Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (6/14/23)

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I
“I didn’t necessarily think I would be a leader or a CEO. I just loved the work. I think, in libraries, you feel like you make a difference every day.” Sarah Meilleur

Quote II
I’ve always tried to get 1% better. That’s kind of been our motto. That’s the road I’m on right now. And it just happened a little bit later. And we’re just going to keep doing it until I can’t go anymore.” Berry Henson

Quote of The Day and also a Feel Good Story. Good luck Mr. Henson.

Quote III
“A lot of things are said during campaigns. But the Saudis took it seriously. MBS was offended by it. So there’s not a lot of goodwill there to begin with. I think it soured the relationship from the very beginning.” Steven Cook, a fellow in Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Quote IV
“The next Republican president is going to be under tremendous pressure to bring charges and indict Joe Biden, his family, his crackhead son, whoever. The pressure’s gonna be extraordinary.” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)

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The Uni-Party is alive and well. Why should we vote (R) and donate money? Once again you can lie to the American people, cause division and waste millions of dollars without any type of consequence.

The House on Wednesday effectively killed a resolution to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), voting for a Democratic-led motion to table the measure.
The chamber voted 225-196-7 to table the resolution. Twenty Republicans voted with Democrats to table the measure, while seven lawmakers — five Democrats, two Republicans — voted present.

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Listen here Sister. I'm not giving up The ONT anytime soon.

After more than two decades, natural wine writing pioneer Alice Feiring is no longer excited by writing about wine. “I had something important to tell the world 23 years ago,” she says. But these days, she finds her attention pulled, instead, to writing about design, to delving into memoir or fiction. Wine profiles, she says, “are kind of dull! They’re important information that we need, but as a writer, it ain’t interesting.”

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It is cheaper than getting married. And all of that information to boot.

Guy Buys Physical Encyclopedia Set to Prepare for Information Doomsday
"...in case I'm wrong, a little voice in the back of my head reasoned that it would be nice to have a good summary of human knowledge in print..."

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I94 in Michigan's lower peninsula was closed today for a while.

Beer kegs block Michigan highway after semi overturns

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She really is a stupid twat isn't she?

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre shut down a reporter asking about the safety of female athletes in high school being forced to compete with physically superior biological males who identify as female by claiming any such concern is to say “transgender kids are dangerous.”
President Biden’s spokesperson initially agreed it’s “a complicated issue” when asked in light of the administration’s proposed changes to Title IX if the White House worried about the physical safety of females competing against males, essentially deferring to the Department of Education.
The reporter pressed, “What would the President say to the parents out there who have daughters — say, in high school, for example — who are worried that their daughter may have to compete against a male, or a person born male, and there could be direct physical athletic competition?”

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Dining in NYC just became more expensive.

New York City's food delivery workers are slated to make a minimum wage for the first time ever under new regulations announced by Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday.
Tens of thousands of delivery workers are slated to make at least $17.96 per hour plus tips by July 12, and at least $19.96 an hour by 2025, city officials said.
That's a sharp increase from what delivery workers make now. Many take home less than the city's minimum wage of $15 an hour.

I wonder what the decrease in tips will be percentage wise.

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I enjoyed..............

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Third world undertaking leaves a lot to be desired.

‘Dead’ Woman Bangs on Coffin During Her Own Wake, Gets Rescued by Shocked Son

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Unfortunately it won't be long until the USA is a carbon copy of Malaysia.

Malaysia is seeking Interpol's help in tracking down a New York-based comedian who joked about the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Jocelyn Chia, a US national who grew up in Singapore, is being investigated under laws related to incitement and offensive online content, police say.
Her joke, posted online last week, prompted an official protest from Malaysia and an apology from Singapore.
MH370 went missing after taking off from Kuala Lumpur in March 2014.

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United Health Care isn't having a good year. And it looks like the Kung Flu is being blamed.

UnitedHealth Group Inc. shares plunged the most in three years after CFO John Rex told an audience at the Goldman Sachs Global Healthcare Conference that a recent surge in surgeries and other medical care might push expenses higher than previously forecasted. The exec's comments rippled through the S&P 500 Managed Care Index, sending Humana Inc. and Elevance Health Inc lower.
Rex's comments came late Tuesday at the Goldman healthcare event. He said the premium revenue spent on care for the second quarter might be "moderately above" the high end of expectations. This was enough to send UnitedHealth shares down as much as 9.3%.

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Guns don't kill people. People kill people. Gov. Hairspray's CA isn't all that safe with those encompassing gun laws.

CDC: Over 17% of All U.S Firearm Murders Occur in Gun-Controlled California
Recent data published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed that over 17 percent of America’s annual firearm murders occur in just one state – Democrat-controlled California.
The state is known for having some of the strictest gun-control laws in the nation

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When Garrett buys a pair of these do you think he will say? "There, that will show them."

Finally, you can buy a pair of testicles for your Crocs
Well, you're in luck: because you finally buy a set of rubber testicles-in-a-scrotum to dangle off your Crocs, so that no one ever questions the gender of your recycled plastic shoes ever again! Plus, according to the description, they're highly personalized and unique—just like real nuts!

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How about a dose of common sense with Paul Joseph Watson!

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The Wokesters have even ducked up fishing.

You GO, girls! Half a British ladies fishing team walks off after trans allowed to join

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If you allow your children to be instructed by this aberration you are guilty of child abuse.

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If it is too difficult to tell people about the fees then it is too difficult for people to pay them and you should reduce your fees. Amirite Comcast?

Comcast is not happy about new federal rules that will require it to provide broadband customers with labels displaying exact prices and other information about Internet service plans.
In a filing last week, Comcast told the Federal Communications Commission that it is "working diligently to put in place the systems and processes necessary to create, maintain, and display the labels as required." But according to Comcast, "two aspects of the Commission's Order impose significant administrative burdens and unnecessary complexity in complying with the broadband label requirements."
Comcast noted that five major cable and telecom industry trade groups petitioned the FCC in January to change the rules. Comcast's new filing urged the FCC to grant the petition "as soon as possible before the rules become effective to help providers streamline and simplify their labeling processes, which will ultimately benefit consumers."

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The ONT Musical Interlude & Caramel Corn Emporium

On this day: 14 Jun 1995
Irish guitarist Rory Gallagher died after a chest infection set in following a liver transplant. Had been a member of Taste before going solo, sold over 30m albums worldwide. Voted Melody Maker's Top Musician of the Year in 1972, auditioned for The Rolling Stones following the departure of Mick Taylor. Gallagher made his final performance on 10 January 1995 in the Netherlands. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Born on this day: 14 Jun 1945
English musician, singer, songwriter, composer, and record producer Rod Argent who was a member of The Zombies who had the 1964 UK No.12 single 'She's Not There' and went on to form the band Argent Argent who had the 1972 UK No.5 single 'Hold Your Head Up'. via thisdayinmusic.com

In case you missed this particular link last night, here goes Round 2.

Because I do things my way.

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For a change, Florida Man is not our Genius Award Winner.

WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Ill. (KFVS) - A southern Illinois man was arrested in Nevada and is facing charges of theft in Williamson County after he allegedly stole a backhoe and drove it to the airport to catch his flight to the West Coast.
According to the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office, Timothy J. Baggott, of Carbondale, was arrested in Elko County, Nevada on May 21 for charges related to the possession of a stolen vehicle. He was later released.
The sheriff’s office said Baggott was arrested again on May 22 in Wells, Nevada for charges related to the possession of an additional stolen vehicle

Follow that backhoe............

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“It is clear you are a well-thought-of person both professionally and personally.” And Genius Award Winner.

Judge jails barrister who tried to buy drugs from two men he represented
Henry Hendron, whose clients have included the Earl of Cardigan and Nadine Dorries, sentenced to 14 months

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 10:00 PM

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1 Mhmm.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 14, 2023 09:59 PM (k1Qly)

2 Kaboom

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Invictus maneo at June 14, 2023 10:00 PM (c4rbO)

3 ONT Yea!

Good evening MisHum!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2023 10:00 PM (sei1f)

4 For further details

Posted by: Ciampino at June 14, 2023 10:00 PM (qfLjt)

5 Pixy didn't eat the homework tonight!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 14, 2023 10:00 PM (mZ3xv)

6 Top 10!

Posted by: Swodog at June 14, 2023 10:00 PM (vQm9e)

7 Yep, brothers from different mothers. Jealous of the hair bro.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Invictus maneo at June 14, 2023 10:01 PM (c4rbO)

8 Good evening morons and thank you mh

Happy Flag Day and Happy Birthday PDT

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2023 10:01 PM (RIvkX)

9 not first!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at June 14, 2023 10:01 PM (/mz1e)

10 Pic up top reminds me of something. Can't quite recall what it is, something from the past, I think.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 14, 2023 10:01 PM (Angsy)

11 7 Yep, brothers from different mothers. Jealous of the hair bro.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Invictus maneo at June 14, 2023 10:01 PM (c4rbO)

It's funny you said that, I said that earlier today.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:02 PM (aA3+G)

12 @OP: "Beer kegs block Michigan highway after semi overturns"

Creative way to write off expiring unsold beer!

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 14, 2023 10:02 PM (k1Qly)

13 Croc-nuts?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 14, 2023 10:02 PM (mZ3xv)

14 My other flag is Texas.

Posted by: Eromero at June 14, 2023 10:02 PM (Uv0D2)

15 Fist

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah, yeah, it's ops at June 14, 2023 10:02 PM (sJHOI)

16 @OP: "... set of rubber testicles-in-a-scrotum to dangle off your Crocs ..."

Real men buy genuine kangaroo balls when accessorizing.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 14, 2023 10:04 PM (k1Qly)

17 I used to play volleyball in a co-ed league. One of my fellow girls caught a spike in the face from one of the guys on the other team and it broke her nose. We instituted a no spiking rule after that game.

Posted by: huerfano at June 14, 2023 10:04 PM (7zEAH)

18 "Comcast is not happy about new federal rules that will require it to provide broadband customers with labels displaying exact prices and other information about Internet service plans"

Do the rules make them include the taxes and fees that make up 25% of the bill in those price?

Posted by: fd at June 14, 2023 10:05 PM (iayUP)

19 ***
Listen here Sister. I'm not giving up The ONT anytime soon.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:00 PM

Most excellent news!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2023 10:06 PM (sei1f)

20 ps. Go Salukis!

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 14, 2023 10:06 PM (k1Qly)

21 In case you missed this particular link last night, here goes Round 2. ...Because I do things my way.
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We noticed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2023 10:07 PM (RIvkX)

22 This gay marriage thing really took off, eh?

Had they gone NASDAQ....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2023 10:07 PM (Q4IgG)

23
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2023 10:06 PM (sei1f)

Although after Saturday's joke we both might be run out of Dodge on a rail.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:07 PM (aA3+G)

24 top 30

Posted by: Theodore at June 14, 2023 10:07 PM (pGonq)

25 What girthy content.
Well done MisHum!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 14, 2023 10:10 PM (hOUT3)

26 21 In case you missed this particular link last night, here goes Round 2. ...Because I do things my way.
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We noticed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2023 10:07 PM (RIvkX)

I think "we" might be an over estimation.

You noticed.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:10 PM (aA3+G)

27 but as a writer, it ain’t interesting
IOW, your job got boring. Only thing makes you different from everyone else in the world is you got paid big bucks to write inane stuff about rich-people things, so you can afford to give up boring and "chase your dreams."

Do people wonder why there's so much envy?

