Happy Independence Day Weekend

Well, today is the First of July. Pride month is over. Above, Old Glory flying in Spain.
(Link goes to Twitter, if you are having trouble linking right now.)

Perhaps today we can prepare for the holiday weekend and maybe discuss independence and freedom a little.

France

The French are having some trouble right now. So here, for contrast, are some flags flown in Normandy by French People not long ago:

actually, having visited Normandy a few times, ppl should know the French ppl there typically fly both the US and FR flag.. the French also meticulously care for the American graves. It was actually quite emotional to see.

Meanwhile, in Paris, maybe this is a little too much freedom:

It is being reported that in the French riots, numerous zoo animals have been released in France.

Videos showing zebras, lions, and elephants running in the streets of Paris have been seen. pic.twitter.com/sMsQY97wje
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) July 1, 2023

Supreme Court Decisions

The left is apoplectic over the Supreme Court's decisions on affirmative action, freedom of conscience and student loans. Apoplectic.

I have seen posts on the "corrupt" Supreme Court in my social media. What have you seen?

Wait, is this a high school history paper the kid wrote the night before, or a Supreme Court dissent pic.twitter.com/sIxTgSYTwQ
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) June 30, 2023

A single picture says more than 11,003 words. pic.twitter.com/nvuzLtwf6H
— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) June 30, 2023

After the civil war, black per capita wealth increased 5% every decade relative to white people, all the way up to 1970 when the progress stopped.

Had that rate continued past the 70’s we would have seen racial wealth parity by the year 2040.

But something happened in the… pic.twitter.com/cfKYjq8CyF
— LudwigNeverMises (@LudwigNverMises) June 29, 2023

Mike Lee's commentary on the Supreme Court decision concerning Student Loans. Heh.

1. On one episode of The Office, Michael Scott remembered that 13 years earlier he had promised an entire class of kindergartners that, if they worked hard and graduated from high school, he’d pay for them to go to college. He ended up buying them laptop batteries. pic.twitter.com/W5u1RhAdxD
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) June 30, 2023

There are a couple of minor corrections in the Twitter thread, plus this:

It was an act of cruelty by @POTUS
to offer help he could not legally provide.

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Thought Piece for the Weekend

Back on the 29th, J.J. Sefton's Morning Report highlighted a piece by Daniel Greenfield on Politics and the End of Private Lives.

I didn't see much discussion about it in the comments, but there's a lot to think about in this piece:

The social web is much more stifling than any Soviet communal apartment. A family might have been stuck with one bedroom, but at least they had a door that they could close. The internet has taken down all the doors. Making the private public is a core leftist program. The old hackers claimed that "information wants to be free". Information is less free than it ever was, but people's lives have become public property. The 'free' public services of Google, Facebook and others offer convenience in exchange for information. Family life and political participation leave a trail. Disputes spill out into their ugliness into social media. From the media to social media, everyone is invited to judge the private lives that have become public commodities.

It took Americans longer to collectivize the personal than it did the Chinese. And we did it in a typically individualistic fashion. To paraphrase Sinclair Lewis, when collectivism came to America, it did so by flying emojis offering character creators, personalized algorithm suggestions and relevant ads. . .
Cancel culture politicized the personal. But for it to work, we had to give up our private lives.
In a collectivist society, everyone is either a model citizen or a problem. Individualism is an offense against the system. . .

. . . The American Revolution was fought over, among other matters, because the colonists refused to be feudal peasants who were expected to open their doors and quarter British soldiers in their homes at the demand of a king. Contemporary Americans assume that they are obligated to let officers of the state, not only the police but a long list of inspectors and authority figures into their homes, and have made their homes and lives into just another node on the internet for everyone to pass through when they please.
Inhabiting public lives has not made us any happier. Statistics show a sharp increase in depression and suicide rates for teens beginning with the popularization of the smartphone. Critics and experts point to the devastating impact of phones on public happiness, yet fail to boil it down succinctly to what adults understand, but teens never had a chance to experience.
Like the child stars and teen musicians of another era, a generation has come of age and another is coming of age without any sense of what living a private life is even like. . .

America was founded as a free society and has become a totalitarian state. . . A new revolution will make the personal, private once again. It is a revolution that can begin with us when we do not answer a question, fill in a form, turn over data or share our lives or scrutinize the lives of others who are not our family or our friends.

You may wish to read the whole thing, and discuss it with your family, or with The Horde, here. Using a nic, perhaps.

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Weekend

You never know when you'll see something like this:

With a family full of military vets… just wow❤️🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/CVBUwemRnN
— Sean Dominic (@Seanjuan55) April 24, 2023

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Music

The Thunderer

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Hope you have something nice planned for this long holiday weekend. Cooking anything interesting?

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, Is Pride Month starting to lose its way?

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

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

Comments

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1 You shouldn't capitalize pride month.

It shouldn't be recognized as a formal holiday/observance.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 01, 2023 11:13 AM (+1Xgn)

2 Happy 4th soon with 🎆

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2023 11:13 AM (xhxe8)

3 Howdy KT!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 01, 2023 11:14 AM (u73oe)

4 Pride month sort of went on the down-low this year.

Tis a pity.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2023 11:15 AM (s12c9)

5 The navy is still allowed to celebrate independence day? Isn't that triggering to some snowflakes?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 01, 2023 11:15 AM (V+gFv)

6 Happy Independence Day Weekend, KT.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 01, 2023 11:15 AM (Uy2av)

7 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2023 11:16 AM (63An5)

8 Happy Independence Day Weekend, everybody!

Posted by: KT at July 01, 2023 11:17 AM (rrtZS)

9 What is the deal with Twitter now? Add in the fact that for months Norton has had a problem with Real Clear. It's all bs.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 01, 2023 11:18 AM (brAQZ)

10 Love the chart of SCOTUS words spoken. High correlation to male v. female, and conservative v. liberal. Some correlation to intelligence.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2023 11:18 AM (RqMSv)

11 Last night had some retards shooting fireworks off their pontoon in our cove. Had to go out and protect my boat and dock in case any landed on them.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 01, 2023 11:19 AM (Uy2av)

12 When I was forty-four
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for minivans that coulr climb up the hill
Taking the kids where they will
To the schoolhouse door
When I was forty-four

https://tinyurl.com/28uxbp3e

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 11:20 AM (FVME7)

13 Bitter Clinger, you're right. It should be called Pride Goeth Before A Fall month, but limited to one day. We could even merge it with a day celebrating government leaders, and call it Insanity Day.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 01, 2023 11:20 AM (oGiDo)

14 Great Sousa! Never knew the name of that march...trombonist gets a workout early.

Posted by: BignJames at July 01, 2023 11:20 AM (AwYPR)

15 Sorry team, can't see no twitters. Might as well post lorem ipsum.

Posted by: Longwing at July 01, 2023 11:21 AM (xlP2v)

16 5 The navy is still allowed to celebrate independence day? Isn't that triggering to some snowflakes?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 01, 2023 11:15 AM (V+gFv)

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They'll rename it Julyteenth in a few years and no one will know what the hell it means.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2023 11:21 AM (s12c9)

17 What is the deal with Twitter now?

Unless your data can be tracked and sold, you are of no use financially to Twitter.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 01, 2023 11:22 AM (+1Xgn)

18 Heh. Nothing makes an old soldier want to pass in review like a John Phillips Souza march.
Happy 4th (early) Horde!

Posted by: Old Blue at July 01, 2023 11:24 AM (Pxa/w)

19 New riot control technique, release a pride of lions.

Posted by: javems at July 01, 2023 11:24 AM (qgcY2)

20 I do exactly what the Amazon delivery guy did with the flag I fly here. Every day.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2023 11:24 AM (Q4IgG)

21 🧨

Posted by: runner at July 01, 2023 11:24 AM (V13WU)

22 10 Love the chart of SCOTUS words spoken. High correlation to male v. female, and conservative v. liberal. Some correlation to intelligence.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2023 11:18 AM (RqMSv)

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Ketanji is smart. Not dumb like everyone says. She's smart, and she wants respect!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2023 11:25 AM (s12c9)

23 I feel so bad for the zoo animals set loose in the city...it's worse for them than being held captive in a zoo

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2023 11:26 AM (J+n/S)

24 It was an act of cruelty by @POTUS
to offer help he could not legally provide.

I wonder if the disappointment will provide any corrective nudge for those college debtors who let wishful thinking carry them away. Because believing the government will fulfill your expectations is a dangerous form of wishful thinking.

Posted by: Emmie -- July 15 ArkanOklaMoMe RSVP email link in nic at July 01, 2023 11:26 AM (Emce2)

25 22 10 Love the chart of SCOTUS words spoken. High correlation to male v. female, and conservative v. liberal. Some correlation to intelligence.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2023 11:18 AM (RqMSv)

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Ketanji is smart. Not dumb like everyone says. She's smart, and she wants respect!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 01, 2023 11:25 AM (s12c9)
______

But is she a woman?

