Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (6/6/23)

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I
“You wanna lead this nation… and you don’t even understand the basic battlefield: it’s kinda sad and pathetic," Former Rep. Devin Nunes

Quotes II
Video of Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) facing the bints on The View.

Quote III
“I guarantee he feels worse than I do for having to take him out,” Atlanta manager Brian Snitker

Ya right.

Quote IV
“When people talk about, ‘I will see them again in heaven,’ it sounds so good, but the reality is that we won’t see each other again after we’re gone. That’s the sad part. I know people feel comfortable with death, but I don’t,'” Arnold Schwarzeneger

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This is an older story and befitting for today, D-Day. (H/T fd)

9,000 Fallen Soldiers Etched into the Sand on Normandy Beach to Commemorate Peace Day

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Is there a pool to enter on just how long these machines will last?

NYC unveils vending machine for drug users, with free crack pipes and Narcan for ODs
New York's public health vending machines will offer condoms and crack pipes instead of chips and soda

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You may disagree with me. And that's fine. But justifying the military complex existence are not 2 reasons to be in Ukraine. Opinion This is the ‘America First’ case for supporting Ukraine

As Ukraine begins its spring counteroffensive, a 60 percent majority of Republicans say we should stand with Ukraine until Russia is defeated, according to a Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll conducted in March. But GOP support is softening. The share of Republicans who say the United States is providing too much aid to Ukraine has steadily increased from 9 percent right after the Russian invasion to 40 percent in a Pew Research Center poll in January

He forgot to mention:
1) Russia is no longer the Soviet Union
2) How does the US beat Russia
3) How does the US stay out of Ukraine for next 75 years.

This is a EU problem. This is not a NATO or US problem. We cannot continue to be the world's police force with our armed forces hands being tied by "Feel Good" military actions. Perhaps Mr. Marc Theisen should be the first infantryman stationed in Ukraine. Put his blood where his ~~mouth is.~~ fingers are.

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How do you say adios in Arabic?

PGA Tour agrees to merge with Saudi-backed rival LIV Golf
The PGA Tour agreed to merge with rival LIV Golf, which is backed by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, an entity controlled by the Saudi crown prince.
The proposed merger comes after the PGA Tour and LIV Golf have been embroiled in lawsuits regarding antitrust claims.
The deal would end all pending litigation.

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Has commenter Mike Hammer been outed?

An inventive man in Asheville, North Carolina put on a grizzly bear costume to scare off the wayward black bear who had been leisurely exploring his yard.

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The Fabulous and I were lucky. Our children all hit their teen years without cell phones. I can understand the pressure that parents today must be facing about their children wanting cell phones. But is it Social Media's fault their children have issues rather than a lack of parenting?

When whistleblower Frances Haugen pulled back the curtain on Facebook in the fall of 2021, thousands of pages of internal documents showed troubling signs that the social media giant knew its platforms could be negatively impacting youth, and were doing little to effectively change it. With around 21 million American adolescents on social media, parents took note.
Now, families are suing social media. Since we first reported this story last December, the number of families pursuing lawsuits has grown to over 2,000. More than 350 lawsuits are expected to move forward this year against TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, Roblox and Meta - the parent company to Instagram and Facebook.

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The ONT Musical Interlude & F5 Gold Rapala Emporium

On this day: 6 Jun 2022
Jim Seals of the US soft rock duo Seals and Crofts, died at the age of 80. The singer was behind laid-back 1970s classics like 'Diamond Girl' and 'Summer Breeze', later covered by the Isley Brothers. Between 1972 and 1976, Seals and Crofts had a run of five gold albums, culminating in an double-platinum greatest hits collection. Via thisdayinmusic.com

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On this day: 6 Jun 2019
American singer and songwriter Dr John known for music combining blues, pop, jazz, boogie woogie and rock and roll died at the age of 77 after suffering a heart attack. Born Malcolm John Rebennack his career started in the late 1950s, when he became prominent as a pianist and singer on the New Orleans music scene. He also worked with the Rolling Stones, Carly Simon, James Taylor, Neil Diamond, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Bob Seger and Joe Walsh. Via thisdayinmusic.com

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The wheels of justice move too slowly at times. Finally after 23 years a convicted murderer to get what he deserves.

A man who fatally shot two jailers in a failed effort to help an inmate escape prison is set to be executed on Tuesday evening.
Michael Tisius, 42, faces a lethal injection at a state prison in Bonne Terre for killing Missouri jail officers Jason Acton and Leon Egley nearly 23 years ago.
Governor Mike Parson on Monday declined to grant clemency to Tisius.
‘It’s despicable that two dedicated public servants were murdered in a failed attempt to help another criminal evade the law,’ stated Parson, a Republican. ‘The state of Missouri will carry out Mr. Tisius’s sentences according to the Court’s order and deliver justice.’

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Car chase + Taser= Genius Award Winners.

HUNTINGDON COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) – Two people in Huntingdon County are facing drug-related charges after they were pulled over for traffic violations.
Sarah Pennington, 43, of Huntingdon and Shem Miller, 44, of Mount Union are both facing several charges for having meth and fentanyl, court documents show.
According to Pennsylvania State Police (PSP), On Saturday, May 27 at just before 8:30 p.m. an officer pulled over a truck after they observed it swerving over the double yellow lines.
Once an officer pulled the truck over, Miller, the driver, dove out of the vehicle and then lead the officer on a foot pursuit, according to the criminal complaint. Miller tried to jump over an embankment but fell. At this point, the officer tased him and took him into custody.

Shem?

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I'm often critical of LEOs. However when they do well they shoud be commended. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

South Carolina Deputy's Small Act Of Kindness Changes Woman's Entire Life
In a heartwarming display of compassion, a South Carolina deputy made a significant impact on the life of a struggling citizen.
The Greenville County Sheriff's Office (GCSO) shared the story on its Facebook page.

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Hello Acme Insurance Company? I would like to file a claim.

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 09:45 PM

Comments

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1 Yo horde

Thx MisHum

Posted by: Zeera. 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted!' at June 06, 2023 09:47 PM (zC17c)

2 I nooded

Posted by: Zeera. 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted!' at June 06, 2023 09:50 PM (zC17c)

3 Floating gold Rap is my favorite plug.

Posted by: Scotty at June 06, 2023 09:50 PM (iayUP)

4 Rather, I announced the ONT

Posted by: Zeera. 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted!' at June 06, 2023 09:50 PM (zC17c)

5 Fooled again by an early .......

Posted by: Ciampino --- Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity at June 06, 2023 09:51 PM (qfLjt)

6 Darn it, off Scot sock.

Posted by: fd at June 06, 2023 09:51 PM (iayUP)

7 4 Rather, I announced the ONT
Posted by: Zeera. 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted!' at June 06, 2023 09:50 PM (zC17c)

Us regulars knew what you meant.

Thanks for letting them know.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 06, 2023 09:51 PM (aA3+G)

8 wow... oily.

Posted by: Fastly Strokewater at June 06, 2023 09:52 PM (gWAUD)

9 This evening please pause and remember those brave men who gave their lives just to gain a toehold on the beaches of Normandy.

They were doing the right thing, even if we screwed it up.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 06, 2023 09:52 PM (Bd6X8)

10 Ahrnold married a Catholic woman, but it didn't take.

Poor pathetic loser.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 06, 2023 09:53 PM (vg8N1)

11 My duty as a Firster

Posted by: Zeera. 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted!' at June 06, 2023 09:53 PM (zC17c)

12 top 12

Posted by: Theodore at June 06, 2023 09:53 PM (pGonq)

13 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2023 09:54 PM (B/X3r)

14 I always thought Jim Seals looked like Lenin...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 06, 2023 09:55 PM (CCSxw)

15 "The deal would end all pending litigation."

Lawyers on both sides are crying.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 06, 2023 09:55 PM (vg8N1)

16 The auto that launched off the tow truck flatbed was the Flying Wallendas in a rush to get to their next show.

Posted by: Roy at June 06, 2023 09:55 PM (rqgpJ)

17 Thanks, as always, for the ONT. Now on to the content.

Posted by: 496 at June 06, 2023 09:56 PM (tqfDX)

18 Hola, all.

Posted by: Piper at June 06, 2023 09:56 PM (ZdaMQ)

19 Hello onters

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 06, 2023 09:57 PM (vHIgi)

20 Good evening MisHum.

Great mystery click this evening, thank you.

"This is a EU problem. This is not a NATO or US problem."

THIS, a thousand times THIS!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 06, 2023 09:57 PM (MjGUg)

21 Early posting tonight, MisHum. The sooner the post is up, the more time you have for reading some great writing!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 06, 2023 09:57 PM (Angsy)

22 The auto that launched off the tow truck flatbed was the Flying Wallendas in a rush to get to their next show.
Posted by: Roy

As I remember it, some of the Flying Wallendas became permanently grounded performing some of their shenanigans. As Mom would say - It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2023 09:57 PM (B/X3r)

23 “When people talk about, ‘I will see them again in heaven,’ it sounds so good, but the reality is that we won’t see each other again after we’re gone. That’s the sad part. I know people feel comfortable with death, but I don’t,'” Arnold Schwarzeneger
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After experiencing a spiritual awakening and renewal this evening, I know he's wrong.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 06, 2023 09:57 PM (BpYfr)

24 Just watched an AGT audition of a 60 yo guy on fire throwing flaming knives at his 80 yo mom

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 06, 2023 09:58 PM (vHIgi)

25 "The proposed merger comes after the PGA Tour and LIV Golf have been embroiled in lawsuits regarding antitrust claims.

The deal would end all pending litigation.

I think it is a brilliant move to end lawsuits regarding antitrust claims by creating a giant monopoly out of all the participants.
I see no way of this having any negative effect on the sport, the broadcasters or the players.

I also feel that Upton Sinclair's work on the slaughterhouses was excusable since both he and the industry were doing the best that they could do.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2023 09:58 PM (xhaym)

26 21 Early posting tonight, MisHum. The sooner the post is up, the more time you have for reading some great writing!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 06, 2023 09:57 PM (Angsy)

I started reading something last night. Silly big gorilla.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 06, 2023 09:58 PM (aA3+G)

27 Well, you know, Ahnold's partially correct. There are some people he won't see after he dies, and some he will see, though, he may not like it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 06, 2023 09:58 PM (Angsy)

28 That guy on the ladder is another example of the ingenuity that the visitors from our Southern border will bring to our country.

Posted by: fd at June 06, 2023 09:59 PM (iayUP)

29 Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 06, 2023 09:57 PM (MjGUg)

I'm happy you enjoyed the mystery click. It got dry here when I found it.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 06, 2023 10:00 PM (aA3+G)

30 28 That guy on the ladder is another example of the ingenuity that the visitors from our Southern border will bring to our country.
Posted by: fd at June 06, 2023 09:59 PM (iayUP)

***SNORT***

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 06, 2023 10:00 PM (aA3+G)

31 Speaking of actors and religion, I did not know that Tom Hanks converted to Greek Orthodox when he married Rita Wilson.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 06, 2023 10:00 PM (vHIgi)

32 I saw Dr John play at a multi musician concert in George, WA.

The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Dr John
Buddy Guy
BB King.

It was at an outdoor amphitheater overlooking the Colombia River gorge. Fantastic concert.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2023 10:00 PM (U2p+3)

33 Bringing this over from the Cafe thread:

266 In Art Modell's defense, the soul of Brian Piccolo would be there at the pearly gates saying that Art paid all the medical bills.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 06, 2023 09:50 PM (vg8N1)

What???

Brian Piccolo was a Bear, not a Browns player.

Why would Art have paid his bills?

I think you're thinking of Papa Bear, George Halas...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 06, 2023 10:00 PM (CCSxw)

34 “When people talk about, I will see them again in heaven,’ it sounds so good, but the reality is that we won’t see each other again after we’re gone. That’s the sad part. I know people feel comfortable with death, but I don’t,”

Yeah - everything is going to Hell because of the Millennials. And Gen Z. That's the ticket.

Posted by: Ain't This Great at June 06, 2023 10:01 PM (I7AYb)

35 Brian Piccolo was a Bear, not a Browns player.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot

Brian's Song just ripped my guts out.

Sniff.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2023 10:02 PM (B/X3r)

36 Shem was one of the sons of Noah.

Other than the meth, the fentanyl, and the truck,
sounds Amish.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 06, 2023 10:02 PM (jYCXf)

37 When Arnold goes to hell, he'll be too busy shaking hands with Hollywood friends to be concerned about the loss of Heaven.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 06, 2023 10:02 PM (vg8N1)

38 35 Brian Piccolo was a Bear, not a Browns player.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot

Brian's Song just ripped my guts out.

Sniff.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2023 10:02 PM (B/X3r)

No shit!

Posted by: Old Yeller at June 06, 2023 10:03 PM (aA3+G)

39 The wheels of justice move too slowly at times. Finally after 23 years a convicted murderer to get what he deserves.

So, a very late term abortion?

Posted by: Ciampino - Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity! at June 06, 2023 10:03 PM (qfLjt)

40 And Arnold Schwarzeneger, in a bold move, has decided to take the other side of Pascal's wager.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2023 10:03 PM (xhaym)

41 Brian's Song just ripped my guts out.

Sniff.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2023 10:02 PM (B/X3r

Who's Brian?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2023 10:03 PM (G0bXQ)

42 "PGA Tour agrees to merge with Saudi-backed rival LIV Golf

The PGA Tour agreed to merge with rival LIV Golf, which is backed by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, an entity controlled by the Saudi crown prince.

The proposed merger comes after the PGA Tour and LIV Golf have been embroiled in lawsuits regarding antitrust claims.

The deal would end all pending litigation."

Once again, money talks and BS walks. If the "elite" players who stayed with the PGA feel screwed without being kissed, I have no tears for them. Once upon a time, free agency was fought tooth-and-nail by the owners in every pro sport, who believed it would be the end of their sport. The owners ended up crying all the way to the bank.

Posted by: Gref at June 06, 2023 10:04 PM (AMIL/)

43 I can't lie. I've violated a few OSHA regs in my day.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2023 10:04 PM (G0bXQ)

44 I started reading something last night. Silly big gorilla.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 06, 2023 09:58 PM (aA3+G)

Holy crap!!! Big Mike's at your place?!?!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 06, 2023 10:05 PM (Angsy)

45 39 The wheels of justice move too slowly at times. Finally after 23 years a convicted murderer to get what he deserves.

So, a very late term abortion?
Posted by: Ciampino - Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity! at June 06, 2023 10:03 PM (qfLjt)

And a kind and humane one at that.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 06, 2023 10:05 PM (aA3+G)

46 Who's Brian?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2023 10:03 PM (G0bXQ)

Sonny "Bryan" Corleone...

Posted by: zombie James Caan at June 06, 2023 10:05 PM (CCSxw)

47 We've had no rain for weeks. My field of fucks is barren and I've none to give the rich assholes who play a game for a living.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2023 10:06 PM (G0bXQ)

48 And Arnold Schwarzeneger, in a bold move, has decided to take the other side of Pascal's wager.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2023 10:03 PM (xhaym)

Blah. Flip Pascal's Wager around, and you have Greta Thumb-Head. And every other environmentalist.

Maybe I'm right. Maybe I'm wrong. But if I'm right, can you risk the chance ?

Unfortunately, my personal version of Pascal's Wager, regarding the merit of certain intimate practices, never moved my wife to reconsider her options.

Posted by: Ain't This Great at June 06, 2023 10:06 PM (I7AYb)

49 I can't lie. I've violated a few OSHA regs in my day.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Everyone who breathes violates OSHA rules by the existence.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 06, 2023 10:06 PM (MjGUg)

50 43 I can't lie. I've violated a few OSHA regs in my day.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2023 10:04 PM (G0bXQ)

Show me the worker and I'll show you the OSHA violation

Posted by: Brown Shirted OSHA Investigator at June 06, 2023 10:06 PM (aA3+G)

51 "I can't lie. I've violated a few OSHA regs in my day.
Posted by: AlaBAMA "

Nobody told me Skilsaw on a rope was wrong.

Posted by: fd at June 06, 2023 10:06 PM (iayUP)

52 Prayers dear Horde if you will for the husband of an old workmate of mine who died unexpectedly. He leaves behind eight children and a wonderful wife and mother.