Posted by: GWB at June 14, 2023 10:10 PM (vQrdQ)

28 I used to play volleyball in a co-ed league. One of my fellow girls caught a spike in the face from one of the guys on the other team and it broke her nose. We instituted a no spiking rule after that game.
Posted by: huerfano at June 14, 2023 10:04 PM (7zEAH)

A TransJenga dude sent a girl to the hospital doing that

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah, yeah, it's ops at June 14, 2023 10:11 PM (sJHOI)

29 10 Pic up top reminds me of something. Can't quite recall what it is, something from the past, I think.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 14, 2023 10:01 PM (Angsy)

Yes I think I remember seeing something like that a long time ago actually a long long time ago...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 14, 2023 10:12 PM (hOUT3)

30 Thanks for the star-spangled ONT, Mis Hum!

I laughed at the Croc's testicles... until I realized they were real. OMG!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 14, 2023 10:12 PM (vfKOf)

31 Son Volt! Nice, MisHum! I still miss Uncle Tupelo. Too bad Tweedy and Farrar hate each other.

Posted by: Puddleglum, back in Babylon DC at June 14, 2023 10:12 PM (sAmhv)

32 >>Twenty Republicans voted with Democrats to table the measure

in case they're on the other side of things, down the road

a marker to call in

Posted by: DB - at June 14, 2023 10:12 PM (geLO8)

33 I wonder what the decrease in tips will be percentage wise.
Should be 100%. Will probably only be like 80%.

Posted by: GWB at June 14, 2023 10:13 PM (vQrdQ)

34 I had never heard Son Volt before. Very cool! Great songwriters.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 14, 2023 10:13 PM (mZ3xv)

35 I started watching "Bram Stoker's Dracula", the 1992 movie starring Keanu Reaves and Wynona Ryder's boobs bouncing up and down as she runs down a set of stairs in her negligee. Also, Gary Oldman participates in an inexplicable bifurcated wig and very fake looking extended fingers. He chews an enormous amount of scenery, possibly to ease the pain of sharing a screen with Keanu and Wynona.

Both Keanu and Wynona affect what are quite possibly the worst British accents this side of Dick van Dyke. I mean, it's absolutely painful to listen to them. It's also a reminder that while he has dramatically improved since this movie, Keanu isn't really much of an actor.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2023 10:13 PM (eOEVl)

36 You noticed.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:10 PM (aA3+G)

Wait, there was something to notice?
Darn! Now I have to start all over again...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 14, 2023 10:13 PM (hOUT3)

37 I'm always up for some busting chops.

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

38 A lot of things are said during campaigns. But the Saudis took it seriously. MBS was offended by it. So there’s not a lot of goodwill there to begin with.

Plus the fact that when Blinken talks to the Saudis, his #1 issue is, of course, the Pride crap, according to him.

We are not a serious country.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 14, 2023 10:14 PM (2tUFv)

39 Wait, there was something to notice?
Darn! Now I have to start all over again...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 14, 2023 10:13 PM (hOUT3)

Mr. Hrothgar, please visit after me when the class is finished. I'll be glad to help you.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:14 PM (aA3+G)

40 Keanu isn't really much of an actor.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2023 10:13 PM (eOEVl)

Reeves always struck me as a dude who still can't believe they pay him to do what he does.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 14, 2023 10:14 PM (mZ3xv)

41 Yay, Flag Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at June 14, 2023 10:15 PM (IyRMp)

42 Comcast is not happy about new federal rules that will require it to provide broadband customers with labels displaying exact prices and other information about Internet service plans.
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Boo deleted hoo.
If they think the gov fees (TAXES) should be called out then they can add an additional declaration showing what portion is fed/State/county/city just like gas pump show that tax information.
Suck it up Comcast!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2023 10:15 PM (sei1f)

43 Croc-nuts a danglin' reek class and breeding. They make neat little headlights that mount thru one of the front-holes, so one can cavort day or night. Croc around the clock.

Posted by: Big Sissy at June 14, 2023 10:16 PM (Nn3xT)

44 Incontinence can be inconvenient!

Just sayin'...no first hand knowledge...so far.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 14, 2023 10:17 PM (CCSxw)

45 Hello, Horde!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at June 14, 2023 10:17 PM (SRRAx)

46 Beer kegs block Michigan highway after semi overturns
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How many Morons does it take to clean up this mess?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 14, 2023 10:17 PM (BpYfr)

47 Both Keanu and Wynona affect what are quite possibly the worst British accents this side of Dick van Dyke. I mean, it's absolutely painful to listen to them. It's also a reminder that while he has dramatically improved since this movie, Keanu isn't really much of an actor.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2023 10:13 PM (eOEVl)

Whoa....

Posted by: Keanu Reeves at June 14, 2023 10:17 PM (m9hmt)

48 >>It's also a reminder that while he has dramatically improved since this movie, Keanu isn't really much of an actor.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2023 10:13 PM

Like Tom Cruise, he's a movie star. Not many around these days.

Posted by: huerfano at June 14, 2023 10:17 PM (7zEAH)

49 Sarah can go eat a bag of crocs ballbags. Back in the late 90s I went into a public library in Las Vegas. Smelly bums were inside playing checkers, nasty bedrolls were strewn about the mens room (way back when mens rooms were allowed), etc. It was disgusting that it was being used as a homeless shelter.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at June 14, 2023 10:17 PM (/mz1e)

50 A TransJenga dude sent a girl to the hospital doing that

A very pro-Antifa "trans" person in Portland is very proud of all the awards he's gotten in local women's roller derby (which is a thing in Portland).

He looks like he's about 6' 2'' and 180 pounds.

I wonder how many women he's injured by this point.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 14, 2023 10:18 PM (2tUFv)

51 46 Beer kegs block Michigan highway after semi overturns
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How many Morons does it take to clean up this mess?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 14, 2023 10:17 PM (BpYfr)

They were empty kegs.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:18 PM (aA3+G)

52 I happen to possess a complete set of World Book encyclopedias from 1960. Christmas present from my dad when I was a kid.

And yes, I do still read them.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 14, 2023 10:19 PM (m9hmt)

53 Be sure to click through to the Amazon descriptions linked from the croc balls article...

Posted by: screaming in digital at June 14, 2023 10:19 PM (aBJcM)

54 I wonder how many women he's injured by this point.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 14, 2023 10:18 PM (2tUFv)

That's not important right now, what IS important is that now IT feels good about ITself!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 14, 2023 10:19 PM (hOUT3)

55 Oh, and Happy Flag Day!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at June 14, 2023 10:20 PM (SRRAx)

56 Nut charms

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 14, 2023 10:21 PM (mZ3xv)

57 Finally had a part of Family Guy that made me laugh out loud. Not a big fan.

Peter referred to a room full of monkeys eventually writing the complete works of Shakespeare . They cut to monkeys discussing like they are in a writer's meeting talking about a potential line of having what flower? by any other name...They were throwing out names of different flowers and someone said Rose and the head writer started typing it in when another monkey says what about Tulip. Head writer said ' it's going to be Rose. Let's move on'.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 10:21 PM (YKqKD)

58 That's not important right now, what IS important is that now IT feels good about ITself!

I also wonder how many women have dropped out of roller derby league because of him.

Since it's Portland, God help you if you publicly admitted that you didn't want to get slammed into the boards by a 6' 2'', 180 pounds guy pretending to be a woman.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 14, 2023 10:22 PM (2tUFv)

59 Here's another feel good story:

Starbucks has to pay Shannon Phillips $25 million for firing her over being white.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 14, 2023 10:23 PM (QZTwm)

60 The grocer has T-bones for $5.37/lb. Been a while since I had a T-bone. Of course, I'd have to prepare it Goodfellas-style, in an iron skillet.

Posted by: DB - at June 14, 2023 10:23 PM (geLO8)

61 Rubio, like most of his party, always seems to settle for half measures.

If, by some unforeseen miracle, a non-Commie finds his way into the White House again, the pressure won't be to indict, but hold round the clock executions until the federal bureaucracy has learned its place.

Posted by: Methos at June 14, 2023 10:23 PM (kOpft)

62 How about a dose of common sense with Paul Joseph Watson!

Spot on.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 14, 2023 10:23 PM (Xrfse)

63 Since it's Portland, God help you if you publicly admitted that you didn't want to get slammed into the boards by a 6' 2'', 180 pounds guy pretending to be a woman.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 14, 2023 10:22 PM (2tUFv)

Ironically, that would probably also end up being your punishment.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 14, 2023 10:23 PM (m9hmt)

64 There used to be a question for men who beat up women, and an answer.

Posted by: Eromero at June 14, 2023 10:23 PM (Uv0D2)

65 How many Morons does it take to clean up this mess?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 14, 2023 10:17 PM (BpYfr)

They were empty kegs.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:18 PM (aA3+G)
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Ah. So the Morons got there *before* the truck overturned.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 14, 2023 10:24 PM (BpYfr)

66 If the women were smart they would target the roller derby guy until he quit.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 10:25 PM (YKqKD)

67 There used to be a question for men who beat up women, and an answer.
Posted by: Eromero at June 14, 2023 10:23 PM (Uv0D2)

Funny thing, those old ways worked pretty well for centuries, but then...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 14, 2023 10:25 PM (hOUT3)

68 Dr. T, World Book encyclopedias had the best pictures.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 14, 2023 10:25 PM (0Htd1)

69 A TransJenga dude sent a girl to the hospital doing that

The women's net is about seven inches shorter. What a shithead.

Posted by: t-bird at June 14, 2023 10:25 PM (CaJIi)

70 That's not important right now, what IS important is that now IT feels good about ITself!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

"it" should be proud of being a psychopathic mentally-ill homosexual. So brave. But probably not so proud as to go through with the full mengele medically-unnecessary amputation.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at June 14, 2023 10:25 PM (/mz1e)

71 https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=SOUZumK7Jdk

Some AM radio station in New York on July 5 over midnight into the 200th anniversary of our great nation.

remove the space between "/" and "w".

I'm on a remember the should be forgotten 70s' kick.

Disc Jockies were DJs back then.

Posted by: SPC Reforger at June 14, 2023 10:26 PM (B705c)

72 I'm doing my part to secure and safeguard printed knowledge. A set of the Harvard Classics. Old enough the place was still Christian. A two volume set of the Dictionary of Slang and a 20 volume set of the OED.
Plus a great collection of nature, hiking and animal books.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at June 14, 2023 10:26 PM (NgPv+)

73 Made barrettes last night of red, white and blue resin hearts.

I guess I still believe in America.

Posted by: pookysgirl thinks ist wunderbar at June 14, 2023 10:27 PM (dtlDP)

74 I heard that pounding on the coffin story on Coast to Coast AM last night. I guess they don't do embalming over there.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2023 10:27 PM (63Dwl)

75 Who would have thought that MBS would take insults personally, and never forgive. A guy whose known for killing anyone who crosses him, who could have guessed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 14, 2023 10:27 PM (S6gqv)

76 48 >>It's also a reminder that while he has dramatically improved since this movie, Keanu isn't really much of an actor.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2023 10:13 PM

Like Tom Cruise, he's a movie star. Not many around these days.
Posted by: huerfano

Street Kings was a damn good Keanu Reeves movie and I'm not even sure it went to the theaters. I rented it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, back in Babylon DC at June 14, 2023 10:28 PM (sAmhv)

77 Evening Horde , thx MisHum. Interesting story out of NYC subways. A crazy criminal was harassing an African American couple and actually punched the girl in the face. Her boyfriend started fighting the criminal, pulled out a knife and killed the criminal. He's been arrested and sent to jail. His attorney is complaining that he is being treated differently than Penny because of his color. They should be treated the same and given a medal.
By the way Son Volt was good

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 14, 2023 10:28 PM (OhpJy)

78 75 Who would have thought that MBS would take insults personally, and never forgive. A guy whose known for killing anyone who crosses him, who could have guessed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 14, 2023 10:27 PM (S6gqv)

Words have consequences, who would have thunk?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:28 PM (aA3+G)

79 Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Although after Saturday's joke we both might be run out of Dodge on a rail.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

What part of 'deporable' isn't understood?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2023 10:28 PM (Cisds)

80
What part of 'deporable' isn't understood?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2023 10:28 PM (Cisds)

Oh you would be surprised.
But I'm running with it.
I chuckled.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:29 PM (aA3+G)

81 "it" should be proud of being a psychopathic mentally-ill homosexual

He was arrested at an Antifa riot in Portland in 2020, and there is a hilarious video of multiple cops struggling to control this big, burly guy on the ground, while he screams "I'm a woman!" and "Don't misgender me!"

