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Heading toward Sacramento?

sacrmento delta.jfif

Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta
Not much of this year's record rain and snowfall in California
will be stored for use in drought years

Can we maybe stop using Sacramento as a model for the future and start using it as a warning? There were some people who did some pretty good forward planning in years past in California, but Jerry Brown (for example) ignored his dad's plans for water storage reservoirs and concentrated on the dream of a bullet train. He later decided that he would need to drain the Sacramento delta to serve urban water needs. Does this sound like a long-term solution to you?

As for the bullet train dream, the lack of reservoir water in the foothill elevations of the Central Valley led to a lot of ground water pumping, and parts of the beginning phases of construction of the (no longer quite high-speed) rail system were flooded because the ground where some of the construction sits has sunk up to 24 feet. The high-speed rail people had done their own elevation study, with similar results, but decided that risking having the rail line underwater was no big deal. Some of them apparently thought that drought was permanent, due to "Climate Change".

When the construction sites flooded in March, water had to be pumped into flood control canals. In the past, it flowed into the canals naturally.

This is the first hot weekend since the record snowpack in the Sierras. Nail-biting time for lots of people. They're getting serious about flood control in Bakersfield. Finally. And for the first time in 17 years, water from the Kern River will be released into the California Aqueduct to keep it out of the growing Tulare Lake. Usually, the water from the California Aqueduct carries water from sources much further to the north.

When the water gets high enough in the revived Tulare Lake, some of it flows through the San Joaquin river up to the Delta. For years, I thought that water was being diverted from farmland in the Central Valley to the Delta to maintain the Delta Smelt. I didn't know that both Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom had plans to drain the Delta for urban water.

Gavin Newsom makes a short comment on the situation from time to time, sometimes interrupting his "Scold the Red States" tour to "Scold Certain People in California".

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Newsom and Reparations

J.J. Sefton posted some great links this week on Gavin Newsom's Reparations Task Force and his rejection of their recommendations.

They were only asking for $1.2 million for each black resident. Citizens allowed to comment to the Task Force recommended up to $200 million dollars each. No amount of reparations will ever be enough.

But Larry Elder has been having some fun with the issue.

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What about white people who identify as black?

What about descendants of early Chinese immigrants to California who were victims of racism?

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Socialists thrilled by California Jungle Primaries

James Lindsay recommends that people who follow him read a piece in the far-left Jacobin mag, The Road to American Socialism Runs Through California. You can follow the link in his tweet if you feel the need.

Socialists have unique advantages in California, where a "jungle" primary system elevates the top two candidates to the general election regardless of party affiliation, and the Republican Party is moribund. Let's take advantage of it.

They are talking out-and-proud socialists here. Not Socialists pretending to be Democrats. There are a few other advantages they cite for socialists in California.

And the Republican Party in California is in the process of disappearing.

Can we maybe pay more attention to state and local elections and avoid some of these innovations like "jungle primaries"? Check the comments in the Twitter thread:

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Conspiracy Theory Corner

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James Lindsay is not happy with Elon Musk's choice for the new CEO of Twitter, partly due to history with the WEF.

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Resistance

An online acquaintance has been participating in volunteer uploading of (technical/scientific) knowledge to ChatGPT. That's one way to push back against the kind of result from a ChatGPT query below. But the Left is ahead:

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Here's another possible form of resistance. One that is probably more practical for more people:

In his rousing keynote address at The Heritage Foundation's 50th anniversary gala last month, then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson offered an unexpected piece of advice: "Don't throw away your hard-copy books."

Unlike digitized books, films, and albums that can be canceled, rewritten, or vanished altogether, physical copies are "the enduring repository that cannot be disappeared."

With their resurrection of poetry recitation requirements, educators in Georgia and Arkansas are protecting that repository in more ways than one, steeping students in a reality they can affirm, trust, and love.

Both states' departments of education recently proposed revised K-12 English language arts standards that would require that students recite "all or part of significant poems and speeches as appropriate by grade level," as the Georgia standards put it.

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Music

Just act naturally.

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs


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Last week's thread, Momentous Thread before the Gardening Thread, May 6

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:15 AM




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1 Hi KT

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2023 11:16 AM (xhxe8)

2 Newsom: "Let me do to America what I did to California."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 13, 2023 11:19 AM (s12c9)

3 Good morning KT!

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 13, 2023 11:20 AM (rbKZ6)

4 Hiya K.T. !

Posted by: JT at May 13, 2023 11:20 AM (T4tVD)

5 Demonstrating, yet again, how Dems pimp blacks for votes.

While I agree with Larry Elder, this is yet another example of how it's all someone else's fault. No. It's black's fault. They keep voting for the people who are doing this. They keep trying to get something for nothing. After all, if someone's offering, what's the harm? The harm is to your work ethic, sense of pride, and dignity.

I have rather limited experience of being a pimp, but based on Hollywood's product, I imagine it's not a voluntary arrangement. This is.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2023 11:22 AM (eOEVl)

6 Hi, everybody!

Posted by: KT at May 13, 2023 11:22 AM (rrtZS)

7 I'd have to care more to look into it, but I wonder if the collapse of the St. Francis dam was the beginning of the end for Californica.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 11:22 AM (3Fnyr)

8 This is the first hot weekend since the record snowpack in the Sierras. Nail-biting time for lots of people.

Also, with rain followed by lots of dry comes fire. A very natural cycle in Kali since well before Europeans were here.
But yeah, Kali is screwed. You're left with two choices: believing insane people are running the state, or sane people who want to destroy it; I believe its a bit of both: people believing in crzy things who want to destroy it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:23 AM (ynpvh)

9 An orchestrated influence op?
Say it isn't so!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2023 11:23 AM (anj39)

10 Sorry, still trying to catch Gollum so I can stuff him in a box and mail him to the Nancy Ford Center.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 13, 2023 11:24 AM (W+kMI)

11 2 Newsom: "Let me do to America what I did to California."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 13, 2023 11:19 AM (s12c9)

to be honest she was asking for it, how provocatively she was flaunting her wealth and beauty.

Posted by: Gav'em Noose'em at May 13, 2023 11:24 AM (ynpvh)

12 Forty acres and an EBT card.

Posted by: It might be cheaper at May 13, 2023 11:25 AM (DhOHl)

13 Can we maybe stop using Sacramento as a model for the future and start using it as a warning?

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That's exactly what they're doing if you look at everything as a whole.

2030 is coming quickly, and they are intent on their plans of destruction being in place by then. I don't know what makes that date so special but I'm beginning to think it has something to do with the occult. Those folks are big into that.

You aren't going to drive, you aren't going to have AC, you aren't going to have natural gas, etc., and crazy that is being planted and cultivated today will be maturing to a point we can only imagine. Like I said, I think it's some attempt to ramp up misery because they intend to feed something off of it.

Posted by: Tony Snark - Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 13, 2023 11:25 AM (NYUSO)

14 Another proof of my theory that Ringo Starr has had more fun than anyone else on the planet. Thanks.

Posted by: Survey Sez! at May 13, 2023 11:25 AM (Nn3xT)

15 2030 is coming quickly, and they are intent on their plans of destruction being in place by then. I don't know what makes that date so special but I'm beginning to think it has something to do with the occult. Those folks are big into that.

It's always far enough in the future that these people can preen and posture over having adopted such nonsensical positions, but by the time tomorrow arrives, they're long gone, or will deny their role in it.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2023 11:26 AM (eOEVl)

16 5 Demonstrating, yet again, how Dems pimp blacks for votes.

While I agree with Larry Elder, this is yet another example of how it's all someone else's fault. No. It's black's fault. They keep voting for the people who are doing this. They keep trying to get something for nothing. After all, if someone's offering, what's the harm? The harm is to your work ethic, sense of pride, and dignity.

I have rather limited experience of being a pimp, but based on Hollywood's product, I imagine it's not a voluntary arrangement. This is.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2023 11:22 AM (eOEVl)

It's psychological. It's gas-lighting. Why do Palis continue to want to kill Jews? This is what they are taught at home, in their mosques, and in their schools. The same is here: Blacks are told the country and White people are the reason for all their troubles and the Dems (who were and are the party of enslavement) are their saviours.

Posted by: Gav'em Noose'em at May 13, 2023 11:28 AM (ynpvh)

17 Musk's selection of that Yucca chick is a curious one. It's not clear how much she's been trolling the WEF/Woke crowd, and how much she's a part of it.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 11:28 AM (3Fnyr)

18 Tucker BTW is right again. Digital media that doesn't reside in a storage device can be altered at will by the media content provider these days. And digital media storage devices can suddenly fail, turning anything stored in them into trash. Books can stay intact over a century if treated properly. The only way the Nanny State can erase books is by sending the Firemen.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 13, 2023 11:28 AM (W+kMI)

19 Off oleaginous governing sock!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:28 AM (ynpvh)

20 Another proof of my theory that Ringo Starr has had more fun than anyone else on the planet. Thanks.
Posted by: Survey Sez! at May 13, 2023 11:25 AM (Nn3xT)


Is that Vic Tayback in the video too?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2023 11:29 AM (anj39)

21 Do blacks still vote overwhelmingly for Dems? I have no idea but I have zero trust at this point that there’s any correlation between the number of counted ballots and real, human voters and their preferences. Did Newsom beat his recall? All I know is I voted for his recall along with everyone I know….. but the ballot result was in his favor 2-to-1. I no longer live in Cali, partially due to the evilness or insanity of its leaders (take your pick which, I don’t know).

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 13, 2023 11:30 AM (xT8gx)

22 It's worth reading what Our Betters and their corporations actually say, too. This is Jim Beam's mother company Suntory (all in on child grooming, btw):


"Plastic products have enriched our lives through their usefulness. On the other hand, the environmental impact caused by improper handling of used plasticshas become a social problem. "

https://tinyurl.com/2noqk8hs

Did you catch it? Plastics are bad not because they're really any significant environmental problem, but because they're a social problem. And society has to be forced to change because some CEO or company ("stakeholder" in UN / WEF terms, and an important word to remember because you don't elect them) has decided that they're a social problem.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 13, 2023 11:30 AM (NYUSO)

23 18 Tucker BTW is right again. Digital media that doesn't reside in a storage device can be altered at will by the media content provider these days. And digital media storage devices can suddenly fail, turning anything stored in them into trash. Books can stay intact over a century if treated properly. The only way the Nanny State can erase books is by sending the Firemen.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 13, 2023 11:28 AM (W+kMI)

Or you can put them on fire-hardend clay tablets and have last for milenia?--Ancient Sumerians

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:31 AM (ynpvh)

24 The Media keep showing fights between J-Lo and Ben-A.

Don't they know she's Bronx Puerto Rican?

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 13, 2023 11:31 AM (RqMSv)

25 Books can stay intact over a century if treated properly. The only way the Nanny State can erase books is by sending the Firemen.
Posted by: exdem13 at May 13, 2023 11:28 AM (W+kMI)

Sure sure sure, but nobody wants to read E.T., the book.

When Spotify and Apple remove all music from any artist who isn't Woke, you can't just read the sheet music.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 11:32 AM (3Fnyr)

26 Tucker BTW is right again. Digital media that doesn't reside in a storage device can be altered at will by the media content provider these days.
--

Think about how difficult is is for normal people to save anything these days. Geeks and nerds can figure it out pretty easily, but 90% of folks have no idea.

jdownloader if you're wondering btw.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 13, 2023 11:33 AM (NYUSO)

27 Republicans: Why are you telling black people you're going to give them five million dollars?

Democrats: So we can tell them we were... ...but you wouldn't let us. :sly smile:

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 13, 2023 11:33 AM (iKBwy)

28 RE: reparations: Maybe Newsom could get by with just doing like a cheap boss at Christmastime with the employees. Buy everyone a scratch-off lottery ticket.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 11:34 AM (kXYt5)

29 "OH this week we are FINALLY de-cluttering and downsizing and the book dumpster is almost full!"

"Don't throw away your hard-copy books."

