THE MORNING RANT: <strike>All Heart Disease</strike> <i>Women’s</i> Heart Disease Is an Issue Deserving of Awareness; Amazon Redirecting Its Charitable Giving from Flyover Country to Seattle & DC

THE MORNING RANT: All Heart Disease Women’s Heart Disease Is an Issue Deserving of Awareness; Amazon Redirecting Its Charitable Giving from Flyover Country to Seattle & DC

If you work for a large American corporation, there is a very good chance that you were asked to wear red today, and at some point, those of you wearing red will gather together for a group photo.

What’s the occasion? It’s Go Red for Women day, raising awareness about heart disease…in women.

From landmarks to online communities, neighborhoods to news anchors, this annual groundswell unites millions of people for a common goal: the eradication of heart disease and stroke.
Wear red to raise awareness about cardiovascular disease and help save lives. Why? Because losing even one woman to cardiovascular disease is too many.

“Because losing even one woman to cardiovascular disease is too many.

What about men?

My all-time favorite boss was a no-nonsense woman who absolutely refused to participate in patronizing “we celebrate women” photo ops and awareness events. Be it “Women Leaders of [name of town]” or “Women in Business” or “Future Women Leaders” she had no use for it.

I’ve always been kind of indifferent about all that – I really don’t care - and I’m also glad I’m not the one getting a patronizing pat on the head.

The disparity in treatment, however, becomes more striking when workplaces must perform acts of awareness about women’s health, but not men’s. My family has been hit hard by both breast cancer and prostate cancer, but the corporate American workplace only champions one of those two cancers.

I’m sorry, but this annual “Go Red” event is actually pretty offensive. Men and women alike have heart attacks and strokes, but we must publicly profess an act of caring only about how women are affected by heart disease.

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Amazon to Redirect Its Charitable Giving from Local Organizations to Charities in Large Urban Areas (especially metro Seattle & Washington D.C.)

Amazon is a private company that can steer its charitable donations to whomever it likes.

That disclaimer aside, it’s pretty tacky that Amazon has decided to suspend charitable giving to thousands of small organizations, as chosen by its customers, and instead steer most of the money to just a few urban charities where Amazon has major operations.

AmazonSmile’s End Is Alarming, Say Nonprofits That Benefited [AP – 01/24/2023]

I live in an area where suburbia bumps up against Appalachia. The residents of my suburban town are very active in providing money and services to a local social services agency that helps many of the needier folks in the countryside. One of the fundraising methods has been through AmazonSmile, which has contributed an amount equal to ½ of 1% of all Amazon purchases of those choosing that charity. The money comes from a foundation established by Amazon.

Instead of letting a little of its charitable giving be steered to those in need where its customers live, Amazon will be redirecting the charitable giving to where its employees live. And, it should be noted, these are locations where the company and its executives can gain goodwill from the local power structure as a result of its giving.

Here is a link to the letter Amazon sent on 01/18/2023, announcing the changes in its charitable giving.

Overwhelmingly the charitable giving will be redirected to Amazon’s “hometown” communities, more specifically, major metro areas such as Bellevue, Washington (metro Seattle) and Arlington, VA (metro Washington D.C.)

Here are the five areas Amazon identified for its redirected giving:

HOUSING EQUITY FUND: We’re investing $2 billion to build and preserve affordable housing in our hometown communities. In just two years, we’ve provided funding to create more than 14,000 affordable homes—and we expect to build at least 6,000 more in the coming months. These units will host more than 18,000 moderate- to low-income families, many of them with children. In one year alone, our investments have been able to increase the affordable housing stock in communities like Bellevue, Washington and Arlington, Virginia by at least 20%.

I guess there are no low-income families with children in Boone or Bristol needing affordable shelter for their families. Might as well send more money to DC, instead.

AMAZON FUTURE ENGINEER: We’ve funded computer science curriculum for more than 600,000 students across over 5,000 schools—all in underserved communities. We have plans to reach an additional 1 million students this year. We’ve also provided immediate assistance to 55,000 students in our hometown communities by giving them warm clothes for the winter, food, and school supplies.

Computer science and engineering is good. So are trades. Food and warm clothes are also needed in communities other than Seattle and D.C.

Community Delivery Program: We’ve partnered with food banks in 35 U.S. cities to deliver more than 23 million meals, using our logistics infrastructure to help families in need access healthy food – and we plan to deliver 12 million more meals this year alone. In addition to our delivery services, we’ve also donated 30 million meals in communities across the country.

There are hundreds of food banks across the country, a great many of which were receiving donations from Amazon Smile, but which will not be receiving Amazon money going forward, because they are not among the lucky 35 food banks that Amazon favors.

Amazon Disaster Relief: We’re using our logistics capabilities, inventory, and cloud technology to provide fast aid to communities affected by natural disasters. For example, we’ve created a Disaster Relief Hub in Atlanta with more than 1 million relief items ready for deployment, our Disaster Relief team has responded to more than 95 natural disasters, and we’ve donated more than 20 million relief products to nonprofits assisting communities on the ground.

No complaints here. This is to be commended.

Community Giving: We support hundreds of local nonprofits doing meaningful work in cities where our employees and their families live. For example, each year we donate hundreds of millions of dollars to organizations working to build stronger communities, from youth sport leagues, to local community colleges, to shelters for families experiencing homelessness.

Great. But what about organizations in communities where Amazon’s customers and their families live? They were receiving charitable giving but now it is being yanked away.

Amazon may not feel that a couple thousand dollars is a meaningful amount, but to a small town Social Services Agency it really makes a difference. Taking that money and steering it instead to Seattle and D.C. feels just like what happens to so much other money in this country.

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Songs of the Season

What is this time of year called? The Bleak Midwinter? The Dog Days of Winter?

Most of the romantic songs about winter are tied to Christmas, not this part of the season. Here’s a sweet winter love song from Gordon Lightfoot that has nothing to do with Christmas: “Song For A Winter’s Night”

(And yes, I’m well aware that there is an electric bass rather than an upright bass. I imagine Mr. Lightfoot would like a do over on that if he could.)

The lamp is burnin' low upon my table top
The snow is softly falling
The air is still in the silence of my room
I hear your voice softly calling
If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
On this winter night with you
The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead
My glass is almost empty
I read again between the lines upon the page
The words of love you sent me
If I could know within my heart
That you were lonely too
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
On this winter night with you
The fire is dying
Now my lamp is growing dim
The shades of night are lifting
The morning light steals across my window pane
Where webs of snow are drifting
If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
On this winter night with you
And to be once again with you

Have a great weekend.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2023 11:00 AM (EduVx)

2 Dutifully called as always

Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2023 11:01 AM (EduVx)

3 Onto content

Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2023 11:02 AM (EduVx)

4 MAGA hat day?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 03, 2023 11:02 AM (eYoxG)

5 Aren't white women the longest lived and richest people in America?

Posted by: Puddihead at February 03, 2023 11:02 AM (tiR3O)

6 Cold. That is what this time of year is called. Cold.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:03 AM (zZu0s)

7 Wearing blue here

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:03 AM (XvPQV)

8 Amazon is pretty much my retailer of last resort anyways, but I do hope it pissed them off every time I bought something and they had to cut a check to the Second Amendment Foundation.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 03, 2023 11:03 AM (Bd6X8)

9 Bonus points if your red outfit includes a yellow hammer and sickle or a star.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 03, 2023 11:04 AM (lTGtQ)

10 Because losing even one woman to cardiovascular disease is too many.

Umm...

Posted by: Pfizer at February 03, 2023 11:05 AM (amJF4)

11 The Amazon smile program ending pisses me off a little. I guess they got tired of writing checks to the NRA foundation from my giving.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:05 AM (XvPQV)

12 Yeah, I also find it somewhat offensive that women's diseases are "celebrated" constantly but men's diseases are not.

And heart disease seems to be one of those that affects both men AND women (though I don't know if there is an overall disparity in rates).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 03, 2023 11:05 AM (YIVH2)

13 5 Aren't white women the longest lived and richest people in America?
Posted by: Puddihead at February 03, 2023 11:02 AM (tiR3O)

That's an interesting question.

Women tend to be net beneficiaries(with men as net losers) of redistribution programs and are now outearning men in younger demographics. Asian women might slightly edge out white women for expected lifespan and wealth/income though.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 03, 2023 11:05 AM (eYoxG)

14 What is this time of year called? The Bleak Midwinter? The Dog Days of Winter?

This time of the year would be unendurable except for some key family celebrations, such as wedding anniversaries and birthdays. And Valentine's Day of course.

Posted by: kallisto at February 03, 2023 11:05 AM (6fvRe)

15 I’m sorry, but this annual “Go Red” event is actually pretty offensive. Men and women alike have heart attacks and strokes, but we must publicly profess an act of caring only about how women are affected by heart disease.
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Yup. It's ingrained at this point. I once saw a picture of some "infographic" about homelessness that had a bunch of standard male and female icons (like on bathroom signs) that had a caption like, "1 in 10 homeless people are women."

But that's the 1 in 10 that counts.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 11:05 AM (t0OGg)

16 That disclaimer aside, it’s pretty tacky that Amazon has decided to suspend charitable giving to thousands of small organizations, as chosen by its customers, and instead steer most of the money to just a few urban charities where Amazon has major operations.

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The point wasn't to help charities. The point was to launder money towards favored political groups.

The problem was that those favored political groups don't actually get that much natural support, so Amazon has decided to tip the scales.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:06 AM (LvTSG)

17 I'm am done with Amazon. Most of the junk they sell now is Chinese garbage and some of it is repackaged. Fuck Bezos.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 03, 2023 11:06 AM (D25PY)

18 15 Yup. It's ingrained at this point. I once saw a picture of some "infographic" about homelessness that had a bunch of standard male and female icons (like on bathroom signs) that had a caption like, "1 in 10 homeless people are women."

But that's the 1 in 10 that counts.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 11:05 AM (t0OGg)

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Listen, it's not like women run marketing agencies these days or anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:06 AM (LvTSG)

19 I'm am

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 03, 2023 11:06 AM (D25PY)

20 It's always "raising awareness" with the virtue signaling cabal.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 03, 2023 11:06 AM (Xrfse)

21 I have an album with Sarah McLachlan singing Song for a Winter's night. Just a beautiful song.

Posted by: She Hobbit at February 03, 2023 11:06 AM (ftFVW)

22 Is there anyone no longer aware of breast cancer? I'd say the awareness campaign has succeeded.

Over the years, I've had a few hundred $$ routed to a local Pregnancy Resource center as a result of my Amazon purchases. No more Amazon purchases. I give the center the $$ directly now.

Screw you A.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 03, 2023 11:07 AM (bJxw1)

23 AHA is fully, like 100%, a Dem arm at this point

Posted by: J at February 03, 2023 11:07 AM (gBH+0)

24 Instead of letting a little of its charitable giving be steered to those in need where its customers live, Amazon will be redirecting the charitable giving to where its employees live. And, it should be noted, these are locations where the company and its executives can gain goodwill from the local power structure as a result of its giving.
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Localization is bad, Buck. If you let people choose, they might be selfish and choose their own places. If you let people choose, they might choose the wrong thing. It's much better to steer everything into large, centralized activities chosen and managed by the elites. Much more efficient that way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 11:07 AM (t0OGg)

25 12 Yeah, I also find it somewhat offensive that women's diseases are "celebrated" constantly but men's diseases are not.

And heart disease seems to be one of those that affects both men AND women (though I don't know if there is an overall disparity in rates).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 03, 2023 11:05 AM (YIVH2)

Men have more heart problems and at a younger age.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 03, 2023 11:07 AM (eYoxG)

26 Also, Gordon Lightfoot is Quality. I'm not a fan of his early stuff, and I've tried to be, but when he's on...he's ON.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:07 AM (XvPQV)

27 I love Song for a Winter's Night and have it on my Christmas playlist, even though, yeah, it ain't about the baby Jesus.

