Beavering Away Cafe

7 Sorry to intrude on a happy thread, but as you probably know, the Fifth Circuit stayed the injunction prohibiting government censorship (pending expedited oral arguments).

Here is the crazy thing: The fix was in!

Of the 25 judges on the court, 5 are Demofascist appointees and, somehow, the panel that issued the stay was 2 Democrats plus Greg Abbott's former General Counsel, so GOPe (probably).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 14, 2023 07:38 PM (5imnM)

8 I believe that’s a humpback whale.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2023 07:39 PM (MNhXM)

9 terrified shelter dog

it's kind of dusty in here or something

Posted by: wth at July 14, 2023 07:40 PM (v0R5T)

10 "Nice beaver!"
"Thanks, I just had it stuffed."

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 14, 2023 07:43 PM (MeG8a)

11 The Great Debate.
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That bird tore that cat a new one.

He was reduced to going all passive-aggressive.

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 07:44 PM (krQz2)

12 The Bison stampede is problematic. Calves run right next to their mothers. Don't those Bison understand the babies belong to all of them? They must have heard: " It takes a herd"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 14, 2023 07:44 PM (5imnM)

13 Whales to me seem to me to be the oddest creatures on the planet

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2023 07:44 PM (xhxe8)

14 Good evening, horde! Happy Friday, to those on Standard business schedule.

Norway looks beautiful. Too bad it's full of dirty scandis. 😁

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 14, 2023 07:46 PM (OX9vb)

15 12 The Bison stampede is problematic. Calves run right next to their mothers. Don't those Bison understand the babies belong to all of them? They must have heard: " It takes a herd"
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 14, 2023 07:44 PM (5imnM)

That's what I thought at one time, too.

Posted by: Johnny Depp at July 14, 2023 07:46 PM (PiwSw)

16 I'm late for the cafe. I must have time blindness!

Incredible picture up top. My brother and SIL just got back from a cruise to Norway. Now I want to go.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 14, 2023 07:46 PM (aBJcM)

17 Didn't realize elephants could just glide like that.

Surprising agility.

Posted by: eleven at July 14, 2023 07:47 PM (iziT8)

18 Elephants rule!

Posted by: redridinghood at July 14, 2023 07:47 PM (NpAcC)

19 the link to the vid on the previous thread of pence getting hit with a water, it's not pence, it's ny nassau county exec bruce blakeman. met him once, nice guy, perennial candidate for office, slightly acquainted with his father, who was a local lawyer of some importance. i have no doubt that if blakeman hadn't defeated the dem country exec a few years ago we'd still have mask mandates around here.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 14, 2023 07:48 PM (B1FKF)

20 We had an angry female elephant chase us once in South Africa, but we didn't just sit there like those guys, we took off in reverse. The elephant chased us, moving fast and trumpeting, for about 150 yards or so. Our guide wanted nothing to do with angry elephants.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 14, 2023 07:48 PM (5imnM)

21 Young beaver is adorable. I'm glad she survived.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for Public Office at July 14, 2023 07:48 PM (Keyt1)

22 Elephants like peanuts but they’re not big enough.

What they need is a peanuts enlargement.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2023 07:48 PM (MNhXM)

23 You otter be in pictures.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2023 07:49 PM (63Dwl)

24 13 Whales to me seem to me to be the oddest creatures on the planet
Posted by: Skip

Odder than platypi, hippos, kangaroos, and armadillos?

There are a lot of odd creatures on Earth, come to think of it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 14, 2023 07:49 PM (OX9vb)

25 That cat with the pillow looks identical to my sweet cat Samantha.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 14, 2023 07:49 PM (cMXNt)

26 "Whales to me seem to me to be the oddest creatures on the planet "

Like how do they even boink?

Posted by: eleven at July 14, 2023 07:50 PM (iziT8)

27 the link to the vid on the previous thread of pence getting hit with a water, it's not pence, it's ny nassau county exec bruce blakeman.

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So long as it's a government official or employee of some capacity.

Posted by: Moron Robbie Figured Out That Long Covid Means the Shot at July 14, 2023 07:50 PM (O69GV)

28 That's what I thought at one time, too.
Posted by: Johnny Depp at July 14, 2023 07:46 PM (PiwSw)
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Nice dump!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 14, 2023 07:50 PM (5imnM)

29 the link to the vid on the previous thread of pence getting hit with a water, it's not pence, it's ny nassau county exec bruce blakeman.

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I've been trying to tell people that.

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 07:50 PM (krQz2)

30 Rescue Beaver story is neat

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2023 07:50 PM (xhxe8)

31 The bison stampede was something. Amazing agility coming down the hill. Lots of youngsters. The hooves made a big clicking sound.

Posted by: TRex at July 14, 2023 07:50 PM (IQ6Gq)

32 I'm curious to know what caused the buffalo to stampede? Grizzly, mountain lion, one of them stepped on a branch and the snapping sound got them to flee?

Posted by: Inquiring Minds want to know at July 14, 2023 07:51 PM (zQVw+)

33 @RNCResearch
KAMALA HARRIS: “When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breath clean air and drink clean water.”

She is a gem!

Now to read the content.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 14, 2023 07:51 PM (NsE9F)

34 Im sorry, this is from the previous thread, but my father's family was always late for everything. So, I am always late. My husband is always early, so he would tell me we had to be there an hour earlier. My children are always late. Its so bad that we have a betting board to see who will show up the latest. Now us this genetic or learned behavior? My husband said we're all crazy.

Posted by: Megthered at July 14, 2023 07:52 PM (Y7FQD)

35 10 "Nice beaver!"
"Thanks, I just had it stuffed."

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 14, 2023 07:43 PM

Timeless - raise a glass to Frank Drebin

Posted by: TRex at July 14, 2023 07:52 PM (IQ6Gq)

36 Like how do they even boink?
Posted by: eleven at July 14, 2023 07:50 PM (iziT

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They've got it easy compared to porcupines.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2023 07:53 PM (BpYfr)

37 The shear size of whales and just swimming around and eating

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2023 07:53 PM (xhxe8)

38 There's no creature from anywhere in the galaxy that could be weirder than whatever random thing lives at the bottom of the ocean.

Posted by: eleven at July 14, 2023 07:53 PM (iziT8)

39 No place for a table and chairs to enjoy the landscape and imbibe.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2023 07:54 PM (dh89Q)

40 Ciampino's Rescue kitties

Cats have just been fed and are active and not yet sleeping.

There's another more extensive photo update #114 at the link.
Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on
"See Older Updates" as well if it's your first time.
https://is.gd/WQ5JcT

ALSO LIVE STREAMING!! - Biscuits' BABIES ON WEBCAM
Now most nights as well

https://www.twitch.tv/kittenwatch

Posted by: Ciampino - Robber gets shot with labeling gun. Police are looking for man with a price on his head! at July 14, 2023 07:54 PM (qfLjt)

41 Interesting ecologic question. They want to ban Cows because the methane from their farts are a greenhouse gas.

Yet, didn't the great plains have herds of millions of Bison in the past? And I'll be a Dinosaur fart was pretty high in Methane.

So, are cows doing anything that nature did not intend, and has NOT damaged the climate in the past?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 14, 2023 07:55 PM (oHd/0)

42 Off National Inquirer sock

Posted by: Beartooth at July 14, 2023 07:55 PM (zQVw+)

43 34...Now us this genetic or learned behavior? My husband said we're all crazy.
Posted by: Megthered

I would say learned, and a tendency to not pay attention or plan appropriately.

We love you anyway, Megthered. My ex and my children have the same problem.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 14, 2023 07:55 PM (OX9vb)

44 I bet bats would help even more if they could lift the cones

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 07:56 PM (0hOvj)

45 A leaf falling off a tree can cause a Buffalo stampede.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2023 07:56 PM (dh89Q)

46
Timeless - raise a glass to Frank Drebin
Posted by: TRex at July 14, 2023 07:52 PM (IQ6Gq)
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"Just think. Next time I shoot someone, I could be arrested!"

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 07:57 PM (krQz2)

47 I'm curious to know what caused the buffalo to stampede? Grizzly, mountain lion, one of them stepped on a branch and the snapping sound got them to flee?

They do not seem particularly frightened, so maybe just on the run somewhere.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 07:57 PM (0hOvj)

48 A leaf falling off a tree can cause a Buffalo stampede.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2023 07:56 PM (dh89Q)
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And just try to rollerskate in that!

You can't!

Posted by: Roger Miller at July 14, 2023 07:57 PM (krQz2)

49 Posted by: Megthered at July 14, 2023 07:52 PM (Y7FQD)

Time blindness sounds better than inconsiderate.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2023 07:58 PM (MNhXM)

50 43 34...Now us this genetic or learned behavior? My husband said we're all crazy.
Posted by: Megthered

I would say learned, and a tendency to not pay attention or plan appropriately.

We love you anyway, Megthered. My ex and my children have the same problem.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 14, 2023 07:55 PM (OX9vb)

I was taught that being late is disrespectful, because it is saying YOUR time, is more important than other people's time.... ie, the time they spend waiting on you.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 14, 2023 07:58 PM (oHd/0)

51 3 Beautiful top photo. Makes me pine a bit.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at July 14, 2023 07:33 PM (rX8Ws)
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As long as you don't birch about it later.

Posted by: Ciampino -- Robber gets shot with labeling gun. Police are looking for man with a price on his head! at July 14, 2023 07:58 PM (qfLjt)

52 >>Whales to me seem to me to be the oddest creatures on the planet

Whales have been around for a long time but sharks have been around for a lot longer. Sharks were roaming the seas before dinosaurs came along.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2023 07:59 PM (ZLI7S)

53 51 3 Beautiful top photo. Makes me pine a bit.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at July 14, 2023 07:33 PM (rX8Ws)
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As long as you don't birch about it later.

