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17 al sheifa hospital now being attacked. No gunfire yet in the room where premature babies are lying together for warmth ;but gunfire can be heard. Aljazzera

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at November 14, 2023 07:53 PM (Xk/JB)

18 Some funny videos tonight

Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2023 07:54 PM (fwDg9)

19 That dog runs faster than a cheetah.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 14, 2023 07:54 PM (NpAcC)

20 "What is with all these bears suddenly waving?"

It starts with waving, progresses to beckoning, ends in obscene gestures.

Posted by: gp Embraces The Suck at November 14, 2023 07:54 PM (MvF+J)

21 al sheifa hospital now being attacked. No gunfire yet in the room where premature babies are lying together for warmth ;but gunfire can be heard. Aljazzera
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at November 14, 2023 07:53 PM (Xk/JB)

It's real bitch raising those preemies up to slaughter weight.

Posted by: Hamas at November 14, 2023 07:55 PM (FkZCA)

22 Chinese researchers have reported the first live birth of a chimeric monkey, a significant breakthrough in primate research. This achievement opens new avenues in understanding stem cell pluripotency and has significant implications for genetic engineering and biomedical studies.

This is a long-sought goal in the field,” says senior author Zhen Liu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). “This research not only has implications for understanding naive pluripotency in other primates, including humans, but it also has relevant practical implications for genetic engineering and species conservation. Specifically, this work could help us to generate more precise monkey models for studying neurological diseases as well as for other biomedicine studies.

https://tinyurl.com/23zhdjpu

Yeah, why do I have the feeling the Chinese are looking for ways around their fertility problem?

Posted by: Archimedes at November 14, 2023 07:55 PM (I/Qkd)

23 Nice linkfest Ace. Thanks for the cafe. I'm a sucker for fall water shots, so love the top photo. Cheers, horde.

Posted by: TRex at November 14, 2023 07:55 PM (IQ6Gq)

24 Cafe! I'm here for the salacious content.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2023 07:55 PM (EfSHj)

25 Girl on 🛹 is a hottie

Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2023 07:56 PM (fwDg9)

26 You know, I can't carry this entire thread myself.
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Cicero shrugged.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 07:56 PM (krqg6)

27
Sat in B&N while Her Majesty was getting her nails done. The non-fiction books were mostly:

America sucks
White people suck
Men suck
World War II was won by women

But I did get two books by Frank Dikötter, one on the Chinese famine of 1958-59 and the other on the Great Cultural Revolution.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2023 07:56 PM (MoZTd)

28 🦘 honk 🦘 honk 🦘

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 07:56 PM (krqg6)

29 Specifically, this work could help us to generate more precise monkey models for studying neurological diseases as well as for other biomedicine studies.

Not to mention Victoria's Secret ads.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 14, 2023 07:56 PM (guGkK)

30 To Fast For Death did cheat the Grim Reaper

Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2023 07:57 PM (fwDg9)

31 America sucks
White people suck
Men suck
World War II was won by women

Have you not heard? The Tuskegee Airmen won the war single-handedly.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 14, 2023 07:57 PM (I/Qkd)

32 Bears aren't real.

Posted by: Bears aren't real at November 14, 2023 07:57 PM (vFG9F)

33 Kangaroo meat is supposed to be good eating. And it flips itself on the grill.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

A Hot Pocket.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 14, 2023 07:57 PM (R4t5M)

34 Favorite part of the No Hard Feelings movie is her adopting the dog and leaving with her at the end of the movie.

Okay that's not true. Boobs still beat adopted dog.

Posted by: Drive by at November 14, 2023 07:57 PM (KLWiP)

35 "What is with all these bears suddenly waving?"

It starts with waving, progresses to beckoning, ends in obscene gestures.
Posted by: gp Embraces The Suck at November 14, 2023 07:54 PM (MvF+J)

All y'all look like this Leonardo DiCaprio feller to us.

Posted by: The Bears at November 14, 2023 07:57 PM (4I/2K)

36 2 FUN FACT: Kangaroos are one of Nature's most comical animals.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 14, 2023 07:43 PM (guGkK)
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Until you get punched, smashed by the tail or disemboweled by the claws on the feet.

Posted by: Ciampino - Australia's fauna is lethal at November 14, 2023 07:58 PM (qfLjt)

37 Kangaroo meat is supposed to be good eating. And it flips itself on the grill.
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And a built-in pita pocket in the females.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 07:58 PM (krqg6)

38 Bears aren't real.

Can they fly in coach?

Posted by: Archimedes at November 14, 2023 07:58 PM (I/Qkd)

39 @16

>>Kangaroo meat is supposed to be good eating. And it flips itself on the grill.

Eating Kangaroo seems about as palatable as eating dog, cat or horse meat.

And monkey meat is right out, that seems too close to cannibalism to contemplate.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 14, 2023 08:01 PM (XV/Pl)

40 Okay that's not true. Boobs still beat adopted dog.
Posted by: Drive

The beach bit had to be the funniest nude scene I've ever seen.

Posted by: She Hobbit at November 14, 2023 08:01 PM (ftFVW)

41 What kind of asshole do you have to be to force a dog to watch soccer?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 14, 2023 08:02 PM (8AONa)

42 Better turn this off
Hope everyone has a great evening

Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2023 08:03 PM (fwDg9)

43 Willowed, but kind of on target

LOL.

YetiYeff @YetiYeff Nov 13
I DARE YOU to name a funnier person than Amy Schumer‼️
Posted by: andycanuck

My cat MegaRoy's dingle berries>>>>> ANY donk curious comedian>>>>>>>Amy Schumer

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 14, 2023 08:04 PM (iIHmn)

44 I always get the kangaroo sausage at I-Hop.

Posted by: Bears aren't real at November 14, 2023 08:04 PM (vFG9F)

45 30 To Fast For Death did cheat the Grim Reaper
Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2023 07:57 PM (fwDg9)
*******
A few minutes later they all died of a heart attack.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 14, 2023 08:04 PM (NpAcC)

46 And monkey meat is right out, that seems too close to cannibalism to contemplate.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 14, 2023 08:01 PM (XV/Pl)

So, not a fan of the Great Green Gobs song, then?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 14, 2023 08:05 PM (FkZCA)

47
Diana and Ruth are, at last, being moved out to the kennel. We set up a remote camera out there a few days ago and we can see they're getting along all right.

They'll come back up to the house for the night, but tomorrow they go out for good so we can get their pens up here broken down, the area cleaned up and things set up for Delilah's litter due Monday.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2023 08:07 PM (MoZTd)

48 And monkey meat is right out, that seems too close to cannibalism to contemplate.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 14, 2023 08:01 PM (XV/Pl)

...

Except apparently we taste pretty good so...second look at monkey meat?

Posted by: TexasDan at November 14, 2023 08:08 PM (z/ifB)

49 Litter already ? that was fast !

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

50 To Fast For Death did cheat the Grim Reaper
Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2023 07:57 PM (fwDg9)

...

The motorcycle maybe, the car not so much.

I still can't tell where the car came from--were they both racing?

Posted by: TexasDan at November 14, 2023 08:08 PM (z/ifB)

51 @46

>>So, not a fan of the Great Green Gobs song, then?

The person who wrote that song is clearly a maniac.