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 14, 2023 10:30 PM (2tUFv)

82 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 14, 2023 10:30 PM (qoGsy)

83 Beer kegs block Michigan highway after semi overturns
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How many Morons does it take to clean up this mess?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Clean up?
How many did it take to cause it!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2023 10:30 PM (Cisds)

84 77 Evening Horde , thx MisHum. Interesting story out of NYC subways. A crazy criminal was harassing an African American couple and actually punched the girl in the face. Her boyfriend started fighting the criminal, pulled out a knife and killed the criminal. He's been arrested and sent to jail. His attorney is complaining that he is being treated differently than Penny because of his color. They should be treated the same and given a medal.
By the way Son Volt was good
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 14, 2023 10:28 PM
On the basis of just this knowledge, I saw turn them both loose.

Posted by: Eromero at June 14, 2023 10:31 PM (Uv0D2)

85
Malaysia is seeking Interpol's help in tracking down a New York-based comedian who joked about the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

What about Don Lemon's black hole joke?

Oh, it wasn't a joke.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2023 10:31 PM (63Dwl)

86 Buy hard copies of everything, especially major reference books and the encyclopedia. For sure.

Stock up on tools and parts, too. Hard times comin'.

And then next week, we'll have another Marie Kondo "throw all that shit out" session for a couple of days.

It's perpetual motion.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 14, 2023 10:31 PM (jYCXf)

87 Funny thing, those old ways worked pretty well for centuries, but then...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 14, 2023 10:25 PM (hOUT3)

Just like that thing up top.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 14, 2023 10:31 PM (Angsy)

88 A lot of things are said during campaigns. But the Saudis took it seriously

Biden and company accused the Saudi ruler of murder. Some people take that seriously.

And even if Kaggagucci was killed, it was none of our business - a saudi citizen/subject killed by the saudi king/prince on saudi soil (their embassy).

That and our pride/lgbtqwerty push and I don't blame them for taking it seriously.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 14, 2023 10:32 PM (xttsV)

89 Words have consequences, who would have thunk?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:28 PM (aA3+G)

If I'm not mistaken, the American government t also threatened to arrest MBS and try him as a murderer.

That may have strained the relationship a bit.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 14, 2023 10:32 PM (QZTwm)

90 Flag Day, indeed. As I mentioned earlier, this is my father's birthday, and he was always proud of the association. I always run his old 48 star flag up on the 14th. It's tired and faded (much like the one pictured), but there is always a special feeling when I run it up the pole.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 14, 2023 10:32 PM (KtPtl)

91 ‘Dead’ Woman Bangs on Coffin During Her Own Wake, Gets Rescued by Shocked Son

"Knock three times. . . "

Posted by: Tonypete at June 14, 2023 10:34 PM (qoGsy)

92 His attorney is complaining that he is being treated differently than Penny because of his color. They should be treated the same and given a medal.
By the way Son Volt was good
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 14, 2023 10:28 PM (OhpJy)

Does the attorney not know Penny has been indicted for manslaughter and is out on bond? How are they being treated different? Other than the only similarities is they both happened on a subway.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 10:34 PM (YKqKD)

93 On the basis of just this knowledge, I ~~saw turn them both loose.~~ would pair them up, send a video crew, and make the damnedest cop/buddy/Marine movie you ever saw.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 14, 2023 10:34 PM (jYCXf)

94 Saw something in Yankees - Mets game tonight. Isiah Kiner Falefa stole home. Haven't seen that in a while.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 14, 2023 10:35 PM (OhpJy)

95 I'm doing my part to secure and safeguard printed knowledge. A set of the Harvard Classics. Old enough the place was still Christian. A two volume set of the Dictionary of Slang and a 20 volume set of the OED.
Plus a great collection of nature, hiking and animal books.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at June 14, 2023 10:26 PM (NgPv+)

They're extremely expensive, but if cost is no issue, I highly recommend getting Harvard Classics and other older books from Easton Press. They've done all the great works of the past, and the binding and illustration is just incredible. Those books are made to last, and I don't think restoring a sense of beauty to our classic literature is a bad thing.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 14, 2023 10:35 PM (m9hmt)

96 Beer kegs block Michigan highway after semi overturns
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How many Morons does it take to clean up this mess?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 14, 2023 10:17 PM (BpYfr)
***

Look out!
It's a trick!
They are all Bud Lites.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2023 10:35 PM (e4fEA)

97 From the Stranger in my old stomping grounds, Seattle. TransPenis calls up Korean Lady Salon Boss and asks if they admit transwomen with a lady penis. Korean Lady Salon Boss goes roof top and says penis, no good. TransPenis then sues the spa for penis discrimination and wins. Korean Lady Salon Boss "negotiates" a deal with the St. of Wa and now says lady penis, good. So far no news here. Plot twist. You have to use you name in court filings which TransPenis did and just like that TransPenis is a featured article in the Daily Mail. TransPenis is sad, really sad, that you can't sue people without using your name which is sort of a constitutional requirement - being able to confront your accuser and such. The Stranger is outraged too. Me? Not so much, in fact I am LMAO.

https://tinyurl.com/yejakfes

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 10:36 PM (qxLut)

98 >>> 89 Words have consequences, who would have thunk?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:28 PM (aA3+G)

If I'm not mistaken, the American government t also threatened to arrest MBS and try him as a murderer.

That may have strained the relationship a bit.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 14, 2023 10:32 PM (QZTwm)

istr not messing with other countries' diplomats or especially heads of state was generally considered a good idea, because two can play that game. Now we have retards indicting the ex-President for BS charges and another retard in CA threatening to have a political peer arrested. What will they do when non-Clowns decide to *act* instead of talk?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 14, 2023 10:36 PM (llON8)

99 Isiah Kiner Falefa stole home

Sounds like a sammich or something.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 14, 2023 10:36 PM (Xrfse)

100 And even if Kaggagucci was killed, it was none of our business - a saudi citizen/subject killed by the saudi king/prince on saudi soil (their embassy).

That and our pride/lgbtqwerty push and I don't blame them for taking it seriously.
Posted by: Chuck C at June 14, 2023 10:32 PM (xttsV)

Of course they always leave out that Kaggadoodle was a propagandist for Yemen rebels.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 10:36 PM (YKqKD)

101 @92 attorney bitching about his client being jailed while Penny got bond. Probably jailed because a knife was used

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 14, 2023 10:37 PM (OhpJy)

102 @31: "I still miss Uncle Tupelo."

Good ol' Belleville boys!

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 14, 2023 10:37 PM (k1Qly)

103 We'll have to memorize all the books and wander around in the woods reciting them to apprentices.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2023 10:38 PM (63Dwl)

104 Totally better than current day madness

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, gainfully employed again! But buy ammo at June 14, 2023 10:39 PM (xcxpd)

105 attorney bitching about his client being jailed while Penny got bond. Probably jailed because a knife was used
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 14, 2023 10:37 PM (OhpJy)

I'm sure bond was set on him also. Very rare NYC sets no bond.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 10:39 PM (YKqKD)

106 Of course they always leave out that Kaggadoodle was a ~~propagandist for Yemen rebels~~ CIA asset.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 10:36 PM (YKqKD)

......

Fixed.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 14, 2023 10:39 PM (QZTwm)

107 That FCC vs Cpmcast (I don't have Comcast but ...)
It is difficult to compare prices of different providers as they all list the promotional fees and not what one pays after a year.

Posted by: Ciampino - getting charged for what I can get with a bunny aerial at June 14, 2023 10:39 PM (qfLjt)

108 Comments? What comments? C'mon, I'm a foreign policy genius.

I called him a murderer with love.
-demented pervert

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2023 10:39 PM (RIvkX)

109
@92 attorney bitching about his client being jailed while Penny got bond. Probably jailed because a knife was used
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Was there bail and he couldn't make it?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2023 10:41 PM (63Dwl)

110 I'm sure bond was set on him also. Very rare NYC sets no bond.
Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 10:39 PM (YKqKD)
===
I'm starting to think it would be simpler if everyone was in jail.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2023 10:41 PM (RIvkX)

111 What will they do when non-Clowns decide to *act* instead of talk?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 14, 2023 10:36 PM (llON

Avoid masonry walls and lamp posts at all costs?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:42 PM (aA3+G)

112 FYI, I guess "We Baby Bears" needs to be added to the boycott list. Never heard of it before--it's on Cartoon Network, apparently--but it's introduced two new characters who are non-binary and use "they/them" pronouns. And yeah, they do kinda look like babies.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 14, 2023 10:42 PM (m9hmt)

113 Adam Schiff is a bug eyed lying piece of crap. He certainly deserves to be censured. When the Dems controlled the house, they were in lockstep.
But now 20 republicans voted to stop the censure.
I am sick and tired of "that's not who we are".
Damnit! That's who we need to be!

Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 14, 2023 10:42 PM (dr4Q1)

114 >>>Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by the International Brotherhood of Proof Readers.

It makes perfect sense... Assuming the sign is attached to a pay toilet.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 14, 2023 10:42 PM (klJTj)

115 109
@92 attorney bitching about his client being jailed while Penny got bond. Probably jailed because a knife was used
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Was there bail and he couldn't make it?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2023 10:41 PM (63Dwl)

Penny had a Go-Fund-Me or similar donation site.

This guy's attorney isn't doing his client right. Instead of whining like a little school girl, get the damn donation site set up.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:43 PM (aA3+G)

116 Quote Three about Saudi Arabia being upset about what Joe Biden said at his inauguration: I have always thought that Saddam Hussein and the Shrub were talking past each other. From what I have observed, a declaration of intent of an action translates to actual execution of deed in many Arab minds. Saddam would threaten something then strut about as if he'd actually done it. OTOH, the Shrub would believe Saddam actually intended to do what he said he would do, and threaten retaliation, which Saddam took as actually in the works.

We really need people in our embassies and advisory positions who actually know the cultural nuances of the country they are dealing with. Speaking the language simply isn't enough. Anyone who actually understood Saudi culture and MBS should have cleaned up Joey the Vegetable's speech before he even opened his pie hole.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at June 14, 2023 10:44 PM (B7rlW)

117 @109 the Post said accused was jailed with no bail. Might have changed since then. I think the fact that a weapon was involved and a person died led to no bail, though depending on the accused prior history he might get bail

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 14, 2023 10:44 PM (OhpJy)

118 Son Volt! Nice, MisHum! I still miss Uncle Tupelo. Too bad Tweedy and Farrar hate each other.
Posted by: Puddleglum, back in Babylon DC

Strangely, Son Volt is older than The Mars Volta, by seven years. I guess Ace lends out the time machine?

Posted by: mikeski at June 14, 2023 10:45 PM (DgGvY)

119 I'm starting to think it would be simpler if everyone was in jail. Posted by: San Franpsycho

But then there would be nobody left to shit on the sidewalks, smash in your car windows, and loot your local stores. And we still haven't discussed the who make the green energy.

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 10:45 PM (qxLut)

120 Anyone who actually understood Saudi culture and MBS should have cleaned up Joey the Vegetable's speech before he even opened his pie hole.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at June 14, 2023 10:44 PM (B7rlW)

***SNORT***

His pie hole is in need of constant cleansing.
Fucking mushhead Brandon.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:45 PM (aA3+G)

121 Ciampino's Rescue kitties

https://is.gd/WQ5JcT

Very sad two days but specially today as we lost beloved pets.

There's an update #85 at the link.
Take a look if interested. You can click on the link
"See Older Updates" as well if it's your first time.
https://is.gd/WQ5JcT

Posted by: Ciampino - Death of loved ones and pets is alwaays heartbreaking at June 14, 2023 10:46 PM (qfLjt)

122 @OP: "MBS was offended by it. So there’s not a lot of goodwill there to begin with. I think it soured the relationship from the very beginning."

