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Monday Overnight Open Thread (6/19/23)

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The Quotes of The Day


Quote I

“The family is horrified at the fact that throughout this process, they’ve been kept in the dark by the prosecution,” Maurica Manyan family attorney Chelsea Lewis said.


Quote II

“We don’t need to be searching for viruses that may never interact with man. And it’s worse than that. They bring viruses that we may never interact with, they bring them back to the lab, but then they manipulate them by combining them with other viruses to create viruses that don’t exist in nature,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)


Quote III

Our troops want to be part of a winning organization. I was in the Gulf War, and I gotta say, it felt pretty awesome even though I basically ran a heavily armed carwash. But we knew we were the best, not because of officers mouthing endless clichés about “lethality” and “readiness” but because we knew what we could do. We need that winning attitude back. We need our military to earn once again the respect of the American people such that young Americans are ready to serve in adequate numbers. Kurt Schlichter

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If I take the test I'll fail. If I don't take it do I get an (I) Incomplete?

Think you'll live to be 100? Take this 35-question quiz to find out how likely you are to live a long, healthy life

Longevity scientists have designed a quiz estimating someone's life expectancy
Those who score highly in the quiz are most likely to reach 100 years old


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This my friends is no surprise to us on the Right.

About one in four children in the United States are living in fatherless homes, making them far more likely to suffer from mental health and behavioral issues, research details.

An issue brief published by the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) finds clear correlations between children raised in fatherless homes and developmental challenges such as anger problems, violent tendencies, and overall lower educational scores.


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Mark Dice is spot on and also brings a chuckle.............

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I remember moving into our first lake home. I thought the geese and their little goslings were so cute. That lasted approximately one week. Ducking crap machines.

Residents in remote beauty spot are locked in bitter row with neighbour as they try to evict her over her pet geese which they say are 'terrorising locals and attacking walkers and tourists'
The community of eight in Berney Arms, Norfolk, are locked in a bitter row
They say Sharon Davis is breaching tenancy rules with 'aggressive' pet geese
Residents also claim she allows her horse to roam freely and is rearing a fox cub

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I might be "old fashioned". But my house works, even if it isn't Smart.

Earlier this month, Amazon locked a man out of his account, disrupting his extensive smart home system. The suspension was driven by a delivery driver who claimed the man used a racial slur through his automated doorbell system. The only problem is that the man captured the entire interaction on his security system — the communication to the worker was an automated greeting of, “Excuse me, can I help you?”

In a post to Medium, Brandon Jackson outlined how his smart home system was disrupted by a week-long lockout from his Amazon account.


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Well this trip didn't work out too well.

Expert names five theories why Titanic tourist sub vanished - and 'only hope' for rescue

Former Rear Admiral Chris Parry has weighed in on what could have caused a vessel touring the site of the Titanic crash site to disappear without contact overnight as three passengers have been named


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The ONT Musical Interlude & Help Desk Emporium



On this day: 19 Jun 2013
Slim Whitman the American country music and western music singer/songwriter and instrumentalist died aged 90. Known for his yodeling abilities and his smooth high octave falsetto, he sold in excess of 120 million records during his career. Michael Jackson cited Whitman as one of his ten favorite vocalists and Beatle George Harrison cited Whitman as an early influence. Paul McCartney credited a poster of Whitman with giving him the idea of playing his guitar left-handed with his guitar strung the opposite way to a right-handed player's. via thisdayinmusic.com


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On this day: 19 Jun 2015
Blues musician Wendell Holmes died aged 71. He released 12 albums as part of The Holmes Brothers, a family band that included his siblings Sherman and Willie. During their career, the brothers played with many artists including Van Morrison, Peter Gabriel, Rosanne Cash, Levon Helm and Willie Nelson. via thisdayinmusic.com


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On this day: 19 Jun 2020
Bob Dylan released his 39th studio album Rough and Rowdy Ways. It beame Dylan's highest-charting album on the Billboard 200 in more than a decade and it marked his seventh consecutive decade of charting top 40 albums, making him the only artist to date to accomplish this feat. via thisdayinmusic.com


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I guess there are worse ways to spend tax dollars. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

To combat learning loss over the summer, Tennessee is funding the delivery of surprise books to keep almost a quarter million kids engaged with reading.

The Governor’s Early Literacy Foundation (GELF) expanded its K-3 Home Library program to now include all rising 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade students enrolled in a public school. In collaboration with Scholastic publishing, the program will deliver 1.2 million books to more than 200,000 students, teachers, and librarians this summer.


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Wallet? Check. House keys? Check. Drug pipe? Check. Raccoon? Raccoon!!! Genius Award Winner.

Clearwater police arrest woman for drugs, find raccoon in bag

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — A woman was found with a baby raccoon in her bag after police searched her belongings during a bicycle stop.

According to the Clearwater Police Department, 43-year-old Lindsay Rodewald was stopped while riding her bicycle, which did not have lights on during the night.

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Comments

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1 Dedication, Integrity, Competence, Excellence - DICE

My acronym

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 19, 2023 09:56 PM (hOUT3)

2 Mhmm.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 19, 2023 09:56 PM (k1Qly)

3 Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 19, 2023 09:56 PM (hOUT3

That's a lot of shit to remember.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 19, 2023 09:58 PM (aA3+G)

4 Evening hordemates!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 19, 2023 09:58 PM (e4fEA)

5 Fist

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 19, 2023 09:59 PM (sJHOI)

6 Top ten?

Posted by: Pete Seria at June 19, 2023 10:00 PM (7ZQe3)

7 Never first - always, always happy to just be here.
Thanks, Mis.Hum. For all of it.
You do kick it sir😕!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2023 10:01 PM (0sjRi)

8 Schlichter is correct.
And it wouldn't be that hard to do. But that attitude is needed in our society as well. We are Americans damn it. No hyphen something. Just Americans, and we can do anything!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 19, 2023 10:01 PM (e4fEA)

9 MisHum, that top picture looks refreshing to me, 99 degrees here in ETEX today.

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 10:01 PM (Uv0D2)

10 A woman was found with a baby raccoon in her bag after police searched her belongings during a bicycle stop.


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forget the raccoon in the bag, they stopped her during a bicycle stop ? there is such a thing ??

Posted by: runner at June 19, 2023 10:02 PM (V13WU)

11 9 MisHum, that top picture looks refreshing to me, 99 degrees here in ETEX today.
Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 10:01 PM (Uv0D2)

Eeh gadz, that's hot, way too hot.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 19, 2023 10:02 PM (aA3+G)

12 That's a lot of shit to remember.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra


And I didn't even use fifth one, just to keep it basic!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 19, 2023 10:02 PM (hOUT3)

13 Slim Whitman gets a lot of mockery but he was a really good singer.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 10:03 PM (0hOvj)

14 Good evening everyone.

Ah, the old 'John Katshit' method of using a DW. (was called out to his place years ago when working as a helper. That's what that bonehead did.)

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 10:03 PM (qoGsy)

15 That top pic will cool ya right off.

Posted by: Emmie -- July 15 ArkanOklaMoMe RSVP email link in nic at June 19, 2023 10:04 PM (Emce2)

16 Lookin' for their guns?

Posted by: GWB at June 19, 2023 10:04 PM (vQrdQ)

17 Was that photo on top taken of Northern Wisconsin in May?

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 10:04 PM (l2TUW)

18 And good grief Mis.Hum...I hope you are not caught in some goofy puddle...especially this time of year. Tsk,tsk...you know better... (frown)....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2023 10:05 PM (0sjRi)

19 Good lord I don't want to live to 100. I'm not sure I want to live til 2024

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 10:05 PM (0hOvj)

20 To Build A Fire - Canoe Trip

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 19, 2023 10:06 PM (4I/2K)

21 Did Slim sell more records than Elvis and/or the Beatles or was that Zamfir?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2023 10:06 PM (63Dwl)

22 Couldn't pay me 250k to go down in that sub.

Posted by: BignJames at June 19, 2023 10:06 PM (AwYPR)

23 17 Was that photo on top taken of Northern Wisconsin in May?
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 10:04 PM (l2TUW)

It could have been, reminds me of a river or 2 up this way.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 19, 2023 10:06 PM (aA3+G)

24 18 And good grief Mis.Hum...I hope you are not caught in some goofy puddle...especially this time of year. Tsk,tsk...you know better... (frown)....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2023 10:05 PM (0sjRi)

The only goofy puddle I'm caught up in is the medical/insurance world.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 19, 2023 10:07 PM (aA3+G)

25 11 9 MisHum, that top picture looks refreshing to me, 99 degrees here in ETEX today.
Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 10:01 PM (Uv0D2)

Eeh gadz, that's hot, way too hot.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 19, 2023 10:02 PM (aA3+G)

I let it get down to 90 before I mowed the yard tonight.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2023 10:08 PM (S6gqv)

26 When I hear Una Poloma Blanca I expect to hear gunfire and bombs going off.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2023 10:08 PM (63Dwl)

27 Tennessee has a GILF program?

*Squints*

Never mind.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 19, 2023 10:09 PM (u73oe)

28 Well hell. According to that life expectancy quiz, I'm going to liv,.........

Posted by: Diogenes at June 19, 2023 10:09 PM (e4fEA)

29 >>>Clearwater police arrest woman for drugs, find raccoon in bag

They could have flipped that and it still would have made sense. Police arrested a woman for having a raccoon in her bag, find drugs.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 19, 2023 10:10 PM (klJTj)

30 Thanks for the girthy ONT, Mis Hum!

Great photo of a true fisherman up top.

Who among us has not mistakenly used Dawn instead of Cascade in the dishwasher? It's a lesson that needs only to be learned once. Thank God!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 19, 2023 10:10 PM (vfKOf)

31 Scholastic Publishing paperback books was one of my favorite memories of elementary school. I loved ordering them and most of all I loved when they arrived. It was like Christmas a few times during the school year.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 10:10 PM (l2TUW)

32 Thanks for the Slim Whitman clip. My Dad loved him.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2023 10:10 PM (qoGsy)

33 I didn't read the theories on the sub, but if the words "Lucas Industries" were on any of the sub's critical components, that would be a flashing red clue.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 19, 2023 10:10 PM (wA0yO)

34 Our troops want to be part of a winning organization.

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Army Secretary Christine Wormuth thinks that right-wing rhetoric critical of the military is making our military weaker. The Army's top civilian leader pushed back amid Republican criticisms that the military is going too "woke," arguing such critiques are deepening an already troubling recruiting crisis.

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Yeah, that must be it. The damn conservatives criticizing our flaming rainbow military is what's keeping recruits away.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at June 19, 2023 10:10 PM (FVME7)

35 re. Kurt Schlicter's column, one of the first things to do is reduce the OpTempo of the military. Currently units are on the same 1-2 deployment schedule as during the GWOT. And soldiers are getting burned out. Deployments are supposed to be 8 months but they're getting extended. And then it's come home and start training for the NEXT deployment.

Posted by: Stacy0311 at June 19, 2023 10:11 PM (DtPtM)

36 Regarding the band behind the snow pic:

Saw them (for real) in high school, somewhere around '71-'72. Took a date, a girl from the Saturday morning high school-age league, so not in my high school. Whoever the lead singer was/is, Burton?, he was quite vulgar. Considering their songs on the radio, that was very much a surprise. At one point, the lead singer was twirling his flute, talking to the crowd, when he said something along the lines of 'girls like to play with my flute' while he twirled it so that it stuck out from his crotch. I was mortified. First (and last) date and all that.

Posted by: RickZ at June 19, 2023 10:11 PM (emlEe)

37 When I hear Una Poloma Blanca I expect to hear gunfire and bombs going off.

Me, too. RIP, El Rushbo.

