FBI Seized Biden Notebooks That May Contain Classified Information

Notebooks President Biden used during his time as vice president that may reference classified information were among the material seized by the FBI during a search of his Delaware home last week, according to a report.
The notebooks include some of the 80-year-old president's writings related to his official White House business, such as notes on diplomatic engagements during his time as Barack Obama's vice president, according to NBC News.
While the notebooks themselves did not have classified markings, according to the report, some of Biden's handwritten notes inside them may reference sensitive material.
A person familiar with the investigation told the news outlet that the president had a "large" collection of notebooks with handwritten notes on both personal and official subject matter, including his family life and his experiences or thoughts as vice president.
Because some of the notes related to official business at the White House, they could be subject to the Presidential Records Act and should have been handed over to the National Archives at the end of the Obama presidency.

I think this is a defensive leak for Biden's benefit, suggesting to the public that all the FBI found was notebooks.

We'll see if that turns out to be true. My hunch: Nah.

The bigger news is that Hunter Biden's emails suggest that he was in possession of classified information himself. Was he reading Ukraine documents Lunchbucket Joe brought home for him, or was he just going out to the SCIF Corvette Hanger and reading?

A Hunter Biden email about Ukraine from 2014 may have been derived from secret information that was improperly shared with him.

"If it doesn't the Russians will continue to escalate there [sic] destabilization campaign, which could lead to a full scale take over of the eastern region most critically Donetsk," Hunter Biden wrote. "The strategic value is to create a land bridge for RU[ssia] to Crimea."
The 1,300-word email -- far more detailed and lengthy than anything else found on Hunter's abandoned laptop -- also referenced an upcoming trip to Ukraine by then-Vice President Joe Biden and appeared to acknowledge the older Biden's penchant for gaffes.
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A Hunter Biden email about Ukraine from 2014 looks 'suspiciously' like it could have come from classified information, a leading GOP senator has claimed.
Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said the April 12, 2014 message to one of the first son's business partners resembles documents that the State Department gives members of the Senate when they travel overseas.
"It reads like one of those scene-setters -- highly detailed information in terms of Ukraine," Johnson told Fox News Tuesday.
The email from Hunter to Devon Archer includes a granular 22-point memo the Biden scion described as "thoughts after doing some research."
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Those "thoughts" include the prescient predictions that Petro Poroshenko would be elected Ukraine's president the following month and that "some sort of decentralization will likely occur in the East."
"If it doesn't the Russians will continue to escalate there [sic] destabilization campaign, which could lead to a full scale take over of the eastern region most critically Donetsk," Hunter Biden wrote. "The strategic value is to create a land bridge for RU[ssia] to Crimea."
The 1,300-word email -- far more detailed and lengthy than anything else found on Hunter's abandoned laptop -- also referenced an upcoming trip to Ukraine by then-Vice President Joe Biden and appeared to acknowledge the older Biden's penchant for gaffes.

"Thoughts" from the crackhead. Give me a break.

That reference was about "tempering expectations" about Lunchbucket Joe's trip. The suggestion is that The Sage of Scranton could blow the rendezvous with a gaffe.

Was Lunchbucket Joe jotting down classified information into his notebooks to relay to Hunter, thereby increasing Hunter's value to foreign gangsters and potentates?

Note Biden's assistant Katie Chung -- recommended to him by Hunter -- scrambling to find Biden's "note cards."

And note that she asks Hunter Biden if he knows where Joe Biden's note cards are.

From Andrew Kerr and Joseph Simonson of the Free Beacon.

Biden Family Had Access to Materials in Biden Office, Emails Suggest
Biden aides asked Hunter Biden for help locating vice presidential materials
Joe and Hunter Biden in the president's 1967 Corvette (Twitter).

President Joe Biden's immediate family knew more about the location of documents in his possession than the president's aides, emails from Hunter Biden's laptop suggest.

Joe Biden's executive assistant Kathy Chung solicited assistance from Hunter Biden and four other Biden family members in locating "Vice President notecards" from "the office" on Nov. 27, 2018, emails show. The day before, another presidential aide, Richard Ruffner, had asked Chung for help locating the materials, telling her Joe Biden wanted him to have the notecards on hand.
Neither Ruffner nor Chung specified which office they were referring to in their messages, which went unanswered. Tranches of classified records from Joe Biden's time as senator and vice president have been located at his private library at his Wilmington, Del., home and his office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C.

Ted Cruz now demands that the FBI search Hunter's home and office for Joe's classified documents, too.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Sunday suggested the FBI should search the home and office used by Hunter Biden for any classified materials after such documents were found at President Biden's home in Delaware and a Washington, D.C., office he'd previously used.
"It seems he leaves classified documents wherever he goes. And we also know that Hunter Biden at times was -- declared his residence to be those very same places," Cruz told host Maria Bartiromo on Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures."

The National Archives is asking presidents and vice-presidents to check their residences for classified documents-- no FBI raid for them, just a request.

And no request that Hunter Biden check his crack squirrel-holes for classified documents.

Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at 11:59 AM

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1 Slanted opinion.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2023 12:01 PM (GYIa4)

2 And Obama says...?

Posted by: Lola at January 30, 2023 12:01 PM (Wxlzw)

3 And you already fixed it... nice.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2023 12:01 PM (GYIa4)

4 Ted Cruz now demands that the FBI search Hunter's home and office for Joe's classified documents, too.

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"Nah, bro."
-Merrick Garland, knowing that his budget is going up by 25% next year to match inflation

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:02 PM (LvTSG)

5 Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at 11:59 AM

Wait, I thought that Lamont was only going to be around for a week - now this.

Should we be renaming the blog the LTBDHQ?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 30, 2023 12:03 PM (/iWhV)

6 I'm sticking with my theory: the WH bypassed the DOJ and ordered the FBI to raid Trump in hopes of embarrassing him. When it went south, they made Garland go out and eat a bowl of shit. His revenge is to have the DOJ tell every other former elected official, "we know that you have classified docs. Turn them back over." Hence why suddenly people have lawyers searching through closets and storage boxes.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 30, 2023 12:03 PM (wmDcS)

7 I thought the Lamont thing was only for one week?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2023 12:03 PM (uNylN)

8 OT: I have come to the conclusion that half the videos on youtube are just snippets of one TV show or another and there's no way for you to get youtube to stop suggesting that crap to you no matter how often you say you're not interested.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2023 12:03 PM (GYIa4)

9 I bet there are so many dicks drawn outside the margins throughout the pages that you lose count.

Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at January 30, 2023 12:04 PM (ia0+L)

10 Hi
You still Lamont?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:04 PM (Y+l9t)

11 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

12 I thought The Big Dummy was to be retired after last week.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

13 6 I'm sticking with my theory: the WH bypassed the DOJ and ordered the FBI to raid Trump in hopes of embarrassing him. When it went south, they made Garland go out and eat a bowl of shit. His revenge is to have the DOJ tell every other former elected official, "we know that you have classified docs. Turn them back over." Hence why suddenly people have lawyers searching through closets and storage boxes.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 30, 2023 12:03 PM (wmDcS)

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It fits. Maybe it's true.

I love it when a Politburo turns its guns inward.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:05 PM (LvTSG)

14 What about checking Hunter's 'hoes cracks for dirty secrets?

I just grossed myself out.

Posted by: Scott_T at January 30, 2023 12:05 PM (2waQ7)

15 "The National Archives is asking presidents and vice-presidents to check their residences for classified documents-- no FBI raid for them, just a request."

This is all leading to the mind-blowing revelation that Chocolate Jesus is less than perfect, so the National Archives had to toss out a lifeline.

The big question is why the totalitarian regime is getting rid of Biden. I suspect we will not like the answer.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 30, 2023 12:05 PM (KSNKu)

16 *raises hand*

Pretty soon once your term is up as President, the Archivist is going to request they cut the eyeballs out of your head for viewing classified material.

Posted by: Vertitas at January 30, 2023 12:05 PM (K7FU5)

17 my favorite part of this was the near 100% certainty that as a Biden, Biden had said something completely concretely on point about Trump that would come back and bite him in the face

Posted by: sockamster, non Rick and Morty viewer at January 30, 2023 12:05 PM (MLrvz)

18 I'm sticking with my theory: the WH bypassed the DOJ and ordered the FBI to raid Trump in hopes of embarrassing him. When it went south, they made Garland go out and eat a bowl of shit. His revenge is to have the DOJ tell every other former elected official, "we know that you have classified docs. Turn them back over." Hence why suddenly people have lawyers searching through closets and storage boxes.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 30, 2023 12:03 PM (wmDcS)
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Unless he brings charges against those folks (because we all know they're guilty as sin), this doesn't amount to anything. If if they do turn up anything, then he'll let them skate on by...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2023 12:05 PM (YIVH2)

19 Biden Family Had Access to Materials in Biden Office, Emails Suggest

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Does this include the granddaughter who was recruited by the ChiComms?

To ask is to have answered ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 30, 2023 12:06 PM (bO865)

20 Ted Cruz and his ilk should just STFU and STFD and prepare to pleasure the barbed cock of Satan.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 30, 2023 12:06 PM (D25PY)

21 The bigger news is that Hunter Biden's emails suggest that he was in possession of classified information himself.
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And now it would seem you know the reason for the "scandal".

It was to get you tired of the subject.

Everyone wants to know how people were ever going to find out Joe had classified information.

It was on the laptop.

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2023 12:06 PM (hXoQI)

22 Why can't that old fool keep his stuff secure in a bathtub like a normal person?

Posted by: Hillary! at January 30, 2023 12:06 PM (amJF4)

23 Obviously we are all more concerned about how our esteemed leader is identifying this week instead of the very important news he has imparted.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:06 PM (Y+l9t)

24 Rules only apply to Republicans. This is known.

Even IF they're leftist shills. They are 2nd class politicians. R means you EETZEEBUUGS!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:06 PM (Zz0t1)

25 I think this is a defensive leak for Biden's benefit, suggesting to the public that all the FBI found was notebooks.
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Perhaps, but it also might be a defensive leak in a different context: to erode the meaning of "classified information," especially as it relates to high officials. Things like notebooks usually end up in presidential libraries and the like. They often contain "classified information." There is a ton of "classified information" that doesn't need to be, because the government likes keeping secrets and its operators like feeling important.

A leak like this could be to try to deflect the public into thinking it is all trivialities (and it might be, but probably not), or it could be to try to deflect the public into just assuming that "classified" == "trivial, probably" - unless, of course, you try to FOIA something.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 12:06 PM (t0OGg)

26 Pretty soon once your term is up as President, the Archivist is going to request they cut the eyeballs out of your head for viewing classified material.
Posted by: Vertitas at January 30, 2023 12:05 PM (K7FU5)
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Nah, they'll probably fry your brain so that you forget anything you've seen during your time as President.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2023 12:06 PM (YIVH2)

27 18 Unless he brings charges against those folks (because we all know they're guilty as sin), this doesn't amount to anything. If if they do turn up anything, then he'll let them skate on by...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2023 12:05 PM (YIVH2)

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The point would be to embarrass and neuter the political attacks of the people who did this to him, not to actually take them out.

Although, watching Merrick Garland try to take out the upper echelons of the Democrat Party because they made him feel bad would be hilarious. It's not happening, but it would be hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:07 PM (LvTSG)

28 Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine. Always always Ukraine. It's almost like Ukraine is nothing more than a huge grifting and money-laundering operation for the Dumocraps.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 30, 2023 12:07 PM (iFTx/)

29 The National Archives is asking presidents and vice-presidents to check their residences for classified documents-- no FBI raid for them, just a request.

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Please tell me this includes Willie Brown's mansion. Lie to me if you must ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 30, 2023 12:07 PM (bO865)

30 Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Sunday suggested the FBI should search the home and office used by Hunter Biden for any classified materials after such documents were found at President Biden's home in Delaware and a Washington, D.C., office he'd previously used.
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Yeah, 'cause the FBI will do a great job and something will definitely come of it if they find wrongdoing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 12:07 PM (t0OGg)

31 Everybody Wang Chung tonight.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:07 PM (Zz0t1)

32 how much longer do we put up with this shit?

Posted by: DanMan at January 30, 2023 12:07 PM (DB6tu)

33 Yawn. So?

Posted by: Democrats and Their Zombies at January 30, 2023 12:07 PM (Angsy)

34 How long can the foot dragging last?

Posted by: BignJames at January 30, 2023 12:07 PM (AwYPR)

35 Biden Family Had Access to Materials in Biden Office, Emails Suggest
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(lays $20 on table)

Hunter and that flat-chested cousin banged either on or against a box containing classified documents.

Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at January 30, 2023 12:07 PM (ia0+L)

36 "Note Biden's assistant Katie Chung -- recommended to him by Hunter -- scrambling to find Biden's "note cards.""

From the linked article - an email from Ms. Chung to Hunter:

""Hi, Hunt!! Per your conversation with you Dad, here is he Penn Biden materials and the block schedule. Let me know if you need anything else, Hunt. Miss ya. Kathy," Chung wrote to Hunter Biden in a June 19, 2018. "

'Miss ya.' Yeah, totally a strictly-business relationship between the two of them.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 30, 2023 12:07 PM (/iWhV)

37 "Thoughts" from the crackhead. Give me a break.

*******

Hunter and Fetterman sitting in a tree
T-H-I-N-K-I-N-G

Posted by: Muldoon at January 30, 2023 12:07 PM (ykeLU)

38 Everyone wants to know how people were ever going to find out Joe had classified information.

It was on the laptop.
Posted by: ... at January 30, 2023 12:06 PM (hXoQI)

What amazes me is that the lap top info has been out int he wild for a couple of years now. LOTS of people have copies of the information...

Yet, we 'suddenly' keep finding 'new' information?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 30, 2023 12:08 PM (oHd/0)

39 This all would be hilarious if it weren't so serious. WTF America.

Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 12:09 PM (gmo/4)

40 Does Hunter have an orifice?

Posted by: That Northern skulker at January 30, 2023 12:09 PM (eGTCV)

41 "they'll probably fry your brain so that you forget anything"

If they did this to Joe would anybody notice?

Posted by: Bosk at January 30, 2023 12:09 PM (ZVuYy)

42 The self-flagellation continues, it appears.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 12:09 PM (zZu0s)

43 I thought the Lamont thing was only for one week?

"I'm sorry. I can't do that, Lamont..."

Posted by: H.A.L. at January 30, 2023 12:09 PM (dNNCD)

44 I'm expecting so much Stray Voltage to be unleashed within the next couple of weeks, that it will make your head spin.

Gird your loins, the ride is going to get bumpy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2023 12:09 PM (vgYvF)

45 "Nah, bro."
-Merrick Garland, knowing that his budget is going up by 25% next year to match inflation

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:02 PM (LvTSG)

They'll delay, then do it. Strangely, all the stuff will have disappeared by then. Oh well, we'll get 'em next time....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 30, 2023 12:09 PM (Angsy)

46 Hunter and that flat-chested cousin banged either on or against a box containing classified documents.
Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at January 30, 2023 12:07 PM (ia0+L)

Check the top of the box for Cocaine residue... that will tell you.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 30, 2023 12:09 PM (oHd/0)

47 The eff bee eye oughta' raid every member of congress. I'd be willing to bet good money every one of them is currently in possession of "classified" materials and those materials are not stored or handled properly.

The end game here is to make nothing classified so nobody can be held responsible.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2023 12:10 PM (Q4IgG)

48 Ted Cruz and his ilk should just STFU and STFD and prepare to pleasure the barbed cock of Satan.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 30, 2023 12:06 PM (D25PY)

So, did you enjoy voting for Jo Jorgensen? She was the principled but extreme candidate, after all.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2023 12:10 PM (xhaym)

49 "they'll probably fry your brain so that you forget anything"

If they did this to Joe would anybody notice?
Posted by: Bosk at January 30, 2023 12:09 PM (ZVuYy)
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It's why he's the perfect POTUS from a certain point of view.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2023 12:10 PM (YIVH2)

50 But did the FBI pounce?

And I think Lamont can take the week off now.

Unless Chuy enjoys the cosplay....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:10 PM (XvPQV)

51 I posted this earlier but Hunter via Joes connection had people at DHS and State Dept doing research and investigations on people he was trying to get into the country.

It appears the email came from inside the Govt sent to outside and then forwarded to Hunter. It was TS info on known criminals that had visa taken away or denied.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2023 12:10 PM (BRHaw)

52
And now it would seem you know the reason for the "scandal".

It was to get you tired of the subject.

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Sure does look this way. normal folks are probably already bored with it and have no idea that VPs can't possess it or that the Navy Hero Hunter didn't have top classified rank when he was in the military or whatever.

Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at January 30, 2023 12:10 PM (ia0+L)

53 The National Archives is asking presidents and vice-presidents to check their residences for classified documents-- no FBI raid for them, just a request.
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Yup. So far, I'm sticking my theory on why this is happening, and this action by NARA isn't inconsistent with what I think is going on. There will be more leaks about more people who have classified materials they shouldn't. The condition becomes normalized, they acknowledge a classified materials handling problem, issue some retraining and announce some essentially meaningless new controls and punishments (meaningless because they will not be generally enforced), underscore how it is the cooperation with DoJ and NARA that sets it apart from the Trump incident, and then we all just walk away from it with the comforting knowledge that our elites have been retrained and will be much better in the future.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 12:10 PM (t0OGg)

54 *looks at a copy of the Constitution for the "archivist"*

*finds nothing*

Fuck that guy in particular.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2023 12:10 PM (nCaYE)

55 Hunter has classified info tattooed on his dick, rumors say.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

56 OT: I have come to the conclusion that half the videos on youtube are just snippets of one TV show or another and there's no way for you to get youtube to stop suggesting that crap to you no matter how often you say you're not interested.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2023 12:03 PM (GYIa4)

I bet you'd have to sign it to get it stopped. I don't and see the same vids again and again that I refuse to click.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 30, 2023 12:11 PM (Angsy)

57 This is all political bullshit for the cameras. "They" will pretend to investigate Biden & The Papers, the press will pretend the process has been quite thorough, and time will pass. I fully expect that nothing will come of this.