I suspect the PGA Tour and LIV Golf rapprochement was some half-baked backroom diplomatic effort to appease the Saudis for awhile, and the PGA Commish was charmed by some sorta "your country needs you" bullshit, and he was promised the deal would be blown up in a few years by an anti-trust court.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 14, 2023 10:47 PM (k1Qly)

123
We really need people in our embassies and advisory positions who actually know the cultural nuances of the country they are dealing with.

Keep hearing over the years about Asian countries and "face." They can't lose face and we have to make sure they don't. That always sounded like planned surrender to me.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2023 10:47 PM (63Dwl)

124 Girthy ont

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 14, 2023 10:47 PM (vHIgi)

125 I went to Amazon to check the working on croc-balls:
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This is a 3d printed plastic pair of balls that fit behind on Clogs
--

Noted that you'd just have to get the glow in the dark ones...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2023 10:47 PM (Cisds)

126 @110: "I'm starting to think it would be simpler if everyone was in jail."

Perhaps on a nearby island in an unswimmable harbor.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 14, 2023 10:48 PM (k1Qly)

127 saw Jeff Tweedy at Ulster Performing Arts Center in hometown. Just him and a drummer. Really good show. Did stuff from Uncle Tupelo and Wilco along with solo stuff.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 14, 2023 10:48 PM (OhpJy)

128 Keep hearing over the years about Asian countries and "face." They can't lose face and we have to make sure they don't. That always sounded like planned surrender to me.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2023 10:47 PM (63Dwl)

Here's a thought: Are any Asian countries as concerned about respecting our cultural nuances as we're told we need to be of theirs?

Posted by: Dr. T at June 14, 2023 10:48 PM (m9hmt)

129 and the PGA Commish was charmed by some sorta "your country needs you" bullshit, and he was promised the deal would be blown up in a few years by an anti-trust court.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 14, 2023 10:47 PM (k1Qly)

If there were other golf leagues or governing bodies I could see anti-trust litigation. This? I don't think so......

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:49 PM (aA3+G)

130 We really need people in our embassies and advisory positions who actually know the cultural nuances of the country they are dealing with. Speaking the language simply isn't enough. Anyone who actually understood Saudi culture and MBS should have cleaned up Joey the Vegetable's speech before he even opened his pie hole.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at June 14, 2023 10:44 PM (B7rlW)

This is all true. But they don't give a fuck.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 14, 2023 10:49 PM (i0Kzs)

131 124 Girthy ont
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 14, 2023 10:47 PM (vHIgi)

I'm a giver.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:50 PM (aA3+G)

132 Here's a thought: Are any Asian countries as concerned about respecting our cultural nuances as we're told we need to be of theirs?
Posted by: Dr. T at June 14, 2023 10:48 PM (m9hmt)

Japan is oddly obsessed with us. I credit Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, gainfully employed again! But buy ammo at June 14, 2023 10:51 PM (xcxpd)

133 For a change, Florida Man is not our Genius Award Winner.

WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Ill. (KFVS) - A southern Illinois man was arrested in Nevada and is facing charges of theft in Williamson County after he allegedly stole a backhoe and drove it to the airport to catch his flight to the West Coast.

He caught it, too! Though youtube was confused, and credited Florida Man.

https://youtu.be/j9x1TRbeC_0

Posted by: mikeski credits WeirdDave for finding this video at June 14, 2023 10:51 PM (DgGvY)

134 From KEXP in Seattle (this part of Seattle is still OK and not all like the Stranger noted above).

Son Volt in Studio 2017.

https://youtu.be/ZkVE5bVH5XI

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 10:51 PM (qxLut)

135 They were empty kegs.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:18 PM (aA3+G)

++++

I'm here to collect my deposit. It's been a while, so I have 75 empty kegs to turn in.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 14, 2023 10:52 PM (klJTj)

136 The Saudis have officially been our enemy since they cut western oil companies out of their cut of Saudi natural resources.

Before that, they were great honorable people.

After that, they we're state sponsors of terrorism and ruthless dictators.

See how that works.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 14, 2023 10:52 PM (QZTwm)

137 100 And even if Kaggagucci was killed, it was none of our business - a saudi citizen/subject killed by the saudi king/prince on saudi soil (their embassy).

Kaggagucci was spying for Iran. He needed killin'.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 14, 2023 10:53 PM (S6gqv)

138
I'm here to collect my deposit. It's been a while, so I have 75 empty kegs to turn in.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 14, 2023 10:52 PM (klJTj)

Wear a frat tshirt and it could happen.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:53 PM (aA3+G)

139 Commish was charmed by some sorta "your country needs you" bullshit, and he was promised the deal would be blown up in a few years by an anti-trust court.
Posted by: Walter Freeman

Kind of persuasive.
The commish is in the hospital (or just getting out) for an undisclosed procedure.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2023 10:53 PM (Cisds)

140 The Uni-Party is alive and well. Why should we vote (R) and donate money? Once again you can lie to the American people, cause division and waste millions of dollars without any type of consequence.

Amen

Posted by: WOODROE CALL at June 14, 2023 10:53 PM (2znMt)

141 I still can't believe dumbfucks give money to the GOPe.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 14, 2023 10:55 PM (i0Kzs)

142 Japan is oddly obsessed with us. I credit Kentucky Fried Chicken.

I think the Sorks are even more so. Watch some of the Korean shows on Netflix. It's astonishing how much American culture they have adopted.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2023 10:55 PM (eOEVl)

143 123 -- No, I don't see it as surrender. There are conventions and procedures that make sure no one loses face, that both sides come out fairly even. We just need people who know how the dance is done properly, not some entitled clown who donated big time to their party.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at June 14, 2023 10:55 PM (B7rlW)

144 Keanu isn't really much of an actor.
Posted by: Archimedes

'STRHUTH~!

Posted by: weft cut-aussie from the '80's at June 14, 2023 10:55 PM (jzzG8)

145
We really need people in our embassies and advisory positions who actually know the cultural nuances of the country they are dealing with. Speaking the language simply isn't enough. Anyone who actually understood Saudi culture and MBS should have cleaned up Joey the Vegetable's speech before he even opened his pie hole.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin

==========

Trump seemed to have it instinctively, from that first summit he had with the Arabs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 14, 2023 11:00 PM (lCaJd)

146
Good evening, all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 14, 2023 11:01 PM (lCaJd)

147 Quasimodo predicted all this.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 14, 2023 11:01 PM (X+Ku8)

148 They can't lose face and we have to make sure they don't. That always sounded like planned surrender to me.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2023 10:47 PM

You have three choices after you score a touchdown:
1. Hand the ball to the referee,
2. Spike the ball, or
3. Gather your teammates together and you all do a 30 second celebration dance.

Allowing the other party to save face is the equivalent of # 1 above.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 14, 2023 11:01 PM (xttsV)

149 I could not care less about one Arab killing another . The killing only got traction because the dead guy was a "journalist" and the propaganda ministries wanted to use it against Trump. As they say in Texas, some people just need killing

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 14, 2023 11:01 PM (OhpJy)

150 They were empty kegs. Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Had a HS pal who was, um, how does one say this, a criminal. One night we were walking home and went by a bar with a stack of kegs outside of it. Criminal Friend goes, I want one for my bedroom...goes to grab one thinking they were empty only to find it wasn't empty. Of course it slipped out of his hands and went rolling away into city traffic. Somehow it ended up in a payphone booth in front of a 7-11 so Criminal Friend could find somebody to drive him and his new friend home. The moral of the story here is one should remember every phone number in your head. A few years later he had an epiphany and straightened out his life and was on his way to a new job in a different state. While traveling through an Idaho canyon a huge wind hit is car and trailer and pulled down in the canyon killing him. Sometimes I just give up trying make sense of anything and everything.

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 11:01 PM (qxLut)

151 “I wish I could say something classy and inspirational, but that just wouldn’t be our style. Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory lasts forever. It’s been an honor sharing the field of battle with you.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 14, 2023 11:03 PM (EXyHK)

152 Biden pledged to make Saudi Arabia a pariah

Trump tried to get them to work with Israel.

Biden can't do anything right; not only does he throw the wrong bitch off the train, he's on on the right train to begin with.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2023 11:04 PM (ynpvh)

153 Brothers by another mother indeed. As I am perusing the content, Rory Gallagher is playing on my Playlist. I get to the musical interlude and A Million Miles Away starts playing.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Invictus maneo at June 14, 2023 11:05 PM (c4rbO)

154 NOT on the right train to begin with. Damn fingers.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2023 11:05 PM (ynpvh)

155 Of course they always leave out that Kaggadoodle was a propagandist for Yemen rebels.

He was an Omani intelligence agent.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 14, 2023 11:05 PM (2tUFv)

156 @129: "If there were other golf leagues or governing bodies ..."

It's weird 'cause LIV could arguably be seen as the first realistic challenger to the PGA's prior monopoly, and the merger makes the new league an even larger monopoly than before.

Outside of MLB's antitrust exemption, there's been a whole bunch of arbitrary non-enforcement against other major sports in the US. A carefully chosen judge suddenly taking the other side against an inconvenient business partner wouldn't be the biggest miscarriage of justice we've seen in recent years.

Greg Norman's comment that LIV events wouldn't be going away anytime soon -- despite the PGA now pushing a quick and total merger -- was a slight tell. He knows their leverage evaporates the moment their league shutters, and they'll wait until all legal challenges are dead until they do.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 14, 2023 11:05 PM (k1Qly)

157 Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)

Easy. Indict everyone AROUND them first.
Most likely, if Sniffy Joe finishes his term alive, he'll pardon his family and himself.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2023 11:06 PM (ynpvh)

158 Things Malaysia does better than us is a frequent subject of my soap box rants.

Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at June 14, 2023 11:06 PM (iOt02)

159 Relevant to My Interests

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

*scroll down

Posted by: kbdabear at June 14, 2023 11:06 PM (IEw/x)

160 I94 in Michigan's lower peninsula was closed today for a while.
Beer kegs block Michigan highway after semi overturns

Was it Budweiser beer? Maybe someone is trying to collect the insurance on the shit they can't sell...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2023 11:08 PM (ynpvh)

161 You know what competition hasn't gone woke? Nine-ball; straight pool. How much of a advantage does a bio-male have? Not much. Maybe in power on the break, or in reach

But it's enough of a difference, so women only play women.

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 14, 2023 11:09 PM (duy4p)

162 @161: "But it's enough of a difference, so women only play women."

Darts and chess too.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 14, 2023 11:10 PM (k1Qly)

163 I wonder what the decrease in tips will be percentage wise.

Went out to eat with my FIL and family. There were 8 of us. A 20% tip was added automatically (and that 20% was on the total + tax too. Bastards!).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2023 11:10 PM (ynpvh)

164 Gutfeld absolutely on fire tonight.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2023 11:10 PM (RIvkX)

165 Maybe in power on the break, or in reach

I suspect a level of obsessive focus among the top players, too.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 14, 2023 11:12 PM (EXyHK)

166 Adam Schiff is a bug eyed lying piece of crap. He certainly deserves to be censured. When the Dems controlled the house, they were in lockstep.
But now 20 republicans voted to stop the censure.
I am sick and tired of "that's not who we are".
Damnit! That's who we need to be!
Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 14, 2023 10:42 PM (dr4Q1)

And if you ask any of the twenty they will most assuredly tell you they searched their consciences and reviewed the Constitution, and prayed on this matter.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2023 11:15 PM (e4fEA)

167 brought to you by the International Brotherhood of Proof Readers

Well, maybe the situation got the owner very, very nervous. or excited.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2023 11:16 PM (ynpvh)

168 Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac live 68-70
https://youtu.be/5IJwci84EIs

And a few years later the world had gone disco. That marks the beginning of the end of Western civilization.

