Saturday Short Subjects, July 23

I've been gone part of this week and my brain is not really in gear, so I thought that this was a good week for some random short subjects.

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QUOTES

Is a man running into a burning building to save four kids' lives part of this patriarchy thing?

Then running back in for a fifth child? THERE'S some toxic masculinity!

Biden's Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine: "We really want to ... affirm and to support and empower these youth, not to limit their participation in activities . . . and even limit their ability to get gender affirmation treatment in their state."
Translation: "empowering youth" to seek "affirmation treatment" means allowing kids to go against parents' wishes and pursue medicines and surgeries that may leave kids infertile and sexually dysfunctional.
The clearest example yet of the state supplanting America's parents.
Abigail Shrier

"It's a scam...The objective isn't to get the farmers to behave in an organic, responsible, ecologically apposite manner. Far from it. It's in order to bankrupt the farmers so that their land can be grabbed."
Russell Brand

Video at the link.

People think solar panels protect the environment but they require 300+ times as much land as conventional energy sources and now the Los Angeles Times has discovered that they could "contaminate groundwater with toxic heavy metals such as lead, selenium and cadmium."
Michael Shelleberger

The Los Angeles Times!

Become a theater critic in your approach to the news. Because I assure you you are watching a performance.
Walter Kirn

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell

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Airport notes

I don't think airports are as exciting as they once were, back when air travel was an elite experience. But they are still interesting. I went through four of them this week, and each has its own individual characteristics:

FAT:

The Fresno Air Terminal reflects Fresno's inferiority complex. There are periodic pushes to change the FAA's official designation of the airport to something less off-putting than FAT, but the airport has just gone ahead and named itself Fresno Yosemite International Airport. I don't know that the National Park Service is entirely happy with this. There is a giant sequoia tree trunk in the lobby. It does not look particularly sophisticated.

Concerning the FAT designation, perhaps Fresno needs to hire some Grievance Studies demonstrators, who could take some time off from protesting about incorrect pronouns leading to suicide. What about the FAT designations on those boarding passes?

The airport sits hard by the Fresno Air National Guard Base. I really don't know if they are in local fog pockets like the airports in LA, San Fran and Salt Lake are, but it is regularly foggy in the whole city of Fresno. We have been hearing and seeing more military jets lately. Sometimes from this facility, sometimes from others.

I was one of a few selected people who did not have to remove their shoes when going through security at FAT. I don't know if that was because I looked too dense or FAT to be a terrorist, because my shoes didn't look like bombs or because of a Strange New Respect that I was the person designated to rip the door over the wing off the airplane in case of an emergency.

SFO:

We approached the airport over part of the Delta. (Not the part below). The water was full of strange ribbons of color, which may be related to drought. It reminded me of the ribbons of color in the water as the Great Salt Lake meets the Salt Flats.

The sky was clear at the airport (even though it is in a fog pocket), but there was some fog in the hills even in the early afternoon. In July. That's the Bay Area.

The utilitarian look of the runway area was a nice contrast to what I have been reading about San Francisco lately. So was the relatively small part of the airport I saw. It all looked well-managed and sophisticated. Instead of people pooping on the sidewalks in the city, there were people taking their fancy standard poodles, labs and little lap dogs to the Animal Relief Stations near the rest rooms for humans.

There was one discordant note: In the women's rest rooms were signs inside the stall doors advising that if you were being held against your will or being forced to work for very little money, you should call the airport. I didn't see a phone number.

SLC:

The airport in Salt Lake has been totally re-built. It really plays up its status as a hub for Delta. If you are flying on a different airline, your walk to the front of the airport will be very long and will change levels a couple of times. It's sort of confusing. They need better signage.

Maybe Salt Lake should have chosen to partner with an airline which was not in the process of bureaucratic decline. Have you heard the stories?

I was flying United (and related commuter airlines). Don't know if my experiences are typical of recent ones, but all my flights were pretty much on time. I walked a long way in the Salt Lake Airport.

LAX:

I stayed in a small commuter hub of the airport. They sort of hid my gate. They needed better signage. Some of the concessions were sort of hidden, too. Odd.

LA County still requires face coverings in airport terminals and makes loudspeaker announcements about that every few minutes. More than half of the people I saw were wearing them. Some of the people working there were even wearing masks.

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NEWS

China, finance

Tanks are being put on the streets in China to protect the banks.
This is because the Henan branch of the Bank of China declaring that people's savings in their branch are now 'investment products' and can't be withdrawn.

War in Ukraine

It's hard to say what to trust about news concerning this war, but this from Stephen Green is crazy:

Russia has a bat-guano excuse for their embarrassing failures early on in their brutal war against Ukraine: Mutant supersoldiers engineered in American-run bio-labs.
It's like something out of The Terminal List. Except true. And more mutant-y.
That's according to two Russian lawmakers, who otherwise do not appear to have dropped any acid, heading up a commission looking into Ukraine's supersoldiers.
Testing of Ukrainian POWs' blood, they claimed, uncovered "a range of diseases" that suggest they were secretly experimented on "for military purposes."
"And we see: the cruelty and barbarity with which the military personnel of Ukraine behave, the crimes that they commit against the civilian population, those monstrous crimes that they commit against prisoners of war, confirm that this system for the control and creation of a cruel murder machine was implemented under the management of the United States," Yarovaya was quoted telling reporters.

Later, Ukrainians who refuse to see themselves as Russian are compared to insects and Nazis.

Who is the Nazi in this particular statement, lady?

Green again:

Let's get something clear: This super soldier stuff is the silliest kind of excuse-mongering by the Russians.
For starters, Ukrainian troops -- bioengineered mutants or otherwise -- did not turn back the Russian Army from Kyiv and Kharkiv in March.
It was actually worse than that for Russia. They tried to take Kyiv and failed all by their little own selves.

Maybe they can buy some robot dog machine guns from China.

The Chinese-made robot in the video “has patches on its surfaces with insignia associated with the Russian military… switching to a ‘semi-automatic’ setting allows the robot to hit targets without moving around too much…” https://t.co/QNhnOmvUXQ
— Lewis Shepherd (@lewisshepherd) July 22, 2022

World Economics

Crap Economics

America, with conservatives' blessing, has become utterly dependent on big corporations. We rely on the global supply chain and its left-wing gatekeepers for everything from food to clothes to medicine. Hell, the United States imports more than $7 billion in fertilizer each year.

Why is there a fertilizer shortage, you ask? Because the United States imports 93 percent of our potash, a key nutrient used in making fertilizer, while Russia and Belarus are responsible for 40 percent of the global potash supply.
Naturally, the folks who decided to make us dependent on fertilizer imports are the same people who decided to blockade Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. That should tell you everything you need to know about our ruling class.
But it gets worse. The same Very Smart People who orchestrated the fertilizer shortage are also working hard to blacklist the cattle industry. Cow farts are tearing a hole in the ozone, they argue, which is why they have to cripple our ranchers with new methane taxes. It's getting so bad in the Netherlands that cattle farmers are in open revolt against the Dutch government.
No cows, no cowshit.

These Very Smart People are poised to upend the global economy. And they don't care. Many of them, like Bill Gates, publicly fantasize about switching the developed world to synthetic beef. They want to drive all those ranchers--about 500 million around the world--out of business. They would gladly force us all to eat their nasty Impossible Whoppers. For them, this isn't an unfortunate side-effect of saving the planet. It's the reason they get out of bed in the morning.
This is evil. More than that, it's unbelievably stupid. By sanctioning Russia, the people who want us all to eat plant-based meat substitutes are also making it harder to grow the plants used to make those plant-based meat substitutes. Bill Gates and his fellow oligarchs are attacking meat farmers and vegetable farmers at the same time.
You can't make this up.
By the way, whenever you mention Bill Gates, people assume you're talking about progressives. Yet conservatives also deserve credit for this catastrophe. They're the ones who are constantly going on about the blessings of capitalism and free trade.

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Music and Dance

Tango. Pointy Elbows. RIP Dave in Texas.

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Hope you have something fun planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Here's last week's post, with comments: Weekend Musings, July 16: ESG scores and Sri Lanka, Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 and The Horde's virtual front porch, complete with rocking chairs for conversation.

The actor Robert Clary (the little French guy in Hogan's Heroes) was a prisoner in Buchenwald.

Music: Tiger Rag, Swiss style.

I closed the comments on this thread so you wouldn't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:08 AM

Comments

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1 It's hot out there.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 23, 2022 11:14 AM (mQFP3)

2 not first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 23, 2022 11:15 AM (bVYXr)

3 Amateur mistake.

Posted by: golfman at July 23, 2022 11:17 AM (aX0CW)

4 Good morning hordemates.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2022 11:18 AM (anj39)

5
Powe is restored at Schloss Hadrian. Waiting on a plumber. The propane line is likely cracked and as a precaution we turned the water off as well until a leak test is done.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2022 11:21 AM (JVuoD)

6 Hi

Posted by: Ciampino - have to rub lots of cats together to recharge that at July 23, 2022 11:21 AM (qfLjt)

7 Powe is restored at Schloss Hadrian. Waiting on a plumber. The propane line is likely cracked and as a precaution we turned the water off as well until a leak test is done.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2022 11:21 AM (JVuoD)

What happened?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2022 11:23 AM (4I/2K)

8 Hail, the size of grapes in my AO.

Posted by: SonofSamtheButcher at July 23, 2022 11:23 AM (VJBq9)

9 I made my first poutine today. I’m letting it cool

Posted by: Blutarski at July 23, 2022 11:24 AM (/R4D1)

10 Clearly, the Ukrainians' biolabs are completing Stalin's work on Gorilla-Human soldiers.

Soon to be revealed in the new film -- They Saved Stalin's 'Stache!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 23, 2022 11:25 AM (yikp0)

11 All this mutant supersoldier stuff reminds me somehow of Klaus Schwab and transhumanism.

Posted by: KT at July 23, 2022 11:27 AM (rrtZS)

12 So just image you are traveling to Great Lakes Recruit Training Command in North Chicago, to watch your new Sailor pass in review.

https://tinyurl.com/mc34m5px

We even got the push alert from RTC about this story.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2022 11:27 AM (1n+EO)

13 SonofSamtheButcher at July 23, 2022 11:23 AM

It's not fair to have hail in July.

