It's Memorial Day Weekend. Stay on target.

The Target Moment
Dr_No

The latest cluster from Target is just too ripe a fruit [sic] to pass up - and I do lub me some 'low-hangin' fruit'. The decision to bring this stuff into the stores for sale was the first fault link in the Decision Chain. Everything else just followed nat'chly. This one was just too ripe to not snipe.

We have seen a lot of details about Target's marketing plans recently. But Dr_No is right. Clothes suggesting that transgenderism for toddlers is a great thing was just the beginning.

There was also the decision to hire a Satanist to design part of their 'Pride' line. Think this guy is attractive?

This photo was posted by a social media Friend (not sure how he achieved that status) who has a page where he posts weird, wacky, strange, odd and quirky memes, freakouts, laughs and fails.

He also posted an emoji suggested by Facebook, in response to a comment.

Charming way to start Pride Month!

Then he wrote:

In all seriousness I see this as a part of a "war on women" (a part of the broader war on the family / demoralization).
Yuri Bezmenov was Right.

All those years ago. Do you agree?

In this video, the relevant part starts at an hour 6 minutes. So, it's just the end of the video.

Conspiracy Theory Corner

Don't worry about espionage. Worry about ideological subversion. It's not the Soviets. It's the World Communist System.

All the American mass media has to do is unplug the bananas from their ears, open up their eyes and they can see . . .

What does the American mass media have in its ears and eyes these days?

Mister Anti-Communist weighs in:

You are angry at Target, justifiably, but you should be much more angry at Target's financial masters. Until you realize our corporations are run by a cartel, you will misplace your anger. https://t.co/5IZZgjjJ11
— James Lindsay, cowardly saboteur (@ConceptualJames) May 24, 2023

But as Joe Manchin has noted in the comments (on a different post), we can keep the pressure up on Target.

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How about them Dodgers?

Pride this year is going to be all insults to religion and offensive crap from corporations generally associated with conservative buyers.

The board has been set. The game will be played. https://t.co/avVDhqrT8S
— James Lindsay, cowardly saboteur (@ConceptualJames) May 23, 2023

Babylon Bee:

Dodgers Replace 7th-Inning Stretch With
Chant Of 'Hail Satan!'

In a decision viewed as yet another part of the logical progression of the team's descent into otherworldly evil, the Los Angeles Dodgers have announced the team will replace the traditional 7th-Inning Stretch and its accompanying singing of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" with a ritualistic chanting of "Hail Satan!"
"This will make it very clear why we're here and what we're all about," said Dodgers President & CEO Stan Kasten, whose first and last names are both almost "Satan." "It's time to throw away all that old tradition and good-natured enjoyment of a night at the ballpark and get right down to business -- offering praise to our Lord Satan, the Prince of Darkness."
The players themselves expressed hesitation but are willing to go along with the team's new policy. "I grew up seeing Vin Scully lead the crowd in 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game,' so this is a bit weird," said right fielder J.D. Martinez. "I expect to feel a little uneasy hearing 56,000 fans chanting 'Hail Satan,' but I'm just here to play baseball. Do you think I'll be cursed or anything?"

Take the kids out to the local ball field and teach them how to play ball. This is mostly about the kids now.

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Kids and Social Media

Ruin your child's brain

Jonathan Haidt wrote about a pretty convincing study connecting mental health of adults with the age at which they got smart phones as kids. There was a big increase in mental health problems as smart phones replaced flip phones.

When parents are asked to identify their top fears about the safety of their children, what do you think tops the list? According to a survey last year by Safehome.org, it's not cars, strangers, or any other physical threat; it's "internet/social media." That's not just for parents of teenagers and pre-teens, whose lives seem to revolve around their phones. It's even true for parents of younger kids, ages 7-9 because every parent sees it coming and few know what to do about it. Parents don't want their children to disappear into phones, as so many of their friends' children have; some resolve to wait until 8th grade, or later. Then their child hits them with the main argument that makes parents buckle: "But everyone else has a phone, so I'm being left out."
For parents who resisted, or who plan to resist, a new report may encourage many more parents to join you: Sapien Labs, which runs an ongoing global survey of mental health with nearly a million participants so far, released a "Rapid Report" today on a question they added in January asking young adults (those between ages 18 and 24): "At what age did you get your own smartphone or tablet (e.g. iPad) with Internet access that you could carry with you?"

There is a suggestion that age verification for social media accounts may be in order. Some people might think that the questions asked for this study were kind of intrusive. Below, some concerns along those lines:

3/11ish of my age verification series posts are live!

-The technology to verify your age without violating your privacy does not exist
- This creates massive cybersecurity risks
- Prevents data minimizationhttps://t.co/xAtKD4AmLD
— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 /bsky (@senatorshoshana) May 24, 2023

Just keep kids in the real world, maybe.

Hero Boy Who Rescued School Bus Says He Paid Attention Because His Parents Didn't Give Him Cellphone

We could use more kids who can pay attention.

Real World, Memorial Day Weekend

Have you got anything planned for this weekend in the Real World? Maybe even with a kid or two? This event was highly recommended on a Fresno radio station yesterday: The Avenue of the Flags is coming up on Memorial Day

The 60th Memorial Day Service of Remembrance, where more than 1,400 American Flags will be lined-up, is coming up this Monday at the Fresno Memorial Gardens to honor veterans for their sacrifice.
The event will have a musical performance by the Front Line Quartet as well the Fresno Stag and Thistle Pipe Band, with Bill and Janet Goodreau from Central Valley Honor Flight as guest speakers.

These events take some planning. There are others in our area. Are there community events planned near you?

Are you hanging a flag with the kids?

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Weekend Thoughts

Got activities lined up to keep the kids away from social media?

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Music

Take me out to the ballgame

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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, May 20, Weekend Wonkiness

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 11:11 AM

Comments

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1 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 27, 2023 11:15 AM (llON8)

2 0!

Posted by: Next2Nothing at May 27, 2023 11:16 AM (tA1/w)

3 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2023 11:16 AM (xhxe8)

4 Willowed from the prayer thread:

And probably worth taking for granted, nothing you say is going to MAKE him reach out to you. So then you just say what's in your heart, and don't let his lack of response change what is there in the first place.
Posted by: BurtTC

Exactly. Couldn't agree with you more.

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 11:16 AM (tQL7r)

5 Sponge is quite capable of getting his own firsts, stole one from me yesterday

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2023 11:16 AM (xhxe8)

6 Target and Budweiser (the Queer of Beers) are also ripe for one of those YouTube pitch meetings.
e.g. for Velma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4K_sxI5Ui8

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:17 AM (ynpvh)

7 I have an idea! Let's provoke/alienate 90% of our customer base! Sounds good, right!?!

Posted by: BignJames at May 27, 2023 11:18 AM (AwYPR)

8 7 I have an idea! Let's provoke/alienate 90% of our customer base! Sounds good, right!?!

Posted by: BignJames at May 27, 2023 11:18 AM (AwYPR)

And then, when we've done that, provoke the other 10%...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:19 AM (ynpvh)

9 Will Baphomet be batting cleanup for the Dodgers this year?

Posted by: NL at May 27, 2023 11:20 AM (eGTCV)

10 I'm sure there is *someone* who finds that "guy" attractive, but that person is an idiot.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 27, 2023 11:20 AM (llON8)

11 That freak is really going to be surprised one day.

Posted by: Eromero at May 27, 2023 11:20 AM (/knpl)

12 BignJames at May 27, 2023 11:18 AM

Amazing, isn't it?

Posted by: KT at May 27, 2023 11:20 AM (rrtZS)

13 5 Sponge is quite capable of getting his own firsts, stole one from me yesterday
Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2023 11:16 AM (xhxe

He just soaks them right up doesn't he?

Posted by: Absorbent and yellow and porous is he at May 27, 2023 11:20 AM (dhxes)

14 Jonathan Haidt wrote about a pretty convincing study connecting mental health of adults with the age at which they got smart phones as kids. There was a big increase in mental health problems as smart phones replaced flip phones.

Whoa. That's so disturbing.

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 11:21 AM (tQL7r)

15 New home-school project: Create a script to monitor new threads on AoS and post the 1st comment. Bonus points for content aware posting.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at May 27, 2023 11:21 AM (tA1/w)

16 I would have put this in the prayer list, but we seem to have moved on to a new thread. Thanks, KT I have a prayer request. Hopefully, it won't sound too silly. I am officiating at a worship service in a Senior care Center in a couple of hours. We just started this last month. Last month I inaugurated it by knocking over the tray of filled cups, for communion-after communion was over- so they'll remember me for that-if nothing else. Anyway, I would appreciate prayers that it all goes smoothly. I think it's important to have worship service at the Senior Care Center. No other Protestant clergy person does this, although I'm sure they visit parishioners there.

Thx so much.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 27, 2023 11:21 AM (Keyt1)

17 "This will make it very clear why we're here and what we're all about," said Dodgers President & CEO Stan Kasten, whose first and last names are both almost "Satan."

LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:21 AM (ynpvh)

18 9 Will Baphomet be batting cleanup for the Dodgers this year?

Posted by: NL at May 27, 2023 11:20 AM (eGTCV)

DH

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:22 AM (ynpvh)

19 According to the above ad one of the signs of a dying liver is having red paint on the back of your pants.

Posted by: Prevent liver death by avoiding red paint at May 27, 2023 11:22 AM (dhxes)

20 All the American mass media has to do is unplug the bananas from their ears, open up their eyes and they can see . . .

Uhhh. Those aren't bananas.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at May 27, 2023 11:22 AM (AiZBA)

21 If the kid on ONT story had a cell phone he at least must have used it wisely getting a car for his mom single handly

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2023 11:23 AM (xhxe8)

22 Santa doesn't respect your pronouns. He doesn't care except trying to "Kill, steal and destroy,"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 27, 2023 11:23 AM (Keyt1)

23 Santa doesn't respect your pronouns because Santa isn't real.

Posted by: Sorry those letters never went to the North Pole at May 27, 2023 11:25 AM (dhxes)

24 I'll have to look for the sick bastards picture he created, but there's one of a grown up handing a bauble or such that represents homosexuality to a little kid.

They're outright stating what they're doing.

Posted by: N Word Bomb Blast at May 27, 2023 11:25 AM (5/7b/)

25 Home school project isn't going to be rewarding. The Laws of the Missing Socks dictates that only two or three lids properly fit any of the containers.

Posted by: pawn at May 27, 2023 11:25 AM (wsHtO)

26 so they'll remember me for that-if nothing else. Anyway, I would appreciate prayers that it all goes smoothly. I think it's important to have worship service at the Senior Care Center. No other Protestant clergy person does this, although I'm sure they visit parishioners there.

Thx so much.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Fen, I used to be an administrator at a senior care facility. Don't worry about last week. The folks there are so attention-deprived, they
enjoy the least little thing you do for them. Really, it's all good.

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 11:26 AM (tQL7r)

27 I see this as a part of a war on pedophiles.

Posted by: They're "Minor Attracted Persons" at May 27, 2023 11:26 AM (DhOHl)

28 FenelonSpoke at May 27, 2023 11:21 AM

Quick prayer that things will go smoothly.

Posted by: KT at May 27, 2023 11:26 AM (rrtZS)

29 The Dodger's move is the biggest FU yet.

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2023 11:26 AM (BqNkw)

30 Will Baphomet be batting cleanup for the Dodgers this year?

Posted by: NL at May 27, 2023 11:20 AM (eGTCV)

DH
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:22 AM (ynpvh)

In interleague games.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:26 AM (AUuUW)

31 Santa will call you anything you like if you give him enough macadamia fudge cookies and a bucket of milk.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2023 11:27 AM (9UlRk)

32 All the American mass media has to do is unplug the bananas from their ears, open up their eyes and they can see . . .

