Someone's Got a Bad Case of the Mondays Cafe

Sedona, Arizona
Looks beautiful, but everytime I hear about Sedona
it's something flakey and dumb, usually involving
crystals or chakras

Nose meld.

The skill shown here in doing something I didn't realize was a skill is very high. I guess. I've never tried it. Maybe it's easy as shit.

Happy dog strut.

This stray dog is given a dog bone treat and he is soooo happy!

That's some real amateur pouncing there, bucko.

Reenactment of A Bridge Too Far but with sheep. It's an all-star sheep cast but I hear it's a bit of snoozer.

There's so much hate in the world, sometimes it's good to just grab a friend by the hips and bring him in for surprise anal. Wait, what?

This little guy is too cute to ever be bacon! If he puts on weight, though...

I wish I was this excited by something. And that I had four legs.

And ate poop.

Wait, what?

Puppy loves going down the slide with the kids.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/w6Li6EKg6n
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 18, 2023

He found his mother.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/OXj0fRyZT6
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 18, 2023

Dog having its own fun.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/SdwBNKm3PU
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 18, 2023

Thank you Frosty.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/bTEFNEbanR
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 17, 2023

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:26 PM

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1 FIRST

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at December 18, 2023 07:26 PM (sMkAM)

2 Foist?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2023 07:27 PM (xaFKb)

3 I called the others

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at December 18, 2023 07:27 PM (sMkAM)

4 Poor Sedona. Overrun with hippies, lay lines, chakras and the devils lettuce.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 18, 2023 07:28 PM (XtkZj)

5 Sharp table tennis rally:

https://tinyurl.com/ydtsftz9

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 07:28 PM (2yu8s)

6 Good evening everyone from work so no videos tonight

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2023 07:29 PM (FuQMV)

7 SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch is planned for Tonight

Monday, Dec. 18
with a four-hour window that opens at 11 p.m. EST (0400 UTC)
Commentary should start earlier.

https://is.gd/fem18b

Posted by: Ciampino - FJB should be buried in a shoebox after an enema. at December 18, 2023 07:30 PM (qfLjt)

8 Needs more pandas.

Posted by: Jamaica at December 18, 2023 07:31 PM (Eeb9P)

9 Rum and cola break. Vacuumed the whole house, upstairs and down. Mopped the floors that needed mopping. I am tired now. But the house is basically ready for me to go away, and leave it in the care of my house watcher, who will feed the cat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 07:31 PM (2ed1E)

10 Good evening, horde!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 18, 2023 07:31 PM (OX9vb)

11 Excellent!
Sedona is a cool place, very picturesque. And yes, it's big with the crystal crowd. Those usually like to burn sage as incense. I enjoyed my visit and considered it to uplifting. Some say there is some kind of vortex there. Possible I suppose.
Whatever, it's the opposite of when I visit DC, which makes my skin crawl...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 18, 2023 07:31 PM (MeG8a)

12 Great Cave Ace, especially on a slow news day!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 18, 2023 07:32 PM (0t0Ch)

13 Poor Sedona. Overrun with hippies, lay lines, chakras and the devils lettuce.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 18, 2023 07:28 PM (XtkZj)

I think they call them "ley lines". Nonsense, in either case. Some French UFO nut was big on the subject some 50 years ago or more.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 07:33 PM (2ed1E)

14 I'm almost through with Killers of the Flower Moon.

I wouldn't recommend the movie. Long, boring and hard to follow.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 18, 2023 07:33 PM (XtkZj)

15 The wife and I have been discussing whether to have a standing rib roast or a tenderloin for Christmas. It looks like the tenderloin won.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 18, 2023 07:34 PM (CsUN+)

16 I'd like to check out Sedona, even with the hippies.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 18, 2023 07:34 PM (OX9vb)

17
Puppers are doing great. Eating hearty and playing vigorously. George is a huge boy, but all the others are good-sized chunks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 18, 2023 07:34 PM (MoZTd)

18 CAFE not caVe... doh!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 18, 2023 07:34 PM (0t0Ch)

19 Those wascawwy wabbits stole Fwosty's nose!

Posted by: Elmer Fudd at December 18, 2023 07:35 PM (BpYfr)

20 I'd like to check out Sedona, even with the hippies.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 18, 2023 07:34 PM (OX9vb)

I have never been. Might be a good place to go 4-wheeling out of. Plus piss off the crystal gazers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 07:35 PM (2ed1E)

21 Sharp table tennis rally:

https://tinyurl.com/ydtsftz9
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 07:28 PM (2yu8s)

He kept going cross table. A regular shot down the line would have won the point. He was determined to win it with a smash.

Posted by: Hunter at December 18, 2023 07:35 PM (MNhXM)

22 can't be - seen at my mammy herald:

U.S. intelligence finds Cuba interfered in Florida races during 2022 midterm elections

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 18, 2023 07:35 PM (B1FKF)

23 Friend of mine just bought a place just south of Sedona. The pictures of the sunsets are killing me...as I look out at 42degrees and rain.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 18, 2023 07:35 PM (gJ5sl)

24 https://www.youtube.com/live/iqF5YQRdhtw

volcano livestream continues

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 07:35 PM (qZ6wg)

25 @17

Glad to hear pups are doing well. Mom gave them a good start.

Posted by: Tuna at December 18, 2023 07:36 PM (oaGWv)

26 15 The wife and I have been discussing whether to have a standing rib roast or a tenderloin for Christmas. It looks like the tenderloin won.
Posted by: Archimedes

I prefer rib roasts as tenderloin is so lean and not as flavorful. If you wrap the loin in bacon though......

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 18, 2023 07:36 PM (y2qFh)

27 15 The wife and I have been discussing whether to have a standing rib roast or a tenderloin for Christmas. It looks like the tenderloin won.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 18, 2023 07:34 PM (CsUN+)

I got my mom to agree that we don't need a formal dinner at Christmas. Everybody has a hectic schedule, what with in-laws and other parents and traveling and wrestling tournaments and whatnot. Crockpot dishes and desserts FTW.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 18, 2023 07:36 PM (OX9vb)

28 U.S. intelligence finds Cuba interfered in Florida races during 2022 midterm elections
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 18, 2023 07:35 PM (B1FKF)

On behalf of the GOP, no doubt...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 07:36 PM (2ed1E)

29 I'd like to check out Sedona, even with the hippies.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

It is pretty; but, don't expect to see those saturated colors in real life (also something doesn't look right with the dark clouds in that pic).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 18, 2023 07:36 PM (0t0Ch)

30 He kept going cross table. A regular shot down the line would have won the point. He was determined to win it with a smash.
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Good analysis [although I'm no expert].

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 07:37 PM (2yu8s)

31
The wife and I have been discussing whether to have a standing rib roast or a tenderloin for Christmas.

__________

Christmas? Is this December?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 18, 2023 07:37 PM (MoZTd)

32 I note with regret the complete dearth of llamas again.
I may have to speak to Jimmy about this.

Posted by: Carl Wheezer at December 18, 2023 07:38 PM (qfLjt)

33 I prefer rib roasts as tenderloin is so lean and not as flavorful. If you wrap the loin in bacon though......
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 18, 2023 07:36 PM (y2qFh)

That is just begging for an Admiral Ackbar link.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 07:38 PM (2ed1E)

34 The skill shown here in doing something I didn't realize was a skill is very high. I guess. I've never tried it. Maybe it's easy as shit.

Buitengebieden calls it a "snow donut."

When it's clearly a snow baumkuchen.

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2023 07:39 PM (DgGvY)

35 Some drone footage on the volcano live stream now.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 07:40 PM (qZ6wg)

36 I prefer rib roasts as tenderloin is so lean and not as flavorful.

I agree, but I was outvoted.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 18, 2023 07:40 PM (CsUN+)

37 It's an all-star sheep cast but I hear it's a bit of snoozer.

They're counting on it!

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2023 07:40 PM (DgGvY)

38 Do they know it's Christmas?
And the standing rib-roasts are near??
Let's wash it down with alot of beer!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 07:41 PM (2yu8s)

39 The skill shown here in doing something I didn't realize was a skill is very high. I guess. I've never tried it. Maybe it's easy as shit.

Buitengebieden calls it a "snow donut."

When it's clearly a snow baumkuchen.
Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2023 07:39 PM (DgGvY)

Cinnamon roll without the cinnamon.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 07:41 PM (eoQWY)

40 When it's clearly a snow baumkuchen.
Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2023 07:39 PM (DgGvY)

"Tree Cookies"?

Those zany Germans and their whimsical cuisine.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 18, 2023 07:42 PM (D7oie)

41
I agree, but I was outvoted.
Posted by: Archimedes

__________

"I wanted rib roast, my wife wanted tenderloin, so we compromised on tenderloin."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 18, 2023 07:42 PM (MoZTd)

42 32 I note with regret the complete dearth of llamas again.
I may have to speak to Jimmy about this.
Posted by: Carl Wheezer at December 18, 2023 07:38 PM (qfLjt)

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The llamas are under contract with Monty Python.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 18, 2023 07:42 PM (F4bAW)

43 They're counting on it!
Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2023 07:40 PM (DgGvY)

Dirty deeds, and they're done with sheep!

https://youtu.be/PZuHAsf6qO0

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 07:43 PM (2ed1E)

44 Not all snow is alike. What is the old tale about how many words for snow the eskimos have? More than one.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 18, 2023 07:43 PM (MeG8a)

45 "I wanted rib roast, my wife wanted tenderloin, so we compromised on tenderloin."

Tell me you're married, without telling me you're married.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 18, 2023 07:44 PM (CsUN+)

46 40 When it's clearly a snow baumkuchen.
Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2023 07:39 PM (DgGvY)

"Tree Cookies"?

Those zany Germans and their whimsical cuisine.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 18, 2023 07:42 PM (D7oie)

-------------------------

Must be how you say "Keebler" in German.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 18, 2023 07:44 PM (F4bAW)

47 Currently watching a fireplace on Netflix. I think it's my favorite program.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 18, 2023 07:45 PM (F4bAW)

48 R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 1h
🚨#BREAKING: Iceland Volcano has just Erupted Near the town of Grindavík After Months of powerful Earthquake Swarms
📌#Grindavík | #Iceland
After months of powerful earthquakes shaking the country's southwestern Reykjanes peninsula, a volcano has just started to erupt, unleashing large amounts of lava flows near the village of Grindavik. The village, housing around 4,000 people, has been evacuated. Officials are closely monitoring the Blue Lagoon, along with its geothermal plant near Grindavik, which serves as the primary provider of electricity and water to 30,000 residents.
https://tinyurl.com/bdhxy32f
1:03 minutes

🚨#UPDATE: Here is the Moment when the volcano erupts near Grindavík, Iceland
https://tinyurl.com/2w5xsrsf
59 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 07:45 PM (2yu8s)

49 the Bidens' favorite snow is powder

Posted by: Braenyard at December 18, 2023 07:46 PM (aUim1)

50 Everybody has a hectic schedule, what with in-laws and other parents and traveling and wrestling tournaments and whatnot. Crockpot dishes and desserts FTW.