Posted by: KT at July 23, 2022 11:28 AM (rrtZS)

14 Translation: "empowering youth" to seek "affirmation treatment" means allowing kids to go against parents' wishes and pursue medicines and surgeries that may leave kids infertile and sexually dysfunctional.

*******

This is what I was getting at with my guest post about the AAP a few weeks ago.

The slippery slope is very real. The terminology of the AAP is: "Children, adolescents and young adults." Small steps progressing from:

a.) 17 year olds are almost adults, to
b.) teens are almost 17, to
c.) pre-teens are almost teens

...and then fast-forwarding to "pre-teens don't need parental consent for life-altering treatments". Aided and abetted by despicable government authorities such as the Levine.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 23, 2022 11:29 AM (kXYt5)

15 Some of the Ukrainian nationalists, notably the Azov Brigades, are quite explicitly and unabashedly Nazi. and others aren't.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2022 11:29 AM (TBL3N)

16 That Tango..wow. Talented dancers. They make a complex dance look so easy.

Posted by: Tuna at July 23, 2022 11:30 AM (gLRfa)

17 Meme made me grimace... because back in the 80's, when the Women on Combat Vessel 'debate' was ongoing.... I made a crack about 'will it still be Women and Children first? so Female Sailors and Ensigns?'...

And Yes, it was for that kind of thing I got a 3.4 in 'Equal Opportunity' on my evaluations... which turned out to be the kiss of death to ever getting promoted again.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2022 11:30 AM (oHd/0)

18 So just image you are traveling to Great Lakes Recruit Training Command in North Chicago, to watch your new Sailor pass in review.

https://tinyurl.com/mc34m5px

We even got the push alert from RTC about this story.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2022 11:27 AM (1n+EO)

There are a few areas in Norfolk and Portsmouth that I would not advise to go LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2022 11:30 AM (Irn0L)

19 That Tango was brilliant.

Posted by: Holy Crap at July 23, 2022 11:31 AM (glGDV)

20 There's an effort underway here in the Bluegrass to convert open areas to solar farms. In some cases an entire corn/soybean field, perhaps 100 acres is being sold off to do this. Often the owners are the grandkids of the original farmer and they have zero interest in "farming."

However the politicians and commercial interests behind this are beginning to run into some push back from the local communities. There is a slow realization going on about the efficiency of solar, the environmental issues and all the other pitfalls that come with solar panels.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 23, 2022 11:32 AM (BFigT)

21 Chit Show is LIVE! from Black Point Marina in Miami.
Boat ramp watching fun.
https://youtu.be/HvXTazPbg1o

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2022 11:32 AM (4I/2K)

22 Nothing wrong with capitalism and free trade. It allowed the world to become fat and happy. Just because Marxism bastardized it from the inside doesn't make it a negative.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 23, 2022 11:32 AM (epFyj)

23 ...and then fast-forwarding to "pre-teens don't need parental consent for life-altering treatments". Aided and abetted by despicable government authorities such as the Levine.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 23, 2022 11:29 AM (kXYt5)

"Gendering-affirming surgery" is nothing more, or less, than sexual mutilation.

We need to bring back the concept of "vivisection" being the deliberate mutilation of living beings.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2022 11:33 AM (TBL3N)

24 Muldoon at July 23, 2022 11:29 AM

Perfectly stated.

Posted by: KT at July 23, 2022 11:33 AM (rrtZS)

25 "There are a few areas in Norfolk and Portsmouth that I would not advise to go LOL"

What!

The area outside Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is a tourists mecca.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2022 11:33 AM (1n+EO)

26 I saw that Sri Lanka attacked a protester camp and they were right to do so. Give starving people an inch and they'll take a mile.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 23, 2022 11:33 AM (FVME7)

27
What happened?
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2022 11:23 AM (4I/2K)

__________

House was struck by lightning yesterday. Came down the chimney and blew a hole in the floor. Her Majesty was sitting 10 feet away. Fire in the propane line. Life on the Texas Gulf Coast.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2022 11:33 AM (JVuoD)

28 Some of the Ukrainian nationalists, notably the Azov Brigades, are quite explicitly and unabashedly Nazi. and others aren't.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2022 11:29 AM (TBL3N)

Stalin was such a monster that he made Hitler seem good in comparison

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2022 11:33 AM (mR6Gs)

29 12 So just image you are traveling to Great Lakes Recruit Training Command in North Chicago, to watch your new Sailor pass in review.

https://tinyurl.com/mc34m5px

We even got the push alert from RTC about this story.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2022 11:27 AM (1n+EO

They just got over 6 inches of rain up there overnight. Maybe their cars got flooded out, so no drive-bys are gonna happen for a while.

Posted by: Roy at July 23, 2022 11:34 AM (Ti+Tv)

30 Tanks are being put on the streets in China to protect the banks.
This is because the Henan branch of the Bank of China declaring that people's savings in their branch are now 'investment products' and can't be withdrawn.

Lets see... US stealing Russians airplanes and boats... check...

Civil asset forfeiture in the US... check

Canada freezing funds of truckers, and seizing trucks... check...

Almost like private property ex morte in the Bankster society of today.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2022 11:34 AM (oHd/0)

31 "Came down the chimney "

The very rare Santa Claus Lightning?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2022 11:35 AM (1n+EO)

32 I made my first poutine today. I’m letting it cool
Posted by: Blutarski

*******

I expected a Biden sock on this comment

Posted by: Muldoon at July 23, 2022 11:35 AM (kXYt5)

33 https://tinyurl.com/mc34m5px

We even got the push alert from RTC about this story.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2022 11:27 AM (1n+EO

Shades of the Great Lake Riots of 1979... which started after lots of sailors were getting beat up on the strip, and a rumor got out one had been killed.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2022 11:36 AM (oHd/0)

34 Leftists support Ukraine 100%
The MSM is a Leftist's mouthpiece

Do the math.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 23, 2022 11:36 AM (epFyj)

35 Stalin was such a monster that he made Hitler seem good in comparison
Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2022 11:33 AM (mR6Gs)

This is true. And I don't find fault with the Ukrainian people seeing Hitler as a liberator. But some of them were all too eager to assist him in carrying out the Final Solution against the Jews.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2022 11:36 AM (TBL3N)

36 9 I made my first poutine today. I’m letting it cool
Posted by: Blutarski at July 23, 2022 11:24 AM (/R4D1)

With actual duck confit?

Posted by: Roy at July 23, 2022 11:36 AM (Ti+Tv)

37 LAX could mean slack, which is what you get from a LAXative.
-Doctor Eromero DBHT & O

Posted by: Eromero at July 23, 2022 11:36 AM (gktX6)

38 So just image you are traveling to Great Lakes Recruit Training Command in North Chicago, to watch your new Sailor pass in review.

https://tinyurl.com/mc34m5px

We even got the push alert from RTC about this story.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2022 11:27 AM

When the wife and I got stationed at Great Lakes we lived in Navy housing and the school system was North Chicago. We pulled our son out quickly because of the violence and put him in Catholic school.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 23, 2022 11:37 AM (bVYXr)

39
The very rare Santa Claus Lightning?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2022 11:35 AM (1n+EO)

_________

Bad Santa

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2022 11:37 AM (JVuoD)

40 Leftists support Ukraine 100%
The MSM is a Leftist's mouthpiece

Do the math.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 23, 2022 11:36 AM (epFyj)

This is a sound formula

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2022 11:37 AM (mR6Gs)

41 Perfectly stated.
Posted by: KT[/ii]

******

Albeit imperfectly formatted.

(thanks)

Posted by: Muldoon at July 23, 2022 11:38 AM (kXYt5)

42 The very rare Santa Claus Lightning?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2022 11:35 AM (1n+EO)

Better clean all the reindeer crap off the roof.

Posted by: Roy at July 23, 2022 11:38 AM (Ti+Tv)

43 Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Thomas Sowell

So much for "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality.

Things are not broken, so the left makes up reasons for what works to be "not good for X". For example, the entire "green" movement is based on lies. Oil and gasoline and plastic and everything else they bitch about are not "destroying the planet". Never have been. This has been proven over the past 50+ years as every single one of their predictions has not come to fruition.

Yet, for the past 2 decades since "An Inconvenient Truth" movement started, every single industry and corporation and government in the world now pushes economy-destroying and actual planet-destroying (i.e. lack of clearing forests leads to wildfires) "green" policies.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 23, 2022 11:38 AM (Do5/p)

44 The very rare Santa Claus Lightning?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2022 11:35 AM (1n+EO)

_________

Bad Santa
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2022 11:37 AM (JVuoD)

Ho's Ho's Ho's!

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2022 11:38 AM (mR6Gs)

45 Stalin was such a monster that he made Hitler seem good in comparison
Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2022 11:33 AM (mR6Gs)

The scorch earth retreat may have changed their minds.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 23, 2022 11:38 AM (epFyj)

46 "Shades of the Great Lake Riots of 1979... which started after lots of sailors were getting beat up on the strip, and a rumor got out one had been killed."

Class of '77 here.

But I did MM A-School for about half of 78, and it was getting bad then already.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2022 11:39 AM (1n+EO)

47 Cripes!!

Posted by: Muldoon at July 23, 2022 11:39 AM (kXYt5)

48 House was struck by lightning yesterday. Came down the chimney and blew a hole in the floor. Her Majesty was sitting 10 feet away. Fire in the propane line. Life on the Texas Gulf Coast.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2022 11:33 AM (JVuoD)

Holy Schmoly, Hadrian! Am glad people and pets are okay.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2022 11:39 AM (4I/2K)

49 I wonder if that man who says he is a women and is now an admiral. Does the navy raise a flag on a navy ship when he boards. Does he get command of the ship. With so many strips on his sleeves, he should get all the privileges of other admirals I think.
He probably has a baking soda powered ship in his bathtub, does that count.

Posted by: Colin at July 23, 2022 11:40 AM (YVx1O)

50 "House was struck by lightning yesterday. Came down the chimney and blew a hole in the floor. Her Majesty was sitting 10 feet away. Fire in the propane line. Life on the Texas Gulf Coast. "

Holy smoke..no pun intended. Thank goodness no one was hurt. Doggies and puppies are ok I assume.