Uhhh. Those aren't bananas.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV

You got that right.

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 11:27 AM (tQL7r)

33 The Satan / Santa autocorrect is leading to some amusing posts.

Posted by: PabloD at May 27, 2023 11:27 AM (oERDG)

34 29 The Dodger's move is the biggest FU yet.

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2023 11:26 AM (BqNkw)

They may not be done yet...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:28 AM (ynpvh)

35 You mess with the horns and you're going to get the full GOAT, sheeple!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 27, 2023 11:28 AM (KVGVf)

36 I would still like to know what The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence do--do they sing, do they dance, do they spray a little seltzer down their pants?

Posted by: NL at May 27, 2023 11:28 AM (eGTCV)

37 Someone somewhere had to do a cost benifit analysis at the C level. I'm shocked no one said "The emperor is wearing no clothes." on this.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 27, 2023 11:28 AM (YGqO/)

38 There it is

https://tinyurl.com/46fpc9h9

Gays are coming for your children. Right now. It's up to you to stop them.

Posted by: N Word Bomb Blast at May 27, 2023 11:28 AM (5/7b/)

39 Are you hanging a flag with the kids?

Placing one @ my Dad's/Uncle's graves.

Posted by: BignJames at May 27, 2023 11:28 AM (AwYPR)

40 31 Santa will call you anything you like if you give him enough macadamia fudge cookies and a bucket of milk.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2023 11:27 AM (9UlRk)

Saw a meme where Santa asks what the kid wants for Christmas. Kid says a little brother.
Next frame, Santa is engaged in a certain activity with the boy's mother...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:29 AM (ynpvh)

41 Their new Mascot is a goat with three horns and just the cutest little baseball shirt with "666" and "Lil' Stan" on the back.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2023 11:29 AM (9UlRk)

42 FenelonSpoke at May 27, 2023 11:21 AM

Quick prayer that things will go smoothly.
Posted by: KT

Amen. Forgot to say will be praying it goes well.

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 11:29 AM (tQL7r)

43 I don't think Satan will have time for pronouns in Hell, what with all the screaming and despair.

Posted by: NL at May 27, 2023 11:30 AM (eGTCV)

44 Santa doesn't respect your pronouns. He doesn't care except trying to "Kill, steal and destroy,"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 27, 2023 11:23 AM (Keyt1)

So leaving milk and cookies is right out, then?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 27, 2023 11:31 AM (JG9G5)

45 39 Are you hanging a flag with the kids?

Placing one @ my Dad's/Uncle's graves.

Posted by: BignJames at May 27, 2023 11:28 AM (AwYPR)

Can't physically go; Dad is buried almost 2000 miles away. Will do it virtually for him and grandpa. They're both on FindAGrave.com.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:31 AM (ynpvh)

46 All the American mass media has to do is unplug the bananas from their ears, open up their eyes and they can see . . .
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Uhhh. Those aren't bananas.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at May 27, 2023 11:22 AM (AiZBA)

It's almost biblical, if you think about it. Our modern world is essentially the tower of Babel, which is uncanny in it's accuracy, centuries later.

Or think of us as the Israelites, when Moses went up the mountain. It didn't take us long at all to stop worshipping God, and start worshipping the golden calf.

Almost like the George Lucas concept for Star Wars, everything comes around again, almost as in a rhyme.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:31 AM (ltVPJ)

47 The only gender Satan recognizes is "pineapple recipient".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2023 11:32 AM (9UlRk)

48 My guess first off not knowing of Sister of Being a Pain in the Ass is they are not females

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2023 11:33 AM (xhxe8)

49 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 27, 2023 11:23 AM (Keyt1)

So leaving milk and cookies is right out, then?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 27, 2023 11:31 AM (JG9G5)

Jeepers, and I thought last year was bad when I got a lump of coal.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:33 AM (ltVPJ)

50 46 All the American mass media has to do is unplug the bananas from their ears, open up their eyes and they can see . . .
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Uhhh. Those aren't bananas.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at May 27, 2023 11:22 AM (AiZBA)

It's almost biblical, if you think about it. Our modern world is essentially the tower of Babel, which is uncanny in it's accuracy, centuries later.

Or think of us as the Israelites, when Moses went up the mountain. It didn't take us long at all to stop worshipping God, and start worshipping the golden calf.

Almost like the George Lucas concept for Star Wars, everything comes around again, almost as in a rhyme.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:31 AM (ltVPJ)

I still chuckle at Aaron's excuse, paraphrased: "we put the gold in the fire and a calf came out!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:33 AM (ynpvh)

51 I think Lucifer is off in some dark corner nursing a migraine, rubbing his temples and wondering how the fuck he ended up with all the retards, perverts, and retarded perverts.

Posted by: Not even Santa would hire these people at May 27, 2023 11:33 AM (dhxes)

52 Gays are coming for your children. Right now. It's up to you to stop them.
Posted by: N Word Bomb Blast

Wow, that's disgusting. Alchemy and transitioning. But yes, you are 💯% correct.

Guess they've been telling the truth when they said that they're doing it for the children.

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 11:34 AM (tQL7r)

53 I live in a conservative-ish area and Target was overflowing with people yesterday when I was there. I wasn’t at Target itself but it’s in a big box mall kind of thing and I was at another big box store.

Not sure this boycott is having much of an effect.

Posted by: Montec at May 27, 2023 11:34 AM (c3kdV)

54 Are the Satanist's horns permanently attached?

Posted by: NL at May 27, 2023 11:35 AM (eGTCV)

55 49 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 27, 2023 11:23 AM (Keyt1)

So leaving milk and cookies is right out, then?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 27, 2023 11:31 AM (JG9G5)

Jeepers, and I thought last year was bad when I got a lump of coal.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:33 AM (ltVPJ)

Could be worse.
https://tinyurl.com/3z67ysrd

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:35 AM (ynpvh)

56 All the American mass media has to do is unplug the bananas from their ears, open up their eyes and they can see . . .
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Uhhh. Those aren't bananas.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at May 27, 2023 11:22 AM (AiZBA)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE GIVEN THE CONTEXT OF THIS POST HE MEANS THE MASS MEDIA HAVE DICKS IN THEIR EARS, WHICH IS A DISGUSTING BUT HUMOROUS VISUAL MORESO THAN BANANAS

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at May 27, 2023 11:35 AM (dhxes)

57 I think Lucifer is off in some dark corner nursing a migraine, rubbing his temples and wondering how the **** he ended up with all the retards, perverts, and retarded perverts.
Posted by: Not even Santa would hire these people

Ok, I admit it. I larfed out loud.

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 11:37 AM (tQL7r)

58 Perhaps the earth will open up underneath Dodger Stadium and everything will be swallowed up.

Posted by: NL at May 27, 2023 11:37 AM (eGTCV)

59 Every time I see these idiots all I can think of is they think it is "better to reign in hell than serve in heaven".

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 27, 2023 11:37 AM (/0N3H)

60 I would still like to know what The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence do--do they sing, do they dance, do they spray a little seltzer down their pants?
Posted by: NL at May 27, 2023 11:28 AM (eGTCV)

What do they do? Bugger each other in public, mostly. And steal women's luggage at the airport.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:37 AM (ltVPJ)

61
Truth be told I do like Santana. 'Black Magic Woman' was a great tune.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 27, 2023 11:37 AM (enJYY)

62 Read on Twitter about a backlash (bomb threats) from the Queer Coalition against Target, for moving the Pride stuff to the back of the store.

Posted by: KT at May 27, 2023 11:37 AM (rrtZS)

63 I don’t believe there are any actual satanists out there. It’s all a troll to get Christians angry. Don’t give them the satisfaction by getting angry over it.

Posted by: Montec at May 27, 2023 11:38 AM (c3kdV)

64 I'm thinking devilboy could be a suitable replacement for Hannity on FOX news.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 27, 2023 11:38 AM (KVGVf)

65 61
Truth be told I do like Santana. 'Black Magic Woman' was a great tune.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 27, 2023 11:37 AM (enJYY)

Texans really taught him a lesson, though.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:38 AM (ynpvh)

66 Classic Marxist operation. Either target is further initiated into their cause or the identity of the enemy is stripped away from no more target/Budweiser/ whatever. We lose because we are playing their game. We have no offense so we are only fighting rearguard actions. Our reactions are scripted

Posted by: Chessmanphife at May 27, 2023 11:39 AM (UwPSm)

67 66 Classic Marxist operation. Either target is further initiated into their cause or the identity of the enemy is stripped away from no more target/Budweiser/ whatever. We lose because we are playing their game. We have no offense so we are only fighting rearguard actions. Our reactions are scripted

Posted by: Chessmanphife at May 27, 2023 11:39 AM (UwPSm)

The trannies really know how to free speech Target.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:40 AM (ynpvh)

68 The left tyranny of evil has so much in common with the old ISIS tyranny, before it was smashed. The major difference is they haven't yet opened slave markets and are not yet beheading people on beaches or in soccer stadiums. That gives them some room to grow.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 27, 2023 11:41 AM (1UEDr)

69 but they won't reign in hell.
They'll strut on in, "squeeee!"ing, all ready for their permanent celebrity treatment with their peeps.
And then, first, they'll be "misgendered".
Then mocked when they start "reeee!"ing.

Posted by: barbarausa at May 27, 2023 11:41 AM (uAuXI)

70 Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:31 AM (ltVPJ)

I still chuckle at Aaron's excuse, paraphrased: "we put the gold in the fire and a calf came out!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:33 AM (ynpvh)

Which again, I suppose it's the understatement of the year to say there's incredible metaphorical wisdom to be found in the Bible. People do what they do, and sometimes they AREN'T all intentional, but evil nonetheless.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:41 AM (ltVPJ)

71 63 I don’t believe there are any actual satanists out there. It’s all a troll to get Christians angry. Don’t give them the satisfaction by getting angry over it.

Posted by: Montec at May 27, 2023 11:38 AM (c3kdV)

Put a "Honk if you Love Jesus" bumpersticker on the back of your car. Then wait at at stoplight for more than a few seconds after the light turns green. Maybe you'll get a Satanist or Atheist back there honking.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:41 AM (ynpvh)

72 I might take in a ballgame this weekend, I hear the Lucifers are playing the Beelzebubs in a two game series.

Posted by: javems at May 27, 2023 11:42 AM (AmoqO)

73 I don't care about the controversy. I like Target and will continue to do most of my shoplifting there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 27, 2023 11:42 AM (s12c9)

74
I still chuckle at Aaron's excuse, paraphrased: "we put the gold in the fire and a calf came out!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:33 AM (ynpvh)

Sung to the tune of "you put the lime in the coconut".

Posted by: NL at May 27, 2023 11:43 AM (eGTCV)

75 74
I still chuckle at Aaron's excuse, paraphrased: "we put the gold in the fire and a calf came out!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:33 AM (ynpvh)

Sung to the tune of "you put the lime in the coconut".

Posted by: NL at May 27, 2023 11:43 AM (eGTCV)

LOL. I guess it works.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:44 AM (ynpvh)

76 The left tyranny of evil has so much in common with the old ISIS tyranny, before it was smashed. The major difference is they haven't yet opened slave markets and are not yet beheading people on beaches or in soccer stadiums. That gives them some room to grow.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 27, 2023 11:41 AM (1UEDr)

You'd almost have to admire the Islamic terror, in that it's straightforward and in your face.

No, our satanic evil is insidious, comes at the most vulnerable (not just the kids, but the insane clown posse that is the trans movement), and puts masks on everybody.

