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Monday Overnight Open Thread (12/4/23)
Quote I The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. Frank Zappa
Quote II “The fact is, Musk may be the last man standing between real freedom of speech and the suffocating block of this censorship industrial complex, which is made up of government, media, and tech forces,” “He realizes that advertisers have no spine and can be easily cowed by special interest groups in cahoots with political allies. “If you don’t believe me, I’ve got two words for you: Tucker Carlson.” Greg Gutfeld
Quote III There seems to be a kind of apathy with a lot of retailers where they sort of like let it happen or look the other way or that's a cost of doing business. We disagree with that approach. We are going after anyone that takes something from us." Michael Sullivan, is the operations manager at Roger’s Garden Nursery, Newport Beach, California
Quote V "I am really upset with the way this lady has acted and I would hate for this to happen to any other salon. Our stylists are self-employed and when someone receives a service from them they deserve to be paid for it. Incidents like this have a big impact on small independent businesses like ours." James Clarke, owner of No 23 Hair and Beauty Studio
Quote IV "The RNC’s mission is to win elections. It is not their mission to reduce competition and restrict fresh ideas by ‘narrowing the field’ months before the Iowa caucuses or the first in the nation New Hampshire primary. These arbitrary criteria ensure advantages for candidates from major media markets on the coasts versus America’s Heartland. None of their debate criteria relate to the qualifications related to actually doing the job of the president. This effort to nationalize the primary system is unhealthy for the future of the party, especially for a party that proclaims to value leadership from outside of Washington." ND Gov. Doug Burgum (R)
There has been a
That's OK Sydney next time you have a thought, let it pass........
Tis the season for Trolls........
"They" say every vote counts. I guess they are right once in awhile.
Washington city council candidate who didn't vote loses by one ballot Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A Washington man who thought it would be "kind of narcissistic" to vote for himself ended up losing a city council position by one vote. Damion Green ran for Rainier City Council, but he said he didn't cast a ballot in the Nov. 7 election.
If you wouldn't vote for yourself, why would anyone else?
Epoch Television. Data Suggests Wealthy Elites Most Responsible for Alleged Climate Change
The official cause of death? He was scared shitless. Which caused heart issues.
Tourist dies after plunging 764ft off a tower on world's biggest bungee jump
An unnamed tourist has died after completing the world's biggest bungee jump in China, with the 56-year-old suffering a shortness of breath after the 764ft plunge
Our society has created soft, squishy snowflakes.
Nearly half of Americans age 18 to 29 are living with their parents
The trend to move back in with mom and dad is pushing up discretionary spending When young adults free up their budgets from daily necessities, they have more income that can be spent on discretionary items like travel, entertainment, and luxury goods. “We think the structural change in demographics might have been overlooked,” Morgan Stanley’s Edouard Aubin and a team of analysts wrote in a note on Dec. 9. “One of the key demographic trends in the US (and the broader Western market) has been the rising number of young adults living with their parents, driven by financial concerns (i.e. rental costs) as well as other sociological factors (e.g. higher penetration of higher education and increasingly delayed age for marriage).
I use to have feelings for taxpayers being stuck with the tab for their elected officials ineptness. Not anymore. Make them pay. And make them pay hard. Make them hurt.
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: An 11-year-old girl was assigned to share a bed with a male student who identifies as a transgender girl while on a cross-country school trip, according to a demand letter sent Monday. That girl’s parents are now calling upon the public school system to provide answers and clarification of its policies related to children who identify as transgender. Represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, Joe and Serena Wailes are calling on the Colorado-based Jefferson County School Board and Jefferson County Public Schools Superintendent Tracy Dorland to clarify “whether JCPS will continue this practice of intentionally withholding information about rooming accommodations from parents like the Waileses, who object to their children rooming with a student of the opposite sex, regardless of the other student’s gender identity.” “This practice renders it impossible for these parents to make informed decisions about their children’s privacy, upbringing, and participation in school-sponsored programs,” reads the demand letter, which was exclusively provided to The Daily Signal. “Additionally, our clients request information related to JB R-1 and the ability to opt out of this rooming policy for all future school trips.”
True, the following may be considered filler material. But, it is a bit interesting, 'My Quest to Drink a Nobu Martini in My Pajamas If Robert De Niro can do it, why can’t I?
In November, Robert De Niro’s former assistant Graham Chase Robinson successfully sued the actor’s company for, among other things, De Niro asking her to scratch his back and rescue his dogs from an incipient fire, contacting her while she was at her grandma’s funeral, and calling her a bitch. De Niro’s company unsuccessfully countersued Robinson, arguing that she used the company card for personal Uber rides and watched too much Netflix on the clock. In an attempt to prove that the company-card argument held no water, Robinson’s lawyer pointed out that De Niro once asked Robinson to Uber him a “particular martini” from Nobu, the restaurant he co-owns, at 11 o’clock at night. Robinson had been dining at Nobu for her friend’s daughter’s 21st birthday when “Bob” called. “And I told him I was at Nobu, and he asked that I bring a martini to him after I finished dinner … He asked me to bring him a martini on my way home.” Robinson did and “met him downstairs,” ostensibly at one of his Manhattan residences, where “he was in his pajamas and slippers, and I handed him the martini in a plastic container.”
The world’s first tampons for men have been criticised by feminist campaigners as an “insult” to women who suffer period discrimination. Vuokkoset, a Finnish company released the controversial new sanitary product earlier this month to coincide with Transgender Awareness week and International Men’s day. The product comes in a dark blue box which bears the words “For Men” on one side, but then extends this phrase around the packaging so it eventually reads “For Menstruation”.
Experimental Rock Star, Frank Zappa, Dies
On this day in music, December 4, 1993, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Frank Zappa lost his battle with cancer. Bearing a musical virtuosity that rivaled few others, Zappa’s pioneering work was vast and varied – from his free-form improvisations inspired by avant-garde jazz, to sound experiments with non-traditional instruments, to his biting lyrical satire of modern society. Although Zappa divided critics and fans while he was alive, his influence on modern rock and experimental music is undeniable. Following his death, he was honored with an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. via thisdayimusic.com
It's a pleasure to see a major corporation doing something other than "Woke". Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day
FedEx is rolling down the highway to deliver Christmas joy to military families throughout America in the annual Trees for Troops program. The freight company is delivering nearly 16,000 Christmas trees this month to families at over 90 military bases across the U.S. Partnering with the Christmas SPIRIT Foundation, FedEx has also reached a special milestone with the program, delivering tree number 300,000 during a special celebration at Fort Liberty in North Carolina.
Tonight's Thought of The Day..........(H/T Robert)
I'm thinking kebabs would be hard to keep warm while being transported. Not our Genius Award Winner.
Gunmen fire at police while holding takeaway driver hostage for delivering ‘cold kebab This is the moment two men fired shots at police while holding a takeaway driver hostage for 14 hours after delivering a ‘cold kebab’. Bedfordshire Police are seen surrounding the block of flats where the two shooters, Paul Burton, 45, and Nathan Turner, 37, barricaded themselves in along with the victim. The stand off lasted for 14 hours at Bury Court on the outskirts of Bedford in November 2022. During this time Burton began live streaming on Facebook, complaining to police his takeaway driver ‘failed at his job’ as his kebab arrived late and was missing the salad.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 04, 2023 10:00 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Ciampino - nothing I can add at December 04, 2023 10:00 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 04, 2023 10:00 PM (Bd6X8)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 04, 2023 10:00 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Braenyard at December 04, 2023 10:00 PM (FQLP3)
Posted by: Mark in SC at December 04, 2023 10:01 PM (ue/3w)
Posted by: Braenyard at December 04, 2023 10:01 PM (FQLP3)
Posted by: mindful webworker - probably at December 04, 2023 10:01 PM (PGE+Y)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 04, 2023 10:02 PM (M1WkG)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 04, 2023 10:02 PM (IaTa3)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 04, 2023 10:00 PM (hOUT3)
Thank you. I really do try to provide a cornucopia of ONT topics.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at December 04, 2023 10:02 PM (aA3+G)
Mis-enforced, Selectively enforced, and sometimes even non-laws being enforced to the fullest extend of the non-law.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:03 PM (ynpvh)
Apparently the resident was a complete nut.
https://is.gd/zcMqEL
Posted by: bonhomme at December 04, 2023 10:04 PM (lIio7)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 04, 2023 10:04 PM (E/7rO)
319 One more thought on nightmares, and Ishouldn’t think about it this close to sleep. Eaten alive by wild hogs. Whoa mama.
Posted by: Eromero at December 04, 2023 10:02 PM (NxC5+)
I can say I don't recall being eaten by wild animals, although I've been hunted by them.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:04 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 04, 2023 10:04 PM (Angsy)
Apparently the resident was a complete nut.
https://is.gd/zcMqEL
Posted by: bonhomme at December 04, 2023 10:04 PM (lIio7)
Roasted, like a chestnut, for Christmas...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:04 PM (ynpvh)
Not so random, really, but definitely not uniformly!
Posted by: mindful webworker - I dreamed of you in the afternoon at December 04, 2023 10:05 PM (PGE+Y)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 04, 2023 10:06 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:06 PM (X0I7i)
Strange name for a woman. I would not have counted "Graham" as being the set of unisex names.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2023 10:06 PM (011Ki)
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:06 PM (X0I7i)
"Incidents like this have a big impact on small independent businesses like ours."
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Now do lockdowns and "essential services".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 04, 2023 10:07 PM (9mNHV)
I knew he was turned down twice (?!) for the HOF while alive, but didn't know he received it posthumously.
All over the place politically, but he loved freedom. He could have been a Moron, I believe, were he alive today.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 04, 2023 10:07 PM (gqKnw)
Posted by: nckate at December 04, 2023 10:07 PM (SnxUt)
Something I like.
Who's got a link go Torvel and Dean in the winter Olympics?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 04, 2023 10:07 PM (uSHSS)
Then you wipe your feet.
Then you turn the java on so you can enjoy the content.
Such is life.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 04, 2023 10:07 PM (FQLP3)
That is the first time Gutfeld has referref to TuCa, iirc.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 04, 2023 10:07 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at December 04, 2023 10:02 PM (aA3+G)
This ONT's cornucopia overfloweth!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 04, 2023 10:08 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 04, 2023 10:08 PM (9mNHV)
Remember folks the same judiciary that will give you 150 hours community service for firebombing Wendy's thinks that 20 years for a meme is just ducky.
The American people need to relearn the word "no" aimed at the government.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:08 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:09 PM (ynpvh)
He used horns a lot. You can't make a note go SPLAT without horns.
I wish Frank was still around. It's just not fair.
Posted by: fd at December 04, 2023 10:09 PM (vFG9F)
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My dreams run quite the gamut. I've been shot, beheaded, thrust through with a sword, fallen off a cliff, driven off a cliff, been driven off a cliff, smashed, nuked, zapped by gamma rays (and turned to jelly about 30 seconds later)...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 09:38 PM (ynpvh)
When they invent a mind reading device I want to plug it into your brain.