And when do we have to ask if she's black?

Posted by: Eeyore at July 01, 2023 11:26 AM (brAQZ)

26 The French are having some trouble right now.

Who knew that taking in a large unassimilated population of people with a completely different culture might cause problems?

Posted by: Zombie Roman Empire! at July 01, 2023 11:27 AM (2tUFv)

27 My employer's webpage today

"July is a month to reflect on the events and progress of pride month"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 01, 2023 11:27 AM (V+gFv)

28 Ditching the blue dump for the corn and chickens of the Delmarva

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at July 01, 2023 11:28 AM (Eeb9P)

29 What is the deal with Twitter now?

Supposedly, ChatGPT instances were scraping so much data that it was affecting twitter service. So they've turned off public access while they figure out a countermeasure.

Posted by: t-bird at July 01, 2023 11:28 AM (CaJIi)

30 New riot control technique, release a pride of lions.
Posted by: javems at July 01, 2023 11:24 AM (qgcY2)

Grid your lions!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2023 11:28 AM (8fV9O)

31 It was an act of cruelty by @POTUS
to offer help he could not legally provide.

since it's the banking system that provides the funding for these loans, wouldn't they sue the Feds for making them perform an illegal action? (as established by SCOTUS)

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2023 11:30 AM (J+n/S)

32 24 It's dangerous because those who seek wish fulfillment from government are willing to give away their personal sovereignty so that the government will have the power to give them stuff. When some give up sovereignty, everyone loses some freedom (except for the corrupt among us).

Posted by: Emmie -- July 15 ArkanOklaMoMe RSVP email link in nic at July 01, 2023 11:30 AM (Emce2)

33 Ketanji is smart. Not dumb like everyone says. She's smart, and she wants respect!

I'M NOT THE WORLD'S MOST OBVIOUS DIVERSITY HIRE!

I'M NOT, I'M NOT, I'M NOT!

PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT SHOULD BE IMPRISONED!

Posted by: Ketanji, The World's Most Obvious Diversity Hire! at July 01, 2023 11:30 AM (2tUFv)

34 FJB is going to do loan forgiveness. He is just using a different law for authorization.
And this time, he will do it before anyone can stop it with a lawsuit.
He has already told borrowers that it it ok to not pay for a year, that puts nonpayment off until Oct 2024. Hmmmm is that significant? Sounds significant.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 01, 2023 11:30 AM (V+gFv)

35 Independence Day is the most celebrated holiday worldwide.
'Cuz of that whole British Empire thing and all.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 01, 2023 11:31 AM (DhOHl)

36 27 My employer's webpage today

"July is a month to reflect on the events and progress of pride month"
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 01, 2023 11:27 AM (V+gFv)

Aaaaaaaaah! What a nightmare!

Posted by: Emmie -- July 15 ArkanOklaMoMe RSVP email link in nic at July 01, 2023 11:31 AM (Emce2)

37 I was stationed in Germany when the Wall came down. Then one day the order came down DO NOT cross the border, even though the border guards had abandoned their posts. Apparently the 2nd Armored Cav decided to sneak over anyway and see what intel they could gather at the guard towers. Cool.
But what happened was not long after they were invited into a Czech village that the unit had liberated in 1945. Huge celebration!!!
What was interesting about the photos I saw were all the American flags.hanging from the windows. They only had 48 stars.
Very moving.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2023 11:31 AM (e4fEA)

38 since it's the banking system that provides the funding for these loans

Not any more. It's all the Feds now.

Thanks, Obama!

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 01, 2023 11:31 AM (2tUFv)

39 So the moral of that Supreme Court story is the women won't shut up?

( ducks and runs)

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2023 11:32 AM (xhxe8)

40 Ditching the blue dump for the corn and chickens of the Delmarva

oh that's nice

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2023 11:33 AM (J+n/S)

41 I was in Kuwait a couple decades ago on the 4th. Their entire newspaper was dedicated to American Independence that day.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 01, 2023 11:33 AM (V+gFv)

42 "FJB is going to do loan forgiveness. He is just using a different law for authorization."

This exploits a flaw in our jurisprudence. When it comes to SCOTUS precedent it's supposed to be an honor system.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2023 11:33 AM (RqMSv)

43 Lefties criticize Thomas for not making "enough" comments. They say it proves he is not smart.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2023 11:34 AM (63Dwl)

44 August is a month to reflect on the June pride events that we reflected on in July.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 01, 2023 11:35 AM (V+gFv)

45 >>> My employer's webpage today

"July is a month to reflect on the events and progress of pride month"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 01, 2023 11:27 AM (V+gFv)

Wait until August when you have to reflect on the reflection.

Posted by: DJ at July 01, 2023 11:35 AM (uosPt)

46 What did France think was gonna happen? Let in a few million military aged males from third world shitholes while defunding the police? Dumbasses.

Wait...

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 01, 2023 11:35 AM (u73oe)

47 Might as well post lorem ipsum.
Posted by: Longwing

I can't read this. It might as well be Latin frontier gibberish.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2023 11:35 AM (63An5)

48 >>> 32 24 It's dangerous because those who seek wish fulfillment from government are willing to give away their personal sovereignty so that the government will have the power to give them stuff. When some give up sovereignty, everyone loses some freedom (except for the corrupt among us).
Posted by: Emmie -- July 15 ArkanOklaMoMe RSVP email link in nic at July 01, 2023 11:30 AM (Emce2)

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have" -- stuff Thomas Jefferson said

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 01, 2023 11:36 AM (llON8)

49 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 01, 2023 11:35 AM (V+gFv)

Horde mind

Posted by: DJ at July 01, 2023 11:36 AM (uosPt)

50 My employer's webpage today

"July is a month to reflect on the events and progress of pride month"

That's got to be a weird place to work.
"Children Groomed Today: xxx"

Posted by: t-bird at July 01, 2023 11:37 AM (CaJIi)

51 "the women won't shut up?"

No surprise that once again Clarence and KJB are on opposite sides of the spectrum.

Memo to Roberts, had you done the right thing with AA twenty years ago you wouldn't have to listen to KJB yammering for the rest of your natural life.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2023 11:37 AM (RqMSv)

52 Lefties criticize Thomas for not making "enough" comments. They say it proves he is not smart.

They don't read his opinions.

Thomas obviously thinks that oral argument is a waste of time, which offends the blowhards for whom the high point of their lives is making an oral argument before the Supreme Court.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 01, 2023 11:38 AM (2tUFv)

53 Fireworks have been sporadic since 6/19. Neighborhood is decidedly less American than preCovid.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at July 01, 2023 11:39 AM (Eeb9P)

54 When Algeria gained independence in 1962, they kicked out every French person living in Algeria, even the ones that desperately wanted to stay.

Not sure why this example comes to mind...

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 01, 2023 11:41 AM (2tUFv)

55 Grab your piccolo....play it loud!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvWWXv59apY

Posted by: BignJames at July 01, 2023 11:42 AM (AwYPR)

56 I used to be a huge NBA fan up through the 90’s but abandoned them when the game changed drastically. I still knew who the top players were years after but I now know that the abandonment is complete. Houston just sign a guy named vanFleet to a 3 year contract for 130 million . Never heard of him.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2023 11:42 AM (MNhXM)

57 I did predict KBJ would show her Cultural Marxism in every ruling

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2023 11:42 AM (xhxe8)

58 Everyone see the video of the CPB cutting concertina wire the Texas guard put up to allow a group of illegals entry? Their excuse is that there were children in the group and it’s hot out.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 01, 2023 11:42 AM (u73oe)

59 Grab your piccolo....play it loud!

Posted by: BignJames

This one time, at band camp. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2023 11:43 AM (63An5)

60 I imagine the rest of the justices wish Brown would shut up.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 01, 2023 11:43 AM (aCNZ6)

61
Wait until August when you have to reflect on the reflection.
Posted by: DJ at July 01, 2023 11:35 AM

We live in a house of mirrors.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2023 11:43 AM (63Dwl)

62 Houston just sign a guy named vanFleet to a 3 year contract for 130 million . Never heard of him.
Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2023 11:42 AM (MNhXM)

UPS has a van fleet, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2023 11:44 AM (8fV9O)

63 Morning Horde , Happy Independence Day Weekend. Been reading articles about Hunter Biden's lawyer Abbe Lowell sending threatening letters to congressman and media people who dare to investigate/report on his client. The way the Biden family and their capos work they really are a crime family

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2023 11:46 AM (PVx3i)

64 Lol... that little "love pat" that driver gives the flag walking away... awesome. There's respect, and then there's loving respect.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 01, 2023 11:46 AM (9UlRk)

65 "Thomas obviously thinks that oral argument is a waste of time,"

They needn't be, if you let the lawyers argue instead of filibustering.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2023 11:46 AM (RqMSv)

66 NBA? Cable? Sports? Once upon a time in a land far, far away...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 01, 2023 11:47 AM (DhOHl)

67 More mostly peaceful.

RadioGenova
@RadioGenova
In France in three days there were 2560 fires on public roads, 1350 vehicles set on fire, 250 buildings and shops set on fire. Unspecified number of lootings, probably thousands. Multicultural France has failed.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 11:47 AM (FVME7)

68 Well, I am going to go get on with my day. Enjoy the weekend! I have a brisket BBQ to go to this afternoon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2023 11:48 AM (8fV9O)

69 >>> 67 More mostly peaceful.