Posted by: Mayor Pete at June 19, 2023 10:12 PM (Xrfse)

38 I know somebody who got a DUI on a bike (not motorized)

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 19, 2023 10:12 PM (sJHOI)

39 Wait! I'm still waiting for my order from the café!

Posted by: mindful webworker - the behinder I get at June 19, 2023 10:12 PM (hr4l7)

40 24 MH

That is one nasty puddle. I certainly get it, having been down that twisted road all too many times.
I kinda like your puddle better...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2023 10:12 PM (0sjRi)

41
*looks around in awe*

So this is an ONT...

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2023 10:12 PM (MoZTd)

42 Yeah, that must be it. The damn conservatives criticizing our flaming rainbow military is what's keeping recruits away.

More time spent in high heels should fix that attitude.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2023 10:13 PM (eOEVl)

43 What the hell did that retired DC cop do to elicit a 2nd degree murder charge? It had to be something much more than just a training accident.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 10:13 PM (l2TUW)

44 31: you too? My parents restricted me to three books a book order. They had to. )

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 19, 2023 10:13 PM (tYTox)

45 13 Slim Whitman gets a lot of mockery but he was a really good singer.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 10:03 PM (0hOvj)

++++

Wasn't he the one that made the Martian's heads explode in Mars Attacks?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 19, 2023 10:13 PM (klJTj)

46 33 I didn't read the theories on the sub, but if the words "Lucas Industries" were on any of the sub's critical components, that would be a flashing red clue.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 19, 2023 10:10 PM (wA0yO)


Really?

Posted by: Wile E. Coyote, Acme Customer at June 19, 2023 10:13 PM (aA3+G)

47 Think you'll live to be 100? Take this 35-question quiz to find out how likely you are to live a long, healthy life

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Is one of the questions, "Do you go on private submarinen tourist
jaunts to the Titanic?"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at June 19, 2023 10:14 PM (FVME7)

48 I wonder...
Is Rand Paul the only guy in congress with any actual balls?!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2023 10:14 PM (0sjRi)

49
Getting crushed at that depth would not be pretty.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2023 10:15 PM (MoZTd)

50 Edit: Took a date, a girl from the Saturday morning high school-age bowling league, so not in my high school.

Posted by: RickZ at June 19, 2023 10:16 PM (emlEe)

51 MisHum: I know we morons joke about reading and not reading content, but lately I've been making sure to listen and watch all of your music links. It's a nice way to wind down at the end of my day and more educational than I should probably admit. Easy to get stuck listening to the same old comfortable things, I guess. So thanks for the time and effort you put into your curation.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 19, 2023 10:16 PM (k1Qly)

52 Is Rand Paul the only guy in congress with any actual balls?!
Posted by: COMountainMarie


Yes! And a functional brain as well!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 19, 2023 10:16 PM (hOUT3)

53 No young American should ever join the military again. It's time to stop wasting their lives on the sh*thole this country has become.

They give their lives, we give them drag queens for their children at the base library; they live in substandard housing that was well maintained by post maintenance in the old days that was turned over to "private contractors" who can't even keep black mold and rats out of them, they are forced to be human guinea pigs for any and all crackpot "vaccines" (that includes spouses and children), they all receive receive substandard medical care from people who aren't Americans and aren't even educated to US medical standards. No way would my kid ever join that crap.

Posted by: JP at June 19, 2023 10:16 PM (tF/Gf)

54 Subs R Us
our motto is 'Down and Back'

don't go down with us, or you'll never come back

Posted by: DB - at June 19, 2023 10:16 PM (geLO8)

55 Former Rear Admiral Chris Parry has weighed in on what could have caused a vessel touring the site of the Titanic crash site to disappear without contact overnight as three passengers have been named."

I know! I know! It Sank!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2023 10:16 PM (S6gqv)

56 Army Secretary Christine Wormuth thinks that right-wing rhetoric critical of the military is making our military weaker. The Army's top civilian leader pushed back amid Republican criticisms that the military is going too "woke," arguing such critiques are deepening an already troubling recruiting crisis.

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Yeah, that must be it. The damn conservatives criticizing our flaming rainbow military is what's keeping recruits away.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I think I see a problem already.
Christine Warmuth as Secretary of the Army.
These sorts of things are "word of mouth".
When people coming out say "don't go in now", "don't enlist", "I am not re-upping", all the great TV ads don't mean squat.

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at June 19, 2023 10:16 PM (tjZg/)

57 Off sock. Go find your partner.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 19, 2023 10:16 PM (aA3+G)

58 Clearwater police arrest woman for drugs, find raccoon in bag

These aren't my drugs. The raccoon must have put them there.

Posted by: a Clearwater woman at June 19, 2023 10:17 PM (DgGvY)

59 19 Good lord I don't want to live to 100. I'm not sure I want to live til 2024
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 19, 2023 10:05 PM

My poor old dad has found out the hard way that aging isn't for sissies. He was getting thin-skinned, resulting in contusions whenever he worked on summer projects. This year, his skin scrapes off when he brushes a doorframe or similar things.

I bandaged both of his arms today.

And he wants to clean zebra mussels off the hull tomorrow by crawling under the boat trailer.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 19, 2023 10:17 PM (yKPAy)

60 I remember moving into our first lake home. I thought the geese and their little goslings were so cute. That lasted approximately one week. Ducking crap machines.

Are they also biters like swans? A beach I used to go to often had swans. Regulars would try to warn people to not let their kids go near the swans.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 19, 2023 10:17 PM (0Htd1)

61 Is Rand Paul the only guy in congress with any actual balls?!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2023 10:14 PM (0sjRi


I wonder if he's for real or if he's just allowed to play the role of gadfly. He reveals stuff and then nothing happens to the miscreants.

Posted by: Emmie -- July 15 ArkanOklaMoMe RSVP email link in nic at June 19, 2023 10:18 PM (Emce2)

62 So thanks for the time and effort you put into your curation.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 19, 2023 10:16 PM (k1Qly)

Thanks Walter.

I read a disturbing story about your fair city on Hot Air this evening. It really is becoming Minnehopelis.

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

63 Christine Warmuth, as Secretary of the Army, is a policy wonk that started as an intern in the Clinton Regime, and then served in the Obama Regime.
Now Sec. of the Army in the Biden Junta.

And yes, she has never been an active duty service person (woman?) in her life.

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at June 19, 2023 10:19 PM (tjZg/)

64 Army Secretary Christine Wormuth thinks that right-wing rhetoric critical of the military is making our military weaker. The Army's top civilian leader pushed back amid Republican criticisms that the military is going too "woke," arguing such critiques are deepening an already troubling recruiting crisis.

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Yeah, that must be it. The damn conservatives criticizing our flaming rainbow military is what's keeping recruits away.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at June 19, 2023 10:10 PM (FVME7)
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Stupid comment by yet another beltway asshole. The DOD knows why people join the military. They've tracked this since vietnam. Our leadership since Obama (PDT excluded) has slowly trashed he incentives for enlisting and openly mock the values and virtues of military service. Blaming one political party for recruiting failure is just one more manifestation of their arrogance and stupidity.

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

65 From Insty's...

RIP: John Romita Sr., Iconic Marvel And Spider-Man Comic Book Artist, Has Died, Age 93.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 19, 2023 10:20 PM (Vwz3I)

66 Getting crushed at that depth would not be pretty.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2023 10:15 PM (MoZTd)

380 atmospheres. 5,500 psi.

I think it would be very quick!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 19, 2023 10:22 PM (PHmov)

67 I don't know if I'll make it to 100. I hear it requires a whiskey and a cigar every day. I'm way behind.

Posted by: Emmie -- July 15 ArkanOklaMoMe RSVP email link in nic at June 19, 2023 10:22 PM (Emce2)

68 Good evening morons and thanks mh

The Colonel is pithy as usual

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2023 10:23 PM (RIvkX)

69 57 Off sock. Go find your partner.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

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Partner maybe fell into an Acme Instant Hole?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 19, 2023 10:23 PM (wA0yO)

70 Clearwater police arrest woman for drugs, find raccoon in bag

These aren't my drugs. The raccoon must have put them there.
Posted by: a Clearwater woman at June 19, 2023 10:17 PM (DgGvY)

You got issues, lady.

Posted by: Rocket at June 19, 2023 10:23 PM (4I/2K)

71 forget the raccoon in the bag, they stopped her during a bicycle stop ? there is such a thing ??

Posted by: runner at June 19, 2023 10:02 PM (V13WU)




Guy I used to work with was driving thru one of Florida's known speed-trap towns I think it was DeLand. I was on the phone with him when he said "Why is that guy pointing at me?"

It was a cop ON FOOT pulling him over for speeding. Something like 21mph in a 15 zone. Not school zone.

Posted by: NC Ref at June 19, 2023 10:23 PM (fnmJK)

72 Schlichter is correct.
And it wouldn't be that hard to do. But that attitude is needed in our society as well. We are Americans damn it. No hyphen something. Just Americans, and we can do anything!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 19, 2023 10:01 PM (e4fEA)
* * * *
Amen, brother!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 19, 2023 10:23 PM (vfKOf)

73 To Build A Fire - Canoe Trip
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 19, 2023 10:06 PM (4I/2K)

Is that like adding "Deliverance" to "To Build A Fire"?

Posted by: GWB at June 19, 2023 10:23 PM (vQrdQ)

74 So we have armed librarians now?

Posted by: Ciampino -- enjoyed Mitch Rapp at June 19, 2023 10:23 PM (qfLjt)

75 Well, who among us has not had a raccoon in their purse, backpack, pocket or somewhere else about their person?

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 10:23 PM (Uv0D2)

76 President Trump Interview With Fox News Brett Baier

https://tinyurl.com/amwfjyay

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 19, 2023 10:24 PM (P9uwL)

77 Christine Warmuth, as Secretary of the Army, is a policy wonk that started as an intern in the Clinton Regime, and then served in the Obama Regime.
Now Sec. of the Army in the Biden Junta.

And yes, she has never been an active duty service person (woman?) in her life.
Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at June 19, 2023 10:19 PM (tjZg/)
***

Remember when Clinton was elected and some ignorant twit intern, when asked something by then LTG McCaffery, said "We don't talk to the military here.". I wonder if it was Warmuth?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 19, 2023 10:24 PM (e4fEA)

78 I see Brett Baier decided attacking Trump will make him his liberal bones for when he goes to CNN.

Posted by: JP at June 19, 2023 10:25 PM (tF/Gf)

79 41Hadrian
I know! Can you believe it?!

But, yeah. The best that 'they' still allow to exist.
(See Weazel Zippers)....oh. you can't see them - "Suspended" .
Yep....


Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2023 10:25 PM (0sjRi)

80 31 Scholastic Publishing paperback books was one of my favorite memories of elementary school. I loved ordering them and most of all I loved when they arrived. It was like Christmas a few times during the school year.
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 10:10 PM

I remember looking for the books with the most pages because I wanted to me them last. "Watership Down" is still a favorite of mine.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 19, 2023 10:25 PM (yKPAy)

81 67 I don't know if I'll make it to 100. I hear it requires a whiskey and a cigar every day. I'm way behind.
Posted by: Emmie -- July 15 ArkanOklaMoMe RSVP email link in nic at June 19, 2023 10:22 PM
I'm only 25.5 years away. That's a lot of whiskey and cigars.

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 10:26 PM (Uv0D2)

82 The DOD knows why people join the military. They've tracked this since vietnam.

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

Countries have understood why people join and fight for a very long time.

Honor.
Fellowship.
Camaraderie.
Patriotism.

None of which are part of the current recruiting drives.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 19, 2023 10:26 PM (PHmov)

83 Yay, Fried Rosenberg Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 19, 2023 10:26 PM (Bd6X8)

84 Christine Warmuth, as Secretary of the Army

What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 19, 2023 10:26 PM (Xrfse)

85 What kind of a country do we live in when you can't take your raccoon out for a bike ride in the evening? The Popo are out of control! Attica State, Attica State, we all live in Attica State...

