Pay attention, boys and girls!

boys have penis girls have vagina far right.jfif

Most elementary schools curricula teach kindergarteners about body parts these days, but not necessarily about boys and girls. Except maybe sometimes to suggest that girls are better than boys.

Have we gotten toxic masculinity all wrong?

From Rob Henderson, the Luxury Beliefs guy who grew up in foster care:

People are slowly realizing they held the wrong mental model of young men. The wrong mental model says that young men are natural risk-seekers and will naturally want to approach (and possibly harass) women. Now people are learning that most young men's default factory setting is apathy and not giving a f--k. Most guys won't willingly take risks or approach women unless they are encouraged and incentivized in some way.
The false mental model says young men are naturally predatory and must be disciplined into compliance. The real story is young men are naturally lazy and need a reason to do anything.
Other cultures (and ours up until 10 minutes ago) understood that mature masculinity is largely artificially induced through culture. Mature men do not naturally emerge like butterflies from their boyish cocoons. Rather, they must be carefully encouraged, nurtured, counseled, and prodded into taking the actions necessary to achieve mature manhood.

I think that this is part of the picture we are seeing now in our culture. More at the link.

Below, some other factors to consider.

Why the wide ideology gap between young men and young women today?

This trend has a boringly obvious explanation. Boys and girls used to hang out together more. The girls made the boys more liberal and the boys made the girls more conservative. But now the boys are at home playing shooter games, and the girls are at home posting on Instagram. pic.twitter.com/MS61vFjh2f
— Paul Graham (@paulg) January 26, 2024

Maybe you can get 'em outdoors, doing some masculine type things:

They made his day!pic.twitter.com/YuECR1oZHE
— Figen (@TheFigen_) January 27, 2024

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Education is in trouble at all levels

Utah Democrats are dressed in black to mourn the passage of the bill abolishing DEI in all state universities. Notice, too, that all men were sent to the back row.pic.twitter.com/10iJxARPdw
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) January 25, 2024

Related bill, affecting transgender bathrooms in schools

They are telling the truth.

Identity Politics is never about identities, it is always about power. https://t.co/1Oec9Foplb
— Xi Van Fleet (@XVanFleet) January 26, 2024

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Read this as many times as it takes to internalize it. As long as gov't controls the money (and thus the market) for education in America, American children will be deprived the knowledge (and skills) they would need to keep the government in check, which… https://t.co/LYjWGvuvPA
— Owl of Athena (@deb_fillman) January 26, 2024

Discussion in the responses.

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The E. Jean Carroll case

VDH has written a comprehensive tweet on the current status of the case, too long to post here. It disturbs him. An excerpt:

It was never clear what were the preliminaries that supposedly (Trump denies meeting her) led both, allegedly, willingly to retreat together to a department store dressing room, where during normal business hours the alleged violence took place.
Moreover, the sexual assault complaint came forward decades post facto--and only after Trump was running for and then president.
Carroll eventually sued him for battery, but well after the statute of limitations had expired and thus the case seemed defunct.
Her claims of defamation injuries arise from being fired from her advice column job at ELLE magazine.
She claimed that Trump's sharp denials and ad hominem retorts led to her career ruin. But the loss for anyone of a column at 76 does not seem such a rare occurrence, and the absence of a salaried job in one's late seventies for four years does not seem to equate to a $83 million hit.
And note the allegation that her dispute with Trump led to her firing was strongly denied by the very magazine that cut her loose.

But then another strange thing happened. In 2022, a new law ("The Adult Survivors Act") was passed in the New York legislature. It also post facto established a twelve-month window (beginning six months from the signing of bill) that permitted survivors of long ago alleged sexual assaults suddenly to sue the accused long-ago perpetrator--regardless of the previous statute of limitations.
That unexpected opening suddenly gave Carroll's prior unsuccessful efforts a rebirth. And she quickly refiled with the help of arch-Trump hating billionaire Hoffman.
Yet the bill may have been introduced with Trump particularly in mind--given the legislator who introduced it, Brad Hoylman-Siga, was known as another Trump antagonist.

More interestingly, he had earlier introduced and had passed another Trump-targeted bill. That "TRUST" act had empowered particular federal Congressional committees to have access to the New York State once sealed tax returns of high-ranking government officials--such as Trump.
That bill's generally agreed subtext was a green light for anti-Trump members of Congress to obtain legal access to Donald J. Trump's tax returns.

So there is an eerie feeling that the New York legislature may have abruptly passed legislation that was aimed at the past conduct of Donald Trump but only after he entered the political arena.
While these are not quite bills of attainder, there is something unsettling if they are post facto laws aimed at targeting the most famous and controversial man in America and the leading candidate for the presidency.
In essence they were targeted statutes designed to make Trump's prior legally unactionable behavior suddenly quite legally actionable.
Trump will be subject to such special treatment all summer and fall.

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Texas

There's too much going on to summarize here on the weekend but:

Biden already has authority to shut down illegal immigration.

And now he’s telling us he’s willing to do that, but only if we pass a new law — one whose authors refuse to share with the public or even their own colleagues.

Something’s not right here. https://t.co/MZBK3e2Rgo
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) January 27, 2024

Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals again

Pay attention to efforts at moral framing:

Rhetorical framework is being constructed https://t.co/BhhJC3Ha9y
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) January 26, 2024

Saul is all wet:

There is no "biblically" mandated immigration policy for the USA.
The same crowd telling us that America can't be a Christian nation now tells us that we have a Christian duty to open our border.
Please stop trying to 'Bible' liberalism down our throats.
Your church can 'welcome the stranger' until you're on a first name basis with every son of Adam's race. You can even set up a six-decker bunk bed in your house and let the tired, poor, huddled masses sleep cheek to jowl in your children's bedrooms. That's completely up to you.
But you can't use John 3:16 like a pair of holy wire cutters to rip open the fence at Eagle Pass, TX.

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Music

He was - -
an athlete featured in Sports Illustrated;
a golden gloves boxer;
a Rhodes Scholar earning a Masters in English lit from Oxford where Tolkien served as chair;
an Army helicopter pilot;
an Army Ranger instructor --
And he gave all of that up to be a janitor . . .
He is perhaps the most interesting man in the world, and he traded everything to push a broom at Columbia Records hoping someone would take a looks at some songs he had written. Eventually they did. That's how Kris Kristofferson wrote his way into American history forever.

Why Me, Lord?

As anybody who moves to Nashville for a career in the music business knows, it's not as easy as just showing up and becoming a superstar - even for somebody as talented as Kris Kristofferson.
Burdened with debt from paying for his young son's medical bills, Kristofferson took a job working as a janitor at Columbia Records. And it was this job that eventually gave him the opportunity to get the attention of one of the biggest names in country music, Johnny Cash.
Kristofferson would meet June Carter and ask her to give his demos to Johnny Cash, but they often ended up in a pile with all of the other demos he was being pitched.
Eventually though, the janitor managed to set himself apart as a songwriter and finally got the Man in Black's attention. In fact, Cash was such a fan that Kristofferson recalls one time that Cash refused to go into a recording session unless Kristofferson was in the room.
It all started with Kristofferson being banned from Johnny's recording sessions:

Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, January 20, The World Economic Forum is Over

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:02 AM

Comments

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1 Greetings normies!

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 27, 2024 11:08 AM (MeG8a)

2 Good morning everyone - read the content.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 27, 2024 11:09 AM (WxYD8)

3 "Busted flat in Baton Rouge..."

Posted by: BignJames at January 27, 2024 11:11 AM (AwYPR)

4 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2024 11:13 AM (fwDg9)

5 *biden (actually his handlers) want Congress to pass an "emergency powers" act with nebulous content in order for the junta to address the border crisis.

I'll bet it gets passed and the public will be paying the price.

Some sort of draconian measures meant to dick with the "election" is my guess.

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

6 While these are not quite bills of attainder, there is something unsettling if they are post facto laws aimed at targeting the most famous and controversial man in America and the leading candidate for the presidency.

Oh, yes they are. Has anyyone besides Trump has been charged under them?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2024 11:14 AM (CsUN+)

7 When was that picture taken, the one of Biden walking with border patrol?

He's walking upright. I'm skeptical it's a recent photo.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 11:15 AM (5XIDX)

8 *biden (actually his handlers) want Congress to pass an "emergency powers" act with nebulous content in order for the junta to address the border crisis.

I'll bet it gets passed and the public will be paying the price.

By whom will it be passed? Johnson has already called the border bill DOA. McConnell has given up on his ridiculous bill. That tells me it's starting to dawn on even these smoothbrains that it's a politically unwise thing to do.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2024 11:15 AM (CsUN+)

9 The factory setting for men isn't apathy - that's been nurtured by a culture of drugs, alcohol, solitary gaming, and most of all manufactured shame for being a man.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2024 11:16 AM (lX8VI)

10 I'll bet it gets passed and the public will be paying the price.

Some sort of draconian measures meant to dick with the "election" is my guess.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2024 11:13 AM (Q4IgG)

Johnson said it was "dead on arrival."

We'll see.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 11:16 AM (5XIDX)

11 I'll never forgot riding by a sandbox in which a little boy was happily playing while his mom looked on...and the boy froze when a dump truck went by...turning his head to watch intently as the truck went on down the road.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 27, 2024 11:17 AM (tT6L1)

12 You have no idea how that video with the little boy and his dump truck made my day

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2024 11:17 AM (fwDg9)

13 While these are not quite bills of attainder

They absolutely are bills of attainder - they're aimed at only one guy.

E. Jean Carroll admitted that she (and her billionaire backer) "helped" in getting the legislation passed.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 27, 2024 11:17 AM (YAtuc)

14 By whom will it be passed? Johnson has already called the border bill DOA. McConnell has given up on his ridiculous bill. That tells me it's starting to dawn on even these smoothbrains that it's a politically unwise thing to do.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2024 11:15 AM (CsUN+)

Recycled "Gang of 8" bill + Ukraine $$

Posted by: BignJames at January 27, 2024 11:17 AM (AwYPR)

15 That tells me it's starting to dawn on even these smoothbrains that it's a politically unwise thing to do.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2024 11:15 AM (CsUN+)

Because that's how politics works. Every 2-4 years, politicians get smart.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 11:18 AM (5XIDX)

16 Is anyone else seeing very long load times upon refresh? It just keeps adding a comment at a time.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2024 11:18 AM (CsUN+)

17 You have no idea how that video with the little boy and his dump truck made my day
Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2024 11:17 AM (fwDg9)

That was great!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2024 11:19 AM (tkR6S)

18 Not gonna watch/listen to the bint, but I noticed Joyless Reid is going to the same hairdresser as Boris Johnson.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 11:20 AM (5XIDX)

19 Somebody noted that Trump's chances of getting a fair trial before a New York City jury are the same as the chances of a black person getting a fair trial in Alabama in the 1940s.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 27, 2024 11:20 AM (YAtuc)

20 Is anyone else seeing very long load times upon refresh? It just keeps adding a comment at a time.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2024 11:18 AM (CsUN+)

Seems to be all the embeds. Page loads cog-fashion, in jumps.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2024 11:21 AM (tkR6S)

21 Somebody noted that Trump's chances of getting a fair trial before a New York City jury are the same as the chances of a black person getting a fair trial in Alabama in the 1940s.

Is Atticus Finch still available as a defense lawyer?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2024 11:22 AM (CsUN+)

22 Heh the Tonka Toy vid reminds me when the crew along with my father were pouring concrete on a project at our house. The guys were needed to push wheelbarrows of concrete and I was given the task of operated the lever to pour the concrete into the chute from the spinning mixer truck. I guess I was 12 or 13.. That was cool.. Maybe that's why I have a structural engineering education...

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 11:22 AM (UC5Sf)

23 Trump inauguration parade.... Barron sitting next to dad. Military vehicles come along the street and that kid was excited. There's A pic out there somewhere of him leaning against Trump and laughing. One of the sweetest things ever.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 27, 2024 11:22 AM (cRrcX)

24 Heh the Tonka Toy vid reminds me when the crew along with my father were pouring concrete on a project at our house. The guys were needed to push wheelbarrows of concrete and I was given the task of operated the lever to pour the concrete into the chute from the spinning mixer truck. I guess I was 12 or 13.. That was cool.. Maybe that's why I have a structural engineering education...

Wait, I can do this and get PAID?

Posted by: 12 year old I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 11:23 AM (CsUN+)

25 So, the Hamasholes are going to try to shut down Kennedy airport today, and the NYPD has stated that they aren't going to be allowed to do that.

