Pick Your Utopia

This is the start of a long weekend for some of us. Perhaps there will be time to dream about a utopian future.

Medieval peasants imagined a fantasy land where all their desires were fulfilled. It was called Cockaigne, which rhymes with Spain, and it was super depressing. The Land of Cockaigne is a simple place: the houses are made from fish pies, and roasted pigs walk around with knives in their backs for easy eating. Eggs grew legs so that peasants could indulge while lying on the ground, and animals pooped in baskets for easy clean up. In an imaginary world with endless possibilities, the medieval myth of Cockaigne focused on two things: food and laziness.
Cockaigne wasn't as bad as the rich Italians who made poor people fight over food. In fact, the stories include some fascinating insights into what the community cared about--the French peasants wanted quality wines, while the Italians wanted a mountain of Parmesan cheese. Still, Cockaigne is proof that life for medieval peasants was pretty bad, since their utopia was essentially a medieval version of the dystopia in Wall-E. . .

Don't tell these guys about the house from Hansel and Gretel made of candy--it'll make their "house of fish" look pretty sad. According to the 14th-century English poem "The Land of Cockaygne," the walls of all the houses in the utopia are made of fish pies. If that doesn't sound very appetizing, look to the roofs, where "flour-cakes are the shingles."
One French version of the story included even stranger housing materials. The walls themselves are made of fish, while "the beams are made of sturgeons, the roofs of bacon, and the fences of sausage." In a fantasy world where houses could be made of literally any material, it's pretty depressing that medieval peasants picked fish.

I have an old Joy of Cooking cookbook in which many of the family recipes, including some from the family cook (from Eastern Europe, I think) include the word "Cockaigne" in the name.

Have you ever had a utopian dream like this, even as a child?

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Utopia: We can forget what MLK said about the content of character and judge people by their superficial group characteristics

What could go wrong? Why do so many elite white people who fit the "oppressor" profile push this ideology?

EXCLUSIVE: Mandatory training for all NYC public school teachers.

The Wheel Of Identity gives teachers a chart of which students are oppressed and which are the oppressors. The oppressors:

-Slim
-White
-Citizen
-English
-Able-bodied
-HeterosexuaI
-Owns property
-Cisgender… pic.twitter.com/Bdk4tQw0uB
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 12, 2024

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Utopia: Huge, well-respected NGOs will save government from incompetence

Back in December, NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker sent us details of her family's trials dealing with The California Employment Development Department (EDD) over a simple short-term disability claim. This led to a discussion of the department's inability to deal with COVID relief fraud. She sent some additional information on this. Some of the fraudulent claims came from Nigeria.

Here's a little detail with which she has found an interesting connection to current news:

THEN

I'm sorry, but I don't understand why the person in charge of the EDD at this time would even be considered for promotion to the federal system.

. . . New financial reports requested by CalMatters show that amid the chaos, the EDD and its unemployment payment contractor Bank of America split a half a billion dollars in revenue, though the bank says it ultimately spent more to cover fraud losses. Another large EDD contractor, Deloitte, made more than a quarter of a billion dollars on tech contracts and emergency contracts to build systems that state reports say buckled during the pandemic.
Bank of America and Deloitte. And unnamed others. Any possibility that there was some illegal activity going on with the State's contractors? Or are they all just really, really incompetent?

Deloitte is a really giant international auditing and consulting firm. Seems to have a reputation as the best in the business, as far as I could tell from a cursory searcy. Or it did until a few days ago.

NOW

NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker found this: Hindenburg Founder Warned Deloitte 11 Times In 5 Months About Tingo's "Massive Fraud" Before SEC, DOJ Action

As we wrote back in December, the SEC charged publicly listed company Tingo Group, a Nigerian "agri-fintech" company with "massive fraud", claiming that almost every aspect of the company - including its partners and its financials - was fabricated. Short seller Hindenburg Research had written about the company on June 6, calling it "an exceptionally obvious scam with completely fabricated financials".
In a not-so-surprising development, the Department of Justice joined the party earlier this month, charging the company's founder and former CEO, Dozy Mmobuosi, with securities fraud, making false filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and conspiracy charges. . .
But in a slightly more surprising development, yesterday the short seller who originally pointed out concerns with Tingo released a tranche of 11 emails it had sent to Tingo's auditor, Deloitte, warning them about potential fraud at Tingo.

"Today, we are releasing 11 emails we sent to Deloitte's senior leaders, spanning nearly 5 months, that documented flagrant signs of fraud at Tingo Group, one of the most spectacular Big 4 audit failures of our time," Hindenburg Research founder Nathan Anderson wrote on X yesterday.
"Our letters pointed this out clearly and repeatedly, but Deloitte stood by and failed to act despite being presented with overwhelming evidence," he continued.
He then linked to all 11 emails which show Hindenburg clearly putting numerous people with Deloitte e-mail addresses on notice about Tingo. Anderson wrote in one email to the auditor:

As Warren Buffett once said: "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." Deloitte has an otherwise strong global reputation that it has earned through decades of difficult audit work--we hope to see the firm continue to protect its brand. We think this should have been obvious months ago, but better late than never.

Forbes is running a story about how Deloitte missed this, but it's behind a paywall, so I don't know what excuses are presented.

How much do you think this will affect the reputation of Deloitte?

I meandered through the interwebs and AoSHQ archives to see if there were any clues to changes in Deloitte that might give us a clue to how this massive "mistake" occurred. I didn't find much news on their audit failure on the Nigerian company. I did find the following:

From 3 days ago:

Deloitte is rolling out an AI chatbot that can help staff answer emails and create presentations

Yesterday:

Celebrate Humans, Not AI, Deloitte's Chief Futurist Says

"Chief Futurist"

January 2:

Deloitte Shares Loyalty Trends and Best Practices for 2024

July 2, 2020:

Harvard Grad Who Threatened to Stab Those Who Say "All Lives Matter" Fired by Deloitte

Well, that's nice.

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Utopia: You can run a Sanctuary State in Illinois while leaving all the people who want sanctuary in Texas

JUST IN: Democrat Governor JB Pritzker is literally now begging "for mercy" to Texas Governor Greg Abbott to stop bussing migrants to his state.

Remarkable.

Abbott is simply giving Pritzker what he asked for considering in 2021, Pritzker signed a bill making Illinois the "most… pic.twitter.com/L7IqPayCZv
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 13, 2024

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1 Hey good looking! What's cooking g?

Posted by: Sergeant who went awol at January 13, 2024 11:10 AM (hirWM)

2 Cockaigne looks like an Opium den to me.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 13, 2024 11:10 AM (Angsy)

3 So this was on Nextdoor this morning.

So this lady’s name is Ivy Hanson she owns the gambling place on 575 25 road she and my HusbandGreg Gana has been having a for a year now she is a crook a rat and liar she has no morals or respect for nothing she is logged in on my google because she was my best friend I called crying begging for the truth but she denied this map it could of had not been no one else so watch your man cause this hoe dose Dallas

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Based on the pictures, she's a one, a black haired vixen.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 13, 2024 11:12 AM (FVME7)

4 What could go wrong? Why do so many elite white people who fit the "oppressor" profile push this ideology?

Easy. To rile up the others to incite attacks which will be put down violently at some point. Problem people gone.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 13, 2024 11:12 AM (Angsy)

5 If you wanna get down
Down on the ground
Cockaygne

Posted by: Eric Clapton at January 13, 2024 11:13 AM (W5ArC)

6 "Cockaigne looks like an Opium den to me."

They didn't have opium. Wine, they knew about.

Posted by: KT at January 13, 2024 11:14 AM (rrtZS)

7 > so watch your man

Pro tip: If "your man" is out screwing around, he's not "your man".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2024 11:14 AM (W5ArC)

8 If you wanna get down
Down on the ground
Cockaigne...

Posted by: Eric Clapton at January 13, 2024 11:14 AM (4Ld2L)

9 Mentally Robust....that's us.

Posted by: BignJames at January 13, 2024 11:14 AM (AwYPR)

10 I think I have gone through life not ever trying to oppressed anyone

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 11:15 AM (fwDg9)

11 The description of Cockaigne makes me think of Homer Simpson's "land of chocolate" daydream when the Germans buy the nuclear power plant.

Posted by: PabloD at January 13, 2024 11:16 AM (x0J6u)

12 >>>Did you know?

There’s quite literally no place like utopia.
-------------------------------

Yes there is. It's in the hill country of Texas.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 11:16 AM (jnt+a)

13 > They didn't have opium.

There's a lot of evidence for indigenous production and use of opium in Europe, going back to Neolithic times.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2024 11:16 AM (W5ArC)

14 No comments at all!
Heh, what an ultra-rookie!

Thanks for the girthy utopia thread KT.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2024 11:17 AM (jlEi4)

15 I think I have gone through life not ever trying to oppressed anyone
Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 11:15 AM (fwDg9)

You should try it. It's fun!

Posted by: US Gov't at January 13, 2024 11:17 AM (Angsy)

16 I think I have gone through life not ever trying to oppressed anyone

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 11:15 AM (fwDg9)

Sure you have...unconsciously.

Posted by: BignJames at January 13, 2024 11:18 AM (AwYPR)

17 Flying Machine > Iron horses

Posted by: Titanium White at January 13, 2024 11:19 AM (/2Hy+)

18 Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2024 11:16 AM

I don't doubt it. But did the people in charge let their peasants have opium?

Posted by: KT at January 13, 2024 11:19 AM (rrtZS)

19 Heh... saw a cartoon earlier of O'CrazyHo-Tittycaca laying a wreath on her own grave on January 6.

Wait: "laying a wreath"? Dang! That holly is prickly.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2024 11:19 AM (W5ArC)

20 Cockaigne

Pinocchio's Island that turns kids into donkeys has entered the thread.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2024 11:20 AM (jlEi4)

21 Redbone is a great song, KT! Little known music fact the flip side of Come And Get Your Love was Come And Get Your Ass-Kicking. Redbone was well-balanced.

Posted by: Eromero at January 13, 2024 11:20 AM (twtgX)

22 In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
The cops have wooden legs,
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth
And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs.
The farmers’ trees are full of fruit,
The barns are full of hay.
Oh, I want to go where there ain’t no snow
Where the rain don’t fall and the wind don’t blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at January 13, 2024 11:21 AM (PWI4f)

23 Getting high winds, never fun

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 11:21 AM (fwDg9)

24 I think I have gone through life not ever trying to oppressed anyone

Posted by: Skip

You work, you seem to enjoy life. You are one of their defined oppressors.