If I have to cook Christmas Day I'm making lasagna, meat loaf and mashed potatoes. Because that has been requested.

but I hope I don't have to cook.

Posted by: kallisto at December 18, 2023 07:47 PM (O/69i)

51 37 It's an all-star sheep cast but I hear it's a bit of snoozer.

They're counting on it!

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2023 07:40 PM (DgGvY)
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I'm going to take my turn and do it in stile.
Do I need to say something in my de-fence?

Posted by: Ciampino - llamas jumping over white picket fences at December 18, 2023 07:47 PM (qfLjt)

52 49 the Bidens' favorite snow is powder
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Murkowski's too!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 07:49 PM (2yu8s)

53 The village, housing around 4,000 people, has been evacuated.[/o]

They had been told they could start returning to their homes tomorrow so they could be home by Christmas.

Posted by: kallisto at December 18, 2023 07:49 PM (O/69i)

54 UPDATE: Here is the Moment when the volcano erupts near Grindavík, Iceland
https://tinyurl.com/2w5xsrsf
59 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 07:45 PM (2yu8s)

Lava fountains erupting from a fissure. Standard mode of eruption for a spreading ridge, which Iceland sits on.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 07:50 PM (2ed1E)

55 41
I agree, but I was outvoted.
Posted by: Archimedes

__________

"I wanted rib roast, my wife wanted tenderloin, so we compromised on tenderloin."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 18, 2023 07:42 PM (MoZTd)
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Wise man.
(That tells me a lot about your wife -- LOL).

Posted by: Ciampino - I was fortunate and picked as the boss at December 18, 2023 07:50 PM (qfLjt)

56 I'm not saying lin-duh might be getting a .puppy for Christmas but she might be.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 18, 2023 07:50 PM (DRUcF)

57 @14

>>I'm almost through with Killers of the Flower Moon.
I wouldn't recommend the movie. Long, boring and hard to follow.

Scorsese is about 30 years too late with his white people are evil film.

Deniro is beyond his sell by date and is becoming sort of bland.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 18, 2023 07:52 PM (XV/Pl)

58 Lava fountains erupting from a fissure. Standard mode of eruption for a spreading ridge, which Iceland sits on.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 07:50 PM (2ed1E)

Lots of Washington State was covered a mile and more thick with stuff like that some 14 million years ago I think. Flowed down the riverbeds all the way to the Pacific.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 07:52 PM (eoQWY)

59 Not an @puppy??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 07:52 PM (2yu8s)

60 Didn't you post basically the same pics a couple weeks ago? Only that time it wasn't oversaturated like this one.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 18, 2023 07:52 PM (QBaJw)

61 See y'all later, gators.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 07:53 PM (2yu8s)

62 Standard mode of eruption for a spreading ridge, which Iceland sits on.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 07:50 PM (2ed1E)

That's quite a simplification. There are 4 parallel shallow rift systems just on the peninsula.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 07:54 PM (qZ6wg)

63 Loved the scenery around Sedona but wow, there are some total flakes in town. Outside of town, not so much.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 07:54 PM (qoGsy)

64 Some French UFO nut was big on the subject some 50 years ago or more.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 07:33 PM (2ed1E)

Tucker almost has me convinced this UFO business is real.

Almost.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 18, 2023 07:54 PM (QBaJw)

65 The village, housing around 4,000 people, has been evacuated.[/o]

They had been told they could start returning to their homes tomorrow so they could be home by Christmas.
Posted by: kallisto at December 18, 2023 07:49 PM (O/69i)

I haven't been following it closely but I had heard that it was moving kinda away from the village toward the power plant for the region, but not that it was going away. Once it starts breaking up the streets from swelling you might as well stop thinking you will be back soon.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 07:55 PM (eoQWY)

66 Good evening everyone. Skip, Dash.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 07:55 PM (qoGsy)

67 A polar bear walks into a bar. Says "I'll have a rum...

...and Coke'.

Bartender asks "Why the big pause?"

Polar Bear says "I was born with them".

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 18, 2023 07:55 PM (s+cGt)

68 Deniro is beyond his sell by date and is becoming sort of bland.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 18, 2023 07:52 PM (XV/Pl)

Becoming? It's been all downhill, ever since We're No Angels.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 18, 2023 07:56 PM (QBaJw)

69 I have been so spoiled by these threads. Tonight's vignettes are just so so in the amusement category. Sure, smile worthy but I have grown to expect more.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 07:56 PM (VbW3c)

70 I saw Grindavík open for Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic at Cumberland Caverns in '93.

It was the "Pyroclastics" tour, of course.

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2023 07:56 PM (DgGvY)

71 2 kinds of snow- there's the wet kind good for snowballs, and there's the fluffy powder stuff

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 07:56 PM (geLO8)

72 Someone's Got a Bad Case of the Mondays Cafe

No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.

Posted by: Lawrence at December 18, 2023 07:57 PM (xttsV)

73 That's quite a simplification. There are 4 parallel shallow rift systems just on the peninsula.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 07:54 PM (qZ6wg)

The Devil is in the details.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 07:57 PM (2ed1E)

74 49 the Bidens' favorite snow is powder

Posted by: Braenyard at December 18, 2023 07:46 PM (aUim1)
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Failed Florida State Motto submission:

FLORIDA: The Snow Capital Of The USA

Posted by: Ciampino - Which is the fentanyl capital? at December 18, 2023 07:58 PM (qfLjt)

75 @68

>>Becoming? It's been all downhill, ever since We're No Angels.

I meant DeCaprio is becoming bland.

He's far removed from his What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Basketball Diaries and Romeo and Juliet days.

He's also looks swollen most of the time like he's an alchi.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 18, 2023 07:59 PM (XV/Pl)

76 Guy in livestream estimated lava fountaining 100 meters high. Fissure lengthening towards the village.

Posted by: davidt at December 18, 2023 07:59 PM (SYTee)

77 Sedona has the best olive oil company in the country and I know my olive oils. Sedona Divine also has a copy of The Deplorable Gourmet.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 18, 2023 07:59 PM (Zlvnk)

78 U.S. intelligence finds...
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 18, 2023 07:35 PM (B1FKF)

Ok, stop right there. Everything after that is a lie.

You've proven over and over and over, you will lie about everything, and especially, elections.

Because you're evil and wrong about everything.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 18, 2023 08:00 PM (QBaJw)

79 Hi, Tonypete!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 18, 2023 08:00 PM (OX9vb)

80 I'm currently watching the Doctor Who episode "Age of Steel." Everyone is walking around on a parallel world wearing earpods that keep them permanently plugged into the worldwide communication network.

I can't help but think of that episode when I see people today constantly plugged into their earbuds.

Only a matter of time before someone in the WEF activates the earbuds to take over their minds and turn them into cybermen.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 18, 2023 08:00 PM (BpYfr)

81 >>Guy in livestream estimated lava fountaining 100 meters high. Fissure lengthening towards the village.
---

get Superman

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 08:00 PM (geLO8)

82 If I have to cook Christmas Day I'm making lasagna, meat loaf and mashed potatoes. Because that has been requested.

but I hope I don't have to cook.

Yeah, I forgot to mention that either way, I'm doing the cooking. I like cooking, and my wife hates it, so it works out well.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 18, 2023 08:01 PM (CsUN+)

83 67
Polar Bear says "I was born with them".

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 18, 2023 07:55 PM (s+cGt)
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Great one, thanks for the laugh.

Posted by: Ciampino - advertisement for liquid bleach at December 18, 2023 08:01 PM (qfLjt)

84 I meant DeCaprio is becoming bland.

He's far removed from his What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Basketball Diaries and Romeo and Juliet days.

He's also looks swollen most of the time like he's an alchi.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 18, 2023 07:59 PM (XV/Pl)

Might be all the sub-25 y/o pootang.

But yeah, I agree, he looks like gluttony personified.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 18, 2023 08:01 PM (QBaJw)

85
CAFE not caVe... doh!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

I went back to look for the cave I missed.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 18, 2023 08:02 PM (63Dwl)

86 I don't care how warm and pretty it is. I'm not living by an erupting volcano.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:02 PM (VbW3c)

87 yo wut sup

Posted by: Senate Aid Aidan at December 18, 2023 08:02 PM (lwOKI)

88 Critical Drinker thinks that LoTR is the zenith of Hollywood moviemaking, and will probably never be surpassed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQF4-wEbD6I

Posted by: Archimedes at December 18, 2023 08:02 PM (CsUN+)

89 "Snow donut" is how we always start a snowman. Once it gets to the right size, it gets turned on it's side and rolled the other way to it's final Frosty place. We do that for the two lower sections of the snow body.

But the snow has to be 'just right'. Not too wet, not dry, not too deep.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 18, 2023 08:03 PM (Rbu5d)

90 Found some Alberto VO5 Hot Oil Treatment way in the back of my bathroom cabinets. Used it before my shower tonight. I'm all very silky and bouncy. This is my tribute to Rula Lenska, the daughter of a Polish Countess.

Posted by: Manageable Mane at December 18, 2023 08:03 PM (V5BDR)

91 Woulda been willowed:

Preserve the Daisy Duke memorial!

Posted by: mindful webworker - and the General Lee at December 18, 2023 08:05 PM (Iqdsc)

92 Not too wet, not dry, not too deep.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker

We doing Phrasing tonight?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 08:05 PM (qoGsy)

93 Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 07:55 PM (eoQWY)

the images look apocalyptic. A sinkhole opened up, it's 80 ft deep, looks to be about six feet across. You can see the groundwater below. Or maybe seawater.