I mean gopher guts? really? REALLY?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 14, 2023 08:09 PM (XV/Pl)

52 Skateboard chick music video of olden times:

https://youtu.be/pPD8Ja64mRU?si=4cgIKEI3vhUIprWy

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 14, 2023 08:09 PM (gg7Jb)

53 Mrs. F says the cocaine belongs to Naomi Biden and that's why the Secret Service opened fire.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 14, 2023 08:10 PM (RIvkX)

54 Hadrian the Seventh

How many did the x-ray say were going to pop out?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 08:11 PM (u82oZ)

55 I was too busy checking out the golfer woman’s nice legs to notice the Roos.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 14, 2023 08:11 PM (LNdPf)

56
The TV tells me Jewish hate is up 388%. And black and Asian hate are up too! So it's all you white people. Again.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2023 08:11 PM (MoZTd)

57 Golf etiquette rule 15a(3):
Cobras are ALWAYS allowed to play thru.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 14, 2023 08:11 PM (uSHSS)

58 Mrs. F says the cocaine belongs to Naomi Biden and that's why the Secret Service opened fire.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 14, 2023 08:10 PM (RIvkX)

Naomi's stash was in the Suburban?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 14, 2023 08:11 PM (FkZCA)

59 @53

>>Mrs. F says the cocaine belongs to Naomi Biden and that's why the Secret Service opened fire.

Are you suggesting that Naomi Biden is the Secret Services Cocaine Connection?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 14, 2023 08:12 PM (XV/Pl)

60 I had a cat who used to climb the burlap walls. We called him Spider.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at November 14, 2023 08:12 PM (Mzdiz)

61 I want that tricksy desk!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 14, 2023 08:12 PM (/HDaX)

62 Very nice , I am a fan of waterfalls.
Posted by: runner

We do too!

There are almost 200 state-named waterfalls within an hour and 1/2 of our place. We will run out of days before we run out of falls to visit.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 14, 2023 08:12 PM (YmKky)

63 Hadrian, maybe you'll get to sleep in the bed

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 14, 2023 08:12 PM (RIvkX)

64
How many did the x-ray say were going to pop out?
Posted by: NaCly Dog

__________

X-ray is tomorrow morning.

Breeding a litter is like paying a huge amount of money to hit your thumb hard with a hammer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2023 08:13 PM (MoZTd)

65 I always get the kangaroo sausage at I-Hop.

Ate there yesterday. The sampler offered bacon, sausage, and ham. Three variations on one pig. But no 'roo. Do I have to ask for that ?

Posted by: Really ? at November 14, 2023 08:13 PM (5k0TE)

66 'Demonic' off-shore wind farms are blamed for New Jersey whale deaths: Former SNL star reveals 'green energy companies' are sending ultra-loud blasts into water every 10 seconds that make mammals think predators are chasing them.

https://mol.im/a/12727303

(How does a Wind farm?)

Posted by: Ciampino - How does a wind farm? at November 14, 2023 08:13 PM (qfLjt)

67 Are you suggesting that Naomi Biden is the Secret Services Cocaine Connection?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 14, 2023 08:12 PM (XV/Pl)

The shit apple from the shit tree, not far falls.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 14, 2023 08:14 PM (FkZCA)

68 So the van was at fault right? Illegal u-turn?

Posted by: Drive by at November 14, 2023 08:14 PM (KLWiP)

69 We do too!

There are almost 200 state-named waterfalls within an hour and 1/2 of our place. We will run out of days before we run out of falls to visit.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 14, 2023 08:12 PM (YmKky)

ever take a soak under them ??

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

70 Yeah, why do I have the feeling the Chinese are looking for ways around their fertility problem?
Posted by: Archimedes at November 14, 2023 07:55 PM (I/Qkd

Oh dear. Oh. Dear.

Posted by: Emmie at November 14, 2023 08:15 PM (Sf2cq)

71 Sat in B&N while Her Majesty was getting her nails done. The non-fiction books were mostly:

America sucks
White people suck
Men suck
World War II was won by women
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Do what I do when there to pass the time - place strips of bacon into Korans as bookmarks.

I'm a giver - it's true.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 14, 2023 08:15 PM (YmKky)

72 Man you could lose so much valuable stuff in a desk like that

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 14, 2023 08:15 PM (ou9hh)

73 Meh. The Smokey Mountains aren't so great.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 14, 2023 07:42 PM (guGkK)

We're not fans of Cicero either.

Posted by: The Smokey Mountains at November 14, 2023 08:16 PM (5k0TE)

74 Breeding a litter is like paying a huge amount of money to hit your thumb hard with a hammer.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2023 08:13 PM (MoZTd)

And poor Delilah didn't even get her ashes hauled.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 14, 2023 08:16 PM (FkZCA)

75 This achievement opens new avenues in understanding stem cell pluripotency and has significant implications for genetic engineering and biomedical studies.

Dear China, the zoonotic disease vectors you already have are more than sufficiently effective, you don't need to breed more.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 14, 2023 08:16 PM (ou9hh)

76 38 LOL

Posted by: gp Embraces The Suck at November 14, 2023 08:17 PM (MvF+J)

77 LOL.

Insider Corner @insiderscorner 6h
BREAKING: Ron DeSantis responds to a potential "DeSantis-Haley" or "Haley-DeSantis" ticket

"The only tickets that are in the future are with DeSantis at the top. I have no interest at being the number 2. Respectfully."

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 08:17 PM (krqg6)

78 55 I was too busy checking out the golfer woman’s nice legs to notice the Roos.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 14, 2023 08:11 PM (LNdPf)
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I have seen that clip several times and always have commented on the nice legs. I'd like to see more ...... maybe a wind gust?

Posted by: Ciampino - One can always hope at November 14, 2023 08:17 PM (qfLjt)

79 That reminds me of the brief time I had a pet mongoose. His name was Bitey.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 14, 2023 08:18 PM (b4o9z)

80 Where did Rikki Tikki Tavi go in that cobra vid? They are going to take away his mongoose card.

Posted by: Drive by at November 14, 2023 08:18 PM (KLWiP)

81 I think the "too fast for dead" video is fake. The white car (Bentley?) definitely runs the light and gets spun, but I think the motorcycle was added.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -The Clear Minded Nashville Tranny Shooter was not Deranged at November 14, 2023 08:18 PM (DxFDO)

82 WW2 blimp hangar 17 stories tall in Tustin CA still burning since last Tuesday, asbestos fountain.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at November 14, 2023 08:20 PM (N1cWR)

83 The book must be about chicken treats.

bluebell the hen was expecting more grasshoppers.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 14, 2023 08:20 PM (llON8)

84 mongoose

Used to have 2 taxidermy cobra vs mongoose.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at November 14, 2023 08:21 PM (N1cWR)

85 WW2 blimp hangar 17 stories tall in Tustin CA still burning since last Tuesday, asbestos fountain.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at November 14, 2023 08:20 PM (N1cWR)

Arson, I assume?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 14, 2023 08:21 PM (FkZCA)

86 TheIntelFrog @TheIntelFrog 7h
Late Monday night, a Coast Guard MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter air crew from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka crashed on Read Island, Alaska, during an active search and rescue mission. All crew are alive and are being treated for injuries. Local government agencies from Petersburg along with a second Coast Guard air crew from Air Station Sitka responded and arrived on scene to provide medical care. The Coast Guard will conduct an investigation into what caused the crash and will be forthcoming with information as it comes. A formal press release will follow this statement later in the morning.

US Coast Guard Alaska Facebook

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 08:22 PM (krqg6)

87 ever take a soak under them ??
Posted by: runner

Yes - at a few. The beauty of being in the south is, for most of them at least, the state allows swimming so, yeah - one can jump into the swimming hole at the bottom.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 14, 2023 08:23 PM (YmKky)

88 The Coast Guard will conduct an investigation into what caused the crash and will be forthcoming with information as it comes.

It was me. What did you expect ? I do what I do.