And keep doing it to make them angry at life!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2024 11:21 AM (jlEi4)

25 No, thats-a not-a my-a Topia.

Posted by: Chico Marx at January 13, 2024 11:22 AM (SYTee)

26 I don't doubt it. But did the people in charge let their peasants have opium?
Posted by: KT at January 13, 2024 11:19 AM (rrtZS)

These peasants, they'll steal anything not nailed down!

Posted by: People in Charge at January 13, 2024 11:22 AM (Angsy)

27 The Transcontinental RR was a great accomplishment but it is also the prime example of crony capitalism.

The Transcontinental Great Northern RR was a greater accomplishment and an example of how capitalism is supposed to work.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 13, 2024 11:22 AM (/2Hy+)

28 Oh, the buzzing of the bees in the cigarette trees,
The soda water fountains
Where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings.
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at January 13, 2024 11:22 AM (PWI4f)

29 Screw "utopia."

I want "mytopia."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2024 11:23 AM (Q4IgG)

30 Newsflash: Hindenburg blows up in Deloitte. Oh the humanity.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 13, 2024 11:24 AM (Angsy)

31 Fat Boy Pritzker is apparently begging Abbott for "mercy" -- to stop sending illegal aliens to Chicago.

You asked for it, you got it. Toyota!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2024 11:24 AM (W5ArC)

32 In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
You never wash your socks
And the little streams of alcohol
Come trickling down the rocks.
There’s a lake of stew and whiskey too
And you paddle around in a big canoe,
Where they hung the turk who invented work,
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at January 13, 2024 11:24 AM (PWI4f)

33 You would think Cockaigne would be Homo fantasyland.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 13, 2024 11:24 AM (/2Hy+)

34 > Hindenburg blows up in Deloitte.

Toilet and Douche. A fine name in accounting.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2024 11:24 AM (W5ArC)

35 Things are archived, go to archive.is and enter the address.

Forbes is owned by the Chinese, lock, stock and barrel.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 11:24 AM (jnt+a)

36 We used to live near Utopia Parkway...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 13, 2024 11:25 AM (RIvkX)

37 There's also the funny lyric about killing the jerk what invented work.

Posted by: big rock candy mountain at January 13, 2024 11:26 AM (MeG8a)

38 I asked Chatgpt to write an email for me as well.
I entered the thread and said reply to this saying these bullet points using a formal tone. It wrote it out for me. Cut and paste back as a reply.

Kinda cool. And also kinda scary cuz why am I needed as a middle man if the AI can do it for me?

Posted by: Montec at January 13, 2024 11:26 AM (VVcrM)

39 While on a business trip many years ago I visited the "Golden Spike" where the transcontinental railroad's east and west legs met.

Was.... underwhelming.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2024 11:27 AM (Q4IgG)

40
I want "mytopia."
Posted by: Martini Farmer

They promise utopia
You want "mytopia"
You get myopia.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 13, 2024 11:28 AM (cRrcX)

41 She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie
Cockaigne

Posted by: Clapton wannabe at January 13, 2024 11:29 AM (NBVIP)

42 In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese

Hunter envisions a different Big Rock utopia.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 11:30 AM (FVME7)

43 "Let's assume the man was around forty and was born in the 1820s."

Is he wearing a badger coat?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 13, 2024 11:30 AM (z+89e)

44 I never heard of Deloitte before now.

You know how some people still think fascism is a "right" political philosophy? One reason I've heard is because racism is built into it.

Well, we're living in a world dominated by fascists, with companies like Deloitte, Band of America, Pfizer, and Raytheon being essentially joined at the hip to government. World government.

So where's the racism?

Look at who is demonized.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 11:31 AM (QBaJw)

45
Was.... underwhelming.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

You're not a dyed in the wool train guy!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2024 11:32 AM (jlEi4)

46 27 The Transcontinental RR was a great accomplishment but it is also the prime example of crony capitalism.

The Transcontinental Great Northern RR was a greater accomplishment and an example of how capitalism is supposed to work.

Posted by: Titanium White
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All the old time 'Robber Barons' had no hate for the little people; their accomplishments benefited humans. Rockefeller wanted oil priced so that everyone could afford it, Edison wanted everyone to afford electricity. Ford wanted everyone to afford a Ford..

Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 11:32 AM (jnt+a)

47 Thanks for this explanation, KT - my JOC has a "cockaigne" variant of pastry, I think, and I always wondered about that. It was not covered in my French studies!

Maybe they used fish pies for the walls because they didn't want to have to eat them.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 13, 2024 11:32 AM (Mzdiz)

48 Well, that's why you don't see them around anymore.

NBC News Reports Climate Change Killed Off 'King Kong' Apes 250,000 Years Ago and I Have Questions

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 11:33 AM (FVME7)

49 Art Thread ! can never go wrong with Pieter Bruegel. unfortunately a cob know as CBD rarely posts Bruegel...

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2024 11:33 AM (V13WU)

50 Let's assume the man was around forty and was born in the 1820s

He will love the reservation, whisky, and welfare we have planned for him.

Posted by: US Govt at January 13, 2024 11:33 AM (QrkKu)

51 Way to go ESPN. Lets all.get awards!

"The network made up fake names for Emmy Awards in order to obtain statuettes for on-air talent who were ineligible to receive awards."

This has, apparently, been going on for years.
Lying assholes.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2024 11:35 AM (W/lyH)

52 Surely you jest. The climate has been changing for 250,000 years? Whodathunk it.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 13, 2024 11:35 AM (POc8X)

53 My favorite Twighlight Zone episode is where the criminal thug was killed and went to where he thought was heaven and immediately given everything he wanted in his luxury apartment day after day until he was sick of it. Of course you could figure out he was trapped in his personal hell.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 13, 2024 11:35 AM (/2Hy+)

54 > Band of America,

Hey, I like that "Horse With No Name" song.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2024 11:36 AM (W5ArC)

55 38 I asked Chatgpt to write an email for me as well.
I entered the thread and said reply to this saying these bullet points using a formal tone. It wrote it out for me. Cut and paste back as a reply.

Kinda cool. And also kinda scary cuz why am I needed as a middle man if the AI can do it for me?
Posted by: Montec at January 13, 2024 11:26 AM (VVcrM)

I want to ask that thing a question. "What was Ted Williams batting average in 1943"? Williams didn't play in '43 because he was serving in the war.

Some of the large language model programs are apparently, from what I've read, basically set up to give a plausible answer rather than an accurate one. I'm curious exactly how to blow those things up Mr. Spock style.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 13, 2024 11:36 AM (z+89e)

56 Shot:

Governor JB Pritzker
@GovPritzker
Illinoisans have made a decision - to continue as a welcoming state that accepts others with open arms and shines as a beacon of hope.

Chaser:

TinaSfon
@TinaSfon
Pritzker urges Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to stop migrant dropoffs amid winter storm: ‘I plead with you for mercy’

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 11:36 AM (FVME7)

57 Related

The family and I were watching a TV show on the Harlem Globetrotters. I didn't know they had tiny little women on the Globetrotters team kicking ass against the Generals.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - DeSantis is losing to Nikki and it's Trump's fault at January 13, 2024 11:36 AM (/TehT)

58 Great baseline on Come and Get Your Love

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 13, 2024 11:37 AM (RIvkX)

59 Not surprised to read that about Deloitte. Their audit clients tend to collapse....

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2024 11:37 AM (V13WU)

60 Art Thread ! can never go wrong with Pieter Bruegel. unfortunately a cob know as CBD rarely posts Bruegel...
Posted by: runner at January 13, 2024 11:33 AM (V13WU)

He keeps them under lox and key.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 13, 2024 11:37 AM (Angsy)

61 11 Times In 5 Months

Used to date her.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at January 13, 2024 11:37 AM (sFONh)

62 ESPN is a four letter word.

Posted by: In case you haven't noticed at January 13, 2024 11:38 AM (NBVIP)

63 > I want to ask that thing a question. "What was Ted Williams batting average in 1943"?
> Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 13, 2024 11:36 AM (z+89e)

"Ted Williams, the legendary baseball player, did not play during the 1943 season because he was serving in the military during World War II. Therefore, he did not have a batting average for that year. Williams served as a pilot in the United States Navy and Marine Corps from 1943 to 1945, missing three seasons of Major League Baseball."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2024 11:38 AM (W5ArC)

64 Everything is an op.

Report: ESPN has returned DOZENS of Emmys after it was discovered they used fake names to get more awards for TV personalities

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 11:39 AM (FVME7)

65 Leftism is one stage thinking

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 11:39 AM (fwDg9)

66 Just tell Prickzter all the illegals you're sending him are transjenners who were being oppressed where they were.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 11:39 AM (QBaJw)

67 Sure you have...unconsciously.
Posted by: BignJames at January 13, 2024 11:18 AM (AwYPR)
===

And, systemically.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 13, 2024 11:39 AM (RIvkX)

68 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 13, 2024 11:40 AM (T4tVD)

69 I never heard of Deloitte before now.

They were one of the giants back in the day.

In 2007, Deloitte began hiring former employees of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for their competitive intelligence unit known as Deloitte Intelligence.[26]

Ah, that explains their undercover metastasis.

Posted by: US Govt at January 13, 2024 11:40 AM (p1L6c)

70 My favorite Twighlight Zone episode is where the criminal thug was killed and went to where he thought was heaven and immediately given everything he wanted in his luxury apartment day after day until he was sick of it. Of course you could figure out he was trapped in his personal hell.
Posted by: Titanium White at January 13, 2024 11:35 AM (/2Hy+)

Larry Blyden. Did more than one TZ, I believe. Found dead in the middle east.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 13, 2024 11:40 AM (Angsy)

71 Pritzker urges Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to stop migrant dropoffs amid winter storm: ‘I plead with you for mercy’
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 11:36 AM (FVME7)

No quarter.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 11:40 AM (R4t5M)

72 >>>>JUST IN: Democrat Governor JB Pritzker is literally now begging "for mercy" to Texas Governor Greg Abbott to stop bussing migrants to his state.

Remarkable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnXSzgNe4xE

Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 11:42 AM (jnt+a)

73 First person who says the illegal invaders are suffering in Chicago has never been to a cold weather training at Fort Drum. "This simple candle will elevate the temperature to 20 degrees in your shelter halves".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 13, 2024 11:42 AM (0EOe9)

74
I did it
I went outside
truck started right up
-9° F

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2024 11:43 AM (geLO8)

75 Report: ESPN has returned DOZENS of Emmys after it was discovered they used fake names to get more awards for TV personalities
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 11:39 AM (FVME7)

How does that even work? They tell the Emmy "awards" people there's a guy who works there, named Smitty Werbenjägermanjensen, and they send Smitty an Emmy?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 11:44 AM (QBaJw)

76 > 69 I never heard of Deloitte before now.