Posted by: kallisto at December 18, 2023 08:05 PM (O/69i)

94 Not too wet, not dry, not too deep.

but the bottom is rocky.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:06 PM (VbW3c)

95 For a few moments today, it looked like Chuy might have dropped in.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 18, 2023 08:06 PM (a3Q+t)

96
Buitengebieden calls it a "snow donut."

When it's clearly a snow baumkuchen.
Posted by: mikeski

A bum cushion?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 18, 2023 08:07 PM (63Dwl)

97 Critical Drinker thinks that LoTR is the zenith of Hollywood moviemaking, and will probably never be surpassed.

Except zenith was a tv and LOTR was New Zealand. But other than that …

Posted by: Adriane the Irritating Pedant Critic . . . at December 18, 2023 08:07 PM (4Winp)

98 Critical Drinker thinks that LoTR is the zenith of Hollywood moviemaking, and will probably never be surpassed.

It wasn't original - but I'd say it was the best adaptation of a written series I've ever seen. You can put that box set in and - bam - there goes an entire day of binge watching.

Of course, it helps when you've got one of the most iconic stories in Western Fiction to work from.

Posted by: What Is Your Complaint at December 18, 2023 08:08 PM (K0U9Z)

99 A bum cushion?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 18, 2023 08:07 PM (63Dwl)

Anal Bum Cover.

Posted by: Sean Connery at December 18, 2023 08:08 PM (VbW3c)

100 Not too wet, not dry, not too deep.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker

Depth shouldn't matter.

Posted by: a hotdog flying down a hallway at December 18, 2023 08:08 PM (DgGvY)

101 Critical Drinker thinks that LoTR is the zenith of Hollywood moviemaking, and will probably never be surpassed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQF4-wEbD6I
Posted by: Archimedes at December 18, 2023 08:02 PM (CsUN+)
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Amazon's Rings of Power demonstrates that he's probably right. It's a series that would not have been possible without the success of Peter Jackson's movies. Nor does it show even a modicum of respect for the source material, instead doing everything it can to undermine Tolkien's vision for Middle-Earth.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 18, 2023 08:08 PM (BpYfr)

102 NYC is run by fools and assholes
https://tinyurl.com/584fzcks

Posted by: Jamaica at December 18, 2023 08:09 PM (Eeb9P)

103 Nor does it show even a modicum of respect for the source material, instead doing everything it can to undermine Tolkien's vision for Middle-Earth.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 18, 2023 08:08 PM (BpYfr)

Dark Elves indeed.

Posted by: Sean Connery at December 18, 2023 08:09 PM (VbW3c)

104 2 kinds of snow- there's the wet kind good for snowballs, and there's the fluffy powder stuff
Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 07:56 PM (geLO

Black snow in Chicago from coal dust. Black snow makes black puddles that don't go anywhere.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 08:10 PM (eoQWY)

105 RUV.IS (Icelandic News) story on eruption (in english)

https://tinyurl.com/23rba69r

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 08:10 PM (qZ6wg)

106
The kids and puppy on the playground equipment brought back a lot of memories. Our grandkids were of the approximate age when the Great Coof Fraud was perpetrated on this country.

Whenever we'd bring the gKids to a local playground, ALL the kids there would want to get together and play, no matter how fussy their parents were being.

There are many in this land to whom no forgiveness will be extended by me, for they themselves were unable to practice it when it counted.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 18, 2023 08:10 PM (xG4kz)

107 Hoping the Icelanders stay safe …

Posted by: Adriane the Irritating Pedant Critic . . . at December 18, 2023 08:10 PM (4Winp)

108 13...

The Leylines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujCQZRyUsM0

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 18, 2023 08:11 PM (Rbu5d)

109 Iceland kills Downs Syndrome babies

Posted by: kallisto at December 18, 2023 08:11 PM (O/69i)

110 Snow doughnut sounds prurient.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 18, 2023 08:12 PM (aUim1)

111
I meant DeCaprio is becoming bland.

He's far removed from his What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Basketball Diaries and Romeo and Juliet days.

He's also looks swollen most of the time like he's an alchi.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Heading down the Jack Nicholson Memorial Trail, is he?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 18, 2023 08:12 PM (xG4kz)

112 Iceland kills Downs Syndrome babies
Posted by: kallisto

Yep. Perhaps stan is saying 'hello'. "As you sow, so shall you reap." and all that.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 08:12 PM (qoGsy)

113 NYC is run by fools and assholes

Posted by: Jamaica at December 18, 2023 08:09 PM (Eeb9P)

It's always been such. All the way back to Tammany Hall.

Posted by: What Is Your Complaint at December 18, 2023 08:12 PM (K0U9Z)

114 Yesterday's heart-throb, Brad Pitt, is 60
That really makes me feel old, old I tell you.

Posted by: Ciampino - How old? at December 18, 2023 08:13 PM (qfLjt)

115 The idea of "ley lines" is just pseudo-mystic babble.

Still, it's kind of a neat idea for certain types of storytelling.

Jim Butcher embraced the idea and ran with it in the Dresden Files, for instance.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 18, 2023 08:15 PM (BpYfr)

116 Yesterday's heart-throb, Brad Pitt, is 60
That really makes me feel old, old I tell you.
Posted by: Ciampino - How old? at December 18, 2023 08:13 PM (qfLjt)

Bobby Sherman is 80.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 18, 2023 08:15 PM (4I/2K)

117 Seeing the Northern Lights appear over the volcano eruption would make a great photograph

Posted by: kallisto at December 18, 2023 08:15 PM (O/69i)

118 112 Iceland kills Downs Syndrome babies
Posted by: kallisto
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The Viking Syndrome

Posted by: Braenyard at December 18, 2023 08:16 PM (aUim1)

119 Bobby Sherman is 80.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Now where is my copy of "Teen Beat"?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 08:16 PM (qoGsy)

120 Seeing the Northern Lights appear over the volcano eruption would make a great photograph
Posted by: kallisto at December 18, 2023 08:15 PM (O/69i)

I'm your huckleberry.

Posted by: Photoshop at December 18, 2023 08:17 PM (VbW3c)

121
Not all snow is alike. What is the old tale about how many words for snow the eskimos have? More than one.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

"Nah. We only have one word. We threw in the 'dozens of words' bullshit because it was fun to gull you pale skinned rubes."

-- Esquimeaux

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 18, 2023 08:17 PM (xG4kz)

122 Bobby Sherman is 80.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Now where is my copy of "Teen Beat"?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 08:16 PM (qoGsy)

Now called Geriatric Beat

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 08:17 PM (eoQWY)

123 112 Iceland kills Downs Syndrome babies
Posted by: kallisto

Yep. Perhaps stan is saying 'hello'. "As you sow, so shall you reap." and all that.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 08:12 PM (qoGsy)
----
Also came out for Hamas, so burn burn, I don't care for barbarians and barbarians-adjacent.

Posted by: Ciampino - all that's missing is s tsunami or meteor at December 18, 2023 08:17 PM (qfLjt)

124 >>Yesterday's heart-throb, Brad Pitt, is 60
That really makes me feel old, old I tell you.
Posted by: Ciampino - How old? at December 18, 2023 08:13 PM (qfLjt)

Bobby Sherman is 80.

Posted by: Count de Monet

----

Lily Langtry is 170

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 08:18 PM (geLO8)

125 Seeing the Northern Lights appear over the volcano eruption would make a great photograph
Posted by: kallisto at December 18, 2023 08:15 PM (O/69i)

that would be tricky to do, given the huge contrast in brightness between the two light sources.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 08:19 PM (2ed1E)

126 New ISP hash check.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 18, 2023 08:19 PM (sNc8Y)

127 Iceland is a rocky island with a hostile climate mostly bereft of great natural resouces. Haiti is a semi-tropical island with a wealth of natural resources. Iceland has one of the highest GDPs in the world and nearly no crime or disorder. Haiti is a basket case X 200 years. Why the difference?

Posted by: Fair Question at December 18, 2023 08:19 PM (V5BDR)

128 Young man catches girlfriend cheating monologue

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sRB4sSBVKeU

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 18, 2023 08:19 PM (lhenN)

129
Now called ~~Geriatric Beat~~ Pulse, Weak and Thready
Posted by: Oldcat

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 18, 2023 08:19 PM (xG4kz)

130 Eskimos don't know from sheep so translating The Lamb of God for them was a chore. I think they settled on The Baby Caribou of God.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:19 PM (VbW3c)

131 I've been to Sedona and it's truly one of the most photogenic spots in America. However, photos like the one above don't do it justice. The sky and landscape has been tweaked and massaged by Photoshop tools pushing vibrancy, saturation, clarity, luminance -- you name it, it's been piled layer after layer on top of the raw pixels.

Photoshop is fine fool, both practically and aesthetically. But this amount of pixel cranking doesn't do the vista justice -- there's little sense of the viewer experiencing the reality of it. It's over-produced -- looking like one of those glossy, colorful "laser prints" from the 90s. (Or was it the 80s?) It turns a majestic scene into looking like a Fisher-Price toy.

As with all things in life, just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Posted by: LogJam at December 18, 2023 08:20 PM (8uS0m)

132 Now where is my copy of "Teen Beat"?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 08:16 PM (qoGsy)

An appropriate almost-anagram of Teen Beat would be "Been Teats".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 08:20 PM (2ed1E)

133 Iceland is a rocky island with a hostile climate mostly bereft of great natural resouces. Haiti is a semi-tropical island with a wealth of natural resources. Iceland has one of the highest GDPs in the world and nearly no crime or disorder. Haiti is a basket case X 200 years. Why the difference?
Posted by: Fair Question at December 18, 2023 08:19 PM (V5BDR)

Slavery

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 08:20 PM (eoQWY)

134
All we like caribou
(All we like caribou)
Have gone a stray ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 18, 2023 08:20 PM (xG4kz)

135 >>that would be tricky to do, given the huge contrast in brightness between the two light sources.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

one exposure for the aurora
another for the volcano
stitch them together

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 08:21 PM (geLO8)

136 Lily Langtry is 170
Posted by: Don Black

Beautiful Miss Lily …

Posted by: Judge Roy Bean, the Law West of the Pecos . . . at December 18, 2023 08:21 PM (4Winp)

137 101 Critical Drinker thinks that LoTR is the zenith of Hollywood moviemaking, and will probably never be surpassed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQF4-wEbD6I
Posted by: Archimedes at December 18, 2023 08:02 PM (CsUN+)

Once again, I agree with him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 08:21 PM (S6gqv)

138 the officials had told grindavik residents they would issue a 2 hr warning before eruption so they could go home for Christmas.

well the eruption came with no warning at all so the PTB are as good at predicting volcano eruptions as they are at predicting the weather

Posted by: kallisto at December 18, 2023 08:21 PM (O/69i)

139 Debbie Harry is 78.
Rula Lenska is 76.
Ruta Lee is 88.
Elinor Donahue is 86.
Pat Crowley just turned 90.

Posted by: Ashes to Ashes, Funk to Funky at December 18, 2023 08:22 PM (V5BDR)

140 Best part of the story was .the illegals complaining the tents are not safe and being told they could leave

Posted by: Jamaica at December 18, 2023 08:22 PM (Eeb9P)

141 well the eruption came with no warning at all so the PTB are as good at predicting volcano eruptions as they are at predicting the weather
Posted by: kallisto at December 18, 2023 08:21 PM (O/69i)

It's a hot time in the old town tonight.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:22 PM (VbW3c)

142 112 Iceland kills Downs Syndrome babies
Posted by: kallisto

The concept of letting a self-cleaning oven escapes many here.