Posted by: Robert at December 04, 2023 10:09 PM (6x9UW)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
The "Phi Zappa's Krappa" LP cover sealed the deal.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 04, 2023 10:10 PM (IaTa3)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2023 10:06 PM (011Ki)
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So AOP, you're a namist eh?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 04, 2023 10:10 PM (hOUT3)
Remember folks the same judiciary that will give you 150 hours community service for firebombing Wendy's thinks that 20 years for a meme is just ducky.
The American people need to relearn the word "no" aimed at the government.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:08 PM (X0I7i)
And yet yesterday Sheila Jackson Lee gave out the wrong day to vote. I don't see her sorry fat ass going to jail.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at December 04, 2023 10:10 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: pookysgirl is not adventurous enough at December 04, 2023 10:11 PM (dtlDP)
Well, good, but I wonder if shoplifting is as big a problem for a nursery as at, say, CVS?
Smuggling a rose bush out stuffed down your pants can be thorny business!
Posted by: mindful webworker - I dreamed of you in the afternoon at December 04, 2023 10:11 PM (PGE+Y)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 04, 2023 10:11 PM (E/7rO)
Posted by: fd at December 04, 2023 10:09 PM (vFG9F)
There is no one genre of FZ. There is only one word for the man, Genius.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at December 04, 2023 10:11 PM (aA3+G)
Funny as hell though!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 04, 2023 10:12 PM (uSHSS)
And yet yesterday Sheila Jackson Lee gave out the wrong day to vote. I don't see her sorry fat ass going to jail.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra
___________
She skated using the "I'm too stupid to know what I'm doing" defense.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 04, 2023 10:12 PM (9mNHV)
Posted by: mindful webworker
No wonder it's sometimes called a rosebud!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 04, 2023 10:12 PM (IaTa3)
Meaning...they are all dead.
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 04, 2023 10:12 PM (UsQA1)
Posted by: Methos at December 04, 2023 10:12 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: Robert at December 04, 2023 10:12 PM (6x9UW)
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My dreams run quite the gamut. I've been shot, beheaded, thrust through with a sword, fallen off a cliff, driven off a cliff, been driven off a cliff, smashed, nuked, zapped by gamma rays (and turned to jelly about 30 seconds later)...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 09:38 PM (ynpvh)
When they invent a mind reading device I want to plug it into your brain.
Posted by: Robert at December 04, 2023 10:09 PM (6x9UW)
I wonder if that makes me the Sean Bean of dreams...except I survive most of 'em.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:12 PM (ynpvh)
They are engaged in an active conspiracy to deny civil liberties under color of law MH.
The right needs to start yelling across the board from the top of their lungs that there needs to be an end to Qualified Immunity, Absolute Immunity, and Sovereign Immunity in this nation. The democrats are using the doctrines to enact a police state by Constitutional Amendment.
Yes it will alter the nature of American governance and culture but the government has shown it cannot handle being exempted from reciprocity in the courts.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:13 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 04, 2023 10:13 PM (9eecq)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 04, 2023 10:13 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Ciampino - Delivered this big roll of bubble-wrap and was told to pop it in the corner at December 04, 2023 10:13 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 04, 2023 10:13 PM (9eecq)
No they are mutilated if not dead, and it will make their deeds inignorable.
I do not blame Islam for this mess, I blame the western left.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:14 PM (X0I7i)
And yet yesterday Sheila Jackson Lee gave out the wrong day to vote. I don't see her sorry fat ass going to jail.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra
___________
She skated using the "I'm too stupid to know what I'm doing" defense.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 04, 2023 10:12 PM (9mNHV)
That's what makes her and Ron Johnson the perfect politicians...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:14 PM (ynpvh)
CO-based...
Seriously, who writes this shit? Is editing a thing?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 04, 2023 10:14 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 04, 2023 10:14 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 04, 2023 10:15 PM (1sRKq)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:15 PM (ynpvh)
The censoring of Carlson (and subsequent silence from his professional peers at FOXNews) was what drove me, forever, to Newsmax (mostly) et al.
I'm startled as to what else Gutfeld is observing to make him, sort of, upset the corporate applecart. There's more to this than just Carlson/Musk.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 04, 2023 10:15 PM (aXxgO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 04, 2023 10:15 PM (wukIh)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 04, 2023 10:08 PM (hOUT3)
There's a "horny" joke in there somewhere.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 04, 2023 10:15 PM (Angsy)
Smote them ALL!
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 04, 2023 10:15 PM (UsQA1)
No shit. We aren't flying around in private jets. People like John Kerry, Bill Gates, and all the Hollywood hypocrites should either fly commercial or shut the f**k up.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2023 10:16 PM (0Htd1)
This is the 100th anniversary of Maria Callas's birth. Naturally all the True Opera Fans are lighting little candles on the altars on which her picture resides. But she - and Glenn Gould - are two artists whose high reputation leaves me baffled.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 04, 2023 10:16 PM (9mNHV)
OK, a woman walked out without paying. I don't disagree with anything you said about it. But, in 2019. Why would you wait 4+ years to to make a fuss?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 04, 2023 10:16 PM (klJTj)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:09 PM (ynpvh)
were you aiming for no 1 ?
Posted by: runner at December 04, 2023 10:16 PM (V13WU)
Data Suggests Wealthy Elites Most Responsible for Alleged Climate Change
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Guess what? Now you're a wealthy elite.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 04, 2023 10:16 PM (9mNHV)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 04, 2023 10:16 PM (8sMut)
No they are mutilated if not dead, and it will make their deeds inignorable.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:14 PM (X0I7i)
It also may be that they're pregnant.
Posted by: Robert at December 04, 2023 10:17 PM (bjpE9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:09 PM (ynpvh)
were you aiming for no 1 ?
Posted by: runner at December 04, 2023 10:16 PM (V13WU)
I was trying to shoot his horse...
Oh, I mean, I wasn't shooting for the top 10 at all.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:17 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Eromero at December 04, 2023 10:17 PM (NxC5+)
Obviously, parents aren't changing the kids enough rent!
😅
Posted by: mindful webworker - board is extra at December 04, 2023 10:17 PM (PGE+Y)
Posted by: Braenyard at December 04, 2023 10:17 PM (FQLP3)
Obviously, parents aren't changing the kids enough rent!
😅
Posted by: mindful webworker - board is extra at December 04, 2023 10:17 PM (PGE+Y)
If you do, the IRS wants to know...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:18 PM (ynpvh)
Top photo is stunning, either way you look at it.
RIP Frank Zappa.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 04, 2023 10:18 PM (a8Rgt)
@AvivaKlompas
Per the
@WSJ
, Israel has assembled a system of large pumps to flood Hamas’s system of tunnels under Gaza with water pumped from the Mediterranean Sea.
The IDF set up 5 large water pumps which are capable of flooding the terror tunnel network within weeks by pumping thousands of cubic meters of water per hour into the tunnels.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 10:18 PM (ZLI7S)
Left us too soon, but may his memory be for a blessing.
Quiet Cheers, Horde.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 04, 2023 10:19 PM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 04, 2023 10:19 PM (9mNHV)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 04, 2023 10:19 PM (1sRKq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 04, 2023 10:15 PM (wukIh)
Does this mean we need to find a better class of trolls? Maybe a Facebook marketplace ad: "Trolls wanted for smart military blog. Must be willing to have their asses handed to them on a nightly basis."
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 04, 2023 10:19 PM (M1WkG)
Almost assuredly, they were cutting the tits off of women while gang raping them.
The western left you know "no swearsies 80% of US college chicks ARE raped if by rape we mean hit on and regret sex" are saying it did not happen.
Again I am not angrier than a year ago at Hamas they are what they are I am enraged at the Western Left and the democrat party for a lot of reasons.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:19 PM (X0I7i)
@AvivaKlompas
Per the
@WSJ
, Israel has assembled a system of large pumps to flood Hamas’s system of tunnels under Gaza with water pumped from the Mediterranean Sea.
The IDF set up 5 large water pumps which are capable of flooding the terror tunnel network within weeks by pumping thousands of cubic meters of water per hour into the tunnels.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 10:18 PM (ZLI7S)
Why, that could make Gaza capsize!
Posted by: Hank Johnson (D)ummy at December 04, 2023 10:19 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: fd at December 04, 2023 10:20 PM (vFG9F)
The trend to move back in with mom and dad is pushing up discretionary spending
When young adults free up their budgets from daily necessities, they have more income that can be spent on discretionary items like travel, entertainment, and luxury goods.
It's the parent's fault as much as the kid's. When my girls graduated from college, they were allowed to spend a year back at home saving money on rent so they could save up for grad school or a house, but they had to carry their share of the chores, and it was understood that if you were blowing lots of money on frivolities, the deal ended.
You aren't doing your "kids" any favors by allowing them to defer adulthood.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 04, 2023 10:20 PM (I/Qkd)
----- Michael Sullivan, is the operations manager at Roger’s Garden Nursery, Newport Beach, California
-----
I like the idea of a gardener hunting down thieves and braining them with a spade. I hope that's what this quote is about. Lie to me if you have to.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 04, 2023 10:20 PM (0FoWg)
You don't say...whoda thunk it🙁
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 04, 2023 10:19 PM (1sRKq)
I was fooled. They seem more like keystone cops when not fellating the other side.
Posted by: Hank Johnson (D)ummy at December 04, 2023 10:20 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 04, 2023 10:20 PM (8sMut)
, Israel has assembled a system of large pumps to flood Hamas’s system of tunnels under Gaza with water pumped from the Mediterranean Sea.
They should throw in a few sharks just for fun.
Posted by: davidt at December 04, 2023 10:20 PM (SYTee)
Fort Bragg and there is a good lesson there.
The 82d is minority heavy, and the table talk when they picked the new name was "If we ever have to change THIS name there are fucking problems."
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:20 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 04, 2023 10:15 PM (wukIh)
Does this mean we need to find a better class of trolls? Maybe a Facebook marketplace ad: "Trolls wanted for smart military blog. Must be willing to have their asses handed to them on a nightly basis."
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 04, 2023 10:19 PM (M1WkG)
Should I sign up?
Posted by: Alan Combs at December 04, 2023 10:21 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 10:18 PM (ZLI7S)
Why, that could make Gaza capsize!
Posted by: Hank Johnson (D)ummy
Pfffffft. I'm sure they've long since secured Gaza to the rest of Israel with ropes.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 04, 2023 10:21 PM (I/Qkd)
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:22 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 04, 2023 10:15 PM (wukIh)
Does this mean we need to find a better class of trolls? Maybe a Facebook marketplace ad: "Trolls wanted for smart military blog. Must be willing to have their asses handed to them on a nightly basis."
