Quick Hits

Earlier this week, I reported that that the Atlanta Fed GDP tracker had put the Q2 GDP "growth" at -1.0, meaning contraction. Which mean we're in two back to back quarters of negative "growth," which is the classic definition of recession.

Well, they've revised that.

They've revised the Q2 figure down.

Way down.

Tne Q2 GDP growth is now negative 2.1%.

The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP has collapsed in recent days, growth in the second quarter of 2022 has been cut to a contractionary -2.1%, down from -1.0% on June 30, down from 0.0% on June 15.

So, if confirmed, we had a quarter of -1.6% growth, and then a quarter of -2.1% growth -- not just a recession, but an intensifying one.

Thanks to Thomas Paine, who is aptly named for this tip.

Thanks, NeverTrump! Just want to say, I am really enjoying the Nice Tweets!

YOU propagandized for this.
YOU take a bow for the victory YOU achieved.
YOU take YOUR seat.
YOU join YOUR allies in the Democrat Party.
YOU never show your fat, well-stuffed faces around here again.
YOU will have to make do with lesser, cheaper Stallions for YOUR wives' twisted sexual appetites.

Well it is more gender-bender grooming directed at children, which is Disney's entire work product now, isn't it?

A friend points out that, despite the fact that it is the left that began this cycle of endless twitter outrages and cancellation attempts, the media never reports that "The Left is Outraged again" over this or that.

No, when the left is outraged, they claim that "Twitter" or "the Internet" is outraged. The left is never outraged -- all of society is outraged.

When the same 40 Trans Extremists are sending death threats to J.K. Rowling, the media does not report that. They just say, "J.K. Rowling posted another anti-trans screed, and The Internet is not having it!!!"

The Internet? Really?

The whole internet?

Or just the 40 leftwing propaganda accounts you agree with and promote?

When the Trans Extremists sent mass death threats to Gina Carano because she said her pronouns were "beep/boop/bleep," the media only reported, "Twitter reacts to Gina Carano's anti-trans insults."

Twitter reacted?

Twitter?

And it merely reacted?

What about all the death threats you always pretend to be so concerned about?

But when the right is outraged -- sometimes a bit trivially, but often justifiably -- it's their outrage alone.

Despite the fact that most parents, who are not very political, do not want Disney or any other Woke corporation proselytizing Trans Catechisms to their children in the guise of "children's entertainment."

This is of course a deliberate and conscious effort to marginalize and otherize the right while normalizing and universalizing the left.

Speaking of death threats:

Blue checkmark Jessica Kirson, who claims to be a comedian, twatted at Lauren Boebert, "Every time I watch you speak, I picture you in a guillotine and rub one out."
https://bit.ly/3IaDy1H
Posted by: bonhomme

That tweet has now been deleted. But anti-social-justice beatnik points us to an archived copy.

She looks like a witch's Igor on a Syd and Marty Krofft production.

"I would not hit that. She's heinous." -- Sigmund the Sea-Monster

62 Jessica the comic definitely has a face made for radio.

and she has a body made for extraction from a bedroom by a crane.
Posted by: ace

Edward Snowden
@Snowden
The fact that is considered legal for a corporation to compile perfect records of your private life simply because you had to "click OK to continue" to make your phone work is a perfect expression of who holds the power in society and why they should be cast into the sea.

Wait, I'm a conservative, didn't I swear an Oath of Perpetual Fealty to my corporate overlords?

As spotted by Curtis Houck, Good Morning America pushed the Big Lie that Ketanji Brown Jackson is "the first Black Supreme Court Justice," except for, you know, Clarence Thomas.

And not even just Clarence Thomas, the one they might have possibly intended to slight.

These highly-educated, multiple-layers-of-fact-checking News Professionals also erased Thurgood Marshall from the record.

You know, the guy who successfully argued Brown vs. Board of Ed on his way to actually getting appointed to the Supreme Court.

He's kind of a big deal, especially for race-conscious lefties.

But for ignorant animal Millennials, history began during the disgusting years they were each shat out of their "birth-giving parents."

Spite and ignorance are rampant at Good Morning America -- completely different uneducated animals made the same mistake on their YouTube channel.

Speaking of uneducated, semi-literate animals:Multiple media outlets straight-up lied about Clarence Thomas saying that the covid vaccine was made from "aborted children."

1, he did not say that, he quoted plaintiffs as saying that, and you know, in a court case, what plaintiffs allege is kinda-sorta important in the case, and

2, he did not say the vaccines "were made from aborted children," and neither did the plaintiffs; they said the vaccines were made from stem-cell lines cultivated from aborted children, which is, what's the word for this, "true."

As someone suggested in the replies, either Justice Clarence Thomas has changed his pronouns to "they/them" or he's just reading something presented by the plaintiffs, as Axios reports:

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas suggested Thursday in a dissenting opinion that coronavirus vaccines were developed using "aborted children."
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"They object on religious grounds to all available COVID-19 vaccines because they were developed using cell lines derived from aborted children," Thomas wrote in his dissent, referring to the plaintiffs that brought the lawsuit.

More at Samizdata.net.

"No Name Today" says that's not quite true, and I'm wrong:

38 >>>they said the vaccines were made from stem-cell lines cultivated from aborted children, which is, what's the word for this, "true."
Not quite. The stem-cell lines being referenced were used for testing purposes during development. So, the vaccines were not "made" from that, but they were tested against them.
Still objectionable.
Posted by: No Name Today

Ah, okay, I was always a bit shaky on what exactly was being alleged in regard to the stem-cells. I shouldn't have assumed more without clarifying.

(Unlike the Fake News Propaganda Media, I admit errors!)

I believe it's due more to intent than ineptitude but at some point that question ceases to matter.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 30, 2022

Always remember: The media claims what separates their falsehoods from "Fake News" that should be banned and censored by their tech media buddies is that the media "always admits their errors and corrects them."

Do they?

Where are the corrections?

If the media is not admitting and correcting its many, many partisan, propagandistic errors -- which they're demonstrably not -- then they are, by their own definition, the same as "Fake News" pushed by "Macedonian Content Farms" and they must deplatformed by social media monopolies.

Why am I the only person making this point?

Hey other bloggers, you are specifically granted permission to make this point, too. It's a good point. We really should press it.

And I don't just think that's pride of authorship.

Meanwhile, Rex Chapman, a minor NBA player who is a host on CNN+ -- wait a tic, is that still a going concern? -- says that Clarence Thomas ain't black because he doesn't go to NBA games and of course all blacks love the b-ball.

Rex Chapman
@RexChapman
Clarence Thomas would last 20-30 seconds in an NBA locker room.

I wonder how long you'd last in court.

Oh I don't mean as a lawyer, I mean as a drug-addict petty criminal defendant. We'll get to that.

Why have you never seen Clarence Thomas at an NBA game? As in -- ever?

An intellectual and scholar doesn't love watching basketball. I'm shocked.

@RexChapman
Bill Clinton used to come to our games in Landover with the Bullets. Clarence Thomas -- never.

Right, Bill Clinton, there's your real black guy. Not this sharecropper's son poseur.

By the way, Rex Chapman is pasty-white. But you probably could have guessed that.

He's also broke so he's out their hustling for a buck -- on the Holler for a Dollar.

'Just kept getting worse': How NBA cult hero blew $50 million

Cult hero?

I think you misspelled that.

I also dispute "hero."

Former NBA player turned social media star Rex Chapman has opened up about how the end of his professional career led to his addiction to prescription painkillers.
Chapman, now 53, was selected with the eighth pick in the 1988 NBA draft by the Charlotte Hornets and played for 12 years, with stints for Washington, Miami and Phoenix before his eventual retirement in 2000.

You can tell who the really good players are, because teams can't wait to trade them to other teams in exchange for forty-score basketball nets and six palettes of Gatorade Ice.

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Emergency surgery to remove his appendix led to him developing an addiction to OxyContin, a highly potent painkiller Chapman described as 'synthetic heroin'.
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Speaking on his new podcast, Charges with Rex Chapman, the now 53-year-old said using the drug had led to a swift descent into addiction.
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Despite making more than $50 million (AUD) in career earnings from NBA contracts alone throughout his 12-year career, by 2014 that wealth was all but gone.
With his addiction spiralling out of control in the years after his NBA retirement, Chapman's lowest point finally came in 2014, when he was caught stealing more than $18,000 worth of products from an Apple store, with plans to pawn the goods to pay various debts.
Chapman was arrested over his ill-conceived shoplifting plan, which prompted his third attempt at rehab at a facility in Kentucky.
By this point Chapman weighed more than 120 kilograms and his marriage had broken down.

That's 265 pounds in Imperial units. In traditional British units, it's 19 stone. In Australian customary units, it's 46 woggeloos and in Irish Wee People fairy-measures it's se'enscore nonnybits.

What a big fat broke-ass criminal drug addict scumbag.

You know what else I've never seen Clarence Thomas doing? Stuffing a bunch of iPads into his Big Fatboy Pants to steal them.

Bring the pain, CT.

Bring the pain.

That was made by "..." who is sometimes called "ellipsis."

Write.
Another.
Book.
— AmishDude (@TheAmishDude) June 30, 2022

Massive number of pro-abortion accounts have been calling for the SCOTUS majority to be assassinated. Yes, really.

The shameful evidence swiped from the awesome @libsoftiktok (source below). https://t.co/Nyyz5nfQZj pic.twitter.com/cGitQGm6hs
— Larry Sanger (@lsanger) June 30, 2022

More at the LibsofTikTok's blog.

Bevis and Butthead do college. pic.twitter.com/dodzQljg5b
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) June 28, 2022

During Pride Month!

That's a "genderfluid" man.

That's kind of the least of his perversions. He's also into "puppy fetish" play.

Google is not your friend.

Posted by: Ace at 05:48 PM

Comments

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1 I'm in the content!

Gonna look foolish

Posted by: Hands at July 01, 2022 05:48 PM (786Ro)

2 One Shade of Gray. 50 Shades is just not affordable after Bidenflation.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2022 05:49 PM (bW8dp)

3 When Obama was in I knew every period that the numbers were going to be revised down. When Trump was in I often had a hunch that they would be revised up.

I've got that Obama feeling again. Only this time, it looks like they ain't playing. They're going to hid the decline as much as they can.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 05:50 PM (krQz2)

4 So that fucking mutant has first-hand experience with nuclear waste, I take it?

Like he was conceived in a nuclear waste dump or something?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2022 05:52 PM (bW8dp)

5 Give us a break, we're not ethnologists

Posted by: Good Morning America at July 01, 2022 05:53 PM (786Ro)

6 Why have you never seen Clarence Thomas at an NBA game? As in -- ever?

An intellectual and scholar doesn't love watching basketball. I'm shocked.
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Translation: Black men have to like basketball.

They *have* to!

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 05:53 PM (krQz2)

7 The freaks are letting their flag fly in taxpayer funded offices.

yay us.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 01, 2022 05:55 PM (5pTK/)

8 And you thought the nation's spent nuclear fuel policy was bad before!!!

You ain't seen nothin' yet

Posted by: deadrody at July 01, 2022 05:55 PM (SnywI)

9 Anyone else remember when Obama, or an Obama surrogate, after being accosted about high prices, responded with something along the lines of, "But, the price of TV's has come down!"

To which the person replied, "I can't eat a TV."

I keep waiting for someone to do that to Biden.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 01, 2022 05:56 PM (5pTK/)

10 Compare? Compete?

Posted by: Holy Crap at July 01, 2022 05:57 PM (glGDV)

11 >>>She looks like a witch's Igor.

Ugh. I've change diapers that were more attractive than that.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 01, 2022 05:57 PM (nByzo)

12 When did African-Americans stop having normal Christian names? What is this “Ketanji” nonsense?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 01, 2022 05:57 PM (rzOL9)

13 Try firing the dude in the dress in the bottom pic.
I'll wait.

Posted by: gourmand du apres midi at July 01, 2022 05:57 PM (jTmQV)

14 Stolen elections have consequences

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2022 05:58 PM (2JoB8)

15 I don't get the Handmaid's Tale comic/tweet.

Are they saying pro-abortion states are restricting their freedoms?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at July 01, 2022 05:58 PM (wyjkQ)

16 These people are batshit crazy. It's not going to get any better either.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 01, 2022 05:58 PM (nxdel)

17 Rex Chapman could a good personal spending mentor. I recommend Hunter Biden.

Posted by: Hands at July 01, 2022 05:59 PM (786Ro)

18 Are they saying pro-abortion states are restricting their freedoms?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at July 01, 2022 05:58 PM (wyjkQ)
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I don't get that one either.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 01, 2022 05:59 PM (5pTK/)

19 > Clarence Thomas would last 20-30 seconds in an NBA locker room.

I don't understand what this means.

NBA players would assault him?
NBA players are just so damn INTENSE that their presence is difficult to endure?
NBA players have such a terrible culture, that normal people can't stand to be near it?

I honestly don't get it.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 05:59 PM (eyxn4)

20 >>YOU will have to make do with lesser, cheaper Stallions for YOUR wives' twisted kinks.

Someone call me?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2022 06:00 PM (ZLI7S)

21 I'm economically illiterate. Will negative growth slow down inflation? I assume yes.

Posted by: Max Power at July 01, 2022 06:00 PM (k7+BO)

22 The Covid vaccine is BABIES! It's BABIES!

Posted by: Charlton Heston as Justice Clarence Thomas at July 01, 2022 06:00 PM (krQz2)

23 En fuego, todo el dia!

Posted by: That Guy who shouts "En fuego!", now with "Todo el dia!" at July 01, 2022 06:00 PM (a3Q+t)

24 From post below:

Blue checkmark Jessica Kirson, who claims to be a comedian, twatted at Lauren Boebert, "Every time I watch you speak, I picture you in a guillotine and rub one out."

I hope Ms.Boebert doesn't respond to this, but if she does the best thing might be something along the lines of, "I hear your comedy performances are badly attended. When I think of that, I get a laugh, However, unlike you I don't rub one out in public because I'm not a jackass."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2022 06:00 PM (FZ2cV)

25 >>>he did not say the vaccines "were made from aborted children," and neither did the plaintiffs; they said the vaccines were made from stem-cell lines cultivated from aborted children, which is, what's the word for this, "true."

Which or course is only a distinction in degree and not kind. How much of the substance original aborted children remains in any given shot is unknown, but it certainly can be non-zero.

Posted by: mikethemoose at July 01, 2022 06:00 PM (T/vhV)

26 Damn, Rex Chapman must be back on drugs. Guy couldn't be a more fucked up person. Shocked, shocked he's in media.

Posted by: NCKate at July 01, 2022 06:01 PM (2oJif)

27 Damn. Read the content. Rookie move.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2022 06:01 PM (RkC6l)

28 So Rex Chapman had to chime in from the NBA camp. Is that loudmouth Popovich on an extended vacation and unavailable to comment?

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 01, 2022 06:02 PM (TNyrE)

29 Max Power, on its own it would. But we still have idiots in charge who are pumping more dollars into the system to devalue them. And rates are still too low. So don't hold your breath.

Posted by: Catherine at July 01, 2022 06:02 PM (ZSsrh)

30 I can't wait to hear KBJ's rulings

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2022 06:02 PM (2JoB8)

31 The vaxxines were absolutely tested on stem cell lines from (tortured) aborted children. It's undeniable. Most of modern medicine is based on these lines, too.

If nothing else I appreciate the vaxxines exposing this, because I had no idea prior to this discussion.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at July 01, 2022 06:02 PM (wyjkQ)

32 Clarence Thomas would last 20-30 seconds in an NBA locker room

Body odor?

Posted by: Glenn John at July 01, 2022 06:03 PM (wBFAy)

33 When did African-Americans stop having normal Christian names? What is this “Ketanji” nonsense?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 01, 2022 05:57 PM

Based on my conversations with actual Africans, it's stupid shite that they laugh at.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2022 06:03 PM (RkC6l)

34 What the fuck is that thing Red and why hasn't it been killed?

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 06:03 PM (Zawz2)

35 social media star

LOL "star"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:03 PM (llsW/)

36 In Australian customary units, it's 46 woggle-oos and 9-pence nonnybits
____________________

They weigh their nonnybits separately down under? 9 pence doesn't sound like much IYKWIM.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2022 06:03 PM (fs1hN)

37 I can't wait to hear KBJ's ~~rulings~~ many badly written dissents
Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2022 06:02 PM

FIFY.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2022 06:04 PM (RkC6l)

38 >>>they said the vaccines were made from stem-cell lines cultivated from aborted children, which is, what's the word for this, "true."

Not quite. The stem-cell lines being referenced were used for testing purposes during development. So, the vaccines were not "made" from that, but they were tested against them.

Still objectionable.

Posted by: No Name Today at July 01, 2022 06:04 PM (vlXMQ)

39 >> I don't get the Handmaid's Tale comic/tweet.

Comics are like Gossamer.

And one does not dissect Gossamer.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 06:04 PM (Zawz2)

40 Clarence Thomas would last 20-30 seconds in an NBA locker room

Who's the imbecile who said that?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 01, 2022 06:04 PM (VdGjU)

41 Buckle up, the economic situation gets worse from here.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 01, 2022 06:05 PM (18YaE)

42 >>>Emergency surgery to remove his appendix led to him developing an addiction to OxyContin, a highly potent painkiller Chapman described as 'synthetic heroin'.

Oh FFS. I imagine a surgery involves some pain.