Posted by: #9 Dream at June 19, 2023 10:26 PM (Nn3xT)

86 well, my sister in law doesn't carry raccoons around but she does make peanut butter sandwiches for them. After supper her little "friends" come around and she goes out and distributes the sandwiches. She also has possum and skunks who line up for supper.
She's a little different, but she isn't crazy. Big soft heart. Loves animals. Doesn't eat them. They live out in the country.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at June 19, 2023 10:27 PM (ebhEj)

87 I'm only 25.5 years away. That's a lot of whiskey and cigars.

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 10:26 PM (Uv0D2)

When you hit 100...I'm buying.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 19, 2023 10:27 PM (PHmov)

88 78 I see Brett Baier decided attacking Trump will make him his liberal bones for when he goes to CNN.
Posted by: JP at June 19, 2023 10:25 PM (tF/Gf)

And reading the transcript I see where Trump continues to have diarrhea of the mouth.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 19, 2023 10:27 PM (aA3+G)

89 Evenin'

So, those well-heeled tourists have found out that the North Atlantic hates you and wants you dead. Much like the passengers of the Titanic did. I mean, I hope they're ok, but those kinds of dives are risky, even for pros.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 19, 2023 10:27 PM (sAmhv)

90 Evening.

You have to be a dumb ass to want a "smart" home.

If Republicans want to scrape together a few extra votes promise legislation that would stop tech companies from pulling shit like that.

Posted by: Robert at June 19, 2023 10:27 PM (81zXs)

91 ..Getting crushed at that depth would not be pretty.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2023 10:15 PM (MoZTd)



It is written that the end in that case, is first the near-instant compression of the air in the hull, causing it to actually ignite, just as would a diesel engine.

So, a nanosecond before you're crushed into a beer-can sized gelatinous blob, you're Flash Roasted before the water hammer makes a car crusher look merciful, in comparison.

But, it's all over in a tenth of a second, or less. Once it happens. it's the dreading that it's going to happen that would be the real pain. When it does happen, yer dead before you even know it's happen-ING.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 19, 2023 10:27 PM (e6UQI)

92 75 Well, who among us has not had a raccoon in their purse, backpack, pocket or somewhere else about their person?
Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 10:23 PM

Is that part of the Platinum Membership that I've heard about?

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 19, 2023 10:27 PM (yKPAy)

93 Honor.
Fellowship.
Camaraderie.
Patriotism.
___

Alien concepts to an evil junta.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 19, 2023 10:28 PM (P9uwL)

94 they live in substandard housing that was well maintained by post maintenance in the old days that was turned over to "private contractors" who can't even keep black mold and rats out of them,

Posted by: JP at June 19, 2023 10:16 PM (tF/Gf)

We lived in on-base housing at Offutt (vastly superior as it was an AF base), and we still heard stories from those who lived in the off-base base housing (yes, you read that correctly) that was quite a bit older. We rarely were directly affected, except the one time that Pooky got called in the middle of the night Japan time. The housing company tried to chew him out for not mowing the lawn, and he pointed out that we had been gone for more than 30 days (and had informed them as such), and their threat to tell his commander that he hadn't mowed his lawn would only remind the commander that Pooky's unit needed to include our house on the lawn-mowing list. We didn't hear from them again on the issue.

Posted by: pookysgirl still kind of misses living on base at June 19, 2023 10:28 PM (dtlDP)

95 83 Yay, Fried Rosenberg Day ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 19, 2023 10:26 PM
'Roll out the barrel, we'll have a barrel of fun...'

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 10:29 PM (Uv0D2)

96 >>Well this trip didn't work out too well.

You think you got problems

Posted by: The Skipper at June 19, 2023 10:29 PM (klakb)

97 What kind of a country do we live in when you can't take your raccoon out for a bike ride in the evening?
Posted by: #9 Dream

"My pussy loves it when we go for a bike ride!!"

Posted by: Zombie Mrs. Slocombe at June 19, 2023 10:29 PM (qoGsy)

98 The thought of living to 100 terrifies me.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 19, 2023 10:29 PM (P9uwL)

99
380 atmospheres. 5,500 psi.

I think it would be very quick!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 19, 2023 10:22 PM (PHmov)

___________

Oh, definitely quick. But the Byford Dolphin was a depressurization from 9 atm and the results were horrifying.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2023 10:29 PM (MoZTd)

100 I don't know if I'll make it to 100. I hear it requires a whiskey and a cigar every day. I'm way behind.
Posted by: Emmie -- July 15 ArkanOklaMoMe RSVP email link in nic at June 19, 2023 10:22 PM (Emce2)


You know?! I've heard that too.
I guess I'm headed to the liquor and cigar store tomorrow.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 19, 2023 10:29 PM (e4fEA)

101 I hear it requires a whiskey and a cigar every day.

Posted by: Emmie -- July 15 ArkanOklaMoMe RSVP email link in nic at June 19, 2023 10:22 PM (Emce2)

I think a young woman was included in that formula. At least George Burns' version.

Posted by: GWB at June 19, 2023 10:30 PM (vQrdQ)

102 Everyone knows her as Nancy.

Posted by: Rocky Raccoon at June 19, 2023 10:30 PM (SYTee)

103 Just catching up on the day... that Anthony Blinken video... the one where he says we oppose an independent Taiwan... that has to be a deep fake, right?

Posted by: 496 at June 19, 2023 10:30 PM (2gwsr)

104 A) Someone used "dish" soap in the "dish" washer. Another one of those tricky English words that don't mean what you think they mean.
B) As a retired hardware electronic designer, I don't trust software, never did. The crap has gotten so complicated that, 95% of the time, the "coders" (not software engineers) have no idea of what it's doing. If I had a Smart Home (but I'm smarter than that. :-) ), I would have hardware hacks around every switch and control.
Now, on top of the incompetence issue, you have to worry about typical leftist prejudice and arrogance of the average software weenie as to whether your smart home will operate as you paid for. He needs to sue. Negative feedback is required.
In this country, anyone can sue anyone for anything. Is this a great country or what?

Posted by: buddhaha at June 19, 2023 10:30 PM (tnd6W)

105 @62: "I read a disturbing story about your fair city on Hot Air this evening. It really is becoming Minnehopelis."

Strange days here. I'll send you an email at the end of the week with some updates. Long summer ahead and I doubt our downward trend will change anytime soon.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 19, 2023 10:30 PM (k1Qly)

106 Rosenbergs haven't done any spying nor sedition for 70 years now.

Posted by: Shocking News at June 19, 2023 10:31 PM (Nn3xT)

107 I read a disturbing story about your fair city on Hot Air this evening. It really is becoming Minnehopelis.

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

Let me guess, it had these elements: A politician's son, a Cadillac Escalade, and five dead Somali young women.

What do I win? I hope it's a blood feud, because I'd be okay with that.

Posted by: pookysgirl sadly does not own a machete at June 19, 2023 10:31 PM (dtlDP)

108 So we have armed librarians now?
Posted by: Ciampino -- enjoyed Mitch Rapp at June 19, 2023 10:23 PM (qfLjt)

Have you met Screaming in digital (SiD)?

Posted by: GWB at June 19, 2023 10:31 PM (vQrdQ)

109 >>I guess there are worse ways to spend tax dollars. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

I feel especially good about this story!

Posted by: Governor's relative who is book publisher at June 19, 2023 10:32 PM (klakb)

110 Let me guess, it had these elements: A politician's son, a Cadillac Escalade, and five dead Somali young women.

What do I win? I hope it's a blood feud, because I'd be okay with that.
Posted by: pookysgirl sadly does not own a machete at June 19, 2023 10:31 PM (dtlDP)

That was just a small part of the story.
Basically Minnehopelis is in the top 3 shitty crime ridden cities in the USA.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 19, 2023 10:33 PM (aA3+G)

111 108 So we have armed librarians now?
Posted by: Ciampino

Well, one fewer than we planned.

Posted by: Guy who shot librarian to keep training "fun" at June 19, 2023 10:33 PM (klakb)

112 No young American should ever join the military again. It's time to stop wasting their lives on the sh*thole this country has become.

I hated to admit it, but that was how I felt when I saw video of our exit from Afghanistan. American soldiers killed or disabled for nothing.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 19, 2023 10:33 PM (0Htd1)

113 Indian love call - Slim Whitman - Mars Attacks!
https://is.gd/DKshEP

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 19, 2023 10:33 PM (klJTj)

114 108 So we have armed librarians now?
Posted by: Ciampino -- enjoyed Mitch Rapp at June 19, 2023 10:23 PM (qfLjt)

Have you met Screaming in digital (SiD)?

Posted by: GWB at June 19, 2023 10:31 PM (vQrdQ)

--------
SiD is one of the good ones, for sure!

Posted by: 496 at June 19, 2023 10:33 PM (2gwsr)

115 MH, I've never defended Trump for the stupid shit that pours out of his mouth, because no matter what kernel of truth he may share, it's always covered in his inability to suspend the Queens upbringing in him for one minute.

Nice to see it's still the same with you.

Posted by: JP at June 19, 2023 10:33 PM (tF/Gf)

116 WHY would you take a sightseeing tour down to the Titanic

'Ooh... look how rusty it is'
watch it on YouTube, FFS

going down 12000 feet in an Acme Sub is tempting fate

Posted by: DB - at June 19, 2023 10:34 PM (geLO8)

117 87 I'm only 25.5 years away. That's a lot of whiskey and cigars.

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 10:26 PM (Uv0D2)

When you hit 100...I'm buying.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 19, 2023 10:27 PM
-Col. Dildo calls Chief Eromero in from outpost.
'Chief Eromero, I'd like to share a drink with you on your 100th birthday.
Chief Eromero-'I'd be proud to share a drink with you, sir, but let's be quick about it, I have to get back to my post. The young'uns is getting kinda jumpy with me gone '

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 10:34 PM (Uv0D2)

118 Is it even safe to drive the freeway loop around Minneapolis these days? We are headed west across the state to the Detroit Lakes area.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at June 19, 2023 10:35 PM (ebhEj)

119 So we have armed librarians now?
Posted by: Ciampino -- enjoyed Mitch Rapp at June 19, 2023 10:23 PM (qfLjt)

Have you met Screaming in digital (SiD)?

Posted by: GWB at June 19, 2023 10:31 PM (vQrdQ)

--------
SiD is one of the good ones, for sure!


Is it true that librarians have dewey decimals?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 19, 2023 10:35 PM (Bd6X8)

120 BNO News @BNONews · 1h
Titanic tourist sub has oxygen until 2:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, if it's still intact, according to the U.S. Coast Guard

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 19, 2023 10:35 PM (Vwz3I)

121 In case anyone is wondering how my neighborhood watch has been going recently, here's a very short video clip from Saturday morning around 6am:

https://streamable.com/dw4450

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 19, 2023 10:35 PM (k1Qly)

122 Army Secretary Christine Wormuth thinks that right-wing rhetoric critical of the military is making our military weaker. The Army's top civilian leader pushed back amid Republican criticisms that the military is going too "woke," arguing such critiques are deepening an already troubling recruiting crisis.


“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” - C.S. Lewis

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 19, 2023 10:35 PM (sAmhv)

123 I hear it requires a whiskey and a cigar every day.
Posted by: Emmie

I think a young woman was included in that formula. At least George Burns' version.
Posted by: GWB


You're only as old as the woman you feel.

Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2023 10:36 PM (DgGvY)

124 Crap machines! Geese in the nearby state park crap all the picnic table sites near the river. The run/fly when they see me walking my dogs -- which I pick up after. Flying crap machines protected by law.

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 19, 2023 10:36 PM (o8aBI)

125 "Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Suds"

Yup. Dishwashing liquid in the dishwasher. Every. Single. Time.

Don't ask me how I know.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 19, 2023 10:36 PM (d34OC)

126 Local morning radio personality growing up would always threaten to play 3 Slim Whitman songs if you didn't get out of bed now and get ready for school. I think his last morning on the air, he did play the songs.