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 04, 2023 10:19 PM (M1WkG)
I had been hanging onto that Your Blog Sucks photo forever. I've been waiting patiently and good old Sydney came through.
I thought last night's opening photo was laugh worthy and boys will be boys. Regardless.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at December 04, 2023 10:22 PM (aA3+G)
, Israel has assembled a system of large pumps to flood Hamas’s system of tunnels under Gaza with water pumped from the Mediterranean Sea.
They should throw in a few sharks just for fun.
Posted by: davidt at December 04, 2023 10:20 PM (SYTee)
With "lasers"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:22 PM (ynpvh)
The IDF set up 5 large water pumps which are capable of flooding the terror tunnel network within weeks by pumping thousands of cubic meters of water per hour into the tunnels.
Posted by: JackStraw
This is the way!
It is really about time the flooded the rats out of their holes too.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 04, 2023 10:24 PM (9eecq)
@WSJ
, Israel has assembled a system of large pumps to flood Hamas’s system of tunnels under Gaza with water pumped from the Mediterranean Sea.
What a grand idea. If only it were suggested, two or three weeks ago, and not deleted because it implied the IDF wasn't doing the obvious thing.
Posted by: Cheat Code at December 04, 2023 10:23 PM (A2YKZ)
IDF is giving Hamass free scuba lessons
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:24 PM (ynpvh)
Zappa trivia question. In what song does the phrase "Smell the Glove" appear in?
Posted by: fd at December 04, 2023 10:24 PM (vFG9F)
You don't say...whoda thunk it🙁
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 04, 2023 10:19 PM (1sRKq)
I was fooled. They seem more like keystone cops when not fellating the other side.
Posted by: Hank Johnson (D)ummy at December 04, 2023 10:20 PM (ynpvh)
The real Hank Johnson would just say blow the other side. You sir are no Hank Johnson.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at December 04, 2023 10:24 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 04, 2023 10:20 PM (0FoWg)
Little Shop of Horrors style! "Seymour, I'm hungry!"
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 04, 2023 10:24 PM (M1WkG)
Thanks, MisHum. Sammy coming up soon?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 04, 2023 10:25 PM (Angsy)
Half the “fun” of having a Martini is the stemware it’s served in.
Might as well grab some Valuerite and put it in a brown paper bag.
And he calls us unwashed…pfft.
Posted by: zombie Clint Eastwood at December 04, 2023 10:25 PM (TTAGa)
Yes it will alter the nature of American governance and culture but the government has shown it cannot handle being exempted from reciprocity in the courts.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:13 PM (X0I7i)
See the government seems to be ALL leftist this would be a good thing indeed!
Posted by: Iris at December 04, 2023 10:25 PM (n3DL0)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at December 04, 2023 10:24 PM (aA3+G)
Yeah, sock fail. They capsized.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:25 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: mindful webworker - salad days at December 04, 2023 10:25 PM (PGE+Y)
Posted by: browndog changing socks at December 04, 2023 10:26 PM (TTAGa)
That's pretty good. Us old timers only had the option of finding another job if we didn't like our work environment.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 04, 2023 10:26 PM (FQLP3)
Posted by: runner at December 04, 2023 10:26 PM (V13WU)
That's pretty good. Us old timers only had the option of finding another job if we didn't like our work environment.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 04, 2023 10:26 PM (FQLP3)
I guess she's never watched "Dirty Jobs"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:27 PM (ynpvh)
Well, now I am just angry. And that girl's parents haven't gone to a school board meeting and raised holy hell?
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2023 10:27 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Ciampino - Delivered this big roll of bubble-wrap and was told to pop it in the corner. at December 04, 2023 10:27 PM (qfLjt)
Well, now I am just angry. And that girl's parents haven't gone to a school board meeting and raised holy hell?
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2023 10:27 PM (0Htd1)
Dunno. I think I'd do a hell of a lot more than just that.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:28 PM (ynpvh)
Stick that sucker up your urethra then it starts expanding...
Posted by: Braenyard at December 04, 2023 10:28 PM (FQLP3)
>>My dreams run quite the gamut.
I've never died in my dreams, but I have had reoccurring themes of not being able to run or drive a car, going up and down stair and my teeth falling out.
The most vivid dream I've ever had was skateboarding through my elementary school cafateria that was filled with ballerinas.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 04, 2023 10:29 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Almost Cut My Hair at December 04, 2023 10:29 PM (83IzV)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 04, 2023 10:29 PM (S6gqv)
A simple man such as myself might be tempted to just connect point A to point B. But I'm dumb like that.
Posted by: Cheat Code at December 04, 2023 10:28 PM (A2YKZ)
I like the Caddyshack solution, except use natural gas without the odorant, wait for the mixture to reach peak 02 combustion ratio...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:30 PM (ynpvh)
Stick that sucker up your urethra then it starts expanding...
Posted by: Braenyard at December 04, 2023 10:28 PM (FQLP3)
Oh Lord that gives me the shivers.......
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at December 04, 2023 10:30 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Ciampino - Delivered this big roll of bubble-wrap and was told to pop it in the corner. at December 04, 2023 10:27 PM (qfLjt)
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Caption: Schlemazel Goes For a Ride in the Rain
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 04, 2023 10:31 PM (RIvkX)
Stick that sucker up your urethra then it starts expanding...
Posted by: Braenyard at December 04, 2023 10:28 PM (FQLP3)
Oof. I guess there ain't too many holes a man could try it in on himself...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:31 PM (ynpvh)
The amendment needs to be non-partisan meaning sell it as "fuck d police" if need be and "get the regulators off our back" if need be but it needs done.
The games being played with uneven application of the law are being done because the democrats have 100% faith in their immunity.
Open the gates to attack them personally and financially in the courts.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:31 PM (X0I7i)
First, what is period discrimination? Do I really want to know?
Second, if some presumably gay man is bleeding from the rectum to the point where he needs a tampon, he needs to get his ass to the ER.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2023 10:31 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 04, 2023 10:32 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 10:18 PM (ZLI7S)
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I was going to ask what took them so long, but I suppose they wanted to retrieve as many hostages as possible. At this point, they will flood the tunnels and drown whomever is left down there....with the assumption that all remaining hostages are already dead.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 04, 2023 10:32 PM (BpYfr)
>>My dreams run quite the gamut.
I've never died in my dreams, but I have had reoccurring themes of not being able to run or drive a car, going up and down stair and my teeth falling out.
The most vivid dream I've ever had was skateboarding through my elementary school cafateria that was filled with ballerinas.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 04, 2023 10:29 PM (XV/Pl)
I rarely have nice dreams. I'm okay with the neutral ones. Get pissed off when I have a good one and want to see how it ends, but wake up before that happens.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:32 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 04, 2023 10:33 PM (vHIgi)
>>First, what is period discrimination?
The world is being run by vandals, nothing makes sense so asking questions is a pointless exercise.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 04, 2023 10:33 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 04, 2023 10:33 PM (nne3L)
First, what is period discrimination? Do I really want to know?
Second, if some presumably gay man is bleeding from the rectum to the point where he needs a tampon, he needs to get his ass to the ER.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2023 10:31 PM (0Htd1)
When you resort to semi-colons, colons, exclamation points and question marks?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:34 PM (ynpvh)
A voice of reason in a world of madness. Thank you nerdygirl
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at December 04, 2023 10:34 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Keith Don't Go! at December 04, 2023 10:34 PM (83IzV)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 04, 2023 10:33 PM (vHIgi)
If they were e-cars, might have been self-immolation.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:34 PM (ynpvh)
Can you believe that back then (196
another 7-year-old friend and I (in the school choir together and both musicians, he on the piano and me on the accordion) spent Christmas Eve caroling throughout our neighborhoods hoping to score a quarter or two in tips?
I imagine that today our parents would be arrested for "child endangerment."
Yeah, it was a much better time; dude, who stole my country?
* sheds a tear or three *
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 04, 2023 10:35 PM (pmW6q)
This is the moment two men fired shots at police while holding a takeaway driver hostage for 14 hours after delivering a ‘cold kebab’.
Am I correct that this is in the UK? I thought the limeys had solved the gun violence problem with gun control.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2023 10:35 PM (0Htd1)
This is the 100th anniversary of Maria Callas's birth. Naturally all the True Opera Fans are lighting little candles on the altars on which her picture resides. But she - and Glenn Gould - are two artists whose high reputation leaves me baffled.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 04, 2023 10:16 PM (9mNHV)
Callas was a media creation. Talented yes, but her persona far outshone her voice.
Glenn Gould was, how to say this nicely…quirky…a quirky Canadian. His idiosyncrasies were as much a part of his playing, as was his actual talent.
Posted by: browndog changing socks at December 04, 2023 10:35 PM (TTAGa)
I especially enjoyed the Muslim mom meme.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 04, 2023 10:33 PM (nne3L)
Thank you Nurse.
Moron Robert submitted it. Cracked me up.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at December 04, 2023 10:35 PM (aA3+G)
Sooo....how long have you wanted to be a ballerina?
Posted by: Dr. Sigmund Freud at December 04, 2023 10:35 PM (I/Qkd)
>>First, what is period discrimination?
The world is being run by vandals, nothing makes sense so asking questions is a pointless exercise.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 04, 2023 10:33 PM (XV/Pl)
Heh, "pointless" exercise. Very good.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:35 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:28 PM (ynpvh)
I could offer some constructive solutions that would force anyone involved to stare directly into the maw made by his actions, and then be consumed by it, along with his family.
But I like commenting here, so I won't.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 04, 2023 10:35 PM (0FoWg)
In November, Robert De Niro’s former assistant Graham Chase Robinson successfully sued the actor’s company for, among other things, De Niro asking her to scratch his back and rescue his dogs from an incipient fire, contacting her while she was at her grandma’s funeral, and calling her a bitch.
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Being a PA for some bigwig is like being a carpet they wipe their feet on.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 04, 2023 10:35 PM (9mNHV)
>>I rarely have nice dreams.
I've only had maybe three nightmares and perhaps a dozen or so erotic dreams, most of them make little sense and typically involve work.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 04, 2023 10:36 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Methos at December 04, 2023 10:36 PM (Dnobf)
This is the moment two men fired shots at police while holding a takeaway driver hostage for 14 hours after delivering a ‘cold kebab’.
Am I correct that this is in the UK? I thought the limeys had solved the gun violence problem with gun control.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2023 10:35 PM (0Htd1)
they just haven't figured out yet who controls them.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:36 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 04, 2023 10:36 PM (R4t5M)
... thus forgetting to equip their bunkers with pressure bulkheads and watertight doors.
Ooops. Ooopsie!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 04, 2023 10:37 PM (e6UQI)
>>Sooo....how long have you wanted to be a ballerina?