RadioGenova
@RadioGenova
In France in three days there were 2560 fires on public roads, 1350 vehicles set on fire, 250 buildings and shops set on fire. Unspecified number of lootings, probably thousands. Multicultural France has failed.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 11:47 AM (FVME7)

Diversity Is Our Strength!

Posted by: leftists at July 01, 2023 11:49 AM (llON8)

70 Lefties criticize Thomas for not making "enough" comments. They say it proves he is not smart.

They don't read his opinions.

Thomas obviously thinks that oral argument is a waste of time, which offends the blowhards for whom the high point of their lives is making an oral argument before the Supreme Court.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 01, 2023 11:38 AM (2tUFv)

Also that graph is for first 8 cases. Thomas knew he was the rookie and had the sense to respect the other justices by not acting like a know it all Jack ass.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2023 11:49 AM (MNhXM)

71 Getting an impression, the last few weeks, that actual, honest-to-gosh everyday gays are going to spend the rest of the year "reflecting" on how much they hope the rest of their society does not, overmuch, reflect on the events and progress of this pride month.

The bud is light, and the rag is off the bush.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 01, 2023 11:50 AM (4PZHB)

72 Haven't we been hearing about riots, burning and looting in Paris and it's suburbs for years?
Isn't it just a regular occurrence like Mardi Gras or starlings to Casablanca?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 01, 2023 11:52 AM (DhOHl)

73 Brevity is the soul of wit.

-- Polonius

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 01, 2023 11:52 AM (yr57W)

74 Also that graph is for first 8 cases. Thomas knew he was the rookie and had the sense to respect the other justices by not acting like a know it all Jack ass.

Nah, Thomas still doesn't talk during oral argument, after all these years.

Normal appellate courts rarely allow oral argument.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 01, 2023 11:52 AM (2tUFv)

75 Haven't we been hearing about riots, burning and looting in Paris and it's suburbs for years?

The "youths" have turned it up to 11 this time around.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 01, 2023 11:53 AM (2tUFv)

76 Reverence for the flag. Commendable, sir!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 01, 2023 11:53 AM (glGDV)

77 Multicultural France has failed.

Catherine de Medici came to this conclusion in 1572.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 01, 2023 11:53 AM (4PZHB)

78 What France needs is a big helping of reparations.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2023 11:55 AM (63Dwl)

79 Happy Independence Day Weekend, everybody!
Posted by: KT

Thank you !

The same to you !

Posted by: JT at July 01, 2023 11:56 AM (T4tVD)

80 I am so glad I watched that flag video and it didn't go the way I'd expected. Got dusty in here.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 01, 2023 11:57 AM (nC+QA)

81 My understanding is in France it's not " youth" per say but by the invaders, possibly also the Antifa joining in because who doesn't like destroying things as much as them?

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2023 11:57 AM (xhxe8)

82 First time I’ve seen an entire orchestra of senior NCO’s.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 01, 2023 11:58 AM (IbyMK)

83 I love Sousa. I find him to be an inspirational American figure. An immigrant from Portugal who became a legendary, uniquely American composer. I also find very fascinating that his written music had to occupy tiny marching band size pages clipped to the instrument, with no page turns, despite several minutes duration. Anyone who played in high school marching band knows what I'm talking about.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 01, 2023 11:58 AM (MeG8a)

84 Report: State Department Had No Clear Leadership During Afghanistan Withdrawal

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I thought it was run by the Dep't of Clusterfuckery.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 11:58 AM (FVME7)

85 "It was an act of cruelty by @POTUS
to offer help he could not legally provide."

It should read:

"It was an act of cruelty by @POTUS to offer help that he and nearly everyone else on the left knew damn well was never going to pass legal muster and was only pandering for votes."

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2023 11:59 AM (ncXxy)

86 The Amazon guy straightening the flag and then saluting was very touching.

Posted by: Tuna at July 01, 2023 11:59 AM (gLRfa)

87 27 My employer's webpage today

"July is a month to reflect on the events and progress of pride month"

Now I won't be able to call someone a fag and get away with it by wishing them 'Happy Pride month."

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 01, 2023 12:00 PM (roH4R)

88 My employer's webpage today

"July is a month to reflect on the events and progress of pride month"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 01, 2023 11:27 AM (V+gFv)

......

Dear Diary,

As my company instructed, I am looking back and thinking about the events of pride month.

Fully grown men were waving their penises in childrens' faces. The president hung a faggot flag on the White House while trannies danced around topless and showed off their fake implants and double mastectomy scars. It's Clown World all the way down. I hope the Lord comes back soon and consumes this whole planet of reprobate sodomites in a fiery ball.

Bud Light sales tanked and SCOTUS came back and said I can't be forced to work on faggot products for faggots just because they tell me to, so that was some good news. I may actually use this ruling as grounds to sue my own boss for forcing me to celebrate pride stuff.

Braves are looking good this year, but I still think they need some pitching.

Talk to you soon,

C A T

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 01, 2023 12:00 PM (+1Xgn)

89 It's obvious America is better loved by citizens of some foriegn counties than many in our own.

Posted by: Eromero at July 01, 2023 12:02 PM (/knpl)

90 Brevity is the soul of wit.

-- Polonius

Verbosity is the soul of half-wit.

-- "Justice" Jumanji Brown Jackson

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 12:02 PM (FVME7)

91
Numerous zoo animals have been released in France.

___________

Quadrupeds as well.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2023 12:03 PM (MoZTd)

92 Biden has been giving away interest accrual. It's in the many billions. And he'll keep doing it. It's more effective vote pandering than a one-time forgiveness.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2023 12:03 PM (RqMSv)

93 The Amazon guy straightening the flag and then saluting was very touching.

If I may ask, where is that here in this thread?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 01, 2023 12:04 PM (Xrfse)

94 The Muslim rioting in France isn't just in Paris ghettoes. It's armed and widespread. Macron won't supress it.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2023 12:05 PM (RqMSv)

95 John Fetterman Has the Same Approval Rating as Joe Biden

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And it's the same as their IQ points.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 12:05 PM (FVME7)

96 If I may ask, where is that here in this thread?
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 01, 2023 12:04 PM (Xrfse)

Second to last vid

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2023 12:06 PM (MNhXM)

97 Wait until August when you have to reflect on the reflection.
Posted by: DJ at July 01, 2023 11:35 AM

We live in a house of mirrors.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2023 11:43 AM (63Dwl)

Great analogy.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2023 12:07 PM (BdMk6)

98 but I now know that the abandonment is complete. Houston just sign a guy named vanFleet to a 3 year contract for 130 million . Never heard of him.
Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2023 11:42

That would be Tiberius VanFleet. He's known for romin the floor.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 01, 2023 12:07 PM (aCNZ6)

99 Numerous zoo animals have been released in France.

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Quadrupeds as well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2023 12:03 PM (MoZTd)

The end of the original Jumanji showed some French kids digging the game out of the sand. Now you know the rest of the story.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 01, 2023 12:08 PM (AiZBA)

100 Whoopi Goldberg Flips Out Over Affirmative Action Ruling: "Why Do You Fear Us?"

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Well, you're evil, stupid, and ugly.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 12:08 PM (FVME7)

101 Second to last vid

Thanks. The Twatters ain't working for me so I guess I'll save the link in hopes that they figure out whatever the hell is going down there.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 01, 2023 12:09 PM (Xrfse)

102 It's hard for us to imagine the musical aesthetic of the era from our standpoint. Sousa was a great proponent of ragtime, yet hated jazz with a passion. A music theory prof told me a few decades ago that Sousa's time was the last period when the language spoken by the best popular composers was the same as that of the cutting edge 'major' composers.

There are pretty fair recordings of Sousa doing the spoken word. He had an incredibly mellifluous voice, and would have been a huge in radio just a few years later.

