9/17/23 EMT

Happy Sunday.

Posted by: krakatoa at 07:02 AM

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1 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2023 06:03 AM (fwDg9)

2 Happy Sunday

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 06:04 AM (BRHaw)

3
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 17, 2023 06:05 AM (ENBF0)

4 Good morning again dear morons

Pear cake with pecans.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2023 06:07 AM (RIvkX)

5 Morning again, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 17, 2023 06:13 AM (ju2Fy)

6 The Red Sox are making the annual transition to football very easy this year.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at September 17, 2023 06:13 AM (Eeb9P)

7 Willowed from below:

San Franpsycho

I am sorry that you can't sleep and are anxious. I am/obviously awake vet early too- except that I have to be up at 5:00 anyway before spouse leaves to work. When I went up to visit Jessie in the hospital I stopped to get a book in the book shop. I also found another book for someone else in the congregation/- " Conquer Worry and Anxiety" by Dr. Daniel G. Amen. He is board certified psychiatrist. In does contain some Bible verses from both the Jewish and Christian Scriptures but it's more about mastering your mind and using things like guiding imagery and meditation.

I also take "calm and relax which contains magnesium and Indian herb Ashwaganda.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 17, 2023 06:14 AM (k2a+Q)

8 Thank you {Fen}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2023 06:19 AM (RIvkX)

9 G'morning, all.

NAS Oceana air show, starring the Blue Angels starts in several hours.
A day in the sun, with Little VIA and his girl friend.

Then heading home tomorrow.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 17, 2023 06:19 AM (ZJj0q)

10 I have what I think is a funny story

We had to bring up something to FenSon yesterday at school. We had a nice breakfast out. At the end of the morning when we were getting ready to leave he said, "Why do you and mom
Have to pee so much." I laughed. I said " Because we're old people and when we drink a lot of tea and coffee that's what happens."

He also wanted to know why we're so inquisitive- asking him about how his classes are going, etc. I told him that's how parents are.😊

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 17, 2023 06:19 AM (k2a+Q)

11 I'm so old I know I have to pee when I don't feel like I have to pee. Also drinking water is a good health habit.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2023 06:22 AM (RIvkX)

12 Oakland has missed out on funding from a $267million grant to combat retail theft after its leaders missed the deadline to file an application.

California planned to distribute the money to cities struggling to deal with the rampant looting, which has plagued the state.

What was the plan, Alex?

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 06:30 AM (BRHaw)

13 9 G'morning, all.

NAS Oceana air show, starring the Blue Angels starts in several hours.
A day in the sun, with Little VIA and his girl friend.

Then heading home tomorrow.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 17, 2023 06:19 AM (ZJj0q)

I love seeing them at Pensacola over the water.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 06:31 AM (BRHaw)

14 Oakland: something suddenly came up.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2023 06:31 AM (RIvkX)

15 So does Paxton come to work tomorrow with a big ol' hunk of lumber in his hand like in 'Walking Tall'?

Saying 'Today....we settle all the family business'.

Yeh, I crossed the streams.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 17, 2023 06:32 AM (ZJj0q)

16 San Franpsycho: Lot In Space left you a message at the bottom of the tech thread.

Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 06:33 AM (Dz9Qm)

17 Lost in Space

Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 06:33 AM (Dz9Qm)

18 Disturbing footage shows teen driver deliberately hit and kill retired police chief riding his bike
The driver’s friend can be heard in the video of the incident egging him on, saying: “Yeah, hit his ass,”

From what I read the passenger encouraged and recorded yet was not identified at first and released.

Bullshit

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 06:34 AM (BRHaw)

19 Blue Angels will be here in 3 weeks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2023 06:34 AM (RIvkX)

20 Willows from Tech thread.

I'm up because of anxiety and insomnia.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

My sleep cycle is completely hosed and has been for a number of years and it's getting worse as I get older which is why I'm sitting here tonight crafting brilliant comments. One solution I have is to avoid going to the Elks club and drinking too much, go out and get a healthy dose of exercise each day, limit the amount of television time, and eat healthy as in chile colorado and carne asada tacos. May I suggest, that you accept you have won life because you're retired, you've been married 30 years, you live a good life and on occasion you get to have, if I recall correctly, blueberry muffins or is that pancakes? We live with an abundance of blessings.

My second solution is I gave up worrying about it and have come to embrace watching police interrogations on YouTube all night long. I'm thinking all this will come in handy one day when I get pulled over for speeding.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 06:34 AM (AHJdW)

21 Thank you m and LiS for good advice

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2023 06:38 AM (RIvkX)

22 Blue Angels will be here in 3 weeks.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Oh! I just realized that I didn't think until right now that I was missing the hydroplanes races and the Blue Angels in Seattle this year (August). I have gone completely New Mexican it seems as in I now know how to process dried chilies and make something with them that tastes really good.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 06:38 AM (AHJdW)

23 There's a Rumble channel of a guy who hunts pedophiles that is pretty cool.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2023 06:39 AM (RIvkX)

24 Looks like four more teens were shot in B'Moreover a two hour period the other night.

Last word is that Police are not considered suspects in these shootings.

And statistically, the odds that the shooters were legal firearm owners approach Zero.

https://tinyurl.com/25fv8fur

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 17, 2023 06:40 AM (ZJj0q)

25 Why am I working today? Have an a/c down.

Posted by: Eromero at September 17, 2023 06:40 AM (z3WCn)

26 Disturbing footage shows teen driver deliberately hit and kill retired police chief riding his bike
The driver’s friend can be heard in the video of the incident egging him on, saying: “Yeah, hit his ass,”

From what I read the passenger encouraged and recorded yet was not identified at first and released.

Bullshit
Posted by: rhennigantx

It was an execution committed by two psychopathic animals who should be dealt with by promptly giving them a trial and then sentencing them to a prompt and timely trip to hell.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 06:42 AM (AHJdW)

27 New Mexico's tiny tyrant has redone her complete nullification of the Second Amendment and redrafted it so it is limited to playgrounds, parks, here comes the kicker, public places where children play. She's going to keep pushing this until it ends up in the supreme court and they slap her an irons. I also strongly suspect that she's trying to set up a situation where the original public health order can be argued. It is moot because she changed it when they get to court on October 3rd. I'm counting the minutes until new lawsuits are filed on this revised so-called public health order. For extra credit, murders have gone up 70% since she's been governor.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 06:46 AM (AHJdW)

28 Good morning early birds.

The Lord bless you and keep you. May He make His face shine upon you and give you peace.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at September 17, 2023 06:46 AM (9CTr8)

29 I watch police interrogations at night too, Lost in Space. Small world.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at September 17, 2023 06:50 AM (9CTr8)

30 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at September 17, 2023 06:51 AM (ScR16)

31 Today is the 161st anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American history.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at September 17, 2023 06:53 AM (ScR16)

32 I watch police interrogations at night too, Lost in Space. Small world. Posted by: Miss Issippi

We're influencers.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 06:55 AM (AHJdW)

33 It was an execution committed by two psychopathic animals who should be dealt with by promptly giving them a trial and then sentencing them to a prompt and timely trip to hell.
Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 06:42 AM (AHJdW)
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I expect them to be on the cover of Rolling Stone

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2023 06:56 AM (RIvkX)

34 I just got off an Alaskan cruise and returned to a vacation home on Lake Erie. I don't know what day it is.

Posted by: Kurtz at September 17, 2023 06:59 AM (6/FjY)

35 "I don't know what day it is."

Don't feel too bad about it.

Neither does Joe Biden.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 17, 2023 07:01 AM (ZJj0q)

36 It's time for football practice, Joe. The team needs you. You're an All-American.

Helmet? No, Joe. Those are for pussies.

Posted by: Biden's Handlers at September 17, 2023 07:05 AM (VEm33)

37 VIA, my wife had cataract surgery this past Thursday. I shared with her your update comment in the coffee thread. When I read her the part about 'Oh, the colors are amazing' post surgery part she that was exactly what she was experiencing and was going to use line about going from warm incandescent lighting to a cool white bulb.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 17, 2023 07:05 AM (ju2Fy)

38 I know what day it is. Sunday. I should be in church.

Posted by: Eromero at September 17, 2023 07:06 AM (z3WCn)

39 olddog,

Glad to help.

