane to have people living in some cultures

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 01:28 AM (hA/0f)

573 545 If you get withing 15 feet of someone adept with a knife then you might get stabbed, even if you shoot him.
Posted by: Ciampino - stab parry thrust lunge at June 30, 2022 10:56 PM (qfLjt)

It might depend what you shoot him with.
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My general opinion here is that a dude wielding a knife that is shot one or more times from fifteen feet distance may have cause to immediately re-evaluate his situation.

Posted by: exdem13 at July 01, 2022 01:29 AM (W+kMI)

574 My general opinion here is that a dude wielding a knife that is shot one or more times from fifteen feet distance may have cause to immediately re-evaluate his situation.
Posted by: exdem13 at July 01, 2022 01:29 AM (W+kMI)

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I've had good luck with this theory.

Posted by: Indiana Jones at July 01, 2022 01:30 AM (XG2Fi)

575

The stabby fellow was likely mentally ill and intoxicated -- not likely in a position to "re-evaluate" anything at all!

Posted by: Zettai at July 01, 2022 01:32 AM (UU5xR)

576 294 AntiFa scrunt who illegally possessed a weapon and resisted arrest pled guilty, then had her charges dropped on the day of sentencing.

Remember this if you ever have to deal with these people. They are US sponsored terrorists, so don't plan on US laws of self defense protecting you.

https://bit.ly/3uf1r2B

Posted by: bonhomme at June 30, 2022 11:15 PM (i0wNm)
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We need the names of her and all the scum behind the scenes who contributed to her release: DA, judges, etc. There may be a Lamppost Day in their future.

Posted by: Give each lamppost a Lefty's name at July 01, 2022 01:32 AM (qfLjt)

577 My general opinion here is that a dude wielding a knife that is shot one or more times from fifteen feet distance may have cause to immediately re-evaluate his situation.
Posted by: exdem13 at July 01, 2022 01:29 AM (W+kMI)

If the perp is high on drugs, "evaluation" may be the farthest thing from what is left of his mind.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2022 01:32 AM (orIbx)

578 "My general opinion here is that a dude wielding a knife that is shot one or more times from fifteen feet distance may have cause to immediately re-evaluate his situation"
Posted by: exdem13

He had cause to not attack several armed cops in the first place. The mental acuity was apparently the lacking ingredient. Even if non-lethal means were feasible, it probably saved other lives to get him off the streets permanently.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2022 01:33 AM (Cus5s)

579 Left: every culture is equal and wonderful

Also left: it is inhumane to have people living in some cultures
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 01:28 AM (hA/0f)
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Well stated.

It's also "racist" to say of a man of Kenyan descent that he was born in Kenya. So, I guess we have to apologize to everybody we slur as a "native Kenyan".

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 01:33 AM (OaZlZ)

580 Any assailant with a fifteen foot distance KEEPS getting shot, until they are no longer an assailant.

You do not "shoot, and then wait to see what happen next".

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 01, 2022 01:33 AM (tkOps)

581 I'm not sure how I would rank presidents, but I probably would value economy a lot higher than these idiots, so Obama isn't sniffing Reagan, and he would be tailing W, who is rated more properly. I also wouldn't dock someone for crisis management if he actively and successfully avoided crises (Coolidge), nor would I credit someone for digging himself out of his own messes (JFK).

Posted by: Nutsy at July 01, 2022 01:34 AM (OfVjg)

582 556 401 And another way to look at the decline of movies...the last Oscar winner I liked was Birdman in 2014. That's been 8 years now...
Posted by: 18-1

I have no idea who won what oscars in the past 10 years at least.
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You really haven't missed much. The Oscar for Best Picture is always given to some woke movie about a
(true biological baby-making) woman, an African-American person, with double points if you can make it both. Or it can feature a handicapped person who isn't held back by their disability du jour. Just don't go full retard. There may have been one or two exceptions, but that's the general trend.

Posted by: exdem13 at July 01, 2022 01:35 AM (W+kMI)

583 I fucking hate the racism of the left with the heat of a thousand suns...and here we are today. I'll never forgive them for it.

Totally agre WD, Jules and I are of the same mind. TY for the ONT.