Then instead of having public beheadings, we simply have the weak and lonely and insane kill themselves, sometimes slowly, sometimes not so slowly.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:44 AM (ltVPJ)

77 I don't care about the controversy. I like Target and will continue to do most of my shoplifting there.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 27, 2023 11:42 AM (s12c9)
==================
So YOU are the guy! Well done, walking off with a half-billion last quarter; they even mentioned you in their earnings report.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 27, 2023 11:44 AM (1UEDr)

78 You could write a book about this stuff.

Posted by: Screwtape Letters at May 27, 2023 11:45 AM (DhOHl)

79 I only go to Target reluctantly if there is no other good store to get what I need.

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2023 11:45 AM (xhxe8)

80 The Satanist guy looks a little like Kamala Harris's daughter.

Posted by: m at May 27, 2023 11:46 AM (30MvH)

81 63 I don’t believe there are any actual satanists out there. It’s all a troll to get Christians angry. Don’t give them the satisfaction by getting angry over it.
Posted by: Montec at May 27, 2023 11:38 AM (c3kdV)

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Trolling the normies explains do much of what we see out there today.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 27, 2023 11:46 AM (s12c9)

82 I'm not here.

Posted by: Stan at May 27, 2023 11:46 AM (DhOHl)

83 79 I only go to Target reluctantly if there is no other good store to get what I need.

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2023 11:45 AM (xhxe

That's what happened last night. Younger one needed something, best buy was closed. I told him we could wait until today, but, well, kids.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:46 AM (ynpvh)

84 Put a "Honk if you Love Jesus" bumpersticker on the back of your car. Then wait at at stoplight for more than a few seconds after the light turns green. Maybe you'll get a Satanist or Atheist back there honking.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 11:41 AM (ynpvh)

Yup. Either there is a Satan, and these people worship him, or there isn't, and they worship nothing. The evil comes out just the same.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:46 AM (ltVPJ)

85 >>>Joe Manchin has noted in the comments

Joe Mannix?

Posted by: m at May 27, 2023 11:47 AM (30MvH)

86 So, the schoolbus boy was attentive because, no smartphone. Good.

But he knew how to stop the bus from watching YouTube video. We seem a little confused on this.

Basically, "whatever's bothering me right now" is The Root of All Evil in The World. But, stuff I've gotten used to is no big deal really. Look at yourselves.

There's only one thing I want to know about that boy, and that's his Troop Number. There. That will bring out the kooks.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 27, 2023 11:47 AM (jYCXf)

87
I don't care about the controversy. I like Target and will continue to do most of my shoplifting there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 27, 2023 11:42 AM

Since I haven't shopped there since the trannie bathroom thing six years ago, I think you have a splendid idea on how to hurt them.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 27, 2023 11:47 AM (enJYY)

88 You link what vileness the Dodgers are doing and also a song from MLB?

They are complicit.

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at May 27, 2023 11:48 AM (IUKRY)

89 No one suggested CBD repair his cup with Maple Syrup.

Posted by: DaveA at May 27, 2023 11:48 AM (FhXTo)

90 I note the silence of Dodger players regarding this planned blasphemy. Will they remain silent as the day approaches?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 27, 2023 11:49 AM (RMN7W)

91 No other Protestant clergy person does this, although I'm sure they visit parishioners there.

Thx so much.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 27, 2023 11:21 AM (Keyt1)

That’s important work, Fen. You’re in my prayers. My Dad holds a service at the local nursing home once per month. The people there love it and look forward to it; they can’t get out and around to go to church

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 27, 2023 11:49 AM (GPGR5)

92 Read on Twitter about a backlash (bomb threats) from the Queer Coalition against Target, for moving the Pride stuff to the back of the store.
Posted by: KT at May 27, 2023 11:37 AM (rrtZS)

I do think pride (pun intended) and hubris will be their downfall. They seem to think they are ascendant now, and getting places like Targay and the LA Sodomites baseball team to bend over for them is a victory.

They haven't seen the backlash yet. It's just a trickle now. The flood is coming.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:50 AM (ltVPJ)

93 This must be a sign that Black Caturday is a real thing.

youtube.com/watch?v=IgomTOOgl8M

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 27, 2023 11:50 AM (KVGVf)

94 Hey, we just work here.

Posted by: Millionaire LAD players at May 27, 2023 11:51 AM (DhOHl)

95 I did mental health therapy with kids in the early 2000's, back when they were still texting with physical keypads. Simple SMS texting was a scourge, even then. And the kids threw the same fits about "all my friends" when parents tried to limit use. I seriously advocate radical limitations on the use of smartphones for children, up until the age of at least 16 or 17. Preferably 18.

Posted by: Josquin at May 27, 2023 11:51 AM (RZ0i8)

96 Posted by: Montec

While it's generally a troll against Christians, yes there are Satanists out there. Am I angry at them for their misguided belief that Satan is bro who believes in everything they do? No. I am angry that they use this as a cover for supporting transgenderism in kids and teens which is evil.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 27, 2023 11:51 AM (zVoxB)

97 They haven't seen the backlash yet. It's just a trickle now. The flood is coming.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:50 AM (ltVPJ)

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I pray you are correct.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 27, 2023 11:51 AM (s12c9)

98 Our local Summerville branch of the public library was sporting some satanist/transitioning books in the display case at the entrance the other day.

Now I think I understand why.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 27, 2023 11:52 AM (1n+EO)

99 They haven't seen the backlash yet. It's just a trickle now. The flood is coming.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:50 AM (ltVPJ)

A flood is passé. It's going to more of a firestorm really.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at May 27, 2023 11:52 AM (AiZBA)

100 Most of Twitter is bots.

Posted by: Change my mind at May 27, 2023 11:52 AM (DhOHl)

101
Read on Twitter about a backlash (bomb threats) from the Queer Coalition against Target, for moving the Pride stuff to the back of the store.
Posted by: KT at May 27, 2023 11:37 AM (rrtZS)

If a bomb goes off, it'll be Target's fault, right?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 27, 2023 11:53 AM (MoZTd)

102 Are you hanging a flag with the kids?

Placing one @ my Dad's/Uncle's graves.

Debating whether to get up before dawn on Monday and make an 8 hour round trip to Ft Sam Houston Nat'l Cemetery.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 27, 2023 11:53 AM (nfrXX)

103 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 27, 2023 11:49 AM (GPGR5)

Thanks. Glad your father does this I appreciate your affirmation and they're lovely folks. We're talking the young man today. He doesn't have any living grandparents.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 27, 2023 11:53 AM (zVoxB)

104 I suspect God will not be honouring pronouns on the judgement day and there will be no one judging God for that.

Posted by: NL at May 27, 2023 11:54 AM (eGTCV)

105 The Gope House in AZ expelled a Gope member.

The Gope House in DC is trying to expel a Gope member.

The GOP House in Texas is trying to impeach their Gope AG.

They have removed zero Dems and won't even impeach Biden or Mayorkas.

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at May 27, 2023 11:54 AM (IUKRY)

106 I don't know what the way out of ideological subversion is on a national level.

You can not, as Bresnev suggests at that time when perhaps it was still possible, begin a concerted campaign to educate and re-instill patriotism for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that patriots have no desire to take part in the recapture of education.

Bray as we might, no one will give up their careers or capitalist ambitions to infiltrate the education system en masse. Instead, most of those that are aware of the indoctrination systems either choose to remove their children from the system and enter them into private education or homeschool, or advocate for the take over of school boards in a misguided attempt to reform from the top down, which will not work. You can not play whack-a-mole and effectively remove cultural marxists when nearly 75% of the labor force for teaching is comprised of cultural marxists. You will be dealing with increasingly subversive marxists that fine tune their art.

Further, it rings false if you try to teach someone to begin effectively start respecting the system again because of its intrinsic American goodness.....

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 27, 2023 11:55 AM (Zqeqr)

107 89 No one suggested CBD repair his cup with Maple Syrup.

Hey we tried to help.

Posted by: Multiple fans of Gorilla Glue at May 27, 2023 11:55 AM (DhOHl)

108 They haven't seen the backlash yet. It's just a trickle now. The flood is coming.
Posted by: BurtTC

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I pray you are correct.
Posted by: Cicero

Praying for that flood to come quickly. And in a big way.

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 11:56 AM (tQL7r)

109
Then instead of having public beheadings, we simply have the weak and lonely and insane kill themselves, sometimes slowly, sometimes not so slowly.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:44 AM (ltVPJ)

Now you just wait a minute, I have no intention of killing myself.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 27, 2023 11:56 AM (MoZTd)

110 Every time my wife goes out of town without me I go thru the mismatched containers and get rid of the ones that don't have lids and don't nest with the others. Wife keeps everything.

She and daughter leave this afternoon for a month in Japan and Korea as daughter's high school graduation 'present'...

Posted by: JEM at May 27, 2023 11:56 AM (8erNz)

111 63 - I do think there are actual stanists out there; can’t prove it. But looking around at society, something bad is going on. I know we’re all fallen, but there’s a portion of society that is dark and seems to be trying to plunge as quickly as possible into the bowels of hell

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 27, 2023 11:56 AM (GPGR5)

112 flood is passé. It's going to more of a firestorm really.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV

Technically correct.

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 11:57 AM (tQL7r)

113 They haven't seen the backlash yet. It's just a trickle now. The flood is coming.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:50 AM (ltVPJ)

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I pray you are correct.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 27, 2023 11:51 AM (s12c9)

I've been very pessimistic about all this for a long time, and I'm still not sure. I just think the great masses are beginning to wake up, and are just now realizing they have to resist this stuff, they have to push back. And I believe they will.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:57 AM (ltVPJ)

114 Ok, deep breath. Now, focus on the fundamentals: steal. Kill. Destroy. Steal. Kill. Destroy. You got this.

Posted by: Stan, getting his game face on at May 27, 2023 11:59 AM (DhOHl)

115
The fact that Target went to a Satanist kind of says it all.

How'd that conversation go?

"We're starting a new line of children's clothing, and-"

"Hey, hey! i got just the right guy for you. He's a Satanist and believes in grooming children starting with toddlers to get their dicks chopped off and buggered and everything. And he's just a super guy! You'll love him!"

Posted by: naturalfake at May 27, 2023 11:59 AM (RJQ8g)

116 Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:44 AM (ltVPJ)

Now you just wait a minute, I have no intention of killing myself.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 27, 2023 11:56 AM (MoZTd)

Heh.

Neither did Epstein.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:59 AM (ltVPJ)

117 Our local Summerville branch of the public library was sporting some satanist/transitioning books in the display case at the entrance the other day.

Now I think I understand why.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Are you in the Charleston area? We've looked at houses in Summerville, SC.

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 12:00 PM (tQL7r)

118 She and daughter leave this afternoon for a month in Japan and Korea as daughter's high school graduation 'present'...
Posted by: JEM at May 27, 2023 11:56 AM (8erNz)

I got a rock.

Posted by: Some people have all the luck at May 27, 2023 12:00 PM (dhxes)

119 ....For instance, could I make a reasonable argument that would persuade you that we should respect of the office of the Presidency at this moment in history? Could I tell you that the tenants of the American system of representative republicanism should be honored in a state of uniparty control?

These are laughable propositions. We are in a catch-22 moment, we must have a legitimate leadership in D.C. in order to argue once again for its intrinsic legitimacy, and yet because it is illegitimate, no such leadership could be elected. So we are stuck, unable to install a legitimate government because the dream we are selling is offset by the existence of illegitimate government, which works 24/7 to further its ends, and which has financially engendered and obligated anyone that would object on moral grounds or patriotic dissent.

The only way out, from the individual standpoint, is to then submit oneself (and subsequently one's offspring) to authorities greater than the earthly authorities. You needn't have a moral government, if your allegiance is not to said government, but to something higher than that government...