Schizophrenia is like a hobby around here.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 13, 2023 11:35 AM (jYCXf)

30 Do blacks still vote overwhelmingly for Dems? I have no idea but I have zero trust at this point that there’s any correlation between the number of counted ballots and real, human voters and their preferences. Did Newsom beat his recall? All I know is I voted for his recall along with everyone I know….. but the ballot result was in his favor 2-to-1. I no longer live in Cali, partially due to the evilness or insanity of its leaders (take your pick which, I don’t know).
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 13, 2023 11:30 AM (xT8gx)

Some have suggested that "turnout" in large cities is all the proof you need to show that massive ballot fraud has been in place for decades.

One can subscribe to the notion that black people are stupid fools who keep voting for Democrats, or one can consider the possibility that the same people who have disdain for government in other forms, right or wrong, are not as eager to head to the polls (or mail in the anonymous ballot) as the results seem to show.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 11:35 AM (3Fnyr)

31 What a coinkydink-having Delta Smelt Salad for lunch, Spotted Owl Fricassee for supper!

Posted by: Doin' My Part at May 13, 2023 11:35 AM (Nn3xT)

32 What about white people who identify as black?
What about descendants of early Chinese immigrants to California who were victims of racism?

What about Native Americans who were maltreated by the Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:36 AM (ynpvh)

33 I thought Sheng Thao was a Chinese beer brand.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 11:36 AM (kXYt5)

34 Gavin Newsome: We aren’t going to be giving each black person a million dollars but we are enrolling them in the jelly of the month club. It’s the gift that keeps on giving!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 13, 2023 11:37 AM (u73oe)

35 Testing name field link to see if it allows insider.

Harrys razors have gone p3d0 btw. List of companies supporting p3d0 in the link.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 13, 2023 11:37 AM (NYUSO)

36 24 The Media keep showing fights between J-Lo and Ben-A.

Don't they know she's Bronx Puerto Rican?
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 13, 2023 11:31 AM (RqMSv)

Is it the 90s again? Why didn't anyone tell me?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 13, 2023 11:37 AM (zZu0s)

37 28 RE: reparations: Maybe Newsom could get by with just doing like a cheap boss at Christmastime with the employees. Buy everyone a scratch-off lottery ticket.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 11:34 AM (kXYt5)

Cost of printing, non of them winning tickets.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:38 AM (ynpvh)

38 Emerging from the jungle primary to compete in the general election for city alderman are Democrat candidates Sheng Thao and Negra Modelo.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 11:38 AM (kXYt5)

39 Republicans: Why are you telling black people you're going to give them five million dollars?

Democrats: So we can tell them we were... ...but you wouldn't let us. :sly smile:
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 13, 2023 11:33 AM (iKBwy)

Yup. Lucy wouldn't have as much fun pulling away the football if Charlie wasn't so eager to believe he's going to finally kick it.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 11:39 AM (3Fnyr)

40 34 Gavin Newsome: We aren’t going to be giving each black person a million dollars but we are enrolling them in the jelly of the month club. It’s the gift that keeps on giving!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 13, 2023 11:37 AM (u73oe)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l91ISfcuzDw

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:39 AM (ynpvh)

41 No 5 million dollars, but here is a sausage and cheese basket from Hickory Farms...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 13, 2023 11:40 AM (zZu0s)

42 36 24 The Media keep showing fights between J-Lo and Ben-A.

Don't they know she's Bronx Puerto Rican?
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 13, 2023 11:31 AM (RqMSv)

Is it the 90s again? Why didn't anyone tell me?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 13, 2023 11:37 AM (zZu0s)

We told you the economy was the 70's again. Do we have to tell you everything?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:40 AM (ynpvh)

43 ...language arts standards that would require that students recite "all or part of significant poems...

******

Let's start a movement to get Muldoon's Library of Limericks on the curriculum.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 11:40 AM (kXYt5)

44 39 Republicans: Why are you telling black people you're going to give them five million dollars?

Democrats: So we can tell them we were... ...but you wouldn't let us. :sly smile:
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 13, 2023 11:33 AM (iKBwy)

Yup. Lucy wouldn't have as much fun pulling away the football if Charlie wasn't so eager to believe he's going to finally kick it.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 11:39 AM (3Fnyr)

Which means Charlie Brown is either an idiot or a masochist.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:41 AM (ynpvh)

45 Be sure to click the ChatGPT link and read the "AI" written poems about our presidents where everyone is awesome, even George Bush, but Trump is stated outright to be our enemy.

Here it is for convenience

https://tinyurl.com/2ptgcd3g

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 13, 2023 11:42 AM (NYUSO)

46 No 5 million dollars, but here is a sausage and cheese basket from Hickory Farms...
Posted by: Aetius451AD

*******

Ha! Nice.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 11:42 AM (kXYt5)

47 Is it the 90s again? Why didn't anyone tell me?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 13, 2023 11:37 AM (zZu0s)

Ryan George has a recurring video series where a time traveler from the 90s is sent to the future (our present), and interviewed by the host of a show back then.

It's both hilarious and terrifying.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 11:42 AM (3Fnyr)

48 Ben Afleck does not look like a happy guy. I thought he got tired of her shit decades ago.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 13, 2023 11:42 AM (5u1+1)

49 Jungle Primary would be much more interesting with a few tigers, venomous sneks, maybe a gorilla, or two.

Posted by: Our Precious Democracy at May 13, 2023 11:42 AM (Nn3xT)

50 Which means Charlie Brown is either an idiot or a masochist.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:41 AM (ynpvh)

Hmmm, maybe the R Party can hold a Congressional hearing to determine which.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 11:43 AM (3Fnyr)

51 RE: reparations: Maybe Newsom could get by with just doing like a cheap boss at Christmastime with the employees. Buy everyone a scratch-off lottery ticket.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 11:34 AM (kXYt5)


Had a boss like that. He hated it when we shortened his name to Dick, especially since his name was Steve.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2023 11:43 AM (anj39)

52 What fun! Lookin' out my back door . . .

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 13, 2023 11:43 AM (MIKMs)

53 A woman recently approached the CIA Headquarters in Virginia, and asked for "Agent Penis".

Pro Tip: The FBI has Agents, the CIA has Officers. Ask for "Officer {nnn}" for better results.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 13, 2023 11:44 AM (a3Q+t)

54 43 ...language arts standards that would require that students recite "all or part of significant poems...

******

Let's start a movement to get Muldoon's Library of Limericks on the curriculum.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 11:40 AM (kXYt5)

What We'd like: Classic poems recited
What we'd accept: Limricks
What we get: recitals from "Clean Asshole Poems"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:44 AM (ynpvh)

55 This country has become such a clownshow. Even the warhawk bloodlust neocons are admitting our Crown Jewel sub fleet has withered wrll below the RUS gas station.

This is actually why the big boys are thumbing their noses at us and our "economic hegemony" (usury).

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Neewsweek article today titled The US has a Russian submarine problem.

NATO's anti-sub capabilities, meanwhile, have "atrophied following the end of the Cold War and as attention had strayed elsewhere," Nick Childs, senior fellow for naval forces and maritime security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) think tank, told Newsweek.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 13, 2023 11:45 AM (cWRGB)

56 Ha ha! California! Some of the greatest real estate in the world populated by some of the dumbest cunts with a dollar bill.

I'm jealous. Also happy I left and am not a victim of its vicious inhabitants.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 13, 2023 11:46 AM (KVGVf)

57 The west could have all of the water they need for now and any future growth if they wanted to, but they don't want to. They refuse to build anymore reservoirs even though there are tons of places they could do so.


They claimed that global warming caused drought was the new normal and there was nothing they could do about it. They even refused to fund repairs on spillways of the oroville dam spillway because they said with 100% certainty that there would never be enough water in the lake for them to have to use the spillway so it would be a waste of $$$ to fix it. Then in 2017 the dam and spillway failed because of record rainfall and they had to evacuate over 200,000 people downstream.


Idiots, it's all self inflicted and they deserve it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 13, 2023 11:46 AM (ncXxy)

58 49 Jungle Primary would be much more interesting with a few tigers, venomous sneks, maybe a gorilla, or two.

Posted by: Our Precious Democracy at May 13, 2023 11:42 AM (Nn3xT)

Politicians taking on tigers barehanded, just like George Washington did!--Japanese History of America book, 1861

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:46 AM (ynpvh)

59 Thanks KT. Third yard work rain delay here this morn.

Posted by: scampydog at May 13, 2023 11:47 AM (tocrP)

60 Ben Afleck does not look like a happy guy. I thought he got tired of her shit decades ago.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 13, 2023 11:42 AM (5u1+1)

Michael Malice made a comment some time ago, about people who say "I wouldn't bang [insert name of horrid politician here]."

His response is, "sure you would, how unpleasant could it be, and you'd be able to say you banged her." You would never get tired of telling that story.

I guess the same is true here. Why is Ben Afflac banging Hennifer Hlopez? Because he can, man.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 11:47 AM (3Fnyr)

61 50 Which means Charlie Brown is either an idiot or a masochist.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:41 AM (ynpvh)

Hmmm, maybe the R Party can hold a Congressional hearing to determine which.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 11:43 AM (3Fnyr)

Lindsay Graham always gets excited when the Repubs hold a Caucus.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:48 AM (ynpvh)

62 Interesting:

https://is.gd/UUKiUZ

1957. 'Digging the grave of Liberty.'

Dear Lord.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 13, 2023 11:48 AM (zZu0s)

63 7 I'd have to care more to look into it, but I wonder if the collapse of the St. Francis dam was the beginning of the end for Californica.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 11:22 AM (3Fnyr

Mulholland's organized water theft preceded his botched dam engineering.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 13, 2023 11:48 AM (Kqwxo)

64
Books can stay intact over a century if treated properly.

800,000 year old books get kind of crumbly. I saw that in The Time Machine.

We'll be wandering around in the woods reciting classic works as in Fahrenheit 451.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 13, 2023 11:48 AM (63Dwl)

65 Posted other place Musk's choice for CEO is letting the Camel's nose under the tent.

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2023 11:50 AM (xhxe8)

66 A woman recently approached the CIA Headquarters in Virginia, and asked for "Agent Penis".

*******

C'mon this is 2023. You're not likely to find Penis in Virginia...

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 11:51 AM (kXYt5)

67 Had a boss like that. He hated it when we shortened his name to Dick, especially since his name was Steve.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2023 11:43 AM (anj39)

Heh, I don't know why I'm laughing. I would love to have the opportunity to use that sometime...

"Well, Steve, may I call you 'Dick?' Well, Dick....."

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 11:51 AM (3Fnyr)

68 67 Had a boss like that. He hated it when we shortened his name to Dick, especially since his name was Steve.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2023 11:43 AM (anj39)

Heh, I don't know why I'm laughing. I would love to have the opportunity to use that sometime...

"Well, Steve, may I call you 'Dick?' Well, Dick....."

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 11:51 AM (3Fnyr)

:::while in HR::: But he identified as a dick!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:52 AM (ynpvh)

69 Let's start a movement to get Muldoon's Library of Limericks on the curriculum.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 11:40 AM (kXYt5)


Make it an audiobook. It would really speak to me!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2023 11:52 AM (anj39)

70 69 Let's start a movement to get Muldoon's Library of Limericks on the curriculum.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 11:40 AM (kXYt5)


Make it an audiobook. It would really speak to me!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2023 11:52 AM (anj39)

You can really feel it in Braile.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:53 AM (ynpvh)

71 Eugyppius discusses Germany's national energy policy suicide pact:

A vast foreign-funded climate cabal with a death grip on policy is currently fighting hard to crash the Federal Republic of Germany with no survivors, and there is nothing anybody can do about it

https://tinyurl.com/mvzhudd6

Posted by: Kindltot at May 13, 2023 11:54 AM (xhaym)

72 I have a few books 150 years old, one on Andersonville Prison sill can read though cover is mostly gone.

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2023 11:54 AM (xhxe8)

73 Lindsay Graham always gets excited when the Repubs hold a Caucus.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:48 AM (ynpvh)

I know a guy from the South, who's gay, but unlike Miss Lindsay, he's actually conservative. He HAAAATES it when I say his voice sounds almost exactly like Graham.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 11:55 AM (3Fnyr)

74 I'm glad Ole Possum ain't around to see what's happened to Bakersfield. It's up to Dwight Yoakum now.

Posted by: Eromero at May 13, 2023 11:55 AM (eo57b)

75 Ace would buy Muldoon's book but he has no shelf control.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2023 11:55 AM (anj39)

76 Can we sell Califonication to the Red Chinese, people and all, and use the money to pay for the reparations to all the poor, mentally ill Michael Jackson impersonators who are forced to live in New Yawk City’s subway system until they are murdered by roving MAGA hat wearing vets?