Posted by: Gravity at November 14, 2023 08:23 PM (5k0TE)

89 Breaking news from Gaza - a Palestinian source admits that Israeli troops having occupied the western 1/3 of Shifa Hospital. (The hospital covers several city blocks)

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 14, 2023 08:24 PM (S6gqv)

90 The rooster crowed
The hen ran around
She said if you want my frickasee
You got to run me down

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at November 14, 2023 08:24 PM (N1cWR)

91 They imported the mongoose into Hawaii to kill rats that had no natural predator on the islands. They don't kill rats that much, and they also have no natural predator so they are running all over the place, with the rats.

Another episode of central planning by the top men in the govt.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 14, 2023 08:25 PM (b4o9z)

92 57 Golf etiquette rule 15a(3):
Cobras are ALWAYS allowed to play thru.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 14, 2023 08:11 PM (uSHSS)
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In South Africa, and elsewhere in Africa, it was common practice to shake the flagpole or a club, in the hole before sticking a hand in there to retrieve the golf ball. Common venomous denizens were green mambas, black mambas and puff adders.

Posted by: Ciampino - Listen for the hissing at November 14, 2023 08:26 PM (qfLjt)

93 I think the "too fast for dead" video is fake. The white car (Bentley?) definitely runs the light and gets spun, but I think the motorcycle was added.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

Question for the informed Horde - A vid such as the woman on the skateboard - would vids like that one be among the most difficult to have AI create and render realistically? The dance moves I can imagine could be duped with medium skill but is that also true of her hair and movements of her dress?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 14, 2023 08:26 PM (YmKky)

94 Arson, I assume?

Probably. No water pipes on vacant base.
Freeway fire def bum arson.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at November 14, 2023 08:26 PM (N1cWR)

95 Jokerman Intel @JokermanIntel 54m
#BREAKING: Director of the Burn Department at Al-Shifa Hospital, Ahmed Mechelati, tells the media: "Anyone who tried to leave the hospital during the last few days was shot at by Hamas."

Jake Godin @JakeGodin 1h
IDF confirming a raid is in progress at Shifa Hospital in Gaza. UN has said there are still 600 patients, up to 500 staff, and 1500 displaced people inside.
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The Indian guy whose pro-Israel Xtweets I sometimes quote/link opines Hamas will massacre hospital residents and claim the IDF did it. I could see that as a real possibility.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 08:27 PM (krqg6)

96 85 Tustin hangars, Titans of History:
youtube.com/watch?v=QVA1fQ4rNzM

Posted by: gp Embraces The Suck at November 14, 2023 08:27 PM (MvF+J)

97 Lissome lass on the skateboard, and talented too.

Posted by: javems at November 14, 2023 08:28 PM (8I4hW)

98 Do what I do when there to pass the time - place strips of bacon into Korans as bookmarks.

I'm a giver - it's true.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 14, 2023 08:15 PM (YmKky)

I reshelve Obama autobiographies in the Fiction section.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 14, 2023 08:28 PM (PiwSw)

99 The only tickets that are in the future are with DeSantis at the top. I have no interest at being the number 2.

-

[ ] team up with the wildly popular frontrunner in an attempt to set up a miracle that can overcome the election fraud in the hopes of saving the country in 2024

[ x ] not be president

Posted by: Moron Robbie -The Clear Minded Nashville Tranny Shooter was not Deranged at November 14, 2023 08:29 PM (DxFDO)

100 There are almost 200 state-named waterfalls within an hour and 1/2 of our place. We will run out of days before we run out of falls to visit.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 14, 2023 08:12 PM (YmKky)

There are really only four but they keep changing the signs between visits.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 14, 2023 08:30 PM (eoQWY)

101 The Obama autobiography was ghost written by another person. Shouldn't it just be a biography?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 14, 2023 08:31 PM (b4o9z)

102 Update: Fulton County GA’s High Priced Criminal Defense Lawyers See Writing On Wall, Hit The Silk

These 150,000 still secret 2020 unfolded mail ballots with the perfect ovals protected by court order for 3 years may have gone missing, and the county’s lawyers have just quit.

TEST BALLOTS

HA

I told you all!

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 14, 2023 08:32 PM (lwOKI)

103 New maps here:

War Mapper @War_Mapper
#Gaza map update

The #IDF have commenced an operation within part of the Shifa hospital after completing an encirclement of the building complex.

#Israel have also secured the Al Shati camp, therefore linking their northern and southern advances.
https://tinyurl.com/mwvk5y7r

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 08:32 PM (krqg6)

104 I just found out that Tesla has a lithium plant in Corpus Christi, TX.

Posted by: Drive by at November 14, 2023 08:33 PM (KLWiP)

105 What is with all these bears suddenly waving? Is no one else freaked out by this? Do I have to fund a study myself?

I think he was trying to do the Vulcan salute, but was lacking fingers.

Posted by: mikeski at November 14, 2023 08:34 PM (DgGvY)

106 Cripple Negro Santa ADA Suits Coming

https://tinyurl.com/5ajccwux

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 14, 2023 08:34 PM (lwOKI)

107 Cripple Negro Santa ADA Suits Coming

https://tinyurl.com/5ajccwux
Posted by: rhennigantx

Not sure if Cripple Santa is a bad as a Pride Nutcracker.

The jokes write themselves.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 14, 2023 08:36 PM (YmKky)

108 101 The Obama autobiography was ghost written by another person. Shouldn't it just be a biography?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 14, 2023 08:31 PM (b4o9z)

What his name

Ayers

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 14, 2023 08:37 PM (lwOKI)

109 @71

>>Sat in B&N while Her Majesty was getting her nails done. The non-fiction books were mostly:America sucks
White people suck

I was at the Jeep dealer today to get a recall done, don't get me started about the fight for them to preform it with all of the mods on the vehicle, I'm in the waiting room, they have NBC on the tv and literally every segment is about diversity bullshit.

A segment on prioritizing black womens health over everyone else's health because racism.

Seriously, what if you are an Asian women or a black man and you have an issue that is more urgent than a black women's issue, you go to the back of the line??

Next segment was on black female orchestra conductors and how they are lifting up the voices of the unheard and unseen.

If these people are going to continue to force everyone to perceive things through a racial lens, then everyone is going perceive things through a racial lens and they are not going to like what comes of that.

Or alternatively...

Black people are in for a very rude awakening when the US becomes an Hispano-Asian majority country.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 14, 2023 08:37 PM (XV/Pl)

110 The #IDF have commenced an operation within part of the Shifa hospital after completing an encirclement of the building complex.

#Israel have also secured the Al Shati camp, therefore linking their northern and southern advances.
https://tinyurl.com/mwvk5y7r
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 08:32 PM (krqg6)

And another force of dudes waving AKs learn that war is a serious business.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 14, 2023 08:38 PM (eoQWY)

111 The rooster crowed
The hen ran around
She said if you want my frickasee
You got to run me down
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𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever Nov 13
Chicken runs to the car to greet owner arriving home everyday..🐔😍
https://tinyurl.com/yuj7dfdp
15 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 08:38 PM (krqg6)

112 89 Breaking news from Gaza - a Palestinian source admits that Israeli troops having occupied the western 1/3 of Shifa Hospital. (The hospital covers several city blocks)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 14, 2023 08:24 PM (S6gqv)

St Elsewhere

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 14, 2023 08:38 PM (lwOKI)

113 Willowed

2024 will be an extraordinary election, and it demands extraordinary measures."

This will be lit AF.
Posted by: gp Embraces

Bruh.

2020 will look like a fairly moderated bingo session.

You will literally question what country you're in. And likely beg the UN to intervene.

Posted by: 2024 at November 14, 2023 08:38 PM (yUu6q)

114 "These 150,000 still secret 2020 unfolded mail ballots with the perfect ovals protected by court order for 3 years may have gone missing, and the county’s lawyers have just quit"

What difference does it make at this point?