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 27, 2023 12:02 PM (Zqeqr)

120 53 I live in a conservative-ish area and Target was overflowing with people yesterday when I was there. I wasn’t at Target itself but it’s in a big box mall kind of thing and I was at another big box store.

Not sure this boycott is having much of an effect.
Posted by: Montec at May 27, 2023 11:34 AM (c3kdV)

Lots of articles online saying that Target has lost $9B dollars in a week due to the backlash.

Posted by: m at May 27, 2023 12:02 PM (30MvH)

121 When will this reach the point at which ordinary folks in the love is love crowd start to get concerned with the ugliness of the sodomite and transgender movements.

Posted by: NL at May 27, 2023 12:03 PM (eGTCV)

122
Best of Breed for Delilah at today's Oklahoma City KC show. The club is several ring stewards short and Her Majesty is stepping in to help. Even had two rings to handle at one point. A deposit in the Favor Bank.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 27, 2023 12:03 PM (MoZTd)

123 Oops went to the wrong thread. Hi!

Posted by: Funsize (EiPf6) at May 27, 2023 12:04 PM (zds/e)

124 "We've looked at houses in Summerville, SC."

We live in Summerville.

Come on down.

Serious.

Stately VIA Manor is set up for guests, and allows for ucrushed house/community hunting without the expense of hotels/motels.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 27, 2023 12:04 PM (1n+EO)

125 When will this reach the point at which ordinary folks in the love is love crowd start to get concerned with the ugliness of the sodomite and transgender movements.
Posted by: NL

That's my question, too. The love is love crowd is curiously absent from making any pronouncements right now. Pro or con. Where are they?

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 12:06 PM (tQL7r)

126 119 - Well said, BC. I pray things will get better but I don’t expect it. I think this nation is under Romans 1 type judgement (we’re at the reprobate mind stage). My reading of Revelation leads me to believe it could get a lot worse before our Lord returns.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 27, 2023 12:06 PM (GPGR5)

127 Daughter tells me she saw a shopper a few minutes ago with the back of his T-shirt reading: Jesus is a c__t (but spelt out).

I would ask him to do Mohammed.

Posted by: Ciampino - Time to emulate the Mussulmans at May 27, 2023 12:07 PM (qfLjt)

128 Lots of articles online saying that Target has lost $9B dollars in a week due to the backlash.
Posted by: m at May 27, 2023 12:02 PM (30MvH)

It's being said that Targay is going out of business, and this is in some ways, their attempt to stay in business, by trying to entice the ESG people to invest.

As was discussed yesterday, the boycotts won't necessarily be the thing that CAUSES them to go out of business, but it won't help. And frankly, I think we should behave as if it is the cause. As a warning to others.

Let them fear the rest of us, as they have feared the trannie woke bullshit artists to whom they have been prostating themselves.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 12:07 PM (ltVPJ)

129 I've told the story before of my uncle who was a major league ballplayer during the 30's and 40's. He stayed with the Yankee organization after his playing days were over as a pitching scout for the east coast.

He so dearly loved the game and was a great student of all things baseball. His family had "Take me out to the ball game" played, stadium style, at his funeral service. He was a hell of a guy.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 27, 2023 12:08 PM (qoGsy)

130 .....If this transformation from a politically led individual to a God-centered individual were to happen on scales large enough, there is perhaps a chance that we might somehow revive what is a dead nation and dead system.

Or perhaps it would lead to new inspiration and a way of prosperity that is superior to what was previously the world's greatest effort at moral governance to date.

The tenants of Christianity are perfect, as they were established by the God of Israel. They can not be improved upon. The fact that they informed the Founders of the US, accounts for the blessing of the American system. But to be sure, they were not a reasonable substitute for subservience to the Lord, they were merely closer than other prior and contemporary efforts. As such, they could not last anymore than a house could outlast a mountain.

The US system was, as are all things made by men, created with a start date and an uncertain end date, but to be sure, it was always destined to expire. Because nothing made by the mortal can be encoded as immortal. All things of man shall pass in time. The only things that endure are created and ordained by the Lord.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 27, 2023 12:09 PM (Zqeqr)

131 According to the above ad one of the signs of a dying liver is having red paint on the back of your pants.
Posted by: Prevent liver death by avoiding red paint

I thought it was a lit fart.

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2023 12:09 PM (T4tVD)

132 We live in Summerville.

Come on down.

Serious.

Stately VIA Manor is set up for guests, and allows for ucrushed house/community hunting without the expense of hotels/motels.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Aww, thanks for the offer! We usually stay with our children/grands in Hanahan. But we might just take you up on that if things get a little too close for comfort there. IYKWIM!

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 12:10 PM (tQL7r)

133
E gotistic
S ocialistic
G rievance

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2023 12:11 PM (BRHaw)

134 Isn't staying out of business they spit on your values the very epitome of non-violent protest?

Posted by: NL at May 27, 2023 12:11 PM (eGTCV)

135
When will this reach the point at which ordinary folks in the love is love crowd start to get concerned with the ugliness of the sodomite and transgender movements.
Posted by: NL at May 27, 2023 12:03 PM (eGTCV)

Never. We in this country just haven't gotten it yet. The Bolsheviks were never more than a tiny faction in revolutionary Russia. The Mensheviks and Constitutional Democrats were far larger. The Bolsheviks were completely ruthless and unhesitatingly suppressed anyone who they couldn't take over.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 27, 2023 12:11 PM (MoZTd)

136 "Aww, thanks for the offer! We usually stay with our children/grands in Hanahan. But we might just take you up on that if things get a little too close for comfort there. IYKWIM! "

Just let us know. We'll leave the light on for ya.

And we are fairly up to date on most of the communities in/near Summerville.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 27, 2023 12:13 PM (1n+EO)

137 TGT Last 3 Months

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Sh3EHkdkhC7evsLH9

ha

FOAD

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2023 12:13 PM (BRHaw)

138 129 His family had "Take me out to the ball game" played, stadium style, at his funeral service.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 27, 2023 12:08 PM (qoGsy)

Nice!

Posted by: m at May 27, 2023 12:15 PM (30MvH)

139 The left 2003: Religion is the opiate of the masses!

The left 2023: This Satan guy respects pronouns, hates Christians more then we do AND he's got both sets of sexual organs. But...we are only going to worship him "ironically!"

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2023 12:15 PM (lc5cP)

140 Just let us know. We'll leave the light on for ya.

And we are fairly up to date on most of the communities in/near Summerville.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Alrighty, then! Very generous of you. Will keep that in mind. Thanks!

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 12:15 PM (tQL7r)

141 How about them Dodgers?

So their response to a shocking act of anti-Catholic bigotry is to organize a Protestant day at the ballpark after Pride Month is over.

Not clear on the concept...

Posted by: Five Days Until Pride Month! at May 27, 2023 12:16 PM (2tUFv)

142 Bird bath refilled

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2023 12:17 PM (xhxe8)

143 When will this reach the point at which ordinary folks in the love is love crowd start to get concerned with the ugliness of the sodomite and transgender movements.

I saw a video from an older lesbian apologizing for the tranny/pedo stuff. She said if she had known where "gay rights" was going she would never have pushed for it.

So, there are some people, the problem is the left has built these organizational structures and it really doesn't matter whether normal people support them or not anymore. Similar to how Biden can win the presidency with 60M or so real votes, they can dominate the culture with buy in from 20% or less of the population.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2023 12:17 PM (lc5cP)

144 The left 2003: Religion is the opiate of the masses!

The left 2023: This Satan guy respects pronouns, hates Christians more then we do AND he's got both sets of sexual organs. But...we are only going to worship him "ironically!"
Posted by: 18-1

Yeah. Just wait til they find out where he lives. Not gonna like the neighborhood!

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 12:17 PM (tQL7r)

145 It occurs to me that the left, in pushing the whole LGBQXYZ and transgender bullshit on the right doesn't seem to push it on their own. For example, the media, which embraces the entirety of this social contagion is not held to promote more transgenders and LGBQXYZ creatures to take the place of the likes of Jake Tapper or Chris Wallace. Or the bulk of the board of directors at CNN.

They've got a couple, or had a couple token weirdos in the *biden junta until the Atomic Tranny Dog Boy had to be ditched over a luggage obsession. But, IMO not nearly enough of these creatures are in media circles where the leftist audiences can see them first hand.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 27, 2023 12:18 PM (Q4IgG)

146 I assume there are a fair number of professing Christians on the Dodgers roster--what are they up to?

Posted by: NL at May 27, 2023 12:19 PM (eGTCV)

147
So their response to a shocking act of anti-Catholic bigotry is to organize a Protestant day at the ballpark after Pride Month is over.

Not clear on the concept...
Posted by: Five Days Until Pride Month! at May 27, 2023 12:16 PM (2tUFv)

All you Bible-thumpers come out to Dodger Stadium for a great night of snake handling and total-immersion baptisms! No dancing.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 27, 2023 12:19 PM (MoZTd)

148 Lots of articles online saying that Target has lost $9B dollars in a week due to the backlash.

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Those reports are deceptive. The "loss" was in its market cap, which only means that the cumulative value of its stock fell. The last week in the market was lousy and a lot of companies lost market cap, many in the billions, for reasons unrelated to boycotts.

There is no evidence that Target has lost anything in sales so far. Only its next quarterly report will give some indication as to whether its sales have taken a hit compared to the same quarter last year.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 27, 2023 12:19 PM (s12c9)

149 It occurs to me that the left, in pushing the whole LGBQXYZ and transgender bullshit on the right doesn't seem to push it on their own.

Or another element...transwomen are real women you say? Then how come Leo Decaprio isn't hooking up with a tranny?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2023 12:20 PM (lc5cP)

150 Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2023 12:17 PM (lc5cP)

Same story in the black community and Muslim community. So few push against the obvious evil and problems in their community and so many support it loudly. There is no silent majority.

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2023 12:20 PM (BqNkw)

151 Daily Caller on the boycott.

https://tinyurl.com/bd3rs6z3

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 27, 2023 12:21 PM (1n+EO)

152 142 Bird bath refilled
Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2023 12:17 PM (xhxe

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And all is right with the world.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 27, 2023 12:21 PM (s12c9)

153 Never. We in this country just haven't gotten it yet. The Bolsheviks were never more than a tiny faction in revolutionary Russia. The Mensheviks and Constitutional Democrats were far larger. The Bolsheviks were completely ruthless and unhesitatingly suppressed anyone who they couldn't take over.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Yep. And this ESG/DEI/trans crowd is a tiny fraction, too. Same exact MO.

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 12:21 PM (tQL7r)

154 I assume there are a fair number of professing Christians on the Dodgers roster--what are they up to?

I suspect staying very, very quiet.

The left has gotten very good at both destroying any individual that stands up to them, and arresting anyone that tries to start an organization to work collectively against them.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2023 12:22 PM (lc5cP)

155 "Parents don't want their children to disappear into phones, as so many of their friends' children have; some resolve to wait until 8th grade, or later. Then their child hits them with the main argument that makes parents buckle: "But everyone else has a phone, so I'm being left out."

Well to be realistic here, these are almost always the same parents lazy enough to lob their kids into public schools, so it's not like they have the fortitude to hold the line in the first place.

Not sure how anyone sentient can look around in 2023 and hold to the notion that "well, everyone else is doing it" is some sort of smart justification.

Posted by: somedood at May 27, 2023 12:22 PM (QBv/U)

156 The Ukrainian Army has released a high-production values video entitled "It's Time To Take Back What's Yours".

We'll see if it is a head-fake, or an actual signal for the counteroffensive.

https://tinyurl.com/57num3va

Oh, and we claim that we really don't know very much about Ukraine's counteroffensive plans, but Victoria Nuland also said in Kiev that:

"Even as you plan for the counteroffensive, which we have been working on with you for some 4-5 months, we are already beginning our discussions with [the] Ukrainian government and with friends in Kiev – both on the civilian side and on the military side – about Ukraine’s long-term future."