You wanna get nuts? Let’s get nuts!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 13, 2023 11:57 AM (R/m4+)

77 73 Lindsay Graham always gets excited when the Repubs hold a Caucus.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:48 AM (ynpvh)

I know a guy from the South, who's gay, but unlike Miss Lindsay, he's actually conservative. He HAAAATES it when I say his voice sounds almost exactly like Graham.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 11:55 AM (3Fnyr)

Does anybody really like Lindsay? Perhaps the CoC Republicans.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:57 AM (ynpvh)

78 Four weeks 'til MoMe!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 13, 2023 11:57 AM (DhOHl)

79 I like Ringo Starr's solo top songs more than I do John Lennon's solo top songs. Another thing I could not have ever predicted.

Posted by: polynikes at May 13, 2023 11:58 AM (7f7P9)

80 I'd have to care more to look into it, but I wonder if the collapse of the St. Francis dam was the beginning of the end for Californica.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 11:22 AM (3Fnyr

Mulholland's organized water theft preceded his botched dam engineering.
Posted by: Fox2! at May 13, 2023 11:48 AM (Kqwxo)

Well, like I said I don't really care, so I don't know the whole history there, but it seems to me "urban planning," and squandering resources, along with your basic graft, is in many ways the story of Californica.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 11:58 AM (3Fnyr)

81
A vast foreign-funded climate cabal with a death grip on policy is currently fighting hard to crash the Federal Republic of Germany with no survivors, and there is nothing anybody can do about it

The same thing is happening here. The newest regs will eliminate fossil fuel electricity production eventually.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 13, 2023 11:58 AM (63Dwl)

82 Do blacks still vote overwhelmingly for Dems? I have no idea but I have zero trust at this point that there’s any correlation between the number of counted ballots and real, human voters and their preferences. Did Newsom beat his recall? All I know is I voted for his recall along with everyone I know….. but the ballot result was in his favor 2-to-1. I no longer live in Cali, partially due to the evilness or insanity of its leaders (take your pick which, I don’t know).


When a single party controls the vote counting apparatus it should be no surprise when that party also wins all the elections. I grew up in Chicago. I know whereof I speak.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 13, 2023 12:00 PM (afRfN)

83 Does anybody really like Lindsay? Perhaps the CoC Republicans.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:57 AM (ynpvh)

I don't know about South Carolina, but I do know there is ample evidence Madge McConnel is only reelected every six years because his vote fraud operation in Kentucky is essentially as effective as any Democrat state/city.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:01 PM (3Fnyr)

84 I was going to self-publish a copy of the limerick book in Morse code, but by the time I finished the translation I was all tapped out.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 12:01 PM (kXYt5)

85 You can get an online degree in Urban Planning and Basic Graft from the University of Phoenix.

Posted by: Ask me how I know at May 13, 2023 12:01 PM (DhOHl)

86 I'm glad Ole Possum ain't around to see what's happened to Bakersfield. It's up to Dwight Yoakum now.

Posted by: Eromero at May 13, 2023 11:55 AM (eo57b)

George Jones?

Posted by: BignJames at May 13, 2023 12:02 PM (AwYPR)

87 84 I was going to self-publish a copy of the limerick book in Morse code, but by the time I finished the translation I was all tapped out.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 12:01 PM (kXYt5)

At least you didn't try smoke signals; that'll bring tears to your eyes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:04 PM (ynpvh)

88 Uh, yeah...California sucks.
Get out while you can.
Serfdom is coming.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 13, 2023 12:04 PM (xcxpd)

89 88 Uh, yeah...California sucks.
Get out while you can.
Serfdom is coming.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 13, 2023 12:04 PM (xcxpd)

Not just to Kali.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:05 PM (ynpvh)

90 Newsome got the gold mine. We got the shaft.

Posted by: California taxpayers at May 13, 2023 12:05 PM (DhOHl)

91 >>>I was going to self-publish a copy of the limerick book in Morse code, but by the time I finished the translation I was all tapped out.

Posted by: Muldoon

>When you're prepared to give us the long and short of it, don't dit-ah dah-ly.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 13, 2023 12:06 PM (KVGVf)

92 "And the Republican Party in California is in the process of disappearing"

And the aforementioned Larry Elder isn't helping the situation. At all. The guy was - and is - the most visible Republican figure in CA, outside of Kevin McCarthy. He had a huge platform to run for governor against Newsom in that recall election, and the CA GOP did everything they could to kneecap the guy. He loses, of course, and what does he then do? Does he start a movement to reform the CA GOP from the outside, as the guy has a radio show and has a constant public presence? Does he file any complaint against the state GOP?

No. The guy goes back to his show and cuts Relief Factor commercials. Elder may be spot in with his Twitter criticisms, but to me he's useless. If he's not working toward a solution in CA, he's part of the problem.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 13, 2023 12:06 PM (Z7Z81)

93 Sending out an S-O-S...

Posted by: Work with me here at May 13, 2023 12:07 PM (DhOHl)

94 Mis-quoting LTC Kilgore from Apocalypse Now I used to say that Americans Don't Serf.


I don't say that anymore because I've lost faith in many of my former countrymen.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 13, 2023 12:08 PM (afRfN)

95 KTY got sick with a high fever, headache and sore throat a few days ago. Took her to urgent care to check for strep. Not strep, not covid. She started feeling better yesterday.
Today she has a scattering of red bumps on her palms.
Hoof mouth disease.
Didn't realize adults can get it.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 13, 2023 12:08 PM (twjRB)

96
As a member of the Signal Corps force
I sent codes as a matter of course
But whenever some big dunce
Asked me to send it more than once
I said I never had one bit of re-morse

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 12:08 PM (kXYt5)

97
Does anybody really like Lindsay? Perhaps the CoC Republicans.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 11:57 AM (ynpvh)

___________

He inherited Thurmond's constituency service machine, so he'll be re-elected as long as he runs for another term.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2023 12:09 PM (4KRE0)

98 Larry Elder is a Great American.

Posted by: Sean Hannity at May 13, 2023 12:09 PM (DhOHl)

99 92 "And the Republican Party in California is in the process of disappearing"

And the aforementioned Larry Elder isn't helping the situation. At all. The guy was - and is - the most visible Republican figure in CA, outside of Kevin McCarthy. He had a huge platform to run for governor against Newsom in that recall election, and the CA GOP did everything they could to kneecap the guy. He loses, of course, and what does he then do? Does he start a movement to reform the CA GOP from the outside, as the guy has a radio show and has a constant public presence? Does he file any complaint against the state GOP?

No. The guy goes back to his show and cuts Relief Factor commercials. Elder may be spot in with his Twitter criticisms, but to me he's useless. If he's not working toward a solution in CA, he's part of the problem.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 13, 2023 12:06 PM (Z7Z81)

Any Repub is highly disadvantaged in Kali. Jungle primary, motor voter, mail-in ballots for the masses, many counties with >100% eligible voter registration. It's hard to fight a system with so many ways to cheeat baked into the cake against you.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:10 PM (ynpvh)

100 First hand experience plus watching my favorite show, Aerial America, I've concluded the following.

California is the most beautiful State and the least free. Texas is the least beautiful state and the most free ( relatively speaking).

Posted by: polynikes at May 13, 2023 12:10 PM (7f7P9)

101 93 Sending out an S-O-S...

Posted by: Work with me here at May 13, 2023 12:07 PM (DhOHl)

... --- ...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:11 PM (ynpvh)

102 96
-... .-. .- ...- ---

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 13, 2023 12:11 PM (twjRB)

103 It will be funny if Gruesome gets steamroller by the runaway train he helped make in reparations

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2023 12:11 PM (xhxe8)

104
Texas is the least beautiful state

________

Yo!

Posted by: New Jersey at May 13, 2023 12:11 PM (4KRE0)

105 87 84 I was going to self-publish a copy of the limerick book in Morse code, but by the time I finished the translation I was all tapped out.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 12:01 PM (kXYt5)

At least you didn't try smoke signals; that'll bring tears to your eyes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:04 PM (ynpvh)


You could try semaphore but you'd have to speak Chinese.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2023 12:13 PM (anj39)

106 If you're a wireless operator with a stutter does that make you re-morse-ful?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 13, 2023 12:13 PM (afRfN)

107 ... . -. -.. .. -. --.
--- ..- -
.- -.
... --- ...

Posted by: .--. --- .-.. .. -.-. . at May 13, 2023 12:13 PM (ynpvh)

108 -... .-. .- ...- ---
Posted by: vmom

*******

I tried translating the whole limerick into Morse but Pixy rejected it as spam.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 12:13 PM (kXYt5)

109 105 87 84 I was going to self-publish a copy of the limerick book in Morse code, but by the time I finished the translation I was all tapped out.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 12:01 PM (kXYt5)

At least you didn't try smoke signals; that'll bring tears to your eyes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:04 PM (ynpvh)


You could try semaphore but you'd have to speak Chinese.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2023 12:13 PM (anj39)

Or you'd get flagged.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:14 PM (ynpvh)

110 California had it all and was so amazing up to about the early '90s. Its tragic what has happened to it., and the voters keep voting for a more dystopian future without water or energy.

California even had the best country music for a while. I sure love me see Mere Haggard and Buck Owens.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at May 13, 2023 12:14 PM (d9Cw3)

111 Texas is the least beautiful state
________

Yo!
Posted by: New Jersey

:::
Stay in your lane, pal.

Posted by: Delaware at May 13, 2023 12:14 PM (DhOHl)

112 Pixy is anti-Morsian

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 13, 2023 12:15 PM (twjRB)

113 ... . -. -.. .. -. --.
--- ..- -
.- -.
... --- ...
Posted by: .--. --- .-.. .. -.-. . at May 13, 2023 12:13 PM (ynpvh)

Help, Doc. I'm seeing spots before my eyes.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at May 13, 2023 12:15 PM (AiZBA)

114 I’ll never drink Kern River again.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 13, 2023 12:15 PM (MXu3c)

115 71 - That Eugyppius piece is chilling but also annoying. Elected politicians don’t have to enact laws and regulations written by think tanks. A few courageous pols in the mold of Trump could put a stop to it. Of course we lucked into a Trump and now the entire establishment is balls to the wall to ruin him after ballot stuffing like crazy to overcome his enthusiastic support amongst the population…. Against all reason, however, I remain optimistic for America…. There are large segments of sanity across the nation and I can’t see the competently governed states (eg FL TN TX IA others) just letting Babylon DC dictate nonsense like the end of ICE automobiles

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 13, 2023 12:16 PM (lRx88)

116 Evil Jews.

Israel Calls Off Gaza Airstrike After Detecting Palestinian Children

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 13, 2023 12:16 PM (FVME7)

117 104
Texas is the least beautiful state

________

Yo!

