Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (4/12/23)

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I
"If you can't talk real to them, then what's happening in this environment? In my mind, I've done nothing wrong." Former Florida Teacher Jeffery Keene

Quote II
“I’m not going to apologize for offending you. Actually, I think you should thank me.” Courtney Love

Quote III
“There is no way that money is not going back into the budget. Libraries are an important resource for so many people. MO State Sen. Lincoln Hough (R)

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Don't want to buy an EV. Uncle Sam says how dare you. You'll be made to purchase them.

President Joe Biden further accelerated the nation’s switch to electric vehicles by announcing two proposed federal rule changes aimed at reducing greenhouse gases and other pollutants in motor vehicle emissions.
The changes, announced on April 12, would affect virtually all gasoline-powered vehicles on U.S. highways, save consumers an estimated $12,000 in fuel and maintenance costs over the life of a vehicle, and avoid almost 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions through 2055, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The move aims to further the president’s goal of having 50 percent of all new cars and light trucks and 30 percent of new medium- and heavy-duty trucks sold in 2030 be zero-emission vehicles. Electric vehicles (EVs) are considered zero-emission vehicles.
The EPA estimates that approval of these rules would result in 67 percent of new passenger vehicles and light trucks being EVs by 2032, along with 50 percent of buses, 35 percent of short-haul freight tractors, and 25 percent of long-haul freight tractors.

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Resident of The White House Joe 'Mush Head' Biden continues to display his deteriorating mind.

Biden Lives at His Workplace and Doesn’t Know Where His Home Office is Located
Biden's mind continues to slip.
During a Wednesday speech in Ireland, Joe Biden said the Oval Office was in the United States Capitol. Wednesday’s gaffe is Joe Biden’s latest embarrassing memory incident
During his speech, Biden told the Irish audience, “As a matter of fact, as you walk into my office in the Oval Office in the United States Capitol, guess what? You know who founded, designed, and built the White House? An Irishman, no not a joke.

On the bright side he didn't say "Pussy".

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I need a chalkboard to keep track of the law suits. One the left side he'll be the plaintiff. On the right side he'll be the defendant.

Trump sues former attorney Michael Cohen for $500 million
A source familiar says the complaint against Cohen 'has nothing to do' with the Manhattan DA's case
EXCLUSIVE: Former President Donald Trump is suing his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen for more than $500 million, alleging a breach of his attorney-client relationship, unjust enrichment, and more, Fox News Digital has learned.
Trump’s legal team filed the more-than 30-page federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Wednesday.

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Is there hope for journalism? Maybe. Is there hope for school boards? Probably not.

High school student reporters reveal their new principal's graduate degrees were from a diploma mill; she resigns

What began as a routine school newspaper interview "to introduce the new principal to the community" ended in an investigation and resignation.
"Days after student reporters at Pittsburg High School in Kansas dug into the background of their newly hired principal and found questionable credentials, she resigned from the $93,000-a-year job," reports Mará Rose Williams of The Kansas City Star. "Student journalists published a story questioning the legitimacy of the private college — Corllins University — where Robertson got her master's and doctorate degrees years ago. Department of Education officials, contacted by The Star, confirmed student reports; the federal agency could not find evidence of Corllins in operation. The school wasn't included on the agency's list of schools closed since 1986. Robertson earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Tulsa."

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All he wanted to do was to "Serve and Protect" and be a Genius Award Winner.

Drunk man causes chaos after breaking into Naples Police Department

NAPLES, Fla. — A drunk man was arrested after sneaking into the Naples Police Department and recklessly exploring.
Joseph Moulton, 36, jumped the fence of the south parking lot and went inside an unlocked patrol cruiser where he sat for a few minutes until he saw people come outside. Moulton hid in the bushes and then took action once the coast was clear.
According to the police report, Moulton used the nozzle of a water hose and shoved it underneath the west door before turning the water on, causing at least an inch of flood damage.

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The ONT Musical Interlude & Home Cooking Emporium

Born on this day: April 12, 1944 - John Kay
German-Canadian rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist John Kay, from Steppenwolf who had the 1969 US No.2 hit single 'Born To Be Wild'. Steppenwolf sold over 25 million records worldwide, released eight gold albums and scored 12 Billboard Hot 100 singles. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Born on this day: April 12, 1957 - Vince Gill
American country singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Vince Gill who has won 17 Country Music Awards and 14 Grammy Awards. He has recorded more than 20 studio albums, and charted over 40 singles. via thisdayinmusic.com

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"The Few, The Proud" Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Aformer Afghan interpreter who served with the U.S. Marines in his home country has earned the title of Marine.
Pfc. Aimal Taraki, who graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego on April 7, said he was inspired to join the Corps by his time working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, according to a Marine Corps news story.

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but a hand in the public till speeds up the processes!" ~ Lord Hrothgar Acton

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 12, 2023 10:01 PM (hOUT3)

2 Yeet

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 12, 2023 10:01 PM (U2p+3)

3 YES!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 12, 2023 10:01 PM (hOUT3)

4 Love that picture, snow on the red rocks.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 12, 2023 10:01 PM (Au/50)

5 Too bad nurse, but good try...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 12, 2023 10:01 PM (hOUT3)

6 ONT ONT & Top 10.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at April 12, 2023 10:02 PM (uLhWk)

7 4 Love that picture, snow on the red rocks.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 12, 2023 10:01 PM (Au/50)

Oh I've got your snow for you..........

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at April 12, 2023 10:02 PM (aA3+G)

8 So, that's where you were last night. Musta been cold out there....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2023 10:02 PM (Angsy)

9 Anyway.

Did my taxes today. I owed 23 bucks.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 12, 2023 10:02 PM (U2p+3)

10 10

Posted by: Theodore at April 12, 2023 10:03 PM (pGonq)

11 8 So, that's where you were last night. Musta been cold out there....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2023 10:02 PM (Angsy)

Biz trip.
Ugh. Someday, they'll end.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at April 12, 2023 10:04 PM (aA3+G)

12 Top notch ONT MisHum! Great mystery click to boot.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 12, 2023 10:05 PM (f/z+J)

13 THOT Burger!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 12, 2023 10:05 PM (FVME7)

14 Bitter's Anecdotal Bar Report:

Sold beer at a soccer game tonight.

Sold exactly one Bud Light all night. It represented .1% of our sales for the evening.

I usually see Bud Light come in at around 3% of total sales.

Michelob Ultra, which usually comprises 22-23% of our average sales also so a dramatic drop comprising only 5.8% of our total sales.

Keep the pressure up friends and make sure to say "Oh, are you into the trans thing?" to anyone you see drinking Bud Light.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 12, 2023 10:06 PM (bGeFc)

15 First? Heck no you guys are fast.

Condolences to Jane and her family, so sorry for their loss. Thanks to bluebell for keeping us informed.

Posted by: Farmer at April 12, 2023 10:06 PM (55Qr6)

16 Biz trip.
Ugh. Someday, they'll end.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at April 12, 2023 10:04 PM (aA3+G)

They will, and you'll sometimes feel like you should be doing something. For a day or so.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2023 10:07 PM (Angsy)

17 Not necessarily lost in translation--Japan is a weird place. Unlike America's self styled weird cities, it seems to be working out for them.

Posted by: CppThis at April 12, 2023 10:07 PM (PZvjL)

18 Oh I've got your snow for you..........
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

*SNORT*

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 12, 2023 10:07 PM (Au/50)

19 Lost in translation? I'm not entirely sure about that one.

(Japanese people, in general, abhor American-sized meals and will shame youngsters for not eating every last french fry.)

Posted by: pookysgirl has been to Japan at April 12, 2023 10:08 PM (dtlDP)

20 Pfc. Aimal Taraki is the kind of American we need here, not the kind that enters illegally. I hope he does well in the Corps but I have no doubt that he will thrive!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 12, 2023 10:08 PM (hOUT3)

21 The EPA estimates that approval of these rules would result in....the bankruptcy of 7 of the top 10 global automakers and 80% of US auto dealerships, as well as a global economic collapse.

Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 12, 2023 10:08 PM (3Ey7p)

22 >>>"If you can't talk real to them, then what's happening in this environment? In my mind, I've done nothing wrong." Former Florida Teacher Jeffery Keene

I'm not getting the outrage. He asked high school juniors and seniors to write their own obituary as a writing assignment.

Why is that wrong?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 12, 2023 10:08 PM (gv7Yb)

23 Evenin'
(Sips beer)

My clumsy ass bumped into the couch, beer goes flying out of my hand, spills everywhere. Much salty language was used. First World Problems.

Forgotten 80s Mystery Click: I liked The Firm.

https://youtu.be/XUY-TCOWsS4

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 12, 2023 10:08 PM (sAmhv)

24
All government vehicles should be EVs. By the end of 2023. At the federal, state and local levels.

All government aircraft (except military) should by solar, electric or human powered. By the end of 2023. At the federal, state and local levels.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 12, 2023 10:09 PM (MoZTd)

25 Jack Posobiec notes that one of the underreported things from the Ukraine Papers is that American special forces units (i.e. combat troops) are on the ground in Ukraine.

Biden lied about that, of course.

Oh - and having Hunter Biden front-and-center during Joe's trip to Ireland is a deliberate FU from Joe to anyone who thinks that the rule of law should prevail in this country.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 12, 2023 10:10 PM (2tUFv)

26 What are the sides with a Big Slut Burger meal? I'm thinking wine instead of Coke and weed to get you fried instead of French fries.

Also, is it $20, same as in town?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 12, 2023 10:10 PM (FVME7)

27 There was a time when I thought that Courtney Love probably shottie lamed Kurt Cobain. Then I heard about an interview where he wined that Led Zeppelin's sexuality butthurt his effeminate Seattle sensibilities, and concluded that with an attitude like that he must have done it.

Posted by: CppThis at April 12, 2023 10:10 PM (PZvjL)

28 Why is that wrong?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 12, 2023 10:08 PM (gv7Yb)

I don't think it was. Too many people afraid of everything.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2023 10:10 PM (Angsy)

29 Vince Gill singing Go Rest High always makes me spring a leak.

I was told it was dedicated to his brother who passed away. I also lost my brother at an early age, so it holds a special spot in my heart.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 12, 2023 10:10 PM (f/z+J)

30 17 Not necessarily lost in translation--Japan is a weird place. Unlike America's self styled weird cities, it seems to be working out for them.
Posted by: CppThis

Funny how a nation with a cohesive national identity can thrive in todays DIE world!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 12, 2023 10:11 PM (hOUT3)

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Keep the pressure up friends and make sure to say "Oh, are you into the trans thing?" to anyone you see drinking Bud Light.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 12, 2023 10:06 PM (bGeFc)

Don't hand out any Busch Lights either.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at April 12, 2023 10:11 PM (aA3+G)

32 25 Jack Posobiec notes that one of the underreported things from the Ukraine Papers is that American special forces units (i.e. combat troops) are on the ground in Ukraine.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 12, 2023 10:10 PM (2tUFv)

One would think that after some 50 years of mythologizing Vietnam as the most worstest war ever that should have never happened and everyone involved was bad bad bad, credible evidence that the powers that be are setting up another Vietnam would be Kind Of A Big Deal for media types.

Posted by: CppThis at April 12, 2023 10:12 PM (PZvjL)

33 Don't hand out any Busch Lights either.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at April 12, 2023 10:11 PM (aA3+G)

Real men only drink Green Rooster.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2023 10:12 PM (Angsy)

34 >>>"I’m not going to apologize for offending you. Actually, I think you should thank me." Courtney Love

I would love [no pun intended] to know the original context of that quote. I might even agree with her. Or maybe not...

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 12, 2023 10:12 PM (gv7Yb)

35 Evening, Horde...How goes it?

I just woke up from a nap where I dreamed about COVID Karen Mask Nazis making their lives--and by extension my life--miserable.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 10:12 PM (BpYfr)

36 YD - I get your point. But:
Target lost some money, and they did back off the policy, going to either individual bathrooms - thus unisex - or back to the normal communal bathrooms by sex. Just depended on the store. It worked. P&G took an $8B write down on Gillette - that is gone forever. They still are the biggest brand, but are not as big as they were before the campaign. That's permanently lost. We of course know Disney and comic books.

Now - Nike is the poster child for succeeding in woke. Kapernik cost them nothing and actually probably helped them. The danger now is that many big time woman athletes are suggesting Nike shouldn't be purchased for anything. That could roll down to girls youth teams and lost college contracts. Way too early to see.

Bud Light is going to be permanently damaged. It's too easy to switch brands to some other giant mainline brew - Miller Lite, Coors Lite, Coors, Miller High Life, etc. InBEV will hope people move to other brands they own, which are numerous. If the boycott actually impacted something like Guinness, they would immediately do what Red Bull did - which was to fire every dumbass woke/CRT executive in NA.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 12, 2023 10:12 PM (UVyKP)

37 "eggslut" was the nice little kicker at the bottom.

Posted by: eleven at April 12, 2023 10:12 PM (iziT8)

38 Thanks for the dandy ONT, Mis Hum!

Great photo of fabulous red rocks and snow up top. And a great tune behind it!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 12, 2023 10:13 PM (xS8eR)

39 Congratulations Hrothgar on your #1 achievement!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 12, 2023 10:14 PM (xS8eR)

40 24
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Brilliant point H7, let the government anointed set the example for the kulaks!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 12, 2023 10:15 PM (hOUT3)

41 ONT!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 12, 2023 10:15 PM (r4vfa)

42 I'm here for my trip to Mars and I have my dime.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 12, 2023 10:15 PM (s12c9)

43 I did not know that Vince Gill could play like that !
Thanks, Mis Hum. That was fie-yine.

Posted by: Akua Makana at April 12, 2023 10:15 PM (YkUJb)

44 Theodore nailed a ten. That's worth the clap as well.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 12, 2023 10:16 PM (f/z+J)

45 A Florida teacher was fired the same day he asked students to write their own obituaries ahead of an active shooter drill,

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I don't see why that is fireable.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 12, 2023 10:16 PM (r4vfa)

46 High school student reporters reveal their new principal's graduate degrees were from a diploma mill; she resigns
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I might have an M.Ed. degree, but it's from an actual, accredited university (the flagship institution of my current workplace).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 10:16 PM (BpYfr)

47 I'm here for my trip to Mars and I have my dime.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Buy a Big Slut Burger and go around the world!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 12, 2023 10:17 PM (FVME7)

48 39 Congratulations Hrothgar on your #1 achievement!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 12, 2023 10:14 PM (xS8eR)

Thanks, made my day it did!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 12, 2023 10:17 PM (hOUT3)

49 Theodore nailed a ten. That's worth the clap as well.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 12, 2023 10:16 PM (f/z+J)
I don't won't mind giving it, if he doesn't mind getting it.

Posted by: Tina Waters at April 12, 2023 10:17 PM (Angsy)

50 At the beginning of the Covid lockdowns, ESPN had nothing to broadcast. So for some reason they broadcast an Eagles concert. I hadn't kept up with them but Vince Gill had become an Eagle. I don't follow country music, but I knew that Vince Gill was a big deal in country music.

And yet here he was subsuming his ego and just being one of the guys in the band. I thought he did a great job and didn't miss a note. I can't remember just exactly what he sang (I think maybe Take it to the Limit among others) but it was a great concert.

My point I guess is that Vince the country superstar was able to become just one of the guys in the band. I respect that.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 12, 2023 10:18 PM (B/7uq)

51 I might have an M.Ed. degree, but it's from an actual, accredited university (the flagship institution of my current workplace).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 10:16 PM (BpYfr)

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I wish I had a degree.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 12, 2023 10:18 PM (s12c9)

52 I don't see why that is fireable.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 12, 2023 10:16 PM (r4vfa)

Maybe he was being a complete dick about it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2023 10:19 PM (tkR6S)

53 Can we also fire the dumba$$es on the hiring committee for the HS principal with the fake degrees?

Once again, there is no penalty whatsoever for government incompetence.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 12, 2023 10:19 PM (HlyYF)

54 45 A Florida teacher was fired the same day he asked students to write their own obituaries ahead of an active shooter drill,

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I don't see why that is fireable.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 12, 2023 10:16 PM (r4vfa)

My guess is that this the straw which broke the camel's back.

A psychology teacher in HS screams trouble employee

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at April 12, 2023 10:19 PM (aA3+G)

55 Godspeed, Sam.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 12, 2023 10:19 PM (Bd6X8)

56 I wish I had a degree.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 12, 2023 10:18 PM (s12c9)

We can give you the third degree, if you want.

Posted by: The Cops at April 12, 2023 10:19 PM (Angsy)

57 "I'm here for my trip to Mars and I have my dime.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) "

For a small additional fee, you can upgrade to the Tuscan package.

Posted by: eleven at April 12, 2023 10:20 PM (iziT8)

58 Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

He's number 1, he's number 1!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 12, 2023 10:20 PM (Au/50)

59 A Florida teacher was fired the same day he asked students to write their own obituaries ahead of an active shooter drill,

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I don't see why that is fireable.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

I never had to but back in olden days when I was in school, other kids in the school had to. Of course, in those days, school shootings were basically unknown.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 12, 2023 10:20 PM (FVME7)

60 I won't lie.

The Big Slut Burger is giving me a come hither look...She knows what I want and is prepared to deliver the goods...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 10:20 PM (BpYfr)

61 Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Lost In The Translation.

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2,000 yen is what? 20 bucks ?