Posted by: Five Days Until Pride Month! at May 27, 2023 12:23 PM (2tUFv)

157
Bird bath refilled
Posted by: Skip

We have three. A running fountain, a shallow concrete bath and for the ground-feeders a water-filled tray with a brick in it. We're a popular place.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 27, 2023 12:23 PM (MoZTd)

158 Yeah. Just wait til they find out where he lives. Not gonna like the neighborhood!
Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 12:17 PM (tQL7r)

That's the deal. If you don't believe in God, or Satan, you had better be right. Otherwise...

Atheism stems from the notion that people who wrote about God just weren't all that bright, and we are the smartest people who ever lived. Sorta like a teenage boy. But usually that boy grows up and discovers Mom and Dad knew a thing or two.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 27, 2023 12:23 PM (LOVUx)

159 I saw a video from an older lesbian apologizing for the tranny/pedo stuff. She said if she had known where "gay rights" was going she would never have pushed for it.
. . . .
Posted by: 18-1

How can this be? The idea of 'slippery slope' has always been known to be a right-wingnut false premise.

One only has to ignore all of human experience to see that the 'love is love' crowd is right and nothing bad can come of it.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 27, 2023 12:24 PM (qoGsy)

160 Bird bath refilled
Posted by: Skip

We have three. A running fountain, a shallow concrete bath and for the ground-feeders a water-filled tray with a brick in it. We're a popular place.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 27, 2023 12:23 PM (MoZTd)

But do you have the little Zamboni for the winter months?

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 27, 2023 12:24 PM (LOVUx)

161 Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2023 12:22 PM (lc5cP)

True Christians would welcome the opportunity to speak up and sacrifice for their beliefs .

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2023 12:24 PM (BqNkw)

162 One only has to ignore all of human experience to see that the 'love is love' crowd is right and nothing bad can come of it.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 27, 2023 12:24 PM (qoGsy)

Of course they are correct: love is love. Lust, on the other hand...

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 27, 2023 12:25 PM (LOVUx)

163
But do you have the little Zamboni for the winter months?
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 27, 2023 12:24 PM (LOVUx)

Bird bath status at Schloss Hadrian: never frozen

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 27, 2023 12:25 PM (MoZTd)

164 We have three. A running fountain, a shallow concrete bath and for the ground-feeders a water-filled tray with a brick in it. We're a popular place.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I'd keep that last one filled lest da boids drop the brick on your head.

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2023 12:25 PM (T4tVD)

165 Church Militant-Conservative RC site-doesn't think very highly of Christians on Dodger's roster for not speaking up:

https://tinyurl.com/kxs66rs9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 27, 2023 12:26 PM (Keyt1)

166 >>> 163
But do you have the little Zamboni for the winter months?
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 27, 2023 12:24 PM (LOVUx)

Bird bath status at Schloss Hadrian: never frozen
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 27, 2023 12:25 PM (MoZTd)

Even during the 2021 Great Week of Doom?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 27, 2023 12:26 PM (llON8)

167 I assume the imbecilic and insane media would freak out if any Dodger sat out that game with a bruised finger.

Posted by: NL at May 27, 2023 12:26 PM (eGTCV)

168 I put my bird bath away in winter

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2023 12:26 PM (xhxe8)

169 Joe Manchin has been posting here? Wow!!! (LOL)

Meanwhile Joe Mannix and I have been speculating that Target Corp is in a lot more trouble than anyone is admitting, and the boycott is just one small part of it. (But maybe the icing on the cake)

Posted by: Nick Cage at May 27, 2023 12:26 PM (S6gqv)

170
What's funny is when a hawk shows up for a drink and a bath. Everyone else clears out, pronto.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 27, 2023 12:27 PM (MoZTd)

171 That freak is really going to be surprised one day.
Posted by: Eromero at May 27, 2023 11:20 AM (/knpl)

Stand before St Peter and say, "Hail Satan" is not a winning strategy in the game of Eternity.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 27, 2023 12:27 PM (BPbaR)

172 True Christians would welcome the opportunity to speak up and sacrifice for their beliefs .

Perhaps some...but not most. This is actually something of a recurrence pattern in Christianity...

Look at the movie Silence as one example of how different people react in that situation.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2023 12:27 PM (lc5cP)

173 Sorta like a teenage boy. But usually that boy grows up and discovers Mom and Dad knew a thing or two.

Or as I wrote to my nephew as a warning before he left for college on the 'progressive' ideas he would face, "You ignore the sum of all human knowledge and experience at your own peril. The old ways and the traditional ways are old and traditional because all other ways have been tried, and what remained was that which worked."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 27, 2023 12:27 PM (Zqeqr)

174 That's the deal. If you don't believe in God, or Satan, you had better be right. Otherwise...

Atheism stems from the notion that people who wrote about God just weren't all that bright, and we are the smartest people who ever lived. Sorta like a teenage boy. But usually that boy grows up and discovers Mom and Dad knew a thing or two.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Ah, yes. The appeal to pride. One of Satan's best flaming arrows.

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 12:27 PM (tQL7r)

175 169 Joe Manchin has been posting here? Wow!!! (LOL)

Meanwhile Joe Mannix and I have been speculating that Target Corp is in a lot more trouble than anyone is admitting, and the boycott is just one small part of it. (But maybe the icing on the cake)
Posted by: Nick Cage at May 27, 2023 12:26 PM (S6gqv)

Are you ... really Nick Cage?

Posted by: m at May 27, 2023 12:28 PM (30MvH)

176 >>> 173 Sorta like a teenage boy. But usually that boy grows up and discovers Mom and Dad knew a thing or two.

Or as I wrote to my nephew as a warning before he left for college on the 'progressive' ideas he would face, "You ignore the sum of all human knowledge and experience at your own peril. The old ways and the traditional ways are old and traditional because all other ways have been tried, and what remained was that which worked."
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 27, 2023 12:27 PM (Zqeqr)

174 That's the deal. If you don't believe in God, or Satan, you had better be right. Otherwise...

Atheism stems from the notion that people who wrote about God just weren't all that bright, and we are the smartest people who ever lived. Sorta like a teenage boy. But usually that boy grows up and discovers Mom and Dad knew a thing or two.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Ah, yes. The appeal to pride. One of Satan's best flaming arrows.
Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 12:27 PM (tQL7r)

"We are SMAHHHHHHRRRT and we have rilly good ideas dad!!"

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 27, 2023 12:28 PM (llON8)

177 True Christians would welcome the opportunity to speak up and sacrifice for their beliefs .
Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2023 12:24 PM (BqNkw)

The true Christians on the Dodger squad should all bet heavily against the Dodgers, and then, very obviously, throw the game. Sure, they'd get fired, and drummed out of Major League ball, but they would make a lasting point.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 27, 2023 12:29 PM (JG9G5)

178 Meanwhile Joe Mannix and I have been speculating that Target Corp is in a lot more trouble than anyone is admitting, and the boycott is just one small part of it. (But maybe the icing on the cake)

-----------

I hope so. I thought that the recent public plea about billions in losses from theft was notable for its oddity and hopeful sign.

Maybe Target is getting to suck the lemon that it wished for.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 27, 2023 12:29 PM (s12c9)

179 I saw a video from an older lesbian apologizing for the tranny/pedo stuff. She said if she had known where "gay rights" was going she would never have pushed for it.

--

Completely forgetting her own history of why she's a lesbian.

Posted by: N Word Bomb Blast at May 27, 2023 12:29 PM (5/7b/)

180 I'm ready for all these people to go back into the closet. They never were about tolerance. This is all about making us genuflect to their cause. And I won't do that. Ever.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 27, 2023 12:29 PM (z01mR)

181 Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2023 12:27 PM (lc5cP)

That's where the wheat is separated from the chaff.

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2023 12:29 PM (BqNkw)

182 What does the American mass media have in its ears and eyes these days?
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My Little Pony rainbow buttplugs and gimp masks.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 27, 2023 12:30 PM (wdHY0)

183 I don’t believe there are any actual satanists out there. It’s all a troll to get Christians angry. Don’t give them the satisfaction by getting angry over it.
Posted by: Montec at May 27, 2023 11:38 AM (c3kdV)

I'm pretty sure the dillweed in the pic is a card-carrying satanist. They are out there and they do want to create as much chaos as possible.

See also: Communists.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 27, 2023 12:31 PM (BdMk6)

184 I saw a video from an older lesbian apologizing for the tranny/pedo stuff. She said if she had known where "gay rights" was going she would never have pushed for it.

In the 1980s, there were 300 lesbian bars in the United States. Now, there are fewer than 15.

Lesbians don't want to hang out in bars with trannies, and there is no way of keeping trannies out.

Great job, lesbians!

Posted by: Five Days Until Pride Month! at May 27, 2023 12:31 PM (2tUFv)

185 F'me running: Ted Lasso is woke?? I was actually looking forward to giving that a spin.
Leftards fuck everything up.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 27, 2023 12:32 PM (7Fj9P)

186 Mrs. Cosda said yesterday that she'll never shop Target again, not because of the trans crap they sold but because she read that Target was giving money to the group, Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, to help kids trans gender and hide it from their parents.

Posted by: Cosda at May 27, 2023 12:33 PM (Uu6As)

187 The true Christians on the Dodger squad should all bet heavily against the Dodgers, and then, very obviously, throw the game. Sure, they'd get fired, and drummed out of Major League ball, but they would make a lasting point.

Remember, the Giants are playing in the game too.

They should boycott as well.

Posted by: Five Days Until Pride Month! at May 27, 2023 12:33 PM (2tUFv)

188 172 True Christians would welcome the opportunity to speak up and sacrifice for their beliefs .

Perhaps some...but not most. This is actually something of a recurrence pattern in Christianity...

Look at the movie Silence as one example of how different people react in that situation.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2023 12:27 PM (lc5cP)

"Into Great Silence"?

Posted by: m at May 27, 2023 12:33 PM (30MvH)

189 In the 1980s, there were 300 lesbian bars in the United States. Now, there are fewer than 15.
Posted by: Five Days Until Pride Month!

"Would you buy a lady a drink?"

Sure! If one walks in!!!

Posted by: The Entire Joke at May 27, 2023 12:33 PM (qoGsy)

190 I assume the imbecilic and insane media would freak out if any Dodger sat out that game with a bruised finger.

Posted by: NL at May 27, 2023 12:26 PM (eGTCV)

I'd settle for some of them kneeling, Kaepernick (sic?) style.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 27, 2023 12:34 PM (z01mR)

191 186 Mrs. Cosda said yesterday that she'll never shop Target again, not because of the trans crap they sold but because she read that Target was giving money to the group, Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, to help kids trans gender and hide it from their parents.
Posted by: Cosda at May 27, 2023 12:33 PM (Uu6As)

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

So then it is because of the "trans crap."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 27, 2023 12:34 PM (s12c9)

192 Meanwhile Joe Mannix and I have been speculating that Target Corp is in a lot more trouble than anyone is admitting, and the boycott is just one small part of it. (But maybe the icing on the cake)

Much as Disney is a lot less stable than people think, so is Target. The shoplifting numbers alone are catastrophic. They're getting woke *because* they're going broke, and hoping the ESG overlords bail them out.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2023 12:34 PM (X4R3E)

193 So called Satanists think they are just giving Christianity a black eye. They know not what they are playing with, but they will find out.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 27, 2023 12:35 PM (LOVUx)

194 I'd like to see players associations take a stand against greedy billionaire team owners forcing them to act against their convictions of faith.
It will never happen.