I am pretty sure cracked a rib from a fall. You know what I did? I got up and suffered for a month while it healed.

Pansy blew through $50 million on OxyContin after an appendectomy?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 01, 2022 06:05 PM (nByzo)

43 And one does not dissect Gossamer.
Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 06:04 PM

I rate this comment as indubitably true.

Posted by: Marvin the Martian at July 01, 2022 06:05 PM (RkC6l)

44 Will negative growth slow down inflation?

It certainly can.

Posted by: Squid at July 01, 2022 06:05 PM (O25kb)

45 It's probable that Justice Thomas isn't covered in tats.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2022 06:06 PM (a3Q+t)

46 thanks, No Name Today

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:06 PM (B3oWe)

47 Is that Amish dude our Amish dude? He got booted from the blog years ago.

Posted by: NCKate at July 01, 2022 06:06 PM (2oJif)

48 Clarence Thomas would last 20-30 seconds in an NBA locker room

Farts

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at July 01, 2022 06:06 PM (MtGJh)

49 I love that Beavis and Butthead clip. If you haven't watched it, it's a brilliant skewer of "white privilege."

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 06:06 PM (eyxn4)

50 I don't understand what this means.

I don't think he knows either, he just is lashing out at someone black for not being the kind of black man he wants. Plantantion, etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:06 PM (llsW/)

51 I am pretty sure cracked a rib from a fall. You know what I did? I got up and suffered for a month while it healed.

Pansy blew through $50 million on OxyContin after an appendectomy?
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 01, 2022 06:05 PM

Same. Probably cracked a rib. Hurt to even sit upright for weeks. Sucked down Motrin and drive on.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2022 06:07 PM (RkC6l)

52 Last pic: What in the wide wide world of sports is going on around here?!?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 01, 2022 06:07 PM (0snk2)

53 I don't get the Handmaid's Tale comic/tweet.

Are they saying pro-abortion states are restricting their freedoms?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at July 01, 2022 05:58 PM (wyjkQ)
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No she's saying that you were too worried about what you would eat and what you could afford to do to stand up to the "loss of rights".

The left believes in Slippery Slope every bit as must as the right whom they chastise for the "Fallacy of the Slippery Slope".

The thing about Slippery Slope as a fallacy is that it is true: progression to point X doesn't mandate progressive to point X + h. But people often use it to refute the *claim* that something can be a slippery slope.

It's just simply not a proof, not a basis to nullify any claim of incremental advancement. And also that something is not proven that it cannot be other than a slippery slope is not the same thing as proving that it cannot be held to be slippery. "Taking it all away" is a Straw Man of first order, though.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 06:07 PM (krQz2)

54 Why have you never seen Clarence Thomas at an NBA game? As in -- ever?

Maybe he thinks the sport sucks, like most people do. What a racist comment.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 01, 2022 06:07 PM (18YaE)

55 i changed the customary units line:

In Australian customary units, it's 46 woggeloos and in Irish Wee People fairy-measures it's se'enscore nonnybits.

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:07 PM (B3oWe)

56 And I don't just think that's pride of authorship.

Well duh it's not June anymore.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at July 01, 2022 06:07 PM (HnE9b)

57 >>>Comics are like Gossamer.

And one does not dissect Gossamer.

what's that from? Tip of the tongue!

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:08 PM (B3oWe)

58 I honestly don't get it.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 05:59 PM (eyxn4)

He "ain't black".

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 06:08 PM (dscaa)

59 The whole Beavis and Butthead movie is good.

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 01, 2022 06:08 PM (xPl2J)

60 I don't think he knows either, he just is lashing out at someone black for not being the kind of black man he wants. Plantantion, etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:06 PM (llsW/)
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If you don't love basketball, you ain't black.

It's actually demanding a sort of stereotype. Because that's what we do these days.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 06:08 PM (krQz2)

61 oh, Seinfeld!

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:08 PM (B3oWe)

62 Jessica the comic definitely has a face made for radio.

Posted by: Ron at July 01, 2022 06:08 PM (AtKtr)

63 I honestly don't get it.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 05:59 PM (eyxn4)

This is his logic:
All real black men are good at basketball.
Clarence Thomas doesn't play basketball.
Clarence Thomas is not a real black man.

Seriously, there's no deeper thought to his idiocy than this.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2022 06:08 PM (trdmm)

64 You have 20-30 minutes in a discussion with either Rex Chapman NBA journeyman trying to deal with his demons or Clarence Thomas arguably the greatest American alive today. Choose only one. Don't take all day.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2022 06:09 PM (fs1hN)

65 >>>59 The whole Beavis and Butthead movie is good.

i saw them practicing the docking maneuver.

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:09 PM (B3oWe)

66 > Who's the imbecile who said that?

A former NBA player who, shockingly, is a druggie and a criminal. At one point he stole $14,000 worth of Apple products.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 06:09 PM (eyxn4)

67 That freak has an office looking out on the Smithsonian?!?!?

Fuck.

Best I ever got was the Balston Metro station.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 06:09 PM (5p7BC)

68 Margaret Atwood is one of the most shockingly dishonest crowd surfers I have ever seen.

She spent years in the middle east, then came home and wrote a book clearly about the middle eastern treatment of women, but changed it to be about a mythical, nonexistent, and laughable faux Christian cult that somehow took over America instead.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:09 PM (llsW/)

69 I think the cartoon is trying to say "Mom you voted for a deplorable candidate and our country is being destroyed by them". ( Apparently Mom stupidly voted for lower gas prices /s)

Posted by: Glenn John at July 01, 2022 06:09 PM (wBFAy)

70 >>>62 Jessica the comic definitely has a face made for radio.

and she has a body made for being extracted from a bedroom by a crane.

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:10 PM (B3oWe)

71 Blue checkmark Jessica Kirson, who claims to be a comedian, twatted at Lauren Boebert, "Every time I watch you speak, I picture you in a guillotine and rub one out."
https://bit.ly/3IaDy1H
Posted by: bonhomme

That tweet has now been deleted.

Good thing someone archived it.

https://archive.ph/yRIGy

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik [DHS Verdict: MDM] at July 01, 2022 06:10 PM (DTX3h)

72 54 Why have you never seen Clarence Thomas at an NBA game? As in -- ever?

Maybe he thinks the sport sucks, like most people do. What a racist comment.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 01, 2022 06:07 PM (18YaE)

just to belabor an extremely stupid point, name any Supreme Court Justice who has ever been seen at an NBA game.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2022 06:10 PM (trdmm)

73 In traditional British units, it's 19 stone.

Actually, it's 18 stone and 12.557 lbs.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher, Ensign, UFP Starfleet at July 01, 2022 06:10 PM (a3Q+t)

74 Clarence Thomas actually spoke to the WNBA players, and said he watches their games and is a fan. I don't know if that is true or not.

But Supreme Court justices tend to be very private figure who rarely go out in public.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:10 PM (llsW/)

75 se'enscore nonnybits is one of your best lines ever, ace.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 06:11 PM (5p7BC)

76 We are all about metrology up in here!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 01, 2022 06:11 PM (0snk2)

77 If you read 1984, you realize the Jumanji headline for what it is.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 01, 2022 06:11 PM (mE7cY)

78 Blue checkmark Jessica Kirson, who claims to be a comedian, twatted at Lauren Boebert, "Every time I watch you speak, I picture you in a guillotine and rub one out."
https://bit.ly/3IaDy1H

Posted by: bonhomme
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Ah. A *true* Jacobin.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 06:11 PM (krQz2)

79 That is one of my all-tim fav Seinfeld lines. The actor that played the New Yorker Comic Editor nailed that character.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 06:11 PM (Zawz2)

80 Morons.... Bow to yours truly. Your new superior.... It is disabled pride month. You only wish you could have preferred parking and the privilege that only we the disabled enjoy. Lgbtb was last month bitches. Today you have a new master. Get it. Btw checks and ammo shipments are appropriate.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at July 01, 2022 06:11 PM (0OmEj)

81 just to belabor an extremely stupid point, name any Supreme Court Justice who has ever been seen at an NBA game.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2022 06:10 PM (trdmm)

If that's not Systemic Racism I don't know what is.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 06:11 PM (dscaa)

82 So that fucking mutant has first-hand experience with nuclear waste, I take it?

Like he was conceived in a nuclear waste dump or something?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2022 05:52 PM (bW8dp)

He's no Toxic Avenger.

Posted by: Troma Entertainment at July 01, 2022 06:11 PM (4I/2K)

83 Regarding that Baymax thing, which conservatives are outraged? I didn't see a single mention of it in my Twitter timeline other than the promoted "What's Happening" section.

Posted by: Xander Crews at July 01, 2022 06:11 PM (MpOGS)

84 just to belabor an extremely stupid point, name any Supreme Court Justice who has ever been seen at an NBA game.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2022 06:10 PM (trdmm)

Didn't RGB play power forward?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 01, 2022 06:11 PM (0snk2)

85 > Good thing someone archived it.

SEE! I didn't make it up!

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 06:11 PM (eyxn4)

86 I would love to play the role of Max Bialystok in “The Producers.”

Also, Harold Hill in “The Music Man.”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 01, 2022 06:12 PM (rzOL9)

87 83 Regarding that Baymax thing, which conservatives are outraged? I didn't see a single mention of it in my Twitter timeline other than the promoted "What's Happening" section.
Posted by: Xander Crews at July 01, 2022 06:11 PM (MpOGS)

I only heard about it in passing on a Nerdrotic Nooner. Did not sound interesting enough to bother finding out anything about it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 01, 2022 06:12 PM (0snk2)

88 Nuke guy goes over the top when it's bring your dog to work day

Posted by: NCKate at July 01, 2022 06:12 PM (2oJif)

89 70 >>>62 Jessica the comic definitely has a face made for radio.

and she has a body made for being extracted from a bedroom by a crane.
Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:10 PM (B3oWe)

Give it to me, baby!

Posted by: Victor Davis Hanson at July 01, 2022 06:13 PM (mE7cY)

90 > Posted by: Wesley Crusher, Ensign, UFP Starfleet

Shut up, Wil. You were the worst part of TNG and Eureka.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 06:13 PM (eyxn4)

91 Didn't RGB play power forward?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 01, 2022 06:11 PM (0snk2)
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She could draw a charge like nobody's business.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 06:13 PM (krQz2)

92 I gotta repeat this question, what kind of mincing Nancy takes oxy to deal with an appendix surgery??? does he take heroin for his headaches, too?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:13 PM (llsW/)

93 Good Morning America pushed the Big Lie that Ketanji Brown Jackson is "the first Black Supreme Court Justice,"

Couldn’t say “first female Black Supreme Court Justice” because….just because

Posted by: 7man at July 01, 2022 06:13 PM (qwO6y)

94 I don't like being boxed in.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 01, 2022 06:13 PM (bVYXr)

95 Woah.

We've been framed.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 06:13 PM (Zawz2)

96 It appears the post has been updated.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 06:13 PM (eyxn4)

97 Like contrasting comments

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2022 06:14 PM (2JoB8)

98 And for one brief moment in time, we all live in a grey box.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 06:14 PM (5p7BC)

99 89 70 >>>62 Jessica the comic definitely has a face made for radio.

and she has a body made for being extracted from a bedroom by a crane.
Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:10 PM (B3oWe)

When she was a kid, her parents had to tie a porkchop around her neck so the dog would play with her.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 01, 2022 06:14 PM (0snk2)

100 just to belabor an extremely stupid point, name any Supreme Court Justice who has ever been seen at an NBA game.
___________________

RBG, Wizards at home vs Warriors she put on a three point clinic at half-time, outshooting the visiting Steph Curry. He was cool with it though.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2022 06:14 PM (fs1hN)

101 Boebert is a smart cookie.

Posted by: Infidel at July 01, 2022 06:14 PM (r2IDy)

102 What female says "rub one out"?

*screwed-up face*

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 06:14 PM (krQz2)

103 thanks, Dave in Fla! I thought it all worked in the end!

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:14 PM (B3oWe)

104 Re the aborted feetus experiments. It's so much worse and fauci crowd tied than we imagined.

Newsweek link:
http://tinyurl.com/yufkrc28

Posted by: Shiggz at July 01, 2022 06:14 PM (0SrVS)

105 >>I gotta repeat this question, what kind of mincing Nancy takes oxy to deal with an appendix surgery??

Who even goes to the doctor for that? No Box-Knife and Bactine in this guy's house or what?

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 06:14 PM (Zawz2)

106 I will sleep soundly tonight know gay Mr Clean is taking care of our nuclear waste.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2022 06:14 PM (ZLI7S)

107 47 Is that Amish dude our Amish dude? He got booted from the blog years ago.
Posted by: NCKate at July 01, 2022 06:06 PM (2oJif)

I believe so. His twit sc used to be "AgainstTrumpDude" IIRC.

Posted by: Thrawn at July 01, 2022 06:14 PM (Rl7KJ)

108 When leftists and nevertrumpers rejoined after the brief neocon ambulatory stage the literary universes of the only two books in existence, handmaid tale and harry potter combined to form Harry Handmaid's Potter Tale. I'm guessing wizardettes are sent to a boarding school to prepare them for bearing muggle offspring or something.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 06:15 PM (0fVbu)

109 She spent years in the middle east, then came home and wrote a book clearly about the middle eastern treatment of women, but changed it to be about a mythical, nonexistent, and laughable faux Christian cult that somehow took over America instead.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:09 PM (llsW/)

it has always astounded me that the entire left is too stupid to understand that the whole story was about Islam, with the serial numbers filed off.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2022 06:15 PM (trdmm)

110 Alex Rodriguez has a show on CNBC in which he tries to help athletes who have blown all of their income and are facing bankruptcy rebuild their lives. Of course Rodriguez feels he can empathize since he trashed his own reputation and wealth by using PEDs which earned him a major suspension from baseball and he is very forthright in taking responsibility for it. Anyway, his latest project was Evander Holyfield who has blown through $200 M on three divorces, bad investments, and other assorted hucksters. Athletes are some of the dumbest people with money although rock stars and singers are right up there with them.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 01, 2022 06:15 PM (/zVn0)

111 And for one brief moment in time, we all live in a grey box.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 06:14 PM (5p7BC)

So what are you planning to BBQ with your new smoker this weekend?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2022 06:16 PM (4I/2K)

112 The Veronicas is really more of a Pride Month kind of band.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 01, 2022 06:16 PM (XvPQV)

113 >>>I gotta repeat this question, what kind of mincing Nancy takes oxy to deal with an appendix surgery??

was that what it was? I didn't even read that closely!

"I got addicted to oxycontin because I had an operation that children usually medicate with ice cream!"

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:16 PM (B3oWe)

114 Good Morning America pushed the Big Lie that Ketanji Brown Jackson is "the first Black Supreme Court Justice,
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It's not a lie if you just don't know what you are talking about and don't know how to look it up, or how to do your job.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 06:16 PM (krQz2)

115 We need the picture of the fuel guy with his doggie.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2022 06:16 PM (63Dwl)

116 se'enscore nonnybits is one of your best lines ever, ace.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 06:11 PM (5p7BC)

He's firing on all cylinders today.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 01, 2022 06:16 PM (nByzo)

117 > Is that Amish dude our Amish dude? He got booted from the blog years ago.

It's sad how nobody has taken his place to tell us lawyers are morons and math professors are geniuses.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 06:16 PM (eyxn4)

118 You'd think that a political faction that successfully used "it's for the children!" to push all manner of bad ideas in the 90s and 00s would have considered that handing the said children over to a bunch of perverts might be poorly received.

Posted by: CppThis at July 01, 2022 06:16 PM (UewuT)

119 >> I will sleep soundly tonight know gay Mr Clean is taking care of our nuclear waste.

He looks like Mr Clean raped Matt Damon. In Branson.

... and the state of Missouri wouldn't let Matt Damon get an ass-abortion and forced him to carry the butt-baby to term.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 06:16 PM (Zawz2)

120 >>>47 Is that Amish dude our Amish dude? He got booted from the blog years ago.

yes but I don't think he got booted, he just Self-Deported, the way his hero Romney would have wanted it.

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:16 PM (B3oWe)

121 Clarence Thomas actually spoke to the WNBA players, and said he watches their games and is a fan. I don't know if that is true or not.

Then he's wrong. Because tall girls throwing a ball through a ten foot hoop accomplishes nothing. Absolutely not a damn thing, in the grand scheme.

It's a wasted effort. It's why I've always wondered - well, Hell, I don't wonder - it's a state sponsored distraction. But why do y'all fall for it.

Ever find yourself - tired, hungry, and short of cash - just wishing you had a seven foot woman around ? NO !!! Because they have no utility. Same as a man that can dunk. Who cares, in the literal sense.

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 01, 2022 06:16 PM (DBwNs)

122 What female says "rub one out"?
Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 06:14 PM

* sheepishly raises hand *

Posted by: Lia Thomas at July 01, 2022 06:16 PM (a3Q+t)

123 >>"I got addicted to oxycontin because I had an operation that children usually medicate with ice cream!"

Fact Check : WRONG!

They give you Sherbert.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 06:17 PM (Zawz2)

124 He looks like Mr Clean raped Matt Damon. In Branson.
... and the state of Missouri wouldn't let Matt Damon get an ass-abortion and forced him to carry the butt-baby to term.
Posted by: garrett
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rofl

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 06:17 PM (zYA/b)

125 > "I got addicted to oxycontin because I had an operation that children usually medicate with ice cream!"