Posted by: Tuna at July 23, 2022 11:40 AM (gLRfa)

51 how many of these fucking weirdos actually have children themselves ?

Posted by: REDACTED at July 23, 2022 11:41 AM (us2H3)

52 Howdy, KT!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2022 11:41 AM (u73oe)

53 Hadrian, house on slab or pier and beam?

Posted by: Eromero at July 23, 2022 11:42 AM (gktX6)

54 This is true. And I don't find fault with the Ukrainian people seeing Hitler as a liberator. But some of them were all too eager to assist him in carrying out the Final Solution against the Jews.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2022 11:36 AM (TBL3N)

This is also true.

And the Bolsheviks were not shy about putting Jews in positions of prominence in the NKVD and as military kommisars, the better to stir up shit.

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2022 11:42 AM (mR6Gs)

55 49 I wonder if that man who says he is a women and is now an admiral. Does the navy raise a flag on a navy ship when he boards. Does he get command of the ship. With so many strips on his sleeves, he should get all the privileges of other admirals I think.
He probably has a baking soda powered ship in his bathtub, does that count.
Posted by: Colin at July 23, 2022 11:40 AM (YVx1O)

it, in addition to putting the lotion on it's skin, gets to blow the men down

Posted by: REDACTED at July 23, 2022 11:42 AM (us2H3)

56 Is that Robot Gun Dog an NFA item?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 23, 2022 11:43 AM (R/m4+)

57 "it, in addition to putting the lotion on it's skin, gets to blow the men down"

Oh boy. Good one. LOL

Posted by: Tuna at July 23, 2022 11:45 AM (gLRfa)

58 https://tinyurl.com/mc34m5px

We even got the push alert from RTC about this story.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2022 11:27 AM (1n+EO)

NRA members...no doubt.

Posted by: BignJames at July 23, 2022 11:45 AM (AwYPR)

59
The scorch earth retreat may have changed their minds.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 23, 2022 11:38 AM (epFyj)

Yup.
Imagine being bounced around like a play toy between these vile creatures for 30 years....

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2022 11:45 AM (mR6Gs)

60 Yo, FAT. Stop complaining.

Posted by: SUX at July 23, 2022 11:45 AM (cTCuP)

61 https://tinyurl.com/mc34m5px

We even got the push alert from RTC about this story.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2022 11:27 AM (1n+EO

I would go on a Lake Michigan fishing charter out of Waukegan every summer. I'd only drive to the harbor on a certain route to avoid most of that shithole town. It helped that is was pre-dawn, and after the hyenas had already gone back to their lairs.

Posted by: Roy at July 23, 2022 11:45 AM (Ti+Tv)

62 I wonder if that man who says he is a women and is now an admiral. Does the navy raise a flag on a navy ship when he boards. Does he get command of the ship. With so many strips on his sleeves, he should get all the privileges of other admirals I think.
He probably has a baking soda powered ship in his bathtub, does that count.
Posted by: Colin at July 23, 2022 11:40 AM (YVx1O)

Levine is an Admiral in the Damnation Navy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2022 11:46 AM (TBL3N)

63 The area outside Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is a tourists mecca.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2022 11:33 AM (1n+EO)

Well yeah the tittie bars for sure!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2022 11:46 AM (Irn0L)

64 'He is the very image of a modern doctor admiral.'

Posted by: Eromero at July 23, 2022 11:46 AM (gktX6)

65 Have Robot Gun Dog, Will Travel

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 23, 2022 11:46 AM (FVME7)

66 Oy. Got the back 40 weeded. Gotta be at least 90 out. Fahrenheit and percent humidity. Looks like i was just swimming in my work clothes.

Time for a break.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2022 11:47 AM (6FeV1)

67 I wonder if that man who says he is a women and is now an admiral. Does the navy raise a flag on a navy ship when he boards. Does he get command of the ship. With so many strips on his sleeves, he should get all the privileges of other admirals I think.
He probably has a baking soda powered ship in his bathtub, does that count.

Posted by: Colin at July 23, 2022 11:40 AM

He is an "Admiral" in the civilian health crops which has absolutely nothing to do with the Navy except they wear Navy uniforms because of stupid rules and laws.

I ran across one of them at a gas station in very rural West Virginia. Female wearing Navy whites and asked what the heck the Navy was doing out there. She informed me that she was a lieutenant in the civilian health corps and a visiting nurse in the rural health care program.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 23, 2022 11:48 AM (bVYXr)

68 There are a few areas in Norfolk and Portsmouth that I would not advise to go LOL
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2022 11:30 AM (Irn0L)

Don't drink, nor smoke, norfolk - Norfolk.

Posted by: Roy at July 23, 2022 11:48 AM (Ti+Tv)

69 Yup.
Imagine being bounced around like a play toy between these vile creatures for 30 years....
Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2022 11:45 AM (mR6Gs)

Ukraine has been the doormat of empires for most of its history. Sucks to be them. The smart ones get out.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2022 11:49 AM (TBL3N)

70 KT, I wound up wandering into Tango and Milonga and felt like Navin Johnson when he heard "the music of my people"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2022 11:50 AM (xhaym)

71 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 23, 2022 11:51 AM (T4tVD)

72 Hiya KT !

Posted by: JT at July 23, 2022 11:51 AM (T4tVD)

73 >>> 69 Yup.
Imagine being bounced around like a play toy between these vile creatures for 30 years....
Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2022 11:45 AM (mR6Gs)

Ukraine has been the doormat of empires for most of its history. Sucks to be them. The smart ones get out.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2022 11:49 AM (TBL3N)

Wait a minute, how did we end up with the Bearclaw Brothers in our military?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 23, 2022 11:52 AM (llON8)

74 My aunt and uncle's place in VA was hit twice by lightning. Blew out a bunch of bricks and torched their washer and dryer that were nearby. Both times.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 23, 2022 11:52 AM (BFigT)

75 KT, I wound up wandering into Tango and Milonga and felt like Navin Johnson when he heard "the music of my people"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2022 11:50 AM (xhaym)

Some movie channel showed "The Jerk" last week...my wife had never seen it...she was...amazed.

Posted by: BignJames at July 23, 2022 11:53 AM (AwYPR)

76 Not sure if I can quantify just how sick and tired I am of the unending lgbt bullshit.

Influence and noise far in excess of the actual numbers involved--thanks, media.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 23, 2022 11:53 AM (KATBx)

77 More than that, it's unbelievably stupid. By sanctioning Russia, the people who want us all to eat plant-based meat substitutes are also making it harder to grow the plants used to make those plant-based meat substitutes. Bill Gates and his fellow oligarchs are attacking meat farmers and vegetable farmers at the same time.

Which is why China and Bill Gates have been buying up farmland all across the world. This phase of their plan is to put their competition out of business. Then they will have the only farmland and will be able to control what is grown there and control the market.

People need to stop saying all these WEF people, Bill Gates and China, etc are "stupid". They're not. They are calculated and evil. Their actions seem "stupid" to most people, because most people think in terms of doing what is right, what is good. And they refuse to believe anyone would perpetrate such evil things. But evil things are happening. People need to wake up to that fact and realign their OODA loop before it's too late.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 23, 2022 11:56 AM (Do5/p)

78
Hadrian, house on slab or pier and beam?
Posted by: Eromero at July 23, 2022 11:42 AM (gktX6)

________

Slab

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2022 11:56 AM (JVuoD)

79 In an interview on MSNBC Levine opined that any mental health issues experienced by so-called transgender youths is solely because of bullying, because apparently they are all every bit as mentally and psychologically well as the Admiral himself, a grown man who had a wife and sired two children, who now claims to. be a woman. Is he so desperate to affirm his own damaged mental health as normal that he is happy to throw an entire generation of children away?

Posted by: Muldoon at July 23, 2022 11:57 AM (kXYt5)

80 76 Not sure if I can quantify just how sick and tired I am of the unending lgbt bullshit.

Influence and noise far in excess of the actual numbers involved--thanks, media.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 23, 2022 11:53 AM (KATBx)

No matter how loud and repetitive it gets, it's not going to give them a feeling of being normal. To them, it's like chronic tinnitus. They can't ever get over that internal unsettled feeling there is something wrong, because it's a mental illness.

Posted by: Roy at July 23, 2022 11:58 AM (Ti+Tv)

81 My aunt and uncle's place in VA was hit twice by lightning. Blew out a bunch of bricks and torched their washer and dryer that were nearby. Both times.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 23, 2022 11:52 AM (BFigT)

I have lightning rods on all my buildings. Never been struck yet. Properly-installed lightning rods do work, by dissipating charge before it can build to dangerous levels. And, if lightning should strike regardless, the ground cables for the lightning rods provide a low-resistance path to ground for the bolt, channeling it away from the interior of your home or shop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2022 11:59 AM (TBL3N)

82 All this mutant supersoldier stuff reminds me somehow of Klaus Schwab and transhumanism.
Posted by: KT at July 23, 2022 11:27 AM (rrtZS)

There are some reports that remain rumors that the Ukes had biolabs and were either as sloppy as the Soviets at biosecurity, or were releasing samples when the wind was right for Crimea and nearby areas.
This allegation is one of the reasons claimed that the Russian Federation decided it was time to start shooting.

George Webb is big on this subject. Five years ago we would have called it a conspiracy theory, and a fantasy up there with interdimensional shadow people.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2022 11:59 AM (xhaym)

83 WHO declares monkeypox a global health emergency with thousands of cases spreading worldwide. (FOX)

Available online: 2022 Monkeypox Outbreak Global Map - Poxvirus - CDC

Who knew this could happen? Heh

Posted by: Lola at July 23, 2022 11:59 AM (NIYa7)

84 Sioux City Airport SUX

Posted by: Steve at July 23, 2022 11:59 AM (J8JA0)

85 83 WHO declares monkeypox a global health emergency with thousands of cases spreading worldwide. (FOX)

Available online: 2022 Monkeypox Outbreak Global Map - Poxvirus - CDC

Who knew this could happen? Heh
Posted by: Lola at July 23, 2022 11:59 AM (NIYa7)

5 people died already. They filed it as "Death by snoo-snoo"

Posted by: Roy at July 23, 2022 12:01 PM (Ti+Tv)

86 Not sure if I can quantify just how sick and tired I am of the unending lgbt bullshit.

Influence and noise far in excess of the actual numbers involved--thanks, media.
Posted by: irongrampa

Concur !