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 11:17 PM (qxLut)

169 166 And if you ask any of the twenty they will most assuredly tell you they searched their consciences and reviewed the Constitution, and prayed on this matter.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2023 11:15 PM (e4fEA)

Who exactly did they pray to?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2023 11:17 PM (ynpvh)

170 NBA and ABA merger was murky too. It took six years for everything to be finalized including Oscar Robertson suing to block the merger, a federal injunction slamming the brakes on things, Congress almost passing an antitrust exception to force it through, and all objections magically disappearing as soon as the owners agreed to free agency and other changes.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 14, 2023 11:17 PM (k1Qly)

171 Went out to eat with my FIL and family. There were 8 of us. A 20% tip was added automatically (and that 20% was on the total + tax too. Bastards!).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2023 11:10 PM (ynpvh)

We appreciate your mandatory generosity!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 14, 2023 11:18 PM (QZTwm)

172 And if you ask any of the twenty they will most assuredly tell you they searched their consciences and reviewed the Constitution, and prayed on this matter.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2023 11:15 PM (e4fEA)

Who exactly did they pray to?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2023 11:17 PM (ynpvh)
***

Given they are likely devoid of any integrity or honor, it was most likely their democrat masters.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2023 11:19 PM (e4fEA)

173 Who exactly did they pray to?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2023 11:17 PM (ynpvh)

they prey on us.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 14, 2023 11:19 PM (S6gqv)

174 171 Went out to eat with my FIL and family. There were 8 of us. A 20% tip was added automatically (and that 20% was on the total + tax too. Bastards!).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2023 11:10 PM (ynpvh)

We appreciate your mandatory generosity!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 14, 2023 11:18 PM (QZTwm)

Well, add that to paid volunteers and voluntary taxation.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2023 11:20 PM (ynpvh)

175 I read the library article. Man, Canada is even more messed up than we are

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 14, 2023 11:21 PM (vHIgi)

176 What will they do when non-Clowns decide to *act* instead of talk?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

They will look at the crimson rose spreading across their chest in dumbfounded amazement and then they will fall on their face.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Invictus maneo at June 14, 2023 11:21 PM (c4rbO)

177 And if you ask any of the twenty they will most assuredly tell you they searched their consciences and reviewed the Constitution, and prayed on this matter.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2023 11:15 PM (e4fEA)

Who exactly did they pray to?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2023 11:17 PM (ynpvh)
***

Given they are likely devoid of any integrity or honor, it was most likely their democrat masters.
Posted by: Diogenes

Speaking of Pelosi's tits has Paul been out driving or doing any home improvement projects lately?

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 11:21 PM (qxLut)

178 *Looks at menu*

A 20% gratuity will be added to all parties of 8 or more

*Looks at table....counts 8 people*

"I'll be dining at the bar by myself, the other 7 are together on one check."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 14, 2023 11:24 PM (QZTwm)

179 177 And if you ask any of the twenty they will most assuredly tell you they searched their consciences and reviewed the Constitution, and prayed on this matter.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2023 11:15 PM (e4fEA)

Who exactly did they pray to?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2023 11:17 PM (ynpvh)
***

Given they are likely devoid of any integrity or honor, it was most likely their democrat masters.
Posted by: Diogenes

Speaking of Pelosi's tits has Paul been out driving or doing any home improvement projects lately?

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 11:21 PM (qxLut)

haven't heard anything since that guy pounded Paul.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2023 11:24 PM (ynpvh)

180 The Traitor Twenty

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 14, 2023 11:24 PM (vHIgi)

181 180 The Traitor Twenty

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 14, 2023 11:24 PM (vHIgi)

More like 22; two voted present.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2023 11:25 PM (ynpvh)

182 @180: "The Traitor Twenty"

Traitorous Twenty sounds like a sequel to Tarantino's Hateful Eight.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 14, 2023 11:26 PM (k1Qly)

183 Now we have retards indicting the ex-President for BS charges and another retard in CA threatening to have a political peer arrested. What will they do when non-Clowns decide to *act* instead of talk?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 14, 2023 10:36 PM (llON

They're not worried because they know that will never happen.

Posted by: E. A. Blair at June 14, 2023 11:27 PM (5DLy3)

184 I get annoyed when I'm buying coffee and the card machine asks if I want to add a tip.
Although sometimes I will tip - cash- in the tip jar. Usually at the one place in the mall where they know exactly what I'm ordering before I order.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 14, 2023 11:28 PM (vHIgi)

185 the traitorous twenty illustrate why it's hopelessly foolish to think that Congress would ever do anything that would actually make things better. Congress as it was originally envisioned is dead, it's just a puppet show with bad writers.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 14, 2023 11:29 PM (S6gqv)

186 >>I wonder what the decrease in tips will be percentage wise.

For me, not much as I don't often have food delivered to my house, and even when I lived in NYC I didn't often get anything delivered.

When I lived in Astoria, I could literally walk out of my ground floor garden apartment and walk across the street to a bodega, a Chinese Restaurant and Liqueur Store.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2023 11:29 PM (up/3i)

187 Brandon Herrera testing Joe Rogan's JFK Bullet Theory: 6.5 Carcano v reproduction of JFK head

https://youtu.be/KrNRCxow-Ek

"Where is the least sketchy place I can dispose of all this?"

Posted by: Kindltot at June 14, 2023 11:30 PM (xhaym)

188
The Traitor Twenty
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

While the Dems stick together as usual.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2023 11:30 PM (63Dwl)

189 This is the branch of the GOP playing by Queensbury rules while the other party is smashing them in the face with the nearest shovel.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 14, 2023 11:36 PM (MeG8a)

190 Brandon Herrera testing Joe Rogan's JFK Bullet Theory: 6.5 Carcano v reproduction of JFK head

https://youtu.be/KrNRCxow-Ek

"Where is the least sketchy place I can dispose of all this?"
Posted by: Kindltot at June 14, 2023 11:30 PM (xhaym)

Has anyone here visited the Book Depository? You can’t stand where Oswald shot but you can go to the next floor with the same floor plan and look out the window. The shot is fairly close.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 11:37 PM (MNhXM)

191 While the Dems stick together as usual.

That might just be their various secretions holding them in place.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 14, 2023 11:37 PM (Bd6X8)

192 Rory and his crew were monsters, but the international exposure just wasn't in the cards during the prolific and then fading day and age of disco.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 14, 2023 11:38 PM (fY84s)

193 25.

I missed the Girth Brooks story?

Posted by: CiceroKaboom! Kid at June 14, 2023 11:39 PM (3Or4S)

194 Steve Inman narrates a laundromat explosion in Spain:

https://tinyurl.com/4bedr3dy

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 14, 2023 11:40 PM (S6gqv)

195 Evening, MisHum and Horde. Settled in for the night at a motel in Idaho Falls. Motel room is eighty bucks, but it costs more than that to fill the truck with gas, so I guess it's all relative. Once the key was found, the crippled Suburban started right up, and was able to pull itself up onto the deck of the trailer. But it very nearly didn't make it; it was a near thing. The tow was pretty uneventful, and the tie-downs all stayed put. Drove at 55 to 65 miles an hour, and the hills were no problem. Left Cedar City at 11:15 AM, got into Idaho Falls at about 8:30 PM. About 470 miles in nine and a quarter hours, stops included.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 14, 2023 11:42 PM (57B/4)

196
Steve Inman narrates a laundromat explosion in Spain:

https://tinyurl.com/4bedr3dy
Posted by: Tom Servo

Saw that video a couple years ago on here.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2023 11:44 PM (63Dwl)

197 Camomile tea brewing and hoping for a quiet night.

I might make a "no pissing no shitting no injecting" stencil for a couple of signs on property. Better lighting in a dark nook or two, and a few security cam stills turning into wanted posters at the bus stop might help dissuade the usual suspects.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 14, 2023 11:48 PM (k1Qly)

198 Left Cedar City at 11:15 AM, got into Idaho Falls at about 8:30 PM. About 470 miles in nine and a quarter hours, stops included. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Sweet. Have a good night and an uneventful trip back to Alberta. Beautiful time of year to be traveling through Idaho and Montana.

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 11:49 PM (qxLut)

199 I might make a "no pissing no shitting no injecting" stencil for a couple of signs on property. Better lighting in a dark nook or two, and a few security cam stills turning into wanted posters at the bus stop might help dissuade the usual suspects.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 14, 2023 11:48 PM (k1Qly)

Can you give a brief recap about what’ you’re dealing with?

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2023 11:51 PM (MNhXM)

200 Another notable birthday this week:

https://tinyurl.com/5e6y68m4

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 14, 2023 11:51 PM (Bd6X8)

201 @109

>>The shot is fairly close.

Dealy Plaza is not that big and a shot from the Depository to the Motorcade is not that far or required a very skilled shooter, the deal with the Kennedy Assassination is not necessarily if Oswald did or did not shoot Kennedy, it's everything else surrounding it that makes no sense and is inexplicable.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2023 11:51 PM (up/3i)

202 176 What will they do when non-Clowns decide to *act* instead of talk?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

They will look at the crimson rose spreading across their chest in dumbfounded amazement and then they will fall on their face.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Invictus maneo at June 14, 2023 11:21 PM (c4rbO)
----
YESSSSSS!

Posted by: Ciampino - Who do you think you are, some kind of pentagon of virtue? at June 14, 2023 11:52 PM (qfLjt)

203 There are light bulbs now that have built in motion detectors. I have a few. They will light up if so much as a cat comes by. You just leave them powered on.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 14, 2023 11:53 PM (MeG8a)

204 Here is an extraordinary story. Russian solider surrenders to a Uke drone.

https://youtu.be/n2W8yRa9XuA

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 11:54 PM (qxLut)

205 Sweet. Have a good night and an uneventful trip back to Alberta. Beautiful time of year to be traveling through Idaho and Montana.
Posted by: Lost In Space at June 14, 2023 11:49 PM (qxLut)

There is some sort of sage-brush like weed growing along the roadsides in southern Utah, and it is all abloom with brilliant red trumpet-like flowers,

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 15, 2023 12:02 AM (57B/4)

206 "Over 17% of All U.S Firearm Murders Occur in Gun-Controlled California"

California has maybe 17% of the U.S. population, or more. So this should not be surprising.

Posted by: That guy who thinks it is too much fun and has to quit. at June 15, 2023 12:05 AM (vg8N1)

207 Had too much fun. Had to quit.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2023 12:06 AM (vg8N1)

208 @199: "Can you give a brief recap about what’ you’re dealing with?"

Uptown Minneapolis about two and a half miles away from George Floyd Square. Our little shopping district was a main looting target beginning on night one. Still lots of empty store fronts and closed bars, but a century old movie theater just reopened as a music venue last week, so we have that going for us, which is nice. One of the main bus transfer stations is half a block away from a cluster of old apartment buildings with a small handful of long time tenants remaining and waiting for renovation or demolishment, and I do security.

City park, major bike and running path, and newish library nearby so there's a jurisdictional clusterfuck between transit police, park police, county sheriffs, and city cops. City council voted to close the bus stop at night on March 15 as it had become a public safety hazard. They passed $3m in emergency funding for private security at this station and four others by end of spring, but no joy yet.

(cont.)

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 15, 2023 12:08 AM (k1Qly)

209 "Over 17% of All U.S Firearm Murders Occur in Gun-Controlled California"

Population of CA 40M, US population 330M = 12%

Posted by: buddhaha at June 15, 2023 12:09 AM (5+R+6)

210 LOL. Yeah. I remember when Calif was 25 million and the US was 250 million.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2023 12:11 AM (vg8N1)

211 I bailed off the Interstate at Meadow, Utah, and took a series of back roads up to the town of Tooele, where I merged onto I-80 eastbound for a few miles until I picked up the I-215 belt route northbound, which then put me om I-15 northbound at Farmington. A few miles of heavy traffic until I reached Ogden, then it cleared out real well, and smooth sailing onward. Much less stressful than pounding the Interstate through all the urbs from Provo to Ogden. Backroad Utah is real pretty.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 15, 2023 12:11 AM (57B/4)

212 that both sides come out fairly even

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at June 14, 2023 10:55 PM (B7rlW)

We also need people who aren't necessarily interested in "coming out even". Compromise is not a virtue in and of itself. (Yes, not always looking to enstompen your neighbors is a good thing; but some things should never be compromised.)