Sara McLachlan has a good cover too.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 03, 2023 11:07 AM (PuLss)

28 I'm over 65 (just barely, of course) and during my last annual checkup I found out that during my blood work-up, the PSA test for prostrate screening was not included. Apparently Medicare doesn't cover them. I immediately called my doctor's office - said I would pay for it myself - and had them instruct the Lab to run the test. I can't remember how much it was but that's beside the point. Prostrate cancer in men is at least as prevalent as breast cancer in women, I'm pretty sure. Why in the hell would the government not cover that test?

The world wonders.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 03, 2023 11:07 AM (z01mR)

29 Shorter Amazon: only the urban poor are deserving.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 03, 2023 11:08 AM (lTGtQ)

30 Listen, it's not like women run marketing agencies these days or anything.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:06 AM (LvTSG)

Hey, fuck you!
-Jan Draper

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:08 AM (zZu0s)

31 Computer science and engineering is good. So are trades. Food and warm clothes are also needed in communities other than Seattle and D.C.
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But they don't see it in those other places. It's a form of NIMBYism. We see this all the time in environmental nonsense. Pollution, contamination and literal slave labor don't matter so long as they happen across the sea somewhere.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 11:08 AM (t0OGg)

32 This time of year, as WMAL helpfully informs us, is officially known as “Valentine’s Day Is Just Around the Corner.”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 03, 2023 11:08 AM (xlMji)

33 Do you know what helps women's cardio? Having sex like an animal.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 03, 2023 11:08 AM (D25PY)

34 I like the lyrics to the Gordon Lightfoot song.

Yes, technically this would be mid-winter -- halfway between the winter solstice, the start of winter, Dec. 22, and the spring equinox, the end of winter, March 22. Six weeks, roughly, from 12/22 to 2/2, and then another 6 to March 22.

Of course, where I live winter (other people's spring) begins in January and "exits March the second on the dot."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 03, 2023 11:09 AM (J2vNu)

35 26 Also, Gordon Lightfoot is Quality. I'm not a fan of his early stuff, and I've tried to be, but when he's on...he's ON.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:07 AM (XvPQV)

Sundown, you better take care...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:09 AM (zZu0s)

36 30 Hey, fuck you!
-Jan Draper
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:08 AM (zZu0s)

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Don Draper would have given me an actual speech with structure and convincing argument.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:09 AM (LvTSG)

37 Amazon may not feel that a couple thousand dollars is a meaningful amount, but to a small town Social Services Agency it really makes a difference. Taking that money and steering it instead to Seattle and D.C. feels just like what happens to so much other money in this country.
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Yes. It is redirected and deployed in a manner that provides maximal efficiency and the best technical management so it can take advantage of economies of scale!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 11:09 AM (t0OGg)

38 If you could read my mind love...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:09 AM (zZu0s)

39 "What is this time of year called? The Bleak Midwinter? The Dog Days of Winter?"

We're supposed to hit 40 Monday here in central WI, so that's nice.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 03, 2023 11:10 AM (76Foq)

40 Don Draper would have given me an actual speech with structure and convincing argument.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:09 AM (LvTSG)

This is 'Jan' Draper though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:10 AM (zZu0s)

41 Also, Gordon Lightfoot is Quality. I'm not a fan of his early stuff, and I've tried to be, but when he's on...he's ON.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:07 AM (XvPQV)

If You Could Read My Mind is my favorite, closely followed by Carefree Highway. Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - not so much.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 03, 2023 11:10 AM (z01mR)

42 Aren't white women the longest lived and richest people in America?
Posted by: Puddihead at February 03, 2023

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And American women are the most spoiled, coddled, and indulged population of humans in history.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 03, 2023 11:10 AM (J2vNu)

43 37 Yes. It is redirected and deployed in a manner that provides maximal efficiency and the best technical management so it can take advantage of economies of scale!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 11:09 AM (t0OGg)

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"Is this what my children have wrought? Jargon in the perpetual favor of an increasingly centralized method of control over all corners of people's lives? This is great!"
-Zombie Woodrow Wilson

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:11 AM (LvTSG)

44 Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 03, 2023 11:11 AM (xlMji)

45 Amazon has done it's part in destroying local commerce. It no longer needs to pretend to be even a little concerned about creatures in flyover country.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 03, 2023 11:11 AM (uvymP)

46 This isn't the graphic I was thinking of, but it's close:
https://is.gd/apyCpc

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 11:11 AM (t0OGg)

47 What about,,, The Delusions Of Sexual Grandeur fund?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 03, 2023 11:12 AM (M8jzK)

48 Speaking of housing in NoVA, our church last night participated in a Zoom meeting with an ex-Marine, speaking on behalf of 4 Afghani families he's trying to help. The fathers worked for the army, helping to ID truly bad Afghans for detention, so they have huge bullseyes on their backs.

The Feds have done f***-all for these people; it's been private citizens. They're here, but living in a hotel, from which they're about to be evicted. They're looking for housing. They'd like to live in an apartment, but Fairfax Co. won't let them because there'd be too many of them, and besides they have no money. They'd like to work, but the government hasn't issued them work permits.

I get that many disagree with bringing them here, but they're here. At every step, the government has either done nothing, or actively impeded things.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 03, 2023 11:12 AM (eOEVl)

49 Recently, wife and I took the kids to Hershey Park. Hearing about Milton Hershey's dedication to his workforce was pretty inspiring.

I would actually applaud Amazon's contributions in this manner if I wasn't so cynical to believe that they're either using it to support a cheaper workforce or giving it instead to preferred political (read: grifting) operations.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 03, 2023 11:13 AM (KbCG3)

50 Be sure to wear Puce (all the good colors are taken) for "Women's Prostate Cancer Awareness Month", because one woman dying of Prostate Cancer is one woman too many. - Admiral Rachel Levine...probably

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 03, 2023 11:13 AM (wUHYj)

51 Sadly Walmart is following Amazon on the stupid path but still I have shifted most of my online buying to be through them or directly from the source. I had done this before now; but the cancellation of the smile program on the weak excuse of "our donations were spread too thin to be effective" is a reason to make extra effort to avoid sending bucks to Amazon when there is an alternative.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 03, 2023 11:13 AM (3cGpq)

52 8 Amazon is pretty much my retailer of last resort anyways, but I do hope it pissed them off every time I bought something and they had to cut a check to the Second Amendment Foundation.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 03, 2023 11:03 AM (Bd6X

Nice choice. Mine have been going to the Cleveland Right to Life Education Fund.

Posted by: Rowsdower Believes Ray Epps is a Fed and Ashli Bennett is Crispus Attucks at February 03, 2023 11:13 AM (t7011)

53 Hershey Park is nice.

Posted by: LaCreesha Ghettoblaster at February 03, 2023 11:13 AM (ZqJGw)

54 I don't own anything that's red. Maybe some red lettering on a pair of work socks.

These activist organizers clearly haven't thought these things through.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 03, 2023 11:13 AM (Jg7EG)

55 Also, Gordon Lightfoot is Quality. I'm not a fan of his early stuff, and I've tried to be, but when he's on...he's ON.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023

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Early in his career he did what I consider to be THE version of "Me and Bobby McGee." I'd never heard that Janis Caterwaul version then, and I liked GL's song a lot. When I finally heard Joplin's version, I switched the radio station, and I still do when it comes on.

In Lightfoot's version, it should be spelled "Bobbie" McGee.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 03, 2023 11:14 AM (J2vNu)

56 I get that many disagree with bringing them here, but they're here. At every step, the government has either done nothing, or actively impeded things.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 03, 2023 11:12 AM (eOEVl)

Drive them down to the southern border and have them cross back over.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:14 AM (zZu0s)

57 Fat Black Women in other words? Plenty of other fat women around.

Our four dogs don't much mind the five mile death march my female subjects us to four days a week. Not today too wet

Posted by: JEM at February 03, 2023 11:14 AM (8erNz)

58 Our smile donations went to a small puppy mill dog rescue in Kansas. When Amazon dropped them we started sending to a couple service dog for veterans organizations.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 03, 2023 11:14 AM (N52dd)

59 Well now that the clot shot has wrecked women's reproductive health it is only fitting that the USSG have to pay reparations to them, add in the bonus ESG points for letting men die and this is a win win.

Posted by: sven at February 03, 2023 11:14 AM (Lzpvj)

60 Amazon is the company that uses thousands of contract workers with no benefits provided, correct? Also the company that tells its contract workers to work more than 40 hours per week, but report only 40, so that they get a chunk of their labor for free, correct?

Yeah, that is the charitable company I'm thinking of. They do more to contribute to the problem than help alleviate it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 03, 2023 11:14 AM (lTGtQ)

61 Wearing blue here

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:03 AM

Black for me. For my cold, black heart and having been black-pilled.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 11:14 AM (Do5/p)

62 Aren't Leftists going to shy away from Red ?
Now if had a hammer and sickle it might be ok

Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2023 11:14 AM (EduVx)

63 "I’ve always been kind of indifferent about all that – I really don’t care - and I’m also glad I’m not the one getting a patronizing pat on the head. "

I'm just disappointed that something like that would happen during Black History month.

Posted by: Simple Stevo at February 03, 2023 11:15 AM (OsJrV)

64 I have my "smile" donation set to Fisher House, but honestly i barely use Amazon for anything anymore. Sick of wading through eight pages of Ching chong happy joy bullshit knockoffs to get to the thing i actually want to buy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 03, 2023 11:15 AM (9UlRk)

65 "1 in 10 homeless people are women."

But that's the 1 in 10 that counts.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 11:05 AM
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Well if 1 in 10 are women, that means that men are 0. Duh!

- AWFLs everywhere.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 03, 2023 11:15 AM (61Jtc)

66 Sometimes in college, the men’s bathroom in the dorm would be covered in puce on Sunday morning.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 03, 2023 11:15 AM (xlMji)

67 I don't own anything that's red. Maybe some red lettering on a pair of work socks.

These activist organizers clearly haven't thought these things through.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 03, 2023

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It's chilly and damp today, so I wore my red muffler around my throat. (Not "scarf." Scarves are those colorful accessories, usually of silk, that women wear. This plaid cashmere object is a "muffler.") Does that count?

(Not that I care)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 03, 2023 11:15 AM (J2vNu)

68 Well if 1 in 10 are women, that means that men are 0. Duh!

- AWFLs everywhere.
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 03, 2023 11:15 AM (61Jtc)
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LOL.

#irrefutableLogice

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 11:15 AM (t0OGg)

69 "I’ve always been kind of indifferent about all that – I really don’t care - and I’m also glad I’m not the one getting a patronizing pat on the head. "

I'm just disappointed that something like that would happen during Black History month.
Posted by: Simple Stevo at February 03, 2023 11:15 AM (OsJrV)
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Or PRIDE! Month!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 03, 2023 11:15 AM (YIVH2)

70 61 Wearing blue here

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:03 AM

Black for me. For my cold, black heart and having been black-pilled.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 11:14 AM (Do5/p)

Black on Black. Blue long underwear. Brown boots. Yellow safety vest.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:16 AM (zZu0s)

71 Also recall I warned about this with the Bob G Komen brown for the cure gag I did years back.

Essentially anyone who thinks every aspect of the civilization we built is not being aimed like a gun at our foreheads is a fool.

The medical establishment will soon across the board argue that heterosexual white male Christians should be prohibited from seeking medical care at all.

I give it maybe until 2050.

Posted by: sven at February 03, 2023 11:16 AM (Lzpvj)

72 I get that many disagree with bringing them here, but they're here. At every step, the government has either done nothing, or actively impeded things.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 03, 2023 11:12 AM (eOEVl)

Drive them down to the southern border and have them cross back over.

Apparently that is starting to happen. Not that Biden has any plans to deal with it.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 03, 2023 11:16 AM (eOEVl)

73 65 Well if 1 in 10 are women, that means that men are 0. Duh!

- AWFLs everywhere.
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 03, 2023 11:15 AM (61Jtc)

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Nah, more like, "The 9 in 10 homeless that are men are obviously there because they made bad choices, and they deserve to be there. Also, the government needs to take care of them, especially so I don't see them on my way to Whole Foods."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:16 AM (LvTSG)

74 1 in 10 homeless people are women.