Posted by: JT at July 23, 2022 12:01 PM (T4tVD)

87 We gots monkeypox coming out the wazoo!

Posted by: WHO at July 23, 2022 12:02 PM (4I/2K)

88 Big storms moving in. Lights flickering.

Posted by: Tuna at July 23, 2022 12:02 PM (gLRfa)

89 Sioux City Airport SUX
Posted by: Steve at July 23, 2022 11:59 AM (J8JA0)

Site of the most incredible airplane crash evah !!

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 23, 2022 12:03 PM (epFyj)

90 5 people died already. They filed it as "Death by snoo-snoo"
Posted by: Roy at July 23, 2022 12:01 PM (Ti+Tv)

Haz sad.

Posted by: Bunga-bunga at July 23, 2022 12:03 PM (TBL3N)

91 Didn't get to post yesterday. But I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Dave in Texas's trolling. I laughed out loud several times.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 23, 2022 12:04 PM (sJHOI)

92 Let me get this straight. Farmers shouldn't use manufactured fertilizers because organic fertilizer is so much better. But organic fertilizer is horrible because it comes from cows whose farts are causing global warming.

And when farmers don't use manufactured fertilizers and herbicides and pesticides, producing food requires far more land to be farmed. Putting more land under cultivation requires deforestation.

Why do all these experts hate the rain forests so much?

Posted by: Furious George at July 23, 2022 12:04 PM (gf7Ez)

93 We gots monkeypox coming out the wazoo!

******

What a coincidence. We got monkey pox by coming in the zoo.

/ghey men with monkeypox

(sorry Grandma)

Posted by: Muldoon at July 23, 2022 12:04 PM (kXYt5)

94 Wake me when Otterpox is a thing. That's the one that will get you by surprise.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 23, 2022 12:07 PM (epFyj)

95 Hiya, JT! Howdy, Duke!

Posted by: KT at July 23, 2022 12:07 PM (rrtZS)

96 88 Big storms moving in. Lights flickering.
Posted by: Tuna

(Giggity)

Posted by: The Greys at July 23, 2022 12:08 PM (uia9V)

97 Well, time to get on with my day. Lots of mowing to do yet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2022 12:09 PM (TBL3N)

98 At least the Fresno area is ready for the presidential campaign tour.

"Listen here FAT, we're coming in for a landing! And then my buddy Eric is gonna head over to the FANG place to do, you know, the thing, with some Chinese girls. You know how he loves doing that. I sometimes did a little of that too, you know, back when I was liberating China in World War II..."

Posted by: CppThis at July 23, 2022 12:10 PM (UewuT)

99 In the women's rest rooms were signs inside the stall doors advising that if you were being held against your will or being forced to work for very little money, you should call the airport. I didn't see a phone numbe

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In PA we have signs like these in restrooms with an 800 number for human trafficking
In English and Spanish
Blessings of liberty

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 23, 2022 12:10 PM (y8Kvt)

100 My vote is to change Fresno’s airport code from FAT to FAP. Anyone with me?

Posted by: RobertM at July 23, 2022 12:11 PM (qWhQP)

101 Thomas Bender -- It's hot in Omaha, too. 104° predicted for today. And, yes, I know it's hotter elsewhere, but I'm here, not there, and I become very unhappy when the temps top 75°.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at July 23, 2022 12:11 PM (H31K8)

102 Was kind of interested in learning Tango back in the day. Probably wouldn't look as cool with hobbit-sized legs, so I stuck with east coast swing and lindy hop. Bouncy works okay when you are stump-sized.

That was a fun video, though. Color me jealous.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 23, 2022 12:11 PM (ftFVW)

103 "I don't think airports are as exciting as they once were, back when air travel was an elite experience. But they are still interesting. I went through four of them this week, and each has its own individual characteristics"

Back when I traveled a lot, I felt just the opposite. It got to the point I couldn't tell one terminal from another. I remember going through Detroit's terminal on a connecting flight and I had to get my ticket out to remind myself what city I was in.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 23, 2022 12:12 PM (qH6FZ)

104 Become a theater critic in your approach to the news. Because I assure you you are watching a performance.

--

I view the news about the same way I view paid commercial prograns, except commercials are less dishonest

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 23, 2022 12:12 PM (y8Kvt)

105 Life on the Texas Gulf Coast.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2022 11:33 AM (JVuoD)

Holy cow!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 23, 2022 12:15 PM (y8Kvt)

106 My vote is to change Fresno’s airport code from FAT to FAP. Anyone with me?
Posted by: RobertM at July 23, 2022 12:11 PM (qWhQP)

Seconded.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 23, 2022 12:16 PM (R/m4+)

107 My vote is to change Fresno’s airport code from FAT to FAP. Anyone with me?
Posted by: RobertM at July 23, 2022 12:11 PM (qWhQP)

Seconded.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Aye.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 23, 2022 12:18 PM (ftFVW)

108 Our local airport had an observation deck where you could watch aircraft taking off and landing. Also, the local AF Reserve shared the airport and you could watch them in their F86s (yeah, over 29). I'm sure 9/11 screwed up observation decks at any airport.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 23, 2022 12:18 PM (lz5hY)

109 Wife just asked why are brown eggs more expensive than white eggs?...Anyone?

Posted by: BignJames at July 23, 2022 12:18 PM (AwYPR)

110 Other bits and bobs:

I went through SLC on Delta once, but it was back in the mid 2000s. I was not impressed, but presumably that would have been before they remodeled.

The problem re: capitalism and conservatives is that too many didn't see the difference between market capitalism and crony capitalism aka early-stage corporatism until too late.

Hollywood types are known for excessive drug consumption. Sounds like Russell Brand has picked up a major red pill habit. Yeah, sure, he's not "our guy" but saving the West from its own cultural rot will require a broad coalition who understand the problem but don't necessarily see eye to eye on everything.

Posted by: CppThis at July 23, 2022 12:18 PM (UewuT)

111 109 Because they taste better, even when the schmart experts say they don't.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 23, 2022 12:20 PM (lz5hY)

112
John Wick 4, baby!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiKXJ-ObtGk&t=59s

Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2022 12:20 PM (5NkmN)

113 99 In the women's rest rooms were signs inside the stall doors advising that if you were being held against your will or being forced to work for very little money, you should call the airport. I didn't see a phone numbe

I wonder if AOC has called that number.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 23, 2022 12:21 PM (eGTCV)

114 When Detroit Metro airport build the new main terminal 20-some years ago there were lots of complaints about the lack of signage. Seems like a common complaint. Maybe the airport personnel are so familiar with the layout they can't imagine what it's like for someone new.

Regarding economic elites and their assault on western farming and beef, their real solution isn't Impossible burgers. It's insects. Ground up, flavored, and made into an edible paste insects. You will be made to like it, or you can just starve.

Posted by: George V at July 23, 2022 12:22 PM (ugbqN)

115 Wife just asked why are brown eggs more expensive than white eggs?...Anyone?
Posted by: BignJames at July 23, 2022 12:18 PM (AwYPR

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White privilege. Duh!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2022 12:22 PM (u73oe)

116 > I'm sure 9/11 screwed up observation decks at any airport.
_____________

At the Monterey, CA airport theirs was still open when I lived nearby. Not a lot of traffic, but during the Pebble Beach Pro/Am you'd see some stellar private planes roll in. My best friend flies for SAS and they have a converted 737 as one of their corporate jets. Got a personal tour of it. Sweet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 23, 2022 12:24 PM (BFigT)

117 In an interview on MSNBC Levine opined that any mental health issues experienced by so-called transgender youths is solely because of bullying, because apparently they are all every bit as mentally and psychologically well as the Admiral himself, a grown man who had a wife and sired two children, who now claims to. be a woman. Is he so desperate to affirm his own damaged mental health as normal that he is happy to throw an entire generation of children away?
Posted by: Muldoon

I'll field this one! Yes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 23, 2022 12:24 PM (FVME7)

118 We were consideringan old house on acreage in TN. Looked at it one weekend and it had changed to just a property listing. Contacted the owner's daughter. She said that the electric box on the house was hit by lightning. The house hurned down.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 23, 2022 12:25 PM (YynYJ)

119 In the women's rest rooms were signs inside the stall doors advising that if you were being held against your will or being forced to work for very little money, you should call the airport. I didn't see a phone numbe

Here I sit broken-hearted
I came here illegally by paying a coyote $10K and got a crap job, and I get so little to eat that I can't even shit
But only farted.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2022 12:25 PM (5NkmN)

120 >>Wife just asked why are brown eggs more expensive than white eggs?...Anyone?

Not unless you are getting scammed.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2022 12:28 PM (ZLI7S)

121 Now, I'm not a biologist but . . .

Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
This person uses frogself/bug pronouns and we are expected to remember and affirm frog

https://notthebee.com/article/new-pronoun-just-dropped

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 23, 2022 12:28 PM (FVME7)

122 119 Along I40 in East Arkansas, you see a lot of human trafficking warning signs at businesses like gas stations and motels.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 23, 2022 12:28 PM (lz5hY)

123 Poutine update: less brown gravy and more fries. Also don’t use habenero cheese Kurds from the watango cheese shop. Oy! Tomorrow Okie poutine with cream gravy and jalapeños

Posted by: Blutarski at July 23, 2022 12:30 PM (Q7f21)

124 In PA we have signs like these in restrooms with an 800 number for human trafficking
In English and Spanish
Blessings of liberty

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 23, 2022 12:10 PM (y8Kvt)

There are some of those supposedly in hotel rooms along I-5

I was wondering how difficult would it be for traffickers to make up replacement stickers with their own numbers and place them ahead of time in their regular pit-stops and overnight stash hotels.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2022 12:30 PM (xhaym)

125 There's an effort underway here in the Bluegrass to convert open areas to solar farms. In some cases an entire corn/soybean field, perhaps 100 acres is being sold off to do this. Often the owners are the grandkids of the original farmer and they have zero interest in "farming."