He was 52.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2023 10:07 PM (B/X3r)

53 This is a EU problem. This is not a NATO or US problem.

MH is spot on with that quite rational statement but, while technically this is true, the UKR is a grift gift for far too many US UniParty politicians!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 06, 2023 10:07 PM (hOUT3)

54 A federally-schooled NIOSH crew would use a man-lift power rig in that stairwell.

With one end of it held up by one guy, same way.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 06, 2023 10:07 PM (jYCXf)

55 Everyone who breathes violates OSHA rules by the existence.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 06, 2023 10:06 PM (MjGUg

Yeah, but mine involved an extension ladder, two 2x10s, four bricks and a piece of rope.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2023 10:07 PM (G0bXQ)

56 I am a WWII history buff for many years. One of my vacations was spent in 1995 in France. And yes, I went to the Normandy Beachheads. Omaha was very reverent for me because I read just how utterly shocking that first day was for so many American Soldiers running into the very gates of HELL. Even this many decades later, I walked the beach, saw the dreaded "shingle" and the massive German fortifications and wondered "How the Hell did we ever do this?

The graveyards above the beachheads were the answer to how we did this. Every man giving his last measure for FREEDOM to his dying breath.

The GREATEST GENERATION...never forget that.

Especially now.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 06, 2023 10:07 PM (UsQA1)

57 Tonypete...
Prayers up for he and his family.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 06, 2023 10:08 PM (MjGUg)

58 The prisoner he was trying to help escape should also have been put to death. ( 23 years is ridiculous and defeats the purpose of the death penalty)

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2023 10:08 PM (MNhXM)

59 So, it was the owner of the Bears that paid Brian Piccolo's medical bills.

Okay.

Happy trails Art Modell.

Yeah, that moving out of Cleveland in the middle of the night was shitty.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 06, 2023 10:08 PM (vg8N1)

60 Nobody told me Skilsaw on a rope was wrong.
Posted by: fd at June 06, 2023 10:06 PM (iayUP)

Ever see that video of a guy using a lawnmower to trim hedges?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2023 10:08 PM (G0bXQ)

61 55 Everyone who breathes violates OSHA rules by the existence.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 06, 2023 10:06 PM (MjGUg

Yeah, but mine involved an extension ladder, two 2x10s, four bricks and a piece of rope.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2023 10:07 PM (G0bXQ)

Rope for a safety harness is unacceptable.
Fine $500.00

Posted by: Brown Shirted OSHA Investigator at June 06, 2023 10:08 PM (aA3+G)

62 Yeah, but mine involved an extension ladder, two 2x10s, four bricks and a piece of rope.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

You made a trebuchet?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 06, 2023 10:09 PM (MjGUg)

63 Rope for a safety harness is unacceptable.
Fine $500.00
Posted by: Brown Shirted OSHA Investigator at June 06, 2023 10:08 PM (aA3+G

The rope was to pull up the cooler.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2023 10:09 PM (G0bXQ)

64 Brian's Song was a tearjerker back in the early 70's about the life and death of Brian Piccolo. Piccolo played ball for the Bears. He died very young from cancer.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2023 10:09 PM (B/X3r)

65 Posted by: Nightwatch at June 06, 2023 10:07 PM (UsQA1

I’ve only seen photos of the Normandy beaches. Do they look smaller in person or larger ?

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2023 10:09 PM (MNhXM)

66 This is a EU problem. This is not a NATO or US problem.

I strongly recommend a new article posted in Foreign Affairs yesterday:

An Unwinnable War

Washington Needs an Endgame in Ukraine

https://tinyurl.com/48vapckj

I continue to think that the best possible outcome is a negotiated settlement that weakens Putin enough that he is replaced in an orderly fashion, like Khrushchev after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The worst possible outcome is Putin suddenly dying or being overthrown, because then he'll definitely be replaced by a hard-line military or secret police person, at which point I'm pretty sure that the nukes come out.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 06, 2023 10:10 PM (2tUFv)

67 62 Yeah, but mine involved an extension ladder, two 2x10s, four bricks and a piece of rope.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

You made a trebuchet?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 06, 2023 10:09 PM (MjGUg)

No, but now I'm trebuchet curious.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2023 10:10 PM (G0bXQ)

68 Thanks for the special ONT, Mis Hum!

Great photo up top and music behind it.

Ah-nold is not going to like it when he discovers that there really is a heaven. And a hell.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 06, 2023 10:10 PM (vfKOf)

69 I’ve only seen photos of the Normandy beaches. Do they look smaller in person or larger ?
Posted by: polynikes

I suspect they looked overwhelming from below with defenders on top.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 06, 2023 10:11 PM (MjGUg)

70 Brian's Song was a tearjerker back in the early 70's about the life and death of Brian Piccolo. Piccolo played ball for the Bears. He died very young from cancer.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2023 10:09 PM (B/X3r)

Used to be the meme of only movie a man was allowed to cry without removal of his man card.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2023 10:11 PM (MNhXM)

71 "Washington Needs an Endgame in Ukraine"

That is not who we are!

Posted by: The Pentagon at June 06, 2023 10:11 PM (iayUP)

72
No, but now I'm trebuchet curious.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

During Pride Month!
How gauche.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 06, 2023 10:11 PM (MjGUg)

73 Prayers dear Horde if you will for the husband of an old workmate of mine who died unexpectedly. He leaves behind eight children and a wonderful wife and mother.

He was 52.
Posted by: Tonypete

Okay

Posted by: JT at June 06, 2023 10:12 PM (T4tVD)

74 That OSHA violation #159 is also labeled as 'Why Women Live Longer Than Men #159'

I love those.

Posted by: Ciampino -- Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity! at June 06, 2023 10:12 PM (qfLjt)

75 "I can't lie. I've violated a few OSHA regs in my day.
Posted by: AlaBAMA "

Nobody told me Skilsaw on a rope was wrong.
Posted by: fd

Rode a crane's iron ball up to the top of a 150 ft building.

The absolutely dumbest thing I have ever done - and that include me consorting with redheads.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2023 10:12 PM (B/X3r)

76 Posted by: Nightwatch at June 06, 2023 10:07 PM

Compare and contrast:

My best friend's mother is the department head at a D1 university for "counseling education". Essentially, students in that major are training to be counselors/therapists. Apparently, everyone single one of the students she's teaching this year has a therapist.

Posted by: Bert G at June 06, 2023 10:12 PM (VARTN)

77 Where he's going, Arnie will get to renew acquaintances with the entire Kennedy Klan.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2023 10:12 PM (8AfaY)

78 I wish Nunes had been more specific as to whom he was referring. Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, and Asa Hutchinson? Sure. But to include DeSantis in that category would be a huge mistake. Even if the eventual nom is Trump, it will help him to have to duke it out with D.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 06, 2023 10:13 PM (eOEVl)

79 Prayers up, TonyPete

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 06, 2023 10:13 PM (vHIgi)

80 72
No, but now I'm trebuchet curious.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

During Pride Month!
How gauche.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 06, 2023 10:11 PM (MjGUg

What's the counter-weight to tranny ratio? Math is important.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2023 10:13 PM (G0bXQ)

81 Oh, Tonypete. Prayers up for his respose and for his family.

Posted by: Iris at June 06, 2023 10:13 PM (foa6+)

82 64 Brian's Song was a tearjerker back in the early 70's about the life and death of Brian Piccolo. Piccolo played ball for the Bears. He died very young from cancer.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2023 10:09 PM (B/X3r)

I was at a wedding of a friend. The best man wrapped up his toast to the bride and groom with:

"It's mine tonight -- and Brian Piccolo's tomorrow. I love Brian Piccolo. And I'd like all of you to love him too. And tonight, you hit your knees:.."

Brought the house down. Goddamn funny, so out of context...

It's considered a legendary speech amongst my classmates.

Posted by: zombie James Caan at June 06, 2023 10:13 PM (CCSxw)

83 I’ve only seen photos of the Normandy beaches. Do they look smaller in person or larger ?

They look much larger in person.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 06, 2023 10:14 PM (eOEVl)

84 You know AI is often translated as Artificial Intelligence when it should be Artificial Imbecility, particularly looking at the current offerings.

Posted by: Ciampino --- Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity! at June 06, 2023 10:14 PM (qfLjt)

85 Good evening morons and thanks mh

May their memory be a blessing

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2023 10:14 PM (KWub3)

86 77 Where he's going, Arnie will get to renew acquaintances with the entire Kennedy Klan.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2023 10:12 PM (8AfaY)

Hey Arnie! I suppose an Oldsmobile ride is out of the question?

Posted by: Zombie Ted Kennedy at June 06, 2023 10:14 PM (aA3+G)

87 NYC unveils vending machine for drug users, with free crack pipes and Narcan for ODs

Naloxone (Narcan) used to be cheap and humanitarian groups were assembling kits for $2.50 each. But Big Pharma, for whatever reasons jacked the prices up to $20-$60 per single dose.

I wonder if the city managed to negotiate a better price or is this yet another grift for Big Pharma and NGOs that profit on the death and misery of drug addicts.

How much of the stuff will be stolen and on the black market (to buy more drugs)? Surely the vending machine is cheaper than running a full EMT out to revive the junkie and drag them to the ER for observation.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 06, 2023 10:14 PM (YXHzG)

88 What's the counter-weight to tranny ratio? Math is important.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

20 bucks same as in town.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 06, 2023 10:15 PM (MjGUg)

89 Just watched an AGT audition of a 60 yo guy on fire throwing flaming knives at his 80 yo mom
Posted by: vmom

Re-running the Gong Show?

Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2023 10:15 PM (KAi1n)

90 suspect they looked overwhelming from below with defenders on top.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 06, 2023 10:11 PM (MjGU

Fortunately not all the beaches had cliffs.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2023 10:15 PM (MNhXM)

91 Sort of grizzly related. There is some idiot that sees a bear near the roadside in Jellystone and then jumps out of his vehicle and runs towards the bear yelling with his hands above his head. This scares the bear and they take off running for the woods.

This is all on video. I'm waiting for the video where he runs at a sow bear with cubs and becomes a meatscycle.

Posted by: Beartooth at June 06, 2023 10:16 PM (8vzCZ)

92 This is an older story and befitting for today, D-Day. (H/T fd)
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Puts things into perspective, doesn't it?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 06, 2023 10:16 PM (59Ws+)

93 Re-running the Gong Show?
Posted by: SFGoth

It was so bonkers

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 06, 2023 10:16 PM (vHIgi)

94 Eight children? What a man! I hope that he had lots of life insurance, for the benefit of his family. Back while the children were growing up, I had a shitload of term insurance through my employer. I do regret not having more children.

Prayers up. For everyone concerned.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 06, 2023 10:16 PM (vg8N1)

95 65

They are Massive, I actually walked down to the surf line the day I was there and tried to do a sprint from the surf line to the shingle...I was in my late 30's and still pooped out less than a third of the way there.

How did they do this?

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 06, 2023 10:17 PM (UsQA1)

96 They are Massive, I actually walked down to the surf line the day I was there and tried to do a sprint from the surf line to the shingle...I was in my late 30's and still pooped out less than a third of the way there.

How did they do this?
Posted by: Nightwatch at June 06, 2023 10:17 PM (UsQA1)

Good question. Lead balls are heavy.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2023 10:18 PM (G0bXQ)

97
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 06, 2023 10:16 PM (59Ws+)

Inquiring minds want to know.....

Was that you dressed as the grizzly?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 06, 2023 10:19 PM (aA3+G)

98 In case anyone is interested in that tow truck launch incident:

Lowndes County, Georgia — On May 24, 2023,.... Georgia State Patrol confirmed a 21-year-old woman from Tallahassee, Florida was behind the wheel of that car. She survived with serious injuries and is still recovering in the hospital in stable condition.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 06, 2023 10:19 PM (0Vf0N)

99 Prayers for your friend's family, Tonypete. I pray they find peace and purpose in this. And yes, as a Christian, having accepted the gift of salvation in Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the cross for my sin, I believe they will see their loved one again if they are believers as well.

Posted by: Moki at June 06, 2023 10:19 PM (JrN/x)

100 Has commenter Mike Hammer been outed?
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Pfft. I just use a fly swatter. Whap 'em on the nose, and they take off.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 06, 2023 10:19 PM (HsC66)

101 Used to be the meme of only movie a man was allowed to cry without removal of his man card.

Pssst. Over here. --Old Yeller

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 06, 2023 10:19 PM (jYCXf)

102 "Puts things into perspective, doesn't it?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, "

Really overwhelming. And ephemeral as life.

Posted by: fd at June 06, 2023 10:19 PM (iayUP)

103 I wonder about what Arnold said. Specifically, I've wondered whether, since being in heaven in the presence of God is so overwhelming, will we even remember anything from our time on earth. Will we remember our family and friends or will we just be perpetually overwhelmed to the point where nothing but the present moment registers?

Interesting to think about.

Posted by: 496 at June 06, 2023 10:19 PM (/2Ycv)

104 Washington Needs an Endgame in Ukraine

Simple.
Convince America that our troops need to be there.
Deploy them.
Leave them there when we pull out.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2023 10:19 PM (e4fEA)

105 And adios or goodbye in Arabic is "Maa'salaama."

Posted by: Moki at June 06, 2023 10:20 PM (JrN/x)

106 Oh, my... Tuckers Tweet from earlier? 24.4 MILLION views...

More than the total viewership of Fox per day.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 06, 2023 10:20 PM (oHd/0)

107 Is it rude of me to ask "Catholic or Mormon?"

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 06, 2023 10:20 PM (vg8N1)

108 Prayers dear Horde if you will for the husband of an old workmate of mine who died unexpectedly. He leaves behind eight children and a wonderful wife and mother.

He was 52.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2023 10:07 PM (B/X3r)
* * * *
Prayers up. Gone way too young.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 06, 2023 10:20 PM (vfKOf)

109 They are Massive, I actually walked down to the surf line the day I was there and tried to do a sprint from the surf line to the shingle...I was in my late 30's and still pooped out less than a third of the way there.

Do it again jacked on adrenaline.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 06, 2023 10:21 PM (YXHzG)

110 104 Washington Needs an Endgame in Ukraine

Simple.
Convince America that our troops need to be there.
Deploy them.
Leave them there when we pull out.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2023 10:19 PM (e4fEA)

Ah the Old Leave 'EM In Afghanistan ploy

Posted by: Maxwell Smart at June 06, 2023 10:21 PM (aA3+G)

111 105 And adios or goodbye in Arabic is "Maa'salaama."
Posted by: Moki at June 06, 2023 10:20 PM (JrN/x)

It's no "My Sharona"...

Posted by: The Knack at June 06, 2023 10:21 PM (CCSxw)

112 Eight children? What a man! I hope that he had lots of life insurance, for the benefit of his family. Back while the children were growing up, I had a shitload of term insurance through my employer. I do regret not having more children.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse

Don't know the details but, knowing W., I'd bet they'll be okay financially. Mom's family was shunned years ago by their Amish community, and then of course, thrown out of the community. She went on to MIT and then CalTech for engineering degrees. W. was very accomplished also. They never could have children naturally so all eight are adopted. Yeah, a hell of a family all the way around. What a shame.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2023 10:22 PM (B/X3r)

113 105 And adios or goodbye in Arabic is "Maa'salaama."
Posted by: Moki at June 06, 2023 10:20 PM (JrN/x)

Where were you this afternoon at 5:30?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 06, 2023 10:22 PM (aA3+G)

114 NYC unveils vending machine for drug users, with free crack pipes and Narcan for ODs

Hopefully the junkies from my state will move to NYC.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 06, 2023 10:23 PM (0Htd1)

115 62 Yeah, but mine involved an extension ladder, two 2x10s, four bricks and a piece of rope.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

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On topic https://youtu.be/zZUJLO6lMhI

Posted by: Ciampino - One of the funniest stand-ups at June 06, 2023 10:23 PM (qfLjt)

116 Lowndes County, Georgia — On May 24, 2023,.... Georgia State Patrol confirmed a 21-year-old woman from Tallahassee, Florida was behind the wheel of that car. She survived with serious injuries and is still recovering in the hospital in stable condition.

So she was apparently trying to parallel park.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 06, 2023 10:23 PM (YXHzG)

117 "He was 52.
Posted by: Tonypete"
*************
That's way too young.
Praying for the family.

Posted by: Cosda at June 06, 2023 10:23 PM (84jhy)

118 That’s the sad part. I know people feel comfortable with death, but I don’t,'” Arnold Schwarzeneger

I suspect Arnold is frightened not only of death, but the death experience. A lack of faith perhaps?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2023 10:23 PM (e4fEA)

119 Tucker now at 24.4M views ...

yeah, I wish he would put the alien crap as "just show us the details", not "he was clearly telling the truth". Same with some of his absolutism on who took out the dam, or the pipeline. We don't Know Definitively.

But still good ... he is exposing "DeepState". And he gets more views than on Fox ... I guess that translates to more money ... but he is untethered now.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 06, 2023 10:24 PM (Cus5s)

120 Will we remember our family and friends or will we just be perpetually overwhelmed to the point where nothing but the present moment registers?
___

I think we will remember, which will make our time in Heaven that much more joyful.

