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Penguin Care Cafe

cochemgermany.jpg
Reichsberg Castle at Cochem, Germany (video)
photo by butnomatter.theroadislife
This is return engagement for the castle at the cafe.

Fighting gamecock.

The lamb of autumn.


They invented a slightly more exciting form of soccer.

Dog failed lifeguard training on day one.

Big dog asserts his size privilege.

Koala, plus hidden bonus mini-koala.

Knock knock.

Puppy eating the rain.

That's not a switchback. This is a switchback.

Some days you just can't weigh a penguin.

Goodbye, little friend.

Posted by: Ace at 08:00 PM




Comments

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1 First???

Posted by: Diogenes at October 24, 2022 08:00 PM (anj39)

2 First

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2022 08:01 PM (ftFVW)

3 Oh yeah Baby!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 24, 2022 08:01 PM (anj39)

4 Curses! Foiled again.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2022 08:01 PM (ftFVW)

5 She Hobbit

It was so good to meet you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 24, 2022 08:02 PM (u82oZ)

6 Was waiting for Cafe

Posted by: Skip at October 24, 2022 08:03 PM (xhxe8)

7 I'd like to thank all the little people out there...oh what am I saying? To heck with them. I'm first!
*does.happy dance causing dog to bark*

Posted by: Diogenes at October 24, 2022 08:04 PM (anj39)

8 Penguin Cafe Orchestra, "The Ecstasy of Dancing Fleas":

https://tinyurl.com/2p99vfdc

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 24, 2022 08:04 PM (Dc2NZ)

9 Dog isn't life Guard training, it was trying to drown the guy

Posted by: Skip at October 24, 2022 08:04 PM (xhxe8)

10 Little penguin goes to sea. Cute.

Posted by: Eromero at October 24, 2022 08:05 PM (0OP+5)

11 2nd time for that Schloss in the cafe. First photo was a shot from the castle, looking downriver.

Beautiful little part of Germany. Can recommend taking the slow boat up river from Trier, and sampling the wines and delectables at the little towns where it stops. Just got as far as that town (Cochem) when I was there, probably similar if you continue onwards.

Wines are generally off-dry whites, though with those shale hillside vineyards, I'm sure there are plenty of drier ones with mineral qualities.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 24, 2022 08:06 PM (OTzUX)

12 I never get tired of castles or baby elephants.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 24, 2022 08:06 PM (NpAcC)

13 It was so good to meet you.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

And you, good sir.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2022 08:08 PM (ftFVW)

14 Beautiful little part of Germany. Can recommend taking the slow boat up river from Trier, and sampling the wines and delectables at the little towns where it stops.


This.

Have done that trip twice and it is fantastic! Food and wines are awesome.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 24, 2022 08:08 PM (anj39)

15 I'd like to thank all the little people out there...oh what am I saying? To heck with them. I'm first!
*does.happy dance causing dog to bark*
Posted by: Diogenes

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2022 08:08 PM (ftFVW)

16 Talk about driving 10 miles to go 1, is all that necessary?

Posted by: Skip at October 24, 2022 08:09 PM (xhxe8)

17 That's a heck of a castle right there. Awesome photo.

I wonder what those buttress looking things are in the woods behind the town. Keeping the hill from collapsing?

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at October 24, 2022 08:09 PM (YJwUM)

18 Stop being so rough with it, Junior, or it will fall off.

Posted by: Mama Elephant at October 24, 2022 08:09 PM (ftFVW)

19 4 Curses! Foiled again.
Posted by: She Hobbit

Life is hard, yo!
And welcome to the most illustrious cadre of Not Firsts!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana! ~ at October 24, 2022 08:09 PM (hOUT3)

20 Dirty little penguin

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at October 24, 2022 08:10 PM (sn5EN)

21 I do the same thing as the baby elephant all the time- Mrs. Farmer calls it my "sexy" dance.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 24, 2022 08:11 PM (eGccS)

22 That Mendoza switchback is actually Nazca(r) Lines for alien hotrodders.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 24, 2022 08:11 PM (Dc2NZ)

23 Youngstown State University's mascot is Pete the Penguin (for the benefit of those who thought it was Icepick Sal).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 24, 2022 08:11 PM (lz5hY)

24 Saw blues and yellow-eyes (hoiho) in New Zealand. Blues were out in the water where we did a long kayak trip up in Marlborough, but they weren't curious, unlike the juvenile sea lions that would always come up and sniff and check us out.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 24, 2022 08:11 PM (OTzUX)

25 I do the same thing as the baby elephant all the time- Mrs. Farmer calls it my "sexy" dance.
Posted by: Farmer Bob

*snort*

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2022 08:12 PM (ftFVW)

26 That penguin video didn't show the part where the orca swallowed him.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 24, 2022 08:12 PM (eGTCV)

27 *waves to She Hobbit in admiration* Lady, I never knew anybody that could keep up with Spongebuddy but WOW.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 24, 2022 08:13 PM (JhWno)

28 Marcus T. correctly called me out on an earlier thread for cheap shots regarding Dan Crenshaw's eye. While I don't like Crenshaw's political persona, denigrating a service-related injury of someone who served honorably was pretty scummy on my part. I have no excuse and hereby apologize to any current or former honorable service members or family members. I need to be a better man. That's all.

Posted by: Muldoon at October 24, 2022 08:13 PM (kXYt5)

29 26 That penguin video didn't show the part where the orca swallowed him.
Posted by: That NLurker guy

I was also expecting that.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2022 08:13 PM (ftFVW)

30 Beautiful little part of Germany. Can recommend taking the slow boat up river from Trier, and sampling the wines and delectables at the little towns where it stops. Just got as far as that town (Cochem) when I was there, probably similar if you continue onwards.

Wines are generally off-dry whites, though with those shale hillside vineyards, I'm sure there are plenty of drier ones with mineral qualities.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 24, 2022 08:06 PM (OTzUX)


Yep. Spent months in the Rhineland, had plenty of Riesling. Not my favorite wine, but pretty good in most circumstances.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 24, 2022 08:14 PM (tp+tP)

31 Law of unintended consequences

As Russia Gets Weaker, Xi Jinping May Forgo Taiwan To Grab Eastern Russia

Posted by: SMOD at October 24, 2022 08:14 PM (uV9QM)

32 I'd like to thank all the little people out there...oh what am I saying? To heck with them. I'm first!
*does.happy dance causing dog to bark*
Posted by: Diogenes

This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2022 08:08 PM (ftFVW)
***
Nooooo!
Not at all.
Id never talk down to you like that.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 24, 2022 08:14 PM (anj39)

33 "Weighing the penguin" sounds like a Monty Python euphemism for something.

Posted by: mikeski at October 24, 2022 08:14 PM (P1f+c)

34 Law of unintended consequences

As Russia Gets Weaker, Xi Jinping May Forgo Taiwan To Grab Eastern Russia

You want nukes? This is how you get nukes.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2022 08:15 PM (eOEVl)

35 *waves to She Hobbit in admiration* Lady, I never knew anybody that could keep up with Spongebuddy but WOW.
Posted by: Ben Had

Ha, it helps when the audience has had a few drinks. And the dancers, too.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2022 08:16 PM (ftFVW)

36 Speaking of Germany

Remember that elderly guy near Kiel Germany who in 2015 had his private Panther tank and Flak 88 seized by the government?

It took about six years of legal wrangling but last year the man was fined 250,000 Euros and ordered to sell them and his collection off in two years.

Well that would be one way to spend part of tonight's Powerball jackpot. Nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 08:16 PM (59VTx)

37 South Americans love them some switchbacks.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 24, 2022 08:16 PM (ZLI7S)

38 I do the same thing as the baby elephant all the time- Mrs. Farmer calls it my "sexy" dance.
Posted by: Farmer Bob

*snort*
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2022 08:12 PM (ftFVW)
***

There was a stripper in Portland who could do the tassels in opposite directions.
So I was told.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 24, 2022 08:17 PM (anj39)

39 Would think that Panther would be a big get for a museum. Not too many of them around, I think?

Posted by: rhomboid at October 24, 2022 08:18 PM (OTzUX)

40 Evening, Horde...How goes it?

I'm still basking in the afterglow of the TXMOME...

It was so nice to meet everyone there (again, in some cases!)

For anyone who hasn't been to a MOME, put that at the top of your bucket list. You will NOT regret it!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2022 08:18 PM (K5n5d)

41 Marcus T. correctly called me out on an earlier thread for cheap shots regarding Dan Crenshaw's eye. While I don't like Crenshaw's political persona, denigrating a service-related injury of someone who served honorably was pretty scummy on my part. I have no excuse and hereby apologize to any current or former honorable service members or family members. I need to be a better man. That's all.
Posted by: Muldoon at October 24, 2022 08:13 PM (kXYt5)


Yeah, mea culpa on that one as well. Cheap shot and I should have been better.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 24, 2022 08:18 PM (tp+tP)

42 Law of unintended consequences

As Russia Gets Weaker, Xi Jinping May Forgo Taiwan To Grab Eastern Russia

You want nukes? This is how you get nukes.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2022 08:15 PM (eOEVl)
***
There are a shit ton of chinese there already.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 24, 2022 08:18 PM (anj39)

43 "That penguin video didn't show the part where the orca swallowed him.
Posted by: That NLurker guy"


I love the Penguin Cafe.

Posted by: The Orca at October 24, 2022 08:19 PM (sn5EN)

44 28 Thanks, Muldoon. I catch myself doing that from time to time and I know I shouldn't. Top it off I'm a disabled vet.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 24, 2022 08:19 PM (lz5hY)

45 Birds and cats are really primitive.
GOPe could learn a thing or two from them.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 24, 2022 08:19 PM (CLkaN)

46 Law of unintended consequences

As Russia Gets Weaker, Xi Jinping May Forgo Taiwan To Grab Eastern Russia
Posted by: SMOD at October 24, 2022 08:14 PM (uV9QM)

If East Russia was worth anything, China would have grabbed it in 500 AD.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 08:19 PM (eoQWY)

47 That castle...my idea of a man cave.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 24, 2022 08:19 PM (VwHCD)

48 There are a shit ton of chinese there already.

There are. They are there with the permission of the Russians. That matters.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2022 08:19 PM (eOEVl)

49 I’m a vet, my sons are either active duty or vets, and Dan Crenshaw can go horsefuck.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 24, 2022 08:20 PM (u73oe)

50 Law of unintended consequences

As Russia Gets Weaker, Xi Jinping May Forgo Taiwan To Grab Eastern Russia
Posted by: SMOD at October 24, 2022 08:14 PM (uV9QM)
---
It probably is a much softer target in many respects, with lots of natural resources that China could use. The natives in that region are sparsely populated and probably not as well defended as those in the West.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2022 08:20 PM (K5n5d)

51 There was a stripper in Portland who could do the tassels in opposite directions.
So I was told.
Posted by: Diogenes

Then you were told they were attached to her nads.

Freakin' Portland.

Posted by: mikeski at October 24, 2022 08:20 PM (P1f+c)

52 >>>Weighing a young penguin..

Come on, Lady. I got things to do, places to go, penguins to see.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 24, 2022 08:20 PM (gv7Yb)

53 Quick Internet query reveals:

Five Panthers out of 28 survivors are known to exist in the US .

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 08:20 PM (59VTx)

54 I have to admit I am plus/minus on lampooning Crenshaw and his eye. He uses it for personal leverage, doesn't that make it fair game? YMMV.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at October 24, 2022 08:22 PM (PmutJ)

55 (fighting gamecock vid)

Go Cocks! Beat Virginia!

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 24, 2022 08:22 PM (+R5dc)

56 If East Russia was worth anything, China would have grabbed it in 500 AD.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 08:19 PM (eoQWY)

I'm not sure they were aware, back then, of the abundance of the natural resources that lie underground.

They do now though..

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 24, 2022 08:22 PM (BgMrQ)

57 If East Russia was worth anything, China would have grabbed it in 500 AD.
Posted by: Oldcat

What's the ground made up of, there? The battery market was pretty weak in 500 AD.

Posted by: mikeski at October 24, 2022 08:23 PM (P1f+c)

58
What's this?

The racist parader-murderer ran over a person a week before the parade??

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at October 24, 2022 08:23 PM (cCaW5)

59
Five Panthers out of 28 survivors are known to exist in the US .
Posted by: Anna Puma
-----

All in the Everglades, I assume.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 24, 2022 08:23 PM (fjfub)

60 It probably is a much softer target in many respects, with lots of natural resources that China could use. The natives in that region are sparsely populated and probably not as well defended as those in the West.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2022 08:20 PM (K5n5d)

China is getting all those resources now and doesn't even have to dig them up. Russia is diverting West Russian assets that way too. China and Russia are working together along with an increasing block of unaligned states so i dont trust a western source salivating over the concept that everything might end up going well for the Globalists.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 08:23 PM (eoQWY)

61 For anyone who hasn't been to a MOME, put that at the top of your bucket list. You will NOT regret it!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2022 08:18 PM (K5n5d)

Very true. Show up and dive right in.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 24, 2022 08:23 PM (VwHCD)

62 May Forgo Gorgo for Torgo.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 24, 2022 08:23 PM (63Dwl)

63 ..Remember that elderly guy near Kiel Germany who in 2015 had his private Panther tank and Flak 88 seized by the government? It took about six years of legal wrangling but last year the man was fined 250,000 Euros and ordered to sell them and his collection off in two years. ...Well that would be one way to spend part of tonight's Powerball jackpot. Nyah. Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 08:16 PM (59VTx)


Am I the only one thinking of a Give/Send/Go for SMH, here?