It was Sousa's father who was an immigrant (Portuguese family, but from Spain). JP Sousa was born in DC.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 01, 2023 12:09 PM (4PZHB)

103 Happy Dominion Day! (July 1, 1867)

Sadly renamed Canada Day, which is no longer even celebrated in much of the country.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at July 01, 2023 12:09 PM (QLMLN)

104 The idea that European countries had to import millions of barbarians to make up for their forecast manpower/population shortfall is incredible to me. See, there's this thing called human propagation, which allows the population to continue and grow. This, in times past, was generally considered a good and natural thing, and was purported to be quite fun to boot!

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 01, 2023 12:09 PM (XMwZJ)

105 Would but a buck on a bet Amazon guy is a Vet

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2023 12:10 PM (xhxe8)

106 California's Reparations Task Force Releases Its Final Report With 1,000 Pages in Demands

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A mere thousand?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 12:11 PM (FVME7)

107 89 It's obvious America is better loved by citizens of some foriegn counties than many in our own.
Posted by: Eromero at July 01, 2023 12:02 PM (/knpl)

It's been that way since the Vietnam era.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2023 12:11 PM (BdMk6)

108 What does that 3rd Amendment mean in this modern age?

If anything it original meant to prevent the chill passive persistent monitoring by the government. Do we not have an electronic proxy now. Even if the government is only collecting metadata on every communication you make. And real time sound analysis is certainly there too.

Whether one chooses to have Siri (or whatever) government tapping into it or using corps as proxies it is as much the same as a modern printer is a printing press.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2023 12:11 PM (ga8qR)

109 56 I used to be a huge NBA fan up through the 90’s but abandoned them when the game changed drastically. I still knew who the top players were years after but I now know that the abandonment is complete. Houston just sign a guy named vanFleet to a 3 year contract for 130 million . Never heard of him.
Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2023 11:42 AM (MNhXM)
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That describes me and baseball. Some guy pitched a perfect game for my Yankees. I don't care. But I can still recite the lineups for all their great teams through 2009.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 01, 2023 12:12 PM (brAQZ)

110 Biden has been giving away interest accrual. It's in the many billions. And he'll keep doing it. It's more effective vote pandering than a one-time forgiveness.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2023 12:03 PM

And if trump somehow wins next year and turns it off, the democrats have a perfect weapon with which to blame republicans for.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2023 12:14 PM (ncXxy)

111 94 The Muslim rioting in France isn't just in Paris ghettoes. It's armed and widespread. Macron won't supress it.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 01, 2023 12:05 PM (RqMSv)

I wonder if the rioting locations match up with the "Sensitive Urban Zones." That would be quite the coink-dink.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 01, 2023 12:14 PM (PiwSw)

112 French priest Fr. Francis Pelle was stripped, beaten adn left fighting for his life after an attemped lynching by islamic scum last night in Saint Etienne. The 80 yr old priest was one of many Catholics targeted as the country seems to dissolve into anarchy.

This could be a lesson for observant public leaders. But, nah.

Freedom is a precious and fragile state.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2023 12:14 PM (63An5)

113 Last night had some retards shooting fireworks off their pontoon in our cove. Had to go out and protect my boat and dock in case any landed on them.

Our community will be cooking off fireworks over the lake this evening.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 01, 2023 12:15 PM (p8A+W)

114 Thanks. The Twatters ain't working for me so I guess I'll save the link in hopes that they figure out whatever the hell is going down there.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 01, 2023 12:09
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It's embedded in this post so you don't go to Twatters. It plays right here.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 01, 2023 12:15 PM (yr57W)

115 NYC Mayor Adams Doubles Down on Comparing Holocaust Survivor to Plantation Owner
“[H]er behavior was acting in a disrespectful way,” he told 1010 WINS radio Friday morning.
“I came from a family that my mom made it clear: Never allow someone to be disrespectful to you.”

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Yeah, if there's one thing the Democrat Party is known for, it's respect.

"R E S P E C T! Not for you, it's for me!"

- Mayor Aretha Adams

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 12:16 PM (FVME7)

116 The idea that European countries had to import millions of barbarians to make up for their forecast manpower/population shortfall is incredible to me.

Coincidentally this is when Malthusians were claiming that we are over populated and the country can't handle anymore people.

And at the exact same time, we are supposed to be worried about automation (now AI) taking over manpower jobs and that is why we need to implement Universal Basic Income for the millions of people displaced from actual employment.

There is not a single coherent element coming out of the Left.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 01, 2023 12:18 PM (p8A+W)

117 "Well, today is the First of July. Pride month is over. "

I read somewhere that July is Handicapable Pride Month or some such thing. Also, I believe Shark Week is in July.

Not gonna lie, I'm looking forward to the cross promotions.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 01, 2023 12:19 PM (z+89e)

118 What does that 3rd Amendment mean in this modern age?

If anything it original meant to prevent the chill passive persistent monitoring by the government. Do we not have an electronic proxy now. Even if the government is only collecting metadata on every communication you make. And real time sound analysis is certainly there too.

Whether one chooses to have Siri (or whatever) government tapping into it or using corps as proxies it is as much the same as a modern printer is a printing press.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2023 12:11 PM (ga8qR)

Think about all the surveillance cameras that are being used now. Laws have given the government access to all of them.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2023 12:20 PM (BdMk6)

119 French priest Fr. Francis Pelle was stripped, beaten adn left fighting for his life after an attemped lynching by islamic scum last night in Saint Etienne. The 80 yr old priest was one of many Catholics targeted as the country seems to dissolve into anarchy.

This could be a lesson for observant public leaders. But, nah.

Freedom is a precious and fragile state.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2023 12:14 PM (63An5)

I’m more than confident we ( the armed populace) would not allow that to happen without going medieval .

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2023 12:20 PM (MNhXM)

120 The Muslim rioting in France isn't just in Paris ghettoes. It's armed and widespread. Macron won't supress it.

I was wondering where all of the hundreds of thousands of weapons left behind in Muslim countries would end up.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 01, 2023 12:20 PM (p8A+W)

121 >>> The end of the original Jumanji showed some French kids digging the game out of the sand. Now you know the rest of the story.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 01, 2023 12:08 PM (AiZBA)

I love that!

I keep picturing the animals in France running wild like that big scene in RRR. Except they aren't CGI, and sadly they are not killing all the rioters.

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2023 12:20 PM (+mkOR)

122 I've seen that Amazon driver video before, but I could watch that every day!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 01, 2023 12:20 PM (PHmov)

123 Amazon delivery guy to be fired in 3..2..1...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 01, 2023 12:20 PM (XMwZJ)

124 If only we could send Merlin Perkins and Jim Fowler over to France to film new episodes of Wild Kingdom!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 12:21 PM (FVME7)

125 Not gonna lie, I'm looking forward to the cross promotions.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 01, 2023 12:19 PM (z+89e)

We're gonna need a bigger ramp up to the boat.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 01, 2023 12:21 PM (9UlRk)

126 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 12:16 PM (FVME7)

Keeping it real right Mayor. Freaking affirmative Action recipient who should be an embarrassment to the black community.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2023 12:22 PM (MNhXM)

127 That describes me and baseball. Some guy pitched a perfect game for my Yankees. I don't care. But I can still recite the lineups for all their great teams through 2009.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 01, 2023 12:12 PM (brAQZ)

When I do think about the Yankees, I cheer for the laundry...I don't care about the players.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 01, 2023 12:22 PM (PHmov)

128 Pentagon Claims Chinese Balloon Didn’t Collect Intelligence Over U.S.

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And also that Hunter is just misunderstood.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 12:23 PM (FVME7)

129
California's Reparations Task Force Releases Its Final Report With 1,000 Pages in Demands

Is it easier to buy a gun than a thousand page book in California?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2023 12:24 PM (63Dwl)

130 125 Not gonna lie, I'm looking forward to the cross promotions.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 01, 2023 12:19 PM (z+89e)

Actually, with all the hair dyed blue, the indigestible blubber and multiple body-piercings, we're going to have to take a hard pass. Thanks anyway.

Posted by: The Sharks at July 01, 2023 12:24 PM (PiwSw)

131 Happy America's Hat Day, eh!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 01, 2023 12:25 PM (DhOHl)

132 It's embedded in this post so you don't go to Twatters. It plays right here.

Not for me.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 01, 2023 12:25 PM (Xrfse)

133 Pentagon Claims Chinese Balloon Didn’t Collect Intelligence

*******

Same could be said for John Fetterman

Posted by: Muldoon at July 01, 2023 12:25 PM (kXYt5)

134 Celebrate our Independence Day like it is the last one..... it just might be.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 01, 2023 12:25 PM (17s+e)

135 Caitlyn Jenner: Biden Is "Trying To Destroy" Women's Sports With Title IX Proposal

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I doubt brain damaged Joe has enough intentionality to "try" anything.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 12:26 PM (FVME7)

136 Pentagon Claims Chinese Balloon Didn’t Collect Intelligence

*******

Same could be said for John Fetterman
Posted by: Muldoon at July 01, 2023 12:25 PM (kXYt5)

I was going to say it takes intelligence to recognize intelligence.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2023 12:27 PM (MNhXM)

137 110
'the democrats have a perfect weapon with which to blame republicans for.'