Yeh, I used that with the surgeon and she replied that it was a perfect way to describe it. So she borrowed the explanation as well.

Hopefully, the recovery is going well?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 17, 2023 07:08 AM (ZJj0q)

40 WVU
Now there’s a $45 million budget shortfall with no easy way to bridge the gap. So Gee and the board decided to cut the number of majors being offered as well as firing some faculty members.

At a meeting yesterday, the board voted to cut 28 majors and 140 faculty members.

ZERO ADMIN WERE FIRED

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 07:08 AM (BRHaw)

41 Great-Great Grandfather was at Antietam, 27 Va. Infantry at the far left of the Southern line in the first of three phases of the battle. His unit saw few casualties, while just a few yards to his right, it was a meat grinder.

Posted by: Fenderbender at September 17, 2023 07:09 AM (r72iY)

42 Boker Tov Patriots

13 more days
Going down to DC for the second to last time
Have to first go to my left wing lesbo sisters B Day who disinvited my grandson so it's all about her

Did I say 13 days and fuck all lefties

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 17, 2023 07:10 AM (pmmLi)

43 Great-Great Grandfather was at Antietam, 27 Va. Infantry at the far left of the Southern line in the first of three phases of the battle. His unit saw few casualties, while just a few yards to his right, it was a meat grinder.
Posted by: Fenderbender at September 17, 2023 07:09 AM (r72iY)
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He missed out on the "fun" in Miller's cornfield, then.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at September 17, 2023 07:11 AM (ScR16)

44 Great-Great Grandfather was at Antietam, 27 Va. Infantry at the far left of the Southern line in the first of three phases of the battle. His unit saw few casualties, while just a few yards to his right, it was a meat grinder.
Posted by: Fenderbender at September 17, 2023 07:09 AM (r72iY)

Be careful this Admin might indict you for insurrection

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 17, 2023 07:11 AM (pmmLi)

45 Some people did something in Baltimore.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 17, 2023 07:13 AM (EFR0k)

46 Great-Great Grandfather was at Antietam, 27 Va. Infantry at the far left of the Southern line in the first of three phases of the battle. His unit saw few casualties, while just a few yards to his right, it was a meat grinder.
Posted by: Fenderbender at September 17, 2023 07:09 AM (r72iY)
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*checking memory*

Stonewall Brigade. He would have shot it out with the Iron Brigade at Gainesville, then.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at September 17, 2023 07:14 AM (ScR16)

47 Great-Great Grandfather was at Antietam, 27 Va. Infantry at the far left of the Southern line in the first of three phases of the battle. His unit saw few casualties, while just a few yards to his right, it was a meat grinder.
Posted by: Fenderbender at September 17, 2023 07:09 AM (r72iY)
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He missed out on the "fun" in Miller's cornfield, then.
Posted by: Captain Obvious,

Every time I read the history of Antietam the hair on the back of my next stands up. I can't comprehend how those men stood there and fought like that.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 07:14 AM (AHJdW)

48 Visiting Antietam is startling. So many died in a not large space.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 17, 2023 07:15 AM (EFR0k)

49 Have to first go to my left wing lesbo sisters B Day who disinvited my grandson so it's all about her

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Carrot cake?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2023 07:16 AM (RIvkX)

50 Visiting Antietam is startling. So many died in a not large space.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 17, 2023 07:15 AM (EFR0k)
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And the ground is irregular and confusing if you're not local. Entire regiments could surprise each other at very close range. And that's not even counting the morning fog and clouds of powder smoke.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at September 17, 2023 07:16 AM (ScR16)

51 Have to first go to my left wing lesbo sisters B Day who disinvited my grandson so it's all about her

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Carrot cake?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2023 07:16 AM (RIvkX)

Maybe, I will not know, I have to leave before dessert, and hopefully before her speech, to drive to DC

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 17, 2023 07:17 AM (pmmLi)

52 Visiting Antietam is startling. So many died in a not large space.Posted by: Huck Follywood

Going there is on my bucket list. I was able to walk the entire 3 days of the Gettysburg battle and that completely changed my level of understanding how that was fought. In fact, it completely changed how I think about Cvil War battles. Walking from the Confederate side along the path of Pickett's charge must have been a terrifying experience.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 07:17 AM (AHJdW)

53 “Jann Wenner has been removed from the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation,” the hall said Saturday, a day after Wenner's comments were published in a New York Times interview.

He committing real Journalism and must be punished.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 07:18 AM (BRHaw)

54 Walking from the Confederate side along the path of Pickett's charge must have been a terrifying experience.
Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 07:17 AM (AHJdW)
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A lot of guys stopped at the Emmitsburg Road fence line and would go no further. Understandable.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at September 17, 2023 07:19 AM (ScR16)

55 He committing real Journalism and must be punished.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 07:18 AM (BRHaw)
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What did he do?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at September 17, 2023 07:19 AM (ScR16)

56 Morning, folken,

Back from my mile workout (40% trotting to 60% walking, up from my usual 33/67) and shave. Now a little breakfast before I head out to wash the car and gas up, then drive to the grocery. I hope to be back not long after the Book Thread commences.

(Truman Capote in another context: "Oh, honey, don't let me commence.")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 17, 2023 07:20 AM (omVj0)

57 Those of you who have seen a newly-launched Starlink train deployed at night, there's an up-close video at Bad Blue.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2023 07:24 AM (RIvkX)

58 I also think reading less news and not going on the internet in the evening would help me with sleep.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 17, 2023 07:25 AM (k2a+Q)

59 “Jann Wenner has been removed from the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation,” the hall said Saturday, a day after Wenner's comments were published in a New York Times interview.

He committing real Journalism and must be punished.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 07:18 AM (BRHaw)

Yup he did nothing wrong except misunderstanding the fascist mood now a days. He generalized which is always a bad idea, but shit, what ever happened to free speech

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 17, 2023 07:25 AM (pmmLi)

60 Morning horde! Beautiful day today!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at September 17, 2023 07:25 AM (iF0sF)

61 Morning, LiS, SanFran, Captain O, NGU, and all the rest of you!

Open Range with Duvall, Costner, and Annette Bening is on Grit. As often on Sundays, they will have a good lineup today, with some John Wayne flicks and, of all things, a James Cagney Western from '55 called Run For Cover.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 17, 2023 07:26 AM (omVj0)

62 He committing real Journalism and must be punished.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 07:18 AM (BRHaw)
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Old fashioned guy. A more modern response is not to apologize but instead to answer by slamming the Rock board for the crime of being anti-LBGT querty

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 17, 2023 07:27 AM (qFy+C)

63 He has a book of interviews coming out and all the interviews are with white male rock and roll legends. And the he did and interview with the NY Times. He was not impressed with the women and black rock and rollers from an intellectual perspective. Sample quote:

Regarding women, Mr. Wenner said, “Just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level,” and remarked that Joni Mitchell “was not a philosopher of rock ’n’ roll.”

He will be lucky if he lives to see next Friday. I, on the other hand, think he was too kind to Mitchell.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 07:27 AM (AHJdW)

64 I also take "calm and relax which contains magnesium and Indian herb Ashwaganda.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 17, 2023 06:14 AM (k2a+Q)

Gesundheidt !

Posted by: JT at September 17, 2023 07:27 AM (T4tVD)

65 EV Fakeouts:
Hydrocarbons generate over 60 percent of the electricity in the U.S.
Translation: You Tesla is coal powered.
American taxpayers will subsidize EVs by at least $393 billion in the coming years.
Translation:
F Mkt Cap 49.6 B
GM Mkt Cap 46.7 B
Stelantis Market Cap 59.53B

So we are spending 4 times the market cap of the big 3 to build a EV system that will fail.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 07:29 AM (BRHaw)

66 Posted by: Miss Issippi at September 17, 2023 06:46 AM (9CTr

Thanks. Same to you!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 17, 2023 07:29 AM (k2a+Q)

67 Open Range with Duvall, Costner, and Annette Bening is on Grit. As often on Sundays, they will have a good lineup today, with some John Wayne flicks and, of all things, a James Cagney Western from '55 called Run For Cover.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

that's what I have on.

Posted by: Infidel at September 17, 2023 07:30 AM (CEX6j)

68 What did he do?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at September 17, 2023 07:19 AM (ScR16)

He interviewed the real rock n rollers that just happen to be men.