That means 10% of people without a home cannot for whatever reason convince a man to take them in.

Posted by: sven at February 03, 2023 11:17 AM (Lzpvj)

75 Amazon may not feel that a couple thousand dollars is a meaningful amount, but to a small town Social Services Agency it really makes a difference. Taking that money and steering it instead to Seattle and D.C. feels just like what happens to so much other money in this country.

Yup. Mine went to our local volunteer fire department.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 03, 2023 11:18 AM (ZGrMX)

76 Be sure to wear Puce (all the good colors are taken) for "Women's Prostate Cancer Awareness Month", because one woman dying of Prostate Cancer is one woman too many. - Admiral Rachel Levine...probably
Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 03, 2023

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I wonder if these activistes would know that the word "puce" is derived from the Latin word for "flea," "pulex." It's about the same color.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 03, 2023 11:18 AM (J2vNu)

77 Of course, where I live winter (other people's spring) begins in January and "exits March the second on the dot."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Hmm. I used to think that, until March 13th, 1993.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Storm_of_the_Century

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 03, 2023 11:18 AM (Xh7X1)

78 "What is this time of year called? The Bleak Midwinter? The Dog Days of Winter?"

It's called Solmath in the Shire calendar.

Posted by: Rowsdower Believes Ray Epps is a Fed and Ashli Bennett is Crispus Attucks at February 03, 2023 11:18 AM (t7011)

79 The medical establishment will soon across the board argue that heterosexual white male Christians should be prohibited from seeking medical care at all.

I give it maybe until 2050.
Posted by: sven at February 03, 2023 11:16 AM (Lzpvj)
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Nah. Nothing so obvious will be needed. In the coming fiscal and monetary environment, spending *must* be cut. The way they'll probably do it is by nationalizing healthcare under a single-payer system and then ratchet it down hard through rationing. That's the easiest and best way to do it.

It isn't that "bad" groups are forbidden from seeking medical care, it's just that they never seem to get it. Always low-priority, always back of the line.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 11:18 AM (t0OGg)

80 I’ve always been kind of indifferent about all that

I was indifferent. But like a lot of things, I'm just tired of hearing about women's apparently unending problems.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 03, 2023 11:18 AM (KFhLj)

81 I bought M&Ms last night and they are doing some stupid upside down image and pastel colors with "supporting women Flipping the status quo"

Aside from stupidity my thought on seeing that was "we are in the 2020s, not the 70s now, any old boys club status quo that used to exist was eliminated a couple decades ago"

If I had time and energy to be a shit stirrer I'd hop on DU or similar and ask if it wasn't offensive for Mars candy to do this during black history month.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 03, 2023 11:19 AM (3cGpq)

82 Over half of the homeless women who are homeless are women. And i promise I'll get rid of them. Word to your Biden.

Posted by: Spongebrain Shitpants at February 03, 2023 11:19 AM (9UlRk)

83 No one will take me in.
I have a terrible personality , ,,,,, fucker.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 03, 2023 11:19 AM (M8jzK)

84 The end result of the Smile change is I will simply stop using Smile.

Posted by: Gaff at February 03, 2023 11:19 AM (jPS2y)

85 "1 in 10 homeless people are women."

But that's the 1 in 10 that counts.

I saw people making fun of that on Twitter. The AWFLs were shrieking about sexism in response.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 03, 2023 11:19 AM (ZGrMX)

86 35 26 Also, Gordon Lightfoot is Quality. I'm not a fan of his early stuff, and I've tried to be, but when he's on...he's ON.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:07 AM (XvPQV)

Sundown, you better take care...
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:09 AM (zZu0s)

*sets up field of fire covering my back stair*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:19 AM (XvPQV)

87 I was indifferent. But like a lot of things, I'm just tired of hearing about women's apparently unending problems.
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Vaginal Discharge is a thing.

Posted by: Puddihead at February 03, 2023 11:19 AM (tiR3O)

88 76 So, Wolfus, you’re saying that puce is a lousy color?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 03, 2023 11:20 AM (xlMji)

89 As an accountant who works on the “other side” of the charitable giving system, let me tell you it isn’t all that fun investigating charities, finding contacts, completing paperwork and adding vendors to the accounting system just to send out a quarterly check for $20.

Posted by: Corona exile-back_in_exile at February 03, 2023 11:20 AM (3wNhr)

90 Most companies do their donations this way. I have no problem with this.

Posted by: Black JEM at February 03, 2023 11:21 AM (+Beke)

91 I'd never heard that Lightfoot, Buck. It left me sobbing. Thank you anyway.

Posted by: creeper at February 03, 2023 11:21 AM (cTCuP)

92 88 76 So, Wolfus, you’re saying that puce is a lousy color?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 03, 2023 11:20 AM (xlMji

*ticks box for insect puns*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 03, 2023 11:21 AM (9UlRk)

93 I think these awareness campaigns would be more effective it they promoted smart phone health apps that track the calorie count from the number of times the ladies go bouncy-bouncy in the reverse cowgirl position.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 03, 2023 11:21 AM (Jg7EG)

94 Yeah, I don't do charity through corporations for the same reason. Ends up going to BLM or Seattle nut farms.

Posted by: Tom at February 03, 2023 11:21 AM (bjV9z)

95 I was indifferent. But like a lot of things, I'm just tired of hearing about women's apparently unending problems.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 03, 2023 11:18 AM (KFhLj)
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It isn't even that. It's that we hear about - constantly - the problems face by *one* kind of woman: the affluent or upper-middle-class urban professional white woman. That dominates *every* narrative.

It gets tiresome, but the real problem is that the problems are so damn boring. You have to compete in the office? People cat-call you? You're upset that dudes take up more space on the train?

Boo-freaking-hoo.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 11:21 AM (t0OGg)

96 "our donations were spread too thin to be effective"

--

as BRIBES
ineffective as bribes
But if Amazon picks, it's useful when dealing with the grifters in govt

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 03, 2023 11:21 AM (EGSGm)

97 All I had red was some red longjohns, no place to carry my keys.

Posted by: Eromero at February 03, 2023 11:21 AM (z3WCn)

98 Aside from stupidity my thought on seeing that was "we are in the 2020s, not the 70s now, any old boys club status quo that used to exist was eliminated a couple decades ago"

Posted by: PaleRider

Over my *cough, cough* 40+ years of employment, I had many more women supervisors/directors than men. Some were exceptional. Some were asshoes.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 03, 2023 11:21 AM (bJxw1)

99 You know something that has occured to me over the years: so much of the modern era seems to be... air. Ephemeral. Thought.

What I mean by that is back in the day, you had physical wealth. Land. A huge house. Cattle. Railroads. Oil Wells.

Now, you look at the rich and substantively, they are not THAT different than anyone else as far as convenience or accoutrement. They have more resources sure, but aside from a Bugatti (and most of them would not want to really touch one- this is what killed me about the woman from PP bragging about selling baby parts- do you love driving? Would you really want a Lamborghini for what it can do- or is it a physical status symbol only?)

But the amount of money being thrown around is not real. It is not real wealth only perceived wealth.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:21 AM (zZu0s)

100 Of course, where I live winter (other people's spring) begins in January and "exits March the second on the dot."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Hmm. I used to think that, until March 13th, 1993.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Storm_of_the_Century
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 03, 2023

***
Weirdly, I have no memory of that. Possibly the worst of it was over east of me, in AL and FL.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 03, 2023 11:21 AM (J2vNu)

101 As an accountant who works on the “other side” of the charitable giving system, let me tell you it isn’t all that fun investigating charities, finding contacts, completing paperwork and adding vendors to the accounting system just to send out a quarterly check for $20.

You stop with your reasonable, well-thought-out points.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 03, 2023 11:21 AM (eOEVl)

102 "What about men?"

Theirs is not to reason why.
Theirs is just to do and die.

Posted by: XTC at February 03, 2023 11:22 AM (UnA8+)

103 Gordon Lightfoot’s Sundown always makes me feel good despite the negativity of the lyrics; great tune and it reminds me of my youth. The man could write songs; had talent

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 03, 2023 11:22 AM (b2dH9)

104 I have something that's red but I think once the rash dies down, the redness will subside too.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 03, 2023 11:22 AM (bJxw1)

105 61 Wearing blue here

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:03 AM

Black for me. For my cold, black heart and having been black-pilled.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 11:14 AM (Do5/p)

I used to wear black exclusively. I thought it looked good on me, at least before I went gray

But I was told to stop wearing black at work (ironically at Amazon) because I was scaring my co-workers.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:22 AM (XvPQV)

106 All I had red was some red longjohns, no place to carry my keys.
Posted by: Eromero at February 03, 2023

***
If I buy some Tecovas boots this spring, I'm going to make a point of adding in some red socks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 03, 2023 11:23 AM (J2vNu)

107 Our Smiles donations went to a local no-kill animal shelter.

Fuck Amazon.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 03, 2023 11:23 AM (D25PY)

108 Maybe the reason the military didn't shoot the balloon down is because there is a nuclear device in it with a descent trigger?

Nothing to do with falling debris striking civilian areas. More like concern about setting off a nuclear device?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 03, 2023 11:23 AM (lf83v)

109 81 I bought M&Ms last night and they are doing some stupid upside down image and pastel colors with "supporting women Flipping the status quo"

Aside from stupidity my thought on seeing that was "we are in the 2020s, not the 70s now, any old boys club status quo that used to exist was eliminated a couple decades ago"

If I had time and energy to be a shit stirrer I'd hop on DU or similar and ask if it wasn't offensive for Mars candy to do this during black history month.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 03, 2023 11:19 AM (3cGpq)

Exactly! One grievance group at a time, people!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:23 AM (zZu0s)

110 So has Sundown been hanging around the great lake they call Gitchigoomi?

Posted by: N.Lurker at February 03, 2023 11:23 AM (eGTCV)

111 I couldn't help but notice that the women who wore red and had their group photo were all in management or their favorite flunkies.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 03, 2023 11:24 AM (N52dd)

112 108 Maybe the reason the military didn't shoot the balloon down is because there is a nuclear device in it with a descent trigger?

Nothing to do with falling debris striking civilian areas. More like concern about setting off a nuclear device?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 03, 2023 11:23 AM (lf83v)

How high does a nuke have to be where the emp effect would kick in, but you would not have significant damage or fallout to the ground?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:24 AM (zZu0s)

113 If I buy some Tecovas boots this spring, I'm going to make a point of adding in some red socks.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

You'll love them Wolfus! They are one of the few brands that fit me nicely.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 03, 2023 11:24 AM (bJxw1)

114 Because losing even one woman to cardiovascular disease is too many.

Cool. Now do adverse vaxxine reactions.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 03, 2023 11:24 AM (Zqeqr)

115 Of course, an EMP in Montana would not hit too much that was not already hardened, I would think.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:24 AM (zZu0s)

116 I have the somewhat rare album 'Sit Down Young Stranger', later retitled 'If You Could Read My Mind'. Played a lot over the years.

There were some interesting folk who took part. John Sebastian, Ry Cooder, Randy Newman

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 03, 2023 11:25 AM (1a0ym)

117 Recently, wife and I took the kids to Hershey Park. Hearing about Milton Hershey's dedication to his workforce was pretty inspiring.

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That's one of my favorite places ever. Not only is it interesting but, like you said, it was a time when people would do things to HELP other folks with their own money vs trying to take things away from them.

IIRC he laid down some crazy number back in the early 1900s - $8M or so maybe - to start the school for orphan boys. $8M is pretty decent money now. Back then it was massive, unbelievable wealth. And I think he put his candy company on the line as collateral or something similar.

To help orphans.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 03, 2023 11:25 AM (f6/GE)

118 Cool. Now do adverse vaxxine reactions.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
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*snort*

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:25 AM (UWWPY)

119 Because losing even one woman to cardiovascular disease is too many.
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Now go get boosted!!!

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 11:25 AM (HLnYd)

120 How high does a nuke have to be where the emp effect would kick in, but you would not have significant damage or fallout to the ground?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:24 AM (zZu0s)

Probably about halfway between Joe Rogan and Tommy Chong.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 03, 2023 11:25 AM (9UlRk)

121 'If You Could Read My Mind' is so beautiful and painful.