Posted by: Ciampino -- Robber gets shot with labeling gun. Police are looking for man with a price on his head! at July 14, 2023 07:58 PM (qfLjt)
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Wait, I think you're parroting someone else.

Posted by: Ciampino -- Robber gets shot with labeling gun. Police are looking for man with a price on his head! at July 14, 2023 08:01 PM (qfLjt)

54 Wonder how long it took that guy to climb up that mountain or is he photoshopped into the photo?

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2023 08:01 PM (MNhXM)

55 Jellyfish. 500 million years old.

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 08:02 PM (V13WU)

56 5 Bird is try to coax the cat to jump to his death.

Don’t Do It Kitteh !!!
Posted by: polynikes

Cat was annoyed that bird was destroying his vibe. Just chillin' on the ledge, staring at kittuh's domain and this stupid bird starts talking trash. Kittuh showed restraint and just cussed bird out.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 14, 2023 08:03 PM (NsE9F)

57 I'm hearing the theme from the original The Magnificent Seven in my mind watching those buffalo.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 08:03 PM (FVME7)

58 Interesting ecologic question. They want to ban Cows because the methane from their farts are a greenhouse gas.

Yet, didn't the great plains have herds of millions of Bison in the past? And I'll be a Dinosaur fart was pretty high in Methane.

So, are cows doing anything that nature did not intend, and has NOT damaged the climate in the past?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 14, 2023 07:55 PM

Most estimates say there were close to 100,000,000 buffalo in North America before the white guys showed up. I just did a quick bing search and it said there are about 93 million cattle in the US.

We have a whole lot of room left for cow farts to even out from 200 years ago.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 14, 2023 08:04 PM (ncXxy)

59 I prefer Jamfish.

Posted by: eleven at July 14, 2023 08:04 PM (iziT8)

60 So these 100 million year old creatures just stopped evolving at what point?

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2023 08:04 PM (MNhXM)

61 Whales to me seem to me to be the oddest creatures on the planet

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Well, at least they know whether they're boys or girls.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 08:05 PM (FVME7)

62 Nice to see all the calves in with those Buffalo

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2023 08:05 PM (xhxe8)

63 "Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.“

"Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to stay on my toes.“

Posted by: TRex at July 14, 2023 08:05 PM (IQ6Gq)

64 LOL, 10 years ago Garth Brooks started a 'Country Legends' show, with big Country stars.

He has now been 'disinvited' from his own show over his stance on Bud Light and Trans stuff.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 14, 2023 08:06 PM (oHd/0)

65 Tardiness and military actions can be fatal.

Posted by: Ciampino - Rifling changed firearms forever - It was revolutionary. at July 14, 2023 08:06 PM (qfLjt)

66 "Nice beaver!"
"Thanks, I just had it stuffed."
Posted by: gourmand du jour

Still alive! No stuff!

Posted by: the baby beaver at July 14, 2023 08:06 PM (DgGvY)

67 Now let's do human farts.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2023 08:07 PM (dh89Q)

68 Those baby buffaloes are so darned cute!

We were at Teddy Roosevelt NP some years ago ( in ND) and we were driving along, minding our own business when we came upon a giant herd of buffaloes just standing in the middle of the road. So we stopped.

And we sat.

And there were no other cars, no rangers around, not nobody, not no how. After about 15 minutes my husband started to inch forward and I yelled at him to stop. The last thing I wanted was to anger those animals and have them charge our Suburban and hurt our kids.

This was in the early aughts, and at that time there was precisely zero cell service out there, so if something had happened to us we would have been there for probably hours until someone saw us. Presuming that the rangers do some sort of patrol.

Luckily, after a while they finally started to meander off. But that was a long agonizing wait.

Posted by: bluebell at July 14, 2023 08:07 PM (pTb/Z)

69 57 I'm hearing the theme from the original The Magnificent Seven in my mind watching those buffalo.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 08:03 PM (FVME7)

I had a 'How the West was Won' flashback.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 14, 2023 08:07 PM (oHd/0)

70 Interesting ecologic question. They want to ban Cows because the methane from their farts are a greenhouse gas.

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The useful thing is to remember that not one single thing involved in the entire Global Warming scam is real or true.

All the water level marks around the world are still reading the exact same levels they've been reading for the last 100+ years. It's all a lie.

And they don't care. Matter of fact, f*ck you.

See also: Cocaine in the White House.

Posted by: Moron Robbie Figured Out That Long Covid Means the Shot at July 14, 2023 08:08 PM (O69GV)

71 Now let's do human farts.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2023 08:07 PM (dh89Q)

Well they’re not as bad because women don’t fart.

That’s my position and I’m sticking to it.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2023 08:08 PM (MNhXM)

72 I'm curious to know what caused the buffalo to stampede? Grizzly, mountain lion, one of them stepped on a branch and the snapping sound got them to flee?

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They saw Tank Abrams and she looked hungry.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 08:09 PM (FVME7)

73 All the water level marks around the world are still reading the exact same levels they've been reading for the last 100+ years. It's all a lie.

And they don't care. Matter of fact, f*ck you.

See also: Cocaine in the White House.
Posted by: Moron Robbie Figured Out That Long Covid Means the Shot at July 14, 2023 08:08 PM (O69GV)

Yeah, there HAS been a very small change... but its due to Continental Drift, not actual changes in the amount of water in the Sea.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 14, 2023 08:09 PM (oHd/0)

74 39 No place for a table and chairs to enjoy the landscape and imbibe.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2023 07:54 PM (dh89Q)

Good point.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 14, 2023 08:10 PM (OX9vb)

75 Go Nibi!

Posted by: DJT at July 14, 2023 08:10 PM (KAi1n)

76 Damn.... gotta go check my Pork Chops....

CYA all later..

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 14, 2023 08:11 PM (oHd/0)

77 I was taught that being late is disrespectful, because it is saying YOUR time, is more important than other people's time.... ie, the time they spend waiting on you.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 14, 2023 07:58 PM

My wife was going to a brain doctor for some issues a couple of years ago. We always asked for the first appointment because this guy was overbooked and would get behind because he was the best in the business in our area and had contracts with both local hospitals. One morning we had an 8 am appointment and the wife didn't get seen until almost 9.

Once we were done and paying the co pay I asked what emergency had prevented him from showing up for the appointment. The payment lady said....oh he wasn't at the hospital for an emergency he just shows up when he feels like it and today he was almost an hour late. I lost it and let everyone there know in an extremely loud voice what I thought about him and his disrespectful attitude towards his patients.

We never went back to him after that day.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 14, 2023 08:11 PM (ncXxy)

78 >>>The Great Debate.

Kitty does not appreciate that dirty, noisy bird harshing his mellow.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 14, 2023 08:11 PM (klJTj)

79 I was taught that being late is disrespectful, because it is saying YOUR time, is more important than other people's time.... ie, the time they spend waiting on you.
Posted by: Romeo13

Me too. I wait ten minutes. Then I leave.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 14, 2023 08:11 PM (wmNFJ)

80 Yet, didn't the great plains have herds of millions of Bison in the past? And I'll be a Dinosaur fart was pretty high in Methane.
So, are cows doing anything that nature did not intend, and has NOT damaged the climate in the past?
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 14, 2023 07:55 PM (oHd/0)

No one should eat meat, it is a prestige that a modern society cannot afford. The only proper way for a modern, wealthy society is to live is to live like a 13th Century peasant, giving homage to the Headman of his hamlet, his Lord, his King and giving tithes as demanded lest they go to Hell for sacrilegious defiance of authority.
This is of course temporary, until the rest of the world catches up.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2023 08:11 PM (xhaym)

81 The buffalo vid looks like the bridge crossing the Yellowstone in YNP heading toward the Lamar Valley from Roosevelt (not 100% sure, but it looks like the NE area). I was a lucky kid. Grew up 50 miles aways from that park. We visited a lot.

Best times to see Yellowstone are before Memorial Day and after labor Day.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at July 14, 2023 08:11 PM (T/Lqj)

82 Go Nibi too!

Posted by: SFGoth at July 14, 2023 08:12 PM (KAi1n)

83 Thank you for the input. I have improved 1000% because if someone keeps me waiting I am not happy. My husband ond one brother are retired military and are always on time. Me, I learned. I have one daughter left that is chronically late but she is learning because her siblings are calling her out.

Posted by: Megthered at July 14, 2023 08:12 PM (Y7FQD)

84 Crow: "Do you ever read Poe?"
Cat: "No."
Crow: Because he's got this great poem."
Cat: "Fine."
Crow: "Seriously, you need to read it. It's good."
Cat: "Whatever."
Crow: "I can quote some of it to you."
Cat: "Just go away."

Posted by: What they were talking about at July 14, 2023 08:13 PM (PiwSw)

85 Yeah, there HAS been a very small change... but its due to Continental Drift, not actual changes in the amount of water in the Sea.

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It's comical because when you search for information you get results on lower water levels. Because shut up, that's Science.

Posted by: Moron Robbie Figured Out That Long Covid Means the Shot at July 14, 2023 08:13 PM (O69GV)

86 Apparently after today's forum, Vivek is now tied with The Meatball in the predict it market.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 14, 2023 08:13 PM (up/3i)

87 Cocaine in the White House is nothing compared to how the Dems plan to act like the ERA passed and is already part of the Constitution.

Pretty sure Herr Whitmer will do her part and help clamp down on the "misinformation" that says it's not.

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2023 08:13 PM (krQz2)

88 71 Now let's do human farts.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2023 08:07 PM (dh89Q)

Well they’re not as bad because women don’t fart.

That’s my position and I’m sticking to it.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2023 08:08 PM (MNhXM)
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Actually one can tell when a well-dressed woman farts because her pantyhose by her ankles balloons out.