However the politicians and commercial interests behind this are beginning to run into some push back from the local communities. There is a slow realization going on about the efficiency of solar, the environmental issues and all the other pitfalls that come with solar panels.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 23, 2022 11:32 AM (BFigT)

This was happening here in the Willamette valley. The valley produces huge amounts of fruits, vegetables, and hazelnuts (Thanks Missoula floods!). They have put a stop to these solar fields at least for a while.

Oregon has urban growth boundaries that limits the physical size of cities in order to preserve farm land but taking out farm land for solar panels in the PNW is tight!

Posted by: Beartooth at July 23, 2022 12:31 PM (u9Awk)

126 Josh Hawley ran like a bitch from The mostly peaceful Jan6 tourists

Posted by: Paul at July 23, 2022 12:32 PM (hCama)

127 I like the asterisks. They really dress up the place.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 23, 2022 12:32 PM (XG2Fi)

128 Tanks guarding banks?

Where's Clint Eastwood?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2022 12:32 PM (M0VO1)

129 Forget sofas, toasters, and chickens...

Vacuum Cleaners are the new sexy!!!

https://medium.com/backyard-theology/retired-

church-minister-convicted-of-sex-act-with-vacuum-

cleaner-786dea10a41d

(remove extra spaces)

Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2022 12:32 PM (5NkmN)

130 ...Kurds from the watango cheese shop...
Posted by: Blutarski

They still have shops? Didn't the Watonga Cheese Factory close down years ago?

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 23, 2022 12:33 PM (ftFVW)

131 brown eggs were historically marginalized

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 23, 2022 12:33 PM (sJHOI)

132 Paul is sucking dick again

Posted by: Blutarski at July 23, 2022 12:33 PM (Q7f21)

133 I hope Joey ate his food today.....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2022 12:34 PM (bs+z0)

134 128 Tanks guarding banks?

Where's Clint Eastwood?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2022 12:32 PM (M0VO1)

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I'm picturing Tank Abrams in a sexy security guard costume.

Mmmmmm.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 23, 2022 12:34 PM (XG2Fi)

135 Conservatives are obsessed with how others think about sex

Posted by: Paul at July 23, 2022 12:35 PM (hCama)

136 It might be a different one but the package says Watanga cheese. Only curds I could find. Good.

Posted by: Blutarski at July 23, 2022 12:35 PM (Q7f21)

137 I was coming back from PA and had four or so hours left on the trip. Pull off I40 to use the head and get a cup of coffee. Gas station has a big AR State Police human trafficking warning sign, and the parking lot had a lot of cars. Go in, nobody. Use the head, and noticed these entrepeneurs had a little porn theater going in the back room. Washed hands a second time, skipped the coffee and headed to Little Rock.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 23, 2022 12:35 PM (lz5hY)

138 MSP still had an observation deck as of 4-5 years ago, but it was on the gate side. Most airports have very sparse land-side amenities, probably because security is such a hassle and, yeah, they don't really want any more people milling around than necessary.

When I was living in San Diego my favoriate restaurant was the 94th Aero Squadron, a WWI themed steak-and-potatoes place situated adjacent to Montgomery Field (the private-plane airport) overlooking the runway. A few of the tables even had headphones so you could listen to the tower.

Posted by: CppThis at July 23, 2022 12:35 PM (UewuT)

139 Its all fun and games till the vacuum blows..

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2022 12:35 PM (M0VO1)

140 Kurds travel well

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 23, 2022 12:36 PM (sJHOI)

141 Ok groomer.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2022 12:36 PM (ZLI7S)

142 Paul is thinking about sucking dick again

Posted by: Blutarski at July 23, 2022 12:37 PM (Q7f21)

143 She said that the electric box on the house was hit by lightning. The house hurned down.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 23, 2022 12:25 PM (YynYJ)

Are you committed to that level of fixer-uper?

On the other hand, pre-fab homes are a lot better that the trailers I used to know.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2022 12:37 PM (xhaym)

144 I view the news about the same way I view paid commercial prograns, except commercials are less dishonest
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 23, 2022 12:12 PM (y8Kvt)

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Say what you will about Vince but he always spoke the truth about the Sham-Wow, God rest his eternal soul.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 23, 2022 12:37 PM (XG2Fi)

145 Conservatives are obsessed with how others think about sex

We're mostly tired of hearing about other people's sex.

Posted by: BignJames at July 23, 2022 12:37 PM (AwYPR)

146 Is Vince from shamwow dead?

Posted by: Blutarski at July 23, 2022 12:38 PM (Q7f21)

147 I was in Great Mistakes in 1982 and sailors were routinely getting mugged.

I had some good times in Chicago, but you went out in a group and kept your head on a swivel.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 23, 2022 12:38 PM (BiYgx)

148 You get otterpox from Otter Pops.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2022 12:38 PM (63Dwl)

149 In other money news, the Mega Millions rolled again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2022 12:39 PM (M0VO1)

150 Conservatives are obsessed with how others think about sex

Okay, groomer.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2022 12:39 PM (5NkmN)

151 Is Vince from shamwow dead?
Posted by: Blutarski

He became desiccated from handling too many highly absorbent towels

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 23, 2022 12:40 PM (ftFVW)

152 Paul ain't making no $85 an hour with those kinds of posts.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 23, 2022 12:40 PM (qH6FZ)

153 114 Regarding economic elites and their assault on western farming and beef, their real solution isn't Impossible burgers. It's insects. Ground up, flavored, and made into an edible paste insects. You will be made to like it, or you can just starve.
Posted by: George V at July 23, 2022 12:22 PM (ugbqN)

The bugs aren't sustainable at scale, either...the end goal is starvation. Ruling class has been pretty open about their belief that there's too many humans and they have a moral imperative to do something about it, Stalin style.

But the bug thing lets them pleasure themselves about how they have so much power they forced millions of people to literally eat bugs, so they'll do it on the way down. This is some serious late stage decline-and-fall-of-empires stuff, and sensible people should be making geographic and financial decisions accordingly.

Posted by: CppThis at July 23, 2022 12:40 PM (UewuT)

154 No, I'm buying a different fixer upper in KS. It was too bad though.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 23, 2022 12:41 PM (YynYJ)

155 The story about the 10yo abortion seeking illegal, her mother and the rapist is typical of the drama surrounding the child/sex trafficking biz. I'm sure that story will be memory holed if it isn't already. And the thing is, the number of Americans involved in trafficking is off the hook.

But we're not supposed to notice or talk about that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 23, 2022 12:42 PM (BFigT)

156 So what is Sarah making now? $70?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2022 12:42 PM (M0VO1)

157 A shocked churchgoer spotted 74-year-old John Jeffs wearing nothing but a pair of ladies' stockings when spotted... ahem... "in flagrante delicto" with the entirely innocent domestic appliance.

-
I think Flagrante Delicto is a neighborhood in San Francisco.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 23, 2022 12:42 PM (FVME7)

158 I'm going to the barber in a bit. I've decided to remove the goatee. I'm bored with the chin mullet.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 23, 2022 12:42 PM (eGTCV)

159 When I was living in San Diego my favoriate restaurant was the 94th Aero Squadron, a WWI themed steak-and-potatoes place situated adjacent to Montgomery Field (the private-plane airport) overlooking the runway.

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Back in my flying days when I was also poor, there was a 94th Aero Squadron alongside the runways at Van Nuys, my home airport. On really special occasions I would splurge and take Mrs. Cicero there for dinner. I could spend hours watching the planes take off and land back then but they would kick us out if we didn't keep buying drinks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 23, 2022 12:43 PM (XG2Fi)

160 Smart Military Blog: why does the robot dog not use a recoilless rifle? It see to me isn't one would solve a lot of problems

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at July 23, 2022 12:43 PM (b+v9B)

161 Tribute to Dave in Texas; Elbow Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

*scroll down

Posted by: kbdabear at July 23, 2022 12:43 PM (qAR6u)

162 For Paul:

"Freedom of speech is overrated, but not overly so"
- Thomas Jefferson

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 23, 2022 12:44 PM (sJHOI)

163 So what is Sarah making now? $70?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2022 12:42 PM (M0VO1)

Twenty bucks, same as offline.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 23, 2022 12:45 PM (qH6FZ)

164 It mops, it sops, it flops. Made in Germany and we all know the germans make good stuff.

Are you getting this camera guy? Order now and you'll get not one, not two , not three but four shamwows!

Now hurry as you I can't do this all day.

Posted by: Vince Offer, Still Alive And Selling Crap To Dumb People at July 23, 2022 12:45 PM (R/m4+)

165 My personal belief is that solar photovoltaic panels have a definite place in the energy mix but there are a number of things that a lot of people believe that are BS being promoted by the pro-solar marketing people.

Number one is that PV panels are getting cheaper because they are more efficient. No, the current panels are in some cases marginally better than the ones produced 30 years ago. The big factor in the economics is the entry of China into the production infrastructure. Low labor and material costs are what is driving this, not inherent energy efficiency.

Number two, cadmium. Cadmium sulfide was looked at about 40 years ago as a cheap and dirty PV material but the developers never got the film to be stable enough over time to make it worth while. It's not a ingredient in the current panels. So the fear mongering is overblown.

The ground water contamination issue is no greater threat than any other consumer electronic product and there is an established waste disposal chain for these items now so, properly disposed off, the lead and other nasty stuff will never end up in the ground water. There are other things much more threatening to our ground water supply.

Posted by: pawn at July 23, 2022 12:46 PM (wsHtO)

166 She said that the electric box on the house was hit by lightning. The house hurned down.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Some Moron linked this last night.

https://bit.ly/3PxvtHk

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 23, 2022 12:47 PM (FVME7)

167 129 Forget sofas, toasters, and chickens...

Vacuum Cleaners are the new sexy!!!

Posted by: naturalfake
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Isn't that from one of Zappa's "Joe's Garage" albums?

Posted by: Furious George at July 23, 2022 12:47 PM (gf7Ez)

168 158 I'm going to the barber in a bit. I've decided to remove the goatee. I'm bored with the chin mullet.