Might want to read this:

Heaven by Randy Alcorn

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 06, 2023 10:24 PM (Pik/A)

121 The line, "I love you Brian Piccolo," spoken by Billy Dee Williams (playing Gale Sayers), at Piccolo's funeral at the end of the movie was a meme for sympathetic crap long before the term meme was coined. It always drew laughs in my dorm when someone said it while we were watching a "brotherly love" scene in a movie or TV show. Ah, the good old days.

Posted by: Gref at June 06, 2023 10:24 PM (AMIL/)

122 116 Lowndes County, Georgia — On May 24, 2023,.... Georgia State Patrol confirmed a 21-year-old woman from Tallahassee, Florida was behind the wheel of that car. She survived with serious injuries and is still recovering in the hospital in stable condition.

So she was apparently trying to parallel park.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 06, 2023 10:23 PM (YXHzG)

I denounce myself.

***SNORT***

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 06, 2023 10:24 PM (aA3+G)

123 110 104 Washington Needs an Endgame in Ukraine

Simple.
Convince America that our troops need to be there.
Deploy them.
Leave them there when we pull out.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2023 10:19 PM (e4fEA)

Ah the Old Leave 'EM In Afghanistan ploy
Posted by: Maxwell Smart at June 06, 2023 10:21 PM (aA3+G)

And yet people say the JCS has forgotten every lesson learned.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 06, 2023 10:24 PM (hOUT3)

124 I wish I had more kids. I love my boys.

When I was growing up in Dallas in the 70s there was an Italian family several doors down who had seven kids in a three bedroom home. The middle daughters were our babysitters. Their mom walked to Mass every day. We called her Sister Kay behind her back and Mrs Sansone to her face. I really wish I could have spent some time in the kitchen with her.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2023 10:25 PM (U2p+3)

125 SMH - that is my hope as well.

I'll take a look at Heaven by Randy Alcorn

Posted by: 496 at June 06, 2023 10:25 PM (/2Ycv)

126 @119: "Tucker now at 24.4M views"

Every time someone scrolls by a retweet that autoplays the video that counts as a view. Same goes for the "What Is a Woman?" documentary. These raw view count numbers are meaningless without some context about who "watched" for more than a few seconds.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 06, 2023 10:26 PM (k1Qly)

127 The prisoner he was trying to help escape should also have been put to death. ( 23 years is ridiculous and defeats the purpose of the death penalty)
Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2023 10:08 PM (MNhXM)

I'm surprised some commie governor or even a GOPe squish didn't commute his sentence to life or released and given a house and car for his troubles.

Posted by: Beartooth at June 06, 2023 10:27 PM (8vzCZ)

128 Jim Seals of the US soft rock duo Seals and Crofts, died at the age of 80. The singer was behind laid-back 1970s classics like 'Diamond Girl' and 'Summer Breeze

I know...I'm well past 29 and getting disgustingly nostalgic. Summer Breeze recalls some great memories.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 06, 2023 10:27 PM (Xrfse)

129 And yet people say the JCS has forgotten every lesson learned.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 06, 2023 10:24 PM (hOUT3)

Only the important ones I'm afraid.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 06, 2023 10:27 PM (aA3+G)

130 Bought Seals and Croft a drink At a bar in 1975.
They returned the favor.
Very cool.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2023 10:29 PM (e4fEA)

131 I think we will remember, which will make our time in Heaven that much more joyful.

Might want to read this:

Heaven by Randy Alcorn
Posted by: SMH

The Great Divorce by CS Lewis

Posted by: Sock Monkey * hiding in plain sight at June 06, 2023 10:29 PM (9qEDG)

132 These raw view count numbers are meaningless without some context about who "watched" for more than a few seconds.

Now do people who have the television on in the other room just for some ambient noise.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 06, 2023 10:30 PM (YXHzG)

133 SMH, what is the full title of that Alcorn book?
There seem to be two but slightly different titles?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 06, 2023 10:30 PM (hOUT3)

134 >>Brian's Song just ripped my guts out.

I surprisingly underrated movie.

Posted by: JackStraw channeling Bane at June 06, 2023 10:30 PM (ZLI7S)

135 >Georgia State Patrol confirmed a 21-year-old woman from Tallahassee, Florida was behind the wheel of that car.

straightenin' the curves
flattenin' the hills

Posted by: DB - at June 06, 2023 10:30 PM (geLO8)

136
“You wanna lead this nation… and you don’t even understand the basic battlefield: it’s kinda sad and pathetic," Former Rep. Devin Nunes

=========

I assumed he was talking about Biden. Then I clicked on the link.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2023 10:31 PM (lCaJd)

137 56
The graveyards above the beachheads were the answer to how we did this. Every man giving his last measure for FREEDOM to his dying breath.

The GREATEST GENERATION...never forget that.

Especially now.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 06, 2023 10:07 PM (UsQA1)
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All the combatant nations suffered a huge loss of good genes, both from WW1 and WW2. Today we are suffering because of the very poor genetic pool.

Posted by: Ciampino - a lot of dregs of society are now in charge at June 06, 2023 10:31 PM (qfLjt)

138 “I guarantee he feels worse than I do for having to take him out,” Atlanta manager Brian Snitker

Ya right.

My dad used to sometimes say "This is gonna hurt me more than it hurts you" prior to my belting.

When I was twelve and about to receive another belting, I replied "Well then how about a hit you with the belt, then it'll hurt me more".

He kinda laughed. Then I got an extra good strapping.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2023 10:31 PM (Zqeqr)

139 “When people talk about, ‘I will see them again in heaven,’ it sounds so good, but the reality is that we won’t see each other again after we’re gone. That’s the sad part. I know people feel comfortable with death, but I don’t,'
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Yes, every person that chooses damnation is a tragedy.

But there has been ample opportunity for anyone who lived in this era, and particularly in this country, to learn about Jesus Christ and accept that He died to pay for your sins so that you can join Him and the other believers in eternity.

Posted by: Methos at June 06, 2023 10:32 PM (kOpft)

140 Hrothgar:

https://tinyurl.com/25vw68xv

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 06, 2023 10:32 PM (Pik/A)

141 Bwahaha!

https://tinyurl.com/8zcp864b

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2023 10:32 PM (8AfaY)

142 @132: "Now do people who have the television on in the other room just for some ambient noise."

Sure, yes, airports, sports bars, nursing homes, county jails, etc., but traditional television ratings aren't off by orders of magnitude like Twitter view counts are.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 06, 2023 10:33 PM (k1Qly)

143 It has about 560 pages.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 06, 2023 10:34 PM (Pik/A)

144 Is it rude of me to ask "Catholic or Mormon?"

Safe to say he wasn't following Shaker teachings.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 06, 2023 10:34 PM (Bd6X8)

145
Where were you this afternoon at 5:30?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 06, 2023 10:22 PM (aA3+G)

Lol
I was cooking dinner for my husband!

Posted by: Moki at June 06, 2023 10:34 PM (JrN/x)

146 It was a made-for-TV movie too.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 06, 2023 10:34 PM (vg8N1)

147 Two movies I admit to tearing up wereThe Green Berets and The Champ. Both scenes were similar so I guess I have a trigger.

The end of Green Berets when the kid is looking for the now dead Peterson . “Peter-son ! Peter-son! Have you seen my Peter-son?…’

The end of The Champ when Ricky Schroeder gets in the ring with the now dead Jon Voight .
“Wake up Champ! Wake up…”

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2023 10:34 PM (MNhXM)

148 "Now do people who have the television on in the other room just for some ambient noise."

We certainly wouldn't want a thought to intrude through the audio clutter.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 06, 2023 10:35 PM (eOEVl)

149
Posted by: Methos at June 06, 2023 10:32 PM (kOpft)

God's gift to Adam & Eve, free will.

What we all have today.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 06, 2023 10:35 PM (aA3+G)

150 Nightwatch, there is a very good biopic movie about J.D. Sallinger called Rebel in the Rye. It shows his experiences in WWII. He was in the Normandy Invasion and fought through Europe to one of the concentration camps.
One of the best scenes shows the American soldiers solemnly eating steak the day before the invasion. They were solemn because they knew that they were given steak because they were invading the next day and it was going to be a bloodbath.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 06, 2023 10:35 PM (0Htd1)

151 Ah-nuld's comments, remind me of the old joke:

"God is dead."
-Nietzche

"Nietzche is dead."
- God

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at June 06, 2023 10:35 PM (xikTf)

152 "Every time someone scrolls by a retweet that autoplays the video that counts as a view. Same goes for the "What Is a Woman?" documentary. These raw view count numbers are meaningless without some context about who "watched" for more than a few seconds."
Posted by: Walter Freeman

Really? just scrolling past gets counted as a view? That would seem like a strange way to count, and advertisers would complain. I know ad revenue is based on whether people are actually watching the whole ad, not just 5 seconds.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 06, 2023 10:35 PM (Cus5s)

153 There were some strange cults that thought that all of the flesh was evil.

Yeah. Kind of hard to propagate it to the next generation.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 06, 2023 10:36 PM (vg8N1)

154 145
Where were you this afternoon at 5:30?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 06, 2023 10:22 PM (aA3+G)

Lol
I was cooking dinner for my husband!
Posted by: Moki at June 06, 2023 10:34 PM (JrN/x)

Well that certainly is a good excuse

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 06, 2023 10:36 PM (aA3+G)

155 Ozuna is hitting .227 with 11 home runs and 23 RBI in 44 games this season. The bulk of that production took place in May when Ozuna hit almost .300 after batting just .091 in April.

I wonder how this messes up their Sabermetrics.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 06, 2023 10:36 PM (YXHzG)

156 111 105 And adios or goodbye in Arabic is "Maa'salaama."
Posted by: Moki at June 06, 2023 10:20 PM (JrN/x)

It's no "My Sharona"...

Posted by: The Knack at June 06, 2023 10:21 PM (CCSxw)

Looks more like "My Salami".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 06, 2023 10:37 PM (ynpvh)

157 >>My dad used to sometimes say "This is gonna hurt me more than it hurts you" prior to my belting.

This one is right up there with the "checks in the mail" and the the won't in your mouth thing.

No, it's going to hurt me a whole lot more which is why you are the hitter not the hitee.

Posted by: JackStraw channeling Bane at June 06, 2023 10:37 PM (ZLI7S)

158 And adios or goodbye in Arabic is "Maa'salaama."
Posted by: Moki at June 06, 2023 10:20 PM (JrN/x)

Last time an Arab dude said goodbye to me he just emptied the magazine and took off running.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2023 10:38 PM (e4fEA)

159 The difference, of course, is that God can spell Nietzsche.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 06, 2023 10:38 PM (jYCXf)

160 The difference, of course, is that God can spell Nietzsche.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

Godspell?

Of course!!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2023 10:39 PM (B/X3r)

161 Heh. Insty has an Andy Ngo link about muslims in ultramarine blue Montgomery Co., MD protesting gay stuff in schools and demanding their kids be allowed to leave during those "classes".

It will be interesting to see how MontCo squares that circle.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 06, 2023 10:39 PM (eOEVl)

162 79 years ago is long time ago. But not really.

I'm glad neither of my grandfathers are around to witness this fuckshow.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 06, 2023 10:39 PM (n1JsZ)

163 D-Day

Had it failed, what would America have been?

There are so many "what if's"

But we did not fail and we as a country plowed over Germany thru 1945 until they gave up.

We PLOWED over them.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 06, 2023 10:39 PM (UsQA1)

164 Salinger was a nudist perv and Catcher js the story of a young man getting inducted into an elite WASP occult society.

Posted by: Thesokorus at June 06, 2023 10:39 PM (OXeQQ)

165 {{{SMH}}}
Thanks and just ordered my copy.
Hope all is well with you and Ex-ex and your family!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 06, 2023 10:40 PM (hOUT3)

166 Next year is the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy...

Count Fleet won the Belmont on June 6, 1943 by 25 lengths to win the Triple Crown 80 years ago. The 25 lengths record would stand until 1973 to another Triple Crown winner named Secretariat. Count Fleet died in December 1973.

81 years ago the Battle of Midway was drawing to its close. Japan would lose four carriers, one cruiser, hundreds of almost irreplaceable aviators, and the initiative. The US would lose one carrier, one destroyer, many brave but often inexperienced aviators, and would finally lay down the shield of defense and with Operation Watchtower pick up the sword to beat Japan.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 10:40 PM (xOcf/)

167 "This (the Russia-Ukraine War) is a EU problem. This is not a NATO or US problem. We cannot continue to be the world's police force with our armed forces hands being tied by "Feel Good" military actions. Perhaps Mr. Marc Theisen should be the first infantryman stationed in Ukraine. Put his blood where his mouth is. fingers are."

This was and is a problem only because of f^ckwit Joe Biden trying to show he is stronker, smarter, and a better foreign policy dude than Putin. Joe's narcissism is the only thing standing in the way of ending the slaughter and the continuing destruction of Ukrainian towns, cities, and infrastructure.

Posted by: Gref at June 06, 2023 10:40 PM (AMIL/)

168 Apparently, everyone single one of the students she's teaching this year has a therapist.
Posted by: Bert G

There's a theory that people go into mental health professions because of their own problems. A guy I dated in college told me that a psychologist was a friend of his parents. The psychologist's wife gutshot him.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 06, 2023 10:40 PM (0Htd1)

169 We cannot continue to be the world's police force with our armed forces hands being tied by "Feel Good" military actions.

If the US military is the world police, it's only in the context of the police showing up at your house and shooting your family pet.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2023 10:41 PM (Zqeqr)

170 87
How much of the stuff will be stolen and on the black market (to buy more drugs)? Surely the vending machine is cheaper than running a full EMT out to revive the junkie and drag them to the ER for observation.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 06, 2023 10:14 PM (YXHzG)
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The dispensing machine isn't going to revive anyone (unless it's an AI Robot - hello Asimov?) and it still requires human intervention.

Posted by: Ciampino -- a lot of dregs of society are now in charge at June 06, 2023 10:41 PM (qfLjt)

171
If batters stood admiring their shots and tossed their bats with a flourish after hitting one against Bob Gibson or Don Drysdale, they would be forcibly reminded of their lack of decorum their next time up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2023 10:42 PM (0mpx+)

172 The difference, of course, is that God can spell Nietzsche.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
==========================
Knew I'd screw that up somehow. Ah, well.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at June 06, 2023 10:42 PM (xikTf)

173 It has about 560 pages.
Posted by: SMH

Now you tell me...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 06, 2023 10:42 PM (hOUT3)

174 The vending machine depends upon the OD victim to have a friend who is willing to save them.

I predict many Darwin Awards.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 10:43 PM (xOcf/)

175 I'm so glad, Hrothgar!

That book has been such a blessing to me, having a much more idea of what my permanent home is going to be like.

My Bible is my road map, that book is like a destination guide.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 06, 2023 10:43 PM (Pik/A)

176
Heh. Insty has an Andy Ngo link about muslims in ultramarine blue Montgomery Co., MD protesting gay stuff in schools and demanding their kids be allowed to leave during those "classes".

It will be interesting to see how MontCo squares that circle.
Posted by: Archimedes

========

How'd the muzzies vote? I bet they've already squared a circle.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2023 10:44 PM (lCaJd)

177 169 We cannot continue to be the world's police force with our armed forces hands being tied by "Feel Good" military actions.

If the US military is the world police, it's only in the context of the police showing up at your house and shooting your family pet.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2023 10:41 PM (Zqeqr)

I cannot argue that point Bitter.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 06, 2023 10:44 PM (aA3+G)

178 If batters stood admiring their shots and tossed their bats with a flourish after hitting one against Bob Gibson or Don Drysdale, they would be forcibly reminded of their lack of decorum their next time up.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

As it should be.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 06, 2023 10:44 PM (n1JsZ)

179 Posted by: Thesokorus at June 06, 2023 10:39 PM (OXeQQ)

Yeah...and he and Churchill were Freemasons together in the same lodge.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 06, 2023 10:44 PM (ZCCyW)

180 IIRC one of the psychologist trade associations once set out to disprove the notion that shrinks go into it because they're nuts, but wound up discovering that it really is a thing.

Posted by: CppThis at June 06, 2023 10:45 PM (PZvjL)

181 For all the math handicapped morons, don’t feel bad. In the Leonardo Da Vinci biography I’m reading, it documents that Leonardo was not able to grasp math very well , especially algebra. This even though he had help from one of the leading mathematicians in Milan.