Posted by: runner at April 12, 2023 10:20 PM (V13WU)

62 The Japanese named a hamburger after me!
I want to thank all the little people for this honor.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at April 12, 2023 10:21 PM (0Htd1)

63 Once again, there is no penalty whatsoever for government incompetence.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 12, 2023 10:19 PM (HlyYF)

For some strange reason, I just have this feeling that the HS principal maxed the DIE score, which is really all that counts!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 12, 2023 10:21 PM (hOUT3)

64 Did my taxes today. I owed 23 bucks.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 12, 2023 10:02 PM

87,000 new IRS agents that just reviewed your browser favorites (especially AOS) beg to differ with that amount of taxes owed!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 12, 2023 10:21 PM (HlyYF)

65 Big Slut Burger > BK Gay Burger

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 12, 2023 10:22 PM (s12c9)

66 Fuck the FL teacher, you seldom write your own obit.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:22 PM (Lzpvj)

67 Can we also fire the dumba$$es on the hiring committee for the HS principal with the fake degrees?

Once again, there is no penalty whatsoever for government incompetence.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 12, 2023 10:19 PM (HlyYF)
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Yeah...Having been on a number of hiring committees, I generally look for red flags in a candidate's application packet. Anything I don't recognize gets looked up.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 10:22 PM (BpYfr)

68 Speaking of psychology, I can't escape the sinking feeling that many of the problems of the 21st century are being stage managed by a cabal of unscrupulous shrinks. Feed the sheeple media bullshit to make them all crazy, then sell them pills that make them even crazier, and finally get generationally rich from a lifetime of therapy sessions.

Standing shoulder to shoulder with the scientologists in the 2030s is gonna be weird.

Posted by: CppThis at April 12, 2023 10:22 PM (PZvjL)

69 I wish I had a degree.
Posted by: Cicero

You do! 98.6F

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 12, 2023 10:22 PM (Au/50)

70 I'd kinda like to know what that Japanese to English translation originally said that translated to Slut burger.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 12, 2023 10:22 PM (f/z+J)

71 Once again, there is no penalty whatsoever for government incompetence.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot

Well, jeez, you can't have a government without incompetence.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 12, 2023 10:22 PM (FVME7)

72 Big Slut burger looks like more than my mouth can handle.

Posted by: Methos at April 12, 2023 10:23 PM (kOpft)

73 Suddenly, I'm not in the mood for a burger.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 12, 2023 10:23 PM (Xrfse)

74 Degrees are useless unless you're a doctor or an engineer.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 12, 2023 10:23 PM (f/z+J)

75 I'm not getting the outrage. He asked high school juniors and seniors to write their own obituary as a writing assignment.

Why is that wrong?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous
Because everything today is about feelings, and the adults are concerned that the students will be emotionally damaged by the assignment.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 12, 2023 10:23 PM (0Htd1)

76 Did my taxes today. I owed 23 bucks.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 12, 2023 10:02 PM

87,000 new IRS agents that just reviewed your browser favorites (especially AOS) beg to differ with that amount of taxes owed!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 12, 2023 10:21 PM (HlyYF)
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Nurse forgot to put a one and two zeros in front of that...

Posted by: 87,000 IRS Agents at April 12, 2023 10:24 PM (BpYfr)

77 A drunk man was arrested after sneaking into the Naples Police Department and recklessly exploring.

Reckless exploration? That's not a crime, it's a career.

Posted by: I. Jones at April 12, 2023 10:24 PM (DgGvY)

78 Oh come on guys!
Who here, at one time or another, hasn't wanted to wolf down a big slut over lunch?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2023 10:24 PM (anj39)

79 Doing an obituary before an active shooter drill? That is so inappropriate. During an active shooter drill you want people to fill strong and empowered, not about to be killed.

Posted by: Iris at April 12, 2023 10:24 PM (foa6+)

80 Good evening morons and thanks mh

I'm kind of an eggslut.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 12, 2023 10:24 PM (EZebt)

81 Standing shoulder to shoulder with the scientologists in the 2030s is gonna be weird.
Posted by: CppThis at April 12, 2023 10:22 PM (PZvjL)
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We'll all look the same in the government-mandated Happy Fun Camps!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 10:25 PM (BpYfr)

82 67 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 10:22 PM (BpYfr)

Gonna go out on a limb and bet she checked the right boxes.....so stunning so brave.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:25 PM (Lzpvj)

83 Degrees are useless unless you're a doctor or an engineer.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Or a thermometer.

Posted by: mikeski at April 12, 2023 10:25 PM (DgGvY)

84 20 Pfc. Aimal Taraki is the kind of American we need here, not the kind that enters illegally. I hope he does well in the Corps but I have no doubt that he will thrive!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 12, 2023 10:08 PM

Yep!

Also, the gal that graduated as valedictorian at her high school in Guadalajara is probably going to be a good addition - after we vet her records to confirm that is true.

The MS13 guy with tats showing he already has two gang kills - not so much.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 12, 2023 10:25 PM (HlyYF)

85 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Brilliant point H7, let the government anointed set the example for the kulaks!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

Indeed. Next step, all meals served to government employees must contain no less than 90% cricket and mealworms and shall be mandatory in order to receive salary. And all government buildings shall be equipped with composing toilets, no air conditioning, and no heat.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 12, 2023 10:25 PM (vpm59)

86 Slut Burger looks sloppy.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 12, 2023 10:25 PM (KFhLj)

87 76 Did my taxes today. I owed 23 bucks.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 12, 2023 10:02 PM

Gee, same as Hunter Biden's tax return...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 12, 2023 10:26 PM (hOUT3)

88 Thx MisHum. Watching the Watson video is infuriating because of the stupidity it inflicts on decent people . However the flaming leftist idiots who voted for this shit deserve it with a rancid cherry on top

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 12, 2023 10:26 PM (386ly)

89 79 Posted by: Iris at April 12, 2023 10:24 PM (foa6+)

We were asked what we would do.

The boys in my class said "stab them with pencils."

We really are from a different world than these kids.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:26 PM (Lzpvj)

90 Walmart is closing 4 stores in Chicago by April 16. The outgoing mayor, the Honorable Lori Lightfoot, and Chicago Board of Aldermen, are outraged. OUTRAGED! Local politicians are calling the move UNETHICAL!
Buisness Insider: "The communities of the South and West sides of Chicago have already been struggling with increased food costs due to inflation," the coalition said. "Walmart's decision to close four stores in predominantly Black and Brown communities not only worsens food deserts, but will also increase grocery costs for families."

Elections have consequences. Go Woke Go Broke.

Posted by: mrp at April 12, 2023 10:26 PM (rj6Yv)

91 I don't see why that is fireable.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

He'd have been terminated with extreme prejudice if the assignment had been to justify yourself to Saint Peter about why you deserve Heaven.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 12, 2023 10:26 PM (FVME7)

92 There is a website for corllinsU, looks sus: https://www.corllinsuniversity.org

Posted by: MaxCon at April 12, 2023 10:27 PM (jtmdt)

93 Slut Burger looks sloppy.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 12, 2023 10:25 PM (KFhLj)

Slut Burgers are always sloppy seconds.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2023 10:27 PM (tkR6S)

94 Indeed. Next step, all meals served to government employees must contain no less than 90% cricket and mealworms and shall be mandatory in order to receive salary. And all government buildings shall be equipped with composing toilets, no air conditioning, and no heat.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings

Why it is almost like a plan is coming together

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 12, 2023 10:28 PM (hOUT3)

95 Weaponized your children.

When a school teacher starts promoting the gay shit in the classroom, sue the school system and the teacher in their individual capacity because little Johnny was traumatized.

When a school teacher tells him to write his obit, sue the school system and the teacher in his individual capacity because little Johnny is too traumatized to come back to school.

Did you learn nothing from how they removed the Bible from school? You need only claim your child was traumatized and guess what, you have the start witness living with you that you can coach their testimony all you like.

"Would you like to stay home with dad and watch television because you are too scared to go to school little Timmy? Don't worry, dad won't make you go to school if you say you are scared to go. You can stay here and eat ice cream and play video games if you are too scared.

Did the teacher scare you? You can tell dad."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 12, 2023 10:29 PM (bGeFc)

96 That burger does NOT look yummy...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 12, 2023 10:29 PM (Hgk43)

97 Back in 1970, my friend's folks bought a new Torino. It had an 8 track. The first tape he put in when we took it out was Steppenwolf. Absolutely BITCHIN sounds!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2023 10:29 PM (anj39)

98 68 Posted by: CppThis at April 12, 2023 10:22 PM (PZvjL)

I first perused the DSM back in 79, that was DSM II.

DSM III still considered gender identity issues to be a severe mental illness.

I think as DSM IV was being born they decided "fuck it YOLO" the field had always been left, but it was a different left. They went insane back in 96 with impeachment. They went overt "we are here to help the donkey."

I suspect the rest of the world's practitioners of the compromised fields thinks American educrats are retards.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:29 PM (Lzpvj)

99 That burger looks gross. I'll take a bacon blue burger, thank you.

Posted by: Infidel at April 12, 2023 10:30 PM (/0+YE)

100 Also, the whole Michael Cohen thing makes me think that Donald Trump really should have learned something from that other, better known Noo Yawk family business: if an underling does down for something it's a good idea to take care of them and their family financially to ensure loyalty.

And always take the cannolis.

Posted by: CppThis at April 12, 2023 10:31 PM (PZvjL)

101 If you are going to eat in a sandwich shop called Eggslut, you have every right to enjoy a Big Slut burger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggslut

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 12, 2023 10:31 PM (gv7Yb)

102 Once again, there is no penalty whatsoever for government incompetence.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 12, 2023 10:19

Indeed. Name one person that was fired after 9/11 or the disasterous end to the Afghan war, turning over the country to the Taliban.

No one! Hopefully Biden will be fired in 2024 if the senile old idiot runs again.

Posted by: Farmer at April 12, 2023 10:32 PM (55Qr6)

103 I'd kinda like to know what that Japanese to English translation originally said that translated to Slut burger.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

The katakana writing above it is phonetic, not pictographical.

bi (glottal stop) gu, su ra (glottal stop) to, ba a ga a.

biggu suratto baagaa.

And "eggslut" is the name of the restaurant. So, I think it's exactly as advertised.

Posted by: mikeski at April 12, 2023 10:32 PM (DgGvY)

104 I suspect the rest of the world's practitioners of the compromised fields thinks American educrats are retards.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:29 PM

Well in that case, it looks like the foreign "studies" majors finally got one right!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 12, 2023 10:32 PM (HlyYF)

105 45 Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 12, 2023 10:16 PM (r4vfa)

You don't? You gonna let me play my mindgames with kids, I was almost a history teacher? The student drill is geared for survival, and if need be God forbid I would imagine casualty amelioration.

What you do not need is a bearded fucktard trying to ramp up the dread of already politically programmed students on the public's dime.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:32 PM (Lzpvj)

106 Obama got a Nobel prize for peace and bombed a wedding afterwards.

Incompetence is rewarded if you're on the right team.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 12, 2023 10:33 PM (f/z+J)

107 Papa!

Posted by: Slut Burger's Illicit Toilet Baby at April 12, 2023 10:33 PM (KFhLj)

108 I'd kinda like to know what that Japanese to English translation originally said that translated to Slut burger.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 12, 2023 10:22 PM (f/z+J)

The katakana above it is quite literally the same, just the Japanese pronunciation of the borrowed English words. "Biggu Suratto Bah-gah"

So the translation is correct, it's more of the classic we don't quite understand the definition and connotation of the foreign word we're using.

Posted by: Sjg at April 12, 2023 10:34 PM (Lstct)

109 So slut in Japanese is like juicy or something?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 12, 2023 10:35 PM (f/z+J)

110 Two of my favorites, Vince Gill and the late, great Russell Smith.

Posted by: huerfano at April 12, 2023 10:35 PM (dTFZY)

111 Incompetence is rewarded if you're on the right team.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Technically that only happens if you are on the "left" team.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 12, 2023 10:35 PM (hOUT3)

112 72 Big Slut burger looks like more than my mouth can handle.
Posted by: Methos

Said Sandra Fluke never.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 12, 2023 10:35 PM (0Htd1)

113 91 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 12, 2023 10:26 PM (FVME7)

or under his auspices of being a psychology teacher made a lesson that said "justify you or your partner's abortion you will face this year!"

We lost the culture war because of our generosity of spirit.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:35 PM (Lzpvj)

114 I have 12 PhD's. There was a special; buy 10 get 2 free. Cost more to frame them than to buy them.

My kids still think I'm a fucking genius.

They're right.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 12, 2023 10:35 PM (Q4IgG)

115 112 72 Big Slut burger looks like more than my mouth can handle.
Posted by: Methos

Said Sandra Fluke never.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 12, 2023 10:35 PM (0Htd1)

***SNORT***

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at April 12, 2023 10:36 PM (aA3+G)

116 90 Posted by: mrp at April 12, 2023 10:26 PM (rj6Yv)

It is so much more delicious than that actually, the evil W backs the democrats who empowered the criminals who rob the evil W blind.

Were the evil W not shifting the losses of the megacities to the rural areas I would support outlawing them from closing the stores as punishment.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:37 PM (Lzpvj)

117 This whole "EV" thing is meant to enslave us

...and digital currency

...and AI

pretty much everything

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah, thinks it's all ops at April 12, 2023 10:37 PM (sJHOI)

118 Reckless exploration? That's not a crime, it's a career.

I know, right?!

Posted by: Lemmiwinks (not the original who posted here) at April 12, 2023 10:38 PM (7vEB2)

119 I don't have an issue with students writing their own obituaries - they are juniors and seniors, for goodness sake.
HOWEVER, the article does not mention what this guy teaches - is it English? Psychology?
If English, then why is he 'teaching about school shootings'?
If it is a psychology class, then this makes more sense.

I had a required psychology class in my 'Cathaholic' high school - it was part of the required religious curriculum. Freshman -Biblical Literature, Sophomore - can't remember at the moment, Junior - Psychology, Senior - Faith & Morals/Sex & Marriage.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 12, 2023 10:38 PM (ufFY8)

120 Two of my favorites, Vince Gill and the late, great Russell Smith.

Posted by: huerfano at April 12, 2023 10:35 PM (dTFZY)

Russell Smith is mort?...Man, I didn't know that.

Posted by: BignJames at April 12, 2023 10:38 PM (AwYPR)

121 117 Posted by: ghost of hallelujah, thinks it's all ops at April 12, 2023 10:37 PM (sJHOI)

The tippy cuppers are funny, they think their votes are "saving freedom" as they pull donkey.

If they ever figure it out all hell will break loose.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:38 PM (Lzpvj)

122 I don't like the assignment because it robs those kids of a sense of agency. I'd assign them to write a suicide note. After a proper block of instruction on seppuku.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 12, 2023 10:38 PM (KFhLj)

123 The first tape he put in when we took it out was Steppenwolf. Absolutely BITCHIN sounds!!!
Posted by: Diogenes

I was kind of concerned about their song America which begins with with brave people seeking a better life but then . . .

The blue and grey they stomped it
They kicked it just like a dog
And when the war over
They stuffed it just like a hog

-
It seemed derisive of the holy crusade against slavery. I see those lyrics somewhat differently now.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 12, 2023 10:39 PM (FVME7)

124 Days after student reporters at Pittsburg High School in Kansas dug into the background of their newly hired principal and found questionable credentials, she resigned from the $93,000-a-year job

And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids

Posted by: Former School Principal at April 12, 2023 10:39 PM (xttsV)

125 Outstanding ONT, Mis Hum!

A musical comment: For all of you not quite 29x2 years along the path, Steppenwolf was, in the late 60's very, very far beyond mainstream rock and roll. We had two big AM stations in OKC (many of you might have listened to KOMA of an evening) and neither would play The Pusher. Nowadays, Steppenwolf wouldn't be considered edgy.

Posted by: LRob in Ok at April 12, 2023 10:39 PM (wzHPd)

126 or under his auspices of being a psychology teacher made a lesson that said "justify you or your partner's abortion you will face this year!"

We lost the culture war because of our generosity of spirit.
Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:35 PM (Lzpvj)

Reading the link leads me to think one (or more) of the kids in the first class of the day complained bitterly to the principal after the class ended. Perhaps he went off on a profane political rant before handing out the assignment. Seems it was his first day on the job, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2023 10:40 PM (tkR6S)

127 So slut in Japanese is like juicy or something?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

According to Anon Y Mous's link, the Japanese locations are branches. It's an American restaurant, so eggslut is just typical "ooh! edgy!" naming.

Posted by: mikeski at April 12, 2023 10:40 PM (DgGvY)

128 119 Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 12, 2023 10:38 PM (ufFY

They were doing active shooter drills because every once in a bit the trannies they mainstreamed go nuts and shoot the place up.

The objective of the drill was literally "do this shit to survive."

The asshole got cute and decided to be creative and shift their focus, now I guess if you cast him as the hero the kids all stood on their seats and said "fuck I have never had gay sex or an unwanted pregnancy I am ready to live O captain my captain!"

Yeah maybe, I took honors classes and we were held to different academic and intellectual maturity standards....

I don't think his goal was anything other than wangst.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:41 PM (Lzpvj)

129 I have 12 PhD's. There was a special; buy 10 get 2 free. Cost more to frame them than to buy them.

My kids still think I'm a fucking genius.

They're right.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 12, 2023 10:35 PM (Q4IgG)
***

When I found out I had to defend my thesis, I wore brass knuckles to the meeting. No problems.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2023 10:42 PM (anj39)

130 I'm not getting the outrage. He asked high school juniors and seniors to write their own obituary as a writing assignment.

Why is that wrong?

====

They should have written the teacher's obituary instead. THAT would have been appropriate.

Posted by: runner at April 12, 2023 10:42 PM (V13WU)

131 "Our teacher was an idiot. RIP."

Posted by: runner at April 12, 2023 10:42 PM (V13WU)

132 122 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 12, 2023 10:38 PM (KFhLj)

Why not assign them "well kids under what circumstances would YOU shoot the place up?"

The whole thing is an idiotic exercise with a generation of kids who are stuck for a response to "hello."

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:43 PM (Lzpvj)

133 Keep the pressure up friends and make sure to say "Oh, are you into the trans thing?" to anyone you see drinking Bud Light.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 12, 2023 10:06 PM (bGeFc)

Nooo! It's all a charade of a farce. None of our boycotts will ever work. It's only a matter of time until people go back to drinking Bud Light. It's just like the NFL boycott, instead here we are only asking someone to quit drinking awful beer instead of isolating themselves from their friends who are sports fans. We are all doomed! Doomed!