Posted by: Bears aren't real at November 14, 2023 08:39 PM (vFG9F)

115 Another episode of central planning by the top men in the govt.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 14, 2023 08:25 PM (b4o9z)

Now do nutrea

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 14, 2023 08:39 PM (lwOKI)

116 Tom Servo, is Gantz the head honcho of the military?

Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2023 08:39 PM (EfSHj)

117 Black people are in for a very rude awakening when the US becomes an Hispano-Asian majority country.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 14, 2023 08:37 PM (XV/Pl)

Not going to be many for long. Most of the men are marrying overseas, or white, Asian women. Modern women are bad enough but the Black women are running at 11.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 14, 2023 08:40 PM (eoQWY)

118 Tonypete re: bacon/Koran comment: Wine all over my monitor!

Posted by: Wenda at November 14, 2023 08:40 PM (1MfV9)

119 I think he was trying to do the Vulcan salute, but was lacking fingers.
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🖖 🐻

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 08:40 PM (krqg6)

120 Black people are in for a very rude awakening when the US becomes an Hispano-Asian majority country.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 14, 2023 08:37 PM (XV/Pl)

fourth or fifth in Cali depending on how you count.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 14, 2023 08:41 PM (lwOKI)

121 "Nikki Haley approved" ruling...

Appeals court rules carmakers can store data permanently & share it
tinyurl.com/mstfd4vt
The case alleged that since at least 2014, Ford's infotainment systems had been permanently storing data such as call logs & SMS messages found on any phone plugged into the vehicle via USB, & keeping those messages on internal vehicle memory. Third-party company called Berla develops software & hardware known as the iVE Ecosystem is able to access those messages, & Berla can "pass the acquired communication to law enforcement, civil agencies, military, regulatory agencies, & selected private organizations."
Ford argued that "Washington courts have repeatedly held that those who send electronic communications, such as emails & text messages, understand these messages will be preserved in multiple forms & thus impliedly consent to the recording of such messages."
The Court of Appeals dismissed the Ford case on appeal. This month, the panel dismissed the cases against Honda & the other automakers. All rulings followed the same reasoning: The Washington Privacy Act requires "an injury to 'his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation.'"

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at November 14, 2023 08:42 PM (9aVck)

122 I no longer eat or drink while reading Horde comments.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at November 14, 2023 08:42 PM (as3uC)

123 What difference does it make at this point?
Posted by: Bears aren't real at November 14, 2023 08:39 PM (vFG9F)

Stuff it up every stolen election jerks ass

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 14, 2023 08:42 PM (lwOKI)

124
Black people are in for a very rude awakening when the US becomes an Hispano-Asian majority country.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

_________

Abortion was foisted on blacks by white racists in order to wipe them out. Sounds like a good rumor to start

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2023 08:44 PM (MoZTd)

125 Not sure if Cripple Santa is a bad as a Pride Nutcracker.

The jokes write themselves.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 14, 2023 08:36 PM (YmKky)

gay black tran or crip

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 14, 2023 08:44 PM (lwOKI)

126 Used to win quite a bit on the greyhounds when I was young and reckless.
Greyhound racing, sport of the untitled nobility!

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at November 14, 2023 08:44 PM (BJgzI)

127 Abortion was foisted on blacks by white racists in order to wipe them out. Sounds like a good rumor to start
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

It's not a rumor.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 14, 2023 08:45 PM (X98Jy)

128 For tomorrow's EMT I'm guessing...

Rep. Haley Stevens @RepHaleyStevens 54m
It is outrageous so many Michiganders who flew to DC to attend the March for Israel were denied bus service from the airport because of their support of the Jewish homeland. This is a shameful and unwarranted attack on speech during a critical time.
detroitnews.com/story/news/l…

Hundreds of Metro Detroit Jews stranded at D.C. airport by 'malicious' bus drivers
Jewish Federation officials say a "malicious walk-off" by some bus drivers prevented some Detroit area Jews from attending the "March for Israel."
detroitnews.com

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 08:46 PM (krqg6)

129
What difference does it make at this point?
Posted by: Bears aren't real at November 14, 2023 08:39 PM (vFG9F)

_________

Next up: Yeah, we did it and we'll do it again if we want. What are you going to do about it?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2023 08:46 PM (MoZTd)

130 Abortion was foisted on blacks by white racists in order to wipe them out. Sounds like a good rumor to start
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2023 08:44 PM (MoZTd)

no more of those we dont want

Posted by: Notorious RBG at November 14, 2023 08:46 PM (lwOKI)

131 Abortion was foisted on blacks by white racists in order to wipe them out. Sounds like a good rumor to start.
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And DDT was saving too many lives in Africa.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 08:47 PM (krqg6)

132 126 Used to win quite a bit on the greyhounds when I was young and reckless.
Greyhound racing, sport of the untitled nobility!
Posted by: jimmymcnulty at November 14, 2023 08:44 PM (BJgzI)

bet on the dog that takes the biggest dump

Posted by: Notorious RBG at November 14, 2023 08:47 PM (lwOKI)

133 Abortion was foisted on blacks by white racists in order to wipe them out. Sounds like a good rumor to start
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

It's not a rumor.
Posted by: rickb223

One or the other of you forgot your Margaret Sanger sock.

Posted by: mikeski at November 14, 2023 08:47 PM (DgGvY)

134 Bears aren't real.
Posted by: Bears aren't real at November 14, 2023 07:57 PM (vFG9F)

***

Really?

Posted by: Timothy Treadwell at November 14, 2023 08:47 PM (Rizke)

135 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 14, 2023 08:47 PM (lwOKI)

136 @124

>>Abortion was foisted on blacks by white racists in order to wipe them out. Sounds like a good rumor to start

This is not a rumor, this is the stated goal of the eugenicists like Margaret Sanger.

Sadly, the parties switched before the message could get out.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 14, 2023 08:47 PM (XV/Pl)

137 One or the other of you forgot your Margaret Sanger sock.
Posted by: mikeski at November 14, 2023 08:47 PM (DgGvY)

I did rbg

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 14, 2023 08:48 PM (lwOKI)

138 Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la 1h
Egypt will take the 36 premature babies in the Al-Shifa hospital into custody using IDF-provided incubators. They will be provided with medical care on Egyptian territory. This deal was reached in talks between the head of the Shin Beit and Egyptian officials yesterday.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 08:49 PM (krqg6)

139 The Washington Privacy Act requires "an injury to 'his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation.'"
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe

As if it could be proven that the Berla was the cause of injury.

Bastids

Posted by: Tonypete at November 14, 2023 08:50 PM (YmKky)

140 European Jewish Congress @eurojewcong 9h
"The accusations being made against Israel are absurd."

German Chancellor @Bundeskanzler says Israel is acting in accordance with international law in defending itself against Hamas.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 08:51 PM (krqg6)

141
'E's pinin' for the fjords.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at November 14, 2023 08:53 PM (Rbu5d)

142 great , the premature gaza babies now will have a chance to grow up to be jew haters and terrorists, like their parents !

Posted by: runner at November 14, 2023 08:53 PM (V13WU)

143 European Jewish Congress @eurojewcong 9h
"The accusations being made against Israel are absurd."

German Chancellor @Bundeskanzler says Israel is acting in accordance with international law in defending itself against Hamas.
Posted by: andycanuck

There is no international law that covers killing terrorists.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 14, 2023 08:53 PM (X98Jy)

144 great , the premature gaza babies now will have a chance to grow up to be jew haters and terrorists, like their parents !
Posted by: runner at November 14, 2023 08:53 PM (V13WU)

Or like the son of one of the Hamas founders.