Posted by: DB at January 30, 2023 12:11 PM (geLO8)

58 What amazes me is that the lap top info has been out int he wild for a couple of years now. LOTS of people have copies of the information...

Yet, we 'suddenly' keep finding 'new' information?
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 30, 2023 12:08 PM (oHd/0)
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A few people have the whole thing. More people have pieces of it. Lots of people have much smaller pieces. There's a wider game being played, and those with the full dump are probably not all that numerous and will dole it out as they see fit for their own purposes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 12:11 PM (t0OGg)

59 I don't care about classified documents.

I want the Dr. Jill sex tapes and I want them now.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 30, 2023 12:12 PM (yEMHD)

60 Misplaced classified documents = Blackmail material

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 30, 2023 12:12 PM (D25PY)

61 >>> 19 Biden Family Had Access to Materials in Biden Office, Emails Suggest

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Does this include the granddaughter who was recruited by the ChiComms?

To ask is to have answered ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 30, 2023 12:06 PM (bO865)

What are you talking about? Nobody recruited me.

....wait, do you think THEY would give me a pony???

Posted by: Arkansas Biden Baby at January 30, 2023 12:12 PM (llON8)

62 I forgot to sign in as Ace.

But the first post of last monday was posted as "Ace," so I guess I had to do one last post as Lamont the Big Dummy to make it a full week.

Posted by: ace at January 30, 2023 12:12 PM (C1Zwz)

63 36 "Note Biden's assistant Katie Chung -- recommended to him by Hunter -- scrambling to find Biden's "note cards.""

From the linked article - an email from Ms. Chung to Hunter:

""Hi, Hunt!! Per your conversation with you Dad, here is he Penn Biden materials and the block schedule. Let me know if you need anything else, Hunt. Miss ya. Kathy," Chung wrote to Hunter Biden in a June 19, 2018. "

'Miss ya.' Yeah, totally a strictly-business relationship between the two of them.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 30, 2023 12:07 PM (/iWhV)

Hunter knows how to Wang Chung

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:12 PM (XvPQV)

64 We give in to the dominant narrative when we concede that these “classified” documents contain anything particularly sensitive. Rather, what is true is that the federal government over-classifies obsessively. I’d bet 90% of documents with classification markings contain no truly sensitive info like nuclear secrets or identities of spies…. This is all of sound and fury signifying nothing. The 3 letter agencies use “classified” to bully… lately Trump and now Brandon. They’re bullies

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2023 12:12 PM (62s8C)

65 Hunter banged his sister-in-law on a bed of classified documents.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)

66 Hunter has classified info tattooed on his dick, rumors say.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

Nah those are just chancres.

Posted by: Maybe some herp too. at January 30, 2023 12:12 PM (UKe2c)

67 I don't care about classified documents.

I want the Dr. Jill sex tapes and I want them now.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 30, 2023 12:12 PM (yEMHD)
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I hope you want them so you can bury them in the deepest, darkest hole on the planet and not for any other reason...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2023 12:12 PM (YIVH2)

68
But the first post of last monday was posted as "Ace," so I guess I had to do one last post as Lamont the Big Dummy to make it a full week.

Posted by: ace at January 30, 2023 12:12 PM (C1Zwz)

This man is honest to a fault.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)

69 Yea, Ace is back. That Lamont dude...he's bad news. Like Corn Pop.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:13 PM (XvPQV)

70 Hunter banged his sister-in-law on a bed of classified documents.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)

All part of the kink.

Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 12:13 PM (gmo/4)

71 Ted Cruz demands = failure theater

Desantis demands = OMG BASED DETHSANTIS

Posted by: C'mon man at January 30, 2023 12:14 PM (lG41+)

72 It's a new week. I thought ace was coming back.

>>>I'll be commenting all this week as Lamont, because I'm a Big Dummy. Yes of course. I'm such an idiot.

Posted by: m at January 30, 2023 12:14 PM (lhS81)

73 Was he reading Ukraine documents Lunchbucket Joe brought home for him, or was he just going out to the SCIF Corvette Hanger and reading?
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Reading is fun da mental!

Posted by: jeordi laforge at January 30, 2023 12:14 PM (Vwz3I)

74 Yea, Ace is back. That Lamont dude...he's bad news. Like Corn Pop.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:13 PM (XvPQV)

Lamont got shanked by Chuy in the back alley.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)

75 @58

>>There's a wider game being played, and those with the full dump are probably not all that numerous and will dole it out as they see fit for their own purposes.

Do you know how much Kompromat is on that laptap?

As you allude, you never give up all of your leverage all at once.

And also as you say, there is a much bigger game being played here.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2023 12:14 PM (vgYvF)

76 Until a SWAT teams shows up at Hunter's at 5 am and makes him stand outside in his underwear while they search his house I don't care.
Last I saw, the poor guy who prayed outside a pp clinic who was subjected to such a raid, is waiting on a hung jury and facing 10 years in prison. J6 political prisoners still in jail pre trial for two years and facing long prison terms when they are found guilty as they surely will be.
Meanwhile the Biden's are living the good life as well as the Clintons and Cuomos of the world and their wealthy benefactors.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:14 PM (Y+l9t)

77 I saw Biden's art dealer is lawyering up. Hmm, I wonder why?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 30, 2023 12:14 PM (VWp7G)

78 This all would be hilarious if it weren't so serious. WTF America.

Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 12:09 PM (gmo/4)

We are being punished for killing millions of babies by the Guy who puts people in authority. We're being ruled by foreigners and perverts.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 30, 2023 12:14 PM (Angsy)

79 Will there be cake for Lamont?

Posted by: That Northern skulker at January 30, 2023 12:15 PM (eGTCV)

80
I want the Dr. Jill sex tapes and I want them now.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 30, 2023 12:12 PM (yEMHD)

You know Hunter recorded them together. YOU KNOW he did.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:15 PM (Zz0t1)

81

What's a Corvette?

Posted by: John Fetterman at January 30, 2023 12:15 PM (vwCZJ)

82 Ace❤️

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:15 PM (Y+l9t)

83 Has Ted Cruz's daughter stopped stabbing herself yet?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 30, 2023 12:15 PM (D25PY)

84 >>>I want the Dr. Jill sex tapes and I want them now.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Who doesn't???

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 30, 2023 12:16 PM (VWp7G)

85 You know how I know Philly will win the SB? Cuz Dr. Jill was sitting next to the owner, Jeffrey Lurie, yesterday during the Philly v 49er game.

Posted by: Klaus Schwabb at January 30, 2023 12:16 PM (tiR3O)

86 Has Ted Cruz's daughter stopped stabbing herself yet?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 30, 2023 12:15 PM (D25PY)

"LOOK AT ME DADDY!!!!"

"I NEED YOU TO LOOK AT ME!!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:16 PM (Zz0t1)

87 I saw Crack Squirrel-Holes open for The Groundhogs at Shepherd’s Bush Empire in '78.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 30, 2023 12:16 PM (nDWDl)

88 The end game is to deprive Presidents the material needed to defend themselves against charges brought by the Deep State. Making decisions based on their info as a defense doesn't work if you can't get the info or prove that your version is the original

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at January 30, 2023 12:16 PM (QAQdw)

89 Last I saw, the poor guy who prayed outside a pp clinic who was subjected to such a raid, is waiting on a hung jury and facing 10 years in prison. J6 political prisoners still in jail pre trial for two years and facing long prison terms when they are found guilty as they surely will be.
Meanwhile the Biden's are living the good life as well as the Clintons and Cuomos of the world and their wealthy benefactors.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:14 PM (Y+l9t)

The righteous suffer while the wicked prosper. Makes you wonder if God's kind of a dick.

Posted by: The ruthless shall inherit the earth at January 30, 2023 12:16 PM (UKe2c)

90 I want the Dr. Jill sex tapes and I want them now.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Who doesn't???

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 30, 2023 12:16 PM (VWp7G)

It would be fun just to see the outfits.

Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 12:17 PM (gmo/4)

91 Everybody Wang Chung tonight.
------------
I said, "No YELLOW"!!!

Posted by: Hunter at January 30, 2023 12:17 PM (Vwz3I)

92 NOBODY CARES ABOUT THIS. Nobody cared about it when they raided MaL and nobody cares about it now. It's just a bunch of hypertechnical mumbo-jumbo that deliberately obfuscates what's really in the documents. It's like private litigation where every document to be produced is stamped "confidential." If there is some truly serious, dangerous "classified" information in any of these documents, then maybe -- maybe -- someone would care. But until that happens -- and I highly doubt it ever will -- then this is nothing more than a bureaucratic problem.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 30, 2023 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

93 62 I forgot to sign in as Ace.

But the first post of last monday was posted as "Ace," so I guess I had to do one last post as Lamont the Big Dummy to make it a full week.

Posted by: ace at January 30, 2023 12:12 PM (C1Zwz)

Very punctilious of you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 12:17 PM (zZu0s)

94 84 >>>I want the Dr. Jill sex tapes and I want them now.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Who doesn't???
----------------
I really don't want to see Hunter stuffing the weiner to his step mom. Just don't want to see that.

Posted by: Klaus Schwabb at January 30, 2023 12:17 PM (tiR3O)

95 Thoughts" from the crackhead. Give me a break.
==
He sent this email right before he got an 83,000 a month job with burisma. Check me if I'm wrong but taking money in exchange for passing top secret information is a no no. I'll have to check with the Clintons to be sure, hang on . . .

Posted by: Money, its a gas - Burisma Gas at January 30, 2023 12:17 PM (htHWi)

96 ----------------
I really don't want to see Hunter stuffing the weiner to his step mom. Just don't want to see that.
Posted by: Klaus Schwabb at January 30, 2023 12:17 PM (tiR3O)

You'd rather be stuffing it to her, eh German freak?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

97 And so, Lamont belongs to the Ages now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 12:18 PM (zZu0s)

98 Off sock.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 12:18 PM (tiR3O)

99 Linus Van Pelt Johnson with a key point. Look at those excerpted bits about events in Ukraine. Just obvious speculation or mundane universally known things. Johnson of Wisconsin, who seems like one of the few elected GOP worth anything, is just going with the current dumb script I guess.

Trump had plenary classification authority, and his team and DOJ/NARA were sparring over things, and the FBI had been to M a L previously specifically to inspect the situation. The raid was indefensible, and remains the story.

And a country so degraded that Biden could be in the WH, and his pathetic family involved in his corruption and misbehavior, sort of just speaks for itself.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2023 12:18 PM (OTzUX)

100 I want the Dr. Jill sex tapes and I want them now.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy

--------

Over/under on the number of appearances Hunter makes?

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 30, 2023 12:18 PM (nDWDl)

101 And so, Lamont belongs to the Ages now.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 12:18 PM (zZu0s)

Meh. He's just on mothballs till the next time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

102 89 The righteous suffer while the wicked prosper. Makes you wonder if God's kind of a dick.
Posted by: The ruthless shall inherit the earth at January 30, 2023 12:16 PM (UKe2c)

Tough Love.

Mean fathers breed tough men.

Or they at least used to.

Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2023 12:18 PM (UnA8+)

103 I want the Dr. Jill sex tapes and I want them now.
==
Count me the fcuk out on that. Some of you morons will watch anything, won't you?

Posted by: Money, its a gas - Burisma Gas at January 30, 2023 12:18 PM (htHWi)

104
Everybody Wang Chung tonight.
Posted by: Sponge
-----------------

That's funny, becasue I know Wang uh, this uh guy I uh, well uh, I, I uh. Yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at January 30, 2023 12:18 PM (vwCZJ)

105 Although, watching Merrick Garland try to take out the upper echelons of the Democrat Party because they made him feel bad would be hilarious. It's not happening, but it would be hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:07 PM (LvTSG)

Joe might as well be lying in a puddle of his own piss. Beria almost managed it in a similar situation

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2023 12:19 PM (xhaym)

106 I want the Dr. Jill sex tapes and I want them now.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Who doesn't???
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 30, 2023 12:16 PM (VWp7G)

I want the Caroline Biden sex tapes and I know they're out there.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:19 PM (XvPQV)

107 >>>It would be fun just to see the outfits.

Posted by: Archer

I'm guessing she's really into leather.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 30, 2023 12:19 PM (VWp7G)

108 LOL. Knock me over with a feather:

In the 12 months because the conflict in Ukraine started, once-dominant Western companies have pulled again from buying and selling, transport and insuring Russian oil. Of their place, mysterious newcomers have begun to assist promote the nation’s crude. They’re primarily based not in Geneva, however in Hong Kong or Dubai. Many have by no means dealt within the stuff earlier than. The worldwide vitality system is changing into extra dispersed, divided—and harmful.

Under Western sanctions, Russia can't use Western firms to handle Russian oil, unless the price is below $60.

Who could have predicted that non-Western firms would spring up to handle the Russian oil?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 30, 2023 12:19 PM (2tUFv)

109 What could Joes notebooks contain that is worse than the fact he is now waging war on Russia?

And why are we now enforcing the Regimes ludicrous and unconstitutional secrecy rules for it? Declassify and publish all of it.

Posted by: Ex-GOP at January 30, 2023 12:19 PM (YTBIQ)

110 >>>I want the Caroline Biden sex tapes and I know they're out there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water

They're probably crazy. She shags like a minx.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 30, 2023 12:19 PM (VWp7G)

111 Hunter banged his sister-in-law on a bed of classified documents.
-----------
Went swimming in a pool of classified docs afterwards like Scrooge McDuck swimming in gold coins.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 12:20 PM (Vwz3I)

112 The righteous suffer while the wicked prosper. Makes you wonder if God's kind of a dick.
Posted by: The ruthless shall inherit the earth at January 30, 2023 12:16 PM (UKe2c)

My friend will tell you he is.....and LOVES to shove his cock down my friend's throat....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)

113 Those notebooks may be as expositive as Hunter's laptop.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 30, 2023 12:21 PM (oQbRJ)

114 I was actually first, but my first was out in the garage between the recycling and the classified documents. TBH, been there for awhile

Posted by: CtHillary, dead but dreaming at January 30, 2023 12:21 PM (zSyrn)

115 If Ace wants to identify as a Lamont, be supportive.

Don't be an istist!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 30, 2023 12:21 PM (a3Q+t)

116 Carolyn Ellison sex tapes?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2023 12:22 PM (pBUtp)

117 I have a public service announcement.
Do not, I repeat, do not ever try and watch a movie on Crackle TV. It is ostensibly "free" but you have to watch commercials. Except it would play the same obnoxious commercial 3 times during each commercial break and sometimes freeze up so I would have to go back and request the movie again to fast forward to where it froze up.
I really regretted not paying the $3.99 that Prime wanted.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:22 PM (Y+l9t)

118 Over 100 so OT:
My watch broke, (nothing super special it's a Stuhrling), so I dug out my backup watch. The rubber band had rotted away. So I dug up my THIRD backup watch. The battery was dead.

So I bought a $11 Armitron on Amazon and got it delivered in one day. Now I have an $11 watch until my real one gets fixed.

Two is one, one is none...and sometimes three is none.

(I do have a 4th watch but it doesn't keep time reliably and it's mostly costume jewlery.)

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:22 PM (XvPQV)

119 Ted Cruz demands = failure theater

Desantis demands = OMG BASED DETHSANTIS

Posted by: C'mon man

======

The only useful thing they could say:

"The classified documents simply give the appearance that Biden was engaging in diplomacy. In reality, they are a cover for meetings where money laundering was executed. If the DOJ and Democrat Party are troubled by that, they are welcome to pursue the matter. Until then, I'll pursue getting my donors' names on buildings. "

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 30, 2023 12:22 PM (Yg7Mu)

120 Meh. He's just on mothballs till the next time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

No Country for Old Snizz

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 12:22 PM (zZu0s)

121 I really don't want to see Hunter stuffing the weiner to his step mom. Just don't want to see that.

I have earlier ones where she was still just our babysitter. Are those more to your liking?

Posted by: Hunter at January 30, 2023 12:22 PM (Sv58p)

122 >>I want the Caroline Biden sex tapes and I know they're out there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water

Rotisserie party with Unc and Bro?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 30, 2023 12:22 PM (D25PY)

123 I want the Dr. Jill sex tapes and I want them now.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Who doesn't???

*raises hand* That would be me.

Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 12:22 PM (o+IHV)

124 Tough Love.

Mean fathers breed tough men.

Or they at least used to.
Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2023 12:18 PM (UnA8+)

Or broken, suicidal men. Punishing your children for doing what you told them to do is, well, evil and insane.

Posted by: So is God evil and/or insane? at January 30, 2023 12:22 PM (UKe2c)

125 ... They’re primarily based not in Geneva, however in Hong Kong or Dubai. Many have by no means dealt within the stuff earlier than. The worldwide vitality system is changing into extra dispersed, divided—and harmful. ...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 30, 2023 12:19 PM (2tUFv)
++++
This will potentially be important. Insurance makes the world go 'round, and insurance for Russian vessels is already a non-starter. Various countries have gotten together to issue pseudo-insurance for those vessels, but nobody know how (or if) it actually works. When the ban on insurance is extended - which it probably will be - to include any vessel carrying Russian oil products, then one of two things will happen:
1. The insurance system will fracture, and national players are going to hammer out the details and it will get very confusing and terribly expensive but still function
2. Russian exports (by sea, anyway) will essentially end

Place your bets. My bet is that this is sort of what the earlier stages of a breakup of globalization looks like.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 12:23 PM (t0OGg)

126 The righteous suffer while the wicked prosper. Makes you wonder if God's kind of a dick.
Posted by: The ruthless shall inherit the earth at January 30, 2023 12:16 PM (UKe2c)

"In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness."

Ecclesiastes.

"‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’” "

^that's the answer quoted from the Gospel according to Matthew.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 12:23 PM (eYoxG)

127 110 >>>I want the Caroline Biden sex tapes and I know they're out there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water

They're probably crazy. She shags like a minx.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 30, 2023 12:19 PM (VWp7G)

Austin Powers was funny. Childish but funny.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:23 PM (XvPQV)

128 113 Those notebooks may be as expositive as Hunter's laptop.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 30, 2023 12:21 PM (oQbRJ)

My guess is it is just stick figures of little girls in dresses and large penises. Maybe hairy legs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 12:23 PM (zZu0s)

129 "The notebooks include some of the 80-year-old president's writings"

He knows how to write? I sense shenanigans. Malarkey maybe.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 30, 2023 12:23 PM (24fqN)

130 99 - Rhomboid: Great point. The whole narrative is dumb. Trump as President can declassify anything he wants making the MaL raid ridiculous. The deep state loves the control that comes with being able to claim all this mundane info is “classified”…. Now they’re bullying Brandon though his discomfort is pleasing to me

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2023 12:23 PM (62s8C)

131 Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 30, 2023 12:19 PM (2tUFv)

Is that article written by a bot, or was it originally in a foreign language and then Google Translated?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 30, 2023 12:24 PM (nC+QA)

132 How come the House can get Trump's tax returns but Hunter Biden's financial records are forbidden?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:24 PM (Y+l9t)

133 I'm sure a lot of people would be put off with a "oh, it's just notebooks" defense, but any notes taken from classified materials are themselves automatically classified at the same level, regardless of whether or not they are properly marked.

Posted by: can of spam at January 30, 2023 12:24 PM (7oNMO)

134 There was a time when I believed the Clinton's were the most despicable trailer trash to ever defile the President's Office. But I think this group of inbred, clodhopping, daughter-showering, wife-swapping, prostitute ingratiating, lowlife, déclassé, ass pirating, miscreant, dim witted bunch of idiot grifters has them beat.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2023 12:24 PM (nCaYE)

135 My watch broke, (nothing super special it's a Stuhrling), so I dug out my backup watch. The rubber band had rotted away. So I dug up my THIRD backup watch. The battery was dead.

So I bought a $11 Armitron on Amazon and got it delivered in one day. Now I have an $11 watch until my real one gets fixed.

Two is one, one is none...and sometimes three is none.

(I do have a 4th watch but it doesn't keep time reliably and it's mostly costume jewlery.)

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:22 PM (XvPQV)

Someone licked them, didn't they? I told you to buy Timex.

Posted by: John Cameron Swayze at January 30, 2023 12:24 PM (Angsy)

136 So going through a box of Army stuff I found a notebook I used in Desert Storm. It is from when we were planning the war. It is mostly doodles because the other staff officers were boring as hell. But I have realized that is enemy agents could get their hands on this, and give it to an enemy psychiatrist, they could figure out what my brain was saying as transcribed through the doodles.
I shall destroy the notebook immediately!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 12:24 PM (anj39)

137 I want the Dr. Jill sex tapes and I want them now.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

You want the Dr. Jill sex tapes.
You'd settle for the Hillary! tapes.
You'll get the Joy Behar tapes.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 30, 2023 12:24 PM (a3Q+t)

138 The righteous suffer while the wicked prosper. Makes you wonder if God's kind of a dick.
Posted by: The ruthless shall inherit the earth at January 30, 2023 12:16 PM (UKe2c)

"In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness."

Ecclesiastes.

"‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’” "

^that's the answer quoted from the Gospel according to Matthew.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 12:23 PM (eYoxG)

Yes but...we aren't plants. And many, many stalks of wheat wither, suffer and die while the weed thrives and multiplies. The harvest is delayed and delayed.

Yes, maybe this doesn't matter in the cosmic sense, and maybe hard times make the fire to forge real steel. Still sucks on toast.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:25 PM (XvPQV)

139 Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine. Always always Ukraine. It's almost like Ukraine is nothing more than a huge grifting and money-laundering operation for the Dumocraps.

Not just the (D). McConnell and Eyepatch McCain both have shouted people down for being insufficiently invested in KEEEEEV.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 12:25 PM (ZGrMX)

140 "The notebooks include some of the 80-year-old president's writings"

Some weak, scrawly, cartoonish renditions of boobs, with dried tapioca splashes here and there.

Posted by: And drool. Don't forget the drool. at January 30, 2023 12:25 PM (UKe2c)

141 My watch broke, (nothing super special it's a Stuhrling), so I dug out my backup watch. The rubber band had rotted away. So I dug up my THIRD backup watch. The battery was dead.

So I bought a $11 Armitron on Amazon and got it delivered in one day. Now I have an $11 watch until my real one gets fixed.

Two is one, one is none...and sometimes three is none.

(I do have a 4th watch but it doesn't keep time reliably and it's mostly costume jewlery.)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:22 PM (XvPQV)
++++
I like watches. I have many of them. I came to the conclusion a few years ago that I was much better off buying a simple watch repair kit and some supplies (gaskets, etc.) and a magnifying lamp to do bands and batteries myself. The tools aren't very expensive and it isn't (usually) very difficult. I can't fix a watch, but I can maintain them easily enough now and the kit has paid for itself. On a single watch, it doesn't make sense. On four or more, it probably does.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 12:25 PM (t0OGg)

142 Or broken, suicidal men. Punishing your children for doing what you told them to do is, well, evil and insane.
Posted by: So is God evil and/or insane? at January 30, 2023 12:22 PM (UKe2c)

Unless you hold that God is actively causing people to do evil then it's more akin to not directly intervening or helicoptering at all times.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 12:25 PM (eYoxG)

143 Maybe Cake Girl would make something special for Lamont.

Posted by: That Northern skulker at January 30, 2023 12:25 PM (eGTCV)

144 6 I'm sticking with my theory: the WH bypassed the DOJ and ordered the FBI to raid Trump in hopes of embarrassing him. When it went south, they made Garland go out and eat a bowl of shit. His revenge is to have the DOJ tell every other former elected official, "we know that you have classified docs. Turn them back over." Hence why suddenly people have lawyers searching through closets and storage boxes.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 30, 2023 12:03 PM (wmDcS)

Naaah. As you may recall, Wray conveniently went on vacation when the raid took place.

Biden is being extorted or evicted, maybe both. A good guess is it has to do with the Ukraine. It appears the pro-China faction of our dictatorship is starting to push for a declaration of loss.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 30, 2023 12:25 PM (KSNKu)

145 I want the Dr. Jill sex tapes and I want them now.

That would be the visual version of a Yoko Ono record.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 12:25 PM (ZGrMX)

146 Hidden documents are probably in Hunter's paintings.
If this were Don Jr's paintings they would be slashed to bits by the FIB.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2023 12:25 PM (NpAcC)

147 >>>Austin Powers was funny. Childish but funny.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water

Agreed, but Elizabeth Hurley made it more appealing.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 30, 2023 12:26 PM (VWp7G)

148 I try not to engage in so called conspiracy theories, but the tie between the Bidens,as well several other political families, and the Ukraine has too many connections to be called a theory. We still don't know what is in the documents but the way the DOJ is stonewalling releasing them even to the Senate, is too damning to be ignored.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2023 12:26 PM (dHzaG)

149 Maybe Cake Girl would make something special for Lamont.
Posted by: That Northern skulker at January 30, 2023 12:25 PM (eGTCV)

"Happy Big Dummy, Lamont!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:26 PM (Zz0t1)

150 Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Sunday suggested the FBI should search the home and office used by Hunter Biden for any classified materials

Hunter's meth supplier and various pimps. along with various nieces, all called to object to an FBI search of any Hunter Biden residence.

Posted by: The Junta, looking for some understanding at January 30, 2023 12:26 PM (9wUxK)

151 140 "The notebooks include some of the 80-year-old president's writings"

Some weak, scrawly, cartoonish renditions of boobs, with dried tapioca splashes here and there.
Posted by: And drool. Don't forget the drool. at January 30, 2023 12:25 PM (UKe2c)

THAT'S NOT TAPIOCA!!!!!!

Posted by: Hooper at January 30, 2023 12:26 PM (zZu0s)

152 or thoughts as vice president

I think I made pudding in my pants!

Posted by: Bruce at January 30, 2023 12:26 PM (vd8XM)

153 A Man Pretending To Be A Woman Skated During The Opening Of The European Figure Skating Championships And It Goes Hilariously Bad

https://tinyurl.com/4fncp9ym

Posted by: DB at January 30, 2023 12:27 PM (geLO8)

154 Don't worry, they will destroy everything they get to cover their crimes and Sundowner's

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2023 12:27 PM (0ehId)

155 If the GOP were smart, and they're not, they'd be leaking the Ashley Biden scandals.

She's a drug and sex addict. Lots and lots and lots of people have seen the back of her head while exploring her digestive tract.

And she's hot. That would get some attention.

Posted by: MJ at January 30, 2023 12:27 PM (zwDuR)

156 "The notebooks include some of the 80-year-old president's writings"

Dear Diary. Today I showered with my daughter. Which reminds me of a guy named El Kabob, out secret source inside the Iranian regime. He had a nice ass too. But that's probably classified.

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:27 PM (nCaYE)

157 Who could have predicted that non-Western firms would spring up to handle the Russian oil?

I like these questions. This is easy. Anyone with 2 active brain cells. Gold star?

Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 12:27 PM (o+IHV)

158 Ronna Romney says it's her last time as RNC chair.

LOL

Didn't she say that last time?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 30, 2023 12:27 PM (D25PY)

159 147 Agreed, but Elizabeth Hurley made it more appealing.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 30, 2023 12:26 PM (VWp7G)

========

Heather Graham > Elizabeth Hurley

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:27 PM (LvTSG)

160
(I do have a 4th watch but it doesn't keep time reliably and it's mostly costume jewlery.)

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:22 PM (XvPQV)

***
Ahhh!
A Frolex!
The other thing you can get in town for $20.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 12:27 PM (anj39)

161 >>> 85 You know how I know Philly will win the SB? Cuz Dr. Jill was sitting next to the owner, Jeffrey Lurie, yesterday during the Philly v 49er game.
Posted by: Klaus Schwabb at January 30, 2023 12:16 PM (tiR3O)

Someone elseblog was noting a rando NFL / sportsball presstitue squeeing over the first sooooper ball game with two black quarterbacks (and I note, going in to Black History Month). Hmmm.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2023 12:27 PM (llON8)

162 How come the House can get Trump's tax returns but Hunter Biden's financial records are forbidden?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:24 PM (Y+l9t)

This is a rhetorical question, no?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

163
Agreed, but Elizabeth Hurley made it more appealing.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 30, 2023 12:26 PM (VWp7G)

She can make just about everything more appealing, even now in her late 50s.

Posted by: She doesn't seem to age. Could be a vampire. at January 30, 2023 12:28 PM (UKe2c)

164 Meh. Oligarchy games on classified documents while the US and NATO seem locked into a spiraling fall into war with Russia. Reminds me of Vietnam in that we are sleepwalking into a stupid commitment with a corrupt autocrat in order to prevent dominoes from falling.

FWIW, Trump is about the only major political figures demanding that we stop fueling the fire and help bring about peace in Ukraine. I have differences with Trump as a pol but not about his desire for peaceful negotiations rather than war, war, war.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2023 12:28 PM (YL0ac)

165 Some weak, scrawly, cartoonish renditions of boobs, with dried tapioca splashes here and there.
Posted by: And drool. Don't forget the drool. at January 30, 2023 12:25 PM (UKe2c)

Uhhhh...I don't think that's tapioca.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 30, 2023 12:28 PM (yEMHD)

166 145 I want the Dr. Jill sex tapes and I want them now.

That would be the visual version of a Yoko Ono record.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 12:25 PM (ZGrMX)

Nah, that would be Helen Thomas in a microkini, c-thong thing.

This would be more a Tiny Tim version of Ode to Joy.

Posted by: Hooper at January 30, 2023 12:28 PM (zZu0s)

167 If you want to tap into gold mines of information, just monitor all the muckety mucks. They spill classified information all the time. And even if it's not classified, it's still valuable.

I remember when the story of Hillary's "bathroom server" broke and it was revealed that she was using an email account outside of govt networks. I said at that time that classified info would be the cherry on top of the sundae, but that I would still want to read the account for insight into what went on in that crazy woman's mind.

Posted by: RobertM at January 30, 2023 12:28 PM (+/lOf)

168 A Man Pretending To Be A Woman Skated During The Opening Of The European Figure Skating Championships And It Goes Hilariously Bad

https://tinyurl.com/4fncp9ym
Posted by: DB at January 30, 2023 12:27 PM (geLO

You would think they'd find a trans that had actually laced up skates before.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:28 PM (Zz0t1)

169 /Off Jaws sock

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 12:29 PM (zZu0s)

170
(I do have a 4th watch but it doesn't keep time reliably and it's mostly costume jewlery.)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,
=
I haven't worn a watch since like 1998. Do you not have phone?

Posted by: Digital clocks are everywhere at January 30, 2023 12:29 PM (lLTr0)

171 "Austin Powers was funny. Childish but funny."

Dr. Evil always makes me laugh.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 30, 2023 12:29 PM (24fqN)

172 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2023 12:03 PM (GYIa4)

You have to go into your history and remove the videos you think are causing them to be suggested. Could have been an accidental click. Or one video you watched one time.

I don't get those suggested to me at all but I manage my history so it doesn't keep suggesting stupid shit to me.

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2023 12:29 PM (BxbCA)

173 That would be the visual version of a Yoko Ono record.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 12:25 PM

You've just supplied every CoB with an idea, you know.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 30, 2023 12:29 PM (a3Q+t)

174 171 "Austin Powers was funny. Childish but funny."

Dr. Evil always makes me laugh.
Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 30, 2023 12:29 PM (24fqN)

Seth Green was good. Frau Blucher lady was quite good as well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 12:30 PM (zZu0s)

175 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 12:25 PM (eYoxG)

There's a big difference between allowing someone to have to face the natural consequences of their actions and punishing them for obeying your directives. The latter is what appears to be transpiring, and what I am talking about.

Posted by: God - a dysfunctional abusive father? at January 30, 2023 12:30 PM (UKe2c)

176 >>> 96 ----------------
I really don't want to see Hunter stuffing the weiner to his step mom. Just don't want to see that.
Posted by: Klaus Schwabb at January 30, 2023 12:17 PM (tiR3O)

You'd rather be stuffing it to her, eh German freak?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

I wonder if Dr Evil's outfit was modeled after Klaus' whatever-the-fck-he's-trying-to-look-like-tunic-thingy, or via-versa.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2023 12:30 PM (llON8)

177 Dr. Jill was sitting next to the owner, Jeffrey Lurie, yesterday during the Philly v 49er game.

There were a lot of jokes flying during the game on Twitter about why she wasn't attending to the injured players.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 12:30 PM (ZGrMX)

178 Bedazzled is peak Elizabeth Hurley

Posted by: DB at January 30, 2023 12:30 PM (geLO8)

179 >>153 A Man Pretending To Be A Woman Skated During The Opening Of The European Figure Skating Championships And It Goes Hilariously Bad

https://tinyurl.com/4fncp9ym
Posted by: DB

That has got to be the worlds biggest troll.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 30, 2023 12:30 PM (D25PY)

180 178 Bedazzled is peak Elizabeth Hurley
Posted by: DB at January 30, 2023 12:30 PM (geLO

Hell yes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 12:31 PM (zZu0s)

181 Bedazzled is peak Elizabeth Hurley
Posted by: DB at January 30, 2023 12:30 PM (geLO

++++
At or near. Dayum.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 12:31 PM (t0OGg)

182 Yet, we 'suddenly' keep finding 'new' information?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 30, 2023 12:08 PM (oHd/0)

If you were planning to run against him and knew something, you might hold that info back until crunch time.

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2023 12:31 PM (BxbCA)

183 This will potentially be important. Insurance makes the world go 'round, and insurance for Russian vessels is already a non-starter. Various countries have gotten together to issue pseudo-insurance for those vessels, but nobody know how (or if) it actually works.

Yeah, the assumption was that since Western firms currently control the insurance market, that that would be a stranglehold on Russian efforts to ship oil at above the sanctions price. Who knew that there would be new entrants to the insurance market - many of them fronts backed by Russian state-owned firms?

Other things are going on - the UAE is suddenly importing a lot more Russian oil, mixing it with its own crude, and reexporting it as "UAE oil", and enough tankers have entered the grey market to handle Russian exports.

The arrogance of thinking that the West could successfully force Russian oil to be sold at $25/barrel less than the world price worldwide is just astonishing. Top Men.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 30, 2023 12:31 PM (2tUFv)

184 118 Over 100 so OT:
My watch broke, (nothing super special it's a Stuhrling), so I dug out my backup watch. The rubber band had rotted away. So I dug up my THIRD backup watch. The battery was dead.

So I bought a $11 Armitron on Amazon and got it delivered in one day. Now I have an $11 watch until my real one gets fixed.

Two is one, one is none...and sometimes three is none.