Posted by: polynikes at June 06, 2023 10:45 PM (MNhXM)

182 My Bible is my road map, that book is like a destination guide.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 06, 2023 10:43 PM (Pik/A)

Solid ground there...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 06, 2023 10:45 PM (hOUT3)

183
The 25 lengths record would stand until 1973 to another Triple Crown winner named Secretariat.

__________

What makes Secretariat's 1973 Belmont win remarkable is not the margin of victory but the time he ran the mile and a half. No horse since has come within two seconds.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2023 10:45 PM (0mpx+)

184 Hrothgar,

I don't write a whole lot any more, but I do post videos occasionally. I got one out today if you're interested.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/
53iE5020w1CK/
Or
https://m.youtube.com/
watch?v=Qx86TBJ_Mfk

Posted by: Ex-ex at June 06, 2023 10:45 PM (RU4sa)

185 If batters stood admiring their shots and tossed their bats with a flourish after hitting one against Bob Gibson or Don Drysdale, they would be forcibly reminded of their lack of decorum their next time up.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Heh.
Brett Boone had to duck a few times.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2023 10:46 PM (e4fEA)

186 Michael Tisius, 42, faces a lethal injection at a state prison in Bonne Terre for killing Missouri jail officers Jason Acton and Leon Egley nearly 23 years ago

I can barely remember what I was doing at age 19.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 06, 2023 10:46 PM (xttsV)

187 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2023 10:42 PM (0mpx+)

Baseball would be a far better game today with men like Bob Gibson in it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 06, 2023 10:46 PM (ZCCyW)

188 Should have seen the damn Russians play post WWII but

they were Russians after all and we would be introduced to just how the Russians played weeks after the Germans surrendered.

Now we have them with putin and the bizarro Ukraine warfest.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 06, 2023 10:46 PM (UsQA1)

189 496 - you posted up-thread about whether we'll remember or think about our loved ones in heaven. You ever been with a kid when you arrive somewhere he desperately wanted to go? The kid bolts away and gets completely lost in whatever he's doing to have fun. Doesn't mean he doesn't love you - it just means he's so focused on the object of his desire.
Of course, we don't tell grieving loved ones that their dearly departed probably isn't giving them too much thought. But I'm not offended by the idea that I have been replaced by something far greater.

Posted by: PabloD at June 06, 2023 10:46 PM (WZ4AB)

190 A lot of Hindus in Montgomery County. They don't like the groomer shit either.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 06, 2023 10:47 PM (vg8N1)

191 162 79 years ago is long time ago. But not really.

I'm glad neither of my grandfathers are around to witness this fuckshow.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 06, 2023 10:39 PM (n1JsZ)

My Dad saw enough when he passed in 2021. One day he was watching Fox news...
Dad: "You should see this good looking lady running for Governor of Califoria!"
Brother: "That's Bruce Jenner".
Dad: "No, it says her name is Caitlyn".
Brother: "Dad, that's Bruce Jenner."
Dad: "No, it's Caitlyn Jenner"
Brother: "No, Dad, that WAS Bruce Jenner. He's now a woman".
Dad: [confused look] "What...?"..."No"...[realizes what that means]

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 06, 2023 10:47 PM (ynpvh)

192 157
No, it's going to hurt me a whole lot more which is why you are the hitter not the hitee.

Posted by: JackStraw channeling Bane at June 06, 2023 10:37 PM (ZLI7S)
----
So you were a Hittite?

Posted by: Ciampino --- a lot of dregs of society are now in charge at June 06, 2023 10:47 PM (qfLjt)

193 The vending machine depends upon the OD victim to have a friend who is willing to save them.

I predict many Darwin Awards.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 10:43 PM (xOcf/)

Watches junkie conk out. Searches pockets for quarters.
"Oh well, too bad, so sad."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2023 10:47 PM (8AfaY)

194 "This (the Russia-Ukraine War) is a EU problem. This is not a NATO or US problem. We cannot continue to be the world's police force with our armed forces hands being tied by "Feel Good" military actions."

The globalists (or is it DeepState?, or China?) ... want to make the decisions for the world. The US came out of WW2 with many advantages ... and maybe we deserved to "rule" the world, based on our constitution and Christian principles?

Or maybe there was always a cabal of commies or Bilderberg types running the show ... idk. But they are still pushing their plan.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 06, 2023 10:47 PM (Cus5s)

195 174 The vending machine depends upon the OD victim to have a friend who is willing to save them.

I predict many Darwin Awards.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 10:43 PM (xOcf/)

"Vending Machine says you gonna die"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 06, 2023 10:48 PM (ynpvh)

196 If D-Day had failed, Germany would've been nuked.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2023 10:48 PM (KAi1n)

197 "I can barely remember what I was doing at age 19."

Not murdering corrections officers, I'm guessing.

Posted by: PabloD at June 06, 2023 10:48 PM (WZ4AB)

198 @152: "... and advertisers would complain."

There are advanced metrics for online video that are sometimes shared with advertisers. One of the most useful is average watch time usually as a percentage of the video's total length, but that's most useful for short YouTube type stuff rather than shows or films.

There's a reason why big streamers like Netflix, Disney, Amazon, etc., are cagey about what counts as a view in their self-published ratings. Same goes for Twitter since they are just starting to dip their toes into the long form video market. Inflating the numbers is the name of the game until Twitter adds dynamic mid-video commercials or they let creators limit views to subscription followers and one-off payment customers.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 06, 2023 10:48 PM (k1Qly)

199 If the souls in Heaven could see us, it might lessen their bliss.

I think there is a wall so they cannot see us. They pray for us.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 06, 2023 10:48 PM (vg8N1)

200 Posted by: Ex-ex at June 06, 2023 10:45 PM (RU4sa)

Thanks for the link, looking forward to it!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 06, 2023 10:49 PM (hOUT3)

201 Vending machine with condoms?

I bet they get emptied quickly.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 06, 2023 10:50 PM (vg8N1)

202 Yeah Secretariat was a beast of a horse.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 10:50 PM (xOcf/)

203 196 If D-Day had failed, Germany would've been nuked.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2023 10:48 PM (KAi1n)

Eventually. We didn't have very many in the summer of 1945.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 06, 2023 10:50 PM (ynpvh)

204 Suddenly the Japanese vending machines with the used panties seem very very quaint.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 10:50 PM (xOcf/)

205 Heh. For a few seconds, when I saw the words Huntingdon and Miller, I thought Captain Embankment was one of my cousins.

Wrong location. Huntingdon township in Westmoreland County would have been another story.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 06, 2023 10:51 PM (ZSK0i)

206 177

So tell me Mis Hum...we support Ukraine because...

Hey!!! Joe Biden is a CSPOSDLBSWALWNB's

But I digress...

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 06, 2023 10:51 PM (UsQA1)

207 nurse ratched,
I attended Catholic elementary school in the fifties and early sixties. We had six kids in our family and that was not considered large. There were a few families with 10-12 kids. Families with 7 were pretty common. The thing is, there was no hot lunch program and everyone had a full lunchbox. A lot of people grew a lot of their own food on large family gardens, or even small farms, in addition to dad working full time. A friend of mine had 12 kids in her family. They were well cared for.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 06, 2023 10:51 PM (0Htd1)

208 If D-Day had failed, Germany would've been nuked.

And we still would have had to drop two on Japan.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 06, 2023 10:51 PM (Bd6X8)

209 If D-Day had failed, Silverplate and the 509th would have been based in England first.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 10:52 PM (xOcf/)

210 . I know people feel comfortable with death, but I don’t

If you really are an atheist I imagine death would be intensely terrifying. Which likely explains why so many people were willing to inject kids with poison during COVID because they thought it might slightly increase their life spans.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 06, 2023 10:52 PM (lc5cP)

211 >>This was and is a problem only because of f^ckwit Joe Biden trying to show he is stronker, smarter, and a better foreign policy dude than Putin. Joe's narcissism is the only thing standing in the way of ending the slaughter and the continuing destruction of Ukrainian towns, cities, and infrastructure.

Unfortunately, it goes much deeper than that. As always, Biden is just the idiot frontman.

Posted by: JackStraw channeling Bane at June 06, 2023 10:52 PM (ZLI7S)

212 I suspect Arnold is frightened not only of death, but the death experience. A lack of faith perhaps?
Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2023 10:23 PM (e4fEA)

He has forgotten the answer to the Riddle of Steel.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 06, 2023 10:53 PM (xttsV)

213 And we still would have had to drop two on Japan.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

My go to response to knuckleheads wailing that we should have warned Japan is - we did - that's what Hiroshima was.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2023 10:53 PM (B/X3r)

214 *checks time*

Well it would be nice to win some of the Mega Millions tonight. Nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 10:53 PM (xOcf/)

215 Eventually. We didn't have very many in the summer of 1945.
Posted by: jim

And we would've had all those western theater resources to put into building more Bombs. We would've had to run more air campaign though. By the time we nuked Japan, they didn't have much aircraft defense. Targeting Germany would've been a lot easier -- not nearly as far to go. Send a big bomber collection in one direction and a couple of B-29s in a different one, at night of course. BOOM!

Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2023 10:54 PM (KAi1n)

216 The share of Republicans who say the United States is providing too much aid to Ukraine has steadily increased from 9 percent right after the Russian invasion to 40 percent in a Pew Research Center poll in January

The most charitable view of all this is there is no American interest in Ukraine and we are broke.

But...the elites in both parties are getting kick backs from lil Z so this has been America's most important foreign policy priority since Biden told Putin he could invade.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 06, 2023 10:55 PM (lc5cP)

217 My oldest and his family are visiting tomorrow during their cross country drive. He always loved shoofly pie (wet bottom of course) so I made him one for old time's sake.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2023 10:55 PM (B/X3r)

218 One of my older brothers once said "Japan had it coming to them."

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 06, 2023 10:55 PM (vg8N1)

219 187 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2023 10:42 PM (0mpx+)

Baseball would be a far better game today with men like Bob Gibson in it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 06, 2023 10:46 PM (ZCCyW)

By the late 60s, fireballer Gibson and a lot of others a notch or two below his level had become so dominant over batters that the major leagues lowered the pitching mound by six inches in '69 or '70.

Posted by: Gref at June 06, 2023 10:56 PM (AMIL/)

220 164 Salinger was a nudist perv and Catcher js the story of a young man getting inducted into an elite WASP occult society.
Posted by: Thesokorus
None of that was covered in the biopic.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 06, 2023 10:57 PM (0Htd1)

221 Been watching some videos lately on the Holodomor and the Russian Revolution as well as reading Solzhenitsyn.

Sweet Jesus the Russian, Ukrainian and Baltic people have been through some horrible atrocities.

I don't know why that was never discussed in school, and I went to school during the Cold War era. You would've thought in a time when they wanted people united against the USSR and communism they would have spent some time revealing the horrible truth about it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2023 10:57 PM (Zqeqr)

222 The next set of hearing will clear this up.

@JudiciaryGOP 9m
🚨 LATE BREAKING:
@Jim_Jordan
requests unredacted copy of the memorandum outlining the scope of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s probes regarding President Biden.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 06, 2023 10:57 PM (jzzG8)

223 Unfortunately, it goes much deeper than that. As always, Biden is just the idiot frontman.
Posted by: JackStraw channeling Bane

Pedo Joe could stroke out tonight and the salivating fervor for the war machine would continue without pause. The funniest thing about the clueless Biden administration is that they actually think they are in charge.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * hiding in plain sight at June 06, 2023 10:59 PM (9qEDG)

224 Blah. Flip Pascal's Wager around, and you have Greta Thumb-Head. And every other environmentalist.

Maybe I'm right. Maybe I'm wrong. But if I'm right, can you risk the chance ?

Unfortunately, my personal version of Pascal's Wager, regarding the merit of certain intimate practices, never moved my wife to reconsider her options.
Posted by: Ain't This Great at June 06, 2023 10:06 PM (I7AYb)

Very interesting. I want to think about this more. But, I don't think Greta's Wager is the same as Pascal's.

Greta's is about downside risk: extreme downside risk. But there is no upside gain to betting with her, just avoidance.

Pascal's Wager is an offer of upside gain and not avoidance of downside risk. The wager is, I think, betting with Pascal because of the chance at Heaven.

But your point is well taken, and I haven't heard it before.

Posted by: Thesokorus at June 06, 2023 10:59 PM (yEVhw)

225 The Japanese knew that southern Japan around Hiroshima would be the US gateway to the other Home Islands. Hiroshima was the HQ for the defense. Thousands of suicide boats waited in the river running through Hiroshima. Thousands of kamikazes were being built for the invasion. Children were being taught to use wooden spears to kill the invaders.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 10:59 PM (xOcf/)

226 Jim Jordan sucks.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 06, 2023 11:00 PM (n1JsZ)

227 One of my older brothers once said "Japan had it coming to them."
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse

It gets weird if you contemplate Japan get a nuke first.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 06, 2023 11:00 PM (jzzG8)

228 171 If batters stood admiring their shots and tossed their bats with a flourish after hitting one against Bob Gibson or Don Drysdale, they would be forcibly reminded of their lack of decorum their next time up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2023 10:42 PM (0mpx+)

I thought Drysdale's record of 58 2/3 scoreless innings pitched would never be broken. Another Dodger broke it. Never was a Dodger fan.

Posted by: javems at June 06, 2023 11:00 PM (QxGJc)

229 And we would've had all those western theater resources to put into building more Bombs. We would've had to run more air campaign though. By the time we nuked Japan, they didn't have much aircraft defense. Targeting Germany would've been a lot easier -- not nearly as far to go. Send a big bomber collection in one direction and a couple of B-29s in a different one, at night of course. BOOM!
Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2023 10:54 PM (KAi1n)

If two major German cities, say Hamburg and Berlin, got nuked in August 1945, Japan might very well have seen the handwriting on the wall and sued for peace, knowing they would be next.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2023 11:00 PM (8AfaY)

230 I don't know why that was never discussed in school, and I went to school during the Cold War era. You would've thought in a time when they wanted people united against the USSR and communism they would have spent some time revealing the horrible truth about it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger

In 6th grade, we studied Stalin and Mao. Learned all about the Red Guards, Cultural Revolution, etc. Read Ayn Rand (Anthem), Fahrenheit 451, stuff like that. This was public school in Fairfax, Va and my teacher was a Jewish woman. Go figure.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2023 11:01 PM (KAi1n)

231 202 Yeah Secretariat was a beast of a horse.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 10:50 PM (xOcf/)

IIRC, when Secretariat was autopsied after he died, the vets were blown away by the extra-large size of his heart.

Posted by: Gref at June 06, 2023 11:02 PM (AMIL/)

232 Walter Duranty still has his Pulitzer for the work he did for the New York Times about the USSR and neither ever breathed a word about the Holodomor.

FDR's ambassador to Moscow Joseph Davies depended upon Duranty for advice about the Soviet Union.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 11:02 PM (xOcf/)

233 Japan might very well have seen the handwriting on the wall and sued for peace, knowing they would be next.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

They were still executing POWs after Nagasaki. It was a death cult.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 06, 2023 11:03 PM (jzzG8)

234 It gets weird if you contemplate Japan get a nuke first.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

They did.... Ok, well, I suppose you could say Trinity was first.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2023 11:03 PM (KAi1n)

235 The Japanese knew that southern Japan around Hiroshima would be the US gateway to the other Home Islands. Hiroshima was the HQ for the defense. Thousands of suicide boats waited in the river running through Hiroshima. Thousands of kamikazes were being built for the invasion. Children were being taught to use wooden spears to kill the invaders.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Yep. And we lost enough good men.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 06, 2023 11:03 PM (n1JsZ)

236 If the stuff in the vending machine is free then how long until the machine is empty?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2023 11:04 PM (63Dwl)

237 6th graders don't need to be learning about Mao and Stalin.

God I hate "schools".

Posted by: Thesokorus at June 06, 2023 11:04 PM (yEVhw)

238 Germany would have never been nuked because we had to first steal Oppenheimer from their grasp post war.

He did give us "Little Boy" and "Fat Boy" to tell the Japanese to "shut the fuck up" and surrender in the Pacific War though.

And surrender they did. Saved America from having to launch a landing invasion on Japan's homeland which was estimated to have cost America another 500,000 dead American soldiers

so a good outcome all around.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 06, 2023 11:04 PM (UsQA1)

239 The bad thing by May 1945 there wasn't much of Germany that wasn't already bombed rubble.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 11:04 PM (xOcf/)

240 If Japan had nukes before the US, and a way to deliver them of course, they would have used them with absolutely no hesitation on military and civilian targets.

The same government signed off on mass rape and slaughter in Nanking and experimenting on prisoners of war.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 06, 2023 11:05 PM (lc5cP)

241 If two major German cities, say Hamburg and Berlin, got nuked in August 1945, Japan might very well have seen the handwriting on the wall and sued for peace, knowing they would be next.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Not a fucking chance. Japan wasn't going anywhere without personally taking a knee to the groin (2 actually) and even then it was a close-run thing.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2023 11:05 PM (KAi1n)

242 They did.... Ok, well, I suppose you could say Trinity was first.
Posted by: SFGoth

Dr. Nishi (sp) was probably mislead by the 'heavy water' requirement that the US fooled the Germans with.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 06, 2023 11:06 PM (jzzG8)

243 Germany would have never been nuked because we had to first steal Oppenheimer from their grasp post war

Huh? What?