Posted by: Farmer at July 01, 2022 01:36 AM (55Qr6)

584 >> But the contact surfaces wear away, causing them to sit deeper in the sheaves,

That's exactly the problem here. The belt is tight, but the ribs are just worn so there isn't much traction.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 01:36 AM (Mzdiz)

585 I had to flee work after getting my emails sent and everyone's time done. Colbert was having Ibrahim x Kendi on. Fuck.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 01, 2022 01:37 AM (dNqv+)

586 578 "My general opinion here is that a dude wielding a knife that is shot one or more times from fifteen feet distance may have cause to immediately re-evaluate his situation"
Posted by: exdem13

He had cause to not attack several armed cops in the first place. The mental acuity was apparently the lacking ingredient. Even if non-lethal means were feasible, it probably saved other lives to get him off the streets permanently.
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Any guy who for any reason chooses to engage several police officers with a knife should probably get the Darwin Award he so apparently craved. You can't fix stupid, but you can make sure it ceases generational transmission.

Posted by: exdem13 at July 01, 2022 01:39 AM (W+kMI)

587 Good news - my "government" now deems me a racist if I put a historically-unremarkable Canadian Red Ensign on my HMCS Huron destroyer model kit.

Posted by: spindrift at July 01, 2022 01:40 AM (noXlA)

588 and the first Progressive.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 01, 2022 01:12 AM (F0YaR)

That would be Teddy Roosevelt. One can argue he was a good Progressive, but he was a Progressive nonetheless. He even liked the 1913 income tax because it was progressive in its application. He gets a pass on his progressivism in large part because of his creation of the National Park System.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2022 01:40 AM (ldL4g)

589 Think about it, we have to put it out of our mind that there are such things a people born in Kenya, because people much smarter than we have deemed it racist to think a black man was born in Kenya.

This there are no native black Kenyans, because only a racist thinks otherwise.

And particularly because you can't even allege it about a single man, it would be a slur applied to any individual. And as it would be racist to even accept there could be an individual to whom it applied, I must unlearn the patterns of racism and expel the thought of the fabled "native Kenyan" from my mind.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 01:41 AM (OaZlZ)

590 To clarify - the Canadian Red Ensign is nothing like the Star Trek Expendable Red Ensign.

Posted by: spindrift at July 01, 2022 01:42 AM (noXlA)

591 580 Any assailant with a fifteen foot distance KEEPS getting shot, until they are no longer an assailant.

You do not "shoot, and then wait to see what happen next".

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
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Scott from Kentucky Ballistics could shoot and then wait to see what happens, but I've seen what he might shoot a knifer with. Most guys might be satisfied with 2-4 rounds from something a little more modest.

Posted by: exdem13 at July 01, 2022 01:43 AM (W+kMI)

592 Had scallops for dinner. Just three large scallops. Touch of butter. Tasty.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 01, 2022 01:45 AM (KAi1n)

593 Well, getting on for midnight here. Time for me to get some shuteye. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2022 01:46 AM (orIbx)

594 Posted by: Nutsy at July 01, 2022 01:34

Ranking the presidents is crazy hard because you really need historical perspective. Right now mine would be-
1. Washington
2. Lincoln
3. Reagan
4. Trump
5. Coolidge

For the bottom Slo Joe is working for it, but I'd place Buchanon at th bottom w/ Obama just above him, then Carter.

Posted by: Farmer at July 01, 2022 01:47 AM (55Qr6)

595 My skin has never been smoother or softer than this past week. My secret? Bathing in liberal tears.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 01, 2022 01:48 AM (hA/0f)

596 I mean sure we don't know for sure that "born in Kenya" is not something a given racist would think about all black people. But it is an expensive proposition to believe that all black-hating racists single out Kenya, and can't have a low opinion of Africans regardless of country or origin. Or that racism is origin-based. As well, there is nothing to bear out that racist generally do not acknowledge that some blacks are born in America.

So it does not appear very sound to believe that the thought is "You know about them black people, they're *all* born in Kenya". So, it is very more likely that "native Kenyan" is the particular slur here.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 01:52 AM (OaZlZ)

597 588 and the first Progressive.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 01, 2022 01:12 AM (F0YaR)

That would be Teddy Roosevelt. One can argue he was a good Progressive, but he was a Progressive nonetheless. He even liked the 1913 income tax because it was progressive in its application. He gets a pass on his progressivism in large part because of his creation of the National Park System.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2022 01:40 AM (ldL4g)

Looks like I need to do some more reading. Teddy was a real Man's Man though; like GW, that should be worth something. But not a certaintude. ie, John McCain, who was possibly known as 'SongBird' by the 'Cong.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 01, 2022 01:52 AM (F0YaR)

598
[Patrick Leahy]'s set to retire at the end of his term.