Posted by: New Jersey at May 13, 2023 12:11 PM (4KRE0)

It is the Garden State. Supposedly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:16 PM (ynpvh)

118 That's a lie! California's budget deficit is not $20 Billion, it's $35 billion and growing.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 13, 2023 12:17 PM (17s+e)

119 This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Van Morrison at May 13, 2023 12:18 PM (DhOHl)

120 California even had the best country music for a while. I sure love me see Mere Haggard and Buck Owens.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at May 13, 2023 12:14 PM (d9Cw3)

I'm not a country music fan, but would find a Haggard/Owens "live" show to be... interesting.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:18 PM (Jt5gU)

121 When robbing Peter to pay Te'Qwan, you can count on Te'Qwan's enthusiastic support.

Posted by: wisenheimer at May 13, 2023 12:18 PM (+HNMf)

122 Yo!
Posted by: New Jersey at May 13, 2023 12:11 PM (4KRE0)

There are plenty of beautiful places in NJ. People who have only been to NJ and only seen a view from Newark airport don't know that. Warren and Sussex Hunterdon County have lovely parts. So are counties in the Southern part of the state, Yes; I get it, You either have only seen in from a plane or have moved out and haven't been here for 20 years. I congratulate you!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 13, 2023 12:19 PM (Keyt1)

123
It is the Garden State. Supposedly.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:16 PM (ynpvh)

____________

Maybe some of the northwest counties are less pestilential, but the state as a whole is just incredibly tawdry.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2023 12:19 PM (MoZTd)

124 It is the Garden State. Supposedly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:16 PM (ynpvh)

There are lots of beautiful parts of NJ, but its beauty is overwhelmed by the scum in the capital and in the inner cities.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2023 12:19 PM (ZCCyW)

125 My favorite country singer , Dwight Yoakam made his name in CA.

Posted by: polynikes at May 13, 2023 12:20 PM (7f7P9)

126 118 That's a lie! California's budget deficit is not $20 Billion, it's $35 billion and growing.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 13, 2023 12:17 PM (17s+e)

Our Train to Nowhere™ will only cost us a few $100B...for now. I mean, look at all the track they've laid! Well, no, don't.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

127 l)

120 California even had the best country music for a while. I sure love me see Mere Haggard and Buck Owens.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at May 13, 2023 12:14 PM (d9Cw3)

Folsom Prison was recorded in California.

Posted by: That Northern skulker at May 13, 2023 12:20 PM (eGTCV)

128 110 - Buck: I lived in CA for 30+ years and it was paradise on earth until circa mid-2010s. The Covid madness in 20-21 really exposed the decay. So sad because I had an idyllic life there for many years

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 13, 2023 12:20 PM (lRx88)

129 When robbing Peter to pay Te'Qwan, you can count on Te'Qwan's enthusiastic support.

Posted by: wisenheimer
==

But Te'Qwan don't be liking Jose getting any a dat Peter's cash.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 13, 2023 12:20 PM (17s+e)

130 This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Van Morrison at May 13, 2023 12:18 PM (DhOHl)

Listening to Van Morrison "sing" is what it must sound like when Michael McDonald is being gang raped in an alley.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:21 PM (Jt5gU)

131 Yoakam was born in Kentucky by the way.

Posted by: polynikes at May 13, 2023 12:21 PM (7f7P9)

132 124 It is the Garden State. Supposedly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:16 PM (ynpvh)

There are lots of beautiful parts of NJ, but its beauty is overwhelmed by the scum in the capital and in the inner cities.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2023 12:19 PM (ZCCyW)

That's every state, unfortunately.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:21 PM (ynpvh)

133 But Te'Qwan don't be liking Jose getting any a dat Peter's cash.

True dat.

Posted by: wisenheimer at May 13, 2023 12:22 PM (+HNMf)

134 You from Jersey? I'm from Jersey!

Yeah? What exit?

Posted by: When two NJ residents meet somewhere outside the state at May 13, 2023 12:22 PM (DhOHl)

135 130 This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Van Morrison at May 13, 2023 12:18 PM (DhOHl)

Listening to Van Morrison "sing" is what it must sound like when Michael McDonald is being gang raped in an alley.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:21 PM (Jt5gU)

So that's what "Moondance" is about?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:22 PM (ynpvh)

136 That Eugyppius piece is chilling but also annoying. Elected politicians don’t have to enact laws and regulations written by think tanks. A few courageous pols in the mold of Trump could put a stop to it.

--

The neat part is to understand how easy it is for the organizations.

"Here's $5000."

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 13, 2023 12:23 PM (NYUSO)

137 128 110 - Buck: I lived in CA for 30+ years and it was paradise on earth until circa mid-2010s. The Covid madness in 20-21 really exposed the decay. So sad because I had an idyllic life there for many years

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 13, 2023 12:20 PM (lRx8

Depends. Some parts of Kali have decayed earlier and faster than other parts. You can guess which parts.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:23 PM (ynpvh)

138 The rest of America should demand reparations from California.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 13, 2023 12:23 PM (TgBWG)

139 I reside in CA and frankly I support the reparations panel, because it richly illustrates how stupid and venal Newsom and his democrats really are.
As soon as I read about it, I was "nah, they're not really going to go thru with it, that would be stupid and venal".
But they did.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 13, 2023 12:24 PM (jTmQV)

140 138 The rest of America should demand reparations from California.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 13, 2023 12:23 PM (TgBWG)

Do You accept Carbon Credits?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:25 PM (ynpvh)

141 California is the most beautiful State and the least free. Texas is the least beautiful state and the most free ( relatively speaking).
Posted by: polynikes at May 13, 2023 12:10 PM (7f7P9)

Personally, I think Utah is the most beautiful state in the nation, and other than in the area around that cesspit of a city up north, for the most part government leaves you the F alone in the rest of the state.

And the Mormons don't annoy me too much.

I might consider living there, if I didn't have to work for my supper. Same with Wyoming, but really, it's just too damn cold up there. Beautiful and desolate, but cold... just like my women.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:25 PM (Jt5gU)

142 Texas IS beautiful. There is nothing as beautiful as the stark, spartan look of standing in the sunshine and seeing a massive thunderstorm several miles distant. The craggy rocks.

It would SEEM less beautiful without AC.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 13, 2023 12:25 PM (zZu0s)

143 NY is also a very beautiful state . I love Texas but unless you like desert gulches or patches of pine forests or a swath of nothing, it falls at the bottom of the list.

Posted by: polynikes at May 13, 2023 12:25 PM (7f7P9)

144 *Some parts of Kali have decayed earlier and faster than other parts.*

Gradually at first, then all at once.

Posted by: Watching from a distance at May 13, 2023 12:26 PM (DhOHl)

145 So sad because I had an idyllic life there for many years.

I spent a year in Los Angeles for tax reasons. Had friends in San Diego who lived near the beach. Ocean Beach, one of the crappiest areas in SD but it was still heaven compared to LA. After my year was up I moved down and spent a good twenty years there before I gave up on California. Still is a beautiful area but the writing is on the wall.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 13, 2023 12:26 PM (s+Y5E)

146 Hoof mouth disease.
Didn't realize adults can get it.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 13, 2023 12:08 PM (twjRB)

Did you check her hooves ?

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 13, 2023 12:26 PM (WF/xn)

147 Buck neither,BigN.

Posted by: Eromero at May 13, 2023 12:27 PM (eo57b)

148 Also, any state which permits illegals and felons to vote in a Federal election should lose every electoral vote. In other words, lose statehood and become a territory with an appointed governor and a couple of non voting congress persons.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 13, 2023 12:27 PM (jTmQV)

149 No longer a $20 billion dollar deficit.
It was reported on Friday that California's state's budget deficit has grown to nearly $32 billion. That's about $10 billion more than predicted.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 13, 2023 12:27 PM (NpAcC)

150 143 NY is also a very beautiful state . I love Texas but unless you like desert gulches or patches of pine forests or a swath of nothing, it falls at the bottom of the list.

Posted by: polynikes at May 13, 2023 12:25 PM (7f7P9)

It's got goodly amounts of trees as you near Louisiana.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:27 PM (ynpvh)

151 So that's what "Moondance" is about?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:22 PM (ynpvh)

If I get an earworm from this, I will hunt you down.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:27 PM (Jt5gU)

152 Did you check her hooves ?
Posted by: Hatari

All four of them! Lol

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 13, 2023 12:28 PM (twjRB)

153 145 So sad because I had an idyllic life there for many years.

I spent a year in Los Angeles for tax reasons. Had friends in San Diego who lived near the beach. Ocean Beach, one of the crappiest areas in SD but it was still heaven compared to LA. After my year was up I moved down and spent a good twenty years there before I gave up on California. Still is a beautiful area but the writing is on the wall.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 13, 2023 12:26 PM (s+Y5E)

Pro Tip: Beaches are cleaner the further north form Mexico you go here.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:28 PM (ynpvh)

154 California of yesteryear:

https://is.gd/xCGeWK

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 13, 2023 12:29 PM (zZu0s)

155 Thx for a great post K.T. I'll take part of my state as the most beautiful. Upstate NY is very beautiful and not the least bit free. NYC controls all , and if you hear about Albany corruption it's brought north from NYC

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 13, 2023 12:29 PM (lRky4)

156 151 So that's what "Moondance" is about?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:22 PM (ynpvh)

If I get an earworm from this, I will hunt you down.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:27 PM (Jt5gU)

It would probably be a marvelous night for it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:29 PM (ynpvh)

157 Texas IS beautiful. There is nothing as beautiful as the stark, spartan look of standing in the sunshine and seeing a massive thunderstorm several miles distant. The craggy rocks.

It would SEEM less beautiful without AC.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 13, 2023 12:25 PM (zZu0s)

I can't be impartial. My ex now lives in Texas. I hate to blame the whole state, but.....

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:29 PM (Jt5gU)

158 When I decide to become homeless I'm heading to Balboa Park. But it's a secret. Don't tell anybody.

Posted by: Just Sayin' at May 13, 2023 12:30 PM (DhOHl)

159 It would probably be a marvelous night for it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:29 PM (ynpvh)

STOP THAT!!!

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:31 PM (Jt5gU)

160 Hill Country is my favorite part of Texas.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 13, 2023 12:31 PM (eOOK5)

161 Yes Delaware is horrible don't ever go don't even get off the freeway. Do whatever you can to avoid. Do not come here. Never move here. Spread the word pls I am trying to protect you. Don't even say the name. It's better if this state just completely drops off the radar it is that terrible and ugly and the ppl! Good Lord. Save yourselves by not ever coming here and just pretending we don't exist. A wall should be built around the state to protect the rest of America honestly. Anywhere is better than here trust me. Pls don't come.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 13, 2023 12:31 PM (yYW11)

162 but cold... just like my women.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:25 PM

Remember the wisdom in the Good Book concerning women: "Many are cold, but few are frozen."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 13, 2023 12:31 PM (a3Q+t)

163 Pro Tip: Beaches are cleaner the further north form Mexico you go here.

That rule of thumb definitely applies in San Diego.

Though when you live in an area that is considered south of Southern California “north of Mexico” loses a little of its meaning.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 13, 2023 12:32 PM (s+Y5E)

164 I'm heading to Balboa Park. But it's a secret. Don't tell anybody.
Posted by: Just Sayin' at May 13, 2023 12:30 PM

At least you can leave a cake out in the rain.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 13, 2023 12:32 PM (a3Q+t)

165 75 Ace would buy Muldoon's book but he has no shelf control.


Posted by: kactus at May 13, 2023 12:33 PM (azTeW)

166 Remember the wisdom in the Good Book concerning women: "Many are cold, but few are frozen."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 13, 2023 12:31 PM (a3Q+t)

Ok...that took me a sec....

Posted by: BignJames at May 13, 2023 12:33 PM (AwYPR)

167 I spent a year in Los Angeles for tax reasons. Had friends in San Diego who lived near the beach. Ocean Beach, one of the crappiest areas in SD but it was still heaven compared to LA. After my year was up I moved down and spent a good twenty years there before I gave up on California. Still is a beautiful area but the writing is on the wall.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 13, 2023 12:26 PM


I was stationed in California twice briefly in both San Diego and NAS Lemoore back in the 80s. California is a beautiful state with concentrated crazy.


San Diego has perfect weather year round but is filled with liberals and homeless people. The San Jaoquin valley is nice if you stay out of the Cities like Fresno.


The State of California is wasted on the liberals.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 13, 2023 12:33 PM (ncXxy)

168 My ex now lives in Texas.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:29 PM

A reason some reside in Tennessee.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 13, 2023 12:34 PM (a3Q+t)

169 75 - golf clap

Posted by: kactus at May 13, 2023 12:34 PM (azTeW)

170 163 Pro Tip: Beaches are cleaner the further north form Mexico you go here.

That rule of thumb definitely applies in San Diego.

Though when you live in an area that is considered south of Southern California “north of Mexico” loses a little of its meaning.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 13, 2023 12:32 PM (s+Y5E)

Indeed. I'm in San Diego, so yes, very true here. Especially after it rains and the Tijuana river flows with millions of gallons of untreated sewage which is apparently California and the US' fault somehow(!?).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:34 PM (ynpvh)

171 "Many are cold, but few are frozen."

Those are Packers fans!