Heh.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 06:17 PM (eyxn4)

126 on a positive note, I've seen:

Top Gun Maverick. Holy Fuck!

explained, if you like nostalgia. yeah, goosebumps. if you like action movies that don't fucking suck and aren't full of gross CGI, the check (aside from one minor scene that'd be impossible to do real world, but they could've tried harder). If you like Maverick doing the click-snick airbrake thing 100 times? Yup, this is for you.

Also, Doctor Strange Sequel. It's not woke. It's kind of the trippy sequel we were promised for half a decade. I now hate Scarlett Witch about as much as Kalie Morganthau. It's not a bait and switch if the girlboss is clearly the bad guy.

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 01, 2022 06:17 PM (OuH7W)

127 Then he's wrong. Because tall girls throwing a ball through a ten foot hoop accomplishes nothing. Absolutely not a damn thing, in the grand scheme.

Eh I like a lot of pointless crap, its entertainment and doesn't have to be anything more than that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:18 PM (llsW/)

128 Liberals have never been this radical before. Everything they do and everything they touch is extremely radical compared to the prior decades.

I'm curious as to anyone's thoughts on why now, why these positions, why the absolute insanity that they know doesn't play well with the majority of Americans - basically middle left to far right.

They know the poll results. So a smart tactician would wonder why keep the foot on the proverbial accelerator.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 01, 2022 06:18 PM (mE7cY)

129 was that what it was? I didn't even read that closely!

"I got addicted to oxycontin because I had an operation that children usually medicate with ice cream!"
Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:16 PM (B3oWe)

That's tonsils, ace.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 01, 2022 06:18 PM (0snk2)

130 Dr. Strange isn't woke just because America Chavez is some sort of weirdo latinX carrying the gay fash symbol. It's her universe. I guess. But she never once preaches. she does stuff equivalent to what someone in her maturity level and power class does after proper growth.

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 01, 2022 06:18 PM (OuH7W)

131 This 4th, it's brisket, pork butt, and pork ribs on the smoker. Pecan wood, with a soupcon of cherry.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2022 06:19 PM (a3Q+t)

132 Ever find yourself - tired, hungry, and short of cash - just wishing you had a seven foot woman around ?

Being a short shit, these Amazons could help me reach the good bread on the top shelf at the grocery store.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 01, 2022 06:19 PM (ppBhU)

133 102 What female says "rub one out"?

*screwed-up face*
Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 06:14 PM (krQz2)

Rub what out, a stain on a window pane? *srednop*

Posted by: Thrawn at July 01, 2022 06:19 PM (Rl7KJ)

134 >>>That's tonsils, ace.

i've heard it both ways

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:19 PM (B3oWe)

135 So what are you planning to BBQ with your new smoker this weekend?
Posted by: Count de Monet
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If I cure it this weekend, I will figure I'm ahead of the game. This thing has me intimidated.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 06:19 PM (5p7BC)

136 He looks like Mr Clean raped Matt Damon. In Branson.
... and the state of Missouri wouldn't let Matt Damon get an ass-abortion and forced him to carry the butt-baby to term.
Posted by: garrett
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rofl

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 01, 2022 06:17 PM (zYA/b)

lol, horde is en fuego today.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 01, 2022 06:20 PM (nByzo)

137 "YOU take YOUR seat"

hahahaha

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2022 06:20 PM (Cus5s)

138 Madame LeFarge there may want to remember that the choppers soon became the chopped and that when you push a nanny too far they eventually push back.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 01, 2022 06:20 PM (BJKQV)

139 >>That's tonsils, ace.

No way you are getting all the way to the appendix with those tonsils in the way.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 06:20 PM (Zawz2)

140 I mean I'll agree that a appendectomy hurts but oxy? Really???

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:20 PM (llsW/)

141 119 >> I will sleep soundly tonight know gay Mr Clean is taking care of our nuclear waste.

He looks like Mr Clean raped Matt Damon. In Branson.

... and the state of Missouri wouldn't let Matt Damon get an ass-abortion and forced him to carry the butt-baby to term.
Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 06:16 PM (Zawz2)

That's one for the books.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 01, 2022 06:20 PM (mE7cY)

142 Amish walked the line of getting booted. Too bad, I had sort of liked him before he chemjeffed himself.

I didn't even mind his stupid opinions but then he decided he needed to FIGHT EVERYONE the way people with unresolved problems often do.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 06:20 PM (dscaa)

143 AmishDude was one who got upset at our 'Must be the Amish' joke. Go figure.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 01, 2022 06:20 PM (0snk2)

144 Chapman's lowest point finally came in 2014, when he was caught stealing more than $18,000 worth of products from an Apple store

might've pulled it off in California

Posted by: Hands at July 01, 2022 06:20 PM (786Ro)

145 102 What female says "rub one out"?
__________

Like, with a cloth?

Posted by: Hilzebuub at July 01, 2022 06:20 PM (fs1hN)

146 why do gheyboi tranny men only seem to have "streetwalking whore" as their single note approach to womanhood? Where's the ponytail, yoga pants, triple mocha latte while living in a $500/m apartment?

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 01, 2022 06:20 PM (OuH7W)

147 White Justices Don't Twerk

Posted by: Justice Jumanji Brown Action Jackson at July 01, 2022 06:21 PM (sWM8x)

148 139 >>That's tonsils, ace.

No way you are getting all the way to the appendix with those tonsils in the way.
Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 06:20 PM (Zawz2)

That settles it, we need to call in an expert on tonsil and throat related health- the Vice President!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 01, 2022 06:21 PM (0snk2)

149 New York City is going to mandate all kids get the covid shot in order to attend school this fall. This is pure madness.

https://bit.ly/3OIef9R

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2022 06:21 PM (Do5/p)

150 That was made by "..." who is sometimes called "ellipsis."

Thanks Three Dot !

Posted by: JT at July 01, 2022 06:21 PM (arJlL)

151 That's a "genderfluid" man.

Isn't that the sort of fem-dom furry one?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 01, 2022 06:22 PM (yQpMk)

152 145 102 What female says "rub one out"?
__________

Like, with a cloth?
Posted by: Hilzebuub at July 01, 2022 06:20 PM (fs1hN)

IT'S A BACK MASSAGER!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 01, 2022 06:22 PM (0snk2)

153 No way you are getting all the way to the appendix with those tonsils in the way.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 06:20 PM (Zawz2)

I can't even get to the tonsils.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 06:22 PM (dscaa)

154 They know the poll results. So a smart tactician would wonder why keep the foot on the proverbial accelerator.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 01, 2022 06:18 PM (mE7cY)

Could it be they know it's now or never? The likely high-water mark of Progressive actions to remake the USA? Their Pickett's Charge, as it were.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2022 06:22 PM (4I/2K)

155 Why won't the Joe Biden Administration translate my July 4th holiday cookout menu into tacos, burritos, rice and beans?

How many carne asada or carnitas burritos can I serve? Steak fajitas? Cervezas? I fucking love fish tacos, what's Hunter's favorite condiment?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 01, 2022 06:22 PM (0ocXn)

156 Mrx Clean, the new completely sane Biden appointee does do one thing that all the other trannies don't do. If you're going to dress like a woman, you realize, DONT YOU, that they wear the shit they do to accentuate their curves or hide their fat asses. Right? Flat bitches don't dress that way. Flat bitches with the bodies of a floor plank don't wear that stuff.

This gheyboi at least dresses like Cate Blanchett in a period piece playing a retarded Kat Hepburn.

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 01, 2022 06:23 PM (OuH7W)

157 > i've heard it both ways

No you haven't, Shawn!

Posted by: Galileo Humpkins at July 01, 2022 06:23 PM (eyxn4)

158 Gay deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition in the office of nuclear energy in the department of energy is gay.

Posted by: Hilzebuub at July 01, 2022 06:23 PM (fs1hN)

159
The best way to slow down inflation is to take away money from people who need it the most.

Then blame the Republicans. Works every time.

Posted by: The DNC at July 01, 2022 06:23 PM (dQvv7)

160 I didn't even mind his stupid opinions but then he decided he needed to FIGHT EVERYONE the way people with unresolved problems often do.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 06:20 PM (dscaa)

In the octagon?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 01, 2022 06:23 PM (nByzo)

161 Oh, wife and I went to see Maverick today because of ace and all the other recommendations. We both loved it.

Very much enjoyed all the nostalgic flashbacks to the original movie. Really well done movie both for the action, but the story as well.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 06:23 PM (5p7BC)

162 >>I can't even get to the tonsils.

Irish?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2022 06:23 PM (ZLI7S)

163 Jessica Kerson--

Yeah, speaking of 19 stone....

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at July 01, 2022 06:24 PM (S/Ofz)

164 162 >>I can't even get to the tonsils.

Irish?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2022 06:23 PM (ZLI7S)

SE Asian?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 01, 2022 06:24 PM (0snk2)

165 That was made by "..." who is sometimes called "ellipsis."

Oh man, was that good! Now make him Conan. "Clarence, what is best in life?..."

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 01, 2022 06:24 PM (ftFVW)

166 154 They know the poll results. So a smart tactician would wonder why keep the foot on the proverbial accelerator.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at Jul

because, despite the polls, they're winning. They're getting illegals to flood the country, high gas prices, bullshit racism everywhere.

and you know the DOJ is going to arrest every GOP candidate on Nov 1st, like the Baathist they are

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 01, 2022 06:24 PM (OuH7W)

167 > What female says "rub one out"?

Female comedians often use a man's comedic voice. It's the only way they can be funny-ish.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 06:24 PM (eyxn4)

168 >>> 128 Liberals have never been this radical before. Everything they do and everything they touch is extremely radical compared to the prior decades.

I'm curious as to anyone's thoughts on why now, why these positions, why the absolute insanity that they know doesn't play well with the majority of Americans - basically middle left to far right.

They know the poll results. So a smart tactician would wonder why keep the foot on the proverbial accelerator.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 01, 2022 06:18 PM (mE7cY)

"It worked, didn't it?" -- November 2020

They will continue to get away with it, until they don't, and nobody knows when (or if) that will happen.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2022 06:24 PM (llON8)

169 What's this world coming to??!! Fen using coarser and coarser language. Where's my fainting couch?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2022 06:24 PM (7bRMQ)

170 "I'm curious as to anyone's thoughts on why now, why these positions, why the absolute insanity that they know doesn't play well with the majority of Americans"

They were emboldened during the rein of the dogeater and really went all out after Biden was made president. With every increment they become more brazen.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2022 06:25 PM (sn5EN)

171 YOU will have to make do with lesser, cheaper Stallions for YOUR wives' twisted sexual appetites.

Paolo hardest hit. Or do these wives not meet his exacting standards?

Posted by: Fox2! at July 01, 2022 06:25 PM (NnEYE)

172 154 They know the poll results. So a smart tactician would wonder why keep the foot on the proverbial accelerator.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 01, 2022 06:18 PM (mE7cY)

Could it be they know it's now or never? The likely high-water mark of Progressive actions to remake the USA? Their Pickett's Charge, as it were.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2022 06:22 PM (4I/2K

I figured they plan on getting wiped out in the midterms and maybe 2024 but they always rebound in other terms. But this action may turn people away for much longer.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 01, 2022 06:25 PM (mE7cY)

173 America is back, baby!!

Posted by: Jak Sucio at July 01, 2022 06:25 PM (jvt6t)

174 New York City is going to mandate all kids get the covid shot in order to attend school this fall. This is pure madness.

yeah but it's a net positive because it will cost the Democrats some votes in a future election

/s

Posted by: Hands at July 01, 2022 06:25 PM (786Ro)

175 Very much enjoyed all the nostalgic flashbacks to the original movie. Really well done movie both for the action, but the story as well.
Posted by: Dave in Fl

yup, someone told me "well, real navy people hate it" but I'm like...nah bro. This is the best action movie since die hard, probably.

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 01, 2022 06:25 PM (OuH7W)

176 NO ONE should wear that cropped pantsuit and platforms heels to work. EVER!!

Posted by: LASue at July 01, 2022 06:25 PM (Ed8Zd)

177 "..."

les point à trois

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 01, 2022 06:25 PM (vcv8B)

178 171 YOU will have to make do with lesser, cheaper Stallions for YOUR wives' twisted sexual appetites.

Paolo hardest hit. Or do these wives not meet his exacting standards?
Posted by: Fox2! at July 01, 2022 06:25 PM (NnEYE)

They probably think of him as a white hispanic, so it does not satisfy the kink- for them or their husbands.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 01, 2022 06:26 PM (0snk2)

179 Eh I like a lot of pointless crap, its entertainment and doesn't have to be anything more than that.

Ding !!! We have a winner !!!

Because if the seven foot girls are NOT entertaining ... then who cares ? They have no intrinsic worth. Nobody cares about the shit show of the tall girls out there doing ... something ... in and of their own merits.

FYI - same thing goes for the boys. I can count you the number of times I've heard "If Only We Had a Linebacker" on no hands.

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 01, 2022 06:26 PM (DBwNs)

180 So I think the Huskies will end up in the Big 12 and Wazoo will become the star of some mountain-y conference.

Posted by: LASue at July 01, 2022 06:26 PM (Ed8Zd)

181 Female comedians often use a man's comedic voice. It's the only way they can be funny-ish.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 06:24 PM (eyxn4)

But this one decided to up the ante of female human achievement and discuss her vagina.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 06:26 PM (dscaa)

182 >>> 175 Very much enjoyed all the nostalgic flashbacks to the original movie. Really well done movie both for the action, but the story as well.
Posted by: Dave in Fl

yup, someone told me "well, real navy people hate it" but I'm like...nah bro. This is the best action movie since die hard, probably.
Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 01, 2022 06:25 PM (OuH7W)

But is it a Christmas movie?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2022 06:26 PM (llON8)

183 Every CT meme has to have the glowing eyes.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at July 01, 2022 06:27 PM (jvt6t)

184 Last time I attended an NBA game? Game 5 of 1996 finals.

Payton and Kemp beat Michael and Pippen.

That was back when the NBA was a thing. Haven't watched a second of it since 2008.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 01, 2022 06:27 PM (TU8Tj)

185 "It worked, didn't it?" -- November 2020

They will continue to get away with it, until they don't, and nobody knows when (or if) that will happen.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2022 06:24 PM

Exactly. Has anyone gone to prison for rigging and stealing the 2020 elections? Nope. Is everyone who rigged and stole the 2020 elections still in power to do it again. Yep.

If you have no worry about ever losing another election again, you don't have to pretend to moderate your views to dupe the ignorant into voting for you. You can let your freak flag fly.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2022 06:27 PM (Do5/p)

186 > NO ONE should wear that cropped pantsuit and platforms heels to work. EVER!!

You should, "Oh, honey. No!" him.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2022 06:27 PM (eyxn4)

187 New York City is going to mandate all kids get the covid shot in order to attend school this fall.

Wow they already are set to have lower attendance by millions, and they want to drive even more students away??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:27 PM (llsW/)

188 They were emboldened during the rein of the dogeater and really went all out after Biden was made president. With every increment they become more brazen.
Posted by: fd at July 01, 2022 06:25 PM (sn5EN)
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They are going full YOLO.

So far, who has really tried to stop them?

They never stop, they never quit. They really are like a Terminator, bent on destroying America-that-was until it's just a smoldering corpse and will never rise again.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2022 06:28 PM (K5n5d)

189 >>But this one decided to up the ante of female human achievement and discuss her vagina.

Lotta ins, lotta outs.

Posted by: Jeff Bridges at July 01, 2022 06:28 PM (Zawz2)

190 174 "New York City is going to mandate all kids get the covid shot in order to attend school this fall. This is pure madness."

yeah but it's a net positive because it will cost the Democrats some votes in a future election

/s
Posted by: Hands at July 01, 2022 06:25 PM (786Ro)

Well they live in New York City so probably going to vote against us anyways. There's a much stronger argument for this one being a win than the border one.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 06:28 PM (b2nrj)

191 >>>(aside from one minor scene that'd be impossible to do real world, but they could've tried harder). I

what scene? the only scene I thought was plainly cgi, because it had to be, was the scene where they launched all the cruise missiles.

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:28 PM (B3oWe)

192 Clarence Thomas actually spoke to the WNBA players, and said he watches their games and is a fan. I don't know if that is true or not.

But Supreme Court justices tend to be very private figure who rarely go out in public.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Justice Thomas and the Missus are known for taking long trips around the country in their motorhome.