Yeah. They really struggle to blame people.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 01, 2023 12:28 PM (roH4R)

138 Joe is sinking fast. Every time I see a clip of him, he looks , sounds worse. Complete vegetable.

Posted by: runner at July 01, 2023 12:28 PM (V13WU)

139 Milwaukee Brewers Forced To Use Subway To Take On Mets After Biden Causes Traffic Backup In NYC

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They were lucky to make it out alive! Maybe they were all carrying baseball bats.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 12:28 PM (FVME7)

140 Soon they will be rolling him around in a wheel chair. An of course promote that as some kind of an achievement.

Posted by: runner at July 01, 2023 12:28 PM (V13WU)

141 Lefties criticize Thomas for not making "enough" comments. They say it proves he is not smart.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

Posted by: Oddbob at July 01, 2023 12:29 PM (nfrXX)

142 Former Backup Quarterback Colin Kaepernick "Pushing" To Make NFL Return Over Six Years After Last Game

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Can he recapture the magic?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 12:29 PM (FVME7)

143 Then early next year announce that due to health concerns he won't be running.

Posted by: runner at July 01, 2023 12:29 PM (V13WU)

144 Never mind. I turned off my add blocker and was able to view the imbedded video. That was really cool. God bless you, young man. Obviously a vet.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 01, 2023 12:30 PM (Xrfse)

145 Amazon driver is black so free pass

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at July 01, 2023 12:30 PM (Eeb9P)

146 Joe is sinking fast. Every time I see a clip of him, he looks , sounds worse. Complete vegetable.

Posted by: runner
===

Tanned, rested, corrupt and degenerate!

Posted by: Gavin Newscume at July 01, 2023 12:30 PM (17s+e)

147 Caitlyn Jenner: Biden Is "Trying To Destroy" Women's Sports With Title IX Proposal

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I doubt brain damaged Joe has enough intentionality to "try" anything.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 12:26 PM (FVME7)

Yup. It's been the Kalorama/Davos cartel that's been making policy since 2021.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2023 12:30 PM (BdMk6)

148 I'm looking forward to Biden coming out in a Captain-Pike contraption.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 01, 2023 12:32 PM (XMwZJ)

149 We've become the USSR circa 1970s- early 80s. A bunch of derelicts way , way, past their sell by date , clinging to power, unwilling to let go.

Posted by: runner at July 01, 2023 12:32 PM (V13WU)

150 Eric Adams, your party is the one egging on your minions to get in the faces of people. I'm so sorry a spirited Holocaust survivor yelled at you in a public meeting. But that's part of your job, to listen to her as a "public servant". I get it's not as fun as the partying and fine dining you like do as mayor, but she's not whipping you and treating you like her slave.

Can there be a rule that if you reference plantations or slavery to shame someone you auto lose the argument, kind of like Godwin's Law?

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2023 12:32 PM (+mkOR)

151 As of 2021, foreign born immigrants made up 10% of France's population.

Notice the lack of scare quotes around immigrants; they are welcomed in.

The muzzies usually don't try for a takeover until they hit the 25-25% mark... Looks like they got a bit impatient.

Meanwhile, Macron was busy partying down with Elton John as France burns.

Also, Charles de Gaulle can suck my Rebel toes. Wow, he died in 1970.

Happy Independence weekend, y'all, and a big Thanks to KT.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 01, 2023 12:33 PM (zHuJr)

152 I cheer for the laundry

*******

Announcer: "The game is Tide after eight innings, as a great Cheer goes up from the bleachers!!!"

Posted by: Muldoon at July 01, 2023 12:33 PM (kXYt5)

153 I doubt brain damaged Joe has enough intentionality to "try" anything.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023

To the degree Joe is responsible for anything it's driven by malice and dementia.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 01, 2023 12:33 PM (aCNZ6)

154 Newsom/Whitmer ! Make detention fabulous!

Posted by: runner at July 01, 2023 12:34 PM (V13WU)

155 Not for me.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 01, 2023 12:25
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Hmmm?? Did you click on the play button (white triangle in the blue circle)? I can't see twatters either, but embedded ones here play for me in Brave browser.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 01, 2023 12:34 PM (yr57W)

156 Car-B-Q season in France. Are Mercedes still the preferred entree?

Posted by: davidt at July 01, 2023 12:35 PM (SYTee)

157 Newsom/Whitmer ! SHut your mouth or else !

Posted by: runner at July 01, 2023 12:35 PM (V13WU)

158 About the student loans... I keep hearing because gen z thinks they are soooo smart, the worst possible thing you can do is play them or be inauthentic. If they actually put two and two together, and they figure out Biden cynically played them like a fiddle on the student loan issue for votes, maybe they will apathetically be turned off from voting for him in 2024? Weirder things have happened.

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2023 12:36 PM (+mkOR)

159 Hmmm?? Did you click on the play button (white triangle in the blue circle)? I can't see twatters either, but embedded ones here play for me in Brave browser.

Thanks much. See my #144.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 01, 2023 12:37 PM (Xrfse)

160 Glad you got to see it Notorious BFD.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 01, 2023 12:37 PM (yr57W)

161 Gen Z thinks they're smart. In reality, they're semiliterate epsilon semi-morons. They will continue to be played by Biden and the rest of the ruling class.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 01, 2023 12:38 PM (XMwZJ)

162 "JP Sousa was born in DC."

OK, thanks for the correction.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 01, 2023 12:41 PM (MeG8a)

163 I'm looking forward to Biden coming out in a Captain-Pike contraption.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

Just a head in a one gallon pickled balony jar as shown in Futurama.
Still demented though.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2023 12:42 PM (ga8qR)

164 Angzarr, I know. I just like hoping that maybe somehow the dems screw things up so much, they somehow turn off gen z from voting, and therefore from voting in straight socialism. A girl can dream!

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2023 12:42 PM (+mkOR)

165 Gen Z thinks they're smart. In reality, they're semiliterate epsilon semi-morons. They will continue to be played by Biden and the rest of the ruling class.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 01, 2023 12:38 PM (XMwZJ)

And the generations proceeding them. And they've been "taught" to vote democrat.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2023 12:43 PM (BdMk6)

166 There I am, browsing on amazon for a cordless power saw for cutting branches and such. So I find this one. Looks pretty good, price is as expected.
The link goes to the amazon page for the item.
Scroll down to where it says "About this item"
Read the description.
Somebody screwed up.
It says "sex toy for women".
ummm...

https://tinyurl.com/bdjesrvw

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 01, 2023 12:46 PM (MeG8a)

167 The votes have already been "counted."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2023 12:47 PM (63Dwl)

168 Delivery Flag Guy is one of a kind.

Happy 4th of July errbody!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 01, 2023 12:51 PM (R/m4+)

169 Do keep reading many countries in Europe Mo is the most popular name for newborns

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2023 12:51 PM (xhxe8)

170 If Ketanji had any sense of personal dignity she would have turned down the appointment after President Potatohead explicitly acknowledged that the spot was being held open for some black woman.

Posted by: Cicero (cicero43) at July 01, 2023 12:52 PM (s12c9)

171 So what is the equivalent of “mansplaining,” which justice Brown is engaging?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2023 12:54 PM (4ywOl)

172 Weird, I usually don't get allergy tears in July watching a man respect the symbol of our country so gracefully. Long may she wave.

Posted by: Big Jake Parks at July 01, 2023 12:54 PM (tF/Gf)

173 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
The Supreme Court's recent rulings were sadly predictable for anyone who understands the hard-right agenda. Their goal has always been to install Justices whose job is to turn back the clock on our freedoms, on decades of constitutional decisions, and on our continuing struggle…

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Our continuing struggle to steal more and more money from the people who earned it!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 12:55 PM (FVME7)

174 So what is the equivalent of “mansplaining,” which justice Brown is engaging?
Posted by: Lizzy

Bonus hole pontificating.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 12:56 PM (FVME7)

175 Amazon has a huge problem with sellers switching products into pages for other items that have great reviews. It's a strategy for sellers of Chinese crap now. Sell a funnel or knife for a quarter, get 2000 positive reviews, then put a cell phone in the page with all the reviews intact.

Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at July 01, 2023 12:57 PM (fgyA1)

176 Sen. LadyBugs (SC)
Will Trump tell the same 'great guy, thank you' thing after this booooooo-ongoing of the SeNaToR?

South Carolina could and should do much better. You too 'born as a poor jogger, Mr Scott

Graham needs a ton of weight atop him.

Stupid of me, but I do find that I offer the opening single(apostrophe) or quotes and don't close them.

This is the case for the Karl Rove whiteboard. I saw it. It was all.... white.
Meh, but checked in later and still weeeeeeeeee!

Trump will come on and say 'thank wooo, Graham, like a cracker,, a smore.... great guy, terrific Senator. Trump rolls eyes!11!

Posted by: micky at July 01, 2023 12:57 PM (3byMq)

177 ACK! Please don’t use bonus hole , even ironically!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2023 12:58 PM (4ywOl)

178 Read the description.
Somebody screwed up.
It says "sex toy for women".
ummm...

https://tinyurl.com/bdjesrvw
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 01, 2023 12:46 PM (MeG8a)

What confuses me is, there are some who would use such a thing as a sex toy, but I'm guessing the vast majority of those people are men.

But let's just say the thing is being used ON women... even there, it would rule out the Dahmer types, who want nothing to do with women. So you have a very small niche of the market, serial killers who use power tools in the process, and those who would actually need a saw, and even smaller a segment still, those who are women, thus the word "for" in that equation.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2023 12:59 PM (2IVIs)

179 So what is the equivalent of “mansplaining,” which justice Brown is engaging?
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I don't know if there's a term for it, but men - and especially white men - have been listening to it for longer than anyone here has been alive.

Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at July 01, 2023 12:59 PM (fgyA1)

180 I know some of you can't (or won't) access twitter right now, but, if you need a smile, there is a video of Sen. Graham at a Trump rally in SC.
After his introduction there is continuous booing!

https://tinyurl.com/47p8see4

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 01, 2023 01:00 PM (MeG8a)

181 If they actually put two and two together, and they figure out Biden cynically played them like a fiddle on the student loan issue for votes, maybe they will apathetically be turned off from voting for him in 2024? Weirder things have happened.
Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2023 12:36 PM (+mkOR)

Problem is they got played getting the loans and going to kollege to learn absolutely nothing of value in the first place. They need to take their anger out on the scam the kolleges are running nowadays.

But they won’t, cause they are punk ass suckers who will always be punk ass suckers.

Born every minute are new punk ass suckers.

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

182 ACK! Please don’t use bonus hole , even ironically!!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2023 12:58 PM (4ywOl)

It's going to be an AoSHQ thing, from now on. You're just going to have to learn to live with it.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2023 01:01 PM (2IVIs)

183 Whomever thought the Army Dress uniform needed to look more Soviet Block had too much time on their hands. They apparently thought the traditional dress blues looked too much like the Air Force and wanted to bring back the old "pinks".

They look good otherwise I think, but not in this context. Kudos to the musicians, there are tons of good videos of US military music performers.

Posted by: Big Jake Parks at July 01, 2023 01:03 PM (tF/Gf)

184 Yes, I agree. I hate cursive words such as “mansplaining” when each gender has their own bad habits when communicating, and generalizations to flatter feminist egos are stupid.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2023 01:03 PM (4ywOl)

185 Problem is they got played getting the loans and going to kollege to learn absolutely nothing of value in the first place. They need to take their anger out on the scam the kolleges are running nowadays.

But they won’t, cause they are punk ass suckers who will always be punk ass suckers.

Born every minute are new punk ass suckers.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 01, 2023 01:00 PM (R/m4+)

Did y'all see the Freedomtoons vid on this topic? They basically fisked some douchebag Yale Law prick. It should be required viewing for everyone who is affected by student loans.

I paid off my undergrad loans decades ago, and did my post-grad stuff, paying as I went along. I don't feel like paying anybody's student loans, and can't think of ANY reason why I should.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2023 01:04 PM (2IVIs)

186 Joe Biden as you've never seen him before!

https://tinyurl.com/zzdhsdrr

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 01:04 PM (FVME7)

187 KBJ's Marxism 2.0

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2023 01:04 PM (xhxe8)

188 they actually put two and two together, and they figure out Biden cynically played them like a fiddle on the student loan issue for votes

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The interesting part is that they maybe didn't. Not really. As in not in real life.

Similar to how the left insists women turned out in record numbers to codify inflation and rotten economy because Roe vs Wade, it was all pretend. They don't need the votes, just the narrative of why X group "turned out in record numbers" so they have an excuse for their fake ballot stuffing numbers.

They just need to present outrage. They don't need actual outrage.

Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at July 01, 2023 01:05 PM (fgyA1)

189 Has there ever been a more malicious president than The Senile One?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 01, 2023 01:06 PM (aCNZ6)

190 Delivery Flag Guy is one of a kind.

Happy 4th of July errbody!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Backatcha Bud !

Posted by: JT at July 01, 2023 01:07 PM (T4tVD)

191 Diversity Is Our Strength!
Posted by: leftists at July 01, 2023 11:49 AM (llON

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I wonder if France is going to start going all French on everyone. They make no bones about we are French, nothing else but French. If you highlight you are not French I could see them kicking a whole bunch of people out of the country.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 01, 2023 01:07 PM (UVyKP)

192 I don't know if there's a term for it, but men - and especially white men - have been listening to it for longer than anyone here has been alive.
Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at July 01, 2023 12:59 PM (fgyA1)

Bill Burr does a bit, where he says he learned when he got married, it was necessary to continuously and permanently keep working on bettering himself, whereas his wife was to be understood as being perfect, just as she was.

I think there's a lot of truth in that.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2023 01:08 PM (2IVIs)

193 Read the description.
Somebody screwed up.
It says "sex toy for women".
ummm...

https://tinyurl.com/bdjesrvw
Posted by: gourmand du jour

How are the reviews?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2023 01:08 PM (ga8qR)

194 Women - blablabla, right?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 01, 2023 01:11 PM (Mzdiz)

195 I wonder if France is going to start going all French on everyone. They make no bones about we are French, nothing else but French. If you highlight you are not French I could see them kicking a whole bunch of people out of the country.
Posted by: Black JEM at July 01, 2023 01:07 PM (UVyKP)

I've always said the french have a long history of being vicious and cruel, and even though it is buried under decades/more than a century of being labeled as cowards and incompetents, if they ever rediscover their inner-haughty french fierceness, these "immigrants" may find themselves quite uncomfortable in the land of the frog.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2023 01:11 PM (2IVIs)

196 It's going to be an AoSHQ thing, from now on. You're just going to have to learn to live with it.

Yeah, it was pretty obvious yesterday that the Horde was captivated.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 01, 2023 01:11 PM (Xrfse)

197 189 Has there ever been a more malicious president than The Senile One?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 01, 2023 01:06 PM (aCNZ6)

Serial liars were known as sociopaths when I was in Psych 101 in Community College. The internal loathing generated by living in lies causes external misbehavior and constant attempts at justification and societal acceptance of unhealthy behavior.

Posted by: Big Jake Parks at July 01, 2023 01:12 PM (tF/Gf)

198 The reviews are 4.7 stars out of 5 with more than 2000 reviews submitted.
Maybe you start the thing up and apply the handle to the gentles.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 01, 2023 01:12 PM (MeG8a)

199 Getting an impression, the last few weeks, that actual, honest-to-gosh everyday gays are going to spend the rest of the year "reflecting" on how much they hope the rest of their society does not, overmuch, reflect on the events and progress of this pride month.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 01, 2023 11:50 AM (4PZHB)
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The gay groups who seem to understand what is brewing against them I don't think will be loud enough to stop the dummies they are nominally aligned with.

I once opined that Obergfell would never be overturned because there just haven't been enough gay marriages for anyone to care about. But it is no more constitutional than Roe was, and the Dobb's decision is the playbook by which all sorts of cultural decisions the feds and SCOTUS had no business being involved in can be reversed.

I think the closet will need to be refurbished, because it will be coming back with a vengeance, unless the everyday gay groups can get the crazies to be quiet.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 01, 2023 01:12 PM (UVyKP)

200 Will DJT invite him up on stage and lay waste to Graham?

With all due respect, Senator Graham, -- they call him lindzie, you all know... Lyndsey! Great guy.

"I'm done. I'm done with this election."

You'll never know as I won't be online. The overthrow.

What should we pack?

What, in anyone's idea of immediate fixes is EOs are dictatorial (also undone as immediately).

DJT will EO. Great.

Americans and Communists cannot coexist.

Scattered thinking. Have a great weekend, y'all.

Posted by: micky at July 01, 2023 01:13 PM (3byMq)

201 How are the reviews?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2023 01:08 PM (ga8qR)

"Not just a sex toy, works on your parents too!"