No blacks or women.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 07:31 AM (BRHaw)

69 The Singapore F1 Grand Prix starts in 30 minutes on ESPN. This assumes you have ESPN and like watching race cars go around in circle.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 07:32 AM (AHJdW)

70 So we are spending 4 times the market cap of the big 3 to build a EV system that will fail.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 07:29 AM (BRHaw)
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And, as Trump pointed out in his interview with me-again, those three companies and all those auto jobs will be gone to China within the next three years, if the Biden policies continue.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 17, 2023 07:33 AM (iIRco)

71 Wenner slighted Yoko Ono? So he'll never take over the ONT.

Posted by: Wally at September 17, 2023 07:33 AM (VEm33)

72 Good morning, Hordelings!

Posted by: Doof at September 17, 2023 07:33 AM (BiuMW)

73 Good morning everyone. Thank you Krak.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 17, 2023 07:35 AM (J47y1)

74 The Singapore F1 Grand Prix starts in 30 minutes on ESPN. This assumes you have ESPN and like watching race cars go around in circle.
Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 07:32 AM (AHJdW)
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Well, two points of interest: it's a street circuit and it's a night race.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at September 17, 2023 07:35 AM (ScR16)

75 @65

>>So we are spending 4 times the market cap of the big 3 to build a EV system that will fail.

At this point its simply a Tiki Lounge bust out operation by the masterminds.

I saw a video of the head of Stellantis saying their entire Jeep lineup will be electrified by 2025.

So that's roughly the time frame when the entire rotten stinking edifice collapses under the bulk of it's corruption.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 17, 2023 07:36 AM (XV/Pl)

76 He interviewed the real rock n rollers that just happen to be men. No blacks or women. Posted by: rhennigantx

Test. Which one is more likely to give a "Masters" level interview: Bob Dylan or Sly stone. John Lennon or Judy Collins.

I have Wener's book that has the collected John Lennon interviews. It is flat out great stuff. And yeah, Lennon was a bit crazy.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 07:36 AM (AHJdW)

77 He will be lucky if he lives to see next Friday. I, on the other hand, think he was too kind to Mitchell.
Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 07:27 AM (AHJdW)

He should interview Chrissie Hynde. That would be fun.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 17, 2023 07:37 AM (PiwSw)

78 I have Wener's book that has the collected John Lennon interviews. It is flat out great stuff. And yeah, Lennon was a bit crazy.
Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 07:36 AM (AHJdW)
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He seemed to be stabilizing as he got older. We'll never know.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at September 17, 2023 07:38 AM (ScR16)

79 @70

>>And, as Trump pointed out in his interview with me-again, those three companies and all those auto jobs will be gone to China within the next three years, if the Biden policies continue.

That's a feature not a bug, the Big Three are best viewed as a Pension Plan that makes unprofitable automobiles as a side hustle.

It takes 40pct less labor to make an EV, so while the Big Three are being forced by insane mandated emission standards to the EV route, they probably don't mind all too much.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 17, 2023 07:40 AM (XV/Pl)

80 Byeeee.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at September 17, 2023 07:40 AM (ScR16)

81 Well, two points of interest: it's a street circuit and it's a night race. Posted by: Captain Obvious,

Plus the Red Bull team got smoked in qualifying. They are starting in spots 11 and 12 which puts Verstappen's and Red Bulls record setting string of wins at risk of ending.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 07:40 AM (AHJdW)

82 One of my daughters is a huge F1 fan. Very pumped for todays race. She hopes Mercedes finally stomps the competition.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 17, 2023 07:40 AM (NxiFp)

83 He seemed to be stabilizing as he got older.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Didn't Catherine the Great like to go stabilizing too?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 17, 2023 07:41 AM (qoGsy)

84 83 He seemed to be stabilizing as he got older.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Didn't Catherine the Great like to go stabilizing too?
Posted by: Tonypete at September 17, 2023 07:41 AM (qoGsy)

Hahahahaha! Took me a minute.

Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 07:44 AM (Dz9Qm)

85 Hopefully, the recovery is going well?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 17, 2023 07:08
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Yes, recovery's going well. She called me Friday morning at work crying because she could see and everything so bright. Goes for 2nd cataract surgery in 2 weeks.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 17, 2023 07:45 AM (ju2Fy)

86 Hahahahaha! Took me a minute.
Posted by: m

I was just about to tap the mic to see if it was on.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 17, 2023 07:45 AM (J47y1)

87 “After Maricopa conducted its falsely ‘certified’ L&A testing on October 11, 2022, Maricopa conducted unannounced and unlawful testing on all 446 vote-center tabulators on October 14, 17, and 18. The tabulator system log files show that 260 of the vote-center tabulators rejected ballots with the same tabulator error codes that occurred on Election Day. In other words, this evidence supports a conclusion that Maricopa’s unannounced and unlawful testing was a dry run for the Election Day debacle,” the filing said.

Here in Harris county they added spacing to the the DoD printout so it took two (2) blank ballots and then sent 1 ballot per voter to high conservative precincts.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 07:46 AM (BRHaw)

88 Joe Lunch Box Biden dictated what cars can be built and then bribed car companies to build them even though nobody wants them, they can't be built at a price that is profitable, and is going to put 40% of the work force out of job that can never be replaced. There is a real risk that are going to go into steep declinel. All this is a win for China.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 07:47 AM (AHJdW)

89 One of my daughters is a huge F1 fan. Very pumped for todays race. She hopes Mercedes finally stomps the competition.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

I am pulling for Verstappen because he is doing something remarkable.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 07:48 AM (AHJdW)

90 mornin yall. An illegal immigrant fell off a border wall and died. Guess who's fault it is.

Posted by: fd at September 17, 2023 07:51 AM (vFG9F)

91 I am pulling for Verstappen because he is doing something remarkable.
Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 07:48 AM (AHJdW)

Flintstone car ?

Posted by: JT at September 17, 2023 07:51 AM (T4tVD)

92 Flintstone car ?
Posted by: JT

A very fancy pants Flintstones car.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 07:52 AM (AHJdW)

93 I just woke up, and I got an idea that's probably not as profound as i think, but i'm gonna thread-jack anyway.

The "conservation movement" has always been fundamentally insidious. It's essentially rich people valuing useless land greater than they value someone else having a place to live and food to eat. Add on a layer of "but I still want to eat a quarter ton of refined sugar and corn syrup a year, and bananas in February in New England, but don't you dare clear-cut and drain some noxious swampland to grow sugar and bananas just so you can scratch out a meager existence off of the pittance i'm willing to pay for that privilege."

"And there's too many people in the world", they say... but they mean "There's too many *other* people in the world, eating all my sugar and bananas", like the pampered chubby little Sartres they are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 07:52 AM (9UlRk)

94 Yonder Horde

I got the F1 race streaming on the other monitor. Singapore is a weird place. The track venue looks stunning at night though.
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As for the big 3 auto manufacturers...

If the State's goal is to make the public less mobile, thus more controllable is there anything they'd be doing differently? We're easier to subjugate if we can't move around at will.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 17, 2023 07:54 AM (Q4IgG)

95 83 He seemed to be stabilizing as he got older.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Didn't Catherine the Great like to go stabilizing too?
Posted by: Tonypete at September 17, 2023 07:41 AM (qoGsy)

Hey-Oh!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 17, 2023 07:55 AM (PiwSw)

96 Chatty as all get out this morning I am.
Singapore Grand Prix is starting

Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2023 07:56 AM (fwDg9)

97 there’s a $45 million budget shortfall with no easy way to bridge the gap...ZERO ADMIN WERE FIRED

Probably because there is no market value for recently terminated administrators that drove an entity into severe losses.

Those who can't do, teach; those who can't teach, administrate.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 17, 2023 07:58 AM (p8A+W)

98 95 83 He seemed to be stabilizing as he got older.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Didn't Catherine the Great like to go stabilizing too?
Posted by: Tonypete at September 17, 2023 07:41 AM (qoGsy)

Hey-Oh!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 17, 2023 07:55 AM (PiwSw)

Neigh!

Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 07:59 AM (Dz9Qm)

99 Who new PA had Miami levels of humidity.

Every morning I'm greeted to every horizontal surface being sopping wet with dew.