Prison pussy.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 23, 2022 12:47 PM (89T5c)

169 Watching 'Salvador' on Tubi, I'd forgotten what a performance James Woods put in. That bit where he shoves the pregnant chick at the pay phone!
"What? What? Get the fuck out of here!"
HAHAHA! Holy shit

Posted by: LenNeal at July 23, 2022 12:47 PM (U11/V)

170 Watching Once Upon a Time in Hollywood again on Hulu. With commercials. My favorite part is when they beat dirty hippies to death

Posted by: Blutarski at July 23, 2022 12:51 PM (SLCij)

171 Well, one thing, if we let the commies be in charge of making burgers from cockroaches and mosquitoes, we'll soon have a cockroach and mosquito shortage.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 23, 2022 12:53 PM (FVME7)

172 Conservatives are obsessed with how others think about sex
Posted by: Paul at July 23, 2022 12:35 PM (hCama)

Paul actively trying to catch Monkeypox.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 23, 2022 12:54 PM (epFyj)

173 Watched "Destry Rides Again" last night on The Criterion Channel.

Good old-fashioned Hollywood Western with James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich.

Just wants to entertain you.

BONUS! Clearly was the inspiration for much of "Blazing Saddles".

Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2022 12:54 PM (5NkmN)

174 157 A shocked churchgoer spotted 74-year-old John Jeffs wearing nothing but a pair of ladies' stockings when spotted... ahem... "in flagrante delicto" with the entirely innocent domestic appliance

A guy from my high school class was caught masturbating in the greeting card section of the Sears store. The day he appeared in court happened to be the day our civics class was observing court proceedings.

Now I'm wondering what happened to him. There's no way I'm mentioning his name but what are the odds he has cleaned up his act and i now a Moron in good standing?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 23, 2022 12:55 PM (eGTCV)

175 Watching Once Upon a Time in Hollywood again on Hulu. With commercials. My favorite part is when they beat dirty hippies to death
Posted by: Blutarski at July 23, 2022 12:51 PM (SLCij)

I'm in the minority but I only liked the ranch scene. And that was a great scene all the way around.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 23, 2022 12:56 PM (epFyj)

176 Listen to your friend, Billy Zane, he's tryin' to help you out.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 23, 2022 12:56 PM (vuisn)

177 170 In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, they show the revolver used by the Manson Family. Used was a High Standard Longhorn, shown was a Ruger Single Six with long barrel. Detail oriented little prick I am.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 23, 2022 12:56 PM (lz5hY)

178 The ranch scene is on now

Posted by: Blutarski at July 23, 2022 12:57 PM (SLCij)

179 Geraldo Rivera@GeraldoRivera
Liz Cheney is a once-in-a-generation stand up hero. Unlike everyone else involved, she has put her career in peril, and stayed in the fight. History will honor her. In the meantime, it's up to Wyoming.

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Well, if a towering intellect like Jerry Rivers says so.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 23, 2022 12:57 PM (FVME7)

180 Yet conservatives also deserve credit for this catastrophe. They're the ones who are constantly going on about the blessings of capitalism and free trade.

I think it's corruption and cronyism that's causing the issues the writer is complaining about.

Those so-called "conservatives" causing the problems are enabling corruption and cronyism and gaslighting us by pretending it's free market capitalism.

Posted by: Emmie at July 23, 2022 12:57 PM (6RgRK)

181 >>> the electric box on the house was hit by lightning. The house hurned down.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Some days are better than others.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 23, 2022 12:57 PM (nZg+m)

182 174 United States Senator, or at least GS14 material.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 23, 2022 12:58 PM (lz5hY)

183 A guy from my high school class was caught masturbating in the greeting card section of the Sears store. The day he appeared in court happened to be the day our civics class was observing court proceedings.

Now I'm wondering what happened to him. There's no way I'm mentioning his name but what are the odds he has cleaned up his act and i now a Moron in good standing?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench

Wild guess. Was his name Jeff Toobin?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 23, 2022 12:59 PM (FVME7)

184 Didn't Kalifornia ban plastic straws based on an essay by some young teen?

Maybe we could find one to do a write up concerning the horrors of solar panels.

Posted by: Fool Otto at July 23, 2022 01:00 PM (DB16e)

185 Solar panels kill the gay whales!!!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2022 01:01 PM (u73oe)

186 Now I'm wondering what happened to him. There's no way I'm mentioning his name but what are the odds he has cleaned up his act and i now a Moron in good standing?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 23, 2022 12:55 PM (eGTCV)

Are implying the episode in Sears would be inconsistent with being a Moron in good standing? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 23, 2022 01:02 PM (cupoy)

187 A solar panel once but my sister.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2022 01:03 PM (u73oe)

188 Solar panels make faggot frogs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 23, 2022 01:03 PM (89T5c)

189 135 Conservatives are obsessed with how others think about sex
Posted by: Paul at July 23, 2022 12:35 PM (hCama)

Ha ha! Good one!

Actually, we would really, really like it if the perverts would stop insisting that we need to spend any of our mental energy and mental tranquility thinking about their sexual perversions. We prefer to NOT bother about what other people are thinking, about anything.

Posted by: Emmie at July 23, 2022 01:05 PM (6RgRK)

190

Dilbert mentions Morons and Spartacus.

https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-07-23

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2022 01:05 PM (63Dwl)

191
@TheRealKeean
It's official. Trudeau's meeting with provincial agriculture ministers wrapped up yesterday. He is moving forward with a 30% fertilizer reduction. Farms will fail, land will he purchased by billionaires/the government, and people will starve. Farmers are rising up today.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 23, 2022 01:05 PM (BJKQV)

192 186 Guy was thinking, here I am in Sears. Sears has Allstate. You know, the good hands people.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 23, 2022 01:06 PM (lz5hY)

193 157 . . . I think Flagrante Delicto is a neighborhood in San Francisco.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent
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Lindsay Graham's secret Twitter account.

Posted by: Furious George at July 23, 2022 01:06 PM (gf7Ez)

194 >>> 153 114 Regarding economic elites and their assault on western farming and beef, their real solution isn't Impossible burgers. It's insects. Ground up, flavored, and made into an edible paste insects. You will be made to like it, or you can just starve.
Posted by: George V at July 23, 2022 12:22 PM (ugbqN)

The bugs aren't sustainable at scale, either...the end goal is starvation. Ruling class has been pretty open about their belief that there's too many humans and they have a moral imperative to do something about it, Stalin style.

But the bug thing lets them pleasure themselves about how they have so much power they forced millions of people to literally eat bugs, so they'll do it on the way down. This is some serious late stage decline-and-fall-of-empires stuff, and sensible people should be making geographic and financial decisions accordingly.
Posted by: CppThis at July 23, 2022 12:40 PM (UewuT)

Yes.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 23, 2022 01:06 PM (llON8)

195 Who said this?

I'm sure it clears it out ( potential candidates) significantly," of a potential scenario of Trump running again in 2024. "We'll see what happens. Look, the lay of the land is everyone is waiting to see what Trump decides to do. Anyone who tells you they're not is lying to you. And he's going to decide on whatever time frame he desires."

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 23, 2022 01:07 PM (epFyj)

196 Yeah, he's a Moron.
Prolly misses Sears.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 23, 2022 01:07 PM (nZg+m)

197 "Is a man running into a burning building to save four kids' lives part of this patriarchy thing?
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Then running back in for a fifth child? THERE'S some toxic masculinity!"

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Add white supremacy to that for being punctual.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 23, 2022 01:08 PM (Wg1SU)

198 Hope the Canadian farmers were paying attention during the trucker protests.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2022 01:09 PM (u73oe)

199 We prefer to NOT bother about what other people are thinking, about anything.
Posted by: Emmie at July 23, 2022 01:05 PM (6RgRK)

Except for Paul, we care what he fantasizes about since his parole officer needs the update.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2022 01:10 PM (xhaym)

200 Had a guy in my HS class caught jerking off in the W.T. Grant store. Poor fucker went nowhere.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 23, 2022 01:10 PM (lz5hY)

201 Very sorry to hear about the passing of Dave in Texas. I read The Crap Tree every year, usually in November, it helps motivate me to decorate for Christmas. Yes, I am a colored lights person. I hope his wife saves his Christmas ornament collection for their children.
We will not see his like again.

Posted by: Nancy at 7000 ft at July 23, 2022 01:10 PM (0tmoY)

202 It's grilled cheese for breakfast.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 23, 2022 01:11 PM (nZg+m)

203
Hope the Canadian farmers were paying attention during the trucker protests.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Prince Justin will confiscate their land for "taxes."

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

204 An America that prosecutes you for wanking off in the greeting card section of Sears is an America that I don't want to live in.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 23, 2022 01:11 PM (XG2Fi)

205 That's a great video! I hate wind turbines. And I got to see the really big ones that Carter had built, before they were torn down.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 23, 2022 01:11 PM (YynYJ)

206 Is there a way for the people to subvert those trying to starve us? Like, can places produce more fertilizer than allowed by government? Can people somehow get the fertilizer to the farmers outside of government interference?

Posted by: Emmie at July 23, 2022 01:12 PM (6RgRK)

207 Didn't Kalifornia ban plastic straws based on an essay by some young teen?

It has been scientifically established that there is a floating mass of plastic out somewhere in the Pacific that is the size of South America, and it's clogging up the blowholes of the whales. Therefore, here in California we're doing our part by banning plastic straws.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 23, 2022 01:13 PM (XG2Fi)

208 One thing I can't understand is why the billionaires who think there are too many of consuming things and want us reduced to eating bugs apparently have no trouble allowing in millions of new illegals each year to consume even more.

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2022 01:15 PM (mR6Gs)

209 After Montgomery Ward's closed, Store masturbation was never the same.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 23, 2022 01:15 PM (89T5c)

210 OUT: Sharks with frickin' laser beams
IN: Robot dogs with frickin' machine guns

Posted by: TheMitch at July 23, 2022 01:15 PM (cDITE)

211 Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2022 01:10 PM (xhaym)

Lol!

Posted by: Emmie at July 23, 2022 01:15 PM (6RgRK)

212 Never thought I'd say this, but Sri Lanka has shown the way. These government officials and oligarchs won't stop until they're made to stop.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2022 01:15 PM (u73oe)

213 I want to thank everyone on the prayer chain for their prayers and thoughts. I can tell you, it helps.

That said, as I was reading through it I had to laugh.
I could just see St Pete at his desk next to God reviewing the list and saying, "Those Morons are at it again Boss. Who else would ask for help except folks calling themselves Bear with asymmetrical balls, My Pimp Shot My Dealer, San Franpsycho, and Nurse Ratchet?"