If the Icelanders are so bad, that they'll kill their own, in some attempt to become more "pure" ? Let them. Unless you fear they'll improve in the process.

Posted by: What Is Your Complaint at December 18, 2023 08:23 PM (K0U9Z)

143 133 Haiti is a basket case X 200 years. Why the difference?

Das raysis. Next question?

Posted by: NR Pax at December 18, 2023 08:23 PM (5rnUC)

144
Poor Sedona. Overrun with hippies, lay lines, chakras and the devils lettuce.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

A little cairns piled up by the indigenous midwits.

Please tell me there are hundreds of little cairns piled up by the indigenous midwits.

... 'cause I got me a fierce hankering to go kick over dozens upon dozens of little cairns piled up by indigenous lackwits.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 18, 2023 08:23 PM (xG4kz)

145 Iceland kills Downs Syndrome babies

They've found a final solution to the Downs problem.

Faucian Medical Science.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:25 PM (VbW3c)

146 98 Critical Drinker thinks that LoTR is the zenith of Hollywood moviemaking, and will probably never be surpassed.

It wasn't original - but I'd say it was the best adaptation of a written series I've ever seen. You can put that box set in and - bam - there goes an entire day of binge watching.

Of course, it helps when you've got one of the most iconic stories in Western Fiction to work from.
Posted by: What Is Your Complaint at December 18, 2023 08:08
I was over 30 when I read LoTR and asked myself 'why don't they make a good movie of this?', Pappy Eromero was over 65 and he never got to watch the movies.

Posted by: Eromero at December 18, 2023 08:25 PM (NxC5+)

147 Is a cairn the same as a dickfer?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 18, 2023 08:26 PM (u73oe)

148 @137

>>Once again, I agree with him.

The Dark Knight would like to have a word with The Critical Drinker.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 18, 2023 08:26 PM (XV/Pl)

149 Why the difference?
Posted by: Fair Question at December 18, 2023 08:19 PM (V5BDR)

Iceland is populated with raiders and conquerers. Haiti is populated with the conquered and enslaved.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 18, 2023 08:26 PM (OX9vb)

150 Just love it so much when elites treat people like mice and the elites pretend to be children pretending to be adult scientists.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 18, 2023 08:26 PM (dtoMC)

151 Bobby Sherman is 80.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 18, 2023 08:15 PM

Amazingly, so is Keith Richards.

Our grandkids really need to start thinking about the kind of world they're going to leave him.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 18, 2023 08:26 PM (a3Q+t)

152 . Unless you fear they'll improve in the process.

Honestly, you just identified my greatest fear. The thought of Icelanders improving as a result of their Downs baby-killing keeps me up at night.

All night, every night.

Posted by: kallisto wondering "how does this guy know this? he must be legit psychic" at December 18, 2023 08:27 PM (O/69i)

153 My perennial complaint, why are there no video treatments of C.J. Cherryh books? She has written like 90 books in multiple genres and series.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:27 PM (VbW3c)

154 Iceland kills Downs Syndrome babies

They've found a final solution to the Downs problem.

Faucian Medical Science.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:25 PM (VbW3c)

And it's all so pointless. Down's children rarely if ever breed themselves, and it's not really a heritable disorder in any case. Main cause is eggs that have exceeded their "best before" date.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 08:27 PM (2ed1E)

155 125 Seeing the Northern Lights appear over the volcano eruption would make a great photograph
Posted by: kallisto at December 18, 2023 08:15 PM (O/69i)

Volcano

https://tinyurl.com/azw4jma6

Northern Lights

https://tinyurl.com/2s3e6atf

Unfortunately the intersection is empty ... but one volcano picture has the moon in it.

The photographer has a YT channel: Just Icelandic

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 08:28 PM (qZ6wg)

156
Rula Lenska is 76.

She was in the cast of the only audio version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" that I ever found worth listening to. She was in the role of an archaeologist that the travelers met on a planet with large birds near the end of the story.

It played on NPR back in the mid-80s, IIRC, and I am not certain that it is available for our listening pleasure anywhere on line these days.

Marvin the Paranoid Android was my favorite character, hands down.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 18, 2023 08:29 PM (xG4kz)

157 Honestly, you just identified my greatest fear. The thought of Icelanders improving as a result of their Downs baby-killing keeps me up at night.

Then stop worrying. They'll kill their own, and weaken themselves in the process. Absolutely no reason to weep over the young that otherwise will be raised up to be the enemy of your young.

Posted by: What Is Your Complaint at December 18, 2023 08:29 PM (K0U9Z)

158 This commercial is making the rounds on twitter

https://youtu.be/y_bYjLYXJo0?si=xDIpvtB_mi0Q3Fv4

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 18, 2023 08:29 PM (lhenN)

159 Is a cairn the same as a dickfer?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 18, 2023 08:26 PM

No, the latter is for micturition.

Assuming it's not severely chapped from inappropriate wearing of sequined and/or rhinestoned thongs.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 18, 2023 08:30 PM (a3Q+t)

160 well the eruption came with no warning at all so the PTB are as good at predicting volcano eruptions as they are at predicting the weather

Posted by: kallisto at December 18, 2023 08:21 PM (O/69i)

Actually they predicted the location of this eruption within a few hundred meters and they've been on the case for over a month.
They are getting better at this.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 08:31 PM (qZ6wg)

161 Is a cairn the same as a dickfer?
Posted by: Duke Lowell

What's a dickfer?

Posted by: Graduate level university gals at December 18, 2023 08:31 PM (qoGsy)

162 The concept of letting a self-cleaning oven escapes many here.

If the Icelanders are so bad, that they'll kill their own, in some attempt to become more "pure" ? Let them. Unless you fear they'll improve in the process.
Posted by: What Is Your Complaint at December 18, 2023 08:23 PM (K0U9Z)

There is a YT video I see occasionally were a Downs System man cooks and grills all sorts of recipes, showing the ingredients and steps and the food looks darn good. Better than mine.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 08:32 PM (eoQWY)

163 Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 08:28 PM (qZ6wg)

nice pictures!

Posted by: kallisto wondering at December 18, 2023 08:32 PM (O/69i)

164 156...It played on NPR back in the mid-80s, IIRC, and I am not certain that it is available for our listening pleasure anywhere on line these days.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 18, 2023 08:29 PM (xG4kz)

at my very first post-school job, the VP would stop work, turn on the radio, and listen to the broadcast with anyone who wanted to listen. I don't remember if it was daily or weekly...

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 18, 2023 08:33 PM (Rbu5d)

165
Volcano with aurora

https://tinyurl.com/2w8sadvy

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 08:33 PM (geLO8)

166 Sedona, Arizona

Looks beautiful, but everytime I hear about Sedona
it's something flakey and dumb, usually involving
crystals or chakras

-------------

Yeah, I first visited in '93 and it was wonderful, small, and sparsely-populated. Now, the ex-California New-Agers have ruined much of it.

I used to driver through there frequently for work, and it was creepy AF during the Covid bullshit -- usually overflowing with tourists (and lots of pretty young lady eye-candy) -- it was a freaking ghost town: nary a car or visitor in sight (everything was closed).

"You call some place Paradise ...
Kiss it good-bye."

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 18, 2023 08:33 PM (HBgiC)

167 Main cause is eggs that have exceeded their "best before" date.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 08:27 PM (2ed1E)

Is it? The only DS people I've known personally were born to parents in their 20s. Granted, it's a small sample of three people.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 18, 2023 08:33 PM (OX9vb)

168 And it's all so pointless. Down's children rarely if ever breed themselves, and it's not really a heritable disorder in any case. Main cause is eggs that have exceeded their "best before" date.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 08:27 PM (2ed1E)

and given current trends we are using lots more of those now that women put it off until they are 37 to start looking.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 08:34 PM (eoQWY)

169 https://youtu.be/gwbDXAidDyg

Helicopter footage of eruption. Two and a half minutes.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 08:34 PM (qZ6wg)

170 There is a YT video I see occasionally were a Downs System man cooks and grills all sorts of recipes, showing the ingredients and steps and the food looks darn good. Better than mine.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 08:32 PM (eoQWY)

I'm sure. I don't doubt you.

It's not that those lives don't have value. But it is that we, as a fading super-power, better get damn used to the idea of not having omnipotence. We'll either learn to mind our own business, or go ahead an perish.

If Iceland doesn't value those lives ? What would she wish ? We invade ? Get this ... we can't right the wrongs everywhere. Hell, we can't even get it right at home.

Until we can get it right at home, I'm simply not interested in what happens in Iceland.

Posted by: What Is Your Complaint at December 18, 2023 08:35 PM (K0U9Z)

171 Volcano with aurora

https://tinyurl.com/2w8sadvy

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 08:33 PM (geLO

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Magnificent.

Now that I've started to develop cataracts (no longer 29 or twice 29), driving at night is nothing but auroras with headlights, street lights, and the like.

Ugh. Still extremely near-sighted (but of course that actually improves with aging) -- and looking forward to maybe getting a cataract surgery lens replacement and 20/20 vision sans glasses.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 18, 2023 08:36 PM (HBgiC)

172 Down's children

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 08:27 PM (2ed1E)

My daughter's sister-in-law has Downs. She's in her mid-thirties.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 08:37 PM (qZ6wg)

173 Ugh. Still extremely near-sighted (but of course that actually improves with aging) -- and looking forward to maybe getting a cataract surgery lens replacement and 20/20 vision sans glasses.
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 18, 2023 08:36 PM (HBgiC)

Go for it! Happy camper here with my cataract surgery.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 08:38 PM (2ed1E)

174 149 Why the difference?
Posted by: Fair Question
------------

The French colonies don't have a good track record.
The French take not give.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 18, 2023 08:39 PM (aUim1)

175 Question Authority @ 164-
I remember listening to Rush Limbaugh in my office back in the mid 80s. My office was 2 doors down from the Commander's and sometimes he'd come down to listen and agree. Our Navy is gone now, just like America.