Never wanted to be a ballerina but I'm not going to lie, I really like to watch ballet.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 04, 2023 10:37 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Methos at December 04, 2023 10:36 PM (Dnobf)
If this were a serious question, I might answer...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:37 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
Also Rollie Fingers and Jimmy The Greek.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 04, 2023 10:38 PM (IaTa3)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 04, 2023 10:36 PM (R4t5M)
Someone say Boner Kebabs? I'm ALL in!
Posted by: Don Lemon at December 04, 2023 10:38 PM (ynpvh)
Second, if some presumably gay man is bleeding from the rectum to the point where he needs a tampon, he needs to get his ass to the ER.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2023 10:31 PM (0Htd1)
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Where's Muldoon when you need him?
What's the ICD-10 Code for Gerbil-Induced Rectal Bleeding?
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 04, 2023 10:39 PM (pmW6q)
Home invaders kicking in my front door but my RING had brought me awake early to meet them as they broke in with my pump shotgun loaded in deer slugs and the advantage of cover next to the solid oak China cabinet which they could not see me behind...4 dead perps...and they didn't even get a shot off.
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 04, 2023 10:39 PM (UsQA1)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 04, 2023 10:39 PM (R4t5M)
His idiosyncrasies were as much a part of his playing, as was his actual talent.
Posted by: browndog changing socks
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His quirks, at least to me, overshadow his actual talent.
He once performed with the Cleveland Orchestra. At the rehearsal, Gould spent an inordinate amount of time fiddling with the height of his seat. Finally, George Szell screamed, "Maybe you could just shave a quarter of an inch off your ass!" However, Szell also said, "This nut is a genius."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 04, 2023 10:40 PM (9mNHV)
Imagine my horror during the Temple of Doom movie.
Holy shit. I was freaked out.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 04, 2023 10:40 PM (AIkrI)
Posted by: Methos
Depends on how many gallons you flush with.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 04, 2023 10:41 PM (9eecq)
Second, if some presumably gay man is bleeding from the rectum to the point where he needs a tampon, he needs to get his ass to the ER.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2023 10:31 PM (0Htd1)
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Where's Muldoon when you need him?
What's the ICD-10 Code for Gerbil-Induced Rectal Bleeding?
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 04, 2023 10:39 PM (pmW6q)
I would assume related to T18.5XXA, "Foriegn Body in Anus/Rectum"...
Posted by: Don Lemon at December 04, 2023 10:41 PM (ynpvh)
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Bragg, it's Ft. Bragg , quislings.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2023 10:41 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 04, 2023 10:36 PM (R4t5M)
Someone say Boner Kebabs? I'm ALL in!
Posted by: Don Lemon at December 04, 2023 10:38 PM (ynpvh)
Not so dang fast
Posted by: Mayor Pete Buttplug at December 04, 2023 10:41 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:41 PM (ynpvh)
It would make rebuilding them a bitch. Pumping water in is tough, for a bunch of retards pumping it out will be a bitch.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 10:42 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 04, 2023 10:37 PM (XV/Pl)
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Saw the movie "White Knights" when it came out in '85, and turned the wifey onto it a couple years ago: really enjoy the very athletic dance scenes with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines.
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 04, 2023 10:42 PM (pmW6q)
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Bragg, it's Ft. Bragg , quislings.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2023 10:41 PM (XeU6L)
I was never in the service and even I know its called Fort Bragg
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at December 04, 2023 10:42 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 04, 2023 10:39 PM (pmW6q)
K62.5 according to Bing.
Posted by: Robert at December 04, 2023 10:43 PM (MiDic)
Imagine my horror during the Temple of Doom movie.
Holy shit. I was freaked out.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 04, 2023 10:40 PM (AIkrI)
Folks pool was full of gators, only about half full of water (was 14' deep in dream). I warned wife not to get to close, but she did and fell in. I shrugged my shoulders, said, "Oh Well", grabbed a shovel and jumped in to try and save her.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:43 PM (ynpvh)
If we are going to be retarded I have less issue with "Ft Liberty" than I do with Ft Johnson.
Abe Allen was a medal of honor recipient here in Lessville La from WW2.
They reached all the way to Harlem from WW1 to name this base because it HAD to be a minority.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:43 PM (X0I7i)
Still accepting donations towards the unkindest cut of all
There's another more extensive photo update #213 at the link.
Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on
"See Older Updates" as well if it's your first time.
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Posted by: Ciampino - Delivered this big roll of bubble-wrap and was told to pop it in the corner... at December 04, 2023 10:43 PM (qfLjt)
The trend to move back in with mom and dad is pushing up discretionary spending
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I don't think this is such a bad thing, if the kids contribute financially. This whole nuclear family idea is fairly modern.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 04, 2023 10:44 PM (vHIgi)
Posted by: Don Lemon at December 04, 2023 10:41 PM (ynpvh)
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Heh.
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 04, 2023 10:44 PM (pmW6q)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 04, 2023 10:44 PM (hiMh5)
Posted by: Don Lemon
So, one of Don's illegal boyfriends then.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 04, 2023 10:45 PM (IaTa3)
Posted by: Robert at December 04, 2023 10:43 PM (MiDic)
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LOL
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 04, 2023 10:45 PM (pmW6q)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 04, 2023 10:40 PM (9mNHV)
Heh…
The only thing that saved GG there, was the fact that Szell recognized his genius.
I can only imagine what the other musicians were thinking Szell would do to them if they tried that.
Posted by: browndog changing socks at December 04, 2023 10:45 PM (TTAGa)
IDF must smote them all.
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 04, 2023 10:46 PM (UsQA1)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2023 10:41 PM (XeU6L)
I was never in the service and even I know its called Fort Bragg
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at December 04, 2023 10:42 PM (aA3+G)
Simple, once a real conservative gets back in power, change the names back. I mean, with the Congress and White house in conservative hands, it will easily happen. Just like the repeal of Ozerocare.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 04, 2023 10:46 PM (Angsy)
This Frank Zappa guy would really freakout if he didn"t die thirty years ago and see what is going on today.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 04, 2023 10:46 PM (cOq4q)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 04, 2023 10:44 PM (vHIgi)
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I like the idea of the family compound, surrounded by a large wall with with preplanned clear fields of fire at all approaches.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 04, 2023 10:46 PM (hiMh5)
Otherwise, you need to get your shit together.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 04, 2023 10:47 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 04, 2023 10:47 PM (QBwwm)
You just don't get conservation, saving the planet and sustainability. We get to conserve energy by huddling in caves to save the planet so the 1% can sustain their lifestyle - forever.
Posted by: Ripley at December 04, 2023 10:48 PM (PTDkx)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 04, 2023 10:48 PM (R4t5M)
It should never have been a Republican thing to demand the bases named by Democrat Administrations celebrating democrats maintain their names.
The better use of Republican energy would be naming the bases for Union Generals.
I mean if this is all over "the innate evils of the ACW Confederados, and slavery" why not name it after Union Generals??
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:48 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Aristotle Onassis at December 04, 2023 10:49 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Cicero
Don't forget the alligator moat
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 04, 2023 10:49 PM (vHIgi)
That's a generous thought but the increase in kids moving back with their parents isn't because they want to, it's because the economy is so bad they have to. This isn't so much a rebirth of the nuclear family as it is a failure of our culture.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 10:49 PM (ZLI7S)
1 [659 comments] 'Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden' [92.47 posts/day]
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Sponge must have the best job among we morons; he appears to be paid to comment here at AoSHQ.
/Love Sponge, am jealous, and no homo
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 04, 2023 10:49 PM (pmW6q)
Fort Cavazos, which is "Ft Cav"....
Again it MUST be a minority except for Benning, because Hal Moore had a powerful lobby and he made it a point non-stop that his unit was one color.
Green.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:49 PM (X0I7i)
"Heh"...
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:50 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Cicero "
Camo colors are popular, but the Marvel Superhero branded products are strong sellers.
Posted by: fd at December 04, 2023 10:50 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2023 10:51 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 04, 2023 10:48 PM (R4t5M)
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Fort Bin Laden.
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 04, 2023 10:51 PM (pmW6q)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 04, 2023 10:51 PM (9eecq)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 04, 2023 10:48 PM (R4t5M)
I think the keep the name and call it "Da Hood"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:51 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory,
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Chorizo or something like that.... ///
Posted by: lin-duh at December 04, 2023 10:51 PM (QBwwm)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 04, 2023 10:51 PM (0FoWg)
It would make rebuilding them a bitch. Pumping water in is tough, for a bunch of retards pumping it out will be a bitch.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 10:42 PM (ZLI7S)
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Hopefully there will be no retards left to try bailing out the tunnels. Once 95% of Hamas have been killed, Israel needs to sell package Killer Safaris, no bag limits. I'm sure a lot of foreigners would love to bag some Hams. Take hunting dogs.
Posted by: Ciampino - Sold my Hoover, it was just collecting dust. at December 04, 2023 10:52 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 04, 2023 10:52 PM (S6gqv)
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It's like gambling. Fun to do occasionally, but when you do it 40 hours a week, it's a job.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 04, 2023 10:52 PM (ovxwt)
Posted by: Cicero
Don't forget the alligator moat
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion
Can I man one of the turrets? Pretty please?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 04, 2023 10:52 PM (uclcs)
/Love Sponge, am jealous, and no homo
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 04, 2023 10:49 PM (pmW6q)
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The guy claims first ten times a thread to pump up his score.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 04, 2023 10:53 PM (RIvkX)
Green.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:49 PM (X0I7i)
Fort Cavazos, in honor of Gen. Richard Edward Cavazos, a four-star general who fought in both the Korean and Vietnam wars.
Posted by: javems at December 04, 2023 10:53 PM (W54U5)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 10:42 PM (ZLI7S)
When you are filling underground tunnels with water, gravity is your friend.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2023 10:53 PM (+eE5Z)
Otherwise, you need to get your shit together.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 04, 2023 10:47 PM (0FoWg)
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Or as I was once told: "You need to grow the fuck up!"
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 04, 2023 10:53 PM (pmW6q)
Posted by: Eric Cartman (3rd Grade) at December 04, 2023 10:53 PM (Qilav)
Which given some of the current command climate issues, and the sexual bondage and human trafficking there is actually probably a dishonor to Cavazos.
It will always be Hood to me, and it was an apt name.
Bull-headed and fond of frontal assaults.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:53 PM (X0I7i)
What does "higher penetration of higher education" mean? -
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It means degrees are handed out like condoms at the olympics, so they are useless for getting a job and little Johnny's gotta live with mom and dad until they pass on. And even then Johnny won't be able to afford the property tax on the home place.
Bidenomics, CATCH THE FEEVA!!
Posted by: irright at December 04, 2023 10:54 PM (YvvFZ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2023 10:54 PM (XeU6L)
If we were still stuck in the vacuum tube era we'd be restricted to a simple radio that gets one channel to the FCC approved network.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 04, 2023 10:54 PM (cOq4q)
Posted by: fd at December 04, 2023 10:54 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 04, 2023 10:54 PM (ovxwt)
OBAMA is in his 3rd term
OBAMA is who started all of this.