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at October 24, 2022 08:23 PM (e6UQI)

64 Penguins make me think of Happy Feet. I took that glowbull warming piece of shit out and used for skeet practice.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 24, 2022 08:24 PM (JhWno)

65 >>I do the same thing as the baby elephant all the time- Mrs. Farmer calls it my "sexy" dance.

Doesn't your nose get sore?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 24, 2022 08:24 PM (ZLI7S)

66 Hmm...both my parents are vets with service related (but not combat) injuries, as is my uncle/godfather who earned the dfc in Vietnam. I'm a marine vet, but no injuries. A heartfelt thank you for your service is always appreciated, but a little chop busting ain't no thang, at least in my neck of the woods. Don't buy this FUBU nonsense either. Dr. Muldoon, you're one of the fellas, chop away.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 24, 2022 08:24 PM (eGccS)

67 I have to admit I am plus/minus on lampooning Crenshaw and his eye. He uses it for personal leverage, doesn't that make it fair game? YMMV.
Posted by: Indignacio
-----

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Hope Solo at October 24, 2022 08:24 PM (Zk6oW)

68 28 41 Lighter note. Know a guy who lost an eye in an industrial accident. One time he said "You know what's bad about losing one eye? Some little bastard with a BB gun hiding around a corner".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 24, 2022 08:25 PM (lz5hY)

69 65- not gonna lie, yeah, when ot takes a hit or two, it does.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 24, 2022 08:25 PM (eGccS)

70 If East Russia was worth anything, China would have grabbed it in 500 AD.
Posted by: Oldcat

What's the ground made up of, there? The battery market was pretty weak in 500 AD.
Posted by: mikeski at October 24, 2022 08:23 PM (P1f+c)

I thought the lithium mines were in Afghanistan and Africa more than Russia. Though they have a lot of everything.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 08:25 PM (eoQWY)

71 I took one of my daughters to a behind-the-sciences, hands on, penguin encounter for her 18th birthday. She got to pet, feed, weigh, etc. the penguins. Perfect day.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at October 24, 2022 08:25 PM (MTm8X)

72 Nein Herr Hammer

Panzerkampfwagen V Panthers.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 08:25 PM (59VTx)

73 57 If East Russia was worth anything, China would have grabbed it in 500 AD.
Posted by: Oldcat

What's the ground made up of, there? The battery market was pretty weak in 500 AD.
Posted by: mikeski at October 24, 2022 08:23 PM (P1f+c)

Permafrost, much of the region was uninhabited/uninhabitable for a long time.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 24, 2022 08:26 PM (eYoxG)

74 Never saw Happy Feet

Posted by: Skip at October 24, 2022 08:26 PM (xhxe8)

75 61 For anyone who hasn't been to a MOME, put that at the top of your bucket list. You will NOT regret it!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2022 08:18 PM (K5n5d)

Very true. Show up and dive right in.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 24, 2022 08:23 PM (VwHCD)

You can hang back, and get a lay of the room...

Or you can go Berserker.

Lot's of room and appreciation for both styles from what I saw.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 24, 2022 08:26 PM (BgMrQ)

76 What's the ground made up of, there? The battery market was pretty weak in 500 AD.
Posted by: mikeski at October 24, 2022 08:23 PM (P1f+c)

Permafrost, much of the region was uninhabited/uninhabitable for a long time.

Also, a very high concentration of frozen mammoths.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2022 08:26 PM (eOEVl)

77 lol Jim.

Last thing I need at the moment is a tank...as tempting as the idea may be.

Posted by: SMH at October 24, 2022 08:27 PM (FZsp0)

78 Am I the only one thinking of a Give/Send/Go for SMH, here?

Posted by: Jim at October 24, 2022 08:23 PM (e6UQI)

Ha! I'll donate if she promises to drive it to the next MoMe!

Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at October 24, 2022 08:27 PM (OX9vb)

79 In a sad, down-market echo of the epic battle of Stalingrad, the current wrasslin' match for the town of Bakhmut, between the Ukes and (mostly) a formation from the Russian private military company Wagner, features battles over the asphalt factory, and the champagne factory.

The Grain Elevator, the Red October factory, and the Barricades factory of Stalingrad legend probably are safe as icons of modern urban battle.

And yes the phrase "champagne factory" is gloriously Soviet.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 24, 2022 08:27 PM (OTzUX)

80 “It’s important for me, to look back on where I’ve been, because I don’t want to lose track of where I am or where I’m trying to go.”—Johnny Cash, Austin City Limits, 1987

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 24, 2022 08:27 PM (EXyHK)

81 Crenshaw championed red flag laws which would make combat vets choose between psychiatric care to their second amendment rights. Fuck him and his godamn eye patch.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 24, 2022 08:28 PM (u73oe)

82 Last thing I need at the moment is a tank...as tempting as the idea may be.
Posted by: SMH

But how else are you gonna use that can of whoop ass?

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2022 08:28 PM (ftFVW)

83 There's probably a few US museums and foundations that might buy up a good bit of history without scamming the dude too badly.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 08:28 PM (eoQWY)

84 Tunguska and the freezing winters are major hindrance towards development of far eastern Russia. But mainly the cold weather, just ask all the flash frozen Woolly Mammoths.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 08:28 PM (59VTx)

85 60 It probably is a much softer target in many respects, with lots of natural resources that China could use. The natives in that region are sparsely populated and probably not as well defended as those in the West.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2022 08:20 PM (K5n5d)

China is getting all those resources now and doesn't even have to dig them up. Russia is diverting West Russian assets that way too. China and Russia are working together along with an increasing block of unaligned states so i dont trust a western source salivating over the concept that everything might end up going well for the Globalists.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 08:23 PM (eoQWY)

China also gets a lot of food from western Russia/eastern Europe, so going for eastern Russia is unlikely unless they believe they can annex all of Russia.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 24, 2022 08:28 PM (eYoxG)

86 'Frozen mammals, fresh from the sea.....'

Posted by: Eromero at October 24, 2022 08:29 PM (0OP+5)

87 MNF - Manning Cast edition

They're about to host Obama for a segment.

I couldn't change the channel fast enough...and that's to go listen to Joe Buck.

Maybe I'll switch over to the NHL channel.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 24, 2022 08:29 PM (BgMrQ)

88 "Last thing I need at the moment is a tank...as tempting as the idea may be.
Posted by: SMH"


Aww. I want to see you hit that target at 700 yards.

Posted by: fd at October 24, 2022 08:29 PM (sn5EN)

89 SMH, my darlin

Posted by: Ben Had at October 24, 2022 08:29 PM (JhWno)

90 But how else are you gonna use that can of whoop ass?
Posted by: She Hobbit
___

lol

Posted by: SMH at October 24, 2022 08:30 PM (FZsp0)

91 SMH might get a smile from this.

It took two M-88s, a bunch of soldiers, and nine hours to load the Panther on a trailer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 08:31 PM (59VTx)

92 Ben Had!

Posted by: SMH at October 24, 2022 08:31 PM (FZsp0)

93 Tunguska and the freezing winters are major hindrance towards development of far eastern Russia. But mainly the cold weather, just ask all the flash frozen Woolly Mammoths.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 08:28 PM (59VTx)

The old tribesmen were obviously preppers.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 08:31 PM (eoQWY)

94 It took two M-88s, a bunch of soldiers, and nine hours to load the Panther on a trailer.
Posted by: Anna Puma
___

Wow.

Posted by: SMH at October 24, 2022 08:31 PM (FZsp0)

95 Aww. I want to see you hit that target at 700 yards.
Posted by: fd at October 24, 2022 08:29 PM (sn5EN)

Speaking of which, RMBS hit that target on Saturday, in those gusty / windy conditions.

In my book, that's damn fine shooting

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 24, 2022 08:32 PM (BgMrQ)

96 Battle for the Asphalt Factory lacks all the catchiness of the Battle for the Red October tractor factory.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 08:32 PM (59VTx)

97 Ha! I'll donate if she promises to drive it to the next MoMe!

She'll have to start the trip down a week beforehand, I would imagine.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 24, 2022 08:32 PM (Xrfse)

98 Don't know if anyone has mentioned re: your Forgotten 80s Mystery Click, ace, but that particular artist was a Two Hit Wonder with the song you linked as well as "Ah Leah!"

Which sounds strange but you will remember that song when you hear it:

https://youtu.be/YH5Arbm47IQ

Posted by: Sharkman at October 24, 2022 08:32 PM (Gda1b)

99 Penguins make me think of Happy Feet. I took that glowbull warming piece of shit out and used for skeet practice.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 24, 2022 08:24 PM

*fistbump*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2022 08:33 PM (Wnv9h)

100 the current wrasslin' match for the town of Bakhmut, between the Ukes and (mostly) a formation from the Russian private military company Wagner, features battles over the asphalt factory, and the champagne factory.

The real question is which tastes better, Russian champagne or Russian asphalt?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2022 08:33 PM (eOEVl)

101 "Speaking of which, RMBS hit that target on Saturday, in those gusty / windy conditions."

Indeed. At that distance it looks like a speck of dust.

Posted by: fd at October 24, 2022 08:34 PM (sn5EN)

102 The Chinese seizure of Siberia will follow immediately on the use of nukes in Ukraine, which will be about the same time as the GOP congressional majority forces a prolonged shutdown over the rolling coup against Trump by various US institutions, and just after UN black helicopters seize the WH.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 24, 2022 08:34 PM (OTzUX)

103 The real question is which tastes better, Russian champagne or Russian asphalt?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2022 08:33 PM (eOEVl)

Champaigne is a Russian Inwention!

-- Checkov

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 08:35 PM (eoQWY)

104 Rumor has it that Hillary has been involved in the battle for the asphalt factory for some time. She was reportedly heard to say "Ah ain't no ways tar'd".

Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2022 08:35 PM (eOEVl)

105 You can hang back, and get a lay of the room...

Or you can go Berserker.

Lot's of room and appreciation for both styles from what I saw.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 24, 2022 08:26 PM (BgMrQ)

Yeah I have a tendency to mingle. A leftover from the music days of endless parties. Now if I can just remember the nics and who goes with the nics. I'm sooo bad with names.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 24, 2022 08:35 PM (VwHCD)

106 I need to be a better man. That's all.

Posted by: Muldoon




No worries, man. We are all still going to call him "Eye-Patch McCain".

Posted by: Sharkman at October 24, 2022 08:36 PM (Gda1b)

107 91 SMH might get a smile from this.

It took two M-88s, a bunch of soldiers, and nine hours to load the Panther on a trailer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 08:31 PM (59VTx)


Unionized German workers, German civilian transportation safety tie-down and movement regulations...it's a wonder it did not take 12 hours.

Posted by: Gref, with a High-Cyclic Rate Smile still on my face at October 24, 2022 08:37 PM (AMIL/)

108 Skip the McCain comparisons, go for the jugular and compare him to the MiG Mad Marine and astronaut John Glenn.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 08:37 PM (59VTx)

109 ... Now if I can just remember the nics and who goes with the nics. I'm sooo bad with names.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 24, 2022 08:35 PM (VwHCD)

I feel that, I truly do...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 24, 2022 08:37 PM (BgMrQ)

110 Way back in the day, for the young and inexperienced, Soviet champagne ("pol-sukhoye", or medium-dry) was a good break from the rotgut 3 ruble/bottle vodka (Stolichnaya was in the hard currency stores but expensive, plus those were only in a few cities).

This was in the college-age era, so the alcohol was the entire point. Connoisseurs we were not.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 24, 2022 08:38 PM (OTzUX)

111 Champaigne is a Russian Inwention!

-- Checkov
Posted by: Oldcat

It's only champagna, my beauty, if it comes from the Champagna region of France.

Posted by: The Continental at October 24, 2022 08:38 PM (ftFVW)

112 Remember that elderly guy near Kiel Germany who in 2015 had his private Panther tank and Flak 88 seized by the government?

Posted by: Anna Puma




What a travesty. It's not like the guy could get ammo for them.