> They were one of the giants back in the day.

Still are. They're one of the Big Four accounting firms.

Now known as Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, at one point they went by Deloitte & Touche, hence "Toilet and Douche".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2024 11:45 AM (W5ArC)

77 > after it was discovered they used fake names to get more awards for TV personalities

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I don't get this scam
if the names are fake, then the person is, so wouldn't someone notice that no one saw 'so-and-so' on TV?

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2024 11:46 AM (geLO8)

78 >>>>How does that even work? They tell the Emmy "awards" people there's a guy who works there, named Smitty Werbenjägermanjensen, and they send Smitty an Emmy?

Posted by: BurtTC
----------------------

You don't need to think about it.
There's no corruption there.
None at all.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 11:47 AM (jnt+a)

79 Little roasted piggies,
Rush around the city streets,
Asking so politely,
A slice of ham you like to eat.

Posted by: Ole-ana at January 13, 2024 11:47 AM (V5BDR)

80 > if the names are fake, then the person is

Not necessarily. Stage names are that way.

Like the way that Barack Obama went by "Barry Glitterbuns" in the Chicago bathhouse scene.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2024 11:47 AM (W5ArC)

81 I nominate John Doe for an Oscar for his great performance in Oppenheimer

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2024 11:47 AM (geLO8)

82 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2024 11:38 AM (W5ArC)

Thanks. Strike one, so to speak.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 13, 2024 11:48 AM (z+89e)

83 Alternate History: Jill Biden Claims She "Put Everything Aside" to Get Schools Opened During Pandemic

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Nobel Prize worthy?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 11:48 AM (FVME7)

84 ESPN name "Biff Megaroid".

Real name: "Hymie Milktoast".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2024 11:49 AM (W5ArC)

85 >>>Like the way that Barack Obama went by "Barry Glitterbuns" in the Chicago bathhouse scene.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
=------------>

They passed him around like cake.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 11:49 AM (jnt+a)

86 Holden McGroyn is up for an award too

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2024 11:49 AM (geLO8)

87 Steady hand on the tiller.

Gabriel Noronha
@GLNoronha
FLASHBACK: February 4, 2021: President Biden announces he is ending arms sales to Saudi Arabia for their war against the Houthis, says it will "end the war in Yemen".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 11:50 AM (FVME7)

88 Don't call my butt, er, I mean, bluff.

Posted by: Barry Glitterbuns at January 13, 2024 11:50 AM (SYTee)

89 Alternate History: Jill Biden Claims She "Put Everything Aside" to Get Schools Opened During Pandemic

Huh, lying about things in recent memory is a novel approach.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 13, 2024 11:51 AM (NvyWM)

90 "Ted Williams, the legendary baseball player, did not play during the 1943 season because he was serving in the military during World War II. Therefore, he did not have a batting average for that year. Williams served as a pilot in the United States Navy and Marine Corps from 1943 to 1945, missing three seasons of Major League Baseball."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2024 11:38 AM (W5ArC)

I saw a vid, some guy used some program to replicate the seasons Williams missed (including '52 and '53, when he missed most of both due to being in Korea). The guy's stats were oddly underwhelming, especially in those WWII seasons he missed, when he would have been in his mid 20s. I know you aren't going to get a program to write a stat line that EXCEEDS what he'd done the years before and after, but come on! Every number was lower.

Seems to me your AI (or whatever) is poorly programmed, pal.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 11:52 AM (QBaJw)

91 Yankees want illegals. Southerners are sick of the crime, disease, and drain on and outright theft of resources that are illegals only contribution to society and haven't wanted illegals for decades.

I can't see the problem here.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - DeSantis is losing to Nikki and it's Trump's fault at January 13, 2024 11:52 AM (/TehT)

92 Oh, and this. For folks living in the cold climes, get your car battery and charging checked. Usually free at most big time auto parts stores. If you need a battery and you are an auto club member (and you should be), their prices are competitive with auto parts stores and they come out, install, and haul away the old one. I'm on battery three after twelve years and have always used the auto club.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 13, 2024 11:53 AM (0EOe9)

93 Did you know?

There’s quite literally no place like utopia.
-------------------------------

Yes there is. It's in the hill country of Texas.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 11:16 AM (jnt+a)

FWIW, Washington State has a town called "Eltopia".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2024 11:54 AM (tkR6S)

94 You don't need to think about it.
There's no corruption there.
None at all.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 11:47 AM (jnt+a)

On the other hand, I can't think of anything less important in this world than who does or doesn't "win" an Emmy.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 11:54 AM (QBaJw)

95 Quiet today around here-too quiet. It's Saturday, so the Chabad guys tunneling in my basement have the day off.

Posted by: There's Something Down There at January 13, 2024 11:54 AM (V5BDR)

96 We Germans are not all smiles und sunshine.

Posted by: Fritz at January 13, 2024 11:54 AM (aD39U)

97 Bestest economy ever!

Amazon Announces New Round of “Several Hundred” Job Cuts Across Prime Video, Amazon MGM Studios, and Twitch

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 11:55 AM (FVME7)

98 91 Yankees want illegals. Southerners are sick of the crime, disease, and drain on and outright theft of resources -
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Sounds a lot like old times.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 11:55 AM (jnt+a)

99 FLASHBACK: February 4, 2021: President Biden announces he is ending arms sales to Saudi Arabia for their war against the Houthis, says it will "end the war in Yemen".
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 11:50 AM (FVME7)

Did we? Did we stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia, to give to Yemen, so they could kill more Hooties?

I don't believe we did.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 11:55 AM (QBaJw)

100
I recognize that place in the first picture -- it is Kensington, in Philadelphia.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 13, 2024 11:56 AM (2z57a)

101 "Ted Williams, the legendary baseball player, did not play during the 1943 season because he was serving in the military during World War II. Therefore, he did not have a batting average for that year. Williams served as a pilot in the United States Navy and Marine Corps from 1943 to 1945, missing three seasons of Major League Baseball."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 13, 2024 11:38 AM (W5ArC)

He finished with 521 HRs IIRC.....

Posted by: JT at January 13, 2024 11:57 AM (T4tVD)

102 I should ask my oldest about Deloitte. He retired from them not too long ago.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2024 11:57 AM (IaTa3)

103 Yankees want illegals. Southerners are sick of the crime, disease, and drain on and outright theft of resources that are illegals only contribution to society and haven't wanted illegals for decades.

I can't see the problem here.
Posted by: Nikki Haley - DeSantis is losing to Nikki and it's Trump's fault at January 13, 2024 11:52 AM (/TehT)

Think of how unclean all those toilets in Chitcago and New Yakk have been... until now.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 11:57 AM (QBaJw)

104 As noted in the last thread, the Dep't of Homeland "Security" has now filed an emergency motion at the Supreme Court asking the Court to block Texas' move to take over control of the border crossing at Eagle Pass.

The Fed's are willing to publicly demonstrate that they want *no* barriers to immigration at all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2024 11:58 AM (i9ffA)

105 Old Soviet now American joke

The future is known, it's the past that is always changing

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 11:59 AM (fwDg9)

106
The Wheel Of Identity gives teachers a chart of which students are oppressed and which are the oppressors.

This is what happens when you entrust your offspring's education to credentialed simpletons who washed out of all other more difficult fields of study.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 13, 2024 12:00 PM (2z57a)

107 North Korea Ready to Send New Class of Missiles to Russia

-
The Russkies need NorK missiles?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 12:00 PM (FVME7)

108 Oh, and this. For folks living in the cold climes, get your car battery and charging checked. Usually free at most big time auto parts stores. If you need a battery and you are an auto club member (and you should be), their prices are competitive with auto parts stores and they come out, install, and haul away the old one. I'm on battery three after twelve years and have always used the auto club.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 13, 2024 11:53 AM (0EOe9)

High is only supposed to hit 48 here today. Brrr!

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 12:00 PM (QBaJw)

109 I don't doubt it. But did the people in charge let their peasants have opium?
Posted by: KT at January 13, 2024 11:19 AM (rrtZS)

One of the most disgusting moments in history was what came to be known as the Opium Wars, when Great Britain, from India and Afghanistan, produced vast amounts of opium and then transported it to China, in order to both make huge profits and destabilize the Chinese government.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2024 12:01 PM (i9ffA)

110 Huh. Sounds a bit like married student housing at the University of Miami when we were there in the late 70s.

Posted by: Paco at January 13, 2024 12:01 PM (njExo)

111 Reports suggest O'hare is being used to house illegals and they've run out of room wherever they were housing them so they're moving the entire hotel shuttle service elsewhere to make more room.

The propaganda arm (media) is being kept away. I wonder why?*

*I don't wonder why

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2024 12:01 PM (Q4IgG)

112 Fine but steady rain here and WINDY !

Posted by: JT at January 13, 2024 12:01 PM (T4tVD)

113 As noted in the last thread, the Dep't of Homeland "Security" has now filed an emergency motion at the Supreme Court asking the Court to block Texas' move to take over control of the border crossing at Eagle Pass.

The Fed's are willing to publicly demonstrate that they want *no* barriers to immigration at all.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2024 11:58 AM (i9ffA)

In order to protect the border, we must destroy it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 12:02 PM (QBaJw)

114 109 I don't doubt it. But did the people in charge let their peasants have opium?
Posted by: KT at January 13, 2024 11:19 AM (rrtZS)

One of the most disgusting moments in history was what came to be known as the Opium Wars, when Great Britain, from India and Afghanistan, produced vast amounts of opium and then transported it to China, in order to both make huge profits and destabilize the Chinese government.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2024 12:01 PM (i9ffA)

And now China is doing that to us with Fent.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 13, 2024 12:03 PM (ynpvh)

115 a guy I know said once that in 1969 he and his dad and his grandfather went out to look at the moon because Neil Armstrong et al were landed on it.
His dad had been a WWII pilot, and his grandfather had been cavalry trooper who grew up on a horse ranch.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2024 12:04 PM (D7oie)

116 One of the most disgusting moments in history was what came to be known as the Opium Wars, when Great Britain, from India and Afghanistan, produced vast amounts of opium and then transported it to China, in order to both make huge profits and destabilize the Chinese government.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2024 12:01 PM (i9ffA)

We wait rong time to get levenge.