And 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' is just a masterpiece as well as captured history.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:25 AM (XvPQV)

122 Gordon Lightfoot’s Sundown always makes me feel good despite the negativity of the lyrics; great tune and it reminds me of my youth. The man could write songs; had talent
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 03, 2023

***
Not long after that song came out, I had neighbors with a big shaggy black cat they called Sundown. I never minded him "creepin' 'round my back stairs."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 03, 2023 11:25 AM (J2vNu)

123 Union suits have a fly to take a leak, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:25 AM (zZu0s)

124 79 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 11:18 AM (t0OGg)

They want to be obvious.

It is the kink.

Posted by: sven at February 03, 2023 11:25 AM (Lzpvj)

125 Maybe the reason the military didn't shoot the balloon down is because there is a nuclear device in it with a descent trigger?

Nothing to do with falling debris striking civilian areas. More like concern about setting off a nuclear device?

-

Conditioning.

Float an empty barroon over. The U.S. shoots it down.
Float an empty barroon over. The U.S. shoots it down.
Float an empty barroon over. The U.S. shoots it down.
Float an empty barroon over. The U.S. shoots it down.
Float an empty barroon over. The U.S. shoots it down.
Float a balloon with a payload over...

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 03, 2023 11:26 AM (f6/GE)

126 Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 03, 2023 11:21 AM (EGSGm)

yep

I'm actually looking forward to AMZ sending some of their bribe money to my AO due to them opening a fulfillment center nearby.

Posted by: kallisto at February 03, 2023 11:27 AM (6fvRe)

127 The U.S. will provide ground-launched small diameter bombs as part of a $2.17 billion aid package it is expected to announce Friday, several U.S. officials said. The package also for the first time includes equipment to connect all the different air defense systems Western allies have rushed to the battlefield and integrate them into Ukraine’s own air defenses, to help it better defend against Russia’s missile attacks.

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=136690

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:27 AM (mVFGK)

128 Wear red to raise awareness about cardiovascular disease and help save lives. Why? Because losing even one woman to cardiovascular disease is too many.
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As an aside, this is also an immediate indication that you should run - not walk - away from this organization. Set the sex politics aside and re-run the statement without references to women.

"Why? Because losing even one person to cardiovascular disease is too many."

This is a zero-goal organization. Zero - and 100 - are impossible to achieve. Ever. No matter what. "We won't rest until there are zero traffic deaths!" "We need 100% coverage of all people at all times!" "Even a single cancer diagnosis is too many!" These are *impossible* goals, and any organization that structures itself around an impossible goal is there only to loot its supporters or those it has in their thrall.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 11:27 AM (t0OGg)

129 All I know about covid:

I spent a week.in a Utah hotel with it, though walking two miles a day in the park adjacent.

I spent two fucking weeks in a hotel isolating quote unquote back in California though going back to the house every day to walk dogs.

What that did to marriage is problematic

Posted by: JEM at February 03, 2023 11:27 AM (8erNz)

130 3 If I buy some Tecovas boots this spring, I'm going to make a point of adding in some red socks.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
You'll love them Wolfus! They are one of the few brands that fit me nicely.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 03, 2023

***
I have a relatively new and very comfortable pair of Dan Posts, and a long-time pair of Justin ropers. I don't get to wear them most of the year -- it's too hot. But the Tecovas boots look great.

Their store, though, is a 90-mile drive away. So it won't be an impulse purchase.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 03, 2023 11:27 AM (J2vNu)

131 If women want to stop dying of heart disease, maybe staying home to raise the family, as they are uniquely evolved to do, ought to be considered, instead of "curing" them from work for which they are NOT evolved. Society would be far the better for it. Demanding to overturn a million years of evolution for today's desire doesn't seem particularly bright..

Posted by: Alexander Scipio at February 03, 2023 11:28 AM (NX5U7)

132 In one of his earlier albums Lightfoot did a really good version of The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.

Posted by: N.Lurker at February 03, 2023 11:28 AM (eGTCV)

133 Probably about halfway between Joe Rogan and Tommy Chong.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 03, 2023 11:25 AM (9UlRk)

Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:28 AM (zZu0s)

134 Now, you look at the rich and substantively, they are not THAT different than anyone else as far as convenience or accoutrement. They have more resources sure, but aside from a Bugatti (and most of them would not want to really touch one- this is what killed me about the woman from PP bragging about selling baby parts- do you love driving? Would you really want a Lamborghini for what it can do- or is it a physical status symbol only?)

This is the core of my Grand Unified Theory of the Left: the rich are angsty that being rich no longer means that much. They can afford a Lambo, but then you need to stay on top of expensive maintenance whereas a Toyota or Honda will start reliably every morning with just regular oil changes.

In order to differentiate themselves, they've gone into some really weird stuff (pedo, trans, you name it).

Posted by: Ian S. at February 03, 2023 11:28 AM (ZGrMX)

135 I hope no one here thinks this disparity is accidental.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 03, 2023 11:28 AM (a1ycR)

136 any organization that structures itself around an impossible goal is there only to loot its supporters or those it has in their thrall.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 11:27 AM (t0OGg)

Yeah! Shove it, health department!

Posted by: Chipotle at February 03, 2023 11:28 AM (9UlRk)

137 I spent a week.in a Utah hotel with it, though walking two miles a day in the park adjacent.
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Was it uphill both ways?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:28 AM (mVFGK)

138 110 So has Sundown been hanging around the great lake they call Gitchigoomi?
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That's what took down the Edman Fitzgerald.

Posted by: Puddihead at February 03, 2023 11:28 AM (tiR3O)

139 I'm over 65 (just barely, of course) and during my last annual checkup I found out that during my blood work-up, the PSA test for prostrate screening was not included. Apparently Medicare doesn't cover them. ... Why in the hell would the government not cover that test?

The world wonders.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 03, 2023 11:07 AM (z01mR)

Two very important reasons:

1. You're on Medicare, therefore you are a drain on resources which could be spent on more favored groups.
2. Pfizer has, perhaps, done it's part in reducing worldwide population via its surprise sterilization program. Governments will now do their part by minimizing healthcare for men.

The important takeaway is that if you deserved to live you'd have a WEF doctor assigned already.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 03, 2023 11:28 AM (uvymP)

140 115 Of course, an EMP in Montana would not hit too much that was not already hardened

There’s a Paolo joke in there somewhere, methinks.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 03, 2023 11:29 AM (xlMji)

141 127 The U.S. will provide ground-launched small diameter bombs as part of a $2.17 billion aid package it is expected to announce Friday, several U.S. officials said. The package also for the first time includes equipment to connect all the different air defense systems Western allies have rushed to the battlefield and integrate them into Ukraine’s own air defenses, to help it better defend against Russia’s missile attacks.

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=136690
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:27 AM (mVFGK)

Is that a weird way of saying 'mortar shells', SMH?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:29 AM (zZu0s)

142 I was disappointed that Amazon Smile quit its usual giving recipients. Mine was the Red Cross. My feelings for the Red Cross have deteriorated over the years (Used to be my sole target for charitable contributions, now Shriners and St Jude childrens hospitals), but Amazon giving to them was painless.

Posted by: Gunslinger at February 03, 2023 11:29 AM (R2gO3)

143 I spent two fucking weeks in a hotel isolating quote unquote back in California though going back to the house every day to walk dogs.

What that did to marriage is problematic

--

And they knew - and stated- somewhere around mid 2020 that there was only an 11% chance or so that people living in the same house would catch it from someone who had it.

"Most contagious virus ever" something something.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 03, 2023 11:29 AM (f6/GE)

144 If women want to stop dying of heart disease, maybe staying home to raise the family, as they are uniquely evolved to do, ought to be considered, instead of "curing" them from work for which they are NOT evolved. Society would be far the better for it. Demanding to overturn a million years of evolution for today's desire doesn't seem particularly bright..
Posted by: Alexander Scipio at February 03, 2023 11:28 AM (NX5U7)
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Some of us had to learn this the hard way.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:30 AM (mVFGK)

145 Is that a weird way of saying 'mortar shells', SMH?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:29 AM (zZu0s)
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They're not mortars.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:30 AM (mVFGK)

146 I accidentally wore dark red today. It's one of my favorite colors

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 03, 2023 11:30 AM (EGSGm)

147 I'm of two minds about the Go Red campaign. In a fair world in which men and women weren't deliberately pitted against each other for the left's political gain, raising awareness of heart disease in women would be a good thing.

Yes, men also get heart disease, but everyone knows that and awareness and treatment options are very high. Heart disease in women flies more under the radar. So raising awareness that women get heart disease and should be on the lookout for it is a good thing.

Don't get me started on the breast cancer vs prostate cancer thing. I hate the disparate treatment, but I don't think it's a women vs men thing. I think it's a function of where the cancer is. Boobs vs some ugly nut-like thing that you can feel up from inside a man's ass. Which do you think is gonna get better PR?

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 03, 2023 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

148 Only 5.5 more hours until I can get out of here and head for the weekend.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 03, 2023 11:31 AM (J2vNu)

149 I’m sorry, but this annual “Go Red” event is actually pretty offensive. Men and women alike have heart attacks and strokes, but we must publicly profess an act of caring only about how women are affected by heart disease.

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Not to worry, Buck -- soon it will be Go Red for Tranny Day (and really, why not Go Red for Tranny Month?)

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 11:31 AM (ZDsBk)

150 At my company, every Friday is “RED” Friday (remember everyone deployed… an homage to active duty military). I’m not a big fan of Austin and Milley’s military…. I don’t wear red. Apologies to morons still in active service

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 03, 2023 11:31 AM (b2dH9)

151 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 11:31 AM (IXZGh)

152 But without getting women to pursue high paying jobs, how would they add another incentive to get the birth rate down?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:31 AM (zZu0s)

153 Sponge!

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:32 AM (mVFGK)

154 If there was a Prostate Awareness Day, what color would they ask us to wear? Yellow?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 03, 2023 11:32 AM (EGSGm)

155 Majority of women lost to heart issues are lost due to the 'vaccine' related heart issues. NOT cardiovascular disease.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 11:32 AM (IXZGh)

156 > but to a small town Social Services Agency it really makes a difference.

Yep. I have a friend with a son with autism. I directed my Smile donations to the (small) school the son attends, which (according to my friend) does amazing work.

Again, the total across all donors was only a few thousand a year, but I'm sure it mattered to them.

I'd rather it go there than to providing free crash pads for Seattle crust punks, that's for sure.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 03, 2023 11:32 AM (bW8dp)

157 “Now the thing that I call living is just being satisfied
With knowing I got no one left to blame.”

Favorite Lightfoot lyric

Posted by: Rex B at February 03, 2023 11:33 AM (pzN/K)

158 *ticks box for insect puns*

You're a gnatural.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 03, 2023 11:33 AM (nfrXX)

159 Have they told us yet that minority women are at greater risk (heart disease being racist and all).

Posted by: Ziba at February 03, 2023 11:33 AM (4h9M3)

160 Tecovas boots: I'm thinking I'll go for the ropers, the model they call the Earl, in their Scotch Goat color and leather. They aren't suede, but they aren't really dressy either; I have my dark chocolate Dan Posts for that.

They make their Cartwright cowboy boot in the same color for about $20 more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 03, 2023 11:33 AM (J2vNu)

161 Black on Black. Blue long underwear. Brown boots. Yellow safety vest.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:16 AM (zZu0s]

Thats hawt!

Posted by: creeper at February 03, 2023 11:33 AM (cTCuP)

162 7 Wearing blue here

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:03 AM (XvPQV)

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Wearing pants here.

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 11:34 AM (ZDsBk)

163

Posted by: creeper at February 03, 2023 11:34 AM (cTCuP)

164 From landmarks to online communities, neighborhoods to news anchors, this annual groundswell unites millions of people for a common goal: the eradication of heart disease and stroke.

You can't eradicate it. They can only sell you drugs to make you feel like you're doing something to prevent it.