- Chandler Halderson

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2023 01:14 PM (2IVIs)

202 124 If only we could send Merlin Perkins and Jim Fowler over to France to film new episodes of Wild Kingdom!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 12:21 PM (FVME7)

*******

While Jim wrestles with the indignant illegal immigrant, here's a word from our sponsor, Mutual of Omaha.

Posted by: Marlin Perkins at July 01, 2023 01:16 PM (xxG/v)

203 Of course old glory is hanging across Europe. They are Biden/McConnell cabal vassal states.

Posted by: MikhailN at July 01, 2023 01:17 PM (+TeXp)

204 "Not just a sex toy, works on your parents too!"

- Chandler Halderson
Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2023 01:14 PM (2IVIs)

"Good tool, but needs to be recharged more often than I liked."

- Joel Guy Jr.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2023 01:17 PM (2IVIs)

205 It's going to be an AoSHQ thing, from now on. You're just going to have to learn to live with it.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2023 01:01 PM (2IVIs)

^^^THIS^^^

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 01, 2023 01:17 PM (Mzdiz)

206 Has there ever been a more malicious president than The Senile One?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 01, 2023 01:06 PM (aCNZ6)

LBJ, maybe. Who wasn't just malicious, but had all his faculties, and was whip smart.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2023 01:21 PM (2IVIs)

207 It's too hot to work in the garden right now. 89, feels like 97. Humilarity 58 cents, as they say around here.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 01, 2023 01:21 PM (Mzdiz)

208 The idea that European countries had to import millions of barbarians to make up for their forecast manpower/population shortfall is incredible to me. See, there's this thing called human propagation, which allows the population to continue and grow. This, in times past, was generally considered a good and natural thing, and was purported to be quite fun to boot!
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 01, 2023 12:09 PM (XMwZJ)
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The only country that can rely on immigration to deal with their demographic decline is the USA, because we are the only country people desperately want to get to. If we were smarter about it, we would work hard on immigration in a strategic sense and drive the groups we want to be here to come here. Not the craziness of the southern border that the dems seem to think will give them votes, when it is becoming pretty obvious by the time any of them can vote they will look like most white voters.

And on a larger scale, there just aren't enough people on the globe in general. I sincerely question whether we actually even hit 8 Billion. It's falling, just about everywhere.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 01, 2023 01:21 PM (UVyKP)

209 Lindsey Graham was almost booed off the stage at the Trump rally just now.
How the hell does that POS keep getting reelected?

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 01, 2023 01:22 PM (dr4Q1)

210 Each succeeding President except DJT has figured out how to rake money into their pockets

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2023 01:24 PM (xhxe8)

211 That describes me and baseball. Some guy pitched a perfect game for my Yankees. I don't care. But I can still recite the lineups for all their great teams through 2009.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 01, 2023 12:12 PM (brAQZ)
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The pitch clock and shifting rules have actually made the game look a lot like what it used to be. And as long as you aren't a Dodgers fan, the pride stuff is all buttoned up and in the background now. I'm impressed by the changes. You should give it a look.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 01, 2023 01:24 PM (UVyKP)

212 The Republican machine in SC.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 01, 2023 01:25 PM (Mzdiz)

213 they actually put two and two together, and they figure out Biden cynically played them like a fiddle on the student loan issue for votes

-

The interesting part is that they maybe didn't. Not really. As in not in real life.

Similar to how the left insists women turned out in record numbers to codify inflation and rotten economy because Roe vs Wade, it was all pretend. They don't need the votes, just the narrative of why X group "turned out in record numbers" so they have an excuse for their fake ballot stuffing numbers.

They just need to present outrage. They don't need actual outrage.
Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at July 01, 2023 01:05 PM (fgyA1)

An astute observation. And more than likely true.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2023 01:26 PM (BdMk6)

214 Lindsey Graham was almost booed off the stage at the Trump rally just now.
How the hell does that POS keep getting reelected?
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 01, 2023 01:22 PM (dr4Q1)

Does any Republican who gets on the stage at a Trump rally get cheered and not booed?

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2023 01:26 PM (MNhXM)

215 The alphabet mafia really did overstep... and not just in June. It's been brewing for several years. They're attention whores at heart. And for 30 days they basked in all their glory and did their best to prompt impotent moral outrage from the normals.

On that count, they were very successful. Their "pride month" was a win for them.

But, they ostracized every other minority group, most notably the blacks by getting all that attention and being allowed to the front of the grievance line.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2023 01:26 PM (Q4IgG)

216 Happy Canada Day, Eh!

🇨🇦

Posted by: Montec at July 01, 2023 01:26 PM (N0kQ+)

217 Serial liars were known as sociopaths when I was in Psych 101 in Community College. The internal loathing generated by living in lies causes external misbehavior and constant attempts at justification and societal acceptance of unhealthy behavior.
Posted by: Big Jake Parks at July 01, 2023 01:12 PM (tF/Gf)

Narcissists too. Biggest difference between narcissists and sociopaths is sociopaths seem to get gleeful pleasure from hurting other people. Narcissists hurt other people too, except they justify their harm by believing themselves to be the victims of others who just don't seem to get how wonderful and blameless they are.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2023 01:26 PM (2IVIs)

218 @209 @179

Posted by: micky at July 01, 2023 01:27 PM (3byMq)

219 Ultra blue states elect ultra leftists Dems. Ultra red states also elect ultra leftist Dems, who pretend they’re conservatives.

Posted by: Montec at July 01, 2023 01:27 PM (N0kQ+)

220 Have a good holiday all - remember America is exceptional because we won the revolution and the counter-revolution.

We birthed a nation based on sovereign people in a Confederation, then in an unprecedented change of voted in a new Constitution with the desire to form a "more perfect" political compact (note not the perfect or even an unflawed Union) and governance based on consent. "...the last best hope on earth". Abraham Lincoln almost 160 years ago.

Posted by: Big Jake Parks at July 01, 2023 01:28 PM (tF/Gf)

221 Does any Republican who gets on the stage at a Trump rally get cheered and not booed?
Posted by: polynikes
++++
There was nothing but enthusiastic cheering for the SC governor and Lt governor.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 01, 2023 01:28 PM (KzfLf)

222 GARDEN NOOD IS BLOOMING

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2023 01:29 PM (xhxe8)

223 I stopped caring about baseball 20ish years ago. No one reason I lost interest over time. But I do enjoy going to a baseball game a couple of times a year. Doesn’t have to be MLB. Singe A game is fun too.

Posted by: Montec at July 01, 2023 01:29 PM (N0kQ+)

224 The alphabet mafia really did overstep... and not just in June. It's been brewing for several years. They're attention whores at heart. And for 30 days they basked in all their glory and did their best to prompt impotent moral outrage from the normals.

On that count, they were very successful. Their "pride month" was a win for them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2023 01:26 PM (Q4IgG)

I think the outrage was NOT impotent. I think they did wake up a significant part of the muddled middle, to the point of saying "enough's enough." I think this past month was their tipping point, and they will never be this powerful again. Ever.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2023 01:30 PM (2IVIs)

225 The change from pride being about gay people to pride being almost exclusively about trans is why I think there has been a shift in acceptance.

Posted by: Montec at July 01, 2023 01:32 PM (N0kQ+)

226 He's good, that Lyndsey.

I cut away with his dick stomping. He is a master politician and has to have Graham, but not working in this crowd.

Get vindictive or go home Donald.

Posted by: micky at July 01, 2023 01:35 PM (3byMq)

227 193 Read the description.
Somebody screwed up.
It says "sex toy for women".
ummm...

https://tinyurl.com/bdjesrvw
Posted by: gourmand du jour
----
Made by/for a brand named "Bomves". 9 times out of 10 these brand names on Amazon were made up only for distribution in the West. The only company that uses thr name Bomves that I can find is a Nigerian trading company...

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 01, 2023 01:37 PM (ssESX)

228 Get vindictive or go home Donald.
Posted by: micky at July 01, 2023 01:35 PM (3byMq)

What to get vindictive about Graham is one of his fiercest defenders going all the way back to 2016 after Trump became President.

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2023 01:38 PM (MNhXM)

229 He's good, that Lyndsey.

I cut away with his dick stomping. He is a master politician and has to have Graham, but not working in this crowd.