It's insane.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 17, 2023 07:59 AM (XV/Pl)

100 100

Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 07:59 AM (Dz9Qm)

101 The "conservation" movement is fundamentally anti-human, therefore criminal.

Hashem said the world was created for us not the other way around.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2023 08:00 AM (RIvkX)

102 Didn't Catherine the Great like to go stabilizing too?
Posted by: Tonypete at September 17, 2023 07:41 AM (qoGsy)

Hey-Oh!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 17, 2023 07:55 AM (PiwSw)

Neigh!
Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 07:59 AM (Dz9Qm)

Talk about a roll in the hay...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:00 AM (9UlRk)

103 The "conservation movement" has always been fundamentally insidious. It's essentially rich people valuing useless land greater than they value someone else having a place to live and food to eat.

My understanding is the econut stuff started with a handful guys who read to much Walden Pond and then out to talk ot trees. Later, in the 1960s the hippies got a jacked on LSD and an renewed talking to trees as a profession. Later still when they came down they became eco terrorists and then Antifa. Somewhere in here it became fashionable for the very wealthy to adopt this culture because it justified them buying hundreds of thousands of acres for their 12th home because they were protecting the environment instead of acting like Feudal lords.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 08:01 AM (AHJdW)

104 If the State's goal is to make the public less mobile, thus more controllable is there anything they'd be doing differently? We're easier to subjugate if we can't move around at will.

Its a really Rube Goldberg way of giving bus drivers half-million dollar a year salaries.

Force people on to public transportation → bus drivers threaten strike → huge pressure to get the buses running again → PROFIT!!

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 17, 2023 08:01 AM (p8A+W)

105 Chilly out thar.

No carrots.

Posted by: JT at September 17, 2023 08:03 AM (T4tVD)

106 They run these Asian races at night there so it's afternoon in Europe

Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2023 08:03 AM (fwDg9)

107 They run these Asian races at night there so it's afternoon in Europe
Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2023 08:03 AM (fwDg9)

Diabolical.

Posted by: JT at September 17, 2023 08:05 AM (T4tVD)

108 Leaving the Adirondacks shortly. Too bad; Me likee

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 17, 2023 08:06 AM (iIRco)

109 It's not that I'm against conservation as such. I was just trying to figure out what it is about the people who get really really into it that pisses me off.

I like that there are preserved lands here and there, I like that money is spent (voluntarily) to keep unique biomes and whatever from disappearing. Let's not clear-cut *everything* just to satisfy the gods of consumption.

But I've always felt a certain nastiness in the "movement" conservationists that I couldn't put my finger on, and so I just chalked it up to "Well, they're just Lefties, so that's why they ping your Jackass-o-meter".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:06 AM (9UlRk)

110 Last year I made an extra effort to get to the Texas MoMe because I felt there might never be another opportunity due to personal reasons, and the state of the Nation. I'm not feeling so much the same way this year, but if you can go, do it while you still can.

Posted by: fd at September 17, 2023 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

111 Japan GP next weekend in middle of night

Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2023 08:07 AM (fwDg9)

112 I am convinced EVals are a Trojan Horse so the Marxists can force everything on electricity and once that is going along like a meteor streaking towards earth they will nationalize the entire electrical grid and generation. Oil Companies have to much economic power for them to control for the foreseeable future hence their making oil obsolete.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 08:07 AM (AHJdW)

113 111 Japan GP next weekend in middle of night
Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2023 08:07 AM (fwDg9)

Maybe the asian races are at night because no one over there can get time off to go during work hours?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:08 AM (9UlRk)

114 I read that heat and humidity are the reason they're running this race at night.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 08:10 AM (AHJdW)

115 114 I read that heat and humidity are the reason they're running this race at night.
Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 08:10 AM (AHJdW)

Melty tires = better grip

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:10 AM (9UlRk)

116 My understanding is the econut stuff started with a handful guys who read to much Walden Pond and then out to talk to trees...it justified them buying hundreds of thousands of acres for their 12th home because they were protecting the environment instead of acting like Feudal lords.

There is a much simpler explanation: Stage I Reprobation.

Romans 1:18-24 describes the process starting with "What can be known about God is plain to them...they were ungrateful for the Creation...they claimed they can do better... exchanging truth for lies... they became futile in their thinking...they ended up worshiping the Creation rather than the Creator.

And then it progresses to Stage II reprobation until they reach Stage IV, where many Leftists are currently.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 17, 2023 08:11 AM (p8A+W)

117 “If we want equal outcomes, we need to take into account not everybody starts out on the same base, and we have to make adjustments,” Harris told a crowd at Hampton University in Virginia.

Ok let agree to this:
1. How do we adjust people that will not put in the time and effort? Communist used reeducation camps. Pol Pot just killed those that could not make the grade.
2. How do we build complicated, competitive, and environmentally sound systems (e.g. IT, Internet, Space Travel, Energy, Medicine) without knowing who has the talent and training vs. those that were adjusted into the program.
3. What does the reset look like at the end of the (five year I suppose) program? Is it a Soviet style of moving the achievers out of the system (camps) or is it squeaky wheel gets the grease like the end of year meeting in Atlas Shrugged?

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 08:11 AM (BRHaw)

118 Ha, Jann Wenner got what he deserved, leftists eating their own. Went to look at the story, and it's all about promoting some book he just wrote. So he got publicly punished for the wrong thing, his real crime is pushing the idea that musicians like Bono are truly thr Great Philosophers of our Age, and we should all acknowledge their Great Wisdom and let them tell.us what to do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2023 08:11 AM (S6gqv)

119 I'll tell you how well solar works. After 2 overcast days my little solar system in the shop is running a deficit. Another day without a few hours of good sunshine and it will be worthless.

Posted by: fd at September 17, 2023 08:12 AM (vFG9F)

120 .they ended up worshiping the Creation rather than the Creator.

And then it progresses to Stage II reprobation until they reach Stage IV, where many Leftists are currently.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 17, 2023 08:11 AM (p8A+W)

Maybe also a bit of worshipping themselves, and thinking "It's MY creation, not yours."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:12 AM (9UlRk)

121 Fossil fuels will never be obsolete. This push to EVs and such has another agenda. These people are not stupid. They just have power and lust to use it.

Posted by: pawn at September 17, 2023 08:12 AM (wsHtO)

122 Somewhere in here it became fashionable for the very wealthy to adopt this culture because it justified them buying hundreds of thousands of acres for their 12th home because they were protecting the environment instead of acting like Feudal lords.
Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 08:01 AM (AHJdW)

Poor Progressive do the same thing except via Big Govt. They set aside productive land (pay farmer not to grow or do not lease mineral rights) and are rewarded as great stewards for doing nothing.

But the man who had received one bag went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 08:15 AM (BRHaw)

123 "Melty tires = better grip
Posted by: Warai-otoko "

And increased tire wear, thereby polluting the environment with little balls of rubber. F1 tires should be made of locally sourced free range cardboard.

Posted by: fd at September 17, 2023 08:15 AM (vFG9F)

124 Happy, happy Sunday!!!

Posted by: Rosasharn at September 17, 2023 08:15 AM (PzBTm)

125 115 114 I read that heat and humidity are the reason they're running this race at night.
Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 08:10 AM (AHJdW)

Melty tires = better grip
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:10 AM (9UlRk)

Up to a certain point of melty.

Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 08:16 AM (Dz9Qm)

126 121 Fossil fuels will never be obsolete. This push to EVs and such has another agenda. These people are not stupid. They just have power and lust to use it.
Posted by: pawn at September 17, 2023 08:12 AM (wsHtO)

There is the mentality that oil and gas are finite resources, where wind and solar are free and completely devoid of scarcity. Why wouldn't we use those instead?!?!? That's crazy!

But it's not just the input. It's all the crap you need to harness the input. The observable universe is 99% Hydrogen (whatever the number is, I don't know). Does that mean we should all transition to a nuclear fusion energy grid? Or fuel-cells?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:16 AM (9UlRk)

127 I'll say what is an equal or unequal outcome.

Ok?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2023 08:16 AM (RIvkX)

128 127 I'll say what is an equal or unequal outcome.

Ok?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2023 08:16 AM (RIvkX)

Everyone must desire the same outcome.

No disparity of value or worth or desire is allowed.

Put the iphone in your pocket, zek. Do it. Do it now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:18 AM (9UlRk)

129 I am convinced EVals are a Trojan Horse so the Marxists can force everything on electricity and once that is going along like a meteor streaking towards earth they will nationalize the entire electrical grid and generation.