Posted by: Fentanyl From China at January 13, 2024 12:04 PM (QBaJw)

117 The official policy of our government is
Olly Olly in free

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 12:04 PM (fwDg9)

118 One of the most disgusting moments in history was what came to be known as the Opium Wars, when Great Britain, from India and Afghanistan, produced vast amounts of opium and then transported it to China, in order to both make huge profits and destabilize the Chinese government.

Posted by: Tom Servo
----------------------

Sounds like a non-lethal way to pacify Chairman Xi

Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 12:05 PM (jnt+a)

119 For folks living in the cold climes, get your car battery and charging checked. Usually free at most big time auto parts stores.

We don't even have to hook up the tester to know that you need a new battery that we have on sale!

Posted by: Autozone at January 13, 2024 12:05 PM (c5wrR)

120 I recognize that place in the first picture -- it is Kensington, in Philadelphia.

https://ytube.io/3p34

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2024 12:06 PM (aD39U)

121 On the other hand, I can't think of anything less important in this world than who does or doesn't "win" an Emmy.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 11:54 AM (QBaJw)

I'm gonna have to disagree here. The 1981 Emmy for costume design was an egregious miscarriage of the proper result. The costumes for Buck Rogers' Erin Grey and Pamela Hensley are legendary. Full 25th century roller disco TnA masterpieces lost to Shogun and kimonos.

Also, I may have too much free time to spend on the internet.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 13, 2024 12:06 PM (z+89e)

122 Re: ONT - Rosie Grier did a lot of TV after football. Not just needlepoint.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 13, 2024 12:07 PM (KAi1n)

123 I think stroopwafel would make a nice substitute for drywall. Spackle it up with icing.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 13, 2024 12:08 PM (Y6IkP)

124 I'm gonna have to disagree here. The 1981 Emmy for costume design was an egregious miscarriage of the proper result. The costumes for Buck Rogers' Erin Grey and Pamela Hensley are legendary. Full 25th century roller disco TnA masterpieces lost to Shogun and kimonos.

Also, I may have too much free time to spend on the internet.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 13, 2024 12:06 PM (z+89e)

Ok, there was that ONE time. But otherwise.....

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 12:08 PM (QBaJw)

125 Re: ONT - Rosie Grier did a lot of TV after football. Not just needlepoint.
Posted by: SFGoth at January 13, 2024 12:07 PM (KAi1n)

A guy named Rosie, doing needlepoint? What a sissy.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 12:09 PM (QBaJw)

126 Kinder, gentler plane crashes.

New York Post
@nypost
Why airplanes crashes are now safer than ever

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 12:10 PM (FVME7)

127 After Grier's professional sports career, he worked as a bodyguard for Senator Robert Kennedy during the 1968 presidential campaign. Grier was guarding Ethel Kennedy when Senator Kennedy was shot. Although unable to prevent the assassination, Grier took control of the gun and subdued the shooter, Sirhan Sirhan.

*Did not know this. Interesting.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 12:11 PM (R4t5M)

128 The only people oppressed in America today are successful, hardworking, responsible people who wish to be left alone to do their business.

All the looters, moochers, parasites and democrats can suck it.

Suck It Hard.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 13, 2024 12:11 PM (R/m4+)

129 One of the most disgusting moments in history was what came to be known as the Opium Wars, when Great Britain, from India and Afghanistan, produced vast amounts of opium and then transported it to China, in order to both make huge profits and destabilize the Chinese government.

Posted by: Tom Servo

"Sand Pebbles" has entered the chat.
Movie thread!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2024 12:12 PM (g83Hw)

130 A guy named Rosie, doing needlepoint? What a sissy.
Posted by: BurtTC

Kinda like that stuttering wussie Mike Tyson.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 12:13 PM (FVME7)

131 If you're a member of Costco (and you should be) just get your car battery there. Good price and 36 month warranty. It's not hard to change out a car battery, but if you can't then find a man in your life who isn't a vegetarian and owns a few hand tools.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 13, 2024 12:14 PM (NBVIP)

132 130 A guy named Rosie, doing needlepoint? What a sissy.
Posted by: BurtTC

Kinda like that stuttering wussie Mike Tyson.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 12:13 PM (FVME7)

Sumtin about him bein' a puthy.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 13, 2024 12:14 PM (ynpvh)

133 It's Ludicrous!

Posted by: Mike T at January 13, 2024 12:15 PM (SYTee)

134 131 If you're a member of Costco (and you should be) just get your car battery there. Good price and 36 month warranty. It's not hard to change out a car battery, but if you can't then find a man in your life who isn't a vegetarian and owns a few hand tools.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 13, 2024 12:14 PM (NBVIP)

Not that some car mfgs haven't tried. One car I had, I needed an extension to my ratchet set to reach the damn bolts holding the battery...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 13, 2024 12:15 PM (ynpvh)

135 >>>New York Post
@nypost
Why airplanes crashes are now safer than ever

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
----------------------------

Priming the well for planes coming apart while in flight.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 12:16 PM (jnt+a)

136 Rosie was great in that two headed man movie.

Forget it's name. He had some old YT's head attached to him and of course the old YT was rayciss.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 13, 2024 12:16 PM (R/m4+)

137 135 >>>New York Post
@nypost
Why airplanes crashes are now safer than ever

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
----------------------------

Priming the well for planes coming apart while in flight.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 12:16 PM (jnt+a)

A mostly-peaceful crash.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 13, 2024 12:16 PM (ynpvh)

138 One of the most disgusting moments in history was what came to be known as the Opium Wars, when Great Britain, from India and Afghanistan, produced vast amounts of opium and then transported it to China, in order to both make huge profits and destabilize the Chinese government.

Posted by: Tom Servo

Top House Republicans Investigating Spread Of Chinese-Backed Marijuana Farms In U.S.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 12:16 PM (FVME7)

139 http://tinyurl.com/yc42b7ny

Some Gordon Lightfoot railroad music...

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at January 13, 2024 12:17 PM (fDjFn)

140 Double the fun with a diesel. 2 batteries.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 13, 2024 12:17 PM (POc8X)

141 You know how some people still think fascism is a "right" political philosophy?

And those same people believe strongly in the goodness of Soviet style Communism. Coke and Pepsi. Modern world is fascist with no cool uniforms and the visible leadership being a bunch of dumb pedos and queers. Another downgrade from what wasn't good before.

Posted by: azjaeger at January 13, 2024 12:17 PM (3/XaG)

142 Actually, it was Rosey (for Roosevelt). My bad.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 13, 2024 12:18 PM (KAi1n)

143 Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 11:32 AM (jnt+a)

Sorry if you were just adding instead of commenting on the post but what does that have to do with what I posted.

The path of the Trans RR was ridiculous because it unnecessarily deviated so as to let it go over cronies property, they used crappy product on all parts of the project bought from other cronies and they over paid for just about everything intentionally.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 13, 2024 12:18 PM (/2Hy+)

144 Safer guns and safer bullets.

Posted by: Jocelyn Elders at January 13, 2024 12:18 PM (NBVIP)

145 I needed an extension to my ratchet set to reach the damn bolts holding the battery...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

You want to see pain changing a battery, watch my BIL changing the battery in a 1994 Vette. (typed 'vet' at first; but, then recognized I don't want any battery in any vets).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2024 12:18 PM (g83Hw)

146 143 Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 11:32 AM (jnt+a)

Sorry if you were just adding instead of commenting on the post but what does that have to do with what I posted.

The path of the Trans RR was ridiculous because it unnecessarily deviated so as to let it go over cronies property, they used crappy product on all parts of the project bought from other cronies and they over paid for just about everything intentionally.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 13, 2024 12:18 PM (/2Hy+)

Trans RR? Sounds like they were using the wrong hardware for the job...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 13, 2024 12:19 PM (ynpvh)

147 Pritzker urges Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to stop migrant dropoffs amid winter storm: ‘I plead with you for mercy’
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 11:36 AM (FVME7)

No quarter.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 11:40 AM (R4t5M)

Yup. No quarter to Pritzker AND the invaders.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2024 12:19 PM (BdMk6)

148 145 I needed an extension to my ratchet set to reach the damn bolts holding the battery...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

You want to see pain changing a battery, watch my BIL changing the battery in a 1994 Vette. (typed 'vet' at first; but, then recognized I don't want any battery in any vets).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2024 12:18 PM (g83Hw)

Hey now, some vets have pacemakers, okay?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 13, 2024 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

149 AW maybe all those 10s of thousands of Chinese illegals are farming

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 12:20 PM (fwDg9)

150 Oh and Rockefeller was screwed when they went after him for being a monopoly. At the time he owned less than 50% of the oil production business. He also ran it more efficiently than all the others allowing him to sell cheaper and pay his employees more. His competitors didn't like that so the used crony capitalism to go after him.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 13, 2024 12:20 PM (/2Hy+)

151 After Grier's professional sports career, he worked as a bodyguard for Senator Robert Kennedy during the 1968 presidential campaign. Grier was guarding Ethel Kennedy when Senator Kennedy was shot. Although unable to prevent the assassination, Grier took control of the gun and subdued the shooter, Sirhan Sirhan.

*Did not know this. Interesting.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 12:11 PM (R4t5M)

That's misleading in two ways: One, Grier was one of about a dozen people who tackled Sirhan Sirhan, after the shots started firing.

And B, Sirhan didn't kill RFK. Nobody stopped the actual killer.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 12:20 PM (QBaJw)

152
Hey now, some vets have pacemakers, okay?
Posted by: jim

I said I didn't want any in a vet and I stand by my statement. I'd rather no vet has any heart problems that need either an insulin pump *or* a pacemaker.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2024 12:21 PM (g83Hw)

153 151 After Grier's professional sports career, he worked as a bodyguard for Senator Robert Kennedy during the 1968 presidential campaign. Grier was guarding Ethel Kennedy when Senator Kennedy was shot. Although unable to prevent the assassination, Grier took control of the gun and subdued the shooter, Sirhan Sirhan.

*Did not know this. Interesting.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 12:11 PM (R4t5M)

That's misleading in two ways: One, Grier was one of about a dozen people who tackled Sirhan Sirhan, after the shots started firing.

And B, Sirhan didn't kill RFK. Nobody stopped the actual killer.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 12:20 PM (QBaJw)

We have no idea what you're talking about.

Posted by: CIA at January 13, 2024 12:22 PM (ynpvh)

154 > asking the Court to block Texas' move to take over control of the border crossing at Eagle Pass.