Posted by: Drive by at November 14, 2023 08:54 PM (KLWiP)

145 They are openly stating they view the 24 election as an existential threat.

But they certainly wouldn't cheat.

Posted by: I've got bad news for you at November 14, 2023 08:55 PM (yUu6q)

146 #140 addendum: Eylon Levy @EylonALevy 1h
Hamas’ abuse of the Shifa Hospital for military purposes, after repeated Israeli warnings to stop and efforts to evacuate civilians, has nullified its protected status under international law.

Hamas terrorists operating from the Shifa Hospital must surrender immediately.

We didn’t write the rules.

If you think a terror headquarters should receive blanket immunity because it was built under a hospital, write a new Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions. For now, we’ll go by customary law as reflected in this one.

https://tinyurl.com/4zv7cduc
Article 13 screenshot

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 08:55 PM (krqg6)

147 It is outrageous so many Michiganders who flew to DC to attend the March for Israel were denied bus service from the airport because of their support of the Jewish homeland. This is a shameful and unwarranted attack on speech during a critical time.

===

And a gross violation of Federal law.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 14, 2023 08:56 PM (RIvkX)

148 But I did get two books by Frank Dikötter, one on the Chinese famine of 1958-59 and the other on the Great Cultural Revolution.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2023 07:56 PM (MoZTd)

I have heard Dikotter speak on podcasts, he is a very compelling speaker, and had the benefit of being able to go through communist party archives during their brief "Openness" phase.
The famine was caused by collectivization and the great leap forward, the cultural revolution was caused by the urban intelligentsia feeling the pinch of collapsing economy and starting to blame Mao and the Party.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 14, 2023 08:58 PM (D7oie)

149 Riki Tiki Tavi

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at November 14, 2023 08:58 PM (Rbu5d)

150 Benjamin Netanyahu @netanyahu
@JustinTrudeau
It is not Israel that is deliberately targeting civilians but Hamas that beheaded, burned and massacred civilians in the worst horrors perpetrated on Jews since the Holocaust.

While Israel is doing everything to keep civilians out of harm’s way, Hamas is doing everything to keep them in harm’s way.

Israel provides civilians in Gaza humanitarian corridors and safe zones, Hamas prevents them from leaving at gunpoint.

It is Hamas not Israel that should be held accountable for committing a double war crime - targeting civilians while hiding behind civilians.

The forces of civilization must back Israel in defeating Hamas barbarism.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 08:59 PM (krqg6)

151 Those water falls are needed on the volcanoes.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at November 14, 2023 09:00 PM (Rbu5d)

152 It's a big step for Chancellor Bundeskanzler to say that in public.
That support not only ruffles some feathers here but causes their indians to be restless.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 14, 2023 09:00 PM (Tw76q)

153 The famine was caused by collectivization and the great leap forward, the cultural revolution was caused by the urban intelligentsia feeling the pinch of collapsing economy and starting to blame Mao and the Party.
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And killing all the sparrows because they eat grain, ignoring that sparrows eat locusts that eat alot more grain than the sparrows ever did!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 09:01 PM (krqg6)

154
The famine was caused by collectivization and the great leap forward, the cultural revolution was caused by the urban intelligentsia feeling the pinch of collapsing economy and starting to blame Mao and the Party.
Posted by: Kindltot

__________

I've seen it stated that China was in worse shape when Mao died than when he took power in 1949.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2023 09:01 PM (MoZTd)

155 Or like the son of one of the Hamas founders.
Posted by: Drive by at November 14, 2023 08:54 PM (KLWiP)

you trust him do you...

Posted by: runner at November 14, 2023 09:02 PM (V13WU)

156
It was me. What did you expect ? I do what I do.
Posted by: Gravity

Don't bring me down, Bruce.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 14, 2023 09:04 PM (63Dwl)

157 Posted by: Notorious RBG at November 14, 2023 08:46 PM (lwOKI)

For what it's worth (very little) that was NOT me.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 14, 2023 09:04 PM (V8he0)

158 There is no international law that covers killing terrorists.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 14, 2023 08:53 PM (X98Jy)

International law, huh? Does it trump Sharia Law?

Does the Koran and the Hadith prohibit raping and slaughtering men, women, children, and infants in the House of War, without giving them opportunity to submit to Allah, or pay jizya? Was Hamas obeying Sharia Law on October 7th? Over to you, Pali supporters.

Posted by: Gref at November 14, 2023 09:05 PM (5fDan)

159 Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin

Posted by: Braenyard at November 14, 2023 09:09 PM (Tw76q)

160 In 158, I Should have written - Does the Koran and the Hadith ALLOW raping...

Posted by: Gref at November 14, 2023 09:09 PM (5fDan)

161 I am beginning to think that Green Helmet Guy is dead.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 14, 2023 09:10 PM (Rizke)

162 I am beginning to think that Green Helmet Guy is dead.

The teddy bear got revenge.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 14, 2023 09:12 PM (OKzJV)

163 Gref

The International Law of land Conflict explicitly states that uninformed combatants (non-state actors) can be shot out of hand. No long trials needed.

The 1870 Franco-Prussian War was the impetus for this. The Paris Commune people were harshly treated by the winning French Army.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:13 PM (u82oZ)

164 Andy Canuck

Not only the Geneva Conventions but the Hague Conventions on what constitutes removal of protected status.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 14, 2023 09:14 PM (OKzJV)

165 Hadrian the Seventh

The book Workers’ Paradise Lost: Fifty Years of Soviet Communism by Eugene Lyons explicitly states this for Russia. The Tsar, as weak as he was, had better policy than the Commies, esp. those sociopaths Lenin and Stalin.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:16 PM (u82oZ)

166 Law of Armed Conflict - LOAC

Combatants captured on the field of battle while not wearing any recognized uniform are to treated as spies, subject to summary execution.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 14, 2023 09:18 PM (OKzJV)

167 I am beginning to think that Green Helmet Guy is dead.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report

Gazoo??? Nooooooo!!!!!

Posted by: SFGoth at November 14, 2023 09:19 PM (KAi1n)

168 *blinks*

"are to be treated as spies"

Proofreading ?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 14, 2023 09:20 PM (OKzJV)

169 Anna Puma

How is the writing coming along? Any of your new books I can buy? I already have Golden Isis.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:20 PM (u82oZ)

170 Gazoo was completely green...

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 14, 2023 09:20 PM (OKzJV)

171
The book Workers’ Paradise Lost: Fifty Years of Soviet Communism by Eugene Lyons explicitly states this for Russia. The Tsar, as weak as he was, had better policy than the Commies, esp. those sociopaths Lenin and Stalin.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

__________

I have a copy on my Russia shelf. The Left keeps telling us that Russia was some primitive backwater before 1918, but it's just another of their lies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2023 09:21 PM (MoZTd)

172 Law of Armed Conflict - LOAC

Combatants captured on the field of battle while not wearing any recognized uniform are to treated as spies, subject to summary execution.
Posted by: Anna Puma

I'm good with that.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 14, 2023 09:21 PM (X98Jy)

173 Anna Puma

Thanks for the correction. We agree on the substance.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:21 PM (u82oZ)

174 Hadrian the Seventh
*fist bump*

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:22 PM (u82oZ)

175 And killing all the sparrows because they eat grain, ignoring that sparrows eat locusts that eat alot more grain than the sparrows ever did!
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 09:01 PM (krqg6)

Diverting all usual business to doing crappy uneducated iron founding in backyards, and taking all the crops from the farmers as well as directing them to do incredibly destructive crop techniques, and then being unable to distribute the harvest due to limitations of the transportation net so it rotted on sidetracks was bad. Executing starving villagers for trying to glean grain from harvested fields was worse.
The food had to be taken to the cities because that is where the supporters of the party and the soldiers lived, and when they started feeling the pinch and complained, the cultural revolution was started

Posted by: Kindltot at November 14, 2023 09:23 PM (D7oie)

176 In 6th grade - in public school in Fairfax Co., Va - we studied the USSR and Mao. Made a lasting impression on me.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 14, 2023 09:23 PM (KAi1n)

177 163 Gref

The International Law of land Conflict explicitly states that uninformed combatants (non-state actors) can be shot out of hand. No long trials needed.