(I do have a 4th watch but it doesn't keep time reliably and it's mostly costume jewlery.)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:22 PM (XvPQV)
_______________

I'm a big watch fan and I have some very high-end pieces. Sadly, they are too complicated to work on or maintain by anyone less than a professional. So my collection is now mostly just sitting in a display case waiting to be serviced. There are only a few places in the Northeast where they can be serviced, and they were shut down during CV19 and now I've been too lazy to get it done.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 30, 2023 12:31 PM (iFTx/)

185 FWIW, Trump is about the only major political figures demanding that we stop fueling the fire and help bring about peace in Ukraine. I have differences with Trump as a pol but not about his desire for peaceful negotiations rather than war, war, war.
Posted by: whig at January 30, 2023 12:28 PM (YL0ac)

I guess Ukraine doesn't have useful info on Trump, as it does on people like Joe and MItt

Posted by: CN at January 30, 2023 12:31 PM (Zzbjj)

186 How come the House can get Trump's tax returns but Hunter Biden's financial records are forbidden?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:24 PM (Y+l9t)

This is a rhetorical question, no?
Posted by: Sponge
Yes.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:31 PM (Y+l9t)

187 175 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 12:25 PM (eYoxG)

There's a big difference between allowing someone to have to face the natural consequences of their actions and punishing them for obeying your directives. The latter is what appears to be transpiring, and what I am talking about.
Posted by: God - a dysfunctional abusive father? at January 30, 2023 12:30 PM (UKe2c)

Is God smiting babies or something? I'm not clear on where God is allegedly punishing people for doing good.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 12:31 PM (eYoxG)

188 >>> 102 89 The righteous suffer while the wicked prosper. Makes you wonder if God's kind of a dick.
Posted by: The ruthless shall inherit the earth at January 30, 2023 12:16 PM (UKe2c)

Tough Love.

Mean fathers breed tough men.

Or they at least used to.
Posted by: XTC at January 30, 2023 12:18 PM (UnA8+)

something-something "free will" not to mention, understanding short-term vs long-term gratification

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2023 12:31 PM (llON8)

189 Some weak, scrawly, cartoonish renditions of boobs, with dried tapioca splashes here and there.
Posted by: And drool. Don't forget the drool. at January 30, 2023 12:25 PM (UKe2c)

Uhhhh...I don't think that's tapioca.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 30, 2023 12:28 PM (yEMHD)
***

Snot lady ad...so what your saying is...?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 12:31 PM (anj39)

190 I have a gun. In my room. I'll go get it, we'll shoot him together! Bang, dead, done.

Posted by: Scott Evil at January 30, 2023 12:31 PM (UKe2c)

191 "Ronna Romney says it's her last time as RNC chair. "

Because she can only throw one more election to Democrats in 2024 before people truly figure out she's a traitor, deep state shill, and a complete idiot.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2023 12:32 PM (nCaYE)

192 https://tinyurl.com/4fncp9ym
Posted by: DB

And we think the ads at the AOSHQ are bad...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 12:32 PM (zZu0s)

193 I do have a 4th watch but it doesn't keep time reliably and it's mostly costume jewlery.)
-

Spoilers

That watch should be a Seiko 5

Except before you know it it would be the watch you wear all the time.

Posted by: You have to admit it's an awesome way to kick off Black People Month at January 30, 2023 12:32 PM (vuQMF)

194 184 When I grew up in Chicago 1950s, there was a watchmaker on every block, seemed like.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 30, 2023 12:32 PM (24fqN)

195 I wonder if Dr Evil's outfit was modeled after Klaus' whatever-the-fck-he's-trying-to-look-like-tunic-thingy, or via-versa.

There's a picture of Klaus on the beach where he's naked except for what appears to be a very small yarmulke covering his apparently microscopic junk. You could probably use it to torture prisoners without saying a word.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 12:32 PM (ZGrMX)

196 A Man Pretending To Be A Woman Skated During The Opening Of The European Figure Skating Championships And It Goes Hilariously Bad

https://tinyurl.com/4fncp9ym
Posted by: DB

Or one that doesn't look like she has a cooking show on public access called "Nonna Cooks!"

Posted by: Bruce at January 30, 2023 12:32 PM (vd8XM)

197 Someone else blog was noting a rando NFL / sportsball presstitute squeeing over the first sooooper ball game with two black quarterbacks (and I note, going in to Black History Month). Hmmm.

If only we were hosting the Super Bowl...

Posted by: Memphis PD at January 30, 2023 12:33 PM (Sv58p)

198 The Seiko 5 is a fantastic little watch

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 30, 2023 12:33 PM (9UlRk)

199 Bedazzled is peak Elizabeth Hurley

Which ruined one of the main jokes in the movie.

In the original Bedazzled, one of the jokes is that Dudley Moore was obsessed with a very ordinary-looking woman. Replacing her with a supermodel in the sequel ruined the joke.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 30, 2023 12:33 PM (2tUFv)

200 LISTEN FAT! I just forgot that someone else took those notebooks. I did nothing wrong. Now Trump he did things wrong by letting everyone know he had files and kept them securely.

My word as a Biden.

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:33 PM (u4CEu)

201 Wife bought me a Citizen ecodrive watch. It was expensive....it was garbage.

The 2nd hand was just a big stopwatch. If you ever used the stopwatch option, the reset would never put the hand back to zero. I sent it off twice and they never fixed it.

It's now on a shelf somewhere, collecting dust.

She should've known better than to buy something Eli Manning was a shill for.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

202 Insert commentary of "If it had been any normal person doing this..."

Posted by: NR Pax at January 30, 2023 12:34 PM (4olE8)

203 That watch should be a Seiko 5

Except before you know it it would be the watch you wear all the time.
Posted by: You have to admit it's an awesome way to kick off Black People Month at January 30, 2023 12:32 PM (vuQMF)

The Seiko 5 was on my list, actually. But the wife convinced me that I didn't need it for my 'backup' watch. So...$11 watch it is.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:34 PM (XvPQV)

204 134 There was a time when I believed the Clinton's were the most despicable trailer trash to ever defile the President's Office. But I think this group of inbred, clodhopping, daughter-showering, wife-swapping, prostitute ingratiating, lowlife, déclassé, ass pirating, miscreant, dim witted bunch of idiot grifters has them beat.
Posted by: Marcus T
---------
Now consider why the PTB wanted both individuals in the WH over other more dignified and restrained individuals even to the point of rigging elections and allowing Chinese to bribe both of them.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2023 12:34 PM (YL0ac)

205 The funny part about the skating video, to me, is the 'I've fallen and I can't get up' part

Posted by: DB at January 30, 2023 12:34 PM (geLO8)

206 I would bet money that there has never been a 59 year old in a Skating championship whether male or female. That makes this even more ridiculous.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:34 PM (Y+l9t)

207 Someone else blog was noting a rando NFL / sportsball presstitute squeeing over the first sooooper ball game with two black quarterbacks (and I note, going in to Black History Month). Hmmm.

Time to announce that they're gay also.
Lets get it all done in February

Posted by: Bruce at January 30, 2023 12:34 PM (vd8XM)

208 In a world that's full of trouble, a world that's full of pain, Lord, many fall beside the road and they never rise again. Many more ar bending low, or broken by the wheel, all I need to carry on is this piece of wood and steel.

- David Allen Coe

Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 12:35 PM (gmo/4)

209 One of the best things here in Shitburg is Mary's Market black-pepper parmesan bread. I got a whole loaf here, and I'm going to eat the entire thing by 6PM. Scones too.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 30, 2023 12:35 PM (24fqN)

210 161 >>> 85 You know how I know Philly will win the SB? Cuz Dr. Jill was sitting next to the owner, Jeffrey Lurie, yesterday during the Philly v 49er game.
Posted by: Klaus Schwabb at January 30, 2023 12:16 PM (tiR3O)

Someone elseblog was noting a rando NFL / sportsball presstitue squeeing over the first sooooper ball game with two black quarterbacks (and I note, going in to Black History Month). Hmmm.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Wasn't going to watch it out of general disinterest but now I can add a reason.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 30, 2023 12:35 PM (sAmhv)

211 >>>Heather Graham > Elizabeth Hurley
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Totes.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 30, 2023 12:35 PM (VWp7G)

212 130 99 - Rhomboid: Great point. The whole narrative is dumb. Trump as President can declassify anything he wants making the MaL raid ridiculous. The deep state loves the control that comes with being able to claim all this mundane info is “classified”…. Now they’re bullying Brandon though his discomfort is pleasing to me
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2023 12:23 PM (62s8C)

Pleasing, but strictly performative.

Nothing will happen to Biden. If his VP were competent, he'd be out by now - but because she's not, he's not going anywhere. Buttigieg is toast, so he's not moving up either. The Dems have nobody on deck; they'll need to wait until Wes Moore is ready in '28, although if they can push him out there in '24 they won't hesitate.

The press is on Biden now, but, knowing that this is going nowhere, they see this as their chance to prove to conservatives that they can treat him like they did Trump, so it's a win for them as well.

Like I said, strictly performative.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 30, 2023 12:35 PM (/iWhV)

213 All the "misplaced" classified stuff that was spread around Hunter's various places, must be gathered and investigated by some special agency, so it can be hidden in the "Under Investigation" lock boxes for at least a decade.

Seems clear (whether sensitive or not) Hunter was the bag man for selling inside influence to our enemies, foreign and domestic. Some of the classified stuff was probably helpful in that venture.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 30, 2023 12:35 PM (Cus5s)

214 My piece of wood and steel is chambered in 7.62mm

Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 12:35 PM (gmo/4)

215 In the original Bedazzled, one of the jokes is that Dudley Moore was obsessed with a very ordinary-looking woman. Replacing her with a supermodel in the sequel ruined the joke.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 30, 2023 12:33 PM (2tUFv)

But the gal he is obsessed with in the remake is pretty plain- by Hollywood standards.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 12:35 PM (zZu0s)

216 I have a Seiko that doesn't work any more. About 40 years old an can't find a repair shop that can fix it. It has the most beautiful emerald green face. I love it.
But...its only right two times a day.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 12:35 PM (anj39)

217 A Man Pretending To Be A Woman Skated During The Opening Of The European Figure Skating Championships And It Goes Hilariously Bad

https://tinyurl.com/4fncp9ym
==
Holy Crap I thought for sure that was a joke. Nope.
He's a 59 year old tranny farmer from Finland. And this isn't the first time he was invited to do this at a figure skating competition either. He can't skate. He's not really a woman. He's a monument to the absence of shame.

Posted by: Shame is dead, and that's fatal at January 30, 2023 12:36 PM (zNy7N)

218 So - watch experts, if one were to buy a watch as a gift for a male, a Seiko 5 would make a nice gift?

Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 12:37 PM (o+IHV)

219 217 A Man Pretending To Be A Woman Skated During The Opening Of The European Figure Skating Championships And It Goes Hilariously Bad

https://tinyurl.com/4fncp9ym
==
Holy Crap I thought for sure that was a joke. Nope.
He's a 59 year old tranny farmer from Finland. And this isn't the first time he was invited to do this at a figure skating competition either. He can't skate. He's not really a woman. He's a monument to the absence of shame.
Posted by: Shame is dead, and that's fatal at January 30, 2023 12:36 PM (zNy7N)

========

And yet, his stunningness and bravery got him the gold!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:37 PM (LvTSG)

220 >>> 168 A Man Pretending To Be A Woman Skated During The Opening Of The European Figure Skating Championships And It Goes Hilariously Bad

https://tinyurl.com/4fncp9ym
Posted by: DB at January 30, 2023 12:27 PM (geLO

You would think they'd find a trans that had actually laced up skates before.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:28 PM (Zz0t1)

Nah, part of their idea of "fun" is making the lie you're supposed to say out loud as obviously BS as possible.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2023 12:37 PM (llON8)

221 201. I almost never wear a watch, but sometimes wear an old Vulcain

Posted by: CN at January 30, 2023 12:37 PM (Zzbjj)

222 I'm a big watch fan and I have some very high-end pieces. Sadly, they are too complicated to work on or maintain by anyone less than a professional. So my collection is now mostly just sitting in a display case waiting to be serviced. There are only a few places in the Northeast where they can be serviced, and they were shut down during CV19 and now I've been too lazy to get it done.
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 30, 2023 12:31 PM (iFTx/)

One of my friends is a huge watch hound. Huge. Like almost as big and as expensive as my gun collection. I'm a little envious, I would really, really love a good Rolex. But I can't justify dropping 10k on a watch.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:37 PM (XvPQV)

223 No watch here. I'm retired.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 30, 2023 12:37 PM (24fqN)

224 Elizabeth Hurley is vejazzled??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 12:37 PM (Vwz3I)

225 I can imagine the old conniving, slimy, balding Senator Biden taking notes. I can't see this new Biden who looks like Anderson Cooper operating anything but crayons.

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2023 12:37 PM (ptElO)

226 all I need to carry on is this piece of wood and steel.

- David Allen Coe

A 1911!

Posted by: John Moses Browning fanboi at January 30, 2023 12:38 PM (UKe2c)

227 The Seiko 5 was on my list, actually. But the wife convinced me that I didn't need it for my 'backup' watch. So...$11 watch it is.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:34 PM (XvPQV)

And the hell of it is that damned $11 watch will still be working 15 years from now.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 12:38 PM (anj39)

228 216 I have a Seiko that doesn't work any more. About 40 years old an can't find a repair shop that can fix it. It has the most beautiful emerald green face. I love it.
But...its only right two times a day.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 12:35 PM (anj39)

I found 2 watch repair places, one is in Kirkland and he's only there maybe 3 hours a day. The other is in Lynwood, where I sent my Stuhrling.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:38 PM (XvPQV)

229 Joe Mannix actually it's just an example of globalization. Not making a dumb semantic point here. Globalization is about many many more things than just out-sourcing manufacturing. Even that is about market dynamics, which means cost and price, it's just extended beyond borders.

So new entities springing up to meet a demand (transport and purchase of Russian oil at near-world prices) is perfectly normal, and if anything reflects many of the changes that are vaguely painted with the "globalization" brush. 50 years ago, no way could anything like this happen. Now, there are ample resources, structures, entities in various regions and with varying degrees of association with geopolitical camps to get 'er done.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2023 12:38 PM (OTzUX)

230 > A Man Pretending To Be A Woman Skated During The Opening Of The European Figure Skating Championships And It Goes Hilariously Bad

A friend coaches for a local community college basketball team. We went to a game recently. At halftime, the cheerleaders put on a little show. Front and center is a dude in a skirt who looks almost exactly like that Brian Nguyen guy who won "Miss Greater Derry."

https://bit.ly/3YbF8aH

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2023 12:38 PM (eyxn4)

231 And at least be as good in the sport as this guy was.

https://tinyurl.com/yhe7aw36

Posted by: Bruce at January 30, 2023 12:38 PM (vd8XM)

232 Lamont, we hardly knew ye.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 30, 2023 12:39 PM (Xrfse)

233 One of my friends is a huge watch hound. Huge. Like almost as big and as expensive as my gun collection. I'm a little envious, I would really, really love a good Rolex. But I can't justify dropping 10k on a watch.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:37 PM (XvPQV)

Whoa. '...almost as big and expensive..."? How many guns have you lost in that canoe accident?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 30, 2023 12:39 PM (/iWhV)

234 I wonder if Dr Evil's outfit was modeled after Klaus' whatever-the-fck-he's-trying-to-look-like-tunic-thingy, or via-versa.

There's a picture of Klaus on the beach where he's naked except for what appears to be a very small yarmulke covering his apparently microscopic junk. You could probably use it to torture prisoners without saying a word.
==
that's not him. Its some nudist from California.

Posted by: Shame is dead, and that's fatal at January 30, 2023 12:39 PM (V5g8t)

235 The Seiko 5 was on my list, actually. But the wife convinced me that I didn't need it for my 'backup' watch. So...$11 watch it is.
-

I understand completely. I don't know what they cost now, but prior to 2020 they were $50 or so. I don't think you can buy a better watch for twice that. They're fantastic little mechanical pieces, and if you stop wearing it it stops running. I've got one my son is already trying to get me to let him wear. I probably will, just because he seems to understand that it's moving away from his kid watches. I'm just sort of amazed he wants to wear a watch at all.

Posted by: You have to admit it's an awesome way to kick off Black People Month at January 30, 2023 12:39 PM (vuQMF)

236 And the hell of it is that damned $11 watch will still be working 15 years from now.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 12:38 PM (anj39)

Yes! My other backup watch was also an Armitron and it's still running after like 14 years of negelect. Just the band rotted. But a new watch band would be almost $30 and a new watch was $11....

It's a weird world, man.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:39 PM (XvPQV)

237 That watch should be a Seiko 5

Except before you know it it would be the watch you wear all the time.
Posted by: You have to admit it's an awesome way to kick off Black People Month at January 30, 2023 12:32 PM (vuQMF)
++++
I have a Seiko 5 and another watch that uses a *very* closely related Seiko works. They're excellent and (usually) cheap automatics.

For something a little nicer, look at the "Orient" brand. They're made by the Epson part of Seiko-Epson and are extremely nice, very good (good at keeping time and being reliable) and quite affordable.

I'd really like a Grand Seiko spring drive, which might be the finest engineering every put into a watch, but I just can't bring myself to buy one. Maybe if I get married. I have never had an occasion special enough to spend several thousand dollars on a piece of jewelry to commemorate it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 12:39 PM (t0OGg)

238 So - watch experts, if one were to buy a watch as a gift for a male, a Seiko 5 would make a nice gift?

Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 12:37 PM (o+IHV)

Tissot PRX 35mm

Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 12:39 PM (gmo/4)

239 Dems are teeing up Newsom. No doubt in my mind. They'll get the VP to check all the boxes just like they did with Kamala.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:39 PM (Y+l9t)

240 Seems clear (whether sensitive or not) Hunter was the bag man for selling inside influence to our enemies, foreign and domestic. Some of the classified stuff was probably helpful in that venture.

And that pissed Hunter off, judging from his e-mails.

Beau was the clean guy, being prepped for a political career. Hunter was the dirty guy, who was the bagman, raising money for the Family.

Hunter didn't like that division of labor.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 30, 2023 12:40 PM (2tUFv)

241 I have my Dad's two Vulcain Cricket watches. My first memories of life are fetching him a cold Hamm's and sitting in his lap looking at those watches and getting the first hit off the cold beer. They are supposed to be worth big money now.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 12:40 PM (tiR3O)

242 I guess Ukraine doesn't have useful info on Trump, as it does on people like Joe and MItt
Posted by: CN

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I think is it is more about the different massive issue networks running things in DC as Ike noted in his farewell address. Intel+Military Industrial Establishment=Ukraine, the Big Science-Educational Establishment, Big Med, plus Intel=COVID response, and so on.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2023 12:40 PM (YL0ac)

243 Bedazzled is peak Elizabeth Hurley

Which ruined one of the main jokes in the movie.