Posted by: Ciampino - Rifling changed firearms forever - It was revolutionary at July 14, 2023 08:14 PM (qfLjt)

89 Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.“

"Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to stay on my toes.“
Posted by: TRex at July 14, 2023 08:05 PM (IQ6Gq)

This Chris Gaffney song with Joe Ely has some funny damn lyrics like those

https://youtu.be/Iq11Grqs1Ng

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 08:14 PM (iHxkK)

90 polynikes, love ya but truth says otherwise. Women don't fart in mixed company but they do fart.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2023 08:14 PM (dh89Q)

91 We were at Teddy Roosevelt NP some years ago ( in ND) and we were driving along, minding our own business when we came upon a giant herd of buffaloes just standing in the middle of the road. So we stopped.
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Posted by: bluebell at July 14, 2023 08:07 PM

Had a similar experience there. Hidden gem of a national park by the way. Not really on the way to or from anything touristy, so need to make a point. Worth the stop.

Posted by: TRex at July 14, 2023 08:15 PM (IQ6Gq)

92 Well they’re not as bad because women don’t fart.

That’s my position and I’m sticking to it.
Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2023 08:08 PM (MNhXM)

Is that why they get swelled up so big after 40? I was blaming the pasta.

[running away in fear of justifiable revenge]

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2023 08:15 PM (xhaym)

93
Now let's do human farts.
Posted by: Ben Had

It's the only kind I CAN do.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2023 08:17 PM (63Dwl)

94 Love Teddy Rosavelt NP. But everyone else would hate it! Nothing to see here.....

Posted by: Megthered at July 14, 2023 08:18 PM (Y7FQD)

95 Apparently after today's forum, Vivek is now tied with The Meatball in the predict it market.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 14, 2023 08:13 PM (up/3i)

remember 2008 when the best candidates were Ron Paul, Huckabee and Fred Thompson?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2023 08:19 PM (xhaym)

96 Actually one can tell when a well-dressed woman farts because her pantyhose by her ankles balloons out.
Posted by: Ciampino - Rifling changed firearms forever - It was revolutionary at July 14, 2023 08:14 PM

Well, there's an argument for garter belts and hose, if ever I've heard one.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 14, 2023 08:19 PM (a3Q+t)

97 Is that why they get swelled up so big after 40? I was blaming the pasta.

[running away in fear of justifiable revenge]
Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2023 08:15 PM (xhaym)

Oh, you'd better believe that's a paddlin'.

Posted by: Jasper Beardsley at July 14, 2023 08:19 PM (PiwSw)

98 I was taught that being late is disrespectful, because it is saying YOUR time, is more important than other people's time.... ie, the time they spend waiting on you.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 14, 2023 07:58 PM

100%. The chasm between those that get this and those that don't is unbridgeable. Neither understands the other.

Posted by: TRex at July 14, 2023 08:19 PM (IQ6Gq)

99 Evening.

Posted by: Robert, the great compromiser at July 14, 2023 08:20 PM (1Yy3c)

100 Me: What caused the ice age to end?

Climate Scientist: You're a Nazi.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at July 14, 2023 08:20 PM (9X60i)

101 There is a herd of buffalo on Antelope Island in Utah.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at July 14, 2023 08:20 PM (T/Lqj)

102 So these 100 million year old creatures just stopped evolving at what point?

They're perfect now! Sure, they die if they stop moving and they're almost brainless but hey, perfect.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 08:20 PM (0hOvj)

103 92 Well they’re not as bad because women don’t fart.

That’s my position and I’m sticking to it.
Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2023 08:08 PM (MNhXM)

Is that why they get swelled up so big after 40? I was blaming the pasta.

[running away in fear of justifiable revenge]
Posted by: Kindltot

They don't fart. Sadly, they explode post menopause. Grisly sight.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 14, 2023 08:21 PM (NsE9F)

104 @95

>>remember 2008 when the best candidates were Ron Paul, Huckabee and Fred Thompson?

Ahhh, the good old days, the salad days, the all or nothing days of the GOPe swamp choices.

Ersatz Jeb Bush: Please Clap.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 14, 2023 08:21 PM (up/3i)

105 Posted by: bluebell at July 14, 2023 08:07 PM

Roosevelt also has feral cattle. Really cool.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at July 14, 2023 08:21 PM (T/Lqj)

106 We're getting some rain right now...

WOW!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 14, 2023 08:22 PM (up/3i)

107 You know, I just can't rip an armpit fart like I used to.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 14, 2023 08:22 PM (KAi1n)

108 remember 2008 when the best candidates were Ron Paul, Huckabee and Fred Thompson?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2023 08:19 PM (xhaym)

Yeah. The GOP has been throwing Pres Elections since then.

Something very weird and sig happened with the "housing crisis" and Obama.

Both parties agreed to put him in office.

Well, all the factions Bush/Clinton/Cali/CHC and Int'l Finance and MIC.

Incredible

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 08:22 PM (iHxkK)

109 Crow: "Do you ever read Poe?"
Cat: "No."
Crow: Because he's got this great poem."
Cat: "Fine."
Crow: "Seriously, you need to read it. It's good."
Cat: "Whatever."
Crow: "I can quote some of it to you."
Cat: "Just go away."
Posted by: What they were talking about at July 14, 2023 08:13 PM

Wesley, I'm sensing you have an empathy for the crow. Would you care to talk about it?

Posted by: Ship's Counselor Deanna Troi at July 14, 2023 08:22 PM (a3Q+t)

110 So these 100 million year old creatures just stopped evolving at what point?

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Heck, that's nothing. Did you know lightning struck a mud puddle and made them in the first place?

Posted by: Moron Robbie Figured Out That Long Covid Means the Shot at July 14, 2023 08:23 PM (O69GV)

111 I hate you all.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at July 14, 2023 08:23 PM (PiwSw)

112 Tonto puts his ear to the ground, and after a moment says, "Buffalo come." The Lone Ranger then asks, "How the hell do you know that?" Tonto says, "Sand stuck to face."

Posted by: davidt at July 14, 2023 08:23 PM (SYTee)

113 Apparently after today's forum, Vivek is now tied with The Meatball in the predict it market.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 14, 2023 08:13 PM (up/3i)

remember 2008 when the best candidates were Ron Paul, Huckabee and Fred Thompson?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2023 08:19 PM

I do remember 2016 when scott walker was the leading in Iowa and then flamed out after the first debate.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 14, 2023 08:23 PM (ncXxy)

114 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning (Part One)

Oooohhhhhh

Myyyyyyy

GAAAAAAWWWWWWD!!!!!!!!

Hands down the best in the series. If you are the movie going sort but aren't sure if you want to see it in a theater SEE IT IN THE THEATER.

Biggest screen you can find.

With bigger sound.

Definitely worth your hard earned money.

Posted by: Robert, the great compromiser at July 14, 2023 08:23 PM (1Yy3c)

115 There is a herd of buffalo on Antelope Island in Utah.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at July 14, 2023 08:20 PM

Also in the Henry Mountains.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 14, 2023 08:24 PM (a3Q+t)

116 So these 100 million year old creatures just stopped evolving at what point?

They're perfect now! Sure, they die if they stop moving and they're almost brainless but hey, perfect.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 08:20 PM (0hOvj)

Evolution and fossil fuels are just the dumbest memes ever.

Just silly goofy stuff.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 08:24 PM (iHxkK)

117 I've pretty much have never seen this much rain in New Jersey ever.

Wild.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 14, 2023 08:24 PM (up/3i)

118 I remember 2008 as the year I cut the cable. Have not missed it for one minute.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at July 14, 2023 08:25 PM (9X60i)

119 The funny thing is when one takes the time to read the responses to "evolution" it is almost all "this is so dumb I really have no response. How does one argue against it?".

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 08:26 PM (iHxkK)

120 I've pondered a road trip (in an RV) around the ND/SD/MT part of the US. It seems to be an interesting mix of geography. Then I've always wanted to scale the high peaks of Panaroma Point, the highest point in Nebraska. If you look it up, you'll know that comment was slightly in jest. It's 5,429 ft above sea level!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 14, 2023 08:26 PM (NsE9F)

121 Ladies don't fart, they poot.

The human body is an amazing, disgusting machine. If this thing evolved naturally, the intermediate stages must have looked like some kind of AI nightmare.

Posted by: fd at July 14, 2023 08:26 PM (iayUP)

122 . . . My husband ond one brother are retired military and are always on time. Me, I learned. . . .
Posted by: Megthered

'If you are not 15 minutes early, you're late!"

Heard it many, many times from my Dad - it's served me well during my life. A few times because of this, I have jumped ahead of a patient or other customer that should be there but - nope.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2023 08:26 PM (63An5)

123 I've pretty much have never seen this much rain in New Jersey ever.

Wild.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 14, 2023 08:24 PM (up/3i)

Taxi Driver time?

Is it our (rest of country) prayed for "real rain" coming?

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 08:27 PM (iHxkK)

124 What's interesting is that the main villain is an AI infiltration program that goes rogue.

I know it's just a silly thing for a movie but what with society being on the verge of serious breakthroughs in AI and with everyone trying to figure out what it all means the movie feels very relevant to the here and now.

But mostly it's wall to wall action that'll knock your freakin' socks off.

And Hayley Atwell. Dear sweet lawd, Hayley Atwell.

*Closes eyes, wanders off in a reverie*

Posted by: Robert, the great compromiser at July 14, 2023 08:27 PM (1Yy3c)

125 You know, I just can't rip an armpit fart like I used to.
Posted by: SFGoth

Well, you get older, you lose your edge.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 08:27 PM (FVME7)

126 'If you are not 15 minutes early, you're late!"

Heard it many, many times from my Dad - it's served me well during my life. A few times because of this, I have jumped ahead of a patient or other customer that should be there but - nope.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2023 08:26 PM (63An5)

Yup. Dad, a Marine, taught me that.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at July 14, 2023 08:28 PM (T/Lqj)

127 120 I've pondered a road trip (in an RV) around the ND/SD/MT part of the US. It seems to be an interesting mix of geography.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 14, 2023 08:26 PM

Recommended. Lots of world out there. Add Idaho to the mix while you're in the area.