Rollin' in all that dough from his Batman movie appearances, is he?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 01, 2022 01:53 AM (pNxlR)

599 588 and the first Progressive.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 01, 2022 01:12 AM (F0YaR)

That would be Teddy Roosevelt. One can argue he was a good Progressive, but he was a Progressive nonetheless. He even liked the 1913 income tax because it was progressive in its application. He gets a pass on his progressivism in large part because of his creation of the National Park System.
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I'd rate T.R. high for these reasons.
1. Ending the coal strike without making a Constitutional case of it.
2. Telling Rockefeller, Morgan, Carnegie, et al that becoming a very rich man didn't allow them to call the shots on running the Republic. (I'm looking at you Bezos, Gates, and Zuckerberg.)
3. Speaking softly to Japan, Russia, Germany, Colombia, and Morocco while telling them exactly why they were going to do things the USA wanted done.
4. Panama Canal. 'Nuff said.
5. Yeah, the National Park System was good, at least until the Clintons got their mitts on it.

Posted by: exdem13 at July 01, 2022 01:53 AM (W+kMI)

600 For the bottom Slo Joe is working for it, but I'd place Buchanon at th bottom w/ Obama just above him, then Carter.

Posted by: Farmer at July 01, 2022 01:47 AM (55Qr6)

Carter was a weak imbecile, but biden is in a league of his own. A sinister evil drooling anti American fascist retard that just may succeed in the complete destruction of the country.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2022 01:56 AM (VwHCD)

601 Thus if we meet a person who represents themselves as "born in Kenya", if they are somehow white, we take them at their word. But if they truly look African we should counsel them "Oh no, my friend. You should not think so little of yourself that you would say you were born in Kenya".

This is how we will end racism.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 01:56 AM (OaZlZ)

602 That would be Teddy Roosevelt. One can argue he was a good Progressive, but he was a Progressive nonetheless. He even liked the 1913 income tax because it was progressive in its application. He gets a pass on his progressivism in large part because of his creation of the National Park System.

I give him a half-assed pass because A) he was a full throated, no holds barred, proud AMERICAN and B) he had no idea where it would lead, the modern country we live in would be inconceivable to him and C) much of what he did needed doing. Trust busting? Hell, every one of us is screaming for the big tech monopolies to be broken up. It's like the EPA. Today, it's a parasite on the productivity of the nation, but in 1974, we needed an EPA, we had actual rivers in Cleveland catching on fire (How do things get so bad that rivers burn?). I would have done it on the state level, but it was needed. The problem is that it didn't go away after the problem was solved (not to beat a dead horse, but unlike Lincoln's wartime measures).

Posted by: Weirddave at July 01, 2022 01:59 AM (Yxk5P)

603 N O W...women of no relevance

CODE PINK...also of no relevance

The Vagina Monologues...yeah that worked for ya

So you "Women" of the new age..."Birthing Persons"...

How do you like being relegated back down to 2nd class citizens by the Democrats'?

just asking for...ya know...Clarity?

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 01, 2022 01:59 AM (J00IM)

604 Posted by: Farmer at July 01, 2022 01:47 AM (55Qr6)

The one problem I have with your list is that I think you place Trump a little too high. He wasn't a bad president, but not in the Top 5. His Administration was chaotic, and some of that chaos was his own doing, like picking bad Cabinet members and sticking with those bad ones too long, e.g. You also give short shrift to the earlier presidents. I would definitely put Thomas Jefferson in the Top 5 if only for the Louisiana Purchase alone as that had a tremendous impact on making America what it became.

IMAO, one president who always gets overlooked in such rankings is Eisenhower. Even though -- or probably because -- he was military and a West Pointer, he gave us a most prophetic warning to beware the Military-Industrial Complex. It was a warning we have ignored at our peril. Also, his using the National Guard to enforce Brown v. Board of Education was a game-changing move historically speaking.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2022 02:02 AM (ldL4g)

605
I see Bill Gates just bought up another 2100 acres of prime farmland in North Dakota. They tried to stop the sale under some 1932 anti-corporate farmland ownership law, but he got approval.

Billy is now the largest single owner of farmland in the US, owning some 270,000 acres across the country.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 02:06 AM (Mzdiz)

606
If the knife is out and the gun is holstered, within 15 feet, you're going to lose.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 30, 2022 11:05 PM (5pTK/)

Unless you can pee and vomit on the knife wielder first, right?

Posted by: OrangeEnt

"If only they had given us the chance to shine!"