Eat well, exercise and limit the things that damage you and you'll live as long as you're supposed to.

Much like Valentine's Day is for Hallmark, Wear Red for Women Day is for Big Pharma.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 11:34 AM (IXZGh)

165 Yep. I have a friend with a son with autism. I directed my Smile donations to the (small) school the son attends, which (according to my friend) does amazing work.

Again, the total across all donors was only a few thousand a year, but I'm sure it mattered to them.

I'd rather it go there than to providing free crash pads for Seattle crust punks, that's for sure. [.b]
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Amen. I know mine was small, but it went to our local VFD.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 03, 2023 11:34 AM (G8h7g)

166 Thats hawt!
Posted by: creeper at February 03, 2023 11:33 AM (cTCuP)

I'm like a mobile bruise.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:34 AM (zZu0s)

167 PROSTRATE CANCER

You fuckin' guys. It is a God damn laugh a minute.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 03, 2023 11:35 AM (jYCXf)

168 Not today barrel. No time for your bullshit.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 03, 2023 11:35 AM (G8h7g)

169 I accidentally wore dark red today. It's one of my favorite colors
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

Well...that would follow, helps to conceal the venous blood splatter.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 03, 2023 11:35 AM (q5ARv)

170 Have they told us yet that minority women are at greater risk (heart disease being racist and all).
Posted by: Ziba
___

If I die of a heart attack, I'll be with Jesus.

Win/win.

I don't think God is going to let me off so easy, however.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:35 AM (mVFGK)

171 Why is breast cancer Pink and other girly cancer Red?

Posted by: Puddihead at February 03, 2023 11:35 AM (tiR3O)

172 It's called Solmath in the Shire calendar.
Posted by: Rowsdower Believes Ray Epps is a Fed and Ashli Bennett is Crispus Attucks at February 03, 2023 11:18 AM

I was told there would be no solmath on the blog.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 03, 2023 11:35 AM (Wnv9h)

173 Thank you, Shain. I wasn't looking forward to a stay in Teh Barrel

Posted by: creeper at February 03, 2023 11:35 AM (cTCuP)

174 If there was a Prostate Awareness Day, what color would they ask us to wear? Yellow?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 03, 2023 11:32 AM (EGSGm)

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It's disturbing that you know what color that should be ...

;-)

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 11:35 AM (ZDsBk)

175 Hiya creeper.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:36 AM (mVFGK)

176 From landmarks to online communities, neighborhoods to news anchors, this annual groundswell unites millions of people for a common goal: the eradication of heart disease and stroke.

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Marketing (perhaps unintentionally) designed to further erode people's ability to manage their own risk.

As long as heart disease is out there, it's gonna get ya. Donate and take Big Pharma drugs to bring your risk to zero (even though the fine print says it's not zero).

New high school class idea: "How to Ignore marketing and obvious manipulation 101."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:36 AM (LvTSG)

177 *ticks box for insect puns*

You're a gnatural.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 03, 2023 11:33 AM (nfrXX)

Pretty fly.

Posted by: LaCreesha Ghettoblaster at February 03, 2023 11:36 AM (ZqJGw)

178 167 PROSTRATE CANCER

You fuckin' guys. It is a God damn laugh a minute.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 03, 2023 11:35 AM (jYCXf)

Oh, my dick hurts. I need to lie down.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:36 AM (zZu0s)

179 AmazonSmile’s End Is Alarming, Say Nonprofits That Benefited [AP – 01/24/2023]

My daughter's high school marching band benefitted from this program quite significantly. It's a shame to see Biden has once again screwed the kids with his economic policies in the name of corruption in the Ukraine and destruction of The United States.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 11:36 AM (IXZGh)

180 off sock

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 03, 2023 11:36 AM (ZqJGw)

181 > It's called Solmath in the Shire calendar.

Wasn't "Winterfilth" also a thing in that calendar?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 03, 2023 11:36 AM (bW8dp)

182 {{{{SMH}}}}

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 11:36 AM (IXZGh)

183 Why is breast cancer Pink and other girly cancer Red?
Posted by: Puddihead
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Don't know.
Don't care.
Don't 'celebrate' either.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:36 AM (mVFGK)

184 Why is breast cancer Pink and other girly cancer Red?
Posted by: Puddihead at February 03, 2023 11:35 AM

If you don't know, we're not telling you!

Posted by: Women Cancer Activists at February 03, 2023 11:37 AM (Wnv9h)

185 Overwhelmingly the charitable giving will be redirected to Amazon’s “hometown” communities, more specifically, major metro areas such as Bellevue, Washington (metro Seattle) and Arlington, VA (metro Washington D.C.)
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LOL.

Fuck flyover country! Bellevue and NoVa don't have enough tech money!

Smile... You're *giving!* Giving more money to Big Tech and Big Gov, that is.

Marie Antoinette laughs from beyond.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 03, 2023 11:37 AM (oINRc)

186 Those used needles scattered about Seattle's parks don't pay for themselves.

Posted by: Amazon Community Affairs Office at February 03, 2023 11:37 AM (yggAB)

187 Red would clash with my tinfoil hat.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 03, 2023 11:37 AM (xlMji)

188 My all-time favorite boss was a no-nonsense woman who absolutely refused to participate in patronizing “we celebrate women” photo ops and awareness events. Be it “Women Leaders of [name of town]” or “Women in Business” or “Future Women Leaders” she had no use for it.

Same here.
Had a boss who was/is one of the top women business leaders in Tacoma WA and surrounding area. She finally said enough to the Boards and Conferences. Her position was "If I can't be on the panel to discuss the business, and not just Women in Business, then I'm not interested."
What was even more funny was many of the organizers (men) didn't get it.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 03, 2023 11:37 AM (anj39)

189 185 Marie Antoinette laughs from beyond.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 03, 2023 11:37 AM (oINRc)

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Meh. She was probably just hopelessly naive.

These people are malicious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:37 AM (LvTSG)

190 172 It's called Solmath in the Shire calendar.
Posted by: Rowsdower Believes Ray Epps is a Fed and Ashli Bennett is Crispus Attucks at February 03, 2023 11:18 AM

I was told there would be no solmath on the blog.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 03, 2023 11:35 AM (Wnv9h)

Bonus points awarded

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:38 AM (XvPQV)

191 Those used needles scattered about Seattle's parks don't pay for themselves.
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I thought used drug needles in Seattle gives it its charm.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:38 AM (mVFGK)

192 Well, if I'd known I would be sharing Teh Barrel with rickb I mighta thought twice. I'd like his take on the balloon

Posted by: creeper at February 03, 2023 11:38 AM (cTCuP)

193 A Lightfoot lyric that's running through my head is "many are the dead men, too silent to be real."
I can't recall the song. I think it was something about the construction of the rail line across Canada.

Posted by: N.Lurker at February 03, 2023 11:38 AM (eGTCV)

194 > Oh, my dick hurts. I need to lie down.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:36 AM (zZu0s)

I remember, back when SNL was funny, that there was a courtroom scene with a character named Richard Hertz, leading up to the judge saying "Who's Dick Hertz?".

They used to slip a lot of stuff past the censors back in those days.

Nowadays they'd have to make Hertz a "trans man" with a fake/imaginary dick, which would probably win them an Emmy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 03, 2023 11:38 AM (bW8dp)

195 If I die of a heart attack, I'll be with Jesus.

Win/win.

I don't think God is going to let me off so easy, however.
Posted by: SMH

I hear you SMH. I fear I'll be presented with a chance for an holy death and flub it. Or worse, run from it. Honestly.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 03, 2023 11:38 AM (bJxw1)

196 80
'But like a lot of things, I'm just tired of hearing about women's apparently unending problems.'

Yeah, but I try to spare them some good will from my problem-free world. It's the right thing to do.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 03, 2023 11:39 AM (a1ycR)

197
Do you know what helps women's cardio? Having sex like an animal.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

I'm convinced that all daytime TV is explicitly misogynist. It's designed to get women to sit on the couch stuffing their face with Oreos and Haagen-Daz for 8 hours per day, rather than getting their lazy asses up and doing some work, or exercising for their own health.

Take THAT one to DU and see how they react to it.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 03, 2023 11:39 AM (n+4am)

198 Wolfus - the Tecovas are great. Super comfortable.

Posted by: free tibet at February 03, 2023 11:40 AM (8ck2O)

199 You mean like that United Way scandal. Really…

Posted by: Holy Crap at February 03, 2023 11:40 AM (VUczW)

200
Meh. She was probably just hopelessly naive.

These people are malicious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:37 AM (LvTSG)

I know. That was my point. She's hated for her tonedeaf ignorance, while our overlords are just all "fuck our customers and their wants and needs and charitable intentions! They're peasants sucking up 1.5% of the simoleons we could be spreading around to our cronies, BWAHAHAHA!"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 03, 2023 11:40 AM (oINRc)

201 "You men may be running into battle to defeat Germany, but it's nothing compared to my problems getting a latte without being hit on by a guy I find unattractive."
-Modern writing of a woman in WWII drama

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:40 AM (LvTSG)

202 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 11:27 AM (t0OGg)

Besides I think "Go Red" is a bit on the nose.

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 11:40 AM (9Iomw)

203 A Lightfoot lyric that's running through my head is "many are the dead men, too silent to be real."
I can't recall the song. I think it was something about the construction of the rail line across Canada.
Posted by: N.Lurker
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Canadian Railroad Trilogy

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 03, 2023 11:40 AM (q42YH)

204

I'm convinced that all daytime TV is explicitly misogynist. It's designed to get women to sit on the couch stuffing their face with Oreos and Haagen-Daz for 8 hours per day, rather than getting their lazy asses up and doing some work, or exercising for their own health.

Take THAT one to DU and see how they react to it.

Fatphobia. Being fat isn't bad for you. Patriarchal gaze.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 03, 2023 11:40 AM (eYoxG)

205 Hey, SMH.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 03, 2023 11:41 AM (xlMji)

206 At one time people thought that women didn't have heart attacks. So it made sense for some promotion an attention to how and why women had heart attacks. (My maternal grandmother had one. My maternal grandfather died from one.)

At this point, though, I think that the constant attention to women's issues is as unbalanced as you say. We need to take care of men, too. And men are being ignored in so many harmful ways.

Posted by: Synova at February 03, 2023 11:41 AM (BD/yx)

207 https://tinyurl.com/2s4ycj54

Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB)

Ok. So it is a repurposed cluster munition. Rocket propelled but glides to it's target, guided by GPS. Huh.

Seems odd to me. I wonder how big a boom there is?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:41 AM (zZu0s)

208 I can’t remember what the last organization I connected smile to, and can’t be bothered to look it up. I vaguely recall it was Judicial Watch. As others have said, probably not an org Amazon wanted to give to.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 03, 2023 11:41 AM (EXyHK)

209 That's one of my favorite places ever. Not only is it interesting but, like you said, it was a time when people would do things to HELP other folks with their own money vs trying to take things away from them.

IIRC he laid down some crazy number back in the early 1900s - $8M or so maybe - to start the school for orphan boys. $8M is pretty decent money now. Back then it was massive, unbelievable wealth. And I think he put his candy company on the line as collateral or something similar.

To help orphans.
Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 03, 2023 11:25 AM (f6/GE)

Think the tour guide said he left something like a $60 million trust to be used after his death. The school still operates and is free. It's almost like a college in that students live on campus and do their own laundry, cook their own meals, etc.

Was/is pretty cool.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 03, 2023 11:41 AM (KbCG3)

210 These people are malicious, meretricious, pernicious.

Posted by: Jackie Chiles at February 03, 2023 11:41 AM (eOEVl)

211 “Song For A Winter’s Night”....try hearing the Sarah McLachlan version. Gordon Lightfoot's is okay, but McLachlan takes it to an almost magical level.

Posted by: Rdubs at February 03, 2023 11:41 AM (9ALg7)

212
Canadian Railroad Trilogy
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 03, 2023 11:40 AM (q42YH)

That's it--somebody in the Horde can answer any question.