Posted by: Lambeau Bo at May 13, 2023 12:34 PM (DhOHl)

172 Ace would buy Muldoon's book but he has no shelf control.


Posted by: kactus at

Chuckle

Posted by: That Northern skulker at May 13, 2023 12:34 PM (eGTCV)

173 California of yesteryear:

https://is.gd/xCGeWK
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 13, 2023 12:29 PM (zZu0s)

Meh. While I love the crispness of the enhanced video, the place already looks grimy and dismal.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:34 PM (Jt5gU)

174 164 I'm heading to Balboa Park. But it's a secret. Don't tell anybody.
Posted by: Just Sayin' at May 13, 2023 12:30 PM

At least you can leave a cake out in the rain.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 13, 2023 12:32 PM (a3Q+t)

Might still lose the recipe anyway.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:35 PM (ynpvh)

175 A favorite Doug Sahm lyric

"You just can't live in Texas unless you got a lot of soul"

https://youtu.be/p-X32IjZrA4

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 13, 2023 12:35 PM (yYW11)

176 *At least you can leave a cake out in the rain.*

Ahem.

Posted by: MacArthur Park at May 13, 2023 12:35 PM (DhOHl)

177
A wall should be built around the state to protect the rest of America honestly. Anywhere is better than here trust me. Pls don't come.
Posted by: Thesokorus at May 13, 2023 12:31 PM (yYW11)

__________

After they shut down DuPont Central Experimental Station, the state lost its reason for existing.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2023 12:36 PM (MoZTd)

178 the Tijuana river flows with millions of gallons of untreated sewage which is apparently California and the US' fault somehow(!?).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:34 PM

Trump's, to be more specific.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 13, 2023 12:37 PM (a3Q+t)

179 After they shut down DuPont Central Experimental Station, the state lost its reason for existing.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2023 12:36 PM (MoZTd)

True so true. Just leave us be to suffer here. We deserve and no one else does. Pls don't take up our heavy heavy cross

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 13, 2023 12:38 PM (yYW11)

180 Exes in Texas?

Posted by: There's a song about that at May 13, 2023 12:38 PM (DhOHl)

181 Don't worry about Elon Musk.
He won't pull up the ladder until he gets established on Mars.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 13, 2023 12:38 PM (N21uJ)

182 Oops.......


"A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a 1968 law banning anyone under the age of 21 from buying a handgun from a licensed federal firearms dealer."


Appears they are starting to gut the unconstitutional gun control act of 68. The judge cited the SCOTUS bruen decision in his decision and said it was unconstitutional to prohibit 18-20 years olds from exercising their 2nd amendment rights.


GP has the story.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 13, 2023 12:39 PM (ncXxy)

183 Joe Biden
@JoeBiden
The last thing this country needs is a manufactured crisis.
But MAGA Republicans are creating exactly that by holding America’s economy hostage—all to try to force cuts to veterans’ benefits, education, health care, and more.

-
Say what you will about Joe, he can put more lies into fewer words than anybody I know.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 13, 2023 12:39 PM (FVME7)

184 @JoeBiden
The last thing this country needs is a manufactured crisis.
But MAGA Republicans are creating exactly that by holding America’s economy hostage—all to try to force cuts to veterans’ benefits, education, health care, and more.

--

Shut
It
Down

Love,
MAGA voter

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 13, 2023 12:39 PM (NYUSO)

185 178 the Tijuana river flows with millions of gallons of untreated sewage which is apparently California and the US' fault somehow(!?).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:34 PM

Trump's, to be more specific.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 13, 2023 12:37 PM (a3Q+t)

That's one bad case of Diarrhea...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:40 PM (ynpvh)

186 but cold... just like my women.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:25 PM

Remember the wisdom in the Good Book concerning women: "Many are cold, but few are frozen."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 13, 2023 12:31 PM (a3Q+t)

Heh. Yes, few.

But don't go checking my storage shed.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:40 PM (xKNfA)

187 That's one bad case of Diarrhea...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:40 PM (ynpvh)

All those taco bowls.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:40 PM (xKNfA)

188 All of our crises are manufactured.

Posted by: Get a clue at May 13, 2023 12:41 PM (DhOHl)

189 Say what you will about Joe, he can put more lies into fewer words than anybody I know.

Yeah, but who has the higher body count?

Posted by: The Clintons at May 13, 2023 12:41 PM (eOEVl)

190 They have to tell everyone there is a crisis because no one will notice when the government shuts down.

Remember when Obama had highway pulloffs blocked so people couldn't look at Mt. Rushmore and IIRC had veterans arrested or escorted off of a public park that is open all hours because of the shutdown?

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 13, 2023 12:41 PM (NYUSO)

191 182 Oops.......


"A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a 1968 law banning anyone under the age of 21 from buying a handgun from a licensed federal firearms dealer."


Appears they are starting to gut the unconstitutional gun control act of 68. The judge cited the SCOTUS bruen decision in his decision and said it was unconstitutional to prohibit 18-20 years olds from exercising their 2nd amendment rights.


GP has the story.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 13, 2023 12:39 PM (ncXxy)

Now do alcohol...
I always thought it was rather odd that you can be an "adult" in the eyes of the law, yet only provisionally so. Either be an adult at 18 or be an adult at 21. None of this partial bullshit.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:41 PM (ynpvh)

192 'Can we maybe stop using Sacramento as a model for the future and start using it as a warning?'

Posted by: Implement Lex Luthor's plan now! at May 13, 2023 12:41 PM (roH4R)

193 Is it just me or is Ca always whining about something? Water too much it too little, fires, mudslides, etc. it’s always something.

You never hear about these problems in oh I dunno Utah. I’m sure they exist there too but it’s not national news 24/7.

Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 12:42 PM (cClah)

194 Hoof mouth disease.

******

Do you mean hand foot and mouth disease?

Common in pre-schoolers, less so in adults. Usually caused by coxsackie virus or other enteroviruses. Generally self-limited, topical treatment for the vesicles (small blisters)

Rarely can have more significant sequelae. Enteroviruses are one of the most common causes of myocarditis/pericarditis.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 12:42 PM (kXYt5)

195 DEMs don't so much lie as provide fig leafs for their co-conspirators the GOP to further the agenda.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 13, 2023 12:42 PM (yYW11)

196 Heck, I'll go one better.

Shut it down and fire everyone who isn't required to come in on a snow day.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 13, 2023 12:42 PM (NYUSO)

197
But don't go checking my storage shed.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:40 PM (xKNfA)

____________

"If you checked the freezer first, we'd both be alive." - Just The Punchline

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2023 12:43 PM (MoZTd)

198 Thinking eventually California will go the way of any other Marxist country went, down the drain.

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2023 12:44 PM (xhxe8)

199 Ask ChatGPT what the definition reproductive organs and penis are.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 13, 2023 12:44 PM (N21uJ)

200 194 Hoof mouth disease.

******
Common in pre-schoolers, less so in adults. Usually caused by coxsackie virus or other enteroviruses. ...
Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 12:42 PM (kXYt5)

I always thought that virus sounded rather gay.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:44 PM (ynpvh)

201 Muldoon, yes. More fun to call it hoofs though

What kind of topical is good for the little blisters?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 13, 2023 12:44 PM (twjRB)

202 198 Thinking eventually California will go the way of any other Marxist country went, down the drain.

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2023 12:44 PM (xhxe

You have to destoy it to rebuild it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:45 PM (ynpvh)

203
Do you mean hand foot and mouth disease?

_________

I frequently suffer from foot-in-mouth disease.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2023 12:45 PM (MoZTd)

204 Did someone say coxsackie?

Posted by: Comma Lah at May 13, 2023 12:45 PM (DhOHl)

205 Remember when Obama had highway pulloffs blocked so people couldn't look at Mt. Rushmore and IIRC had veterans arrested or escorted off of a public park that is open all hours because of the shutdown?
Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 13, 2023 12:41 PM (NYUSO)

Yep, WWII memorial. A group of vets on a bus tour, got turned away (not arrested), even though the memorial is basically just a walkway.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:46 PM (xKNfA)

206 Get a clue @ 88-
All our crisis are manufactured.
This. And it's frusticating to death to see it. And to think at least 1/2 of the country.......ain't got a clue.

Posted by: Eromero at May 13, 2023 12:46 PM (eo57b)

207 Reading books by Morse Code is fine, but I seem to retain more knowledge when the text is brought to me by Aldis Lamp.

Posted by: Crusty Old Seaman at May 13, 2023 12:46 PM (Nn3xT)

208 206 Get a clue @ 88-
All our crisis are manufactured.
This. And it's frusticating to death to see it. And to think at least 1/2 of the country.......ain't got a clue.

Posted by: Eromero at May 13, 2023 12:46 PM (eo57b)

All they know is what they hear on the radio, see on TV, and view online. All that propoganda.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:47 PM (ynpvh)

209 Sweet Jeebus, these people have no shame. This is just elder abuse.

Trembling, Confused Dianne Feinstein Asks ‘Where Am I Going?’ As She’s Rolled Back In To Work As A US Senator

Despite the senator’s condition, Democrats have pushed for Feinstein to return to the Senate floor, as her vote is critical for approving judicial nominees appointed by President Joe Biden. Upon her return, Democrats on the Judiciary Committee approved six Biden nominees, three of whom passed on a party-line vote, CNN reported Thursday. The votes had been put on hold while Feinstein was absent from D.C.

https://tinyurl.com/29xa6b48

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2023 12:47 PM (eOEVl)

210 Everyone often forgets that Musk is NOT a conservative in any way because he doesn't want to join the International Fascist Party and has enough money to avoid being forced in. He's an old style counterculture type who dreams of utopias that don't follow traditional values. This separates him from the modern fascists who cover up their desire to own all the things by lying about how their plans will result in utopia.

Posted by: azjaeger at May 13, 2023 12:47 PM (3/XaG)

211 207 Reading books by Morse Code is fine, but I seem to retain more knowledge when the text is brought to me by Aldis Lamp.

Posted by: Crusty Old Seaman at May 13, 2023 12:46 PM (Nn3xT)

That's a more en-lighted way to do it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:48 PM (ynpvh)

212 Gave away my TV this week. Feels great.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 13, 2023 12:48 PM (DhOHl)

213 Coxsackie virus was named for a town about 30 m north of me. In the late 40s a Dr working for NYS department of health found this virus which was very much like polio without the paralysis.
There was an outbreak in China in early 00s. They called correctly a Coxsackie virus. Were they racist against us?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 13, 2023 12:48 PM (lRky4)

214 "If you checked the freezer first, we'd both be alive." - Just The Punchline
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2023 12:43 PM (MoZTd)

Ok, I don't know that one, and a search fails to turn up a result. Care to tell the whole thing?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:48 PM (xKNfA)

215 210 Everyone often forgets that Musk is NOT a conservative in any way because he doesn't want to join the International Fascist Party and has enough money to avoid being forced in. He's an old style counterculture type who dreams of utopias that don't follow traditional values. This separates him from the modern fascists who cover up their desire to own all the things by lying about how their plans will result in utopia.

Posted by: azjaeger at May 13, 2023 12:47 PM (3/XaG)

Chaotic Neutral?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:49 PM (ynpvh)

216 209

Democrats know how to do politics. Republicans on the other hand…they’ll write a hell of a mean letter to the editor.

Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 12:49 PM (cClah)

217 https://tinyurl.com/29xa6b48
Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2023 12:47 PM (eOEVl)

We'll get a Marius after the first non-proxy defeat we suffer on the battlefield.

We are quite honestly as defenseless as Rome pre-Marius/Sulla.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 13, 2023 12:50 PM (yYW11)

218 That DiFi lady is a rank amateur.

Posted by: Strom Thurmond at May 13, 2023 12:50 PM (DhOHl)

219 216 209

Democrats know how to do politics. Republicans on the other hand…they’ll write a hell of a mean letter to the editor.

Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 12:49 PM (cClah)

It's good-cop, bad-cop, but they all work for the same side.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:50 PM (ynpvh)

220 Now do alcohol...
I always thought it was rather odd that you can be an "adult" in the eyes of the law, yet only provisionally so. Either be an adult at 18 or be an adult at 21. None of this partial bullshit.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:41 PM (ynpvh)

All these bullshit 21 years old to do this or that laws is just do gooding water walkers who want to tell others how to live.