SCOTUS is an appeals court
Texas would first have to be adjudicated for something that resulted in a verdict

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2024 12:22 PM (geLO8)

155 BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Seattle and U of Wash fans are all boo-hoo about the coach jumping to Alabama.
"Where's the loyalty?".
"How much money is enough?"
"He shouldn't have used this fine program as a stepping stone!"

Karma is a bitch, yo!

*hides from nurse*

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2024 12:22 PM (W/lyH)

156 My utopia involves something like all the worst hypocrites, blind followers, pedos, narcissists, manipulative sociopaths, and chronically hateful people being sucked into parallel dimensions where they will be forced to contend with each other until they are cured of their neuroses, with the upside being that I don't have to deal with or even think about those kind of people anymore. The last several years has felt like getting bit by a stampede of werewolves and I'm praying every day I don't change.

Posted by: Anomalous Cracker at January 13, 2024 12:22 PM (GqGVk)

157 Off Sock.
Stuff to do. Se y'all later.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 13, 2024 12:24 PM (ynpvh)

158 and FTR I don't pick my utopia

not in public, anyway

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2024 12:24 PM (geLO8)

159 Top House Republicans Investigating Spread Of Chinese-Backed Marijuana Farms In U.S.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 12:16 PM (FVME7)

We knew they were buying up all the farmland for a reason.

What could possibly go wrong.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 12:24 PM (QBaJw)

160 Double the fun with a diesel. 2 batteries.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 13, 2024 12:17 PM (POc8X)

BTDT. But my 2008 gas has two batteries, too. It's still running on the primary battery it had when I bought it as gummint surplus in 2011. I did replace the secondary battery, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2024 12:24 PM (tkR6S)

161 Seems people don't believe any declared assassin is actually the real assassin. Lot of people at the time also questioned whether JWB was the real assassin.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 13, 2024 12:24 PM (/2Hy+)

162 Pritzker urges Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to stop migrant dropoffs amid winter storm: ‘I plead with you for mercy’
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 11:36 AM (FVME7)

No quarter.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 11:40 AM (R4t5M)

Yup. No quarter to Pritzker AND the invaders.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2024 12:19 PM (BdMk6)
***

This!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2024 12:26 PM (W/lyH)

163 We have no idea what you're talking about.
Posted by: CIA at January 13, 2024 12:22 PM (ynpvh)

That's probably true, actually. Since the FBI has spent the last 55 plus years hiding the evidence.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 12:26 PM (QBaJw)

164 Not that some car mfgs haven't tried. One car I had, I needed an extension to my ratchet set to reach the damn bolts holding the battery...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

10mm sockets have both entered, and left, the chat.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2024 12:26 PM (IaTa3)

165
Karma is a bitch, yo!

*hides from nurse*

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2024 12:22 PM (W/lyH)

You're saying Washington wasn't this guy's first job???

No way!

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 12:28 PM (QBaJw)

166 SCOTUS is an appeals court
Texas would first have to be adjudicated for something that resulted in a verdict
Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2024 12:22 PM (geLO

That's why they're asking for an Emergency Order, outside of the normal rules. SCOTUS should turn them down; but we shall see.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2024 12:28 PM (gdtCS)

167 Not that some car mfgs haven't tried. One car I had, I needed an extension to my ratchet set to reach the damn bolts holding the battery...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

10mm sockets have both entered, and left, the chat.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2024 12:26 PM (IaTa3)
***
Damn it. It was here a second ago!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2024 12:28 PM (W/lyH)

168 Seems people don't believe any declared assassin is actually the real assassin. Lot of people at the time also questioned whether JWB was the real assassin.
Posted by: Titanium White

Bob Ford, that dirty little coward who shot Mr. Howard, was set up! A patsy for Hillary Clinton!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 12:32 PM (FVME7)

169 It would have been funnier if Rosie Grier tackled Sirhan Sirhan while Ray Milland's head was on his shoulder.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2024 12:32 PM (gdtCS)

170 any emergency order would have to have a constitutional basis, right?

and the Constitution says (Art IV Sec 4)

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion

unless I'm wrong™

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2024 12:33 PM (geLO8)

171 Oh and Rockefeller was screwed when they went after him for being a monopoly. At the time he owned less than 50% of the oil production business. He also ran it more efficiently than all the others allowing him to sell cheaper and pay his employees more. His competitors didn't like that so the used crony capitalism to go after him.
Posted by: Titanium White at January 13, 2024 12:20 PM (/2Hy+)

Once the oil monopolies were toppled, Jed and Granny could afford to move to Beverly Hills.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2024 12:34 PM (BdMk6)

172 Seems people don't believe any declared assassin is actually the real assassin. Lot of people at the time also questioned whether JWB was the real assassin.
Posted by: Titanium White at January 13, 2024 12:24 PM (/2Hy+)

I am pretty sure Jackie Kennedy remarked, that it was "just a shitty little Communist" who killed JFK. Weirdly, Brave Search cannot find that quote. I thought it was well-known.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2024 12:35 PM (tkR6S)

173 Hell I don't know

Uncle Sam is letting everybody in, and Texas is saying NO
I have no idea which way this will fall

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2024 12:35 PM (geLO8)

174 Why airplanes crashes are now safer than ever

-

It was discussed a couple of days ago, but car airbags are federally mandated to protect unbelted passengers. There was a Consumer Reports article from 2010 or making the very smart observation that car manufacturers aren't designing airbags to protect any real people, but only to pass government tests.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - the CDC is pleading with gay men to stop consuming diarrhea at January 13, 2024 12:35 PM (Xt8HN)

175 Oddly I have run across references to Oded Galor in some work by Joel Mokyr, but Mokyr is so dense a writer it never got through my struggle to understand what the heck he was trying to say..

I will say my favorite historical economist focused on growth is Carlo Cipolla, but he is not well known.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2024 12:36 PM (D7oie)

176 >>>
No quarter.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory,
---------------------

This coming election Tx will vote on secession.
Not to secede but to make plans on what to do/what must be done
if it becomes necessary. Plans for Social Security, infrastructure, all the necessary things that the Fed has a hand in that will no longer be there. Thus allowing the state to transition smoothly (right) without calamity.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 12:36 PM (jnt+a)

177 The Wheel Of Identity gives teachers a chart of which students are oppressed and which are the oppressors. The oppressors:

-Slim
-White
-Citizen
-English
-Able-bodied
-HeterosexuaI
-Owns property
-Cisgender…

No Sigmound Freud here, but I may have found the source of this "white supremecy"- Their own feelings of inadaquacy.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2024 12:37 PM (cOq4q)

178 I am pretty sure Jackie Kennedy remarked, that it was "just a shitty little Communist" who killed JFK. Weirdly, Brave Search cannot find that quote. I thought it was well-known.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2024 12:35 PM (tkR6S)

Wrong on both counts, Jackie.

Andrew Breitbart's family claims he just had a heart attack.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 12:37 PM (QBaJw)

179 am pretty sure Jackie Kennedy remarked, that it was "just a shitty little Communist" who killed JFK. Weirdly, Brave Search cannot find that quote. I thought it was well-known

-

This isn't to reduce conspiracy theories, but so that users of search engines aren't exposed to the idea that communism could be bad.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - the CDC is pleading with gay men to stop consuming diarrhea at January 13, 2024 12:37 PM (Xt8HN)

180 The Russians probably wish the American government was in charge of Ukraine

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 12:38 PM (fwDg9)

181 Don Black - well that's Texas' argument for their actions, clearly.

In other comical world news, South Africa, not content with just filing charges against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ in Bussels) for genocide, has now announced that they will file charges against the US at the ICJ for supporting genocide.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2024 12:39 PM (gdtCS)

182 I don't put too much weight on the Cockaigne story. For one thing, it's a story. There's a tendency to think that earlier times hadn't thought of invention. (Someone has already quoted the Big Rock Candy Mountain.)

Also, I don't think the source strikes as reliable.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 13, 2024 12:39 PM (1bNHn)

183 Seems people don't believe any declared assassin is actually the real assassin. Lot of people at the time also questioned whether JWB was the real assassin.
Posted by: Titanium White at January 13, 2024 12:24 PM (/2Hy+)

Some people swallow what their government tells them, without questioning anything.

The Booth conspiracy was far greater than just the chuckleheads they caught and killed, or jailed. There's no question of that. I've never heard anyone suggest Booth didn't pull the trigger.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 12:40 PM (QBaJw)

184 >This coming election Tx will vote on secession.
---

a TX court has disallowed that referendum

The state Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to take up a case from a conservative group that wants to ask voters if the state should secede in a question on this year’s GOP primary ballot.

The court denied the petition outright, with no explanation.

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2024 12:40 PM (geLO8)

185 Since Cockaigne is all about food, imagine what their constant worry was back then.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at January 13, 2024 12:40 PM (f6YJh)

186 The Wheel Of Identity gives teachers a chart of which students are oppressed and which are the oppressors.

-
Let's play Wheel Of Identity!

Contestant #1: Pat, I'd like to solve the puzzle. Is it, "Cracker, YT, Honkey, they's all evil"?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 12:40 PM (FVME7)

187 Found it!

"He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.
To her mother, Janet Auchincloss (22 November 1963); quoted in The Death of a President (1967) by William Manchester"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2024 12:41 PM (tkR6S)

188 Owed Galor - Pussy's smarter brother.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2024 12:41 PM (gdtCS)

189 The archived Forbes article from behind the paywall: https://archive.ph/qHNuv

Posted by: jayhawkone at January 13, 2024 12:42 PM (9rPx3)

190 sun came out, and the temp has soared to -8° F

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2024 12:43 PM (geLO8)

191 For most of human history it was a difficult task to get basic humanity necessities. So it shouldn't be a surprise that people dreamed of getting their needs met easily.

Of course the irony is now that we have a (still kind of) capitalist economy that makes getting basic needs met easy, our elites dream of going back to the model of hungry exhausted serfs...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2024 12:43 PM (ibTVg)

192 The court denied the petition outright, with no explanation.
Posted by: Don Black

Although in private there was discussion about the need to maintain their phony balonie jobs.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 12:43 PM (FVME7)

193 The court denied the petition outright, with no explanation.
Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2024 12:40 PM (geLO

The peasants are revolting? You don't explain anything to them, you rule them. That's how "our democracy" works!