Do not be distracted by whatever the MSM spews forth.
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 04, 2023 10:55 PM (UsQA1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 04, 2023 10:53 PM (RIvkX)
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LOL. Sponge, Mannix, and TJM are Russian AI Macedonian Content Farmer ChatBots. Prove me wrong ...
/Love all those guys and most of the rest of the horde ...
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 04, 2023 10:55 PM (pmW6q)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 04, 2023 10:55 PM (ovxwt)
I am aware of General Cav's record.
I mean no disrespect to any of the soldiers who have their names attached but AGAIN if the reason democrats wanted to remove the names was "muh slavery" the correct thing would have been to honor the men who set the table to end it.
The whole thing is bullshit.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:55 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 04, 2023 10:55 PM (UsQA1)
After the ravages of Obamanomics and Bidenomics I'm not going to dunk on this demographic too much, especially when rent alone can take as much as 3/4 of your take-home pay even in the suburbs/exurbs.
Posted by: There are some slackers but its a shit hand too at December 04, 2023 10:56 PM (r/JV0)
Posted by: Eric Cartman (3rd Grade) at December 04, 2023 10:56 PM (Qilav)
I also keep having nightmares about teeth. Teeth shattering, or growing through peoples' faces, that kinda shit.
*shrug*
I'm sure they mean something, but damned if I know what.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 04, 2023 10:56 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 10:18 PM (ZLI7S)
Ahhh...salting the earth from below.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 04, 2023 10:57 PM (uSHSS)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 10:42 PM (ZLI7S)
When you are filling underground tunnels with water, gravity is your friend.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2023 10:53 PM (+eE5Z)
Once you get the flow started, and it's below sea level, yes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:57 PM (ynpvh)
Hoochie Hoochie was named for the mountain range.
It was a small frontier base that was ramped up, laid there at the mountains to combat the Chiricahua Apaches.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:57 PM (X0I7i)
OBAMA is in his 3rd term
OBAMA is who started all of this.
Do not be distracted by whatever the MSM spews forth.
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 04, 2023 10:55 PM (UsQA1)
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Heard a credible argument that this is DogEater's 4th term -- since Trump's Presidency and all the Deep State Insubordination and Soft Coup Against Him including The Steal all happened on DogEater's 3rd term watch.
So when they steal 2024 for a comatose or dead F. Joseph Roombanette Biden, that will be the beginning of DogEater's 5th term ... and the end of the U.S.A., fully fundamentally transformed into a Turd World Shithole.
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 04, 2023 10:57 PM (pmW6q)
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:48 PM (X0I7i)
Because most of them had the same sympathies. They'd be cancelled now, too.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 04, 2023 10:58 PM (Angsy)
Posted by: Eric Cartman (3rd Grade) at December 04, 2023 10:56 PM (Qilav)
Scott Baio and the aliens cleared it up.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:59 PM (ynpvh)
Also because there is no way in hell the democrats would ever honor the defeat of democrats.
Don't believe the hype and it is all hype.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:59 PM (X0I7i)
I've never heard it called that. The lifer crypto guys used to call it "We got ya!", because they'd cycle through there, a place in Korea, and a place in Germany.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 04, 2023 11:00 PM (Bd6X8)
An unnamed tourist has died after completing the world's biggest bungee jump in China, with the 56-year-old suffering a shortness of breath after the 764ft plunge
Would not bungee off that. No way.
But I would Base Jump it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 04, 2023 11:00 PM (cOq4q)
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in Clear And Present Danger, it's a CIA listening post
Posted by: Don Black at December 04, 2023 11:00 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Eric Cartman (3rd Grade) at December 04, 2023 10:56 PM (Qilav)
Scott Baio and the aliens cleared it up.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:59 PM (ynpvh)
What!?! That's it. Screw you guys, I'm going home.
Posted by: Eric Cartman (3rd Grade) at December 04, 2023 11:01 PM (Qilav)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 11:01 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 04, 2023 10:52 PM (uclcs)
You sure you want to live in Mindanao?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 04, 2023 11:01 PM (Angsy)
Posted by: Fuck the RNC in the ear at December 04, 2023 11:02 PM (r/JV0)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 04, 2023 10:54 PM (cOq4q)
The Volksempfanger:
https://tinyurl.com/nv5cvapc
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2023 11:02 PM (+eE5Z)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2023 10:51 PM (XeU6L)
From what I read about Richard Cavazos, he definitely deserved to have something named after him. A heroic man.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 04, 2023 11:02 PM (gqKnw)
Fort Bliss is the same thing for the ADA guys or was until sanity finally asserted itself after 9/11.
My son had to go to school at Pensacola and Hoochie Hoochie.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 11:02 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December
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Or they may have mapped the tunnels so well that they flush the villains and captives out the other end.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 04, 2023 11:02 PM (FQLP3)
Since the war started, TOI's online readership has increased by over 600%, it claims, so somebody else must like it too. I prefer TOI to the Jerusalem Post. Apart from war news, both are lefty-- but I only read the war-related news.
Posted by: mnw at December 04, 2023 11:03 PM (NLIak)
Absolutely, I meant what I said....the General would go Hercules at Aegean stables on the resident units these days.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 11:03 PM (X0I7i)
It's windy too.
And the snow level went from 3000 ft this weekend (we got three feet of snow in some areas) to 9000 feet today.
Gonna get some serious flooding.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 04, 2023 11:03 PM (UlRld)
https://tinyurl.com/earfd7h8
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 11:01 PM (ZLI7S)
Hah!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:03 PM (ynpvh)
You know who doesn't belong in these debates at all? Nikki Haley.
She has no support.
She has no platform
Her issues are "what would make me lose the general election to a Democrat"
Posted by: 18-1 at December 04, 2023 11:04 PM (XqcwY)
Posted by: Braenyard at December 04, 2023 11:05 PM (FQLP3)
Since the war started, TOI's online readership has increased by over 600%, it claims, so somebody else must like it too. I prefer TOI to the Jerusalem Post. Apart from war news, both are lefty-- but I only read the war-related news.
Posted by: mnw at December 04, 2023 11:03 PM (NLIak)
as long as one keeps in mind that TOI tilts left
Posted by: runner at December 04, 2023 11:05 PM (V13WU)
https://tinyurl.com/earfd7h8
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 11:01 PM (ZLI7S)
I hope that was by accident. Like, some college idiot who only knew that Hayek, and posted the quote over her photo.
If it's on purpose, it's not nearly as funny. Still funny, but still.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 04, 2023 11:05 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 10:42 PM (ZLI7S)
When you are filling underground tunnels with water, gravity is your friend.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2023 10:53 PM (+eE5Z)
Once you get the flow started, and it's below sea level, yes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:57 PM (ynpvh)
The Seawater Must Flow
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 04, 2023 11:05 PM (8sMut)
Have you looked at Rent Prices the last couple of years?
$2000 a month for a hovel. Now, as entry level positions Salary has not kept up with inflation, and rent increases?
If yer making $40K a year to get started... $24K a year for rent... ie... money that is just GONE... yeah, lets go live with the Parents.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 04, 2023 11:05 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 10:57 PM (ynpvh)
A siphon can only lift water about 30-odd feet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2023 11:05 PM (+eE5Z)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 04, 2023 11:06 PM (UlRld)
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:59 PM (X0I7i)
I don't. I know the reason for name changing was to insult and demean, not to raise up anything but hatred.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 04, 2023 11:07 PM (Angsy)
Skool iz fer smart peeplez.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 04, 2023 11:07 PM (0FoWg)
The whole thing is bullshit.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:55 PM (X0I7i)
I didn't mean to suggest otherwise. Just looked him up and decided not to post until I looked at his record. Not sure what happened. Being in theater means nothing. I've served with some sorry excuses of general officers.
Posted by: javems at December 04, 2023 11:09 PM (W54U5)
She has no support.
She has no platform
Her issues are "what would make me lose the general election to a Democrat"
Posted by: 18-1 at December 04, 2023 11:04 PM (XqcwY)
That thieving bitch!
Posted by: Chris Christie at December 04, 2023 11:09 PM (Angsy)
Posted by: Weyland-Yutani Corporation at December 04, 2023 11:10 PM (4I/2K)
Not a great chain of decisions. But better than living with my parents, ferpetessakes.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 04, 2023 11:10 PM (0FoWg)
The whole thing is bullshit.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:55 PM (X0I7i)
SWEEP AWAY ALL MONSTERS AND DEMONS!!!
Posted by: Communist Party of China, June 1966 at December 04, 2023 11:11 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Thanks, jim; I needed that!!!!
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2023 11:12 PM (0Htd1)
Ft Bawney Fwank
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 11:12 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Communist Party of China, June 1966 at December 04, 2023 11:11 PM (8sMut)
Indeed. Mao needs to go. And Xi, too.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:12 PM (ynpvh)
It was narcissistic to think that he wouldn't need his own vote.
See also: praying for yourself vs. praying for others.
Posted by: mikeski at December 04, 2023 11:12 PM (DgGvY)
If yer making $40K a year to get started... $24K a year for rent... ie... money that is just GONE... yeah, lets go live with the Parents.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Salary to cost of living ratio _ just like old times.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 04, 2023 11:13 PM (FQLP3)
Look who tweeted it. As I said, the best.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 11:13 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 04, 2023 11:13 PM (Bd6X8)
Every situation is different, & I'm not going to apply a one-size-fits-all standard.
What if a parent is elderly & needs help with daily living tasks? That situation is quite normal, what with increased life expectancy. One of my grandmothers had that arrangement with her parents back in the early 1900s.*
*can't call that era "the Gay Nineties" any longer; sad.
Posted by: mnw at December 04, 2023 11:14 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:12 PM (ynpvh)
You have ten fingers. If you lose one you still have nine.
Posted by: Mao at December 04, 2023 11:14 PM (8sMut)
You could sure use some lessons in how to hold your mouth right.
I wonder what is wrong deep down inside some of you people.
Moping malcontent does not always equal principled conservative.
We've developed some very unhealthy habits of mind.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 04, 2023 11:14 PM (FCs/J)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 11:13 PM (ZLI7S)
He's going to get a million responses calling him a dummy for using the "wrong" picture, and his reply will be "hah! made you read it, didn't I?"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2023 11:15 PM (+eE5Z)
Posted by: Mao at December 04, 2023 11:15 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Thanks, jim; I needed that!!!!