-- heroic social workers

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 01, 2022 02:09 AM (pNxlR)

607 Just to clarify, I think Teddy Roosevelt was one of our better presidents. Even though wealthy, he took to public service not to enrich himself but to help others. One example is him being the New York City Police Commissioner and trying to get rid of the graft and corruption of the time; he didn't succeed, but he tried. Plus, as Weirddave stated, he was unabashedly an American and damn proud of it. I only stated he was the first Progressive president. We still have Progressive Republicans today (looking specifically at you, Miss Lindsay).

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2022 02:11 AM (ldL4g)

608 Billy is now the largest single owner of farmland in the US, owning some 270,000 acres across the country.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 02:06 AM (Mzdiz)
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Ho Li Phuk. That can't be good.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 02:12 AM (OaZlZ)

609 383...First usage in the Bible .. God formed the body of the dust of the ground, THEN breathed into it the breath of life, and man became a living soul. THAT has been the standard .. .Birth Day.
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Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2022 11:46 PM (Cus5s)

It was done like that exactly once.

Posted by: Flyover, now with insomnia! at July 01, 2022 02:12 AM (Rbu5d)

610 421
The Bible also indicates that God knew us before we were knit in our mother's womb, so in that sense we existed in His mind before even conception.

Posted by: Methos at July 01, 2022 12:04 AM (kOpft)
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The egg and sperm, though not humans as such, are alive and derive from a living woman and man, who in turn derive from other living single cells - all the way to the beginning. Thus that clump of tissue is a living organism.
So individual cells and whole men and women may die but the germ plasm ensures continuity. There isn't a magical moment that we can point to and say "There, NOW it is a Human!"

Posted by: Life has never ended since the beginning at July 01, 2022 02:13 AM (qfLjt)

611 Billy is now the largest single owner of farmland in the US, owning some 270,000 acres across the country.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 02:06 AM (Mzdiz)

I suspect his goal is to reduce food production. Wonder what he's actually going to do with the land?

Posted by: Emmie at July 01, 2022 02:14 AM (6RgRK)

612 OR, what if he had changed the tariff structure to not serve the railroad oligarchs and Northern manucturing (BigTech?) giants, not broken so much of the constitution, and found a resolution that would have ended slavery more "graciously" over 20 years.

The old "technology would have made slavery economically unfeasible" argument. And you know what? It's probably right. But consider.

What of the 4 million slaves in the country? Consign 4 million people to bondage for 20 years hoping that things work out?

And what happens in 1880 when you have 4 (probably 4.5 by then) million people thrown into the streets with no jobs, no support and no prospects? In a society that generally considers them sub human? Would the death toll among them exceed the 650K lost in the Civil War? To say nothing about the deaths in the rest of the population as these 4 million folks for their lives? I dunno, but I'd imagine by 2 or 3 times.

Finally, an most importantly, slavery was an evil that had to be confronted and stamped out. It had to be recognized for the evil that it was. It had to be defeated.

(cont)

Posted by: Weirddave at July 01, 2022 02:14 AM (Yxk5P)

613 What you're proposing might have, hell, I'll even say probably would have, happened, but the cost man, the cost. The human cost and the societal cost, would have been orders of magnitude greater than the shit show we got.

Posted by: Weirddave at July 01, 2022 02:15 AM (Yxk5P)

614 So, it is very more likely that "native Kenyan" is the particular slur here.
Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 01:52

No offense, but I have no idea what that post meant. I've seen very little racism here. My take on the Kenyan reference is that it's a joke about the idea that Obama was born in Kenya. BWTFDIK

Posted by: Farmer at July 01, 2022 02:17 AM (55Qr6)

615
Yep, the oligarchs are buying up farmland, and houses.

Their plans are for the serfs to own nothing, live in pods, and eat bugs. Live their lives as wage slaves, then be euthanized when they can't work any more.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 02:18 AM (Mzdiz)

616 336 Publius. How much would the maximum adjustment run on the hardware, from full slack to fully taut?

Axle to axle measure the distance. Then the half the circumference for each pulley diameter.

That should give you the minimum belt and the maximum belt lengths. Nomenclature though? I've nary a clue.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 30, 2022 11:29 PM (tkOps)
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Horrors. MATH !

Posted by: Geometry or Trigonometry Yeah! at July 01, 2022 02:21 AM (qfLjt)

617 Weirddave

Thank you for the ONT and the discussion.

There seems to be something in our DNA that likes dominance over others, and could explain the Left's desire to re-enslave everyone but the inner circle.