You got the money, you buy what you want.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 13, 2023 12:50 PM (R/m4+)

221 Democrats know how to do politics.

This isn't politics. It's evil incarnate.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2023 12:50 PM (eOEVl)

222 Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the voting age to 25

-
25?! 55!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 13, 2023 12:50 PM (FVME7)

223 I think the World Bank, er, US, $$ for Tijuana sewage treatment projects goes back to the 1980s. In a stunning development, it hasn't been effective/unplanned growth has stayed ahead of it/lack of maintenance etc has resulted in continued pollution of the river basin (really don't know, but probably a combo of all these).

Don't keep track year-round but only recall poor Imperial Beach, right down near the border, being seriously affected recently/frequently. Don't remember even Coronado, just up the coast, having water quality issues very often.

"GOP is moribund" is correct, and it's not unrelated to the national GOP condition. GOP in most of CA offers nothing to vote for, really - just Dem lite ("hey, we're less racist, less stupid, less authoritarian, vote for us!" about sums it up). I've seen it close up, recently. Pathetic. Incredible, really.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2023 12:50 PM (OTzUX)

224 jim in Kalifornia @ 191-
I seem to remember getting a draft notice when I was 19. Sure made me feel like an adult.

Posted by: Eromero at May 13, 2023 12:50 PM (eo57b)

225 Musk had an awakening to the goings on of the left.
Is he ultra super hard core conservative on every issue? No. Does he need to be? Also no. He is a great ally for us and I don’t see why people continually try to shit on him.

Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 12:51 PM (cClah)

226 Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the voting age to 25


Fine with me, with one caveat. If you're serving or have served in the military, you get to vote.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2023 12:52 PM (eOEVl)

227 Everyone often forgets that Musk is NOT a conservative in any way because he doesn't want to join the International Fascist Party and has enough money to avoid being forced in. He's an old style counterculture type who dreams of utopias that don't follow traditional values. This separates him from the modern fascists who cover up their desire to own all the things by lying about how their plans will result in utopia.
Posted by: azjaeger at May 13, 2023 12:47 PM (3/XaG)

Musk purports to be rabidly pro-free speech, which is of course a traditionally liberal point of view.

What strikes people as curious about this choice is this woman appears to be very much about peddling propaganda, at the expense of free speech.

It doesn't seem to fit with Musk's claim for why he bought Twatter in the first place. But I guess we'll see.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:52 PM (xKNfA)

228 Most of IT doesn't require a conspiracy.

Just

https://www.merriam-webster.com/
dictionary/murmuration

of the bird brain media.

Unfortunately they won't stop voluntarily.

I suggest

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

Posted by: DaveA at May 13, 2023 12:52 PM (FhXTo)

229 Washington is a beautiful state. From the center you are never more than a couple hours drive to anything. The desert, mountains, the ocean, a rain forest, lakes, rivers, beaches, big cities, and rolling farmland.
If we could just get rid of the asshats in Olympia.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2023 12:52 PM (anj39)

230 If you come to Texas remember why you're leaving that blue state. Don't wreck our state by voting Democrat.

We want to make Texas the film capital of the world: Dennis Quaid
Actor Dennis Quaid explains why Hollywood is leaving California for Texas on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’

https://tinyurl.com/zzurcp5e

It is not just people fleeing crime, high taxes, and sanctuary cities in California, but business is following suit, too, and actor/director Dennis Quaid tells Newsmax that Texas can be bigger and better as a "film capital of the world."

https://tinyurl.com/535naztb

Posted by: redridinghood at May 13, 2023 12:52 PM (NpAcC)

231 224 jim in Kalifornia @ 191-
I seem to remember getting a draft notice when I was 19. Sure made me feel like an adult.

Posted by: Eromero at May 13, 2023 12:50 PM (eo57b)

I would believe that. So 18 or 21 for everything adult. Same for the draft, same for voting, same for drinking.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:53 PM (ynpvh)

232 Democrats know how to do politics.

This isn't politics. It's evil incarnate.
Posted by: Archimedes

—-

Politics is dirty business and Dems do what it takes. That’s my point. Republicans don’t. And it’s why they never win.

Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 12:53 PM (cClah)

233 230 If you come to Texas remember why you're leaving that blue state. Don't wreck our state by voting Democrat...

Posted by: redridinghood at May 13, 2023 12:52 PM (NpAcC)

It's bad enough in Houston and Dallas-Ft. Worth.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:54 PM (ynpvh)

234 All these bullshit 21 years old to do this or that laws is just do gooding water walkers who want to tell others how to live.

You got the money, you buy what you want.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 13, 2023 12:50 PM (R/m4+)

Sure, buy what you want, but it costs extra to stay bought.

Posted by: Stormy McDaniels at May 13, 2023 12:54 PM (xKNfA)

235 Musk purports to be rabidly pro-free speech, which is of course a traditionally liberal point of view.

What strikes people as curious about this choice is this woman appears to be very much about peddling propaganda, at the expense of free speech.

It doesn't seem to fit with Musk's claim for why he bought Twatter in the first place. But I guess we'll see.

Musk is a very smart guy. When I see something like this that doesn't seem to add up, I assume he's got another agenda. Buying Twitter is a perfect example. People said he'd never make his money back, but it's clear that he's got bigger fish to fry and Twitter is part of his strategy to get there. Company X is going to be much bigger than Twitter.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2023 12:55 PM (eOEVl)

236 Jesus, Texas should just cut to the chasr and bring Langley and the new FBI HQ to Austin. Why stop at Hollywood? Vanguard and Blackrock too. Idiotic.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 13, 2023 12:55 PM (yYW11)

237 I seem to remember getting a draft notice when I was 19. Sure made me feel like an adult.
Posted by: Eromero at May 13, 2023 12:50 PM (eo57b)


I still have my draft card. One of these days I'm going to go down to the federal building and burn it.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2023 12:55 PM (anj39)

238 Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the voting age to 25
-----------

Fine with me, with one caveat. If you're serving or have served in the military, you get to vote.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2023 12:52 PM (eOEVl)

Posted by: Stormy McDaniels at May 13, 2023 12:56 PM (xKNfA)

239 What kind of topical is good for the little blisters?


*******

I won't recommend any particular treatment on the internet, wouldn't be prudent. You could consider any type of soothing skin product such as Calamine lotion, First aid cream, aloe vera products. For the mouth sores we used to recommend a mixture of Kaopectate, liquid Benadryl and saline as a mouth rinse- spit don't swallow. You might ask your own doctor for a particular recipe or similar formulation.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 12:56 PM (kXYt5)

240 It doesn't really matter what state you live in these days, because the great experiment we have here is coming to a close. Every person in the USA now owes something like $95k in taxes to cover the debt. Each person, not each taxpayer.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 13, 2023 12:56 PM (jTmQV)

241 The Chosen is being filmed in Texas.

Posted by: Just Sayin' at May 13, 2023 12:57 PM (DhOHl)

242 Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the voting age to 25
-----------

Fine with me, with one caveat. If you're serving or have served in the military, you get to vote.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2023 12:52 PM (eOEVl)

Some propose a "skin in the game" standard. Which could be paying taxes or land ownership or public service (military or otherwise). Something other than just being a freeloader.

I don't think that's unreasonable, but I wouldn't make it an age thing.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:57 PM (xKNfA)

243 More like Jerry Garcia if Jerry Garcia had the talent to run businesses that built things.

Posted by: azjaeger at May 13, 2023 12:58 PM (3/XaG)

244 Funny story about Strom Thurmond. Husband and I were in DC doing some research and we went over to the Capitol after we'd finished. There was a small outdoor platform set up the for statements to the press. Strom came out, doddering and heavily supported by aides. We both thought he'd expire before he got to the platform. Nope. The lights and cameras came on and he gave a perfectly coherent speech to the reporters and took a question or two.

You had to be impressed.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at May 13, 2023 12:58 PM (fTtFy)

245 *spit don't swallow*

Now you tell me.

Posted by: Comma Lah at May 13, 2023 12:59 PM (DhOHl)

246 "Now do alcohol..."

Back in the day, Mothers against Drunk Drivers wasn't having fast enough success getting states to raise the drinking age, so they got DC lobbyists to get Congress to do it by tying the raise to federal highway spending. You're not against highway funding are you? Tell me you're for kids getting killed?

This had consequences as college kids drink more to pregame and the parties haved moved off-campus. (Leading to the Dule lacrosse rape case). Goodbye bars with up-and-coming rock bands ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 13, 2023 12:59 PM (RqMSv)

247 244 Funny story about Strom Thurmond. Husband and I were in DC doing some research and we went over to the Capitol after we'd finished. There was a small outdoor platform set up the for statements to the press. Strom came out, doddering and heavily supported by aides. We both thought he'd expire before he got to the platform. Nope. The lights and cameras came on and he gave a perfectly coherent speech to the reporters and took a question or two.

You had to be impressed.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at May 13, 2023 12:58 PM (fTtFy)

He was still interested in the ladies at the age of 100.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:59 PM (ynpvh)

248
Ok, I don't know that one, and a search fails to turn up a result. Care to tell the whole thing?
Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 12:48 PM (xKNfA)

_________

Two women meet in heaven.
"How did you die?"
"I froze to death. And you?"
"I came home early and my husband was naked. I ran around looking for his lover in the closets, the bathrooms, under the bed, in the pantry. I was so angry and exhausted I had a heart attack."
"If you checked in the freezer first, we'd both be alive."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2023 01:00 PM (MoZTd)

249 Vivek Rammalammadingdong should propose anyone over 65 can’t vote.

They’ve done enough damage.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 13, 2023 01:00 PM (R/m4+)

250 @246 This had led to no end of interest groups using federal spending to run over the states to get what they want.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 13, 2023 01:01 PM (RqMSv)

251 Ok, I don't know that one, and a search fails to turn up a result

-

Welcome to post-2020.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 13, 2023 01:01 PM (NYUSO)

252 Traditionally the left was restrained by the fear of annoying the electorate too much - the lesson they learned from the 70s was in allowing crime to run rampant THEY were, rightly, blamed for it.

But the American people have gotten frankly dumber and are having a hard time understanding where the crime, inflation, and generalized pain are coming from.

Yes part of it is the FNM but that is not all of it...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 13, 2023 01:01 PM (lc5cP)

253 252 Traditionally the left was restrained by the fear of annoying the electorate too much - the lesson they learned from the 70s was in allowing crime to run rampant THEY were, rightly, blamed for it.

But the American people have gotten frankly dumber and are having a hard time understanding where the crime, inflation, and generalized pain are coming from.

Yes part of it is the FNM but that is not all of it...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 13, 2023 01:01 PM (lc5cP)

Our schools too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 01:02 PM (ynpvh)

254 redridinghood Texas isn't as Blue as you think it is

https://legalinsurrection.com/racial activist angela davisgot-$25000 from u texas at austin for speech trashing capitalism

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2023 01:03 PM (xhxe8)

255 I don't trust Ramaswamy.

Posted by: Eromero at May 13, 2023 01:03 PM (eo57b)

256 You might ask your own doctor for a particular recipe or similar formulation.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 12:56 PM (kXYt5

I would but she's out of town, sadly.
Maybe I'll email
She says her throat doesn't hurt anymore, since yesterday. She's been doing a salt water gargle once a day.
Aside from the initial high fever day one, I think it's a mild case (fingers crossed)

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 13, 2023 01:03 PM (twjRB)

257 Reading books by Morse Code is fine, but I seem to retain more knowledge when the text is brought to me by Aldis Lamp.


I didn't know that Aldi's sold lighting fixtures. I thought they just sold groceries.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 13, 2023 01:03 PM (afRfN)

258 Yeah pick an age when someone is an adult. 18, 21, 25 whatever. And that age is the age for everything “adult”, vote, buy guns, join the military, sign contracts, etc.

Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 01:04 PM (cClah)

259 He was still interested in the ladies at the age of 100.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 12:59 PM (ynpvh)

Word is, if you were female, you didn't want to be trapped in an elevator with him.

There's also video of a very frail looking George H.W. Bush pinching the arse of a female who got too close.