Posted by: N.Lurker at February 03, 2023 11:41 AM (eGTCV)

213 202 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 11:27 AM (t0OGg)

Besides I think "Go Red" is a bit on the nose.
Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 11:40 AM (9Iomw)

Seems sloppy. Men can have periods too, you know.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:41 AM (zZu0s)

214 "...all in underserved communities"

Beyond sick of hearing that expression and the implication that poor/working class people have had every want and need taken care of by the govt. If the people there are underserved they should go bust their asses and make something of their life instead of waiting for somebody to "serve" them.

Posted by: Ripley at February 03, 2023 11:42 AM (cUYo/)

215 206 At this point, though, I think that the constant attention to women's issues is as unbalanced as you say. We need to take care of men, too. And men are being ignored in so many harmful ways.
Posted by: Synova at February 03, 2023 11:41 AM (BD/yx)

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Perhaps a side effect will be men developing their own alternate culture and support systems. Perhaps men might return to their churches for the kind of support that the TV no longer gives them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:42 AM (LvTSG)

216 (((SMH)))

I'm like you. I'm not afraid to go. In fact I'm really curious Bout the end. But I'm in no hurry.

Posted by: creeper at February 03, 2023 11:42 AM (cTCuP)

217 85
'The AWFLs were shrieking about sexism in response.'

Normally, this is where I would say "fuck'em", however that could be misinterpreted as interest I do not have.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 03, 2023 11:42 AM (a1ycR)

218 > "You men may be running into battle to defeat Germany, but it's nothing compared to my problems getting a latte without being hit on by a guy I find unattractive."

Real communist revolutionary: Mao spending years on the run in West Bumfuck, China, eating rats and picking lice off his nuts.

Modern "communist revolutionary": gets PTSD if someone forgets to call him "xim".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 03, 2023 11:42 AM (bW8dp)

219 AHA has done February as Women's Heart Health awareness month for at least a couple of decades. It's largely a big yawn. non-event.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 03, 2023 11:42 AM (ykeLU)

220 210 These people are malicious, meretricious, pernicious.
Posted by: Jackie Chiles at February 03, 2023 11:41 AM (eOEVl)

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Outrageous.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:42 AM (LvTSG)

221 Well, if I'd known I would be sharing Teh Barrel with rickb I mighta thought twice. I'd like his take on the balloon
Posted by: creeper

The Chinese balloon?
Chinese probe launched from Canada to see our weaknesses and response. Remember, Canada gave China rights to base military there.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 03, 2023 11:42 AM (G8h7g)

222 At this point, though, I think that the constant attention to women's issues is as unbalanced as you say. We need to take care of men, too. And men are being ignored in so many harmful ways.
Posted by: Synova at February 03, 2023 11:41 AM (BD/yx)

Well, the future is female, after all.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 03, 2023 11:42 AM (KbCG3)

223 I hear you SMH. I fear I'll be presented with a chance for an holy death and flub it. Or worse, run from it. Honestly.
Posted by: Tonypete
___

I read these stories from Christians from around the world, in places that I wouldn't even dare step in, and their courage makes me weep.

And then I read stories of kids here crying about not getting the latest iPhone, and I wish I could make them weep.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:42 AM (mVFGK)

224 To be honest, I’ve never really trusted that Smile went to the orgs anyway, and never prioritized Amazon purchases based on it. They really are the store of last resort. The problem is no one else is that much higher on my list.

I think I must be edging past 29.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 03, 2023 11:43 AM (EXyHK)

225
Meretricious is a great word that I don't use nearly enough; it describes most of our culture.

Thanks for the reminder, Chiles.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 03, 2023 11:43 AM (oINRc)

226 >>>If there was a Prostate Awareness Day, what color would they ask us to wear? Yellow?

>That's the color of his underwear, though I can see how this could be misleading.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 03, 2023 11:43 AM (Jg7EG)

227 218 > "You men may be running into battle to defeat Germany, but it's nothing compared to my problems getting a latte without being hit on by a guy I find unattractive."

Real communist revolutionary: Mao spending years on the run in West Bumfuck, China, eating rats and picking lice off his nuts.

Modern "communist revolutionary": gets PTSD if someone forgets to call him "xim".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 03, 2023 11:42 AM (bW8dp)

He had people carry him around on a sedan chair. Not all comrades are equal.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 03, 2023 11:43 AM (eYoxG)

228 Well, the future is female, after all.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
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Wrong.

Jesus isn't female.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:43 AM (mVFGK)

229
This is, "Oh Shit! What the hell did I do with my credit cards in December?, season.

Posted by: Speller at February 03, 2023 11:43 AM (pSotA)

230 MLB does a "Keep Dad in the Game" prostate cancer awareness drive. It stands out because it's one of the few things I've ever seen that specifically highlighted a male health issue.

Other than erectile dysfunction.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 03, 2023 11:44 AM (KbCG3)

231 I'm like you. I'm not afraid to go. In fact I'm really curious Bout the end. But I'm in no hurry.
Posted by: creeper
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It will be one of two places.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:44 AM (mVFGK)

232 117 Recently, wife and I took the kids to Hershey Park. Hearing about Milton Hershey's dedication to his workforce was pretty inspiring.

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That's one of my favorite places ever. Not only is it interesting but, like you said, it was a time when people would do things to HELP other folks with their own money vs trying to take things away from them.

IIRC he laid down some crazy number back in the early 1900s - $8M or so maybe - to start the school for orphan boys. $8M is pretty decent money now. Back then it was massive, unbelievable wealth. And I think he put his candy company on the line as collateral or something similar.

To help orphans.
Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 03, 2023 11:25 AM (f6/GE)

The Hershey School has the largest endowment of any private boarding school in the country; not even Exeter or Andover come close. It's at least $15 billion, vs. 1 billion or so for the other two boarding schools.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 03, 2023 11:44 AM (/iWhV)

233 231 I'm like you. I'm not afraid to go. In fact I'm really curious Bout the end. But I'm in no hurry.
Posted by: creeper
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It will be one of two places.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:44 AM (mVFGK)

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Detroit is one of 'em, isn't it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:44 AM (LvTSG)

234 Those used needles scattered about Seattle's parks don't pay for themselves.

One of the great frauds is calling the free needle distribution points in blue cities "needle exchanges".

They just give needles away - if you want to turn in your old needles, you're free to do so, but it absolutely isn't a requirement.

And if you object to further normalizing hard drug abuse, you are told that giving away needles is "evidence based" - that the hundreds of people dying of overdoses would increase even more if they didn't get free needles.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 03, 2023 11:44 AM (2tUFv)

235 It will be one of two places.

In HQ theology, the two places are Marco Rubio's garbage and The Barrel.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 03, 2023 11:45 AM (ZGrMX)

236 These people are malicious, meretricious, pernicious.
Posted by: Jackie Chiles at February 03, 2023 11:41 AM (eOEVl)

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Outrageous.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:42 AM (LvTSG)
***

Obstreperous

Posted by: Diogenes at February 03, 2023 11:45 AM (anj39)

237 228 Well, the future is female, after all.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
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Wrong.

Jesus isn't female.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:43 AM (mVFGK)

Did you just assume Jesus' gender?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 03, 2023 11:45 AM (KbCG3)

238 February 3 has just been officially declared AoSHQ Closing Tags Appreciation Day!

/The Red Hour marked the beginning of the Festival on AoS ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 11:46 AM (ZDsBk)

239 I don’t have any red clothes but I do have a stethoscope and I’m a good listener.

Posted by: Rex B at February 03, 2023 11:46 AM (pzN/K)

240 I would think of the Barrel more as Purgatory.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:46 AM (zZu0s)

241 MLB does a "Keep Dad in the Game" prostate cancer awareness drive. It stands out because it's one of the few things I've ever seen that specifically highlighted a male health issue.

Other than erectile dysfunction.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

The "Keep Dad in the Game" program is up against some stiff competition.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 03, 2023 11:46 AM (bJxw1)

242 Speaking of Jesus imma go to the theater and see the last two episodes of The Chosen tonight.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 03, 2023 11:46 AM (Ysmrn)

243 I accidentally got my red wings, so there's that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 11:46 AM (IXZGh)

244 Bellevue isn't exactly Seattle metro. They have a very different government structure and do not look like Detroit 2.0, so the fact that "affordable housing" funding is going there and NOT Seattle is significant, and a slap at the Supreme Seattle Soviet (BTW Sawant has decided to pursue other opportunities, so maybe they will get their act together). Sawant tried every trick in the book to grab Amazon's money, and as a result...Amazon is moving a lot of corp structure across the lake to Bellevue. Employees like it too because there is less chance of random violence going to work.

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 03, 2023 11:46 AM (BbSpR)

245 Did you just assume Jesus' gender?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 03, 2023 11:45 AM (KbCG3)

I don't think she is assuming it. Stating.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:46 AM (zZu0s)

246 These people are malicious, meretricious, pernicious.
Posted by: Jackie Chiles at February 03, 2023 11:41 AM (eOEVl)

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Outrageous.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:42 AM (LvTSG)
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Obstreperous
Posted by: Diogenes
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Egregious

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 03, 2023 11:46 AM (Jh1DM)

247 Detroit is one of 'em, isn't it?
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Nope.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:47 AM (mVFGK)

248 Good thing Jesus isn't female:

"Jesus, Lord, please tell me what you would like me to do."

"Do whatever you want to do. It's fine."

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 11:47 AM (h1Ch9)

249 245 Did you just assume Jesus' gender?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 03, 2023 11:45 AM (KbCG3)

I don't think she is assuming it. Stating.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:46 AM (zZu0s)

Y'all need to check your herstory. Can I get an awomen?!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 03, 2023 11:47 AM (KbCG3)

250 I don't think she is assuming it. Stating.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:46 AM (zZu0s)
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Thank you.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:47 AM (mVFGK)

251 These people are malicious, meretricious, pernicious.
Posted by: Jackie Chiles at February 03, 2023 11:41 AM (eOEVl)

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Outrageous.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:42 AM (LvTSG)
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Obstreperous
Posted by: Diogenes at February 03, 2023 11:45 AM (anj39)

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Ridonkulous

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 11:47 AM (ZDsBk)

252 I like the big Commie ballon over 150 ICBM’s story.Top. Men. Great work, everybody! Decorations and medals all around.

Posted by: Major Kong at February 03, 2023 11:47 AM (VUczW)

253 248 Good thing Jesus isn't female:

"Jesus, Lord, please tell me what you would like me to do."

"Do whatever you want to do. It's fine."
Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 11:47 AM (h1Ch9)

'If you don't know- I'm not going to tell you.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:48 AM (zZu0s)

254 248 Good thing Jesus isn't female:

"Jesus, Lord, please tell me what you would like me to do."

"Do whatever you want to do. It's fine."
Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 11:47 AM (h1Ch9)

"Jesus, Lord, please tell me what you would like me to do."

"Well, first, you need to change that shirt."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 03, 2023 11:48 AM (KbCG3)

255 As a cardiologist, I would go so far as to say that anyone older than a certain age ( let's say 7 for boys and 13 for girls) who makes that insipid "heart" symbol with their index fingers and thumbs should be given a wet willie. Gah I hate that.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 03, 2023 11:48 AM (ykeLU)

256 "Do whatever you want to do. It's fine."
Posted by: ...
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This must be a wypipo joke, because I don't get it.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:48 AM (mVFGK)

257 And if you object to further normalizing hard drug abuse

Some people have gotten tired of this, even in Portland:

I saw a man shoot heroin into his wrist with a needle on the Portland streetcar this morning. I've taken public transportation here in PDX for the past 20 years, and I've never seen that. Moments later, he was lying face down on the floor of the streetcar. I told the streetcar driver, who called someone on the internal streetcar phone, and he kept driving.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 03, 2023 11:48 AM (2tUFv)

258 Y'all need to check your herstory. Can I get an awomen?!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Getting a woman?

Amen to that!!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 03, 2023 11:48 AM (bJxw1)

259 Gored for women.

Every damn day.