Evil and short-sighted. We have seen this pattern before.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 02:28 AM (u82oZ)

618 RickZ

Eisenhower is in my top 5. He was the last President to master the bureaucracy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 02:30 AM (u82oZ)

619 He was the last President to master the bureaucracy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 02:30 AM (u82oZ)

If he could run WWII, he could certainly organize those assholes. BTW, his war train is in storage in Green Bay, WI. Very cool.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 01, 2022 02:32 AM (LOVUx)

620 >> He was the last President to master the bureaucracy.

Also met with the Aliens in his golf shoes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 02:32 AM (Mzdiz)

621 Evil and short-sighted. We have seen this pattern before.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 02:28 AM (u82oZ)

From the Nazis to the Clintons. A straight line. Right through the Obamanites.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 01, 2022 02:33 AM (LOVUx)

622 tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief

His recently renovated museum in Abilene, Kansas is worth the money. Tells the tale very well.

publius, Rascally Rapscallion

Golf was the cover. He used his Cabinet in a masterly manner. The Hidden Hand president.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 02:37 AM (u82oZ)

623 So here is the final argument

Man has a penis...the purpose of which,( won't cover the many other functions) based on social norms for procreation is to put his penis into a woman's vagina and
impregnate the women who is willing with a vagina to accept the sperm from said man...and to therefore grow another human in her womb. (Just north of the vagina in case you were confused)

Baby's come from a women....always...and if you ever try to convince me otherwise...well... I will just have to snap your neck as a form of mercy killing as you are without a doubt, beyond saving and have no worth in a world of humans.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 01, 2022 02:39 AM (J00IM)

624 Eisenhower is in my top 5. He was the last President to master the bureaucracy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 02:30 AM (u82oZ)

There was a clip I saw on tv many moons ago of Eisenhower sitting on the edge of a desk in The White House answering questions from a small number of press gathered. He calmly explained the Constitution, how he used it in -- and how it limited -- his Executive Power. Really intelligent guy. Like I said, and I agree with you, highly underrated. If I had to find a fault, it was his pick of VP, if he even picked him knowing the horse-trading that went on at the nominating conventions back then.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2022 02:41 AM (ldL4g)

625
The Georgia Guidestones explain what the Oligarchs/New World Order is all about.

Maintain the human population at 500M. Eugenics (breeding must controlled and approved). World govt. Rights must be balanced with social responsibility. Mankind should not be a cancer on the earth.

They spell it all out right there of what they're about.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 02:42 AM (Mzdiz)

626
Ike's Farewell address was quite prescient. We all know about the "military-industrial complex" and he was spot on there, but he also warned of capture, sort of "marriage" between big govt and the scientific/technological elite.

He warned the govt. funding of science would produce a monster. Science, of, for, and by govt.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 02:43 AM (Mzdiz)

627 RickZ

Eisenhower used Nixon's strengths in foreign policy as a weapon. Nixon served him and was not an independent abscess.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 02:44 AM (u82oZ)

628 publius, Rascally Rapscallion

This is their "Let them eat cake" moment. They admit this because the Left can not conceive of losing. Well, they are not smart or original, and there may be some surprises in the future.

The Greens will be destroyed, even if they are the battering ram to tear down our society now. Because with the extension of coal-burning, and the lack of global warming ending the earth, they will be shown to be another false doomsday cult.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 02:49 AM (u82oZ)

629
Fauci, Pfizer, and the Covid abomination were all explained by Ike in the Farewell Address. This is what Ike was warning would happen.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 02:50 AM (Mzdiz)

630 publius, Rascally Rapscallion

Yup.

Give my best to Her Grace. Long may you be a loving couple.

Going back to sleep.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 01, 2022 02:53 AM (u82oZ)

631 Gerald Ford should be ranked high. The Ford administration was mercifully brief and ineffective.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 01, 2022 02:56 AM (KAi1n)

632 "Only Nixon could go to China."

So, 2nd look at Hubert Humphrey?

Posted by: SFGoth at July 01, 2022 03:01 AM (KAi1n)

633 589 Think about it, we have to put it out of our mind that there are such things a people born in Kenya, because people much smarter than we have deemed it racist to think a black man was born in Kenya.

This there are no native black Kenyans, because only a racist thinks otherwise.

And particularly because you can't even allege it about a single man, it would be a slur applied to any individual. And as it would be racist to even accept there could be an individual to whom it applied, I must unlearn the patterns of racism and expel the thought of the fabled "native Kenyan" from my mind.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 01:41 AM (OaZlZ)
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So I guess I didn't really live in Kenya for 10 years and didn't graduate from Kenyan schools. Gee, where was I during that time? Dreamland?
What about Uganda and Tanzania? Are there people there?