Posted by: That Northern skulker at May 27, 2023 12:35 PM (eGTCV)

195 I'd settle for some of them kneeling, Kaepernick (sic?) style.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 27, 2023 12:34 PM (z01mR)

Praying together

Posted by: That Northern skulker at May 27, 2023 12:36 PM (eGTCV)

196 Target's issues are not solely tranny inflicted. They suffer from theft that puts what happens at Walgreen's to shame. And their business model is geared towards the suburban Karen and urban hood rats, neither of which is a well rounded customer base.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 27, 2023 12:36 PM (Q4IgG)

197 I'd like to see players associations take a stand against greedy billionaire team owners forcing them to act against their convictions of faith.
It will never happen.
Posted by: That Northern skulker at May 27, 2023 12:35 PM (eGTCV)

There were only a disappointing few hockey players that refused to wear the Pride jerseys .

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2023 12:37 PM (BqNkw)

198 I'm ready for all these people to go back into the closet.
========================
What's funny to me is that during the 50's and 60's, gay people were far more accepted, and socially comfortable than now. People knew, and people let them be. It wasn't until burning bras and being in the victim class got big, that gay people started "coming out". At the end of the day, nobody (really) cared then, or now.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 27, 2023 12:37 PM (7Fj9P)

199 Or as I wrote to my nephew as a warning before he left for college on the 'progressive' ideas he would face, "You ignore the sum of all human knowledge and experience at your own peril. The old ways and the traditional ways are old and traditional because all other ways have been tried, and what remained was that which worked."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 27, 2023 12:27 PM (Zqeqr)

Very sage advice. Kudos to you.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 27, 2023 12:37 PM (z01mR)

200 200

Posted by: m at May 27, 2023 12:38 PM (30MvH)

201 Maybe the Dodger players have a plan . Wishful thinking but there's always a chance.

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2023 12:39 PM (BqNkw)

202 Target's financial problems are, as you say, pointed by the $1.2 BILLION they lost to Theft in the last year. All of their operations in heavily urbanized blue states are now running at a loss because of this, and they are being subsidized by profits from sun belt, red state operations. But they have dropped their focus on clothes and higher margin items and are depending more and more on groceries and consumables, which at best is a business with 2% or 3% margins. They have to start slashing money losing stores fast, but they don't have the nerve to face the magnitude of the problem.
If the boycott cuts margins in red state, profitable areas they are in very serious trouble.

Posted by: Nick Cage at May 27, 2023 12:39 PM (S6gqv)

203
Lots of articles online saying that Target has lost $9B dollars in a week due to the backlash.
Posted by: m at May 27, 2023 12:02 PM (30MvH)

These stories always go around but it’s never with context. So Target lost $9b if market cap. How did Best Buy and Costco and Walmart do during the same period of time? How much of that $9b was recouped? Was there other news related to Target? Was this specific to target or did all retail lose a lot?

I’m not saying this isn’t having an effect. I just don’t buy into these quick meme type “lost $9b” things that spread online.

Posted by: Montec at May 27, 2023 12:39 PM (c3kdV)

204 There were only a disappointing few hockey players that refused to wear the Pride jerseys .
Posted by: polynikes at May

It seemed a number of them were Russian.

Posted by: That Northern skulker at May 27, 2023 12:39 PM (eGTCV)

205 So then it is because of the "trans crap."
Posted by: Cicero
*************
I don't think the merchandise being sold particularly upset her but aiding and abetting immediate harm to children is a no go.

Posted by: Cosda at May 27, 2023 12:39 PM (Uu6As)

206 They suffer from theft that puts what happens at Walgreen's to shame.
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It's crazy to me that these retail giants are taking this theft lying down. I worked in retail for too many years, and to make up a unit of shrinkage (stolen or damaged), it took 7-10 units sold, depending on relative margins, to make up for 1 unit. It's a massive loss.
I guess *some* of the loss is write off, but I still think theft must be crippling these operations.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 27, 2023 12:41 PM (7Fj9P)

207 Don't the Red Sox realize that song was written on the way to a Highlanders (= Yankees) game?

Posted by: Eeyore at May 27, 2023 12:41 PM (TgBWG)

208 Corporations by the boat load gave millions to BLM, why do you think they won't to the Cultural Marxists?

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2023 12:41 PM (xhxe8)

209 His family had "Take me out to the ball game" played, stadium style, at his funeral service.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 27, 2023 12:08 PM (qoGsy)

I put my son in charge of music for my funeral. Will probably be a blend of Beethoven, Mozart and Zepplin. Maybe a little Johnny Cash thrown in.

Posted by: javems at May 27, 2023 12:42 PM (AmoqO)

210 I'm ready for all these people to go back into the closet. They never were about tolerance. This is all about making us genuflect to their cause. And I won't do that. Ever.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above!

Isn't that the truth. Right there with you.

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 12:42 PM (tQL7r)

211 It seemed a number of them were Russian.

Yeah, it appears that Russian Orthodoxy is more muscular than most Christianity.

Seventy years of oppression will do that.

Posted by: Five Days Until Pride Month! at May 27, 2023 12:42 PM (2tUFv)

212 The tenants of Christianity are perfect

I don't know. I might still get a month in advance.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 27, 2023 12:42 PM (jYCXf)

213 The Daily Caller article says that "conservatives are putting pressure on Target, calling for boycotts."

I don't believe that is accurate. What I think is far more accurate is that having revealed themselves as disgusting and evil through their own willful actions, many people are choosing shop at Target. This is a pretty organic reaction to intolerable provocation.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at May 27, 2023 12:43 PM (aGGj6)

214 As I suspected the big “$9b loss for target” has more to do with retail in general than tranny swimsuits. BJ wholesale’s stock price is down 20% over the past month. Walmart is down about 4%.

Big box retail is losing value, Across the board.

Posted by: Montec at May 27, 2023 12:43 PM (c3kdV)

215 I’m not saying this isn’t having an effect. I just don’t buy into these quick meme type “lost $9b” things that spread online.
Posted by: Montec at May 27, 2023 12:39 PM (c3kdV)

Loss of stock value is largely based on the company's quarterly reports and what Wall Street has projected. Meeting or not meeting those expectations is the big mover. I assume these analysts see a lower quarterly report than what they projected.

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2023 12:44 PM (BqNkw)

216 In the 1980s, there were 300 lesbian bars in the United States. Now, there are fewer than 15.
Posted by: Five Days Until Pride Month!
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Are they all in Portland?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 27, 2023 12:44 PM (2hlEI)

217 Bird bath refilled
Posted by: Skip

Water, right ?

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2023 12:44 PM (T4tVD)

218 118 She and daughter leave this afternoon for a month in Japan and Korea as daughter's high school graduation 'present'...
Posted by: JEM at May 27, 2023 11:56 AM (8erNz)

I got a rock.
Posted by: Some people have all the luck

I get to stay home and tend our four dogs, and she took my decade of frequent flyer miles to set all this up.

Posted by: JEM at May 27, 2023 12:44 PM (8erNz)

219 What the $9 billion market cap loss tells me is that a number of high dollar, serious investors are sensing the same weakness in Target Corp that we are sensing here. People like that don't care about ideology of any kind, but they're very good at smelling blood in the water.

Posted by: Nick Cage at May 27, 2023 12:44 PM (S6gqv)

220 When theft by the public is treated as no big deal, the employees will quickly start selling truckloads ar a time off the back loading dock for cash.

Posted by: Nick Cage at May 27, 2023 12:47 PM (S6gqv)

221 Off bad actor sock!

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 27, 2023 12:47 PM (S6gqv)

222 In the 1980s, there were 300 lesbian bars in the United States. Now, there are fewer than 15.
Posted by: Five Days Until Pride Month!
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Are they all in Portland?

Portland didn't have a single lesbian bar for ten years. One recently opened - I'm not sure how well it's doing.

Portland lesbians have been doing things like holding parties in warehouses, using closed Facebook groups, so the trannies can't find out about them.

Posted by: Five Days Until Pride Month! at May 27, 2023 12:48 PM (2tUFv)

223 Big box retail is losing value, Across the board.
Posted by: Montec at May 27, 2023 12:43 PM (c3kdV)

I don't know of anyone who shares my opinion on this, but I go out of my way to avoid big box stores. And I live in Walmart country.

Posted by: Emmie -- MoMe-curious AR morons and Farmer, please email me at May 27, 2023 12:48 PM (Emce2)

224 Oh, and we claim that we really don't know very much about Ukraine's counteroffensive plans, but Victoria Nuland also said in Kiev that:

"Even as you plan for the counteroffensive, which we have been working on with you for some 4-5 months, we are already beginning our discussions with [the] Ukrainian government and with friends in Kiev – both on the civilian side and on the military side – about Ukraine’s long-term future."
Posted by: Five Days Until Pride Month! at May 27, 2023 12:23 PM (2tUFv)

If Vicky Nuland is planning your "long-term future," you have none. You are just a blood bag from which she and her pals in the neocon NWO are sucking you dry.

While everyone is focusing on clowns in makeup at Dodger games, these people are perpetrating the real evil on this planet.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 12:49 PM (+zMED)

225 127 Daughter tells me she saw a shopper a few minutes ago with the back of his T-shirt reading: Jesus is a c__t (but spelt out).

I would ask him to do Mohammed.

Posted by: Ciampino - Time to emulate the Mussulmans at May 27, 2023 12:07 PM (qfLjt)

Mo-ham-head was a pedophile.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 12:49 PM (ynpvh)

226 The tenants of Christianity are perfect

I don't know. I might still get a month in advance.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

Golf clap!

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 12:50 PM (tQL7r)

227 except one is a hate crime (calling Mo a pedo) and the other is protected speach (calling Jesus names).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 27, 2023 12:50 PM (ynpvh)

228 212 The tenants of Christianity are perfect

I don't know. I might still get a month in advance.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 27, 2023 12:42 PM (jYCXf)

; )

Posted by: m at May 27, 2023 12:50 PM (30MvH)

229 JT I tried gasoline but the birds didn't like it much

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2023 12:51 PM (xhxe8)

230 I assume there are a fair number of professing Christians on the Dodgers roster--what are they up to?

Posted by: NL at May 27, 2023 12:19 PM (eGTCV)

Loving their enemies?

Posted by: BignJames at May 27, 2023 12:51 PM (AwYPR)

231 I don't know. I might still get a month in advance.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 27, 2023 12:42 PM (jYCXf)

Check what they're flushing down the toilets and into the garbage disposal.

Very un-Christian like.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 12:51 PM (+zMED)

232 216 In the 1980s, there were 300 lesbian bars in the United States. Now, there are fewer than 15.
Posted by: Five Days Until Pride Month!
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Are they all in Portland?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 27, 2023 12:44 PM (2hlEI)

San Franpsycho is in Portland! Or nearby. Maybe he can investigate.

Posted by: m at May 27, 2023 12:52 PM (30MvH)

233 I think the cartel analogy is accurate here: too much institutional investment in big biz. means consumer level boycott really doesn't move the needle. I'm sure somewhere down the line I own a package that includes AB and Target stock, but I wouldn't know where to look. Watch, they will both be ok moving forward, because they all have each others back.
Marketing at the consumer level is Kabuki. They really don't care about you and me.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 27, 2023 12:52 PM (7Fj9P)

234 Yeah, it appears that Russian Orthodoxy is more muscular than most Christianity.

Seventy years of oppression will do that.
Posted by: Five Days Until Pride Month

Yep. I heard a preacher years ago say that the American church needs some persecution. Incoming!

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 12:52 PM (tQL7r)

235 Just got a text about BB&B going out of business sale. I stopped shopping there when they dropped My Pillow products because in their view anything tainted by Trump is icky.

How's that working out for them?