Posted by: Chuck C at June 06, 2023 11:06 PM (xttsV)

244 If the stuff in the vending machine is free then how long until the machine is empty?

It was probably in need of restocking by the time the photographer uploaded the picture of the full machine.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 06, 2023 11:06 PM (Bd6X8)

245 On Palau the Japanese herded the few POWs they had into a bunker and set it afire.

After the Hiroshima bombing there were reports of the Japanese killing the crew of a B-24.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 11:06 PM (xOcf/)

246 >>> But your point is well taken, and I haven't heard it before.
Posted by: Thesokorus at June 06, 2023 10:59 PM (yEVhw)

Yes, you have. It's nothing more than another way of saying that commienism is in fact a religion.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 06, 2023 11:07 PM (llON8)

247 203 196 If D-Day had failed, Germany would've been nuked.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2023 10:48 PM (KAi1n)

Eventually. We didn't have very many in the summer of 1945.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 06, 2023 10:50 PM (ynpvh)
----
Different sources give different numbers, from 0 left after Nagasaki, to 1 or more.

Posted by: Ciampino - Pu was probably easier to produce than U-235 at June 06, 2023 11:08 PM (qfLjt)

248 If Japan got nukes first.

Delivery system? The I-400 class with their Seiran floatplanes.

The I-400s were intended to attack the Panama Canal.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 11:08 PM (xOcf/)

249 There are those who are saying that Greta Thunberg is being replaced as the face of the AGW movement. I don't believe it myself

https://tinyurl.com/mtttdnse

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2023 11:09 PM (xhaym)

250 In Communism, the State is god.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 11:09 PM (xOcf/)

251 6th graders don't need to be learning about Mao and Stalin.
God I hate "schools".
Posted by: Thesokorus

This was the full-time gifted-talented program. My classmates were some seriously smart kids. I was probably the dumbest one in the class. Our geography test was a map of the world - you had to name all the countries. Back then, an A was 94-100, B was 87-93, C was 80-86. Think about that: you get 86% of the countries in the world, in 6th grade, and you get a C. I got 73% of them right, so I got an F. I did, however, get the most capitals right (but you had to pass to qualify for the prize).

Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2023 11:10 PM (KAi1n)

252 >>Pedo Joe could stroke out tonight and the salivating fervor for the war machine would continue without pause. The funniest thing about the clueless Biden administration is that they actually think they are in charge.

Ukraine has unexpectedly become the last stand for the neocons and globalists. A country nobody gave a crap about 4 years ago has now become an existential crisis for the west. And the entire thing is a lie and always was. Ukraine could disappear off the map tomorrow and it wouldn't matter anymore than Iraq becoming a satellite of Iran which it is.

It's not just the corruption which is enormous. If we lose in Ukraine after the debacle in Afghanistan and the larger Middle East what exactly have we gotten for the trillions we have spent on our bipartisan neocon foreign policy over the last 30 years?

DC is a business like any other and it exists based largely on the almost blind obedience to our foreign policy elite and the military industrial complex that funds it. If they have been wrong about everything for decades, what then? They are determined we don't find out.

Posted by: JackStraw channeling Bane at June 06, 2023 11:10 PM (ZLI7S)

253 Well Greta von Thule is getting a bit too old to pull of the 12 yr old AWFL look.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 11:10 PM (xOcf/)

254 Chef's kiss: Germany surrenders after two cities are nuked. Pacific war grinds on until November, until several Japanese cities are nuked by bombs delivered by V2 rockets.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2023 11:10 PM (8AfaY)

255 The bad thing by May 1945 there wasn't much of Germany that wasn't already bombed rubble.
Posted by: Anna Puma

And most of Japan had been burned to the ground.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2023 11:11 PM (KAi1n)

256 So I am wondering

When do parents of school aged children get to go stompin into the schools and start KICKING ASS and TAKING NAMES???

It is time for all you parents with youngins to go to these schools and start thumpin heads!!

Next generation...gotta keep them strong!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 06, 2023 11:11 PM (UsQA1)

257
I don't know why that was never discussed in school, and I went to school during the Cold War era. You would've thought in a time when they wanted people united against the USSR and communism they would have spent some time revealing the horrible truth about it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger

During my brief foray into the realm of college age idealism, my mother mailed me a copy of Solzhenitsin's Cancer Ward with a brief note that I should read it. My mother was a wise person.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * hiding in plain sight at June 06, 2023 11:11 PM (9qEDG)

258
He did give us "Little Boy" and "Fat Boy" to tell the Japanese to "shut the fuck up" and surrender in the Pacific War though.

Luckily they surrendered before we delivered "Po Boy."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2023 11:12 PM (63Dwl)

259
I'm hate-watching the Hulu docudrama about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos starring Amanda Seyfried. God what horrible writing and acting.

Elizabeth has been in prison for about a week now, to serve probably ~8 years. She has a 5-month old and a 2-year old. Yeesh.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2023 11:12 PM (lCaJd)

260 AOP- I'm glad the Pacific campaign ended when it did (wish it was sooner). That shit was a meat grinder.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 06, 2023 11:12 PM (n1JsZ)

261 Dr. Nishi (sp) was probably mislead by the 'heavy water' requirement that the US fooled the Germans with.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

No, I meant it as in they received the Bomb first. The hard way, of course. Japan was farther from developing nukes than Germany. They simply didn't have the heavy resources.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2023 11:12 PM (KAi1n)

262 Chef's kiss: Germany surrenders after two cities are nuked. Pacific war grinds on until November, until several Japanese cities are nuked by bombs delivered by V2 rockets.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

They would have given up Kyushuu. And I don't think the Chinese would have allowed a strike from their AOO.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 06, 2023 11:12 PM (jzzG8)

263 The German A-4 rocket had a range of 200 miles. Okinawa to Hiroshima is over 600 miles.

Still need B-29s or even the Lancaster to carry out the mission.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 11:13 PM (xOcf/)

264 213 And we still would have had to drop two on Japan.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

My go to response to knuckleheads wailing that we should have warned Japan is - we did - that's what Hiroshima was.

Posted by: at June 06, 2023 10:53 PM (B/X3r)
----
Well Tokyo should have been a warning. I have read that Japan was warned about a new weapon but ignored it. They ignored it even after Hiroshima.

Posted by: Ciampino -- Pu was probably easier to produce than U-235 at June 06, 2023 11:13 PM (qfLjt)

265 If the stuff in the vending machine is free then how long until the machine is empty?

It was probably in need of restocking by the time the photographer uploaded the picture of the full machine.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 06, 2023 11:06 PM (Bd6X

If the Narcan in the machine is packed in syringes, the first druggie to come along will steal all the syringes, squirt the Narcan down the drain, and refill them with his poison of choice. Because, druggie.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2023 11:14 PM (8AfaY)

266 Chef's kiss: Germany surrenders after two cities are nuked. Pacific war grinds on until November, until several Japanese cities are nuked by bombs delivered by V2 rockets.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2023 11:10 PM

V2 rocket payload: 2,200 lb
Fat Man: 10,300 lb

Posted by: Chuck C at June 06, 2023 11:14 PM (xttsV)

267 Alberta Oil Peon

Our WWII era nuke bombs were too big for available missiles. They had to be dropped by the specially modified B-29s.

Berlin was the first planned use in combat. But delays in getting enough material saved them for the Red Army barbarians.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2023 11:15 PM (u82oZ)

268 Yes, you have. It's nothing more than another way of saying that commienism is in fact a religion.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 06, 2023 11:07 PM (llON

I may mis-understand you both, but I took the argument as being Pascal was being facile and merely relying on an unprovable downside risk.

I suppose this arg could apply to all religions.

So, I suppose he would agree that communism is another religion but religions are just facile claims about unprovable downside risk.

But this is all new to me, and I have no definite thoughts or position on it.

I do wonder though if it isn't fair to as k that Pascal somehow distinguishes his Wager from Greta's.

Posted by: Thesokorus at June 06, 2023 11:15 PM (yEVhw)

269 >>> 257
I don't know why that was never discussed in school, and I went to school during the Cold War era. You would've thought in a time when they wanted people united against the USSR and communism they would have spent some time revealing the horrible truth about it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger

During my brief foray into the realm of college age idealism, my mother mailed me a copy of Solzhenitsin's Cancer Ward with a brief note that I should read it. My mother was a wise person.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * hiding in plain sight at June 06, 2023 11:11 PM (9qEDG)

One of my HS teachers had direct experience with the results of this insanity, having relatives trapped in Eastern Europe, and was not shy about telling us what visiting them was like.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 06, 2023 11:15 PM (llON8)

270 One Curtis LeMay Special burned out FOUR square miles of Tokyo in one night and killed more people than died at Hiroshima.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 11:15 PM (xOcf/)

271 Chuck C

Fist bump.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2023 11:15 PM (u82oZ)

272 In 6th grade, we studied Stalin and Mao. Learned all about the Red Guards, Cultural Revolution, etc.

I never heard of the Holodomor until probably 8-10 years ago, and until recently I didn't fully comprehend just how bad it was.

I never heard about Stalin's Cannibal Island.

Yes, we got dates and names. But the reality of Stalin's brutalization was never fleshed out in detail the same way the Holocaust was.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2023 11:15 PM (Zqeqr)

273
When do parents of school aged children get to go stompin into the schools and start KICKING ASS and TAKING NAMES???

Posted by: Nightwatch

========

There's a YouTube channel called Grassroots Army that shows that sort of thing. A lot of those people do a lot of shouting and arm-waving. I think they need to take a speech class or think about their strategy or something.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2023 11:15 PM (lCaJd)

274 I don't know why that was never discussed in school, and I went to school during the Cold War era. You would've thought in a time when they wanted people united against the USSR and communism they would have spent some time revealing the horrible truth about it.

They wanted to make sure you knew how bad the Nazis and Italian fascists were. Because they were the heretics in the world of international socialism/communism, although it would never be put that way.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 06, 2023 11:16 PM (Bd6X8)

275 Still need B-29s or even the Lancaster to carry out the mission.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 11:13 PM (xOcf/)

You could launch a V2 from the deck of a carrier.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2023 11:16 PM (8AfaY)

276 Anna Puma

The XX AF ran out of cities to burn before the Japanese surrendered. That's why so many mines were dropped. The cities, with the exception of Kyoto, were burned out.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2023 11:16 PM (u82oZ)

277 My mother was a wise person.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * hiding in plain sight at June 06, 2023 11:11 PM (9qEDG)

It's astounding how stupid the typical college student is...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 06, 2023 11:16 PM (lIySD)

278 Steal Oppenheimer from the Germans during WWII? He apparently had communist inclination when younger, didn't know he was a Nazi as well.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at June 06, 2023 11:17 PM (mCh4j)

279 If they have been wrong about everything for decades, what then? They are determined we don't find out.

The Ivy League intelligentsia hasn't gotten a single thing right in over three decades.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * hiding in plain sight at June 06, 2023 11:17 PM (9qEDG)

280 "The wheels of justice move too slowly at times. Finally after 23 years a convicted murderer to get what he deserves."

So. This murderer kills two prison guards, and it takes 23 years to execute him. KSM is one of the masterminds of 9/11, and he's still breathing oxygen all these years later. Timothy McVeigh is convicted of the Oklahoma City Bombing, and he's executed four years later. Robert Hanssen of the FIB betrays his country over a span of decades, consigning heroic Americans and spies on our side to death, and he dies of natural causes in prison, while his family - who benefitted from the $ million+ he got from our enemies hardly get bothered as part of a 'deal' with the traitor.

What's wrong with this picture?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 06, 2023 11:17 PM (tbmfU)

281 Admiral Marc Mitchner, TF 58, to some egg head. "You want to place an unreliable captured Nazi weapon on one of MY carriers?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 11:18 PM (xOcf/)

282 My history teachers in hs were right of center and I'm thankful for that.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 06, 2023 11:18 PM (n1JsZ)

283 253 Well Greta von Thule is getting a bit too old to pull of the 12 yr old AWFL look.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 11:10 PM (xOcf/)

Recent pics make me think Greta may be one of the actual intersex genetic damage ppl along with FAS.

That person is masculinizing

Posted by: Thesokorus at June 06, 2023 11:18 PM (yEVhw)

284 What's wrong with this picture?

IIRC, McVeigh dropped all of his appeals.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 06, 2023 11:19 PM (xttsV)

285 278 Steal Oppenheimer from the Germans during WWII? He apparently had communist inclination when younger, didn't know he was a Nazi as well.
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at June 06, 2023 11:17 PM (mCh4j)

Fairly sure Oppenheimer tried to poison one of his Dons at Oxford but was let off.

Posted by: Thesokorus at June 06, 2023 11:20 PM (yEVhw)

286 Darrell Harris

We don't use an air-tight room and commercial grade Nitrogen gas?

Chance of recidivism is zero.

But one thing I do like is putting prisoners to work. Have we no superfund sites to clean?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2023 11:20 PM (u82oZ)

287 "Bomb 'em back to the Stone Age, son..."

Posted by: DB - at June 06, 2023 11:20 PM (geLO8)

288 6th graders don't need to be learning about Mao and Stalin.

God I hate "schools".
Posted by: Thesokorus at June 06, 2023 11:04 PM (yEVhw)

Well, I started learning when I was in the fourth grade after doing duck and cover drills. By 8th grade I could discuss the domino theory at length and watched my big brother go to Vietnam.
A different time.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2023 11:20 PM (e4fEA)

289 Oppenheimer's wife was Communist sympathetic.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 11:20 PM (xOcf/)

290 It's astounding how stupid the typical college student is...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Definitely, but in my defense, part of that idealism involved a red head with an incredible ass. Learned a valuable lesson there.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * hiding in plain sight at June 06, 2023 11:20 PM (9qEDG)

291 Dr. Nishi (sp) was probably mislead by the 'heavy water' requirement that the US fooled the Germans with.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 06, 2023 11:06 PM (jzzG

They very well may have been trying to build something in Korea, but the reports are on the level of that Italian that claims the Germans popped off a squib nuke too.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2023 11:21 PM (xhaym)

292 Time is funny, my date of birth is closer to the end of WWII than today is to 9/11.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2023 11:22 PM (up/3i)

293 Thank you, Misanthropic Humanitarian.

Great top picture and exceptionally apropos mystery click.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2023 11:22 PM (u82oZ)

294 Have a great night, everyone.

May there be rejoicing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2023 11:23 PM (u82oZ)

295 The Japanese super weapon research in Korea is really thin on the documentation so not sure how much to believe.

At least the Brits and Norwegians sank that heavy water to slow down the Nazi bomb effort.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 11:23 PM (xOcf/)

296 Well, I started learning when I was in the fourth grade after doing duck and cover drills. By 8th grade I could discuss the domino theory at length and watched my big brother go to Vietnam.
A different time.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2023 11:20 PM (e4fEA)

No offense but it sounds mental. Almost as mental as today.

Posted by: Thesokorus at June 06, 2023 11:24 PM (yEVhw)

297 Time is funny, my date of birth is closer to the end of WWII than today is to 9/11.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2023 11:22 PM (up/3i)

I'm almost exactly halfway.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 06, 2023 11:24 PM (n1JsZ)

298 By the way, the CJN podcast with Kurt Schlicter was really enjoyable.

Kurt has....well let's just say he has a lot say, lol.

I think Sefton could've just run the bumper music and then gone and grabbed some lunch and come back in time to sign off.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2023 11:24 PM (Zqeqr)

299 255

True.

But we needed to lay the ultimate savage unto their country as they had been laying on all of their conquests from the beginning of the war.

In other words..."your people are now dust, and your empire is a flaming ruin."

"You have nothing now but surrender or be further obliterated to the times of history."

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 06, 2023 11:25 PM (UsQA1)

300 My dad died a few months ago, and I have been in a bit of a mental abyss regarding his current state. His death was not unexpected as he was battling cancer for several months, and we talked to him and reassured him that he would be reunited with his family in heaven; we often talked about the banquet awaiting, which is quite the enticement for an Italian, especially when food was no longer palatable to him. Ironically, his last day, when he was fading into delirium, he was reliving a cookout. He kept asking me to check the propane levels on the BBQ pit, and make sure we had enough potatoes for company.

I have no way of knowing, but I like to think he's cutting into a Porterhouse steak with his mates right now.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 06, 2023 11:26 PM (IBWqU)

301 The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes.
Excellent history of the early days of scientific research into nuclear stuff and the eventual build of the bombs.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2023 11:28 PM (e4fEA)

302 @297

>>I'm almost exactly halfway.