Should be fun to watch.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 27, 2024 11:23 AM (YAtuc)

26 Party's over....

A Democrat former Los Angeles councilman has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for corruption.

“Federal prosecutors in the case argued that Huizar monetized his position in the government and had secured more than $1.5 million in cash bribes, gambling chips, luxury hotel visits, political contributions, prostitute services, expensive meals and more from developers who had projects in the downtown L.A. district he oversaw,”

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 11:23 AM (UC5Sf)

27 Somebody noted that Trump's chances of getting a fair trial before a New York City jury are the same as the chances of a black person getting a fair trial in Alabama in the 1940s.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 27, 2024 11:20 AM (YAtuc)

I noticed he said something negative about justice after the verdict. Is Easy Jean going to sue him for another 100 mil for that?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 11:23 AM (5XIDX)

28 Biden Admin Sells Off 30% of Nation's Helium Supply

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Reminds me of a story my old high school science teacher, Mr. Born, told. After the Hindenburg disaster, Nazi Germany wanted to buy helium from us. The government refused to allow it. Mr. Born was outraged that we wouldn't allow the sale for pure safery purposes because, after all, the Nazis would never attack us.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at January 27, 2024 11:23 AM (FVME7)

29 By whom will it be passed? Johnson has already called the border bill DOA. McConnell has given up on his ridiculous bill. That tells me it's starting to dawn on even these smoothbrains that it's a politically unwise thing to do.

Like the Palestinians, the GOPe never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 27, 2024 11:25 AM (YAtuc)

30 MSNBC's Jon Reid looks pretty formidable in that still.

Posted by: t-bird at January 27, 2024 11:26 AM (53IiO)

31 “Federal prosecutors in the case argued that Huizar [acted like every other politician, he just pissed off the wrong people]”
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 11:23 AM (UC5Sf)

There. Fixed.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 11:26 AM (5XIDX)

32 California Gov. Newsom Says Dems Are "Crushing It" and Should "Pat Themselves on the Back"

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Liberty? The Bill of Rights? Prosperity? Common sense?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at January 27, 2024 11:27 AM (FVME7)

33 Kristofferson has always been hugely interesting in his life choices and accomplishments. Glad to see this mention from KT!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2024 11:27 AM (JIbhz)

34 The Commies were hoping to uncover this kind of behavior when they vetted Trump.. Dude is squeaky clean and has the Sammy (The Bull) Gravano seal of integrity..

Party's over....

A Democrat former Los Angeles councilman has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for corruption.

“Federal prosecutors in the case argued that Huizar monetized his position in the government and had secured more than $1.5 million in cash bribes, gambling chips, luxury hotel visits, political contributions, prostitute services, expensive meals and more from developers who had projects in the downtown L.A. district he oversaw,”

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 11:27 AM (UC5Sf)

35 I shan't believe it!

House Investigation Finds Rep. Jamaal Bowman Misled and Gave "Less Than Credible" Statements About AlarmGate

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at January 27, 2024 11:28 AM (FVME7)

36 Like the Palestinians, the GOPe never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 27, 2024 11:25 AM (YAtuc)

Someone mentioned the other day, the most Republican thing they can do is, when the Democrats ask for 2-4 million new illegals in the country every year, the Republicans will demand "only" 1.8 million.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 11:28 AM (5XIDX)

37 Said earlier had sore throat all night and sinuses were clogged up, the pot of coffee has helped throat a lot and sinuses getting cut loose.

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2024 11:28 AM (fwDg9)

38 "The next day all of the backhoe crew was fired for operating the equipment without requiring the toddler to wear a hardhat"

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering at January 27, 2024 11:29 AM (k1AR8)

39 I haven't seen a Tonka toy in a long time, but if they are built like the ones from my little kidhood, they should be an example for anybody manufacturing anything. Kid tested.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 27, 2024 11:29 AM (0EOe9)

40 I shan't believe it!

House Investigation Finds Rep. Jamaal Bowman Misled and Gave "Less Than Credible" Statements About AlarmGate
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at January 27, 2024 11:28 AM (FVME7)

Sounds serious. I hope they give him a strongly worded letter.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 11:30 AM (5XIDX)

41 Thanks for the thread, KT. Much appreciated.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 27, 2024 11:30 AM (V8he0)

42 Is Atticus Finch still available as a defense lawyer?

Half the point of the story is that Finch lost…

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 27, 2024 11:30 AM (EXyHK)

43 Oh man. For the first time, I'm kinda sad to be out of my blue state. If I were still a Coloradan, I could sue Trump for existing, and the statehouse would pass a bill making it illegal for insurrectionists to breathe air, and I could be set for life. I'm not greedy though. I'd settle for $25m and a solemn promise from Trump to breathe less.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2024 11:30 AM (0FoWg)

44 "The next day all of the backhoe crew was fired for operating the equipment without requiring the toddler to wear a hardhat"
Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering at January 27, 2024 11:29 AM (k1AR

Kid's probably not even part of the union. Lousy scab should never have been allowed anywhere near the work site.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 11:31 AM (5XIDX)

45 California Gov. Newsom Says Dems Are "Crushing It" and Should "Pat Themselves on the Back"

A columnist for the LA Times has an editorial out:

Commentary: If you want to leave, fine. But don’t insult California on the way out

How dare you! After all, every person leaving California gets to sell their "million-dollar" bungalow on the way out, so California made them rich.

And you can't go outside in Texas for six months a year.

How dare they malign the State?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 27, 2024 11:31 AM (YAtuc)

46 Those two screaming harridans climbing up the capital steps in Utah could use a good old fashioned kick in the chops. I know a few real women who would do the deed. These people are crazy and need to be called that at every opportunity. Mentally ill freaks. Good grief.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at January 27, 2024 11:31 AM (iODuv)

47 28 Biden Admin Sells Off 30% of Nation's Helium Supply

How do you expect the Chinese to keep the spy balloons up there?

Posted by: Auspex at January 27, 2024 11:31 AM (j4U/Z)

48 And he gave all of that up to be a janitor . . .

Wow, didn't know any of this. I only know him from some lame Streisand movie.

Posted by: t-bird at January 27, 2024 11:32 AM (3Gr97)

49 The Biden crew has done its utmost over the last 3 years to ensure that I have zero reason to trust their claims that they're totally ready to get the border under control with a mystery bill.

Posted by: CppThis at January 27, 2024 11:32 AM (PZvjL)

50 People are slowly realizing they held the wrong mental model of young men. The wrong mental model says that young men are natural risk-seekers and will naturally want to approach (and possibly harass) women. Now people are learning that most young men's default factory setting is apathy and not giving a f--k. Most guys won't willingly take risks or approach women..

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Also this is interesting because they're lumping "risks" and "girls" together.

I'd bet money boys take risks to learn test themselves and establish order in their ranks and figure out the limits of themselves and their surroundings. I know for a fact boys can't help but take risks and want to do stupid stuff physically because their bodies have it hard-wired to start doing it around 12 or so.

The girls have nothing to do with "risks" beyond watching the boys and being impressed with the capable ones and weeding out the bumbling/stupid ones as mates.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering at January 27, 2024 11:32 AM (k1AR8)

51 Half the point of the story is that Finch lost…
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 27, 2024 11:30 AM (EXyHK)

Spoiler alert, dammit!!

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 11:32 AM (5XIDX)

52 Biden Vows to "Shut Down" Overwhelmed Border If Congress Passes Deal Johnson Says Is Dead on Arrival in House

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We can trust him.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at January 27, 2024 11:33 AM (FVME7)

53 Kris Kristofferson does a Guy Clark song, "Hemingway's Whiskey":

https://youtu.be/EpsIAa2YpS0

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2024 11:33 AM (tkR6S)

54 The Biden crew has done its utmost over the last 3 years to ensure that I have zero reason to trust their claims that they're totally ready to get the border under control with a mystery bill.

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Has anyone explained why enforcing existing law won't work?

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering at January 27, 2024 11:33 AM (k1AR8)

55 There's a pretty eye opening interview of MTG with Tucker.

You can find the video under "Tucker Carlson Encounters."

She doesn't think much of her colleagues, left and right.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 27, 2024 11:33 AM (tT6L1)

56 Just WOW!!
New York Changed Laws to Enable Crackpot E. Jean Carroll to Sue Trump – E. Jean Carroll Admits She Helped Democrats Pass the Law So They Could Get Trump

http://tinyurl.com/4dk4x6yh

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 11:33 AM (UC5Sf)

57 Volunteer militias from at least 25 states have begun traveling to Texas in support of its National Guard.

Do you stand with Texas?

And so it begins.....

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 27, 2024 11:33 AM (t/2Uw)

58 33 I had a friend in The Corps. Guy was a big Kristofferson fan. Friend got out of The Corps and got the Army Warrant Officer Flight Candidate Program. Last I knew he was a CWO2 flying slicks. I wonder if Kristofferson was an influence.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 27, 2024 11:34 AM (0EOe9)

59 If I were still a Coloradan, I could sue Trump for existing

It's been noted that Texas needs to pass a law removing the statute of limitations and venue restrictions on rape charges, so all the women raped by prominent Democrats can sue in Texas.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 27, 2024 11:34 AM (YAtuc)

60 In my red state, academia is still all in on DEI. They're just changing what they call it, and hoping the legislators are too dumb to figure it out.

Loved the musical interludes today!

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 27, 2024 11:34 AM (i671v)

61 Wow, didn't know any of this. I only know him from some lame Streisand movie.
Posted by: t-bird at January 27, 2024 11:32 AM (3Gr97)

I know he was in Blade.

And I understand why, but he never should have been brought back for Blade II.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 11:35 AM (5XIDX)

62 28 Reminds me of a story my old high school science teacher, Mr. Born, told. After the Hindenburg disaster, Nazi Germany wanted to buy helium from us. The government refused to allow it. Mr. Born was outraged that we wouldn't allow the sale for pure safery purposes because, after all, the Nazis would never attack us.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at January 27, 2024 11:23 AM (FVME7)

They wanted to buy helium from us before the disaster, too--Hindenburg was supposed to be a helium ship. That part of the story tends to get left out...

Posted by: CppThis at January 27, 2024 11:35 AM (PZvjL)

63 Yet the bill may have been introduced with Trump particularly in mind

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♫ ♪ ♫
He restrained her
Defamed her
Ought pass a Bill of Attainder

Hang 'im from the highext treeeeeee
Baby don't ya weep for me

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 11:35 AM (991eG)

64 I do think the Puppeteers keep having the administration do impeachment things just to see how much they can get away with. And as the line gets crossed and nothing happens they draw a new line and cross it.

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2024 11:35 AM (fwDg9)

65 Update:
Community notes says that is not real video so the volunteer militias quote may not be real.

I hope it is though.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 27, 2024 11:36 AM (t/2Uw)

66 MSNBC's Jon Reid looks pretty formidable in that still.
Posted by: t-bird at January 27, 2024 11:26 AM (53IiO)

I don't think that distilling her will yield any drinkable booze. Bile, mostly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2024 11:36 AM (tkR6S)

67 Anyone else puzzled as to why Joe isn't giving a blustering speech about TX in front of a camera somewhere?

My suspicions are Joe is currently so addled, the Junta is doesn't dare allow Joe anywhere near a camera.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 27, 2024 11:36 AM (tT6L1)

68 >>>Other cultures (and ours up until 10 minutes ago) understood that mature masculinity is largely artificially induced through culture. Mature men do not naturally emerge like butterflies from their boyish cocoons. Rather, they must be carefully encouraged, nurtured, counseled, and prodded into taking the actions necessary to achieve mature manhood.
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How did physically inferior Latinos run the Crips and the Bloods and the Gangbangers out of their territory, their turf?

Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 11:36 AM (M4QYv)

69 Remember trans ladies, don't forget to get your prostate checked for cancer.

It would suck to live your entire lives as a woman, only to die of a men's only disease.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2024 11:37 AM (3Mgjo)

70 Kristofferson can write the hell out of a song but he should never, ever sing. His voice is awful.

It's like that with Pete Townsend, too. Can write a great song, can't sing for shit. Just play the guitar and let Roger do the talking, Pete.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 27, 2024 11:37 AM (cRrcX)

71 No smartphone until one has a high school diploma.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 11:38 AM (M4QYv)

72 I never thought Kristofferson could sing the songs he wrote but I always respected him for being the renaissance man described in the article. Though I assume all wannabe philosophers searching for purpose are liberal.