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 12:43 PM (QBaJw)

194 The current SA 'leaders' hate Israel because they didn't boycott them during Apartheid and helped the government. I assume it's how SA became one of the few countries with nuclear weapons. They were an Israeli surrogate.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 13, 2024 12:43 PM (/2Hy+)

195 10mm sockets have both entered, and left, the chat.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2024 12:26 PM (IaTa3)
***
Damn it. It was here a second ago!
Posted by: Diogenes

Found after 5mins of hunting on previous used socket wrench.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2024 12:44 PM (g83Hw)

196
Forbes is running a story about how Deloitte missed this, but it's behind a paywall, so I don't know what excuses are presented.

Here's the article:

http://tinyurl.com/mvkhx4pm

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2024 12:44 PM (63Dwl)

197 All the while the Marxist South Africans are slowly committing genocide

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 12:45 PM (fwDg9)

198 If each state had a binding succession plebiscite on the ballot every 10 years the country would likely be a much better place.

Hell I still hold that if in 2020 Abbott and group of other red state governors announced they would have had such a vote over the stolen election that the SC would have heard the case and demanded a new election...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2024 12:45 PM (ibTVg)

199 >>> "just a shitty little Communist"
------------------

FireFox can't find one instance. It suggests that I check my spelling,

Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 12:46 PM (jnt+a)

200 For most of human history it was a difficult task to get basic humanity necessities. So it shouldn't be a surprise that people dreamed of getting their needs met easily.

Of course the irony is now that we have a (still kind of) capitalist economy that makes getting basic needs met easy, our elites dream of going back to the model of hungry exhausted serfs...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2024 12:43 PM (ibTVg)

Yeah, gluttony was not an option for the peasants. They could see their elites, engaging in all sorts of pleasures, and they would have thought it must be nice.

They couldn't know what would happen, if you gave peasants access to all the earthly delights, without having to work for them.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 12:46 PM (QBaJw)

201 >>> Incidentally, were those "migrants from Texas" dropped off busses at the airport? Why?

Chicago and FNYC should claim that Texas is so miserable that people are leaving and migrating to their Cockaigne States, literally eating them out of house and home, and that FJB needs to build a wall on the north Texas border to keep those social prasites out...
in a eay they already are.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2024 12:46 PM (cOq4q)

202 EPA floats new natural gas tax in latest salvo of Biden admin's war on fossil fuel

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2024 12:47 PM (geLO8)

203 There was a Consumer Reports article from 2010 or making the very smart observation that car manufacturers aren't designing airbags to protect any real people, but only to pass government tests.
Posted by: Nikki Haley - the CDC is pleading with gay men to stop consuming diarrhea

Old and busted: The customer is always right!

New and cool: F*ck the customer!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 12:48 PM (FVME7)

204 All the while the Marxist South Africans are slowly committing genocide
Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 12:45 PM (fwDg9)

Like all leftist/commnists, they accuse their opposition of doing what they themselves are doing.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2024 12:48 PM (BdMk6)

205 This coming election Tx will vote on secession.
---

a TX court has disallowed that referendum

The state Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to take up a case from a conservative group that wants to ask voters if the state should secede in a question on this year’s GOP primary ballot.

The court denied the petition outright, with no explanation.
_______________

Do it anyway. The left would. And get the results they wanted regardless what any court, including SCOTUS rules.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2024 12:49 PM (Q4IgG)

206 The Russians probably wish the American government was in charge of Ukraine
Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 12:38 PM (fwDg9)

we are, just the neo-cons are trying to get up the nerve to have their own Diem moment. It must be like a huddle of penguins on an ice-floe trying the push their buddy off into the water to check for Orcas and Sea-lions

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2024 12:49 PM (D7oie)

207 Yeah, -5 here and 19 mph winds. All sorts of services going down where I work. Don't know how many we can fix right now.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2024 12:49 PM (L8hCM)

208 Rangers @ Capitals, top of the hour

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2024 12:50 PM (geLO8)

209 @202

>>EPA floats new natural gas tax in latest salvo of Biden admin's war on fossil fuel

I love how Congress conceived of all of the alphabet agencies as mere enabling acts for the administrative states whimsy.

That's certainly how they operate.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2024 12:50 PM (XV/Pl)

210 In other comical world news, South Africa, not content with just filing charges against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ in Bussels) for genocide, has now announced that they will file charges against the US at the ICJ for supporting genocide.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2024 12:39 PM (gdtCS)

damn. If only we had Jack Smith still there to take bribes to make charges go away.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2024 12:51 PM (D7oie)

211 yeah, who knew the executive branch had the power to tax

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2024 12:51 PM (geLO8)

212 Had an attorney friend of mine (yes, I actually know an attorney) who is from Texas, and she told me that the current Texas law prohibits secession. Same with breaking into new separate states.
I've assumed that is true.

Now, if they did secede, I wonder how many would immediately move there?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2024 12:51 PM (W/lyH)

213 Thx K.T. , excellent post. The progs are racing full-tilt for the singularity where everyone is hardwired into a world wide super computer. Of course a solar storm, computer virus or the secret kill switch could destroy any one and everyone. But that really that isn't any different than the last or first Utopian scheme that killed millions.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2024 12:52 PM (Yem6A)

214 There was a Consumer Reports article from 2010 or making the very smart observation that car manufacturers aren't designing airbags to protect any real people, but only to pass government tests.
Posted by: Nikki Haley - the CDC is pleading with gay men to stop consuming diarrhea

Old and busted: The customer is always right!

New and cool: F*ck the customer!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 12:48 PM (FVME7)

The couple times I've been in a vehicle when airbags were deployed, the crash was already over, and the vehicle itself was responsible for essentially no damage to the human occupants.

In other words, the cabin itself was like an encapsulated part of the car, and as metal all around it collapsed, none of it penetrated the area around the humans.

And then the airbags blew, and caused minor scrapes and burns on the skin. Thanks, airbag!

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 12:52 PM (QBaJw)

215 Rangers are scary good this year.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 12:52 PM (R4t5M)

216 alright people, I'm going to watch hockey, then football, then some more football

have a nice day

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2024 12:52 PM (geLO8)

217 Now, if they did secede, I wonder how many would immediately move there?
Posted by: Diogenes

Katy, bar the door.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 12:54 PM (R4t5M)

218 I am shocked, truly shocked I say, that both a Nigerian business would be a scam and that a Big Four corpo courtier wouldn't care about it.

Posted by: CppThis at January 13, 2024 12:54 PM (PZvjL)

219 I prefer the wheel Yakko spun.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2024 12:54 PM (++LEd)

220 Utopia = Always reaching into the tool box and grabbing the 10mm socket the first time.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2024 12:54 PM (W/lyH)

221 On the ballot is whether the state should plan not that it should.
Court cannot rule on a state making a plan.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 12:55 PM (jnt+a)

222 Abbott should tell Pritzker to stop begging and "squeel like a pig" I don't think the fat rich boy would like that much.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2024 12:55 PM (Yem6A)

223 212 Had an attorney friend of mine (yes, I actually know an attorney) who is from Texas, and she told me that the current Texas law prohibits secession. Same with breaking into new separate states.
I've assumed that is true.

Now, if they did secede, I wonder how many would immediately move there?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2024 12:51 PM (W/lyH)

Laws can be changed. Even the Constitution can be amended.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 13, 2024 12:56 PM (xaFKb)

224 I am shocked, truly shocked I say, that both a Nigerian business would be a scam and that a Big Four corpo courtier wouldn't care about it.
Posted by: CppThis

There's also gambling going on in here!
I bet if we de-Curleyed the money pipes enough we'd find one running out of Uncle Sams pocket into D's.

Posted by: DaveA at January 13, 2024 12:56 PM (FhXTo)

225 Tim Poole reports that Chicago taxpayers are paying $7,000 per MONTH per illegal immigrant. That would be $84,000 per year. Do you spend that much on yourself?

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 13, 2024 12:56 PM (D4+7Z)

226 >>>
The Fed's are willing to publicly demonstrate that they want *no* barriers to immigration at all.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Actually aiding and abetting. Which is a long way past turning a blind eye or prosecutorial descretion in not chasing down every known illegal.
They are not only driving the felons' getaway car, they are also doing the B&E to let the criminals gain access for the robbery.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2024 12:56 PM (cOq4q)

227 I am shocked, truly shocked I say, that both a Nigerian business would be a scam and that a Big Four corpo courtier wouldn't care about it.
Posted by: CppThis at January 13, 2024 12:54 PM (PZvjL)

My immediate thought, knowing f-all about how high finance works, is that the company wasn't fooled. There was some other purpose as to how and why it was allowed to occur.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 12:57 PM (QBaJw)

228 Declaration to NYC-- I am the most powerful! All bow before me. Take me to my throne.

Posted by: LASue at January 13, 2024 12:57 PM (llS7k)

229 Abbott should tell Pritzker to stop begging and "squeel like a pig" I don't think the fat rich boy would like that much.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2024 12:55 PM (Yem6A)
***

He should invite him to send his National Guard down to help out at the border for their two week active duty times.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2024 12:58 PM (W/lyH)

230 And then the airbags blew, and caused minor scrapes and burns on the skin. Thanks, airbag!
Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 12:52 PM (QBaJw)

My neighbor is permanently scared from an airbag that blew up.... literally.

It deployed, and was defective...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 13, 2024 12:58 PM (xaFKb)

231 The America's had it's own version of Utopia in the song "Big Rock Candy Mountain".

I also remember from a blog many years ago, a North Korean defector envisioning freedom as an endless buffet.

Posted by: Picric at January 13, 2024 01:00 PM (HzuMl)

232 Funny this topic should come up today. Last night, I was sorting through some of the AI artwork I made and saved. I started wondering if I wasn't, maybe subconsciously, drawing out my impressions of Utopia. If so, it would have the qualities of a small town in a pastoral setting, it would be hyperfuturistic, but with a retro, mid-century aesthetic. There would be many cats. And the only sports are football and hockey.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 13, 2024 01:00 PM (9yUzE)

233 Abbott should send Pritzker and copies of the governments documents to Texas on the border argument

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 01:01 PM (fwDg9)

234 How is the Beggin' Pritzker related to the pedo enthusiast Pritzker?

Posted by: LASue at January 13, 2024 01:01 PM (llS7k)

235 217 Now, if they did secede, I wonder how many would immediately move there?
Posted by: Diogenes
--------------

You have passport whide boy?

Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 01:01 PM (jnt+a)

236 Tim Poole reports that Chicago taxpayers are paying $7,000 per MONTH per illegal immigrant. That would be $84,000 per year. Do you spend that much on yourself?
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 13, 2024 12:56 PM (D4+7Z)

Hell, Hunter spends that much in a month, on hookers and blow.