Posted by: Beartooth at June 19, 2023 10:36 PM (8vzCZ)

127 First thing president Trump or DeSantis needs to do is fire every flag officer in the pentagon.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 19, 2023 10:37 PM (u73oe)

128 Totally off topic...

I fucking hate these damn ticks. Life is so lovely here right now - so very green and beautiful. Except for these assholes...
My dog...I'm picking these damn things off her, and itching like they're all over me...
More vodka....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2023 10:37 PM (0sjRi)

129 Evening Horde, thx MisHum. Turns out that the car crash in Minneapolis is an intersectional mess (pun intended). The five girls who were killed were Somalis who were coming home from a traditional henna treatment for a wedding. The guy who sped off the freeway and killed them was an African American named Thompson. His father was the member of the Minnesota assembly who led protests at a police officers house and neighborhood. The son was sentenced in 2020 to 8yrs in prison for badly injuring a pedestrian with a car. He was out early. White leftists really don't care about people of African origin killing each other.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 19, 2023 10:38 PM (W1/AW)

130 Who among us has not mistakenly used Dawn instead of Cascade in the dishwasher? It's a lesson that needs only to be learned once. Thank God!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient

Me. OTOH, I did use Ivory Flakes instead of Ivory Snow in a (fortunately top loading) clothes washer... which is why I've never used Dawn in the dishwasher.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 19, 2023 10:38 PM (tnd6W)

131 Walter Freeman
Is it safe to drive the freeway loop around Minneapolis?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at June 19, 2023 10:38 PM (ebhEj)

132 First thing president Trump or DeSantis needs to do is fire every flag officer in the pentagon.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 19, 2023 10:37 PM (u73oe)


Which caliber?

Posted by: RickZ at June 19, 2023 10:38 PM (emlEe)

133 That was just a small part of the story.
Basically Minnehopelis is in the top 3 shitty crime ridden cities in the USA.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 19, 2023 10:33 PM (aA3+G)

I should have paid attention to the content warning of the video posted on Twitter. It's five seconds, but pretty horrific.

Posted by: pookysgirl. content to be in rural Iowa at June 19, 2023 10:39 PM (dtlDP)

134 Jewells,

Just placed an order on your Etsy site. Three items including the Ace key chain. Thanks for letting us know your getting off Etsy.

Posted by: JTB at June 19, 2023 10:40 PM (7EjX1)

135 Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 19, 2023 10:35 PM (k1Qly)
\
I guess ammo has come down in price.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 19, 2023 10:40 PM (aA3+G)

136 In case anyone is wondering how my neighborhood watch has been going recently, here's a very short video clip from Saturday morning around 6am:

https://streamable.com/dw4450
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 19, 2023 10:35 PM (k1Qly)


Now a recruiter needs to find this guy. He has a future in air defense artillery!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 19, 2023 10:40 PM (e4fEA)

137 43 What the hell did that retired DC cop do to elicit a 2nd degree murder charge? It had to be something much more than just a training accident.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 10:13 PM (l2TUW)
----
Agreed, this is almost an Alec Baldwin situation.

Posted by: Ciampino - enjoyed Mitch Rapp's killer attitude at June 19, 2023 10:40 PM (qfLjt)

138 Armed librarian? Almost.

https://youtu.be/D9tP9fI2zbE

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld clip at June 19, 2023 10:40 PM (DhOHl)

139 @131: "Is it safe to drive the freeway loop around Minneapolis?"

Safe enough, but traffic is awful, and beware clueless young drivers.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 19, 2023 10:41 PM (k1Qly)

140 That was just a small part of the story.
Basically Minnehopelis is in the top 3 shitty crime ridden cities in the USA.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 19, 2023 10:33 PM (aA3+G)

It made me want to shake David Strom and say "what the hell are you still doing there???"

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2023 10:41 PM (S6gqv)

141 > I know somebody who got a DUI on a bike (not motorized)
________________

I know more than one person who got a DUI on a riding lawn mower. And one on a horse. (Only because the horse was on the road and not on a trail.)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 19, 2023 10:42 PM (Q4IgG)

142 121 In case anyone is wondering how my neighborhood watch has been going recently, here's a very short video clip from Saturday morning around 6am:

https://streamable.com/dw4450
Posted by: Walter Freeman



I blame the gun. The Young Person of Color was just walking. He did nothing wrong. The MAGA Gun just went off for now reason!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 19, 2023 10:42 PM (sAmhv)

143 118 Is it even safe to drive the freeway loop around Minneapolis these days? We are headed west across the state to the Detroit Lakes area.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at June 19, 2023 10:35 PM (ebhEj)

We drove it in May and June going to and coming back from ND.
Stay on the Interstate and you'll be ok.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 19, 2023 10:42 PM (aA3+G)

144 The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee · 2h
Trudeau Smokes Cuban Cigar To Honor Dad On Father’s Day
https://buff.ly/46ds3Ch

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 19, 2023 10:42 PM (Vwz3I)

145 Titanic tourist sub has oxygen until 2:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, if it's still intact, according to the U.S. Coast Guard

*burps*

Posted by: Godzilla at June 19, 2023 10:43 PM (kOpft)

146 119 So we have armed librarians now?
Posted by: Ciampino -- enjoyed Mitch Rapp at June 19, 2023 10:23 PM (qfLjt)

Have you met Screaming in digital (SiD)?

Posted by: GWB at June 19, 2023 10:31 PM (vQrdQ)

--------
SiD is one of the good ones, for sure!

Is it true that librarians have dewey decimals?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 19, 2023 10:35 PM (Bd6X
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Are you doing Math now? At this hour? During Pride Month?

Posted by: Ciampino -- enjoyed Mitch Rapp's killer attitude at June 19, 2023 10:43 PM (qfLjt)

147 MisHum and Walter, thank you.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at June 19, 2023 10:44 PM (ebhEj)

148 The housing company tried to chew him out for not mowing the lawn, and he pointed out that we had been gone for more than 30 days (and had informed them as such), and their threat to tell his commander that he hadn't mowed his lawn would only remind the commander that Pooky's unit needed to include our house on the lawn-mowing list. We didn't hear from them again on the issue.
Posted by: pookysgirl still kind of misses living on base at June 19, 2023 10:28 PM (dtlD

I apologize for how that came out - I was born in '61, my father was in R.O.T.C. and when he graduated he began a twenty year career in the Army. He retired when I was 24 and then spent another twenty years as a bank Sr. Auditor. He died last year after a fall. He was the most upright man I will ever know, as an Officer he had great concern and compassion for the men he served with. He earned a Bronze Star for Merit in South Vietnam for doing the thankless task of being the AG Captain for the 1st Cav who gets the call at 2:00 a.m with a request to send specific people into combat. He never minded when people called him a REMF because both bases he was stationed at in 1969 were heavily shelled.

Posted by: JP at June 19, 2023 10:44 PM (tF/Gf)

149 Saw them (for real) in high school, somewhere around '71-'72. Took a date, a girl from the Saturday morning high school-age league, so not in my high school. Whoever the lead singer was/is, Burton?, he was quite vulgar."

Burton Cummings. Friggin' Canadian.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2023 10:44 PM (S6gqv)

150 "I blame the gun. The Young Person of Color was just walking. He did nothing wrong. The MAGA Gun just went off for now reason!!*

He's just turning his life around and probably on his way to bible study

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 19, 2023 10:44 PM (DhOHl)

151 Is Rand Paul the only guy in congress with any actual balls?!
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Yes! And a functional brain as well!
====
Sometimes ya get to thinkin' there might be some connection there.

Posted by: From about that Time at June 19, 2023 10:44 PM (4780s)

152 146 119 So we have armed librarians now?
Posted by: Ciampino -- enjoyed Mitch Rapp at June 19, 2023 10:23 PM (qfLjt)

Have you met Screaming in digital (SiD)?

Posted by: GWB at June 19, 2023 10:31 PM
She uses a suppressor.

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 10:44 PM (Uv0D2)

153 You'd think a sub that could descend to the depths where Titanic rests, would have some kind of "OH SHIT" distress or homing signal system?

LOTSA PINGS, VASILY! ALL OF TEH PINGS, and HURRY!


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 19, 2023 10:45 PM (e6UQI)

154 Take this 35-question quiz to find out how likely you are to live a long, healthy life

What is Data Mining for $500, Alex.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 19, 2023 10:45 PM (jzzG8)

155 The Rand Paul quote ... the Lord of Spirits podcasts mentions knowledge that was given to Man by the fallen angels (demons) - with the aim of our (self) destruction
This has to fall in that category

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 19, 2023 10:45 PM (lPgXk)

156 "Well this trip didn't work out too well."

As we all learn in childhood, fun is proportional to risk. The paying passengers are getting exactly what they paid for, one way or the other.


Posted by: Gref at June 19, 2023 10:46 PM (AMIL/)

157 *sorry for the WoT,

we lived in some very old base housing - it was by no means perfect, and to this day I hate Bermuda grass and the never ending growing season in Hawai'i because I was the yard boy making sure the height of every damn grass and shrub met the base housing rules.

Posted by: JP at June 19, 2023 10:47 PM (tF/Gf)

158 153 You'd think a sub that could descend to the depths where Titanic rests, would have some kind of "OH SHIT" distress or homing signal system?

LOTSA PINGS, VASILY! ALL OF TEH PINGS, and HURRY!


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 19, 2023 10:45 PM
Gotta ask, is this where the giant shark hangs out? Because that just might be important.

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 10:47 PM (Uv0D2)

159 It’s dishwashing liquid, it lied to me

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 19, 2023 10:48 PM (dKiJG)

160 Rosenbergs haven't done any spying nor sedition for 70 years now.
Posted by: Shocking News

We rehabilitated the hell out of them!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at June 19, 2023 10:49 PM (FVME7)

161 Godzilla attacks Chicago. Who wins?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at June 19, 2023 10:50 PM (FVME7)

162 Ethel was innocent, Alger Hiss said so in a Venona transcript...(say that out loud at a progressive hangout and watch heads explode).

Posted by: JP at June 19, 2023 10:51 PM (tF/Gf)

163 It amazes me that RFK Jr. has been able to bring criticism of the Vax out into the public in a way that nobody on our side could, or would, do. My hat's off to him for that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2023 10:53 PM (S6gqv)

164 Next time I see you folks I'll have a cup of coffee in my hand and I'll be cooking breakfast. One of you can take the first watch.

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 10:54 PM (Uv0D2)

165 Godzilla attacks Chicago. Who wins?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


The rest of Illinois. Duh.

Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2023 10:54 PM (DgGvY)

166 Is Rand Paul the only guy in congress with any actual balls?!
Posted by: COMountainMarie


Yes. Many act tough but aren't. Ron Johnson, R-WI, has gained a reputation lately as sort-of tough on some policy issues. But Hillary totally punked him in her Behghazi Senate hearing. He was the Senator to whom Hillary yelled, "What difference does it make at this time..." Johnson said nothing in response. Loser.

Posted by: Gref at June 19, 2023 10:55 PM (AMIL/)

167 Ethel was innocent, Alger Hiss said so in a Venona transcript...(say that out loud at a progressive hangout and watch heads explode).

Ethel will live on forever in an Alice Cooper song.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 19, 2023 10:55 PM (Bd6X8)

168
I lost my guns in a tragic submersible accident...

Too soon?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2023 10:55 PM (hjwuP)

169 Getting a DUI on a lawn mower is pretty impressive.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 19, 2023 10:56 PM (Xrfse)

170 I lost my guns in a tragic submersible accident...

Too soon?


You must have been crushed.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 19, 2023 10:56 PM (Bd6X8)

171 John Kennedy from Louisiana has some pretty sharp replies to idiots.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2023 10:57 PM (S6gqv)

172 168
I lost my guns in a tragic submersible accident...