Totally unneccesary. Xi Jinping could fly over to the FUSA with eight Airbus 380s filled with CCP functionaries, land in Dulles, be escorted by any federal government agency to the White House where the junta would immediately hand over all power to the CCP and nationalize everything.

And no one would do anything but comply.

The EV hustle is a few things. Magical Thinking by brain dead bureaucrats and politicians; for the more corrupt ones, they fancy themselves as the next Elon Musk and hope to invest in the Next Thing in forced acceptance of Green Tech; for the rest it is simple fear and EV is the Savior.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 17, 2023 08:18 AM (p8A+W)

130 > I read that heat and humidity are the reason they're running this race at night.
______________

Same for the 4 races in the Middle East.

F1 has some interesting politics behind it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 17, 2023 08:18 AM (Q4IgG)

131 Texas ERCOT Solar:
Solar1 MW(0.0%)12,636 MW 22,138 MW

PS Notice the second number twice as high as the first? It is the maximum power (or investment) available from solar. First number is an average of the best real performance for solar over a season.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 08:18 AM (BRHaw)

132 for the rest it is simple fear and EV is the Savior.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 17, 2023 08:18 AM (p8A+W)

As a great man once said, "sometimes I actually believe my own bullshit".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:19 AM (9UlRk)

133 Same for the 4 races in the Middle East.

F1 has some interesting politics behind it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 17, 2023 08:18 AM (Q4IgG)

I think it is more about time zone and having it live for Sunday when Europe is awake.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 08:19 AM (BRHaw)

134 I think it is more about time zone and having it live for Sunday when Europe is awake.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 08:19 AM (BRHaw)

When do they usually do the US races?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:20 AM (9UlRk)

135 Well certainly the government has their fist around the throat of electic production so get everyone relying on it and ghey control how far you can go in a day

Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2023 08:20 AM (fwDg9)

136 127 I'll say what is an equal or unequal outcome.

Ok?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2023 08:16 AM (RIvkX)

seems fair

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 08:20 AM (BRHaw)

137 When I worked in the solar energy business, like minded people word say to me that "Hey, it's free energy, comes from the sky.". I would commit heresy and say, Hey look at this oil, it comes out of a hole in the ground.".

Posted by: pawn at September 17, 2023 08:21 AM (wsHtO)

138 132 for the rest it is simple fear and EV is the Savior.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 17, 2023 08:18 AM (p8A+W)

As a great man once said, "sometimes I actually believe my own bullshit".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:19 AM (9UlRk)

Who said that? (I googled and didn't see it.)

Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 08:22 AM (Dz9Qm)

139 Cats have a false reputation for aloofness when they are actually extremely sensitive.
Posted by: San Franpsycho'

You have not met my cats.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 17, 2023 08:22 AM (43xH1)

140 Another instance of animals in a stolen car nailing a bicyclist on purpose, this one in Huntington Beach:

https://tinyurl.com/5dsksz8b

This is Version 2 of the Knockout Game.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at September 17, 2023 08:22 AM (MvF+J)

141 As a great man once said, "sometimes I actually believe my own bullshit".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:19 AM (9UlRk)

Who said that? (I googled and didn't see it.)
Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 08:22 AM (Dz9Qm)

I'm gonna need a bigger Presidentin' Center.

Posted by: The Lightworker at September 17, 2023 08:23 AM (PiwSw)

142 I assume F1 is just as corrupt as the rest of international sports.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 17, 2023 08:23 AM (ANm4C)

143 137 When I worked in the solar energy business, like minded people word say to me that "Hey, it's free energy, comes from the sky.". I would commit heresy and say, Hey look at this oil, it comes out of a hole in the ground.".
Posted by: pawn at September 17, 2023 08:21 AM (wsHtO)

Nice!

Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 08:23 AM (Dz9Qm)

144 When do they usually do the US races?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:20 AM (9UlRk)

LV is Sat Nov 18 10 PM so that will be 4 AM London?

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 08:23 AM (BRHaw)

145 we have to make adjustments,” Harris told a crowd at Hampton University in Virginia.
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"Adjustments"... I know of another political leader who wanted to make demographic adjustments

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 17, 2023 08:23 AM (mssa5)

146 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 17, 2023 08:24 AM (NBVIP)

147 seems fair
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 08:20 AM (BRHaw)
===
Something tells me Kamala would not agree.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2023 08:24 AM (RIvkX)

148 141 As a great man once said, "sometimes I actually believe my own bullshit".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:19 AM (9UlRk)

Who said that? (I googled and didn't see it.)
Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 08:22 AM (Dz9Qm)

I'm gonna need a bigger Presidentin' Center.
Posted by: The Lightworker at September 17, 2023 08:23 AM (PiwSw)

Oh. It was the "great man" part that threw me off!

Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 08:24 AM (Dz9Qm)

149 There is the mentality that oil and gas are finite resources, where wind and solar are free and completely devoid of scarcity. Why wouldn't we use those instead?!?!? That's crazy!

So Mao wanted to deal with starvation in China so he ordered mass planting of wheat and the peasants were ordered to bang pots to keep the sparrows from eating the seed. They succeeded there, but the birds died. Because the birds died there was an abundance of insects that ate the grain causing even greater famine.

Solar and wind projects have demonstratively altered bird migration leading to secondary and tertiary negative effects on the environment.

Its Mao's Great Famine all over again.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 17, 2023 08:24 AM (p8A+W)

150 When do they usually do the US races?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Afternoon. The night Asian race is so they're on during peak. Viewing time in Europe makes a lot of sense. From what I read, the ambient air temperature is 100° there with 80% humidity; which is just not optimal for the drivers or the cars. Hence they run at night. So yeah eyeballs matter cuz that translates into money.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 08:24 AM (AHJdW)

151 >>When I worked in the solar energy business, like minded people word say to me that "Hey, it's free energy, comes from the sky.". I would commit heresy and say, Hey look at this oil, it comes out of a hole in the ground.".

Nothing is as expensive as free stuff. The costs associated with even a partial transition to renewables hasn't even been considered by most, not even understood either. But its coming.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 17, 2023 08:25 AM (ZLI7S)

152 Not sure it's corruption, but F-1 sure rakes money from the places they bring the show to.

Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2023 08:26 AM (fwDg9)

153 “Granholm during a congressional hearing confirmed the ordeal, which took place during the Biden administration official’s June electric vehicle promotion tour. She did not, however, take responsibility for the incident, instead blaming ‘somebody’ on her team for making a ‘mistake.'”

wuthless cvnt

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 08:26 AM (BRHaw)

154 There's a huge disconnect between the old-school conservationists and the current crop of idiots who have rejected everything they stood for. Men like Aldo Leopold, Ansel Adams, and John Muir wanted to preserve the best parts that were full of national beauty, and yet also recognized that making sure that all people were able to enjoy and experience these places themselves. I for one am very glad that Yellowstone was never allowed to become a Disney Theme Park, where Old Faithful would tickle the ass of a giant statue of Mickey Mouse that stood over it every time it sprayed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2023 08:27 AM (S6gqv)

155 I assume F1 is just as corrupt as the rest of international sports.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Even more so. The FIA is the epitome of corrupt sports governing bodies.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 17, 2023 08:27 AM (J47y1)

156 Nothing is as expensive as free stuff. The costs associated with even a partial transition to renewables hasn't even been considered by most, not even understood either. But its coming.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 17, 2023 08:25 AM (ZLI7S)

Free love worked out very well for the black population.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 08:27 AM (BRHaw)

157 Lol, Lennon was a shallow, facile little airhead. A nincompoop. As are most rock stars. If you're looking for deep thoughts from that crowd, you're limited to a tiny handful of people in the whole business. And it might actually be zero people. Neil Peart is dead, after all.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 17, 2023 08:28 AM (0FoWg)

158 Not sure it's corruption, but F-1 sure rakes money from the places they bring the show to.
Posted by: Skip

F1 is an opera full of fat ladies all rushing to get to front of the stage. I love all that and the car racing.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 08:28 AM (AHJdW)

159 F-1 use to start at 1300hrs at the local time, that seems to have been tossed out

Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2023 08:30 AM (fwDg9)

160 "The costs associated with even a partial transition to renewables hasn't even been considered by most, not even understood either. But its coming."