Posted by: Eeyore at April 12, 2023 10:44 PM (xttsV)

134 26 What are the sides with a Big Slut Burger meal? I'm thinking wine instead of Coke and weed to get you fried instead of French fries.

Also, is it $20, same as in town?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 12, 2023 10:10 PM (FVME7)

Based on the present exchange rate it's about $15.

Posted by: Got quite a yen for a good slutburger at April 12, 2023 10:44 PM (V6LRK)

135 126 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2023 10:40 PM (tkR6S)

Quite, I made the judgement call back in the 90s while in college I did not want to teach because of the department heads and the asshole kids thinking history was a blow off class.

I do not think most people have an appreciation of how much American schools handcuff the teachers on syllabus choices.

Anyway like I said look at the guy it was wangst.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:45 PM (Lzpvj)

136 Strangely, I met Russel Smith in the late 70's out in the bay area somewhere. One of my AF buds was best friends with the ARA lead guitar player. The Aces were the opening band for Jimmy Buffett, whom I also met that evening. He as drunk. Smith seemed to be decent.

Posted by: LRob in Ok at April 12, 2023 10:45 PM (wzHPd)

137 An eggslut is a particularly fecund chick who will put out for...

You

Eggslut

Fecund. Look it up, mooks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 12, 2023 10:45 PM (s12c9)

138 High school student reporters reveal their new principal's graduate degrees were from a diploma mill; she resigns

--

The funniest part is that "diploma mill" describes each and every HBCU, without exception, up to an including the "elite" $50K ones like Howard and Spelman.

They're absolutely horrible schools. Every one of them. And we're supposed to pretend they're awesome.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 12, 2023 10:45 PM (SpC+Q)

139 The funniest part is that "diploma mill" describes each and every HBCU, without exception, up to an including the "elite" $50K ones like Howard and Spelman.

They're absolutely horrible schools. Every one of them. And we're supposed to pretend they're awesome.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 12, 2023 10:45 PM

Say... didn't that 8W light bulb Kamala get HER degree from Howard?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 12, 2023 10:47 PM (HlyYF)

140 I don't think his goal was anything other than wangst.
Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:41 PM (Lzpvj)

Possibly. I do think there is more to the story. And the timing of the assignment is completely inappropriate vis a vis the drill.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 12, 2023 10:47 PM (ufFY8)

141 138 Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 12, 2023 10:45 PM (SpC+Q)

I am giving very serious thought to going back and getting my degree from Southern University, perhaps hiring an Asian student to do my work.

Why not, I can just hide my work like Michelle and Barack right?

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:48 PM (Lzpvj)

142 We were asked what we would do.

The boys in my class said "stab them with pencils."
Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:26 PM

I approve of that answer.

Posted by: John Wick at April 12, 2023 10:48 PM (xttsV)

143 Say... didn't that 8W light bulb Kamala get HER degree from Howard?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 12, 2023 10:47 PM (HlyYF)

-----------

The Pride of the Sophomore Class

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 12, 2023 10:48 PM (s12c9)

144 Legal Insurrection

Daniel Perry's lawyer has filed for a new trial.

One of the reasons? Outside influence on the jury. It seems one of the jurors while outside the jury room hit up the Internet and downloaded a document allegedly on the Texas Penal Code and then showed it around to the other jurors.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2023 10:48 PM (PjD9d)

145 142 Posted by: John Wick at April 12, 2023 10:48 PM (xttsV)

You are gonna lose some kids, when the fucker reloads he is gonna bleed out.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:49 PM (Lzpvj)

146 Sven

Self identify as a Thai Ladyboy... get degree that way.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2023 10:50 PM (PjD9d)

147 At Washington State University, in Journalism 101, (taught by a former newspaper editor) the first assignment was to take a set of facts provided by the prof, and write the obituary. It was NOT easy.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2023 10:50 PM (anj39)

148 90 Walmart is closing 4 stores in Chicago by April 16. The outgoing mayor, the Honorable Lori Lightfoot, and Chicago Board of Aldermen, are outraged. OUTRAGED! Local politicians are calling the move UNETHICAL!
Buisness Insider: "The communities of the South and West sides of Chicago have already been struggling with increased food costs due to inflation," the coalition said. "Walmart's decision to close four stores in predominantly Black and Brown communities not only worsens food deserts, but will also increase grocery costs for families."
Posted by: mrp
Well, there is an easy solution to this. The alderman, Lightfoot, and all the other procriminal democrats in city government can take their own money, including pension funds, and invest them in inner city grocery stores. It's the right thing to do.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 12, 2023 10:50 PM (0Htd1)

149 I'm not getting the outrage. He asked high school juniors and seniors to write their own obituary as a writing assignment.

Why is that wrong?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous

Not wrong. Just tasteless and left-wing. It was to be written assuming they were the victims of a school shooter, on the day of an active-shooter drill.

And it's kind of a dumb assignment. "Write about your 17-year-long life's accomplishments, in as bland and clinical a style as possible. Then list your close relatives, and maybe a charity people should donate to."

Posted by: mikeski at April 12, 2023 10:50 PM (DgGvY)

150 Say... didn't that 8W light bulb Kamala get HER degree from Howard?

--

It never gets old.

Howard admissions requirements

https://tinyurl.com/2hydkyn7

Western Carolina admissions requirements

https://tinyurl.com/2glp8vfu

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 12, 2023 10:51 PM (SpC+Q)

151 As for Cohen, he deserves as much skull-fvcking and a$$-raping as possible because he is scum only a Democrat could love.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2023 10:51 PM (PjD9d)

152 KTY was in middle school or junior high when active shooter drills started.
I think she and her classmates discussed who would be in charge of what improvised weapons. History textbooks were a favorite.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 12, 2023 10:53 PM (r4vfa)

153 Oh man, this gets even better...I looked up Eggslut, it's an American chain. Apparently the term was coined by Anthony Bourdain--who else?--for a chef who uses a lot of eggs.

Posted by: CppThis at April 12, 2023 10:53 PM (PZvjL)

154 96 That burger does NOT look yummy...
Posted by: COMountainMarie

I agree. I'm not a fan of those specialty burgers than have lots of layers of toppings. They just look like a giant, sloppy mess, with so many different flavors that you can't appreciate any of it, and can't appreciate the meat.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 12, 2023 10:54 PM (0Htd1)

155 151 As for Cohen, he deserves as much skull-fvcking and a$$-raping as possible because he is scum only a Democrat could love.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2023 10:51 PM (PjD9d)

No shit.

Posted by: Cohen's Dog at April 12, 2023 10:54 PM (aA3+G)

156 152 Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 12, 2023 10:53 PM (r4vfa)

It was always a subject in the midwest, we went over it once a year.

People forget the most deadly school attack in American history was a 1927 bombing in Bath Michigan. We were told to think about the skills we were developing as scouts (boy and girl) and whether we could help our fellow students. The school worked HARD to develop a sense of community in our classes and a genuine student body.

Were it only so today.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:55 PM (Lzpvj)

157 At Wawa you can get a burger with pulled pork added. For dinner.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 12, 2023 10:55 PM (r4vfa)

158 Prayers for Jane d'Oh

I am not a theologian, but I think we just Go Home.

I hope to be there myself one day

The Best, if you believe

Posted by: Miklos at April 12, 2023 10:56 PM (FUmnc)

159 They just look like a giant, sloppy mess, with so many different flavors that you can't appreciate any of it, and can't appreciate the meat.

Said no self-respecting pr0n star ever.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 12, 2023 10:56 PM (ufFY8)

160 Meat appreciation is the ne plus ultra of burger of burger consumption.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 12, 2023 10:56 PM (s12c9)

161 Howard admissions requirements

https://tinyurl.com/2hydkyn7

Western Carolina admissions requirements

https://tinyurl.com/2glp8vfu

Evergreen State College admissions requirements:

https://tinyurl.com/2p8s9taa

Applications Accepted: 99.5%

I think any breathing mammal can get into Evergreen, along with some of the non-breathing ones.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 12, 2023 10:56 PM (2tUFv)

162 As for the fired Florida teacher, I think there's a big difference between telling kids to "write the obituary you'd like to have if you lived a full live and achieved your dreams" and "write the obituary that will be published after an evil Drumpf-supporting gun nut mows you down tomorrow." How much you want to bet it had the latter spin on it?

Posted by: PabloD at April 12, 2023 10:57 PM (AYd5v)

163 Or did I mean the sine qua non of burger consumption?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 12, 2023 10:57 PM (s12c9)

164 off doggeh sock

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at April 12, 2023 10:59 PM (aA3+G)

165 I think any breathing mammal can get into Evergreen, along with some of the non-breathing ones.

--

Oh goodness yes.

I just love that the entry requirements for the elite Historically Black Colleges and Universities are identical or lower than the joked-about local "wait, who?" cheap-ass state colleges within an hour of everyone everywhere around all of us.

Go ahead and plug your local one in and see how close to (or how much better than) Howard or Spelman it is.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 12, 2023 10:59 PM (SpC+Q)

166 Everyone over age 29 should write their own obit.
Otherwise people will write one for you and you won't get to approve it first.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, sore and more at April 12, 2023 10:59 PM (jTmQV)

167 Evergreen State College admissions requirements:

https://tinyurl.com/2p8s9taa

Applications Accepted: 99.5%

I think any breathing mammal can get into Evergreen, along with some of the non-breathing ones.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

I am not in a good mood right now, but my dog will apply and be admitted.

I WANT SCHOLARSHIPS

Posted by: Miklos notes that dog food has gotten expensive at April 12, 2023 11:00 PM (FUmnc)

168 Hi everyone. It's been a while since I gave an update.

My son had surgery 3-1/2 weeks ago, to remove a large tumor from his brain stem. He was in ICU for two days, recovery for five days, and then the rehab ward for two weeks. He finally returned home two days ago.

He had to relearn some things about walking and balance, but he is now using a walker very successfully. Still has a feeding tube directly through the abdominal wall, but is improving little by little every day.

The curious thing is that the tumor that was removed has been passed around to several different medical labs, and none has been able to identify it yet. So we're still waiting for an official diagnosis. No news is good news, I guess -- unless it isn't.

As always, thank you for your prayers and friendship.

Posted by: Half Dozen at April 12, 2023 11:01 PM (eHovo)

169 What's it like to die and go to heaven?

Remember when you'd take a long vacation and you had a great time? And then you finally get home and when you first walk in, you get that feeling of "Ahhhh! I'm home!"
That's what it will be like.

God bless you Jane. He's home, and in the fullness of time, you will see him again.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2023 11:01 PM (anj39)

170 https://tinyurl.com/2p8s9taa

Applications Accepted: 99.5%

I think any breathing mammal can get into Evergreen, along with some of the non-breathing ones.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 12, 2023 10:56 PM (2tUFv)

LOL

Who were the six fucktards that got rejected?
I bet two of them just got expelled from the TN legislature, one was a VP of Marketing for Bud Light, and the other three are in the bowels of the gubmint.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 12, 2023 11:02 PM (ufFY8)

171 166 Posted by: gourmand du jour, sore and more at April 12, 2023 10:59 PM (jTmQV)

I always used that cautionary tale to remind me to treat my survivors decently enough they are generous to me.

God forbid I outlive them all my obit will be easy, "Sven died as he lived superficially pleasant while being deeply sarcastic.....in lieu of flowers face the eastern sun and shout "Fuck the French," three days in a row."

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:02 PM (Lzpvj)

172 I once heard Vince Gill at a tribute concert honoring the memory of Danny Gatton. Vince was the headliner, for good reason.

Posted by: Theodore at April 12, 2023 11:02 PM (pGonq)

173 One would think that after some 50 years of mythologizing Vietnam as the most worstest war ever that should have never happened and everyone involved was bad bad bad, credible evidence that the powers that be are setting up another Vietnam would be Kind Of A Big Deal for media types.
Posted by: CppThis at April 12, 2023 10:12 PM (PZvjL)

you forget, we already set that up in Iraq and Afghanistan and it wasn't such a bad thing for the Left after all.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 12, 2023 11:03 PM (xhaym)

174 Who were the six fucktards that got rejected?

They used CBD as a reference

Posted by: University of Miklos at April 12, 2023 11:03 PM (FUmnc)

175 168 Posted by: Half Dozen at April 12, 2023 11:01 PM (eHovo)

Thank God, and prayers ongoing.

It is no fun being a medical marvel.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:03 PM (Lzpvj)

176 Prayers your way Half Dozen!

I have never heard of failure to identify a tumor?

Hopefully it is one of the discrete types that can be "cured".

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 12, 2023 11:03 PM (HlyYF)

177 Half Dozen, good to hear your boy is home and improving every day.

And at least he'll be famous in medical circles, or at least part of him will.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 12, 2023 11:04 PM (Bd6X8)

178 Everyone over age 29 should write their own obit.
Otherwise people will write one for you and you won't get to approve it first.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, sore and more at April 12, 2023 10:59 PM (jTmQV)

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"Taken from us just as he was about to accomplish great things."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 12, 2023 11:04 PM (s12c9)

179
As always, thank you for your prayers and friendship.
Posted by: Half Dozen at April 12, 2023 11:01 PM (eHovo)

Thanks for the update.

Glad he is home and recovering.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at April 12, 2023 11:04 PM (aA3+G)

180

How did this thing with Jane D'Oh's husband begin?

What I recall is that he and some relative (nephew?) were believed to have been exposed to a chemical vapor.

The worst possible news, and my condolences.

Posted by: Red China at April 12, 2023 11:05 PM (PL6Pg)

181 Followed By Accounting and Mechanical Engineering - a limerick

As to college diplomas, I have three
But they really mean little to me
I'm a hit man. I'm for hire
And if credentials are required
I was trained for murder in the first degree

Posted by: Muldoon at April 12, 2023 11:05 PM (ykeLU)

182 149 Posted by: mikeski at April 12, 2023 10:50 PM (DgGvY)

"I died because a generation of my peers was drugged to the gills, told society owed them acceptance and controlled their spirtual happiness and special plead into a state of wrath....donate any of my wealth to the RNC."

//Sven turning in that assignment

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:06 PM (Lzpvj)

183 I was at a funeral lately where the guest of honor had written her own obit. It was awful. Shit read like she copied her LinkedIn profile. Basically all it conveyed was that she was a control freak with fucked up priorities.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 12, 2023 11:06 PM (KFhLj)

184
Red China sock removed.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 12, 2023 11:06 PM (PL6Pg)

185 Problem with all these lefty teachers is that they assume they are empowered to take over the role of a parent. How about teach your subject and leave moral upbringing and all the rest to the parent. Matters of life and death (not in literature, in real life) are parent's domain, not yours, freak.

Posted by: runner at April 12, 2023 11:07 PM (V13WU)

186 I am not in a good mood right now, but my dog will apply and be admitted.

My son was accepted to the local state school, that was only slightly more selective than Evergreen.

He was an engineering major, and the engineering department ran their own admissions process - you went to the school for the first two years, and then the engineering department decided whether to take you or not. They rejected a lot of people.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 12, 2023 11:07 PM (2tUFv)

187 And at least he'll be famous in medical circles, or at least part of him will.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

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Posted by: Marina at April 12, 2023 11:07 PM (Q/kLp)

189 As always, thank you for your prayers and friendship.

It's freely given. More prayers up. Please keep us posted.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 12, 2023 11:07 PM (Xrfse)

190 I never knew what an obituary even was until I was an adult. Not everyone gets one. For one thing, they cost money, per line or paragraph. And then there were columns of what were called Death Notices, which were more of a legal requirement. Very concise.
What the heck, it's not that difficult and you can update it annually or so.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, sore and more at April 12, 2023 11:07 PM (jTmQV)

191 NeoCon plan B for Ukraine is to set Poland up as a major regional power in confrontation with Russia. You know, Greater Poland, just like the 17th century.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 12, 2023 11:07 PM (xhaym)

192 My college hired a business mgr from an unaccredited SF diploma mill.

He actually said "shall" meant it was just a suggestion.

He lasted a couple years until a ringer that got hired as a beancounter got him gone when he was aced out of his job.

He just bought a yellow Camaro. He wept.

But wait there's more. The college down the road hired him and he's still there 10 years later.

California

Posted by: torabora at April 12, 2023 11:08 PM (OUiUM)

193 180 Posted by: Red China at April 12, 2023 11:05 PM (PL6Pg)

Having been rather scattershot in my being around during the days I recall Mister D'oh had endured some level of respiratory distress that he eventually seemed to recover from. Then the relapse. Not being able to get enough wind to the brain is a horrible state and can damage a person deeply.

I pray the remaining D'ohs take care of one another, and that Jane has solace and support in the hard decisions that were made.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:08 PM (Lzpvj)

194 Red China sock removed.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

But you cash check

Posted by: China All-nation Influence Pty. Ltd. at April 12, 2023 11:08 PM (FUmnc)

195 Marina doesn't tell you that they pay you in rubles.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 12, 2023 11:08 PM (s12c9)

196 So slut in Japanese is like juicy or something?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 12, 2023 10:35 PM (f/z+J)

I doubt it has much meaning to 99% of Japanese people. English is frequently used there entirely as decoration, often in fairly random fashion. They borrow the word bitch from English when they actually want the connotation of slut.

Since it matches the name of the store, it probably comes across more like Big Mac.

Posted by: Sjg at April 12, 2023 11:09 PM (Lstct)

197 I dislike thieves. People who take what they want rather than put forth the effort to EARN it are contemptible at best.

I think if you start shooting some of the shoplifters the rest will decide it isn't worth dying over. Just like with terrorists, lessen the supply sufficiently and the problem stops.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 12, 2023 11:09 PM (KATBx)

198 you forget, we already set that up in Iraq and Afghanistan and it wasn't such a bad thing for the Left after all.

What's the problem with sending a few military advisers, that might occasionally participate in combat?

What's the worst that could happen?