Posted by: Cobalt Blue at January 27, 2024 11:38 AM (nNx7/)

73 The only appropriate response from GOP governors is this.

"Sorry, you twisted old fruit, but that horse is out of the barn. You were supposed to secure our borders and you didn't. No more chances. No more negotiations. We are securing our own borders, deporting our own illegals, and enforcing the laws ourselves. You are too old and weak to stop us. Now go die."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2024 11:38 AM (0FoWg)

74 Don't worry. Be happy.

NPR Claims We Shouldn't Be Worried About $34 Trillion National Debt

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at January 27, 2024 11:38 AM (FVME7)

75 Anyone else puzzled as to why Joe isn't giving a blustering speech about TX in front of a camera somewhere?

My suspicions are Joe is currently so addled, the Junta is doesn't dare allow Joe anywhere near a camera.
Posted by: blake

I think those that are cognitively aware are realizing that the Federal Government actively participating in breaking immigration law is piss poor optics in an election year.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2024 11:38 AM (3Mgjo)

76 The most disturbing part of that whole mess is that E. Jean actually had an advice column.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 11:39 AM (991eG)

77 It's been noted that Texas needs to pass a law removing the statute of limitations and venue restrictions on rape charges, so all the women raped by prominent Democrats can sue in Texas.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 27, 2024 11:34 AM (YAtuc)

Can they maybe pass a law, that if some bint in New Yakk sues you for defamation, you can sue her in Texas for making false rape accusations?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 11:39 AM (5XIDX)

78 62 28 That stuff about hostile nations trading product is ancient. During WW1, both the UK and Germany were abiding by trade agreements clear into 1915. Limeys needed optical lens tech, Krauts needed rubber. Gee, that could get guys killed on both sides.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 27, 2024 11:39 AM (0EOe9)

79 And thats how it's done.
Pass a law, making something retroactive...sue...pick the court/judge/jury...win. Law closes.

Reminds me a bit of Iran-Contra.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2024 11:40 AM (W/lyH)

80
Joy Reid is Ignorance's analog to consuming a single can of Jolt! Cola

The ladies of "The View" are Ignorance's analog to consuming a six-pack of Jolt! Cola.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2024 11:41 AM (xG4kz)

81 The little boy and the workers made my day.

I noticed, as well, that the workers had their hardhats on the right way.

Posted by: Paco at January 27, 2024 11:41 AM (njExo)

82 She was so wacko that her boss told her to seek a therapist. So she went to Bloomingdales and conjured up "the rapist" all on her own.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 11:41 AM (991eG)

83 The most disturbing part of that whole mess is that E. Jean actually had an advice column.

Heh. I was thinking the same.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 27, 2024 11:41 AM (V8he0)

84 I may have to go back for a more careful read but is Jean Carroll saying that denying her accusation is tantamount to defamation?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 27, 2024 11:42 AM (2MigE)

85
NPR Claims We Shouldn't Be Worried About $34 Trillion National Debt
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

"We've got ours!", right, Goebbels Public Radio?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2024 11:43 AM (xG4kz)

86 That whole janitor thing is a cool story, but I'm assuming there was maybe two minutes of an interview before someone said "this man is a 1970s era Rhodes scholar with a masters in English and professional-level athlete"

If he hid that during the interview then I'll allow for a couple of days of pushing a broom before the rumors circulated and he got what he was after.

Not saying it's not a cool story, just that "we have a hunky 1970s Rhodes scholar with an English Masters in the building and he has some poetry he'd like us to look at for free" was probably not a hard choice.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering at January 27, 2024 11:43 AM (k1AR8)

87 They wanted to buy helium from us before the disaster, too--Hindenburg was supposed to be a helium ship. That part of the story tends to get left out...
Posted by: CppThis at January 27, 2024 11:35 AM (PZvjL)

Yes. The Germans were no dummies. They knew the flammable nature of hydrogen, and took great pains to minimize the risk. AFAIK, one thing they didn't try was to make double-walled gas bags, with the space between the walls filled with nitrogen under positive pressure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2024 11:43 AM (tkR6S)

88 Disgusted with hugetoob. Inserted "Johnny Mandel Songbook" and receive a series of 2 minute songs not an album. The tube doesn't like albums it likes a commercial every two minutes. They can sell that somewhere else.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 11:43 AM (M4QYv)

89 Biden Admin Sells Off 30% of Nation's Helium Supply

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Reminds me of a story my old high school science teacher, Mr. Born, told. After the Hindenburg disaster, Nazi Germany wanted to buy helium from us. The government refused to allow it. Mr. Born was outraged that we wouldn't allow the sale for pure safery purposes because, after all, the Nazis would never attack us.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at January 27, 2024 11:23 AM (FVME7)

and then the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 27, 2024 11:44 AM (aD39U)

90 I know for a fact boys can't help but take risks and want to do stupid stuff physically because their bodies have it hard-wired to start doing it around 12 or so.

I've long thought that one of the key functions of society is to provide stupid, dangerous things for teenage boys to do that won't kill too many of them. (Rock climbing, properly taught, is a good one.)

Now they just play Fortnite.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 27, 2024 11:44 AM (YAtuc)

91 Rest in Peace Johnny Cash!

Posted by: Rick554 at January 27, 2024 11:45 AM (FmOIw)

92 I just learned a piece of trivia that I had completely backwards. Which is taller? The Statue of Liberty pedestal or the Statue itself?

The pedestal is 154' and the Statue is 151'.

Posted by: Cobalt Blue at January 27, 2024 11:45 AM (nNx7/)

93 NPR are a bunch of Marxists anyway so why would they think differently?
Money for them grows on trees.

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2024 11:45 AM (fwDg9)

94 >>>Reminds me a bit of Iran-Contra.

Posted by: Diogenes
-----------------------

We need an Ollie.
Trump needs an Ollie.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 11:46 AM (M4QYv)

95 and then the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 27, 2024 11:44 AM (aD39U)

And shot our Archduke.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 11:46 AM (5XIDX)

96 So our corporate safety director handed out two sheets of printer paper and insisted that everybody trace their hands onto the sheets of paper, much like you would do if you were the instructor in a class of kindergartners.

Of course there were several 60 year old men asking for crayolas to fill in their turkey drawings for the next festive celebration.

The group was instructed to cut out the hand drawings with safety scissors and present them for examination and then decide which finger it was that would be most preferable for sacrifice should an accident require the sacrifice of a digit.

Cut it off.

This exercise was a two hour endeavor instigated by a lunatic safety director.

This is an example of the insane, woke, corporate mentality.

You will comply.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 27, 2024 11:46 AM (EEgXH)

97 The most disturbing part of that whole mess is that E. Jean actually had an advice column.

Heh. I was thinking the same.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
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Even more disturbing if anyone actually took her advice.

What disturbs me about the "influencer" trend is not so much the influencers but the influencees.

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 27, 2024 11:47 AM (i671v)

98 And another thing: if these red states get away with their affront, no declaring victory and resting on laurels. Once the Communists are on their back foot, grab them by their neckties and punch them til they stutter. Nothing less is remotely acceptable.

"Your illegitimate regime has proven too weak to enforce its wicked will. This ends now. We will no longer comply with any federal law or ruling we don't like, and you can't make us. Go horsefuck."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2024 11:47 AM (0FoWg)

99 and then the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 27, 2024 11:44 AM (aD39U)

And shot our Archduke.
Posted by: BurtTC

Pearl Baily was never the same after the attack.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2024 11:47 AM (3Mgjo)

100 Carroll's not pretty enough to be a Trump girl.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 11:47 AM (M4QYv)

101 So, the Hamasholes are going to try to shut down Kennedy airport today, and the NYPD has stated that they aren't going to be allowed to do that.

Should be fun to watch.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 27, 2024 11:23 AM (YAtuc)
***

Ahhh...a NY government agency doing something to show the rubes how honest and fair NY government is.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2024 11:48 AM (W/lyH)

102 Disgusted with hugetoob. Inserted "Johnny Mandel Songbook" and receive a series of 2 minute songs not an album. The tube doesn't like albums it likes a commercial every two minutes. They can sell that somewhere else.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 11:43 AM (M4QYv)

Brave Browser has a built-in adblocker that blocks most of Ewetoob's ads, and all the ugly ones here. I can find albums on Ewetoob, but have never looked for Johnny Mandel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2024 11:48 AM (tkR6S)

103 Carroll's not pretty enough to be a Trump girl.

Trump noted that.

That was defamation, too.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 27, 2024 11:48 AM (YAtuc)

104 Thx K.T. Unfortunately the US SC has found that ex post facto laws only involve criminal cases. There was some debate about it including civil cases but it was inconclusive at the Constitutional convention. Trump in theory could argue that changing the statute of limitations opened him to potential criminal sanction but that's tough. The bill of attainder just prevents people from having life , property or rights taken away without a trial. Trump best argument is a combination of the two , arguing the law was changed and the trials were a sham regarding Carroll

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 27, 2024 11:48 AM (3noVV)

105 Interesting that the gap chart at the top shows liberal as the positive value and conservative as the negative value.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2024 11:48 AM (W/g0r)

106 And another thing: if these red states get away with their affront, no declaring victory and resting on laurels. Once the Communists are on their back foot, grab them by their neckties and ~~punch them til they stutter.~~ gut them like a catfish Nothing less is remotely acceptable.

Fixed.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2024 11:48 AM (3Mgjo)

107 The ladies of "The View" are Ignorance's analog to consuming a six-pack of Jolt! Cola.

*********

Diary of an Angry Woman - a limerick

Joy Behar's far from beguiling
And Whoopi is not really styling
So riddle me this
If Ignorance is Bliss
Why in the hell aren't they smiling?

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 11:49 AM (991eG)

108 Cut it off.

This exercise was a two hour endeavor instigated by a lunatic safety director.

This is an example of the insane, woke, corporate mentality.

You will comply.
Posted by: Dr. Bone
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Please tell me that they all cut off all but the middle finger.

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 27, 2024 11:49 AM (i671v)

109 96 After my platoon formed at Parris Island, we were issued crayolas for many tests to determine our assigned MOS and if any of the recruits were officer material. The crayolas were also tasty.

Somebody was gonna do it

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 27, 2024 11:50 AM (0EOe9)

110 109 Pearl Baily was never the same after the attack.
Posted by: rickb223

She never came back.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 27, 2024 11:49 AM (OjHyA)

She knew the price.... it was written on the tag on her hat.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 11:50 AM (xaFKb)

111 Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering at January 27, 2024 11:43 AM (k1AR

I thought the same thing but his goal was to be a songwriter so he went to where the singers were. Also he corrected the exaggerated helicopter story so I assume he would correct an exaggerated janitor story.

Posted by: Cobalt Blue at January 27, 2024 11:50 AM (nNx7/)

112 _Biden already has authority to shut down illegal immigration.
...
Something�s not right here. https://t.co/MZBK3e2Rgo
-----------------------------------

Ya think?

Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 11:51 AM (M4QYv)

113 32 California Gov. Newsom Says Dems Are "Crushing It" and Should "Pat Themselves on the Back"

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Liberty? The Bill of Rights? Prosperity? Common sense?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at January 27, 2024 11:27 AM (FVME7)

Western civilization.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 27, 2024 11:51 AM (DTX3h)

114 I've long thought that one of the key functions of society is to provide stupid, dangerous things for teenage boys to do that won't kill too many of them. (Rock climbing, properly taught, is a good one.)

Now they just play Fortnite.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 27, 2024 11:44 AM (YAtuc)

I'm of the belief that if you grow young people in a household with morals and values, most of them are going to being able to fend off whatever threats the world throws at them. Whether it be video games or tranny shit in school, or anything else.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 11:51 AM (PE7Mp)

115 99 and then the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 27, 2024 11:44 AM (aD39U)

And shot our Archduke.
Posted by: BurtTC

Pearl Baily was never the same after the attack.
Posted by: rickb223

Beau Biden died at the Alamo.

Posted by: Not a joke at January 27, 2024 11:52 AM (NBVIP)

116 Beau Biden died at the Alamo.
Posted by: Not a joke at January 27, 2024 11:52 AM (NBVIP)

Mexico still grieves.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 27, 2024 11:52 AM (aD39U)

117 Donald Trump raped me in the men's room at 53rd and 3rd.

Where's my check?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 27, 2024 11:52 AM (R/m4+)

118 65 Update:
Community notes says that is not real video so the volunteer militias quote may not be real.