"Grant them peace," says God. "These people are the salt of the earth, and they make me smile."

Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2022 01:15 PM (anj39)

214 Aided and abetted by despicable government authorities such as the Levine.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 23, 2022 11:29 AM (kXYt5)

Destroying countless kids so people like Levine can feel better about looking like a dude in a dress.

Evil.

Posted by: chique l'African ViQueen of Greenland, the Merciless, open to talks with the Great MAGA King at July 23, 2022 01:16 PM (rF64X)

215 212 Never thought I'd say this, but Sri Lanka has shown the way. These government officials and oligarchs won't stop until they're made to stop.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2022 01:15 PM (u73oe)

Except, don't let them get away.

Posted by: davidt at July 23, 2022 01:18 PM (oTZbj)

216 Destroying countless kids so people like Levine can feel better about looking like a dude in a dress.

Evil.
Posted by: chique l'African ViQueen of Greenland, the Merciless, open to talks with the Great MAGA King at July 23, 2022 01:16 PM (rF64X)

How can any sane person take one look at that hideous joke and think he has anything of value to say on any subject?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 23, 2022 01:18 PM (XG2Fi)

217 Well, one thing, if we let the commies be in charge of making burgers from cockroaches and mosquitoes, we'll soon have a cockroach and mosquito shortage.
Posted by: Anonosaurus
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A most cromulent observation.

Posted by: Milton Friedman at July 23, 2022 01:18 PM (A+/mw)

218 A most cromulent observation.
Posted by: Milton Friedman at July 23, 2022 01:18 PM (A+/mw)

Can you make burgers from the sand in the Sahara Desert?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 23, 2022 01:19 PM (XG2Fi)

219 How can any sane person take one look at that hideous joke and think he has anything of value to say on any subject?
Posted by: Cicero
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To do otherwise, would be a thought crime.

Posted by: Winston Smith at July 23, 2022 01:20 PM (A+/mw)

220 Hey, that cute little Oreck was coming onto me!

Posted by: Pastor Regular joe at July 23, 2022 01:21 PM (nnp+f)

221 Berenson manages a two-fer: he takes a swipe at the pResident while making a point about the "vaccines"

https://tinyurl.com/3873zbyd

goes to the tw@tts

Posted by: kallisto at July 23, 2022 01:21 PM (dCxaZ)

222 > It's official. Trudeau's meeting with provincial agriculture ministers wrapped up yesterday. He is moving forward with a 30% fertilizer reduction.

Apparently it has escaped Fidelito Elliott Bieber's notice that most of his country is currently uninhabitable tundra which (if "climate change" actually occurs) will become valuable real estate.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2022 01:21 PM (bW8dp)

223 A most cromulent observation.
Posted by: Milton Friedman at July 23, 2022 01:18 PM (A+/mw)

Can you make burgers from the sand in the Sahara Desert?
Posted by: Cicero
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100% organic, ergo, good.

Posted by: Milton Friedman at July 23, 2022 01:21 PM (A+/mw)

224 garden thread is nood

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 23, 2022 01:22 PM (llON8)

225 The fertilizer bans are nothing more than a land grab.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2022 01:22 PM (u73oe)

226 So much for "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality.

Things are not broken, so the left makes up reasons for what works to be "not good for X". For example, the entire "green" movement is based on lies. Oil and gasoline and plastic and everything else they bitch about are not "destroying the planet". Never have been. This has been proven over the past 50+ years as every single one of their predictions has not come to fruition.

Yet, for the past 2 decades since "An Inconvenient Truth" movement started, every single industry and corporation and government in the world now pushes economy-destroying and actual planet-destroying (i.e. lack of clearing forests leads to wildfires) "green" policies.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 23, 2022 11:38 AM (Do5/p)

Yep. Same thing with common core math. Traditional ways of teaching mathematics for centuries that led to all the advancement and technology we take for granted today weren't good enough. We needed mediocre (at best) "educators" to show us how it's really done.

Posted by: chique l'African ViQueen of Greenland, the Merciless, open to talks with the Great MAGA King at July 23, 2022 01:23 PM (rF64X)

227 That Oreck had the firmest dirt bag, if you know what I mean and I think you do...

Posted by: Pastor Regular joe at July 23, 2022 01:23 PM (nnp+f)

228 > A guy from my high school class was caught masturbating in the greeting card section of the Sears store.

That's sick. Why can't he be a normal guy and do that in the Junior Miss section?

Posted by: Dopey Joe Biden at July 23, 2022 01:23 PM (bW8dp)

229 FYI, there's a horticultural-themed NOOD up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 23, 2022 01:24 PM (XG2Fi)

230 There is a Dutch blogger who posts about Covid, psychedelics and the merits of global warming mitigation, and as far as I can tell his only real good points are his Covid Vax information because he uses actual data.

He went silent recently about global warming and gaia degradation, but I don't know if it is because of events on the ground there, or if it is because he tried to sort out the "normies" by putting in a password system, and he still got bitchslapped by his commenters.

It must be horrible to think "if normies were forced to research these answers they would change their minds" and discover that his detractors can do a google search as well as his ass-kissers.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2022 01:24 PM (xhaym)

231 NOOD KT's garden!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 23, 2022 01:24 PM (I2ZL9)

232 Disappointed in the finale of The Old Man. Mainly because I did not know there would be a second season thus they ended with a Cliff hanger. It was good but not great otherwise.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 23, 2022 01:24 PM (epFyj)

233 217

A most cromulent observation.

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Crom is pleased.

Posted by: Conan the barbarian at July 23, 2022 01:25 PM (Wg1SU)

234 An America that prosecutes you for wanking off in the greeting card section of Sears is an America that I don't want to live in.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 23, 2022 01:11 PM (XG2Fi)

We provided a catalog with all the visual stimuli a young man could need to to prevent him from doing in one of our stores what could easily be done in the confines of his own room.

Posted by: Zombie Sears at July 23, 2022 01:26 PM (mR6Gs)

235 I gave up on The Old Man after five episodes.
Boring.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2022 01:26 PM (anj39)

236 How can any sane person take one look at that hideous joke and think he has anything of value to say on any subject?

Our "betters" have been setting this up for a long time. The unwashed masses have come to accept this carnival freak show as the new normal.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 23, 2022 01:26 PM (Xrfse)

237 Hope everyone is staying cool this afternoon, inside all day so haven't been out since 0800

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 23, 2022 01:27 PM (awGkk)

238 Crom is pleased.
Posted by: Conan the barbarian at July 23, 2022 01:25 PM (Wg1SU)

Crom! Count the insightful observations!

--Conan the Librarian

Posted by: 29Victor at July 23, 2022 01:28 PM (BJKQV)

239 5 I gave up on The Old Man after five episodes.
Boring.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2022 01:26 PM (anj39)

Yes agree it was slower than I like but I felt they were building up to something .

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 23, 2022 01:28 PM (epFyj)

240 Yes agree it was slower than I like but I felt they were building up to something .
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 23, 2022 01:28 PM (epFyj)

Good actors and performances too, but slow.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2022 01:29 PM (anj39)

241 Getting into triple digits here today. According to the local news, it's never been hot before.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2022 01:30 PM (u73oe)

242 How can any sane person take one look at that hideous joke and think he has anything of value to say on any subject?
Posted by: Cicero
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The Dems/Oligarchs/Marxists are conducting an experiment to find out exactly how far they can go and still expect acceptance by the public.

So far, there seems no limit. Thus, they are encouraged. Tranny/Cross-dressing story hour for young children is a fine (if disgusting) example of the progression.

Stalin had a well-developed plan for destroying countries from within. It proceeds apace.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2022 01:30 PM (lRqp7)

243 A guy from my high school class was caught masturbating in the greeting card section of the Sears store.

That's sick. Why can't he be a normal guy and do that in the Junior Miss section?

Posted by: Dopey Joe Biden at July 23, 2022 01:23 PM (bW8dp)
***

Especially since they got a new line of clothing in from the Onan collection.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2022 01:31 PM (anj39)

244 The hippie beating scene is coming up!

Posted by: Blutarski at July 23, 2022 01:34 PM (5suUi)

245
Especially since they got a new line of clothing in from the Onan collection.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Apparently there is a nood, which probably addresses spilling seed on the ground.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2022 01:34 PM (lRqp7)

246 Kirby loves Kirby

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2022 01:35 PM (63Dwl)

247 The hippie beating scene is coming up!
Posted by: Blutarski at July 23, 2022 01:34 PM (5suUi)

Almost satisfying but my main problem is if Tarantino was going to do a revisionist history, he should have had Manson beat to death too.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 23, 2022 01:37 PM (epFyj)

248 I don't think I've ever despised anyone as much as I despise Justin Trudeau. I think I need to go away before some type of rage stroke adds my name to that list on the left. (I'll be fine.)

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 23, 2022 01:40 PM (eGTCV)

249 241 Getting into triple digits here today. According to the local news, it's never been hot before.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2022 01:30 PM (u73oe)

I survived the summer of 1980 in North Texas: 15 plus days of 110 plus heat. Some days were 115. But this summer's heat is totally unprecedented...

Posted by: Moki at July 23, 2022 01:40 PM (JrN/x)

250 I need to find some compostable garbage bags thanks to the town providing composting bins for collection at the curb.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 23, 2022 01:43 PM (eGTCV)

251 I survived the summer of 1980 in North Texas: 15 plus days of 110 plus heat. Some days were 115. But this summer's heat is totally unprecedented...
Posted by: Moki at July 23, 2022 01:40 PM (JrN/x)

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I grew up in Plano and was there for that heatwave. Then a couple years later had a record cold winter.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2022 01:43 PM (u73oe)

252 55 49 I wonder if that man who says he is a women and is now an admiral. Does the navy raise a flag on a navy ship when he boards. Does he get command of the ship. With so many strips on his sleeves, he should get all the privileges of other admirals I think.
He probably has a baking soda powered ship in his bathtub, does that count.
Posted by: Colin at July 23, 2022 11:40 AM (YVx1O

Levine wouldn't be considered Line in any military service. Courtesies due to rank, yes. Command, no.