In the original Bedazzled, one of the jokes is that Dudley Moore was obsessed with a very ordinary-looking woman. Replacing her with a supermodel in the sequel ruined the joke.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 30, 2023 12:33 PM (2tUFv)

Elizabeth Hurley was Satan, not the girlfriend.

In some ways, actually most ways, I prefer the remake to the original.

Both good though.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 30, 2023 12:40 PM (KLPy8)

244 239 Dems are teeing up Newsom. No doubt in my mind. They'll get the VP to check all the boxes just like they did with Kamala.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:39 PM (Y+l9t)

==========

Biden is going to run. He might lose Iowa, but he'll run away with NH and especially SC. He's the front runner until he drops dead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:40 PM (LvTSG)

245 Whoa. '...almost as big and expensive..."? How many guns have you lost in that canoe accident?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 30, 2023 12:39 PM (/iWhV)

Here is my FG-42 collection organized by day of the week, mood and color scheme.

Posted by: Not really MAE at January 30, 2023 12:40 PM (zZu0s)

246 239 Dems are teeing up Newsom. No doubt in my mind. They'll get the VP to check all the boxes just like they did with Kamala.
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What about Governor Pritzker?

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 12:40 PM (tiR3O)

247 Whoa. '...almost as big and expensive..."? How many guns have you lost in that canoe accident?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 30, 2023 12:39 PM (/iWhV)

Oh man. It's a real problem. I think that lake probably increased it's displacement by a good inch or two.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:41 PM (XvPQV)

248 The line about Biden's "thoughts" was darkly humorous. That he kept notes of any kind on anything is somewhat shocking and not easy to believe.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2023 12:41 PM (OTzUX)

249 AK @ 35-
Yes on the Seiko 5.

Posted by: Eromero at January 30, 2023 12:41 PM (0OP+5)

250 I have a couple of really nice watches I almost never wear. I just don't like having a pound of metal moving around on my wrist.

One's a Breitling and the other's an Omega.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2023 12:41 PM (eyxn4)

251 So new entities springing up to meet a demand (transport and purchase of Russian oil at near-world prices) is perfectly normal, and if anything reflects many of the changes that are vaguely painted with the "globalization" brush. 50 years ago, no way could anything like this happen. Now, there are ample resources, structures, entities in various regions and with varying degrees of association with geopolitical camps to get 'er done.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2023 12:38 PM (OTzUX)
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Sure, except it is increasingly non-global and more regional. That will probably continue. And the juice that keeps globalization running - the US dollar as the neutral means of international settlement and insurance (and the US Navy to provide trade security, though that's a different dynamic) - is under pressure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 12:41 PM (t0OGg)

252 "Ronna Romney says it's her last time as RNC chair. "

Right. Because after a Commie sweep in '24 we probably wont even have fake elections.

Posted by: Fool Otto at January 30, 2023 12:42 PM (DB16e)

253 So new entities springing up to meet a demand (transport and purchase of Russian oil at near-world prices) is perfectly normal

Of course. I can't imagine why economic geniuses like Janet Yellen thought for one second that their scheme would work.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 30, 2023 12:42 PM (2tUFv)

254 Hunter didn't like that division of labor.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 30, 2023 12:40 PM (2tUFv)

But he did like Beau's wife, so...revenge is a dish best served MILF.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:42 PM (XvPQV)

255 Biden is going to run. He might lose Iowa, but he'll run away with NH and especially SC. He's the front runner until he drops dead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:40 PM

Or he drops a load during the debates.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2023 12:42 PM (uNylN)

256
A friend coaches for a local community college basketball team. We went to a game recently. At halftime, the cheerleaders put on a little show. Front and center is a dude in a skirt who looks almost exactly like that Brian Nguyen guy who won "Miss Greater Derry."

https://bit.ly/3YbF8aH
Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2023 12:38 PM (eyxn4)

That's disgusting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)

257 218 So - watch experts, if one were to buy a watch as a gift for a male, a Seiko 5 would make a nice gift?
Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 12:37 PM (o+IHV)
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Watches are tough gifts because the style preferences are so personal. What one person likes, another doesn't. I would only go with a watch if I was reasonably sure that I knew what style/functionality the giftee liked.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 30, 2023 12:42 PM (iFTx/)

258 >>> 175 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 12:25 PM (eYoxG)

There's a big difference between allowing someone to have to face the natural consequences of their actions and punishing them for obeying your directives. The latter is what appears to be transpiring, and what I am talking about.
Posted by: God - a dysfunctional abusive father? at January 30, 2023 12:30 PM (UKe2c)

Or maybe you're just an argumentative dumbass who can't logic you way out of a wet paper bag. How is someone doing the right thing, who is then fcked over by a random asshoe, being "punished" by ANYONE else other than said random asshoe? If some loser punk steals your car will you blame "society" because the thief was "disadvantaged"?

Do you know what "free will" is dipshit? Do you understand everyone has it?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2023 12:42 PM (llON8)

259 Of course. I can't imagine why economic geniuses like Janet Yellen thought for one second that their scheme would work.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 30, 2023 12:42 PM (2tUFv)

Depends on what you think the plan is.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 12:43 PM (zZu0s)

260 BREAKING NEWS:

Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC · 18h
America’s First Lady is Dr. Jill Biden.

[Yep; that's the entire twatt -- no photo context or the like at all.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 12:43 PM (Vwz3I)

261 242. Then we'll agree to disagree. Ukes know that US pols are greedy, dirty, and very compromised, and it's cost us billions. Yeah, the military contractors want money, but this level of involvement in Ukraine doesn't even seem logical.

Posted by: CN at January 30, 2023 12:43 PM (Zzbjj)

262 Tissot PRX 35mm
Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 12:39 PM (gmo/4)
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Also a very nice watch. Different class from most of the Seiko 5s, though.

The Seiko 5 is probably the best value in automatic watches, especially given their quality. They come from cheap to nice (in terms of the jewelry aspect of a men's watch). The Tissot is a bit higher-end.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 12:43 PM (t0OGg)

263 OT:

I'm 350 pages into writing a book, and I realize that I hate (HATE) all of my character names. Like, they're total trash.

Oh well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:43 PM (LvTSG)

264 245 Whoa. '...almost as big and expensive..."? How many guns have you lost in that canoe accident?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 30, 2023 12:39 PM (/iWhV)

Here is my FG-42 collection organized by day of the week, mood and color scheme.
Posted by: Not really MAE at January 30, 2023 12:40 PM (zZu0s)

I have a problem. But it's not that big a problem.

I do have different pistols for different pairs of pants though, which is almost as bad.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:43 PM (XvPQV)

265 Pritzger is fat and won't appeal to Dem Women. Newsom has that JFK look. He's even an adulterer .

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:44 PM (Y+l9t)

266 254 Hunter didn't like that division of labor.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 30, 2023 12:40 PM (2tUFv)

But he did like Beau's wife, so...revenge is a dish best served MILF.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:42 PM (XvPQV)

Freud would have had a field day analyzing Hunter. That family's dynamic is as complicated as a Shakespearean tragedy. Except for the fact that they keep debauching upwards, of course.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 30, 2023 12:44 PM (/iWhV)

267 263 OT:

I'm 350 pages into writing a book, and I realize that I hate (HATE) all of my character names. Like, they're total trash.

Oh well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:43 PM (LvTSG)

Better than hating the characters themselves.

Renaming an option?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:44 PM (XvPQV)

268 > One of my friends is a huge watch hound. Huge. Like almost as big and as expensive as my gun collection. I'm a little envious, I would really, really love a good Rolex. But I can't justify dropping 10k on a watch.

My Dad had a gorgeous blue and gold Rolex Submariner. Absolutely stunning watch that can't keep time worth a damn. That thing lost like ten seconds per day.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2023 12:44 PM (eyxn4)

269 Re: gift

The Seiko 5 is a great little mechanical watch for day to day use and would be a great gift. They make a number of styles, too.

I am sort of fascinated by the atomic watches Citizen/Seiko offer. $400 or so

https://a.co/d/g80qOHt

Posted by: You have to admit it's an awesome way to kick off Black People Month at January 30, 2023 12:44 PM (vuQMF)

270 I have a problem. But it's not that big a problem.

I do have different pistols for different pairs of pants though, which is almost as bad.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:43 PM (XvPQV)
***

Well, when you have to accessorize, best to do it right.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 12:44 PM (anj39)

271 267 Better than hating the characters themselves.

Renaming an option?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:44 PM (XvPQV)

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Easily.

But, seriously, what was I thinking when I thought "Billy Love" was good for anything other than a 90s pornstar?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:44 PM (LvTSG)

272 Posted by: God - a dysfunctional abusive father?

No; God is not. Was your father one?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2023 12:45 PM (D+F6R)

273 Pritzger is fat and won't appeal to Dem Women. Newsom has that JFK look. He's even an adulterer .
==
*Sploosh*

Bad Boy!!!!!

Posted by: Karens all across the nation at January 30, 2023 12:45 PM (tvCu2)

274 I have a problem. But it's not that big a problem.

I do have different pistols for different pairs of pants though, which is almost as bad.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:43 PM (XvPQV)

NRM: Is this Desert Eagle a better slimming choice?

NRM's wife: Be happy with who you are, wear the 1911.

Posted by: Not really MAE at January 30, 2023 12:45 PM (zZu0s)

275 The Problem of Evil was used to support Dualist views (two separate Evil and Good Gods).

Augustine's "On Free Choice of the Will" addresses the arguments and is foundational in western philosophy on the topic if you've got some curiosity about it.

Quite obviously the Problem of Evil does not support Atheist views as for them it becomes "the Problem of things I dislike". Problem of Evil starts by acknowledging the existence of objective evil and good.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 12:46 PM (eYoxG)

276 Elizabeth Hurley was Satan, not the girlfriend.

In some ways, actually most ways, I prefer the remake to the original.

Both good though.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 30, 2023 12:40 PM (KLPy

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Watched "Nobody" yesterday -- enjoyed it (biased as a big fan of Bob Odenkirk) requiring massive amounts of suspension of disbelief, as in most such movies.

Anyway, Connie Nielsen sure looked good for being in her late 50s. Brought back memories of her nude, as a Satanic figure with a heavenly figure, in The Devil's Advocate.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 30, 2023 12:46 PM (+syVm)

277 Were Caroline and Ashley close?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 30, 2023 12:46 PM (oQbRJ)

278 241 I have my Dad's two Vulcain Cricket watches. My first memories of life are fetching him a cold Hamm's and sitting in his lap looking at those watches and getting the first hit off the cold beer. They are supposed to be worth big money now.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 12:40 PM (tiR3O)

Some are. My old Vulcain was my dad's Cricket, too. It still runs beautifully and on a leather band it does not look too "manly" for me to wear.

Posted by: CN at January 30, 2023 12:46 PM (Zzbjj)

279 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:43 PM (LvTSG)

Probably why the Search and Replace function was invented.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 30, 2023 12:46 PM (nC+QA)

280 Easily.

But, seriously, what was I thinking when I thought "Billy Love" was good for anything other than a 90s pornstar?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:44 PM (LvTSG)

Or a Nutty Professor analogue on a bad 90's sitcom.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 12:47 PM (zZu0s)

281 Wife bought me a Citizen ecodrive watch. It was expensive....it was garbage.

---------------------------

My wife and I both have Ecodrives and we love them. I got sick of having to take watches to jewelers every year for battery replacements. My Eco has run perfectly for over 10 years without spending a dime on it.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 30, 2023 12:47 PM (UjTyT)

282 Well, my work here is done - I have ordered a gift that will be appreciated - thanks for your help! Now to do some work at work.

Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 12:47 PM (o+IHV)

283
I'm 350 pages into writing a book, and I realize that I hate (HATE) all of my character names. Like, they're total trash.

Oh well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:43 PM (LvTSG)

D'Lavonte peaked around the corner in time to see D'Brickashaw running away with his girlfriend AND dog, La'vonte.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:47 PM (Zz0t1)

284 The biggest scandal of the "missing Clinton emails" was not the 30,000 destroyed emails, but the obvious implications of a grossly unsecured server, carrying top level SOS emails for years.

I've heard many accounts from people like Nunez that her server was likely, actively hacked by any number of malign foreign actors.

The SOS, of course, is regularly in direct and indirect communication with POTUS, using the highest levels of intelligence, and discussing the most strategic levels of our foreign and military policy.

That is, the highest levels of WH, strategic policy (e.g. what we would do if so-and-so lobbed a nuke at an ally, or what we would not do), the readiness and strength of our forces, our real concerns, what we don't know about our adversaries, our "secret" commitments etc etc were likely all made known by our adversaries for years --through Hillary's server.

Hillary's unsecured server meant that the Chinese, Russians etc effectively had a seat at all our National Security Council meetings for her entire term of office. Worse than Kim Philby. But that was never even the story. Just "missing emails..."

Posted by: Zek at January 30, 2023 12:47 PM (5FPX4)

285 For something a little nicer, look at the "Orient" brand. They're made by the Epson part of Seiko-Epson and are extremely nice, very good (good at keeping time and being reliable) and quite affordable.
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+1 on the Orient. I was given a used one as a gift from a friend who found it at an estate sale, and it's a nice Sunday watch.

Posted by: You have to admit it's an awesome way to kick off Black People Month at January 30, 2023 12:47 PM (vuQMF)

286 Our Ecodrives were less than $100 each.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 30, 2023 12:47 PM (UjTyT)

287 279 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:43 PM (LvTSG)

Probably why the Search and Replace function was invented.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 30, 2023 12:46 PM (nC+QA)

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I've changed character names before (The Sharp Kid had a character I named Chuck until I realized that it was a 20th century invention and had to rename him Cort through the whole thing, find/replace being very useful). Mostly, I just question my own judgement at choosing some of these names to begin with.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:47 PM (LvTSG)

288 "Augustine's "On Free Choice of the Will""

Bookmarked. Thanks!

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 30, 2023 12:48 PM (24fqN)

289 263 OT:

I'm 350 pages into writing a book, and I realize that I hate (HATE) all of my character names. Like, they're total trash.

Oh well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Do what Stephen King does. Kill them in a pointless way that does nothing to move the plot and move on.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 30, 2023 12:48 PM (sAmhv)

290 Well, my work here is done - I have ordered a gift that will be appreciated - thanks for your help! Now to do some work at work.
-

You have to tell us, you know.

Posted by: You have to admit it's an awesome way to kick off Black People Month at January 30, 2023 12:48 PM (vuQMF)

291 283 D'Lavonte peaked around the corner in time to see D'Brickashaw running away with his girlfriend AND dog, La'vonte.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:47 PM (Zz0t1)

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How did you get a copy?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:48 PM (LvTSG)

292 Some doggeh fun that Ace might use on the Café thread:

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/
1619959342551412740

https://tinyurl.com/4yhwffv9

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 12:48 PM (Vwz3I)

293 Problem of Evil starts by acknowledging the existence of objective evil and good.
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*jams fingers in ears*

I'm not listening! I'm not listening! And you can't make me Dad!!!!

Posted by: arrested adolescence at January 30, 2023 12:48 PM (05iyj)

294 Pritzger is fat and won't appeal to Dem Women. Newsom has that JFK look. He's even an adulterer .
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:44 PM (Y+l9t)

"Fat SHAMER!!!!"

- - - Krispy Kreme Christie

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:48 PM (Zz0t1)

295 Watched "Nobody" yesterday -- enjoyed it (biased as a big fan of Bob Odenkirk) requiring massive amounts of suspension of disbelief, as in most such movies.

Anyway, Connie Nielsen sure looked good for being in her late 50s. Brought back memories of her nude, as a Satanic figure with a heavenly figure, in The Devil's Advocate.
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 30, 2023 12:46 PM (+syVm)

Nice call back ref. Even managed to work in Keanu.

-1 for the Al Pacino.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 12:48 PM (zZu0s)

296 Vitriol, anger and venom, oh my!

Posted by: Problem of evil is quite a problem at January 30, 2023 12:48 PM (UKe2c)

297 Joe M. this may be verging into a semantic squabble, but I'd say a regional pattern for something like this still just is part of a global bigger picture. Oil is one of the most homogenous rational global markets there is, and always was. Logistical, cartel, and technical factors aside. So Russian oil is probably mostly going to customers who were buying it before 2/24/22, or when not, those customers are substituting it for the oil they were buying then.

In any case, sanctions can have a place and effect on geopolitical or other conditions, but it's very case-dependent, success is rare. Countries that occupy a quarter of the planet's land mass and border a zillion other countries are not very good prospects to influence via sanctions.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 30, 2023 12:49 PM (OTzUX)

298 Puddleglum, you actually read a Stephen King book?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:49 PM (Y+l9t)

299 >>>Anyway, Connie Nielsen sure looked good for being in her late 50s. Brought back memories of her nude, as a Satanic figure with a heavenly figure, in The Devil's Advocate.
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus

She's still really sexy. Was fabulous in Gladiator.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 30, 2023 12:49 PM (VWp7G)

300 Wife bought me a Citizen ecodrive watch. It was expensive....it was garbage.

The 2nd hand was just a big stopwatch. If you ever used the stopwatch option, the reset would never put the hand back to zero. I sent it off twice and they never fixed it. ...
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)
++++
Ecodrive is more of a platform. There are about a quadrillion "Ecodrive" sub-models and wildly different feature distributions. Ecodrive itself is extremely reliable and works very well. Some specific configurations really do suck. I don't own any of them (I never found one I really liked well enough), but I have given one as a gift and used a bunch of them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 12:49 PM (t0OGg)

301
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How did you get a copy?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:48 PM (LvTSG)

Bob from NSA sent it to me as a joke.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)

302 OT:
I'm 350 pages into writing a book, and I realize that I hate (HATE) all of my character names. Like, they're total trash.
Oh well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:43 PM (LvTSG)
Better than hating the characters themselves.
Renaming an option?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:44 PM (XvPQV)

Renaming with a writing program's super easy.
Just sub the words.
May I suggest a few names:

Joe Goodheart
Carlsfog Loadenpants
Felicity Hawtass
Natas Backwardson

There. Those should get you started.
You're welcome!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 30, 2023 12:49 PM (KLPy8)

303 Sometimes one's life is an example to others to follow or avoid like the plague.

Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 12:49 PM (gmo/4)

304 Anyway, Connie Nielsen sure looked good for being in her late 50s.
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Ah yes, Wonder Woman's mom. I know everyone is nuts about Gal, but give me Connie all day long. Two if you've got them.