Posted by: TRex at July 14, 2023 08:28 PM (IQ6Gq)

128 f'@ 121-
And less than a minute later adolescent boys were making fart jokes.

Posted by: Eromero at July 14, 2023 08:28 PM (Uv0D2)

129 @123

>>Is it our (rest of country) prayed for "real rain" coming?

I'm on high ground/slight hilltop, and my front lawn is a lake.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 14, 2023 08:29 PM (up/3i)

130 Didn't realize elephants could just glide like that.

Posted by: eleven
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*?*

Posted by: Dumbo at July 14, 2023 08:30 PM (EvGP3)

131 So these 100 million year old creatures just stopped evolving at what point?

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Tank Abrams is about ready to return to the ocean.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 08:31 PM (FVME7)

132 So these 100 million year old creatures just stopped evolving at what point?
Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2023 08:04 PM (MNhXM)

The evolutionary position is that traits stay stable when alterations of them cause deficits in reproduction or reduces the ability to thrive without increasing the ability to survive.
It is hard to say what jellyfish looked like a 100 million years ago since they don't seem to have fossilize, though the Burgess shale at 50 million or so didn't have jellyfish as such though they had weirder things. Like tunicates and archaic sea cucumbers.

It may be that wobbly free floating goo that tastes bad and eats prey that wanders into it's stinging tentacles can't use much modification to thrive and survive.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2023 08:31 PM (xhaym)

133 Being late says a lot about you. A LOT.

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 08:32 PM (V13WU)

134 I maintain that all cats are wanting to be deep conspirators with their feeders.

That left paw tip-tip-tip-tip off the edge of any trivial thing is supposed to get you to understand.

Any cat I ever had, we were in league. With new computer, surely my days of a found new cat are approaching zero. BOOM@

When you have cat sense and the cat has you, on the down-low...

I've had, in order:
* male orange tabby got caught in a motor, found, lived, had casts, very orange
* two siblings, female orange tabby cats, one with a diminished front paw. The diminished flew 1st class to Houston, died later that year at 22 -- punkin former was named biscuit and she went in deep winter in MA
* chuckie, MA, sleek vertical jump, amazing marbled tabby, short mostly black and grey, and orange. This was someone's cat.
* sammy, a true russian blue
and then I lost track and she wanted out anyway. My hobo time.

Sammy brought me the 'see, I fetch'. Did.not.know.that.

How Russian Blue? Touch of white 'soul patch' on her tummy.
In a background lighting it's got rich, corinthian, orange.

lin-duh should be able to say that.

All those and onward find me.

Posted by: micky at July 14, 2023 08:32 PM (3byMq)

135 I am talking about professional settings.

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 08:32 PM (V13WU)

136 There's 15 states I've not visited but if I hit the lotto, I just might. And I will take Mrs. E and she will cook rabbits for me.

Posted by: Eromero at July 14, 2023 08:32 PM (Uv0D2)

137 Switching up tonight just having some G&T's.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 14, 2023 08:33 PM (up/3i)

138 I hate you all.
Posted by: Eric Swalwell

Tell me if this fart smells like bacon....

Posted by: JT at July 14, 2023 08:33 PM (T4tVD)

139 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 14, 2023 08:33 PM (T4tVD)

140 And I will take Mrs. E and she will cook rabbits for me.
'
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Order out , buster.

Posted by: Mrs. E, millionaires at July 14, 2023 08:34 PM (V13WU)

141 "It may be that wobbly free floating goo that tastes bad and eats prey that wanders into it's stinging tentacles can't use much modification to thrive and survive.
Posted by: Kindltot"

If the point is to survive as a species, why evolve? A jellyfish makes a bazillion offspring and does just fine. It's probably more efficient than humans. What's the point of doing any better?

Posted by: fd at July 14, 2023 08:35 PM (iayUP)

142 Being late says a lot about you. A LOT.
Posted by: runner

One of the Grand Poohbahs at JPMorgan Chase would lock the doors precisely at the stated starting time. (Actually, he had one of his AA's do it.

)

Woe be to you if you knocked to try to gain LATE admittance.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2023 08:35 PM (63An5)

143 In basic training, Sunday before final week, I was one of 5 guys written up for being late to evening formation. (By then, we had Sundays off after breakfast.) The platoon junior drill sergeant marched us over to the company CO (a captain) for non-judicial punishment. BTW, the captain was a stickler for physical fitness and encouraged us to use the gym on Sundays. Yeah, right. (to be cont'd)

Posted by: SFGoth at July 14, 2023 08:36 PM (KAi1n)

144 Do any of you Morons know why bison ranchers don't disbud the calves / dehorn the adults?

...ok eew tvb may not be a representative sample.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 14, 2023 08:37 PM (llON8)

145 One of the Grand Poohbahs at JPMorgan Chase would lock the doors precisely at the stated starting time. (Actually, he had one of his AA's do it. )

Woe be to you if you knocked to try to gain LATE admittance.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2023 08:35 PM (63An5)

that was me! kidding.

Posted by: Mrs. E, millionaires at July 14, 2023 08:37 PM (V13WU)

146 Beaver making a dam was cute.
And obviously, the Cone Otter was a sea otters.
A river otter would shit on it.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 14, 2023 08:37 PM (ufFY8)

147 Studio6 is playing Tucker. That's the current, after Stinch on RAV
americasvoice.news

Posted by: micky at July 14, 2023 08:37 PM (3byMq)

148 yikes !

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2023 08:37 PM (V13WU)

149 The funny thing is when one takes the time to read the responses to "evolution" it is almost all "this is so dumb I really have no response. How does one argue against it?".
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 08:26 PM (iHxkK)

Arguing from incredulity is a logical fallacy. "I can't believe it" has no real value. If you fail to believe in a table, would it no longer hold up your dinner, and force you to eat your TV dinner off your lap?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2023 08:38 PM (xhaym)

150 I'm the last guy to report to the captain and as I stand outside his office, I hear lots of yelling (by him) and a whole bunch of "NO EXCUSE SIR!" kind of stuff from my fellow soldiers. They basically lose all evening privileges the entire final week and a bunch of other stuff. If this weren't final week, it would've been even worse. My turn, I enter his office with my junior drill sergeant standing next to him ("Sergeant Sargent", srsly), I report, and he asks me, "Private, why were you late?" (Cont'd)

Posted by: SFGoth at July 14, 2023 08:39 PM (KAi1n)

151 Well it's just now and then, my line gets cast
Into these time blindness
There's something back there that you left behind
Oh, time blindness
Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 08:40 PM (FVME7)

152 Do any of you Morons know why bison ranchers don't disbud the calves / dehorn the adults?

Dunno about bison but with yaks and Longhorns, the horns are part of their system to regulate their body temperatures. They aren't shed and it will kill the animal to remove them.

*Thanks Cliff!* (with an eye-roll)

Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2023 08:40 PM (63An5)

153 If the point is to survive as a species, why evolve? A jellyfish makes a bazillion offspring and does just fine. It's probably more efficient than humans. What's the point of doing any better?
Posted by: fd at July 14, 2023 08:35 PM (iayUP)

Because changes that allow some offspring to survive better and have offspring better give it an advantage that is passed on to their offspring.
The real argument is "why doesn't every offspring have a mutation?"
(The answer is, "because if the offspring have an asshole in the middle of their foreheads, they will only be suitable for politics and newscasting, and thus will screw their constituents and audience and so fail to have viable offspring of their own")

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2023 08:41 PM (xhaym)

154 >>> 152

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Dunno about bison but with yaks and Longhorns, the horns are part of their system to regulate their body temperatures. They aren't shed and it will kill the animal to remove them.

*Thanks Cliff!* (with an eye-roll)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2023 08:40 PM (63An5)

I did not know that. / Johnny Carson voice

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 14, 2023 08:42 PM (llON8)

155 Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2023 08:31 PM (xhaym)

So the evolutionary theory that most of our land creatures came from the ocean is because it was beneficial but for others not beneficial?

Posted by: polynikes. at July 14, 2023 08:43 PM (/WQyy)

156 Arguing from incredulity is a logical fallacy. "I can't believe it" has no real value. If you fail to believe in a table, would it no longer hold up your dinner, and force you to eat your TV dinner off your lap?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2023 08:38 PM (xhaym)

Sometimes things are so dumb experts and very smart ppl have no response.

But that's fine. The theory is so complex that it stunned the world? They had some "psychological resistance"?

And regardless, the word is now over-defined as a result of constant rearguard action against reality.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 14, 2023 08:44 PM (iHxkK)

157 Annosaurus Wrecks, that's one of my favorite songs along with Year of the Cat.

Posted by: Eromero at July 14, 2023 08:45 PM (Uv0D2)

158 So the evolutionary theory that most of our land creatures came from the ocean is because it was beneficial but for others not beneficial?
Posted by: polynikes. at July 14, 2023 08:43 PM (/WQyy)

Well, the land wasn't very hospitable for animal life until flowering plants had evolved, and become abundant. Nothing to eat there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2023 08:45 PM (fUa1N)

159 "Because changes that allow some offspring to survive better and have offspring better give it an advantage that is passed on to their offspring."

Yes, but when a creature like a jellyfish gets to a certain point, it's nearly perfect and further evolution is not really necessary. Why would it bother evolving into a human?