Posted by: Sharkman at October 24, 2022 08:38 PM (Gda1b)

113 The racist parader-murderer ran over a person a week before the parade??
----
Wasn't that his girlfriend?

Posted by: dartist at October 24, 2022 08:38 PM (9X/y4)

114 >>>2 That Mendoza switchback is actually Nazca(r) Lines for alien hotrodders.

haha

Posted by: ace at October 24, 2022 08:38 PM (C1Zwz)

115 (Stolichnaya was in the hard currency stores but expensive, plus those were only in a few cities).

Posted by: rhomboid at October 24, 2022 08:38 PM (OTzUX)

I remember the east coast kids going on about Stoli vodka...its a potato liquor invented by peasants. Even the Russians just fill a drinking glass full of it and pound it down.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 08:40 PM (eoQWY)

116 The old tribesmen were obviously preppers.

Yes. Anyone living that far north had to be preppers. The craziest “preserved” foods—and those are scare quotes—come from the areas with the least summer. Even hunting animals disappear when it gets cold.

One of my favorite quotes:

The Haida and their Northwest Coast neighbors are supposed to have resorted to eating banana slugs when they ran out of salmon. This may explain their advanced and tasty salmon-preservation methods. — Veronica Sullivan

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 24, 2022 08:40 PM (EXyHK)

117 43 "That penguin video didn't show the part where the orca swallowed him.
Posted by: That NLurker guy"
---------------------------------

You'd think they would put the little feller with a flock? to teach him the ropes.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 24, 2022 08:40 PM (CLkaN)

118 Remember that elderly guy near Kiel Germany who in 2015 had his private Panther tank and Flak 88 seized by the government?

Posted by: Anna Puma




What a travesty. It's not like the guy could get ammo for them.
Posted by: Sharkman at October 24, 2022 08:38 PM (Gda1b)

Maybe he should sell it to Zelinsiky for a billion dollars

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 08:41 PM (eoQWY)

119 What ruined everything for the elderly gentleman was someone snitched that he had looted Nazi art in his house.

So they found the Panther, the Flak 88, a torpedo, about 70 guns, uniforms, Nazi memorabilia, and over a thousand rounds of ammo.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 08:42 PM (59VTx)

120 You'd think they would put the little feller with a flock? to teach him the ropes.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 24, 2022 08:40 PM (CLkaN)

Likely he was found injured as an adult and only kept until he healed up so he could survive in the wild.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 08:42 PM (eoQWY)

121
*brushes crumbs off shirt*

Good evening, Hordians

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 24, 2022 08:42 PM (baK5B)

122 If East Russia was worth anything, China would have grabbed it in 500 AD.

Posted by: Oldcat



Russia has three yuge natural gas fields in eastern Russia not too far north of Chy-Nah. Also, a shitload of timber. Plus, Chy-Nah may be looking for more lebensraum for when the Three Stooges Dam finally pops next spring.

Posted by: Sharkman at October 24, 2022 08:42 PM (Gda1b)

123 For anyone who hasn't been to a MOME, put that at the top of your bucket list. You will NOT regret it!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2022 08:18 PM (K5n5d)

Very true. Show up and dive right in.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 24, 2022 08:23 PM (VwHCD)
You can hang back, and get a lay of the room...
Or you can go Berserker.
Lot's of room and appreciation for both styles from what I saw.
Posted by: browndog

Our first time and we thoroughly enjoyed the MoMe!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 24, 2022 08:42 PM (WzIov)

124 108 Skip the McCain comparisons, go for the jugular and compare him to the MiG Mad Marine and astronaut John Glenn.
Posted by: Anna Puma
------------------------------

Problem there is John Glenn was a Democrat and not a turncoat, sneak thief against his constituents and party platform.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 24, 2022 08:42 PM (CLkaN)

125 Shirtless Darrow oughta be lit tomorrow.
Looking for the Ossie Davis gambit from "The Hill",
"I quit the army!"

https://youtu.be/ywv7R_aJvng

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 24, 2022 08:43 PM (MKRY4)

126 so a piece of autumnal warmth to brighten your evening....

https://youtu.be/BW_9WYT9OWs

Taser sets felon on fire.

Posted by: sven at October 24, 2022 08:43 PM (Lzpvj)

127 I remember the east coast kids going on about Stoli vodka...its a potato liquor invented by peasants. Even the Russians just fill a drinking glass full of it and pound it down.

It was definitely a fad at one time. All I (sort of) recall is that a night with Stoli made for a pretty rough day after.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 24, 2022 08:43 PM (Xrfse)

128 Willowed

I heard Kamala can't be President. She is an anchor baby.
Her parents were not U.S. citizens when she was born.
Posted by: Gwenn

--

Doesn't matter. Black. Same rules as Obama, can't look into it or examine "natural born." Because black.

Shut up and smell the glove.

Posted by: Gray Man at October 24, 2022 08:43 PM (qW2YF)

129 125 Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 24, 2022 08:43 PM (MKRY4)

"You don't have my permission to move on," said Shirtless Darrow....

"We should be done by 2" explained the judge.

Posted by: sven at October 24, 2022 08:44 PM (Lzpvj)

130 It's only champagna, my beauty, if it comes from the Champagna region of France.
Posted by: The Continental at October 24, 2022 08:38 PM (ftFVW)

I don't follow the dumb French naming laws. Like Kleenex for tissues, C-pain is just a kind of wine and not unique to French dirt.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 08:44 PM (eoQWY)

131 Orcas have amazing tactics when on the hunt for penguins

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 24, 2022 08:44 PM (eGTCV)

132 One of my few regrets was not saving a bottle of Stolichnaya with tithe Cyrillic script, what I bought for like three bucks in East Berlin back in the olden times.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 24, 2022 08:44 PM (4HP6Z)

133 Am I the only one thinking of a Give/Send/Go for SMH, here?


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX



I'll kick in for SMH to get the Panther but that Flak 88 is MINE!

Posted by: Sharkman at October 24, 2022 08:45 PM (Gda1b)

134 What ruined everything for the elderly gentleman was someone snitched that he had looted Nazi art in his house.

So they found the Panther, the Flak 88, a torpedo, about 70 guns, uniforms, Nazi memorabilia, and over a thousand rounds of ammo.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 08:42 PM (59VTx)

They don't look too kindly on nazi stuff in germany.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 24, 2022 08:45 PM (VwHCD)

135 Orcas have amazing tactics when on the hunt for penguins
Posted by: That NLurker guy
___

*SHUDDERS*
- Great White Shark

Posted by: SMH at October 24, 2022 08:46 PM (FZsp0)

136 Sharkman shows up at a MoMe with the Flak 88.

Weasel, "We gonna need a bigger range, like Rhode Island."

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 08:46 PM (59VTx)

137 If loving Muldoon puns is wrong I don’t want to be right.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 24, 2022 08:46 PM (u73oe)

138 They don't look too kindly on nazi stuff in germany.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Don't mention the War!

Posted by: Basil Fawlty at October 24, 2022 08:46 PM (ftFVW)

139 It was definitely a fad at one time. All I (sort of) recall is that a night with Stoli made for a pretty rough day after.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 24, 2022 08:43 PM (Xrfse)

Drinking heavily was a fad all the time. Spending extra and overthinking the medium was not part of the plan.

We used to get generic Beer in a can that said "Beer". It was pretty good too, probably from Busch beer (this was in St; Louis) that failed some test marginally or was left in storage longer than they liked. It was better than some of the low q brands about like Iron City, say.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 08:46 PM (eoQWY)

140 This was before Stoli was imported much in the US. It was definitely less rough than the normal Soviet stuff. But young, and not very discriminating tastes and all, so Soviet rotgut and some sparkling wine to break it up occasionally did the trick. They even had one or two flavored Stolis (only remember the pertsovka, or red pepper-infused, was OK for the time). But the 200 rubles you could get for a pair of jeans went a lot further with local fare than in the beriozkas (hard-currency shops).

Posted by: rhomboid at October 24, 2022 08:47 PM (OTzUX)

141 Law of unintended consequences

As Russia Gets Weaker, Xi Jinping May Forgo Taiwan To Grab Eastern Russia
Posted by: SMOD at October 24, 2022 08:14 PM (uV9QM)


Oh good, that'll ratchet down the threat of nuclear war.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 24, 2022 08:47 PM (tp+tP)

142 "Taser sets felon on fire.
Posted by: sven"

dude that was lit

Posted by: fd at October 24, 2022 08:47 PM (sn5EN)

143 The anti-Russki cult sure did put some good Vodkas into the clearance bins at Spec's Liquors.

And thus, into my inventory, thankyouverymuch.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at October 24, 2022 08:47 PM (e6UQI)

144 Little penguin goes to sea. Cute.

And promptly got eaten.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 24, 2022 08:48 PM (nxdel)

145 They don't look too kindly on nazi stuff in germany.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 24, 2022 08:45 PM (VwHCD)

They might look into there election system. Its been nearly a decade and somehow the election to topple Merkle is still going like a Glacier, even though she's gone.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 08:48 PM (eoQWY)

146 Taser sets felon on fire

Well he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 08:48 PM (59VTx)

147 Our first time and we thoroughly enjoyed the MoMe!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 24, 2022 08:42 PM (WzIov)

Yeah, you pretty much dove right in. Thats how you do it. People don't understand that you're just moving the party from here to there, and you get booze too.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 24, 2022 08:48 PM (VwHCD)

148 >>>Baby elephants typically don't learn to control their trunks until they're about a year old, which may result in behavior like this

Totally normal for humans at 29, too.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 24, 2022 08:49 PM (yHsuS)

149 As Russia Gets Weaker

--

Have they drained their Strategic Reserves to the lowest point in 50 years for no good reason whatsoever?

Posted by: Gray Man at October 24, 2022 08:49 PM (qW2YF)

150 >>*SHUDDERS*
- Great White Shark

The seal population around here has grown pretty significantly over the last few years and not coincidentally so has the Great White population.

And last summer there were a number of orca sightings which are somewhat unusual for this area. The circle of life.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 24, 2022 08:49 PM (ZLI7S)

151 135 Orcas have amazing tactics when on the hunt for penguins
Posted by: That NLurker guy
___

*SHUDDERS*
- Great White Shark
Posted by: SMH at October 24,

Great whites are terrified of orcas. They go away if there's orcas around. Apparently orcas flip sharks onto their backs and eat their livers and only their livers.
Circle of life and all that but I don't care to watch it on video

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 24, 2022 08:49 PM (eGTCV)

152 Looks like everyone made it home from the MoMe. Glad everyone made it home safely.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 24, 2022 08:50 PM (nxdel)

153 141 Posted by: Dr. T at October 24, 2022 08:47 PM (tp+tP)

It actually would be great from a few angles.

It would defang China a bit, we could keep that conflict running, and EUtopia might wake up.

The end result would be a more powerful India.

Posted by: sven at October 24, 2022 08:50 PM (Lzpvj)

154 The Chinese seizure of Siberia will follow immediately on the use of nukes in Ukraine, which will be about the same time as the GOP congressional majority forces a prolonged shutdown over the rolling coup against Trump by various US institutions, and just after UN black helicopters seize the WH.

Posted by: rhomboid



Much running hither and yon shall commence, with tearing of hair and panicked oaths heard.

And then SMOD.

Amen.

Posted by: Sharkman at October 24, 2022 08:50 PM (Gda1b)

155 jewells!

Posted by: SMH at October 24, 2022 08:50 PM (FZsp0)

156 Sharkman shows up at a MoMe with the Flak 88.

Weasel, "We gonna need a bigger range, like Rhode Island."
Posted by: Anna Puma

RI isn't bigger!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 24, 2022 08:50 PM (WzIov)

157 As Russia Gets Weaker

--

Have they drained their Strategic Reserves to the lowest point in 50 years for no good reason whatsoever?
Posted by: Gray Man at October 24, 2022 08:49 PM (qW2YF)

And Leon get larger!

Posted by: Johnny at October 24, 2022 08:50 PM (4I/2K)

158 The battlefield-converted 88 was most definitely a formidable weapon for it's time.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 24, 2022 08:50 PM (Xrfse)

159 Our first time and we thoroughly enjoyed the MoMe!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 24, 2022 08:42 PM (WzIov)

Tequila will do that..

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 24, 2022 08:51 PM (BgMrQ)

160 Have they drained their Strategic Reserves to the lowest point in 50 years for no good reason whatsoever?
Posted by: Gray Man at October 24, 2022 08:49 PM (qW2YF)

According to our press, they've run out of shells every two weeks all spring and summer.

Ukrainian infantry in various bunkers in the Donbas have a different impression.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 08:51 PM (eoQWY)

161 149 Posted by: Gray Man at October 24, 2022 08:49 PM (qW2YF)



Listen fat, sometimes you have to throw in icecubes while you boil the American frogs.....


//Zhou Bai-dan

Posted by: sven at October 24, 2022 08:51 PM (Lzpvj)

162 "Apparently orcas flip sharks onto their backs and eat their livers and only their livers."

And they hold hands when they sleep!