I hope it is though.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 27, 2024 11:36 AM (t/2Uw

I agree. I watched a vid of farm tractors supposed to be in Texas that were obviously in Europe.. Knuckleheads do anything for clicks..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 11:52 AM (UC5Sf)

119 Wait, wut?

Posted by: Zombie Minnie Pearl at January 27, 2024 11:53 AM (V8he0)

120 The E. Jean case is infuriating and a complete travesty of justice. Just one more reason the cheer for Texas.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2024 11:53 AM (W/lyH)

121 Beau Biden died at the Alamo.
Posted by: Not a joke at January 27, 2024 11:52 AM (NBVIP)

I bloody pissed on him!

Posted by: Ozzy at January 27, 2024 11:53 AM (0YXa3)

122 She knew the price.... it was written on the tag on her hat.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 11:50 AM (xaFKb)

"I'm a Tennessee hustler, don't have to work.
Got my name on the tail of my shirt."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2024 11:54 AM (tkR6S)

123 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 27, 2024 11:54 AM (T4tVD)

124 Yes, there's little more annoying to me as a Christian than some anti-Christian telling me how I'm disobeying God by not embracing the latest lefty suicidal proposal.

Posted by: Emmie at January 27, 2024 11:54 AM (Sf2cq)

125 Saal-ute!

Posted by: Grandpa Jones at January 27, 2024 11:55 AM (NBVIP)

126 Carroll's not pretty enough to be a Trump girl.
Posted by: Braenyard

Leo G. Carroll > E. Jean Carroll

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at January 27, 2024 11:55 AM (FVME7)

127 Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 27, 2024 11:48 AM (3noVV)

Agree but the problem I have is that they allowed the case to move forward when the plaintiff couldn't provide the year much less date that the alleged assault took place. The crucial and required information regard to SoL and filing any civil claim.

Posted by: Cobalt Blue at January 27, 2024 11:56 AM (nNx7/)

128 This is an example of the insane, woke, corporate mentality.

You will comply.
Posted by: Dr. Bone

*******

Next month he will probably play the video documentary of "King Arthur vs. The Black Knight: Blood On The Factory Floor" to scare everyone straight.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 11:56 AM (991eG)

129 Jean Stapleton >> E. Jean Carroll.

Posted by: 704 Hauser Street at January 27, 2024 11:57 AM (NBVIP)

130 The other weird thing about the E Jean case is that her story mirrors a Law and Order episode, even the Bergdorf store. The episode aired several years after Carrol said the incident happened. The surmise is that is where the story began in her twisted mind. That this is what happened to her. A fantasy.
Trump was unable to defend himself from the allegation because she couldn't even remember the date. He probably has a calender which could prove he wasn't even in NY at the time but because she could not produce an exact date, he could not defend himself. Yet, a jury said he sexually harrassed her.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 27, 2024 11:57 AM (t/2Uw)

131 I agree. I watched a vid of farm tractors supposed to be in Texas that were obviously in Europe.. Knuckleheads do anything for clicks..
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 11:52 AM (UC5Sf)

I'm sure a lot of that is Moby work by Leftards. Post something that is easily refuted, wait for uncritical people on the right to share it around, and then go "see the stupid Magatards posting bullshit memes!"

If you see stuff like that, and simply must pass it on, please add a caveat like, "This might be bullshit..."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2024 11:58 AM (tkR6S)

132 X remembers.

The Dank Knight 🦇
@capeandcowell
*Biden cuts border funding on day one in office and has his Feds spend the next 3 years cutting down walls, fences and razor wire to completely open the southern border*

*chaos ensues*

The left: why would republicans do this?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at January 27, 2024 11:59 AM (FVME7)

133 Update:
Community notes says that is not real video so the volunteer militias quote may not be real.

I hope it is though.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)

I agree. I watched a vid of farm tractors supposed to be in Texas that were obviously in Europe.. Knuckleheads do anything for clicks..
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It!

All Abbott would have to do is go on tv and ask for a volunteer militia. He'd have 500,000 in a week.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2024 11:59 AM (3Mgjo)

134 Pearl Baily was never the same after the attack.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2024 11:47 AM (3Mgjo)

After the war, the Brits sued the Germans for defamation, and that's how their court building got the name...

The Middlesex Guildhall.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 12:00 PM (A6Tux)

135 I was raped by Barrack Obama in 1989, when we were both living in the Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago.

Obama is obligated to prove that it didn't happen.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 27, 2024 12:00 PM (YAtuc)

136 I've long thought that one of the key functions of society is to provide stupid, dangerous things for teenage boys to do that won't kill too many of them. (Rock climbing, properly taught, is a good one.)

Now they just play Fortnite.
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I'm of the belief that if you grow young people in a household with morals and values, most of them are going to being able to fend off whatever threats the world throws at them. Whether it be video games or tranny shit in school, or anything else.

Posted by: BurtTC

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The neat part? I've got a little boy around that age, and he plays Fortnite with his buddies (no chat allowed with strangers, just his friends and I have to use my PIN to approve any friends)

They STILL do risky things because they can't help it. He and his buddies are constantly saying "Okay, this round only pistols" (apparently the worst weapon available) or putting silly limits on themselves like "Only the first chest you open and ammo, that's all."

And then they'll try to go and win the game against 96-98 other players that are at the same level and aren't limiting themselves.

He doesn't know why he and his buddies are doing it, but they can't help it. It's hardwired in.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering at January 27, 2024 12:00 PM (k1AR8)

137 >>>Please tell me that they all cut off all but the middle finger.

Posted by: screaming in digital

>The old timers did just that. The next exercise was to place hot dogs and ketchup packets in a glove and run them thru a device called a lug loader.

Mangled hotdogs and ketchup in a leather glove threw the timing of the device off and it required additional maintenance before the next run.

Non-destructive testing is usually free, destructive testing is generally included in a contract.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 27, 2024 12:00 PM (EEgXH)

138 130 The other weird thing about the E Jean case is that her story mirrors a Law and Order episode, even the Bergdorf store.

Many of our hare brained schemes to get off of Gilligan's Island were hatched from my movie plots

Posted by: Ginger at January 27, 2024 12:00 PM (NBVIP)

139 I believe Matt Walsh has done a number of video takedowns of "Toxic Masculinity", including asking " Why no concerns about toxic feminity?:

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 27, 2024 12:00 PM (HbfIF)

140 Article somewhere this morning the NY Legislators made up out of whole cloth a rule probably with Trump in mind anyone can sue him for supposed past claims long after the original law expired.

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2024 12:01 PM (fwDg9)

141 You want an effective demonstration? Hire a safety director who lost a pinky finger at some point in his life and give him a convincing prosthetic full of fake blood.

Then have him take a vote as to which finger these snickering workers would most prefer to lose (it will be the pinky). He produces a pair of tin snips from his pocket, and severs the "pinky finger."

"You're not feeling so blasé about it now, are you? Well, you might as well do what I just did if you don't FOLLOW THE G-DDAMNED RULES!"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2024 12:02 PM (0FoWg)

142 Being far right, I find it difficult to comprehend the lofty heights of our intellectual class...

" this paper will challenge the prevailing and damaging social trope that penises are best understood as the male sexual organ and reassign it a more tting role as a type of masculine performance."

http://tinyurl.com/2648ju32

Posted by: Sock Monkey * stand and deliver at January 27, 2024 12:02 PM (de/TA)

143 Donald Trump raped me in the men's room at 53rd and 3rd.

Where's my check?
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 27, 2024 11:52 AM (R/m4+)

You have to wait for him to say he was never in the men's room at 53rd and 3rd, then you can sue him for defamation.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 12:03 PM (A6Tux)

144 I seem to remember having a gut feeling that Hillary Clinton was projecting back when she claimed there was a Vast Right Wing conspiricy. I was 100% correct. Check this story out..

http://tinyurl.com/2p8a9896

A well-coordinated, well-funded, and high-powered network of leftist organizations, led by a group whose efforts 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton promoted, is behind the push to remove former President Donald Trump, the 2024 frontrunner for president from any party, from the ballot, Breitbart News has learned.

But it’s much broader than that: For years, this network of leftists grew from a powerful vast left-wing conspiracy unmasked a decade ago into now being the dominating force on the left determined to stop Trump at all costs. What’s more, these leftists clearly control what top Democrats are saying, forcing their leaders to adopt their narrative. They even regularly openly brag about controlling what the sitting President of the United States says, taking credit for Democrat President Joe Biden’s dark reelection campaign messaging, where Biden has warned of “MAGA extremists” on the rise.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 12:03 PM (UC5Sf)

145 The girls have nothing to do with "risks" beyond watching the boys and being impressed with the capable ones and weeding out the bumbling/stupid ones as mates.

Fortunately, I have a full complement of very large and colorful feathers growing out of my backside. The ladies seem to like that.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2024 12:04 PM (CsUN+)

146 Minnie Pearl was a cultured college graduate, not a bumpkin. George "Goober" Lindsey was also a college graduate. He made a very good living being Goober, which is a remarkable accomplishment in itself.

Posted by: Hee-Haw Honky Tonk at January 27, 2024 12:04 PM (V5BDR)

147 135. I was raped by Barrack Obama in 1989, when we were both living in the Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago. the ARC of History!

Are you a woman? Then I'm calling b.s. If you're a man, then we will take your case under advisement.

Posted by: Paco at January 27, 2024 12:05 PM (njExo)

148 I'm a pickin'

Posted by: Buck Owens at January 27, 2024 12:05 PM (NBVIP)

149 And I'm a grinnin'!

Posted by: Roy Clark at January 27, 2024 12:06 PM (NBVIP)

150 Time to get off the internet and actually do something.
Have a great day all.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 27, 2024 12:06 PM (t/2Uw)

151 He doesn't know why he and his buddies are doing it, but they can't help it. It's hardwired in.
Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering at January 27, 2024 12:00 PM (k1AR

That's pretty cool. I think that stems from the confidence they get from parents who pay attention to what they do, reward the positive behaviors, and teach them about the consequences of the negative.

It's then internalized: "I have autonomy, I have power, and if I use it wisely, the world will reward me."

Well done.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 12:07 PM (A6Tux)

152 Donald Trump raped me in the men's room at 53rd and 3rd.

Where's my check?
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 27, 2024 11:52 AM (R/m4+)
It seems you will need legal representation.

Where were you on the night of August 23rd?

Call: Schenectady 5- 5555 ask for Lou

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 12:08 PM (UC5Sf)

153 It's like that with Pete Townsend, too. Can write a great song, can't sing for shit. Just play the guitar and let Roger do the talking, Pete.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 27, 2024 11:37 AM (cRrcX)

Roger can't do the tender stuff, he's a belter. Pete's better for the soft stuff.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 27, 2024 12:09 PM (n+WKq)

154 Skateboards and grind rails have entered the chat.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 27, 2024 12:09 PM (NBVIP)

155 Minnie Pearl was a cultured college graduate, not a bumpkin. George "Goober" Lindsey was also a college graduate. He made a very good living being Goober, which is a remarkable accomplishment in itself.
Posted by: Hee-Haw Honky Tonk at January 27, 2024 12:04 PM (V5BDR)

Well, of course we are all riffing on the stage personas of these individuals, and not on their real-life character. But you knew that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2024 12:10 PM (tkR6S)

156 I'm sorry for a distraction but what exactly is King Harv embracing in that ad?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 27, 2024 12:11 PM (2MigE)

157 >>>147 135. I was raped by Barrack Obama in 1989, when we were both living in the Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago. the ARC of History!

Are you a woman? Then I'm calling b.s. If you're a man, then we will take your case under advisement.

Posted by: Paco

Paco, your senses are being fine-tuned in a proper fashion. Barack was never a driver, most likely he was the driven.

Just look at him.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 27, 2024 12:12 PM (EEgXH)

158 A well-coordinated, well-funded, and high-powered network of leftist organizations, led by a group whose efforts 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton promoted, is behind the push to remove former President Donald Trump, the 2024 frontrunner for president from any party, from the ballot, Breitbart News has learned.
***

At some.point it is going to snap.
It won't be pretty.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2024 12:12 PM (W/lyH)

159 Was Tiny Tim actually a weirdo?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 27, 2024 12:13 PM (2MigE)

160 Spoiler alert, dammit!!

The other half of the point is that it’s not a spoiler :)

It was an all-democrat jury, after all.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 27, 2024 12:13 PM (EXyHK)

161 100 Carroll's not pretty enough to be a Trump girl.