Posted by: Fox2! at July 23, 2022 01:45 PM (qyH+l)

253 I went to a conference on inner city ministry in Dallas many years ago. I don't remember all that much but I do remember a speaker introducing himself as a Plano country preacher.
Don't why I remember that in particular.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 23, 2022 01:46 PM (eGTCV)

254
What's this?

The fake globalist "health" organization, "WHO," has "officially" declared "monkey pox" a "global health emergency."

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at July 23, 2022 01:47 PM (/VHKu)

255 Speaking of airport observation decks, if you're ever in Fredericksburg, TX check out the Hangar Hotel adjacent to the airport. Just a small private aviation airport, but the hotel has a verandah that overlooks the runways and you can watch planes go an come.

1940s themed decor and music. Haven't been there in a while (since Covid) but the Officers' Club (bar) made awesome martinis when we were there.

On holidays they have oldies dances, either 40s or 50s music.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at July 23, 2022 01:47 PM (fTtFy)

256 Oh the airport front, occasionally I'd catch connecting business flights in Phoenix.

And every damned time, I'd have to go from one end of the terminal to the other.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 23, 2022 01:48 PM (ZSK0i)

257 Supposed to get to below 90 by 5 pm in Houston . That would be great.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 23, 2022 01:51 PM (epFyj)

258 I remember the 1988 heat wave in Ohio vividly. I had just been married in the spring and we were just getting settled into a new house. IIRC, the temps reached or surpassed 100 for nearly 2 weeks. Obviously can't compete with temps in the SW, but it was pretty brutal. My beautiful lawn up and died, it up and died.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 23, 2022 01:52 PM (Xrfse)

259 256 Oh the airport front, occasionally I'd catch connecting business flights in Phoenix.

And every damned time, I'd have to go from one end of the terminal to the other.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 23, 2022 01:48 PM (ZSK0i)

I never had too much trouble in PHX, but I only flew through there on Southwest and they just have a big block of the airport for themselves. They practically own the place, so I could see the other carriers being stuffed here and there across the terminal where space permits.

Posted by: CppThis at July 23, 2022 01:55 PM (UewuT)

260 The Supreme Court's conservatives are using the shadow docket to fast-track the right wing legal movement's pet projects. _Dahlia Lithwick, Slate

Slate and Lithwick are in a froth over the Supreme Court's conservative decisions. She repeatedly uses the term shadow docket, a term that didn't exist until liberally coined in 2015, to deride the courts decisions.

"The court's rollback of abortion rights is just the beginning: In upcoming terms, Americans are likely to witness an erosion of LGBTQ rights, attacks on the right to vote, an end to affirmative action, and threats to future elections."

Yes, Dahlia, that's a good start list.
https://bit.ly/3vbNWB5

Posted by: Braenyard at July 23, 2022 01:58 PM (nZg+m)

261 I find it amusing that even the lib justices found the bench legislation aspect of Roe distasteful, but as soon as the court kicks this obviously legislative matter back to the legislatures it's A Threat To Our Precious Democracy.

Posted by: CppThis at July 23, 2022 02:01 PM (UewuT)

262 They practically own the place, so I could see the other carriers being stuffed here and there across the terminal where space permits.
Posted by: CppThis at July 23, 2022 01:55 PM (UewuT)

My employer always used American and PHX was not DFW at all.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 23, 2022 02:01 PM (ZSK0i)

263 Went out to close the gate at 8:00pm last night and the temp was 97 with a 20 mph breeze. It was chilly.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2022 02:04 PM (h/SGg)

264 Can't say it enough, but if you live in a blue state, the time to leave was yesterday.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2022 02:05 PM (u73oe)

265 The other amusing thing about abortion is that they had 40 years to pass federal legislation enshrining this ostensibly super important thing, but they never did. Did it not occur to them that, in the absence of a bluntly worded "shall not be infringed" type clause in the Constitution, relying entirely on a single SCOTUS decision to protect their special thing was bad strategy?

Posted by: CppThis at July 23, 2022 02:09 PM (UewuT)

266 Burr's take on Abortion is subtle but effective like Dave Chapelle's warning years ago that the radical left was forcing people to oppose them. Burr often writes for Chapelle (and wrote for his show) so its no surprise these ideas team up.

But lately Burr has become very... weak and seems to have lost his gonads.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2022 02:10 PM (Ivdso)

267 The last couple of times flying to CA, I flew into Sacramento instead of SFO. Much quicker to get to Napa. Much less traffic and no toll bridges.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2022 02:14 PM (h/SGg)

268 I'm a little baffled about the shrieking about threats to LGBTQ+++ rights. What are they talking about? Are they will lose the right to be anally penetrated?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 23, 2022 02:15 PM (LAmgw)

269 Can't say it enough, but if you live in a blue state, the time to leave was yesterday.
Posted by: Duke Lowell
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Yeah, well, there are worse things than living in a very red, very rural, and heavily armed area of a blue state.

At least our progeny live in the Ozarks.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 23, 2022 02:19 PM (fcMne)

270 Hey Ben Had!

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 23, 2022 02:19 PM (fcMne)

271 I get paid more than $85 every hour for working on the web. I found out about this activity 3 months prior and subsequent to joining this I have earned effectively $15k from this without having internet working abilities.

I posted this comment with the power of my mind rather than through the internet.

Posted by: Sarah at July 23, 2022 02:22 PM (et+lh)

272 Is everybody a fag or are they now lying to us about monkeypox?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 23, 2022 02:23 PM (0ocXn)

273 $85 an hour, Sarah? Did you get demoted?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2022 02:23 PM (u73oe)

274 266 But lately Burr has become very... weak and seems to have lost his gonads.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2022 02:10 PM (Ivdso)

Comedians are in a really tough spot right now. Most of them aren't rich and the big comedy markets are very, very donkified so they're trapped between what they want to say and what they have to say to not be blackballed.

Posted by: CppThis at July 23, 2022 02:25 PM (UewuT)

275 Is there an AoSHQ vaccine for Sarah?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 23, 2022 02:25 PM (Xrfse)

276 I bet someone could get paid 85 bucks an hour to change Joey's poopy trousers. There's probably even a bonus if the applicant has sniffable hair.

Posted by: CppThis at July 23, 2022 02:27 PM (UewuT)

277 The other amusing thing about abortion is that they had 40 years to pass federal legislation enshrining this ostensibly super important thing, but they never did. Did it not occur to them that, in the absence of a bluntly worded "shall not be infringed" type clause in the Constitution, relying entirely on a single SCOTUS decision to protect their special thing was bad strategy?
Posted by: CppThis at July 23, 2022 02:09 PM (UewuT)

The other tactical error was pushing abortion like it was a thing to be celebrated, ALMOST as if every woman should have one as a sort of sick, twisted Satanic right-of-passage, a sacrament even. That and making people who disagreed with the procedure PAY for it and forcing religious institutions to PERFORM it.

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2022 02:27 PM (mR6Gs)

278

Sarah has monkeypox mouth, hence the discount...

Posted by: Zombie Idi Amin at July 23, 2022 02:28 PM (AAJn+)

279 SMH, you have been watching "The Chosen" haven't you?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2022 02:31 PM (h/SGg)

280 277 The other tactical error was pushing abortion like it was a thing to be celebrated, ALMOST as if every woman should have one as a sort of sick, twisted Satanic right-of-passage, a sacrament even. That and making people who disagreed with the procedure PAY for it and forcing religious institutions to PERFORM it.
Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2022 02:27 PM (mR6Gs)

That's a really good point. I know a number of very religious, right wing types and almost all of them started out at "abortion should be minimized" and have grown gradually more openly opposed to it in response to the feminazis' vaguely religious treatment of it. I'm probably on the young side of that curve...I really don't care about abortion because it's not my fight but if we're gonna go with pregnant men and post-birth abortion then fuck it, burn Roe to the waterline.

Posted by: CppThis at July 23, 2022 02:33 PM (UewuT)

281 Is there an AoSHQ vaccine for Sarah?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 23, 2022 02:25 PM

No, but 100mg of Fukitol will make her easier to ignore.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 23, 2022 02:37 PM (RkC6l)

282 No, but 100mg of Fukitol will make her easier to ignore.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 23, 2022 02:37 PM (RkC6

Or she herself should take Enditol

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2022 02:41 PM (mR6Gs)

283 Santa Rosa airport gets you right into Napa.
Named after Charles Schultz.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, 59 degrees and foggy at July 23, 2022 02:48 PM (jTmQV)

284 gourmand, last trip out there was in 1999. I don't remember Santa Rosa being an option at that time.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2022 02:55 PM (h/SGg)

285 Ben Had, it wasn't but now it is.
It started as a small airport but now it is greatly enlarged. Some friends of mine fly out of there regularly, who previously had to get on a bus to SFO. They recently flew direct to Seattle, Phoenix, LAX, all kinds of domestic destinations.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, 59 degrees and foggy at July 23, 2022 02:58 PM (jTmQV)

286 >>> there are worse things than living in a very red, very rural, and heavily armed area of a blue state.

At least our progeny live in the Ozarks.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming
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Knew a couple who were from southern IL.
I thought they were from KY.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 23, 2022 03:44 PM (nZg+m)

287 HOW THE MOVEMENT TO REINSTATE PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS GONE FAR BEYOND HIM - AND NOW THREATENS THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS.

Trump had jolted American politics, probably irrevocably, by urging his supporters to see themselves as an American people distinct from the American population - a people whose particular loyalties, identities and values designated them as the nation's true inheritors, regardless of what the ballots might have said.
...
The hole he punched in American democracy, out of sheer self-interest, had allowed his followers to glimpse a vision of the country restored to its divinely ordained promise that lay beyond that democracy _NYT via Yahoo

They're squealing.

,

Posted by: Braenyard at July 23, 2022 03:58 PM (nZg+m)

288 there are worse things than living in a very red, very rural, and heavily armed area of a blue state.

At least our progeny live in the Ozarks.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming
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Now this is thinking that fits well into the 42nd Ave militia/outdoor recreation and services committee.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2022 04:00 PM (anj39)

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