Posted by: red speck at February 03, 2023 11:48 AM (gS3OW)

260 Labium majus

(yeah, there's a singular form of "labia majora")

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 03, 2023 11:48 AM (bW8dp)

261 Don't you misogynists tell the ladies of Nazareth that they can't be carpenters.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 03, 2023 11:48 AM (Jg7EG)

262 246 These people are malicious, meretricious, pernicious.
Posted by: Jackie Chiles at February 03, 2023 11:41 AM (eOEVl)

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Outrageous.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:42 AM (LvTSG)
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Obstreperous
Posted by: Diogenes
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Egregious
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 03, 2023 11:46 AM (Jh1DM)

Vociferous.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:49 AM (zZu0s)

263 235 "It will be one of two places."

In HQ theology, the two places are Marco Rubio's garbage and The Barrel.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 03, 2023 11:45 AM (ZGrMX)

Not the grandest system, but at least it's fair.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 03, 2023 11:49 AM (eYoxG)

264 Detroit is one of 'em, isn't it?

“If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.”—Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 03, 2023 11:49 AM (EXyHK)

265 257 I saw a man shoot heroin into his wrist with a needle on the Portland streetcar this morning. I've taken public transportation here in PDX for the past 20 years, and I've never seen that. Moments later, he was lying face down on the floor of the streetcar. I told the streetcar driver, who called someone on the internal streetcar phone, and he kept driving.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 03, 2023 11:48 AM (2tUFv)

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"Well, someone is taking care of it. All is well. I better keep voting for people who will keep this happening, or else I might lose social credit points on Facebook."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:49 AM (LvTSG)

266 Typical messaging that men's health and lives don't matter, at least not NEARLY as much as women's. Tired of this shit.

Posted by: If it's a tranny woman, will AHA still go red for him/her/it? at February 03, 2023 11:49 AM (UKe2c)

267 This must be a wypipo joke, because I don't get it.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:48 AM (mVFGK)

Got be honest, I can't report how it works on your side.

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 11:49 AM (h1Ch9)

268 In HQ theology, the two places are Marco Rubio's garbage and The Barrel.
Posted by: Ian S
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Think I'll stick with my bible, thanks.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:50 AM (mVFGK)

269
I saw a man shoot heroin into his wrist with a needle on the Portland streetcar this morning. I've taken public transportation here in PDX for the past 20 years, and I've never seen that. Moments later, he was lying face down on the floor of the streetcar. I told the streetcar driver, who called someone on the internal streetcar phone, and he kept driving.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 03, 2023 11:48 AM (2tUFv)

And as soon as you administer CPR to that individual, you will be arrested for violating his civil rights.

And they wonder why everyone just stands and records instead of rendering aid nowadays.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 11:50 AM (IXZGh)

270 > “If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.”—Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine

Gotta disagree.

It's a layover at Lambert Field in St. Louis.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 03, 2023 11:50 AM (bW8dp)

271 that insipid "heart" symbol with their index fingers and thumbs

*******

Aside: The kid I mentioned in the Art Thread who got shot by cops after locking himself in his car made that gesture to the cops during the standoff. I'd hate to think that's why they shot hm, though.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 03, 2023 11:50 AM (ykeLU)

272 Lunch time
Bet with the Leftists admitting Trannies as women the heart problems of women are skyrocketing

Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2023 11:50 AM (EduVx)

273 How can we help women if we don't know what a woman is?

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 11:50 AM (h1Ch9)

274 256 "Do whatever you want to do. It's fine."
Posted by: ...
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This must be a wypipo joke, because I don't get it.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:48 AM (mVFGK)

It's actually not fine but the wife is being passive aggressive. If you actually do whatever you want(or ignore the issue she won't explain to you), you're in trouble.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 03, 2023 11:50 AM (eYoxG)

275 One of the great frauds is calling the free needle distribution points in blue cities "needle exchanges".

They just give needles away - if you want to turn in your old needles, you're free to do so, but it absolutely isn't a requirement.

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The memo I got said that all used needles were to be dumped on the floors of Starbucks bathrooms.

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 11:50 AM (ZDsBk)

276 Expialidocious.

Posted by: Julie Andrews at February 03, 2023 11:51 AM (Ysmrn)

277 Got be honest, I can't report how it works on your side.
Posted by: ...
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I don't have a side. Being a mutt, I can say that.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:51 AM (mVFGK)

278 As a cardiologist, I would go so far as to say that anyone older than a certain age ( let's say 7 for boys and 13 for girls) who makes that insipid "heart" symbol with their index fingers and thumbs should be given a wet willie. Gah I hate that.
Posted by: Muldoon

I'd add to the hate list:

Adult men wearing their ball caps backwards
Adults wearing their F*CKING PJs!!! down to the free breakfast at Hampton Inns
Duck face selfies from all ages
there are more. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at February 03, 2023 11:51 AM (bJxw1)

279 Go red for women? Roxanne, you don't need to turn on the red light.

Those ladies aren't the ones who need to worry about a broken heart.

Posted by: Roy at February 03, 2023 11:51 AM (RMuuf)

280 269 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 11:50 AM (IXZGh)

The state allows what it desires and punishes what it dislikes.

The heroin junkie reduced the human population a bit and that is what the donk wants.

Posted by: sven at February 03, 2023 11:51 AM (Lzpvj)

281 These people are malicious, meretricious, pernicious.
Posted by: Jackie Chiles at February 03, 2023 11:41 AM (eOEVl)

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Outrageous.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:42 AM (LvTSG)
***

Obstreperous
Posted by: Diogenes
--------

Egregious
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 03, 2023 11:46 AM (Jh1DM)

Vociferous.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:49 AM (zZu0s)
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Wow!
The Horde be like some seriously erudite muthas!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 03, 2023 11:51 AM (anj39)

282 Melora Hardin is the poor man's Sela Ward. Or possibly the reverse.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 03, 2023 11:51 AM (eOEVl)

283 244 Bellevue isn't exactly Seattle metro. They have a very different government structure and do not look like Detroit 2.0, so the fact that "affordable housing" funding is going there and NOT Seattle is significant, and a slap at the Supreme Seattle Soviet (BTW Sawant has decided to pursue other opportunities, so maybe they will get their act together). Sawant tried every trick in the book to grab Amazon's money, and as a result...Amazon is moving a lot of corp structure across the lake to Bellevue. Employees like it too because there is less chance of random violence going to work.
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 03, 2023 11:46 AM (BbSpR)

Bellevue > Seattle

I loved Bellevue. It always felt like 'home' to me. So naturally, I live in Monroe.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:52 AM (XvPQV)

284 271 that insipid "heart" symbol with their index fingers and thumbs

*******

Aside: The kid I mentioned in the Art Thread who got shot by cops after locking himself in his car made that gesture to the cops during the standoff. I'd hate to think that's why they shot hm, though.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 03, 2023 11:50 AM (ykeLU)

They thought he was coming on to them. The only time I have seen that gesture unironically (and it still might be) is from cam thots.

So I've heard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:52 AM (zZu0s)

285 How can we help women if we don't know what a woman is?

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 11:50 AM (h1Ch9)

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This is the problem with graduating more lawyers than biologists each year ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 11:52 AM (ZDsBk)

286 I’m not talking to that bitch, heart disease. She knows why.

Posted by: Breast Cancer at February 03, 2023 11:52 AM (u73oe)

287 As long as we're generalizing, I *think* black women are less shy at letting you know what is and isn't ok.

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 11:52 AM (h1Ch9)

288 assuming Jesus’s gender

Hymns do seem to be moving away from assuming a gender to either God or Jesus. “Be ours his holy peace” becomes “Be ours God’s holy peace”. And “ We are in him made one” becomes “We are in Christ made one”; the latter is especially ¿weird? because “one” rhymes with “son”.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 03, 2023 11:52 AM (EXyHK)

289 Amazon is moving a lot of corp structure across the lake to Bellevue. Employees like it too because there is less chance of random violence going to work.

Which is pretty funny, because Amazon was deliberately located in Seattle to be able to poach Microsoft employees, and one of the big draws initially was that you could work in exciting downtown Seattle for Amazon, instead of working in a dull suburb for Microsoft.

Fast forward twenty-five years, and preferences have completely reversed.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 03, 2023 11:52 AM (2tUFv)

290 > Roxanne, you don't need to turn on the red light.

At one time, whorehouses here in Anchorage had a pot of red geraniums on the porch during the summer. It doesn't really get dark then, you see, so the red light doesn't work as well.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 03, 2023 11:52 AM (bW8dp)

291 And if you object to further normalizing hard drug abuse

Some people have gotten tired of this, even in Portland:

I saw a man shoot heroin into his wrist with a needle on the Portland streetcar this morning. I've taken public transportation here in PDX for the past 20 years, and I've never seen that. Moments later, he was lying face down on the floor of the streetcar. I told the streetcar driver, who called someone on the internal streetcar phone, and he kept driving.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Let's replace the Narcan injectors with saline and see if anyone notices.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 03, 2023 11:52 AM (G8h7g)

292 278 As a cardiologist, I would go so far as to say that anyone older than a certain age ( let's say 7 for boys and 13 for girls) who makes that insipid "heart" symbol with their index fingers and thumbs should be given a wet willie. Gah I hate that.
Posted by: Muldoon

I'd add to the hate list:

Adult men wearing their ball caps backwards
Adults wearing their F*CKING PJs!!! down to the free breakfast at Hampton Inns
Duck face selfies from all ages
there are more. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at February 03, 2023 11:51 AM (bJxw1)

Had a huge pet peeve spit right in my face last night:

Adult men wearing ball caps while eating dinner at a restaurant.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 03, 2023 11:52 AM (KbCG3)

293 Go red for women? Roxanne, you don't need to turn on the red light.

Or........

https://youtu.be/Rmz4n8H9WhI

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 11:52 AM (IXZGh)

294
Aside: The kid I mentioned in the Art Thread who got shot by cops after locking himself in his car made that gesture to the cops during the standoff. I'd hate to think that's why they shot hm, though.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 03, 2023 11:50 AM (ykeLU)

I watched that video. Kid was clearly having problems. The cops made it worse, then killed him. The fuck is going on out there?

Posted by: Fuck the blue, and every other person too at February 03, 2023 11:53 AM (UKe2c)

295 Hunter S. Thompson can go suck start a Colt.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:53 AM (XvPQV)

296 I don't have a side. Being a mutt, I can say that.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:51 AM (mVFGK)

Was being colloquial. I don't really have one either. Everyone is my brother or sister in Christ.

Until they aren't.

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 11:53 AM (h1Ch9)

297 I am wearing red, but I had no idea it was Go Red day.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 03, 2023 11:53 AM (tp+tP)

298 For sure white males are on the couldn't care list of Leftists

Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2023 11:54 AM (EduVx)

299 Hymns do seem to be moving away from assuming a gender to either God or Jesus. “Be ours his holy peace” becomes “Be ours God’s holy peace”. And “ We are in him made one” becomes “We are in Christ made one”; the latter is especially ¿weird? because “one” rhymes with “son”.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

When does John 3:16 get changed out?
(Thanks stadium guy)

Posted by: rickb223 at February 03, 2023 11:54 AM (G8h7g)

300 Fast forward twenty-five years, and preferences have completely reversed.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 03, 2023 11:52 AM (2tUFv)

As those same people voted in people who want to release criminals into the general population and are making every city into 70s nyc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:54 AM (zZu0s)

301 I'm afraid I can't do anymore to exclude Amazon from my life. Did that permanently and completely about 10 years ago.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 03, 2023 11:54 AM (TgBWG)

302 295 Hunter S. Thompson can go suck start a Colt.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:53 AM (XvPQV)

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In college, I worked at a movie theater, and the very first day, a girl walked up to me and the first thing she ever said to me was, "Do you like Hunter S. Thompson?"

She was very enthusiastic about him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:54 AM (LvTSG)

303 287 As long as we're generalizing, I *think* black women are less shy at letting you know what is and isn't ok.
Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 11:52 AM (h1Ch9)

Patrice O'Neal had a good bit on this:

"Why do black guys like white women? Because they're nice!"