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2023 11:12 PM (0Htd1)
::: curtseys...then remembers that's not quite right :::
You're welcome. I'm here most evenings...try the fish!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:16 PM (ynpvh)
But I must log off now & sleep. Tomorrow.... is finally (1st) hip replacement surgery for MiladyJo. RoboJo! Should all be good, but prayers would he welcomed, of course. 🙏
Posted by: mindful webworker - mud shark! at December 04, 2023 11:16 PM (PGE+Y)
Gonna get some serious flooding.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 04, 2023 11:03 PM (UlRld)
It almost got to 70 here, and it got a bit windy. It should be warm (50's or so) and rainy for the next week. Then back to cold. It is odd to get a Chinook before the winter clamps down1
Posted by: Kindltot at December 04, 2023 11:17 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Mao at December 04, 2023 11:17 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Mao at December 04, 2023 11:17 PM (8sMut)
He was quite the philospher. Asked about how he was doing: "The more you eat, the more you shit."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:18 PM (ynpvh)
If yer making $40K a year to get started... $24K a year for rent... ie... money that is just GONE... yeah, lets go live with the Parents.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 04, 2023 11:05 PM (xaFKb)
Recently looked at rents in NoVA just for fun (no way I'd move there). Yikes!
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 04, 2023 11:18 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 10:48 PM (X0I7i)
Change the former Benning to Fort Sherman. Stand back and watch the fireworks.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 04, 2023 11:19 PM (M1WkG)
But I must log off now & sleep. Tomorrow.... is finally (1st) hip replacement surgery for MiladyJo. RoboJo! Should all be good, but prayers would he welcomed, of course. 🙏
Posted by: mindful webworker - mud shark! at December 04, 2023 11:16 PM (PGE+Y)
Oh, prayers for a successful surgery.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:19 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Mao at December 04, 2023 11:17 PM (8sMut)
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Drink?
Sex?
Drink?
Posted by: Ciampino - Sold my Hoover, it was just collecting dust... at December 04, 2023 11:19 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Braenyard at December 04, 2023 11:20 PM (FQLP3)
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Totally understandable. That's what good sons do when the need arises.
But you should have been on your own a long time before that, unless an illness strikes your parents down in their youth.
The general condition is lazy, coddled boys who refuse to gain any damned independence or wherewithal because it would be hard n shit, and momma wouldn't let them, and daddy wouldn't make them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 04, 2023 11:20 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:20 PM (ynpvh)
Good luck. Prayers up. I got a new knee, & it wasn't bad. They say hips are easier than knees, too.
Posted by: mnw at December 04, 2023 11:21 PM (NLIak)
Quite and if this was over the "insurrection" Bill had some thoughts on that.
I used to say every time I was on Benning, "the last time my family was here humming Georgia on my Mind" it meant something way different.
Posted by: sven at December 04, 2023 11:21 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Mao at December 04, 2023 11:14 PM (8sMut)
Yeah, but you won't be playing the Baritone Sax.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 04, 2023 11:21 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2023 11:21 PM (+eE5Z)
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Totally understandable. That's what good sons do when the need arises.
But you should have been on your own a long time before that, unless an illness strikes your parents down in their youth.
The general condition is lazy, coddled boys who refuse to gain any damned independence or wherewithal because it would be hard n shit, and momma wouldn't let them, and daddy wouldn't make them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 04, 2023 11:20 PM (0FoWg)
Dad MOVED IN with one of my brothers. Then again, nothing left for Dad after the divorce (for either him or Mom).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:22 PM (ynpvh)
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I agree with vmom of stabby fame: kids living at home can be a responsible choice. I had to convince my baby brother that moving in with me was a good idea, not a loser move.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 04, 2023 11:22 PM (YJlID)
Posted by: Braenyard at December 04, 2023 11:23 PM (FQLP3)
Posted by: Mao at December 04, 2023 11:14 PM (8sMut)
Yeah, but you won't be playing the Baritone Sax.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 04, 2023 11:21 PM (D7oie)
And not all fingers are the same. Thumbs are very useful.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 04, 2023 11:23 PM (Bd6X8)
https://tinyurl.com/yc4jtyft
(No, really, it's a blast!)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 04, 2023 11:23 PM (Bd6X
"I'm sorry, but the J-6 tapes were held in that house"--Nancy Pelosi
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:24 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 04, 2023 11:24 PM (w3u3d)
I have a huge amount of respect for what Musk has done for free speech and my admiration for his ability to chart his own path and win at life is off the charts.
I can see why the establishment fears him. He doesn't fear them at all. He's a unicorn.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 11:24 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 11:24 PM (ZLI7S)
Salma Hayek could teach me economics, too. As in: I don't have enough money to be tapping that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2023 11:26 PM (+eE5Z)
My brother got a part time job within walking distance, which meant no commuting and he kept his old car going long enough to save for a new truck.
Him splitting the bills meant I went back for certification and paid tuition upfront. Win-win.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 04, 2023 11:26 PM (YJlID)
As stated, I just don't think one size fits all. Too many variations.
Lots of people have kids later in life these days-- ANOTHER recent trend, & thus they need help from their adult kids when the kids are younger.
I can also see young adults living at home for awhile to build up their savings. Same principle as choosing to be a commuter college student.
Posted by: mnw at December 04, 2023 11:28 PM (NLIak)
It's 58 here right now. Warmer now than it was at noon.
Power outages coming soon.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 04, 2023 11:29 PM (uclcs)
Millennials: Immigration is a right! Yes we need to let in tens of millions of immigrants!
Also Millennials: Why the hell is housing so expensive? Its like there is all this increased competition for housing that the last generation didn't have to deal with!!!
Posted by: 18-1 at December 04, 2023 11:31 PM (XqcwY)
https://mol.im/a/12824107
Posted by: Ciampino - Sold my Hoover, it was just collecting dust.. at December 04, 2023 11:31 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 04, 2023 11:32 PM (uSHSS)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 04, 2023 11:32 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: mnw at December 04, 2023 11:28 PM (NLIak)
My kids will not be doing that. I could see letting them hang around banking on my back for a couple years of college or whatever.
But this whole "live with my parents til I'm 35" thing? Not a fucking chance. Not because of the expense to me. Because of the expense to THEM.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 04, 2023 11:32 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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The Left do not entertain anything that might be called a core morality. They are driven by idealogy, and idealogy alone. All of the labeling, all of the holier-than-thou spews, all of 'equity' talk, they are just tools to be used for the destabilization of society.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2023 11:32 PM (XeU6L)
Winter is when my old calico cat wants to spend as much time as possible in my lap because it is warm. In the summer she hates being in the house.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 04, 2023 11:33 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 04, 2023 11:31 PM (XqcwY)
Weirdly enough though... although Rents in my small town have really gone up... my Property Value has not.
Rents are about twice what they were 5 years ago, yet my House is actually worth less? /looks confuselated
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 04, 2023 11:34 PM (xaFKb)
I can also see young adults living at home for awhile to build up their savings. Same principle as choosing to be a commuter college student.
Posted by: mnw at December 04, 2023 11:28 PM (NLIak)
61, kid second year college, kid in middle school. Yeah, I don't mind if they move back home. Unless they bring someone else. House is too small for that.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 04, 2023 11:34 PM (Angsy)
Posted by: Diogenes
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Hmm. Did you spend any time at Uncle Ben's Rest home?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2023 11:34 PM (XeU6L)
The only one that lived at home as an adult was the screw up. My wife eventually tossed her out after three/four chances to simply hold a job and pay us $100/mo rent. Nope.
Interesting.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 04, 2023 11:34 PM (IaTa3)
https://mol.im/a/12824873
Posted by: Ciampino - Windmills musically are great metal fans at December 04, 2023 11:35 PM (qfLjt)
Sadly, neither do I. But unlike 99% of the Hollyweird set I think she would enjoy the compliments.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2023 11:35 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Braenyard at December 04, 2023 11:13 PM (FQLP3)
Yes and no. Inflation is a bastard. Rent is out of sight today. Everywhere. Income taxes are higher than in The Days of Yore.
I look at it this way. You know those music reaction videos? Well, try explaining that you didn't just buy a song back then, usually you had to buy an album. When the minimum wage was around $2.30/hour, an album was around $4-5, one to two hours of labor before taxes. No one could buy all those hit/cool/favorite songs, although Lord we all tried. But gas was $.29 to $.39 a gallon. Five bucks would fill up my Sqauareback back then. Now? What, $40-50 to fill up, if it isn't an SUV? No, things are much more expensive over all. Think Weimar Germany and not The Same As It Ever Was.
Posted by: RickZ at December 04, 2023 11:35 PM (emlEe)
Oh, you have an idea?
Well be kind to it, it's in a strange place.
Posted by: Tom Perry at December 04, 2023 11:36 PM (MX0bI)
We spent $30T we didn't have on welfare and that is why everything costs more.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 04, 2023 11:37 PM (XqcwY)
Posted by: Drive by at December 04, 2023 11:37 PM (MNhXM)
Same pistol Frank Hammer used at the Bonnie and Clyde ambush.
https://is.gd/aGUNmP
Posted by: Braenyard at December 04, 2023 11:37 PM (FQLP3)
*can't call that era "the Gay Nineties" any longer; sad.
Posted by: mnw at December 04, 2023 11:14 PM
My mom and her siblings grew up on the family farm because her dad was the son who stayed home. My grandmother was kind of a bonus: she was raised a farm girl and a real hard worker.
The only frictions were that grandfather had to pay out equally to his siblings when he inherited the farm, despite putting the most into it. And Grandma told her in-laws that the kids (Mom etc) were going to eat at the table during mealtimes, not make due with whatever was left when the adults and hired hands finished.
And I'm rambling because I'm tired, but I think we're headed back to those days of multiple generations living together.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 04, 2023 11:37 PM (YJlID)
I believe in parents & young adult children treating the family's economic situation holistically & formulating a PLAN.
Posted by: mnw at December 04, 2023 11:38 PM (NLIak)
We spent $30T we didn't have on welfare and that is why everything costs more.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 04, 2023 11:37 PM (XqcwY)
Oh, that's just $90K+/person in the US...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:39 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 04, 2023 11:34 PM (XeU6L)
That was probably after my time.
A lot of time at the O'club and The Sorrry Gultch Saloon.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 04, 2023 11:39 PM (uSHSS)
It's just a completely different world from mine. A smaller world. And a crueler one, in many regards.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 04, 2023 11:40 PM (0FoWg)
It's just a completely different world from mine. A smaller world. And a crueler one, in many regards.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 04, 2023 11:40 PM (0FoWg)
:::types, deletes:::
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:42 PM (ynpvh)
https://mol.im/a/12815077
Posted by: Ciampino - Windmills musically are great metal fans ... at December 04, 2023 11:42 PM (qfLjt)
https://mol.im/a/12815077
Posted by: Ciampino - Windmills musically are great metal fans ... at December 04, 2023 11:42 PM (qfLjt)
She's got big tits?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:43 PM (ynpvh)
I mentioned how one of my grandmothers stayed at home & cared for her elderly parents? When they died, my grandmother inherited a disproportionately larger share of their estate-- in return for her services. My grandmother's siblings had AGREED to that arrangement.