Too soon?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2023 10:55 PM (hjwuP)

***SNORT***

No, I don't think so.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 19, 2023 10:57 PM (aA3+G)

173 It's a Princess and the Pea thing.

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo
Local affluent white female liberal claims that the New College mascot, a banyan tree, "closely resemble an angry, threatening brown individual."
Advice for white libs: if you see a tree and immediately think "looks like a scary minority to me," you might be the racist.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at June 19, 2023 10:57 PM (FVME7)

174 CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — A woman was found with a baby raccoon in her bag after police searched her belongings during a bicycle stop

So, when we have enough police officers to stop a woman for...riding a bicycle and search her for raccoons, maybe we do need to look at that police budget...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2023 10:58 PM (lc5cP)

175 Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo
Local affluent white female liberal claims that the New College mascot, a banyan tree, "closely resembles an angry, threatening brown individual."
Advice for white libs: if you see a tree and immediately think "looks like a scary minority to me," you might be the racist.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at June 19, 2023 10:59 PM (FVME7)

176 Local affluent white female liberal|

F*ck her and the valium horse she rode in on.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 19, 2023 10:59 PM (Xrfse)

177 I have come to the conclusion that if I don't step back from politics at this point I'm gonna be looking for people to kill.

They deserve it, of course, but I do not have the means nor do I wish to sacrifice seeing my daughters future to make it happen.

Posted by: JEM at June 19, 2023 10:59 PM (8erNz)

178 75 Well, who among us has not had a raccoon in their purse, backpack, pocket or somewhere else about their person?

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2023 10:23 PM (Uv0D2)

When I was working at a Trucking terminal one of my jobs was to inventory flatbed equipment, straps and chains etc., when drivers dropped a trailer. Small stuff was kept an a box under the trailer. I opened a box to inventory one day, when a wild eyed raccoon came flying out. Driver was gone before I had the chance to ask WTF.

Posted by: Javems at June 19, 2023 11:00 PM (AmoqO)

179
So we have armed librarians now?
Posted by: Ciampino -- enjoyed Mitch Rapp


There was one enforcing silence on a Barney Miller episode.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0519127

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2023 11:01 PM (63Dwl)

180 That dishwasher suds incident, who hasn't done that? Who hasn't run out of dishwasher pills and just decided to put some Dawn in there, or whatever.
The result is comical.
The truth is modern dishwashers use very little soap but a lot of baking soda. So if you run out of prepared treatments, fill the little pop up cup with baking soda, then add one drop (ONE DROP) of Dawn or other similar soap.
That will run just fine.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 19, 2023 11:01 PM (MeG8a)

181 I have come to the conclusion that if I don't step back from politics at this point I'm gonna be looking for people to kill.

They deserve it, of course, but I do not have the means nor do I wish to sacrifice seeing my daughters future to make it happen.


Make a little list. Label it "X-mass friends". When the burning times come you'll have a ready made reference of who to exterminate en masse. In the meantime, if anyone finds the list they just think you can't spell.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 19, 2023 11:02 PM (Bd6X8)

182 It is very rude for the submarine to go missing during Pride Month. Takes the focus off of the sodomy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 19, 2023 11:02 PM (W1/AW)

183 According to a chart at bikeleague.org, DUI on a bike is not against the law in 29 states.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 19, 2023 11:02 PM (xttsV)

184 Local MLK Jr. Assoc.- sponsored Juneteenth celebration didn't go well. Celebration canceled.

Two juveniles shot, one arrested.

OTOH the Defund the Police movement is coming along well.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2023 11:03 PM (TyYgv)

185 145 Titanic tourist sub has oxygen until 2:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, if it's still intact, according to the U.S. Coast Guard


wonder if they are celebrating Pride Month in the can ?

Posted by: REDACTED at June 19, 2023 11:03 PM (us2H3)

186 As we all learn in childhood, fun is proportional to risk. The paying passengers are getting exactly what they paid for, one way or the other.

I kinda don’t think so. Life for most Americans has become so over protected, over productized, and dumbed down that I rather imagine that they all thought something like “Well, it’s their business and they’re charging me a lot of money for it so they have everything under control.” It’s just another amusement park ride as far as they’re concerned.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 19, 2023 11:03 PM (nfrXX)

187 Flying crap machines protected by law.
Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 19, 2023 10:36 PM (o8aBI)

In Virginia, I have discovered, you can treat them as nuisances - so you can do anything not otherwise illegal in order to prevent their ... nuisance-making. It's one reason why I own a slingshot and an air rifle - neither of those are illegal to "shoot off" within city limits. And they know, and stay away from my property mostly.

Posted by: GWB at June 19, 2023 11:03 PM (vQrdQ)

188 According to a chart at bikeleague.org, DUI on a bike is not against the law in 29 states.
Posted by: Chuck C
---------

OTOH, public drunkenness is. 'Glassy of eye, unsteady of gait...'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2023 11:04 PM (uanMf)

189 167 Ethel was innocent, Alger Hiss said so in a Venona transcript...(say that out loud at a progressive hangout and watch heads explode).

Ethel will live on forever in an Alice Cooper song.
Posted by: Blanco Basura



Heh! Well, "live".

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 19, 2023 11:05 PM (sAmhv)

190
John Kennedy from Louisiana has some pretty sharp replies to idiots.
Posted by: Tom Servo


He agreed with McConnel that Tucker should not show J6 video.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2023 11:05 PM (63Dwl)

191 171 John Kennedy from Louisiana has some pretty sharp replies to idiots.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2023 10:57 PM (S6gqv)


Yup, and I love him for it. If only he or Cruz or Paul had had the microphone when Hillary gave her carefully prepared "What difference does it make..." line. Of course, Hill-dog would not have used that line while being questioned by an R senator with backbone and a sharp mind.

Posted by: Gref at June 19, 2023 11:05 PM (AMIL/)

192
Ethel will live on forever in an Alice Cooper song.
Posted by: Blanco Basura


Cold Ethel?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2023 11:06 PM (63Dwl)

193 183 According to a chart at bikeleague.org, DUI on a bike is not against the law in 29 states.
Posted by: Chuck C


They assume you just fall over or hit something and your family asks where all the rashes came from.

Posted by: JEM at June 19, 2023 11:06 PM (8erNz)

194 Nope, never put dishwashing liquid in the dishwasher. Because only a complete idiot would do that.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 19, 2023 11:06 PM (XMwZJ)

195 I have a (distant) relation who was at a bar and he had had too much to drink. He had drove to the bar. Realizing that he was too drunk to drive, he decided to walk home, a distance of about 6 blocks, and come back the next day for his car.
He got ticketed for drunk walking on the way home.
Yes. Staggering and such.
It was a $160 fine.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 19, 2023 11:06 PM (MeG8a)

196 182 It is very rude for the submarine to go missing during Pride Month. Takes the focus off of the sodomy
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Maybe they can effect a rescue through the back door

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at June 19, 2023 11:07 PM (BbPjy)

197 Kennedy from LA says just enough to keep the base happy. But, when it is all said and done he's another lifetime politician looking out for himself first and his fat cat politicians second and those he represents a distance 3rd.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at June 19, 2023 11:07 PM (aA3+G)

198 He got ticketed for drunk walking on the way home.
Yes. Staggering and such.
It was a $160 fine.


Too
Many
Laws

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2023 11:07 PM (lc5cP)

199 Ethel will live on forever in an Alice Cooper song.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

feel her up

Posted by: REDACTED at June 19, 2023 11:07 PM (us2H3)

200 Cold Ethel?

OK, as another poster pointed out, maybe "live" was too strong a word.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 19, 2023 11:07 PM (Bd6X8)

201 CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — A woman was found with a baby raccoon in her bag after police searched her belongings during a bicycle stop


https://youtu.be/j2zlPNGuPbw

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 19, 2023 11:08 PM (sAmhv)

202 Titanic tourist sub has oxygen until 2:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, if it's still intact, according to the U.S. Coast Guard

Do they have CO2 scrubbers?

Posted by: Chuck C at June 19, 2023 11:08 PM (xttsV)

203 171

That guy kicks it as well.
If only, yeah, if only their balls were just a LITTLE bit bigger enough to actually do a thing...ANY damn thing. Talk. Talk. TALK!
F'n do something!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2023 11:09 PM (0sjRi)

204 the tuna are probably looking in the sub and laughing asses off

Posted by: REDACTED at June 19, 2023 11:09 PM (us2H3)

205 I am 'unsteady of gait' right now but that's...I should see the doc about my sprained left ankle.

Did some vacuuming but not yet up to serious yard work never mind shop fabrication

Posted by: JEM at June 19, 2023 11:09 PM (8erNz)

206 The test for living to 100 seems to be closed, But I would not believe them anyway. I DO plan to live beyond 100, low stress environment, keto diet, (some alcohol), continuous exercise .... all the horde advisors helping direct my path. What could possibly go wrong?

And I have my solar panels, my food supplies, yup, definitely going to make it to 111. (unforeseen issues not included)

Posted by: illiniwek at June 19, 2023 11:10 PM (Cus5s)

207 OTOH, public drunkenness is. 'Glassy of eye, unsteady of gait...'

Public drunkenness can usually be pled out to "pay the fine, nothing on your record" unlike a DUI.

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

208 186 As we all learn in childhood, fun is proportional to risk. The paying passengers are getting exactly what they paid for, one way or the other.

I kinda don’t think so. Life for most Americans has become so over protected, over productized, and dumbed down that I rather imagine that they all thought something like “Well, it’s their business and they’re charging me a lot of money for it so they have everything under control.” It’s just another amusement park ride as far as they’re concerned.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 19, 2023 11:03 PM (nfrXX)


Then they are rich uber-idiots. Of course, any who make it to the surface alive will brag forever about how they knew the trip was uber-dangerous but still risked their lives for the adventure (i,e., the expected fun).

Posted by: Gref at June 19, 2023 11:11 PM (AMIL/)

209 A son shows appreciation for something his father did years ago:

https://is.gd/AUnQov

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 19, 2023 11:11 PM (Bd6X8)

210 It amazes me that RFK Jr. has been able to bring criticism of the Vax out into the public in a way that nobody on our side could, or would, do. My hat's off to him for that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2023 10:53 PM (S6gqv)


well, Team Red is full of haters and will be ignored anyways since they have other things to say that the FNM can hate on, but RFKJR was pumped up as an antivaxxer from way back and that is the only handle the FNM has on him. And now they can't because . . .And it is really obvious.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2023 11:11 PM (xhaym)

211 He got ticketed for drunk walking on the way home.
Yes. Staggering and such.
It was a $160 fine.
Posted by: gourmand
----

Same thing happened to a school buddy of mind. He was only about two blocks from home. He had the presence of mind to tell the LEO, 'If you put me in the back of that car, I'm gonna throw up'. The cop checked address, saw that it was just two blocks away, and let him go.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2023 11:12 PM (+apjR)

212 Zamfir > Slim Whitman

CHANGE MY MIND

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2023 11:14 PM (s12c9)

213 "Do they have CO2 scrubbers?"

yes they do, and something described as "fly strip like scrubbers" after the others give out.

But they have several ways to pop to the surface, which all seem to have failed. So they must be ... hung up somehow. (stray fishing net was suggested as a possible problem, but rare in that area)

Posted by: illiniwek at June 19, 2023 11:14 PM (Cus5s)

214 The Dems are lucky that RFK Jr. has larynx problems.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2023 11:15 PM (63Dwl)

215 He got ticketed for drunk walking on the way home.
Yes. Staggering and such.
It was a $160 fine.


Dayum. Even here in the fairly prosperous SF suburbs that actually prosecutes criminals that gets you a ride home from the cops and a bit of a lecture. Maybe a you're not driving anywhere for 12 hours, right?

Posted by: JEM at June 19, 2023 11:16 PM (8erNz)

216 Zamfir > Slim Whitman

CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero
---------

*considers throwing Minnie Riperton into the mix*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2023 11:16 PM (+apjR)

217 RFK Jr. is amusing me very much lately. Particularly seeing as how the DNC is trying like hell to keep him off the ballot.
Because Democrats hate actual democracy.
His book is a must read. The Real Dr. Fauci.
3 bucks on kindle.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 19, 2023 11:16 PM (MeG8a)

218 So we have armed librarians now?
Posted by: Ciampino


There's an anime about that. Toshokan Sensou, aka Library War.