Posted by: fd at July 14, 2023 08:45 PM (iayUP)

160 Now I want a bison burger. Yum.

Evening, y'all.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 14, 2023 08:45 PM (zHuJr)

161 "Sir, I wasn't late, Sir!" I then proceeded to explain that I was at the gym working hard and had set my watch to the barracks clock to ensure that I could maximize my workout and be back on time. It wasn't my fault the barracks clock was inaccurate. The other guys were at the movies and eating ice cream while i was busting my ass working out. He actually said he was impressed that I was at the gym, warned me to be a little earlier and let me go without any punishment. :-> Somehow I ended up drawing KP twice that final week. That really sucked. I was stuck in an air-conditioned dining facility, in Missouri, in July, staffed by middle-aged civilians. Once we cleaned off the tables and stuff, any food left over in the serving bins we could have since it was just going to the hogs anyway. Thanks for the punishment, Sgt Sargent.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 14, 2023 08:45 PM (KAi1n)

162 Roosevelt also has feral cattle. Really cool.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Now I'm envisioning plain old moo-cows, but with those fangs that musk deer and water deer have.

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2023 08:45 PM (DgGvY)

163 @136 There's 15 states I've not visited but if I hit the lotto, I just might. And I will take Mrs. E and she will cook rabbits for me.

Posted by: Eromero at July 14, 2023 08:32 PM

Took me a minute to get the reference, but well played.

Posted by: TRex at July 14, 2023 08:46 PM (IQ6Gq)

164 So the evolutionary theory that most of our land creatures came from the ocean is because it was beneficial but for others not beneficial?

Posted by: polynikes. at July 14, 2023 08:43 PM

I suspect that water dwelling creatures said.....fvck this insane competition for food I am going to evolve and hit greener pastures on dry land.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 14, 2023 08:46 PM (ncXxy)

165 Well, the land wasn't very hospitable for animal life until flowering plants had evolved, and become abundant. Nothing to eat there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Nothing to eat but blood, sweat, soil, and tears.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 14, 2023 08:46 PM (KAi1n)

166 Why is Lamont back?

Posted by: DJ at July 14, 2023 08:47 PM (uosPt)

167 *Thanks Cliff!* (with an eye-roll)

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Two great know-it-alls: Cliff Claven and Cosmo Kramer.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 08:48 PM (FVME7)

168 157 Annosaurus Wrecks, that's one of my favorite songs along with Year of the Cat.
Posted by: Eromero at July 14, 2023 08:45 PM (Uv0D2)

YOTC just appeared in my rotation last week.

I'm bingeing on the intro piano arrangement.

I love a nice chord structure...

Posted by: zombie Jim Brown at July 14, 2023 08:49 PM (CCSxw)

169 >>> 163 @136 There's 15 states I've not visited but if I hit the lotto, I just might. And I will take Mrs. E and she will cook rabbits for me.

Posted by: Eromero at July 14, 2023 08:32 PM

Took me a minute to get the reference, but well played.
Posted by: TRex at July 14, 2023 08:46 PM (IQ6Gq)

I didn't until you pointed it out.

Do those 15 states include Montana or Arizona?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 14, 2023 08:51 PM (llON8)

170 Annosaurus Wrecks, that's one of my favorite songs along with Year of the Cat.
Posted by: Eromero

Between the Wars is one of my favorite albums.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 08:51 PM (FVME7)

171 "One of the Grand Poohbahs at JPMorgan Chase would lock the doors precisely at the stated starting time. (Actually, he had one of his AA's do it.)"

One of his AA's? Was this before or after the 13th Amendment?

Posted by: SFGoth at July 14, 2023 08:51 PM (KAi1n)

172 If you are ever in Western Montana, check out the National Bison Range. It's between Missoula and the Southern end of Flathead lake. There are some majestic views of the Mission mountains from a ridge in the range.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 14, 2023 08:51 PM (zQVw+)

173 >>> 172 If you are ever in Western Montana, check out the National Bison Range. It's between Missoula and the Southern end of Flathead lake. There are some majestic views of the Mission mountains from a ridge in the range.
Posted by: Beartooth at July 14, 2023 08:51 PM (zQVw+)

I was there many years ago on the way from Missoula to Glacier National Park, but I don't recall the Bison Range specifically.

Pretty sure I have *film* photos from that trip.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 14, 2023 08:53 PM (llON8)

174 > Somehow I ended up drawing KP twice that final week. That really sucked. I was stuck in an air-conditioned dining facility, in Missouri, in July, staffed by middle-aged civilians. Once we cleaned off the tables and stuff, any food left over in the serving bins we could have since it was just going to the hogs anyway. Thanks for the punishment, Sgt Sargent.
Posted by: SFGoth

HA! An O-6 once ordered me to stand facing a bulkhead to make sure the thermostat didn't move for two whole minutes. Two whole minutes!! Oh! the humanity!! He did so in front of the asshoe 2ndLT that drug me in front of the COL for doing my job. Asshoe.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2023 08:53 PM (63An5)

175 /off Cleveland Brown Great sock

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 14, 2023 08:53 PM (CCSxw)

176 So the evolutionary theory that most of our land creatures came from the ocean is because it was beneficial but for others not beneficial?
Posted by: polynikes. at July 14, 2023 08:43 PM (/WQyy)

there have been several colonizations of land, but only one by tetrapods. Sipunculids like spiders, mollusc like slugs and snails, insects and ray fishes.
They may have had adaptions for other things that could be leveraged on to allow them to go further on to land than other species and individuals. Jay Gould called it "Pre-adaption" and hated the term, I think they call it Ex-adaption now, which I hate - but no one seems to ask my opinion on these things - but for example, a float bladder that has rich blood vessels to allow the exchange O2 when gulping at the surface can both help a fish survive in stagnant, drying water holes, as well as survive dried up in the mud. It also could be a step towards a true lung and amphibianhood. Especially for species with stout oar-like fins with bones instead of just rays for stiffening.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2023 08:53 PM (xhaym)

177 Florida’s truck drivers’ strike fell short of expectations. Why?
“Not all of us can afford to abandon a day’s work; it would mean less money for our families,” says one trucker.
https://tinyurl.com/3mayau5n

The word got out on social media about the planned suspension of deliveries to and from the state on July 1. Many, including Latino truck drivers from different states, started sharing messages and videos, threatening to boycott Florida in response to the new immigration law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

But when the day arrived, the boycott didn’t materialize.

Alix Miller, president and CEO of the Florida Trucking Association, said in an email to the Tampa Bay Times that she doesn’t have any information on the subject.
Arturo Dominguez, a freelance reporter and one of those who have closely followed the truckers’ protest on social media, said that while they can agree that the boycott may not have had the economic impact truckers had hoped for, it was successful in bringing awareness to a national audience.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 14, 2023 08:54 PM (MFZ8i)

178 Sidebar Item:
Update on Photos from Disney Snow White set, published in the Daily Mail and linked here: Disney says these photos are fake and not from the movie. We'll see if that Disney claim is true.

But, the link it MIA there. Here it is:
https://is.gd/G1EMmy

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 14, 2023 08:54 PM (klJTj)

179 How do you get so many different species evolve from the same biosphere environment?

Posted by: polynikes. at July 14, 2023 08:54 PM (/WQyy)

180 . . . while they can agree that the boycott may not have had the economic impact truckers had hoped for, it was successful in bringing awareness to a national audience.
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe

. . . which no one had heard about.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2023 08:56 PM (63An5)

181 Update on Photos from Disney Snow White set, published in the Daily Mail and linked here: Disney says these photos are fake and not from the movie. We'll see if that Disney claim is true.

But, the link it MIA there. Here it is:
https://is.gd/G1EMmy
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous

Needs more Orcs.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 08:57 PM (FVME7)

182 How do you get so many different species evolve from the same biosphere environment?
Posted by: polynikes

Depends how tightly you define "biosphere." There's room for plants, plant-eaters, plant-eater-eaters, scavengers, decomposers, etc.

If nothing else can eat eucalyptus, becoming a koala might be helpful. You get an uncontested food source.

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2023 08:59 PM (DgGvY)

183 Go to Rumble...
Carlson interviews Mike Pence as a search...

Also, just for the sake of the gone in the night, the notion is NOT gofundme, it is

GiveSendGo

Eventually, I'll be in some persecution.

Won't matter. Don't matter.

Well, what do you have to say about that....?

Pence: Well, as you know, the fly had me pegged. I cucked but we'll get'em and 10% in Ukraine.

Cranium meets baseball....

Begin the begin.
This computer is meh. Types well.

Posted by: micky at July 14, 2023 09:00 PM (3byMq)

184 How do you get so many different species evolve from the same biosphere environment?

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Faith, my son.

Posted by: Moron Robbie Figured Out That Long Covid Means the Shot at July 14, 2023 09:00 PM (O69GV)

185 Helena Handbasket, I've been to Arizona and Oklahoma, but not Montana, and I kinda like the Beatles.

Posted by: Eromero at July 14, 2023 09:01 PM (Uv0D2)

186 I'm listening to Mr Ham&EggerTickTock for about 3 minutes.

It's no tie day.
Suit wearing dipshits love this bullshit.

Posted by: micky at July 14, 2023 09:01 PM (3byMq)

187 re: Snow White

Good news! The Evil Queen is still played by a white woman.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 14, 2023 09:02 PM (klJTj)

188 How do you get so many different species evolve from the same biosphere environment?
Posted by: polynikes

There are many things we don't currently know. For instance, for eons, men believed that women don't fart. Now we know better, but just fiating some explanation was not the answer.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 14, 2023 09:05 PM (KAi1n)

189 Good news! The Evil Queen is still played by a white woman.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 14, 2023 09:02 PM (klJTj)

Well, French.
Gal Gadot is who I heard.
Ooh-la-la

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 14, 2023 09:05 PM (ufFY8)

190 Good news! The Evil Queen is still played by a white woman.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous

A Jewish white woman.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 09:06 PM (FVME7)

191 For those into that sort of thing, Russell Brand had The Critical Drinker on today. As usual the real version's on Rumble, there's a censored teaser on YouTube.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 14, 2023 09:06 PM (FD5dr)

192 On one of my visits to Kruger National Park we were slowly driving along a narrow dirt road (aren't they all!) when a handful of impalas emerged out of the long grass, streaked across the road and into the long grass on that side. Puzzled, we stopped, backed up several car lengths, and at that moment 12 to 16 adult elephants thundered across at a gallop.
Had we not stopped and had we not backed up then we could have been interred all in one two-dimensional matchbox.