Caroll O'Connor > E Jean Carol

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 12:14 PM (UC5Sf)

162 You want an effective demonstration? Hire a safety director who lost a pinky finger at some point in his life and give him a convincing prosthetic full of fake blood.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2024 12:02 PM (0FoWg)

I'm a big fan of the video, where the cop goes into a school to teach the kids about gun safety, and as he's holstering his weapon, he fires off a round into his own foot.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 12:14 PM (+zMED)

163 " this paper will challenge the prevailing and damaging social trope that penises are best understood as the male sexual organ and reassign it a more tting role as a type of masculine performance."
Posted by: Sock Monkey

********

Let me guess, without peeking. They provide zero evidence, proof or citations to support the assertion that the trope is either 1) prevaaling or 2) damaging.

How do you even measure a 'trope'?

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 12:16 PM (991eG)

164 >>> Brave Browser has a built-in adblocker that blocks most of Ewetoob's ads, and all the ugly ones here. I can find albums on Ewetoob, but have never looked for Johnny Mandel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

He was quite the arranger/composer, did movies: the sandpiper, mash, caddyshack, among others.
_wiki: John Alfred Mandel (November 23, 1925 – June 29, 2020) was an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz.

The musicians he worked with include Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Diane Schuur and Shirley Horn. He won five Grammy Awards, from 17 nominations...

A commentators link got my attention to The Coffee Song by Sinatra.
Looking further into it found that it was arranged and orchestrated by Mandel in 1960.

The Coffee Song _ https://youtu.be/zTbJBnkRkFo

Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 12:17 PM (M4QYv)

165 I was out for a sandwich on a bracing Chicago evening. That's when the President lunged out of an alley, sprayed me in the face with White Claw, put a bondage collar around my neck, and shouted THIS IS MAN'S COUNTRY!!! Then his secret service agents forced me to sodomize him."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2024 12:17 PM (0FoWg)

166
At some.point it is going to snap.
It won't be pretty.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2024 12:12 PM (W/lyH

Read on. It names billionaire donners one of which backed Haley but backed off when she lost NH.. Yes hiding in plain sight laughing their asses off.. Soros in now the leader..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 12:17 PM (UC5Sf)

167 Well, of course we are all riffing on the stage personas of these individuals, and not on their real-life character. But you knew that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2024 12:10 PM (tkR6S)

Next you're gonna tell me Dean Martin was not a drunk.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 12:18 PM (+zMED)

168 The EJ Carroll situation sounds an awful lot to me like a modern version of Roman proscription. Lots have things have happened in this country since early 2020 (coinciding with the covid hysteria) that would never have believed could occur….. martial law (ie lockdowns), government spying and censorship, stolen elections, government intentionally killing people (what else do you call sending covid patients to nursing homes?), etc etc

Not the same country I grew up in….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2024 12:18 PM (xT8gx)

169 Northernlurker at my age of 10 I thought so

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2024 12:19 PM (fwDg9)

170 Wait just a cool minute, now....

There are undoubtedly hundreds (thousands?) of cases where a woman was actually assaulted by a Dem in New York in the past and she never got justice. With this new law passed to get Trump, why don't all these women bring suit against the Dem creeps?

Posted by: Emmie at January 27, 2024 12:19 PM (Sf2cq)

171 How do you even measure a 'trope'?
Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 12:16 PM (991eG)

With a tsquare?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 12:20 PM (+zMED)

172 >>>I'm a big fan of the video, where the cop goes into a school to teach the kids about gun safety, and as he's holstering his weapon, he fires off a round into his own foot.

Posted by: BurtTC

Was he promoted to be the internal affairs safety director?

This is an Alec Baldwin moment of accountability.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 27, 2024 12:21 PM (EEgXH)

173 With this new law passed to get Trump, why don't all these women bring suit against the Dem creeps?
Posted by: Emmie at January 27, 2024 12:19

Because they worked for Dems, so they know this law doesn't actually apply to anyone except Trump.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2024 12:21 PM (0FoWg)

174 @50 Looks like somebody never read "The Territorial Imperative."

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 27, 2024 12:24 PM (zdLoL)

175 NY Post has an article and videos about leftist lunatics who harassed and spit on mourners at a service for Henry Kissinger. The police broke it up , but not nearly with enough force

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 27, 2024 12:24 PM (3noVV)

176 Well, of course we are all riffing on the stage personas of these individuals, and not on their real-life character. But you knew that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

*********

Raising an interesting question. If they are highly educated performers (snobs) mocking the rubes and hicks through broad and inaccurate stereotypes, and we enjoy the performances for the comedic value, are we fans of the performers for mocking the rubes, or are we fans of the rubes and hicks as portrayed, identifying with the character, not the performer?

'Tis a conundrum

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 12:24 PM (991eG)

177 They might be rubes and hicks, but gosh durn it, they are OUR rubes and hicks.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 12:25 PM (991eG)

178 Was he promoted to be the internal affairs safety director?

This is an Alec Baldwin moment of accountability.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 27, 2024 12:21 PM (EEgXH)

Here's the vid:

http://tinyurl.com/mwcc9k3d

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 12:26 PM (+zMED)

179 I'll note that there have been several defamation lawsuits brought to trial with few being found in favor of the plaintiff.

Yet this broad gets $83M.

We all know why. But seriously, the bar here was so low it was underground. And Trump's legal team didn't seem to be on the ball. It's not like they didn't know what was preplanned with this suit.

The suits against Trump are all absurd yet they're more than likely to render guilty verdicts. Wringing some necks is about the mildest thing I can think of right about now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2024 12:26 PM (Q4IgG)

180 Looks like somebody never read "The Territorial Imperative."
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

-

(buffs nails, sits back and appreciates natural ability to understand nature)

Good to see you, brother. Hope you're doing well.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering at January 27, 2024 12:26 PM (k1AR8)

181 Barbie Benton may have played a bimbo on Hee Haw, but who cares.

Posted by: AI Commentator at January 27, 2024 12:27 PM (vFG9F)

182 How do you even measure a 'trope'?
Posted by: Muldoon

It's actually a beautiful piece of work. The authors, Jamie Lindsay and Peter Boyle submitted the paper as a hoax. It was peer reviewed and praised. Testable evidence is no longer a requirement in academia.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * stand and deliver at January 27, 2024 12:27 PM (de/TA)

183 >>>'Tis a conundrum

Posted by: Muldoon

>Both. I'm a moron and I can barely tie my boots on in the morning.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 27, 2024 12:28 PM (EEgXH)

184 ".and the boy froze when a dump truck went by...turning his head to watch intently as the truck went on down the road."

Had married friends with a toddler when grandma got aghast: "he keeps saying dumb fuck dumb fuck"

"Oh Mom, he's saying dump truck dump truck."

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 27, 2024 12:29 PM (Gse2f)

185 >>>> why don't all these women bring suit against the Dem creeps?

Posted by: Emmie
------------------

They use sex as a weapon. They may use it against their husbands but publicly will only against Republicans.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 12:29 PM (M4QYv)

186 It turns out basically one crackpot was responsible for filing to prohibit DJT from running in numerous states.

YES VERY TRUE.

He has been arrested for different crimes..
also he thought he was a Presidential candidate in the 24 election

http://tinyurl.com/bde884rc

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 12:30 PM (UC5Sf)

187 So i was chatting with my psychiatrist and told him I was hearing voices.
He said I don't have a psychiatrist.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2024 12:30 PM (W/lyH)

188 And Trump's legal team didn't seem to be on the ball. It's not like they didn't know what was preplanned with this suit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2024 12:26 PM (Q4IgG)

I hope we all remember that the judge forbade Trump and his attorneys defending him. No useful evidence allowed, no truthful testimony, nothing.

Posted by: Emmie at January 27, 2024 12:31 PM (Sf2cq)

189 Raising an interesting question. If they are highly educated performers (snobs) mocking the rubes and hicks through broad and inaccurate stereotypes, and we enjoy the performances for the comedic value, are we fans of the performers for mocking the rubes, or are we fans of the rubes and hicks as portrayed, identifying with the character, not the performer?

'Tis a conundrum
Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 12:24 PM (991eG)

One of the things Ricky Gervais does these days, is a whole bit where he talks about making a joke about something that is supposed to be serious, and how important it is to distinguish between the thing that is being joked about, and the joke itself.

Then keeps twisting it around, until the audience loses sight of what the funny part is, the joke about the joke about the thing, or the thing or the joke about the thing?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 12:31 PM (+zMED)

190 Goober could rebuild a carburetor and USMC Goomer Pyle was his cousin. My kind of people.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * stand and deliver at January 27, 2024 12:32 PM (de/TA)

191 And Trump's legal team didn't seem to be on the ball. It's not like they didn't know what was preplanned with this suit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

-

I haven't paid a lot of attention because I knew the fix was in, but it's my understanding that they very much were and the judge wouldn't allow any of their very obvious points or counterpoints/arguments to be made.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering at January 27, 2024 12:32 PM (k1AR8)

192 Surprise, surprise, surprise!!

Posted by: James Thurston Nabors at January 27, 2024 12:33 PM (NBVIP)

193 177 They might be rubes and hicks, but gosh durn it, they are OUR rubes and hicks.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 12:25 PM (991eG

dont be fooled..
I learned to respect many people in the south after living in FL for 35 years, before Florida Man became a thing.. there are plenty of men/women of great character down south..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 12:33 PM (UC5Sf)

194 So i was chatting with my psychiatrist and told him I was hearing voices.
He said I don't have a psychiatrist.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2024 12:30 PM (W/lyH)

Patient: Doc, doc! I'm hearing voices!!

Doctor: It's all in your head.

Patient: How can you say that, are you saying I'm crazy?

Doctor: Where are your ears?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 12:35 PM (+zMED)

195 dont be fooled..
I learned to respect many people in the south after living in FL for 35 years, before Florida Man became a thing.. there are plenty of men/women of great character down south..
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 12:33 PM (UC5Sf)

That's a joke, son.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at January 27, 2024 12:35 PM (z+ik4)

196 187 So i was chatting with my psychiatrist and told him I was hearing voices.
He said I don't have a psychiatrist.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2024 12:30 PM (W/lyH

My psychiatrist asked me if I wanted to hear my diagnosis
I agreed.
He said I have good news and bad news:

The good news is you're not a paranoid schizophrenic

The bad news is Yes people are conspiring against you

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 12:38 PM (UC5Sf)

197 "The real story is young men are naturally lazy and need a reason to do anything."

___________________________

Not "Lazy"....they are, in general, "practical". Women, by contrast are more emotional (in general). So, most men need a reason to do something.

Posted by: Orson at January 27, 2024 12:38 PM (dIske)

198 I learned to respect many people in the south after living in FL for 35 years, before Florida Man became a thing.. there are plenty of men/women of great character down south..
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 12:33 PM (UC5Sf)

I read a piece about Billy Carter, written while his brother was President.

The piece didn't make fun of Billy, let him speak for himself, and included much of the day in the life of, with Billy and his family and friends having to deal with people disrupting their lives, because Billy's brother was president.

Billy doesn't come off as a rube at all. He drinks beer, sure, but he also seems to have his head screwed on right... relatively speaking.

But the media has run with an image of Billy ever since, that he was the dumb brother. Eh... I don't think so. I don't think so.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 12:39 PM (+zMED)

199 It's actually a beautiful piece of work. The authors, Jamie Lindsay and Peter Boyle submitted the paper as a hoax. It was peer reviewed and praised. Testable evidence is no longer a requirement in academia.
Posted by: Sock Monkey

********

Ahhh, I see! Nice!

I have a bit of an aversion to following links posted here.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 12:39 PM (991eG)

200 That's a joke, son.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at January 27, 2024 12:35 PM (z+ik4)

Absolutely but I like sweet tea and cornbread..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 12:39 PM (UC5Sf)

201 MadisonTheCat tested normal at vet, got vitamins, came home and started to eat. Acting like a dog again.

Posted by: Eromero at January 27, 2024 12:43 PM (TMJ5l)

202 I thought the world was ending when Barbi Benton left Hee-Haw at the end of the 76 season. Then Linda Thompson came on board and I managed to persevere.

Posted by: Courage In Action at January 27, 2024 12:44 PM (V5BDR)

203 Boy. Ah, say boy. You're sharp as a bowling ball, boy.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at January 27, 2024 12:45 PM (NBVIP)

204 18-29 wymynses are +40 liberal. This is why the obsession with abortion by the gop is a dead end.