Posted by: Orca Advocate at October 24, 2022 08:51 PM (sn5EN)

163 The battlefield-converted 88 was most definitely a formidable weapon for it's time.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 24, 2022 08:50 PM (Xrfse)

Best AntiTank gun, and not on a better platform until the put it on a Tiger tank chassis late war. Range out the wazoo.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 08:52 PM (eoQWY)

164 162 Posted by: Orca Advocate at October 24, 2022 08:51 PM (sn5EN)

There's this gnat that thinks I care about it...

//Orca

Posted by: sven at October 24, 2022 08:52 PM (Lzpvj)

165 "you've heard of dis Hitler purson"

little, young Austrian waitress's response when asked why Austrians don't seem to get along with Germans


I laughed my ass off

Posted by: REDACTED at October 24, 2022 08:52 PM (us2H3)

166 @31

>>Law of unintended consequences As Russia Gets Weaker, Xi Jinping May Forgo Taiwan To Grab Eastern Russia.

Russia's GDP is roughly the size of NY States, it's never really been strong realistically, even going back to the cold war.

They are the Deep State's MacGuffen.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 24, 2022 08:52 PM (up/3i)

167 Orcas are incredibly intelligent hunters.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 24, 2022 08:53 PM (eGTCV)

168 Ace, Donnie Iris is kinda a big deal in NE Ohio and Western PA. Love is Like a Rock got airplay, but his big hit was Ah!Leah!
tinyurl.com/Ah-Leah
Ten years earlier, in 1970, he was in a band named The Jaggerz. They were maybe bubble proto metal? You decide
tinyurl.com/theJaggerz
WIXY 1260 and later WMMS threw a lot of artists out there on air. Some stuck and went national, others like Iris were good and interesting and remain in the collective memories of those of a certain age from the area.

Posted by: Leon Sphinx at October 24, 2022 08:53 PM (UIngH)

169 Looks like everyone made it home from the MoMe. Glad everyone made it home safely.
Posted by: jewells45

But, but, but... we missed you!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 24, 2022 08:53 PM (WzIov)

170 Jewells! (( all teh hugz ))


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at October 24, 2022 08:53 PM (e6UQI)

171 152 Looks like everyone made it home from the MoMe. Glad everyone made it home safely.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 24, 2022 08:50 PM (nxdel)

So sorry you couldn't make it. I was so looking forward to meeting you! Next year. Prayers continuing!

Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at October 24, 2022 08:53 PM (OX9vb)

172 166 Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 24, 2022 08:52 PM (up/3i)

Xi wants the lebensraum and the raw resources....

it is a testament to communism that it did so little with so much.

Posted by: sven at October 24, 2022 08:53 PM (Lzpvj)

173 Fried up a pack of bacon for the coming week. There can never be enough bacons.

Posted by: Eromero at October 24, 2022 08:54 PM (0OP+5)

174 Cons for the Tiger tank

1. Slow.
2. Manual turret traverse.
3. Took too long to build.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 08:54 PM (59VTx)

175 another 50 billion for Ukraine is in the works for the lame duck session

Posted by: REDACTED at October 24, 2022 08:54 PM (us2H3)

176 And you think you had a bad day at work.

https://tinyurl.com/frhukyee

Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2022 08:54 PM (eOEVl)

177 Our first time and we thoroughly enjoyed the MoMe!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 24, 2022 08:42 PM (WzIov)

Tequila will do that..
Posted by: browndog

There was Tequila?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 24, 2022 08:54 PM (WzIov)

178 GOD Bless you, Jewells!

Posted by: Eromero at October 24, 2022 08:55 PM (0OP+5)

179 >>Orcas are incredibly intelligent hunters.

They hunt in packs like wolves. Anything that scares a Great White is a pretty talented killer.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 24, 2022 08:55 PM (ZLI7S)

180 @151

>>and only their livers.

Pound for pound, the liver is the most nutrient dense organ in the sharks body.

Also Orcas are a hit it and quit it type of animal, they aren't going to be hanging around and feeding off the shark's carcass.

They are the kill happy serial killers of the sea, in a manner reminiscent of a stote.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 24, 2022 08:55 PM (up/3i)

181 175 Posted by: REDACTED at October 24, 2022 08:54 PM (us2H3)

The most sacred soil for America seems to be in the Ukraine.

Posted by: sven at October 24, 2022 08:56 PM (Lzpvj)

182 ***looks at watch***

I can be there around 7:00pm tomorrow night.

***grabs keys, coat, and wallet***

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 24, 2022 08:56 PM (BgMrQ)

183 All these toe fungus and diabetes cures are very unpleasant to look at.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 24, 2022 08:56 PM (3ImbR)

184 "Cons for the Tiger tank"

Pros for the Tiger tank

1. Cool name
2. German Engineering
3. Cool name

Posted by: Tiger Advocate at October 24, 2022 08:57 PM (sn5EN)

185
Biden to Campaign for John Fetterman;
Obama to Campaign for His Morbid Growth

How did Stephen King put it in "Stand By Me":
"Some friends you've got -- a thief and two feebs."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at October 24, 2022 08:57 PM (pNxlR)

186 I like Smirnoff

Posted by: DB at October 24, 2022 08:57 PM (geLO8)

187 And you think you had a bad day at work.

https://tinyurl.com/frhukyee
Posted by: Archimedes

Power lines do in many a plane...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 24, 2022 08:58 PM (WzIov)

188 Toe fungus > Bidet > Fetterman > Zelensky

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 08:58 PM (59VTx)

189 I like Smirnoff
Posted by: DB at October 24, 2022 08:57 PM (geLO
-----------
It's for people who have a fear of Smirns.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 24, 2022 08:58 PM (to2dd)

190 There was Tequila?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 24, 2022 08:54 PM (WzIov)

Well, there was until you got out your "camp cup"

#neverempty

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 24, 2022 08:58 PM (BgMrQ)

191 Looks like everyone made it home from the MoMe. Glad everyone made it home safely.
Posted by: jewells45

We are still in Texas. Can't find the exit. Turns out we were going the wrong way. :d

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 24, 2022 08:58 PM (4HP6Z)

192 Baby elephant ! is punk rock !

Posted by: runner at October 24, 2022 08:59 PM (V13WU)

193 The most sacred soil for America seems to be in the Ukraine.


--

Remember when $5B for the wall was going to wreck the financial stability of the United States?

Oh, and apparently the 101st Airborne is ready for their Ukraine adventure:

"U.S. 101st Airborne Division deployed near Ukraine's border"

https://tinyurl.com/229wnnqj

Posted by: Gray Man at October 24, 2022 08:59 PM (qW2YF)

194 There was Tequila?

I'm sure there was and there will be plenty next year since I plan on bringing a shit ton of it! The good stuff too.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 24, 2022 08:59 PM (nxdel)

195 Woot! I think I have my class ready to go for tomorrow...We are covering a bunch of topics related to citing sources properly.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2022 08:59 PM (K5n5d)

196 @172

>>Xi wants the lebensraum and the raw resources....


Fun Fact:

China's GDP was under 200 million in 1980.

Now how did a poor destitute country that can barely feed it's citizens grow to a near-peer economic superpower in less than 40 years, without a world war or by creating any technical achievements or advancements in culture, science or the arts?

It's a mystery.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 24, 2022 09:00 PM (up/3i)

197 Well, there was until you got out your "camp cup"

#neverempty
Posted by: browndog.

Ouch!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 24, 2022 09:00 PM (WzIov)

198 lol Pug. Last year Salty missed our exit as we were getting there. It's ok

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 24, 2022 09:00 PM (nxdel)

199 Hannity is having a townhall with Kari Lake and Blake Masters.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 24, 2022 09:01 PM (NpAcC)

200 If Russia accidentally hits Chernobyl with a nuclear warhead, what kind of kaiju will arise?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 09:01 PM (59VTx)

201
We are still in Texas. Can't find the exit. Turns out we were going the wrong way. :d
Posted by: Pug Mahon

You can be going the right way and *still* be in Texas!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 24, 2022 09:01 PM (WzIov)

202 All these toe fungus and diabetes cures are very unpleasant to look at.
Posted by: IrishEi at October 24, 2022 08:56 PM (3ImbR)


We must have deeply disappointed Chuy.

Posted by: runner at October 24, 2022 09:01 PM (V13WU)

203 I think a case can be made that if a museum cannot protect the art that it houses, then the art should be removed

and oh, firing squads

you got to have firing squads

Posted by: REDACTED at October 24, 2022 09:02 PM (us2H3)

204 There was Tequila?

I'm sure there was and there will be plenty next year since I plan on bringing a shit ton of it! The good stuff too.
Posted by: jewells45

Excellent news!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 24, 2022 09:02 PM (WzIov)

205 196 Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 24, 2022 09:00 PM (up/3i)

Eh China always had the potential to be an economic powerhouse...

The Shanghai economic zone did a lot of important work for the Gilded Age, Edwardian economy.

Had the China Hands not be commie curious/indifferent and had we actually helped Peanuthead rather than acted like we were helping him I think the world would have been better off.

Posted by: sven at October 24, 2022 09:02 PM (Lzpvj)

206 jewells. ab-so-fuckin-lutely darlin

Posted by: Ben Had at October 24, 2022 09:03 PM (JhWno)

207 I think a case can be made that if a museum cannot protect the art that it houses, then the art should be removed

and oh, firing squads

you got to have firing squads
Posted by: REDACTED

Quick dry epoxy for their bare hands and feet and then big boxes of over ripe fruit near them with the admonition that if it doesn't splat you must try again.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 24, 2022 09:04 PM (WzIov)

208 You can be going the right way and *still* be in Texas!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 24, 2022 09:01 PM (WzIov)

Frankly, Texas is a state of mind...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 24, 2022 09:04 PM (BgMrQ)

209 200 If Russia accidentally hits Chernobyl with a nuclear warhead, what kind of kaiju will arise?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 09:01 PM (59VTx


Zombie Stalin will rise from the elephant's foot and devour the Baltics.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 24, 2022 09:04 PM (6VKyY)

210 1. Cool name
2. German Engineering
3. Cool name
Posted by: Tiger Advocate at October 24, 2022 08:57 PM (sn5EN

yes

Posted by: ENCO at October 24, 2022 09:05 PM (us2H3)

211 Biden to Campaign for John Fetterman;

Dumb and dumber

Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at October 24, 2022 09:06 PM (eGTCV)

212 Howdy Hordelings!

Posted by: Doof at October 24, 2022 09:06 PM (ucodm)

213 Attack of the 50ft Zombie Stalin in IMAX

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 09:06 PM (59VTx)

214 If Russia accidentally hits Chernobyl with a nuclear warhead, what kind of kaiju will arise?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Mecha-Streisand?

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2022 09:06 PM (ftFVW)

215 We are still in Texas. Can't find the exit. Turns out we were going the wrong way. :d
Posted by: Pug Mahon
---
That's Hotel Corsicana for you!

"You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2022 09:06 PM (K5n5d)

216 141 Law of unintended consequences

As Russia Gets Weaker, Xi Jinping May Forgo Taiwan To Grab Eastern Russia
Posted by: SMOD
-----------------------

China can't deal with India much less Russia.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 24, 2022 09:07 PM (CLkaN)

217 Quick! Get Robert Smith here stat!

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 09:07 PM (59VTx)

218 Haven't we paid enough in installments to own Ukraine outright by now? How much does that damn country cost?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 24, 2022 09:07 PM (6VKyY)

219 @205

>>Eh China always had the potential to be an economic powerhouse.

The only thing China had going for it was raw manpower and zero-f**ks to give.

As was noted, they have become a super-power with no intervening event that would allow them to become so at the vastly accelerated rate that they have become one.

This was primarily the result of faulty thinking and corrupt politicians and motives.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 24, 2022 09:07 PM (up/3i)

220 Professor Squirrel

How far along are you on the Hodgell reading list?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 09:08 PM (59VTx)

221 Doof!!!

Posted by: Ben Had at October 24, 2022 09:08 PM (JhWno)

222 Haven't we paid enough in installments to own Ukraine outright by now? How much does that damn country cost?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Like that fixer upper that seemed like a great idea at the time. Money. Pit.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2022 09:08 PM (ftFVW)

223 So many nics I see that I had the pleasure of meeting this past weekend. Y'all are the best!!

Posted by: Doof at October 24, 2022 09:09 PM (ucodm)

224 @217

>>Quick! Get Robert Smith here stat!


Stan: Bye Robert Smith... DISINTEGRATION IS THE BEST ALBUM EVER!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 24, 2022 09:09 PM (up/3i)

225 Quick dry epoxy for their bare hands and feet and then big boxes of over ripe fruit near them with the admonition that if it doesn't splat you must try again.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 24, 2022 09:04 PM (WzIov)

I'd be Ok with a good thick coating of poison ivy infused PL400

Posted by: ENCO at October 24, 2022 09:09 PM (us2H3)

226 219 Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 24, 2022 09:07 PM (up/3i)

I think Nixon enabled the selling out but did not do it himself, America has always had a fascination with China.