Posted by: You have to admit it's an awesome way to kick off Black People Month at January 30, 2023 12:49 PM (vuQMF)

305 Problem of Evil starts by acknowledging the existence of objective evil and good.
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This is an inherent problem with monotheism. It sets up a tyranny of the polemic and likely aids schizoid behavior. It is for this reason that the early Catholic Church started printing saints to soften the blow to a poyltheistic people.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 12:49 PM (tiR3O)

306 Republicans need a distraction at the SOTU to get Biden off his notes. Watch him flail around trying to wing it.
Popcorn time!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 12:49 PM (anj39)

307 They make fake history. Many serfs want fake history.
Why don't they just simplify the equation, stay home, watch TV.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at January 30, 2023 12:49 PM (/GJxV)

308 302 Renaming with a writing program's super easy.
Just sub the words.
May I suggest a few names:

Joe Goodheart
Carlsfog Loadenpants
Felicity Hawtass
Natas Backwardson

There. Those should get you started.
You're welcome!
Posted by: naturalfake at January 30, 2023 12:49 PM (KLPy

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*furiously scribbles notes*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:50 PM (LvTSG)

309 I've changed character names before (The Sharp Kid had a character I named Chuck until I realized that it was a 20th century invention and had to rename him Cort through the whole thing, find/replace being very useful). Mostly, I just question my own judgement at choosing some of these names to begin with.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:47 PM (LvTSG)

I wrote a novel where 3 major characters had names starting with J. A reader pointed it out and I ended up changing the names around. Brains are funny things and mine gets into a loop or something sometimes.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:50 PM (XvPQV)

310 The eff bee eye oughta' raid every member of congress. I'd be willing to bet good money every one of them is currently in possession of "classified" materials and those materials are not stored or handled properly.

The end game here is to make nothing classified so nobody can be held responsible.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Of course we have classified documents. We dpn't care! We are arrogant enough to believe the rules do not apply to us
All this fiasco was is a Get Trump! operation.

Posted by: Democrat Congresspeople at January 30, 2023 12:50 PM (Z32m1)

311 I'm 350 pages into writing a book, and I realize that I hate (HATE) all of my character names. Like, they're total trash.

Oh well.
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that's what "search and replace" is for.

Also, if Stephen Hunter can make a guy named "Bob Lee Swagger" a legit brand, names don't matter.

Posted by: arrested adolescence at January 30, 2023 12:50 PM (Ao75G)

312 Did you guys see that incident that happened in Las Vegas Metro? Some 60 year old dude went nuts and pointed a gun at another driver. When the police responded, he took a shot at them and they smoked him.

Guess where the 60 year old got the gun. Go on, guess.

He got the gun by yoinking it off of a motorcyclist sitting next to him in traffic who was open carrying.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2023 12:51 PM (eyxn4)

313 So going through a box of Army stuff I found a notebook I used in Desert Storm. It is from when we were planning the war. It is mostly doodles because the other staff officers were boring as hell. But I have realized that is enemy agents could get their hands on this, and give it to an enemy psychiatrist, they could figure out what my brain was saying as transcribed through the doodles.
I shall destroy the notebook immediately!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 12:24 PM (anj39)
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Grand Admiral Thrawn from Timothy's Zahn's Star Wars novels was a student of art. Thrawn swore you could truly understand the psychology of your enemy by analyzing their culture via art.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2023 12:51 PM (YIVH2)

314 Next thread should be a "provide TJM names for characters in his book" thread.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:51 PM (Zz0t1)

315 309 I wrote a novel where 3 major characters had names starting with J. A reader pointed it out and I ended up changing the names around. Brains are funny things and mine gets into a loop or something sometimes.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:50 PM (XvPQV)

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My mother complained that the main characters in Crystal Embers were George and Virginia and very similar sounding.

I kept it because I liked it, but it definitely wasn't intentional.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 12:51 PM (LvTSG)

316 302 Daneel Olivaw. Orlon, The First Of Energy. Tommy Udo.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 30, 2023 12:51 PM (24fqN)

317 304 Anyway, Connie Nielsen sure looked good for being in her late 50s.
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Ah yes, Wonder Woman's mom. I know everyone is nuts about Gal, but give me Connie all day long. Two if you've got them.
Posted by: You have to admit it's an awesome way to kick off Black People Month at January 30, 2023 12:49 PM (vuQMF)

Also in Soldier with Kurt Russell. An underrated gem.

With shitty special effects.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 12:51 PM (zZu0s)

318 I once toyed with the idea of writing a book where every character’s name was the scientific name of an organism.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2023 12:51 PM (pBUtp)

319 MAE knows, suit the pistol to the suit and the suit to the occasion/season.

Posted by: Eromero at January 30, 2023 12:51 PM (0OP+5)

320 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: that guy that always thinks nothing will happen at January 30, 2023 12:52 PM (yQpMk)

321 319 MAE knows, suit the pistol to the suit and the suit to the occasion/season.
Posted by: Eromero at January 30, 2023 12:51 PM (0OP+5)

*nods*

Also be sure to train with your carry choices.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 12:52 PM (XvPQV)

322 I guessed right..

Posted by: humphreyrobot at January 30, 2023 12:52 PM (/GJxV)

323 Yes, Dem women are total hypocrites. It is okay for them to be fat but they still lust after the "bad boy" rich guy. This is why they loved 50 Shades of Grey. Like having your cake and eating too. They can be totally self righteous about racism and equity etc and still vote for a Newsom.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:52 PM (Y+l9t)

324 >>> 275 The Problem of Evil was used to support Dualist views (two separate Evil and Good Gods).

Augustine's "On Free Choice of the Will" addresses the arguments and is foundational in western philosophy on the topic if you've got some curiosity about it.

Quite obviously the Problem of Evil does not support Atheist views as for them it becomes "the Problem of things I dislike". Problem of Evil starts by acknowledging the existence of objective evil and good.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 12:46 PM (eYoxG)

I am hardly the most knowledgeable on the topic myself, but this seems to me at least one of the easier questions to answer. (It's probably a personal issue...)

Got any recommendations for the "equal pay" concept - the guy hired at the end of the day gets the same reward - which I thought was meant to explain that even the most evil people could repent at the last minute and still escape Stan with (apparently) zero consequences?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2023 12:52 PM (llON8)

325 298 Puddleglum, you actually read a Stephen King book?
Posted by: Sharon
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Yes. A bunch of them though this was in the 90s while in the USAF.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 30, 2023 12:52 PM (sAmhv)

326 305 Problem of Evil starts by acknowledging the existence of objective evil and good.
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This is an inherent problem with monotheism. It sets up a tyranny of the polemic and likely aids schizoid behavior. It is for this reason that the early Catholic Church started printing saints to soften the blow to a poyltheistic people.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 12:49 PM (tiR3O)

The early Church faced a competing Dualist movement called Manichaeism which argued for there being an Evil and a Good God.

Aside from refutations of criticism of Christianity that have been made, Dualism faces its own issues in that it would seem unlikely our world would be so stable if an Evil and Good God were locked in mortal combat. Something more like Warhammer40k or an apocalpytic setting would then be more plausible.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 12:53 PM (eYoxG)

327 283 D'Lavonte peaked around the corner in time to see D'Brickashaw running away with his girlfriend AND dog, La'vonte.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:47 PM (Zz0t1)

They were going to the crib to chill with Barktavious.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 30, 2023 12:53 PM (+Wcyp)

328 Oh no. We are not going to get into Objective Truth again, are we?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 12:53 PM (zZu0s)

329 261 242. Then we'll agree to disagree. Ukes know that US pols are greedy, dirty, and very compromised, and it's cost us billions. Yeah, the military contractors want money, but this level of involvement in Ukraine doesn't even seem logical.
Posted by: CN
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Think back on why the career military, pols, and contractors wanted us to stay in backwaters like Afghanistan or Syria or did not want us to leave Vietnam. Essentially, we have been blowing away about 50-70 billion bucks per year on 'contingency' operations that were not in the regular defense budgets. Think about how few, even on the left, politicians demand peace and disengagement. Same for media. Ditto for career military officers or places like Rand or Brookings.

It is not just the pols involved in Ukraine but a big chunk of our elites in media, think tanks, bureaucracy, and the military. Note how the military is reacting to a potential nuclear war threat in a conflict with Russia or China is versus their plaintive wails in public and Congress over leaving Afghanistan or Syria during the Trump years.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2023 12:53 PM (YL0ac)

330 Dickens had the best character names ever.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2023 12:53 PM (pBUtp)

331 transcribed through the doodles.
I shall destroy the notebook immediately!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 12:24 PM (anj39)

Why am I getting a mental picture of Flounder from Animal House doodling in his notebook during lecture?

Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 12:54 PM (gmo/4)

332 6 I'm sticking with my theory: the WH bypassed the DOJ and ordered the FBI to raid Trump in hopes of embarrassing him. When it went south, they made Garland go out and eat a bowl of shit. His revenge is to have the DOJ tell every other former elected official, "we know that you have classified docs. Turn them back over." Hence why suddenly people have lawyers searching through closets and storage boxes.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 30, 2023 12:03 PM (wmDcS)

Remember when Wray /spit/ had to leave a Senate hearing to catch a plane? Dick Turdbin gave his permission over Republican objections. Turned out Wray was rushing out to get on the FBI executive plane to go to his resort home in the Adirondacks.

This happened on the Friday before the Monday morning raid on Mar-a-lago. Coincidence? Was Wray hosting a face-to-face, not secure telephone, meeting with White House staffers and the Miami FBI honchos to finalize the plan for the raid?

Posted by: Tin-foil Gref at January 30, 2023 12:54 PM (AMIL/)

333 > Puddleglum, you actually read a Stephen King book?

Is that not normal? Haven't most of us read at least one Stephen King book?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2023 12:54 PM (eyxn4)

334 Renaming characters? Open up a vintage movie, take a look at the names of the crew, and grab one or grab a first name from, say, the art director and a last name from the dialogue coach.

Of course it'd be hard to beat a name like "Otho Lovering" (a real person, by the way).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 12:55 PM (J2vNu)

335 330 David Leadenfield. Oliver Stiff.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 30, 2023 12:55 PM (24fqN)

336 >>> 296 Vitriol, anger and venom, oh my!
Posted by: Problem of evil is quite a problem at January 30, 2023 12:48 PM (UKe2c)

Thanks for confirming you're nothing but a whiny, shit-stirring asshoe. Now go back to licking Stan's ass.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2023 12:55 PM (llON8)

337 Got any recommendations for the "equal pay" concept - the guy hired at the end of the day gets the same reward - which I thought was meant to explain that even the most evil people could repent at the last minute and still escape Stan with (apparently) zero consequences?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2023 12:52 PM (llON

So within the NT there are verses that imply different levels of rewards. Such as in the prodigal son, the brother who complains is reminded that he is the foremost heir, or
"If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames."

Theologically, Catholics acknowledge the existence of hierarchy and differences in the degrees of rewards. So Catholic sources on the topic address this quite directly in their framework.

There may be Protestant or Reformed sects that do as well, I can't claim broad knowledge there.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 12:55 PM (eYoxG)

338 You have to tell us, you know.

I do!

ok

OLEVS Green Men's Automatic Mechanical Watches Luxury Dress Waterproof Self Winding Moon Phase Chronograph Stainless Steel Luminous Date Tourbillon Wristwatch for Men

Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 12:55 PM (o+IHV)

339 Handwaving, strawmen and childish insults don't eliminate the tension between positing an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, good, just, and righteous God, and the utter horror that is existence for so many people over the course of human history. One can accept notions of objective evil and objective good that can be measured against some form of standard, while acknowledging that the whole depraved shitshow out there stands in some degree of tension with the common portrayal of and widely held beliefs about the nature of God.

Posted by: If it was such an easy deal, theodicy never would have arisen as a discipline at January 30, 2023 12:55 PM (UKe2c)

340 >>>>Countries that occupy a quarter of the planet's land mass and border a zillion other countries are not very good prospects to influence via sanctions.
Posted by: rhomboid
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We could sanction Russia's computer chips.
hahahahahahahahahah

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 30, 2023 12:56 PM (oQbRJ)

341 The early Church faced a competing Dualist movement called Manichaeism which argued for there being an Evil and a Good God.
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Yes, I know. A whole lot of the Bible shows Zoroastrian tells. The trinity for a Zoroastrian was the uncreated god and the two created gods. But note, there was an uncreated god that did the creating.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 12:56 PM (tiR3O)

342 Watched "Nobody" yesterday -- enjoyed it (biased as a big fan of Bob Odenkirk) requiring massive amounts of suspension of disbelief, as in most such movies.

Good movie. Christopher Lloyd gunning people down was awesome.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 12:56 PM (ZGrMX)

343 The Seiko 5 is a fantastic little watch

I don't know what the '5' signifies but I'm on my third Seiko since high school (spoiler: I'm not really 29). I think I have spent less $$ on watches in my entire life than I spent on the one Movado I gave my son for Christmas a few years ago. Seiko is kinda like the Toyota Camry of watches. Not flashy, not gonna impress anyone, just keep working well with minimal maintenance until you're tired of looking at it.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 30, 2023 12:56 PM (nfrXX)

344 I still say the Taliban took down the Extortion 17 Chinook as a result of a leak from the Obama White House.

These revelations about Sloppy Joe's handwritten notes only reinforces my belief.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 30, 2023 12:56 PM (lf83v)

345 I took my rifle out this weekend and gave my new Geissele trigger a whirl. What a fantastic upgrade! The difference between the stock milspec trigger and the Geissele is night and day.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2023 12:56 PM (eyxn4)

346 Yes, Dem women are total hypocrites. It is okay for them to be fat but they still lust after the "bad boy" rich guy. This is why they loved 50 Shades of Grey. Like having your cake and eating too. They can be totally self righteous about racism and equity etc and still vote for a Newsom.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:52 PM (Y+l9t)

I saw on the interwebz, FWIW, that less than 1% of American men are 6' or taller and also make more than $70k a year.

The pool of guys these girls are dreaming they can get is pretty limited.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 30, 2023 12:57 PM (yQpMk)

347 which I thought was meant to explain that even the most evil people could repent at the last minute and still escape Stan with (apparently) zero consequences?
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Its a pass fail class, and the only exam is at the end. the point is -- did you get the point before you ran out of time? Its not graded on a curve.

Posted by: The good thief at January 30, 2023 12:57 PM (nSS0D)

348 Never read Stephen King but don't like Horror genre and now I wouldn't read anything he wrote on principle.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 12:57 PM (Y+l9t)

349 Dickens had the best character names ever.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2023

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True. The sound of the name, sometimes the look of it on the page, or both, almost always matched the character. Ebenezer Scrooge, Sairey Gamp, Caddie, Esther Summerson, Lady Dedlock, Mr. Micawber, Inspector Bucket.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 12:58 PM (J2vNu)

350 [iThat is, the highest levels of WH, strategic policy (e.g. what we would do if so-and-so lobbed a nuke at an ally, or what we would not do), the readiness and strength of our forces, our real concerns, what we don't know about our adversaries, our "secret" commitments etc etc were likely all made known by our adversaries for years --through Hillary's server.

Hillary's unsecured server meant that the Chinese, Russians etc effectively had a seat at all our National Security Council meetings for her entire term of office. Worse than Kim Philby. But that was never even the story. Just "missing emails..."
Posted by: Zek at January 30, 2023 12:47 PM (5FPX4)

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It was not just Russia and China. My bet is everybody had all the emails, including out putative allies like Britain, France, Israel, and Germany.

Imagine how many of our assets got snuffed after their counter intelligence people said, "How did they know that detail?"

Posted by: rd at January 30, 2023 12:58 PM (Z32m1)

351 Note how the military is reacting to a potential nuclear war threat in a conflict with Russia or China

I don't pay real close attention - but would the right descriptive word be "salivating"?

Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 12:58 PM (o+IHV)

352 Just remember, Hillary Clinton had thousands of classified documents on her private server for years, smashed phones, destroyed evidence, but no reasonable prosecutor.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 30, 2023 12:58 PM (cMXNt)

353 My two cents:

Most of this stuff has nothing to do with security, but about preserving the historical record. I am sure biden did not mishandle documents any worse than 100 other top officials in DC. They all have notes and shit.

This is about something else. What?
- Taking him out now that 2 years are up? factions aligned against him?
- IC protecting its reputation by going through motions?
- There is some real smoking gun under investigation?
- TPTB needing a scapegoat for the disasters he oversaw?
- Real Russian influence since he is playing tough guy with his patron.

what other options?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 30, 2023 12:58 PM (+UUvE)

354 Dickens had the best character names ever.
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And the best Cider.

On those cold London nights, you just want a Dickens Cider

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 30, 2023 12:59 PM (lf83v)

355 Just spell all of your character's names as Coach from that Key and Peele skit would say them.

winning formula.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)

356 I saw on the interwebz, FWIW, that less than 1% of American men are 6' or taller and also make more than $70k a year.
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Imma a one percenter. Fuck yeah.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 12:59 PM (tiR3O)

357 Hugh Janus
Ivan Bitchurcokov
Mike Hunt

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 12:59 PM (anj39)

358
Was Lunchbucket Joe jotting down classified information into his notebooks to relay to Hunter, thereby increasing Hunter's value to foreign gangsters and potentates?