No wonder he doesn't have enough to pay child support. The poor guy.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 01:02 PM (QBaJw)

237
-Slim
-White

Slim Whiteman sold more records than the Beatles.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2024 01:02 PM (63Dwl)

238 Give the Left the utopia they believe they want until they choke on it....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2024 01:02 PM (BpYfr)

239 Hard-to-access car battery? We had a 750 BMW--great car but you had to remove the electric rear seat to get access to the battery. No, really.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at January 13, 2024 01:03 PM (FEVMW)

240 Give the Left the utopia they believe they want until they choke on it....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

It's been tried, there was nothing to choke on because the store shelves were bare.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2024 01:04 PM (g83Hw)

241 Taiwan’s Ruling Party Candidate Lai Wins Presidency in Setback for Beijing

Vice President Lai Cheng-te’s election indicates Taiwan is set to continue its hard-on-China policies in the face of growing aggression from CCP.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2024 01:04 PM (aD39U)

242 Slim Whiteman sold more records than the Beatles.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2024 01:02 PM (63Dwl)

I'm gonna have to look that one up.....

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 01:04 PM (QBaJw)

243 Milei is awesome.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2024 01:04 PM (W/lyH)

244 > Tim Poole reports that Chicago taxpayers are paying $7,000 per MONTH per illegal immigrant. That would be $84,000 per year. Do you spend that much on yourself?
______________

I'll bet only a fraction of that's spent on any given illegal.

The rest is graft.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2024 01:04 PM (Q4IgG)

245 There were cigarette trees on Big Rock Candy Mountain.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2024 01:05 PM (63Dwl)

246 201 >>> Incidentally, were those "migrants from Texas" dropped off busses at the airport? Why?

Because Chicago passed a new dictat that busses would be seized and fines imposed if the busses did not follow the new regulations, which are meant to prevent dropping illegals in.this "sanctuary" city.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 13, 2024 01:05 PM (D4+7Z)

247 Slim Whiteman sold more records than the Beatles.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2024 01:02 PM (63Dwl)

I'm gonna have to look that one up.....
Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 01:04 PM (QBaJw)

Ok, first of all, how dumb am I, that I had to look it up.

And second.....

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 01:06 PM (QBaJw)

248 No quarter.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 11:40 AM (R4t5M)

The concept song by Led Zeppelin about running out of money in an arcade?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 13, 2024 01:09 PM (rSl/w)

249 Now, if they did secede, I wonder how many would immediately move there?
Posted by: Diogenes
--------------

You have passport whide boy?
Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 01:01 PM (jnt+a)
***

Heh,
I have five very good friends who are black Americans. Two already live in Texas, and two more would be there in a heartbeat. The fifth is a hardcore dem, but she'd think about it.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2024 01:09 PM (W/lyH)

250 There were cigarette trees on Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2024 01:05 PM (63Dwl)

There was also older bums raping younger bums in the original version.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 13, 2024 01:10 PM (R/m4+)

251 Read on the 'net, so you know it is true, that Texas' angle is criminal tresspass laws. Presume they would also refuse bond as it is a given that an illegal alien is a flight risk.
Put walls on all sides (but south) of that park, call it a jail, and put them there.

Texas should also use emminate domain for a one mile strip the entire length of the border, take only a 'trasportation right-of-way, leaving all rights to current owners intact.
Arrest any caught on right of way with criminal tresspass (except land owner who is immune) and to the three sided holding pen they go.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2024 01:10 PM (cOq4q)

252 Incidentally, were those "migrants from Texas" dropped off busses at the airport? Why?

Because Chicago passed a new dictat that busses would be seized and fines imposed if the busses did not follow the new regulations, which are meant to prevent dropping illegals in.this "sanctuary" city.
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 13, 2024 01:05 PM (D4+7Z)

Chicago has a huge public rail transit system. Drop them off at stations outside of the greater Chicago area. Mix it up. A new location every week.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2024 01:10 PM (BdMk6)

253 We had a 750 BMW--great car but you had to remove the electric rear seat to get access to the battery. No, really.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey
--------

Yeah, I had to that. My thought was, 'You know, having the battery in the passenger compartment seems like a bad idea.'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 13, 2024 01:11 PM (XeU6L)

254 Meatball still blows

Not as much as the warmonger

Posted by: REDACTED at January 13, 2024 01:11 PM (xIMxO)

255 I'll bet only a fraction of that's spent on any given illegal.

The rest is graft.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2024 01:04 PM (Q4IgG)

You sure know Chicago.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 13, 2024 01:12 PM (fg+0r)

256 248 The concept song by Led Zeppelin about running out of money in an arcade?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 13, 2024 01:09 PM (rSl/w)

No Quarter Pounder is a quality album for a very particular type of listener.

Posted by: CppThis at January 13, 2024 01:13 PM (PZvjL)

257 Bills-Steelers playoff game postponed until Monday. Due to weather.

Pussies.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 01:13 PM (R4t5M)

258 How is Eminem #9 on the all-time list? I mean, I know he was poopular for a while there, but really? Number 9?

Anyhoo, obviously it's only a matter of time before Taylor passes everybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 01:14 PM (QBaJw)

259 239 Hard-to-access car battery? We had a 750 BMW--great car but you had to remove the electric rear seat to get access to the battery. No, really.

Posted by: Art Rondelet
-----------------------

Dad had a chevy with a battery located under the floorboard of the back seat. I know for sure because that's where I was sitting when it caused the fire.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 01:15 PM (jnt+a)

260 How is Eminem #9 on the all-time list? I mean, I know he was poopular for a while there, but really? Number 9?
Anyhoo, obviously it's only a matter of time before Taylor passes everybody.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 01:14 PM (QBaJw)

Now do Pitbull.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 13, 2024 01:15 PM (R/m4+)

261 How is the Beggin' Pritzker related to the pedo enthusiast Pritzker?
Posted by: LASue at January 13, 2024 01:01 PM

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

They are cousins.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 13, 2024 01:15 PM (A9KPy)

262 Bills-Steelers playoff game postponed until Monday. Due to weather.

Pussies.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 01:13 PM (R4t5M)

Serious question: Has this ever happened before, a playoff game postponed due to weather?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 01:15 PM (QBaJw)

263 251 Read on the 'net, so you know it is true, that Texas' angle is criminal tresspass laws. Presume they would also refuse bond as it is a given that an illegal alien is a flight risk.
Put walls on all sides (but south) of that park, call it a jail, and put them there.

Texas should also use emminate domain for a one mile strip the entire length of the border, take only a 'trasportation right-of-way, leaving all rights to current owners intact.
Arrest any caught on right of way with criminal tresspass (except land owner who is immune) and to the three sided holding pen they go.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2024 01:10 PM (cOq4q)

But I just want to LOOK like I doing something in between my appearances on Fox News.

Posted by: Gov Abbott at January 13, 2024 01:16 PM (rSl/w)

264 Hard-to-access car battery? We had a 750 BMW--great car but you had to remove the electric rear seat to get access to the battery. No, really.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at January 13, 2024 01:03 PM (FEVMW

Chrysler Cirrus, to replace the battery you had to jack up the car and remove the drivers side front wheel.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 13, 2024 01:16 PM (hEv4o)

265 Serious question: Has this ever happened before, a playoff game postponed due to weather?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 01:15 PM (QBaJw)

We are getting soft as a society.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 13, 2024 01:17 PM (rSl/w)

266 Now do Pitbull.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 13, 2024 01:15 PM (R/m4+)

I went through a list that went up to 295 (everyone who's sold over 10 million over their careers). I'm not sure he's on the list, but admittedly, I wasn't looking for it.

Lots of hippity hop rap singers I never heard of. One name I knew, Da Baby, was listed, and the only reason I know of him is because Chappelle did a bit about how Da Baby killed somebody in Walmart, and it didn't hurt his career.

Well, why would it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 01:18 PM (QBaJw)

267 We are getting soft as a society.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 13, 2024 01:17 PM (rSl/w)

I keep my thermostat at 74, because the cats like it warmer.

So I hardly have room to talk.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 01:19 PM (QBaJw)

268 Bills-Steelers playoff game postponed until Monday. Due to weather.

Pussies.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 01:13 PM (R4t5M)

NY Gov got involved with the NFL cucks; is there nothing Karens can’t do? Hear them roar.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 13, 2024 01:20 PM (hEv4o)

269 Serious question: Has this ever happened before, a playoff game postponed due to weather?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 01:15 PM (QBaJw)

Growing up it used to be the nastier the weather, the more people would look forward to a good game. Team strategies used to be designed around the weather.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2024 01:20 PM (BdMk6)

270 NeverNikki?
Not sure would be opposed to a Fans Only page

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 01:22 PM (fwDg9)

271 Bills-Steelers playoff game postponed until Monday. Due to weather.

Pussies.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 01:13 PM (R4t5M)

Serious question: Has this ever happened before, a playoff game postponed due to weather?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 01:15 PM (QBaJw)
***

I smell lawyers.
Lawsuits already printed for frost bite claims.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2024 01:22 PM (W/lyH)

272 Football use to be a manly sport too

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 01:22 PM (fwDg9)

273 Football use to be a manly sport too
Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 01:22 PM (fwDg9

And we used to get cheerleader elbows here too.
*kicks dirt*

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2024 01:24 PM (W/lyH)

274 Growing up it used to be the nastier the weather, the more people would look forward to a good game. Team strategies used to be designed around the weather.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2024 01:20 PM (BdMk6)

I still remember the ‘ice bowl’ tough men who didn’t have any of the foul weather gear available now.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 13, 2024 01:24 PM (hEv4o)

275 IF I understood an article on the bogus Emmys I read:
ESPN would attach the pseudonyms to a program (their "big stars" were not eligible as individuals). When that program won an Emmy they would take the Emmys, re-engrave the plates and give them to the "big stars". Don't know how it was discovered.

Posted by: Lirio100 at January 13, 2024 01:24 PM (I5U35)

276 DeBoer's arrival in Tuscaloosa was like a rock star just flew in.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2024 01:24 PM (cWNll)

277 What happens to all the fans?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 13, 2024 01:25 PM (POc8X)

278 Gardening up.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 13, 2024 01:29 PM (hEv4o)

279
I still remember the ‘ice bowl’ tough men who didn’t have any of the foul weather gear available now.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 13, 2024 01:24 PM (hEv4o)

Some of the best games have been played in foul weather. Played a few when I was in HS.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2024 01:29 PM (BdMk6)

280 My pop's favorite song as a kid was "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" and now I see that that is the hobo version of Utopia. Thanks for the intel!