Snap Quiz: Elephant grass is named thusly because (a) elephant dinner; (b) portion size on the menu; (c) better sounding than green long things with sharp and serrated edges; (d) None of the above; (e) All of the above.

Posted by: Ciampino - Steve Jobs was not allowed to fart at home because his house didn't have windows at July 14, 2023 09:07 PM (qfLjt)

193 Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2023 08:53 PM (xhaym)

That brings me back to my first question. I'm not trying to say the earth is only 4000 years old but that there are a lot of gaps filled with assumptions that don't make sense to me as a lay person. Again not ruling anything out . My three Biggs problems are again 1. Why does evolution stop 2. The order in which such complex systems are developed 3. The number of different species evolving out of the same environment.

Again I agree the earth is 4 billion years old.

Posted by: polynikes. at July 14, 2023 09:08 PM (/WQyy)

194 https://images.app.goo.gl/7jHLFEnPBwWpnpJe7

I thought Gal Gadot was French.
My mistake.
Isreali.
Even more awesome.

And she has great thighs.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 14, 2023 09:10 PM (ufFY8)

195 They couldn't get a real evil queen to play the part?

Posted by: fd at July 14, 2023 09:10 PM (iayUP)

196 If nothing else can eat eucalyptus, becoming a koala might be helpful. You get an uncontested food source.
Posted by: mikeski

That explains why Bud Lite's sales aren't 0.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 14, 2023 09:11 PM (KAi1n)

197 whose kitty used to play fetch?

Posted by: MAxIE at July 14, 2023 09:11 PM (twxj3)

198 They couldn't get a real evil queen to play the part?
Posted by: fd

Hitlery wouldn't work for scale. Imagine that.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2023 09:11 PM (63An5)

199 They couldn't get a real evil queen to play the part?
Posted by: fd at July 14, 2023 09:10 PM (iayUP)

Hilary would be killing too many people in set.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 14, 2023 09:11 PM (ufFY8)

200 Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2023 08:59 PM (DgGvY)

But you are staring out the explanation with different species already.

Posted by: polynikes. at July 14, 2023 09:11 PM (/WQyy)

201 198, 199.

Horde Mind again.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 14, 2023 09:12 PM (ufFY8)

202 Again I agree the earth is 4 billion years old.
Posted by: polynikes

Why do you agree?

Posted by: SFGoth at July 14, 2023 09:13 PM (KAi1n)

203 whose kitty used to play fetch? Guthie?

Posted by: MAxIE at July 14, 2023 09:13 PM (twxj3)

204 Again I agree the earth is 4 billion years old.
Posted by: polynikes

Why do you agree?
Posted by: SFGoth at July 14, 2023 09:13 PM (KAi1n

Because the objective and physical evidence confirms it.

Posted by: polynikes. at July 14, 2023 09:14 PM (/WQyy)

205 Missing transitional species have entered the chat.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc., etc. at July 14, 2023 09:14 PM (Sjyvq)

206 I thought Gal Gadot was French.
My mistake.
Isreali.
Even more awesome.

They're no longer waiting for Gadot.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 14, 2023 09:14 PM (zYoUB)

207 Polynikes-I don't think evolution ever stops. It just moves too slowly for us to realize it.

Posted by: Megthered at July 14, 2023 09:14 PM (Y7FQD)

208 whose kitty used to play fetch?
Posted by: MAxIE

My pussy has caught many things!

Posted by: Zombie Mrs. Slocombe at July 14, 2023 09:16 PM (63An5)

209 Polynikes-I don't think evolution ever stops. It just moves too slowly for us to realize it.
Posted by: Megthered at July 14, 2023 09:14 PM (Y7FQD

The discussion started for me when it was mentioned sharks have been around for 100million years.

Posted by: polynikes. at July 14, 2023 09:16 PM (/WQyy)

210 Because the objective and physical evidence confirms it.
Posted by: polynikes

So before we had the ability to determine this objective and physical evidence that confirms it, the Earth wasn't 4 billion years old. (That conforms to some peoples' view on things.)

Posted by: SFGoth at July 14, 2023 09:17 PM (KAi1n)

211 They couldn't get a real evil queen to play the part?
Posted by: fd at July 14, 2023 09

awgs!

Story hours take up too much time.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 14, 2023 09:17 PM (Wnv9h)

212 Gushka.

Posted by: Eromero at July 14, 2023 09:18 PM (Uv0D2)

213 Missing transitional species have entered the chat.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc., etc. at July 14, 2023 09:14 PM (Sjyvq)

Is this about me?

Posted by: Linc Hayes at July 14, 2023 09:18 PM (ufFY8)

214 Sadly, DJT is going to be 'intershown' with Sean again. I get it. He can do it, all.night.long.

Like chaw-chaw dogsled dogs.
Prediction:
Trump gets tik-tok McGee to out himself as Pence has to Tucker.

Been contemplating:

Dipshit: Isn't it time to admit that you lost?

And around and 'round we go.

I want a vote off:
Katie Pavlich vs Lisa Marie Boothe.

Voting closes in the next two months...

Pavlich is in charge, Lisa wants to charge your EternalVitaly

What is the mood, I guess. My vote Lisa, because can duck smile all the way to the moaning.

Whoa!

It's my new laptop speaking, uh huh uh huh.

Posted by: micky at July 14, 2023 09:19 PM (3byMq)

215 So before we had the ability to determine this objective and physical evidence that confirms it, the Earth wasn't 4 billion years old. (That conforms to some peoples' view on things.)
Posted by: SFGoth at July 14, 2023 09:17 PM (KAi1n)

No. Before there was objective evidence people didn't know how old it was and could only theorize.

Posted by: polynikes. at July 14, 2023 09:19 PM (/WQyy)

216 212 thanks that's the one
i was blending that and coothie lol

Posted by: MAxIE at July 14, 2023 09:20 PM (twxj3)

217 Four billion years is what I recall also.
Meteorites that fall to earf are much older, and typically pretty boring.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 14, 2023 09:21 PM (ufFY8)

218 Meteorites that fall to earf are much older, and typically pretty boring.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 14, 2023 09:21 PM

*Tunguska has entered the chat*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 14, 2023 09:23 PM (Wnv9h)

219 205 Missing transitional species have entered the chat.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc., etc. at July 14, 2023 09:14 PM (Sjyvq)

I'm the middle one in five silhouette chart and I can confirm underpants kumquat satizacle adalystis can shave our prolems.

Posted by: Senator Fetterman at July 14, 2023 09:23 PM (z+89e)

220 Four billion years is what I recall also.
Meteorites that fall to earf are much older, and typically pretty boring.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 14, 2023 09:21 PM (ufFY

Worth a lot of money though .

Posted by: polynikes. at July 14, 2023 09:23 PM (/WQyy)

221 That stampede didn't seem very... vigorous. Nor terribly large. Imagine 1,000 of those tanks and they're actually pissed. Yeah, you wouldn't be sitting in that car saying. "Awwww, look at the pretty buffalo."

Posted by: GWB at July 14, 2023 09:24 PM (vQrdQ)

222 How do you get so many different species evolve from the same biosphere environment?
Posted by: polynikes. at July 14, 2023 08:54 PM (/WQyy)

A biosphere has more than one niche?

Think about businesses and enterpreneurs: If there is a single controlling authority like GOSPLAN, then there are only one or two ideal solutions.
In a true market economy there are millions of business starts, many of which fail, and some become successful, because they hit the sweet spot in needs and supplies. The ones that are ideal survive, the rest get eaten or taken over.

Evolution is an-cap with Schumpeterian tendencies.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2023 09:24 PM (xhaym)

223 Gal Gadot is sort of over, she's been cast out of the Wonder Women role, she can't really act, she's pretty but since they don't do Rom-Coms any more, she's sort of SOL.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 14, 2023 09:25 PM (up/3i)

224 All you penguin fans-Tuesday 8AM Eastern TCM is showing "The Penguin Pool Murder" (1932) starring Edna May Oliver and James Gleason. If you find Nancy Kulp and Ann B. Davis attractive, you will love Edna. Four stars from this fan.

Posted by: Hollywood or Bust! at July 14, 2023 09:26 PM (T0tUU)

225 the rest get eaten or taken over.
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Or simply fall down dead, bone barely picked over.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 14, 2023 09:26 PM (48u4S)

226 whose kitty used to play fetch?

Posted by: MAxIE

I had one. Sammy as mentioned above. I bought the bizzy-balls (have jingle balls in them). Well fed, watered, etc. nip-nip, and suddenly...

Here Sammy comes with a bizzy ball, jingling, drops it.
And then we're on to it. I won't go on about the total tale of Sammy. Maybe the TXMoMe.

Lost.

Chuckie, could go vertical. We didn't have too long to understand. My heart says, I was so lucky to have chucky.

Posted by: micky at July 14, 2023 09:26 PM (3byMq)

227 'In the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void...'
GOD's time is not like our time, but bottom line, it's all His stuff because He created it. How belongs to Him, not my concern at this point. And hey, one day I'll know the how.

Posted by: Eromero at July 14, 2023 09:27 PM (Uv0D2)

228 Worth a lot of money though .
Posted by: polynikes. at July 14, 2023 09:23 PM (/WQyy)

Yeah, pretty wild.
One winter a dude in our rock club heard about a meteor strike in MI, and within hours was out near where it happened. Lucky for him and a few others, pieces of this thing happened to fall in the snow on a frozen lake, so they managed to collect some.

At one rock show, a guy was telling me about some fragments that made their way to the States from Russia within a couple months of the fall.