Posted by: Montec at January 27, 2024 12:45 PM (Omzsi)

205 The default setting for a male brain at rest is a blank slate. Women are always thinking about something. Like what you said or did ten years ago.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 27, 2024 12:45 PM (Gse2f)

206 Gene Gene the Dancing Machine >Jean Stapleton >> E. Jean Carroll.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 27, 2024 12:46 PM (15lwl)

207 Biden wants his own Enabling Act.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 27, 2024 12:47 PM (D7oie)

208 I have a dream that one day my grandchildren will be able to grow up in a world where men are judged by the content of their character and not by the number of varmints nailed to their barn.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 12:47 PM (991eG)

209
...and not by the number of y'alls in a typical sentence.

...and not by the size of their Oshkosh overalls.

...and not by the Skoal ring on their jeans pocket.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 12:47 PM (991eG)

210 Men's brains vs women's brains:
https://youtu.be/SZ6mVumHY9I

Posted by: Obligatory at January 27, 2024 12:48 PM (NBVIP)

211
Ahhh, I see! Nice!

I have a bit of an aversion to following links posted here.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 12:39 PM (991eG)
***

Many of us do.

*mouse hand trembles*

Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2024 12:48 PM (W/lyH)

212 There is a video on YouBoob with Barbie Benton dancing with Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Club while the Sir Douglas Quintet plays "Mendocino".

Surreal.

Sir Douglas Quintet is back.
We'd like to thank all our beautiful friends all over the country,
And all the beautiful vibrations.
We love you...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 27, 2024 12:49 PM (R/m4+)

213 I agree that Kris Kristofferson really is a strong candidate for the most interesting man in the world. There can't be many who have lived life as fully as he has done. He does reflect a bit of the 1960s zeitgeist, but it looks good on him for some reason.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 27, 2024 12:49 PM (ogTiX)

214 It's actually a beautiful piece of work. The authors, Jamie Lindsay and Peter Boyle submitted the paper as a hoax. It was peer reviewed and praised. Testable evidence is no longer a requirement in academia.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * stand and deliver at January 27, 2024 12:27 PM (de/TA)

In most areas it is enough to pass peer review. As we are learning in the most recent kerfuffle about cutting edge cancer research, the ex-president of Harvard and the whole replication crises.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 27, 2024 12:49 PM (D7oie)

215 But the media has run with an image of Billy ever since, that he was the dumb brother. Eh... I don't think so. I don't think so.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 12:39 PM (+zMED

Speaking as someone that competed in the construction job market I must say most of my Project managers were sober good guys. The foremen on the other hand, well lets just say most of them were young Ex military guys..
I was awarded a contractors license after testing in Broward County. We were on the South Florida Building Code which has now been unified Statewide with the southern Standard Building Code. We had inspections up the hoo hoo...Ugh...
It is very difficult to earn a living there

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 12:50 PM (UC5Sf)

216 The bad news is Yes people are conspiring against you
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 12:38 PM (UC5Sf)

Doc: I have bad news, good news, and more bad news.

Patient: What's the bad news?

Doc: You have a fatal disease.

Patient: What's the good news.

Doc: You'll live 50 years.

Patient: But I'm 49, my birthday is tomorrow.

Doc: That's the other bad news...

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 12:50 PM (YPmhK)

217 ...and not by the Skoal ring on their jeans pocket.

Ahhh...the cheerleaders from the University of Washington have entered the chat.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2024 12:51 PM (W/lyH)

218 206 Gene Gene the Dancing Machine >Jean Stapleton >> E. Jean Carroll.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 27, 2024 12:46 PM (15lwl)

heh nice segway there

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 12:51 PM (UC5Sf)

219 >>>Then keeps twisting it around, until the audience loses sight of what the funny part is, the joke about the joke about the thing, or the thing or the joke about the thing?

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

Convoluted intellectualism, just like our society.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 12:51 PM (M4QYv)

220 Some people and actors have the ability to laugh at themselves.

Could we ever laugh with a caricature of Alec Baldwin?

Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 12:53 PM (M4QYv)

221 Bazooka Joe’s Gang:

The group includes:

Pesty (formerly Orville), Joe's younger brother, with a 1950s cowboy sombrero
Mort, a gangly boy who always wears his red turtleneck sweater pulled up over his mouth[1]
Hungry Herman, Joe's tubby pal
Jane, Joe's girlfriend
Tuffy, a streetwise type who wears a sailor hat
Walkie Talkie, a neighborhood mutt

Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2024 12:54 PM (SrPpJ)

222 The prevalent moral degeneracy described in two words, " her penis".

http://tinyurl.com/3945dwcf

Posted by: Sock Monkey * stand and deliver at January 27, 2024 12:54 PM (de/TA)

223 In most areas it is enough to pass peer review. As we are learning in the most recent kerfuffle about cutting edge cancer research, the ex-president of Harvard and the whole replication crises.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 27, 2024 12:49 PM (D7oie)

When your peers are in on the con... well, look at globull warmering...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 12:55 PM (xaFKb)

224 KT, I am not so sure that the base state of adolescent boys is apathy. I think apathy is forced on them by learned helplessness.

Learned Helplessness is a field of psychology researched by Martin Seligman (et al) and takes the question, what happens if all behavior is punished and there is no escape?

apathy is the result

[Examination of] the effects of exposing organisms to aversive events which they cannot control. Motivational, cognitive, and emotional effects of uncontrollability are examined. It is hypothesized that when events are uncontrollable the organism learns that its behavior and outcomes are independent, and this learning produces the motivational, cognitive, and emotional effects of uncontrollability.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 27, 2024 12:56 PM (D7oie)

225 There are undoubtedly hundreds (thousands?) of cases where a woman was actually assaulted by a Dem in New York in the past and she never got justice. With this new law passed to get Trump, why don't all these women bring suit against the Dem creeps?
Posted by: Emmie at January 27, 2024 12:19 PM (Sf2cq)

I think that is what is happening to Governor Cuomo.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 27, 2024 12:58 PM (D7oie)

226 Th ironic thing about the arrogant ignoramuses (ignorami?) who declare they are going to live forever by following every purported longevity lifestyle, exercise regimen, dietary supplementation and self-improvement hack....

...is that they won't be around when we point out at their funeral that they failed.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 12:58 PM (991eG)

227 Kristofferson
In the 60's I was told he was a Rhodes scholar. I never looked it up but that took the cool out of him in my opinion..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 12:58 PM (UC5Sf)

228 >>> Except maybe sometimes to suggest that girls are better than boys.

Exception to the Exception - Boys that pretend to be girls are better than real girls.
Always.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 27, 2024 12:59 PM (cOq4q)

229 We had inspections up the hoo hoo...Ugh...
It is very difficult to earn a living there
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 12:50 PM (UC5Sf)

I saw a clip the other day, Rogan talking with Dave Rubin, and Rogan was getting the better of the exchange, explaining why regulations are needed in the construction biz.

The reason Rogan got the better of it, is because Rubin is a dimwit.

The argument goes, if you didn't have government regulations, buildings would collapse.

No... if you didn't have government regulations, builders would be subjected to private insurance imposing safety standards, and builders would GO OUT OF BUSINESS IF THEIR BUILDINGS KEPT FALLING DOWN!

You don't need government for this shit. If you want to remove 99% of the corruption and waste in these things, you get them out of the way.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 12:59 PM (5BSKN)

230 My plan is to live forever. So far, so good.

Posted by: Stephen Wright at January 27, 2024 12:59 PM (NBVIP)

231 Boys are being taught that it doesn't matter what they do, it's wrong. So apathy becomes the default because they are always going to be wrong.

Interesting theory, Kindltot.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 27, 2024 01:00 PM (cRrcX)

232 Kris Kristofferson Was An Army Ranger, Rhodes Scholar & Copter Pilot Before Becoming A Janitor

Sum Bitch...

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 01:00 PM (UC5Sf)

233 Sir Douglas Quintet is back.
We'd like to thank all our beautiful friends all over the country,
And all the beautiful vibrations.
We love you...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 27, 2024 12:49 PM (R/m4+)

I got to meet Doug Sahm briefly when he played a gig in Edmonton many years ago, Nice guy, and a hell of a musician. Died much too young. Look up his stuff with the Texas Tornadoes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2024 01:00 PM (tkR6S)

234 Could we ever laugh with a caricature of Alec Baldwin?
Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 12:53 PM (M4QYv)

Evidently you've never heard of Kyle Dunnigan.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:01 PM (5BSKN)

235 Learned Helplessness is a field of psychology researched by Martin Seligman (et al) and takes the question, what happens if all behavior is punished and there is no escape?

apathy is the result

[Examination of] the effects of exposing organisms to aversive events which they cannot control. Motivational, cognitive, and emotional effects of uncontrollability are examined. It is hypothesized that when events are uncontrollable the organism learns that its behavior and outcomes are independent, and this learning produces the motivational, cognitive, and emotional effects of uncontrollability.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 27, 2024 12:56 PM (D7oie)

Amen.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:03 PM (5BSKN)

236 Peter Wolf is another character like Kris Kristofferren.

Bronx boy. Went to Music & Art HS. Got a rare scholarship to study at the Boston Museum of Fine Art under the likes of Norman Rockwell. Started playing music at clubs. When FM got interesting he had the overnight show on Boston's WBCN where he played a lot of blues.

Some nutty guy kept calling him during his shows to talk music - Van Morrison! who was working on Astral Weeks. They played together at clubs.

The J. Geils Band was already going but needed a front man and they got the GOAT. Jagger was once asked if he practiced his dance moves. "Of course, we can't all be Peter Wolf."

Married to Faye Dunaway at her prime.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 27, 2024 01:04 PM (Gse2f)

237 When a wolf or coyote was killed his carcass would be taken to the crossroads and hanged on a fence post. It's part of the City now so the farmers just bury it.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 01:04 PM (M4QYv)

238 When your peers are in on the con... well, look at globull warmering...
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 12:55 PM (xaFKb)

Eric Weinstein has spoken at length on this topic, and demonstrates quite clearly how and why the "hard sciences" have lost their way.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:04 PM (5BSKN)

239 32 California Gov. Newsom Says Dems Are "Crushing It" and Should "Pat Themselves on the Back"

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and by "it" he means us

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 27, 2024 01:04 PM (xw1WS)

240 Exception to the Exception - Boys that pretend to be girls are better than real girls.
Always.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 27, 2024 12:59 PM (cOq4q)

This is why I say yes to letting the boys say they're girls, to compete in sportsball.

I want to make a mockery of all this.

With the possible exception of combat sports. Maybe.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:06 PM (5BSKN)

241 X remembers.

The Dank Knight 🦇
@capeandcowell
*Biden cuts border funding on day one in office and has his Feds spend the next 3 years cutting down walls, fences and razor wire to completely open the southern border*

He also stood down an Army Division that was constituted by Trump with the sole mission of reinforcing border security.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 27, 2024 01:07 PM (cOq4q)

242 I think that is what is happening to Governor Cuomo.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 27, 2024 12:58 PM (D7oie)

Possibly. But I also think maybe Cummo is poking his head out, testing the waters of getting back into the scrum of presidential hopefuls, and his opponents in the D Party want to keep him on the sidelines.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:08 PM (5BSKN)

243 Well, press report that Senators have reached a Bi partisan BORDER deal, that Biden is willing to sign.

OK, anyone else smell the stench of traitors in our midst?

Treason. Pure and simple. Senate REPUBLICANS including Mitch McConnel are destroying the rule of law.

Hopefully the House will stand strong.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 01:08 PM (xaFKb)

244 >>>> Texas Tornados, linked them last night

"Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXG_1XR9mh0
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Flaco Jimenez is on some Dwight Yoakam albums.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 01:08 PM (M4QYv)

245 I got to meet Doug Sahm briefly when he played a gig in Edmonton many years ago, Nice guy, and a hell of a musician. Died much too young. Look up his stuff with the Texas Tornadoes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2024 01:00 PM (tkR6S)

Concur. He was a very talented dude and I always enjoy his music.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 27, 2024 01:09 PM (R/m4+)

246 Dave Rubin isn't so much an idiot as he is a Northeastern Liberal who got cancelled. He may desire liberty, but protected by a centralized power that is answerable to him.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 27, 2024 01:09 PM (D7oie)

247 Kris Kristofferson Was An Army Ranger, Rhodes Scholar & Copter Pilot Before Becoming A Janitor

Sum Bitch...
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 01:00 PM (UC5Sf)

Regardless of whatever else one learns, every army vet is an expert janitor.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:09 PM (5BSKN)

248
You don't need government for this shit. If you want to remove 99% of the corruption and waste in these things, you get them out of the way.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 12:59 PM (5BSKN

Yeah well the construction departments in Florida fall under the jurisdiction of Public Saftey (law enforcement). Building officials have authority in the field.