Posted by: GWB at June 15, 2023 12:12 AM (vQrdQ)

213 @226

>>California has maybe 17% of the U.S. population, or more. So this should not be surprising.

Cali has roughly 10pct of the US population.

It's white population is around 35pct and it's black population is under 7 pct. It's largely an Hispano-Asian state with lots of gang bangers doing all of the killing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 15, 2023 12:12 AM (up/3i)

214 AOP- Sounds like perhaps another day and a half to home?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 15, 2023 12:13 AM (+apjR)

215 How much of a advantage does a bio-male have?

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 14, 2023 11:09 PM (duy4p)

I think women have it easier making those shots where you have to lean waaaay in over a corner....

Posted by: GWB at June 15, 2023 12:15 AM (vQrdQ)

216 Population of CA 40M, US population 330M = 12%
Posted by: buddhaha at June 15, 2023 12:09 AM (5+R+6)

So not quite 50% more firearm murders per cap than the USA as a whole. I'd say that' significant.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 15, 2023 12:15 AM (57B/4)

217 The homeless, mentally ill, and/or drug addicts and dealers have since moved from the station to the darker areas in the park, around the library, along the bike path, etc. I'd guess three dozen people roaming around on any given night; half are long term regulars, other half come and go every few days. Daytime activity spiked a few weeks ago when warm weather chased people out of shelters. Sporadic enforcement or deliberate non-enforcement from the city; inconsistently applied carrots and sticks.

I have so many stories and sociological observations about the last few years. Things are mostly quiet in terms of wannabe squatters trying to politely schmooze or impolitely break their way into the buildings, but it wasn't always. Campers have been scared off property too. It's mostly zombies trying to claim stoops or cause miscellaneous trouble in the bushes and dark corners nowadays, and those are newbies in the neighborhood since everyone else knows better.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 15, 2023 12:16 AM (k1Qly)

218 Walter Freeman,
You have described San Francisco 30 years ago.
It gets way worse.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 15, 2023 12:17 AM (MeG8a)

219 AOP- Sounds like perhaps another day and a half to home?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 15, 2023 12:13 AM (+apjR)

Yes. I might stay over a day in Helena, since I have friends there. 'Bout a nine-hour haul from there to my door.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 15, 2023 12:17 AM (57B/4)

220 I bailed off the Interstate at Meadow, Utah, and took a series of back roads up to the town of Tooele, where I merged onto I-80 eastbound for a few miles until I picked up the I-215 belt route northbound, which then put me om I-15 northbound at Farmington. A few miles of heavy traffic until I reached Ogden, then it cleared out real well, and smooth sailing onward. Much less stressful than pounding the Interstate through all the urbs from Provo to Ogden. Backroad Utah is real pretty.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I-15 through the Salt Lake area is interesting. Utah drivers are in perpetual practice to become NASCAR drivers.

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 15, 2023 12:20 AM (qxLut)

221 120 Anyone who actually understood Saudi culture and MBS should have cleaned up Joey the Vegetable's speech before he even opened his pie hole.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at June 14, 2023 10:44 PM (B7rlW)

***SNORT***

His pie hole is in need of constant cleansing.
Fucking mushhead Brandon.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 14, 2023 10:45 PM (aA3+G)

*********

From one of the Morons post a couple of days ago:

"God ruined a perfectly good assh*le by putting teeth in Joe Biden's mouth."

Truer words were never spoken.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at June 15, 2023 12:22 AM (xxG/v)

222 Rory Gallagher? Isn't he the guy who handed out plastic sheets for the front rows of his concerts?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 15, 2023 12:24 AM (s12c9)

223 @218: "It gets way worse."

Sadly, I figured as much, so I've been hunkering down, becoming more stern, and beginning to voice my honest opinion more freely in conversation with neighbors and strangers alike. I might even go to a city council meeting tomorrow morning for the first time. Not sure how long I'll stick around this city, but for now, maybe my neighborhood seniority might mean something if I start asking the right people the right questions.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 15, 2023 12:25 AM (k1Qly)

224 Quiet day here, unseasonably cool and rainy with a very cutting breeze on top of it.

Brighter side , the knee is responding well to rehab, I've actually been doing what I was told for once. The doc said maybe no crutches in another day, still have to wear the brace.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 15, 2023 12:26 AM (KATBx)

225 I-15 through the Salt Lake area is interesting. Utah drivers are in perpetual practice to become NASCAR drivers.
Posted by: Lost In Space at June 15, 2023 12:20 AM (qxLut)

I saw two idiots cut across two lanes of traffic to get to an off-ramp. Par for the course, in the SLC zoo.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 15, 2023 12:27 AM (57B/4)

226 Brighter side , the knee is responding well to rehab, I've actually been doing what I was told for once. The doc said maybe no crutches in another day, still have to wear the brace.
Posted by: irongrampa at June 15, 2023 12:26 AM (KATBx)

Good news, IG!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 15, 2023 12:29 AM (57B/4)

227 I think women have it easier making those shots where you have to lean waaaay in over a corner....

“And when you stretch across that table my eyes are seeing things i didn’t come here looking for but I ain’t a putting it down.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 15, 2023 12:30 AM (EXyHK)

228 Enjoyed the link, but still think Rory's studio version of a million miles away is moar better.

https://tinyurl.com/tmb8nhda

Posted by: Lloyd Loar at June 15, 2023 12:34 AM (OgZm3)

229 Well, I have finished my one beer, and I am real sleepy, so I am going to hit the sack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 15, 2023 12:40 AM (57B/4)

230 After more than two decades, natural wine writing pioneer Alice Feiring is no longer excited by writing about wine. “I had something important to tell the world 23 years ago,” she says. But these days, she finds her attention pulled, instead, to writing about design, to delving into memoir or fiction. Wine profiles, she says, “are kind of dull! They’re important information that we need, but as a writer, it ain’t interesting.”
***

That's fine sweetie. Grab us a couple brewskis and and we can talk about it.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2023 12:42 AM (e4fEA)

231 https://twitter.com/MayorFrey/status/1668745100636176385

Funny 'cause local progressive activist Twitter is a fairly active crowd, and they usually cheerlead any little improvement citywide, no matter how small, but they all despise Frey.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 15, 2023 12:42 AM (k1Qly)

232 Henrik Freischlader (born 3 November 1982) is a German blues guitarist, singer-songwriter, producer, from Wuppertal, Germany. He has been the supporting act for Joe Bonamassa, B.B. King, Gary Moore, Peter Green, Johnny Winter and others.

Got IT Made/The Sky Is Crying
https://youtu.be/zRsHd-R7u04

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 15, 2023 12:46 AM (qxLut)

233 https://tinyurl.com/bp5rcmm6
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2023 12:47 AM (xhxe8)

234 Million Miles From Nowhere > Million Miles Away

Posted by: polynikes at June 15, 2023 12:53 AM (MNhXM)

235 Anyways. Sunrise comes quickly. See you all on the flip side.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 15, 2023 12:53 AM (k1Qly)

236 Anyways. Sunrise comes quickly.
-------

But...as Publius has pointed out, later than this morning.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 15, 2023 12:55 AM (vrkNi)

237 A seasoned Flag of the Republic triggers my memories.

My own flag posted up on a pole atop my front yard fence with the USMC Blood Chit flying below for all of my #1's deployments 2003-2012...5 in total.

The flag pole still stands though the bougainvillea with their wicked thorns and red flowers have grown half way up the pole.

Might be time indeed to trim the thorns back and hoist the colors again...and the Blood Chit as well.

The neighbors will take notice for sure but care I not.

It is time for us to NOT be afraid anymore.

It is time for us to stand up...and push back.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 15, 2023 12:59 AM (UsQA1)

238 It is time for us to stand up...and push back.
Posted by: Nightwatch
-----

Mine is lighted, flies 24/7.

I go through one a year, the local VFW takes care of the 'retirements'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 15, 2023 01:04 AM (21vDQ)

239 >> later than this morning.

Later in mean solar/standard/UT1/UTC time. If you reckon in apparent (true) solar time, the earliest sunrise does come on the solstice, as well as the latest sunset.

Put another way, on the solstice, the uniform time between sunrise and high noon (when the sun is directly over the local meridian) and the time between high noon and sunset will always be the greatest at the solstice.

Well, above the tropic of cancer and below the tropic of Capricorn. In between those to sub-solar lines, things get a bit more wonky.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at June 15, 2023 01:10 AM (Mzdiz)

240 For all of my son's deployments, the flags were up 24/7 with bright lighting at night. My neighbors understood.

Now? My neighbors will be concerned...maybe even frightful...not my concern.

This is a time not to be concerned with the FEELINGS of leftist's, commie/marxists.

We must go our way forward.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 15, 2023 01:11 AM (UsQA1)

241
I don't remember a time when there wasn't a flag at our home, always fastened to the house.

It was flown according to protocol, disposal was handled like Mike Hammer posted, by the VFW and still is today.

Each flag day I put the rescued one I took from a person who intended to burn it alongside.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 15, 2023 01:14 AM (KATBx)

242 As all my flags were retired...But I waited until the local Boy Scout Troop posted their ceremony for the public...and then brought mine in.

Though I'm still holding on to an Attic find in my wife's grandparent's house with 48 stars. That's history.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 15, 2023 01:23 AM (UsQA1)

243 The flag is now a Time, lost.

I don't know when it started its decline, but I'm guessing right around the time of Abraham Lincoln, followed by Woodrow Wilson, FDR and finally, Obama.

There is no such thing as "Free Speech". Once you understand how it can be used to undermine Christianity, you understand that "The West" is now owned by Clown World.

"Tolerance" is "Free Speech". It is also intolerant of its Creator.

Sink the Ships. We should have picked our own cotton. 'Lolbertarianism' is freedom to sin, instead of freedom from sin.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 01:28 AM (kQFcK)

244 I no longer "Pledge Allegiance" to Clown World.

Don't be gay.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 01:30 AM (kQFcK)

245 Sponge-Brain announces that the USA has plans to build a railroad, apparently from the USA to India. Yep, right across the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

https://tinyurl.com/59f5x6kn

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 15, 2023 01:37 AM (qxLut)

246 Just remembered to go take the US Flag down... flag day ya know...

Yeah... it was flying upside down.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2023 01:42 AM (oHd/0)

247 Sponge-Brain announces that the USA has plans to build a railroad, apparently from the USA to India. Yep, right across the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 15, 2023 01:37 AM (qxLut)

Well, he is President Joey Choo-Choo. Joey loves trains, even making Amtrak make an unscheduled stop in Delaware to pick him up to go to D.C. every day. Just a regular blue-collar Joe commuting to work.

Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2023 01:44 AM (emlEe)

248 Lost in Space.

Don't be silly. He's going to build it across Reservation Lands, don'chaknow?

How?

Nicetomeetcha!

How YOU?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 15, 2023 01:46 AM (e6UQI)

249 Well now,

I am sad for you that you are that low for the esteem of this great country.

Surely, in spite of the raging lunatics' that are given free range in our current dystopic media and the slobbering socialist/Marxists that are all but chomping their jaws to the Republic's demise...you fail to see the growing groundswell of what is going to occur in the next few months.

Yep...

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 15, 2023 01:50 AM (UsQA1)

250 Just got home. I went to the Mariners game after work with son#1. It was a lovely evening, cool and cloudy. Had a beer in center field beer garden and watched most of the game from there.

Mariners lost. Oh well. It was a wonderful evening with my son.