The power of the free market.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 14, 2023 09:27 PM (ufFY8)

229 Sound of Freedom is a great movie, though a very heavy message.

You should watch it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 14, 2023 09:27 PM (KqBSE)

230 Official NOAA non-existential Climate News you probably will not get from the MSM!

https://tinyurl.com/3vfy68es

US 48-State June 2023 Climate Report

The contiguous U.S. average temperature during June was 69.0°F, 0.5°F above average, ranking in the middle third of the 129-year record.

Generally, temperatures were below average from California to the central Plains and across much of the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. Temperatures were above average from the Northwest to the northern Plains, as well as in the southern Plains and Florida Peninsula."

And the NOAA June 2023 Global Summary, written to terrify the LIVs, but not indicating all life on Earth will burn-up tomorrow:

https://tinyurl.com/4y83s7dr

The June global surface temperature was 1.89°F (1.05°C) above the 20th-century average of 59.9°F (15.5°C), making it the warmest June on record. This marked the first time a June temperature exceeded 1.8°F (1°C) above the long-term average. June 2023 was 0.23°F (0.13°C) warmer than the previous June record from 2020, but 0.52°F (0.29°C) cooler than the all-time highest monthly temperature anomaly on record (March 2016).

NOTE: Anomaly means not at the mean value. Total BS term

Posted by: Gref at July 14, 2023 09:28 PM (AMIL/)

231 This comment thread is evolving.

Posted by: davidt at July 14, 2023 09:28 PM (SYTee)

232 whose kitty used to play fetch? Guthie?
Posted by: MAxIE at July 14, 2023 09:13 PM (twxj3)

Yes, Gushka's kitty.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2023 09:28 PM (RXWFg)

233 1. Why does evolution stop 2. The order in which such complex systems are developed 3. The number of different species evolving out of the same environment.

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In my opinion, although I'm not Science like Dr. Fauci, is that guided evolution is the mechanism by which God creates us and all flora and fauna. Evolution hasn't stopped but it works so incredibly slowly that we can't see it. It works only when needed. That is, if an animal is well adapted to its environment and that environment does not change (as is apparently the case with sharks), no evolution is necessary, although, like athletes and capitalists, they are always trying to do better. Why is there so much diversity from a common ancestor? Because guided evolution and different species try different things. How are complex organs, such as eyes created? I've got to go with guided evolution.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 09:28 PM (FVME7)

234 This comment thread is evolving.
Posted by: davidt at July 14, 2023 09:28 PM (SYTee)

It is certainly not intelligently guided.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 14, 2023 09:30 PM (ufFY8)

235 In my opinion, although I'm not Science like Dr. Fauci, is that guided evolution is the mechanism by which God creates us and all flora and fauna.

A better idea than evolution, for sure. Although I chaff at the idea of even a God, putting a multi-generational plan in place for his ant farm. Mostly because being an ant sucks.

If you believe in free will ? Then how guided can it be ? Yet - this is not all random.

Posted by: Rock Ribbed Republican at July 14, 2023 09:32 PM (ijxcW)

236 ...cooler than the all-time highest monthly temperature anomaly on record (March 2016).

NOTE: Anomaly means not at the mean value. Total BS term
Posted by: Gref at July 14, 2023 09:28 PM (AMIL/)
***

Awwww. Isn't that cute? Someone at NOAA learned a new word.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2023 09:32 PM (e4fEA)

237 The June global surface temperature was 1.89°F (1.05°C) above the 20th-century average of 59.9°F (15.5°C), making it the warmest June on record. This marked the first time a June temperature exceeded 1.8°F (1°C) above the long-term average. June 2023 was 0.23°F (0.13°C) warmer than the previous June record from 2020, but 0.52°F (0.29°C) cooler than the all-time highest monthly temperature anomaly on record (March 2016).

NOTE: Anomaly means not at the mean value. Total BS term
Posted by: Gref at July 14, 2023 09:28 PM (AMIL/)

"Average" temperatures mean diddly-squat, when most thermometers are located where people are. And when some are located where waste heat from human activity is exhausted. And when temperature records are adjusted in order to make them conform to some nutball theory about Gerbil Worming.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2023 09:34 PM (RXWFg)

238 In my opinion, although I'm not Science like Dr. Fauci, is that guided evolution is the mechanism by which God creates us and all flora and fauna.

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This is where I usually end up, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie Figured Out That Long Covid Means the Shot at July 14, 2023 09:35 PM (O69GV)

239 The problem with concepts like guided evolution is that it requires death prior to sin.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 14, 2023 09:36 PM (KqBSE)

240 Polynikes-I don't think evolution ever stops. It just moves too slowly for us to realize it.
Posted by: Megthered

Some things change faster than others. Shorter life cycles, or more susceptibility to mutation. Things with DNA generally have DNA repair mechanisms, viruses full of RNA just kind of go with the flow.

I'm pretty sure the argument here for the past few years has been "It is beneficial for a respiratory virus to spread easily and not kill its host, so Covid will become another version of the common cold since those are the mutations that are the 'best,' in the Darwinian sense." And that seems to have happened.

There's also "directed evolution," which is how we had a couple kinds of wolf 40,000 years ago and 1000 kinds of dog now. Take Darwin out of the picture and just intelligently design the dog you want. Need a retriever? Breed the ones that play fetch the best. Need a guard dog? Breed the biggest ones. Need one that won't think for itself? Breed the ones that vote for socialism.

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2023 09:37 PM (DgGvY)

241 The problem with concepts like guided evolution is that it requires death prior to sin.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger

--

Nah. I'm not going to tell God how to run his shop. He can do whatever He wants.

Posted by: Moron Robbie Figured Out That Long Covid Means the Shot at July 14, 2023 09:39 PM (O69GV)

242 I like to analogize biological evolution to.aircraft evolution. Early WWII aircraft.

https://tinyurl.com/35fyrcsz
https://tinyurl.com/ychsrzad

Late WWII aircraft (6 years later)

https://tinyurl.com/werh6sz7
https://tinyurl.com/24brwfds

This was, of course, guided evolution. There were hundreds if not thousands of designs. Most failed. A few succeeded.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 09:39 PM (FVME7)

243 I'm pretty sure the argument here for the past few years has been "It is beneficial for a respiratory virus to spread easily and not kill its host, so Covid will become another version of the common cold since those are the mutations that are the 'best,' in the Darwinian sense." And that seems to have happened.

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Spoiler alert:

Covid was always pretty much just the flu, and the government requirement to not treat anyone - and to pay $14K per death - was the reason people were being murdered en masse.

Posted by: Moron Robbie Figured Out That Long Covid Means the Shot at July 14, 2023 09:42 PM (O69GV)

244 This was, of course, guided evolution. There were hundreds if not thousands of designs. Most failed. A few succeeded.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 09:39 PM (FVME7)

The Humbley Pudge enters the chat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2023 09:42 PM (RXWFg)

245 Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2023 09:37 PM (DgGvY)

You just outlined "negative feedback" - the idea that new innovations will be necessarily ground down, meeting opposite forces, until they find an equilibrium that is sustainable. Every engineered system you'll find in the modern world, that self-adjusts in a dependable way, works on negative feedback.

And you also just described Millennials, Modern Liberals, Bush Republicans, and a whole host of new actors. Folks who are pushing "positive feedback". Folks who pretty much want to turn it all up to 11.

Posted by: Rock Ribbed Republican at July 14, 2023 09:42 PM (ijxcW)

246 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 14, 2023 09:27 PM (KqBSE)

I bought a ticket in order to support the movie, but I can't watch it in the theatre. I feel like there will be no escape from that immersive experience, hearing audience members crying, etc.

I'll catch it maybe when Elon gives it a platform later this month.

(when I was 5 yrs old I was almost snatched out of my own back yard). I can't help but think, if the perp had been successful, would I have been one of the children in the movie?

i think it's probably doubtul, due to the era that the event occurred. Technology is what's turbocharging this evil depravity.

Best case scenario, I would have been molested. Worst case, the perp would have killed me.

Posted by: kallisto at July 14, 2023 09:44 PM (fMg42)

247 Nah. I'm not going to tell God how to run his shop. He can do whatever He wants.

I sure as shit am. Because I'm the grist in the mill. This, too, is another problem with Contemporary Conservatism. I'm not going into the gas chamber just because "It's God's Will".

After you. Either I have Free Will ... or none of this matters anyway. I'm just an ant.

Posted by: Rock Ribbed Republican at July 14, 2023 09:44 PM (ijxcW)

248 I'm not going to tell God how to run his shop. He can do whatever He wants.

Posted by: Moron Robbie Figured Out That Long Covid Means the Shot at July 14, 2023 09:39 PM (O69GV)

I'm just saying, the theory of evolution generally involves a selection process by which through multiple generations, the successful life that thrives reproduces and the the unsuccessful dies off.

But the Scripture is pretty clearly in Romans 5 that through sin, death entered the world.

This means prior to A&E's fall in the garden, there was nothing that died.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 14, 2023 09:44 PM (KqBSE)

249 Again not ruling anything out . My three Biggs problems are again 1. Why does evolution stop 2. The order in which such complex systems are developed 3. The number of different species evolving out of the same environment.