I beg to differ. Solar economics was thoroughly evaluated in the late 70's and early 80's and came up severely wanting compared to nuclear and advanced fossil fuel tech. It was abandoned at the beginning of the Reagan administration. All of this knowledge has been lost or conveniently forgotten.

Posted by: pawn at September 17, 2023 08:33 AM (wsHtO)

161 'Morning, all.

The wake-up word today was "purr".

It was contributed by the cat.

Posted by: creeper at September 17, 2023 08:33 AM (cTCuP)

162 A while back I contracted with The Kid to photograph some books for a project, and needed a 'good camera' so I sprung for a DSLR, about $300? I think. During the Super Moon she went into the back yard with the thrift store tripod and took pictures. It's pretty incredible what digital cameras can do, now.

Set up a camera off Amazon on a $10 mount and photograph Jupiter's moons?!!

https://belovic.blogspot.com

Posted by: LenNeal at September 17, 2023 08:35 AM (43xH1)

163 Granholm during a congressional hearing confirmed the ordeal, which took place during the Biden administration official’s June electric vehicle promotion tour. She did not, however, take responsibility for the incident, instead blaming ‘somebody’ on her team for making a ‘mistake.'”

wuthless cvnt
Posted by: rhennigantx
+++
She just might be the be biggest idiot in the biden cabinet. But they're all giving it their best shot.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 17, 2023 08:35 AM (dr4Q1)

164 Lol, Lennon was a shallow, facile little airhead. A nincompoop.

Maybe maybe not. Prima adonna for sure. He and McCartney wrote and produced some of the most profound music of the 20th century that is now 50+ years old. It has stood the first test of time and is jumped over generations and is still remembered. The same can be set for a number of other musicians from that particular period. I have come to view it as modern classical music. I'm

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 08:36 AM (AHJdW)

165 Hard to have a people revolt when they can't get to Capitol City because their electric cars can't get them there.

Hard to make molotov cocktails when there's no gas.

Posted by: davidt at September 17, 2023 08:36 AM (SYTee)

166 "And it might actually be zero people. Neil Peart is dead, after all.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice "

So is FZ. I often wonder what his thoughts would be on the state of things.

Posted by: fd at September 17, 2023 08:38 AM (vFG9F)

167 Free love worked out very well for the black population.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 08:27 AM (BRHaw)

Not for the pimp population.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:38 AM (9UlRk)

168 >>I beg to differ. Solar economics was thoroughly evaluated in the late 70's and early 80's and came up severely wanting compared to nuclear and advanced fossil fuel tech. It was abandoned at the beginning of the Reagan administration. All of this knowledge has been lost or conveniently forgotten.

Those are only the known costs.

Right now fire departments and insurance companies around the world are wrestling with the "unforeseen" costs of dealing with renewables with the biggest focus right now on EVs. No matter what anyone says there is no technology now available to extinguish a lithium ion battery fire. They can be cooled and the worst part of the event stalled but they can't be fully extinguished.

What does that mean for the added costs of EVs igniting in an underground parking garage? In a home garage? In crowded parking lots or major roads? And that's just part of the EV problem and no money has been specifically allocated to deal with as of yet.

There are always unforeseen consequences and costs with new technology. The bigger the scale the bigger the costs.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 17, 2023 08:38 AM (ZLI7S)

169 Nothing is as expensive as free stuff. The costs associated with even a partial transition to renewables hasn't even been considered by most, not even understood either. But its coming.

Everything is propaganda:
• The Biden junta cancels contracts and deals
• domestic oil production has never been higher.
• 20% of the refineries will shutter in five years
• profit margins at high levels
• no new refineries planned
• refiners add 350,000 Bpd capacity this year

Taken together, nothing makes sense. As Gregory House observes: "Everyone Lies"

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 17, 2023 08:39 AM (p8A+W)

170 4 Pear cake with pecans.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2023 06:07 AM (RIvkX)

Yum.

Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 08:39 AM (Dz9Qm)

171
"The most expensive vehicle to drive right now is a grocery cart."

Posted on Fakebook. Some lefty came on and blamed greedy corporations, then about a dozen people put her some knowledge about Biden.

This is a good sign. Not so good for the Dementia-In-Chief.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 17, 2023 08:39 AM (enJYY)

172 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at September 17, 2023 08:24 AM (NBVIP)

In use !

Posted by: JT at September 17, 2023 08:40 AM (T4tVD)

173 Imagine all the people. Love grows where my Rosemary goes. Yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy. What if G-d was one of us? Just a stranger on the bus?

Rock stars are so profound your head just might explode if you even try to comprehend their pulsating megathoughts.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 17, 2023 08:40 AM (0FoWg)

174 What's this I saw about EV insurance being more than regular cars?

Posted by: fd at September 17, 2023 08:40 AM (vFG9F)

175 This is a good sign. Not so good for the Dementia-In-Chief.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 17, 2023 08:39 AM (enJYY)

In part, it's a sign that normal people feel safe enough to buck The Narrative in public, rather than knuckle under to it and be gaslighted into thinking they're alone.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:41 AM (9UlRk)

176 173 Imagine all the people. Love grows where my Rosemary goes. Yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy. What if G-d was one of us? Just a stranger on the bus?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 17, 2023 08:40 AM (0FoWg)

; )

Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 08:42 AM (Dz9Qm)

177 "Rock stars are so profound your head just might explode if you even try to comprehend their pulsating megathoughts.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice"

The purpose of the music it to entertain and if it's goofy sounding and inane that doesn't really matter.

Posted by: fd at September 17, 2023 08:42 AM (vFG9F)

178 Beatles music wasn't "profound", but it was very catchy, very original, and fun to listen to. (only lyrics by Rush and a few others approach the "profound" status) I mean look at the lyrics for "Imagine", what a piece of shite that is. But McCartney had the gift of whipping out 2 or 3 fun, listenable pop tunes a day when he was on top of his game.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2023 08:43 AM (S6gqv)

179 I should add that the main purpose of inane pop music is to make money. Beyond that it doesn't really matter.

Posted by: fd at September 17, 2023 08:43 AM (vFG9F)

180
The costs associated with even a partial transition to renewables hasn't even been considered by most, not even understood either. But its coming.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 17, 2023 08:25 AM (ZLI7S)

The wind farm company/whale killing operation off the NJ coast is being subsidized at 30% by the Feds. They say it's not enough and are looking for more money or they're packing it in.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 17, 2023 08:43 AM (enJYY)

181 FD,

"So is FZ. I often wonder what his thoughts would be on the state of things."

I think about this all the time. How FZ's unique satire and humor got me through the 70's and 80's, he is sorely needed now.

I can't think of any public figures demise that has affected me more personally.

His quote on freedom seems even more precident.

Posted by: pawn at September 17, 2023 08:44 AM (wsHtO)

182 Dumb rock stars. What if the people who do the sports news let their fame go to their head and took it upon themselves to pontificate on the big heavy topics and expected us to take them seriously bec---- ahhhh, shit, nevermind.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:44 AM (9UlRk)

183 "Beatles music wasn't "profound", but it was very catchy, very original, and fun to listen to."

And it made a ton of money for us.

Posted by: Music Company Executives at September 17, 2023 08:44 AM (vFG9F)

184 She just might be the be biggest idiot in the biden cabinet. But they're all giving it their best shot.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 17, 2023 08:35 AM (dr4Q1)

Its moar of a marathon than a sprint.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 08:45 AM (BRHaw)

185 “Granholm during a congressional hearing confirmed the ordeal, which took place during the Biden administration official’s June electric vehicle promotion tour. She did not, however, take responsibility for the incident, instead blaming ‘somebody’ on her team for making a ‘mistake.'”

But no mention whatsoever of her investing millions into stock options into the company that her department was granting hundreds of millions of dollars to, just so she can Pump & Dump using tax payer money.