Which kinda makes you wonder about the Trump/Cryptcreeper lady story. Is ass-pinching a thing? Sure it is. Or stealing a kiss or whatever. Yeah, rich and powerful men of a certain generation did/do it. I could envision Trump doing it, but costing him $5 mil for it? While EVERYONE ELSE gets a free pass, including the current White House occupant?

Just another example of fascist/selective law enforcement.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 01:04 PM (xKNfA)

260 The more things go federal the less voters have influence.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 13, 2023 01:04 PM (RqMSv)

261 beautiful parts of NJ,

Fun Fact: The mud smeared on baseballs comes from a particular spot on a tidal creek in Pennsauken.

Posted by: DaveA at May 13, 2023 01:05 PM (FhXTo)

262 256 You might ask your own doctor for a particular recipe or similar formulation.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2023 12:56 PM (kXYt5

I would but she's out of town, sadly.
Maybe I'll email
She says her throat doesn't hurt anymore, since yesterday. She's been doing a salt water gargle once a day.
Aside from the initial high fever day one, I think it's a mild case (fingers crossed)

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 13, 2023 01:03 PM (twjRB)

When I have a sore throat I do a salt and vinegar water gargle. Burns like hell, but sure helps me.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 01:05 PM (ynpvh)

263 We lived in California for about 12 years.... 2000 - 2012. Up to Obama's election it wasn't too belligerent, but went downhill right after that. Mostly the local governments getting more intrusive. And the leftists feeling emboldened to get in your face.

Been downhill ever since.

Glad we relocated to Kentucky... rural and left alone.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 13, 2023 01:05 PM (Q4IgG)

264 245 *spit don't swallow*

Now you tell me.
Posted by: Comma Lah at May 13, 2023 12:59 PM (DhOHl)
***


That's what they call a hanging curveball right over the plate.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2023 01:05 PM (anj39)

265 248 LOL

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 13, 2023 01:06 PM (twjRB)

266 I don't trust Ramaswamy.

I'm not sure why, but in any case, he knows he's not going to be President. He's playing a part, which is to bring new ideas into the party and make it okay to talk about them. He's doing it very well.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2023 01:06 PM (eOEVl)

267 Some propose a "skin in the game" standard. Which could be paying taxes or land ownership or public service (military or otherwise). Something other than just being a freeloader.

I don't think that's unreasonable, but I wouldn't make it an age thing.
Posted by: BurtTC

Leave the age alone and add "if you're receiving any welfare from any Fed, State, County, or City you do not vote until you have not received a check for a year."

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 13, 2023 01:06 PM (TJwQV)

268 "If you checked in the freezer first, we'd both be alive."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2023 01:00 PM (MoZTd)

Heh, I like it.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 01:07 PM (xKNfA)

269 https://legalinsurrection.com/racial activist angela davisgot-$25000 from u texas at austin for speech trashing capitalism
Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2023 01:03 PM (

Austin isn't Texas, it's an enemy city that got plopped into the middle somehow.

Just like El Paso is really a part of Old Mexico that somehow Texas ended up with title to. We don't like it or even particularly want it, but we're stuck with it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 13, 2023 01:07 PM (S6gqv)

270 269 https://legalinsurrection.com/racial activist angela davisgot-$25000 from u texas at austin for speech trashing capitalism
Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2023 01:03 PM (

Austin isn't Texas, it's an enemy city that got plopped into the middle somehow.

Just like El Paso is really a part of Old Mexico that somehow Texas ended up with title to. We don't like it or even particularly want it, but we're stuck with it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 13, 2023 01:07 PM (S6gqv)

'splain Dallas and Houston.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 01:08 PM (ynpvh)

271
Best of Breed for Delilah at today's Rio Grande KC show in an entry of 44. Well done, that girl!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2023 01:08 PM (MoZTd)

272 257 Reading books by Morse Code is fine, but I seem to retain more knowledge when the text is brought to me by Aldis Lamp.

I didn't know that Aldi's sold lighting fixtures. I thought they just sold groceries.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 13, 2023 01:03 PM (afRfN)

Heh! The Aisle of Shame (yes, another AoS!) holds many wonders. From toys to kitchenware to patio furniture and athleisure clothing. Even has its own FB group.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at May 13, 2023 01:09 PM (R3yzU)

273 Leave the age alone and add "if you're receiving any welfare from any Fed, State, County, or City you do not vote until you have not received a check for a year."

Amusingly an America that would implement such a rule wouldn't really need it, and the Soviet America we have that does need it never would.

One of our core problems is there is a significant portion of the electorate that only cares about getting money from the government. Literally nothing else matters - not foreign invasion, not the pedo/school brigade, not even clot shots and lockdowns.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 13, 2023 01:10 PM (lc5cP)

274 H7,
Congrats!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2023 01:10 PM (anj39)

275 18-1 @ 252 (ooh, that's a lot of math for this early), echoing what I've been thinking for years. Same things/trends/issues that swayed national elections, bigly, for most of my life just appeared to not matter any more.

The national racist-totalitarian street festival in the summer of 2020, seemed to me, cemented a Trump landslide that already had other foundations. Uh uh. Seemed to have zero effect (even accounting for fraud, and the larger factor of "farmed" votes, wherein people really make no effort to vote but just have their ballots collected). Amazing. Yes you had the greatest incumbent vote increase in history, so some of it may be reflected there, but still.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2023 01:10 PM (OTzUX)

276 California of yesteryear:

https://is.gd/xCGeWK
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 13, 2023 12:29 PM (zZu0s)

Meh. While I love the crispness of the enhanced video, the place already looks grimy and dismal.
Posted by: BurtTC

LA 1899
shorpy.com/node/7259

Already gritty and shifty.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 13, 2023 01:10 PM (N21uJ)

277 Best of Breed for Delilah at today's Rio Grande KC show in an entry of 44. Well done, that girl!
Posted by: Hadrian

Congrats to Delilah and you!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 13, 2023 01:10 PM (TJwQV)

278
splain Dallas and Houston.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 01:08 PM (ynpvh)

____________

Cities that were dynamic and well run when the oil guys picked the mayors. Dead gone days.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2023 01:11 PM (MoZTd)

279 If Vivek plays his cards well he could be a serious challenger some time in the future. I’m
Not sure what kind of wealth he has, but if it’s significant he can do a lot of good funding right wing causes. We’ll see if he is in it for the long term or just looking for 15 minutes of fame.

Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 01:11 PM (cClah)

280 Congratulations, Hadrian!

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at May 13, 2023 01:12 PM (R3yzU)

281 I think KTY's HFM disease was probably from an enterovirus rather than coxsackie. Day before we went to the mall , ate at fpod court. Around an hour later she had to rush to the bathroom urgently. Afterward she felt fine.
We through it was just some kind of food poisoning but it might have been that.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 13, 2023 01:12 PM (twjRB)

282 I once saw a lawn mower for sale at Aldi.

Posted by: It's true at May 13, 2023 01:12 PM (DhOHl)

283 278
splain Dallas and Houston.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 01:08 PM (ynpvh)

____________

Cities that were dynamic and well run when the oil guys picked the mayors. Dead gone days.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2023 01:11 PM (MoZTd)

And voting blue?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 01:13 PM (ynpvh)

284 Every red state has its Austin. Montana has Missoula for example.

Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 01:13 PM (cClah)

285
Vivek Rammalammadingdong should propose anyone over 65 can’t vote.

They’ve done enough damage.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Maybe you'd like us to be Carouseled or put into camps?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 13, 2023 01:13 PM (63Dwl)

286 ALA 1899
shorpy.com/node/7259

Already gritty and shifty.

In the lower right corner you can see a small structure atop a steep hill, surrounded at its base by houses. I've heard the expression "s*** rolls downhill", but I don't think I've ever seen it put into execution this way.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2023 01:14 PM (eOEVl)

287 Austism, the Texas edition of Berkeley

Posted by: Eromero at May 13, 2023 01:15 PM (z3WCn)

288 Are there any cities anywhere over 500k people that have a Republican mayor? If they exist they are very rare. So whether Dallas is in Texas or not is kind of irrelevant. It is a big city, hence it is Democrat.

Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 01:15 PM (cClah)

289 Not sure what kind of wealth he has, but if it’s significant he can do a lot of good funding right wing causes. We’ll see if he is in it for the long term or just looking for 15 minutes of fame.
Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 01:11 PM (cClah)

I believe his holdings are being measured in metric f**ktons.

He's loaded.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 01:15 PM (xKNfA)

290 285
Vivek Rammalammadingdong should propose anyone over 65 can’t vote.

They’ve done enough damage.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Maybe you'd like us to be Carouseled or put into camps?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 13, 2023 01:13 PM (63Dwl)

Or floating and shot by lasers.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 01:16 PM (ynpvh)

291 Maybe you'd like us to be Carouseled or put into camps?

Meh, just denying you geezers healthcare should be enough.

Posted by: Ezekiel Emanuel at May 13, 2023 01:16 PM (lc5cP)

292 Are there any cities anywhere over 500k people that have a Republican mayor? If they exist they are very rare. So whether Dallas is in Texas or not is kind of irrelevant. It is a big city, hence it is Democrat.
Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 01:15 PM (cClah)

OK City.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 01:16 PM (xKNfA)

293 I believe his holdings are being measured in metric f**ktons.

He's loaded.

You are correct, sir! He's not Musk wealthy, but he doesn't need to buy things on sale.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2023 01:17 PM (eOEVl)

294 288 Are there any cities anywhere over 500k people that have a Republican mayor? If they exist they are very rare. So whether Dallas is in Texas or not is kind of irrelevant. It is a big city, hence it is Democrat.

Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 01:15 PM (cClah)

San Diego used to. Since Obama, we've been a "purple" city. Also murders and other crimes are up.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 01:17 PM (ynpvh)

295 Hadrian congratulations, keep wonding if this fame has gone to Delilah's head yet.

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2023 01:17 PM (xhxe8)

296 Like Ike’s it up…

Ft Worth, Hacksonville and Oklahoma City have Republican mayors and are over 500k people. Pretty short list.

Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 01:18 PM (cClah)

297
And voting blue?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 01:13 PM (ynpvh)

___________

It was a blue state. But it wasn't the blue of today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2023 01:18 PM (MoZTd)

298 Costs and crowding are the main drivers of emigration from CA, were driving it prior to the more recent trends in many (not all) areas.

Situation varies quite a bit, place to place, and by personal circumstance and interests. If your circumstances work and your interests coincide with the amazing natural/geographic/selected lifestyle treasures still available, it can be fine.

Country as a whole is trashing itself, with little sign of interest in regaining common sense, so running out the clock here is a no-brainer in my case.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2023 01:18 PM (OTzUX)

299 297
And voting blue?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 01:13 PM (ynpvh)

___________

It was a blue state. But it wasn't the blue of today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2023 01:18 PM (MoZTd)

I guess that happens when oxygen is cut off from the brain.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 01:19 PM (ynpvh)

300 296

Holy autocorrect Batman!!! Lol

Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 01:19 PM (cClah)

301 I believe his holdings are being measured in metric f**ktons.

He's loaded.

You are correct, sir! He's not Musk wealthy, but he doesn't need to buy things on sale.
Posted by: Archimedes

Did he buy the lawnmower at Aldi's ?

Posted by: JT at May 13, 2023 01:19 PM (T4tVD)

302
Austin isn't Texas, it's an enemy city that got plopped into the middle somehow.

On average, cities that are based on the university are enemy beachheads. Professors were once men of tradition and wisdom, but over the last 50 years they have become on average people of insanity and disconnect while getting more and more economic power. University towns become controlled by the enemy

Posted by: azjaeger at May 13, 2023 01:20 PM (3/XaG)

303 Maybe you'd like us to be Carouseled or put into camps?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 13, 2023 01:13 PM (63Dwl)

No No Carousel. I hate that musical. If people are going to be knocked off, let us at least do "Sweeney Todd."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 13, 2023 01:21 PM (Keyt1)

304 Austin is a double whammy in that it’s both a college town and the state capital. It can’t be anything other than hard left. Add in the tech scene and it’s a triple whammy.

Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 01:21 PM (cClah)

305 My daughter is in the market for a house. She makes very good money, but even she can't afford much house in the NoVa/DC area.