Again I agree the earth is 4 billion years old.
Posted by: polynikes. at July 14, 2023 09:08 PM (/WQ

Evolution probably does not stop, but there are some limits. Eohippus lasted about 20 million years, Mesohippus about 11 million years, these species were fairly stable until they went extinct but also with successors. Species are stable because to alter too much will a) make the animal less likely to have offspring or b) create a new species. However changes do occur. You probably have the ability as an adult to digest milk. It is the most common mutation, and is a type of evolution. My wife is Asian and can't digest milk without issues, she is not a mutant like me. When a change big enough to cause a new species occurs it is response to massive changes in ecology or transformational mutations, like evolving a single toed foot that allows for fast running and access to grasslands instead of forests and bogs

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2023 09:45 PM (xhaym)

250 2) preadaption doesn't care, it is a solution to another problem that applies to a new situation. The ability to keep gills moist on drying mud was not to create a land dwelling animal, but it is absolutely essential for that evolution. It is not pushed, it flows like water, trying all options, and sometimes it works and sometimes the individual has poor or no offsprings
3) Mutations that lead to transformational change are not directed since there is no preconception to be fulfilled. All the options are tried, and if they are survivable, they survive. If they don't they don't. Why did Xenartha produce both Giant Sloths, aquatic sloths and armadillos? because you can't do all of the things, it is impossible. So some specialization is inevitable. Marine sloths were vegetarians like sea cows. Ground sloths may have eaten carrion, and armadillos live on bugs, slugs and dead cows. can't do it all

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2023 09:45 PM (xhaym)

251 Another point that I haven’t heard a reasonable evolution explanation is that with the multitude of different species that there is only one that developed into man. Why didn’t any other animal develop the often mention ‘opposable thumb’ ?

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2023 09:48 PM (MNhXM)

252 This means prior to A&E's fall in the garden, there was nothing that died.

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Yep. I don't disagree. I'm just saying that's not even a tiny little hangup for me. He made this entire thing and operates entirely outside of not only space and time but our very understanding. He can figure something like that out.

Posted by: Moron Robbie Figured Out That Long Covid Means the Shot at July 14, 2023 09:49 PM (O69GV)

253 I may have seen Evolving Farts open at a They Might be Giants show. Not sure...

Posted by: TRex at July 14, 2023 09:51 PM (IQ6Gq)

254 If you're tired of fighting about evolution, here a federal judge in Oregon says f*ck the 2nd amendment!

https://tinyurl.com/46ztb6r6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 09:51 PM (FVME7)

255 Another point that I haven’t heard a reasonable evolution explanation is that with the multitude of different species that there is only one that developed into man. Why didn’t any other animal develop the often mention ‘opposable thumb’ ?
Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2023 09:48 PM (MNhXM)

The thumb is not as important as the ability to see future options. Quite a number of hominins had thumbs and even the elbows required to throw. Only humans seem to be able to face "what if" and tell alternate and equally possible future stories out of it. "I could see it so clearly it was like it was real"
What is interesting is that only humans have schizophrenia too. It happens in humans about the same period that the greatest mathemeticians and physicists are at their most productive. I think that is involved.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2023 09:54 PM (xhaym)

256 Yep. I don't disagree. I'm just saying that's not even a tiny little hangup for me. He made this entire thing and operates entirely outside of not only space and time but our very understanding. He can figure something like that out.

Meh. I had to trust my Mom and Dad, back in the days I can still remember. And, get this, sometimes they really fucked up as I recall. They didn't have a plan. They did things, sometimes did not do things, and my ability to mitigate those things waxed and waned through the years.

My interactions aren't part of some great plan either. If that's all part of some "great plan" ? Then it's a shitty plan. Jews in 1930s Germany, I'm sure, also got lectured about "The Great Plan".

Posted by: Rock Ribbed Republican at July 14, 2023 09:54 PM (ijxcW)

257 Mean girl stuff attacking Casey DeSantis.

https://tinyurl.com/3xf64ya4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 14, 2023 09:55 PM (FVME7)

258 Sean Hannity is trying to be 'merica

Trump better twist tik-tok's tits in the upcoming.

What the latest of 'serious' things is that Trump either did or did not think he'd lost the election...

There is no crime in any of the myriad. Jack Shit isn't in it to prove it, just muddy.

For this I think Trump will find his path to turn the burners on.

Imagine being dragged for your loyah license for your practicing.

Jack Smith needs a one time hanging, in the public square.
Merrick needs ask if he'd like to recompose his statements before he'd like to be likewise found lacking.

Posted by: micky at July 14, 2023 09:55 PM (3byMq)

259 So the evolutionary theory that most of our land creatures came from the ocean is because it was beneficial but for others not beneficial?

That part is my biggest giggle about evolution. Here are your choices, if the food supply is too scarce:

1) you starve until the population reaches equilibrium with the food supply
2) you sprout lungs and walk out of the water to breathe on land

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 09:56 PM (0hOvj)

260 Something very weird and sig happened with the "housing crisis" and Obama.

Both parties agreed to put him in office

The only reason why McCain obviously tanked his run, to the point of silencing Palin, suspending his campaign to run back to DC to do nothing, defending BO on campaign stops...and it was just about then that it became OK for the first time to keep your current spot while running for Pres and go right back to it afterwards. One of the first serious tells of the Uniparty

Posted by: azjaeger at July 14, 2023 09:57 PM (3/XaG)

261 251 Another point that I haven’t heard a reasonable evolution explanation is that with the multitude of different species that there is only one that developed into man. Why didn’t any other animal develop the often mention ‘opposable thumb’ ?

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2023 09:48 PM (MNhXM)

A key physical difference between humans (homo) and all other primates is the third metacarpal styloid process. It enables homo species to make and use tools much, much, much better than the primates without it. This homo physical trait first appears in the fossil record about 1.5 billion years ago.

Posted by: Gref at July 14, 2023 09:57 PM (AMIL/)

262 But the Scripture is pretty clearly in Romans 5 that through sin, death entered the world.

This means prior to A&E's fall in the garden, there was nothing that died.

Unless it only means humanity: that humans now die because of the fall. What it was like before the fall is unknowable for us, so I try not to speculate.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 14, 2023 09:58 PM (0hOvj)

263 Top picture,

pining for the fjords?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2023 09:58 PM (o+6Vx)

264 I bought a ticket in order to support the movie, but I can't watch it in the theatre. I feel like there will be no escape from that immersive experience, hearing audience members crying, etc.

Posted by: kallisto at July 14, 2023 09:44 PM (fMg42)

I've heard that from a number of people.

Caviezel's message at the end implores people to see it in the theater did the exact reason people don't want to.

He posits, essentially, that if you want it to impact you permanently and try to wake the world up, you need to be immersed in it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 14, 2023 09:59 PM (KqBSE)

265 New army artillery development:
Verse 5]
We fired our cannon 'til the barrel melted down
So we grabbed an alligator and we fired another round
We filled his head with cannon balls, and powdered his behind
And when we touched the powder off the gator lost his mind

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 14, 2023 09:59 PM (oGiDo)

266 But the Scripture is pretty clearly in Romans 5 that through sin, death entered the world.

This means prior to A&E's fall in the garden, there was nothing that died.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Death, spiritually, or death, physically? Christians aren't Animists; trees and squirrels don't have souls. If the first human being (with a God-granted soul) born from an almost-a-human (still an animal with no soul) figured out Sin before it died, then it still works, I think.

If God made me, I don't think it matters if he made me from mud in a day or from monkeys in a billion years. His Will was done.

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2023 09:59 PM (DgGvY)

267 Need more orcs?

Even orcs have standards on what they eat. Snow Brown and the seven patchoulli brothers?

No way.

I hope this is legit, it costs Disney $200 million to make, and when released makes exactly $69,420 worldwide.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2023 10:00 PM (o+6Vx)

268 ONT is up. You have been hooded..

Posted by: Lurking Cheshire Cat at July 14, 2023 10:02 PM (w3u3d)

269 Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2023 09:45 PM (xhaym)

explaining why with statements ‘ because it’s impossible ‘ or ‘because it’s inevitable’ just leaves more questions for me.

It’s like a mom saying ‘ because I said so ! ‘

It’s obvious you have much knowledge on this subject so I’ll not frustrate you any longer by likely just skipping over information that’s just basic to you. Thanks for your explanations to my questions. Seriously.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2023 10:02 PM (MNhXM)

270 The Curtiss XP-55 Ascender and McDonnell XP-67 Moonbat have entered chat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2023 10:02 PM (o+6Vx)

271 Laura Ingraham -- special envoy to the news.

That hair ain't working, L.

We told you... but the most legit of elections... maybe... wasn't.

Who knew?

Everyone, Laura. Around the world. Brazil has likewise been wrong.

Time's a coming for the shooting. Don't stop until they stop moving. Dead.

I want to be in that number, when the saints come rolling in...

Due.

Posted by: micky at July 14, 2023 10:04 PM (3byMq)

272 When you were a toddler, were.you able to understand why your parents did things? Did you really understand why you shouldn't pick that up, or not eat that, or not touch that? Now consider that toddlers grow up to be adults. God is incredibly more advanced over humans than adults are over toddlers. Why do humans think they could know why God does things?

Posted by: azjaeger at July 14, 2023 10:06 PM (3/XaG)

273 "These cars stopped for Bison Stampedes to cross the road."

About a month ago, I (and ten or so other cars) had to stop for a flock of peacocks (30+) to cross a four lane, grass median road. Damndest thing I'd ever seen. Just out in the suburbs one morning and then, boom, curious guests decide that's where they're going to eat.

Fortunately everyone was patient enough to let them do their thing and move completely on to the grass.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at July 14, 2023 10:12 PM (aXxgO)

274 When you were a toddler, were.you able to understand why your parents did things? Did you really understand why you shouldn't pick that up, or not eat that, or not touch that? Now consider that toddlers grow up to be adults.

Yes. I can explicitly remember instances where I made decisions, not based upon what I should do, but rather upon what Mom and Dad would view what I did. So it's a small leap from that doubt to this idea that a "God" is completely to be trusted.

Frankly, you can sell me on a "God". But I don't trust it, just because it's in charge. No more than I trusted those who I was at their mercy. Even though those two were flesh and blood to me. They were out of their minds.

Posted by: Rock Ribbed Republican at July 14, 2023 10:14 PM (ijxcW)

275 190 Good news! The Evil Queen is still played by a white woman.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous

A Jewish white woman.

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Will she be permitted to fart? Season permit?

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