Lucy is very angry about my tardiness and her late dinner however.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 15, 2023 01:52 AM (U2p+3)

251 246

BOO...HISS...BOO

DUDE!

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 15, 2023 01:52 AM (UsQA1)

252 Posted by: Nightwatch at June 15, 2023 01:50 AM (UsQA1)

I believe that most here... and those I talk to in real life...

Love this country, but hate this government....

And... when in the course of Human Events...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2023 01:53 AM (oHd/0)

253 251 246

BOO...HISS...BOO

DUDE!
Posted by: Nightwatch at June 15, 2023 01:52 AM (UsQA1)

Uh... why? Flying a flag upside down is a sign of a ship in distress... if you don't think we are i distress? I don't know what to say to you.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2023 01:54 AM (oHd/0)

254

I fly my flag in honor of and pledge allegiance to the America I grew up in. Always will.

That America still exists, it's gone nowhere. Everything that allowed it to become the most exceptional country on the planet hasn't disappeared, it HAS been suborned to the point of invisibility by the leftist filth.

If you look you will discover that we've met and prevailed over issues even more serious than this, with an unbroken record of success.

I have unshakeable faith in my country, we will prevail here also. This is our heritage, to continue the battle to ensure our Republic endures.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 15, 2023 01:55 AM (KATBx)

255 The "esteem" for this country is nearly non-existent. There is no way I can convince you, of weak character, of this, so I will endure.

Reality, escaping you, moves ever-forward.

Simple math should direct your attitude, yet you cannot be convinced of that, so I yearn for your death; and the rebirth of a Nation.

Living in the past and refusing to understand Reality is symptomatic, so I take no umbrage to your attitude.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 01:58 AM (kQFcK)

256 253

I know and get it...truth be told I've considered the "Flag of Distress" a number of times so sorry for busting your chops

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 15, 2023 01:59 AM (UsQA1)

257 I have unshakeable faith in my country, we will prevail here also. This is our heritage, to continue the battle to ensure our Republic endures.
Posted by: irongrampa at June 15, 2023 01:55 AM (KATBx)

I'm glad you have Faith IG... mine.... has... been challenged.

Nothing lasts forever. Nothing is eternal. Even the Church has morphed over time, and that was supposed to be given to us by divine revelation.

Blind belief in an institution, is part of why we find ourselves in this place. We thought it was a great system... but it has been suborned by Man. We believed so much in the system, that we thought it would correct itself.... it has not.. and now... IMO... will not.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2023 02:00 AM (oHd/0)

258 Flying a flag upside down is a sign(al) of ~~a ship in~~ international distress

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2023 01:54 AM (oHd/0)

As a Boy Scout attending a World Jamboree, living in two-man pup tents for 11 days only to get hit by a typhoon halfway through, the U.S. flag flew upside down over quite a few campsites; we were evacuated later. Pup tents and Pacific hurricanes don't really go together, at least when it comes to having a restful and dry sleep.

Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2023 02:03 AM (emlEe)

259 And yet fly the Besty Ross Flag, and you ARE On A List!

Sad, isn't it.

The Original, and still the best. Yet they disparage it most of all.

I think I'll design a Besty Ross, but with a graduated MOA reticle right in the middle of the Stars.

My very own List of One. I can hardly wait!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 15, 2023 02:04 AM (e6UQI)

260 This is now a "country". It used to be a "Nation".

Nation is Biblical, New Testament stuff. This country is Clown World and you ALL know it.

While we can rinse the filth, it seems that those who try are called "Nazis" or "Feds" by those supposedly on our side.

When I mention "White, Land-Owning Patriots", people call me a "Nazi", and I no longer care.

Thomas Jefferson seems do disagree.

...and the Constitution is a Liberal Document.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 02:05 AM (kQFcK)

261 255

Slap!!! You just be trolling now brother...cycle back to hobo's and train trestles.

There be a can fire with beans in a pot for ya...maybe some Val-***-**** just don't get too close to the fire with that brother!

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 15, 2023 02:05 AM (UsQA1)

262 As a Boy Scout attending a World Jamboree, living in two-man pup tents for 11 days only to get hit by a typhoon halfway through, the U.S. flag flew upside down over quite a few campsites; we were evacuated later. Pup tents and Pacific hurricanes don't really go together, at least when it comes to having a restful and dry sleep.
Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2023 02:03 AM (emlEe)

My last Jamboree had a bit better memory. Yosemite Valley, Winter Jamboree... or... what became the worlds largest multi day snowball fight EVAH!

So epic, they never held another one there.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2023 02:06 AM (oHd/0)

263 257

Do not give in brother. That is what they want.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 15, 2023 02:07 AM (UsQA1)

264 pledge allegiance to the America I grew up in

I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag, and to the Republic for which it stood, nothing else. I am not pledging allegiance to government, especially our current kakistocracy. They make a grave mistake thinking my allegiance to the flag is allegiance to them.

Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2023 02:08 AM (emlEe)

265 263 257

Do not give in brother. That is what they want.
Posted by: Nightwatch at June 15, 2023 02:07 AM (UsQA1)

Not giving up... just a realist as to what comes next.

Civil Rights are moot. The Supremes have said that in an emergency, they will not even LOOK AT Civil right violations... Covid... which was not even an emergency.

To think that a Court, that is SELECTED by the Fed Gov, and PAID by the FED GOV, will protect our rights... is pretty damn stupid IMO.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2023 02:10 AM (oHd/0)

266 I don't get to have "my way", as it were. I am a Catholic in a Protestant Nation. The Constitution, with all its faults is a product of the worst nomenclature in human history... the enlightenment.

I also accede to its laws and amendments because I am not an invader. I am a white guy with a keyboard and I refuse to understand "black culture".

It is invasive and Diversity + Proximity = War.

Has Barack Obama taught you nothing?

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 02:11 AM (kQFcK)

267 Nuke the 1960's.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 02:12 AM (kQFcK)

268 I troll so hard, national documents become questions.

...because of Truth.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 02:13 AM (kQFcK)

269 267 Nuke the 1960's.
Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 02:12 AM (kQFcK)

Nuc ELVIS????? HERESY!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2023 02:13 AM (oHd/0)

270 Three-in-a-row means it is time for me to retire.

G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!

*static*

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 02:14 AM (kQFcK)

271 And yet fly the Besty Ross Flag, and you ARE On A List!

Sad, isn't it.

Posted by: Jim at June 15, 2023 02:04 AM (e6UQI)

That's one of The Big Three historical flags that will get you on some watch list. The other two are the Gadsden Flag and Texas' 'Come And Take It' Flag. Yep, those are definitely insurrection-y and anti-government, making you worse than Hitler.

Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2023 02:15 AM (emlEe)

272 Fine.

Pruners and chainsaws on the brush overgrowing my flagpole TOMORROW!!

RED WHITE & BLUE + USMC BLOOD CHIT 24/7 til death!!

Don't be a loser.

Night Horde.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 15, 2023 02:15 AM (UsQA1)

273
We are governed by the most unique political system in history, that's indisputable. It contains the methods of alteration to improve, but as I see it the real drawback is that it must be implemented by a just and moral people. Currently we seem to have a lack of them.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 15, 2023 02:17 AM (KATBx)

274 Posted by: irongrampa at June 15, 2023 02:17 AM (KATBx)

Exactly... the system would work for a moral people....

It is no longer working.

The Government now spends (State, local, Fed) more than 45% of the GDP.... almost half of every dollar spent in the US, is government spending... that is NOT a free people.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2023 02:21 AM (oHd/0)

275 ..It contains the methods of alteration to improve, but as I see it the real drawback is that it must be implemented by a just and moral people. Currently we seem to have a lack of them. Posted by: irongrampa at June 15, 2023 02:17 AM (KATBx)

Soapbox

Jury Box

Ballot Box

Cartridge Box

They've stolen the first three, already.

You and I have discussed the sanctity of the Brotherhood of the Foxhole, and our shared reverence thereof.

But there's nothing wrong with the standard set by first, going on the offensive, and taking the damn fight to THEM, tooth and claw.

Menken's Flag then, if it must be.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 15, 2023 02:24 AM (e6UQI)

276 Posted by: Jim at June 15, 2023 02:24 AM (e6UQI)

Yamamoto famously feared the American people.

Our own government... does not.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2023 02:25 AM (oHd/0)

277 Amen

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 15, 2023 02:26 AM (UsQA1)

278 @274

Well, then by virtue of the oath we both took the time to fulfill it is getting very close. I thought that fulfillment didn't always require picking up a weapon but that may be an error in this instance. Not advocating violence, though the left, by their actions are narrowing the choices.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 15, 2023 02:29 AM (KATBx)

279 DH had an afib ablation today, and it went well, after all. I was truly in fear mode. Something about ramming stuff up an artery into his heart, burning tissue (well, freezing it, I guess), and jumping his heart to see if it would still afib. Ack. I would not do well without DH, and this seemed like a likely thing to end our relationship, if you know what I mean.

I'd be happier to not have to do that again.

Both Jesus and his Mom would probably be happier too, considering how I kept them up all all last night.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 15, 2023 02:29 AM (LOVUx)

280 Romeo13,

World Jamboree in Japan in 1971. We camped on the plain in front of Mt. Fuji. My tent opened on the mountain and every morning I could see the snow-dusted peak. By the afternoon, clouds obscured the summit.

Having to walk a half a mile or so to the food distribution point in a typhoon is not . . . easy. When it was my turn to go with another guy (for breakfast rations), the eye passed overhead. We laughed as we came back bone dry. Then it started again.

So I've walked in the eye of a hurricane. Strange and obviously unplanned, but definitely a 'cross off the bucket list' moment.

The evacuation stories, especially the 'treats' prepared for us 'evacuees' by the local old ladies in a small village, are very memorable. This is before sushi hit the mainstream in America. Now for them at that time, one such 'treat' was nori wrapped around a rice ball with a center of jellyfish. Yeah no. But, God love 'em, they tried to make us feel welcome. But the jellyfish was a food too far.

Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2023 02:32 AM (emlEe)

281 He had a male nurse, which was probably good, since they cut a hole next to, as he calls it, his Hollywood, and have to check it repeatedly. Something about cutting a hole in him there.... well..... He claims they were impressed. I suspect they saw it as just another candidate for mycoxaflappin.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 15, 2023 02:33 AM (LOVUx)

282 *un-static*

We have not been understood, nor represented by a "just and moral people", since Kennedy was killed, at least.

Even Kennedy was not moral, as he belied his Catholicism. He tried, though, and he was killed for his efforts.

'Outsiders' have been Outright Killed in this country for their beliefs.

There has not been a Real Pope since 1958. The Holy See has been vacant and "Freedom to Sin" has been excused by every occupant, since.

Catholics believe in not holding debt, yet the administration of Woodrow Wilson allowed for a Central Bank, which held debt.

Where am I incorrect?

The Constitution is a Protestant document, yet we don't even hold those Truths to be Self-Evident.

Normies and Civ-Nats suck all sorts of beast dick.

*static*

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 02:33 AM (kQFcK)

283 Well, then by virtue of the oath we both took the time to fulfill it is getting very close. I thought that fulfillment didn't always require picking up a weapon but that may be an error in this instance. Not advocating violence, though the left, by their actions are narrowing the choices.
Posted by: irongrampa at June 15, 2023 02:29 AM (KATBx)

I was 'requested' to no longer participate at Hot Air, because I pointed out that when you stop people from being able to SPEAK about their views... eventually they will find another more force full means of making their opinion known.

That was.... damn... 7 years ago? The GENIUS of our system was that everyone could speak freely... FEEL like they had an input... Have a VOTE that they felt mattered.... most of us now believe those things... were a myth...

And that... will soon get very very ugly.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2023 02:34 AM (oHd/0)

284 Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 15, 2023 02:29 AM (LOVUx)

I can understand why you would be scared and as you well know, Jesus and his mother are not on the clock. They're up all night to listen. Thank be to God it all went well, and thanks for letting us know.