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 03, 2023 11:54 AM (KbCG3)

304 Federal Prohibition on 2A Rights For Domestic Restraining Orders is UNCONSTITUTIONAL

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

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 03, 2023 11:54 AM (D25PY)

305 ~~All Heart Disease~~ Women’s Heart Disease Is an Issue Deserving of Awareness

A few years ago, the NFL was getting criticism for going ridiculously overboard with the pink during October's "Breast Cancer Awareness" campaign, so they changed their campaign to an all-encompassing awareness campaign. I think they first changed it to all cancers and then changed it to any and all illnesses that players wanted to highlight.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 11:55 AM (Do5/p)

306 "Why do black guys like white women? Because they're nice!"
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
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I'm half-nice, so there's that.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:55 AM (mVFGK)

307 Had a huge pet peeve spit right in my face last night:

Adult men wearing ball caps while eating dinner at a restaurant.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 03, 2023 11:52 AM (KbCG3)

Eh, kind of lost that battle when hats went out of style and the rules against wearing them indoors went by the wayside.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:56 AM (zZu0s)

308 It's a layover at Lambert Field in St. Louis.

I think we could have an entire thread on the worst airport in the United States.

In early 2020, before the mass hysteria, I flew to Miami for r&r. I always try to take direct flights, and there weren’t any; the closest was Fort Lauderdale, which is only a half-hour drive, so that’s what I did.

A year ago, I went back. There are direct flights now, so I used Miami International. I don’t think their abbreviation comes from their initials. I may well use FLL next time I go and eat the rideshare cost.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 03, 2023 11:56 AM (EXyHK)

309 But women's health issues have been "marginalized."
So the beatings will continue.

Posted by: Zek at February 03, 2023 11:56 AM (5FPX4)

310 For sure white males are on the couldn't care list of Leftists

Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2023 11:54 AM (EduVx)

Everyone is on that list. The Left doesn't give a shit about a solitary soul.

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 11:56 AM (h1Ch9)

311 And as soon as you administer CPR to that individual, you will be arrested for violating his civil rights.

And they wonder why everyone just stands and records instead of rendering aid nowadays.

Oregon has a pretty strong "Good Samaritan" law that protects you legally if you intervene in an emergency.

It's interesting that people have gotten so jaded that the streetcar driver just kept driving, despite having a likely OD on his streetcar.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 03, 2023 11:56 AM (2tUFv)

312 I am wearing red, but I had no idea it was Go Red day.
Posted by: Dr. T

Fist bump. I'm working from home, and it happened to be the next t shirt up in the rotation.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 03, 2023 11:56 AM (G8h7g)

313 > Adult men wearing ball caps while eating dinner at a restaurant.

Should've gone full Tony Soprano on him.

https://tinyurl.com/y7ayk87t

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 03, 2023 11:56 AM (bW8dp)

314 NOOD Hunter Balloon

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 11:56 AM (Do5/p)

315 In college, I worked at a movie theater

Seems out of character.

Posted by: spindrift at February 03, 2023 11:56 AM (h5TKJ)

316 In college, I worked at a movie theater, and the very first day, a girl walked up to me and the first thing she ever said to me was, "Do you like Hunter S. Thompson?"

She was very enthusiastic about him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:54 AM (LvTSG)

Four years later, you were married to her?

That is a weird way to start a conversation, though. I assume she was flirting.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:56 AM (XvPQV)

317 Found something for the food thread:

"Lab-grown meat may be a potential way to feed the global population while fighting climate change, but can you stomach the idea of steaks or cured meats grown from human cells?
A company called BiteLabs is looking to market human test-tube meat, and that’s not even the weirdest part. They’re hoping to get celebrities like James Franco, Ellen DeGeneres, Jennifer Lawrence, and Kanye West on board to donate tissue samples that will eventually become salami."

https://tinyurl.com/4w43u23j

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:57 AM (mVFGK)

318
Adult men wearing ball caps while eating dinner at a restaurant.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 03, 2023 11:52 AM (KbCG3)

I do this occasionally, but not at high quality restaurants. The vanity of the human species digs at me to not show everyone I'm having a bad hair day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 11:57 AM (IXZGh)

319 Now I'm disappointed that a red shirt was on top of the rotation this morning when I got dressed.

Living in one of the many locations that holds a Walk For Breast Cancer weekend or whatever it's called, I refuse to donate to anyone participating in it until there's some bare acknowledgment of prostate cancer on the philanthropy circuit (equal treatment will never happen).

Posted by: Octochicken at February 03, 2023 11:57 AM (oCS0o)

320 316 Four years later, you were married to her?

That is a weird way to start a conversation, though. I assume she was flirting.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:56 AM (XvPQV)

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I don't think she was. It was kind of weird. No, she's not Dolley, though.

Then again, I do have beautiful eyes...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 11:57 AM (LvTSG)

321 Detroit is one of 'em, isn't it?

-
They've found three bodies believed to be the three missing aspiring rappers. A 15 year old was questioned and released.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 03, 2023 11:58 AM (FVME7)

322 > 295 Hunter S. Thompson can go suck start a Colt.

Mission already accomplished.

Posted by: Hunter S. Thompson at February 03, 2023 11:58 AM (bW8dp)

323
And they wonder why everyone just stands and records instead of rendering aid nowadays.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 11:50 AM

My take, especially when the police are involved, is they're recording to sell to some law firm.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 03, 2023 11:58 AM (enJYY)

324 306 "Why do black guys like white women? Because they're nice!"
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
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I'm half-nice, so there's that.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:55 AM (mVFGK)

You seem to be very nice, though maybe you have to work twice as hard at it, ha.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 03, 2023 11:59 AM (KbCG3)

325 Ostentatious!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 03, 2023 11:59 AM (ykeLU)

326 225

'Meretricious'

And a Happy New Year!

Posted by: Marx brothers at February 03, 2023 11:59 AM (a1ycR)

327 311 Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 03, 2023 11:56 AM (2tUFv)

The problem as a first responder is that a lot like self-defense laws good samaritan laws rely a LOT on "reasonable prosecutors."

Depending on the demographics in play you may have just helped a druggie's survivors win the lottery if the cards fall wrong and spoiler YOU are the bank.

Posted by: sven at February 03, 2023 11:59 AM (Lzpvj)

328 I have some gift cards from Amazon. I think I will use them to buy some books for others by people they probably couldn't stand-if they ever read them- such as unapologetically Christian folks like Francois Fenelon or gasp! Billy Graham, and then I will give Amazon up. I haven't bought anything from before this for years.

And good rant.! Thanks, JoeMannix.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2023 11:59 AM (yhLoF)

329 Kramer wouldn't wear the ribbon.
Look what happened to him.

Posted by: Just Sayin' at February 03, 2023 12:00 PM (Ysmrn)

330 Have donated for years to "Water" as part of the Amazon Smile (giving) program. ("Water is using donations from Amazon Smile to provide clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries.") Thanks to this thread, I'm more than curious where such donations are actually channeled.

Have also been donating for many years to an Appalachian (Kentucky) project. Recently, I realized it (and many other charity programs) are (now) staffed, at least in part, through federal programs such as AmeriCorps. And while program volunteers are usually a good & necessary thing for charity programs, what's bothering me is if they're largely coming through federal "job" programs, i.e., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Job Corps, all reportedly "funded by the federal government." If so, are those charitable programs less community betterment, more so opportunities for participants get a foot up in federal employment, i.e., Senator John Fetterman.

Having a wee bit of experience with most of those programs, the latter is my bet.

Posted by: Lola at February 03, 2023 12:00 PM (Wxlzw)

331 Hunter S. Thompson can go suck start a Colt.

I think he did. Or was it a lesser make?

Thompson was a nut. But he did see through the fake partisanship of DC, at least in the first half of his, if you can call it that, career. He also had a God-given way with words, which I think he rejected later in life.

In more than one sense, he was, as an author, a lot like Mencken.

“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”—Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.”—Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 03, 2023 12:00 PM (EXyHK)

332 Wearing blue here

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 03, 2023 11:03 AM (XvPQV)

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Wearing pants here.
Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 11:34 AM (ZDsBk)

Pants??

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 03, 2023 12:01 PM (Zvtjl)

333 "Lab-grown meat may be a potential way to feed the global population while fighting climate change, but can you stomach the idea of steaks or cured meats grown from human cells?

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Ah, one of the biggest, most offensive taboos. Of course.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 03, 2023 12:03 PM (f6/GE)

334 Wow!
The Horde be like some seriously erudite muthas!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 03, 2023 11:51 AM (anj39)

We be suffistikated.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 03, 2023 12:03 PM (z01mR)

335 Eh, kind of lost that battle when hats went out of style and the rules against wearing them indoors went by the wayside.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 11:56 AM (zZu0s)

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Brings back memories of Oilers coach Bum Phillips now wearing his trademark Stetson cowboy hat on the sidelines when they played in the Astrodome or other domed stadiums because his mother taught him not to wear a hat indoors.

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 12:05 PM (ZDsBk)

336 Maybe I was raised in the wrong areas but I've never asked anyone "Hey, why are you wearing that color today?" and got a lecture about the Cause of the Week.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 03, 2023 12:09 PM (4olE8)

337 “If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.”—Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 03, 2023

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I've never been to Phoenix . . . but I think he might have been right.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 03, 2023 12:09 PM (J2vNu)

338 Let's replace the Narcan injectors with saline and see if anyone notices.
Posted by: rickb223

Atropine injectors to give them a kick.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 03, 2023 12:09 PM (yggAB)

339 Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:57 AM (mVFGK)

I don't know what they're smoking but I want some.

Posted by: creeper at February 03, 2023 12:19 PM (cTCuP)

340 317 Found something for the food thread:

"Lab-grown meat may be a potential way to feed the global population while fighting climate change, but can you stomach the idea of steaks or cured meats grown from human cells?
"A company called BiteLabs is looking to market human test-tube meat, and that’s not even the weirdest part. They’re hoping to get celebrities like James Franco, Ellen DeGeneres, Jennifer Lawrence, and Kanye West on board to donate tissue samples that will eventually become salami."

https://tinyurl.com/4w43u23j
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 11:57 AM (mVFGK)"

That's carrying celebrity worship a bit far, if you ask me. Old Scratch used to have better COMSEC than that.

On the other hand, you could give it a really catchy brand name...something like "Eucharcuterie," maybe.

Posted by: Rowsdower Believes Ray Epps is a Fed and Ashli Bennett is Crispus Attucks at February 03, 2023 12:22 PM (t7011)

341 Buck wants more charity to the little red towns

Posted by: Paul at February 03, 2023 12:24 PM (ecSW5)

342 When is "Women's Hysteria" awareness month, or Time-of-The-Month Awareness Decade?
Shirley, the rest of the world is entitled to a warning.

This site ought to sponsor "Just Calm Down" Awareness. Maybe during Sammich Week.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 03, 2023 12:31 PM (jYCXf)

343 The balloon identifies as a piñata. Whack it down.

Posted by: TaliBob at February 03, 2023 12:32 PM (uN6X9)

344 We used Amazon Smile to contribute to the Lions Club ranch for disabled children. It is an incredible place where kids with pretty much every type of disability get to go once a year for a week to spend with other children with the same disability getting to swim, horseback ride, do all kinds of great things. They have a full medical staff on hand, and the top doctors in each field donate their time to be there on site, in person, every year. My middle girl went to the Type 1 diabetes camp, and it was of great assistance to her.

Amazon sucks.

Posted by: Happy at February 03, 2023 12:34 PM (tCI6l)

345 Heart disease is the number 1 killer of MEN and WOMEN. However, because Breast Cancer gets all the attention (which is like number 10), this program was created. Woman were being mislead as to their real risks of death. Women also don't recognize heart attack symptoms, because they tend to be different than men's.

Men's health is always a backseat, and it should not be. Especially men's mental health. Suicides in men are a huge risk after age 50 and in late teen/early twenties and no one talks about it.

Posted by: Tina848 at February 03, 2023 12:42 PM (bbAOe)

346 Has the Heart Association cleared this with the Menstrual Awareness folks? The "Period Poverty" campaign at Period.org may have some objections.

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