Posted by: Zombie Dean Rusk! at April 12, 2023 11:09 PM (2tUFv)

199 They gave gloryholes at the marina.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 12, 2023 11:11 PM (h3tqt)

200 156 People forget the most deadly school attack in American history was a 1927 bombing in Bath Michigan.
Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 10:55 PM (Lzpvj)

It's probably good that I don't use any of the major social media platforms. It'd be just a matter of time before I countered some smug gun grabber's stupid rant with a *very* detailed explanation of all the ways that a sufficiently motivated nutjob could kill a whole lot more people than these clowns that take out 5-6 people with a gun.

As a somewhat related aside, I once went on one of those sites like Findlaw to better understand federal chemical weapons law and got a bunch of ads for divorce lawyers. Because clearly an engineer who's randomly interested in chemical weapons statutes must have wifey problems.

Posted by: CppThis at April 12, 2023 11:11 PM (PZvjL)

201 NeoCon plan B for Ukraine is to set Poland up as a major regional power in confrontation with Russia. You know, Greater Poland, just like the 17th century.

After we use up all the Ukrainian males of military age, we'll start in on the Poles!

Posted by: The Deep State! at April 12, 2023 11:11 PM (2tUFv)

202 Everyone over age 29 should write their own obit.
Otherwise people will write one for you and you won't get to approve it first.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

"History shall be kind to me, for I intend to write it"

Posted by: Miklos Spencer Churchill at April 12, 2023 11:11 PM (FUmnc)

203 Relevant to My Interests ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

*scroll down

Posted by: kbdabear at April 12, 2023 11:12 PM (IEw/x)

204 Applications Accepted: 99.5%

I think any breathing mammal can get into Evergreen, along with some of the non-breathing ones.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Imagine what a blow to your ego it would be if you weren't accepted. Then again, your inability to read the rejection letter would probably save you from the hurt.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 12, 2023 11:12 PM (0Htd1)

205 The curious thing is that the tumor that was removed has been passed around to several different medical labs, and none has been able to identify it yet. So we're still waiting for an official diagnosis. No news is good news, I guess -- unless it isn't.

As always, thank you for your prayers and friendship.
Posted by: Half Dozen at April 12, 2023 11:01 PM (eHovo)
***
Not to make light, and I'm glad he is recovering, but this sounds like the start of a great sci-fi movie.
In the silence of the lab, the night shift janitor fails to notice the petri dish with the specimen in it begins to glow. And then it moves...slowly...towards the unsuspecting man.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2023 11:12 PM (anj39)

206 I don't see why that is fireable.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

I never had to but back in olden days when I was in school, other kids in the school had to. Of course, in those days, school shootings were basically unknown.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 12, 2023 10:20 PM (FVME7)

Sounds like one of my old Hebrew School assignments. Write an obituary of how you'd want people to think of you and what you can do to get there. Then we had a long old talk about ethics.
It depends on how he presented it, maybe it was some "you h8ers need to change your evil ways". I suspect it could go either way though, as nobody likes to think about death.

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2023 11:12 PM (Zzbjj)

207 191 NeoCon plan B for Ukraine is to set Poland up as a major regional power in confrontation with Russia. You know, Greater Poland, just like the 17th century.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 12, 2023 11:07 PM (xhaym)

Will there be winged hussars? Because I might get behind some of this neocon chicanery if there's gonna be winged hussars.

Posted by: CppThis at April 12, 2023 11:13 PM (PZvjL)

208 200 Posted by: CppThis at April 12, 2023 11:11 PM (PZvjL)

It is important to increase the noise to signal ratio in your algorithmic fingerprint.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:13 PM (Lzpvj)

209 $500 for an obit nowadays.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 12, 2023 11:13 PM (h3tqt)

210 $500 for an obit nowadays.

--

I bet it's cheaper to buy a small advertisement.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 12, 2023 11:14 PM (SpC+Q)

211 The curious thing is that the tumor that was removed has been passed around to several different medical labs, and none has been able to identify it yet. So we're still waiting for an official diagnosis. No news is good news, I guess -- unless it isn't.

As always, thank you for your prayers and friendship.
Posted by: Half Dozen

Good luck, and of course, continued prayers.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 12, 2023 11:15 PM (0Htd1)

212 209 $500 for an obit nowadays.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 12, 2023 11:13 PM (h3tqt)

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Does that include a photo or similar graphic?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 12, 2023 11:15 PM (s12c9)

213 209 Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 12, 2023 11:13 PM (h3tqt)

I am going for the budget end of life ritual....

I will be cremated, my wife is under instructions to inform no one of my passing for 6 months unless they call to ask in on me except for my remaining brother and sister and if mentally sound my father.

I figure my end will cost less than 2000 bucks, I did ask her to set aside 5 grand for the 2d anniversary to allow my close friends a party.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:16 PM (Lzpvj)

214 I think if you start shooting some of the shoplifters the rest will decide it isn't worth dying over. Just like with terrorists, lessen the supply sufficiently and the problem stops.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 12, 2023 11:09 PM (KATBx)

I like the cut of your jib.
Also, this is a remedy for our southern border, too.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 12, 2023 11:16 PM (ufFY8)

215 Will there be winged hussars? Because I might get behind some of this neocon chicanery if there's gonna be winged hussars.

Polish Army combined maneuvers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2MmC-G7XmE

Posted by: The Deep State! at April 12, 2023 11:17 PM (2tUFv)

216 Hey all! Got a call from DD#1 this evening - grandson #2 is on the way; should be here in early November. Squeee!!!!!!

Needless to say, we are thrilled and can't wait to meet him 😊❤

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at April 12, 2023 11:17 PM (SRRAx)

217 So happy to hear, Half Dozen! Prayers continue but that is good news!

Posted by: Iris at April 12, 2023 11:17 PM (foa6+)

218 Needless to say, we are thrilled and can't wait to meet him 😊❤
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at April 12, 2023 11:17 PM (SRRAx)

Congrats!!!

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2023 11:17 PM (Zzbjj)

219 They just look like a giant, sloppy mess, with so many different flavors that you can't appreciate any of it, and can't appreciate the meat.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop

Said many guests at Mayor Alfred E. Buttplug's wedding reception?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 12, 2023 11:18 PM (CRzJX)

220 $500 for an obit nowadays.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 12, 2023 11:13 PM (h3tqt)

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

Does that include a photo or similar graphic?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 12, 2023 11:15 PM (s12c9)

Good question. Wife's uncle recently passed and that was the fee.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 12, 2023 11:19 PM (h3tqt)

221 I figure my end will cost less than 2000 bucks, I did ask her to set aside 5 grand for the 2d anniversary to allow my close friends a party.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:16 PM (Lzpvj)

Cost parents nothing. Found a place that will do cremations for free with body donations. Somebody can use your parts, or learn something from your body and your ashes are given to the survivors. Probably do that too.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2023 11:19 PM (Angsy)

222 Libraries are an important resource for so many people. MO State Sen. Lincoln Hough (R)

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For whom, exactly? Certainly not people under 25. I don't think they can even read. Give the books to us oldsters, and convert those places into xylazine/fentanyl dispensaries with giant 4K screens playing 24hr loops of today's hottest TikTok influencers for the odd occasion when when one of these zombies wakes up and needs some entertainment while she feeds on her still-comatose friend's rotten limb.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2023 11:20 PM (oINRc)

223 176 Prayers your way Half Dozen!

I have never heard of failure to identify a tumor?

Hopefully it is one of the discrete types that can be "cured".
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
I once had an odd little bump near my hip bone that didn't go away. The doc cut it out and sent it to be biopsied. When I called to find out the results he said that the first lab couldn't figure out what it was and sent it to a second lab. Concerning, but in the end it was non malignant.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 12, 2023 11:20 PM (0Htd1)

224 Everyone over age 29 should write their own obit.
Otherwise people will write one for you and you won't get to approve it first.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

"Diogenes is survived by his children and grandchildren, and he wishes all to know he never forgot that night with Suzy D, in the back of the Chevy, where she demonstrated why she was so good with a trombone."

Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2023 11:20 PM (anj39)

225 wife is under instructions to inform no one of my passing for 6 months unless

Make sure your stuff doesn't have to go through probate then. Those legal death notices in the paper are part of the process; there needs to be a public notice for any potential creditors to come out of the woodwork.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 12, 2023 11:20 PM (ufFY8)

226 209 $500 for an obit nowadays.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 12, 2023 11:13 PM (h3tqt)

Anyone we'd care to inform will know by word of mouth and the university can handle the official stuff in its newsletter. In my MIL's old neighborhood (Forest Hills) an obituary with service hours was an invitation for burglary.

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2023 11:20 PM (Zzbjj)

227 "Look upon my works, ye mortals, and despair!"

Posted by: gourmand du jour, sore and more at April 12, 2023 11:21 PM (jTmQV)

228 216 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at April 12, 2023 11:17 PM (SRRAx)

Praise God, the short folk work hard to visit.

I am very happy for you.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:21 PM (Lzpvj)

229 Self obit:

Veni, Vidi, uva

(I came, I saw, I Concord)

Posted by: Muldoon at April 12, 2023 11:21 PM (ykeLU)

230 As to college diplomas, I have three
But they really mean little to me
I'm a hit man. I'm for hire
And if credentials are required
I was trained for murder in the first degree
Posted by: Muldoon

RIP John Wick

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 12, 2023 11:21 PM (r4vfa)

231 NeoCon plan B for Ukraine is to set Poland up as a major regional power in confrontation with Russia. You know, Greater Poland, just like the 17th century.

"Sir, we suspect Putin is wanting to rebuild the Soviet empire."

"Hmm. That doesn't sound good. That's bad, right?"

"Absolutely, sir. It destroys the international order."

"Well, what can be done about it?"

"So what we are thinking is that we could rebuild an empire..."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 12, 2023 11:22 PM (bGeFc)

232 I think if you start shooting some of the shoplifters the rest will decide it isn't worth dying over. Just like with terrorists, lessen the supply sufficiently and the problem stops.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 12, 2023 11:09 PM (KATBx)

I like the cut of your jib.
Also, this is a remedy for our southern border, too.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

Southwestern American Pillbox Brigade >> Space Force

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 12, 2023 11:22 PM (CRzJX)

233 227 "Look upon my works, ye mortals, and despair!"
Posted by: gourmand du jour, sore and more at April 12, 2023 11:21 PM (jTmQV)

Ozymandias

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2023 11:22 PM (Zzbjj)

234 225 Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 12, 2023 11:20 PM (ufFY

The secret is die out of debt, we are well insured and we have good lawyers.

I simply do not want there to be a lot of drama or crying, my grandpa asked we laugh at his funeral when possible reflecting on the life lived not the company lost.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:22 PM (Lzpvj)

235 Condolences to Jane and all whom loved her hubby. The 'ouch' never quite goes away as all too many of us know.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 12, 2023 11:22 PM (qoGsy)

236 Condolences to Jane and family. So sorry.

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2023 11:23 PM (Zzbjj)

237 229 Self obit:

Veni, Vidi, uva

(I came, I saw, I Concord)
Posted by: Muldoon at April 12, 2023 11:21

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I won't wine, but that's just grape.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 12, 2023 11:24 PM (s12c9)

238 221 Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2023 11:19 PM (Angsy)

Mom was cremated by her alma mater, if I am home when I die I too will be.....

right now as with most of the last 25 years I am far from home.

I want to die where I learned to walk.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:24 PM (Lzpvj)

239 I simply do not want there to be a lot of drama or crying, my grandpa asked we laugh at his funeral when possible reflecting on the life lived not the company lost.

The #1 song at English funerals these days is Monty Python's "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life".

English humor.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 12, 2023 11:24 PM (2tUFv)

240 I want to die where I learned to walk.
Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:24 PM (Lzpvj)

I want to go back to the hometown to visit and reconcile the end of my life with its beginning, but I wouldn't want to live there or inconvenience my family here.

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2023 11:25 PM (Zzbjj)

241 Yup we have zero debt aside from the mortgage, and my insurance leaves Lady YD with more than enough to pay it off the day after I'm dead. Financially, my death would be a blessing. Luckily (or not) I trust her not to stab me for the cash.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2023 11:25 PM (oINRc)

242 "So what we are thinking is that we could rebuild an empire..."
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 12, 2023 11:22 PM (bGeFc)

Careful of the lyrics.

Posted by: Queensryche at April 12, 2023 11:26 PM (h3tqt)

243 Careful of the lyrics.

Posted by: Queensryche at April 12, 2023 11:26 PM (h3tqt)

I should have seen it coming.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 12, 2023 11:27 PM (bGeFc)

244 Everyone over age 29 should write their own obit.
Otherwise people will write one for you and you won't get to approve it first.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, sore and more at April 12, 2023 10:59 PM (jTmQV)

D

Posted by: Kindltot at April 12, 2023 11:28 PM (xhaym)

245 The atmosphere is over 5 quadrillion tons, 10 billion tons is not even a rounding error, it essentially doesn't exist.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 12, 2023 11:28 PM (up/3i)

246 I'm not qualified to judge guitar players but here is Vince Gill with Gregg Allman in one one my favorite tunes. He does sing harmony very well.

https://youtu.be/TLbnWr1-Qsc

Posted by: Javems at April 12, 2023 11:28 PM (AmoqO)

247 So what, exactly are greenhouse gasses ? and how much us too much, and maybe more importantly, how much us too little?

Posted by: LASue at April 12, 2023 11:28 PM (Ed8Zd)

248 All this talk of funeral arrangements is on point today. The lovely Mrs. and I sat down with our hometown funeral director for our initial meeting today. Didn't make any firm decisions but became aware of a boatload of options.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 12, 2023 11:29 PM (qoGsy)

249 Dad wrote his own obit, it was an amazing help in dealing with is funeral. I would have never gotten all the information in, like graduations, degrees, organizations and associations

Posted by: Kindltot at April 12, 2023 11:30 PM (xhaym)

250 If money were no object: I want them Nigerian casket dancer fellas. A eulogy filled with outlandish fabrications delivered by a professional pitch man, who breaks now and again to read a few words from our corporate sponsors. Sandwiches and plentiful whiskey. Some busty professional mourners. Not even kidding really.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 12, 2023 11:30 PM (KFhLj)

251 227 "Look upon my works, ye mortals, and despair!"

Posted by: gourmand du jour, sore and more at April 12, 2023 11:21 PM (jTmQV)

* "...ye Mighty..."

Posted by: E. A. Blair at April 12, 2023 11:30 PM (4kmQq)

252 248 All this talk of funeral arrangements is on point today. The lovely Mrs. and I sat down with our hometown funeral director for our initial meeting today. Didn't make any firm decisions but became aware of a boatload of options.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 12, 2023 11:29 PM (qoGsy)

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Boatload?

Viking Funeral with Bronze-level Package?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 12, 2023 11:30 PM (s12c9)

253 All glory is fleeting

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 12, 2023 11:31 PM (WF/xn)

254 Is this one of you morons?

OG, The supposed leaker of the Russo-Ukrainian war documents.

But OG had a dark view of the government. The young member said he spoke of the United States, and particularly law enforcement and the intelligence community, as a sinister force that sought suppress its citizens and keep them in the dark. He ranted about “government overreach.”

OG told his online companions that the government hid horrible truths from the public. He claimed, according to the members, that the government knew in advance that a white supremacist intended to go on a shooting rampage at a Buffalo supermarket in May 2022. The attack left 10 dead, all of them Black, and wounded three more. OG said federal law enforcement officials let the killings proceed so they could argue for increased funding, a baseless notion that the member said he believes and considers an example of OG’s penetrating insights about the depth of government corruption.

https://tinyurl.com/yp3bm8ff

Posted by: rd at April 12, 2023 11:31 PM (Z32m1)

255 Dad wrote his own obit

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"YD died as he lived... In a gutter, like a mangy cur."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2023 11:32 PM (oINRc)

256 Some busty professional mourners. Not even kidding really.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 12, 2023 11:30 PM (KFhLj)

*scribbles note into the To Do list.*

Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2023 11:32 PM (anj39)

257 Sorry Prof Squirrel; nothing personal, but I view the "Education" (scare quotes deliberate) Establishment as the source of many of our societal problems. The Schools of Education are at the foundation of this disfunction. Lowest SAT scores, highest GPAS.
In the Middle Ages, when I went to school :-), the School quartiles broke out drastically different. I don't remember the other schools, but I remember my own (Engineering) - a 2.3 got you out of the bottom, a 2.6 got you to the third, and a 2.95 put you into the top quarter. Education? Anything under a 3.4 put you in the bottom quartile. It required a 3.92 to crack the top.
Teachers today have no education, so they have nothing of value to impart, but they get kudos for indoctrinating their charges with leftist nonsense, which has the advantage of not actually requiring thought or disipline.
Raze the ed schools and salt the earth. Go back to Normal schools with 2 year degrees. "One lesson plan ahead" is feasible for elementary, while upper grade teachers will be required to have degree in or related to the subject they are teaching, and take training (on the order of 3-6 months) in teaching techniques.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 12, 2023 11:32 PM (a22ZT)

258 A friend who is a doctor said it's not particularly unusual for one lab to "level up" to another lab if they can't reach a conclusion about a specimen. But it seems strange to me that there's no answer at all after 3-1/2 weeks.

Iris, nerdygirl, Pillage Idiot, sven, MisHum, and everyone I missed, thank you.

Diogenes, I can't wait to see that movie some day!

Posted by: Half Dozen at April 12, 2023 11:32 PM (eHovo)

259 So what, exactly are greenhouse gasses ? and how much us too much, and maybe more importantly, how much us too little?
Posted by: LASue

--

If you haven't realized it by now, it's all pretend. It's all made up to exert power and control. None of it is real, serious, or able to be discussed because it's not real or serious.