Another thing to contemplate is that my death is probably closer to today than 9/11 is.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2023 11:28 PM (up/3i)

303
By the way, the CJN podcast with Kurt Schlicter was really enjoyable.

Kurt has....well let's just say he has a lot say, lol.

I found it difficult to understand his audio.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2023 11:28 PM (63Dwl)

304 Al Pacino Approved ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

*scroll down

Posted by: kbdabear at June 06, 2023 11:29 PM (IEw/x)

305 From the 1944 war movie The Purple Heart starring Dana Andrews about a fictionalized telling of the fate of the Doolittle Raiders captured by the Japanese.

No your excellency. It's true we Americans don't know very much about you Japanese. And we never did. And now I realize you know even less about us. You can kill us. All of us, or part of us. But if you think that's going to put the fear of god into the United States of America, and stop them from sending other flyers to bomb you, you're wrong. Dead wrong. They'll come by night, they'll come by day. Thousands of them. They'll blacken your skies and burn your cities to the ground and make you get down on your knees and beg for mercy. This is your war. You wanted it. You asked for it. You started it. And now you're going to get it. And it won't be finished until your dirty little empire is wiped off the face of the earth.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 11:29 PM (xOcf/)

306 At least the Brits and Norwegians sank that heavy water to slow down the Nazi bomb effort.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 11:23 PM (xOcf/)

The German nuke project is postulated that it was a completely isolated program from Heisenberg who was, per Bohr, building a reactor, which IIRC they found at Kruppswerke

So many wonder weapons.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2023 11:29 PM (xhaym)

307 Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

I hope so too.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2023 11:29 PM (U2p+3)

308 Almost as mental as today.
Posted by: Thesokorus

https://tinyurl.com/2j328aec

Posted by: Sock Monkey * hiding in plain sight at June 06, 2023 11:29 PM (9qEDG)

309 I found it difficult to understand his audio.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2023 11:28 PM (63Dwl)

Yeah, he was pretty faded.

But I cranked it all the way to 11 and got 95% of what he was saying.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2023 11:30 PM (Zqeqr)

310 And the Japanese nuke project postulates that the unused portions of the German project were transferred to Japan via submarine.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2023 11:31 PM (xhaym)

311 One Curtis LeMay Special burned out FOUR square miles of Tokyo in one night and killed more people than died at Hiroshima.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Bomber Harris probably went to his grave a very jealous man.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2023 11:32 PM (KAi1n)

312
You asked for it. You started it. And now you're going to get it. And it won't be finished until your dirty little empire is wiped off the face of the earth.

I say "let 'em crash."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2023 11:32 PM (63Dwl)

313 @87: "I wonder if the city managed to negotiate a better price or is this yet another grift for Big Pharma and NGOs that profit on the death and misery of drug addicts."

Minnesota now requires all public schools to have multiple doses on site and training for staff to administer. There's discussion about extending the law to public librarians, bus drivers, dormitory residential counselors, etc.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 06, 2023 11:34 PM (k1Qly)

314 225 The Japanese knew that southern Japan around Hiroshima would be the US gateway to the other Home Islands. Hiroshima was the HQ for the defense. Thousands of suicide boats waited in the river running through Hiroshima. Thousands of kamikazes were being built for the invasion. Children were being taught to use wooden spears to kill the invaders.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 10:59 PM (xOcf/)

The Japanese were wrong. Operation Olympic, set for November 1, 1945, was to capture the island of Kyushu, south of the main Home Island of Honshu. (Nagasaki is on Kyushu. Hiroshima is on Honshu.) Kyushu was to become the air base area and logistics base for the conquest of the rest of the Home Islands.

The next planned operation, Coronet, notionally to begin on March 1, 1946, bypassed southern Honshu (including Hiroshima) to invade areas around Tokyo, to isolate it then take it. The Kanto Plain, surrounding Tokyo to the north, west, and south, was the only sizeable piece of tank country in the Home Islands. Kamikaze boats based at Hiroshima would have been bottled-up in the Inland Sea during Olympic and Coronet by allied naval and air forces.

Posted by: Gref at June 06, 2023 11:34 PM (AMIL/)

315 Kurt was using a video mic, so it was pretty crappy. If we have him on again, and I hope we do, we'll make sure he uses a better mic.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 06, 2023 11:34 PM (lIySD)

316 The Great Kanto Earthquake should have taught the Japanese about the vulnerability of their cities to fire. Parts of Yokohama were consumed by a tornado made of fire.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 11:34 PM (xOcf/)

317

Say, did you drop your teleprompter, there, on the floor behind you?

Posted by: Surprise Anal Alien Tucker at June 06, 2023 11:35 PM (pVar8)

318 I went to Normandy in the early 2000s with my AF unit. We examined the effects of strategic and tactical air power during the invasion (sadly, not as effective as desired). Quite a moving experience. Unfortunately, my roommate snored like a freight train so I slept in the hotel lobby.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 06, 2023 11:37 PM (IBWqU)

319 I guess all that Napalm creates a fire pit/charcoal chimney effect with swirling winds.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2023 11:38 PM (63Dwl)

320 "Anna Puma
The XX AF ran out of cities to burn before the Japanese surrendered."

You would think, of all people here, *she* would know that. LOL

Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2023 11:38 PM (KAi1n)

321 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 06, 2023 11:34 PM (lIySD)

Kudos to you guys for grabbing an interesting guest.

My sister and BiL used to do a small AM conservative radio show and I was always astonished how many bigger named guests they could get on.

Apparently commentators like to commentate if you can find the avenues to contact their publicists.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2023 11:38 PM (Zqeqr)

322 Watch until the end. More of this.

https://tinyurl.com/222wytuv

Posted by: JackStraw channeling Bane at June 06, 2023 11:39 PM (ZLI7S)

323 That Rhodes book is fantastic. I should read it again. I really didn't know how much about nukes until reading it. I think that was before Wikipedia, LOL.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2023 11:39 PM (KAi1n)

324 @236: "If the stuff in the vending machine is free then how long until the machine is empty?"

As soon as all the "free" public goods are gone, then private stockpiles are suddenly worth slightly more than zero, and can be sold to help finance someone's next fix. Addicts and dealers alike would be stupid not to grab as many as they could carry before the vending machine guards pretended to think about stopping them.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 06, 2023 11:39 PM (k1Qly)

325 Not all cities were obliterated. Remember a small list were placed off limits for the atomic bombings so the damage could be accurately calculated.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2023 11:41 PM (xOcf/)

326 313 @87: "I wonder if the city managed to negotiate a better price or is this yet another grift for Big Pharma and NGOs that profit on the death and misery of drug addicts."

Minnesota now requires all public schools to have multiple doses on site and training for staff to administer. There's discussion about extending the law to public librarians, bus drivers, dormitory residential counselors, etc.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 06, 2023 11:34 PM (k1Qly)

Narcan will soon be - if not now - available OTC. The FDA approved it for OTC use a few months ago - March, I believe.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 06, 2023 11:42 PM (tbmfU)

327 Minnesota now requires all public schools to have multiple doses on site and training for staff to administer. There's discussion about extending the law to public librarians, bus drivers, dormitory residential counselors, etc.
Posted by: Walter Freeman

How much ballot harvesting do they do from fentanyl junkies?

Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2023 11:43 PM (KAi1n)

328 Narcan will soon be - if not now - available OTC. The FDA approved it for OTC use a few months ago - March, I believe.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 06, 2023 11:42 PM (tbmfU)

And will be free.

While people still struggle to pay for insulin and EpiPens.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2023 11:43 PM (Zqeqr)

329 Watch until the end. More of this.

https://tinyurl.com/222wytuv

I suspect the number of gang bangers that have shot their way out of a confrontation with the police is rather small.

The media generally refuses to cover cases like this with any kind of focus (local news!) so...maybe I'm wrong.

I suspect the smart play is just let them arrest you and then have a Soros prosecutor give you a trivial plea bargain. Certainly beats having a ford bumper forced down your throat...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 06, 2023 11:44 PM (lc5cP)

330 Watching the Best Years of Our Lives, Al Stephenson getting lectured to by his son on the nature of warfare was a reminder that young skulls full of mush have been around for a long time.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 06, 2023 11:44 PM (IBWqU)

331 Watch until the end. More of this.

Seems unconstitutional.

He was 'grilled' by the authorities with his counsel present.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2023 11:46 PM (Zqeqr)

332 I suspect the smart play is just let them arrest you and then have a Soros prosecutor give you a trivial plea bargain. Certainly beats having a ford bumper forced down your throat...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 06, 2023 11:44 PM (lc5cP)

He became a double speed bump.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2023 11:47 PM (8AfaY)

333 "Watch until the end. More of this."

Dude's got (had) some wheels. If he survives/d he's gonna have a helluva lawsuit and make some $$$.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2023 11:48 PM (KAi1n)

334 >>I suspect the number of gang bangers that have shot their way out of a confrontation with the police is rather small.

As Miss Hum noted we don't hear a lot of reports about good cops because that doesn't sell and nobody really cares if we are being honest. But they far outweigh the bad.

And every once in a while we get a great video like that.

Posted by: JackStraw channeling Bane at June 06, 2023 11:48 PM (ZLI7S)

335 If a gangbanger's gold teeth grille is going 5 MPH east and is hit by a Ford's grill going 30 MPH east, how many fake gold teeth will that gang banger swallow?

A: 1
B: 5
C: 10
D: All the teeths

Posted by: The New Math at June 06, 2023 11:49 PM (lc5cP)

336 No wonder they say math is racist nowadays.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 06, 2023 11:52 PM (k1Qly)

337
Watching the Best Years of Our Lives, Al Stephenson getting lectured to by his son on the nature of warfare was a reminder that young skulls full of mush have been around for a long time.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

Every time I watch that flick the scene when Al is in the plane in the junk yard gets to me. He leans over. The music builds up. I get the shakes and my eyes water.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2023 11:55 PM (63Dwl)

338 I don't get the UFO stuff.
Why are they always saucers? Or at times, oblong. If it's in the atmosphere, where are the wings? And if wings aren't needed, then there'd be more than saucers.
I think they're BS'ing us.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2023 11:56 PM (e4fEA)

339 The mayor of Seattle had already decreed it is the moral obligation of every Seattlite to carry narcan and know how to administer it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2023 11:57 PM (U2p+3)

340 Did Jason find the golden fleece?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2023 11:58 PM (63Dwl)

341 I don't get the UFO stuff.
Why are they always saucers?
I think they're BS'ing us.
Posted by: Diogenes

I know this one; the Hill sighting. The couple said the object "moved like a saucer." They didn't say it was a 'saucer,' just that it 'moved like a saucer.'

You're welcome.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 06, 2023 11:59 PM (jzzG8)

342 I explained to the grandsons the other day that if it wasn't for the nuking of Japan they wouldn't be alive. The odds were good for their great grandfather (my dad) would have been killed invading. No great grandfather, no grandfather, no mom. They sort of grasped soldiers strapping bombs on themselves and blowing up a tank but school kids their age doing that was unfathomable.

Posted by: Beartooth at June 07, 2023 12:00 AM (8vzCZ)

343 The mayor of Seattle had already decreed it is the moral obligation of every Seattlite to carry narcan and know how to administer it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2023 11:57 PM (U2p+3)

And I have decreed that the mayor of Seattle can take a flying fu*k at a rolling donut.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2023 12:00 AM (e4fEA)

344 @338: "Why are they always saucers?"

Huge frisbees thrown by the gods!

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 07, 2023 12:00 AM (k1Qly)

345 The XO and I got engaged on June 6, 1970. We didn't realize what day it was until later.

Earlier today, some people were posting about their fathers getting ready for invading Japan and how grateful they were for the atom bomb. My father was swanning around the South Pacific, working in the engine room of a resupply ship. But the Japanese kamikaze pilots didn't care what they hit. I've read about what the Japanese on the main islands were prepared to do in case of an Allied invasion. A lot of us would not have been born.

And yet, I've got friends who are thoroughly convinced Hiroshima and Nagasaki were totally unnecessary, and the Japanese were on the verge of surrender. (Of course, these same people are still whining about Hamburg and Cologne.)

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at June 07, 2023 12:01 AM (B7rlW)

346 And I have decreed that the mayor of Seattle can take a flying fu*k at a rolling donut.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2023 12:00 AM (e4fEA)

Agreed. Why should I come between a junkie and his personal-best high?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2023 12:02 AM (8AfaY)

347 I know this one; the Hill sighting. The couple said the object "moved like a saucer." They didn't say it was a 'saucer,' just that it 'moved like a saucer.'

You're welcome.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 06, 2023 11:59 PM (jzzG

!

***
So it rolled off the table and broke?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2023 12:02 AM (e4fEA)

348 So it rolled off the table and broke?
Posted by: Diogenes

F if anyone knows. That's what they reported and that's why their called 'flying saucers.'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 07, 2023 12:03 AM (jzzG8)

349 * they're

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 07, 2023 12:04 AM (jzzG8)

350 Agreed. Why should I come between a junkie and his personal-best high?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2023 12:02 AM (8AfaY)

And the mayor ain't the boss of me. Mayor doesn't get to declare what my moral obligations are. Piss off mayor.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2023 12:05 AM (e4fEA)

351
Perp was grilled by a Ford.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 07, 2023 12:05 AM (KATBx)

352 If a gangbanger's gold teeth grille is going 5 MPH east and is hit by a Ford's grill going 30 MPH east, how many fake gold teeth will that gang banger swallow?

A: 1
B: 5
C: 10
D: All the teeths
Posted by: The New Math at June 06, 2023 11:49 PM (lc5cP)

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Incorrect.

The correct answer is, all da teefs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2023 12:06 AM (s12c9)

353 Oh noes, north eastern cities are getting blanketed by wildfire smoke. Welcome to the party pal. Wildfire smoke is a constant for those of us in western states.

Posted by: Beartooth at June 07, 2023 12:06 AM (8vzCZ)

354 A kid can't get an aspirin at school but can get Narcan?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2023 12:07 AM (63Dwl)

355 Every time I watch that flick the scene when Al is in the plane in the junk yard gets to me. He leans over. The music builds up. I get the shakes and my eyes water.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2023 11:55 PM (63Dwl)

The part that stayed with me and opened my eyes was the confrontation in the store with the asshole who badmouthed the soldiers being dupes. The more things change the more they stay the same.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 12:07 AM (MNhXM)

356 I don't get the UFO stuff.
Why are they always saucers?
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It isn't always.
Sometimes witnesses of the same event see different things. Sometimes when they take a picture, the camera doesn't see the same thing either.
At least in some cases, it doesn't necessarily seem to be a physical phenomenon, though the recent (in the news I mean - it's been rumored for a long time) talk about the US government having recovered craft obviously is.

Posted by: Methos at June 07, 2023 12:07 AM (kOpft)

357 Well, it looks like that update to the Pinephone has effectively bricked it. It still boots, but I cannot get into settings to set the network parameters. So I can't make or receive calls. I guess I will be buying a mini-SD card and reader, so I can load a new OS image onto the phone via SD card.

Supposedly the phosh UI is much better than the Plasma it shipped with.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2023 12:09 AM (8AfaY)

358 354 A kid can't get an aspirin at school but can get Narcan?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2023 12:07 AM (63Dwl)

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And for a small additional fee, they'll hack off his dick and his balls.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2023 12:09 AM (s12c9)

359 So it rolled off the table and broke?
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No, the original reference was to the way a saucer moved if you threw it to skip across a lake.

Which I guess is a thing you do if you can't manage with smooth rocks.

Posted by: Methos at June 07, 2023 12:09 AM (kOpft)

360

Narcan is most effective when administered interocularly... Dr Nick guarantees it!

Posted by: Dr Nick Riviera at June 07, 2023 12:09 AM (pVar8)

361 I do wonder though if it isn't fair to as k that Pascal somehow distinguishes his Wager from Greta's.
Posted by: Thesokorus at June 06, 2023 11:15 PM (yEVhw)

I went through Pascal's Wager again to be sure and Pascal mentions downaide risk of damnation nowhere. Rightly so, as the conceptual framework is gambling.

So even on the surface we see Greta's and Pascal's Wagers re quite different. Greta offers only a less worse outcome.

In fact, Christian orthodoxy understands itself as a choice in favor of Heaven and not one of avoidance of Hell or Sin. Avoidance of Hell as a motive is sufficient but imperfect.

Moreover, Pascal's Wager is exclusive to Christianity as the reward of infinite well being is only offered by Christianity. And Pascal brilliantly points out it is a necessary choice for all who have heard The Good News.

So, in fact, Pascal's Wager does not work for other religions because only in the case of Christianity is the return on the stakes infinite. All other choices are sub-optimal and irrational.

I suppose this does not "prove" the existence of God in actual reality. But I have a feeling it does if followed out thoroughly enough.