The benchmark I use to justify the stringent codes is the day after hurricane Andrew that hit Miami in 1992 there were estimated 250,000 homeless people with reported deaths of under 250 fatalities..
I compare that with say South American countries or Carribean islands that number sometimes in the tens of thousand fatalities caused from hurricanes.. just sayn..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 01:10 PM (UC5Sf)

249 If you are in your 40s and tell me you plan to live forever I say, "Get back to me when you reach 70."

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 01:11 PM (991eG)

250 240 Exception to the Exception - Boys that pretend to be girls are better than real girls.
Always.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 27, 2024 12:59 PM (cOq4q)

This is why I say yes to letting the boys say they're girls, to compete in sportsball.
I want to make a mockery of all this.

With the possible exception of combat sports. Maybe.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:06 PM (5BSKN)

Yeah, having had to live through the Women in Combat crapola... zero sympathy. I had it shoved down my throat that Women and Men were supposedly interchangeable... and this was in the 'sport' that is the most lethal ever imagined... War.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 01:11 PM (xaFKb)

251
Regardless of whatever else one learns, every army vet is an expert janitor.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:09 PM (5BSKN

And/or a PLO Permanent Latrine Officer heh

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 01:11 PM (UC5Sf)

252 Regardless of whatever else one learns, every army vet is an expert janitor.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:09 PM (5BSKN)

And every Navy Vet who was ever on a ship? Can teach you how to wash dishes.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 01:12 PM (xaFKb)

253 252 Regardless of whatever else one learns, every army vet is an expert janitor.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:09 PM (5BSKN)

And every Navy Vet who was ever on a ship? Can teach you how to wash dishes.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 01:12 PM (xaFKb)

Make that... ENLISTED Vet.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 01:12 PM (xaFKb)

254 Yeah well the construction departments in Florida fall under the jurisdiction of Public Saftey (law enforcement). Building officials have authority in the field.

The benchmark I use to justify the stringent codes is the day after hurricane Andrew that hit Miami in 1992 there were estimated 250,000 homeless people with reported deaths of under 250 fatalities..
I compare that with say South American countries or Carribean islands that number sometimes in the tens of thousand fatalities caused from hurricanes.. just sayn..
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 01:10 PM (UC5Sf)

Right. Conditions in place now are generally safe in this country, because the rot hasn't traveled too far... yet, but I'd also suggest much of that DOES have to do with insurance oversight, more than government.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:14 PM (5BSKN)

255 231 Boys are being taught that it doesn't matter what they do, it's wrong. So apathy becomes the default because they are always going to be wrong.

Interesting theory, Kindltot.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 27, 2024 01:00 PM (cRrcX)

Sadly, describes my 32 year old Son, perfectly.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 01:14 PM (xaFKb)

256 Eric Weinstein has spoken at length on this topic, and demonstrates quite clearly how and why the "hard sciences" have lost their way.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:04 PM (5BSKN)

Terence Kealey has spoken about this as well, he talks a lot about the damage that public funding of science does, and how it has created a need for publishing and research that only reflects the views of the funding sources.

it is, for example, nearly impossible to get funding to show global warming is not real, however you can get funds for durned near anything if you can link it to global warming.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 27, 2024 01:16 PM (D7oie)

257 Yeah, having had to live through the Women in Combat crapola... zero sympathy. I had it shoved down my throat that Women and Men were supposedly interchangeable... and this was in the 'sport' that is the most lethal ever imagined... War.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 01:11 PM (xaFKb)

All those movies and teevee shows, with 110 lbs women beating up 250 lbs men... there's going to be a dose of reality for many a female who tests that in meatspace.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:16 PM (5BSKN)

258 Well, that beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad.

I guess I'll have another for dessert.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 01:16 PM (991eG)

259 If you know the game is rigged, will you bother to compete?

Posted by: davidt at January 27, 2024 01:16 PM (SYTee)

260 BRB going to cook me up a late breakfast...

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 27, 2024 01:17 PM (UC5Sf)

261 And every Navy Vet who was ever on a ship? Can teach you how to wash dishes.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 01:12 PM (xaFKb)

Make that... ENLISTED Vet.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 01:12 PM (xaFKb)

Interesting, I never thought of that. They never let us near the kitchen... unless you had punishment duty.

But even then, my punishments always seemed to involve operating a buffer after hours in the headquarters building.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:18 PM (5BSKN)

262 >>> All those movies and teevee shows, with 110 lbs women beating up 250 lbs men... there's going to be a dose of reality for many a female who tests that in meatspace.
Posted by: BurtTC

But the coconut crushing thigh crotch kills are entertaining...as long as she is hot...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 27, 2024 01:20 PM (cOq4q)

263 it is, for example, nearly impossible to get funding to show global warming is not real, however you can get funds for durned near anything if you can link it to global warming.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 27, 2024 01:16 PM (D7oie)

I know just about nothing about the science of physics, but apparently these days, if you aren't playing with strings, like a cat, and are trying to do ANYTHING that doesn't involve string theory, you're not going to get funded.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:21 PM (5BSKN)

264 Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 27, 2024 01:21 PM (cRrcX)

265 Yeah, having had to live through the Women in Combat crapola... zero sympathy. I had it shoved down my throat that Women and Men were supposedly interchangeable... and this was in the 'sport' that is the most lethal ever imagined... War.
Posted by: Romeo13

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I saw a video discussing this not too long ago. Try to think of jobs men can do that women can't. Then vice versa. There is one, and only one, that women can do that men absolutely cannot. And it's extremely specific.

All of the other jobs - all of them, from playing pool to professional cook - men not only can do but are always better at.

There's some science there but we're too pro-Science to learn anything from it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering at January 27, 2024 01:22 PM (k1AR8)

266 All those movies and teevee shows, with 110 lbs women beating up 250 lbs men... there's going to be a dose of reality for many a female who tests that in meatspace.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:16 PM (5BSKN)

My Ex was a Navy CPO... had never been to Sea. I was getting ready for a West Pac, and she wanted some self defense training, so for her Birthday I bought her 6 months of Hard Core Self defense classes for Women... the kind where they beat up the guy in the padded suit.

Got back... and one morning she started messing around, hitting me on the arm... saying come on...

Well, I outweighed her by 100 lbs (and I had less than 10% body fat then) and had 'just a bit' of training over the years myself... so I proceeded to throw her around the backyard for a few minutes. Made a mistake though as I started to kinda chuckle... and she kept getting more and more angry.

Found out during the divorce that was a 'defining moment in our relationship'....

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 01:22 PM (xaFKb)

267 Imma figure out how to get AI to study string theory

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering at January 27, 2024 01:23 PM (k1AR8)

268 Boys are being taught that it doesn't matter what they do, it's wrong. So apathy becomes the default because they are always going to be wrong.

Interesting theory, Kindltot.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 27, 2024 01:00 PM (cRrcX)

Sadly, describes my 32 year old Son, perfectly.
Posted by: Romeo13

Welcome to marriage.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2024 01:23 PM (3Mgjo)

269 >>> There is one, and only one, that women can do that men absolutely cannot. And it's extremely specific.

Women's gymnastics?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 27, 2024 01:25 PM (cOq4q)

270 Sadly, describes my 32 year old Son, perfectly.
Posted by: Romeo13

Welcome to marriage.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2024 01:23 PM (3Mgjo)

Been divorced for 30 years... people ask me why I have never remarried.

My answer? 'I pride myself on never making the same mistake twice'.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 01:25 PM (xaFKb)

271 Rather, they must be carefully encouraged, nurtured, counseled, and prodded into taking the actions necessary to achieve mature manhood.
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Also, in my sister's words, 'They have to be housebroken'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2024 01:27 PM (XeU6L)

272 I've never thought about it, but it would be interesting to know percentages of principals and administrative heads of schools that were men overseeing mainly female teachers before the whole feminism/GRRLLL PWRRR silliness screwed up so much stuff.

I bet there are some secrets to be discovered there.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering at January 27, 2024 01:27 PM (k1AR8)

273 I don't know that I agree with the observation that boys are lazy, so much as that people are lazy. Boys used to compete with each other physically because they didn't have a computer to do the activity for them. Look at the video games they play. First person shooters and the like. It's all virtual competition now, but it is still competition.

Girls used to go over to their friends houses and learned to dress up and look good and talk shit about other girls they didn't like. That's Instagram.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 27, 2024 01:28 PM (lvOgu)

274 Found out during the divorce that was a 'defining moment in our relationship'....
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 01:22 PM (xaFKb)

I know you've talked about her before, and I was able to see some similarities between your ex and mine. Not the military experience, for sure, but the fact that these women couldn't stand the idea of you being better at something, and then keeping that sour bile to themselves, until they could use it against us.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:29 PM (5BSKN)

275 Women's gymnastics?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 27, 2024 01:25 PM (cOq4q)

If you're doing it right. I know I could never get my legs in that position.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:30 PM (5BSKN)

276 E. Jean couldn't remember the date? Wasn't it etched in her hippocampus?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 27, 2024 01:32 PM (XMwZJ)

277 Been divorced for 30 years... people ask me why I have never remarried.

My answer? 'I pride myself on never making the same mistake twice'.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 01:25 PM (xaFKb)

I'm sure as hell not looking, but if I ever do find a decent woman again, I'm not getting married. Sorry, I'm just not.

Maybe on your deathbed, we can have a ceremony, but I've worked hard to get to this point in my life, and the last one damn well tried to take as much away from me as she could. Merely because we signed that damn paper. If we hadn't, this thing would have cost me nothing. Because she didn't deserve anything she tried to take.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:33 PM (5BSKN)

278 That's not how marriage is for most people.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 27, 2024 01:34 PM (cRrcX)

279 And every Navy Vet who was ever on a ship? Can teach you how to wash dishes.
Posted by: Romeo13
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KP

An abbreviation, and experience, so universal to Army vets that even civilians know the meaning. Or used to. Might be interesting to try that on some Gen Z'rs, 'What does KP mean to you?'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2024 01:34 PM (XeU6L)

280 Biden is a prick. After the Russian gas pipeline was mysteriously blown up, American industry doubled LPG production and export. So Biden stops any further expansion. Now we are meeting the shortfall in Europe but will not expand any further leaving the quickly expanding market to the Russians and others.

Posted by: pawn at January 27, 2024 01:34 PM (QB+5g)

281 My answer? 'I pride myself on never making the same mistake twice'.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 01:25 PM (xaFKb)

I know about half a dozen fellas who are quite wealthy and have been divorced more than once. Every time they got divorced, they went looking for some broad to marry right after. My advice to them each time was to get a dog.

Dumb asses wouldn't listen.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 27, 2024 01:36 PM (R/m4+)

282 That's not how marriage is for most people.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)

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I'm somewhat amused that this post is saying 'you're wrong "

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the South will right again at January 27, 2024 01:36 PM (lfwR1)

283 In response to Muldoon's query, there's a lot of winking, self-deprecating humor in country music. If the stars were acting like bumpkins, it was probably because the audience was in on the joke.

Having lived in Texas all of my life, we think it's funny to pull that joke on Yankees--and watch them gratefully believe it's true.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at January 27, 2024 01:37 PM (FEVMW)

284
Kris Kristofferson Was An Army Ranger, Rhodes Scholar & Copter Pilot Before Becoming A Janitor

He lived his life backwards.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 27, 2024 01:40 PM (63Dwl)

285 I didn't say anyone was wrong. I said that's not how marriage is for most people. This is their experience but it doesn't mean that everyone else has the same experience.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 27, 2024 01:40 PM (cRrcX)

286 When Rob Henderson wrote: "Other cultures (and ours up until 10 minutes ago) understood that mature masculinity is largely artificially induced through culture."

I think this applies to masculinity attuned to supporting society. It's easy to find masculinity in gang culture that is anti-civilizational. But Henderson has been exposed to a world of dominant women who grew up with an ideology of feminism, which changes the nature of how masculinity is perceived.