Posted by: sven at October 24, 2022 09:09 PM (Lzpvj)

227 Russia has three yuge natural gas fields in eastern Russia not too far north of Chy-Nah. Also, a shitload of timber. Plus, Chy-Nah may be looking for more lebensraum for when the Three Stooges Dam finally pops next spring.
Posted by: Sharkman at October 24, 2022 08:42 PM (Gda1b)

Manchuria is much more livable than Siberia and already there. Making a large population even close to sustaining in Siberia is a difficult to impossible job. China has quite a bit of hill land in their main country too you could populate easier and leave flood plains to agriculture.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 09:09 PM (eoQWY)

228 Haven't we paid enough in installments to own Ukraine outright by now? How much does that damn country cost?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 24, 2022 09:07 PM (6VKyY)

————-

But wait, there’s more! If you call in the next five minutes...

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 24, 2022 09:09 PM (u73oe)

229 You can be going the right way and *still* be in Texas!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 24, 2022 09:01 PM (WzIov)

Frankly, Texas is a state of mind...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 24, 2022 09:04 PM (BgMrQ)

. . . and a whole 'nother country!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 24, 2022 09:09 PM (4I/2K)

230 “You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave”

Leastwise not at gas prices today!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 24, 2022 09:10 PM (EXyHK)

231 why are we pouring money into YouCrane

Posted by: DB at October 24, 2022 09:10 PM (geLO8)

232 I think Nixon enabled the selling out but did not do it himself, America has always had a fascination with China.
Posted by: sven at October 24, 2022 09:09 PM (Lzpvj)

Lots of missionary work there pre WWII and even earlier

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 09:10 PM (eoQWY)

233
Like that fixer upper that seemed like a great idea at the time. Money. Pit.
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2022 09:08 PM (ftFVW)

_________

Mr. Biden Builds His Dream Country

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 24, 2022 09:10 PM (baK5B)

234 Doof!!!
Posted by: Ben Had at October 24, 2022 09:08 PM (JhWno)

Hello Ben Had!! Did you see my comment earlier? A couple of big ole longhorns right up the street from my friends down here in Magnolia. I'll email you some photos

Posted by: Doof at October 24, 2022 09:10 PM (ucodm)

235 219
The only thing China had going for it was raw manpower and zero-f**ks to give.

As was noted, they have become a super-power with no intervening event that would allow them to become so at the vastly accelerated rate that they have become one.

This was primarily the result of faulty thinking and corrupt politicians and motives.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 24, 2022 09:07 PM (up/3i)

Less developed countries will benefit more from capital investment and technology sharing. Their gdp per capita still isn't half of what South Korea's is. Because of their huge population their average productivity doesn't have to be high to give them a huge economy.

The US became the highest gdp western country in the 19th century, well before it became embroiled on the world stage. China actively seeks to become a superpower though.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 24, 2022 09:10 PM (eYoxG)

236 why are we pouring money into YouCrane
Posted by: DB at October 24, 2022 09:10 PM (geLO

Because about 80 percent of the money pours back into Biden and his cronys pockets.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 09:11 PM (eoQWY)

237 Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 09:07 PM (59VTx)

218 Haven't we paid enough in installments to own Ukraine outright by now? How much does that damn country cost?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 24, 2022 09:07 PM (6VKyY)

Greenland was a much better bargain! It's like blocking refilling the SPR at bargain basement prices all over again.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 24, 2022 09:12 PM (eYoxG)

238 I'd chuckle loudly if Biden mistakenly asked what the hell that thing on Fetterman's neck was.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 24, 2022 09:12 PM (6VKyY)

239 {{{jewells45 fuck cancer}}}

I missed the exit to the shortcut to the ranch this year. Only once.

With you it was because conversing with you is intriguing, and not compatible with 70 mph decisions.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 24, 2022 09:12 PM (u82oZ)

240 I don't see that we have a dog in that fight-
Let the Euros figure it out- we have enough problems here

Posted by: DB at October 24, 2022 09:12 PM (geLO8)

241 Haven't we paid enough in installments to own Ukraine outright by now? How much does that damn country cost?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

--

It's neat because both Zelensky AND Putin have kompromat on Biden. It came out this week that the Biden men accepted $40M from that Russian oligarch's wife. The previous amount was thought to be $3M or so.

I doubt Biden is in the slightest bit of control of his actions. He's being instructed on what he'll do by both men.

Posted by: Gray Man at October 24, 2022 09:12 PM (qW2YF)

242 Our plan is to turn around and go that way.

We might avoid the snow and rain.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 24, 2022 09:13 PM (4HP6Z)

243 {{Doof}} thanks again for what you all did. Can't wait for next year to meet you for real.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 24, 2022 09:13 PM (nxdel)

244 Racist Nazi right wing media source MSN.com

Leaked Emails Reveal Hunter Biden Received $40 Million Investment From Russian Oligarch Yelena Baturina

https://tinyurl.com/257zuu84

Posted by: Gray Man at October 24, 2022 09:14 PM (qW2YF)

245 There’s a reason DC reacted like a scalded cat when they found out Trump wanted Zelensky to investigate corruption.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 24, 2022 09:14 PM (u73oe)

246 219 @205

>>Eh China always had the potential to be an economic powerhouse.

The only thing China had going for it was raw manpower and zero-f**ks to give.
----------------------------

They've got a mental problem. Every time one of their economic areas becomes successful they get paranoid and shut it down.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 24, 2022 09:14 PM (CLkaN)

247 With you it was because conversing with you is intriguing, and not compatible with 70 mph decisions.

LOL.. in fairness neither one of us was paying much attention.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 24, 2022 09:14 PM (nxdel)

248 Fun Fact:

China's GDP was under 200 million in 1980.

Now how did a poor destitute country that can barely feed it's citizens grow to a near-peer economic superpower in less than 40 years, without a world war or by creating any technical achievements or advancements in culture, science or the arts?

It's a mystery.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 24, 2022 09:00 PM (up/3i)

2 words...Bill Clinton.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 24, 2022 09:15 PM (VwHCD)

249 Ben Had
♩ Good evening! ♬

You are a National Treasure.

Thank you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 24, 2022 09:15 PM (u82oZ)

250 Haven't we paid enough in installments to own Ukraine outright by now? How much does that damn country cost?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 24, 2022 09:07 PM (6VKyY)


a hell of a lot less than Bidet paid for it !

Posted by: runner at October 24, 2022 09:15 PM (V13WU)

251 There’s a reason DC reacted like a scalded cat when they found out Trump wanted Zelensky to investigate corruption.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

-

Yep. Not one Russian penny was ever found to have been sent to Trump, and Biden got $40M.

It's easy to see why they made up the story. I like that the Republicans went along with the investigation. Tells you a lot about them, too.

Posted by: Gray Man at October 24, 2022 09:15 PM (qW2YF)

252 "the Biden men accepted $40M from that Russian oligarch's wife. The previous amount was thought to be $3M or so."

Rounding error.

Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at October 24, 2022 09:15 PM (sn5EN)

253 Didn't Joey Bidet already say it was Fetterman's wife who was running to be Senator?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 09:16 PM (59VTx)

254 I'd chuckle loudly if Biden mistakenly asked what the hell that thing on Fetterman's neck was.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 24, 2022 09:12 PM (6VKyY)

He's more likely to stare at it like a talisman and start asking it questions.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 24, 2022 09:17 PM (VwHCD)

255 245 There’s a reason DC reacted like a scalded cat when they found out Trump wanted Zelensky to investigate corruption.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 24, 2022 09:14 PM (u73oe


No one talks about that anymore. It was the first attack on Trump and started it all.

There's so much smoke around the Bidens, the Obamas and the Clintons and yet no one will investigate it.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 24, 2022 09:17 PM (6VKyY)

256 It's neat because both Zelensky AND Putin have kompromat on Biden. It came out this week that the Biden men accepted $40M from that Russian oligarch's wife. The previous amount was thought to be $3M or so.

I doubt Biden is in the slightest bit of control of his actions. He's being instructed on what he'll do by both men.
Posted by: Gray Man at October 24, 2022 09:12 PM (qW2YF)

Nothing Biden has done has helped Putin except by accident. They pointed the sniper rife at their own head and fired and wrecked the West's economy with sanctions, and Russia was a bit surprised that the financial bugaboo turned out to be a paper tiger and is being dismantled as we speak. Turns out with computers and modern communication you can just trade without using the West as a clearing house.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 09:17 PM (eoQWY)

257 Bumper sticker I saw on a F-250 on the way to Love Field:

Trump 2024
Fuck your feelings.

Captain Obvious, Left Coast Dog and I laughed at that.

We were in Texas, and America.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 24, 2022 09:17 PM (u82oZ)

258 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: ZOD at October 24, 2022 09:18 PM (Q/6pY)

259
Now how did a poor destitute country that can barely feed it's citizens grow to a near-peer economic superpower in less than 40 years, without a world war or by creating any technical achievements or advancements in culture, science or the arts?

___________

IP theft + MBAs seeking cheap labor and no environmental laws

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 24, 2022 09:18 PM (baK5B)

260 Professor Squirrel

How far along are you on the Hodgell reading list?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 09:08 PM (59VTx)
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I've read them all before, except for the newest one...I finished Monster Hunter Nemesis today and have started on God Stalk for the umpteenth time. It's just a fun read.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2022 09:18 PM (K5n5d)

261 He's more likely to stare at it like a talisman and start asking it questions.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Is that you, Cornpop? I told you not to come 'round here anymore.

Posted by: Joey B at October 24, 2022 09:18 PM (ftFVW)

262 Hello Horde. Made it home this afternoon and sprung Bingley from kitty jail. I had such a wonderful time in Texas. I don't wanna go back to work tomorrow. As usual, our system waited til I was away to do something wonky.

Posted by: screaming in digital at October 24, 2022 09:18 PM (pkAcY)

263 I don't think China set out to be global hegemon or even in the running for it--they want regional supremacy and couldn't care less about the rest of the world beyond any related resource needs. But they're sufficiently opportunistic that if when the declining American empire offered to shovel loads of money, technology and knowledge cuz cult of short term revenue they were plenty willing to take advantage of such foolishness.

Posted by: CppThis at October 24, 2022 09:19 PM (UewuT)

264 {{{Jewells!!}}} It was an honor, my dear! Can't wait to see you some day!

Posted by: Doof at October 24, 2022 09:19 PM (ucodm)

265 They've got a mental problem. Every time one of their economic areas becomes successful they get paranoid and shut it down.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 24, 2022 09:14 PM (CLkaN)

That's going to happen if the CCP wants to survive. Too strong an economic class and they will wonder why they need the drones in the CCP.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 09:19 PM (eoQWY)

266 "the Biden men accepted $40M from that Russian oligarch's wife. The previous amount was thought to be $3M or so."

Rounding error.
Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at October 24, 2022 09:15 PM (sn5EN)
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The $3-4M was Biden's cut for "the Big Guy."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2022 09:19 PM (K5n5d)

267 I doubt Biden is in the slightest bit of control of his actions. He's being instructed on what he'll do by both men.
Posted by: Gray Man

When they say "shit", Ruprecht delivers!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 24, 2022 09:20 PM (wJXP5)

268 251 There’s a reason DC reacted like a scalded cat when they found out Trump wanted Zelensky to investigate corruption.
Posted by: Duke Lowell
--------------------------------

Think the CIAFBI is going to let all those Republicans win Nov. 8?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 24, 2022 09:20 PM (CLkaN)

269 ZOD

You were missed. But not on the range. You could have added even more rigor and depth to our discussions.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 24, 2022 09:20 PM (u82oZ)

270 258 ZOD IMPERIAL.
Posted by: ZOD at October 24, 2022 09:18 PM (Q/6pY)

Howdy, exalted one...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 24, 2022 09:20 PM (BgMrQ)

271 Yeah God Stalk is a great read.

Hodgell makes several references in Tai-Tastigon of this sect behind the Moon in Splendor that drops boulders on chickens constantly.

And you as the reader go 'whut?'

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 09:20 PM (59VTx)

272 I mentioned this earlier, but we tried to visit the Alamo, but the entire downtown of SA is tore up. But we did see the Japanese tea garden, which was where I realized that I was in love with my girl. Still madly in love with her.
So, good trip.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 24, 2022 09:20 PM (4HP6Z)

273 @46 If East Russia was worth anything, China would have grabbed it in 500 AD.

----

There's actually an old grudge there that the Chinese will eventually use to justify a land grab (when the right situation eventually arises).

Vladivostok and the area around it was originally part of Imperial China. But it was sparsely settled. So when the Russians offered to perform some negotiations with the European powers in exchange for ownership of the area, the Qing Dynasty agreed. However, the handful of historians I've read who talk about the exchange agree that Russia didn't even bother trying to live up to its end of the bargain. Instead, Russia swindled China out of what would become Russia's big Pacific port. It's probably the only one of the infamous Unequal Treaties that still applies today.