It's all about control. And we're seeing the end-game as we speak.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 12, 2023 11:32 PM (SpC+Q)

260 Posted by: Tonypete at April 12, 2023 11:29 PM (qoGsy)

I'll just have a graveside service, Kaddish, a few little goodbyes. We want nothing elaborate. We pit it all in a will, and the cemetery was paid for by his grandfather many many years ago

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2023 11:32 PM (Zzbjj)

261 Also, that crazy sign language guy.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 12, 2023 11:33 PM (KFhLj)

262 I have felt sorrow for Jane continually since I heard of his collapse. Brought back to life the memory of my father's passing 3 years ago, was thinking about him since it was Dad's birthday yesterday. Also died of sudden pneumonia (but had a history of lung ailments) The hurt fades finally, but it doesn't go away, and losing a loved spouse is one of the hardest pains to bear.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2023 11:33 PM (r46W7)

263 254 Posted by: rd at April 12, 2023 11:31 PM (Z32m1)

Eh I doubt it, it is Al-WaPo I am betting the person is populist lefty probably a contractor.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:34 PM (Lzpvj)

264 Posted by: rd at April 12, 2023 11:31 PM (Z32m1)

Could be bullshit. Could be true. Wouldn't put it past 'em on a bet.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2023 11:34 PM (oINRc)

265 The federal government has too much power. They are able to mess around with the car makers and I don't like it.

I personally believe that most people, most of the time, would be well-served by an electric car; and that if electric cars cost less than gasoline cars, most cars sold would be electric cars, from people's own free choices. The industry is headed that way anyway. If I'm right, the government won't have to force people.

The Democrats want to get in front of something that will happen no matter what, and then claim "See! We did that!" It's stupid to print more money and spend it on something that would happen anyway.

For years the feds have been pushing increasingly crazy MPG standards, and at this point it's almost impossible to make gas cars that can meet the standard so car companies are forced to make some EVs (which use zero gasoline and thus bring up the average). I'm not a fan of this.

P.S. I do still love my personal EV. (I'd better; it's the most expensive car I've ever owned.)

Posted by: mr_jack at April 12, 2023 11:36 PM (LNPSJ)

266 256 Some busty professional mourners. Not even kidding really.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 12, 2023 11:30 PM (KFhLj)

A few weeks back someone posted a link to a site where the woman hires out for this. She gets tarted up to beat the band and show up with a black umbrella rain or shine, dries a tear, talks to no one.

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2023 11:36 PM (Zzbjj)

267 "Age-restricted adult content. This content might not be appropriate for people under 18 years old. To view this media, you’ll need to log in to Twitter."

No

For all I know, Elon will have prpl hair next week

Posted by: Miklos puts not his faith in Princes at April 12, 2023 11:37 PM (FUmnc)

268 It's probably good that I don't use any of the major social media platforms. It'd be just a matter of time before I countered some smug gun grabber's stupid rant with a *very* detailed explanation of all the ways that a sufficiently motivated nutjob could kill a whole lot more people than these clowns that take out 5-6 people with a gun.

Gun control wouldn't have stopped Timothy McVeigh.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 12, 2023 11:37 PM (0Htd1)

269 I must have missed something - did Jane D'oh's husband die? Oh, how awful! Prayers to her entire family 😢💕💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at April 12, 2023 11:37 PM (SRRAx)

270 264 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2023 11:34 PM (oINRc)

An intellectually precocious person with some exposure in my estimation to G-2 or S-2 chatter. OG likely used a cycle of induction, deduction, and abduction to glean "intel" from the data flow or nexus between the 2 shops and the PAO office and compared and contrasted and was left disillusioned. They probably work garrison or S6 support on a post with a heavy forcecom presence.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:38 PM (Lzpvj)

271 My mom always says to bury her in the yard with no coffin to save money. Of course I won't do that. For her. But if I know that the bell is tolling for me, I'll dig my hole myself. Lady YD won't waste a free hole. In the ground I go, all done.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2023 11:38 PM (oINRc)

272 Sorry Prof Squirrel; nothing personal, but I view the "Education" (scare quotes deliberate) Establishment as the source of many of our societal problems. The Schools of Education are at the foundation of this disfunction. Lowest SAT scores, highest GPAS.
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You won't find any argument from me about that. Today I had to sit through an interview with a candidate for an associate teaching professor in math. He was SJW all the way. Loud and proud (in more ways than one). Oh, and most of his jobs involved training other teachers to be SJW.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 11:39 PM (BpYfr)

273 I figure my end will cost less than 2000 bucks, I did ask her to set aside 5 grand for the 2d anniversary to allow my close friends a party.
Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:16 PM (Lzpvj)

Mom's was the cost of cremation, the plot and stone, and we used the post hole digger from the garage to make the hole

Just like Grandpa's funeral.

And no, I have no idea if the cemetery district lets you dig your own hole, we never bothered to ask.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 12, 2023 11:39 PM (xhaym)

274 Hey zipperhead neocons. It's InBev not budlight ...

Posted by: Nipsy Russell at April 12, 2023 11:39 PM (NxoPm)

275 Vince Gill is great with the Eagles, but nothing beats this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rk6gtZZgsNo

Posted by: LASue at April 12, 2023 11:39 PM (Ed8Zd)

276 268 Posted by: nerdygirl at April 12, 2023 11:37 PM (0Htd1)

or the 9/11 hijackers, TMZ had a charming documentary on "the fifth plane."

Turns out there were at least one and possibly three more planned hijackings, if Flight 23's staff was correct there were some stone cold operatives on their plane.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:40 PM (Lzpvj)

277 The director asked some thought provoking questions. For example, He asked if any of our children had already died. Gulp. . . yes. Long story short, he suggested we disinter him (he's buried in a cemetery far away from everyone) and rebury him in our family plot either along side me and R. or with us in the same plot. R. and I talked about it years ago but life happened and well, you know. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at April 12, 2023 11:41 PM (qoGsy)

278 I personally believe that most people, most of the time, would be well-served by an electric car; and that if electric cars cost less than gasoline cars, most cars sold would be electric cars, from people's own free choices. The industry is headed that way anyway. If I'm right, the government won't have to force people.

P.S. I do still love my personal EV. (I'd better; it's the most expensive car I've ever owned.)

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You're wrong, and you remain wrong, same as every time you post.

You exist in an isolated bubble without an understanding of other people or their needs. EVs are already available and statistically no one wants them. The vast majority of sales are to government and corporations. Individual sales aren't even half of the paltry total because, again, no one wants them. They don't serve a useful purpose for people.

And you simultaneously somehow believe that the most expensive car you ever purchased can be cheap.

You are what is wrong with everything related to the issue.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 12, 2023 11:41 PM (SpC+Q)

279 A few weeks back someone posted a link to a site where the woman hires out for this. She gets tarted up to beat the band and show up with a black umbrella rain or shine, dries a tear, talks to no one.
Posted by: CN

The March 31st ONT. But it was up in the "content" part. WeirdDave, of course.

Posted by: mikeski at April 12, 2023 11:42 PM (DgGvY)

280 I have st realized I have remaining work to do.

And have to pay a New Orleans lawyer.

Nawlins got lots of SAPCs

I am even an Honorary Zulu

Posted by: The Miklosian Social, Aid, and Pleasure Society at April 12, 2023 11:43 PM (FUmnc)

281 214 I think if you start shooting some of the shoplifters the rest will decide it isn't worth dying over. Just like with terrorists, lessen the supply sufficiently and the problem stops.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 12, 2023 11:09 PM (KATBx)

It's useful to remember the levels of responsibility for the situation; the shoplifters of course, but they are just the lowest level of evildoer. They didn't have the power to create the situation, they just are invited to exploit it. (yes, they are invited) A higher level of responsibility is due to all the officials of that government who created the situation and perverted the law. Even more liable are the people who finance all of this at the top, and of course the voters who sit back and allow this rot while doing nothing are also culpable.

So the most fitting punishment is for all of these stores to just leave, for food distribution to stop, and for this city to collapse and die for its evil.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2023 11:43 PM (r46W7)

282 He claimed, according to the members, that the government knew in advance that a white supremacist intended to go on a shooting rampage at a Buffalo supermarket in May 2022.

Most of these mass shooters are "known wolves". How much the feds are stirring people up, how much they are just not following up when they should, and how much is unavoidable is unclear.

In Heritage America congress would demands ALL intelligence on these various shooters be released to the public, unredacted, but as we've seen with the recent tranny-murderer the government sees its roll as hiding as much as it can from the public.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 11:43 PM (lc5cP)

283 Veni, Vidi, uva

(I came, I saw, I Concord)
Posted by: Muldoon at April 12, 2023 11:21

I am scuppernogged, completely scuppernogged.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 12, 2023 11:44 PM (xhaym)

284 Slut Burgers are always sloppy seconds.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

And the indigestion you get from them is just them saying "me love you long time".

Posted by: SFGoth at April 12, 2023 11:44 PM (KAi1n)

285 Just like Grandpa's funeral.

And no, I have no idea if the cemetery district lets you dig your own hole, we never bothered to ask.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 12, 2023 11:39 PM (xhaym

We buried some of dad's ashes behind the pitcher's mound of the nearby little league field, where he coached for some 20 years. Oddly enough, the next year the all star team from the field lost out to the California team to play for the little league world championship game. We like to think dad had something to do with it.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 12, 2023 11:44 PM (SJLjq)

286 [breaks out of lurkingdom]

bear with asymmetrical balls: Also, that crazy sign language guy.

Heh, I was just about to post that very suggestion when I saw this. Nelson Mandela funeral sign language guy.

Then there was that for-hire lady someone here mentioned recently, who would come and look very grieving and mysterious at the funeral.

Hmm. This bug flying around the lamp seems to be some kind of Mayfly-wasp hybrid. (Holds swatter at ready.)

[returns to lurkingdom]

Posted by: mindful webworker - wasn't really here at April 12, 2023 11:45 PM (28bVS)

287 (I came, I saw, I Concord)
Posted by: Muldoon

Je suis d'accord!

Posted by: Le Mikleuse, shrugging like a Frenchman at April 12, 2023 11:45 PM (FUmnc)

288 or the 9/11 hijackers, TMZ had a charming documentary on "the fifth plane."

Turns out there were at least one and possibly three more planned hijackings, if Flight 23's staff was correct there were some stone cold operatives on their plane.

After 9/11 the US intelligence services rounded up all the Arabic illegals and "over stayed their visa" types in the US and kicked them out of the country.

No trials, no refugees requests, none of that bull shit.

And that's why outside of the anthrax mailings there weren't more major terror attacks (excluding home grown muslims like the DC snipers) for quite some time.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 11:46 PM (lc5cP)

289 bear with asymmetrical balls: Also, that crazy sign language guy.

We...we need time for this

Posted by: The Oxford Miklos Dictionary at April 12, 2023 11:46 PM (FUmnc)

290 You people with cremation and simple funerals must not be as self centered as me. I prepaid, and I'm getting everything, casket vault, funeral Mass, grave, funeral home visitation, lunch in the parish hall, holy cards. I want it all. And I put the funeral home info on my refrigerator to make sure no one forgets. Hopefully I'll live so long that there won't be hardly anyone left to attend. Maybe I should arrange for hired mourners.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 12, 2023 11:47 PM (0Htd1)

291 Aaaand CN beat me to the mysterious mourner lady suggestion.

I have no need to comment.

[back to lurk f'r realz]

Posted by: mindful webworker - still isn't really here at April 12, 2023 11:47 PM (28bVS)

292 275 Vince Gill is great with the Eagles, but nothing beats this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rk6gtZZgsNo

Posted by: LASue at April 12, 2023 11:39 PM (Ed8Zd)

My Dad's favorite hymn.

Posted by: Javems at April 12, 2023 11:48 PM (AmoqO)

293 All glory is fleeting
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 12, 2023 11:31 PM (WF/xn)

Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory lasts forever.

Posted by: Shane Falco at April 12, 2023 11:48 PM (4I/2K)

294 And that's why outside of the anthrax mailings there weren't more major terror attacks (excluding home grown muslims like the DC snipers) for quite some time.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 11:46 PM (lc5cP)

and boy did the FBI screw up the investigation into those.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2023 11:49 PM (r46W7)

295 Gun control wouldn't have stopped Timothy McVeigh.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 12, 2023 11:37 PM (0Htd1)

Apparently having his militia group infiltrated by the FBI or maybe the ATF didn't manage to stop McVeigh either.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 12, 2023 11:49 PM (xhaym)

296 And that's why outside of the anthrax mailings there weren't more major terror attacks (excluding home grown muslims like the DC snipers) for quite some time.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 11:46 PM (lc5cP)

JFK Jr is claiming the Ant-hrax letters to Congresscriiters only went to the members who were holding up Patriot Act legislation. Unexpectedly

Posted by: Kindltot at April 12, 2023 11:51 PM (xhaym)

297 I don't get the big funeral thing at all. Living relatives who care to can show up in my yard, chuck my husk deep enough in the clay to keep the dog off me, cover it up, drink a few bottles of bourbon, and overthrow the US government, in accordance with my will.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2023 11:51 PM (oINRc)

298 295 Posted by: Kindltot at April 12, 2023 11:49 PM (xhaym)

It is amazing how often the supra geniuses of LE have people less than two hops away from mayhem....

I am using the two hop metric for a reason, one of the things post 9/11 the LE and Intel communities decided was that rather than needing two hops they now can use three and are pushing for five.

Five hops is functionally an open snipe hunting license in the information age.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:51 PM (Lzpvj)

299 296 Posted by: Kindltot at April 12, 2023 11:51 PM (xhaym)

RFK Jr, JFK Jr would need a channeler and aquaman to communicate truths.

Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:52 PM (Lzpvj)

300 250 ....Sandwiches and plentiful whiskey. Some busty professional mourners. Not even kidding really.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority

At the funeral lunch for my great uncle they came around with chilled cans of beer for everyone. It was a nice touch.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 12, 2023 11:53 PM (0Htd1)

301 A few weeks back someone posted a link to a site where the woman hires out for this. She gets tarted up to beat the band and show up with a black umbrella rain or shine, dries a tear, talks to no one.

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nnnice. and then , to make it more interesting, the service can have a reveal ! mystery woman with an umbrella reveals herself !

Posted by: runner at April 12, 2023 11:53 PM (V13WU)

302 I am using the two hop metric for a reason, one of the things post 9/11 the LE and Intel communities decided was that rather than needing two hops they now can use three and are pushing for five.

OK, I don't get this. What are you saying? The feds are what just monitoring? and not being there in person?

Posted by: Iris at April 12, 2023 11:54 PM (foa6+)

303 RFK Jr, JFK Jr would need a channeler and aquaman to communicate truths.
Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:52 PM (Lzpvj)

Right. Horizon loss is a bitch for VFR

Posted by: Kindltot at April 12, 2023 11:54 PM (xhaym)

304 JFK Jr is claiming the Ant-hrax letters to Congresscriiters only went to the members who were holding up Patriot Act legislation. Unexpectedly
Posted by: Kindltot at April 12, 2023 11:51 PM (xhaym)

RFK - we all remember how JFK Jr took himself out of the running. This is the kind of thing that I used to think was nuts, but now I'm thinking it goes a long way in explaining why the FBI spent 3 years trying to frame a guy who (luckily for him) was able to prove his innocence.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2023 11:56 PM (r46W7)

305 JFK Jr is claiming the Ant-hrax letters to Congresscriiters only went to the members who were holding up Patriot Act legislation. Unexpectedly

They came from a Muslim illegal that had run a check kiting scheme and used the profits to buy the equipment to prepare the anthrax. He was working with the 9/11 hijackers - which is why one of the hijackers had a cutaneous anthrax injury.

So why did the mailings stop? The feds kicked him out of the country shortly after 9/11.

Remember the government still blames the mailings on some random Ft Detrick researcher who conveniently killed himself...and who had no reason to stop sending the mailings if he was doing it in the first place.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 11:56 PM (lc5cP)

306 And that's why outside of the anthrax mailings there weren't more major terror attacks (excluding home grown muslims like the DC snipers) for quite some time.
Posted by: 18-1

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Well, that and they were able to achieve what they needed to pass the PATRIOT Act.

No need to push for any other terrorism.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 12, 2023 11:57 PM (SpC+Q)

307 They probably work garrison or S6 support on a post with a heavy forcecom presence.
Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:38 PM

Personally, I think the "Who's the leaker?" is misdirection.

A few weeks ago wasn't there an Army email server that was spewing terabytes of email on the web or did I just imagine that?

Posted by: Chuck C at April 12, 2023 11:57 PM (xttsV)

308 248 All this talk of funeral arrangements is on point today. The lovely Mrs. and I sat down with our hometown funeral director for our initial meeting today. Didn't make any firm decisions but became aware of a boatload of options.

Posted by: Tonypete

Right around the time that I was looking into setting it up, I got an invitation from a nearby funeral home for a free lunch where they would present options. So I got a free lunch and some free pens. Of course the funeral itself was over $10,000. I should have taken two lunches and more pens.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 12, 2023 11:58 PM (0Htd1)

309 Local LE at least tends to use their two hops to catch bad guys, including a number of musloid plots that DC later tried to take credit for. Or used to, back in the days of beat cops talking to locals before the system got dorked up by Marxist agitators and their frenemies the MRAP loving police-state zealots. Federal LE, yeah, they seem to have people everywhere but they never find stuff in time. Curious, that...

Posted by: CppThis at April 12, 2023 11:59 PM (PZvjL)

310 Oh one other amusing anecdote - the other argument that the government used to claim the anthrax mailings were domestic researchers was that they was an American strain.

Hussein's Iraq had gotten samples of this same strain however in the 80s from the US. It was a scandal at the time, and prior to the invasion of Iraq was often used by the left to claim Reagan created the Iraqi WMD program.

Of course it should be noted that the left alternately blamed Reagan for not helping Iran vs Iraq and Iraq vs Iran depending on which country was a bigger enemy of the US at that particular political moment.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 11:59 PM (lc5cP)

311 297 I don't get the big funeral thing at all. Living relatives who care to can show up in my yard, chuck my husk deep enough in the clay to keep the dog off me, cover it up, drink a few bottles of bourbon, and overthrow the US government, in accordance with my will.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2023 11:51 PM (oINRc)

Funerals are for the living, not the dead. To many families, it's important for closure.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 13, 2023 12:00 AM (r46W7)

312 FORCE me to purchase an EV??? You know what you may do with that idea until it chokes you.

I picked that right out of the paragraph, it just jumped at me.