Posted by: Eromero at December 18, 2023 08:39 PM (NxC5+)

176 My daughter's sister-in-law has Downs. She's in her mid-thirties.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 08:37 PM (qZ6wg)

There are always outliers but I also think it is more common among older mothers.

But I'm no Downsologist. Just think I have read that, fwiw.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:39 PM (VbW3c)

177 What's a dickfer?

$20, same as in Kenya.

Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at December 18, 2023 08:39 PM (V8he0)

178 Ugh. Still extremely near-sighted (but of course that actually improves with aging) -- and looking forward to maybe getting a cataract surgery lens replacement and 20/20 vision sans glasses.
Posted by: ShainS

I've had cataract surgery in both eyes and had an excellent outcome. Now, 20/20 in both eyes without correction. I do wear readers though but not having to wear glasses all the time for 40 years is some kind of heaven!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 08:40 PM (qoGsy)

179 Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:39 PM (VbW3c)

I think you might have mis-read my post.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 08:40 PM (qZ6wg)

180 My daughter's sister-in-law has Downs. She's in her mid-thirties.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 08:37 PM (qZ6wg)

I had a distant cousin with Downs. He lived to about 35 or so, and died of a congenital heart problem which is common in Downs cases.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 08:41 PM (2ed1E)

181 Julie Newmar's only child, was born in 1981 when she was 47-48. He has Downs and she has been caring for him since. She just turned 90.

Posted by: Catwoman Chronicles at December 18, 2023 08:41 PM (V5BDR)

182 18 to 28 is probably the best time to have a child, healthwise. My wife was short of 30 when we had Girl928, and we were rushing things to have her before the witching hour. Even at 29 that first child was hard on her.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:41 PM (VbW3c)

183 I remember listening to Rush Limbaugh in my office back in the mid 80s.

Same here and nobody complained.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 18, 2023 08:41 PM (V8he0)

184 158 This commercial is making the rounds on twitter

https://youtu.be/y_bYjLYXJo0?si=xDIpvtB_mi0Q3Fv4
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 18, 2023 08:29 PM (lhenN)

wow - that was unexpectedly great!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 08:42 PM (S6gqv)

185 I think you might have mis-read my post.

I think I did. Apologies. If I could ask, and if you know, how old was her mother?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:43 PM (VbW3c)

186 182 18 to 28 is probably the best time to have a child, healthwise.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:41 PM (VbW3c)

Late teens to early twenties ... but including "maturity" your range is probably better.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 08:44 PM (qZ6wg)

187 If you haven't seen it yet this Lara Logan interview with Rep. Clay Higgins is pretty good. He's digging into the J6 protest and it sounds like he's finding proof that the whole thing was an FBI setup.

Former cop and knows how cops work and how to do a real investigation.

https://tinyurl.com/23xxdb4t

Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 08:45 PM (ZLI7S)

188 Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:41 PM (VbW3c)

mom was 19 when she had me

It was fun growing up with a young mom. Though probably less hectic had I been born to a mom who was a little more seasoned by life

Posted by: kallisto at December 18, 2023 08:45 PM (O/69i)

189 My grandmother was 34 when she had my uncle - a Downs baby. He was 50 when he passed away. He outlived all of his contemporaries at the Sheltered Workshop he worked at.

A great man who taught all of his nieces and nephews great life lessons without ever trying to.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 08:47 PM (qoGsy)

190 What's a dickfer?

==

Senate staffer.

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 08:47 PM (V13WU)

191 It was fun growing up with a young mom. Though probably less hectic had I been born to a mom who was a little more seasoned by life
Posted by: kallisto at December 18, 2023 08:45 PM (O/69i)

Mrs928's mother was 17. At 88 now, she is a great-great-grandmother with a shot at great-great-great.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:47 PM (VbW3c)

192 If I could ask, and if you know, how old was her mother?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:43 PM (VbW3c)

Her Father is a year older than me so he would have been 32 ish. His wife's age is close to his. So her parents had their kids younger than my wife and I.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 08:47 PM (qZ6wg)

193 My daughter's sister-in-law has Downs. She's in her mid-thirties.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 08:37 PM (qZ6wg)

There are always outliers but I also think it is more common among older mothers.

But I'm no Downsologist. Just think I have read that, fwiw.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:39 PM (VbW3c)

Downs syndrome is usually caused by having three chromosome 21s. When making sperm or eggs, a normal cell is split in half to give a random shuffle of the genetic material. Usually that works and each egg or sperm has one of each. In this case, though, one of the parents had a split where both went into one egg or sperm, and when combined with a normal one gives three. This probably happens with all the chromosomes but if the change is lethal you wouldn't see it.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 08:47 PM (eoQWY)

194 137 101 Critical Drinker thinks that LoTR is the zenith of Hollywood moviemaking, and will probably never be surpassed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQF4-wEbD6I
Posted by: Archimedes at December 18, 2023 08:02 PM (CsUN+)

Once again, I agree with him.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Yep.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 18, 2023 08:47 PM (sAmhv)

195 187 If you haven't seen it yet this Lara Logan interview with Rep. Clay Higgins is pretty good. He's digging into the J6 protest and it sounds like he's finding proof that the whole thing was an FBI setup.

Former cop and knows how cops work and how to do a real investigation.

https://tinyurl.com/23xxdb4t
Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 08:45 PM
I knew this from the start and I'm just a ditchdigger.

Posted by: Eromero at December 18, 2023 08:48 PM (NxC5+)

196 Does anyone know what the music is on the 'Skill is high'/ Snow donut video (second link down)?

Posted by: stv at December 18, 2023 08:50 PM (TIhaI)

197 My mother had 5 miscarriages between me and my brother. He was 12 years older than me. I am blessed just to be hete.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 18, 2023 08:50 PM (Zlvnk)

198 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisomy

Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome)
Trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome)
Trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome)
Trisomy 9
Trisomy 8 (Warkany syndrome 2)

Of these, Trisomy 21 and Trisomy 18 are the most common. In rare cases, a fetus with Trisomy 13 can survive,

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 08:51 PM (qZ6wg)

199 He's digging into the J6 protest and it sounds like he's finding proof that the whole thing was an FBI setup.

Or you could just ask yourself how Congress only gets intruded upon when Code Pink or any other Liberal approved group does it. But, I reckon, if you like "proof" ... have at it.

Posted by: What Is Your Complaint at December 18, 2023 08:51 PM (K0U9Z)

200 My mother had 5 miscarriages between me and my brother. He was 12 years older than me. I am blessed just to be hete.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 18, 2023 08:50 PM (Zlvnk)

RH mismatch? My wife was her mother's first and had the opposite RH as her mother, then her mother had multiple miscarriages until my wife's brother was born with the same RH as her mother.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:52 PM (VbW3c)

201 I am blessed just to be hete.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 18, 2023 08:50 PM (Zlvnk)

Truly! Not only that, but we are blessed to have you here, as well!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 18, 2023 08:52 PM (OX9vb)

202 >>I knew this from the start and I'm just a ditchdigger.

There's knowing and there's having proof. Proof is better. And it sounds like Higgins has it.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 08:52 PM (ZLI7S)

203 There was a mom and her Downs son that sat in front of us at church. Super nice people. He'd shake your hand at the end of mass and holy shit. Strong as an ox.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 18, 2023 08:52 PM (R4t5M)

204 Both my parents are RH+.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:52 PM (VbW3c)

205 >There's knowing and there's having proof. Proof is better. And it sounds like Higgins has it.

Posted by: JackStraw
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to what end
they seem to have gotten away with it

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 08:53 PM (geLO8)

206 >>Or you could just ask yourself how Congress only gets intruded upon when Code Pink or any other Liberal approved group does it. But, I reckon, if you like "proof" ... have at it.

Thanks. I'm sure the people rotting in prison over lies would like the proof as well.

Everyone knows the system is rigged against us but whining about it is pointless. Having proof is the only way this stuff gets stopped.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 08:56 PM (ZLI7S)

207 I'm RH negative. Daughter is positive. I had to have RH injections during and after pregnancy. I'm not sure when they started being able to treat that during pregnancy.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 18, 2023 08:56 PM (OX9vb)

208 Both my parents are RH+.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 08:52 PM (VbW3c)

The issue is a + baby in a - mom. The first child might squeak by but by the second the mom's antibodies attack the baby and problems result. I think that's one of the reasons for the pre marriage blood test.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 08:59 PM (eoQWY)

209
at my very first post-school job, the VP would stop work, turn on the radio, and listen to the broadcast with anyone who wanted to listen. I don't remember if it was daily or weekly...
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker

Weekly, IIRC

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 18, 2023 08:59 PM (xG4kz)

210 {{{Ben Had}}}

♩ Good evening! ♬

You are a blessing for all of us. And yes, you are blessed in your own right.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 18, 2023 09:00 PM (u82oZ)

211 133 Iceland is a rocky island with a hostile climate mostly bereft of great natural resouces. Haiti is a semi-tropical island with a wealth of natural resources. Iceland has one of the highest GDPs in the world and nearly no crime or disorder. Haiti is a basket case X 200 years. Why the difference?
Posted by: Fair Question at December 18, 2023 08:19 PM (V5BDR)

Slavery
Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023

Definitely not that, in fact without slavery, Iceland could not have existed.
Interestingly, Mitochondrial DNA shows the vast majority of Icelandic women descend from Scottish and Irish women and the historical record doesn't suggest they went voluntarily.

Posted by: stv at December 18, 2023 09:01 PM (TIhaI)

212 RH was not a factor in my family's case.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 18, 2023 09:01 PM (Zlvnk)

213 I think that's one of the reasons for the pre marriage blood test.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 08:59 PM (eoQWY)

We had to have a syphilis test for our marriage license. I don't know if that old law still holds. We didn't learn this until the Friday before our Saturday wedding and had to rush to another town 90 miles away to get the test.

We were negative, btw.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 09:02 PM (VbW3c)

214 Dash and NaCly, if I could only convey how much you have all given me. I start each day with a smile because of all of you.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 18, 2023 09:04 PM (Zlvnk)

215 Another livestream of the eruption, seen from the upwind side...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIs83vmfZCk

Posted by: davidt at December 18, 2023 09:05 PM (SYTee)

216 We had to have a syphilis test for our marriage license.
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Stop blaming me!