There is a woman in my congregation who might need to have this procedure. She is very nervous

Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for Public Office at June 15, 2023 02:37 AM (eybgB)

285 Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2023 02:32 AM (emlEe)

But... it formed you didn't it? It made an impact on who you are today.

I can tell you stories of hard times... of things that should have killed me. Shit that sucked... and yes... it ALL had an impact on who I am.

But... so did the good times. The Left wants to believe that they can CREATE who they want to be... but the sad fact is that we are all a product of our experiences.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2023 02:38 AM (oHd/0)

286 Tis time, I'm afraid. I'd stay up but I'm too sleepy.

Just remember that y'all must hold your head HIGH and PROUD because we are Americans, and our heritage requires it. Now especially.

Goodnite, good people. Be safe and sleep well.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 15, 2023 02:42 AM (KATBx)

287 There is a woman in my congregation who might need to have this procedure. She is very nervous
Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for Public Office at June 15, 2023 02:37 AM (eybgB)

Thanks, Fen. It all seems so Frankensteinish but apparently it works and there are rarely if ever complications. You can tell her that, at least.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 15, 2023 02:44 AM (LOVUx)

288 I may not share a line-for-line concurrence with Slapweasel's every theological treatise.

But damn if I don't lay down my own heretical tone-arm into the same groove on that record, and dig the tune.

I don't know about the pre 1958 Popes. But I know for sure that JPII was one HELL of a lot closer to HIM, than the present Made in China plastic chrome plated dashboard pope wobbling about puking communism.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 15, 2023 02:45 AM (e6UQI)

289 Francis is an anti-pope. We've had them before. God will right this barque, at some point, probably when we least deserve it. Cranky Franky is a temporary condition which will pass. His church will remain.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 15, 2023 02:46 AM (LOVUx)

290 *un-static*

See? Despite Timothy 2:12, we have this ongoing endeavor that I once endorsed.

Also: If my I.Q. reached 100, it was because someone was pressing on the scale.

I was naive when I started the Prayer List and even more ignorant when I passed it off to a woman.

Am I a Troll? In some eyes, now; perhaps.

I simply hate the anti-Christ.

Don't feel special. I've been where you are.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 02:50 AM (kQFcK)

291 Oh, things are going to get very ugly. Just look at the pushback the pushback against trans indoctrination that has occurred. To be concerned about the education of your child, and keep them away from groomers in the schools, now makes you a domestic terrorist.

There are no political disagreements anymore; they are now political 'take no prisoners' wars. The violence is already here, we're just being gaslit about it. We cannot continue having 'elite' incompetents lording over us, telling us how special they are, while having a different set of laws apply to them. The Intolerable Acts were once considered Intolerable for a reason.

Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2023 02:54 AM (emlEe)

292 Slap.

I'm NOT Catholic. I'm barely a Christian, save for my Confession of Faith and earthquake level conversion, many years ago.

So, dumb question. Might be for Catholics and not for me?

How do we/they/y'all purge the Anti-Christs and Anti-Popes from the playing field. If it Scripturally can be done, at all?

'Cause there's a multitude of teevee preachers that need to know the healing power of "EMPTY" collection plates.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 15, 2023 02:56 AM (e6UQI)

293 I don't see the need to attack me. It neither changes my mind or who I am. Thanks for starting the prayer list and God bless you. Yours seemed an odd reaction to my expressing concern to a fellow poster whose husband had a serious procedure and to whom I agreed with on the importance of prayer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for Public Office at June 15, 2023 02:58 AM (XnVHx)

294 I am not special. I have always known that I am just a guy with a keyboard. I have no "Special Knowledge" because it has all been written, before.

I call myself retarded because I am. I can no more decipher Scripture than some "expert", yet I know what I see.

I have watched "Megachurches" go about their ways and bastardize God's Word for profit.

Humility is key and I'll not tell you that I can decipher the Word of God.

...but we have gone astray; the lot of us. Me, included.

Do not "follow" me. That is the last thing I would ask of humanity... *HAH!*

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 02:58 AM (kQFcK)

295 293- For Slapweasel

Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for Public Office at June 15, 2023 02:59 AM (XnVHx)

296 I've had a heart ablation due to scar tissue. I was kept overnight because there was a lot of 'burning'. But the immediate before and after was startling. The next day I left the hospital and lightly jogged to catch a bus to get home. That procedure is amazing.

And the leg hole is smaller than the one I had had years earlier, too. That was for a stent.

Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2023 03:00 AM (emlEe)

297 -Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for Public Office at June 15, 2023 02:58 AM (XnVHx)

That is a very womanly response. Thank you for proving my point.

Please be a gift to your Family, as I know you are.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 03:00 AM (kQFcK)

298 I. neither seem nor need your approval. Goodnight.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for Public Office at June 15, 2023 03:06 AM (9Nl5R)

299 You see... A misled Male Pastor would respond completely differently than the response I received from this individual.

...feelings.

The Word of God is not feelings. It is The Word.

This woman bastardized God's Word, so as to attack someone who simply posted The Word.

I am not your Typical Troll, as you will find, Fenelon.

Please stop doing what you are doing. You are not equipped for the task.

Take care of your Family and listen to your Husband.

-God
-Man
-Woman
-Child

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 03:08 AM (kQFcK)

300 "seek"

...but you are flustered.

...like a female.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 03:09 AM (kQFcK)

301 "I only listen to parts of God's Word."

...today, that doesn't Cut It.

Stop listening to These People. They "cut corners" and refuse to acknowledge God's Word.

Female pastors are the same as gay pastors. They Do Not Exist.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 03:15 AM (kQFcK)

302 Incontinence can be inconvenient!

Just sayin'...no first hand knowledge...so far.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 14, 2023 10:17 PM (CCSxw)
-

Incontinence we truss!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 15, 2023 03:19 AM (YwvIc)

303 279 Both Jesus and his Mom would probably be happier too, considering how I kept them up all all last night.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 15, 2023 02:29 AM (LOVUx)

; )

Blessings on you!

Posted by: m at June 15, 2023 03:19 AM (x5hic)

304 Posted by: m at June 15, 2023 03:19 AM (x5hic)

Quel bizarre hash.

Posted by: m at June 15, 2023 03:20 AM (x5hic)

305 Thanks Skip !

Posted by: JT at June 15, 2023 03:21 AM (T4tVD)

306 Jeez, Slap...

WTF?

Posted by: JQ at June 15, 2023 03:22 AM (Gkog9)

307 233 https://tinyurl.com/bp5rcmm6
20 Tweets from Bad Blue
Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2023 12:47 AM (xhxe

Thanks, Skip!
LOL the Elon Musk tweet.

Posted by: m at June 15, 2023 03:24 AM (x5hic)

308 "Jeez, Slap...
WTF?"
-Posted by: JQ at June 15, 2023 03:22 AM (Gkog9)

You don't even want to know The Half Of It, so please don't ask questions that you don't want the answers to.

Be rhetorical. Find dialectic.

-Lose God and be sad.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 03:28 AM (kQFcK)

309 ...and by God, I also mean his Only Begotten Son, who died for your sins and was arisen three days later.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 03:31 AM (kQFcK)

310 "You don't even want to know The Half Of It, so please don't ask questions that you don't want the answers to."
-----------

Y'know... you're absolutely right. Not interested at all in whatever bullshit you'd spew.

Take care, man. Happy trails.

Careful of that tall horse, that you don't fall off

Posted by: JQ at June 15, 2023 03:31 AM (Gkog9)

311 "Civ-Nats" are not going to like a new, Christian Nation.

-Pathos: Woman's Law
-Ethos: Man's Law
-Logos: God's Law

If you were wondering, yes; the fourth law is probably named "Dartagnian".

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 03:35 AM (kQFcK)

312 "Y'know... you're absolutely right. Not interested at all in whatever bullshit you'd spew.
Take care, man. Happy trails.
Careful of that tall horse, that you don't fall off."
-Posted by: JQ at June 15, 2023 03:31 AM (Gkog9)

It ain't my horse.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 03:37 AM (kQFcK)

313 I'm to the snoozer, y'all.

Hasta la nite nite, Horde!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 15, 2023 03:39 AM (e6UQI)

314 G'Night, Jim.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 03:40 AM (kQFcK)

315 Time to get rolling

Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2023 03:47 AM (xhxe8)

316 Without reference to the merits (because who cares what my opinion is anyway), Slap's sentiments would have been uncontroversial in many quarters a generation or so ago, a supermajoritarian one before that, and virtually unchallenged even earlier but still within the lifetime of the HQ's oldest commenters. It's a good example of how there really are almost no conservatives in any important way anymore. Today's conservatives are largely just 70s liberals. There's no position conservatives won't abandon. 20 years from now, a majority of conservatives will roll their eyes or worse at those uncomfortable with transgenderism. Conservatism is dead, and it ain't coming back.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 15, 2023 03:55 AM (KFhLj)

317 The idiots' belief of Christianity is that we are passive cows whose only belief is Eventual Forgiveness.

That's understandable, seeing-as that has been the Leftist Interpretation since the invasion of the Papacy and its eventual takeover in 1958.

There has not been a Real Catholic Pope since 1958.

This country was founded upon Protestant, Enlightenment philosophy. There has been no larger a misnomer than the "enlightenment", as it were.

We revere George Washington for crossing an icy river to slay Hessians on Christmas for those reasons.

We no longer hold to those beliefs because we are pussies.

I won't even cross the street to punch a faggot because of traffic.

I. Am. Pathetic.

Either understand the foundation and accept its Better, in Christianity, or boil like that gay frog in the proverbial pot.

Fuck you, JQ. I'll be back, because of you.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 03:56 AM (kQFcK)

318 Fuck you, JQ. I'll be back, because of you.
Posted by: Slapweasel

Mighty Christian of you, Slap.

Posted by: JQ at June 15, 2023 04:03 AM (Gkog9)

319 I'm laughing at the pushback from someone named "JQ".

It is quite funny.

Christ loves you. Get some.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 04:06 AM (kQFcK)

320 The idea of you defining "Christianity" is silly, JQ.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 04:07 AM (kQFcK)

321 It isn't so much your misunderstanding, as it is your outright defiance. It is, you know... telling.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 04:09 AM (kQFcK)

322 Morning, all,

I seem to have walked in on a family fight. I'll, uh, just be outside here by the car till the storm passes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 15, 2023 04:13 AM (omVj0)

323 For certain definitions of "Family", *fist-bump*

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 04:14 AM (kQFcK)

324 PIXY NOOD IS UP

Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2023 04:19 AM (xhxe8)

325 JQ is a victim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em---p0JquQ

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 04:41 AM (kQFcK)

326 You'll find that people stop fighting me because Truth tends to trump rhetoric.

...and as a Retard, I don't mind admitting when I'm wrong.

I will, however, fight you.

Posted by: Slapweasel at June 15, 2023 04:49 AM (kQFcK)

327 @326

or wrestling with a pig, something something

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Posted by: Melinda Roman at June 15, 2023 07:55 AM (ksvA/)

330 The problem with violence is the act, not the hardware.

Posted by: Jim at June 15, 2023 09:23 AM (zhWvq)

331 Lots of b****g about the 20 republican rats but no one asks which 20 they are? Why is this not readily supplied by conservatives..."conservatives"? Oh... because conservatives are f****g losers. I will now go try to look this up for myself and report back. Idiots.

Posted by: WTP at June 15, 2023 09:38 AM (pQaMn)

332 Annnd...here you go. Got it from Newsweek of all places. F*** Thomas Massie.
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Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at June 15, 2023 10:05 AM (uxohk)

334 Re Calif and guns. This is the type of amateur hour fake news that makes conservatives look like fools and liars.
That site took total firearm homicides (approx 20k) and the divided total firearm deaths in CA of 3576, which inc suicides, to get the 17% of all murders. Th real number, using only firearm homicides, is 1861, or 8.9% of the total.

Posted by: Landru at June 15, 2023 10:14 AM (mEYVq)

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