Force indeed. I'll refrain from further comment.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 13, 2023 12:01 AM (KATBx)

313 Right around the time that I was looking into setting it up, I got an invitation from a nearby funeral home for a free lunch where they would present options. So I got a free lunch and some free pens. Of course the funeral itself was over $10,000. I should have taken two lunches and more pens.
Posted by: nerdygirl

And used them to fill out tax forms, to combine the only two certainties.

Posted by: B. Franklin at April 13, 2023 12:02 AM (DgGvY)

314 Death only happens once.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 13, 2023 12:02 AM (xhaym)

315 OK, I don't get this. What are you saying? The feds are what just monitoring? and not being there in person?
Posted by: Iris at April 12, 2023 11:54 PM (foa6+)

Yes.

They get a FISA warrant on Moron X for being white and supreme or whatever. He calls Moron Y about a Valu-Rite sale. Moron Y calls Moron Z to tell him about it. Y and Z are covered in the same warrant as X, for all their conversations, though they have nothing to do with his Supreme White Mindthoughts.

With a network effect, given the many calls a given insurrectionist enemy of the State makes in a day, that's a metric fuckton of people you can drag into your net.

Expand it a couple steps, and you theoretically get every person in the tri-state area off one kangaroo court warrant from a crook like Rudy Contreras.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 13, 2023 12:03 AM (oINRc)

316 If it weren't for funerals, I'd never see anyone, anymore.
You have to go to funerals, or else they won't come to yours.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, paraphrasing the hell out of everything at April 13, 2023 12:03 AM (jTmQV)

317 271 My mom always says to bury her in the yard with no coffin to save money. Of course I won't do that. For her. But if I know that the bell is tolling for me, I'll dig my hole myself. Lady YD won't waste a free hole. In the ground I go, all done.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I'd be afraid a neighborhood dog might dig me up.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 13, 2023 12:04 AM (0Htd1)

318 Remember the government still blames the mailings on some random Ft Detrick researcher who conveniently killed himself...and who had no reason to stop sending the mailings if he was doing it in the first place.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 11:56 PM (lc5cP)

And they only switched the blame to him after he was conveniently dead, and after the first researcher they tried to pin it on convincingly demonstrated his innocence.

I don't think the Iraqi's did it either. Sure it was an American Strain - right out of an FBI lab.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 13, 2023 12:04 AM (r46W7)

319 Five hops is functionally an open snipe hunting license in the information age.
Posted by: sven

Avva bee mate

Posted by: Australian Kevin Bacon at April 13, 2023 12:04 AM (FUmnc)

320 FORCE me to purchase an EV??? You know what you may do with that idea until it chokes you.

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You don't have to buy one, of course. That's part of their plan, too. Along with the part where you can't afford one (and families certainly won't be able to afford two), or can't purchase one because there are none available.

Again, all part of the plan.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 13, 2023 12:04 AM (SpC+Q)

321 If it weren't for funerals, I'd never see anyone, anymore.
You have to go to funerals, or else they won't come to yours.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, paraphrasing the hell out of everything at April 13, 2023 12:03 AM (jTmQV)

Hold a potluck. Do it when the weather is nice and you can get a park for yourself.
Send a message that says, "I am tired of only seeing you lot when someone dies. Bring a side dish, I am supplying the meat course. Bring a chair"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 13, 2023 12:05 AM (xhaym)

322 315 Expand it a couple steps, and you theoretically get every person in the tri-state area off one kangaroo court warrant from a crook like Rudy Contreras.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 13, 2023 12:03 AM (oINRc)

Enemy Of The State was a damn good future documentary cleverly disguised as a 90s thriller.

Posted by: CppThis at April 13, 2023 12:06 AM (PZvjL)

323 302 Posted by: Iris at April 12, 2023 11:54 PM (foa6+)

No they keep using their willful failures to justify constantly expanding the surveillance network.

Say that A shows indications of being a potential problem... in the old days you could surveil A and by extension B if B directly interacted with him, RICO and going after the mob and the shotgun recruitment tactics of the Russians led to the two hop. You surveil A, and B and cultivate the net on C if merited.

That was the American standard, the UK has always had 3 to 5 hops.

American operatives have been whiffing a lot, whether on purpose or "gosh they just got real lucky" take Omar Mateen who had been accused of threatening the life of a deputy while on a security contract at a Federal court house.

Every time DOJ and the IC have failed they have been rewarded with ever expanding power, every time a democrat known wolf goes ballistic they get more gun control noise.

The democrats should have a band called "Perverse Incentives."

Posted by: sven at April 13, 2023 12:07 AM (Lzpvj)

324 307 Posted by: Chuck C at April 12, 2023 11:57 PM (xttsV)

No it happened we were briefed on it.

Consider this, DOD could be making the cogent decision to purposefully leak this shit to try to divorce itself from perceived culpability for the SS fail boat that is headed our way.

We are as far from Constitutional order as heaven is wide.

Posted by: sven at April 13, 2023 12:09 AM (Lzpvj)

325 (FUmnc)

Almost Italian

Note

The father of a friend (Renato Terreni) spent WWII doing nothing at Fiumicino and on the Croatian coast.

Later became Admiral and head of the NATO commission about Standardization.

To hear an Italian talk about lack of cooperation was interesting.

Posted by: Il Miklosio, bene bene at April 13, 2023 12:11 AM (FUmnc)

326 YD, Sven, Thanks I think it is making sense. In an infuriating way of course.

Posted by: Iris at April 13, 2023 12:12 AM (foa6+)

327 I've made my wishes know for my funeral. But also realize that the services are for the living. I wont be there to officiate.

Posted by: Javems at April 13, 2023 12:13 AM (AmoqO)

328 @324

So what do we do to get back to Constitutional order, my long time posting acquaintance? Are we in accord with the solution or do we diverge?

BTW, it's good to see you again, been too long since I read you. Still remember HotAir every now and then.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 13, 2023 12:17 AM (KATBx)

329 for an even more fun thought on "hopping" also consider...

You get laughed out of the FISA court....

what is an operative to do?

Why sovereignty wash that legal hurdle away old boy....YOU are not gonna surveil A talking to B you ask the UK to do so easy peasy Japanesey voila your agency is "not to blame" and by golly when your "source" at MI6 alerts you through channels as to A and B's activity you can resubmit to the FISA court or open an investigation preliminarily anyway and as an added bonus YOU do the same for the UK's MI offices.

One nice byproduct of American penury will be the decline of the snooper state.

Posted by: sven at April 13, 2023 12:19 AM (Lzpvj)

330 Money is for the living, too. The guy I'm going to meet doesn't take USD. Keep it. Don't blow it on some expensive crap for my useless husk.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 13, 2023 12:20 AM (oINRc)

331 Elon needs to free up NPR and PBS's Twitter handles. Let somebody else have fun with them.

Posted by: Michael Mann Enthusiast at April 13, 2023 12:21 AM (18PNs)

332 328 Posted by: irongrampa at April 13, 2023 12:17 AM (KATBx)

We go bankrupt, it will be the only way because the IC and "Non-Partisan Civil Service" have the receipts on the debaucheries of the elected I suspect. If we are lucky and enough of us raised on classical civics can make our voices heard we will avoid the post-implosion break-up I think is brewing.

It is always good to see you, I value the nicks I have seen over the last 27 years the most.

I hope you are well.

Posted by: sven at April 13, 2023 12:22 AM (Lzpvj)

333 I figure my end will cost less than 2000 bucks, I did ask her to set aside 5 grand for the 2d anniversary to allow my close friends a party.
Posted by: sven at April 12, 2023 11:16

Interesting plan sven. Why 2nd anniversary and not the first?

Along these lines, after my Aunt Bonnie and Uncle Dave died the kids had a nice ceremony here along the Rock River. Their ashes were scattered, just as a gust of wind blew them back in our faces. Ooops, how much was inhaled by the crowd?

Posted by: Farmer at April 13, 2023 12:25 AM (55Qr6)

334 Regional breakup is inevitable once the money faucet runs dry. There's just no way the Midwest is gonna agree to burden itself with Southern trailer parks, or the South shoulders the cost of the Midwestern corn lobby. And so on.

Posted by: CppThis at April 13, 2023 12:26 AM (PZvjL)

335 333 Posted by: Farmer at April 13, 2023 12:25 AM (55Qr6)

I grew up rough without relitigating it here, my circle of friends going back literally to grade school in many ways are my family. The unfortunate reality is we scattered to the four winds, and the wife will decide with them whether to gather as a group or to go to them. I want them to have had time to reflect, and to know looking at her who they know I have chased since I was 12 and they were there that they as a group are the people I loved most on this world and that I miss and value them.

We all have our own lives and our own broods but we all take proper pride and joy in one another's accomplishments and families.

Posted by: sven at April 13, 2023 12:29 AM (Lzpvj)

336 I'll repeat something I've posted prior, and firmly believe, that throughout our history we've met and prevailed over issues every bit as serious as this.

Given our unbroken record of success I'll take the odds of winning here also. The whole thrust is returning to a representational Republic as we were originally designed to be. Not a democracy, which so many consider us to be.

The machinery is there, it merely needs implementing.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 13, 2023 12:37 AM (KATBx)

337 going back literally to grade school in many ways

"Misty watercoloured memories"

Posted by: "polyester clothes" at April 13, 2023 12:39 AM (FUmnc)

338 337 going back literally to grade school in many ways

"Misty watercoloured memories"

Posted by: "polyester clothes" at April 13, 2023 12:39 AM (FUmnc)

Uh... eating dirt?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 13, 2023 12:40 AM (oHd/0)

339 Here's an example of how ludicrous the "two hop" thing is:

Let's say I'm an insane fed with an ax to grind. You can call me Special Agent Hammond Egger. I go to Rudy Contreras' FISC and say "Look Rudy, we've got a guy on the string, name of YD. He's bad. He expressed support for dangerous ideological heterodoxy on a website. That's right... his dangerous heterodoxy crossed State lines, repeatedly."

So Rudy gives me this crazy warrant. Now I apply it. Every person he calls and every person they call are now automatically fair game. So then YD (nefarious as he is) gets hungry in his hotel room, and calls a popular Mexican restaurant for a delivery meal.

Every one of the hundreds of customers who call that restaurant during the period of YD's FISA warrant is subject to fully legal & warranted fed surveillance.

That's how broad these laws are.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 13, 2023 12:41 AM (oINRc)

340 We all have our own lives and our own broods but we all take proper pride and joy in one another's accomplishments and families.
Posted by: sven at April 13, 2023 12:29

Very cool. I recently got back from a ZZ Top concert w/ 3 old friends I met at 17, 50 yrs ago this fall. For a bunch of crazy college kids from the 70s we have all turned out to be responsible citizens, SURPISE!

Posted by: Farmer at April 13, 2023 12:42 AM (55Qr6)

341 Uh... eating dirt?
Posted by: Romeo13

Cruelty is not only allowed here, it is Encouraged

Posted by: Lil' Miklos, who was allergic to polyester at April 13, 2023 12:43 AM (FUmnc)

342 OK Hordeians! Birthday today! 64. Went skiing and had a good day... slushy at the end, but had a few really great runs.

Met a 40's couple a the bar at lunch... good people. Many beers later, yeah, good people.

Picked up a really good Pizza on the way home... and as I walked into the House... Son (who NEVER calls me).... called. Yeah... Pizza got cold.

Good day...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 13, 2023 12:43 AM (oHd/0)

343 Every one of the hundreds of customers who call that restaurant during the period of YD's FISA warrant is subject to fully legal & warranted fed surveillance.

That's how broad these laws are.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 13, 2023 12:41 AM (oINRc)

It's not only calls. Me answering you online? Yeah... target.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 13, 2023 12:45 AM (oHd/0)

344 314 Death only happens once.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 13, 2023 12:02 AM (xhaym)

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Unless you're on the Uvalde police force.

A coward dies a thousand deaths...

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 13, 2023 12:45 AM (s12c9)

345 342 Posted by: Romeo13 at April 13, 2023 12:43 AM (oHd/0)

Sounds like it, glad you had a good one.

I am going to go voluntary coma.

Posted by: sven at April 13, 2023 12:45 AM (Lzpvj)

346 Posted by: Romeo13 at April 13, 2023 12:43 AM (oHd/0)

Happy Birthday! I'm glad you had a nice day.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 13, 2023 12:46 AM (0KUO3)

347 Happy Birthday Romeo13. May this be one more in a long long succession.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 13, 2023 12:48 AM (KATBx)

348 Good day...
Posted by: Romeo13

Now see?

We can have a lousy quarter acres of Good Things

If the Rich People let us

Posted by: Miklos, my mother tailored my Blue Jeans at April 13, 2023 12:49 AM (FUmnc)

349 Good day...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 13, 2023 12:43 AM (oHd/0)

Happy Birthday, Romeo13! may there be many more.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 13, 2023 12:49 AM (tkR6S)

350 Can someone give me a link to the info on Jane D'oh's hubby? Thanks in advance.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at April 13, 2023 12:51 AM (SRRAx)

351 Posted by: Romeo13 at April 13, 2023 12:43 AM (oHd/0)

Happy Birthday! I'm glad you had a nice day.
Posted by: Jordan61

I am looking forward to my 29th birthday

Posted by: Ye Venerable Miklos at April 13, 2023 12:51 AM (FUmnc)

352 United States Capitol

sure he didn't say United States Capital? Sound about the same.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 13, 2023 12:56 AM (ynpvh)

353 Well, had a busy day today. Going to get an early one. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 13, 2023 12:58 AM (tkR6S)

354 Wow, latest MSM gaslighting... not only has there been no backlash against Budweiser for their Trans shit...

They have now increased in sales... contrary to multiple local reports from actual vendors...

/facepalm

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 13, 2023 01:01 AM (oHd/0)

355 Thanks all... yeah, its good to get away from all the crap that DC and politicians force on us... and get out and have fun, and meet REAL people.

Hard to remember that sometimes... but important.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 13, 2023 01:03 AM (oHd/0)

356 It's not only calls. Me answering you online? Yeah... target.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April

Definitely... I just like to use the phone example because it's simple and easy for people to relate to.

In practical terms, on the internet, the two-hop legerdemain creates thousands of legal surveillance targets.

Unless, of course, you keep agents and couriers siloed, and using air-gaps for data, like all of our rivals and enemies do for NatSec purposes, because they aren't dullards.

This happy horseshit is only reliably useful for monitoring of open communications channels. Like you might want to use against your own hapless, incurious, unsuspecting people who think this all for their safety.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 13, 2023 01:05 AM (oINRc)

357 Good day...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 13, 2023 12:43

Happy birthday you youngster! Glad the kid called, that was nice, nothing wrong w/ cold pizza. I love it for breakfast.

I try to call my Dad once a week. He'll be 87 in June. I can't get him in the late afternoon, he's usually stopping at one of the rural bars around Stevens Point, he knows everybody. Only has one drink at each bar, he's said it took a long time to learn that discipline.

Posted by: Farmer at April 13, 2023 01:05 AM (55Qr6)

358 FaRT Tubing..... Let's do it !!!@

Posted by: Mary Cloginstien from Brattleboro, VT at April 13, 2023 01:09 AM (Gz0oe)

359 There is a website for corllinsU, looks sus: https://www.corllinsuniversity.org
Posted by: MaxCon at April 12, 2023 10:27 PM (jtmdt)

The first clue is the name. Looks like they started with "Collins" then added an "r" to get past the spam filters.

Posted by: Average Guy at April 13, 2023 01:22 AM (lPHZZ)

360 Tis time.

Once again, and it's hugely important that we not forget that we're Americans so you hold that head HIGH and PROUD as befits our heritage.

Goodnite, good people. Be safe and sleep well.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 13, 2023 01:32 AM (KATBx)

361 Does the scope of the snooping apply to the IRS agents who handle our returns? Ya know, they might be involved....

Posted by: SFGoth at April 13, 2023 01:38 AM (KAi1n)

362 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 13, 2023 01:43 AM (T4tVD)

363 327 I've made my wishes know for my funeral. But also realize that the services are for the living. I wont be there to officiate.
Posted by: Javems at April 13, 2023 12:13 AM (AmoqO)

My parents refused to determine how they wanted to go. They left it up to the kids to decide and do everything. Same thing with their extended care. We had to take care of all of it.

Do NOT do that to your kids. Take care of that crap in advance. No matter what your kids decide, they will hate you if you don't make your wishes known.

As far as I know, my dad is ashes in some box on my sister's shelf. Not like she would share that information, or let anyone actually grieve. Mom is in memory care, but since she told me to fuck off, I did, so I hope my sisters are watching out for her.

Honor your mother and father, indeed.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at April 13, 2023 01:49 AM (LOVUx)

364 https://tinyurl.com/482dap8y
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

That's all I came here for

Posted by: Skip at April 13, 2023 01:53 AM (xhxe8)

365 An arch dude on the twatter:

Carpe Donktum🔹@CarpeDonktum
As a 3rd grade teacher, I often talk about Jesus with my students, they are so excited to hear about my faith. They point to the cross on wall and ask me about the resurrection.

Some have gotten baptized in the sink, as long as they don’t tell their parents. It’s our secret.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 13, 2023 01:55 AM (jzzG8)

366 @CarpeDonktum 10m
A couple of weeks ago, I sent home permission slips for a field trip to a "historical building." 😉

We walked to a church down the road and sang hymns and worshipped Christ.

I don't care if this gets me in trouble, it's so important that these kids feel supported.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 13, 2023 01:58 AM (jzzG8)

367 This death and funeral talk is kinda gruesome.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 13, 2023 01:58 AM (KAi1n)

368 This death and funeral talk is kinda gruesome.
Posted by: SFGoth

Nonsense !

"Aaaarrrgggghhh"

Posted by: JT at April 13, 2023 02:02 AM (T4tVD)

369 https://tinyurl.com/482dap8y
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

That's all I came here for
Posted by: Skip

The link shows a cat.

Thanks anyway.....