Or possibly disguising the source of the material by re-writing to avoid a canary trap. But frankly, I rate this as doubtful, because it would require a better-than-average grasp of the English language, and Bai-Den has given no indication that he can write at even a 6th grade level.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 30, 2023 12:59 PM (n+4am)

359 Bacillus. James Bacillus.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 01:00 PM (Vwz3I)

360 >>>On those cold London nights, you just want a Dickens Cider
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot

Or just a Dickens.

Posted by: Eric Swallowell at January 30, 2023 01:00 PM (VWp7G)

361 saw on the interwebz, FWIW, that less than 1% of American men are 6' or taller and also make more than $70k a year.

The pool of guys these girls are dreaming they can get is pretty limited.

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I think you made my point. Vote Newsom. He's dreamy. Remember how they all claimed they would wear knee pads for Clinton.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 01:00 PM (Y+l9t)

362 Never read Stephen King but don't like Horror genre and now I wouldn't read anything he wrote on principle.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023

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Sharon, he didn't write only horror. The movies Stand By Me and Shawshank Redemption are faithful to his original novelettes. Not a creepy-crawly in either one. And you don't have to give him any money; just about all his works can be had from the library. Those 2 novelettes are in a collection called Different Seasons from 1982 or so.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 01:00 PM (J2vNu)

363 352 Just remember, Hillary Clinton had thousands of classified documents on her private server for years, smashed phones, destroyed evidence, but no reasonable prosecutor.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 30, 2023 12:58 PM (cMXNt)

IIRC the FBI helped her and one of her assistants smash their hard drives. Two tier justice is a tradition.

Posted by: CN at January 30, 2023 01:01 PM (Zzbjj)

364 Theologically, Catholics acknowledge the existence of hierarchy and differences in the degrees of rewards. So Catholic sources on the topic address this quite directly in their framework.

There may be Protestant or Reformed sects that do as well, I can't claim broad knowledge there.

1 Corinthians 15:40-41
"There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory."

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2023 01:01 PM (eyxn4)

365 Yes, I know. A whole lot of the Bible shows Zoroastrian tells. The trinity for a Zoroastrian was the uncreated god and the two created gods. But note, there was an uncreated god that did the creating.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 12:56 PM (tiR3O)

That is fascinating. Almost gets to the Trinity though orthodox Christian theology teaches that all parts of the Trinity are indivisible and without beginning. Interesting stuff.

Posted by: If they were Mexican they could be Zorroastrians at January 30, 2023 01:01 PM (UKe2c)

366 Got any recommendations for the "equal pay" concept - the guy hired at the end of the day gets the same reward - which I thought was meant to explain that even the most evil people could repent at the last minute and still escape Stan with (apparently) zero consequences?
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I don't know how heaven or God works, but it's my understanding that there are different rewards after the big one. Recompense according to deeds iirc. Salvation and reward isn't the same, although yeah, salvation is awesome and not something you can do.

Posted by: You have to admit it's an awesome way to kick off Black People Month at January 30, 2023 01:02 PM (vuQMF)

367 Deployed in some crappy country, working 12 hour shifts, and there are a bunch of SK books around. Sure, I'll read them. He was hit and miss for the most part. His short stories were pretty good.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 30, 2023 01:02 PM (sAmhv)

368 It could be that these classified documents never did make it to the SCIF in the first place. Joe just thought, "hey, this is marketable stuff. I'll just stuff it in my pants and give it to Hunter!"

Posted by: Ultra pj at January 30, 2023 01:02 PM (G1dq6)

369 My son, the rock star, is now involved with the daughter of members of the group 'The Breeders.' Does anyone remember The Breeders?

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 01:02 PM (tiR3O)

370 Dickens had the best character names ever.
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and the best characterizations as far as I am concerned.

His "characters" do act in character. With a notable dramatic exception or two.

Posted by: Dick Swiveller at January 30, 2023 01:03 PM (ZO0JH)

371 > FWIW, that less than 1% of American men are 6' or taller and also make more than $70k a year.

Woooo! I'm in the top 1%, baby!

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2023 01:03 PM (eyxn4)

372 345 I took my rifle out this weekend and gave my new Geissele trigger a whirl. What a fantastic upgrade! The difference between the stock milspec trigger and the Geissele is night and day.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2023 12:56 PM (eyxn4)

#Truth
There are some great cheaper triggers out there but Geissele are special.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 01:03 PM (XvPQV)

373 That is fascinating. Almost gets to the Trinity though orthodox Christian theology teaches that all parts of the Trinity are indivisible and without beginning. Interesting stuff.
Posted by: If they were Mexican they could be Zorroastrians at January 30, 2023 01:01 PM (UKe2c)

The Church went through the whole Arian-Nicaean thing about 1700 years ago.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 01:03 PM (zZu0s)

374 Deployed in some crappy country, working 12 hour shifts, and there are a bunch of SK books around. Sure, I'll read them. He was hit and miss for the most part. His short stories were pretty good.
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 30, 2023 01:02 PM (sAmhv)
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I'd rather rewrite an Analysis of the Terrain annex than read SK.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 01:03 PM (anj39)

375 1. The insurance system will fracture, and national players are going to hammer out the details and it will get very confusing and terribly expensive but still function
2. Russian exports (by sea, anyway) will essentially end
Place your bets. My bet is that this is sort of what the earlier stages of a breakup of globalization looks like.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 12:23 PM (t0OGg)

My bet is self insuring by the companies along the lines Lloyd's used to do in the 18th century, with individual investors buying both part of the risk and a share of the profit

Side bet in some sort of crypto or a Bitcoin version being the instrument for funds transfer to simplify the banking transfer. I would think an NFT would be ideal for this application.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2023 01:04 PM (xhaym)

376 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 12:46 PM (eYoxG)

Posted by: The good thief at January 30, 2023 12:57 PM (nSS0D)

Thanks.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2023 01:04 PM (llON8)

377 OLEVS Green Men's Automatic Mechanical Watches Luxury Dress Waterproof Self Winding Moon Phase Chronograph Stainless Steel Luminous Date Tourbillon Wristwatch for Men
Posted by: AK

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Ooooooh

Posted by: You have to admit it's an awesome way to kick off Black People Month at January 30, 2023 01:04 PM (vuQMF)

378 369 My son, the rock star, is now involved with the daughter of members of the group 'The Breeders.' Does anyone remember The Breeders?
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 01:02 PM (tiR3O)

Kim Deal's band after she left Pixies. Twin sister died of a heroin OD IIRC.

Posted by: I 'member at January 30, 2023 01:04 PM (UKe2c)

379 I will just be happy to not wake up in the Mayan afterlife, where everyone that isn't a royal is gnawed by unseen demons in the dark forever.

You can see why converting to Catholicism was reasonably popular to the peasants.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 30, 2023 01:05 PM (yQpMk)

380 365 Yes, I know. A whole lot of the Bible shows Zoroastrian tells. The trinity for a Zoroastrian was the uncreated god and the two created gods. But note, there was an uncreated god that did the creating.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 12:56 PM (tiR3O)

That is fascinating. Almost gets to the Trinity though orthodox Christian theology teaches that all parts of the Trinity are indivisible and without beginning. Interesting stuff.
Posted by: If they were Mexican they could be Zorroastrians at January 30, 2023 01:01 PM (UKe2c)

The problem with similarity=origination is religions have similarities across wide distances with no plausible grounds for connections.

Fish symbolism for instance. Theology and language in early Christianity could be resembles both Confucian and Taoist elements. Confucius is practically Abrahamic in his theology. Taoism likewise speaks of "The Way" and speaks of an eternal and transcendent void.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 01:05 PM (eYoxG)

381 369 My son, the rock star, is now involved with the daughter of members of the group 'The Breeders.' Does anyone remember The Breeders?
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 01:02 PM (tiR3O)

Is he a real cuckoo? (Maybe wrong lyric. Never really knew what it was.)

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 30, 2023 01:05 PM (KbCG3)

382 OLEVS Green Men's Automatic Mechanical Watches Luxury Dress Waterproof Self Winding Moon Phase Chronograph Stainless Steel Luminous Date Tourbillon Wristwatch for Men
Posted by: AK

Damn!
Write a jingle for that!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 01:05 PM (anj39)

383 369 My son, the rock star, is now involved with the daughter of members of the group 'The Breeders.' Does anyone remember The Breeders?
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 01:02 PM (tiR3O)

Vaguely...early Grunge band? Some chicks in the band, dunno if they were Riot Grrrls or not...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 01:05 PM (XvPQV)

384 After Hunter Biden busted a nut on the underage Russian prostitute, he wiped his dick on the SCIF.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 30, 2023 01:05 PM (Jg7EG)

385 378 369 My son, the rock star, is now involved with the daughter of members of the group 'The Breeders.' Does anyone remember The Breeders?
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 01:02 PM (tiR3O)

Kim Deal's band after she left Pixies. Twin sister died of a heroin OD IIRC.
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Yep. Deal is her last name.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 01:05 PM (tiR3O)

386 Deployed in some crappy country, working 12 hour shifts, and there are a bunch of SK books around. Sure, I'll read them. He was hit and miss for the most part. His short stories were pretty good.
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 30, 2023

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King also wrote more than a few that, if they were issued by anyone else, would have been called science fiction: The Dead Zone and Firestarter come to mind. Both very good tales. The Running Man (forget the Arnold movie) is another.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 01:05 PM (J2vNu)

387 369 My son, the rock star, is now involved with the daughter of members of the group 'The Breeders.' Does anyone remember The Breeders?
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 01:02 PM (tiR3O)

Loved Cannonball

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at January 30, 2023 01:06 PM (OgrpQ)

388 385 378 369 My son, the rock star, is now involved with the daughter of members of the group 'The Breeders.' Does anyone remember The Breeders?
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 01:02 PM (tiR3O)

Kim Deal's band after she left Pixies. Twin sister died of a heroin OD IIRC.
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Yep. Deal is her last name.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 01:05 PM (tiR3O)

Pretty sure Deal dated Cobain right before Courtney. Also pretty sure that Kim Deal is the reason Nirvana named it "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 30, 2023 01:06 PM (KbCG3)

389 Unfortunately, the writing career of Charles Snizzens never took off.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2023 01:07 PM (pBUtp)

390
The pool of guys these girls are dreaming they can get is pretty limited.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 30, 2023 12:57 PM (yQpMk)

It's a cultural thing. Boys are told "you will eat shit with a smile, forever, and count yourself lucky if anything good ever happens... No matter how hard you work, it likely won't. You suck."

Girls are told "you can expect everything to be perfect all the time, without regard to effort of any kind, because you are AWESOME

"

That leads to some fairly disjointed views of relationships (and most everything else).

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2023 01:07 PM (oINRc)

391 They performed an unending stream of rectal exams on Trump and anyone associated with him for the past six years -- with zero evidence of wrongdoing, and only malicious political hatred to drive it. And found nothing.

Meanwhile, Biden is up past his lifeless eyeballs in felonious intrigue, with a tapestry of criminal threads poking out in every direction, and the DOJ dares to take a brief looky-loo at his... diary?

Gimme a fucking break.

Posted by: red speck at January 30, 2023 01:07 PM (gS3OW)

392 I wonder if that corrupt old pervert would throw Hunter under the bus and if the deep state and FNM would go along with that and leave puppet Biden in place.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2023 01:07 PM (3cGpq)

393 Heh.

Harry Snizzens, Private Detective

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

394 Come on man! Everybody does it.

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 01:08 PM (2wU2R)

395 Is that not normal? Haven't most of us read at least one Stephen King book?
Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2023 12:54 PM (eyxn4)

Not a one...and I'm proud of that fact.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 30, 2023 01:08 PM (CCSxw)

396 It's a cultural thing. Boys are told "you will eat shit with a smile, forever, and count yourself lucky if anything good ever happens... No matter how hard you work, it likely won't. You suck."

Girls are told "you can expect everything to be perfect all the time, without regard to effort of any kind, because you are AWESOME "

That leads to some fairly disjointed views of relationships (and most everything else).
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2023 01:07 PM (oINRc)

That's pretty damn accurate.

Posted by: The old "girls rule, boys drool" on steroids and meth at January 30, 2023 01:09 PM (UKe2c)

397 343 The Seiko 5 is a fantastic little watch

I don't know what the '5' signifies but I'm on my third Seiko since high school (spoiler: I'm not really 29). I think I have spent less $$ on watches in my entire life than I spent on the one Movado I gave my son for Christmas a few years ago. Seiko is kinda like the Toyota Camry of watches. Not flashy, not gonna impress anyone, just keep working well with minimal maintenance until you're tired of looking at it.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 30, 2023 12:56 PM (nfrXX)

I have a couple of Maratac micro-brand watches from a place called County Comm that are fantastic. They use a Seiko automatic movement, and the designs are great, and (originally) less than $250 apiece. I guess they figured out what a great deal they were, because you now can't get them for less than $500. I have a dress watch, but these are my go-to watches for everyday use.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 30, 2023 01:09 PM (/iWhV)

398 I remember when TFG and Biden were being evacuated to a secure location and Biden was blabbing to reporters about some of the details of the process and locations that someone on staff then pointed out to him were classified but he kept blabbing about it. I recall him even inviting the reporters to come along or see it for themselves but my memory of the details is a bit hazy.

He has always been cavalier with classified stuff.

I think he thinks this makes him look "folksy" or something.

I think it makes him look like as ass.

Posted by: pawn at January 30, 2023 01:09 PM (kYVzH)

399 Posted by: AK

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Ooooooh

I looked over my options, thought about what he currently has, and made a choice. Obviously, I hope he likes it. He's a watch guy.

Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 01:10 PM (o+IHV)

400 Harry Snizzens, Private ~~Detective~~ Dick

Stacy Keach is ... Harry Snizzens, Private Dick

Coming this Fall to CBS.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 30, 2023 01:10 PM (yQpMk)

401 I've read SK more popular early stuff. They're readable and generally ok. He could never stay on point though. Drove me nuts. I really wanted to like Tommyknockers because I liked the premise. Alas, SK was drifting all over the place in the middle of the book.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 30, 2023 01:10 PM (sAmhv)

402 395 Is that not normal? Haven't most of us read at least one Stephen King book?
Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2023 12:54 PM (eyxn4)

I read one.. Pet Cemetery ...Nightmares are made from that book

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2023 01:10 PM (bs+z0)

403 Don't care. Too much I actually want to read to bother to search him out when I can't stand the sight of him. It's not like he is one of the greats one has to read to be erudite.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 01:10 PM (Y+l9t)

404 He has always been cavalier with classified stuff.

I think he thinks this makes him look "folksy" or something.

I think it makes him look like as ass.
Posted by: pawn at January 30, 2023 01:09 PM (kYVzH)

He was never particularly bright, even before the dementia.

Posted by: Joe Biden, shartest guy in the room at January 30, 2023 01:10 PM (UKe2c)

405 391 They performed an unending stream of rectal exams on Trump and anyone associated with him for the past six years -- with zero evidence of wrongdoing, and only malicious political hatred to drive it. And found nothing.

Meanwhile, Biden is up past his lifeless eyeballs in felonious intrigue, with a tapestry of criminal threads poking out in every direction, and the DOJ dares to take a brief looky-loo at his... diary?

Gimme a fucking break.

Posted by: red speck at January 30, 2023 01:07 PM (gS3OW)
+++++

If the parties involved were Donald and Don Jr., instead of Joe and Hunter, it would be as if a million ton hydrogen bomb went off. The internet would explode, the earth would stop rotating.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 30, 2023 01:10 PM (Klscz)

406 I once toyed with the idea of writing a book where every character’s name was the scientific name of an organism.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2023 12:51 PM (pBUtp)

David Drake wrote a fantasy short story where all the elves were named for psychiatric meds.
One of the main elf characters spent the whole time bitching about the army rations. "I mean they could have sent us Chicken Marengo for a start. It was CREATED on the field of battle!"

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2023 01:11 PM (xhaym)

407 Asking the FBI to search lol.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 30, 2023 01:11 PM (QRdjz)

408 Damn!
Write a jingle for that!

Paging Muldoon... Muldoon...

Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 01:11 PM (o+IHV)

409 Asking the FBI to search lol.

My thoughts exactly!

Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 01:12 PM (o+IHV)

410 Sam Snizz by Dashiell Hammett I think works better.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 01:12 PM (zZu0s)

411 A thousand noir authors prolly wishing they snagged name "Jack Ruby" before he took it.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 30, 2023 01:12 PM (24fqN)

412 Quarltak Deepsump, Plumber of the Lesser Classes.

Posted by: Eromero at January 30, 2023 01:12 PM (0OP+5)

413 AT LEAST WEEKLY, the National Archives adds/rorganizes information regarding, in particular, Presidential Records and related Acts. Also noticed info. re: (Congressional) Presidential Transition & improvement Acts gets presented in different ways. Fascinating & lots of work involved.

The Bs do as they do there's such a huge array of supporters: governmental, legal, industrial, union, nonprofit, even religious.

H has his 'problems' but look where he is & has been: Counsel to Boies, Schiller, Flexner, LLP, a national law firm based in NY; Managing Partner at Rosemont Seneca Partners and Chairman at Rosemont Senaca Advisors. Adjunct Professor At Georgetown University's Masters Program in the School of Foreign Service. Chairman of the Board of World Food Program USA; Director on the non-profit boards of the Center for National Policy, the Truman National Security Project & the US Global Leadership Coalition. A member of the CSIS Executive Council on Development, the Chairman's Advisory Board for the National Democratic Institute, and the President's Advisory Board for Catholic Charities in D.C. & lots more.

MO, The Consigliere, for dad's love.