Posted by: Debbie Wasserman at December 18, 2023 09:05 PM (XeU6L)

217 I think that's one of the reasons for the pre marriage blood test.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 08:59 PM (eoQWY)

I don't think they require that, anymore. Because there is medical intervention available now for RH incompatibility.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 18, 2023 09:05 PM (OX9vb)

218 Stop blaming me!
Posted by: Debbie Wasserman

SNORT!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 09:06 PM (qoGsy)

219 198 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisomy

Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome)
Trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome)
Trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome)
Trisomy 9
Trisomy 8 (Warkany syndrome 2)

Of these, Trisomy 21 and Trisomy 18 are the most common. In rare cases, a fetus with Trisomy 13 can survive,
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 08:51 PM (qZ6wg)

My "ex" spent most of her 2nd pregnancy in bed due to issues early on.

Two weeks before the baby's due date, she felt something was "off", and we called her OB straight away.

An ultrasound showed that the baby had, unfortunately, died.

They induced a delivery two days later. Why the wait? I can't remember.

The autopsy showed Trisomy 13 in the cause of death box.

That, my friends, was a long two days

To Teddy ***salute***...

Posted by: browndog knows that area well at December 18, 2023 09:07 PM (TTAGa)

220 {{{Ben Had}}}

I got a glimmer of that when you talked at me during the MoMeet. A cherished memory.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 18, 2023 09:07 PM (u82oZ)

221 We had to have a syphilis test for our marriage license. I don't know if that old law still holds.

==

No.

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 09:07 PM (V13WU)

222 >>to what end
they seem to have gotten away with it

It's still going on. Trump is currently facing charges over inciting an insurrection on J6. Don't you think it might be a bit helpful to him and the people sitting in prison right now to prover there never was an insurrection and the whole thing was a setup by the FBI and the left?

Seems kind of important.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 09:08 PM (ZLI7S)

223 Definitely not that, in fact without slavery, Iceland could not have existed.
Interestingly, Mitochondrial DNA shows the vast majority of Icelandic women descend from Scottish and Irish women and the historical record doesn't suggest they went voluntarily.

Posted by: stv at December 18, 2023 09:01 PM (TIhaI)

They were wives not slaves. Iceland after sea roving days had a farming economy where each settler more or less had his own farm, or craft shop which leads to more of a stake in society.

Cash crop plantation slavery produces a population with no stake in society as it is. The owners often retired back to the home country with the money, taking capital with them. The revolt that took out most of the owners broke down much of the rest of the economy, and the attempts to take the colony back didn't help either. Not the biggest expert on the rest of Haitian history but a chain of dictators, tyrants and thug rulers haven't changed things for the better.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 09:08 PM (eoQWY)

224 Do they still put iodine drops in newborns' eyes?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 09:08 PM (VbW3c)

225 JackStraw

Proof is not enough. The top people are impervious to proof. We have seen this for years. Two of many examples is Hunter and Joe. We have proof. So?

Op-plans are OPSEC.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 18, 2023 09:09 PM (u82oZ)

226 Scorsese is about 30 years too late with his white people are evil film.

Deniro is beyond his sell by date and is becoming sort of bland.

This is a thing I see more and more. Lately there was a !!!!! about how The Kinks might reform. I realize the present or recentish past hasn't created any quality artistic successors for these people but ALL these people are 80 or older..they aren't ever going to get near their creative peak of 50 years ago.

Posted by: azjaeger at December 18, 2023 09:09 PM (3/XaG)

227 browndog, words can't but a hug.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 18, 2023 09:10 PM (Zlvnk)

228 I knew a woman in NJ whose maiden name was Wasserman. Her dad was responsible for the Wasserman Test.

Posted by: I Got It From The Toilet Seat at December 18, 2023 09:10 PM (V5BDR)

229 Watching a replay of the DII National Championship. Harding (Arkansas) is beating the Colorado School of Mines (the pagan druid commies in Colorado haven't shut it down yet?). Harding is going to win this easily. I do enjoy DII and DIII football.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 18, 2023 09:10 PM (sAmhv)

230 224 Do they still put iodine drops in newborns' eyes?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 09:08 PM (VbW3c)

Silver nitrate now.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 18, 2023 09:11 PM (OX9vb)

231 81 >>Guy in livestream estimated lava fountaining 100 meters high. Fissure lengthening towards the village.
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get Superman
Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 08:00 PM (geLO

Unintentionally funny: Superman is the local moving company featuring huge Samoans who just pick up your stuff and haul it. They are awesome to watch.

Posted by: tcn in AK, hail to the thief at December 18, 2023 09:11 PM (okGHj)

232 Posted by: Ben Had at December 18, 2023 09:10 PM (Zlvnk)

Thank you Ben...

Posted by: browndog knows that area well at December 18, 2023 09:12 PM (TTAGa)

233 Tucker almost has me convinced this UFO business is real.

Almost.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 18, 2023 07:54 PM (QBaJw)

Read Fortress by David Drake. It might make you go Hmmm about UFOs and start worrying a bit about Nazis on the Moon.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 18, 2023 09:12 PM (D7oie)

234 Posted by: browndog knows that area well at December 18, 2023 09:07 PM (TTAGa)

I can't even imagine how painful it is to deliver a baby that mom knows is dead. Dreadful for dad too.

no words

Posted by: kallisto at December 18, 2023 09:12 PM (O/69i)

235 That, my friends, was a long two days

To Teddy ***salute***...
Posted by: browndog knows that area well at December 18, 2023 09:07 PM (TTAGa)

That's heartbreaking. Salute.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 18, 2023 09:12 PM (OX9vb)

236 >Seems kind of important.

Posted by: JackStraw
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of course- I'd like to see the classic movie ending where the crusading prosecutors confront the bad guys with the goods while the cameras roll and the prisoners are freed. But I'm a terrible cynic, and don't expect that to happen.

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 09:12 PM (geLO8)

237 Silver nitrate now.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 18, 2023 09:11 PM (OX9vb)

It might have been that then, I don't really remember except it was prevent gonorrhea blindness or something.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 09:12 PM (VbW3c)

238 Seems kind of important.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 09:08 PM (ZLI7S)

Big issue is the court of public opinion and the margin of fraud. Zeitgeist seems to be moving in Trump's direction sufficiently to win in 2024. It's over if he doesn't. Times will be very interesting.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 09:12 PM (qZ6wg)

239 158 This commercial is making the rounds on twitter

https://youtu.be/y_bYjLYXJo0?si=xDIpvtB_mi0Q3Fv4
Posted by: BourbonChicken

BC: Thanks for that link!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 18, 2023 09:13 PM (hOUT3)

240 This is a thing I see more and more. Lately there was a !!!!! about how The Kinks might reform. I realize the present or recentish past hasn't created any quality artistic successors for these people but ALL these people are 80 or older..they aren't ever going to get near their creative peak of 50 years ago.
Posted by: azjaeger at December 18, 2023 09:09 PM (3/XaG)

the 60's, 70's, and 80's were truly a unique period in musical history. But the music industry that supported that explosion of creativity is long dead.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 09:13 PM (S6gqv)

241 We had to have a syphilis test for our marriage license. I don't know if that old law still holds.
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Health tests used to be standard for food handlers. Now? I doubt it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2023 09:13 PM (XeU6L)

242 Do they still put iodine drops in newborns' eyes?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 09:08 PM (VbW3c)

Its to prevent bacterial infections from causing blindness. A common vector is an STD.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 09:14 PM (eoQWY)

243 Critical Drinker thinks that LoTR is the zenith of Hollywood moviemaking, and will probably never be surpassed.

I'd like to see some AI generate a re-do of the death of Saruman and do the Scouring of the Shire, per the book, in Peter Jackson style.

And fix the end of Watchmen as well!

And the battle for Hogwarts....

Rocketeer was a pretty good adaptation...

Posted by: mindful webworker - nitpicky at December 18, 2023 09:14 PM (Iqdsc)

244 142 112 Iceland kills Downs Syndrome babies
Posted by: kallisto

The concept of letting a self-cleaning oven escapes many here.

If the Icelanders are so bad, that they'll kill their own, in some attempt to become more "pure" ? Let them. Unless you fear they'll improve in the process.

Posted by: What Is Your Complaint at December 18, 2023 08:23 PM (K0U9Z)

I suspect it's more of a matter of inconvenience. I doubt many with the syndrome passes on those genes, if any.

Posted by: javems at December 18, 2023 09:15 PM (5TmO/)

245 Unintentionally funny: Superman is the local moving company featuring huge Samoans who just pick up your stuff and haul it. They are awesome to watch.
Posted by: tcn in AK
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When moving, I had a good sized Jet bench mill to be moved. I was wondering how they would handle it. *Big* guy just picked it up and walked it out to the truck.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2023 09:16 PM (XeU6L)

246 225 JackStraw

Proof is not enough. The top people are impervious to proof. We have seen this for years. Two of many examples is Hunter and Joe. We have proof. So?

Op-plans are OPSEC.

Its a very weird time where history just sort of rhymes. Anyone who pays attention knows the Narrative is completely phony. There is no KGB or Gestapo who will come in the middle of the night and flat out kill you. There aren't even enough operatives to seriously harass more than a few people. Yet the Establishment controls all public media and not all the normies have adjusted to the new reality that The Authorities are no longer trustworthy and most likely are lying on everything. What happens when the majority gets it I don't know. It's a tricky path trying to subjugate an armed country with a large population without an authority trusted large force. Do they have a plan, or not? I don't know.

Posted by: azjaeger at December 18, 2023 09:17 PM (3/XaG)

247 I haven't re-lived that moment...until now.

God forgive me for not being a better husband in our later years.

I'm in tears...

Posted by: browndog knows that area well at December 18, 2023 09:17 PM (TTAGa)

248 >Critical Drinker thinks that LoTR is the zenith of Hollywood moviemaking, and will probably never be surpassed.

has this guy even seen Young Frankenstein ?

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 09:17 PM (geLO8)

249 This is the absolute wonder of this place. Life stories shared .

Posted by: Ben Had at December 18, 2023 09:18 PM (Zlvnk)

250 I can't even imagine how painful it is to deliver a baby that mom knows is dead. Dreadful for dad too.

no words
Posted by: kallisto at December 18, 2023 09:12 PM (O/69i)

a friend of mine I worked with in Chicago had their first child be stillborn and had an abortion. We had differed on abortion when I lived out there and I visited her after that an she told me they had changed their mind on that issue. They had a couple of pretty daughters later, they likely are college age now.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 09:18 PM (eoQWY)

251 Hey Browndog - been there. I feel for you and your ex.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 09:18 PM (qoGsy)

252 Critical Drinker thinks that LoTR is the zenith of Hollywood moviemaking, and will probably never be surpassed.

has this guy even seen Young Frankenstein ?
Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 09:17 PM (geLO

Come on, they totally screwed up the color levels on that movie. How they let it get out showing that blunder...