Posted by: KT at January 27, 2024 01:43 PM (rrtZS)

287 The main reason I hated the TV show Home Improvement was because they portrayed the man as always wrong and the sarcastic wife and smart mouth kids were always right. I hate that shit.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 27, 2024 01:43 PM (cRrcX)

288 >>>I know about half a dozen fellas who are quite wealthy and have been divorced more than once. Every time they got divorced, they went looking for some broad to marry right after. My advice to them each time was to get a dog.

Dumb asses wouldn't listen.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Did they upgrad to younger sportier model? Imported?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 27, 2024 01:43 PM (cOq4q)

289 An abbreviation, and experience, so universal to Army vets that even civilians know the meaning. Or used to. Might be interesting to try that on some Gen Z'rs, 'What does KP mean to you?'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2024 01:34 PM (XeU6L)

I never set foot in a kitchen when I was in the army. Not once.

I did get kicked out of the chow hall once, because my hands were dirty, and the cook wouldn't serve me until I washed them.

It's a good thing my weapon wasn't loaded.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:43 PM (/LUn2)

290 All Abbott would have to do is go on tv and ask for a volunteer militia. He'd have 500,000 in a week.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2024 11:59 AM (3Mgjo)

Modify that to a militia of only military veterans. He'd still get 500,000. And it will take care of the "well-trained" part too.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 27, 2024 01:43 PM (BdMk6)

291 Did they upgrad to younger sportier model? Imported?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 27, 2024 01:43 PM (cOq4q)

Yes. No.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 27, 2024 01:45 PM (R/m4+)

292 The gardening thread is up, btw.

Posted by: KT at January 27, 2024 01:45 PM (rrtZS)

293 My great grandmother lived to 106 and didn't do a whole lot of health daily ritual I know of

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2024 01:46 PM (fwDg9)

294 Teaching boys that they can't ever be right because they are boys is repulsive but is it worse than giving them trophies for breathing and remaining upright during a sport?

The damage done to some of the younger generations is appalling.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 27, 2024 01:48 PM (cRrcX)

295 Dumb asses wouldn't listen.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Did they upgrad to younger sportier model? Imported?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 27, 2024 01:43 PM (cOq4q)

I know what I miss about my ex, and it isn't just the sex. If she had been the person she portrayed herself as, I would want to spend as much time on this Earth as I could with this person. But she wasn't. It was all an illusion.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:49 PM (/LUn2)

296 In response to Muldoon's query, there's a lot of winking, self-deprecating humor in country music. If the stars were acting like bumpkins, it was probably because the audience was in on the joke.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey

********

I think that sounds about right.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 01:49 PM (991eG)

297 Boys are being taught that it doesn't matter what they do, it's wrong. So apathy becomes the default because they are always going to be wrong.
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Sadly, describes my 32 year old Son, perfectly.
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Welcome to marriage.
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That's not how marriage is for most people.
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I'm somewhat amused that this post is saying 'you're wrong "
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I didn't say anyone was wrong. I said that's not how marriage is for most people. This is their experience but it doesn't mean that everyone else has the same experience.

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Okay, I'm going to end any comments or jokes here because it's quickly going to get out of hand.

Again, I was just amused at the overall "you boys are wrong" progress of the thread. I wasn't trying to be rude or ugly, I just found it funny.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering at January 27, 2024 01:50 PM (k1AR8)

298 >>> In response to Muldoon's query, there's a lot of winking, self-deprecating humor in country music. If the stars were acting like bumpkins, it was probably because the audience was in on the joke.

That was the running gag on Hee-Haw.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 27, 2024 01:51 PM (cOq4q)

299 Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering

Understood. Have a good one.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 27, 2024 01:52 PM (cRrcX)

300 I never much cared for Gomer Pyle as portrayed by Jim Nabors, because the stereotype was so over-the-top that it didn't ring true.

Ke\en Curtis as Festus Haggen on the other hand was every bit as much of a caricature, but with an honesty, a morality, a sense of who he was and where he came from and an understanding of his limitations that rang true and has held up over time.

Gomer was a simpleton, Festus lacked formal education, but was not feeble minded.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 01:54 PM (991eG)

301 I never set foot in a kitchen when I was in the army. Not once.

I did get kicked out of the chow hall once, because my hands were dirty, and the cook wouldn't serve me until I washed them.

It's a good thing my weapon wasn't loaded.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 01:43 PM (/LUn2)

Army, '67-'69, drafted. Back then, even as a Spec 4, we were still pulling KP in rotation. No exceptions. I usually tried to grab either DRO or Back Sink. Side sink sucked. Trays with cigarette butts smashed into the crusty eggs.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at January 27, 2024 01:55 PM (iODuv)

302 - If she had been the person she portrayed herself as, I would want to spend as much time on this Earth as I could with this person. -
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S U R P R I S E !

Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 01:55 PM (M4QYv)

303 My motto used to be, "If it is not life threatening it is not fun."
That included relationships with women...being a little skeered keeps things interesting.

Posted by: waepnedmann: at January 27, 2024 01:55 PM (mhU7h)

304 Bottom line - men were born to lead, women were born to follow. Not 100% true in all cases, genuinely pretty true.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 27, 2024 01:56 PM (DXT9A)

305 My final thought for the day:
Anyone who thinks the greatest day of their life was the wedding day never had two Snickers bars come out of the vending machine when they only paid for one.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2024 01:58 PM (W/lyH)

306 Part of the appeal of hee haw was they were teasing, and almost honoring, people who time had passed by. They weren't making fun of ignorant people who had opportunity and rejected knowledge and education because they preferred ignorance.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the South will right again at January 27, 2024 01:58 PM (lfwR1)

307 The argument goes, if you didn't have government regulations, buildings would collapse.

No... if you didn't have government regulations, builders would be subjected to private insurance imposing safety standards, and builders would GO OUT OF BUSINESS IF THEIR BUILDINGS KEPT FALLING DOWN!

You don't need government for this shit. If you want to remove 99% of the corruption and waste in these things, you get them out of the way.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2024 12:59 PM (5BSKN)

NO, every StaTEs AND SEVERlcities have whaT IS KNOWN as codes for evry GD thing,

Posted by: vic at January 27, 2024 02:01 PM (A5THL)

308 NO, every StaTEs AND SEVERlcities have whaT IS KNOWN as codes for evry GD thing,
Posted by: vic at January 27, 2024 02:01 PM (A5THL)
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And the street-level bureaucrats to enforce them.

I've told the stories before about visits from the local business ordinance police, the pigeon police, the garbage police, and on...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 27, 2024 02:05 PM (RIvkX)

309 My great grandmother lived to 106 and didn't do a whole lot of health daily ritual I know of
Posted by: Skip

*********

Whiskey is a superfood.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2024 02:13 PM (991eG)

310 308 I've told the stories before about visits from the local business ordinance police, the pigeon police, the garbage police, and on...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 27, 2024 02:05 PM (RIvkX)

suspect that alrge cities hVE OPEN SEASON ON GIVINBG EVRY ONE'S UNCLE A JOB AS SOME CODE ENFOCRCER.

Posted by: vic at January 27, 2024 02:14 PM (A5THL)

311 Understood. Have a good one.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)

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If you're still here I apologize if it seemed like I was picking at you or trying to start something. That was not my intent and I'm really bad at remembering how the internet amplifies the "sound" of that sort of stuff. I love everybody and you're rarely going to find me trying to start something.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering at January 27, 2024 02:16 PM (k1AR8)

312 My wedding day, eh
But always said my sister's was a blast of a day, my BiL thought that was crazy idea so might prove something.

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2024 02:17 PM (fwDg9)

313 My parents met Mrs. F's parents the night before our wedding at a fancy place in Embarcadero Center.

It was like aliens meeting for the first time.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 27, 2024 02:27 PM (RIvkX)

314
Good morning, all. It's almost frustrating to watch the news go by during the week only being able to pop in on my phone for a comment or two before I have to get back to the job -- and then coming here on the weekend all fired up and it's all flowers and food and old movies and football.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 27, 2024 02:27 PM (lCaJd)

315 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 27, 2024 02:27 PM (lCaJd)
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Comment more. Be better.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 27, 2024 02:35 PM (RIvkX)

316 308 I've told the stories before about visits from the local business ordinance police, the pigeon police, the garbage police, and on...
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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On a property in another county, called the fellow who had built shell homes for me. Said he wouldn't build in that county. The codes were so outrageous he couldn't make a profit.
I understand that the govt exists for our general welfare but it has become a racket.

Today, the govt is regulating us out of the middle class.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 02:36 PM (M4QYv)

317 312 My wedding day, eh
But always said my sister's was a blast of a day, my BiL thought that was crazy idea so might prove something.
Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2024 02:17 PM (fwDg9)

Ex's Mom and Dad were divorced, I met him on my wedding day.

Then me and my friends had to throw him and his friends out of my wedding reception for making Racist comments about my Brother's Wife.

Yeah.... 'Danger Will Robinson'....

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2024 02:37 PM (xaFKb)

318 coming here on the weekend all fired up and it's all flowers and food and old movies and football.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

* looks out window at 2 feet of snow on the ground. Tries to picture nasteriums and tomatoes *

Would you like some dead flowers?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * stand and deliver at January 27, 2024 02:39 PM (de/TA)

319 ...then coming here on the weekend all fired up and it's all flowers and food and old movies and football.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Patronage is pretty active till 'round about midnight.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 02:39 PM (M4QYv)

320 My wedding day was awesome. The reception was something to behold. I'll never forget the mayhem when the DJ queued up Billy Idol's "White Wedding". I remember my grandma saying "I don't think I've ever seen anything like this before!". Miss you, Gram. Too bad the marriage didn't last. Oh, well. Some things are not meant to be. Hope everybody has a great rest of the weekend.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 27, 2024 02:41 PM (V8he0)

321 The White House’s climate team reportedly made a crucial decision regarding a major natural gas project after meeting with a 25-year-old social media influencer, according to The New York Times.

Before deciding to delay approval of the Calcasieu Pass 2 (CP2), key climate advisers and decision-makers in the White House reportedly met with Alex Haraus, a 25-year-old TikTok influencer from Colorado who has organized an online campaign demanding that the administration kill the project, according to the NYT.

Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2024 02:42 PM (SrPpJ)

322 My MiL showed up for our wedding dressed as a witch in a black dress, long hat, and broom.

My mother was not amused.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 27, 2024 02:45 PM (RIvkX)

323 Patronage is pretty active till 'round about midnight.
Posted by: Braenyard

http://tinyurl.com/5cumj222

Posted by: Sock Monkey * stand and deliver at January 27, 2024 02:50 PM (de/TA)

324 105 Interesting that the gap chart at the top shows liberal as the positive value and conservative as the negative value.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2024 11:48 AM (W/g0r)

I was just about to post that, searched for "graph" and "chart" first. I mean I guess you have to pick one to be on the negative side, but it immediately stuck out to me as well.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at January 27, 2024 02:51 PM (lg881)

325 My MiL showed up for our wedding dressed as a witch in a black dress, long hat, and broom.

Wow. Off her meds?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 27, 2024 02:51 PM (R4t5M)

326 Before deciding to delay approval of the Calcasieu Pass 2 (CP2), key climate advisers and decision-makers in the White House reportedly met with Alex Haraus, a 25-year-old TikTok influencer from Colorado who has organized an online campaign demanding that the administration kill the project, according to the NYT.
Posted by: SMOD

Entropy gaining momentum.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * stand and deliver at January 27, 2024 02:52 PM (de/TA)

327 https://johnkassnews.com/will the terrifying michelle obama prophecy come true
http://tinyurl.com/5czcwdfa

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2024 03:01 PM (fwDg9)

328 PET NOOD

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2024 03:33 PM (fwDg9)

329 Terrors of the Michelle Obama (Presidential) Prophecy !!!

Ha, run Michelle, run.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 03:45 PM (btjTs)

330 Note: Peter Boghossian co-authored "The conceptual penis as a social construct" with James Lindsay under a pseudonym.

They upped their game for the later hoax papers, abandoning "pay-to-publish" journals.

Posted by: KT at January 27, 2024 04:29 PM (rrtZS)

331 Late to the show. Great post. Great music..Thanks.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 27, 2024 06:57 PM (d9Cw3)

332 I'm gonna go find where Blonde Morticia's hanging out.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 27, 2024 07:44 PM (btjTs)

333 Trump case proves the law of the jungle is more logical; fairer; consistent; and does not depend on the insane.

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