Posted by: junior at October 24, 2022 09:21 PM (PTw5h)

274 China still has a good percentage of their farmers pulling plows with farm animals.

Posted by: polynikes at October 24, 2022 09:22 PM (HleWc)

275 262 Hello Horde. Made it home this afternoon and sprung Bingley from kitty jail. I had such a wonderful time in Texas. I don't wanna go back to work tomorrow. As usual, our system waited til I was away to do something wonky.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 24, 2022 09:18 PM (pkAcY)

SID, did you send enough ammo down range to make the move easier?

I appreciated the opportunity to assist you in your efforts!

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 24, 2022 09:22 PM (BgMrQ)

276 I don't think China set out to be global hegemon or even in the running for it--they want regional supremacy and couldn't care less about the rest of the world beyond any related resource needs. But they're sufficiently opportunistic that if when the declining American empire offered to shovel loads of money, technology and knowledge cuz cult of short term revenue they were plenty willing to take advantage of such foolishness.
Posted by: CppThis at October 24, 2022 09:19 PM (UewuT)

In recent years they have been buying up stuff in Africa and bases in Asia, and Pacific islands, so they were doing some of the hegemonic stuff. But that was likely to be a white elephant for them in a military sense since they don't have the navy to hold the sea lanes. So like other european powers vs GB pre WWII any conflict would tend to let the west scoop up their stuff for little cost.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 09:22 PM (eoQWY)

277 Guys!! I totally missed this --> Penguin Care Cafe


Very true ! Penguins care.

Posted by: runner at October 24, 2022 09:22 PM (V13WU)

278 @255

>>There's so much smoke around the Bidens, the Obamas and the Clintons and yet no one will investigate it.

The Clinton's are arch criminals that have been tip-toeing through the raindrops of their own corruption for over 40 f**king years.

You could probably keep a flotilla of Durhams busy until the heat death of the universe investigating those two POS's

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 24, 2022 09:23 PM (up/3i)

279 Trump knows much more now than he did when he first ran.

By that alone, there's no way on God's green earth the crime families will let him run. If he won, they'd be done.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 24, 2022 09:23 PM (6VKyY)

280 Former Trump campaign mgr claims he'll announce one week after the mid-term elections. Meh.

Posted by: ZOD at October 24, 2022 09:23 PM (Q/6pY)

281 Oldcat

Classic Imperial Overstretch is in China's future.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 24, 2022 09:23 PM (u82oZ)

282 Pug - it was great meeting you two, have a safe trip back.

Posted by: Colonel Travis at October 24, 2022 09:24 PM (RG7Wy)

283 I do hope y'all enjoyed the penguin videos as much as I have !

Posted by: runner at October 24, 2022 09:24 PM (V13WU)

284 Just remembered that we are still in Seguin. Got a long haul back to Colorado. Pray for us.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 24, 2022 09:25 PM (4HP6Z)

285 272 I mentioned this earlier, but we tried to visit the Alamo, but the entire downtown of SA is tore up. But we did see the Japanese tea garden, which was where I realized that I was in love with my girl. Still madly in love with her.
So, good trip.
Posted by: Pug Mahon
-----------------------------

iirc, Land Commissioner George P. Bush had something to do with that ...and that and something else to do with the Alamo is reason he's not land commissioner any more. Maybe a local can fill in the blanks.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 24, 2022 09:25 PM (CLkaN)

286 Insty has a link to video of a Russian pilot ejecting from his aircraft

headcam video

Posted by: DB at October 24, 2022 09:26 PM (geLO8)

287 he'll announce one week after the mid-term elections

===

announce what ? that so and so suck and should be ashamed of themselves ? ok...

Posted by: runner at October 24, 2022 09:26 PM (V13WU)

288 Never saw Happy Feet
Posted by: Skip at October 24, 2022 08:26 PM (xhxe

March of the Penguins was better. Morgan Freeman's narration raised goosebumps.

"Poor Chilly-Willy, it was going to be the longest night of his life . . ."

Posted by: Kindltot at October 24, 2022 09:26 PM (xhaym)

289 AlaBAMA

He will need a Brute Squad different from the FBI, CIA, Federal Marshals, BATF, etc.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 24, 2022 09:26 PM (u82oZ)

290 >>I don't think China set out to be global hegemon or even in the running for it-

China isn't a monolith anymore than the US is. There are competing factions and we got a pretty public demonstration of that just the other day when Hu Jintao was "escorted" from the Communist Party Congress where Xi was being sworn as ruler for life.

I agree that Hu did seem to want to dominate the world. Xi does.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 24, 2022 09:26 PM (ZLI7S)

291 284 Just remembered that we are still in Seguin. Got a long haul back to Colorado. Pray for us.
Posted by: Pug Mahon
-----------------------

Pro Tip: CO is north not east.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 24, 2022 09:26 PM (CLkaN)

292 Penguins have great camaraderie.

Posted by: runner at October 24, 2022 09:27 PM (V13WU)

293 Vladivostok and the area around it was originally part of Imperial China. But it was sparsely settled. So when the Russians offered to perform some negotiations with the European powers in exchange for ownership of the area, the Qing Dynasty agreed. However, the handful of historians I've read who talk about the exchange agree that Russia didn't even bother trying to live up to its end of the bargain. Instead, Russia swindled China out of what would become Russia's big Pacific port. It's probably the only one of the infamous Unequal Treaties that still applies today.
Posted by: junior at October 24, 2022 09:21 PM (PTw5h)

What nations say about their borders on the fuzzy end of the map is notoriously unreliable. The brush strokes on those pretty maps have a lot of license.

China has lots of beefs with just about all their neighbors so I don't think Vladivostok should be high on their list. The 50 or so tank battles they've had with the USSR on the border loom a lot larger.

In the Russo Japanese War Vladivostok was so out of the way the Japanese never even went there except chasing some cruisers stationed there.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 09:27 PM (eoQWY)

294 @219 As was noted, they have become a super-power with no intervening event that would allow them to become so at the vastly accelerated rate that they have become one.

----

China's not really a super-power. Sure, it pretends to be one, but it isn't. To illustrate my point, I'll note that last week, in the same Party Congress that saw Hu Jintao get purged from the party, the CCP released a number of goals for the year 2035. One of them was to achieve the GDP of a mid-level country.

And yes, this is a downgrade from the goals put forward in previous party congresses.

Posted by: junior at October 24, 2022 09:27 PM (PTw5h)

295 Russia has three yuge natural gas fields in eastern Russia not too far north of Chy-Nah. Also, a shitload of timber. Plus, Chy-Nah may be looking for more lebensraum for when the Three Stooges Dam finally pops next spring.
Posted by: Sharkman at October 24, 2022 08:42 PM (Gda1b)


This.
A buddy who lives in east Europe and who watches this told me the Russians are essentially helpless as the Chinese cut thousands of acres of timber every year. Its a big Eff You to the Russians.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 24, 2022 09:28 PM (anj39)

296 I missed the DeSantis/Crist thread, not watching that debate so don't really care. something interesting - you may have seen that Charlie Crist's campaign manager quit the campaign with no warning last week, saying he had a "family emergency". Today it came out that the "family emergency" was him getting arrested for beating up his wife the day before he resigned. Nice company Charlie keeps.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 24, 2022 09:29 PM (r46W7)

297 Russia is not into giving up territory, not their thing.

Posted by: runner at October 24, 2022 09:29 PM (V13WU)

298 Those indigenous peoples in Eastern Russia do not like the Chinese.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 24, 2022 09:29 PM (CLkaN)

299 In the Russo Japanese War Vladivostok was so out of the way the Japanese never even went there except chasing some cruisers stationed there.

The Second Pacific Squadron begs to differ.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 09:29 PM (59VTx)

300 I agree that Hu did seem to want to dominate the world. Xi does.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 24, 2022 09:26 PM (ZLI7S)

Did not want for Hu, or Did Want.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 09:29 PM (eoQWY)

301 browndog, I brought too much ammo home (but found a taker for all the reloading stuff). I guess that just means more range trips for me in the next couple months.

Thanks for your efforts for the cause and I enjoyed meeting you!

Posted by: screaming in digital at October 24, 2022 09:30 PM (pkAcY)

302 ZOD You were missed. But not on the range.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 24, 2022 09:20 PM (u82oZ)

Naturallty. I shoot for money.

Sometimes at fan-shows.

Umm....

Sometimes not so much at fan shows.

Posted by: ZOD at October 24, 2022 09:30 PM (Q/6pY)

303 Posted by: Colonel Travis at October 24, 2022 09:24 PM (RG7Wy

Gracias. Such a fun trip.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 24, 2022 09:30 PM (4HP6Z)

304 Hu ?

Posted by: runner at October 24, 2022 09:30 PM (V13WU)

305 Nothing Biden has done has helped Putin except by accident.

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Remember the sanctions that wrecked our economy and made Russia's stronger than ever?

I'm not convinced that was accidental any longer. Need to have a 9/11 level event to usher in the FedNow cryptocurrency that is up and running and just waiting to flip the switch over to "protect" everyone.

Posted by: Gray Man at October 24, 2022 09:30 PM (qW2YF)

306 So yesterday I was taking Nurse to the airport in Dallas and we had some time on our hands. We visited the JFK assassination site. On the road in front of the grassy knoll, there are X marks in the asphalt where the first shots hit and another where the fatal shot hit President Kennedy. People were having photos taken of themselves standing on the X marks. Some were smiling, and one guy even was giving a thumbs-up. Nurse and I thought that was extremely distasteful and disrespectful - regardless of one's personal thoughts or feelings about JFK. We're curious as to the Horde's thoughts on this.

Posted by: Doof at October 24, 2022 09:30 PM (ucodm)

307 @293 China has lots of beefs with just about all their neighbors so I don't think Vladivostok should be high on their list. The 50 or so tank battles they've had with the USSR on the border loom a lot larger.

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I agree that nothing's liable to happen soon. For one thing, Russia and China are more or less working together right now (there's recent smart phone video of two pilots after ejecting from a fighter that crashed in central China... and one of them is the Russian who was training the Chinese pilot). But sooner or later, when relations have cooled significantly, China will start to consider whether it's worthwhile to make a play. The Chinese won't forget, and will hold a grudge until Doomsday if that's what it takes.

Posted by: junior at October 24, 2022 09:31 PM (PTw5h)

308 >>Did not want for Hu, or Did Want.

My bad, did not. Watching Masters and Lake.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 24, 2022 09:31 PM (ZLI7S)

309 Is that you, Cornpop? I told you not to come 'round here anymore.
Posted by: Joey B at October 24, 2022 09:18 PM (ftFVW)

Who do you think you are, Tom Petty?

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 24, 2022 09:31 PM (r46W7)

310 I brought too much ammo home

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I recognize these words as English, but...

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 24, 2022 09:31 PM (u73oe)

311 Oldcat

Classic Imperial Overstretch is in China's future.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 24, 2022 09:23 PM (u82oZ)


Seems likely. I'd think the waiting game might have been a better play, since the idiotic west was really into giving away all its tech.

But a huge problem for China is the immense cost of lifting all of the population out of subsistence to even moderate wealth. That has to come from somewhere and paid for, in resources if nothing else.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 09:32 PM (eoQWY)

312 >>China isn't a monolith anymore than the US is. There are competing factions and we got a pretty public demonstration of that
Posted by: JackStraw at October 24, 2022 09:26 PM (ZLI7S)

This is mostly incorrect.

Posted by: ZOD at October 24, 2022 09:33 PM (Q/6pY)

313 306 Posted by: Doof at October 24, 2022 09:30 PM (ucodm)

I am not typing this as the usual intergenerational steeplechase...

The Boomers are slowly dying out and each successive generation cares less about JFK, the Beatles, and let's be honest decorum, America, and western civilization....

I personally find it loathsome even with my "love" of the Irish f*ckwits, but he *was* President and by modern standards would be "more Hitler" than Trump so....

Posted by: sven at October 24, 2022 09:33 PM (Lzpvj)

314 Nurse and I thought that was extremely distasteful and disrespectful - regardless of one's personal thoughts or feelings about JFK. We're curious as to the Horde's thoughts on this.
Posted by: Doof at October 24, 2022 09:30 PM (ucodm)

People are gonna "people" Doof...