Written in 2008. Set in 2019. Government censors in the Justice Department Ministry fight "dangerous information" through censorship, while armed librarians fight back.

Strangely prescient, ne?

Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2023 11:17 PM (DgGvY)

219 Did Slim sell more records than Elvis and/or the Beatles or was that Zamfir?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2023 10:06 PM (63Dwl)

No, that was Boxcar Willie.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2023 11:17 PM (Angsy)

220 It amazes me that RFK Jr. has been able to bring criticism of the Vax out into the public in a way that nobody on our side could

Most politicians "on our side" were on team clot shot.

Bitch McConnell spent a good deal of the last couple of years with "get your clot shot like a good plebe" pinned to the top of his twitter feed.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2023 11:18 PM (lc5cP)

221 Use to ride down from Boston to Providence on my bicycle along Rt. 1 on a nice day, maybe look in a few bars to see if any friends around (pre cell phone times). One time, happened to stay in bars for a few hours before heading home at closing time.
Going back the same way, down a long decline in Plainfield, cops pulled me over for riding down the center lines (there was no traffic), asked if I'd been drinking (yes Officer); asked if I was drunk (used to be); Let me go.
It was only a third of the way home, I kind of wished they'd taken me in.

Posted by: From about that Time at June 19, 2023 11:18 PM (4780s)

222 But they have several ways to pop to the surface, which all seem to have failed. So they must be ... hung up somehow. (stray fishing net was suggested as a possible problem, but rare in that area)
Posted by: illiniwek at June 19, 2023 11:14 PM (Cus5s)


blue screen of death, or the batteries went fzzt! due to the cold or were insufficiently sealed against deep pressure. Or caught fire.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2023 11:19 PM (xhaym)

223 The (distant) relation that got ticketed for drunk walking happed in Iowa. After midnight in a college town. Think UNI.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 19, 2023 11:19 PM (MeG8a)

224 " It amazes me that RFK Jr. has been able to bring criticism of the Vax out into the public in a way that nobody on our side could, or would, do. My hat's off to him for that." Posted by: Tom Servo

he has been good on that, but not the only one. The Great Barrington Declaration was spot on, several others warned very early on. RFK Jr had the name recognition going for him ... and he was good on the fake vax ... because he hates all vax (I think), hate oil and coal, is a leftist loon on many counts. ... but God bless him if he gets the word out on criminal Fauci and the gang.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 19, 2023 11:19 PM (Cus5s)

225 I don't quite have the final numbers yet, but my research indicates boys raised in fatherless homes are about 12 billion times more likely to start insisting they are women and then having their dicks cut off

Posted by: Wally at June 19, 2023 11:19 PM (XabuO)

226 White leftists really don't care about people of African origin killing each other.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 19, 2023 10:38 PM


I hope the Somali's decide to care. That would be fun to watch.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 19, 2023 11:20 PM (xttsV)

227 219 Did Slim sell more records than Elvis and/or the Beatles or was that Zamfir?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2023 10:06 PM (63Dwl)

No, that was Boxcar Willie.
Posted by: OrangeEnt



Those ole weekend commercials I used to see in the pre-cable days as a kid. Pretty sure it was Slim Whitman who sold more records than The Beatles. I do recall those Boxcar Willie commercials too. Bet I can find them on YTube.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 19, 2023 11:20 PM (sAmhv)

228 Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2023 11:17 PM (DgGvY)

Scrolled too far. Written in 2006, originally, not 2008. Still.

Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2023 11:20 PM (DgGvY)

229 That guy kicks it as well.
If only, yeah, if only their balls were just a LITTLE bit bigger enough to actually do a thing...ANY damn thing. Talk. Talk. TALK!
F'n do something!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2023 11:09 PM (0sjRi)


Well, Congresscritters pulling out a sidearm and shooting witnesses that piss them off, while popular in some quarters (depending on the witness), it's really not what I want in/from my Government.

I honestly feel at some point fairly soon there will be a preference cascade in Congress for impeachment. For Republicans, while Biden's impeachment is completely warranted, the 'laughing for no reason' follow-up is not much better. For Dems, impeaching Joey Choo-Choo would clear the decks for whomever the DNC deems to be the next candidate. And it won't be Kamalalaladingdong. She'll get her 'historic firsts', then get kicked to the curb in order to run someone viable.

Posted by: RickZ at June 19, 2023 11:21 PM (emlEe)

230 Recalled this afternoon an excellent book, 'Blow All Ballast', Barrows.

"USS Squalus (SS-192), a diesel-electric submarine built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire and commissioned there on 1 March 1939, suffered a catastrophic valve failure during a test dive off the Isle of Shoals at 0740 on 23 May. Partially flooded, the submarine sank to the bottom and came to rest keel down in 40 fathoms (240 feet) of water."

There was at least one MOH awarded for the rescue effort.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2023 11:22 PM (4Nep/)

231 Those ole weekend commercials I used to see in the pre-cable days as a kid. Pretty sure it was Slim Whitman who sold more records than The Beatles. I do recall those Boxcar Willie commercials too. Bet I can find them on YTube.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 19, 2023 11:20 PM (sAmhv)

Yeah, the thing is, these guys did sell a lot of records. But they were country records and the slicks don't think that music counts.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2023 11:22 PM (Angsy)

232 https://youtu.be/gNfOQTdP83w

Boxcar Willie commercial

https://youtu.be/J3C9ygie2lQ

Slim Whitman Commercial


There are others!

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 19, 2023 11:23 PM (sAmhv)

233 He got ticketed for drunk walking on the way home.
Yes. Staggering and such.
It was a $160 fine.


And we have almost no bars and restaurants locally one would go solo, so if you're loading up and on foot it's in one of...I'm trying to think of where.

Posted by: JEM at June 19, 2023 11:24 PM (8erNz)

234 187
In Virginia, I have discovered, you can treat them as nuisances - so you can do anything not otherwise illegal in order to prevent their ... nuisance-making. It's one reason why I own a slingshot and an air rifle - neither of those are illegal to "shoot off" within city limits. And they know, and stay away from my property mostly.
Posted by: GWB at June 19, 2023 11:03 PM (vQrdQ)

////

I will remember this for future use

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 19, 2023 11:24 PM (pgqX/)

235 blue screen of death, or the batteries went fzzt! due to the cold or were insufficiently sealed against deep pressure. Or caught fire.
Posted by: Kindltot
---------

Unexpected acceleration? Spontaneous air-bag deployment? Bad GPS instructions?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2023 11:26 PM (06vRX)

236
I had forgotten about Boxcar Willie.

I did remember the M*A*S*H IBM pc commercials

https://youtu.be/rbH50T9jxVI

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2023 11:29 PM (63Dwl)

237 More Slim Whitman knowledge:

but he did not embark on a musical career of his own until the end of World War II after he had served in the South Pacific with the United States Navy. While aboard ship, he sang and entertained members on board. This resulted in the captain blocking his transfer to another ship—hence saving his life, as the other ship later sank with all hands lost.

Posted by: DB - at June 19, 2023 11:30 PM (geLO8)

238 225 I don't quite have the final numbers yet, but my research indicates boys raised in fatherless homes are about 12 billion times more likely to start insisting they are women and then having their dicks cut off
Posted by: Wally at June 19, 2023 11:19 PM (XabuO)

That's half of them. The other half stroll through Minneapolis neighborhoods randomly firing guns into the air.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2023 11:30 PM (S6gqv)

239 While aboard ship, he sang and entertained members on board. This resulted in the captain blocking his transfer to another ship—hence saving his life, as the other ship later sank with all hands lost.
Posted by: DB - at June 19, 2023 11:30 PM (geLO

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Y'know the thing about Slim, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes.

Posted by: Quint at June 19, 2023 11:32 PM (s12c9)

240 We hate Slim Whitman songs.

Posted by: THE ALIENS at June 19, 2023 11:32 PM (2znMt)

241 Wished I could have seen the Guess Who.
Did get to see Burton open for Alice Cooper .
Saw BTO open for someone too.

Posted by: Lars Pilsen at June 19, 2023 11:33 PM (kJH1Z)

242 240 We hate Slim Whitman songs.
Posted by: THE ALIENS at June 19, 2023 11:32 PM (2znMt)

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SEND.MORE.CHUCK.BERRY.

Posted by: A Coded Message from the Oort Belt at June 19, 2023 11:34 PM (s12c9)

243 Boxcar Willie features a Bass Saxophone.
Bigger than a Baritone.
This is an instrument you don't hold. It is on a stand because no human can weild it.
So you have to stand, perhaps even on a small stool, so you can reach the mouthpiece in order to play it.
It is an awesome instrument.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 19, 2023 11:34 PM (MeG8a)

244 I was raised by my mom's parents and look how I turned out

Posted by: REDACTED at June 19, 2023 11:35 PM (us2H3)

245 USS Squalus and HMS Thetis walk into the chat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2023 11:36 PM (mTo4e)

246 Damn, MH. Did you get someone to take a pic while you're in the canoe?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 19, 2023 11:37 PM (Lu0ZI)

247 Thresher

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2023 11:37 PM (63Dwl)

248 153 You'd think a sub that could descend to the depths where Titanic rests, would have some kind of "OH SHIT" distress or homing signal system?

LOTSA PINGS, VASILY! ALL OF TEH PINGS, and HURRY!

Posted by: Jim at June 19, 2023 10:45 PM (e6UQI)
----
How do you open a parachute?
I need answers quickly please.
--

I asked my parachute instructor what happens if it doesn't open.
He said "You're jumping to a conclusion."

Posted by: Ciampino - Apparently Apple is developing a submarine - Sink Different at June 19, 2023 11:41 PM (qfLjt)

249 Notice on the IBM ads that once Alan Alda showed up, the other MASHers began to disappear from the ads.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 19, 2023 11:41 PM (Angsy)

250 Indian Love Call by the one you call Slim Whitman really pisses us off.

Posted by: THE ALIENS at June 19, 2023 11:41 PM (2znMt)

251 Kursk

Posted by: A Coded Message from the Oort Belt at June 19, 2023 11:41 PM (s12c9)

252 About the Titanic.

Did you know that after all these years, the swimming pool on Titanic is still filled with water?

Posted by: Ciampino -- Apparently Apple is developing a submarine - Sink Different at June 19, 2023 11:42 PM (qfLjt)

253 I completed my Mannix link tyoe painting today. Hope to add it to my website along with a couple of palette cleanser paintings by tomorrow. I spent 800 on a Mac Book and my website host and it don't get along. I don't know if it's the Mac or the host ( square space) .

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 11:43 PM (l2TUW)

254
Did you know that after all these years, the swimming pool on Titanic is still filled with water?
--------------------

Not heated, meh.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 19, 2023 11:44 PM (sAmhv)

255 USS Thresher and USS Scorpion both exceeded crush depth.

USS Squalus and HMS Thetis were both sinkings but both had men aboard still alive.

The Israeli's lost a former RN diesel-electric boat they bought somewhere in the Med.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2023 11:44 PM (mTo4e)

256 Giving tourists the full Titanic experience.

Posted by: Toad-O at June 19, 2023 11:46 PM (cct0t)

257 ----
How do you open a parachute?
I need answers quickly please.
--

I asked my parachute instructor what happens if it doesn't open.
He said "You're jumping to a conclusion."

How long do you have to deploy your reserve chute in the event of a main canopy failure?

The rest of your life.