Posted by: Thesokorus at June 07, 2023 12:11 AM (UfVMJ)

362 No, the original reference was to the way a saucer moved if you threw it to skip across a lake.

Which I guess is a thing you do if you can't manage with smooth rocks.
Posted by: Methos at June 07, 2023 12:09 AM (kOpft)

Some sort of mirage formed at a temperature inversion in the atmosphere could appear to "skip" if watched from a moving viewpoint.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2023 12:12 AM (8AfaY)

363 @357: "... update to the Pinephone has effectively bricked it."

Carrier pigeons, AOP. Carrier pigeons.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 07, 2023 12:12 AM (k1Qly)

364 So now..

READIN...WRITTIN...arithmetic. ...

Is now about "Johny, you may want swap out your penis for a vagina???

WAR!!!

TIME WE BRACE UP THESE COMMIE, PINKO, FAGGOTS!!!!

Nice guys no more...

serious folks...take it to the streets.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 07, 2023 12:13 AM (UsQA1)

365 BEAT THEIR MF ASSES NOW AND FOREVER!!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 07, 2023 12:15 AM (UsQA1)

366 Nice guys no more...

serious folks...take it to the streets.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 07, 2023 12:13 AM (UsQA1)

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We'll bring the tiki torches and the khaki pants, fellow insurrectionist!

Posted by: Proud Patriot Boys at June 07, 2023 12:16 AM (s12c9)

367 Nice guys no more...serious folks...take it to the streets.
Posted by: Nightwatch

Honey, your gramps is drunk again, please take him home...

Posted by: Bob the Bartender at June 07, 2023 12:17 AM (pVar8)

368 Some sort of mirage formed at a temperature inversion in the atmosphere could appear to "skip" if watched from a moving viewpoint.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2023 12:12 AM (8AfaY)

Is this why ships will sometimes appear to float above the water? (Fata Morgana effect?)

Posted by: Thesokorus at June 07, 2023 12:18 AM (UfVMJ)

369 In case I have not said it this week, fuck Arnold.

I can tolerate most agnostics, I tolerate ethical atheists, I cannot stand nihilistic fuckwit transhumanists.

Arnold lecture Islam for a while champ.

Posted by: sven at June 07, 2023 12:20 AM (X0I7i)

370 Narcan is most effective when administered interocularly... Dr Nick guarantees it!
Posted by: Dr Nick Riviera

Be sure not to confuse your narcan injector for your pepper spray. Too often.

Posted by: mikeski at June 07, 2023 12:20 AM (DgGvY)

371 Is this why ships will sometimes appear to float above the water? (Fata Morgana effect?)
Posted by: Thesokorus at June 07, 2023 12:18 AM (UfVMJ)
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Captain Mogan Effect

Posted by: scampydog at June 07, 2023 12:22 AM (tocrP)

372 Tucker's Twitter monologue seemed weird with the ufo stuff.

It's like he's going full Art Bell on us.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 07, 2023 12:24 AM (Zqeqr)

373
Is this why ships will sometimes appear to float above the water? (Fata Morgana effect?)
Posted by: Thesokorus at June 07, 2023 12:18 AM (UfVMJ)

I think so.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2023 12:24 AM (8AfaY)

374 366

F**K OFF

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 07, 2023 12:25 AM (UsQA1)

375 Pinephone appears to be larching from one issue to another

Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2023 12:25 AM (xhaym)

376 367

F**K OFF

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 07, 2023 12:26 AM (UsQA1)

377 Tucker's Twitter monologue seemed weird with the ufo stuff.

It's like he's going full Art Bell on us.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 07, 2023 12:24 AM (Zqeqr)

Tommy Carrigan on Tommy's Podcast mentioned that he only wound up being the goto place on Covid by accident, those were the episodes the blew up for him. He just wanted to talk about UFOs and aliens.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2023 12:28 AM (xhaym)

378 You see how this goes...
Trolls jump the reality try to make it their fantasy

Night Horde

WAR

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 07, 2023 12:29 AM (UsQA1)

379 Pinephone appears to be larching from one issue to another
Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2023 12:25 AM (xhaym)

Heh.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2023 12:29 AM (8AfaY)

380 Pinephone appears to be larching from one issue to another
Posted by: Kindltot

What was the base unit, out of perverse curiosity?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 07, 2023 12:29 AM (jzzG8)

381 Near full moon rising. Orange...I mean *really* orange.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 07, 2023 12:33 AM (HsC66)

382

Night, Glowie!

Posted by: Bob the Bartender at June 07, 2023 12:33 AM (pVar8)

383
What was the base unit, out of perverse curiosity?
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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Palm?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 07, 2023 12:36 AM (HsC66)

384 Love, exciting and new
Come aboard, were expecting yoooooo

Posted by: The Love Boat at June 07, 2023 12:38 AM (s12c9)

385 369 In case I have not said it this week, fuck Arnold.

I can tolerate most agnostics, I tolerate ethical atheists, I cannot stand nihilistic fuckwit transhumanists.

Arnold lecture Islam for a while champ.
Posted by: sven at June 07, 2023 12:20 AM (X0I7i)

People who believe like Arnold don't understand how incredibly weak and pathetic this belief of theirs makes them. They live in constantly increasing fear of Death, and will do anything, sell out anything they value, just to stave it off for another day. I have an older brother in law like that - he locked himself in his house for a year and a half and never left because of Covid, because he was so terrified at the possibility he might die.

I went out every day and I felt fine the whole way through. Because I don't live in fear.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2023 12:38 AM (S6gqv)

386 What was the base unit, out of perverse curiosity?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 07, 2023 12:29 AM (jzzG

It came loaded with Manjaro Linux, with the Plasma UI. And it worked, out of the box, with my first SIM, from my old carrier. Could make and receive calls. A little glitchy, had to toggle the "speaker" icon to get audio when an incoming or outgoing call connected. Then I switched to Rogers Wireless, and it all went to shit. I am thinking possibly some "convenience" cruft on their SIM card tried to install shite on the phone, and crippled it somehow. When I out their SIM in my old flip phone, it pushed 3 new "convenience" numbers into the contacts list. Some script had to run to do that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2023 12:39 AM (8AfaY)

387 And yet, I've got friends who are thoroughly convinced Hiroshima and Nagasaki were totally unnecessary, and the Japanese were on the verge of surrender. (Of course, these same people are still whining about Hamburg and Cologne.)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at June 07, 2023 12:01 AM (B7rlW)

Those friends are idiots. As Truman himself said, it wasn't his job to minimize enemy casualties; it was his job to minimize American casualties, and that is exactly what he did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2023 12:41 AM (S6gqv)

388 Palm?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 07, 2023 12:36 AM (HsC66)

The PInephone 64 shares some similarities with a lower-end Samsung, but it's pretty superficial. It is intended to be user-serviced, and it's all open-source.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2023 12:41 AM (8AfaY)

389 209 If D-Day had failed, Silverplate and the 509th would have been based in England first.

If D-Day had failed, the Soviets would have gotten all of Germany and maybe even all of Europe. Germans would have still not have been able to keep the USAAC and RAF from bombing them more and more flat and the only way they could have stopped the Russians would be by much higher armament production which they wouldn't be able to do even if they still held France. Russians were beating them steadily back since 1943, it just would have taken them longer to do it.

Posted by: azjaeger at June 07, 2023 12:42 AM (3/XaG)

390 Fuck constitutional rights! Let us all bow down to the new social justice, created out of thin air & can change any day ending in a "y", rights!

US judge blocks Florida ban on trans minor care in narrow ruling, says 'gender identity is real'
https://tinyurl.com/445rzzar

LEGAL ALERT: A judge has denied the motion for preliminary injunction in our lawsuit challenging Washington's "assault weapon ban," saying that the banned firearms "allow a shooter to fire as fast as they can pull the trigger, unlike previous guns." https://t.co/pE8vgg2puP
— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) June 6, 2023

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at June 07, 2023 12:43 AM (MFZ8i)

391
The PInephone 64 shares some similarities with a lower-end Samsung, but it's pretty superficial. It is intended to be user-serviced, and it's all open-source.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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It was a weak tree pun, which justifiably, failed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 07, 2023 12:44 AM (S5P0o)

392 saying that the banned firearms "allow a shooter to fire as fast as they can pull the trigger, unlike previous guns."
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WTF?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 07, 2023 12:45 AM (4Nep/)

393 US judge blocks Florida ban on trans minor care in narrow ruling, says 'gender identity is real'
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More, WTF?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 07, 2023 12:46 AM (S5P0o)

394 saying that the banned firearms "allow a shooter to fire as fast as they can pull the trigger, unlike previous guns."
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WTF?

It means the judge has no idea what he's talking about.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 07, 2023 12:47 AM (Bd6X8)

395 Tucker's Twitter monologue seemed weird with the ufo stuff.

It's like he's going full Art Bell on us.
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He's talking about a federal whistleblower talking to a bit of a niche tech site that has gotten a lot of attention in the last 24 hours. This is an exception to the recent trend of ufo stuff being pushed by the federal government over the last decade, in particular the History channel program Unidentified, which featured John McCain and Harry Reid of all people. NYT, CBS, and Politico have all been covering parts of the story recently, and Fox had Tucker interview government actors about is every couple of months while he worked for them.

It's pretty clear someone in the Deep State wants everyone to accept that aliens are here, and that fact is interesting even if you don't think it's true.

Posted by: Methos at June 07, 2023 12:50 AM (kOpft)

396 David Grusch Former Intelligence Official Says U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin
The Debrief
youtube.com/watch?v=TE7uJCFlGBc
Premiered 6 hours ago

David Charles Grusch, a whistleblower who previously served as an intelligence official and a veteran of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has provided Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General with highly classified information. According to Grusch, this information pertains to covert programs that have successfully obtained both fully intact and partially intact non-human aircraft.

Journalists Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal explain how this breaking news story came to light.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at June 07, 2023 12:53 AM (MFZ8i)

397 Exploring the "UFO Whistleblower" Story
The Black Vault Originals
youtube.com/watch?v=64B6r6HsL58
Premiered 3 hours ago

A similar story has circulated for decades.
Rumors of crashed non-human spacecraft, alien bodies, and tales of deep dark conspiracies and cover ups concealing it all.
But this week, David Charles Grusch, or the UFO Whistleblower as the media has labeled him, speaks out and essentially confirms it all.
To some this was disclosure by a credible former intelligence official that may change the world. To others, this was part of a well-crafted disinformation campaign to muddy the truth.
So which is it?
Join me, John Greenewald, Jr. as I dive in to the story and explore some elements you may not have seen, and highlight some, well, I'll let you decide what it all means.
Stay tuned. You're about to journey INSIDE THE BLACK VAULT.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at June 07, 2023 12:55 AM (MFZ8i)

398 I just can't buy into the UFO stuff, mainly because I first started listening to these stories about 60 years ago, and at first I wanted to believe. But as time dragged on, I noticed that the stories never changed, they never got better, they never added up to anything. It was always the same stories, over and over and over again. Slightly different retellings, but always the same stories. Go fool someone else, I'm done with that nonsense.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2023 01:00 AM (S6gqv)

399 It's pretty clear someone in the Deep State wants everyone to accept that aliens are here, and that fact is interesting even if you don't think it's true.

Posted by: Methos at June 07, 2023 12:50 AM (kOpft)

Yes, they want people to think there are other beings in the cosmos. There aren't. It's to reveal that some super race will destroy us if we don't bow down to them and give up our liberty. So, of course, our gov't heroes will tell us we must. The press and gov't will force the issue.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2023 01:02 AM (Angsy)

400 But as time dragged on, I noticed that the stories never changed, they never got better, they never added up to anything. It was always the same stories, over and over and over again. Slightly different retellings, but always the same stories. Go fool someone else, I'm done with that nonsense.

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Ever read much about the Bermuda Triangle?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2023 01:02 AM (s12c9)

401 So how would you reverse-engineer a non-human spacecraft? I mean, the builder were not human. at. all. How do you distinguish the electric can opener from the hyperdrive?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2023 01:02 AM (8AfaY)

402 Ever read much about the Bermuda Triangle?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2023 01:02 AM (s12c9)

You could see a lot of that on Ipanema Beach.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2023 01:04 AM (8AfaY)

403 I'd like to know about the lavatory system.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 07, 2023 01:04 AM (KAi1n)

404 What was the base unit, out of perverse curiosity?
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Also, what is the base unit of perverse curiosity?

The Springer?

It can't be "the Biden," since curiosity implies intelligence.

Posted by: mikeski at June 07, 2023 01:06 AM (DgGvY)

405 221 Been watching some videos lately on the Holodomor and the Russian Revolution as well as reading Solzhenitsyn.

Sweet Jesus the Russian, Ukrainian and Baltic people have been through some horrible atrocities.

I don't know why that was never discussed in school, and I went to school during the Cold War era. You would've thought in a time when they wanted people united against the USSR and communism they would have spent some time revealing the horrible truth about it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2023 10:57 PM (Zqeqr)

The Russians also perpetrated genocide against peoples of the Caucuses in the 19th century, even severing heads, defleshing them, and sending them back for "research". Look up Circassian genocide.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2023 01:07 AM (ynpvh)

406 How do you distinguish the electric can opener from the hyperdrive?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Hyperdrives don't usually have that little cutting wheel.

Posted by: mikeski at June 07, 2023 01:07 AM (DgGvY)

407 Ancient Astronaut theorists say, "yes." The first communication uttered at Roswell by the Greys was translated to be, "shitter's full."

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 07, 2023 01:08 AM (IBWqU)

408 Ever read much about the Bermuda Triangle?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2023 01:02 AM (s12c9)

Funny thing, back in the 60's my mom gave me a paperback book about Oak Island that she figured I'd like. I loved it! And guess what, when that came back into the limelight - the exact same damn stories. and they always JUST miss finding the treasure because the hole fills up with water or there's a storm or some other hinky bullshit happens. Over and over and over again. It's worse than Sisyphus pushing his boulder up the hill.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2023 01:09 AM (S6gqv)

409 Hyperdrives don't usually have that little cutting wheel.
Posted by: mikeski at June 07, 2023 01:07 AM (DgGvY)

But maybe the alien can opener uses a disruptor ray to break the crystal structure of the metal along an impossibly fine line, 2 or 3 atoms wide.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2023 01:09 AM (8AfaY)

410 The Navy has released videos of UAP.

PS Arnold may not, but I do expect to see my family in Heaven.

Posted by: AnnaS at June 07, 2023 01:10 AM (FnSbk)

411 227 One of my older brothers once said "Japan had it coming to them."
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse

It gets weird if you contemplate Japan get a nuke first.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 06, 2023 11:00 PM (jzzG

Like the Germans, the tried. It took sabotage by our Brit allies to keep the Germans from getting there first.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2023 01:10 AM (ynpvh)

412 229 And we would've had all those western theater resources to put into building more Bombs. We would've had to run more air campaign though. By the time we nuked Japan, they didn't have much aircraft defense. Targeting Germany would've been a lot easier -- not nearly as far to go. Send a big bomber collection in one direction and a couple of B-29s in a different one, at night of course. BOOM!
Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2023 10:54 PM (KAi1n)

If two major German cities, say Hamburg and Berlin, got nuked in August 1945, Japan might very well have seen the handwriting on the wall and sued for peace, knowing they would be next.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2023 11:00 PM (8AfaY)

Even after the bombs were dropped, there were those that said a few inches to a foot a dirt would protect against the blast, and wanted to fight on. They even tried to assassinate Hirohito to prevent capitulation to the US.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2023 01:12 AM (ynpvh)

413 1/
Why is it an EU problem? Ukraine isn't in the EU.
if the argument is that the EU was meddling in Ukraine, so was the USA and so was Russia.

Everyone was treating Ukraine like it was the Great Game thinking it would never go hot, thenPutin decided it should.

Ukraine might not be a NATO issue but the problems it throws up matter a lot to NATO members.
9/11 et al wasn't a NATO problem, you called that favour in because it was in the interest of the USA to do so.

Well, your allies have interests too and listening to them is part of keeping this particular world order together, for better and worst.

No to boots on the ground and I have great problem with the huge sums of unaccountable money flung around for very little return but I do believe that providing equipment, intelligence and logistical support is right.

Posted by: stv at June 07, 2023 01:12 AM (7Ff9U)

414 Shem was one of the sons of Noah.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 06, 2023 10:02 PM (jYCXf)
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Yep. And it's the root of the word "Semite."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 07, 2023 01:12 AM (odVni)

415 Like the Germans, the tried. It took sabotage by our Brit allies to keep the Germans from getting there first.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2023 01:10 AM (ynpvh)

I don't know if the Germans ever had enough uranium in general, let alone the necessary enriched uranium.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2023 01:12 AM (8AfaY)

416 319 I guess all that Napalm creates a fire pit/charcoal chimney effect with swirling winds.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2023 11:38 PM (63Dwl)
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A lot of white phosphorus was used as well as napalm. Napalm was invented and developed by Louis Fieser at the Chem Dept at Harvard as part of a war contract, so was fairly new in 1944-45.