It was win-win-win-- my grandmother's siblings knew their parents were being well cared for, in their own home.
Posted by: mnw at December 04, 2023 11:43 PM (NLIak)
This Frank Zappa guy would really freakout if he didn"t die thirty years ago and see what is going on today.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
Freak out? He was only in it for the money.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 04, 2023 11:44 PM (63Dwl)
https://mol.im/a/12824629
Okay but we still didn't get an answer.
Posted by: Ciampino - Windmills musically are great heavy metal fans ... at December 04, 2023 11:44 PM (qfLjt)
>>$2-00 a month for a hovel. Now, as entry level positions Salary has not kept up with inflation, and rent increases?
A one bed, on bath in Astoria Queens is going for 2900 a month.
I just rented out my 3 bed 2 bath on almost 2 acres in Morris County for 2700.
My first apartment was a 127 dollar a month studio, adjusted for inflation that's about 475 dollars.
You ain't finding a 475 dollar a month studio anywhere.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 04, 2023 11:45 PM (XV/Pl)
>>$2-00 a month for a hovel. Now, as entry level positions Salary has not kept up with inflation, and rent increases?
A one bed, on bath in Astoria Queens is going for 2900 a month.
I just rented out my 3 bed 2 bath on almost 2 acres in Morris County for 2700.
My first apartment was a 127 dollar a month studio, adjusted for inflation that's about 475 dollars.
You ain't finding a 475 dollar a month studio anywhere.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 04, 2023 11:45 PM (XV/Pl)
Yeah, maybe 30+ years ago in San Diego. Maybe.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:46 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 04, 2023 11:37 PM (XqcwY)
When the sign out front says "Welfare Capital(ist) Of The World, Free Admission Right >>> This Way", what can one expect?
Our native poor, not just our Native poor, are starting to notice they don't seem to matter too much anymore. Things are starting to get spicy within minority communities now. When the 'hood gets sporty, that will be interesting times. Ireland all over again. Our native poor are racist xenophobes and 'American Lives Matter' is fascist racism.
One playbook to rule them all.
Posted by: RickZ at December 04, 2023 11:46 PM (emlEe)
Posted by: N at December 04, 2023 11:46 PM (RjBju)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 04, 2023 11:47 PM (VbW3c)
https://mol.im/a/12824629
Okay but we still didn't get an answer.
Posted by: Ciampino - Windmills musically are great heavy metal fans ... at December 04, 2023 11:44 PM (qfLjt)
Gov't-approved snake oil sells. Win-win for companies and congresscritters.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:47 PM (ynpvh)
https://mol.im/a/12824909
Posted by: Ciampino - Windmills musically are great heavy metal fans .. at December 04, 2023 11:47 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: N at December 04, 2023 11:46 PM (RjBju)
And the sticks would've been sharpened blades...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:48 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 04, 2023 11:48 PM (wukIh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Mr. Furley would give you a discount.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 04, 2023 11:48 PM (xcLhO)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Mr. Furley would give you a discount.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 04, 2023 11:48 PM (xcLhO)
Except I'm not gay...and I'd have to have found two girls to shack up with.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:49 PM (ynpvh)
No, things are much more expensive over all. Think Weimar Germany and not The Same As It Ever Was.
Posted by: RickZ
So you could buy about 6.5 gallons of gas for 1 hour's labor back then.
The current federal minimum wage is $7.25. So now you can only buy about 2 gallons of gas for 1 hour's labor.
The price of fuel affects the price of everything. Everything is shipped, and almost everything is stored in a climate-controlled place.
Posted by: mikeski at December 04, 2023 11:50 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 04, 2023 11:50 PM (qPw5n)
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What an incredible string of bad luck!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 04, 2023 11:50 PM (ovxwt)
I'm hoping for a chickens-voting-for-Col. Sanders sudden moment of clarity.
There are some early indications. We'll have to see if it takes.
Posted by: mnw at December 04, 2023 11:51 PM (NLIak)
No, things are much more expensive over all. Think Weimar Germany and not The Same As It Ever Was.
Posted by: RickZ
So you could buy about 6.5 gallons of gas for 1 hour's labor back then.
The current federal minimum wage is $7.25. So now you can only buy about 2 gallons of gas for 1 hour's labor.
The price of fuel affects the price of everything. Everything is shipped, and almost everything is stored in a climate-controlled place.
Posted by: mikeski at December 04, 2023 11:50 PM (DgGvY)
And that's why Buffet was so happy when the pipeline construction was halted by Biden; his trains transport fuel.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:51 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 04, 2023 11:51 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 04, 2023 11:50 PM (qPw5n)
Because it came be-four...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:51 PM (ynpvh)
I'm hoping for a chickens-voting-for-Col. Sanders sudden moment of clarity.
There are some early indications. We'll have to see if it takes.
Posted by: mnw at December 04, 2023 11:51 PM (NLIak)
but the farmer feeds them so well...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 04, 2023 11:52 PM (ynpvh)
It was win-win-win-- my grandmother's siblings knew their parents were being well cared for, in their own home.
Posted by: mnw at December 04, 2023 11:43 PM (NLIak)
I think my great-grandparents wanted to give all the an equal share because Grandpa's older brothers lost so much in the Great Depression. My grandparents never complained about it, except to say that it took years to pay that debt.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 04, 2023 11:53 PM (YJlID)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 04, 2023 11:37 PM (YJlID)
Dad told stories about having to eat like that.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 04, 2023 11:55 PM (Angsy)
Lack of neck guards caused his death the way spoons cause obesity …
Posted by: Adriane is to Grapes, as X is to Wine . . . at December 04, 2023 11:56 PM (4Winp)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
But is that commuting distance from DC? The rent will be high. When I was younger I had a friend who moved to DC. She had to have roommates to afford living there.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2023 11:56 PM (0Htd1)
Yeah, but Pontiac didn't sell any Aztecs in Sweeden.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 04, 2023 11:57 PM (e6UQI)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 04, 2023 11:55 PM (Angsy)
My wife has stories about eating like that, she did say that some of the workmen would skimp on what they ate so the girls would have more to eat
Posted by: Kindltot at December 04, 2023 11:57 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2023 11:59 PM (+eE5Z)
If I were a financial planner (instead of just a kibitzer), my first thought would be, is there no way to relocate to a different part of the country, where rent doesn't eat up so much of take home pay?
A nice place near Knoxville or Little Rock? Not just housing is cheaper, but lower (or no) state taxes, cheaper insurance, etc.
Posted by: mnw at December 04, 2023 11:59 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 04, 2023 11:59 PM (S6gqv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2023 11:59 PM (+eE5Z)
It's been so cold here, in the 40s.
/sarc
Tomorrow we may hit 78°F...warmest day of the week. Should be beautiful and clear.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2023 12:00 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
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He was the rational one in the first debate.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 05, 2023 12:00 AM (FQLP3)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 04, 2023 11:59 PM (S6gqv)
Once my meds run out, the clock starts ticking down for me quickly.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2023 12:01 AM (ynpvh)
hmmm. 72 hrs.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2023 12:03 AM (cOq4q)
A lot of time at the O'club and The Sorrry Gultch Saloon.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Heh. No:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Fort_Benjamin_Harrison
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 05, 2023 12:03 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 05, 2023 12:04 AM (Angsy)
Ok by me! Hoping the rain holds off tomorrow, and I can maybe get the last of yard-winterizing done.
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2023 12:05 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 04, 2023 11:34 PM
I hate to jinx myself, but my house value dropped during the housing crash and hasn't come back. On paper. So my taxes have been, on average, $1200 a year. I couldn't rent a studio apartment for that.
I suppose that will end soon. The squalor house next door, which has the same square footage as mine, went for $40 more than expected.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 05, 2023 12:06 AM (YJlID)
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Well, he was an Odawa, so didn't mix with the Aztecs much.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 05, 2023 12:07 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 05, 2023 12:07 AM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Weird facial hair candidate at December 05, 2023 12:08 AM (pjs7m)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 05, 2023 12:08 AM (YJlID)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
One of my brothers was offered a job in San Diego. He looked around at the housing costs and decided that to take it. Nice weather though.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 05, 2023 12:10 AM (0Htd1)
Posted by: NaughtyPine
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Great heavens! Inflation of x1000 in just two minutes. Things are worse than I thought.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 05, 2023 12:11 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: N at December 05, 2023 12:12 AM (RjBju)
Posted by: mnw at December 05, 2023 12:12 AM (NLIak)
Posted by: mnw
?
Posted by: N at December 05, 2023 12:12 AM (RjBju)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 04, 2023 10:35 PM (9mNHV)
Yeah, seriously...as much as I think Robert De Niro is asshoe I kinda have to side with him on this one inasmuch as anyone taking the job has to know what they're getting into. Too many stupid lawsuits over obvious stuff.
Slurp hot coffee without checking first, you may get burned.
Fight a war with real guns and bombs, you may get shot at.
Be a famous act-or's paid minion, you may have to nanny a spoiled manchild with serious personal issues and no sense of tact.
Posted by: CppThis at December 05, 2023 12:15 AM (PZvjL)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 05, 2023 12:16 AM (MeG8a)
What businesses actually pay $7.25 per hour? Maybe restaurants where the employees are going to get most of their pay as tips? Around here lower paying jobs, like retail jobs start out at at least $16 per hour, and many are saying they start at $20.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 05, 2023 12:17 AM (0Htd1)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 05, 2023 12:17 AM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Second (Blue) Unicorn at December 05, 2023 12:18 AM (Qilav)
Didn't it turn out that Erin Brockovich's case was a load of BS, and that people in that area did not get cancer at a higher rate than the national average.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 05, 2023 12:19 AM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 05, 2023 12:22 AM (R4t5M)
[gateway pundit]
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2023 12:23 AM (cOq4q)
Yes those damned red states and their environmental and code crap to raise the....
wait that is Mexifornia that has functionally outlawed budget single family homes...
Posted by: sven at December 05, 2023 12:24 AM (X0I7i)
Not that any reasonable observer ever doubted it.
Posted by: mnw at December 05, 2023 12:27 AM (NLIak)
Posted by: Second (Blue) Unicorn
Yeah, I thought it was pretty obvious that it was a joke and that she wasn't the Hayek who said those things.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 05, 2023 12:28 AM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Braenyard at December 05, 2023 12:29 AM (FQLP3)
Would be amusing to see just where those floated up to the surface?
It would prove that hamas wasn't all it was quacked up to be.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 05, 2023 12:30 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Second (Blue) Unicorn at December 05, 2023 12:30 AM (Qilav)
Posted by: Drive by at December 05, 2023 12:31 AM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Braenyard at December 05, 2023 12:31 AM (FQLP3)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 05, 2023 12:31 AM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Braenyard at December 05, 2023 12:31 AM (FQLP3)
Twenty bucks, same as in town.