Sad to say.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 24, 2022 09:33 PM (BgMrQ)

315 I hate the apple way of doing stuff. I mostly use my pc. My iPad is clunky to me. But it is what I brung with me on this trip.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 24, 2022 09:33 PM (4HP6Z)

316 This.
A buddy who lives in east Europe and who watches this told me the Russians are essentially helpless as the Chinese cut thousands of acres of timber every year. Its a big Eff You to the Russians.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 24, 2022 09:28 PM (anj39)

Russia's hardly short of trees.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 09:34 PM (eoQWY)

317 Well time to scoot. Models to build and Godzilla films to watch.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 09:34 PM (59VTx)

318 Pug, it was a joy to meet you and your lovely Mrs.

Posted by: screaming in digital at October 24, 2022 09:34 PM (pkAcY)

319 306 So yesterday I was taking Nurse to the airport in Dallas and we had some time on our hands. We visited the JFK assassination site. On the road in front of the grassy knoll, there are X marks in the asphalt where the first shots hit and another where the fatal shot hit President Kennedy. People were having photos taken of themselves standing on the X marks. Some were smiling, and one guy even was giving a thumbs-up. Nurse and I thought that was extremely distasteful and disrespectful - regardless of one's personal thoughts or feelings about JFK. We're curious as to the Horde's thoughts on this.
Posted by: Doof at October 24, 2022 09:30 PM (ucodm)

Of course it's disrespectful - but it's also how a whole LOT of tourists react around any site like that. They don't take the time to think about where they are, it's a spot to take pictures of themselves acting up so they can sent it to their low life friends.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 24, 2022 09:34 PM (r46W7)

320 >We're curious as to the Horde's thoughts on this.

Posted by: Doof


I think putting marks on the pavement was extremely poor judgment by the city
as for the tourists' behavior, well, assholes are widely-dispersed throughout America- whaddya gonna do

Posted by: DB at October 24, 2022 09:34 PM (geLO8)

321 265 They've got a mental problem. Every time one of their economic areas becomes successful they get paranoid and shut it down.
Posted by: Brae
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That's going to happen if the CCP wants to survive. Too strong an economic class and they will wonder why they need the drones in the CCP.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Oldcat called it right there.
That's why China won't make it.
They don't have the mindset to succeed.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 24, 2022 09:35 PM (CLkaN)

322 136 Sharkman shows up at a MoMe with the Flak 88.

Weasel, "We gonna need a bigger range, like Rhode Island."

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 08:46 PM (59VTx)


Not necessarily, if we use the gun in its designed role!

Posted by: Gref, with a High-Cyclic Rate Smile still on my face at October 24, 2022 09:35 PM (AMIL/)

323 320 Posted by: DB at October 24, 2022 09:34 PM (geLO

The non-stop contra to their feigned positions in the 80s deification of the guy probably did not help, the donks finally got their wish and raised a generation of legit Marxists who have no use for their icons.

Posted by: sven at October 24, 2022 09:36 PM (Lzpvj)

324 @276 But that was likely to be a white elephant for them in a military sense since they don't have the navy to hold the sea lanes.

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Their latest destroyers have some range. So they're starting to put together what they'd need for a proper fleet. And they've got a naval base in Djibouti (iirc) that's got a dock big enough for a carrier. They're not big enough to challenge the US yet. But no one is even remotely close to that. And they are starting to put together what they'd need for proper power projection.

Assuming that everything works as advertised, which is always a question mark.

Posted by: junior at October 24, 2022 09:36 PM (PTw5h)

325 ZOD!

One of the small towns near me has a decent HS football program and during their championship 2014 season the team included this guy (highlight from the following year):
https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=3pEINcrmx8s

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 24, 2022 09:36 PM (llON8)

326 317 Well time to scoot. Models to build and Godzilla films to watch.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2022 09:34 PM (59VTx)

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Models?

Posted by: Patsy at October 24, 2022 09:37 PM (Qzn2/)

327 Evening.

So, TXMoMe after action report.

I will need to all information relating to the following: Romances; Surprise Pregnancies; Fights over women; Arrests; Drunken Debauchery; Number Of Cows Tipped; Number Of Tin Cans Shot Full Of Holes; Total Number Of Pudding Cups Violated.

Posted by: Robert at October 24, 2022 09:37 PM (kWDXz)

328 Flugabwehrkanone

Posted by: DB at October 24, 2022 09:37 PM (geLO8)

329 Did not want for Hu, or Did Want.

My bad, did not. Watching Masters and Lake.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 24, 2022 09:31 PM (ZLI7S)

Thought so - my news from there comes mostly from some Western guys who lived there, rode the land on motorbikes and filmed it, married Chinese girls and were eventually driven out and live in the US.

Haven't checked out their Youtube stuff on the last few months, but they have seen a lot from the inside. Serpentza and Laowhy86.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 09:37 PM (eoQWY)

330 What can you say about people these days? No one seems to have any introspection. Everything is an episode of Netflix and twitter likes are more valuable than gold.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 24, 2022 09:37 PM (6VKyY)

331 Doof, there are a lot of tasteless and totally without class people around cameras.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 24, 2022 09:37 PM (pgfir)

332 but it's also how a whole LOT of tourists react around any site like that.

Picnic at Dachau!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 24, 2022 09:38 PM (135ws)

333
Models?
Posted by: Patsy at October 24, 2022 09:37 PM (Qzn2/

Anna builds replicants and sells them to fashion houses. It's a racket.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 24, 2022 09:38 PM (6VKyY)

334 We're curious as to the Horde's thoughts on this.

People are assholes? Serious though.. if they were a younger generation it probably meant absolutely nothing to them. Which is sad.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 24, 2022 09:39 PM (nxdel)

335 I was led to believe that otters were into the butt sex and penguins were rapists.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 24, 2022 09:40 PM (geVLo)

336 Their latest destroyers have some range. So they're starting to put together what they'd need for a proper fleet. And they've got a naval base in Djibouti (iirc) that's got a dock big enough for a carrier. They're not big enough to challenge the US yet. But no one is even remotely close to that. And they are starting to put together what they'd need for proper power projection.

Assuming that everything works as advertised, which is always a question mark.
Posted by: junior at October 24, 2022 09:36 PM (PTw5h)

France and Spain used to do that pre WWI, turned out they were just building ships for the Royal Navy.

It doesn't matter what little boats they park there, if war comes the actual cargo ships will be meat on the table and if they are not self sufficient in material, which they aren't they are going to be in trouble.

It would be better to make them unabashedly peacetime bases, put hotels in the middle and lull the West for another 20 years.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 09:40 PM (eoQWY)

337 Peter Zeihan predicts that the Chinese population will halve by 2050. That would be unprecedented in the absence of a plague, and will do very bad things to their productivity as the country ages catastrophically quickly.

He also has a very interesting chart showing that the average wage in China has increased 12-fold since 2000, and that they are no longer anywhere near being a low cost labor source.

Of course, Peter has a habit of oversimplifying, so I guess we'll see.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2022 09:41 PM (eOEVl)

338 @329 Haven't checked out their Youtube stuff on the last few months, but they have seen a lot from the inside. Serpentza and Laowhy86.

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They posted a special segment of The China Show after Hu was escorted out, and discussed the implications of it.

Posted by: junior at October 24, 2022 09:41 PM (PTw5h)

339 334 Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 24, 2022 09:39 PM (nxdel)

Hope you are well ma'am.

The people who rode tearing down traditional America to political power should have remembered the old curse, "may you get everything you want."

Posted by: sven at October 24, 2022 09:41 PM (Lzpvj)

340 Models?
Posted by: Patsy at October 24, 2022 09:37 PM (Qzn2/

Anna builds replicants and sells them to fashion houses. It's a racket.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 24, 2022 09:38 PM (6VKyY)

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Say, Can she make a 12 year-old?

Posted by: F. Joe Biden at October 24, 2022 09:42 PM (Qzn2/)

341 We're curious as to the Horde's thoughts on this.
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I said the following numerous times on my way home, usually when some idiot did something stupid on the highway:

"Assholes gotta asshole."

Seems to be an iron law of the universe.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2022 09:42 PM (K5n5d)

342 They posted a special segment of The China Show after Hu was escorted out, and discussed the implications of it.

What were their conclusions? Was this Xi showing that it doesn't pay to cross him?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2022 09:43 PM (eOEVl)

343 335 I was led to believe that otters were into the butt sex and penguins were rapists.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 24, 2022 09:40 PM

Apparently there are two kinds of otters, but I'm not a biologist.

Penguins, and their digestive byproducts, stink.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 24, 2022 09:43 PM (a3Q+t)

344 232:Lots of missionary work there pre WWII and even earlier
Posted by: Oldcat


It's why Christinaity is growing in China now.

Posted by: Puddleglum, back in Babylon DC at October 24, 2022 09:44 PM (sAmhv)

345 Peter Zeihan predicts that the Chinese population will halve by 2050. That would be unprecedented in the absence of a plague, and will do very bad things to their productivity as the country ages catastrophically quickly.

He also has a very interesting chart showing that the average wage in China has increased 12-fold since 2000, and that they are no longer anywhere near being a low cost labor source.

Of course, Peter has a habit of oversimplifying, so I guess we'll see.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2022 09:41 PM (eOEVl)

That's already starting - the one child policy has made the population very old, and they are nearing retirement now. And the few kids they have can't see them paying for their elders retirement.

They tried to lift the ban a few years back. The birth rate did not go up. If the new generation isn't looking to the future with hope bad things are coming.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 09:44 PM (eoQWY)

346 >>Thought so - my news from there comes mostly from some Western guys who lived there, rode the land on motorbikes and filmed it, married Chinese girls and were eventually driven out and live in the US.

I did business there in the past but not in the last few years. But my business partner in Australia is a lot closer to the situation.

The left didn't just damage our domestic politics with the bullshit Russia nonsense but they focused everyone's attention on the wrong threat.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 24, 2022 09:44 PM (ZLI7S)

347 That's already starting - the one child policy has made the population very old, and they are nearing retirement now. And the few kids they have can't see them paying for their elders retirement.

It's long past starting. It's baked into the cake now.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2022 09:45 PM (eOEVl)

348 We're curious as to the Horde's thoughts on this.

Just a sign of the deterioration that surrounds us.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 24, 2022 09:45 PM (Xrfse)

349 @337

>>Of course, Peter has a habit of oversimplifying, so I guess we'll see.

They'd have to have 26millon excess deaths per year to reach that number.

So, yeah, I'd say he's oversimplifying it a bit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 24, 2022 09:45 PM (up/3i)

350 If the new generation isn't looking to the future with hope bad things are coming.

One could say the same about most of the developed world.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2022 09:45 PM (eOEVl)

351 thought that was extremely distasteful and disrespectful - regardless of one's personal thoughts or feelings about JFK. We're curious as to the Horde's thoughts on this.
Posted by: Doof at October 24, 2022 09:30 PM

It's nothing new. I think I first heard "What does NASA stand for? Need Another Seven Astronauts" on January 29, 1986.

Most of the tourists probably think its an Oliver Stone movie set.

The US median age is 38.6. It's tough the be reverent about events that happened before you were born.

Posted by: Chuck C at October 24, 2022 09:46 PM (xttsV)

352 Nurse and I thought that was extremely distasteful and disrespectful - regardless of one's personal thoughts or feelings about JFK. We're curious as to the Horde's thoughts on this.
Posted by: Doof at October 24, 2022 09:30 PM (ucodm)
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I took my sister on an Oswald/JFK site tour around DFW a couple weeks ago, including Dealey Plaza. I would never do that but not sure how you stop anyone else. The people who paint those Xs are the souvenir buzzards who hang out around Dealey with their newspapers and DVDs and keep the Xs to attract the attention.

I think you're an idiot if you go out there on Elm because a car can come flying around that bend, going downhill. The city has tried erasing those Xs in the street over the years, they always come back. I have heard they aren't accurate but seem to be accurate enough.

Posted by: Colonel Travis at October 24, 2022 09:46 PM (RG7Wy)

353 The people who rode tearing down traditional America to political power should have remembered the old curse, "may you get everything you want."
Posted by: sven


I often say at work, 'may you get everything you voted for, good and hard'.

Posted by: Puddleglum, back in Babylon DC at October 24, 2022 09:46 PM (sAmhv)

354 It's why Christinaity is growing in China now.
Posted by: Puddleglum, back in Babylon DC
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Preacher said, Korea is the most Christian nation in the world.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 24, 2022 09:46 PM (CLkaN)

355 8 Pug, it was a joy to meet you and your lovely Mrs.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 24, 2022 09:34 PM (pkAcY)

I wish we could have met sooner. Still, all the best, and keep in touch.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 24, 2022 09:47 PM (4HP6Z)

356 @329 Haven't checked out their Youtube stuff on the last few months, but they have seen a lot from the inside. Serpentza and Laowhy86.

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They posted a special segment of The China Show after Hu was escorted out, and discussed the implications of it.
Posted by: junior at October 24, 2022 09:41 PM (PTw5h)

I haven't watched that one yet, but the shows I have watched have been very informative and nuanced. But from earlier shows they think Xi is super centralizing and "re Maoing" China and the original looking to the west is fading out replace with a more hostile relation.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 09:47 PM (eoQWY)

357 "Assholes gotta asshole."