She almost got a house last week, but someone came in at the last second and paid CASH (almost $700k).

The yoots blame this on us old farts selling our houses in the burbs and moving closer in to the city, which is true. My guess is that it's also that DC has become like London, and there's a lot of foreign capital being parked in DC real estate.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2023 01:21 PM (eOEVl)

306 Congrats to Delilah!!!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 13, 2023 01:22 PM (twjRB)

307 I would believe that. So 18 or 21 for everything adult. Same for the draft, same for voting, same for drinking.
Posted by: jim

Here's the car keys. Fifth of Jack in the console and a Glock in the dash hole. Don't forget to vote today because your going to Shitcanistan to fight for WEF tomorrow...

I like it. Give it to them all at once.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 13, 2023 01:22 PM (4lb2f)

308 Oh Hadrian, did you see yesterday's Art thread?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 13, 2023 01:22 PM (twjRB)

309 Congratulations, Hadrian and Delilah. I have forgotten what kind of dog Delilah is.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 13, 2023 01:23 PM (Keyt1)

310 304 Austin is a double whammy in that it’s both a college town and the state capital. It can’t be anything other than hard left. Add in the tech scene and it’s a triple whammy.

Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 01:21 PM (cClah)

Phoenix is the only State capital in the US with a population >1M.
#1 Phoenix: 1.7M
#2 Austin: 990K

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 01:23 PM (ynpvh)

311
Hadrian, did you see yesterday's Art thread?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 13, 2023 01:22 PM (twjRB)

__________

Yes, but late. I was busy yesterday morning.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2023 01:23 PM (MoZTd)

312 KT - every single week I am charmed by your video selections and go down the YT black hole.

Darnitall: Somehow, University of North Texas has an excellent baroque music program. Worth following.

Darnitall, KT, out my back door has become monstrous.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 13, 2023 01:24 PM (MIKMs)

313 As I noted earlier, Carlson's timing was... Not great. He joined Twitter just in time to work for a CEO who will be no different than the ones at Fox. Sad. I was looking forward to following his stuff without an old media gatekeeper silencing it, but realistically, what else could have happened?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 13, 2023 01:24 PM (oINRc)

314 Jesus, Texas should just cut to the chasr and bring Langley and the new FBI HQ to Austin. Why stop at Hollywood? Vanguard and Blackrock too. Idiotic.
Posted by: Thesokorus at May 13, 2023 12:55 PM (yYW11)

As I've said, TX is not the state so many people here think it is.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 13, 2023 01:25 PM (BdMk6)

315 Pierre, SD has a population of 12,000. I'm sure Bismarck, ND is around that, maybe less.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 13, 2023 01:26 PM (n1JsZ)

316 Blaming kids for expensive real estate is stupid. And besides old people will die in the not too distant future. All that wealth will be transferred to the next generation. All those houses owned by olds today won’t just disappear or sit empty. Someone younger will buy them or will be given them in wills, and so forth.

Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 01:26 PM (cClah)

317 Gardening NOOD

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 01:26 PM (ynpvh)

318 San Diego's first Dem mayor in many years just took office recently. Of course the quality/nature of the GOP ones in the two decades prior is what you'd expect. A downward trajectory, from the traditional Chamber of Commerce/former police chief type to the comically useless current CA GOP type, such as the last one.

It's far too late (it was a serious thing in the late 70s) to say "yeah everybody don't come, don't even visit!", to prevent many things being ruined or at least degraded by too much growth, but those thinking of visiting would do well to ignore the standard issue reports of the end of the world.

Interests vary, but there isn't a thing here that would bring me to visit that's affected by crime or homelessness. It's not NYC, in terms of why you'd visit or what's going on, not even remotely close.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2023 01:27 PM (OTzUX)

319 I meant kids blaming old people for expensive real estate is stupid.

Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 01:27 PM (cClah)

320 As I've said, TX is not the state so many people here think it is.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 13, 2023 01:25 PM (BdMk6)

I left 20 years ago. The amount of urbanization is staggering.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 13, 2023 01:28 PM (n1JsZ)

321 was going to self-publish a copy of the limerick book in Morse code, but by the time I finished the translation I was all tapped out.

Posted by: Muldoon

At least you didn't try smoke signals; that'll bring tears to your eyes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Could do it in semaphore

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 13, 2023 01:28 PM (tQL7r)

322 As I've said, TX is not the state so many people here think it is.

—

Most states aren’t the stereotype people have of them.

Posted by: Montec at May 13, 2023 01:30 PM (cClah)

323 321 was going to self-publish a copy of the limerick book in Morse code, but by the time I finished the translation I was all tapped out.

Posted by: Muldoon

At least you didn't try smoke signals; that'll bring tears to your eyes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

My response in #109

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 13, 2023 01:28 PM (tQL7r)

#

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 01:30 PM (ynpvh)

324 As I noted earlier, Carlson's timing was... Not great. He joined Twitter just in time to work for a CEO who will be no different than the ones at Fox. Sad. I was looking forward to following his stuff without an old media gatekeeper silencing it, but realistically, what else could have happened?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 13, 2023 01:24 PM (oINRc)

He could have pulled a Rogan. Or a Crowder.

Be the big man on a platform that CAN'T, or isn't interested in cancelling him. But he went to twatter. Says a lot about him, I think. Not saying he's a bad guy, just... not going to be in the vanguard.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 01:31 PM (g5d9x)

325 You could try semaphore but you'd have to speak Chinese.
Posted by: Diogenes


Oops. Late to the party AND slow reader

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 13, 2023 01:32 PM (tQL7r)

326 Huh. Damn mouse. Copy and paste FU in weird way...
Trying again.
---------

321 was going to self-publish a copy of the limerick book in Morse code, but by the time I finished the translation I was all tapped out.

Posted by: Muldoon

At least you didn't try smoke signals; that'll bring tears to your eyes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Could do it in semaphore

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 13, 2023 01:28 PM (tQL7r)

See my #109

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 01:32 PM (ynpvh)

327 All of our crises are manufactured.
Posted by: Get a clue


Absolutely right

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 13, 2023 01:33 PM (tQL7r)

328 He could have pulled a Rogan. Or a Crowder.

Be the big man on a platform that CAN'T, or isn't interested in cancelling him. But he went to twatter. Says a lot about him, I think. Not saying he's a bad guy, just... not going to be in the vanguard.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2023 01:31 PM (g5d9x)

Let's see what actually happens before we start judging decisions. Tucker's show hasn't even aired yet.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 13, 2023 01:42 PM (BdMk6)

329 Sitting in BWI right now. Am I too early for the MoMe?

Posted by: RI Red at May 13, 2023 01:42 PM (nCaYE)

330 I still get mixed up in American Reds are the conservatives and our Communists are Blue, all due to some tv analyst changing it in early 80s.

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2023 01:49 PM (xhxe8)

331 318 San Diego's first Dem mayor in many years just took office recently. Of course the quality/nature of the GOP ones in the two decades prior is what you'd expect. A downward trajectory, from the traditional Chamber of Commerce/former police chief type to the comically useless current CA GOP type, such as the last one.


Who was the ficus lover?

Posted by: NL at May 13, 2023 01:59 PM (eGTCV)

332 When California has to get a second mortgage with China for Gavin Newsom's pomade, that's when I'll be doing a jig that even those drunken fucks in Ireland will applaud.

pssst, full disclosure *whispers* like Joe Biden, I'm part Irish. *grins*

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 13, 2023 01:59 PM (KVGVf)

333 Twitter is a battlefield. Makes sense for a warrior to go there rather than build a fort that only allies will enter.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 13, 2023 02:00 PM (twjRB)

334

Who was the ficus lover?
Posted by: NL at May 13, 2023 01:59 PM (eGTCV)

I'm afraid I got confused but San Diego did have a nervy mayor did it not?

Posted by: NL at May 13, 2023 02:01 PM (eGTCV)

335 332 When California has to get a second mortgage with China for Gavin Newsom's pomade, that's when I'll be doing a jig that even those drunken fucks in Ireland will applaud.

pssst, full disclosure *whispers* like Joe Biden, I'm part Irish. *grins*

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 13, 2023 01:59 PM (KVGVf)

Heinz-57 here. Irish is one small part of me.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 02:04 PM (ynpvh)

336 334

Who was the ficus lover?
Posted by: NL at May 13, 2023 01:59 PM (eGTCV)

I'm afraid I got confused but San Diego did have a nervy mayor did it not?

Posted by: NL at May 13, 2023 02:01 PM (eGTCV)

Current mayor is gay, which is to say, homosexual.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2023 02:04 PM (ynpvh)

337
Most states aren’t the stereotype people have of them.
Posted by: Montec

AZ is like the Sahara, all desert, don't even drive through here.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 13, 2023 02:05 PM (TJwQV)

338 I expected TuCa to show up on Rumble.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 13, 2023 02:26 PM (EZebt)

339 It doesn't really matter what state you live in these days, because the great experiment we have here is coming to a close. Every person in the USA now owes something like $95k in taxes to cover the debt. Each person, not each taxpayer.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 13, 2023 12:56 PM (jTmQV)
===
Not my problem. You got any kids? Better let 'em know.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 13, 2023 02:34 PM (EZebt)

340 May be driving through AZ in June to see grandson graduate from Penddelton.

Posted by: Infidel at May 13, 2023 02:35 PM (kHtnd)

341 Oops. Late to the party AND slow reader
Posted by: Prime Sister at May 13, 2023 01:32 PM (tQL7r)


Thats

Ok

I write slow.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2023 02:44 PM (anj39)

342 I'm not telling the kids. They'll find out soon enough.
And when they do I fully expect them to tie a dry cleaning bag over my head. LOL

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 13, 2023 02:48 PM (jTmQV)

343 My son told me that his generation was going to repudiate the National Debt.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 13, 2023 02:58 PM (5u1+1)

344 Good stuff today

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2023 03:34 PM (xhxe8)

345 Howdy Horde. May have experienced Iron Dome in action about 45 minutes ago. We're in a hotel 15 minutes from Ben Gurion airport since we have a flight in about 8 hours. If so, so much for the ceasefire that was taking place at 10pm.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 13, 2023 03:49 PM (tCUV5)

346 My son told me that his generation was going to repudiate the National Debt.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse

Historical reenactors will be ok (the ones who do more than just dress up), but everyone else who depends upon post-19th century technology is going to suffer.

Posted by: SFGoth at May 13, 2023 04:13 PM (KAi1n)

347 neverenoughcaffeine at May 13, 2023 03:49 PM
Good luck

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2023 04:13 PM (xhxe8)

348 If anyone has a 'thing' for hawt lawyers, I recommend Andrea Burkhart and Dani Ahn Direct on utube.

Just saying.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 13, 2023 04:18 PM (ufFY8)

349 "Jungle primaries" are great for the ruling party. They practically guarantee that an opposition cannot gain a foothold on power through elections. The easiest way is to flood the primary with straw candidates who are nominally for the opposition, to fragment the opposition vote and ensure that the candidates of the united radicals gain a plurality. There's a reason why Chicago adopted a "jungle primary", and it ain't because the Democratic Party machine is interested in widening the base of democracy.

Posted by: Nemo at May 13, 2023 04:21 PM (S6ArX)

350 Thanks Skip. Won't need the alarm I set. After reading The Times of Israel I'm certain it was iron dome or David's sling in action. Hubby NEC slept through it.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 13, 2023 04:27 PM (tCUV5)

351 318 San Diego's first Dem mayor in many years just took office recently.
______________

What about Bob Filner? Democrat mayor in office (briefly) ~2012-2013.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 13, 2023 04:40 PM (YqDXo)

352 I still get mixed up in American Reds are the conservatives and our Communists are Blue, all due to some tv analyst changing it in early 80s.
Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2023 01:49 PM (xhxe
_______________

They changed it because characterizing the Democrats as Reds was a little too close to the truth.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 13, 2023 04:42 PM (YqDXo)

353 Elon must be fucking her.

Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at May 13, 2023 06:54 PM (kvDvI)

354 @352

The change took place in 2000. Still trying to figure out why they got it right before and not since then.

Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at May 13, 2023 06:55 PM (kvDvI)

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