Want to know why America has failed? Because we worry about who said "pussy" or who had their minions act like it was Christmas shopping at a busy mall.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 17, 2023 08:45 AM (p8A+W)

186 "Share the land" by the Guess Who - catchy tune, lyrics straight out of Das Kapital by Marx.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2023 08:45 AM (S6gqv)

187 Oct 20 starts the US Grand Prix in Texas

Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2023 08:45 AM (fwDg9)

188 O.K. I am going to make a complaint and then I'm going to leave for church. The lovely stay at home companion/caregiver for our patriarch texted me to tell me that his daughter is picking him up to go to her house so he won't be at church today. The daughter lives five minutes away. Why couldn't she just bring him to church and then pick him up when it's over? He loves being at church, He was baptized there. He brought up all his children in the church. He gets to talk to some people who love and respect him. The family of our organist Jessie who lives about 20 minutes always arranges for her to come to church (They drive her with her nurse and pick her up later) if she feels up to it because it's important to her to be part of the fellowship. Arrrrrrgh!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 17, 2023 08:46 AM (RSbhh)

189 Share the land" by the Guess Who - catchy tune, lyrics straight out of Das Kapital by Marx.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2023 08:45 AM (S6gqv)

I thought that song was supposed to be sarcastic.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:46 AM (9UlRk)

190
Welcome back, my friends!

To the blog that never ends

We're so glad you could attend

Come inside! Come inside!

Posted by: naturalfake Salad Surgery at September 17, 2023 08:47 AM (QzZeQ)

191 Solar is useful in small systems. RVs can run a lot of gadgets on it. Wind can also be useful in small settings. It pumps water pretty well. But they don't scale up and are intermittent. Doomberg thinks big wind power is done. I hope so.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 17, 2023 08:47 AM (Ds/Wi)

192 The purpose of the music it to entertain and if it's goofy sounding and inane that doesn't really matter.
Posted by: fd at

True dat. I'm just wondering who would buy a book of interviews with these people. The most interesting thing you'll learn is probably about how one of these addled sybarites banged a zoo animal or something. I can't imagine Bob Dylan has much of note to say about much of anything. "Mr Tambourine Man! It's a sly reference to dope peddlers!"

Wow. Mind blown.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 17, 2023 08:47 AM (0FoWg)

193 182 Dumb rock stars. What if the people who do the sports news let their fame go to their head and took it upon themselves to pontificate on the big heavy topics and expected us to take them seriously bec---- ahhhh, shit, nevermind.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:44 AM (9UlRk)

Remember the end of Spinal Tap with the question could you live without the drugs, sex, and rock n roll and the answer was that he could live without the rock n roll.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 08:47 AM (BRHaw)

194 "I think about this all the time. How FZ's unique satire and humor got me through the 70's and 80's, he is sorely needed now."

"Brown Shoes" (1967) is about the same scum pedophile politicians we have now. It's been going on for a long time.

Posted by: fd at September 17, 2023 08:48 AM (vFG9F)

195 Imagine all the people. Love grows where my Rosemary goes. Yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy. What if G-d was one of us? Just a stranger on the bus?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 17, 2023 08:40 AM (0FoWg

Ever read the lyrics from Opera or German leider? They weren't masterpieces of literature either. The sugar pop from the late '60s and early '70s. It's pretty awful. I'm talking about a different group of music. You are never going to concede an inch that I might have a point here so I will just leave it with this. Hearing Pink Floyd play live is as good as going to hear a Beethoven symphony.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 08:48 AM (AHJdW)

196 But McCartney had the gift of whipping out 2 or 3 fun, listenable pop tunes a day when he was on top of his game.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Q - When did Paul write "Silly Love Songs"?

A - From the mid 60's until about 1995.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 17, 2023 08:49 AM (J47y1)

197 191 Solar is useful in small systems. RVs can run a lot of gadgets on it. Wind can also be useful in small settings. It pumps water pretty well. But they don't scale up and are intermittent. Doomberg thinks big wind power is done. I hope so.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 17, 2023 08:47 AM (Ds/Wi)

Wind used to pump water works great as you have water higher (gravity feed) and more plentiful. But to try to recapture that energy fails.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 08:49 AM (BRHaw)

198 Rock stars are so profound your head just might explode if you even try to comprehend their pulsating megathoughts.

"I am"... I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair

Deep.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 17, 2023 08:49 AM (I/Qkd)

199 200

Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 08:50 AM (Dz9Qm)

200 200!

Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 08:50 AM (Dz9Qm)

201 Hearing Pink Floyd play live is as good as going to hear a Beethoven symphony.

Depends on your taste in music.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 17, 2023 08:50 AM (RSbhh)

202 The wind farm company/whale killing operation off the NJ coast is being subsidized at 30% by the Feds. They say it's not enough and are looking for more money or they're packing it in.

Oh no! Anyway...

Posted by: Archimedes at September 17, 2023 08:51 AM (I/Qkd)

203 "Those are only the known costs."

Well the known costs at that point were enough to kill it.

Discovering even more costs seems like "Well we warned you but you didn't listen, except you snake oil salesmen out there than bet wisely on the stupidity of the public. "

Just like the unwanted phone solicitor problem, nothing will be done (by the "Government") until Musk or some other power broker suffers personally. Like their house burning down and their dog dying.

Posted by: pawn at September 17, 2023 08:51 AM (wsHtO)

204 187 Oct 20 starts the US Grand Prix in Texas
Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2023 08:45 AM (fwDg9)

22
OCT
Race

14:00 CDT

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 08:52 AM (BRHaw)

205 But McCartney had the gift of whipping out 2 or 3 fun, listenable pop tunes a day when he was on top of his game.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Q - When did Paul write "Silly Love Songs"?

A - From the mid 60's until about 1995.
Posted by: Tonypete

McCartney wrote a lot of trash post Beatles. Remarkably if you go hear him play live with his current band, which is fantastic, some of those songs played with a proper band are actually great stuff. Arrangements really matter. Paul McCartney live is one of the greatest musical things I've ever heard in my life. It's is stunning.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 08:52 AM (AHJdW)

206 Rhyming "masses" with "Masses" has yet to be surpassed in all of rockdom. That's some deep shit there.

Posted by: fd at September 17, 2023 08:52 AM (vFG9F)

207
"I am"... I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair

Oh, I heard you alright.

I heard on farting on me every damn night, you bastard!!!

Posted by: Neil Diamond's Laz-E-Boy Recliner at September 17, 2023 08:52 AM (QzZeQ)

208 199 200
Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 08:50 AM (Dz9Qm)

200 200!
Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 08:50 AM (Dz9Qm)

220 221 whatever it takes

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 08:52 AM (BRHaw)

209 189 Share the land" by the Guess Who - catchy tune, lyrics straight out of Das Kapital by Marx.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2023 08:45 AM (S6gqv)

I thought that song was supposed to be sarcastic.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2023 08:46 AM (9UlRk)

Nope, sadly there's not a hint of sarcasm in it, although there certainly should be. Because you're intelligent, you have a hard time believing that a whole lot of "creative" types really do believe that's all we have to do to make everything better.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2023 08:53 AM (S6gqv)

210 I never much liked opera, outside the Ring of the Nibelungs, which isn't a story Wagner wrote himself, obviously. And I prefer that with just instrumentals anyway. Never did get that stuff. I strongly prefer ballet. Maybe because Slav.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 17, 2023 08:53 AM (0FoWg)

211 220 221 whatever it takes
Posted by: rhennigantx

Beat me to it!

*Shakes fist in impotent rage*

Posted by: Tonypete at September 17, 2023 08:54 AM (J47y1)

212 I work in a new state office building, a little over a year old. The parking garage was planned with EV chargers on each floor, in the best spots next to handicapped parking. They never got them working and now they are pulling them out because of the danger of charging EV's in parking garages. I fully expect they won't allow EV parking IN the garages at some point...
**points and laughs**

Posted by: lin-duh at September 17, 2023 08:54 AM (UUBmN)

213 Imagine all the people. Love grows where my Rosemary goes. Yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy. What if G-d was one of us? Just a stranger on the bus?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice'

"Sex and violence, sex and violence, sex and violence"

Posted by: LenNeal at September 17, 2023 08:55 AM (43xH1)

214 Somehow think if Paul McCartney would have been born in 1730 we would still be hearing his music. Some talented people just shine through no matter when they are alive.

Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2023 08:55 AM (fwDg9)

215
Solar is useful in small systems. RVs can run a lot of gadgets on it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 17, 2023 08:47 AM

I now have a portable solar panel. It folds up neatly and doesn't take up a lot of room. Coupled with a great battery. If the power goes out, as it does frequently in my 'hood I can power my laptop and router, have the lights on, run some kitchen appliance, recharge cell phones, etc.