Posted by: Ciampino - My geography was all wrong then at July 01, 2022 03:02 AM (qfLjt)

634 Night all

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 01, 2022 03:02 AM (J00IM)

635 Mornin'
(sips coffee)

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 01, 2022 03:04 AM (sAmhv)

636
To be fair, I think Spock was high on the Vulcan equivalent of crack when he said that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 03:07 AM (Mzdiz)

637 Gerald Ford should be ranked high. The Ford administration was mercifully brief and ineffective.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 01, 2022 02:56 AM (KAi1n)

Ineffective? Well, I guess except for he didn't go to war nor dick around in getting the S.S. Mayaguez back after the Democratic Kampucheans thought they could pick our carcass after our ignominious bug out from Vietnam, capturing the commercial ship in international waters.

IMAO, his presidency was the first where I saw the ridicule of Republican presidents front and center. He was a college football all-star, playing on a championship team, yet the press made him look like a clumsy, doddering Joe Biden and, surprise surprise, it worked. Saturday Night Live had many a skit about Ford falling down (Chevy Chase made a career of it); funny they have all this Biden material and somehow choose not to use it. It's a mystery.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2022 03:07 AM (ldL4g)

638 605
I see Bill Gates just bought up another 2100 acres of prime farmland in North Dakota. They tried to stop the sale under some 1932 anti-corporate farmland ownership law, but he got approval.

Billy is now the largest single owner of farmland in the US, owning some 270,000 acres across the country.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 01, 2022 02:06 AM (Mzdiz)
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If TSHTF can he keep it? With which army?

Posted by: Ciampino - French & Russian Revolutions - who eventually got property? at July 01, 2022 03:10 AM (qfLjt)

639 609 383...First usage in the Bible .. God formed the body of the dust of the ground, THEN breathed into it the breath of life, and man became a living soul. THAT has been the standard .. .Birth Day.
...
Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2022 11:46 PM (Cus5s)

It was done like that exactly once.

Posted by: Flyover, now with insomnia! at July 01, 2022 02:12 AM (Rbu5d)
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Punchline only:
God to Scientist, "O no, you go and get your own dirt!"

Posted by: Ciampino - wise words from The Lord at July 01, 2022 03:14 AM (qfLjt)

640 Ineffective in that he didn't fuck things up too much.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 01, 2022 03:28 AM (KAi1n)

641 A really nice reflection. From "Our Daily Bread" on the Apollo Mission to the moon and holy communion:

https://tinyurl.com/4dxz4682

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2022 03:32 AM (LTtzU)

642 So we can conclude that the poster in 628 who is quoting Exodus 21 is. a troll. Good ; Don't have to read his posts anymore.
a

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2022 03:40 AM (30CM/)

643 643 So we can conclude that the poster in 628 who is quoting Exodus 21 is. a troll. Good ; Don't have to read his posts anymore.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

The troll is still meandering the wilderness.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 01, 2022 03:45 AM (sAmhv)

644 This meme made me laugh:

https://tinyurl.com/5e76xw8u

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2022 03:45 AM (30CM/)

645 Puddleglum- Yes. LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2022 03:48 AM (30CM/)

646 The worst thing in the world. Falling asleep reading the ONT then waking up right before it's done.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2022 03:50 AM (7bRMQ)

647 [Patrick Leahy]'s set to retire at the end of his term.

Rollin' in all that dough from his Batman movie appearances, is he?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 01, 2022 01:53 AM (pNxlR)

Heath Ledger, in character, stuck a knife in his face and scared the crap out of him. He wasn't pretending.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 01, 2022 03:51 AM (ybIRR)

648 "Bison gores Yellowstone visitor in second encounter in days"

You'd think the guy would have gone home after getting gored on day one.

Posted by: Mentholated Smooth-Drawing gp at July 01, 2022 03:54 AM (qpX6U)

649 TGIF

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2022 03:57 AM (2JoB8)

650 649 "Bison gores Yellowstone visitor in second encounter in days"

You'd think the guy would have gone home after getting gored on day one.
Posted by: Mentholated Smooth-Drawing gp

Or just keep a safe distance from them. Stay in the car maybe. Don't try to pet them. Common sense stuff.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 01, 2022 03:57 AM (sAmhv)

651 Or stop fkin with Bison

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2022 03:58 AM (2JoB8)

652 TGIF

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2022 03:57 AM (2JoB

Everyday is Friday, when you're not working.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2022 03:58 AM (7bRMQ)

653 10) FDR (he does deserve some credit for successfully prosecuting WW2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2022 11:14 PM (r46W7)

FDR is bottom of the barrel. He literally functioned as a dictator, packing the Supreme Court to get around tearing the Constitution in half. He experimented with command economy nonsense which extended the Depression and ruined millions of lives. He put a ton of pressure on Japan, and then failed to prepare for the very obvious possibility of them in turn declaring war. He's the most responsible of anyone for the federal bureaucratic leviathan.