The 1870 Franco-Prussian War was the impetus for this. The Paris Commune people were harshly treated by the winning French Army.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:13 PM (u82oZ)

Thanks, Salty. I've forgotten - Did the French Army put down the commune before or after the Prussians besieged Paris and won the Franco-Prussian War? It's been a while since I've read about the later stages of the Franco-Prussian War; I need to brush-up on this.

Posted by: Gref at November 14, 2023 09:23 PM (5fDan)

178 The Great Leap Forward started the famine, and because the party could not be wrong, they blamed the Chinese for having too many children, and began the one child program. Just about everything wrong with china today could be blamed on Mao for making it worse.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 14, 2023 09:24 PM (D7oie)

179 Smokies. I love it there. I want to go there right now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 14, 2023 09:25 PM (g+qKi)

180 The book Workers’ Paradise Lost: Fifty Years of Soviet Communism by Eugene Lyons explicitly states this for Russia. The Tsar, as weak as he was, had better policy than the Commies,

==

nonsense. both were bad; Russia was a rotting corpse under the Tsar, the February Revolution was supported by all layer of society. unfortunately it went sideway when the Bolsheviks took over

Posted by: runner at November 14, 2023 09:25 PM (V13WU)

181 Woah, I just noticed something. Hope I don't jinx myself, but the ads I'm getting on this page are no longer toenail fungus and skin tags! Yay! Much less icky stuff now. Elon Musk, for instance, is not super-photogenic, but at least it's not painful to look at him (selling space heaters(???)).

Posted by: Emmie at November 14, 2023 09:25 PM (Sf2cq)

182 and then the October Revolution, and then ... well we know what happened then

Posted by: runner at November 14, 2023 09:26 PM (V13WU)

183 Salty Dawg

I should be writing. 63K words and still need to finish first draft.

Working on models. And resisting doing a deep dive into Operation Frantic to see if the Bloody 100th ever participated and if so if the Tuskegee Airman in Italy every participated. But the chances of this are slim since the 8th AF Bomber Command took 8th Air Force Fighter Command escorts with them on those Frantic missions that went from England to Russia to Italy and finally back to England.

One of these 8th AF Fighter Command escort pilots was Kid Hoffman of the 4th FG. He was killed in a dogfight over Yugoslavia. His Mustang was named "Salem Representative."

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 14, 2023 09:26 PM (OKzJV)

184 Elon Musk, for instance, is not super-photogenic, but at least it's not painful to look at him (selling space heaters(???)).
Posted by: Emmie at November 14, 2023 09:25 PM (Sf2cq)

Well, space is cold, alright, but I don't know if heaters would help.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 14, 2023 09:27 PM (FkZCA)

185 Not only does a terrorist tunnel appear to lead from a Hamas terrorist's house to the Rantisi hospital, they are also right next to a school and a
@UN building.

and a baby milk factory
and a dingo farm
and a child care facility

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 14, 2023 09:27 PM (lwOKI)

186 I highly recommend "Ivan's War" which you can download. Great read about the Red army, not so much battle stuff (though there's a bit) but more about life in the army. Lots of organizational stuff and background on larger political issues.

https://archive.org/details/ivanswarlifedeat00merr_0

Posted by: SFGoth at November 14, 2023 09:28 PM (KAi1n)

187 Just about everything wrong with china today could be blamed on Mao for making it worse.
Posted by: Kindltot

If the true history of the American Experiment is ever written, at whose feet will the main fault of the collapse lay?

Carter, O'Bummer, FDR or some other Dem?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 14, 2023 09:28 PM (YmKky)

188 Gref

Afterwards.

I need to read Alistair Horne's book The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870–1871, to really understand. He is a perceptive and skilled author. His To Lose a Battle: France 1940 is very illuminating.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:28 PM (u82oZ)

189 live reporting from Shifa hospital (unverified from BBC , so grain of salt)

"I saw six tanks inside the hospital and more than a hundred commandos soldiers, they entered the main emergency department, some of the soldiers were masked and screamed in Arabic 'don’t move don’t move'."

Posted by: runner at November 14, 2023 09:29 PM (V13WU)

190 That Photoshop of Elon Musk with the heater, the gadget is called a Heat Pal. Get the feeling it is all a scam.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 14, 2023 09:30 PM (OKzJV)

191 Elon Musk, for instance, is not super-photogenic, but at least it's not painful to look at him (selling space heaters(???)).
Posted by: Emmie at November 14, 2023 09:25 PM (Sf2cq)

Well, space is cold, alright, but I don't know if heaters would help.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Gonna need a long assed extension cord.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 14, 2023 09:30 PM (X98Jy)

192 Speaking of ads, what's with the bra invented by a grandma? It looks like a harness, if not armor. I see no redeeming characteristics. What am I missing?

Posted by: Wenda at November 14, 2023 09:30 PM (1MfV9)

193 If you take any excess of the later Czars or their Okhrana, they don't even rank compared to what Lenin did after he toppled them, and that doesn't stack up to what his bankrobbing protege did.

Hell... Peter and Catherine were more moderate than the Soviets. They were utterly savage, even by the low standards of my SMR peeps.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 14, 2023 09:30 PM (g+qKi)

194 how did so much spectacular scenery get concentrated in one small country like Iceland?

I would like to visit there, provided it doesn't blow up first

Posted by: DB - can you dig my groove at November 14, 2023 09:30 PM (geLO8)

195 live reporting from Shifa hospital (unverified from BBC , so grain of salt)

"I saw six tanks inside the hospital and more than a hundred commandos soldiers, they entered the main emergency department, some of the soldiers were masked and screamed in Arabic 'don’t move don’t move'."

Posted by: runner

How do you get a tank inside a hospital?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 14, 2023 09:30 PM (X98Jy)

196 what an incredibly tough operation

Posted by: runner at November 14, 2023 09:31 PM (V13WU)

197 nonsense. both were bad; Russia was a rotting corpse under the Tsar, the February Revolution was supported by all layer of society. unfortunately it went sideway when the Bolsheviks took over
Posted by: runner

Agree. The *premise* of communism was a lot better than life under the tsars. That was an absolutely fucked-up society. As literate as Russians *could* be, the vast majority were illiterate, superstitious, and unskilled in most anything above subsistence, by design. As implemented, communism was a disaster, but it did improve the lot of many Russians.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 14, 2023 09:31 PM (KAi1n)

198 Kathy Hochul announces ‘social media surveillance state.

Nikki Haley says she would force people to use their real names on social media if elected as president

Them bitches really love government

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 14, 2023 09:31 PM (lwOKI)

199 How do you get a tank inside a hospital?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 14, 2023 09:30 PM (X98Jy)

I was hoping they just punched right through ....

Posted by: runner at November 14, 2023 09:31 PM (V13WU)

200 Tanks in a hospital?

*goes back to watch Dominion Tank Police OAVs*

Yep, already did that. The Newport City Tank Police and us really brought that VAP hospital down. But it was really fun.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 14, 2023 09:32 PM (OKzJV)

201 "I saw six tanks inside the hospital and..."

Probably a hospital complex/campus.

Posted by: davidt at November 14, 2023 09:32 PM (SYTee)

202 188 Gref

Afterwards.