Posted by: Advo at June 19, 2023 11:46 PM (VHN21)

258 Medal of Honor?

Probably thinking of Swede Momsen who lead the rescue efforts for USS Squalus with the diving bell. FDR gave him a Letter of Commendation. He did receive the Distinguished Service Medal for the development of the Momsen Lung.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 19, 2023 11:47 PM (mTo4e)

259 >>> 86 well, my sister in law doesn't carry raccoons around but she does make peanut butter sandwiches for them. After supper her little "friends" come around and she goes out and distributes the sandwiches. She also has possum and skunks who line up for supper.
She's a little different, but she isn't crazy. Big soft heart. Loves animals. Doesn't eat them. They live out in the country.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at June 19, 2023 10:27 PM (ebhEj)

Um.... possibly unwise, at best.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 19, 2023 11:47 PM (llON8)

260 She's a little different, but she isn't crazy. Big soft heart. Loves animals. Doesn't eat them. They live out in the country.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at June 19, 2023 10:27 PM (ebhEj)

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Timothy Treadwell has entered the chat

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2023 11:49 PM (s12c9)

261 Our Afghanistan:

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

Posted by: THE ALIENS at June 19, 2023 11:49 PM (2znMt)

262 We need our military to earn once again the respect of the American people such that young Americans are ready to serve in adequate numbers.



Kurt is spot on.

We are running out of other countries' citizens willing to die for Lockheed-Martin contracts.

We must pick a fight with some small defenseless country, maybe Iceland or Lichtenstein, if we are to get young, white males to kill foreigners and perhaps die for military contracts.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 19, 2023 11:51 PM (Zqeqr)

263

Been a very interesting journey through life thus far.

Certain things stand out,the immense pride gained through military service, the love of a ginger and raising two tremendous children plus a satisfying career, doing exactly what I wanted to do.

I'm not ready to call it done quite yet.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 19, 2023 11:52 PM (KATBx)

264 Evening, MisHum and Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2023 11:57 PM (+hgMi)

265 ..We are running out of other countries' citizens willing to die for Lockheed-Martin contracts.

We must pick a fight with some small defenseless country, maybe Iceland or Lichtenstein, if we are to get young, white males to kill foreigners and perhaps die for military contracts. Post


All future U.S. dot-mil tactical aircraft, should be equipped with a man-rated R2-D2 type "pod" installation behind the cockpit. Or, just be two seaters, in general. But in this case, the GIB has no tactical or operational nor piloting duties, at all. Give him an altimeter and artificial horizon, just for entertainment.

But, that seat IS TO BE FILLED by a Senior Executive or Department Head of the defense contractor that made the plane.

Every plane, every mission. They can fly in "rotation", but someone from Lock-Mart, senior from a shop foreman, IS going to be on board during each and every live combat mission.

How much you wanna bet the procurement and deployment games change just a bit, then?


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 19, 2023 11:57 PM (e6UQI)

266 Watching one of my favorite movies that Rotten Tomatoes only gives 49%.

Author ! Author !

Can’t believe it’s 41 years old.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2023 11:58 PM (MNhXM)

267 Probably thinking of Swede Momsen who lead the rescue efforts for USS Squalus with the diving bell. FDR gave him a Letter of Commendation. He did receive the Distinguished Service Medal for the development of the Momsen Lung.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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"United States Navy - Naval Historical Center Online Library, Photo #: NH 57888
Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison congratulates four heros of the Squalus rescue and salvage operations after presenting them with Medals of Honor during ceremonies at the Navy Department on 19 January 1940. The four men, all qualified as Divers, are (from left to right): Chief Machinist's Mate William Badders Chief Torpedoman John Mihalowski Chief Boatswain's Mate Orson L. Crandall Chief Metalsmith James Harper McDonald

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2023 12:01 AM (06vRX)

268 Lock Martin played Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 20, 2023 12:01 AM (63Dwl)

269 265
Every plane, every mission. They can fly in "rotation", but someone from Lock-Mart, senior from a shop foreman, IS going to be on board during each and every live combat mission.

How much you wanna bet the procurement and deployment games change just a bit, then?

Posted by: Jim at June 19, 2023 11:57 PM (e6UQI)
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There's going to be a plethora of janitorial promotions to CTO or CQO (Technical or Queer).

Posted by: Ciampino --- Apparently Apple is developing a submarine - Sink Different at June 20, 2023 12:02 AM (qfLjt)

270 Certain things stand out,the immense pride gained through military service, the love of a ginger and raising two tremendous children plus a satisfying career, doing exactly what I wanted to do.

I'm not ready to call it done quite yet.
Posted by: irongrampa at June 19, 2023 11:52 PM (KATBx)

I was at the grocery store with Pookette today and she was in front of the cart (she has her own little cart that the cashiers love to check out items from). Suddenly I realized that I don't have to look down to see her ten-year-old face, it's about eye level when she's three feet in front of me. Damn, kids grow up fast....

Posted by: pookysgirl with a giant Dutch baby at June 20, 2023 12:02 AM (dtlDP)

271 re" submarine at Titanic

When they had lost communications on a previous dive, well it is a bit more complicated and terrifying to learn the rest of the story.

The surface ship gives the sub its directions to the wreckage. There is nothing aboard the sub to find the sunken ship. So for over two hours that sub was lost underwater.

Failure to resurface after this loss of communications and about two hours in, means the submersible was close to the bottom and probably bad things have already happened.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2023 12:03 AM (mTo4e)

272 Evening, MisHum and Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Was thinking about the trans in your tow vehicle. Oooof. Any idea what the total GVW was for vehicles and trailer. I'm thinking that the transmission cooler was working overtime.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2023 12:04 AM (uanMf)

273 The sub went on a side trip to look for The Heart of the Ocean jewelry.

Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2023 12:06 AM (MNhXM)

274 Was thinking about the trans in your tow vehicle. Oooof. Any idea what the total GVW was for vehicles and trailer. I'm thinking that the transmission cooler was working overtime.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2023 12:04 AM (uanMf)

AOP lets transes drive his vehicles?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2023 12:08 AM (Angsy)

275 The surface ship gives the sub its directions to the wreckage. There is nothing aboard the sub to find the sunken ship. So for over two hours that sub was lost underwater.

Failure to resurface after this loss of communications and about two hours in, means the submersible was close to the bottom and probably bad things have already happened.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2023 12:03 AM (mTo4e)

So how does the sub communicate with the surface tender? I assume radio is right out. Wired or fiber-optic comms?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2023 12:09 AM (+hgMi)

276
So how does the sub communicate with the surface tender? I assume radio is right out. Wired or fiber-optic comms?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Wrench taps, on the hull.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2023 12:11 AM (4Nep/)

277 Was thinking about the trans in your tow vehicle. Oooof. Any idea what the total GVW was for vehicles and trailer. I'm thinking that the transmission cooler was working overtime.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2023 12:04 AM (uanMf)

The '08 burb has a transmission temperature digital readout that one can select. Hit 92 C a few times, but mostly 75 to 77 C.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2023 12:11 AM (+hgMi)

278
The '08 burb has a transmission temperature digital readout that one can select. Hit 92 C a few times, but mostly 75 to 77 C.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Pretty impressive, and damned nice to be able to monitor that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2023 12:13 AM (1vJmm)

279 Fox News talked with a guy who had been aboard this sub, the mother ship sends short text messages he said to guide the sub.

I am not sure how this all works out because ELF I think is still somewhere up in Michigan taking up a good chunk of real estate.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2023 12:13 AM (mTo4e)

280 ..The '08 burb has a transmission temperature digital readout that one can select. Hit 92 C a few times, but mostly 75 to 77 C. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2023 12:11 AM (+hgMi)


Good thing those temps weren't shown in Fahrenheit. Those numbers would've been proof of Glow Bull Worming!


/modernjournalist


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 20, 2023 12:17 AM (e6UQI)

281 I am not sure how this all works out because ELF I think is still somewhere up in Michigan taking up a good chunk of real estate.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 20, 2023 12:13 AM (mTo4e)

Well, you could probably send digital signals by keying a sonar transmitter. Data rate would be too slow for video, or maybe even audio.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2023 12:17 AM (+hgMi)

282 Air Police on bicycles would give them tickets for their porch lights left on. 1980's. 1240 houses and not one electric meter.

Seriously.

Our government is stupid.

Posted by: torabora at June 20, 2023 12:17 AM (FJk1H)

283 ..Air Police on bicycles would give them tickets for their porch lights left on. 1980's. 1240 houses and not one electric meter. Seriously. Our government is stupid.
Posted by: torabora at June 20, 2023 12:17 AM (FJk1H)



An On-Base Motel 6 would be SO totally screwed.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 20, 2023 12:27 AM (e6UQI)

284 An On-Base Motel 6 would be SO totally screwed.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 20, 2023 12:27 AM (e6UQI)

Heh!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2023 12:35 AM (+hgMi)

285 military might do better on recruitment if they make an ad of the grunts taking turns deep throating a dildo (in the barracks).
A video had been going around around with that.

It is what they, the leadership, want. right?
Right, Miss Army Secretary? Vids of guys sucking fake dicks in the barracks is totally compatible with the military mission and makes them stronger.

If you cannot be open about why you pushing such degenerate garbage...
If not, why do they keep pushing this lbggxyz crap.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2023 12:35 AM (ga8qR)

286 Here's a video of Brazilian drummer Aquiles Priester doing a drum cover of Dragonforce's Through The Fire And The Flames.

https://youtu.be/qR6MS53kzlM

I deliver in the morning. Im out.

Night.

Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2023 12:36 AM (81zXs)

287 That dildo video was "shared" on here a couple days ago.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 20, 2023 12:37 AM (63Dwl)

288 John Kerry bought his yacht with Teresa's dill dough.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2023 12:40 AM (+hgMi)

289 why do they keep pushing this lbggxyz crap.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 20, 2023 12:35 AM (ga8qR)


They're degenerate commies, it's what they do: The ends justifying destroying normalcy/norms.

Posted by: RickZ at June 20, 2023 12:40 AM (emlEe)

290 I thought we were bound by treaty to protect Tiawan

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 20, 2023 12:44 AM (WF/xn)

291 194 Nope, never put dishwashing liquid in the dishwasher. Because only a complete idiot would do that.


Raises hand, I thought that just one tiny drop would be perfectly safe despite the warning to not use said product in the dishwasher. hubs came home from work to find mom and the five kiddos enjoying one heck of a slip 'n slide in the kitchen.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2023 12:47 AM (a4EWo)

292 290 I thought we were bound by treaty to protect Tiawan
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway



LOL!!

Posted by: The Great Reset at June 20, 2023 12:55 AM (sAmhv)

293 Well, 2300 here. Time for me to hit the sack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2023 01:02 AM (+hgMi)

294 Night, AOP.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2023 01:06 AM (a4EWo)

295 282 Air Police on bicycles would give them tickets for their porch lights left on. 1980's. 1240 houses and not one electric meter.

Seriously.

Our government is stupid.
Posted by: torabora at June 20, 2023 12:17 AM (FJk1H)

In the '80s, they used to send guys out to paint the backs of stop signs brown. So they would match the colors of the buildings. I swear, back then if the enemy wanted to bomb a military base, all they had to do was look for great swaths of buildings painted brown and monkeypuke beige.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 20, 2023 01:12 AM (LOVUx)

296
I've read there's a little trick to use hand detergent in a dishwasher. Mix a few drops of Dawn in with baking soda in the dispenser. That will keep it from sudsing up like a mofo.

Or so it is claimed. I haven't tried it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at June 20, 2023 01:12 AM (Mzdiz)

297 Heavens gate, oceans gate, half a dozen of the other

Posted by: N at June 20, 2023 01:14 AM (RjBju)

298 What's the crop report, publius? Is all of this rain good or is it too much?

Where is Hank Kimball when you need him.

Mike Hammer, Thanks for the book recommendation, I am going to look for that.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2023 01:23 AM (a4EWo)

299
So far, today, the predicted downpour didn't happen. Well, right here. There was a flash flood warning late this afternoon for some area of in southwest Greenville Count (Williamston, Pelzer area). Rain was coming down at a rate of over 3" per hour.