But the system was far from cheap. I just look at it as, "Am I willing to pay .50 cents a day for the next 10 years for some level of insurance against power outages?"

On a good day I can generate .40 cents of electricity, or two kilowatt hours. My average daily usage is about 20 times that.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 17, 2023 08:56 AM (enJYY)

216 Remember the end of Spinal Tap with the question could you live without the drugs, sex, and rock n roll and the answer was that he could live without the rock n roll.

It has been estimated that over twenty percent of the population doesn't have an Inner Monologue. That is, for a lot of their waking hours, nothing is going on in their head, and only when they are speaking does any real ideas get formed.

It may explain why so many MUST have music, videos or some other thing going on to fill the empty void that is within their own conscience.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 17, 2023 08:56 AM (p8A+W)

217 The purpose of the music it to entertain and if it's goofy sounding and inane that doesn't really matter.
Posted by: fd at

Born in Arizona
then he moved to Babylona
King Tut

Posted by: JT at September 17, 2023 08:57 AM (T4tVD)

218 214 Somehow think if Paul McCartney would have been born in 1730 we would still be hearing his music. Some talented people just shine through no matter when they are alive.
Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2023 08:55 AM

That so rerieving. World gonna enjoy my art for centuries to come!

Posted by: Yoko Ono at September 17, 2023 08:57 AM (JCZqz)

219 The facility I worked at in California put in solar powered parking lot lights. Green right?

The locals threw a huge bitch-fit over them. Why?

Light pollution.

They took them down after spending untold thousands on them in less than 6 months.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 17, 2023 08:57 AM (Q4IgG)

220 221 whatever it takes

Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 08:57 AM (Dz9Qm)

221 Share the land" by the Guess Who - catchy tune, lyrics straight out of Das Kapital by Marx.
Posted by: Tom Servo

So. I get you hate their politics and that's fine, but that doesn't mean they aren't extremely talented composers and musicians in a very modern forum. You can pick stuff like the Archies and use that to paint the whole periood as being one of the worst examples of music that ever existed but that's being disingenuous. You don't like it and that's perfectly great. I do and I'm not out to change your mind.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 08:58 AM (AHJdW)

222
Born in Arizona
then he moved to Babylona
King Tut

It's a perfectly serviceable earworm, so by that metric, it's great music.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 17, 2023 08:58 AM (I/Qkd)

223 you have to enjoy the human voice as a musical instrument to love opera. I'd say that Pavarotti doing Nessun Dorma is one of the greatest pieces of music I can think of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWc7vYjgnTs

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2023 08:59 AM (S6gqv)

224 It may explain why so many MUST have music, videos or some other thing going on to fill the empty void that is within their own conscience.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 17, 2023 08:56 AM (p8A+W)

Must be nice.

Posted by: Warai-otoko, whose dumbass brain won't shut up for two consecutive seconds at September 17, 2023 08:59 AM (9UlRk)

225 Don't start dissing The Archies.

Posted by: davidt at September 17, 2023 08:59 AM (SYTee)

226 Force people on to public transportation → bus drivers threaten strike

Almost exactly one hundred years ago, this was called the Traction Trust scandal, and was the prime driver of the conversion to private car ownership. Special trains were put on in cities with streetcar strikes to bring in any used cars to sell. The whole mythos of the crooked car salesman stems from this period. There's a chapter in Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" that's based on his experience as a newspaper reporter covering a traction strike.

We have chosen to ignore the lessons of our own history.
And -- we are loving it.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 17, 2023 08:59 AM (4PZHB)

227 That so rerieving. World gonna enjoy my art for centuries to come!
Posted by: Yoko Ono

For the win!

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 08:59 AM (AHJdW)

228 Based on this translation, countless academics and teachers have since interpreted Newton's first law of inertia to mean an object will continue moving in a straight line or remain at rest unless an outside force intervenes.

It's a description that works well until you appreciate external forces are constantly at work, something Newton would have surely have considered in his wording.

Revisiting the archives, Hoek realized this common paraphrasing featured a misinterpretation that flew under the radar until 1999, when two scholars picked up on the translation of one Latin word that had been overlooked: quatenus, which means "insofar", not unless.

So the scientism is settled.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2023 08:59 AM (BRHaw)

229 Got a condo made of stona.

Posted by: King Tut at September 17, 2023 09:00 AM (NBVIP)

230 > "Share the land" by the Guess Who - catchy tune, lyrics straight out of Das Kapital by Marx.

That one came out after Randy Bachman left. He is, and was, a devout Mormon and I doubt he'd have gone along with any commie shit like that.

> And I prefer that with just instrumentals anyway.

Heresy! How can you not like the traditional lyrics? "Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit..."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 17, 2023 09:00 AM (Y6AXb)

231 224 It may explain why so many MUST have music, videos or some other thing going on to fill the empty void that is within their own conscience.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 17, 2023 08:56 AM (p8A+W)

Must be nice.
Posted by: Warai-otoko, whose dumbass brain won't shut up for two consecutive seconds at September 17, 2023 08:59 AM (9UlRk)

Eh. I doubt it.

Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 09:00 AM (Dz9Qm)

232 BOOK THREAD NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2023 09:00 AM (fwDg9)

233 You don't like it and that's perfectly great. I do and I'm not out to change your mind.
Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 08:58 AM (AHJdW)

Thing is, I actually do kind of like the song, but I know the lyrics are marxist bullshit. Just like "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with" is a catchy song with a horrible message.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2023 09:01 AM (S6gqv)

234 > 227 That so rerieving. World gonna enjoy my art for centuries to come!
Posted by: Yoko Ono

One thing that brought a chuckle in the depths of the covid panic was a parody news story (maybe in the Babylon Bee) about Yoko volunteering to help make people stay indoors by singing in the street.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 17, 2023 09:01 AM (Y6AXb)

235 234 > 227 That so rerieving. World gonna enjoy my art for centuries to come!
Posted by: Yoko Ono

One thing that brought a chuckle in the depths of the covid panic was a parody news story (maybe in the Babylon Bee) about Yoko volunteering to help make people stay indoors by singing in the street.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 17, 2023 09:01 AM (Y6AXb)

LOL

Posted by: m at September 17, 2023 09:02 AM (Dz9Qm)

236 One thing that brought a chuckle in the depths of the covid panic was a parody news story (maybe in the Babylon Bee) about Yoko volunteering to help make people stay indoors by singing in the street.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Some of us come through the literature and some of us come for the backbeat. It's a matter of personal taste.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 17, 2023 09:04 AM (AHJdW)

237 Would be easier to be a joyful person if my cynicism weren't proven correct repeatedly. Still, I prefer being happy. The world is corrupt, and I am not in charge.

Posted by: OkJohn at September 17, 2023 09:06 AM (NC/it)

238 >>>Not sure it's corruption, but F-1 sure rakes money from the places they bring the show to.

Posted by: Skip

>Money laundering never sleeps.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 17, 2023 09:07 AM (KVGVf)

239 Lennon was a shallow, facile little airhead.

*******

Heh.

Aging rock stars => facile fools turning into dinosaurs

Good morning y'all!

Posted by: Muldoon at September 17, 2023 09:09 AM (l4B/J)

240 There is the mentality that oil and gas are finite
---
Propaganda and deliberate lies paid to be spread by John D Rockefeller.

He paid millions to make sure the "scientific concensus" was that oil came from dinosaurs.
Thus, cementing in the public mind that oil was perceived as limited to ensure the price stayed high (despite, even in his day, constant new massive discoveries).

An interesting fact. Especially when you consider oil comes from strata far, far deeper than the age of dinosaurs.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 17, 2023 09:13 AM (TzW+Y)

241 Some company wanted to build a big rig recharging station some where along the interstate in the mid west. They didn't get permission because the town said it would need all the electric generation just to power the truck charging station. Leaving the village with no power.
A big rig battery's (s) weight about 8000 pounds by the way.

Posted by: Colin at September 17, 2023 09:14 AM (bOfbg)

242 People know as much about OIL as they know about UFO/UAPs.

Stop trying to save the environment and stop being a dick!

Here's an idea, let's pretend we know something about electricity!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 17, 2023 09:22 AM (KVGVf)

243
Back from a constitutional with the lively and dynamic Mrs naturalfake.

Lessee what's upstairs.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 17, 2023 09:43 AM (QzZeQ)

244 oops.

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