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 09:19 PM (eoQWY)

253 I'm in tears...

Posted by: browndog knows that area well at December 18, 2023 09:17 PM (TTAGa)

my heart hurts just thinking about it

I don't have children, but one night I dreamed I was holding my infant son, and there was a groundswell of love that enveloped me from the soles of my feet to the top of my head.
I was to the point of bursting with love for that child.

When I woke up, I thought: omg if that's the kind of love a parent feels for a child, the loss of that baby has to be devastating. Shattering.

Posted by: kallisto at December 18, 2023 09:20 PM (O/69i)

254 >Come on, they totally screwed up the color levels on that movie. How they let it get out showing that blunder...

the scene where Inspector Kemp and Herr Doktor play darts has me in stitches every time

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 09:21 PM (geLO8)

255 browndog, you are a good man and don't ever doubt it.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 18, 2023 09:21 PM (Zlvnk)

256 browndog

**Consoling Bro hug**

Absolutely not a Democrat Senate Staffer hug.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 18, 2023 09:21 PM (u82oZ)

257 Fun Fact: The used the lab equipment from the original Frankenstein movie in Young Frankenstein.

Posted by: davidt at December 18, 2023 09:21 PM (SYTee)

258 I suspect it's more of a matter of inconvenience. I doubt many with the syndrome passes on those genes, if any.
Posted by: javems at December 18, 2023 09:15 PM (5TmO/)

I'm sure they used the efficiency argument, with a life quality thrown in. They never seem to fear that these arguments can apply to them some day.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 09:22 PM (eoQWY)

259 242 Do they still put iodine drops in newborns' eyes?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 09:08 PM (VbW3c)

Its to prevent bacterial infections from causing blindness. A common vector is an STD.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 09:14 PM (eoQWY)

I worked a summer job at a company that hired blind people. Most were borne from mothers with syphilis,and blindness wasn't the only problem most suffered from.

Posted by: javems at December 18, 2023 09:22 PM (5TmO/)

260 Ben Had

I remember at the second MoMeet in Texas, I asked your helping friends about you. "So, you have any Ben Had stories?"

You could see the muscles shutting their mouth rather than reveal one iota of your own story. You have fantastic and loyal friends.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 18, 2023 09:26 PM (u82oZ)

261 Sedona's like any other beautiful place. Freaks moved in and set up shop, ruining it for everybody else.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 18, 2023 09:26 PM (dZVON)

262 Honestly, you just identified my greatest fear. The thought of Icelanders improving as a result of their Downs baby-killing keeps me up at night.

All night, every night.

Posted by: kallisto[

Iceland is a welfare state and every crippled person who is unable to work is considered by their accounting, to be a tragedy and a serious drain on the community.
That is what should be keeping you awake at night.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 18, 2023 09:27 PM (D7oie)

263 Blanco Basura

San Francisco has entered the room.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 18, 2023 09:27 PM (u82oZ)

264 >>Big issue is the court of public opinion and the margin of fraud. Zeitgeist seems to be moving in Trump's direction sufficiently to win in 2024. It's over if he doesn't. Times will be very interesting.

Imagine the change in the current zeitgeist if people discover they have been lied to about J6 for 3 straight years. Joe is barely treading water. I want to see him go under.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 09:27 PM (ZLI7S)

265 There is no KGB or Gestapo who will come in the middle of the night and flat out kill you. There aren't even enough operatives to seriously harass more than a few people. Yet the Establishment controls all public media and not all the normies have adjusted to the new reality that The Authorities are no longer trustworthy and most likely are lying on everything. What happens when the majority gets it I don't know. It's a tricky path trying to subjugate an armed country with a large population without an authority trusted large force. Do they have a plan, or not? I don't know.
Posted by: azjaeger at December 18, 2023 09:17 PM (3/XaG)

If you want a comp, probably the later stage USSR is a good one. Authoritarian, news more or less controlled but nobody really buys in and truth is read between the lines. Lots of bitter jokes and stories that aren't actionable by the authorities, people don't put in much extra effort because what for.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 09:27 PM (eoQWY)

266 >>Sedona's like any other beautiful place. Freaks moved in and set up shop, ruining it for everybody else.

Posted by: Blanco Basura

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Colorado, explained

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 09:27 PM (geLO8)

267 We have a good friend who has a downs son. The son is pushing 50. Fortunately the father was a big time attorney and left our friend well off. Her health is failing. Can't imaging what happens next

Posted by: javems at December 18, 2023 09:29 PM (5TmO/)

268 That cat diving into the screen after the Blue Jay gave me an idea.

Social Experiment:

Enter a Democrat Fundraiser Rally with a laser pointer and see how many I can run into the wall when they all chase the red dot.

Posted by: Orson at December 18, 2023 09:30 PM (dIske)

269 It's a tricky path trying to subjugate an armed country with a large population without an authority trusted large force. Do they have a plan, or not? I don't know.
Posted by: azjaeger at December 18, 2023 09:17 PM (3/XaG)

I've come to believe that nobody has any real plans for anything. Everyone on all sides is just winging it and telling themselves "well maybe it will work out."

pro tip - It won't.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 09:30 PM (S6gqv)

270 Iceland is a welfare state and every crippled person who is unable to work is considered by their accounting, to be a tragedy and a serious drain on the community.
That is what should be keeping you awake at night.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 18, 2023 09:27 PM (D7oie)

But many, possibly most Downs' CAN work. And yet, they still come under the interdict.

I remember that during the COVID in NYC they were putting Covid patients in with the elderly for no reason, and also with Downs' people and with the Deaf.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 09:30 PM (eoQWY)

271 Imagine the change in the current zeitgeist if people discover they have been lied to about J6 for 3 straight years. Joe is barely treading water. I want to see him go under.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 09:27 PM (ZLI7S)

Dr. John Campbell on Youtube has undergone quite the transformation.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 09:31 PM (qZ6wg)

272 Turns out slavery is not all that bad.

NY Times' Resident Fauxservative David French Argues Support for Trump Less Excusable Than Slavery

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 18, 2023 09:32 PM (FVME7)

273 That cat diving into the screen after the Blue Jay gave me an idea.

Social Experiment:

Enter a Democrat Fundraiser Rally with a laser pointer and see how many I can run into the wall when they all chase the red dot.
Posted by: Orson at December 18, 2023 09:30 PM (dIske)

My cats sometimes go after the screen on a TV, but so far it has always been another cat, and they go for the tail or the base of the tail. That will teach him.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 09:33 PM (eoQWY)

274 I've come to believe that nobody has any real plans for anything. Everyone on all sides is just winging it and telling themselves "well maybe it will work out."

pro tip - It won't.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 09:30 PM (S6gqv

That seems odd given all the evidence that one side is actively trying to destroy the other. They have a plan and have been running it for decades now.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 18, 2023 09:33 PM (XtkZj)

275 Turns out slavery is not all that bad.

NY Times' Resident Fauxservative David French Argues Support for Trump Less Excusable Than Slavery
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 18, 2023 09:32 PM (FVME7)

So he's blaming the slaves? Tsk Tsk.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 09:33 PM (eoQWY)

276 Campbell knew they were lying. Watch his interview again with Dr Pierre Kory, when they both understand it's deliberate. Campbell managed to thread the needle and stay on You Tube, linking to the actual studies. He did a great job.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 18, 2023 09:35 PM (L8hCM)

277 264 >>Big issue is the court of public opinion and the margin of fraud. Zeitgeist seems to be moving in Trump's direction sufficiently to win in 2024. It's over if he doesn't. Times will be very interesting."

I'm one who still thinks, objectively, that DeSantis would be better at the actual job. But he's not going to be the nominee, and that's that. Trump is no longer just a man, politically; he has become the Avatar for all of the anger all of us have at the Deep State, and what it has done. That anger is going to drive this election, not any ideas of what will actually happen next. I don't say that as criticism; only as what I see coming, and to lament it would be like lamenting the tide coming in. It has to happen, no matter the consequences.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 09:36 PM (S6gqv)

278
Keith Richards turned 80 today.

He looks about the same as when he was 70. Or 40.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at December 18, 2023 09:36 PM (Mzdiz)

279 That seems odd given all the evidence that one side is actively trying to destroy the other. They have a plan and have been running it for decades now.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 18, 2023 09:33 PM (XtkZj)

No, they aren't really trying to destroy us. It is what they see as good they are trying to destroy. They keep ignoring that this will lead to their own destruction too. They don't hate us in particular, they hate life.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 09:36 PM (eoQWY)

280 I found this on Sunday. Tucker in a black church.

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

I thought it was recent until I noticed the description said 2018.

He explains the drive for abortion on the left perfectly. They want to be god and they want power ... including the power to kill.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at December 18, 2023 09:37 PM (qZ6wg)

281 We’ve got a vacation home in Sedona. Kinda like Berkeley but not as conservative…

Posted by: breaking bogey at December 18, 2023 09:37 PM (ggeHf)

282 Notsothoreau

You feeling better?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 18, 2023 09:37 PM (u82oZ)

283 Pretty sure they hate us and everything we stand for.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 18, 2023 09:37 PM (XtkZj)

284 That seems odd given all the evidence that one side is actively trying to destroy the other. They have a plan and have been running it for decades now.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 18, 2023 09:33 PM (XtkZj)

Most of the people who made the plans (with the exception of the WEF) are dead, and their places have been taken over by brain dead apparatchiks. Much the same thing as happened to the Soviet Union at the end; it's all running on a maniacally destructive autopilot.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 09:38 PM (S6gqv)

285 "People with Down syndrome rarely reproduce. Fifteen to thirty percent of women with trisomy 21 are fertile and they have about a 50% risk of having a child with Down syndrome.

There is no evidence of a man with Down syndrome fathering a child"

"American Pregnancy Assn." > https://tinyurl.com/z25vnsvk

Posted by: javems at December 18, 2023 09:38 PM (5TmO/)

286 San Francisco has entered the room.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 18, 2023 09:27 PM (u82oZ)
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Freaks next door would like a word...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 18, 2023 09:38 PM (RIvkX)

287 Oldcat

We know it was deliberate. To lower the state's health care costs by killing the infirm or inconvenient.

Makes me wonder when Illinois, California or New York will contract out to kill the highest paid retirees of each state.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 18, 2023 09:39 PM (u82oZ)

288 Plenty of active players and active attempts to destroy this country.

Bill Gates hasn't stopped buying farmland. big Green hasn't stopped outlawing things.