We got a little over 1/2" today here. We'll likely be under the bullseye of a few of these things over the next couple of days. As long as it doesn't rain too much in too short of a time, or we get something nasty like hail or high winds, things will be all right.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at June 20, 2023 01:26 AM (Mzdiz)

300 The ruling class deep state establishment wants to save a city in this case milwaukee from going bankrupt so the rich are protected, because if city fails us leftists will take over the city not you righties. We will get rid of discredited corrupt mayor and city council. We will set up control points in the city. Liberal establishment are for gun control not john brown gun club and black militants. The rich don't want to be stopped at a democratic people's road block looking for enemies of the people.

Posted by: raimondo at June 20, 2023 01:31 AM (RYxPC)

301 Does anyone else smell that? In this thread? Just askin'.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 20, 2023 01:34 AM (LOVUx)

302 raimondo let's his Stalinist-Maoist freak flag FLY!

Useful Fool, indeed.

Real World Commies put his kind of cannon-fodder on the lip of the ditch, first.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 20, 2023 01:35 AM (e6UQI)

303
Speaking of the crops, when JQ gets here, I'll be interested if she got her late okra in today.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at June 20, 2023 01:40 AM (Mzdiz)

304 Funny how Milwaukee went from broke to firing squads and public enemies in two comments. It’s as if none of the people manning the checkpoints supported the policies that broke the city.

I know ignoring them is best but ridicule is more fun.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 20, 2023 01:41 AM (NNK2C)

305 Posted by: Jim at June 20, 2023 01:35 AM (e6UQI)

You understood that babble?

Posted by: polynikes at June 20, 2023 01:41 AM (MNhXM)

306 tcn, I hope that your hubby is feeling better.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2023 01:42 AM (a4EWo)

307 306 tcn, I hope that your hubby is feeling better.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2023 01:42 AM (a4EWo)

Much better, no afib, but he has one hell of a bunch of purple bruises right where he wishes they were not. He went to the lake with the dogs today, and drove, and went out to dinner, so things are moving in the right direction.

There are always so much more things they just don't tell you about after a procedure....

But all appears to be right with this world currently.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 20, 2023 01:48 AM (LOVUx)

308
About 35 hours 'til Solstice. Here at 35ish N latitude, today, the 20th, will be 4s more daylight than yesterday, and the solstice will be 1s longer.

Right here at my location, we top out at 14:29:19 of daylight on the solstice. Greenville city is enough north that they get 37s more daylight that day than we do. It ain't fair.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at June 20, 2023 01:49 AM (Mzdiz)

309 Discussion to fall asleep with:
Barnes et al from CTH
https://youtu.be/N-6yrHD92LQ

Posted by: micky at June 20, 2023 01:51 AM (3byMq)

310 polynikes.

Pays to be fluent in understanding commie doublespeak and newsspeak.

The bastards will tell you who they are and what they're about.

Use that intel for targeting data, etc.

I'm to the snoozer, y'all. Hasta la nite nite, Horde!


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 20, 2023 01:52 AM (e6UQI)

311 It ain't fair.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at June 20, 2023 01:49 AM (Mzdiz)

Right now we are at 19 hours 21 minutes of daylight, except that it doesn't really get dark in the other hours. You can still find the pee-house at 0200.

I could never understand, in the Lower 48, how it could be both hot and dark.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 20, 2023 01:54 AM (LOVUx)

312 Today's JQ farm report:

Did not get okra in today. Was windy & wet, temp didn't break 60 until late afternoon. Couldn't force myself to get out in the muck. Tomorrow, likely more of the same plus t-storms and hail.

Sheesh-- but we'll be back to high 80s by Friday.

Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2023 01:56 AM (Gkog9)

313
Bummer JQ. Get that okra in first chance you get. I'll bet you'll get some pods before it gets too cool. I'm pulling for you, and your Clempson Spineless.

That's my Cow Collidge Alma Mater. We've got a reputation to uphold.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at June 20, 2023 02:02 AM (Mzdiz)

314
Seeing the Midnight Sun is on my bucket list. Don't know if I'll make it, or be in good enough shape to stand such a trek. But I'd like to see it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at June 20, 2023 02:03 AM (Mzdiz)

315 Night, Jim.

tcn, I am glad to hear that he is doing better, prayers for complete healing.

Hi JQ, Sorry that I missed you last night. I have got some early morning agenda items tomorrow, I am headed to bed. Good to see you, though.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 20, 2023 02:03 AM (a4EWo)

316 #DCSVT

Posted by: micky at June 20, 2023 02:04 AM (3byMq)

317 LOL publius. Will do. It's supposed to be a little warmer tomorrow and maybe sunshine in between storms, so hoping it's not *too nasty* like today was.

Had a hankerin' for fried okra a while back so looked for some frozen at the grocery. None! They usually carry it, so hoping it's merely a supply issue rather than discontinued merch.

Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2023 02:08 AM (Gkog9)

318 'Night, Debby! Good to see you, even if briefly!

Posted by: JQ at June 20, 2023 02:09 AM (Gkog9)

319 >> how it could be both hot and dark.

See "heat burst", or heat bloom:

https://tinyurl.com/2brusbd6

Last year, there were a bunch of cattle killed about this time of year. It was one of those. Nightime. Very rapid rise in temperature exceeding 100F.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at June 20, 2023 02:10 AM (Mzdiz)

320
Evening, all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 20, 2023 02:12 AM (nW1va)

321
During one of those heat bursts, temperature has been seen to rise as much as 18F in a couple of minutes.

They are rare. But they happen.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at June 20, 2023 02:17 AM (Mzdiz)

322 They are rare. But they happen.
Posted by: publius
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Alien ship

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2023 02:18 AM (hjwuP)

323 The Turtle method has always been, "Well, with that as the 'esteemed' opposition how could you possibly vote for anyone but RINO,Inc?"

And that has fallen away.

#DCSVT

Posted by: micky at June 20, 2023 02:28 AM (3byMq)

324
Good recent one from the Bad Cat (tm) about the Data Crimes the Global Warmunists are doing:

https://tinyurl.com/2yqauaja

We're in an ice age here long term, and the current holocene period is just a nice warmer period of that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at June 20, 2023 02:31 AM (Mzdiz)

325 *looks at bottom pic*

Ah, dishwashing liquid (hand wash liquid) got into the washer somehow. I had it happen once when I had a solution of the soap and some vinegar in a bowl, and like a dumbass did not rinse the bowl thoroughly when I put it into the dishwasher. Complete mess. Took several cycles to get the damn stuff out. Dishwashers are VERY efficient at making suds.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 20, 2023 02:50 AM (/xaUq)

326 I seem to be up already

Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2023 03:16 AM (xhxe8)

327 Lenna Zulauf
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raimondo's mom?

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 20, 2023 03:17 AM (sAmhv)

328 Why do spammers push child labor?

Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2023 03:23 AM (xhxe8)

329 Morning to all you late night folken! How was your totally Made-Up Holiday? Yeah, I had the day off, and I took it and ran with it. What was I gonna do, go in to a closed office and sit there to read Ace instead of at home?

My weekend was actually five days, Thursday and Friday being vacation days. Got a lot done, the car's oil changed, grocery shopping, edits to a manuscript, working out, having breakfast at my favorite coffee shop and grill. And naps. End result? I don't wanna go back to the office. Retirement is looking better and better.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2023 03:34 AM (omVj0)

330 And updates on the Killer Kittens From Outer Space: Stirling is doing well, kneading me nearly every morning and sometimes in the afternoon when I wake from a nap. Dagny, La Siberienne, has emerged from her latest "Hel-looo, Sailor!" phase -- possibly her last, as she goes to be snipped this Friday.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2023 03:37 AM (omVj0)

331 My parents had purchased a new washer/dryer combo back when the new High Efficiency (HE) washers first came out. I remember going to their house and my mother was scooping buckets of suds out of the washer, as apparently my dad didn't know to get only HE detergent. It was pretty funny, and I never thought I'd see soap suds so thick they almost looked solid.

I'm guessing after that day my dad never forgot to only get HE formulated laundry detergent.

Posted by: Rbastid at June 20, 2023 03:39 AM (enPmb)

332 About the bike speeding ticket, yeah in most states it's perfectly possible to get a speeding ticket on a bicycle. DUI depends.

Where I live now there is no DUI for non-motorized vehicles, including animals; and there is no 'drunk in public', either! That one surprised me. To get arrested in public you have to do something else, there's no 'drunk and disorderly', only disorderly.

So in Wisconsin, feel free to careen through the streets drunkenly riding your Shetland pony.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 20, 2023 03:39 AM (/BBNv)

333 We're in an ice age here long term, and the current holocene period is just a nice warmer period of that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at June 20, 2023


***
Is it possible that ice ages are the norm (outside the tropics) for this planet at this distance from this yellow sun, and warm spells are the aberration? And what were the tropics like during the worst of the ice ages -- were they temperate zones?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2023 03:42 AM (omVj0)

334 My 13-year-old buddy with that speeding ticket, I think it had to do with the school zone. I mean, hit a little kid crossing the street doing 32 MPH on a bicycle. I can kind of see the point, I don't think it was as much of a cop dick move as it sounds.

His dad, though, that was hilarious. He came home and handed his dad the ticket.

"How in the Hell do you get a goddam speeding ticket when you're 13 years old and ain't even got a driver's license!?"

Posted by: LenNeal at June 20, 2023 03:44 AM (/BBNv)

335 Posted by: Lenna Zulauf at June 20, 2023 02:21 AM (5PwHJ)

Relative of yours, LenNeal?

Posted by: m at June 20, 2023 03:45 AM (LdYi7)

336 Relative of yours, LenNeal?
No, childhood friend. Hillbillies/rednecks up the street. For REAL mayhem, at 11 years old I saved my pennies and ordered up 'The Improvised Munitions Handbook', intercepted it before my parents got the mail and kept it hidden. I'm pretty astonished we survived that!
The first thing I did was build a pistol from 1/4" pipe and load it with .22 powershots and ball bearings glued to the crimp.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 20, 2023 03:55 AM (/BBNv)

337 *play Taps on kazoo*

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 20, 2023 03:57 AM (KFhLj)

338 Ah, it was a lame joke on Len/Lenna.

Posted by: m at June 20, 2023 04:01 AM (LdYi7)

339 >> Is it possible that ice ages are the norm (outside the tropics) for this planet at this distance from this yellow sun, and warm spells are the aberration? And what were the tropics like during the worst of the ice ages -- were they temperate zones?

Such is an interesting question, and far beyond my understanding to offer anything. All I can say is see "Milankovich cycles", orbital wig-woggling of the Erf that happen over 100,000 yr time scales.

Long term climate variation is tied to that, but there are all sorts of "stochastic" variation to that. Very long term, millions to hundreds of millions of year cycles may be correlated with the Solar System's complex orbit through the Milky Way.

Right now, the Erf's axial tilt is on a decreasing leg of that cycle, and the Erf's eccentricity is decreasing. That is, the seasons are getting less extreme and the earth's orbit is getting more circular. The length of the tropical year is decreasing.

These cycles happen over 100,000 year periods.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at June 20, 2023 04:01 AM (Mzdiz)

340 hiya

Posted by: JT at June 20, 2023 04:03 AM (T4tVD)

341 The Church of Global Warming doesn't follow science

Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2023 04:08 AM (xhxe8)

342 341 The Church of Global Warming doesn't follow science
Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2023 04:08 AM (xhxe

Not even alphabetically.

Church of Global Warming
science

Posted by: m at June 20, 2023 04:10 AM (LdYi7)

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Posted by: m at June 20, 2023 04:13 AM (LdYi7)

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Consider where were are now in those Milanlovich cycles. Perihelion occurs close to the winter solstice, and aphelion occurs close to the summer solstice. Factor eccentricity in, and this means the summer and spring are the longest seasons, and winter and fall are the shortest (by a little bit, you can look up all that to see the details).

Apisidial precession couples with axial precession is pushing perihelion westward. Around the year 5000 - 6000, perihelion will occur at the spring equinox.

Now, couple that with tectonic plate movement. At the moment, there is more land mass in the northern hemisphere.

All that complex dance has to do with long term climate variation. We've only begun to scratch the surface in understanding of that.

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