Posted by: JT at April 13, 2023 02:03 AM (T4tVD)

370 https://tinyurl.com/482dap8y
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Close but no cigar.

Punisher cat is kinda cool though.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 13, 2023 02:04 AM (KFhLj)

371 https://tinyurl.com/482dap8y
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Close but no cigar.

Punisher cat is kinda cool though.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority

Awww....whoever heard of a cat smoking a cigar ?

Posted by: JT at April 13, 2023 02:11 AM (T4tVD)

372 Happy Birthday, Romeo, ad multos annos.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 13, 2023 02:22 AM (a4EWo)

373 #278

> You're wrong, and you remain wrong, same as every time you post.

> EVs are already available and statistically no one wants them.

Top-selling car in Denmark (of any technology): Tesla Model Y. https://bit.ly/3Uw8IH0

4th most popular car in the UK: Tesla Model Y. https://bit.ly/3KB3Mwb

6th most popular car in the USA: Tesla Model Y. https://cnb.cx/415NG4L

So, "no one wants them"? Which of us exists in an isolated bubble?

> And you simultaneously somehow believe that the most expensive car you ever purchased can be cheap.

Hey, news flash for you: things get cheaper over time. The Apple Macintosh when first introduced cost $2500 (about $7262 in today's dollars) but a current iMac costs $1300 and is a more powerful computer.

Tesla spelled out a clear plan to make a car for half the cost of a Model 3. People expect this will cost about $25,000 brand new and that Tesla will sell millions per year. At a profit.

You may have been wrong about everything, but at least you were insulting to me and made me feel unwelcome. What a winning combination.

Posted by: mr_jack at April 13, 2023 02:24 AM (LNPSJ)

374 mr_jack, I just bought a used, thirsty SUV, it drinks gas, I believe gas is the fuel of the future, I shall not apologize. We can only drive electric cars if we give up air conditioning and refrigeration, two creature comforts that make many people both rich and poor very happy.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 13, 2023 02:33 AM (a4EWo)

375 Fuck you, Joe Xiden. Go shill elsewhere.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 13, 2023 02:41 AM (KFhLj)

376 Tesla spelled out a clear plan to make a car for half the cost of a Model 3. People expect this will cost about $25,000 brand new and that Tesla will sell millions per year. At a profit.

You may have been wrong about everything, but at least you were insulting to me and made me feel unwelcome. What a winning combination.
Posted by: mr_jack at April 13, 2023 02:24 AM (LNPSJ)

Where is all this lithium for the millions of batteries going to come from? Dig harder 3rd world kids

Posted by: a dude in MI at April 13, 2023 02:42 AM (+I6Y/)

377 Debby Doberman Schultz

Is Hello Sayings

Posted by: Noble peoples of Hashistania at April 13, 2023 02:42 AM (khs5/)

378 @CarpeDonktum

Heh!! That's clever. I will have to use that.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 13, 2023 02:44 AM (sAmhv)

379 I am getting so confused about geography, new countries and kingdoms springing up all over the place. Greetings to noble peoples everywhere. Wish that I had a big old bowl of goulash right now.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 13, 2023 02:46 AM (a4EWo)

380 Awww....whoever heard of a cat smoking a cigar ?
Posted by: JT

Me-oww

Robin

Posted by: Julie Newmar turned me not gay at April 13, 2023 02:46 AM (khs5/)

381
Top-selling car in Denmark (of any technology): Tesla Model Y. https://bit.ly/3Uw8IH0

4th most popular car in the UK: Tesla Model Y. https://bit.ly/3KB3Mwb

6th most popular car in the USA: Tesla Model Y. https://cnb.cx/415NG4L

So, "no one wants them"? Which of us exists in an isolated bubble?

--

Yes, and as has been noted already, the government and corporations are the buyers. Individuals are not buying EVs.

Again: Individuals aren't buying EVs to any great degree. They've had the opportunity to buy them for years and reject them. They still reject them. Individuals don't want them. That's why the EPA and Biden administration are having to ban real cars. People won't buy EVs if actual cars exist and can be purchased.

And no, there won't be a $25K Tesla. Especially not a usable one that can manage more than 30 or so miles in the winter. There's not even a $25K Civic, and people actually WANT those cars.

It's amazing how the most enthusiastic and evangelistic EV proponents know absolutely nothing about them or cars in general.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 13, 2023 02:46 AM (SpC+Q)

382 Where is all this lithium for the millions of batteries going to come from? Dig harder 3rd world kids

Posted by: a dude in MI at April 13, 2023 02:42 AM (+I6Y/)

That and what do you do with all those batteries once they need to be replaced? They are extremely toxic and will be an environmental disaster waiting to happen. But I guess if 'wind farms' can slaughter birds, even legally protected ones, then I guess the greenies will be okay with that 'small price to pay to advance humanity' (into the grave).

Posted by: RickZ at April 13, 2023 02:48 AM (emlEe)

383 Rick remember when lefties were worried about nuclear waste? Lithium now not so much, lol.

Posted by: JmT at April 13, 2023 02:55 AM (ojNBr)

384 Ok, so I've read the Wapo (I know, I know) article about the so called leaker we'll call 'OG'. Something to me seems awfully suspicious about the entire article.. call me cynical but WaPa and unnamed sources equals I'm not trusting any article no matter how "factual" it may seem.

I'm not saying its BS but I'm not believing the story until other unrelated sources can confirm it.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at April 13, 2023 02:59 AM (uLhWk)

385
Been playing with the latest version of Stellarium for Windows, 23.1. Looking under the hood a bit.

And I want to say this: Here's to Jean Meeus. He's technically an "amateur" astronomer. A Belgian meteorologist by trade, born in 1928. Still alive. Not even a Ph.D. But he is one of the most prolific authors on mathematical/numerical astronomy there is. His work is everywhere, including Stellarium. He literally wrote the book on much of this.

They named an asteroid after him a few decades ago, but that ain't fitting enough. He is a Celestial Mechanic par excellence, and just learned a new title for him: Time Lord. He's quite the learned perfessor on the business of astronomical and ephemeris time. Stellarium uses one of his expressions for "delta T", an important time concept in running ephemerides back and forward in time.

So here's to you, Jean Meeus, Celestial Mechanic and Time Lord.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at April 13, 2023 03:02 AM (Mzdiz)

386 Individuals aren't buying EVs to any great degree. They've had the opportunity to buy them for years and reject them. They still reject them. Individuals don't want them. That's why the EPA and Biden administration are having to ban real cars. People won't buy EVs if actual cars exist and can be purchased.

And individual purchases were subsidized with favorable tax treatment and other percs, in California in particular. So, sure, you do tend to get demand for things you subsidize, but that's hardly proof of the invisible hand and free markets.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 13, 2023 03:05 AM (KFhLj)

387 Top-selling car in Denmark (of any technology): Tesla ..
4th most popular car in the UK: Tesla Model Y...
6th most popular car in the USA: Tesla Model Y...
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For anyone who is wildly, laughably, and maybe delusionally uninformed about EVs and their sales and popularity, here's some info from places like Denmark and the UK:

"Electric Cars: Commercial And Private Sales Are Even In Europe
JATO's analysis reveals that slightly more than half (50.2 percent) of Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) registrations during the first quarter of this year were for business."

https://tinyurl.com/2nr7twee

(notice that government isn't mentioned in the sales)

and from the U.S., where you can't find this same data but it's certainly worse because Americans have been rejecting EVs outright for quite some time:

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Monday vowed to replace the U.S. government’s fleet of roughly 650,000 vehicles with electric models as the new administration shifts its focus toward clean-energy."

https://tinyurl.com/y5fom9pw

(spoilers: private individuals aren't interested in EVs)

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 13, 2023 03:10 AM (SpC+Q)

388 Rick remember when lefties were worried about nuclear waste? Lithium now not so much, lol.

Posted by: JmT at April 13, 2023 02:55 AM (ojNBr)

There was a time when lefties were against war. But now that The Biden Crime Family, Inc. is leading the metaphorical charge, war's not a problem.

Some lefty podcasters are bemused (read: surprises the shit out of them) by the fact that only some Republicans seem to be questioning the war and its funding. But Dems, especially their proggie wing, are waving their pom-poms, jumping and cheering 'gooooooOOOOOOO UK-RAINE!' The parties flipped again!/

Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows.

Posted by: RickZ at April 13, 2023 03:10 AM (emlEe)

389 You are what is wrong with everything related to the issue.

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This point stands, btw.

It should be clear why.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 13, 2023 03:13 AM (SpC+Q)

390 At $56k our Tesla model 3 Performance is much quicker than my $70k M5 much long before. I call it my wife's Magic Wand

That said I in no way thinK EVs are the right answer to everything or even most things.

Posted by: JEM at April 13, 2023 03:16 AM (8erNz)

391 Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows
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Like how I now agree with Glenn Greenwald more often than not? Glenn f'ing Greenwald. (Shakes head)

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 13, 2023 03:17 AM (sAmhv)

392 Yep. EVs are toys, with no meaningful difference than the other toys in upper middle class garages where real cars sit to do real car things.

They're less useful Corvettes. Nothing more, nothing less.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 13, 2023 03:18 AM (SpC+Q)

393 And people should insist that they call them EVs, not cars. They're not cars. They can't perform as cars. A $70K Tesla can't do what a $25 Civic can do for a family, no matter how fast it can discharge its batteries.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 13, 2023 03:20 AM (SpC+Q)

394 They're less useful Corvettes. Nothing more, nothing less.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 13, 2023 03:18 AM (SpC+Q)

But they virtue signal so well, so there's that.

Posted by: RickZ at April 13, 2023 03:21 AM (emlEe)

395 The best part is that I *like* tech and cars and EVs.

I despise that people - and our representatives - actively work to make peoples' lives worse in pursuit of "nudging" people towards reducing the population of the planet in the name of their ridiculous death-cult of a religion.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 13, 2023 03:22 AM (SpC+Q)

396 name field test

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 13, 2023 03:24 AM (SpC+Q)

397 Like how I now agree with Glenn Greenwald more often than not? Glenn f'ing Greenwald. (Shakes head)

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 13, 2023 03:17 AM (sAmhv)

There are some former Leftists like Greenwald. Jason Whitlock is one.

Posted by: JmT at April 13, 2023 03:25 AM (ojNBr)

398 And people should insist that they call them EVs, not cars. They're not cars. They can't perform as cars. A $70K Tesla can't do what a $25 Civic can do for a family, no matter how fast it can discharge its batteries.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 13, 2023 03:20 AM (SpC+Q)

Just like how the meaning of the words 'quarantine' and 'vaccine' were recently flipped on their heads, the same with calling EVs 'cars'. Gotta bastardize the English language to advance communism, doncha know?

Posted by: RickZ at April 13, 2023 03:25 AM (emlEe)

399 Oh no, for 90% of uses a Tesla can easily do the daily stuff. Lived that for a couple years now. From daily commute to 1300 mile road trip. All depends on the charging infrastructure.

I could post pics of driveways around here that sprouted one Tesla, then within a year a second. We're not the cheap seats, but we're also not expensive by area standards.

You want to haul that plywood home from the big box you rent their truck.

Posted by: JEM at April 13, 2023 03:28 AM (8erNz)

400 Just like how the meaning of the words 'quarantine' and 'vaccine' were recently flipped on their heads, the same with calling EVs 'cars'.

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Yep. There was another one, too, but I can't remember it right now.

We're watching 1984 before our eyes.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 13, 2023 03:29 AM (SpC+Q)

401 #374 I hope you enjoy your SUV. I hope it serves you well and doesn't break down much.

> We can only drive electric cars if we give up air conditioning and refrigeration

That's just silly. We aren't going to run out of electrical power.

Even in places having trouble with overloading their grids, they can either improve their grid, use economic incentives to encourage people to charge when the grid isn't stressed (i.e. charge less at night), or both.

Tesla announced a program where their customers in Texas can pay a flat $30 to charge their cars as much as they want for a month, the only catch being they have to charge their cars at night when energy is cheaper. And with a Tesla you can just set the car to charge during certain hours, and just plug it in... you don't need to get up at 1am and plug in your car or anything like that.

Posted by: mr_jack at April 13, 2023 03:29 AM (LNPSJ)

402 Oh no, for 90% of uses a Tesla can easily do the daily stuff.

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Except for the part where a family of four making the median $65K/year needs to buy two cars. Oh, and the kids need cars, too. And chargers. And the electricity bills.

Oh, and that family will need to rent REAL cars and trucks when they need them, too?

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 13, 2023 03:30 AM (SpC+Q)

403 " You are what is wrong with everything related to the issue."

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That's just silly. We aren't going to run out of electrical power.

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hahahahahahaha

Thanks for your help.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 13, 2023 03:32 AM (SpC+Q)

404 We're watching 1984 before our eyes.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 13, 2023 03:29 AM (SpC+Q)

The COVID-1984 Dempanic will forever live with us as a 'no push back' scar on our Liberty.

Posted by: RickZ at April 13, 2023 03:33 AM (emlEe)

405 The COVID-1984 Dempanic will forever live with us as a 'no push back' scar on our Liberty.
Posted by: RickZ

--

Churches had to close, but liquor stores and strip clubs could stay open. It was heartbreaking to learn that almost everything I knew about America, equality, and our representation was a lie.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 13, 2023 03:35 AM (SpC+Q)

406 We're watching 1984 before our eyes.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 13, 2023 03:29 AM (SpC+Q)

And Orwell was a leftist back in the day. Hard to imagine that kind of critic from within today.

Posted by: JmT at April 13, 2023 03:38 AM (ojNBr)

407 Oh no, for 90% of uses a Tesla can easily do the daily stuff. Lived that for a couple years now. From daily commute to 1300 mile road trip. All depends on the charging infrastructure.

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I missed that earlier btw.

Like I said, it can't even get close to what a $25K Civic can do. Pretending otherwise doesn't change it. If that charger isn't there, you're not going, either.

But that $25K Civic (heck, a $2000 1992 Civic) can.

It's why no one wants them. Even uneducated poor people who can only afford $2000 1992 Civics understand how it works.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 13, 2023 03:38 AM (SpC+Q)

408 That's just silly. We aren't going to run out of electrical power.

Posted by: mr_jack at April 13, 2023 03:29 AM (LNPSJ)

Gee, whistle pass the graveyard much?

The 2003 Blackout didn't happen because of an old and under-improved electrical grid, right? Rolling blackouts haven't been a recent fixture of California, either, right?

No, no, nothing to see here. The electrical grid is fine, you H8ER!

Posted by: RickZ at April 13, 2023 03:39 AM (emlEe)

409 For clarity:

I have no problem with EVs or their owners (well, the intelligent, non-evangelistic ones). I reject EVs being forced on consumers who don't want them, which is pretty much everyone.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 13, 2023 03:42 AM (SpC+Q)

410 I'm going to try to get a couple of hours sleep before sunrise. Y'all have fun.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 13, 2023 03:44 AM (SpC+Q)

411 #376

Lithium is very common. 25th most common element on Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium

The big problem is getting battery-grade lithium... the refineries are NOT common.

https://bit.ly/3KUUbBx

As they wear out we will recycle them.

https://bit.ly/3Ux0ZZk

> Dig harder 3rd world kids

Nope, lithium mining uses machines and stuff.

https://bit.ly/43rGmBX

Posted by: mr_jack at April 13, 2023 03:45 AM (LNPSJ)

412 Rolling blackouts are something you need to get used to prole.

They did a few of them here last winter because it was cold.

Posted by: JmT at April 13, 2023 03:49 AM (ojNBr)

413 lots o' new nics

Posted by: diverse and inclusive Miklos at April 13, 2023 03:49 AM (khs5/)

414 >> That's just silly. We aren't going to run out of electrical power.

You don't have the slightest notion of what you're talking about. The fucking US grid cannot handle the fucking additional load that even a small percentage of EVs would put. Not enough generation, transmission, or distribution capacity.

It would be as though everyone in a damned neighborhood was running 1 - 2 electric dryers every damn night for 10 hours straight.

The system can't handle it, and to do so would required one hell of an upgrade. You DON'T HAVE A FUCKING CLUE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at April 13, 2023 03:54 AM (Mzdiz)

415 #381

> People won't buy EVs if actual cars exist and can be purchased.

I will vote against any attempt to force people to buy EVs. I will vote against any politician who wants to force people to buy EVs. Government should serve us, not the other way around.

But you're just insane about EVs. People who would not ordinarily spend extra for a "luxury" car spend extra to buy a Tesla. If Tesla can sell cars for a cheaper price... they will sell a crazy number of them.

> And no, there won't be a $25K Tesla. Especially not a usable one that can manage more than 30 or so miles in the winter.

I guess we'll just have to wait a couple years and see which of the two of us is right.

> It's amazing how the most enthusiastic and evangelistic EV proponents know absolutely nothing about them or cars in general.

Maybe you should save the insults for Biden voters. You don't have to agree with me but maybe you could be civil.

Posted by: mr_jack at April 13, 2023 03:54 AM (LNPSJ)

416
EVs are a scam. The real goal is to turn the US into a fucking third would shithole.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at April 13, 2023 03:54 AM (Mzdiz)

417 lots o' new nics

Posted by: diverse and inclusive Miklos at April 13, 2023 03:49 AM (khs5/)

You know how hard it is to get on the sockpuppet list now?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 13, 2023 03:55 AM (Angsy)

418 You DON'T HAVE A FUCKING CLUE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

Posted by: publius, Rascally

I kinda like it when Publius says that in person.

Posted by: Miklos has seen the Museum Of Agricultural Machinery at April 13, 2023 03:58 AM (khs5/)

419 You know how hard it is to get on the sockpuppet list now?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

If your ISP changes your hash for you, not easy.

Posted by: Miklos congratulates the New Generation of Sockmasters at April 13, 2023 03:59 AM (khs5/)

420 >> As they wear out we will recycle them.

UTTER BULLSHIT. YOU DON"T HAVE A FUCKING CLUE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. THe cost of recylcing an EV battery is ridiculous and impractical.