Posted by: Miklos, out-pointing at July 01, 2022 06:28 PM (thbCK)

193 Let me get this straight: in the "cartoon", the woman is calling the clump of cells she wants to kill "honey"??

Posted by: LASue at July 01, 2022 06:28 PM (Ed8Zd)

194 If I cure it this weekend, I will figure I'm ahead of the game. This thing has me intimidated.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 06:19 PM (5p7BC)

Once you learn your smoker's ways, you'll quickly master it. It's like having sex for the first time. 😊

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2022 06:28 PM (4I/2K)

195 But is it a Christmas movie?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2022 06:26 PM (llON

Well played.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at July 01, 2022 06:28 PM (jvt6t)

196 Kinda looks like a young 20's CrossFit AWFLSJW if we are keeping it 💯

Posted by: Heavy Squats at July 01, 2022 06:28 PM (3PO9b)

197 Has anyone gone to prison for rigging and stealing the 2020 elections?
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Well at least 4 people in Texas have.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 06:29 PM (5p7BC)

198 My genderfluid is precious.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 01, 2022 06:29 PM (vcv8B)

199 "Clarence Thomas would last 20-30 seconds in an NBA locker room. "

That's because - unlike Rex Chapman - Thomas ain't black enough.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 01, 2022 06:29 PM (TU8Tj)

200 WTAF is that thingnin the red jumper at the bottom of the content?

quick, stuff its pockets with sausages and rename it Treadstone. stupid bear bait asshoe.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at July 01, 2022 06:29 PM (UgAdJ)

201 LASue - That was the first thing I was thinking when I read that. Is the kid asked her Mom why she couldn't have been aborted instead?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 06:30 PM (5p7BC)

202 If you liked the first Top Gun, you will like Maverick. I saw it at the final local IMAX showing last night.

If it had lasted four hours I would have been seeing my doctor.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 01, 2022 06:30 PM (yQpMk)

203 IT'S A BACK MASSAGER!

yeah, sure and that pulsating detachable showerhead is for your hair

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:31 PM (llsW/)

204 what scene? the only scene I thought was plainly cgi, because it had to be, was the scene where they launched all the cruise missiles.

Posted by: ace

yes, and it looked like shit. The Last Ship had a pretty good tomahawk (well, SM4) launch scene. They could've milked the launches for cool factor. And the tactics (spoiler) were the goddamned things were flying right over the SAMs they were avoiding in the first place. Of course, they acted like they were using SCRAM or whatever tomahawks. But don't real ones cruise subsonic?

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 01, 2022 06:31 PM (OuH7W)

205 Once you learn your smoker's ways, you'll quickly master it. It's like having sex for the first time. 😊
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2022 06:28 PM

Wow, and you get smoked meat out of the bargain? Sign me up.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 01, 2022 06:31 PM (ftFVW)

206 Once you learn your smoker's ways, you'll quickly master it. It's like having sex for the first time. 😊

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2022 06:28 PM (4I/2K)

One-handed?

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 06:31 PM (dscaa)

207 >>>If you liked the first Top Gun, you will like Maverick. I saw it at the final local IMAX showing last night.

i think a more important recommendation is, "Even if you didn't like Top Gun (I didn't), you will like Maverick."

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:31 PM (B3oWe)

208 You can tell who the really good players are, because teams can't wait to trade them to other teams in exchange for forty-score basketball nets and six palettes of Gatorade Ice.

I was traded to the Flint Tropics for a washing machine.

Posted by: Kentucky Colonels Back-up Point Guard Ed Monix at July 01, 2022 06:31 PM (Do5/p)

209 Once you learn your smoker's ways, you'll quickly master it. It's like having sex for the first time. 😊
Posted by: Count de Monet

Or exactly the opposite. Took forever to get through the stall with my first brisket.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 01, 2022 06:31 PM (vcv8B)

210 yeah, The Last Ship had a multiple VRLS launch scene of SM4's which basically the same as tommies. It's a badass thing they f'd up.

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 01, 2022 06:31 PM (OuH7W)

211 I saw it TGM at a fake Imax. Basically a $22 regular screen. Do your research, folks.

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 01, 2022 06:32 PM (OuH7W)

212 I'll wait a few decades to see the top cruise movie. My desire to see all of hollywood die off exceeds my interest in any movie they could make.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 01, 2022 06:32 PM (0fVbu)

213 That last picture.

A tire iron comes to mind.

Repeatedly.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 01, 2022 06:32 PM (R/m4+)

214 But is it a Christmas movie?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2022 06:26 PM (llON

There was a lot of snow.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 01, 2022 06:32 PM (yQpMk)

215 Just this week the radical leftist agenda took like 5 bodyblows, its not like there's been zero pushback or consequence. Its just that they control the media and the megaphone so its easy to get distracted.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:33 PM (llsW/)

216 "Clarence Thomas would last 20-30 seconds in an NBA locker room. "

We used do call our racist uncle "Our Racist Uncle" because he said stuff like this.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 01, 2022 06:33 PM (BJKQV)

217 That 'under'secretay of dirty water, that his real hair? What a peenhead.

Posted by: Eromero at July 01, 2022 06:33 PM (gktX6)

218 1 I saw it TGM at a fake Imax. Basically a $22 regular screen. Do your research, folks.

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 01, 2022 06:32 PM (OuH7W)

There is/was a site that reports on Real vs Fake Imax.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 06:33 PM (dscaa)

219 California just added a three cent per gallon tax. LOL. Ok.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 01, 2022 06:33 PM (0snk2)

220 193 Let me get this straight: in the "cartoon", the woman is calling the clump of cells she wants to kill "honey"??
____________

If she didn't vote for lower gas prices, then she would be living the dream in corporate management, making bank and coming home to her cats after yoga class. What could have been.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2022 06:33 PM (fs1hN)

221 3 When Obama was in I knew every period that the numbers were going to be revised down. When Trump was in I often had a hunch that they would be revised up.

I've got that Obama feeling again. Only this time, it looks like they ain't playing. They're going to hid the decline as much as they can.

Posted by: Axeman at July 01, 2022 05:50 PM (krQz2)
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Are they going to 'hide the decline' or will they get a new hockey stick?

Posted by: Phil Jones to Michael Mann at July 01, 2022 06:34 PM (qfLjt)

222 Perhaps Justice Thomas simply doesn't like basketball? I mean, I would rather remove my own gall bladder with a spork than watch a basketball game. Maybe he has a similar dislike of the game.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 01, 2022 06:34 PM (u73oe)

223 After twisting my mind around the Handmaid Tale cartoon, I finally figured it out -- I think. The woman was so concerned about the price of gas, she voted Republican, and the Republicans put all women into Handmaid slavery.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at July 01, 2022 06:34 PM (H31K8)

224 Does this Rex Chapman chap feel all gays have to love show tunes?
The man is a racist. Has he been canceled?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 01, 2022 06:34 PM (iSGuv)

225 Once you learn your smoker's ways, you'll quickly master it. It's like having sex for the first time. 😊
Posted by: Count de Monet

Or exactly the opposite. Took forever to get through the stall with my first brisket.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 01, 2022 06:31 PM (vcv8B)

You've got to have patience to bring it to completion.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2022 06:34 PM (4I/2K)

226 Shorter cartoon: oh mommy, why didn't you murder me in the womb?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:34 PM (llsW/)

227 "what's Hunter's favorite condiment?"
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 01, 2022 06:22 PM (0ocXn)

Chipotle flavored meth.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at July 01, 2022 06:35 PM (MtGJh)

228 i think a more important recommendation is, "Even if you didn't like Top Gun (I didn't), you will like Maverick."
Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:31 PM (B3oWe)

In honesty, the plot of the new one is even thinner and less plausible than the first one but the plane action is way better.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 01, 2022 06:35 PM (yQpMk)

229 223 After twisting my mind around the Handmaid Tale cartoon, I finally figured it out -- I think. The woman was so concerned about the price of gas, she voted Republican, and the Republicans put all women into Handmaid slavery.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at July 01, 2022 06:34 PM (H31K

And the kid wishes she was aborted for some reason.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 06:35 PM (b2nrj)

230 AmishDude got mentioned by Rush Limbaugh once.

Once

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2022 06:35 PM (63Dwl)

231 well apart from one or two very short scenes of cruise missiles being launched and then flying to their target, and then I guess hitting their target, there is no cgi in Maverick. Maybe minor stuff like removing a camera reflection off a cockpit bubble, stuff like that.

as I mentioned, I saw it in IMAX and I was kind of exhausted by it. it's a lot of a lot. I dont' mean exhausted in a bad way, like Man of Steel exhausted people. I just mean, there's a LOT of aerial combat and a lot of stunt flying and rocket-dodging and stuff.

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:35 PM (B3oWe)

232 Erasing Marshall and Thomas is just like how the media erased Cardozo in claiming Sotomayor was the first Hispanic Justice
Maybe the first with an IQ less than one SD below the mean

Posted by: Avi at July 01, 2022 06:36 PM (ziyZS)

233 That thing in the red outfit is despicable. My adjective bank is empty. I'm all out of creative ways to say how effed up things are.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2022 06:36 PM (sVtYq)

234 That 'under'secretay of dirty water, that his real hair? What a peenhead.

Posted by: Eromero at July 01, 2022 06:33 PM (gktX6)

Yeah buddy, that's his own hair.

Posted by: Mark Knopfler at July 01, 2022 06:36 PM (7bRMQ)

235 >>>In honesty, the plot of the new one is even thinner and less plausible than the first one but the plane action is way better.

"What's the mission?"

"Have you seen Star Wars...?"

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:36 PM (B3oWe)

236 And the kid wishes she was aborted for some reason.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 01, 2022 06:35 PM (b2nrj)
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Yeah, the people who agitate for abortion on demand never really seem to consider, "What if your mother felt the same way? You wouldn't be here to complain..."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2022 06:36 PM (K5n5d)

237 One-handed?
Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 06:31 PM (dscaa)

Sure, with some experience you can keep a cold 12 ouncer at the ready in your off hand.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2022 06:36 PM (4I/2K)

238 look, the left can't meme. what is this shit? The future baby is asking to be aborted?

on the plus side, the left is at least acknowledging gas prices. How long until they note every other biden fuckup?

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 01, 2022 06:36 PM (OuH7W)

239 In the picture of Action Jackson Brown's swearing in party, who is the twerp holding the books?

Posted by: kraken at July 01, 2022 06:37 PM (Vr12I)

240 After twisting my mind around the Handmaid Tale cartoon, I finally figured it out -- I think. The woman was so concerned about the price of gas, she voted Republican, and the Republicans put all women into Handmaid slavery.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at July 01, 2022 06:34 PM (H31K

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But Dobbs has been decided before the election so I'm not sure that works. What I am sure of is I don't get it either.

Posted by: bluebell at July 01, 2022 06:37 PM (aeePL)

241 Yeah, Chris. Kind of hard for me to buy into the meme of the left always winning after this week.

Of course they are trying to figure out more bizarre ways to circumvent SCOTUS. They are in the bargaining stage.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 06:37 PM (5p7BC)

242 After accumulating and digesting the news from the week, I can affirm that Biden is one fucked up dude.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 01, 2022 06:37 PM (oWBc3)

243 "Clarence Thomas would last 20-30 seconds in an NBA locker room. "
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Because he's straight?

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 01, 2022 06:37 PM (sWM8x)

244 I particularly liked when Tom Cruise noted that he used to bullseye womp rats in his T-16 back home.

Good call back.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 01, 2022 06:38 PM (yQpMk)

245 When grilling, remember to snap the tongs twice before use. That's the rule.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:38 PM (llsW/)

246 I would think many people of prominence might try and stay out of crowds.

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2022 06:38 PM (2JoB8)

247 Either Mrs. Clean's daddy didn't pay him enough attention or he paid him way, way, way too much attention.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 01, 2022 06:38 PM (BJKQV)

248
I mean, it's so star wars, the young pilot takes the final shot without his targeting computer.

And minutes before he calls for aid from a dead mentor. (Well, from his dad.)

Is no one noticing this?

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:38 PM (B3oWe)

249 >>That thing in the red outfit is despicable. My adjective bank is empty. I'm all out of creative ways to say how effed up things are.

Isn't that EXACTLY why you have Armed Guards at a Federal Facility?

I see that approaching and I am drawing down and issuing warning to back off.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 06:38 PM (Zawz2)

250 The Pima County Democrats are throwing a Fuck the Fourth Party.

https://bit.ly/3bK1ugs

But don't call them unpatriotic.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 01, 2022 06:38 PM (FVME7)

251 243 "Clarence Thomas would last 20-30 seconds in an NBA locker room. "
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the left loves their hate and their violence. memba that cali politician wishing someone would get sent to jail to get buttraped.

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 01, 2022 06:38 PM (OuH7W)

252 241 Yeah, Chris. Kind of hard for me to buy into the meme of the left always winning after this week.

Of course they are trying to figure out more bizarre ways to circumvent SCOTUS. They are in the bargaining stage.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 06:37 PM (5p7BC)

Yeah they lost big time this week. The Republicans have NO lock on Failure Theater.

Posted by: kraken at July 01, 2022 06:38 PM (Vr12I)

253 Of course they are trying to figure out more bizarre ways to circumvent SCOTUS. They are in the bargaining stage.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 06:37 PM (5p7BC)
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Somehow the Left never seems to reach the "acceptance" stage. They just continue to oscillate between anger, bargaining, depression, and denial...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2022 06:38 PM (K5n5d)

254 I hope Ace is feeling better after that mighty venting of a post.

Posted by: exdem13 at July 01, 2022 06:39 PM (W+kMI)

255 Tne Q2 GDP growth is now negative 2.1%.

The roll out of the Liberal World Order is exceeding all expectations. Meritorious accolades and bonus abortions to be awarded soon.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 01, 2022 06:39 PM (mOs5Q)

256 When grilling, remember to snap the tongs twice before use. That's the rule.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:38 PM (llsW/)

Absolutely essential. Bad bbq juju comes to those who fail to do this.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2022 06:39 PM (4I/2K)

257 20 >>YOU will have to make do with lesser, cheaper Stallions for YOUR wives' twisted kinks.

Someone call me?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2022 06:00 PM (ZLI7S)
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No comments from the Paolo?

Posted by: Ciampino - Women are particularly fond of horse-riding ... hmm at July 01, 2022 06:39 PM (qfLjt)

258 but it's good, it's the best Death Star Trench Run since the first one, and maybe better than that one.

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:39 PM (B3oWe)

259 Regarding "Maverick," there was quite a bit more CGI in there than one would initially think. A GoolagTuber by the name of C.W. Lemoine (who's flown commercial airliners, T-38s, F-16s, and F-18s) interviewed one of the VFX guys who worked on the film and he pointed out multiple scenes in which CGI was employed. Unfortunately, that video was removed because the studio lawyers got pissy. Nevertheless, he's made multiple reviews of the movie both with and without spoilers. Overall, he liked the film. Check him out.

https://www.youtube.com/c/CWLemoine/videos

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik [DHS Verdict: MDM] at July 01, 2022 06:39 PM (DTX3h)

260 First Black Justice isn't ignorance of any kind; it's a deliberate insult to Thomas. Brought to you by "the news".

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 06:40 PM (dscaa)

261 look, the left can't meme. what is this shit? The future baby is asking to be aborted?

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 01, 2022 06:36 PM (OuH7W)

Well, with Biden in charge..

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2022 06:40 PM (7bRMQ)

262 That thing in the red outfit is despicable. My adjective bank is empty. I'm all out of creative ways to say how effed up things are.

Isn't that EXACTLY why you have Armed Guards at a Federal Facility?

I see that approaching and I am drawing down and issuing warning to back off.
Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 06:38 PM (Zawz2)
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It's nature's way of saying, "Stay away! Danger!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2022 06:40 PM (K5n5d)

263 what scene? the only scene I thought was plainly cgi, because it had to be, was the scene where they launched all the cruise missiles.

Posted by: ace

Using live rounds is always an option.

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at July 01, 2022 06:40 PM (BJKQV)

264 Is no one noticing this?
Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:38 PM

Shhhhh... We don't talk about the plot of action movies.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 01, 2022 06:40 PM (ftFVW)

265 Assuming the Republicans (spit!) take the House, what SHOULD they do with the Jan 6 committee? Not what they will do (give a sternly worded speech, then nothing), but what they should do.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 01, 2022 06:40 PM (TgBWG)

266 This weekend I have the choice between traveling to see the family for $200 in fuel costs or buying a charcoal grill and smoker.

I'm leaning toward the smoker and beginning the lifetime study of the art of hickory, mesquite and apple-wood.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 01, 2022 06:41 PM (0ocXn)

267 Skip -

Didja get yer new tv ?

Posted by: JT at July 01, 2022 06:41 PM (arJlL)

268 243 "Clarence Thomas would last 20-30 seconds in an NBA locker room. "
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Because he's straight?
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I truly appreciate the Leftist POV that a Black Man who neither plays nor watches basketball is deficient as a member of his race. Why, he probably doesn't eat fried chicken or watermelon!

Posted by: exdem13 at July 01, 2022 06:41 PM (W+kMI)

269 Not what they will do (give a sternly worded speech, then nothing), but what they should do.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 01, 2022 06:40 PM (TgBWG)

Unprintable.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 06:41 PM (dscaa)

270 20 >>YOU will have to make do with lesser, cheaper Stallions for YOUR wives' twisted kinks.

Someone call me?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2022 06:00 PM (ZLI7S)
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No comments from the Paolo?
Posted by: Ciampino - Women are particularly fond of horse-riding ... hmm at July 01, 2022 06:39 PM (qfLjt)
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They can no longer afford The Paolo...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2022 06:41 PM (K5n5d)

271 >>>Regarding "Maverick," there was quite a bit more CGI in there than one would initially think.

hm, yeah, I guess I kind of knew there must be CGI snuck in here or there. But there's mostly real stuff so you're not always on the defensive about some fake elements in the shot.

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:42 PM (B3oWe)

272 Isn't jumanji married to a white guy? Like camel toe.

Posted by: Infidel at July 01, 2022 06:42 PM (r2IDy)

273 First Black Justice isn't ignorance of any kind; it's a deliberate insult to Thomas. Brought to you by "the news".

--

Remember when the AA Museum in DC said it didn't include anything to commemorate or laud Clarence Thomas because, golly, they just ran out of room! Wanna bet Ketanji will be in there by the fall?