Posted by: Ciampino --- Pu was probably easier to produce than U-235 at June 07, 2023 01:13 AM (qfLjt)

417 237 6th graders don't need to be learning about Mao and Stalin.

God I hate "schools".

Posted by: Thesokorus at June 06, 2023 11:04 PM (yEVhw)

I read Foxes book of Christian Martyrs at the age of 12, about 6th grade. IF they were taught the evils of such regimes, then good; it should never be forgotten or glossed over.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2023 01:14 AM (ynpvh)

418 415 Like the Germans, the tried. It took sabotage by our Brit allies to keep the Germans from getting there first.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2023 01:10 AM (ynpvh)

I don't know if the Germans ever had enough uranium in general, let alone the necessary enriched uranium.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2023 01:12 AM (8AfaY)
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There is/was a uranium mine somewhere in Germany that dated back a long time. I think the Curies got their pitchblende from there.

Posted by: Ciampino - Radium was a magic cure at June 07, 2023 01:16 AM (qfLjt)

419 PS Arnold may not, but I do expect to see my family in Heaven.
Posted by: AnnaS at June 07, 2023 01:10 AM (FnSbk)

In Arnolds defense, if my family had been loyal followers of the Third Reich, I wouldn't expect to see them there either.

That reminds me how amused I always have been by Kat von D's (the tattoo artist) family background. Her parents (full name Von Drachenburg) always presented as Missionaries from Argentina who moved around Latin America quite a bit. If memory serves, it's very hard to document just what they were doing before 1945.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2023 01:17 AM (S6gqv)

420 There is/was a uranium mine somewhere in Germany that dated back a long time. I think the Curies got their pitchblende from there.
Posted by: Ciampino - Radium was a magic cure at June 07, 2023 01:16 AM (qfLjt)

Czechoslovakia, I think. But the amount produced was pretty tiny. I don't know if that mine was able to be expanded to produce the industrial quantities of uranium needed to extract a few kilos of U-235. There really wasn't much of a uranium mining industry anywhere until 1945 showed the world what it could do.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2023 01:20 AM (8AfaY)

421 The Historian Whitewashing Ukraine’s Past
Volodymyr Viatrovych is erasing the country’s racist and bloody history — stripping pogroms and ethnic cleansing from the official archives
https://tinyurl.com/2885nvej

The controversy centers on a telling of World War II history that amplifies Soviet crimes and glorifies Ukrainian nationalist fighters while dismissing the vital part they played in ethnic cleansing of Poles and Jews from 1941 to 1945 after the Nazi invasion of the former Soviet Union.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at June 07, 2023 01:22 AM (MFZ8i)

422 Arnold is a sad sack. He's lived a life that exceeds expectations for what, 99.9% of humanity across human history. And here he is still crying like a bitch about death. Even if there turns out to be nothing, as he believes, face the end with some dignity, like a fucking man.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 07, 2023 01:25 AM (KFhLj)

423 415 Like the Germans, the tried. It took sabotage by our Brit allies to keep the Germans from getting there first.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2023 01:10 AM (ynpvh)

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Didn't Heisenberg claim that he intentionally thwarted the development of the German atom bomb?

Even so, his involvement in the project during WWII ruined his reputation for good.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2023 01:29 AM (s12c9)

424 I don't buy the argument that nuking Germany would have changed anything - the fire bombing of Dresden late in the war caused just as much damage as either little boy or fat man did, and that had no affect on the German will to fight on. It worked with Japan because there was still one man at the top - Hirohito - who wasn't completely insane and could call a stop to it. But Hitler in the bunker would have laughed to see every city in Germany nuked.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2023 01:30 AM (S6gqv)

425 Didn't Heisenberg claim that he intentionally thwarted the development of the German atom bomb?

Even so, his involvement in the project during WWII ruined his reputation for good.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2023 01:29 AM (s12c9)

The impact that he had was uncertain, even though he was a principal.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2023 01:32 AM (S6gqv)

426 And here he is still crying like a bitch about death. Even if there turns out to be nothing, as he believes, face the end with some dignity, like a fucking man.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 07, 2023 01:25 AM (KFhLj)

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*fistbump*

Posted by: Don Vito Corleone at June 07, 2023 01:32 AM (s12c9)

427 Good evening everyone

Beautiful summer evening here.

I don't know what happens after death. I believe in an afterlife. I really want to visit with my grandparents again.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 07, 2023 01:32 AM (Nx1bw)

428 390 LEGAL ALERT: A judge has denied the motion for preliminary injunction in our lawsuit challenging Washington's "assault weapon ban," saying that the banned firearms "allow a shooter to fire as fast as they can pull the trigger, unlike previous guns." https://t.co/pE8vgg2puP
— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) June 6, 2023

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at June 07, 2023 12:43 AM (MFZ8i)

Obviously a gun expert. /sarc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2023 01:33 AM (ynpvh)

429 2/
From a purely gut-felt sense of justice, I think ordinary Ukrainians don't deserve what's happening to them and if I'm ever in that position I'd want help giving my enemy a bloody nose.

Politically, the alternative is letting a geopolitical foe run riot, a situation which will be weighed up by every president, prime minister and despot the World over when it comes to picking a side for the next big one which might not be too far away.

My biggest problem so far has been that the support offered has been so insufficient as to seem like it has been managed so as to prolong the war.

If you are going to provide F-16s we all know that pilots could be trained and prepared aircraft taken right out of inventory in 6 months, so why is it that everything seems to be about giving huge defence contracts out to mutli-billion dollar corps.

Is it really too much to ask Lockheed Martin to structure their business better?

Doing nothing, the USA would lose standing around the world, esp. off the back of cocking up in Afghanistan so badly. At some point you will need other countries on your side again.

Posted by: stv at June 07, 2023 01:34 AM (7Ff9U)

430 322 Watch until the end. More of this.

https://tinyurl.com/222wytuv

Posted by: JackStraw channeling Bane at June 06, 2023 11:39 PM (ZLI7S)
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the suspect, now identified as Taiwansley Jackson, age 42 of the first block of Capital Hill in St. Louis Missouri

Yeah, he's a protected species, with that name!!

https://is.gd/BVB8w6

Posted by: Ciampino -- Radium was a magic cure at June 07, 2023 01:34 AM (qfLjt)

431 399 It's pretty clear someone in the Deep State wants everyone to accept that aliens are here, and that fact is interesting even if you don't think it's true.

Posted by: Methos at June 07, 2023 12:50 AM (kOpft)

Yes, they want people to think there are other beings in the cosmos. There aren't. It's to reveal that some super race will destroy us if we don't bow down to them and give up our liberty. So, of course, our gov't heroes will tell us we must. The press and gov't will force the issue.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2023 01:02 AM (Angsy)

Aliens are real; they cross the border illegally ever day.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2023 01:35 AM (ynpvh)

432 423 415 Like the Germans, the tried. It took sabotage by our Brit allies to keep the Germans from getting there first.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2023 01:10 AM (ynpvh)

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Didn't Heisenberg claim that he intentionally thwarted the development of the German atom bomb?

Even so, his involvement in the project during WWII ruined his reputation for good.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 07, 2023 01:29 AM (s12c9)

He added uncertainty to their measurements.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2023 01:38 AM (ynpvh)

433 331 Watch until the end. More of this.

Seems unconstitutional.

He was 'grilled' by the authorities with his counsel present.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2023 11:46 PM (Zqeqr)

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There was a British Ford, the Ford Consul back in my younger days, you know, pre-29.

Posted by: Ciampino --- Radium was a magic cure at June 07, 2023 01:38 AM (qfLjt)

434 Aliens are real; they cross the border illegally ever day.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2023 01:35 AM (ynpvh)

Yeah, at the behest of our gov'ts....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 07, 2023 01:38 AM (Angsy)

435 Doing nothing, the USA would lose standing around the world, esp. off the back of cocking up in Afghanistan so badly. At some point you will need other countries on your side again.

You lay out your arguments well. My country is no longer on my side so I'm not worried about other countries now. We need to put our own house in order.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 07, 2023 01:41 AM (Nx1bw)

436 335 If a gangbanger's gold teeth grille is going 5 MPH east and is hit by a Ford's grill going 30 MPH east, how many fake gold teeth will that gang banger swallow?

A: 1
B: 5
C: 10
D: All the teeths

Posted by: The New Math at June 06, 2023 11:49 PM (lc5cP)
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If he's hit in the buttockal region then it is
E: All the teeths and his hemorrhoids.

Posted by: Ciampino - Tonsils may be included at June 07, 2023 01:42 AM (qfLjt)

437 It's pretty clear someone in the Deep State wants everyone to accept that aliens are here, and that fact is interesting even if you don't think it's true.

Yes, interesting. Why? And if I were inclined to believe in ufos, I would now have to reconsider my stance.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 07, 2023 01:44 AM (Nx1bw)

438 Our government is a puppet show. The president is a demented husk. The vice president is an inarticulate doofus who sucked her way to success. The people who are pulling their strings can hardly talk about anything other than gay sex and believe there's really no such thing as men and women as definite categories. How much standing you think we have to squander?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 07, 2023 01:48 AM (KFhLj)

439 Getting close to midnight here. Time for me to bail. Got all the metal frame on my car trailer painted today; leastwise all that can be seen without crawling under it. Spiffed it up a little.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2023 01:49 AM (8AfaY)

440 Good night AOP

I have been wondering about the fires in Alberta. Still problematic?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 07, 2023 01:52 AM (Nx1bw)

441 There was a British Ford, the Ford Consul back in my younger days, you know, pre-29.
Posted by: Ciampino
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See also: 'Under the Volcano', Lowery
" the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British consul in the Mexican city of Quauhnahuac, ..."

Firmin was a very interesting character. When drunk, he would lie in the gutter, thinking that to be less humiliating than to be seen staggering down the street.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 07, 2023 01:56 AM (lGAue)

442 A potent essay by Declan Hayes at Strategic Culture Foundation

"Biden’s Crack Chronicles Kick Off NATO’s Trans Pride Summer Offensive"

https://is.gd/mQSKL9

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 07, 2023 01:59 AM (iKBwy)

443 Mike

Did you own up to running the bear of with the grizzly suit?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 07, 2023 02:00 AM (Nx1bw)

444 https://tinyurl.com/mpa5verc
The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to mandate that only county, state and U.S. flags be flown outside county offices.

The 3-2 vote came after impassioned speeches on both sides during the board’s meeting in Santa Ana.
At the center of the debate was the LGBTQ Pride flag and what some believed could have happened if officials approved flying it during Pride month.

“If we do this, we would have no choice but to fly a Christian flag … BLM or Don’t Tread on Me, that’s what we are trying to avoid,” Chairman Donald P. Wagner said during the discussion.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at June 07, 2023 02:04 AM (MFZ8i)

445
"Biden’s Crack Chronicles Kick Off NATO’s Trans Pride Summer Offensive

Good grief! No wonder I want to live in my own little bubble. And I've wanted out of NATO for as long as I can remember.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 07, 2023 02:05 AM (Nx1bw)

446 The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to mandate that only county, state and U.S. flags be flown outside county offices.

Seems a reasonable decision.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 07, 2023 02:07 AM (Nx1bw)

447 It took sabotage by our Brit allies to keep the Germans from getting there first.
Posted by: jim

Didn't matter. Germany had no chance at building a bomb. Didn't have the industrial base. Couldn't even supply 3 army groups in Barbarossa. Compete with the Manhattan Project? Nein.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 07, 2023 02:07 AM (KAi1n)

448 Did you own up to running the bear of with the grizzly suit?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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My neighbors would probably shoot me instead of the bear.
'Harriet! There's some crazy in Hammer's backyard in a grizzly bear suit.'

See: 100

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 07, 2023 02:08 AM (MbWzp)

449 I do believe that providing equipment, intelligence and logistical support is right.
Posted by: stv

Whoever you are can pay for it.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 07, 2023 02:08 AM (KAi1n)

450 Sure, sure. It's starts with a plan to dress up like a bear. To out bear the bear. But then comes understanding. New awareness. Romance. It ends with: "Bear fucker, do you need assistance?"

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 07, 2023 02:12 AM (KFhLj)

451 I assume that the guy is a Chicago fan.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 07, 2023 02:16 AM (HsC66)

452 Bedtime. Nite all.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 07, 2023 02:17 AM (HsC66)

453 My neighbors would probably shoot me instead of the bear.
'Harriet! There's some crazy in Hammer's backyard in a grizzly bear suit.'

See: 100

I should have known you would have a simple effective solution.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 07, 2023 02:19 AM (Nx1bw)

454 Good night MH

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 07, 2023 02:20 AM (Nx1bw)

455 Reportedly, we have just issued the last of the Purple Heart medals struck for the invasions of Japan.

Posted by: Fox2! at June 07, 2023 02:21 AM (4GxJn)

456 Has commenter Mike Hammer been outed?
An inventive man in Asheville, North Carolina put on a grizzly bear costume to scare off the wayward black bear who had been leisurely exploring his yard.

Bedtime. Nite all.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 07, 2023 02:17

Dang it just missed MH. I was just going to say over the yrs I've seen him mention some things we have in common, like musical tastes, or collecting coins. But I swear I have never taken up dressing up in a bear costume.

True story, my word as a Biden.

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457
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Posted by: Haley Perez at June 07, 2023 02:44 AM (dL4Mc)

458 Strictly speaking, even black powder guns let you fire as fast as you can pull the trigger...

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 07, 2023 02:44 AM (/xaUq)

459 Strictly speaking, even black powder guns let you fire as fast as you can pull the trigger...

Yep

Night all

Peace

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 07, 2023 02:51 AM (Nx1bw)

460 I keep expecting to see the Cultural Marxist flag on a school flag pole.

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2023 03:10 AM (xhxe8)

461 The contortions the federal government went through to import all the Nazi rocket scientists were impressive.

See, it was actually illegal to do that. I mean, go figure. So, their past was scrubbed. The diplomatic equivalent of “yeah, this guy was a Nazi, tho not an Ardent Nazi”. So it’s totes OK. Top three guys at NASA were all Nazis, Deebus, Von Braun, and some other feller.

What is not so well known, in addition to importing thousands of rocket scientists - they also imported thousands of propaganda specialists, as well as chemical and biological warfare specialists.

Add to this, the federal government embrace of Communist “refugees” both prior to and during the war, America had a huge influx of very competent (strictly speaking) individuals who thought nothing of killing millions or upending whole societies.

The fact that America is FUBAR right now is no accident. I believe it can be directly sourced to a lot of these assholes they allowed to immigrate here and/or imported into our schools and military infrastructure.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 07, 2023 03:21 AM (/XKEa)

462 OK, all alone. Got a few minutes until need to get up so maybe a suduko

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2023 03:22 AM (xhxe8)

463 Finished that, still a few more minutes to go

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2023 03:35 AM (xhxe8)

464 Time to put coffee on

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2023 03:44 AM (xhxe8)

465 @464: "Time to put coffee on"

I'm on my second cup without sleep. Extra sporty homeless folks tonight. Last two weeks, there's been something off in the drugs around here, and the warm weather doesn't help.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 07, 2023 03:53 AM (k1Qly)

466 Up early to work out. Don't feel much like it. Blah.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2023 04:02 AM (omVj0)

467 Morning, all, as we wait for Pixy to burst forth. Sorry to be such a downer in my previous post. Though I've slept a good long time for me, I'm not feeling up to working out. Maybe I'll have to kick myself into it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2023 04:09 AM (omVj0)

468 Noodus pixyana

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2023 04:14 AM (omVj0)

469 9/11 et al wasn't a NATO problem, you called that favour in because it was in the interest of the USA to do so.

Well, your allies have interests too and listening to them is part of keeping this particular world order together, for better and worst.

Posted by: stv at June 07, 2023 01:12 AM (7Ff9U)

9/11 was an act of war, against the only member of NATO that actually bothers to contribute their share to the alliance's defense even. So yes, calling for our allies to join us is perfectly reasonable since the whole point of NATO is a defensive pact.

Our allies' interests are irrelevent seeing as Ukraine is not our ally, and none of our allies were attacked. NATO isn't a wish fulfillment alliance, it is, again, a defensive pact. Well one ally was attacked, the inactive pipeline between our ally Germany and one of the belligerents, but seeing as our government is currently blaming Ukraine for that, the case for action is going in the opposite direction.

Posted by: Sjg at June 07, 2023 05:20 AM (Lstct)

470 Comey Endorses Biden

That's a surprising endorsement (not)! A criminal endorsing a criminal.

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