Posted by: Emmie -- MoMe-curious AR morons and Farmer, please email me at May 27, 2023 12:53 PM (Emce2)

236 Evil is real, so that must mean Life is real.

Posted by: bud light drinker of genius at May 27, 2023 12:53 PM (KVGVf)

237 If Vicky Nuland is planning your "long-term future," you have none. You are just a blood bag from which she and her pals in the neocon NWO are sucking you dry.

More Nuland:

She [Nuland] also painted a rosy picture of a future in which Ukraine would be the “engine of Europe’s revitalization” and “setting the democratic example… for the whole world.”

One claim the neo-cons are making is that Ukraine, which was a corrupt basket case with one-quarter the per-capita GNP of Poland prior to the invasion, it going to transform itself into an economic tiger after the war.

The mechanism for doing this is not specified.

Posted by: Five Days Until Pride Month! at May 27, 2023 12:53 PM (2tUFv)

238 169 Posted by: Nick Cage at May 27, 2023 12:26 PM (S6gqv)

175 Are you ... really Nick Cage?
Posted by: m at May 27, 2023 12:28 PM (30MvH)

221 Off bad actor sock!
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 27, 2023 12:47 PM (S6gqv)

It's about time!

Posted by: m at May 27, 2023 12:55 PM (30MvH)

239
Color me caught right up with the lgbt bullshit to the point of nausea.

We've placed our flags with love and respect to honor those who no longer walk among us as we always have.

They are my brethren and comrades who will always been remembered. The left who profess "support" for them may take said support and SHOVE it until they CHOKE on it.

I'd expound on the subject but wish to continue posting on this blog.

I would, however suggest any and all take a moment during the weekend to offer up a prayer to those heroes that came before.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 27, 2023 12:55 PM (KATBx)

240 127 Daughter tells me she saw a shopper a few minutes ago with the back of his T-shirt reading: Jesus is a c__t (but spelt out).

I would ask him to do Mohammed.
Posted by: Ciampino - Time to emulate the Mussulmans at May 27, 2023 12:07 PM (qfLjt)

A lefty, I presume. Because it seems on the left you must hate good people and celebrate bad people.

Posted by: Emmie -- MoMe-curious AR morons and Farmer, please email me at May 27, 2023 12:56 PM (Emce2)

241 The tenants of Christianity are perfect

I don't know. I might still get a month in advance.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 27, 2023 12:42 PM (jYCXf)

Lol.

When bartenders opine, the English language is sure to suffer.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 27, 2023 12:56 PM (Zqeqr)

242 Little private boat launch/beach on the Maine lake we visit went woke this spring. Has a big sign invoking all the right woke principles and a brand new LBQT++ flag at the entrance. Spun the truck and boat trailer around and drove to the public launch down the other end of the lake.

Posted by: Cosda at May 27, 2023 12:57 PM (Uu6As)

243 So, do the trannys and LGBQXYZ's come to rescue of Target? They got pissed off at InBev/AB/Bud Light for not standing up for Mulvaney. Some Targets moved the offensive merch to the rear of the stores while claiming the staff is being threatened. We know that's bullshit... unless it's the trannys that are pissed off that their shit is moved out of sight and throw a typical hissy fit.

The Bud Light thing seems to be worse for AB than
Target's issues with satanic little kids clothes and swimsuits to hide your junk.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 27, 2023 12:57 PM (Q4IgG)

244 242 Little private boat launch/beach on the Maine lake we visit went woke this spring. Has a big sign invoking all the right woke principles and a brand new LBQT++ flag at the entrance. Spun the truck and boat trailer around and drove to the public launch down the other end of the lake.
Posted by: Cosda at May 27, 2023 12:57 PM (Uu6As)

Voted with your fleet!

Posted by: m at May 27, 2023 12:59 PM (30MvH)

245 Target's biggest miscalculation is believing their own hype, and not realizing that in reality there aren't a fraction of the number of Tranny's needed to save them financially. They just don't exist, not in the real world.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 27, 2023 01:00 PM (dLypp)

246 Marketing at the consumer level is Kabuki. They really don't care about you and me.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 27, 2023 12:52 PM (7Fj9P)

Perhaps, but it is also an error to say the Kabuki isn't useful or important.

Again, you want to wake up the straights? Come after their kids. Make noise about that, and sometimes things happen... like what happened in Virginia, what's been happening in Florida and Texas, especially with Hispanic voters.

To the extent that voting matters, I mean.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 01:00 PM (+zMED)

247 Is there any evidence the LGBTQ+++ people get better treatment, as customers, by woke retailers that by non-woke retailers?

Posted by: That Northern skulker at May 27, 2023 01:00 PM (eGTCV)

248 Portland lesbians have been doing things like holding parties in warehouses, using closed Facebook groups, so the trannies can't find out about them.
Posted by: Five Days Until Pride Month!

How inclusive!!

Posted by: The Entire Joke at May 27, 2023 01:00 PM (qoGsy)

249 A friend told us about a 12 yr. old girl who became noticeably depressed after one month with a phone, but her parents didn’t do the obvious and take it away. Cowards.

Saw a kid texting while walking through a crosswalk covering 4 lanes. Didn’t raise his eyes one time. I predict a short, painful life.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at May 27, 2023 01:00 PM (MTm8X)

250 Sadly, too many lazy people won’t boycott Target. I know you can’t boycott everyone, but when they are that flagrant with their hatred of you and your values, either go somewhere else or just save your money!

Posted by: Eternity Matters at May 27, 2023 01:01 PM (MTm8X)

251 In my best Truman Capote voice: it's TENET, do you hear me? TENET!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 27, 2023 01:02 PM (S6gqv)

252 She [Nuland] also painted a rosy picture of a future in which Ukraine would be the “engine of Europe’s revitalization” and “setting the democratic example… for the whole world.”

One claim the neo-cons are making is that Ukraine, which was a corrupt basket case with one-quarter the per-capita GNP of Poland prior to the invasion, it going to transform itself into an economic tiger after the war.

The mechanism for doing this is not specified.
Posted by: Five Days Until Pride Month! at May 27, 2023 12:53 PM (2tUFv)

Egad, I can't stand that woman. Democracy? What a freakin' joke, you people OVERTHREW the democratic government there.

Yeah, Ukraine is going to become the paradise of Europe, just like Iraq became the paradise of southwest Asia.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 01:02 PM (+zMED)

253 Is there any evidence the LGBTQ+++ people get better treatment, as customers, by woke retailers that by non-woke retailers?
Posted by: That Northern skulker

When was the last time you heard of a cross or crucifix being sold at Targay?
Does Coke donate to any Christian groups or only to PP and their ilk?
Except for the Dodger 'oh we love Christian day in July' have you ever heard of any MLB/NFL/NBA team celebrating Christ?
I'll wait...
See...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 27, 2023 01:03 PM (yRuUQ)

254 But, but, but... The Emperor isn't naked! He's wearing a clown costume!

Posted by: Little Boy at May 27, 2023 01:04 PM (SYTee)

255 Voted with your fleet!
Posted by: m
*******
That's funny.
I just don't get why they need to get all political about launching a boat or swimming at a little beach.

Posted by: Cosda at May 27, 2023 01:04 PM (Uu6As)

256 I would, however suggest any and all take a moment during the weekend to offer up a prayer to those heroes that came before.

Absolutely. Even though things seem to be unravelling all around us, that should not diminish the significance of the observance. Memorial Day has always been near and dear to me.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 27, 2023 01:04 PM (Xrfse)

257 Just got a text about BB&B going out of business sale. I stopped shopping there when they dropped My Pillow products because in their view anything tainted by Trump is icky.

How's that working out for them?
Posted by: Emmie -- MoMe-curious AR morons and Farmer, please email me

Hey, Emmie! (Big wave)
I'm with you all the way on the big box stores.

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 01:05 PM (tQL7r)

258 So, do the trannys and LGBQXYZ's come to rescue of Target? They got pissed off at InBev/AB/Bud Light for not standing up for Mulvaney.

Nope, they're already attacking Target for not sticking up for Satantic junk-tucking. It would require a heart of stone not to laugh at how good the tranny trap is.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2023 01:06 PM (X4R3E)

259 Posted by: Tom Servo at May 27, 2023 01:00 PM (dLyp

Leftists have no self awareness.

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2023 01:06 PM (BqNkw)

260 Sadly, too many lazy people won’t boycott Target. I know you can’t boycott everyone, but when they are that flagrant with their hatred of you and your values, either go somewhere else or just save your money!
Posted by: Eternity Matters at May 27, 2023 01:01 PM (MTm8X)

How many is too many? What's the end goal, to get no one to shop at Targay? Of course that's not going to happen.

But the errors is lost in the weeds, when people say the effort is pointless when it doesn't kill the business, or cause the stock price to plummet, or cause the company to see the error of its ways, and go back to only selling American flags and Nascar emblems on its clothing.

No, the culture war is real, and you fight where you can. You don't shop at Targay, and you tell your friends/coworkers/relatives why you're not shopping there.

Let the shrapnel fall where it may.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 01:06 PM (+zMED)

261 If my small town had a Target I could boycott them.

Posted by: davidt at May 27, 2023 01:08 PM (SYTee)

262 245 Target's biggest miscalculation is believing their own hype, and not realizing that in reality there aren't a fraction of the number of Tranny's needed to save them financially. They just don't exist, not in the real world.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Nobody thinks trannies are a significant market. It’s all virtue signaling. My guess would be 95% of the merchandise in question will be incinerated since nobody actually buys that stuff.

Posted by: Montec at May 27, 2023 01:08 PM (c3kdV)

263 Fuck all of these woke corporations that target specific demographics over all others. Let their chosen few support the company thru regular, everyday commerce and see if these fucking marketing cocksuckers were right about who they believe can keep the company floating.

I'm not an activist nor do I have the discipline for boycotts, - I'm a consumer looking out for my own interests. But if you are pushing fags and degenerates in my face because you want to sell .00001 percent more product to that enclave, tally ho!

As a wise man once said, "But first, you will blow me!"

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 27, 2023 01:08 PM (KVGVf)

264 Leftists have no self awareness.
Posted by: polynikes

Lots of that going around

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 01:09 PM (tQL7r)

265 Day flying by, I thought it was just 12 noon

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2023 01:09 PM (xhxe8)

266 The best Target photoshop so far has the goatse.cx hands strategically placed around the Target logo. Someone should do that at Target's HQ.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2023 01:10 PM (X4R3E)

267 Biggest tell on BB&B was at the end of last summer, when the CFO jumped off the 17th floor of his buildings.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 27, 2023 01:10 PM (S6gqv)

268
When theft by the public is treated as no big deal, the employees will quickly start selling truckloads ar a time off the back loading dock for cash.
Posted by: Nick Cage

They were probably already doing that.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 27, 2023 01:10 PM (63Dwl)

269 Egad, I can't stand that woman. Democracy? What a freakin' joke, you people OVERTHREW the democratic government there.

Yeah, Ukraine is going to become the paradise of Europe, just like Iraq became the paradise of southwest Asia.

The reason why the EU hasn't let Ukraine in is the assumption that a substantial fraction of the Ukrainian workforce would immediately decamp for Western Europe, given the chance.

I think Nuland is being completely sincere about Ukraine “setting the democratic example… for the whole world” - banning most opposition political parties (including the second largest political party) is exactly the "democratic example" Nuland envisions for the United States, along with everywhere else.

Posted by: Five Days Until Pride Month! at May 27, 2023 01:12 PM (2tUFv)

270 It's a command economy.

Someone high up is commanding the forced wokeness, rather than market forces commanding business decisions.