Get vindictive or go home Donald.
Posted by: micky at July 01, 2023 01:35 PM (3byMq)

All fiddles must be played during national election campaigns.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2023 01:38 PM (BdMk6)

230 I am not surprised it went from ghey to Trannie, once that camel's nose is under the tent and everyone is fine with that more of the camel is in until the whole thing is in your bed

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2023 01:41 PM (xhxe8)

231 Happy Canada Day, Eh!

🇨🇦
Posted by: Montec at July 01,

Thank you.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 01, 2023 01:42 PM (VdGjU)

232
230 I am not surprised it went from ghey to Trannie, once that camel's nose is under the tent and everyone is fine with that more of the camel is in until the whole thing is in your bed
Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2023 01:41 PM (xhxe

The exaltation of trannies was actually the attempted normalization of pedophilia.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2023 01:44 PM (BdMk6)

233 Former Backup Quarterback Colin Kaepernick "Pushing" To Make NFL Return Over Six Years After Last Game

-
Can he recapture the magic?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 12:29 PM (FVME7)
==
He saw the ESPN layoffs and is seeing that even the racialists aren't completely safe and he figures he needs to get his name out there so NIKE keeps paying him.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 01, 2023 01:45 PM (UVyKP)

234 Coincidentally this is when Malthusians were claiming that we are over populated and the country can't handle anymore people.
==
I enjoy anyone still holding this view, since it demonstrates quite clearly the fact they know nothing about much of anything they speak.

Population is shrinking. And it is going to get very interesting, especially for big govt types with big public welfare programs they feel are necessary. The money to pay for them is going to disappear in most European countries within the next 10 years.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 01, 2023 01:47 PM (UVyKP)

235 Former Backup Quarterback Colin Kaepernick "Pushing" To Make NFL Return Over Six Years After Last Game

Can he recapture the magic?

That would be an awesome trick because there was no "magic" to begin with.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 01, 2023 01:51 PM (Xrfse)

236
I am not surprised it went from ghey to Trannie, once that camel's nose is under the tent and everyone is fine with that more of the camel is in until the whole thing is in your bed
Posted by: Skip

Midnight at the Oasis

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2023 01:51 PM (63Dwl)

237 Former Backup Quarterback Colin Kaepernick "Pushing" To Make NFL Return Over Six Years After Last Game

Can he recapture the magic?

Is he going to cooperate with the scheduled try outs this time?

Posted by: polynikes at July 01, 2023 01:52 PM (MNhXM)

238 Put that camel to bed.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 01, 2023 01:52 PM (Xrfse)

239 Changed my opinion of Amazon drivers.

Posted by: SouthTexas at July 01, 2023 01:59 PM (LwkLP)

240 iirc Kap already got his affirmative action NFL tryout last year and no one wanted him

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2023 02:02 PM (RIvkX)

241 One can't help but notice that there is another professional football league playing now, and the better players are getting invitations to the NFL because week in and week out they're showing their ability, attitude, and usefulness for the team/league.

Weird how Kapernik isn't playing football.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 01, 2023 02:11 PM (2EtZ0)

242 and governance based on consent. "...the last best hope on earth". Abraham Lincoln almost 160 years ago.

---

hahahaha

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 01, 2023 02:14 PM (2EtZ0)

243 There were no standing armies in feudalism, so "feudal peasants" didn't have to quarter "soldiers." Feudal levies were only expected to serve forty days. (Something to think about while we're boasting of freedom.)

Posted by: gallchobhair at July 01, 2023 02:16 PM (6thaT)

244 I have nothing worth saying so I figured I would say it here.

Posted by: fluffy at July 01, 2023 02:21 PM (86W+h)

245 The sound of silence.

https://tinyurl.com/euuk246k

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 01, 2023 02:22 PM (Xrfse)

246 Quartering armies was very common in Europe especially in war time and over winter if troops were not returned to their own barracks.

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2023 02:22 PM (xhxe8)

247 I would like to thank [dri] for the story in the sidebar about the WWII soldier and to whoever posted it-Ace or the cobs. I sent it to our organist Jessie whose husband was in the Airforce in WWII.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2023 02:23 PM (Keyt1)

248 MAGA republicans were elected to the state RNC in SC. The state met in secret, including recently voted out members, rewrote the rules, applied retroactively, and expelled the MAGAs.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 01, 2023 02:26 PM (V+gFv)

249
A music theory prof told me a few decades ago that Sousa's time was the last period when the language spoken by the best popular composers was the same as that of the cutting edge 'major' composers.

Sousa was a pretty remarkable fellow. Not only was he the March King, but he also wrote operettas and novels. He was also among the greatest trapshooters of his day. Of the sport, he said, "Let me say that just about the sweetest music to me is when I call, 'pull,' the old gun barks, and the referee in perfect key announces, 'dead'."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2023 02:29 PM (MoZTd)

250 In honor of Canada Day I'm eating my first chili cheese dog ever.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 01, 2023 02:38 PM (VdGjU)

251 Chili cheese dogs are good

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2023 02:41 PM (xhxe8)

252 Uh oh. I just had a moment of clarity. An episode of Gilligan's Island is on and the Skipper looks so young. He who had previously looked so old.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 02:44 PM (FVME7)

253 If John Phillip Sousa music doesn't get your patriotic heart pumping then nothing will. He is the patriot music guru of the United States of America.

Posted by: FrankinTexas at July 01, 2023 02:54 PM (VcHM+)

254 Uh oh. I just had a moment of clarity. An episode of Gilligan's Island is on and the Skipper looks so young. He who had previously looked so old.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 01, 2023 02:44 PM (FVME7)

Being 29 now, I had the same reaction upon seeing Mrs. Howell.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at July 01, 2023 03:02 PM (T/Lqj)

255 I'm always surprised by the people who come to a microbrewery and ask for something that doesn't taste like beer.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 01, 2023 03:11 PM (VdGjU)

256 I'm always surprised by the people who come to a microbrewery and ask for something that doesn't taste like beer.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 01, 2023 03:11 PM (VdGjU)

My son loves sours. I think they taste like just after you puke.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at July 01, 2023 03:18 PM (T/Lqj)

257
Former Backup Quarterback Colin Kaepernick "Pushing" To Make NFL Return Over Six Years After Last Game

Can he recapture the magic?

Is he going to cooperate with the scheduled try outs this time?
Posted by: polynikes

============

Back to the plantation.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2023 03:24 PM (lCaJd)

258 FJBs end run around SCOTUS:
Raise the amount of income that is considered non-discretionary income and therefore is protected from repayment, guaranteeing that no borrower earning under 225% of the federal poverty level—about the annual equivalent of a $15 minimum wage for a single borrower—will have to make a monthly payment under this plan.
Forgive loan balances after 10 years of payments, instead of 20 years, for borrowers with original loan balances of $12,000 or less. The Department estimates that this reform will allow nearly all community college borrowers to be debt-free within 10 years.
Not charge borrowers with unpaid monthly interest, so that unlike other existing income-driven repayment plans, no borrower’s loan balance will grow as long as they make their monthly payments—even when that monthly payment is $0 because their income is low

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 01, 2023 03:26 PM (V+gFv)

259 And, you can choose to not pay on your loans until Sep 2024 without penalty. Just in time for it to be a campaign wedge.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 01, 2023 03:27 PM (V+gFv)

260 PET NOOD

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2023 03:28 PM (xhxe8)

261 My son loves sours. I think they taste like just after you puke.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at July 01, 2023 03:18 PM (T/Lqj

I like them well enough but only one in a pub trip.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 01, 2023 03:29 PM (VdGjU)

262 243 There were no standing armies in feudalism, so "feudal peasants" didn't have to quarter "soldiers." Feudal levies were only expected to serve forty days. (Something to think about while we're boasting of freedom.)
Posted by: gallchobhair at July 01, 2023 02:16 PM (6thaT)

A Peasant owed his Lord 1 day of labor (in goods or services) per week... as the 7th day was for God... he therefore 'owed' the Government 16.6% of his Labor.

Average Fed tax rate, by itself, is 14%. That add in Soc Sec and Mediscare... then State and Local Taxes... and you are suddenly near 50% of your labor, going to your new Lord... the Fed Bureaucrats.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2023 03:32 PM (oHd/0)

263 and you are suddenly near 50% of your labor, going to your new Lord... the Fed Bureaucrats

Make us smile.

Posted by: The Ukraine at July 01, 2023 04:01 PM (Xrfse)

264 Romeo
Please see your accountant
If you are paying 50 %

France is a military donor to Ukraine. They know who paid the heaviest price to defeat the right wing Nazis

Posted by: Paul at July 01, 2023 06:13 PM (rqlLJ)

265 "Has there ever been a more malicious president than The Senile One?"

You have to ask?..."Shovel Ready" Barry.

Elected in 2012? Following Benghazi?

My Aunt Fanny.

Posted by: Ju at July 01, 2023 06:43 PM (aTmM/)

266 Naval Station Rota, Spain. Probably a Change of Command ceremony. I was stationed there for three wonderful years in the late eighties before Spain went full Socialist. Southern Spain was very conservative and pro American in those days.

Posted by: Esteve at July 01, 2023 07:48 PM (weH2K)

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