>> Nope, lithium mining uses machines and stuff.

Yes, it used heavy mining equipment powered by fucking DIESEL FUEL. Sucks metric fucking tons of it. You ain't gonna mine all that shit without fossil fuels, and lots of it. Why not use that fossil fuel, for you know, other, not ridiculous scam shit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at April 13, 2023 04:02 AM (Mzdiz)

421 If your ISP changes your hash for you, not easy.

Posted by: Miklos congratulates the New Generation of Sockmasters at April 13, 2023 03:59 AM (khs5/)

I don't do hash, maaaaaannnn.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 13, 2023 04:04 AM (Angsy)

422 not ridiculous scam shit.
Posted by: publius

Recycling solar panels with heavy metals.

Done in China, I will just charge a Green Fee

Posted by: Miklos gonna be RICH at April 13, 2023 04:05 AM (khs5/)

423 I despise that people - and our representatives - actively work to make peoples' lives worse in pursuit of "nudging" people towards reducing the population of the planet in the name of their ridiculous death-cult of a religion.
Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP?
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Yep. This.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 13, 2023 04:06 AM (sAmhv)

424 I don't do hash, maaaaaannnn.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

I ain't here, man

Posted by: Cheech and Chong and Miklos at April 13, 2023 04:06 AM (khs5/)

425 He's a stupid, insincere troll. He can go suck half a million fucks in a fishtank of murdersharks.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 13, 2023 04:08 AM (KFhLj)

426 The stated goals of those pushing EVs is population reduction. It's not a conspiracy theory if our Global Masters are saying it out loud. Even write books about it. They are very proud of themselves.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 13, 2023 04:10 AM (sAmhv)

427 # 414

> You don't have the slightest notion of what you're talking about. The fucking US grid cannot handle the fucking additional load

Look at a demand curve some time. You might notice that demand isn't constant during the day... there are peak times and non-peak times. If the EVs are charging in the non-peak times, they can charge without overloading the grid.

https://bit.ly/3GEMqNR

https://bit.ly/3UEv49C

And we are about to see an unprecedented boom in large batteries getting hooked up to the grid. Batteries stabilize the grid.

https://bit.ly/3GEN8dK

The whole USA had about 25 GWh of grid-scale batteries by the end of 2022. Tesla's one factory in California is designed to make 40 GWh of batteries per year, every year.

https://bit.ly/43svGmu

https://bit.ly/3MFvfj4

Posted by: mr_jack at April 13, 2023 04:10 AM (LNPSJ)

428 He's a stupid, insincere troll. He can go suck half a million fucks in a fishtank of murdersharks.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

candiru

yu fergot the candiru part

Posted by: It's like I don't even know you people at April 13, 2023 04:10 AM (khs5/)

429 Tesla's one factory in California is designed to make 40 GWh of batteries per year, every year.

Good thing Teslas never burn, and that California never has wildfires.

Posted by: Dr. Miklos Pangloss at April 13, 2023 04:13 AM (khs5/)

430 Anyway, just came back from the Waffle Hut.

No Darleen.

I put my last quarter in the jukebox, but had to leave.

Hope they enjoyed the Waffle House Song the way we used to.

Posted by: Miklos, about to wake Marleen up at April 13, 2023 04:17 AM (khs5/)

431 #420

> THe cost of recylcing an EV battery is ridiculous and impractical.

"One metric ton of incoming batteries will cost approximately $90 for processing, with black mass selling for about $300 or more and the metallics for about $500. That’s a profitable recycling operation."

https://bit.ly/3zVdgxl

> [lithium mining] used heavy mining equipment powered by fucking DIESEL FUEL

Whatever, dude.

Posted by: mr_jack at April 13, 2023 04:17 AM (LNPSJ)

432 Good thing Teslas never burn, and that California never has wildfires.

Posted by: Dr. Miklos Pangloss at April 13, 2023 04:13 AM (khs5/)

I'm being candid here. It makes it the best of all possible worlds for electric vehicles!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 13, 2023 04:17 AM (Angsy)

433 >> Batteries stabilize the grid.

With this, I. Can't Even. My head is exploding.

Where are your ephemerides? This is, in some astronomical/physics term, an expression that means "show your work". Show your calculations. Let's some numbers about these batteries stabilizing the grid. (I can hardly type this without shitting myself).

Show your numbers. Come on. LETS SEE YOUR GODDAMN EPHEMERIDES with this ridiculous bullshit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at April 13, 2023 04:18 AM (Mzdiz)

434 Pixy awake? Drunk? Playing cricket while drunk?

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 13, 2023 04:18 AM (sAmhv)

435 Show your numbers. Come on. LETS SEE YOUR GODDAMN EPHEMERIDES with this ridiculous bullshit.
Posted by: publius

Listen to this man.

He is Editor-in-Chief

Posted by: PopularPhysics.org at April 13, 2023 04:19 AM (khs5/)

436
This guy is spouting Kamala and AOC level bullshit here.

Mark Twain said don't argue with a fool. Onlookers will have trouble telling the difference. Good advice.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at April 13, 2023 04:20 AM (Mzdiz)

437 This guy is spouting Kamala and AOC level bullshit here.

And he has the same penis breath.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 13, 2023 04:21 AM (KFhLj)

438 Pixy awake? Drunk? Playing cricket while drunk?
Posted by: Puddleglum

Australian Rules cricket?

And beer?

Talk about your Sticky Wickets

Or that might be Sheila

Posted by: Miklos, Old Chap at April 13, 2023 04:22 AM (khs5/)

439 #426

> The stated goals of those pushing EVs is population reduction. It's not a conspiracy theory if our Global Masters are saying it out loud. Even write books about it. They are very proud of themselves.

I don't want population reduction. I don't want you to be stuck in a 15 minute city. I don't want you to "eat the bugs". I don't even want to take away your air conditioning or your jet travel or anything. I don't even freaking want to tell you what kind of car you can buy. You want to buy a gas car? Go for it, I am not the boss of you.

I do, however, have a strong belief that in the next few years we are going to see huge changes in the car market. Note that this is a prediction, not something I am wishing for. No matter what you want, no matter what I want, BEVs are going to change everything. Soon.

This report says over 50% of all cars sold in the USA will be BEVs by 2030.

https://bit.ly/41oqPkt

I predict it will be more like 2026 or 2025. We'll just have to see, won't we?

Folks here have been insulting me and insulting me. I post links, they return more insults. I'm tired of it.

Posted by: mr_jack at April 13, 2023 04:23 AM (LNPSJ)

440 Mark Twain said don't argue with a fool. Onlookers will have trouble telling the difference. Good advice.
Posted by: publius

Same about 'rasslin' with a pig.

You will get dirty, will not win, and the pig likes it.

Posted by: Miklos, spittin' at April 13, 2023 04:24 AM (khs5/)

441 Here insult folks have been insulting and folking me. I post insult links, they return more insult results. It tired.

Posted by: Mr_jack raimondo on tap at April 13, 2023 04:26 AM (khs5/)

442 Twain said don't argue with a fool. Onlookers will have trouble telling the difference. Good advice.

Yes.

When I step in dogshit, I don't engage the dog in a Lincoln-Douglas debate.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 13, 2023 04:27 AM (KFhLj)

443 #433

> Show your calculations.

Why do I even bother to include URLs? Nobody reads them.

No calculations, but I provided a link to a news story about how the big battery in Australia stabilized the grid more than anyone expected.

Here, the same link again.

https://bit.ly/3GEN8dK

Click it. Or don't. Whatever. I'm out.

Posted by: mr_jack at April 13, 2023 04:27 AM (LNPSJ)

444 Click it. Or don't. Whatever. I'm out.

Posted by: mr_jack at April 13, 2023 04:27 AM (LNPSJ)

Dang it! I was just making espresso!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 13, 2023 04:29 AM (Angsy)

445 Dang it! I was just making espresso!
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Cappucino, please

Posted by: Miklos in best non-Fronkensteen voice at April 13, 2023 04:30 AM (khs5/)

446 Show your numbers. Come on. LETS SEE YOUR GODDAMN EPHEMERIDES with this ridiculous bullshit.
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Reposted, for obvious reasons.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 13, 2023 04:31 AM (sAmhv)

447 Thread has a funereal quality tonight, whether human, automotive or societal.

Nice to know we are still loved by our betters. They deign to walk amongst us to splain us up.

Good to know that electricity is inexhaustible, and the grid is self perpetuating.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 13, 2023 04:33 AM (rPpKm)

448 >> Why do I even bother to include URLs? Nobody reads them.

I read your links. Well, one or two. They are fucking PR nonsense. From your last:
>> giant renewables hub at Goyder South in South Australia which would provide 900 megawatts of battery storage.

That is physically illiterate bullshit. A megawatt is a unit of power, not energy. So, maybe if could pump out 900 MW of power. For a little bit.

>> Bloomberg did not report how many megawatt-hours of storage the upgraded Hornsdale battery or the Goyder South installation will provide.

Yep, they did not provide how much storage in a true unit of energy.....

Everything you're posting is bullshit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at April 13, 2023 04:33 AM (Mzdiz)

449 Everything you're posting is bullshit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally

What's worse, is that IS MY JOB

Posted by: Moderately reliable poster boy Miklos at April 13, 2023 04:35 AM (khs5/)

450 Is Steve Hanley a physicist? Engineer? Looked at that Aussie article. Lots of happy talk. Just wondered who the author is.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 13, 2023 04:35 AM (sAmhv)

451 Good to know that electricity is inexhaustible, and the grid is self perpetuating.
Posted by: Pete Bog

If that were true, there would be no divorces.

Posted by: Philosophical but practical Miklos at April 13, 2023 04:37 AM (khs5/)

452 Cappucino, please

Posted by: Miklos in best non-Fronkensteen voice at April 13, 2023 04:30 AM (khs5/)

Sorry to inform you, but Cappucine's passed.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 13, 2023 04:37 AM (Angsy)

453 Steve Hanley's bio at that site is a bit barren. He did say he's woke, so there's that.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 13, 2023 04:38 AM (sAmhv)

454 Publius for your own sake don’t stand too long in the glorious light of the magical thinking sunshine. The sooner we all accept the benevolent rule of the wishes make it happen clan the better.

What’s the concern with a few million broken eggs in the pursuit of utopia.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 13, 2023 04:39 AM (rPpKm)

455 Morning, folken! I guess Pixy's late, so it's legit for me to greet everybody here. I actually got enough sleep last night, got my old photos and ringtone copied from the old phone to the new yesterday, and it's Thursday. So, good?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 13, 2023 04:39 AM (omVj0)

456 If that were true, there would be no divorces.
Posted by: Philosophical but practical Miklos

Nah, some folks are always going to need a little more time to cure than others.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 13, 2023 04:41 AM (rPpKm)

457 Morning, folken! I guess Pixy's late, so it's legit for me to greet everybody here. I actually got enough sleep last night, got my old photos and ringtone copied from the old phone to the new yesterday, and it's Thursday. So, good?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 13, 2023 04:39 AM (omVj0)

I just got the same phone, but from a different carrier and it doesn't work the same! Very irritating.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 13, 2023 04:42 AM (Angsy)

458 Publius for your own sake don’t stand too long in the glorious light of the magical thinking sunshine. The sooner we all accept the benevolent rule of the wishes make it happen clan the better.

What’s the concern with a few million broken eggs in the pursuit of utopia.
Posted by: Pete Bog

I helped to get R&D funding for this.

Cool, and very expensive way get sunlight to run your microwave or cappucino maker.

https://smartflower.com/

Posted by: Miklos was paid for useless so-called work at April 13, 2023 04:43 AM (khs5/)

459
Some numbers. US annual electricity consumption is around 3900 TW-hrs. Or 3.9 Petawatt-hours. Peak deman, last numbers I can find, Peak demand, during August 2021 hit 720 GW. 720 Gigawatts.

Now, look at these "battery stabilizers" in comparison to that. It's a fucking joke.

Now, "mr_jack" do some ephemerides. Look up US annual gasoline and diesel consumption. Convert that shit to electrical numbers, and I'll give your Pollyanna efficiency numbers. Calculate how much additional load that puts on the grid.

Now, where the fuck is that going to come from?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at April 13, 2023 04:43 AM (Mzdiz)

460 and it's Thursday. So, good?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming

And Friday will be better!

Posted by: Miklos has gumbo in the freezer already at April 13, 2023 04:45 AM (khs5/)

461 Now, where the fuck is that going to come from?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at April 13, 2023 04:43 AM (Mzdiz)

Looks around to see who's going to check unicorn asses.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 13, 2023 04:46 AM (Angsy)

462 Now, where the fuck is that going to come from?
Posted by: publius

Fuck-all?

Posted by: Miklos hazards a guess at April 13, 2023 04:46 AM (khs5/)

463 Looks around to see who's going to check unicorn asses.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Jobs4Trannies

Posted by: Build back Biden at April 13, 2023 04:47 AM (khs5/)

464 I just got the same phone, but from a different carrier and it doesn't work the same! Very irritating.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 13, 2023

***
A Samsung Galaxy? That's what i have, from Tracfone. Or do you mean you bought another of the same model you had before and it doesn't work the same?

This one is a big longer and slimmer than the LG I had for the last 3 years. With the screen enlarged a little, the buttons for texts are easier for my male fingers to work correctly. And it does not seem to lose battery storage very much during the day or the night -- I don't have to leave it on charge so much of the time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 13, 2023 04:48 AM (omVj0)

465 So far no work assignment, so coffee and French Toast maybe and see if something shakes out in a bit.

Posted by: Skip at April 13, 2023 04:48 AM (xhxe8)

466 #459

Tesla did the math.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-3

Good night, all.

Posted by: mr_jack at April 13, 2023 04:48 AM (LNPSJ)

467 Good morning morons

Up before Pixy = up too early

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 13, 2023 04:49 AM (EZebt)

468 https://tinyurl.com/9c7zwjmc
This is Bad Blue

Try to remember if I copy another after and forgot

Posted by: Skip at April 13, 2023 04:50 AM (xhxe8)

469 Like some things, gumbo must be dealt with in Bulk.

"You got to have dem Quantity and dat Quality in de same pot, mes amis"

Like Darleen

Posted by: Justin Miklos-Wilson at April 13, 2023 04:51 AM (khs5/)

470 A Samsung Galaxy? That's what i have, from Tracfone. Or do you mean you bought another of the same model you had before and it doesn't work the same?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 13, 2023 04:48 AM (omVj0)

Sonim flipphone, Wolfus. The main screen is different and navigating is as well. Texting is a lot harder than the ATT version. The functionality is there, but different. The dang phone won't do things the way I like!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 13, 2023 04:52 AM (Angsy)

471 Local TV news reports the Party is sick and tired of Dianne Feinstein because she is sick and tired.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 13, 2023 04:53 AM (EZebt)

472 And it does not seem to lose battery storage very much during the day or the night -- I don't have to leave it on charge so much of the time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I set mine to "vibrate"

Posted by: purple haired quasi-lesbian at April 13, 2023 04:54 AM (khs5/)

473 Local TV news reports the Party is sick and tired of Dianne Feinstein because she is sick and tired.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 13, 2023 04:53 AM (EZebt)

Meaning she's not helping passing their agenda.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 13, 2023 04:54 AM (Angsy)

474 Genius Governor says he will replace Feinstein with a black woman, so Feinstein is also racist and sexist.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 13, 2023 04:55 AM (EZebt)

475 Try to remember if I copy another after and forgot
Posted by: Skip

More Sleep for Skip

Donate minutes NOW

Posted by: Friends of Skip at April 13, 2023 04:56 AM (khs5/)

476 Local TV news reports the Party is sick and tired of Dianne Feinstein because she is sick and tired.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 13, 2023 04:53 AM (EZebt)

She stands or at least reclines in the path of Progress! Out of the way previously useful old idiot.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 13, 2023 04:56 AM (rPpKm)

477 Genius Governor says he will replace Feinstein with a black woman, so Feinstein is also racist and sexist.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I thought we already knew that.

Or is that tomorrow?

You should text us

Posted by: CaliCrat at April 13, 2023 04:57 AM (khs5/)

478 Sonim flipphone, Wolfus. The main screen is different and navigating is as well. Texting is a lot harder than the ATT version. The functionality is there, but different. The dang phone won't do things the way I like!!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 13, 2023

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Sounds like when I bought a '94 Olds Cutlass coupe after driving an '89 for 4 years. They were very similar cars on the outside, but the interior and the instrumentation were very different. I told people it was like remarrying your ex-wife, except she'd dropped a few pounds and learned a few new tricks!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 13, 2023 04:58 AM (omVj0)

479 She stands or at least reclines in the path of Progress! Out of the way previously useful old idiot.
Posted by: Pete Bog

I'd hit that

Posted by: 100 year old Senator J. Strom Thurmond at April 13, 2023 04:58 AM (khs5/)

480 Pixy has arrived, nood

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at April 13, 2023 05:00 AM (Eeb9P)

481 Yes they are complaining that her absence since February has delayed Senate approval of judicial confirmations.

No longer useful.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 13, 2023 05:01 AM (EZebt)

482 Pixy has arrived, nood

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at April 13, 2023 05:00 AM (Eeb9P)

Should have at least put clothes on first!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 13, 2023 05:01 AM (Angsy)

483 A semicolon would have been a better choice.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at April 13, 2023 05:50 AM (Eeb9P)

484 Oh, come on. Yes, Biden's brain is mush. But the Oval Office in the the capital of the US. And "capital" and "Capitol" are pronounced the same.

This is just silly

Posted by: RichieC at April 13, 2023 09:01 AM (DxBF0)

485 484 Oh, come on. Yes, Biden's brain is mush. But the Oval Office in the the capital of the US. And "capital" and "Capitol" are pronounced the same.

This is just silly
Posted by: RichieC at April 13, 2023 09:01 AM (DxBF0)

Eh, yes, but the Oval Office is in the White House. It's really really weird to specify the location of the Oval Office as being "in the capital."

Posted by: m at April 13, 2023 11:17 AM (+YA9H)

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