Posted by: Tiffani at December 05, 2023 12:33 AM (emlEe)
Posted by: mnw at December 05, 2023 12:33 AM (NLIak)
Not that any reasonable observer ever doubted it.
Posted by: mnw
Insert discharge hose, seal that opening, pump it under pressure, and see where it comes up.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2023 12:34 AM (cOq4q)
:::types, deletes:::
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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"a girl"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 05, 2023 12:07 AM (lCaJd)
Indeed. In today's day and age, that's not always a given.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2023 12:35 AM (ynpvh)
So is gas
Posted by: Braenyard at December 05, 2023 12:37 AM (FQLP3)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2023 12:38 AM (cOq4q)
I think any delay now will be bc of the hostages. That will always be the govt's top concern.
Posted by: mnw at December 05, 2023 12:42 AM (NLIak)
Posted by: mnw at December 05, 2023 12:44 AM (NLIak)
Posted by: nerdygirl
RickZ said "minimum wage," so the de jure wage is what I compared to. The de facto minimum wage probably is the $15 the democrats were Fighting For a while back.
You're pointing out the same thing we were, though, from the other side of the equation. Nobody's going to work for minimum wage if minimum wage isn't keeping up with inflation. 10x the cost of gas (30+ cents to 3+ dollars) means 10x the wages ($2.30/hr to $20/hr, not to $7.25/hr.)
And that worsens the inflation spiral, as well. Just like fuel costs add to the cost of everything, labor costs add to the cost of everything, too.
If you want an affluent society, you need "stuff" to be inexpensive relative to wages. Energy most of all. Just raising wages to $5000/hr or $5 trillion/hr can't do it.
There's probably something here about how "minimum wage jobs" 30+ years ago were something high-school kids did part-time, and now they're supposed to support independent adults full-time.....
Posted by: mikeski at December 05, 2023 12:45 AM (DgGvY)
With minimum wage if they don't take it and have nothing they go on the dole and with EBTs and allotments they come out better than working. That's a problem.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 05, 2023 12:49 AM (FQLP3)
Bluz lost to the woeful 'Otes night before last, and then turned around 2nite & beat LGK in Vegas in OT.
Go figure.
Posted by: mnw at December 05, 2023 12:49 AM (NLIak)
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Disgusting
Posted by: Braenyard at December 05, 2023 12:52 AM (FQLP3)
It wasn't the greatest existence --ramen & koolaid were basics-- but since I w*rked in a full-service restaurant, didn't lack for "real" food (except on my days off, LOL)
Tips? No, I was washing dishes & bussing tables back then... no tip sharing. Sometimes the waitstaff would tip me, if a busy shift and we all busted our butts.
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2023 12:56 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 05, 2023 12:59 AM (yO3vM)
Two DOD insider sources told me today that the #Biden White House has placed (in the words of one) “every possible handcuff” on the DOD’s ability to respond to #Iran proxy attacks.
The scale & scope of these attacks are unprecedented — and we’re just taking the hits. Dangerous.
Lara Seligman @laraseligman 5h
New tonight: An hours-long firefight involving U.S. commercial vessels in the Red Sea this weekend has left some U.S. officials frustrated by what they see as the Biden administration’s deliberate downplaying of a major threat to American forces. politico.com/news/2023/12/04…
Dec 5, 2023 · 12:40 AM UTC
OSINTdefender@sentdefender 7h
U.S. National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan stated today that the United States is currently attempting to Build a Maritime Task Force of Partner Nations to provide Protection to Commercial Shipping in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait, as a result of recent Attacks by the Houthi Terrorist Organization in Yemen.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 05, 2023 01:04 AM (FQLP3)
Posted by: Raifungus, Prince of Tards at December 05, 2023 01:09 AM (pjs7m)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz is full of Holiday Cheer at December 05, 2023 01:10 AM (Sgq8y)
USS Carney & the Bab el-Mandeb Shootout
Dec 4, 2023
What is Going on With Shipping?
Grafts and charts in the beginning. - where the ships are
https://piped.video/watch?v=Fkzgt4YvwLw
Posted by: Braenyard at December 05, 2023 01:11 AM (FQLP3)
Just one part of our plan!
Posted by: Richard Cloward and Frances Piven at December 05, 2023 01:15 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: formerly known as at December 05, 2023 01:16 AM (5rLr3)
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2023 01:18 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Son of Dad at December 05, 2023 01:25 AM (8JB5s)
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 05, 2023 01:49 AM (+I6Y/)
Once my meds run out, the clock starts ticking down for me quickly.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2023 12:01 AM (ynpvh)
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I think that probably applies to a great many of us 29 yearolds. Particularly diabetics, BP sufferers, chronic heart disease, etc.
Posted by: Ciampino - "Supplies!" said the Janitor, jumping out of the closet at December 05, 2023 01:49 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz is full of Holiday Cheer at December 05, 2023 01:50 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2023 01:56 AM (njWTi)
Once my meds run out, the clock starts ticking down for me quickly.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2023 12:01 AM (ynpvh)
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I think that probably applies to a great many of us 29 yearolds. Particularly diabetics, BP sufferers, chronic heart disease, etc.
Posted by: Ciampino - "Supplies!" said the Janitor,
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A lot of meds one can get 90 day scripts. Sometimes their accounting is not our accounting. With a valid prescription Canada is an alternative. More and more with clinics connected to hospitals to insurance providers you have to go outside the loop and change docs and forget insurance. It's probably not to be found but Glen Beck, while on FOX, did a whole number on this on what happens when the supply chain fails.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 05, 2023 01:58 AM (FQLP3)
If TSHTF there will be no 'delivery' so Canada will not be an option. There may not be doctors to write prescriptions, nor pharmacies to fill them.
Posted by: Ciampino - A Rainy Day at December 05, 2023 02:06 AM (qfLjt)
They're both gone now, and I'm still w*rking on emptying their house for ultimate sale. It's paralyzingly sad, for me to go there this time of year. All those ghosts of Christmases Past. Can almost smell dinner cooking and hear all us kids playing/arguing and the classic holiday music...
Getting dusty in here all of a sudden
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2023 02:08 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz is full of Holiday Cheer at December 05, 2023 02:10 AM (Sgq8y)
In any case, it is late, and I have to hit the sack. Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2023 02:17 AM (+eE5Z)
LOL @ "coverage!"
Can't get 90 day supply of any of our drugs, except one. A generic that runs about three dollars for ninety pills. Pfft.
ZeroCare really fucked our already- less- than- ideal system
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2023 02:20 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz is full of Holiday Cheer at December 05, 2023 02:20 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2023 02:21 AM (njWTi)
Oh, but heart pills? Painkillers? Antibiotics? Si, si! We write you a script!
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2023 02:26 AM (njWTi)
As for the Dovonex, it's off-patent now but generic is still pricey w/o ins. (or with ZeroCare plan) so I deal with the psoriasis. It's ugly and itchy, but not life-threatening. Everything OTC here *stinks* of coal-tar and, well, does nothing but waste money. I have a few quarts of 20% coal-tar liquid, Rx, from when I tried something cheaper thru Dr... it stinks, it stings and it stains.
Not interested in the current "biologic" shit they keep pushing on teevee. Cures everything from psoriasis to IBS ya know. Just pray you don't get TB or pneumonia due to weakened immune system...
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2023 02:53 AM (njWTi)
They're both gone now, and I'm still w*rking on emptying their house for ultimate sale. It's paralyzingly sad, for me to go there this time of year. All those ghosts of Christmases Past. Can almost smell dinner cooking and hear all us kids playing/arguing and the classic holiday music...
Getting dusty in here all of a sudden
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2023 02:08 AM (njWTi)
Yeah, my mom made Martha Stewart look like a piker. She was amazing with arts and crafts, a real artist. The things she made from ceramics to tree ornaments to christmas decorations were off the chart. She could make anything. She could pilot a sewing machine like a blue angel with an F-18. If something needed to be made of wood she had my father make it, and then she would take over and do her thing with the finishing. real custom type stuff. Christmas was also her favorite time of the year. After she died the light just went out in my father. He never decorated again.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2023 03:01 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: SFGoth at December 05, 2023 03:09 AM (KAi1n)
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Same with my dad, Bers. He was a Lost Soul for a couple years.
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2023 03:10 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: SFGoth at December 05, 2023 03:11 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2023 03:18 AM (ynpvh)
And then got together with another lady --Mom's maid of honor at their wedding!-- who also promptly helped herself to Mom's trinkets and collectibles... Ugh. But she at least cared for Dad and helped out, even when he became terminally ill.
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2023 03:21 AM (njWTi)
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Same with my dad, Bers. He was a Lost Soul for a couple years.
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2023 03:10 AM (njWTi)
Well the thing that sucked was they had moved to a nicer house down the shore area. Well, bigger anyway. It needed a complete remodel, so we did the whole place. Kinda what I'm going through now, because the common thread is we're retarded and upgraded as we got older instead of downsizing like normal people. My brother went through it, Dad did it, now I'm doing it. Anyway, my father did the kitchen and the 2 baths, I was there, and my brother was there too. We did an addition on the back, and one on the front to make a nice entrance foyer. It was a lot of work. We did it in stages, and it took 3 years. The frigging paint was barely dry and mom got sick. After all that she didn't even get to enjoy it. I think thats what really took the wind out of my father's sail. It was all for nothing.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2023 03:41 AM (VwHCD)
Mom wanted to move also, but downsize, and they had house-hunted until finding a terrific place not too far away.
Good thing they had an 'escape clause' in their bid (which was accepted) as Mom went in for --what turned out to be-- her final hospitalization not long afterward.
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2023 03:55 AM (njWTi)
Bathroom remodels: ka-ching, ka-ching
Kitchen remodel: ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching
Not sure how many I've done in my life but if I had to pay for contractors it would have been half as many. What a time sink.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 05, 2023 04:00 AM (enJYY)
Dad trashed/ gave away/ did ??? with a bunch of stuff that some of us kids would love to have had... never said a word to us or asked if we wanted... some things even that he *knew* we wanted... some things even that were OURS, stored (with permission!) at their house... Gone.
But it's all just stuff. Would rather have my parents back and be able to celebrate Christmas with them.
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2023 04:06 AM (njWTi)
Mostly, was stuff I had taken to Dad's (after he'd passed) when I sold my former home. Tools, mainly. Some expensive clothing and collectibles. Dad's antique model trains and model airplane accessories...
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2023 04:12 AM (njWTi)
Take care.
At least you got started. The hubby and I have paperwork and cleaning out to do and neither of us can face it.
Ah well. Hitting the hay.
Posted by: Adriane is to Grapes, as X is to Wine . . . at December 05, 2023 04:16 AM (4Winp)
We just need to carry on, right?
Take care
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I was systematically terrorized and brainwashed to have no rebellion in me, just obedience. If my parents didn't get me then God would. Horrible way to grow up that causes lifelong damage.
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