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2022 06:42 PM (sVtYq)

274 We are in a recession, headed to a depression, and real depression. Box wine will be in shortage. Biden voters be all like, "you mean orange man was right?" Good times.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 01, 2022 06:42 PM (oWBc3)

275 Captain Josepha Sabin-I think your analysis of the cartoon is correct. I think, though, that cartoons should be easier to understand. Here's a conservative cartoon by A.F. Branco, which we can all understand:

http://tinyurl.com/3nwfvc5t

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2022 06:42 PM (FZ2cV)

276 260 First Black Justice isn't ignorance of any kind; it's a deliberate insult to Thomas. Brought to you by "the news".
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Should someone remind those young twats about Clarence Marshall? Or does he not count since he was from the previous century?

Posted by: exdem13 at July 01, 2022 06:43 PM (W+kMI)

277 Somehow the Left never seems to reach the "acceptance" stage. They just continue to oscillate between anger, bargaining, depression, and denial...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2022 06:38 PM (K5n5d)

They seem to have decided that the Black Knight from Holy Grail is their role model.

"It's only a flesh wound! Have at you!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2022 06:44 PM (trdmm)

278 "also erased Thurgood Marshall from the record.
You know, the guy who successfully argued Brown vs. Board of Ed on his way to actually getting appointed to the Supreme Court."

Has anyone heard of Charles Hamilton Houston?

Pioneering civil rights lawyer, his decades long strategy ended "separate but equal." Valedictorian at Amherst; first Black on the Harvard Law Review.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2022 06:44 PM (i0slg)

279 Ace, thanks for providing us with lots of cruelty, eccentricity, and girthy content this week and have wonderful holiday weekend

Posted by: Hands at July 01, 2022 06:44 PM (786Ro)

280 What of Thurgood Thomas?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 01, 2022 06:44 PM (yQpMk)

281 His strategy was to first attack segregated state-run institutions, especially professional schools. With a long string of wins he then went after ordinary schools. He would have argued Brown but he died the year before at age 54. Thurgood was his protege and he picked up the baton.

It wasn't just nine white guys in robes waking up one day and deciding to do the right thing.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2022 06:44 PM (i0slg)

282 265 Assuming the Republicans (spit!) take the House, what SHOULD they do with the Jan 6 committee? Not what they will do (give a sternly worded speech, then nothing), but what they should do.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 01, 2022

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that goblin pelosi needs to have her freinds and family given the trump treatment. Also, she needs to have all her shizz subpoenad and see how she responds after the hole she dug.

Kamala needs to be subpoenad about her support for rioters.

stuff like that.

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 01, 2022 06:44 PM (OuH7W)

283
So with CGI vs. no CGI, there's a great part in I think Mission Impossible 5 where Tom Cruise is absolutely tearing down this desert highway on a motorcycle. and it's "real."

Now, I think it's real in the sense he's driving on the highway at high speeds. But I'm very sure that the highway is almost entirely empty in real life, and they're adding in traffic for him to weave around and avoid via CGI.

So sometimes the "CGI or Not?" question is tricky.

But: To me, if you're doing the main thing without CGI, that's what's most important. That makes it look and feel real. Whether the cars you're driving around or real is much less important to the feeling of reality.

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:44 PM (B3oWe)

284 And the reason they announce Thomas will "end interracial marriage" is to get *us* to respond that he's married to a white woman, to bring some "knowledge" to their loyal base of voters.

The Left can't be the ones to say he's married to a white woman so they get us to do it.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 06:44 PM (dscaa)

285 I'm leaning toward the smoker and beginning the lifetime study of the art of hickory, mesquite and apple-wood.

Get the smoker and skype the family

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:45 PM (llsW/)

286 Should someone remind those young twats about Clarence Marshall? Or does he not count since he was from the previous century?
Posted by: exdem13

I thought that was George Thorogood

Posted by: Miklos, ready to rock at July 01, 2022 06:45 PM (thbCK)

287 what scene? the only scene I thought was plainly cgi, because it had to be, was the scene where they launched all the cruise missiles.

Posted by: ace

Critical Drinker pointed out recently that the best use of CGI is really just to *enhance* the practical effects to make them look better. Or to use them when there is no other option available.

Unfortunately, they are so overused that they can completely overshadow the story or destroy the willing suspension of disbelief that makes the story possible (e.g., The Hobbit trilogy)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2022 06:45 PM (K5n5d)

288 273 First Black Justice isn't ignorance of any kind; it's a deliberate insult to Thomas. Brought to you by "the news".

I understand their confusion.. Is she a woman ? I mean she doesn't seem to know so they couldn't say first black woman SCOTUS

Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2022 06:45 PM (bs+z0)

289 Here's one for the animal thread. Competition for Horseman Johnson: Texas Man who had Sex with Horse Jailed for 10 Years.

Spoiler alert He doesn't have a Texan sounding name.

http://tinyurl.com/bhezanfu

Posted by: Marcus T at July 01, 2022 06:45 PM (voHIS)

290 Perhaps as weird as having tranny purchasing maxi pads is having cartoon for little kids involving shopping for maxi pads and tampons.

I went my entire youth without seeing a cartoon involving tampon shopping.

Though I will admit, the idea of what feminine hygiene products Wile E. Coyote might purchase from ACME is intriguing.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 01, 2022 06:45 PM (NSWcw)

291 274 We are in a recession, headed to a depression, and real depression. Box wine will be in shortage. Biden voters be all like, "you mean orange man was right?" Good times.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 01, 2022 06:42 PM (oWBc3)

I've never seen a recession in my life, including Carters, start off with such a horrendous drop as Q1 and Q2 are now showing. This feels like we just went over the Big Hill on the roller coaster.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2022 06:45 PM (trdmm)

292 Here's a conservative cartoon by A.F. Branco, which we can all understand:
_____

Fine details - Squinty Joe has a sippy cup

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2022 06:46 PM (fs1hN)

293 Ace, thanks for providing us with lots of cruelty, eccentricity, and girthy content this week and have wonderful holiday weekend

Posted by: Hands at July 01, 2022 06:44 PM (786Ro)

The cruel bastard even found a way to work in certain pictures.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 06:46 PM (dscaa)

294 PSA: BOLO from the Toronto Police

http://tiny.cc/515tuz

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 01, 2022 06:46 PM (mOs5Q)

295 Assuming the Republicans (spit!) take the House, what SHOULD they do with the Jan 6 committee? Not what they will do (give a sternly worded speech, then nothing), but what they should do.

Charge them with insurrection and have them banned from holding office under the 14th Amendment rule. For a start.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 01, 2022 06:46 PM (Bd6X8)

296 No, but there were lots of Huge tvs being installed where I was working today. 85 inch many of them.

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2022 06:46 PM (2JoB8)

297 So the Quintana LNG plant in Houston that caught fire a couple of weeks ago? The junta will not let it be repaired or reopened. They want a few months to evaluate it. This is the second largest LNG plant in the country. Like baby food, like fuel.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 01, 2022 06:46 PM (18YaE)

298 George Thorogood And The Destroyers > Thorogood Marshall

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 01, 2022 06:46 PM (R/m4+)

299 Oh, I saw that it was Star Wars as soon as they showed the approach trench video. But I just accepted and moved on. Just because it is a reuse of that plot doesn't make the plot a bad one.

I liked the last scene in the movie, that was what surprised me.

[spoilers omitted]

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 06:46 PM (5p7BC)

300 "what SHOULD they do with the Jan 6 committee?"

investigate the actual election theft/fraud, which fraud is an existential threat to our liberty/sovereignty?

Impeach the prezzie for serving a new world order, not fulfilling his oath to USA?

Investigate the assets FBI had in place for the 1/6 PsyOp, ... who opened the solid doors, who took down the barricades, and so forth.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2022 06:47 PM (Cus5s)

301 250 The Pima County Democrats are throwing a Fuck the Fourth Party.
https://bit.ly/3bK1ugs
But don't call them unpatriotic.
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It's that sort of commentary from the Left that makes me think sometimes that Pinochet had the right idea after all.

Posted by: exdem13 at July 01, 2022 06:47 PM (W+kMI)

302 289 Here's one for the animal thread. Competition for Horseman Johnson: Texas Man who had Sex with Horse Jailed for 10 Years.

Spoiler alert He doesn't have a Texan sounding name.

http://tinyurl.com/bhezanfu
Posted by: Marcus T at July 01, 2022 06:45 PM (voHIS)

Fauci had convinced him to quit with the monkeys.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2022 06:47 PM (trdmm)

303 I understand their confusion.. Is she a woman ? I mean she doesn't seem to know so they couldn't say first black woman SCOTUS

Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2022 06:45 PM (bs+z0)

Hmm. That is a typically trenchant observation, donna.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 06:47 PM (dscaa)

304
I truly appreciate the Leftist POV that a Black Man who neither plays nor watches basketball is deficient as a member of his race. Why, he probably doesn't eat fried chicken or watermelon!
Posted by: exdem13

Do he sing de Camptown Ladies?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2022 06:47 PM (63Dwl)

305 42 >>>Emergency surgery to remove his appendix led to him developing an addiction to OxyContin, a highly potent painkiller Chapman described as 'synthetic heroin'.

Oh FFS. I imagine a surgery involves some pain.

I am pretty sure cracked a rib from a fall. You know what I did? I got up and suffered for a month while it healed.

Pansy blew through $50 million on OxyContin after an appendectomy?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 01, 2022 06:05 PM (nByzo)
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Also Mr Pansy ex-BB player, Oxycontin is a synthetic opioid but not heroin. Meanwhile heroin is synthetic and made from morphine by acetylation.

Posted by: Ciampino - I hate it when they get Chemistry wrong at July 01, 2022 06:47 PM (qfLjt)

306 It's like racist and stuff to say there's a recession under the first black President's Vice President, okay?

Posted by: Properly Educated Illennial Jane, Who Pays Attention at July 01, 2022 06:47 PM (TKZuJ)

307 They seem to have decided that the Black Knight from Holy Grail is their role model.

"It's only a flesh wound! Have at you!!!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2022 06:44 PM (trdmm)
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At least he called it a draw in the end...The Left never will.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2022 06:47 PM (K5n5d)

308 I'm leaning toward the smoker and beginning the lifetime study of the art of hickory, mesquite and apple-wood.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 01, 2022 06:41 PM

Don't forget pecan, alder, oak, cherry, and peach woods.

You want to pair your wood with the food.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2022 06:47 PM (a3Q+t)

309 Do I have to keep and care for a handmaid now? Seems kind of expensive.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 01, 2022 06:47 PM (u73oe)

310 Mad Max Fury Road had limited CGI.

Raid 1 and Raid 2 had none -- best action movies ever.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2022 06:47 PM (i0slg)

311 289 Here's one for the animal thread. Competition for Horseman Johnson: Texas Man who had Sex with Horse Jailed for 10 Years.

Spoiler alert He doesn't have a Texan sounding name.

________________

Horse was quoted as saying "I didn't feel a thing"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2022 06:48 PM (fs1hN)

312 dave i deleted the spoiler

i know i was talking about the trench run but that was telegraphed from the first mission briefing.

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:48 PM (B3oWe)

313
I'm prolly gonna call my leftist sister in the next couple of days. I'm uncertain what phrase I can slip in to piss her off the most.

I'm leaning toward 'the Trump Court' but open to suggestions. The cruel factor should be set to 'intense'.

Posted by: The DNC at July 01, 2022 06:48 PM (dQvv7)

314 and I guess I did talk about him firing without the computer

but I think the ending should be saved

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:48 PM (B3oWe)

315 Top Gun Maverick was loaded with CGI. I barely noticed Cruise's Scientology.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 01, 2022 06:48 PM (mOs5Q)

316 maverick probably has more reason for a trench run than Star Wars did LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:49 PM (llsW/)

317 [come on spoilers]

Where did 5th Gen fighter come from?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 01, 2022 06:49 PM (yQpMk)

318 or destroy the willing suspension of disbelief that makes the story possible (e.g., The Hobbit trilogy)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2022 06:45 PM

Yes! That always bothered me after they seemed to spend so much effort on Lord of the Rings to mix legacy special effects with CGI to avoid that jarring "this was done using software" vibe.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 01, 2022 06:49 PM (ftFVW)

319 >>Yeah they lost big time this week. The Republicans have NO lock on Failure Theater.

This past week wasn't so much failure theater as it was a long overdue political realignment. For decades we have been fighting against a rigged game against an unelected bureaucracy and a SC that enabled them and also made up law out of thin air. This past week was a major signal that is coming to an end at least for the foreseeable future.

Dobbs was a huge decision in its own right but it signaled a much more ominous future for the left. The Court is going to decide cases based on the Constitution not on the whims of the leftist mob. The EPA decision and the gun rights decision were along the same lines.

The left is very worried and they should be.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2022 06:49 PM (ZLI7S)

320 plainly cgi, because it had to be, was the scene where they launched all the cruise missiles.

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You've heard about the mystery rocket that crashed into the moon?

https://bit.ly/3OEQmjA

OK, so I was celebrating the Fourth a little early and . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 01, 2022 06:49 PM (FVME7)

321 California just added a three cent per gallon tax. LOL. Ok.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

How long has it been 3cent increase? 3 days? 4 days?

Posted by: COVID Gary at July 01, 2022 06:49 PM (3PO9b)

322 Try To Relax Your Anus!

Posted by: Jean Marie Bugoma, Horse Whisperer at July 01, 2022 06:49 PM (R/m4+)

323 Assuming the Republicans (spit!) take the House, what SHOULD they do with the Jan 6 committee? Not what they will do (give a sternly worded speech, then nothing), but what they should do.

What they should do: Pull all funding for the District of Columbia in its entirety until the hostages are released.

What they will do: Have Dan Crenshaw award an honorary Eyepatch of Freedom on the House floor to the cops that shot and kicked protesters to death.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 01, 2022 06:49 PM (NSWcw)

324 Miklos !

Posted by: JT at July 01, 2022 06:49 PM (arJlL)

325 286 Should someone remind those young twats about Clarence Marshall? Or does he not count since he was from the previous century?
Posted by: exdem13

I thought that was George Thorogood
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Sorry, it was "George" Thoroughgood Marshall, whose pre-appointment work on "Brown versus Board of Education" seems not to ring a bell with supposed university graduates these days.

Posted by: exdem13 at July 01, 2022 06:49 PM (W+kMI)

326 So I think the Huskies will end up in the Big 12 and Wazoo will become the star of some mountain-y conference.

Posted by: LASue at July 01, 2022 06:26 PM (Ed8Zd)

Is Diogenes not around? I expectied a fast and lethal response from him!

Posted by: LASue at July 01, 2022 06:50 PM (Ed8Zd)

327 Perfesser - I told the story earlier today of two leftist teachers I saw who have moved to acceptance.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 06:50 PM (5p7BC)

328 I would put up a cartoon by Michael Ramirez whose cartoons I generally like, but the latest one is a real disappointment. He shows Cassidy Hutchinson as having a backbone and Republicans not holding Trump accountable.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2022 06:50 PM (FZ2cV)

329 On a Smart Military Blog ... = "S"

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at July 01, 2022 06:50 PM (BJKQV)

330 NY State and the pretend governor just gave the finger to SCOTUS. NYSRPA is going to seek an expedited review of the joke the legislature just passed.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 01, 2022 06:51 PM (voHIS)

331 >>>318 or destroy the willing suspension of disbelief that makes the story possible (e.g., The Hobbit trilogy)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2022 06:45 PM

Yes! That always bothered me after they seemed to spend so much effort on Lord of the Rings to mix legacy special effects with CGI to avoid that jarring "this was done using software" vibe.

...

I think they did that in The Hobbit because they were delays in production and weren't really ready to film so they figured, "We'll just film in front of greenscreens and then work out all the backgrounds and character models in postproduction."

Terrible idea.

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:51 PM (B3oWe)

332 You've heard about the mystery rocket that crashed into the moon?

https://bit.ly/3OEQmjA

OK, so I was celebrating the Fourth a little early and . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 01, 2022 06:49 PM

Dark side of the moon? it's gotta be nazi's.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 01, 2022 06:52 PM (bVYXr)

333 328 I would put up a cartoon by Michael Ramirez whose cartoons I generally like, but the latest one is a real disappointment. He shows Cassidy Hutchinson as having a backbone and Republicans not holding Trump accountable.
________

Takes a backbone to brazenly spout ridiculous hearsay I guess. WTF Ramirez?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2022 06:52 PM (fs1hN)

334 38 >>>they said the vaccines were made from stem-cell lines cultivated from aborted children, which is, what's the word for this, "true."
Not quite. The stem-cell lines being referenced were used for testing purposes during development. So, the vaccines were not "made" from that, but they were tested against them.