Wow, you way kinder than I am. I say shit that would make a sailor blush.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 24, 2022 09:47 PM (nxdel)

358 Howdy, y’all. Just got the highlights from the DeSantis / Crist debate. That was lively! Had to miss it to teach, it would have been a fun one. Fetterman should be interesting, but I think I am teaching during that, too! Ugh!

Posted by: Piper at October 24, 2022 09:47 PM (0GTCG)

359 @336 It doesn't matter what little boats they park there, if war comes the actual cargo ships will be meat on the table and if they are not self sufficient in material, which they aren't they are going to be in trouble.

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War with the US, sure.

War with anyone else, on the other hand...?

If China's third carrier works as advertised, they'll have the biggest operational non-US carrier in the world. They will also, iirc, have a bigger operational carrier fleet than any other country - except, again, the US. The navies of every country *except* the US are so small these days that quite bluntly they're barely adequate for peace-time concerns (China's got a big navy... but the vast majority of it is small ships that are limited to the coastal regions). So even if China builds it's planned fourth carrier (the one that's supposed to be nuclear), they'll still be in the "we're just safeguarding our stuff" zone. They won't be able to challenge the US by any means. But challenging US naval supremacy would require going on a decades-long building spree. And there's no way to casually sneak into that.

Posted by: junior at October 24, 2022 09:47 PM (PTw5h)

360 347 That's already starting - the one child policy has made the population very old, and they are nearing retirement now. And the few kids they have can't see them paying for their elders retirement.

It's long past starting. It's baked into the cake now.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2022 09:45 PM (eOEVl)

it's almost funny that a large elderly population doesn't see the problem with counting on a surly younger population to take care of all of their needs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 24, 2022 09:48 PM (r46W7)

361 Indonesia may be just as problematic or moreso than China in the Pacific. China learned a lot from WW II Japan and Indonesia is a rich muslim country, both are greedy and don't like non-Asians.

Posted by: Eromero at October 24, 2022 09:48 PM (0OP+5)

362 One could say the same about most of the developed world.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2022 09:45 PM (eOEVl)

I have for about the last generation. The rot is not uniformly spread in America, at least.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 24, 2022 09:48 PM (eoQWY)

363 thought that was extremely distasteful and disrespectful - regardless of one's personal thoughts or feelings about JFK. We're curious as to the Horde's thoughts on this.
Posted by: Doof at October 24, 2022 09:30 PM

It's nothing new. I think I first heard "What does NASA stand for? Need Another Seven Astronauts" on January 29, 1986.

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Don't you dare not give a crap that a lifetime criminal died of a drug overdose during a routine police stop that was completely by the book in a Democrat controlled city soon after holding a gun to a pregnant woman's stomach, though.

Posted by: Gray Man at October 24, 2022 09:48 PM (qW2YF)

364 Did anyone wish Kamala! a happy birthday today?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 24, 2022 09:48 PM (a3Q+t)

365 President Biden on Monday wished Vice President Kamala Harris a happy birthday, while calling her "a great president,"

Posted by: DB at October 24, 2022 09:49 PM (geLO8)

366 Say, Can she make a 12 year-old?
Posted by: F. Joe Biden

I'll settle for being 30 again.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 24, 2022 09:49 PM (135ws)

367 328 Flugabwehrkanone

Posted by: DB at October 24, 2022 09:37 PM (geLO


Dallas Love, this is SWA 867, approaching Corsicana from the south, we are seeing small black clouds regularly appearing at our flight level, steadily closing on our flight path. Any info about what these are?

Posted by: Gref, with a High-Cyclic Rate Smile still on my face at October 24, 2022 09:49 PM (AMIL/)

368 351 Posted by: Chuck C at October 24, 2022 09:46 PM (xttsV)

I was pretty reverential to the moon landing (-2.5), Pearl Harbor (-30.5), and even the Tet Offensive (-4) of course I would have been properly beaten for acting the ass by my forebears.

Posted by: sven at October 24, 2022 09:49 PM (Lzpvj)

369 They'd have to have 26millon excess deaths per year to reach that number.

So, yeah, I'd say he's oversimplifying it a bit.

According to my math, deaths minus births for 1.5B Chinese is about 8.7M / year, or 244M by 2050. Now he also says the Chinese have admitted overcounting by at least 100M, so that drops it some, but not enough to match his prediction.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2022 09:49 PM (eOEVl)

370 I think putting marks on the pavement was extremely poor judgment by the city
as for the tourists' behavior, well, assholes are widely-dispersed throughout America- whaddya gonna do
Posted by: DB

Disagree.
I felt a certain reverence in the space. I said a prayer as I concentrated on the spot where JFK perished. I think it's an appropriate place to mark.

We walked around the area. We paused at the building where his assassin pulled the trigger. There were far more people who were somber than stupid.

But it was weird. I asked Doof if he wanted his picture taken. That's when the conversation started. I was hoping he'd be as appalled as I was. But, I can be a little, opinionated, so I wanted to make sure I wasn't overreacting. I was not.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 24, 2022 09:50 PM (U2p+3)

371 Say, Can she make a 12 year-old?
Posted by: F. Joe Biden

I'll settle for being 30 again.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 24, 2022 09:49 PM (135ws)
***

I just want some pie. Blueberry.
With a scoop of ice cream.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 24, 2022 09:50 PM (anj39)

372 It's tough the be reverent about events that happened before you were born.

Not really.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 24, 2022 09:50 PM (Xrfse)

373 @342 What were their conclusions? Was this Xi showing that it doesn't pay to cross him?

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Not so much crossing Xi as consolidating power and surrounding himself with Yes-men. They noted that Hu's protege, who is currently China's second in charge, was not on the list of officials for the upcoming term. So he's being removed from office. In short, everyone in an important position in China will be part of Xi's clique.

They've also been saying that even a lot of people in China who are generally positive about the CCP are scared that Cultural Revolution 2.0 is going to arrive soon.

Posted by: junior at October 24, 2022 09:50 PM (PTw5h)

374 Did anyone wish Kamala! a happy birthday today?

She did blow the candles nice.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 24, 2022 09:51 PM (135ws)

375 So yesterday I was taking Nurse to the airport in Dallas and we had some time on our hands. We visited the JFK assassination site. On the road in front of the grassy knoll, there are X marks in the asphalt where the first shots hit and another where the fatal shot hit President Kennedy. People were having photos taken of themselves standing on the X marks. Some were smiling, and one guy even was giving a thumbs-up. Nurse and I thought that was extremely distasteful and disrespectful - regardless of one's personal thoughts or feelings about JFK. We're curious as to the Horde's thoughts on this.

Posted by: Doof at October 24, 2022 09:30 PM (ucodm)

I'm more amazed how the whole damn thing fits inside of rancher Bob's parking area. You watch it on news reels and it looks big and spread out, and when you go there and see it in person the grassy knoll is like right there, and the book depository is like right there. Crazy stuff.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 24, 2022 09:51 PM (VwHCD)

376 >>It's tough the be reverent about events that happened before you were born.

Didn't used to be.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 24, 2022 09:52 PM (ZLI7S)

377 ..Nurse and I thought that was extremely distasteful and disrespectful - regardless of one's personal thoughts or feelings about JFK. We're curious as to the Horde's thoughts on this. Posted by: Doof at October 24, 2022 09:30 PM (ucodm)

When nothing is Revered, then nothing is then left to be Respected. One does not need to have "revered" JFK in his person, but that Constitutionally created Office IS reverential, so help me George Washington.

And so, no, the clowning at the impact points in the streets is sad. Sad, and all too common.

Can't even shame them by pointing out that JFK was slain by an avowed commie. They don't even truly know what a commie is, unless they're "over 29", and that's mostly us. But yeah. The individual commie who pulled the trigger, paid the price. (see; Jack Ruby). But not the Power that spun him up for that cause and that mission. If they've paid, I've yet to see that site of the world's only 3rd atomic detonation yet fired in anger.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at October 24, 2022 09:52 PM (e6UQI)

378 It's tough the be reverent about events that happened before you were born.

Didn't used to be.
Posted by: JackStraw

-

It's almost like fathers matter.

Posted by: Gray Man at October 24, 2022 09:52 PM (qW2YF)

379 372 It's tough the be reverent about events that happened before you were born.

Not really.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 24, 2022 09:50 PM (Xrfse

It's tough if you don't try.

Think about his wife witnessing that right beside him. His kids not understanding what happened to dad.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 24, 2022 09:52 PM (6VKyY)

380 332 but it's also how a whole LOT of tourists react around any site like that.

Picnic at Dachau!
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 24, 2022 09:38 PM (135ws)

I can confirm. We were on a tour of Dachau in 2008, and some American college girl was laughing and posing by the pictures of victims by sucking in her cheeks to look "thin" while her cohorts took pictures. (Before selfies were so common.) Told them to show some respect and she flipped me off.

Posted by: Moki at October 24, 2022 09:53 PM (JrN/x)

381 Nood. ONT

Posted by: Doof at October 24, 2022 09:53 PM (ucodm)

382 It's tough the be reverent about events that happened before you were born.

Didn't used to be.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 24, 2022 09:52 PM (ZLI7S)


Reverence is still pretty powerful when one visits Gettysburg. Or the Little Big Horn.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 24, 2022 09:54 PM (anj39)

383 ROBERT
Romances; A lot of mutual admiration.
Surprise Pregnancies; OPSEC
Fights over women. Don't forget the fights over some of the stunningly handsome men.
Arrests; CLASSIFIED.
Drunken Debauchery; Everyone.
Number Of Cows Tipped; 0, Rancher Bob has standards.
Number Of Tin Cans Shot Full Of Holes; + 6.022 x 10²³
Total Number Of Pudding Cups Violated. NOT BEFORE THE ELECTION.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 24, 2022 09:54 PM (u82oZ)

384 nood
goodnight

Posted by: DB at October 24, 2022 09:55 PM (geLO8)

385 377 Posted by: Jim at October 24, 2022 09:52 PM (e6UQI)

I think nuking New Orleans would be kind of extreme sports.

Oswald was a product of the same permissive education muddled proto-socialists thinking a lot of the pockets of the places he lived were.

The idiot was homegrown.

Posted by: sven at October 24, 2022 09:56 PM (Lzpvj)

386 As for the people at Dachau or what you and Nurse saw in Dallas, Doof, I blame a good bit on our education system (and parents, who should have taught proper respect in the first place). History is snippets in a thick textbook that is given short shrift, and most high school history teachers have no grasp of their subject matter, so they are unable to teach it well.

Posted by: Moki at October 24, 2022 09:58 PM (JrN/x)

387 whole LOT of tourists react around any site like that

Wasn't some bint removed from Arlington after taking pictures of her flipping off the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 24, 2022 09:58 PM (135ws)

388 >>Reverence is still pretty powerful when one visits Gettysburg. Or the Little Big Horn.

Growing up around Boston it seemed like we were constantly taking field trips to Revolution era spots and were taught the history of the events and their relevance to what we are as a country. It doesn't seem to happen much anymore.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 24, 2022 10:00 PM (ZLI7S)

389 Happy birthday, Kamala.

Murffff ghou hmmmla

You’re welcome.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 24, 2022 10:00 PM (u73oe)

390 126
'Taser sets felon on fire'

If I ever got a taser it would be this brand.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 24, 2022 10:01 PM (roH4R)

391 380 332 but it's also how a whole LOT of tourists react around any site like that.

Picnic at Dachau!
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 24, 2022 09:38 PM (135ws)

I can confirm. We were on a tour of Dachau in 2008, and some American college girl was laughing and posing by the pictures of victims by sucking in her cheeks to look "thin" while her cohorts took pictures. (Before selfies were so common.) Told them to show some respect and she flipped me off.
Posted by: Moki


Visited Dachau in 1991 and didn't see any of that. It was a cold, damp day so that kept most people away. About a day or two before Christmas so that would be another reason. I think my sister and I were the only people there. It's a hard to describe kind of place.

Posted by: Puddleglum, back in Babylon DC at October 24, 2022 10:04 PM (sAmhv)

392 390 Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 24, 2022 10:01 PM (roH4R)

"Not jackassing around accelerants" seems like good advice for idiots....

here's another.

https://youtu.be/Abo_J_wnlW8

Posted by: sven at October 24, 2022 10:04 PM (Lzpvj)

393
Visited Dachau in 1991 and didn't see any of that. It was a cold, damp day so that kept most people away. About a day or two before Christmas so that would be another reason. I think my sister and I were the only people there. It's a hard to describe kind of place.
Posted by: Puddleglum, back in Babylon DC at October 24, 2022 10:04 PM (sAmhv)

I was in tears throughout the three hours we were there. Walking through the Arbeit Macht Frei gate...there are no words for that. You're right, it's a hard place to describe.

Posted by: Moki at October 24, 2022 10:11 PM (JrN/x)

394 I am making $85 an hour working from home. i was greatly surprised at the same time as my neighbour advised me she changed into averaging $95 however I see the way it works now. I experience mass freedom now that I'm my non-public boss.
That is what I do.. www.Profit97.com

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