Posted by: davidt at May 27, 2023 01:14 PM (SYTee)

271 266 The best Target photoshop so far has the goatse.cx hands strategically placed around the Target logo. Someone should do that at Target's HQ.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2023 01:10 PM (X4R3E)

Goatse.cx hands? Do I want to know what that is?

Posted by: Emmie -- MoMe-curious AR morons and Farmer, please email me at May 27, 2023 01:15 PM (Emce2)

272 Flowers up.

Posted by: Cosda at May 27, 2023 01:16 PM (Uu6As)

273 Hmm. "Satan Respects Pronouns." That's hard to argue with.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 27, 2023 01:16 PM (FVME7)

274 271 266 The best Target photoshop so far has the goatse.cx hands strategically placed around the Target logo. Someone should do that at Target's HQ.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2023 01:10 PM (X4R3E)

Goatse.cx hands? Do I want to know what that is?
Posted by: Emmie -- MoMe-curious AR morons and Farmer, please email me at May 27, 2023 01:15 PM (Emce2)

NO!

Posted by: m at May 27, 2023 01:16 PM (30MvH)

275 Hey, Emmie! (Big wave)
I'm with you all the way on the big box stores.
Posted by: Prime Sister at May 27, 2023 01:05 PM (tQL7r)

Yay! Company!

I know several people who would hate what these companies are doing if they ever paid attention. But even when they know, they happily shop at places like Target. Thus my despondency.

Posted by: Emmie -- MoMe-curious AR morons and Farmer, please email me at May 27, 2023 01:19 PM (Emce2)

276 JT I tried gasoline but the birds didn't like it much
Posted by: Skip

Persnickety birds !

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2023 01:20 PM (T4tVD)

277 OT random question: How's President Dying Brain's weekend away going?

Posted by: That Northern skulker at May 27, 2023 01:22 PM (eGTCV)

278 Anyway, I would appreciate prayers that it all goes smoothly. I think it's important to have worship service at the Senior Care Center. No other Protestant clergy person does this, although I'm sure they visit parishioners there.

Thx so much.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 27, 2023 11:21 AM (Keyt1)

What a blessing you are!

Posted by: Emmie -- MoMe-curious AR morons and Farmer, please email me at May 27, 2023 01:22 PM (Emce2)

279 Debt crisis is biggest worry so Sundowner headed to Delaware to get medicated

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2023 01:23 PM (xhxe8)

280 I think Nuland is being completely sincere about Ukraine “setting the democratic example… for the whole world” - banning most opposition political parties (including the second largest political party) is exactly the "democratic example" Nuland envisions for the United States, along with everywhere else.
Posted by: Five Days Until Pride Month! at May 27, 2023 01:12 PM (2tUFv)

Agreed, she is being sincere, just as everyone on the left and in the media (BIRM) keeps talking about "our democracy."

They don't mean democracy, as in the people deciding jack. They mean their controlled and/or rigged elections. And such quaint notions as "left" versus "right" have little to no meaning anymore.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 01:23 PM (k3aEX)

281 OT random question: How's President Dying Brain's weekend away going?
Posted by: That Northern skulker at May 27, 2023 01:22 PM (eGTCV)

I think it's sorta like the Lenin tomb. Every now and then they need to close down the exhibit, so they can spackle more plaster onto the corpse. As the actual flesh rots from the inside, the outside is more and more a shell, to fool the public into thinking the carcass still breathes life.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 01:26 PM (k3aEX)

282 @237

>>The mechanism for doing this is not specified.

Well, it's right up there with a country with the GDP that's smaller than NYS stymieing and vexing the Western Powers.

And for those that would say, but they have Nukes, well, the fact they have Nukes isn't stopping these maniacs from pushing a proxy war and agitating for violent regime change in a nuclear armed country.

You knock out Putin, great, do you think your going to be able to install a Western Aligned Puppet in his place?

Madness.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 27, 2023 01:28 PM (up/3i)

283 Sponge is quite capable of getting his own firsts, stole one from me yesterday
Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2023 11:16 AM

Take heart. Second is First Loser.

Posted by: Coach at May 27, 2023 01:38 PM (1+0Jn)

284 From the side bar

Male-female love is just now absolutely taboo at Disney. But they'll keep cramming movies with their Not-So-Secret-Gay Agenda!

So are they going to give Elsa the long promised female lover in Frozen III?

Posted by: Fox 2! at May 27, 2023 01:50 PM (i9tuZ)

285 If they do, then Anna needs to produce an heir expeditiously, because she’ll only be queen for a short while if Elsa doesn’t secure the succession herself.

Posted by: Fox 2! at May 27, 2023 01:52 PM (i9tuZ)

286 Target's theft problems are as much a result of employees stealing as customers...maybe more.

Fifty years ago I did some contract work for them, arranged through the local police department, investigating employee theft. They had trouble back then. But even back then they were not willing to prosecute.

Failure has been a long time coming but they've been asking for it for years.

Posted by: creeper at May 27, 2023 02:06 PM (cTCuP)

287 Zamboni, Zamboni, Zamboni!

Posted by: weft cut loop at May 27, 2023 02:07 PM (jzzG8)

288 Sundresses work well with blondes.

Posted by: That Northern skulker at May 27, 2023 02:11 PM (VdGjU)

289 Target's theft problems are as much a result of employees stealing as customers...maybe more.

Fifty years ago I did some contract work for them, arranged through the local police department, investigating employee theft. They had trouble back then. But even back then they were not willing to prosecute.

Failure has been a long time coming but they've been asking for it for years.
Posted by: creeper

You were a Shamus ?

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2023 02:12 PM (T4tVD)

290 288 Sundresses work well with blondes.
Posted by: That Northern skulker at May 27, 2023 02:11 PM (VdGjU)

Sundresses work well with most women.

I'll get in trouble with Fenelon if I say the next thing out loud. And my confessor. .

Posted by: Fox2! at May 27, 2023 02:16 PM (BPbaR)

291 The Plastic Containers. Ugh...

When my Mom moved into a "Senior Living" joint, I spent weeks cleaning out the house. The kitchen cabinets were literally crammed with those damned plastic things, and of course they were jumbled in no particular order. I tried for a while to make some sense of it, and finally just began heaving them all into garbage bags. I'd had enough of the damned things! Screw it! Out it goes!

It was most satisfying! When I returned to my home, I went immediately to the kitchen and grabbed a garbage bag. My poor wife asked, "What are you doing..?"

Posted by: Brewingfrog at May 27, 2023 02:16 PM (5gZpE)

292 Saw on Google news 2 guys are wanted for over $100G in store theft at the King of Prussia mall in Pa

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2023 02:19 PM (xhxe8)

293 I don't know. I might still get a month in advance.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 27, 2023 12:42 PM (jYCXf)

And a two month security/damage deposit.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 27, 2023 02:23 PM (BPbaR)

294 Off with their heads!

Posted by: King of Prussia at May 27, 2023 02:42 PM (Xrfse)

295
I have got the water back up and running at our lace in Sussex. The hot water looks dirty-ish. Please tell me that I will not have to flush out the water heater ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 27, 2023 02:45 PM (5pZqO)

296 That's my question, too. The love is love crowd is curiously absent from making any pronouncements right now. Pro or con. Where are they?

Same place that crowd was when the gay activists were terrorizing people and churches in the early 2000s during the push for same-sex "marriage" and Prop 8 in California. And when the gay activists were terrorizing businesses which refused to support same sex "marriages" with cakes or pizza or photographs. I remember the campaign by the homosexual activists to destroy Memories Pizza over a small-town interview where the owners simply politely stated, in answer to a question, that they did not support same-sex "marriage". The activists went on their Yelp page and defaced it with 1-star ratings and added pornographic pictures and vulgarity to every "review".

What the "transgenders" and "Q+" activists are doing is nothing new. They are taking the playbook of the homosexual activists from the 2000s and applying it to their own agenda. And just like the homosexual activists bullied people into compliance to where everyone accepts them today and every institution and corporation supports them, same will happen here.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 27, 2023 02:51 PM (Do5/p)

297 Honestly, these satanic nutcases are going to get me sent to Hell.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 27, 2023 02:56 PM (aD39U)

298 True Christians would welcome the opportunity to speak up and sacrifice for their beliefs.

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2023 12:24 PM

Did not see many of those when it came to the government telling Christians to not hold church services during the Plandemic. The one or two we did see try to defy the government were quickly arrested and made examples of. And it worked to prevent anyone else from trying the same. So, apparently, not many true Christians in this country.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 27, 2023 03:14 PM (Do5/p)

299 id not see many of those when it came to the government telling Christians to not hold church services during the Plandemic. The one or two we did see try to defy the government were quickly arrested and made examples of. And it worked to prevent anyone else from trying the same. So, apparently, not many true Christians in this country.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

Saw it with the Obaka-Care stuff; forcing nominally Catholic heathcare facilities to proscribe arbotio-facients and other stuff - that was the sign of surrender.

Posted by: weft cut loop at May 27, 2023 03:21 PM (jzzG8)

300 From the sidebar: it's rather insulting that the Dodgers would think that having Jesus Day somehow makes them clean again after hosting the Let's Gay Up The Kids Show. They're basically insinuating that only religious nuts would have a problem with sexualizing children, which is bullshit.

Posted by: CppThis at May 27, 2023 03:51 PM (PZvjL)

301 It's almost biblical, if you think about it. Our modern world is essentially the tower of Babel, which is uncanny in it's accuracy, centuries later.

Or think of us as the Israelites, when Moses went up the mountain. It didn't take us long at all to stop worshipping God, and start worshipping the golden calf.
...
Posted by: BurtTC at May 27, 2023 11:31 AM (ltVPJ)

We are in a time of paganism. The globalists are all about killing babies and sterilizing the mentally disturbed.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 27, 2023 04:10 PM (pJWtt)

302 243 The Bud Light thing seems to be worse for AB than
Target's issues with satanic little kids clothes and swimsuits to hide your junk.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 27, 2023 12:57 PM (Q4IgG)

The AB thing is more of a direct betrayal of its customer base than what Target is doing. They've been super woke and super ghey for years, everyone who shops there knows it. People are just finally starting to figure out that maybe this crap is having a detrimental effect on civilization now that the payment is coming due.

Posted by: CppThis at May 27, 2023 04:11 PM (PZvjL)

303 My son works as a personal shopper and said that Bud Light was selling like crazy. Of course, it's Austin.

Posted by: lin-duh at May 27, 2023 04:17 PM (UUBmN)

304 Nobody thinks trannies are a significant market. It’s all virtue signaling.

Posted by: Montec at May 27, 2023 01:08 PM

Exactly. No company is marketing to "transgenders"... or any customer for that matter. They are marketing to their investors and potential investors. Just like the "customer" (electorate) does not matter anymore to politcians, since elections are fortified, the same holds true for corporations. The focus of corporations is to spread the agenda and message of their investors. And since every investor wants Marxism and LGBTQ+ and "climate change" and The Great Reset agenda items, that is what corporations will push.

The assumption (which I think is correct) is that the right-of-center boomer and gen-x generations are dying off or becoming minority in population of the country. And the millennials and gen-z majority are Marxist Left. Add in tens of millions of Marxist Left illegals and the country moving forward is center-left and quickly becoming Leftist. Add in the calculation that the majority of buying power in the economy is with Marxist Leftist women. This long-game strategy will likely work, after short-term negatives.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 27, 2023 04:18 PM (Do5/p)

305 NO HONOR TO THE AMERICAN MERCENARIES IN UKRAINE.

Posted by: MikeN at May 27, 2023 07:40 PM (Egc30)

306 Nothing says "love is love" quite like bomb threats to those who cave to irate customers by hiding the "Pride" merchandise in the back of the store.

Posted by: Grouchy's Brother at May 27, 2023 09:59 PM (qhFSn)

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