Posted by: Sjg at July 01, 2022 04:01 AM (gDSJf)

654 649 "Bison gores Yellowstone visitor in second encounter in days"

You'd think the guy would have gone home after getting gored on day one.

Posted by: Mentholated Smooth-Drawing gp at July 01, 2022 03:54 AM (qpX6U)
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Bison to victim, "You don't come here for sightseeing do you!"

Posted by: Ciampino - There's a bear story like that about a fisherman at July 01, 2022 04:10 AM (qfLjt)

655 Pelosi Congress hiding at least 271 emails on 1/6. They won't tell @JudicialWatch if they include those of Michael Stenger, a key witness who just died.
Pelosi Congress cites "sovereign immunity" to hide the emails and ALL 14,000 hours of Jan 6 videos.
https://tinyurl.com/3k9y2c4z

Posted by: Ciampino - there has to be a way to get that stuff at July 01, 2022 04:16 AM (qfLjt)

656 Pelosi Congress hiding at least 271 emails on 1/6. They won't tell @JudicialWatch if they include those of Michael Stenger, a key witness who just died.
Pelosi Congress cites "sovereign immunity" to hide the emails and ALL 14,000 hours of Jan 6 videos.
https://tinyurl.com/3k9y2c4z

Posted by: Ciampino - there has to be a way to get that stuff at July 01, 2022 04:16 AM (qfLjt)

Sovereign immunity? What's that?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2022 04:18 AM (7bRMQ)

657 Morning, all,

Stirling and I are here. He's galloping around with one of his toys, and I'm sipping coffee and trying to decide if I can handle a walk this am. I haven't been able to work out for a week, and it's always tough to start back.

Three-day weekend, though!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 01, 2022 04:18 AM (c6xtn)

658 Thanks for your input.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2022 04:19 AM (7bRMQ)

659 If you’ve spent time in rural sub Saharan Africa one thing that might shock you is the popularity of American country music to the point where you can’t go to a bar, party, or wedding without hearing it 🧵
https://tinyurl.com/2p8zt947

Posted by: Ciampino - Our legacy to the World, we gave them rap and now Country at July 01, 2022 04:20 AM (qfLjt)

660 Ohh, this is Gettysburg weekend anniversary, PCN should have Gettysburg Battlefield Walks on all weekend

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2022 04:21 AM (2JoB8)

661 If you’ve spent time in rural sub Saharan Africa one thing that might shock you is the popularity of American country music to the point where you can’t go to a bar, party, or wedding without hearing it 🧵
https://tinyurl.com/2p8zt947

Posted by: Ciampino - Our legacy to the World, we gave them rap and now Country at July 01, 2022 04:20 AM (qfLjt)

Do they read Westerns, or watch Westerns?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2022 04:21 AM (7bRMQ)

662 Ohh, this is Gettysburg weekend anniversary, PCN should have Gettysburg Battlefield Walks on all weekend

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2022 04:21 AM (2JoB

I wonder if I can find 1776 to watch for free?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2022 04:23 AM (7bRMQ)

663 660 If you’ve spent time in rural sub Saharan Africa one thing that might shock you is the popularity of American country music to the point where you can’t go to a bar, party, or wedding without hearing it 🧵
https://tinyurl.com/2p8zt947
Posted by: Ciampino

Heh! American Country is fairly popular world wide. Saw a few in Europe when I was stationed decades ago. Sub Saharan Africa would be unique though.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 01, 2022 04:23 AM (sAmhv)

664 That country music bit had a line
'to the point where you can’t go to a bar, party, or wedding without avoiding it'
Grammatically that "avoiding it" grates as much as
'i could care less'

Posted by: Grammar NAZI extraordinaire at July 01, 2022 04:25 AM (qfLjt)

665 664: Saw a few country pubs in Europe.

My hands are not completing sentences my head is making.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 01, 2022 04:25 AM (sAmhv)

666 My hands are not completing sentences my head is making.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 01, 2022 04:25 AM (sAmhv)

Mr President, is that you??

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2022 04:27 AM (7bRMQ)

667 662

Do they read Westerns, or watch Westerns?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2022 04:21 AM (7bRMQ)
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That link had some videos and information you may be seeking.