I need to read Alistair Horne's book The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870–1871, to really understand. He is a perceptive and skilled author. His To Lose a Battle: France 1940 is very illuminating.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:28 PM (u82oZ)

Same here. I have all three of Horne's books about the French Army - The Fall of Paris, To Lose a Battle, and the one about the 1916 Verdun Battle (can't recall the title). All are excellent. If I can find my copy of the Fall of Paris I'll re-read it.

Posted by: Gref at November 14, 2023 09:32 PM (5fDan)

203 122 I no longer eat or drink while reading Horde comments.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at November 14, 2023 08:42 PM (as3uC)

This is wisdom.

Posted by: Emmie at November 14, 2023 09:33 PM (Sf2cq)

204 How do you get a tank inside a hospital?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 14, 2023 09:30 PM (X98Jy)

I shot an elephant in my pajamas

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 14, 2023 09:33 PM (lwOKI)

205 The saddest thing is that Russian culture was vibrant before the revolution, and they had a chance to become a truly great nation as they developed. But thanks to Lenin, the Russian nation committed suicide. They had so much inertia that they stumbled on like some great zombie for a century. And now the once great culture is dead.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 14, 2023 09:33 PM (azIeo)

206 >>> 111

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𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever Nov 13
Chicken runs to the car to greet owner arriving home everyday..🐔😍
https://tinyurl.com/yuj7dfdp
15 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 08:38 PM (krqg6)

That's a little silkie, they are usually more friendly, but that's impressive.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 14, 2023 09:34 PM (llON8)

207 SFGoth

I echo your recommendation. Ivan's War is very informative. I got a copy from the public library. Not even ILL.

I guess the Manhattan (KS) City Library likes works on Communism. They sell off and put in recycling bins books on history that does not extol Communism. I retrieved a few when I was dumping off recycling. Even got the SHAEF After Action Report on WWII from Normandy on. Beautiful book.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:35 PM (u82oZ)

208 Shifa covers several city blocks, with some streets inside it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 14, 2023 09:35 PM (azIeo)

209 The saddest thing?

The Germans thought it was a great idea to ship Lenin back to Russia with some gold.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 14, 2023 09:36 PM (OKzJV)

210
Kathy Hochul announces ‘social media surveillance state.

Nikki Haley says she would force people to use their real names on social media if elected as president

Them bitches really love government
Posted by: rhennigantx

Mother Knows Best

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 14, 2023 09:36 PM (63Dwl)

211 That Photoshop of Elon Musk with the heater, the gadget is called a Heat Pal. Get the feeling it is all a scam.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 14, 2023 09:30 PM (OKzJV)

Apparently the Heat Pal exists. It is just a little 500 Watt "ceramic" fan heater, with claims of great efficiency. Well, all resistance heaters are darned near 100% efficient. Grandma's old bowl heater with the porcelain cone wrapped with a Nichrome coil was equally efficient.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 14, 2023 09:36 PM (FkZCA)

212 If the true history of the American Experiment is ever written, at whose feet will the main fault of the collapse lay?

Carter, O'Bummer, FDR or some other Dem?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 14, 2023 09:28 PM (YmKky)

Winning the Spanish American War, Teddy Roosevelt and Wilson, though I also blame the Revenue act of 1913, the federal reserve and FDR's suspension of Gold conversion. And Nixon's end of the Bretton Woods agreement.

All of which seemed like a grand idea at the time.

The Revenue act, for example, was supposed to take the politics out of tax revenue for the federal government, since at that time excise taxes were levied often to allow domestic products to be profitable

Posted by: Kindltot at November 14, 2023 09:37 PM (D7oie)

213 141 - 'E's pinin' for the fjords.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at November 14, 2023 08:53 PM

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FINALLY. Thank you. Can't believe it took over 140 posts for a dead parrot Monty Python reference.

Posted by: TRex at November 14, 2023 09:37 PM (IQ6Gq)

214 As implemented, communism was a disaster, but it did improve the lot of many Russians.
Posted by: SFGoth at November 14, 2023 09:31 PM (KAi1n)

Lol, it improved the lot of of a few Party men. The rest got murder, toil, & want. If anyone thinks the Soviet system was preferable to the Romanovs, they are misreading the situation badly. Even today's hardliners like Putin, who go soft on the Soviets, wouldn't go that far out on the limb.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 14, 2023 09:38 PM (g+qKi)

215 Russian culture could have done better without the horrible, despotic censorship , the Okhranka, complete lawlessness and absolutism of the Imperial family. They had to go.

Posted by: runner at November 14, 2023 09:39 PM (V13WU)

216 Wenda

Click bait. I'll bet they change the locality of the inventor based on your ISP.

To say more on bras would not be prudent.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:39 PM (u82oZ)

217 As god is my witness, I thought bears could fly.

Posted by: Les Nessman at November 14, 2023 09:39 PM (IQ6Gq)

218 How do you get a tank inside a hospital?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 14, 2023 09:30 PM (X98Jy)

You have to use the big elevators, the ones the gurneys fit into.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 14, 2023 09:40 PM (D7oie)

219 Gref

You have very good taste in books.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:40 PM (u82oZ)

220 To say more on bras would not be prudent.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:39 PM (u82oZ)

To see more in bras would be disappointing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 14, 2023 09:40 PM (FkZCA)

221 >How do you get a tank inside a hospital?

just drive
it's a tank FFS

Posted by: DB - can you dig my groove at November 14, 2023 09:41 PM (geLO8)

222 Improved the lot, short term. Long term it became a nightmare.

Posted by: runner at November 14, 2023 09:41 PM (V13WU)

223 Mother Knows Best
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 14, 2023 09:36 PM (63Dwl)

and we let them vote

shit show since then

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 14, 2023 09:41 PM (lwOKI)

224 As implemented, communism was a disaster, but it did improve the lot of many Russians.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 14, 2023 09:31 PM (KAi1n)

Fair enough, but it was a marginal improvement and the rest of the world far surpassed that improvement.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 14, 2023 09:42 PM (3Gtis)

225 I almost forgot!

It's Tummy Rub Tuesday! Rub those fuzzy furry bellies! Give them zerberts and tickles! Belly time!

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 14, 2023 09:42 PM (Tjd07)

226 How do you get a tank inside a hospital?
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Ambulance.

Duh!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 09:42 PM (krqg6)

227 There is no international law that covers killing terrorists.

Posted by: rickb22
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I'll be the judge of that.

Posted by: Hawiian Judge at November 14, 2023 09:43 PM (XeU6L)

228 France lucked out with Napoleon. It could have gone the way of the Rooshia.

Posted by: runner at November 14, 2023 09:43 PM (V13WU)

229 Since someone mentioned Monty Python:

I saw a car, an old Corolla with a big dent in the rear fender. In the back window was a sticker, in old timey English script:

'Tis but a scratch.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at November 14, 2023 09:43 PM (T/Lqj)

230 runner

We will have to disagree. The Communist system was much worse. Ask any victim of the Purges or guests of the work camps.