Posted by: wrymouth at January 13, 2024 01:30 PM (baycc)

281 Cinci vs. San Diego in the '81 playoffs. -59 degrees F with the wind chill. Still played.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 01:32 PM (R4t5M)

282 10mm sockets have both entered, and left, the chat.
-----
Damn it. It was here a second ago!
-----
Found after 5mins of hunting on previous used socket wrench.

Found 5 minutes after returning from the store buying another one.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 13, 2024 01:33 PM (86uPL)

283 11 Times In 5 Months

Used to date her.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty
++++
Well if you married her that would have gone to 5 times in 11 months.

If you were lucky.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at January 13, 2024 01:34 PM (dr4Q1)

284 What happens to all the fans?
Posted by: Ben Had

Game is on Monday. Can't make it? Tough shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 01:34 PM (R4t5M)

285
I guess when tens of thousands of migrant 'tent city' residents die of hypothermia in the next few days it will all be the Texas Governors fault. Despite his attempts to prevent border crossings. Because... well because dammit. Nothing to do with the decrepit degenerate in the White House and his boss, Barack.

I wish I knew where some dude was located who snuck into a tent city and videoed the experience. That freaking tent was the length of a football field and probably slept a thousand people. You simply can not heat that tent to a level consistent with the sustainment of life in zero degree temperatures.

Posted by: New IP New Nic at January 13, 2024 01:35 PM (nIvob)

286 And it's on at 4:30 in the afternoon.

Good job, Goodell.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 01:37 PM (R4t5M)

287 259 239 Hard-to-access car battery? We had a 750 BMW--great car but you had to remove the electric rear seat to get access to the battery. No, really.

Posted by: Art Rondelet
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Dad had a chevy with a battery located under the floorboard of the back seat. I know for sure because that's where I was sitting when it caused the fire.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 01:15 PM (jnt+a)

Easiest in the world was my NB Miata. In the trunk under the mat. Took me like 5 mins to change the battery.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2024 01:38 PM (zZu0s)

288 DeBoer's arrival in Tuscaloosa was like a rock star just flew in.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2024 01:24 PM (cWNll)

Ya know, the last time Alabama hired a coach from the state of Washington, it didn't go so well.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2024 01:38 PM (W/lyH)

289 Serious question: Has this ever happened before, a playoff game postponed due to weather?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 01:15 PM (QBaJw)

We are getting soft as a society.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

Now, due to volcano I could see.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 01:39 PM (FVME7)

290 Not utopia but pretty nice
On the road today, back from a semi-rural area, a farm stand was still open (it's actually a shed, not a stand), but no one minding the store.
Veggies and fruit on display with prices, a sign on the counter next to a metal cash box with a slit (like a piggy bank), an open notebook, a pen, a calculator. A sign that read (paraphrase): Please leave your payment here. We rely on your honesty to keep us able to continue operating.
Cool, huh?

(I've been there before and the usually have a person mask minding the store, but maybe in winter they're too busy)

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 13, 2024 01:40 PM (bxgno)

291 Think the old VW beetle's battery was under the back seat.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 01:43 PM (jnt+a)

292 Everybody talks about the weather affecting sports, South Africa is doing something about it.

AG
@AGHamilton29
South Africa is stripping the U19 captain of the cricket team of his position because he’s Jewish.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 01:44 PM (FVME7)

293 To get to utopia will require a Great Leap Forward.

But, remember, it is better for half the people to die so that the other half can eat their fill.

Posted by: Mao at January 13, 2024 01:44 PM (rSl/w)

294 Hey, I could do that, CP&BO!

In the most American move ever, Casey’s is hiring a Chief Pizza and Beer Officer.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 01:46 PM (FVME7)

295 293 To get to utopia will require a Great Leap Forward.

But, remember, it is better for half the people to die so that the other half can eat their fill.
Posted by: Mao at January 13, 2024 01:44 PM (rSl/w)

"The revolution is successful. But survival depends on drastic measures. Your continued existence represents a threat to the well-being of society. Your lives mean slow death to the more valued members of the colony. Therefore, I have no alternative but to sentence you to death. Your execution is so ordered, signed Kodos, Governor of Tarsus IV."
– Kodos, 2246

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2024 01:46 PM (zZu0s)

296 A propos of nothing:
Le meurtrier de la petite Maëlys, Nordahl Lelandais, est devenu père en prison
This is a famous case. He killed (and possibly raped?) a little girl. He was convicted to lifetime imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Several women became attracted to him and struck up correspondence, followed by visits. He has now become a father in prison.

Posted by: PG at January 13, 2024 01:46 PM (gQbO4)

297 Star Trek once dealt with actual serious shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2024 01:46 PM (zZu0s)

298 The Wheel of Identity is a bunch of deterministic crap that denies human agency and free will. According to the Commie lunatics that devised this thing, a skinny white guy working in a coal mine in West Virginia has more "Oppressor Points" than Lloyd Austin (a fat dark-skinned black man -- that he has a cabinet-level position doesn't count).

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 13, 2024 01:47 PM (pJWtt)

299 Smash the Sparrows, Comrades.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2024 01:47 PM (cWNll)

300 AG
@AGHamilton29
South Africa is stripping the U19 captain of the cricket team of his position because he’s Jewish.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 01:44 PM (FVME7)

I could work a circumcision joke in here if I knew cricket better, I just know it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2024 01:48 PM (zZu0s)

301 Taiwan’s Ruling Party Candidate Lai Wins Presidency in Setback for Beijing

Vice President Lai Cheng-te’s election indicates Taiwan is set to continue its hard-on-China policies in the face of growing aggression from CCP.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2024 01:04 PM (aD39U)
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I think that makes military action more likely.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 13, 2024 01:52 PM (RIvkX)

302 @AGHamilton29
South Africa is stripping the U19 captain of the cricket team of his position because he’s Jewish.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 01:44 PM (FVME7)

I could work a circumcision joke in here if I knew cricket better, I just know it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2024 01:48 PM (zZu0s)
***

So those dickheads in South Africa have just cut their nose off to spite their face.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2024 01:54 PM (W/lyH)

303 I think that makes military action more likely.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 13, 2024 01:52 PM (RIvkX)

Apparently Lee's DPP party lost it's outright majority in the parliament, so it is a mixed bag.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2024 01:55 PM (cWNll)

304 Err ... Lai's DPP

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2024 01:56 PM (cWNll)

305 Have a good one gang.
Wind chill outside is 6* and the dog needs to pee.
This may take awhile.
Later.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2024 01:59 PM (W/lyH)

306 Apparently Lee's DPP party lost it's outright majority in the parliament, so it is a mixed bag.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2024 01:55 PM (cWNll)

304 Err ... Lai's DPP
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2024 01:56 PM (cWNll)

Not all of them are named 'Lee', Grump.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2024 02:00 PM (zZu0s)

307 South Africa is stripping the U19 captain of the cricket team of his position because he’s Jewish.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 13, 2024 01:44 PM (FVME7)

The governing body needs to ban SA forever.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 13, 2024 02:10 PM (NvyWM)

308 284 What happens to all the fans?
Posted by: Ben Had

Game is on Monday. Can't make it? Tough shit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 01:34 PM (R4t5M)

Travel ban is in effect for the county. Last forecast I saw early AM was for maybe 18" over 24-36 hours with high winds in the area of the stadium. That's mostly manageable, but anything more gets dicey and you wind up needing to do a bunch of rescues from cars.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 13, 2024 02:13 PM (z+89e)

309 A presentation in the interest of diversity, equity and inclusion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsEIinsdM_0

Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 02:13 PM (jnt+a)

310 Why we can’t leave the Houthi’s to shoot at us in peace is completely beyond me.

– Zarah Bukake MP

Posted by: pawn at January 13, 2024 02:13 PM (QB+5g)

311 Ten minutes of terrible Weimar drivers:
youtube.com/watch?v=tuKX4UBAifg

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at January 13, 2024 02:14 PM (MvF+J)

312 If you want utopia, then repent, trust in Jesus, then hurry up and die.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at January 13, 2024 02:22 PM (MTm8X)

313 Sadly, I think that NextDoor rant is indicative of the typical American's proficiency in spelling, syntax, grammar, punctuation, and concision. I.e., pathetic.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 13, 2024 02:22 PM (XMwZJ)

314 If you want utopia, then repent, trust in Jesus, then hurry up and die.
Posted by: Eternity Matters at January 13, 2024 02:22 PM (MTm8X)

and take two with you.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2024 02:23 PM (cWNll)

315 Travel ban is in effect for the county. Last forecast I saw early AM was for maybe 18" over 24-36 hours with high winds in the area of the stadium. That's mostly manageable, but anything more gets dicey and you wind up needing to do a bunch of rescues from cars.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 13, 2024 02:13 PM (z+89e)

Didn't know that. Weather forecast changed quite a bit from what I saw yesterday.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 02:27 PM (R4t5M)

316 >>>>Didn't know that. Weather forecast changed quite a bit from what I saw yesterday.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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They do that all the time.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 13, 2024 02:36 PM (jnt+a)

317 Didn't know that. Weather forecast changed quite a bit from what I saw yesterday.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 13, 2024 02:27 PM (R4t5M)

Yeah, it changes fast and it's very localized depending on wind direction. I once had a 19.9 mile commute home from work, almost due North. Shoveled out 30" that had fallen/drifted during a ten hour shift and got home to 2" of snow on the lawn. If the wind shifts a bit for four hours somebody gets an extra six inches at random.

With a three day weekend for MLK, moving the game was the path of least resistance for the Gov. She was the Erie County Clerk once upon a time and briefly remotely sane. Then she got into State politics and found being a reliable mouthpiece for the Left would carry her far, even if she is in no way up to the job.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 13, 2024 02:44 PM (z+89e)

318
Serious question: Has this ever happened before, a playoff game postponed due to weather?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 13, 2024 01:15 PM (QBaJw)

__________

I'm not sure some regular season games haven't been postponed due to lightning or tornado threat, but right now St. Vincent of Lombardi is saying, "What the hell is going on?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 13, 2024 02:54 PM (MoZTd)

319 When I say “Boom Boom”

You say “out goes Deloittes!”

Posted by: Pat Hindenburg Travers at January 13, 2024 03:01 PM (5h/8D)

320 2004 Helen Hunt had a nice ass.

She and Scarlett Johansson wearing skimpy stuff in A Good Woman on MPLEX.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 13, 2024 04:28 PM (ufFY8)

321 Disease X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noNa3WUGpC8

I'll try to remember to repost on the ONT.

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