Still objectionable.
Posted by: No Name Today

Objection! Either the Moderna or JJ vaccine were PRODUCED as in grown in the fetal cell cultures. It was not possible to filter out all of the fetal cell parts from the final product.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 01, 2022 06:52 PM (JDZoL)

335 [come on spoilers]

Oops. Delete that then.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 01, 2022 06:52 PM (yQpMk)

336 Perfesser - I told the story earlier today of two leftist teachers I saw who have moved to acceptance.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 06:50 PM (5p7BC)
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It's a start...However, there are so many Leftists wrapped in the identity of BEING a Leftist that they will almost never accept anything less than perfect Leftism. It's a death cult, remember.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2022 06:52 PM (K5n5d)

337 The Hobbit was all about the producers trying to milk as much money as possible out of a franchise, and every single decision made was exclusively driven by that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:53 PM (llsW/)

338 Sorry ace - I was trying hard to not put a spoiler out. But hard to talk about that last scene spoiler free.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 06:53 PM (5p7BC)

339 New York's law cannot pass an equal protection review. Hochul can't have more protection under the 2A than a normal. These people are ridiculous, but we are living Isaiah 19:2.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 01, 2022 06:53 PM (oWBc3)

340 Two questions for anyone in the know:

a) Is there reader/posting software for this site suitable for a desktop computer?

b) If so, where might I find it?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2022 06:53 PM (nRMeC)

341 No, but there were lots of Huge tvs being installed where I was working today. 85 inch many of them.
Posted by: Skip

Ya couldn't take one home for a test drive ?

Posted by: JT at July 01, 2022 06:54 PM (arJlL)

342 62 Jessica the comic definitely has a face made for radio.

Posted by: Ron at July 01, 2022 06:08 PM (AtKtr)
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That's a winner right there.
Well played Sir.

Posted by: Ciampino - That's like a Goonshow line at July 01, 2022 06:54 PM (qfLjt)

343 i'm a huge fan of The Hobbit (the book) and am really disappointed at what a horrible job they did on the three bloated movies.

There's a cut called "The Cardinal Cut" which can be dowloaded that cuts out all the padding and stuff that's not in the actual book and the long boring CGI "action" and gets it down to something like 2:40... I don't know how much better that makes it, because even the stuff from the books looks bad.

Yeah, the Smaug stuff was good but it *looks* so bad.

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:54 PM (B3oWe)

344 I would put up a cartoon by Michael Ramirez whose cartoons I generally like, but the latest one is a real disappointment. He shows Cassidy Hutchinson as having a backbone and Republicans not holding Trump accountable.

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Wow...that is really disappointing.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2022 06:54 PM (sVtYq)

345 Has sufficient time past for Santa Fe County Prosecutor to drop the case against Alec Baldwin on the grounds he hasn't berated, beat, or shot anyone for 30 days straight?

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 01, 2022 06:54 PM (mOs5Q)

346 George Thorogood And The Destroyers > Thorogood Marshall
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Justice George Thorogood: The Court holds one shot, one bourbon, one beer!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 01, 2022 06:55 PM (FVME7)

347 I think they did that in The Hobbit because they were delays in production and ... Terrible idea.

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:51 PM

Understandable if that was the case. I feel like I had to wait almost all of my teen years between hearing that LotR was coming and actually seeing the first movie on the big screen.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 01, 2022 06:55 PM (ftFVW)

348 a) Is there reader/posting software for this site suitable for a desktop computer?

b) If so, where might I find it?

Posted by: Grumpy

There is a comment box at the bottom of the page. Type in what you want to say and click "post"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 01, 2022 06:55 PM (JDZoL)

349 283 But: To me, if you're doing the main thing without CGI, that's what's most important. That makes it look and feel real. Whether the cars you're driving around or real is much less important to the feeling of reality.
Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:44 PM (B3oWe)

Absolutely. A lot of the CG work was either compositing/duplication of actual flight footage and small details (e.g., re-coloring of fuel tanks). Some, of course, was created out of whole cloth. But, they apparently did an excellent job of blending it all together.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik [DHS Verdict: MDM] at July 01, 2022 06:55 PM (DTX3h)

350 Perhaps Justice Thomas simply doesn't like basketball? I mean, I would rather remove my own gall bladder with a spork than watch a basketball game. Maybe he has a similar dislike of the game.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 01, 2022 06:34 PM

Can we play this game for everything? So we know this is apparently the narrative:

"He's not a real Black person, because he doesn't watch NBA basketball."

So it would follow that...

"He's not a real Latino, because he doesn't watch [insert 'real Latino' sport here]."
"He's not a real white person, because he doesn't watch [insert 'real white person' sport here]."
"She's not a real lesbian, because she doesn't watch WNBA."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2022 06:55 PM (Do5/p)

351 >>>There's a cut called "The Cardinal Cut" which can be dowloaded

Illegally downloaded, I should clarify.

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:56 PM (B3oWe)

352 George Thorogood And The Destroyers > Thorogood Marshall
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

E Chord > George Thorogood And The Destroyers

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 01, 2022 06:56 PM (mOs5Q)

353 I'm prolly gonna call my leftist sister in the next couple of days. I'm uncertain what phrase I can slip in to piss her off the most.

I'm leaning toward 'the Trump Court' but open to suggestions. The cruel factor should be set to 'intense'.
Posted by: The DNC

tell her you're sending her a bolt of red sack cloth and a spool of thread with a needle so she can make her own handmaid LARP costume to go with the Trump SCOTUS.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at July 01, 2022 06:56 PM (UgAdJ)

354 We have inflation from having printed a bazillion dollars. Note that much of this money was stolen in various ways.

This was compounded by a self-inflicted oil price shock and our strangling supply chains. This reveresed years of gains in real efficiencies.

The Fed can't raise too much it will go balance sheet broke, which would be an amazing achievement actually.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2022 06:56 PM (i0slg)

355 I was going to thank you for not posting the "Ladies from The View on Vacay" picture. Then I saw the picture of that strange Batman villain who some numbnuts put in charge of nuclear waste, so thanks withdrawn.

Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 06:56 PM (2hil/)

356 265 Assuming the Republicans (spit!) take the House, what SHOULD they do with the Jan 6 committee? Not what they will do (give a sternly worded speech, then nothing), but what they should do.
Posted by: Eeyore

The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters."
The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has.
- Genghis Khan

Something like this?

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 01, 2022 06:56 PM (sAmhv)

357 There's a cut called "The Cardinal Cut" which can be dowloaded that cuts out all the padding and stuff that's not in the actual book and the long boring CGI "action" and gets it down to something like 2:40... I don't know how much better that makes it, because even the stuff from the books looks bad.

I watched that version. Its still over long and has a bunch of stupid added crap to it, but they tried to cut out the worst excesses. I mean it sucks less?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:57 PM (llsW/)

358 Cat Ass Trophy at July 01, 2022 06:52

"Objection! Either the Moderna or JJ vaccine were PRODUCED as in grown in the fetal cell cultures. It was not possible to filter out all of the fetal cell parts from the final product."

It never occurred to me to ask at the time. I naively believed that getting the JJ vaccine would help to return to normal, in-person school.

I refuse to get boosted now that I know.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at July 01, 2022 06:57 PM (REJkJ)

359 If Clarence Thomas is not a real black person because he doesn't go to basketball games, am I not a real white person because I don't go to tennis matches or the Americas Cup sailing race?

Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 06:57 PM (2hil/)

360 I saw that first LotR movie back in the 70s. IIRC, it ended at the Ford of Bruinen.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 01, 2022 06:57 PM (yQpMk)

361 The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has.
- Genghis Khan
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This does seem to be the MO of the Left...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2022 06:57 PM (K5n5d)

362 >>>I watched that version. Its still over long and has a bunch of stupid added crap to it, but they tried to cut out the worst excesses. I mean it sucks less?

that's why I didn't bother, I figured that. You can't edit a loose bowl movement solid.

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:57 PM (B3oWe)

363 330 NY State and the pretend governor just gave the finger to SCOTUS. NYSRPA is going to seek an expedited review of the joke the legislature just passed.
+++++++
After all these years, the Democrats have returned to their Jacksonian roots, by daring to boldly disregard Supreme Court rulings that they have no desire to respect or enforce.

Posted by: exdem13 at July 01, 2022 06:57 PM (W+kMI)

364 Who can afford a handmaiden in this economy??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 06:58 PM (llsW/)

365 Wow...that is really disappointing.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2022 06:54 PM (sVtYq)

Like many, Ramirez went off the rails in 2016. I don't pay attention to the dummy.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2022 06:58 PM (dscaa)

366 CGI isn't a deal killer for movies, it just has to be applied appropriately, kind of like spice for cooking. Too little or too much and you'll notice that things are off but there's a "just enough" spot where it improves things and brings out the flavour without calling attention to itself.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2022 06:59 PM (nRMeC)

367 I'm petty sure The Return of the King is still ending.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at July 01, 2022 06:59 PM (QYPq3)

368 149 New York City is going to mandate all kids get the covid shot in order to attend school this fall. This is pure madness.

https://bit.ly/3OIef9R
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2022 06:21 PM (Do5/p)

I guess it really sucks to live in NYC. Oh well.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2022 06:59 PM (Qhnrt)

369 The members of the J6 committee should be removed from all normal House committee assignments on day 1 of the GOP majority. Make Schiff and Lofgren and Ruskin office in the restrooms Ala Walking Tall. And they should send a suitable gift basket to Liz and Adam - who won't be there.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 01, 2022 06:59 PM (oWBc3)

370 If there's a place in NYC you need to conceal carry for personal protection it's the subways, FFS

Yes we'll get a few Bernie Goetz's knocking off a few Orcs, but that's what's needed.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2022 06:59 PM (i0slg)

371 am I not a real white person because I don't go to tennis matches or the Americas Cup sailing race?
Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 06:57 PM (2hil/)

Nah. The left believes that whites are capable of thinking for themselves.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 01, 2022 06:59 PM (BJKQV)

372 No, but there were lots of Huge tvs being installed where I was working today. 85 inch many of them.
Posted by: Skip

Ya couldn't take one home for a test drive ?

There was once a company that got bought by the people I was working for. They were laying off a big chunk of their workforce and many monitors were unused. I jokingly asked the onsite guy to ship a couple to me at my work address. He actually got kind of angry when he said no.

Turns out he was selling them on eBay without the knowledge of the old or new bosses.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 01, 2022 06:59 PM (Bd6X8)

373 Eh,I like all the Jackson offerings on Tolkien's work. Tolkien's book are so detailed and erudite that converting them to film is ultimately not - possible- really. Each movie of the Rings trilogy would need to be ten or fifteen hours long. The detail in the books is DENSE.

Posted by: kraken at July 01, 2022 06:59 PM (Vr12I)

374 Like many, Ramirez went off the rails in 2016. I don't pay attention to the dummy.

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Somehow that escaped me. I didn't know he was a NT.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2022 06:59 PM (sVtYq)

375 that's why I didn't bother, I figured that. You can't edit a loose bowl movement solid.
Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:57 PM (B3oWe)
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At the risk of grossing out the Horde, you CAN edit loose stools while they are still inside your bowels to be more "solid." I take a medication explicitly for that purpose...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2022 07:00 PM (K5n5d)

376 There's a cut called "The Cardinal Cut" which can be dowloaded that cuts out all the padding and stuff that's not in the actual book and the long boring CGI "action" and gets it down to something like 2:40...

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:54 PM

Yeah, my folks had the cartoon Hobbit from the '70s that I watched a lot as a kid before reading the book. If I want to watch the Hobbit, I go for that before reaching to the recent Peter Jackson trilogy.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 01, 2022 07:00 PM (ftFVW)

377 It looked like it was gonna rain here and now the sun's out !

Posted by: JT at July 01, 2022 07:00 PM (arJlL)

378 A Texas man who admitted to having sex with a horse and sexually assaulting several others has been jailed for a decade.

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Serial horse rapist.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 01, 2022 07:01 PM (FVME7)

379 Assuming the Republicans (spit!) take the House, what SHOULD they do with the Jan 6 committee? Not what they will do (give a sternly worded speech, then nothing), but what they should do.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 01, 2022 PM

They *should* settle all family business.

They *will* take two in the hat and sleep with the fishes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2022 07:01 PM (RkC6l)

380 JT did you see Bad Blue?
http://tinyurl.com/yxwhkhj6

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2022 07:01 PM (2JoB8)

381 What's ironic is Obama is not black because of the way he plays basketball.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 07:01 PM (iTCtr)

382 I predict that New York law will be enjoined by the 2nd Circuit before the end of August.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 07:01 PM (5p7BC)

383 373 Eh,I like all the Jackson offerings on Tolkien's work. Tolkien's book are so detailed and erudite that converting them to film is ultimately not - possible- really. Each movie of the Rings trilogy would need to be ten or fifteen hours long. The detail in the books is DENSE.
Posted by: kraken at July 01, 2022 06:59 PM (Vr12I)

Granted. And I can certainly understand not filming the Tom Bombadil part; it's probably unfilmable. But Return of the King ending with a slideshow instead of one of the great parts of the book, The Scouring of the Shire, is hard to forgive.

Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 07:01 PM (2hil/)

384 Seems Uke officials and their wives are not just buying lavish homes, they're carrying US dollars in suitcases . Sorry, but I don't stand with Ukraine, corrupt goniffs

Posted by: CN at July 01, 2022 07:01 PM (ONvIw)

385 348 a) Is there reader/posting software for this site suitable for a desktop computer?

b) If so, where might I find it?

Posted by: Grumpy

There is a comment box at the bottom of the page. Type in what you want to say and click "post"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 01, 2022 06:55 PM (JDZoL)
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Well he must have done that to post his question in the first place. I wonder if he thinks he can be an AoSQ blogger?

Posted by: Ciampino - I think he means something else at July 01, 2022 07:02 PM (qfLjt)

386 359 If Clarence Thomas is not a real black person because he doesn't go to basketball games, am I not a real white person because I don't go to tennis matches or the Americas Cup sailing race?
Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 06:57 PM (2hil/)

You don't?! Are you Mexican or something?

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2022 07:02 PM (Qhnrt)

387 The trimmed down Hobbit still has the extended goldberg device molten metal sequence in the mines, it still has the pointless bunny sleigh sequence, it has the "mentioned in the book but not shown" fight with the Necromancer with all the wizards, it still has the stupid "legolas jumping on barrels killing orcs" sequence.

I mean I like Peter Jackson's passion to make these films but a lot of these sins lie at his feet too. He butchered the Two Towers, and the studios forced him to cut absolutely crap scenes like the "skull avalanche" bit in the Return of the King. All this stuff is obviously meant for a ride in some amusement park.

The only time anyone pulled that off well was the Mine sequence in Temple of Doom.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 07:03 PM (llsW/)

388 Interior proposes offshore drilling plan that would allow up to 11 leases (over 5 years). It is almost like the FJB is trying to bring down gasoline prices. Almost.

http://tiny.cc/f15tuz

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 01, 2022 07:03 PM (mOs5Q)

389 I haven't been around all day so don't know if it's been mentioned but I started watching The Terminal List last night on Prime. Chris Pratt is very very good in the role which mirrors the book pretty well. Highly recommended.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 01, 2022 07:03 PM (Y+l9t)

390 Eh,I like all the Jackson offerings on Tolkien's work. Tolkien's book are so detailed and erudite that converting them to film is ultimately not - possible- really. Each movie of the Rings trilogy would need to be ten or fifteen hours long. The detail in the books is DENSE.
Posted by: kraken at July 01, 2022 06:59 PM (Vr12I)
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I'll disagree somewhat. There are scenes in the books that can be trimmed out. Tom Bombadil is a great character, but ultimately doesn't play much of a key role in the quest (other than rescuing the hobbits early in their adventures).

As for the details, a lot of it is prose describing the world they travel through. For all of the faults of the movies, I don't think anyone can deny that Jackson masterfully captured the spirt of Middle Earth in his cinematography. A still frame of that movie is easily worth a thousand words.

Three hours or so per movie would be about right, I think, with proper editing and trimming (and NOT adding any of the extra material that Jackson threw in there).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2022 07:03 PM (K5n5d)

391 351 >>>There's a cut called "The Cardinal Cut" which can be dowloaded

Illegally downloaded, I should clarify.
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After the past ten years, that legal quandry holds little fear for many. Hollywood has earned the fan edit and the black flagged download.

Posted by: exdem13 at July 01, 2022 07:04 PM (W+kMI)

392 Somehow that escaped me. I didn't know he was a NT.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2022 06:59 PM (sVtYq)
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I didn't either. Disappointing.

Did we ever come to a consensus on what that Handmaid Tale cartoon really means?

Posted by: bluebell at July 01, 2022 07:04 PM (aeePL)

393 388 Interior proposes offshore drilling plan that would allow up to 11 leases (over 5 years). It is almost like the FJB is trying to bring down gasoline prices. Almost.

Nov. elections

Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2022 07:04 PM (bs+z0)

394 I would put up a cartoon by Michael Ramirez whose cartoons I generally like, but the latest one is a real disappointment. He shows Cassidy Hutchinson as having a backbone and Republicans not holding Trump accountable.

The latest one I see from him is from yesterday. And it's about the 53 dead illegal aliens. Is there a new one for today somewhere? I see nothing for today on his Twitter or on his website.

https://bit.ly/3R3UZ8w

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2022 07:04 PM (Do5/p)

395 378 A Texas man who admitted to having sex with a horse and sexually assaulting several others has been jailed for a decade.

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Serial horse rapist.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 01, 2022 07:01 PM (FVME7)
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Good to see he was reined in.

Posted by: Ciampino - I think he means soneigh if you've got themmething else at July 01, 2022 07:04 PM (qfLjt)

396 386 359 If Clarence Thomas is not a real black person because he doesn't go to basketball games, am I not a real white person because I don't go to tennis matches or the Americas Cup sailing race?
Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 06:57 PM (2hil/)

You don't?! Are you Mexican or something?
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2022 07:02 PM (Qhnrt)

Maybe? I do like street tacos, even the exotic ones. But I also like some mayo on my turkey sandwiches. So maybe a mixed breed.

Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 07:05 PM (2hil/)

397 Biliie Jo,
Betty Jo,
Or Bobbie Jo?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 01, 2022 07:05 PM (rzOL9)

398 383

Granted. And I can certainly understand not filming the Tom Bombadil part; it's probably unfilmable. But Return of the King ending with a slideshow instead of one of the great parts of the book, The Scouring of the Shire, is hard to forgive.
Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 07:01 PM (2hil/)

Agreed. He blew that. My other major beef is inserting the fightin' She Elf, which is shameless PC bullshit. Although, Evangeline Lilley is quite fetching.

Posted by: kraken at July 01, 2022 07:05 PM (Vr12I)

399 395 378 A Texas man who admitted to having sex with a horse and sexually assaulting several others has been jailed for a decade.

-
Serial horse rapist.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 01, 2022 07:01 PM (FVME7)
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Good to see he was reined in.
Posted by: Ciampino - I think he means soneigh if you've got themmething else at July 01, 2022 07:04 PM (qfLjt)

Did he have unbridled sex with those horses?

Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 07:05 PM (2hil/)

400 The only time anyone pulled that off well was the Mine sequence in Temple of Doom.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 07:03 PM (llsW/)
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An excellent use of practical effects!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2022 07:05 PM (K5n5d)

401 I'm petty sure The Return of the King is still ending.

But there's no time to do the scouring of the shire!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 07:06 PM (llsW/)

402 The Old Man is pretty good but I knew they would put something stupid in it plus a wave to the woke people.

Took four episodes but they did.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 07:06 PM (iTCtr)

403 Lord of the Rings story can start in Rivendell as far as I am concerned. The first book is tedious.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 07:06 PM (5p7BC)

404 Pretty sure dude went bare back with the horse

Posted by: NCKate at July 01, 2022 07:07 PM (2oJif)

405 Thanks Skip !

Posted by: JT at July 01, 2022 07:07 PM (arJlL)

406 384 Seems Uke officials and their wives are not just buying lavish homes, they're carrying US dollars in suitcases . Sorry, but I don't stand with Ukraine, corrupt goniffs
Posted by: CN at July 01, 2022 07:01 PM (ONvIw

As I've said, there are no good guys in the Russia/Ukraine war. And that includes DC.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2022 07:08 PM (Qhnrt)

407 They could have cut Jackson's cameos, too.

Posted by: kraken at July 01, 2022 07:08 PM (Vr12I)

408 >> Lord of the Rings story can start in Rivendell as far as I am concerned. The first book is tedious.

Well. You can go fuck yourself.

Posted by: Tom Bombadil at July 01, 2022 07:08 PM (Zawz2)

409 >>>Pretty sure dude went bare back with the horse

Posted by: NCKate at July 01, 2022 07:07 PM (2oJif)

Brokeback Mounting

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at July 01, 2022 07:08 PM (QYPq3)

410 404 Pretty sure dude went bare back with the horse
Posted by: NCKate at July 01, 2022 07:07 PM (2oJif)

And now he has been saddled with a long jail term.

Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 07:09 PM (2hil/)

411 408 >> Lord of the Rings story can start in Rivendell as far as I am concerned. The first book is tedious.

Well. You can go fuck yourself.
Posted by: Tom Bombadil at July 01, 2022 07:08 PM (Zawz2)

Lol.

Posted by: kraken at July 01, 2022 07:09 PM (Vr12I)

412 Lord of the Rings story can start in Rivendell as far as I am concerned. The first book is tedious.

It is really important in the overall history of the books to help establish the hobbits and the setting, but yeah. Its slow and very different in tone from the rest of the story. It only really gets going from that point on.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 07:09 PM (llsW/)

413 Under no circumstances volunteer to play "Hide the Isotope".

Posted by: DaveA at July 01, 2022 07:09 PM (FhXTo)

414 403 Lord of the Rings story can start in Rivendell as far as I am concerned. The first book is tedious.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 07:06 PM (5p7BC)

...I can't look at you right now.

Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 07:09 PM (2hil/)

415 373 Eh,I like all the Jackson offerings on Tolkien's work. Tolkien's book are so detailed and erudite that converting them to film is ultimately not - possible- really. Each movie of the Rings trilogy would need to be ten or fifteen hours long. The detail in the books is DENSE.
Posted by: kraken

Yep. Same with Dune.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 01, 2022 07:09 PM (sAmhv)

416 NY's quickie anti-gun legislation requires a review of your social media accounts and an in-person interview.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2022 07:09 PM (i0slg)

417 378 A Texas man who admitted to having sex with a horse and sexually assaulting several others has been jailed for a decade.
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Did he mount the horses or was he just performing a service?
Is he stable?

Posted by: Ciampino - Is unstable when you lead the horse out of the stable? at July 01, 2022 07:10 PM (qfLjt)

418 NY State Gun Law Restrictions (from NY Times): "locations where guns would be banned: health care facilities; houses of worship; colleges and universities; places where children gather, such as schools, day care centers, playgrounds, parks and zoos; public transportation; places where alcohol or cannabis is consumed; and theaters, concerts, casinos and other entertainment venues. Lawmakers also moved to ban weapons at protests or places where people have congregated to express their rights to free speech."

"The gun bill adds new requirements for New Yorkers to receive a concealed carry permit, including 16 hours of training on how to handle a handgun, two hours of firing range training, an in-person interview and a written exam, as well as a review of social media accounts."

Glad to see NY State is complying with the SCOTUS ruling. About the only place you can carry a firearm is in your house or where the Mafia buries the bodies those that get whacked.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 01, 2022 07:10 PM (mOs5Q)

419 >>...I can't look at you right now.

He's been hitting th Old Toby. Don't pay him much heed.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 07:10 PM (Zawz2)

420 Sorry Tom Bombadil, you and your yellow boots are a shitty and boring character.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 07:10 PM (5p7BC)

421 Dune is what they show people who say A Clockwork Orange was enjoyable.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at July 01, 2022 07:11 PM (QYPq3)

422 415 Yep. Same with Dune.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 01, 2022 07:09 PM (sAmhv)

The dialog might be densest of all, in a different sense. Herbert was a great storyteller who was weak on dialog, IMO.

"Is it not a great thing that I, the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, do?"

Yeah, real smooth, there, zombie Frank.

Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 07:12 PM (2hil/)

423 376 There's a cut called "The Cardinal Cut" which can be dowloaded that cuts out all the padding and stuff that's not in the actual book and the long boring CGI "action" and gets it down to something like 2:40...

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 06:54 PM

Yeah, my folks had the cartoon Hobbit from the '70s that I watched a lot as a kid before reading the book. If I want to watch the Hobbit, I go for that before reaching to the recent Peter Jackson trilogy.
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Rankin-Bass, dear maker of holiday special TV shows, did that one. It's pretty good, hits the highlights of the story, keeps the original fairy-tale vibe, and even attempts some of the songs. My parents watched it on TV one time (we kids were with Grandma) and they decided to buy the book for me as a present. (Old paperback version with ostriches on the cover, fell apart decades ago.)

Posted by: exdem13 at July 01, 2022 07:12 PM (W+kMI)

424 Richard Boone was a better Smaug than Cumberbund.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living) at July 01, 2022 07:12 PM (3DZIZ)

425 There was the WA state guy who liked getting loved by horses and ended up dumped outside an ER dead from perforated colon bowel intestine or something

Posted by: NCKate at July 01, 2022 07:12 PM (2oJif)

426 I'm looking forward to part 2 of Dune. They shouldn't wait so long though. I guess the strategy is people will go back and watch part 1 again since it's been so long.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 07:13 PM (iTCtr)

427 $50 million (AUD) of Oxy would kill an entire NBA stadium. He must have other expensive tastes.

Posted by: DaveA at July 01, 2022 07:13 PM (FhXTo)

428 What about Beorn?

I always thought he was bad ass.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 01, 2022 07:13 PM (R/m4+)

429 "Why have you never seen Clarence Thomas at an NBA game? As in -- ever?"

Why have you never seen AOC at a jai alai game? I think you all know what her absence signifies. Have you ever seen AOC at a bull fight? Her biases and hatreds are pretty darned obvious!

Posted by: Ishmael at July 01, 2022 07:14 PM (AMIL/)

430 "I'm looking forward to part 2 of Dune. "

Don't fuck with the Fremen!

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2022 07:14 PM (i0slg)

431 Wonder what outer space aliens would say on Twitter.

We are capitalists, duck

Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 01, 2022 07:14 PM (J8LnB)

432 I liked Cumberbatch's performance but they should have heavily amped up the bass on him, make it really rumble. I mean look at the size of Smaug's throat. He should have made James Earl Jones sound like a soprano.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 07:14 PM (llsW/)

433 417 378 A Texas man who admitted to having sex with a horse and sexually assaulting several others has been jailed for a decade.
----
Did he mount the horses or was he just performing a service?
Is he stable?
Posted by: Ciampino - Is unstable when you lead the horse out of the stable? at July 01, 2022 07:10 PM (qfLjt

I'm sure his neigh-bors are shocked.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2022 07:15 PM (Qhnrt)

434 And don't start me on the dumb plot holes in that first book. Ringwraiths are super villians just shy Sauron, who can personally turn the tide of battle at Minas Tirith.

But they can find a couple dumb hobbits who are hiding right next to a road?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 07:15 PM (5p7BC)

435 >>>There was the WA state guy who liked getting loved by horses and ended up dumped outside an ER dead from perforated colon bowel intestine or something

Posted by: NCKate at July 01, 2022 07:12 PM (2oJif)

Really going to have to narrow it down. Normal Saturday evening for Harborview.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at July 01, 2022 07:15 PM (QYPq3)

436 Well, speaking of movies, I am just about to watch the ending of "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" with Steve Martin and John Candy. I had never seen it before. My son told me proudly , "I picked it out, mom." I was glad that he did because when he picks out a film it's usually some grim or weird foreign saga. I don't think I've seen John Candy in too many things. Too bad he died too young. Of course. Steve Martin is great. Fine physical comedian. Anyway, I recommend laughter.

Try to find some funny things to laugh at this weekend

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2022 07:16 PM (FZ2cV)

437 184 Last time I attended an NBA game? Game 5 of 1996 finals.
Payton and Kemp beat Michael and Pippen.
That was back when the NBA was a thing. Haven't watched a second of it since 2008.
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 01, 2022 06:27 PM (TU8Tj)

Last NBA game I went to, because I wanted to, was in 1976...The Miracle at Richfield boys.

The last NBA game I went to, because our exchange student wanted to, was in Toronto in the late 1990's.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 01, 2022 07:16 PM (BgMrQ)

438 395 378 A Texas man who admitted to having sex with a horse and sexually assaulting several others has been jailed for a decade. -
Serial horse rapist.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 01, 2022 07:01 PM (FVME7)
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Good to see he was reined in.
Posted by: Ciampino - I think he means soneigh if

Did he have unbridled sex with those horses?
Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 07:05 PM (2hil/)

Neigh.

Posted by: LASue at July 01, 2022 07:16 PM (Ed8Zd)

439 Well, they needed to do the recovery of the Shire then. Because having a gardener heal the wounds of war with a box of magical seeds is important to the story.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 01, 2022 07:16 PM (5HBd1)

440 But they can find a couple dumb hobbits who are hiding right next to a road?

Hobbits are repeatedly described as being able to disappear, to be nearly impossible to detect if they are hiding. Meanwhile Ringwraiths are described as being weakened and having poor senses in the daylight. It makes perfect sense.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 07:16 PM (llsW/)

441 You know where you find white people? String quartets.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 01, 2022 07:16 PM (FVME7)

442 "Why have you never seen AOC at a jai alai game?"

She says she's a Bronx girl, so a dog fight.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2022 07:17 PM (i0slg)

443 A great way to evaluate yourself is how many of the Dune books you can get through. Some tap out partway through the second one. I actually enjoyed the first three (!)

No more than that. I have tried to crash the barrier of the 4th and beyond, and found only pain and boredom.

Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 07:17 PM (2hil/)

444 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2022 07:16 PM (FZ2

Uncle Buck should have won the Oscar for best picture.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 07:17 PM (iTCtr)

445 >> And don't start me on the dumb plot holes in that first book. Ringwraiths are super villians just shy Sauron, who can personally turn the tide of battle at Minas Tirith.

That's a big one.

Big enough to fly a squadrom of Giant Eagles through.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 07:18 PM (Zawz2)

446 Hobbits are repeatedly described as being able to disappear, to be nearly impossible to detect if they are hiding. Meanwhile Ringwraiths are described as being weakened and having poor senses in the daylight. It makes perfect sense.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 07:16 PM (llsW/)
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Their power also weakens the further they are from Mordor. They grow exponentially more powerful at the end of the series when they take the field of battle at Pelennor.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2022 07:18 PM (K5n5d)

447 I read all of Frank Herbert's Dune books and the first of his son's. The original series gets weaker as it goes along but it a satisfying conclusion. His son is... not the author or world designer that his dad was.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 07:18 PM (llsW/)

448 The Dune books are an infinite series, with each being half as good as the one before.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2022 07:18 PM (i0slg)

449 Like many, Ramirez went off the rails in 2016. I don't pay attention to the dummy.

Somehow that escaped me. I didn't know he was a NT.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2022 06:59 PM

We're talking about Michael P. Ramirez, right?

This guy: https://bit.ly/3Hm3WnE

I don't see the latest comic people are talking about. Latest from him is from yesterday. And I don't remember seeing anything from him that made me think he was NeverTrump. What are people talking about? Are his comics published somewhere else before he publishes them on his website and Twitter?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2022 07:19 PM (Do5/p)

450 "If Clarence Thomas is not a real black person because he doesn't go to basketball games, am I not a real white person because I don't go to tennis matches or the Americas Cup sailing race?"

that white NBA player is stuck in his own paradigm ... the world revolves around his sports world, and he (perhaps) thinks he earned respect from the black man, by making it to the NBA.

What else could there possibly be in life, what higher calling than the NBA? CT is on such a higher plane, he can't even conceive of it. (but more hours and emotion is devoted by the masses, to sports, than important court decisions. "A republic, if you can keep it".

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2022 07:19 PM (Cus5s)

451 443 A great way to evaluate yourself is how many of the Dune books you can get through. Some tap out partway through the second one. I actually enjoyed the first three (!)

No more than that. I have tried to crash the barrier of the 4th and beyond, and found only pain and boredom.
Posted by: Splunge

Tapped out with the third one. I don't want a flowchart in order to read a book. Geez.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 01, 2022 07:19 PM (sAmhv)

452 403 Lord of the Rings story can start in Rivendell as far as I am concerned. The first book is tedious.
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Dave is really taking a bold stance here! Book 1 is the sequel to The Hobbit that about Chapter 5 changes its tone and pacing, and becomes a greater story in a greater world, as the Hobbits leave the Shire, escape the barrow-wight with some help, learn a bit of the history they fell into, and make it to Bree in time to meet Strider the Ranger. The resulting chase fills in the map that Bilbo left out because he spent the time between Bywater and the Trollshaws in a funk. But yeah, a lot of the cool stuff in FOTR happens in Book 2, where Elrond and Gandalf cleverly manage the Council to agree that the Ring must be destroyed, and the trip south becomes one long D&D adventure.

Posted by: exdem13 at July 01, 2022 07:19 PM (W+kMI)

453 A great way to evaluate yourself is how many of the Dune books you can get through. Some tap out partway through the second one. I actually enjoyed the first three (!)

No more than that. I have tried to crash the barrier of the 4th and beyond, and found only pain and boredom.
Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 07:17 PM (2hil/)
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Yeah, the first three are really quite good. I've tried to read the fourth without much luck...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2022 07:19 PM (K5n5d)

454 436 Well, speaking of movies, I am just about to watch the ending of "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" with Steve Martin and John Candy. I had never seen it before. My son told me proudly , "I picked it out, mom." I was glad that he did because when he picks out a film it's usually some grim or weird foreign saga. I don't think I've seen John Candy in too many things. Too bad he died too young. Of course. Steve Martin is great. Fine physical comedian. Anyway, I recommend laughter. Try to find some funny things to laugh at this weekend
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2022 07:16 PM (FZ2cV)

It is a wonderful movie, a movie with heart. Hard to imagine it would have been anything without those two leads.

Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 07:19 PM (2hil/)

455 >>> 344 I would put up a cartoon by Michael Ramirez whose cartoons I generally like, but the latest one is a real disappointment. He shows Cassidy Hutchinson as having a backbone and Republicans not holding Trump accountable.

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Wow...that is really disappointing.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 01, 2022 06:54 PM (sVtYq)

Somebody must have signed a book deal...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2022 07:19 PM (llON8)

456
Uncle Buck should have won the Oscar for best picture.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 07:17 PM (iTCtr)

Candy was a good actor.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2022 07:19 PM (Qhnrt)

457 Planes, Trains and Automobiles >> Prometheus

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 01, 2022 07:19 PM (oWBc3)

458 The "they should have flown into Mordor on Eagles" line is just... dude, that's like saying we should have just parachuted guys into Berlin to kill Hitler. It wholly ignorant of the entire storyline.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 07:19 PM (llsW/)

459 And Gandalf. Please, you are an ancient super wizard. You are convinced Bilbo found the One Ring, but you leave it in the Middle Earth version of the Ozarks for 80 years?