The left still wants your guns.

Soros is still funding every socialist program ever.

Judges are still actively supporting one side only.

Elections are stolen with no consequences.

The media actively runs psyops daily.

I'd hardly call this autopilot.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 18, 2023 09:40 PM (XtkZj)

289 Makes me wonder when Illinois, California or New York will contract out to kill the highest paid retirees of each state.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 18, 2023 09:39 PM (u82oZ)

Just wait till those teacher pensions start to bite real hard.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 09:41 PM (eoQWY)

290 281 We’ve got a vacation home in Sedona. Kinda like Berkeley but not as conservative…
Posted by: breaking bogey

Ah, so like that Scottish Island in 'The Wicker Man' but with more sun and less water.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 18, 2023 09:42 PM (sAmhv)

291 San Franpsycho

I imagine you as the happy-go lucky guy with a smile on his face pushing a wheelbarrow of shit (collected off the streets) in Hell.

With a Demon saying "We could never get to that guy."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 18, 2023 09:42 PM (u82oZ)

292 >>Plenty of active players and active attempts to destroy this country.

Just today the EU sued Musk for not censoring "misinformation" and threatened to throttle Twitter in Europe if he doesn't comply with their censorship plans. And if you think they aren't coordinating with our deep state I've got several bridge you would die for.

None of this is over. The fight is just now out in the open.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 09:43 PM (ZLI7S)

293
None of this is over. The fight is just now out in the open.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 09:43 PM (ZLI7S)

Koo rect a mundo

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 18, 2023 09:44 PM (XtkZj)

294 Seems like only yesterday they shut down the world and started arresting people for breathing outside.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 18, 2023 09:46 PM (XtkZj)

295 I've come to believe that nobody has any real plans for anything. Everyone on all sides is just winging it and telling themselves "well maybe it will work out."

pro tip - It won't.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 09:30 PM

Au contraire, it will work out.

Just not in a way they expect or will enjoy.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 18, 2023 09:46 PM (a3Q+t)

296 >>Turns out slavery is not all that bad.

NY Times' Resident Fauxservative David French Argues Support for Trump Less Excusable Than Slavery

A Kinsley Gaffe.
Or if you prefer, a case of 'the woke being more correct than the mainstream.'

Think of all the modern day slavery the Left is fine with - Epstein's underage sex slaves, China's Uygur slaves making Apple and Nike products, the open Southern border facilitating human trafficking, etc.. French is just saying it out loud: they are fine with business leaders, foreign tyrants and US pols (think Bob Menendez caught w/underage hookers) exploiting modern day slaves -- what they cannot tolerate is someone who threatens their cushy position/life.

Bravo, 'more Christian than thou David French! The mask is off.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 18, 2023 09:47 PM (izj35)

297
Bravo, 'more Christian than thou David French! The mask is off.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 18, 2023 09:47 PM (izj35)

Well said.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 18, 2023 09:48 PM (XtkZj)

298 *bounds in through open door*

...'tis the season to be jolly... fa la la... la... la...

Never mind...

*slinks away*

Posted by: JQ at December 18, 2023 09:49 PM (njWTi)

299 I'm one who still thinks, objectively, that DeSantis would be better at the actual job. But he's not going to be the nominee, and that's that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 09:36 PM (S6gqv)

______________________________

I think the primary is going to be a lot more interesting that people think. I think the establishment has put all their eggs in the Nikki Haley basket (Koch shelling out $70 Million; Hoffman with another sizeable contribution). And then there is the Iowa Centra Committee refusing to set a date to declare party affiliation in advance of the Iowa caucus. I think they hope to deluge Haley with democrat votes in the 99 private caucus parties...show it to be close or even give her the win so they have the basis to get creative in the following primaries.... The nomination on the republican size may show Trump up by over 40% points, but they've been pretty brazen about getting what they want, and doing what they need to do. No one is going to hold them accountable.

Posted by: Orson at December 18, 2023 09:50 PM (dIske)

300 Dang, that sideshow donut gone bad is the archetype FAFO.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 18, 2023 09:50 PM (KAi1n)

301 Duncanthrax

Exactly.

TPTB support totalitarian policies and incompatible faction allies like the Alphabet people and Muslims.

They want to remove the people whose culture make Civilization possible. And replace them with well-meaning people that can't even figure out what bathroom to use. And if the Cartels, China, or Muslims win, TPTB will all be executed. They do not see this, because they are blinded by the power they think they hold.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 18, 2023 09:51 PM (u82oZ)

302 With a Demon saying "We could never get to that guy."
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 18, 2023 09:42 PM (u82oZ)
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With my head on a swivel.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 18, 2023 09:51 PM (RIvkX)

303 Makes me wonder when Illinois, California or New York will contract out to kill the highest paid retirees of each state.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 18, 2023 09:39 PM (u82oZ)

This was my proposal for balancing Oregon State's PERS retirement system. I didn't send it in, however.

RENEW! RENEW!

Posted by: Kindltot at December 18, 2023 09:51 PM (D7oie)

304 That is what should be keeping you awake at night.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 18, 2023 09:27 PM (D7oie)

I guess I should have added the /s

Posted by: kallisto at December 18, 2023 09:52 PM (O/69i)

305 Posted by: Orson at December 18, 2023 09:50 PM (dIske)

Simple, if Haley is the GOP nominee, they loose. period.

People like me will not support that kind of crap, and without that base, done...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2023 09:52 PM (xaFKb)

306 So it is ...our "Socialist" POPE

signs off on GHEY BLESSINGS (what? for another surge in STD's, Gonorrhea's, and failed PREP setting up for a SUPER HIV??)

Yes then ...blessings upon them.

Posted by: Nightwatch at December 18, 2023 09:53 PM (UsQA1)

307 Kinda. Still coughing up junk and the gut cramps were back this morning. Am hopeful that I've turned the corner. I was able to work today.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 18, 2023 09:54 PM (L8hCM)

308 If you have ever had a close relationship with a Down's syndrome person, you are blessed.

No truer happiness, joy, curiosity or love could be known.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 18, 2023 09:54 PM (+eWyk)

309 >>Simple, if Haley is the GOP nominee, they loose. period.

She won't be. Neither will Ron. This race was over before it started.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 09:55 PM (ZLI7S)

310 278
Keith Richards turned 80 today.

He looks about the same as when he was 70. Or 40.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at December 18, 2023 09:36 PM (Mzdiz)

------------------------------------

That's just what he's telling people. Keith Richards is ageless.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 18, 2023 09:55 PM (F4bAW)

311 Orson

Interesting plan. Yet fatally flawed, because we see who is supporting her. Not our friends, and there are a lot of people who see that. I'd rather vote libertarian. Sheesh!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 18, 2023 09:55 PM (u82oZ)

312 Dear Lord! I'm hearing g the World Bank shut down last Friday. Joe Biden was executed in 2020 and many others. All sightings are AI and fakes. The US has been in Martial Law for a couple of years. The fence around the WH offered as proof. There are 460k indictments coming down penalty death! Jan 20 I will receive 640k for my birth certificate being paid for with billions in God confiscated from the Vatican basement..Alrighty then !!! Sheesh people are gaga

Posted by: Shifty Jake's Wax Removal and Pawn Shop at December 18, 2023 09:57 PM (7cPAc)

313 gold (sp)

Posted by: Shifty Jake's Wax Removal and Pawn Shop at December 18, 2023 09:58 PM (7cPAc)

314 Progtards have targeted Idaho with an "open primaries" petition.

Currently, only (R) is closed-- anyone & everyone can vote in the (D) primary, but oh no that's not good enough! They need to tell those damned 'pubbies how to conduct their business!

I have refused to sign their lousy petition, but they've duped 50k already and likely will get enough by May, to put this issue on the ballot.

What they *don't tell anyone* is that the fine print in this horsecrap includes ranked choice voting!

I make an issue of this whenever I encounter their signature-gatherers. (And loudly enough to get attention of passersby LOL)

Posted by: JQ at December 18, 2023 09:59 PM (njWTi)

315 Notsothoreau

Sending healing thoughts your way.

Charging up the Marx Tanks, with a rising throbbing sound of power.
*Clear*
Discharge capacitors -- **Heal!**

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 18, 2023 10:00 PM (u82oZ)

316 "Reality Is At Fault": Tucker Sits Down With Babylon Bee's Seth Dillon

"Imagine if your job is to write jokes that are funnier than a Kamala Harris speech..."

Posted by: SMOD at December 18, 2023 10:00 PM (RovqD)

317 296 >>Turns out slavery is not all that bad.

NY Times' Resident Fauxservative David French Argues Support for Trump Less Excusable Than Slavery

David French knows all about the benefits of being a Slave when his wife's Bull shows up.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 18, 2023 10:00 PM (sAmhv)

318 Nood ONT

Posted by: From about that Time at December 18, 2023 10:02 PM (4780s)

319 303 Makes me wonder when Illinois, California or New York will contract out to kill the highest paid retirees of each state.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 18, 2023 09:39 PM (u82oZ)

This was my proposal for balancing Oregon State's PERS retirement system. I didn't send it in, however.

RENEW! RENEW!
Posted by: Kindltot

LOL!! That would suck without a young, mostly nekid, Jenny Agutter sauntering around.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 18, 2023 10:02 PM (sAmhv)

320 I'm reading Chicago's asenior Democrats are poised to crash the Dem convention over many things but mainly illegals.

Posted by: Shifty Jake's Wax Removal and Pawn Shop at December 18, 2023 10:03 PM (7cPAc)

321 Crap OFF stinky sock..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 18, 2023 10:04 PM (7cPAc)

322 Interesting plan. Yet fatally flawed, because we see who is supporting her. Not our friends, and there are a lot of people who see that. I'd rather vote libertarian. Sheesh!
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 18, 2023 09:55 PM (u82oZ)

____________________________________

No, the Iowa Caucus on the republican side is done by secret ballot. It's not the same as the dems (which, remarkably is more transparent). You won't know who voted for the candidate, only the tally.

Posted by: Orson at December 18, 2023 10:07 PM (dIske)

323 >>I'm reading Chicago's asenior Democrats are poised to crash the Dem convention over many things but mainly illegals.

Hey, remember in 2016 when BLM activists were disrupting Democrat primary events and candidates, demanding they explain their poor record and that they agree to prioritize their cause -- and then BLM leaders met with Pelosi in DC, got a huge chunk of government cash, and disappeared?

Yeah, would be amazed if this doesn't happen again.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 18, 2023 11:05 PM (izj35)

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