Posted by: Lola at January 30, 2023 01:13 PM (Wxlzw)

414 I saw Unending Stream of Rectal Exams open for the Butt-hole Surfers. Not a great show.

Posted by: Somethings you can't unsee at January 30, 2023 01:13 PM (59Qs1)

415 So did this post cover the Metabiota lab that Hunter was involved in or that the ever so Churchillian Zelensky ordered the documents about the lab to be destroyed?

Posted by: CN at January 30, 2023 01:13 PM (Zzbjj)

416 [Biden] has always been cavalier with classified stuff.

I think he thinks this makes him look "folksy" or something.

I think it makes him look like as ass.
Posted by: pawn at January 30, 2023

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He doesn't need much help with that. This morning I saw part of the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Biden, of course, was there. The only shot of him I saw was one where he looked like he was considering where to have lunch and how many martinis to toss down.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 01:13 PM (J2vNu)

417 If the parties involved were Donald and Don Jr., instead of Joe and Hunter, it would be as if a million ton hydrogen bomb went off. The internet would explode, the earth would stop rotating.
Posted by: washrivergal at January 30, 2023 01:10 PM (Klscz)
***

Yu can bet they are combing PDT's tax records to see who he does business with, and with indictments to follow.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 01:13 PM (anj39)

418 I saw Unending Stream of Rectal Exams open for the Butt-hole Surfers. Not a great show.
Posted by: Somethings you can't unsee at January 30, 2023

***
I'll bet that stunk

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 01:14 PM (J2vNu)

419 Sean Hannity is gonna have their asses for this one! This is the last straw!! Tick tock!!

Posted by: ccoffer at January 30, 2023 01:15 PM (NTqR2)

420 Posted by: G'rump928(c)

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I heard something during the Sugar Bowl I thought you might be interested in. IIRC it was the 3rd quarter and a holding call against Kansas State was called.

With Will Anderson, the top defensive player in all of college football, playing defense for Bama all season, it was only the second (2nd) holding call against an Alabama opponent, and it occurred in 3rd quarter of a post-season bowl game.

Imagine how well coached the other teams must have been to accomplish that.

Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at January 30, 2023 01:15 PM (em09h)

421 Did Biden publicly out the names of the Seal team that took out Bin Laden or is my memory faulty?

Posted by: N.Lurker at January 30, 2023 01:15 PM (eGTCV)

422 I had a character named Mortimer Snerdlapper in one of my unsuccessful attempts at children's writing (Kind of like Chronicles of Narnia, except turrible)

My kids liked it, as did my wife. But it was not good.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at January 30, 2023 01:15 PM (UQUAY)

423 Rejected Wizard of Oz character names: Druscilla. Aluminum Boy. Feisty Housecat.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 30, 2023 01:16 PM (24fqN)

424 Man!

This is some wild stuff. I'd say that this kind of thing will certainly lead to some indictments and the Biden's going to jail for a very long time!

We will finally see some justice.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 30, 2023 01:16 PM (Y30y6)

425 Currently 56 degrees outside with frigid weather coming in the next couple of days so I am headed out for a walk.
Have a good one.
BBL

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 30, 2023 01:17 PM (Y+l9t)

426 I've read SK more popular early stuff. They're readable and generally ok. He could never stay on point though. Drove me nuts. I really wanted to like Tommyknockers because I liked the premise. Alas, SK was drifting all over the place in the middle of the book.
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 30, 2023

***
I agree. Possibly that was during the worst of his drinking. The longer the book, the more likely he was, and is, to wander. HIs 2nd novel, Salem's Lot, was tight and compulsively readable, and I've mentioned several others that I think are fantastic. But I really can't recall much of his later and more recent output.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 01:17 PM (J2vNu)

427 Somebody, call him Mr Big, is afraid Biden has docs implicating Mr Big.

Posted by: davidt at January 30, 2023 01:17 PM (SYTee)

428 Lost my Seiko while loading first cutting square bales in the field. Next year, up in the country again to load hay, Pop pulls out this stainless thing and asks if it's mine.

My watch stayed in the field through two or three cuttings, was baled, sold to a rancher/farmer who later cracked a bale open, discovered a watch and returned it to the hay man who asked around if anyone had lost a watch.

It hadn't lost a minute of time.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 30, 2023 01:17 PM (oQbRJ)

429
We will finally see some justice.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 30, 2023 01:16 PM (Y30y6)

I'm assuming you forgot your Sarc tag

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2023 01:17 PM (bs+z0)

430 I would say Irresponsible is Biden's middle name, but it would be behind Corrupt, Plagiarizing and Girl-Sniffing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 30, 2023 01:17 PM (ynpvh)

431 >> FWIW, that less than 1% of American men are 6' or taller and also make more than $70k a year.

Proud to be a 1%er from 2000-2012

fat lot of good it does me now, but I was awesome for a while

Posted by: DB at January 30, 2023 01:17 PM (geLO8)

432 We will finally see some justice.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 30, 2023 01:16 PM (Y30y6)

I'm sure Garland will find a non-Biden fall guy, probably already dead, and from another country.

Posted by: CN at January 30, 2023 01:17 PM (Zzbjj)

433 429
We will finally see some justice.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 30, 2023 01:16 PM (Y30y6)

I'm assuming you forgot your Sarc tag

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2023 01:17 PM (bs+z0)

God knows we've seen plenty of "Just Us!" from the DOJ.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 30, 2023 01:18 PM (ynpvh)

434 So did this post cover the Metabiota lab that Hunter was involved in or that the ever so Churchillian Zelensky ordered the documents about the lab to be destroyed?

This post didn't cover it. Getting paid to grow some nasty virus, were they?

Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 01:18 PM (o+IHV)

435 432 We will finally see some justice.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 30, 2023 01:16 PM (Y30y6)

I'm sure Garland will find a non-Biden fall guy, probably already dead, and from another country.

Posted by: CN at January 30, 2023 01:17 PM (Zzbjj)

Suicide. Hillary can help.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 30, 2023 01:18 PM (ynpvh)

436 It's a cultural thing. Boys are told "you will eat shit with a smile, forever, and count yourself lucky if anything good ever happens... No matter how hard you work, it likely won't. You suck."

Girls are told "you can expect everything to be perfect all the time, without regard to effort of any kind, because you are AWESOME "

---

Well said.

Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at January 30, 2023 01:18 PM (em09h)

437 Lost my Seiko while loading first cutting square bales in the field. Next year, up in the country again to load hay, Pop pulls out this stainless thing and asks if it's mine.

My watch stayed in the field through two or three cuttings, was baled, sold to a rancher/farmer who later cracked a bale open, discovered a watch and returned it to the hay man who asked around if anyone had lost a watch.

It hadn't lost a minute of time.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 30, 2023 01:17 PM (oQbRJ)

Dang. That's worthy of a "takes a licking" kind of ad.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at January 30, 2023 01:18 PM (UQUAY)

438 FBI seized....sounds like the beginning of a cover up.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at January 30, 2023 01:18 PM (sI15f)

439 Everybody Wang Chung tonight.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 12:07 PM
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All Right!!!!!

Posted by: Pete "Chung" Bootygig at January 30, 2023 01:19 PM (2wU2R)

440 So Ace is still posting as Lamont? What's next, Freddie Prinz as Chico?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 01:19 PM (J2vNu)

441 Sure to be willowed:

Another loss

https://tinyurl.com/bdfk4hmu

Anyone who attended Indians games, from Municipal Stadium to the Jake knows this guy...and loves him.

The heart of Tribe fandom, after almost 50 years of "bangin' the drum" has gone to the big Teepee in the sky.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 30, 2023 01:19 PM (CCSxw)

442 Buzz Aldrin wore an off-the-shelf Omega on the moon

Posted by: DB at January 30, 2023 01:19 PM (geLO8)

443 Enjoy your walk Sharon!

Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 01:19 PM (o+IHV)

444 Girls are told "you can expect everything to be perfect all the time, without regard to effort of any kind, because you are AWESOME

They are?. I missed that..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2023 01:19 PM (D+F6R)

445 Imagine how well coached the other teams must have been to accomplish that.
Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at January 30, 2023 01:15 PM (em09h)

If I was a tackle defending against Anderson, I would be hanging on for dear life. The guy is a beast.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 30, 2023 01:19 PM (yQpMk)

446 No reasonable prosecutor....

Posted by: Director Wray later this week at January 30, 2023 01:19 PM (lc5cP)

447 >>>Biden's going to jail for a very long time!

We will finally see some justice.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
----------------------------

Take to aspirin and call Doc in the morning.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 30, 2023 01:19 PM (oQbRJ)

448 434 So did this post cover the Metabiota lab that Hunter was involved in or that the ever so Churchillian Zelensky ordered the documents about the lab to be destroyed?

This post didn't cover it. Getting paid to grow some nasty virus, were they?
Posted by: AK at work
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Apparently everyone is in on that game even domestically--Pfizer and Boston University were simply some of the more recent examples of gain of function research (yeah I know Pfizer's thin attempts at distinguishing controlled evolution vs. CRISPR gof.)

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2023 01:20 PM (YL0ac)

449 424 Man!

This is some wild stuff. I'd say that this kind of thing will certainly lead to some indictments and the Biden's going to jail for a very long time!

We will finally see some justice.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 30, 2023 01:16 PM (Y30y6)

Whatever you're smoking, quit bogarting that shit and pass it over!

Posted by: Puff puff give! Puff puff give! at January 30, 2023 01:20 PM (UKe2c)

450 Buzz Aldrin wore an off-the-shelf Omega on the moon
Posted by: DB at January 30, 2023

***
The famous Speedmaster chrono? I've always wanted one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 01:20 PM (J2vNu)

451 When you compose classified material, such as a notebook, there is a classification guide to determine the approriate markings.

If the Chinese know it: top secret
If we know the Chnese know it: secret
If the Chinese know that we know they know it: confidential

Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at January 30, 2023 01:20 PM (3AD8C)

452 It took Hemingway 2 years of drinking to come up with the character name for "Old Man and the Sea," then he blacked out and forgot to use it. (It was "Sid.")

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 30, 2023 01:20 PM (24fqN)

453 Nood...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 30, 2023 01:20 PM (CCSxw)

454 Man!

This is some wild stuff. I'd say that this kind of thing will certainly lead to some indictments and the Biden's going to jail for a very long time!

We will finally see some justice.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 30, 2023 01:16 PM (Y30y6)
***

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
breath
BWAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!
Oh stop it...You're killing me here.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 01:21 PM (anj39)

455 nood

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 30, 2023 01:21 PM (24fqN)

456 Noodus shadow army

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 01:21 PM (J2vNu)

457 The heart of Tribe fandom, after almost 50 years of "bangin' the drum" has gone to the big Teepee in the sky.
==
He'd been sick for a while. Not going to the games regularly. Hope they have a good season. We'll see. Ballysports is going tits up and will cost them and 13 other teams like 50 million each.

Posted by: Who wants to buy a regional sports channel at January 30, 2023 01:21 PM (XlSTM)

458
This post didn't cover it. Getting paid to grow some nasty virus, were they?
Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 01:18 PM (o+IHV)

I assume so, but I'm sure it's nothing, and that Zelensky is way too saintly to use the info to squeeze money out of the US Government.

Also some Congressman put forth a resolution to order up an expensive bust of ZDogg to display in the Capitol building.

Posted by: CN at January 30, 2023 01:21 PM (Zzbjj)

459 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 01:21 PM (zZu0s)

460 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January

You funny!

Braenyard, thanks for the watch story, gives me more confidence in my purchase.

Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 01:23 PM (o+IHV)

461 134. Chelsea Clinton's fil.

March 2001, Mezvinsky was indicted and later pleaded guilty to 31 of 69 felony charges of bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud.

Didn't get a pardon from Slick Willie, either.

Posted by: Lola at January 30, 2023 01:24 PM (Wxlzw)

462 If Lamont attempted to build shelving, would that qualify as a case of 'ghostbusters level crossing of the streams'?

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 30, 2023 01:24 PM (CecP5)

463 404 He has always been cavalier with classified stuff.

I think he thinks this makes him look "folksy" or something.

I think it makes him look like a guest of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Posted by: Fox2! at January 30, 2023 01:24 PM (RK6SY)

464 First American astronaut to walk in space, Ed White, wore an Omega Speedmaster on his spacewalk

https://tinyurl.com/ywznckz8

Posted by: DB at January 30, 2023 01:24 PM (geLO8)

465 444. Well there is certainly a good segment of society that has the mindset that a really beautiful woman can do no wrong and she can have the brass ring while doing bupkis to earn it. Perhaps the radical feminists have expanded that to every woman can expect that.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2023 01:24 PM (3cGpq)

466 Kim Deal's band after she left Pixies. Twin sister died of a heroin OD IIRC.
Posted by: I 'member at January 30, 2023 01:04 PM (UKe2c)

The twin sister is alive and active

Posted by: JoeF. at January 30, 2023 01:25 PM (mR6Gs)

467 and I get nooded

Posted by: DB at January 30, 2023 01:25 PM (geLO8)

468 Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 01:21 PM (anj39)

I'm glad your sense of humor is working because I find the mantra "Nothing is going to happen,. " kind (which is the intention of "Now we'll see justice/s kind of a bore at this point as well as being redundant, no matter how much a like the various posters who post it. Yes, we know the system is corrupt. D'oh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2023 01:25 PM (D+F6R)

469 Buzz Aldrin wore an off-the-shelf Omega on the moon

--

But it was a Seiko 5 that got him there.

https://tinyurl.com/28o5p56d

Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at January 30, 2023 01:25 PM (em09h)

470 Sorry, wrong link. Correct one:

"Gene Kranz joined NASA after serving as a fighter pilot in the Korean War. At NASA Kranz was a major player in the Gemini and Apollo programs (for which he was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1970).

While the Apollo astronauts were equipped with Speedmasters, Gene wore a Seiko 5, 6119-8460 Sports Diver during the late 60s and early 70s. It was on his wrist when the Apollo 11 crew touched down on the lunar surface, when the Apollo 13 explosion occurred, and throughout the remainder of his career at NASA. "

https://tinyurl.com/2cwj42zv

Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at January 30, 2023 01:28 PM (em09h)

471 "Austin Powers was funny. Childish but funny."

Dr. Evil always makes me laugh.
Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 30, 2023 12:29 PM (24fqN)

My favorite evil character was Goldmember.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 30, 2023 01:30 PM (BdMk6)

472 This post didn't cover it. Getting paid to grow some nasty virus, were they?
Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 01:18 PM (o+IHV)

The US subsidized the Soviet bioweapons researchers so they wouldn't go and make bioweapons for rogue states, but they left them in Ukraine. It is a black-box research since it is technically in violation of all those treaties, so they don't report to anyone. And the money is sloshing around there, and attracts thieves like Daszak and the like.

So then the loonies decide to brew up bioweapons and export the production to rogue states while making sure the graft and kickbacks keep going to the oversight and regulatory groups

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2023 01:30 PM (xhaym)

473 Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2023 01:24 PM (3cGpq)

Really? I read a lot so that it isn't a trope in the classical literature I read and I'm not a radical feminist so I wouldn't know about that, but I get that modern movies present the idea that a 100 lb woman is a superwoman and can never do wrong, yes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2023 01:33 PM (D+F6R)

474 Speedmaster chrono?

Got one on right now. Of course it is pretty old as I recall it being about $900. Great watch.

Posted by: free yibrt at January 30, 2023 01:36 PM (iUs23)

475 89...Makes you wonder if God's kind of a dick.
Posted by: The ruthless shall inherit the earth at January 30, 2023 12:16 PM (UKe2c)

No, He's not.

The world's not going to last, bubba, you may want to rethink your inheritance scheme.

Posted by: Flyover at January 30, 2023 01:39 PM (Rbu5d)

476 My favorite evil character was Goldmember.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 30, 2023 01:30 PM (BdMk6)

Fat Bastard.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 30, 2023 02:00 PM (+Wcyp)

477 153 A Man Pretending To Be A Woman Skated During The Opening Of The European Figure Skating Championships And It Goes Hilariously Bad

https://tinyurl.com/4fncp9ym
Posted by: DB at January 30, 2023 12:27 PM (geLO

I watched that. OMG

Posted by: Kat_man at January 30, 2023 02:50 PM (ZPK4r)

478 "I posted this earlier but Hunter via Joes connection had people at DHS and State Dept doing research and investigations on people he was trying to get into the country.

It appears the email came from inside the Govt sent to outside and then forwarded to Hunter. It was TS info on known criminals that had visa taken away or denied."

Do you have a link for this? Was it Deripaska?

Posted by: Harun at January 30, 2023 02:55 PM (Cg63x)

479 Think I would rather listen to Danielle Dax or Diamanda Galas then hear Yoko. That woman is horrible.

Posted by: Grape Ape at January 30, 2023 03:17 PM (IUb/E)

480 I have zero doubt that these Biden notebooks contained classified material. A document is not considered classified because it has a security classification marking, but rather due to containing information that has been assigned a security classification.

Even when all of his synapses were firing, he was a malevolent imbecile. Even if he had no criminal intent (a big question mark, since we now know about his influence peddling and "10% for the Big Guy"), he is stupid enough to have linked data within a notebook to make it classified.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 30, 2023 03:26 PM (pJWtt)

481 nose CIAoperatives wiped out after the HildBeast hides 60,000 classified documents in her desktop and suffers no consequences. Clinton aide smuggles classified documents out of scuff in his underwear and nothing happens. 4,000 FBI files found in Clinton WH and nothing happens.

FBI employees take the knee for St Floyd and nothing happens. Black female cadets give the black power salute and nothing happens.

Tell me that something is going to happen to Biden. I worked in scuffs for over 10 years and know how punishments work. Senior level-ooh that was a bad thing; mid level-slap on wrist; low level that’s a 50,000 fine and ten years.

Posted by: Tom at January 30, 2023 04:17 PM (EcD5Y)

482 The net is starting to close

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