Smooth.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 07:19 PM (5p7BC)

460 The scene where they are driving on the wrong side of the road and Martin wakes up and looks over at Candy and he is the devil cracks me up every time. I laugh so hard I have to pause the movie.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living) at July 01, 2022 07:21 PM (3DZIZ)

461 It's ironic. They complain because there aren't enough black folks going camping and RVing. We find one in Justice Thomas and they just say he's not a real black man.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 01, 2022 07:21 PM (5HBd1)

462 My favorite acting job of John Candy's was a little movie called "Only the Lonely".

Posted by: kraken at July 01, 2022 07:21 PM (Vr12I)

463 I have whiplash from the "Quick Hits"

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 01, 2022 07:21 PM (P38cY)

464 >>Why have you never seen AOC at a jai alai game? I think you all know what her absence signifies. Have you ever seen AOC at a bull fight? Her biases and hatreds are pretty darned obvious!

A cock fight would be more in keeping with her PR heritage.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2022 07:22 PM (ZLI7S)

465 In fairness Hobbits are very good at not being seen. It is kind of their forte.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living) at July 01, 2022 07:22 PM (3DZIZ)

466 {385} Well he must have done that to post his question in the first place. I wonder if he thinks he can be an AoSQ blogger?

Posted by: Ciampino - I think he means something else at July 01, 2022 07:02 PM (qfLjt)

I'm looking for something akin to usenet reader software with killfile capabilities to make ignoring the rare troll here easier. That's all.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2022 07:22 PM (nRMeC)

467 459 And Gandalf. Please, you are an ancient super wizard. You are convinced Bilbo found the One Ring, but you leave it in the Middle Earth version of the Ozarks for 80 years?

Smooth.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 07:19 PM (5p7BC)

What's wrong with the "Ozarks", Mr. Florida Dude?????

Posted by: kraken at July 01, 2022 07:22 PM (Vr12I)

468 425 There was the WA state guy who liked getting loved by horses and ended up dumped outside an ER dead from perforated colon bowel intestine or something
Posted by: NCKate at July 01, 2022 07:12 PM (2oJif)

St Peter: Well, what did you expect? Take that stairway over there. The one that leads down.

Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 07:22 PM (2hil/)

469 Please, you are an ancient super wizard. You are convinced Bilbo found the One Ring, but you leave it in the Middle Earth version of the Ozarks for 80 years?

A lot of what Gandalf does is puzzling and inconsistent. Why and how he acts seems to be limited by a code he follows or some kind of authority he must obey.

But he was not convinced it was the one Right, he suspected it might be A ring of power, but if it was, it was pretty safe in the Shire, since not only would literally nobody look there but hobbits are for lack of a better word very magically resistant. It wasn't likely to impact or influence Bilbo or anyone else much, and it didn't.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 07:23 PM (llsW/)

470 Fuck AmishDude.

He can suck a dick.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 01, 2022 07:23 PM (YglAn)

471 To be fair, Lord of the Rings and the Dune series are a lot better than Wheel of Time.

To quote Wargames, the only winning move is not to play.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 07:23 PM (5p7BC)

472 >>But he was not convinced it was the one Right, he suspected it might be A ring of power, but if it was, it was pretty safe in the Shire, since not only would literally nobody look there but hobbits are for lack of a better word very magically resistant. It wasn't likely to impact or influence Bilbo or anyone else much, and it didn't.

Also. The Pipe Weed.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 07:24 PM (Zawz2)

473 I've watched Uncle Buck at least two dozen times. Probably makes me a white supremacist .

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 07:24 PM (iTCtr)

474 >>To be fair, Lord of the Rings and the Dune series are a lot better than Wheel of Time.

I hope you are equally upset with the Jedi being a band intergallactic Pedos and Groomers.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 07:25 PM (Zawz2)

475 459 And Gandalf. Please, you are an ancient super wizard. You are convinced Bilbo found the One Ring, but you leave it in the Middle Earth version of the Ozarks for 80 years?

Smooth.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

Well, Cotswolds not Ozarks. Also, the land where the Hobbits lived was being protected by Aaragon and crew. Done quietly of course. Want to hide something valuable and dangerous, you hide it somewhere unassuming and low key. A place where most people just pass by, uninterested.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 01, 2022 07:25 PM (sAmhv)

476 Good point, better analogy would be Yee Haw Junction, Florida.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 01, 2022 07:25 PM (5p7BC)

477 Fuck AmishDude.

He can suck a dick.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 01, 2022 07:23 PM (YglAn)

He had to go. No math on this blog.

( man did he hate attorneys)

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 07:25 PM (iTCtr)

478 >>> 107 47 Is that Amish dude our Amish dude? He got booted from the blog years ago.
Posted by: NCKate at July 01, 2022 06:06 PM (2oJif)

I believe so. His twit sc used to be "AgainstTrumpDude" IIRC.
Posted by: Thrawn at July 01, 2022 06:14 PM (Rl7KJ)

Really? I haven't seen the title "Against [Insert Name of We-Hates-Them Here]" since junior high school, and that was a pack of girls.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2022 07:26 PM (llON8)

479 I have never seen the movie "Uncle Buck". I'll have to look for that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2022 07:26 PM (FZ2cV)

480 "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" with Steve Martin and John Candy...Posted by: FenelonSpoke

It is a wonderful movie, a movie with heart. Hard to imagine it would have been anything without those two leads.
Posted by: Splunge

My favorite scene is when Candy is driving the Chrysler K car at night and mugging along to Ray Charles' "Mess Around."

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 01, 2022 07:26 PM (mOs5Q)

481 447 I read all of Frank Herbert's Dune books and the first of his son's. The original series gets weaker as it goes along but it a satisfying conclusion. His son is... not the author or world designer that his dad was.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 07:18 PM (llsW/)

I have not read any of the son's writings, except one: the entertaining story about how he was picked up hitchhiking, and told the driver that his father was a science fiction writer, not knowing that his father was any sort of big deal.

Driver: Have I heard of him? What did he write?
Herbert Jr: Well, he wrote Dune
Driver: (puts on brakes hard) What?!?!? No way, dude. Dune?????!!

Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 07:26 PM (2hil/)

482 Please, you are an ancient super wizard. You are convinced Bilbo found the One Ring, but you leave it in the Middle Earth version of the Ozarks for 80 years?

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didn't Ganny go back and double check the books like 60 years later after Bilbo retired?

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 01, 2022 07:26 PM (OuH7W)

483 464 >>Why have you never seen AOC at a jai alai game? I think you all know what her absence signifies. Have you ever seen AOC at a bull fight? Her biases and hatreds are pretty darned obvious!

A cock fight would be more in keeping with her PR heritage.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2022 07:22 PM (ZLI7S)

But I was told by AOC and Ana Navarro that Hispanics are a monolithic ethnic bloc on politics and everything! If AOC don't like bull fights or jai alai, she ain't Hispanic!

Posted by: Ishmael at July 01, 2022 07:26 PM (AMIL/)

484 Most of the Middle Earth were not even aware hobbits existed, let alone where they were.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 07:26 PM (llsW/)

485 I've watched Uncle Buck at least two dozen times. Probably makes me a white supremacist .
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 07:24 PM (iTCtr)

I forgot. It's probably canceled out from also watching Major Payne two dozen times.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 01, 2022 07:27 PM (iTCtr)

486 I forgot. It's probably canceled out from also watching Major Payne two dozen times.

Major Payne has a couple of funny scenes, I'll give it that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 07:28 PM (llsW/)

487 Well that was interesting, the murder of Bridget Cleary in Ireland by her husband for being a suspected 'Changeling.' He got twenty years for it.

County Tipperary has a song about the case that starts with -
"Are you a witch?
Are you a fairy?
Or are you the wife
Of Michael Cleary?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2022 07:28 PM (vjloV)

488 I have never seen the movie "Uncle Buck". I'll have to look for that. Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Uncle Buck and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles are my favorite John Candy movies - he is so John Candy in both. Uncle Buck is available via streaming as a rental.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 01, 2022 07:28 PM (mOs5Q)

489 >>Most of the Middle Earth were not even aware hobbits existed, let alone where they were.

Hobbits?

Oh, you mean the Wee Folk. We have one who comments here, in fact.

Posted by: garrett at July 01, 2022 07:28 PM (Zawz2)

490 >>> I haven't been around all day so don't know if it's been mentioned but I started watching The Terminal List last night on Prime. Chris Pratt is very very good in the role which mirrors the book pretty well. Highly recommended.

i started watching that too. Should I read the book?

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2022 07:28 PM (B3oWe)

491 I started watching The Terminal List last night on Prime. Chris Pratt is very very good in the role which mirrors the book pretty well. Highly recommended.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 01, 2022 07:03 PM (Y+l9t)
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It's available on one of my illegal sites. I've been running out of anythin worth watching, so thanks for mentioning this.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 01, 2022 07:29 PM (sWM8x)

492 378 A Texas man who admitted to having sex with a horse and sexually assaulting several others has been jailed for a decade.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 01, 2022 07:01 PM (FVME7)

During PRIDE month...?!

Surely, one of those many stripes on the LGBQWERTY++ flag represent horse-fucking. This... can... not... STAND.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik [DHS Verdict: MDM] at July 01, 2022 07:29 PM (DTX3h)

493 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 01, 2022 07:29 PM (KAa1E)

494 Listening to Steppenwolf's Greatest Hits. God, they were good

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2022 07:29 PM (i0slg)

495 >>> 481 447 I read all of Frank Herbert's Dune books and the first of his son's. The original series gets weaker as it goes along but it a satisfying conclusion. His son is... not the author or world designer that his dad was.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 07:18 PM (llsW/)

I have not read any of the son's writings, except one: the entertaining story about how he was picked up hitchhiking, and told the driver that his father was a science fiction writer, not knowing that his father was any sort of big deal.

Driver: Have I heard of him? What did he write?
Herbert Jr: Well, he wrote Dune
Driver: (puts on brakes hard) What?!?!? No way, dude. Dune?????!!
Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 07:26 PM (2hil/)

Joan Wilder?! THE Joan Wilder???

Posted by: Juan the business man at July 01, 2022 07:30 PM (llON8)

496 If you got past God Emperor Dune, you are a far stronger reader than I Gunga Din.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2022 07:30 PM (vjloV)

497 Jessica Kirson looks like a female Sam Kinnison.

Posted by: Caiwyn at July 01, 2022 07:31 PM (dS0hP)

498 Why have you never seen AOC at a jai alai game? I think you all know what her absence signifies. Have you ever seen AOC at a bull fight? Her biases and hatreds are pretty darned obvious!

And why do you never see Germans when Poland is invaded. Wait...

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2022 07:31 PM (/NCI4)

499 My favorite acting job of John Candy's was a little movie called "Only the Lonely". Posted by: kraken

That was a lovely performance and movie. I love his Second City Days; 3D beef, I still chuckle when I think about it.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 01, 2022 07:32 PM (mOs5Q)

500 John Candy (died at 43), Belushi, and umm, the "living in a truck down by the river" SNL guy ... I always think "cocaine is a helluva drug" ... that is especially bad for overweight guys. ... There are many others that flamed out early.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2022 07:32 PM (Cus5s)

501 488 ... Uncle Buck and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles are my favorite John Candy movies - he is so John Candy in both. Uncle Buck is available via streaming as a rental.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 01, 2022 07:28 PM (mOs5Q)

Dr. Tongue's Evil House of Pancakes.

Posted by: Monster Chiller Horror Theater with Count Floyd at July 01, 2022 07:34 PM (nRMeC)

502 434 Ringwraiths are super villians just shy Sauron, who can personally turn the tide of battle at Minas Tirith.
But they can find a couple dumb hobbits who are hiding right next to a road?
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In case you missed it while skipping Book 1 all those times, Strider tells Frodo about the Ringwraiths' strengths and weaknesses at the Prancing Pony, and again at Weathertop. I will sum up.
1. the Wraiths live in the world of shadows, and that is how they visually perceive everything. Daylight obscures the shadows, but at night or in a dark place they can see better. When Frodo put on the Ring he entered their world, and they could see him very well then!
2. the Wraiths can smell well, and they see....other things....which we cannot. they can also perceive the world through the senses of their mounts, which has their own advantages and limitations.
3. Neither 1 nor 2 are necessarily valid against Hobbits, who can hide very well. It's a defining trait of their race! The Wraith who chased them to Buckland was a renowned tracker, but Tolkien later said he suffered most from daylight, and the effects of fire and running water.

Posted by: exdem13 at July 01, 2022 07:34 PM (W+kMI)

503 It’s amazing how the media hasn’t learned how all this “symbolic” bullshit is coming back to bite them. RBG waited to retire because she thought Hillary was going to be president and she wanted to highlight the symbolism of the first female president nominating her replacement. That symbolism was so important that it blinded her to the possibility that it might not even happen. Now she’s dead, Barrett has replaced her, and Roe is overturned.

GMA’s flub is minor by comparison, but it’s cut from the exact same cloth.

Posted by: Caiwyn at July 01, 2022 07:35 PM (dS0hP)

504 New thread, weekend cafe. NOOD

Posted by: gdgm+ at July 01, 2022 07:35 PM (mucm9)

505 Please, you are an ancient super wizard. You are convinced Bilbo found the One Ring, but you leave it in the Middle Earth version of the Ozarks for 80 years?

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didn't Ganny go back and double check the books like 60 years later after Bilbo retired?
Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 01, 2022 07:26 PM (OuH7W)

Yes - researching exactly how to test if the ring is the one ring is what he was doing between the party and the return to Frodo. The movie shows him riding to Minas Tirith and looking up what was written on it and how Isildur called it "Precious" just like Gollum.

That's why he throws it in the fire almost at once before Frodo can suspect he might damage it and get defensive. He also knows it is not going to be hot.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2022 07:35 PM (eoQWY)

506 If you got past God Emperor Dune, you are a far stronger reader than I Gunga Din.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2022 07:30 PM (vjloV)

I think i got maybe 120 pages in, and all that had happened was a kid put his hand in a box and didn't die.

That wasn't the escapism I was looking for.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2022 07:36 PM (eoQWY)

507 Ace, not sure. I read the book a while back and I seem to remember there was a lot of gun talk. I think Chris Pratt is being a very real James Reese. I am amazed that you forget about Chris Pratt the movie star and watch the struggles of the man. I watched two and a half episodes before I realized it was after midnight but intend to get right back at it tonight.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 01, 2022 07:36 PM (Y+l9t)

508 Oh, you mean the Wee Folk. We have one who comments here, in fact..

In my mind she looks just like Rosie from the movies

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 01, 2022 07:37 PM (llsW/)

509 But Return of the King ending with a slideshow instead of one of the great parts of the book, The Scouring of the Shire, is hard to forgive.
Posted by: Splunge at July 01, 2022 07:01 PM

I felt the same. Having the hobbits reclaim their home was kind of key to their story arc.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 01, 2022 07:38 PM (ftFVW)

510 That was a lovely performance and movie. I love his Second City Days; 3D beef, I still chuckle when I think about it.
Posted by: Lost In Space at July 01, 2022 07:32 PM (mOs5Q)

Candy's Johnny LaRue had a show called "Street Beef" and he was plagued by not being able to find anyone on t he street to interview and his use of an expensive crane shot.

He had some 3D movies as "Doctor Tongue" where the three D effect was moving the object forward and back with eeerie music.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2022 07:39 PM (eoQWY)

511 214 But is it a Christmas movie?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2022 06:26 PM
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Not a Xmas movie - no John McClane - Sheesh!

Posted by: Ciampino - everybody knows that! at July 01, 2022 07:48 PM (qfLjt)

512 I used, "Nobody notified this office" many times over my career.

Posted by: Javems at July 01, 2022 07:55 PM (AmoqO)

513 The vaccine uses the aborted HEK293 cell line: So, the claim that Moderna’s vaccine is “ethically uncontroversial” because it has no connection to unethically derived materials does not seem to be supported as both the development of the spike protein sequence, the mRNA expression in testing, and the lipid nanoparticle delivery system are described as using the HEK293 cell line derived from an aborted fetus.

Posted by: TitanTom at July 01, 2022 08:06 PM (oQ1G4)

514 We're now seeing how Dems are responding to the people calling out the White House barista's documented lies, by just saying everyone showing proof she's lying are just known liars.

They know they can play this shit for the next 6 months and get away with it, because Biden's DoJ won't prosecute this girl, and if any Trump people are stupid enough to actually go under oath, the DoJ will go after them for mistakenly using a comma instead of of a period in their written reports.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 01, 2022 08:46 PM (GLJgZ)

515 First black Supreme court justice:

Um. Thurgood Marshall????

Posted by: Deti at July 02, 2022 12:38 AM (73h7r)

516 MaxiPads for men?

Just to be clear, the ones for heavy periods are excellent wound dressings for major bleeders.
It's a good idea to have a supply in every home whether anyone living there has a period or not.
And they're cheap too.

Posted by: Speller at July 02, 2022 12:50 AM (pSotA)

517 I wonder if Sexy Rexy's comments extend to his sister? She is married to Kio Sanford, a former University of Kentucky football player who is black, because as everyone knows, all Division I athletes are black. I guess that makes her black enough and, by extension, makes Sexy Rexy black enough. Blacker than Clarence Thomas, that is.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi's Infected Taint at July 02, 2022 11:04 AM (ZUU8O)

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