That Lyon's book mentioned that only 6 people were sentenced to death for all the assignations and attempts on the rulers -- prior to the revolution. There were more casualties in the 5 years after WWI ended than in the war itself. Mostly in Russia.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:43 PM (u82oZ)

231 just drive
it's a tank FFS
Posted by: DB - can you dig my groove at November 14, 2023 09:41 PM (geLO

And the hospital was built by Palis, who no doubt skimped on the cement in favor of building tunnels.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 14, 2023 09:44 PM (FkZCA)

232
Even got the SHAEF After Action Report on WWII from Normandy on. Beautiful book.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:35 PM (u82oZ)

__________

I bought all 15 volumes of Samuel Eliot Morison's History of the US Navy in World War II at Costco one day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2023 09:44 PM (MoZTd)

233 Of course, how may Ossetians did Paris have in late 18th early 19th century ??

Posted by: runner at November 14, 2023 09:44 PM (V13WU)

234 That's a little silkie, they are usually more friendly, but that's impressive.
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🐓 🕺

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 09:44 PM (krqg6)

235 >
It's Tummy Rub Tuesday! Rub those fuzzy furry bellies! Give them zerberts and tickles! Belly time!
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 14, 2023 09:42 PM (Tjd07)

If you insist. **raises shirt**

Posted by: Muad'dib at November 14, 2023 09:45 PM (ER9HB)

236 Anna Puma

Well, it won the war in the east for them, but too late to win by shifting all of the Germans to the Western Front. They had advanced too far into Russia to be returned in a timely fashion. The Germans in WWI went further into Russia than in WWII.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:46 PM (u82oZ)

237 We will have to disagree. The Communist system was much worse. Ask any victim of the Purges or guests of the work camps.

==

Same was happening under the Tsar. The Siberian exile and work camps existed under them you know.

Posted by: runner at November 14, 2023 09:46 PM (V13WU)

238 That's a little silkie, they are usually more friendly, but that's impressive.
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🐓 🕺
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 09:44 PM (krqg6)

Aren't silkies Scottish were-seals, or something like that?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 14, 2023 09:46 PM (FkZCA)

239 >>And the hospital was built by Palis, who no doubt skimped on the cement in favor of building tunnels.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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you're right- they're not big on building codes in that part of the world

Posted by: DB - can you dig my groove at November 14, 2023 09:47 PM (geLO8)

240 I almost forgot!

It's Tummy Rub Tuesday! Rub those fuzzy furry bellies! Give them zerberts and tickles! Belly time!
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 14, 2023 09:42 PM (Tjd07)
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I found a taker...My cat Jasmine just crawled into my lap. She's not really into tummy rubs, though, so I have to reach under her to give them to her...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 14, 2023 09:48 PM (BpYfr)

241 Maudib!

How are you, kind sir?

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 14, 2023 09:48 PM (vpULL)

242 Maudib!

How are you, kind sir?

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 14, 2023 09:48 PM (vpULL)

243 *deletes post about what I wanted to say*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at November 14, 2023 09:49 PM (T/Lqj)

244 Aren't silkies Scottish were-seals, or something like that?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 14, 2023 09:46 PM (FkZCA)
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You are thinking of "selkies" (with an "e"). Yeah, they are something like a were-creature, though they actually remove their skins to become human. They are supposed to be hotties in their human form (of course).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 14, 2023 09:49 PM (BpYfr)

245 Hi Nurse! I'm good. How are things out west?

Posted by: Muad'dib at November 14, 2023 09:50 PM (ER9HB)

246 Aren't silkies Scottish were-seals, or something like that?
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Good one. I think 'selkies' -- looking now.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 09:50 PM (krqg6)

247 runner

Lenin got married in a Tsar era camp. Really no comparison. The Soviet era camps were much worse and deadlier.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:50 PM (u82oZ)

248
Watching BorzoiCam. Finn has fallen in love with Ruthie.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2023 09:50 PM (MoZTd)

249 So...ICELAND again...

Looks like this slow roll of a volcanic disaster occurring in the fishing village of Grindavik...,,currently splitting the town in two with deep fissures and now the gases are fuming up heralding the coming invasion of actual LAVA.

There is not going to be a home coming party for these 4,000 inhabitants if ever. The die is set.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 14, 2023 09:51 PM (UsQA1)

250 Selkies are mythological creatures that can shapeshift between seal and human forms by removing or putting on their seal skin. They feature prominently in the oral traditions and mythology of various cultures, especially those of Celtic and Norse origin. The term "selkie" derives from the Scots word for "seal", and is also spelled as silkies, sylkies, or selchies.
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'Silkies' okay too. Very good.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 14, 2023 09:51 PM (krqg6)

251 Posted by: Muad'dib

Chilly! Beautiful and clear though. The mountains are out and sparkling with new snowfall. And the winter ducks are arriving! Buffleheads and merganzers and golden eyes! Scoters and cinnamon teals and puffins!!!!!

It's just lovely.

You staying toasty?

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 14, 2023 09:52 PM (vpULL)

252 Hadrian the Seventh

Did he share a bone with her?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:52 PM (u82oZ)

253 Same was happening under the Tsar. The Siberian exile and work camps existed under them you know.

Posted by: runner at November 14, 2023 09:46 PM (V13WU)

No...the Soviet prison system was by far the worst the world had ever known...although the Chinese said..."Hold my beer!"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 14, 2023 09:52 PM (3Gtis)

254
So...ICELAND again...

Looks like this slow roll of a volcanic disaster occurring in the fishing village of Grindavik...

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Caused by fracking. And tax cuts.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2023 09:53 PM (MoZTd)

255 Nightwatch

Iceland was almost wiped out by a volcanic eruption in the 1800s, so they watch things closely.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:54 PM (u82oZ)

256 Lenin got married in a Tsar era camp. Really no comparison. The Soviet era camps were much worse and deadlier.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:50 PM (u82oZ)

No, he got married while living in exile. not "in jail".

Posted by: runner at November 14, 2023 09:54 PM (V13WU)

257 219 Gref

You have very good taste in books.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:40 PM (u82oZ)

Thank you, sir.

Horne's Verdun book opened my eyes to the long French and Belgian love for underground fortresses, each with a lot of troops but only a few retractable turrets on top, mounting machine guns or short-barreled artillery guns. This led them after WW1 to construct the ultimate underground fortresses, Eben Emael in Belgium and the Maginot Line. Neither did anything to slow-down, let alone stop, the German offensive in 1940. Because the Krauts had excellent plans to neutralize them.

Posted by: Gref at November 14, 2023 09:54 PM (5fDan)

258 > You staying toasty?
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 14, 2023 09:52 PM (vpULL)

Sounds idyllic out there. We are all unseasonably toasty here. 62 degrees today. 25 degrees above normal.

Posted by: Muad'dib at November 14, 2023 09:55 PM (ER9HB)

259 All along I thought The Silkie was a book by A. E. van Vogt.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2023 09:55 PM (u82oZ)

260 ONT

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 14, 2023 09:55 PM (RIvkX)

261 nooding

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at November 14, 2023 09:56 PM (sMkAM)

262 205 The saddest thing is that Russian culture was vibrant before the revolution, and they had a chance to become a truly great nation as they developed. But thanks to Lenin, the Russian nation committed suicide. They had so much inertia that they stumbled on like some great zombie for a century. And now the once great culture is dead.
Posted by: Tom Servo

There is a movie I've been meaning to watch. It's called Russian Ark. It sort of covers your post in an odd, sad way. Not the 'committed suicide' part. Sort of a dreamy historical movie. It's an odd one.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 14, 2023 10:02 PM (sAmhv)

263 It was NOT an improvement. Like all Russian leaders, the Communists forced modernization through compulsion. But this time, it was a tidal wave of blood, for very little return - just a hobbled Russia, weaker than the world has ever known her.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 14, 2023 10:03 PM (g+qKi)

264 Truth be told in Iceland..

You build an ENTIRE community ON TOP OF the Mid-Atlantic plates and your ENTIRE country is nothing but Volcanos and Volcanic rift zones...help me out here (heard the "Icelanders" came from Norway by way of their Druid beliefs)

Still... watching your entire community sink into the netherworld could be tough.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 14, 2023 10:04 PM (UsQA1)

265 Wall-climbing cat is not of this world. No sir.

Posted by: Eromero at November 14, 2023 10:28 PM (NxC5+)

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