Posted by: Ciampino - they haven't picked up on Polka and accordions yet at July 01, 2022 04:28 AM (qfLjt)

668 That link had some videos and information you may be seeking.

Posted by: Ciampino - they haven't picked up on Polka and accordions yet at July 01, 2022 04:28 AM (qfLjt)

Oh, didn't notice the link.

By the way, GN, he said hearing it, not avoiding it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2022 04:29 AM (7bRMQ)

669 That link had some videos and information you may be seeking.

Posted by: Ciampino - they haven't picked up on Polka and accordions yet at July 01, 2022 04:28 AM (qfLjt)

Scrolled down quite a bit, only seemed to talk about the music. Nothing so far about books and movies.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2022 04:33 AM (7bRMQ)

670 Since we have no Sovereign I don't see how Pelosi can claim sovereign immunity. Also immunity? Doesn't congress answer to the People?
There might be a claim for Legislative Immunity, to which I say bulldust;
There might be a claim for Executive Immunity, to which I say bulldust;
There might be a claim for Judicial Immunity, to which I say bulldust.
NEVER SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY you hear Mrs Speaker?

Posted by: Ciampino - Pelosi needs retirement pronto. She thinks she's a queen. at July 01, 2022 04:36 AM (qfLjt)

671 NEVER SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY you hear Mrs Speaker?

Posted by: Ciampino - Pelosi needs retirement pronto. She thinks she's a queen. at July 01, 2022 04:36 AM (qfLjt)

If Trump can't claim it, she can't claim it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2022 04:37 AM (7bRMQ)

672 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at July 01, 2022 04:39 AM (QPyqx)

673 669
By the way, GN, he said hearing it, not avoiding it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2022 04:29 AM (7bRMQ)
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I edited the text at the link and substituted 'hearing' for 'avoiding'.

Posted by: Ciampino - Grammar Nazi at July 01, 2022 04:40 AM (qfLjt)

674 I edited the text at the link and substituted 'hearing' for 'avoiding'.

Posted by: Ciampino - Grammar Nazi at July 01, 2022 04:40 AM (qfLjt)

didn't see the hash. eh, why worry about it, it was the twitter guy who was wrong.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2022 04:43 AM (7bRMQ)

675 one president who always gets overlooked in such rankings is Eisenhower...
Post by: RickZ at July 01, 2022 02:02

Agreed. You notice I had several qualifiers in my post. How can we today compare compare James Madison to Barack Obama? I'm thinking Barry is at the bottom of the barrel.

And I think we all need to take another look at Rutherford B Hayes. After all he was born on Oct 4 like me.

Posted by: Farmer at July 01, 2022 05:07 AM (55Qr6)

676 Leviathan govt didn't exist in 1860, and however a small version of it Lincoln created was gone by the time reconstruction failed.

(Cont)
Posted by: Weirddave
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I would call British rule leviathan government, and Lincoln and his Party were British Control 2.0. They imposed nearly all the same measures that justified the American Revolution.

No one seriously argues that slavery is not a stain on humanity. The question is whether killing 750k Americans, most of whom never owned a slave, was worth it to (tangentially) accomplish what would have been accomplished peacefully without the war. The monetary cost of the war to the North alone was enough to buy every slave out of bondage like England did. Other than Haiti, every other western country eliminated slavery peacefully. And slavery existed in the North well after the war ended as the emancipation proclamation applied only to southern states that actively rebelled, as punishment.

Lincoln and his Republican Party caused the move to secede, and the goal of the war was not to end slavery but to maintain control of the South.

Posted by: Breakfast Burrito at July 01, 2022 09:48 AM (ttjjz)

677 (Cont)

Plus, free markets and their philosophical roots caused abolition far more than any other effort. Slavery in the north resulted primarily from free whites demanding jobs slavery made unavailable to them (hence Lincoln’s repeated promise that the American territories would be available for free whites only). And capitalists realized that slave labor was more expensive than free labor driven by profit motive as opposed to fear.

Alexei de Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America that racism in the north was far worse than in the south. I can’t vouch for that but in my experience racial tension is far worse in the north east than the south. Saint Abe indeed wanted to deport blacks to South America or Africa because the “inferior race” can’t live in harmony with its “superior”.

Posted by: Breakfast Burrito at July 01, 2022 10:09 AM (ttjjz)

678 "*abolition* of slavery in the north resulted primarily from..."

Posted by: Breakfast Burrito at July 01, 2022 11:25 AM (G1+y3)

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