The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival (2/17/24)

Good morning Horde. I certainly hope you survived all of the chocolate consumption this past week.

Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few house keeping matters. (Rulz for those of you in Poskin.)

1) This is an open thread. So feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate away.
2) Although Lutheran I have decided to sacrifice for Lent, no rulz Coffee Thread.
3) I've also decided to sacrifice my thick skin.
4) Have a nice weekend.

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Oh my goodness! What a waste of God's nectar.

People used to clean their hands with coffee.
Soap is an everyday essential, but this incredibly useful (and lifesaving) cleanser hasn’t always existed.

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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
12/27 – TecumsehTea requested prayers for a dear friend, Pastor Joe, who has a benign brain tumor. In the past 2 years he has dealt with a heart attack and prostate cancer, and now this. He has deep faith and trusts the Lord. His family is understandably anxious. Prayers for wisdom for the doctors, peace and comfort for his family, for continued mercy and healing for Pastor Joe.
2/8 Update – Surgery was successful on 2/8. It only took 2 hours, instead of the expected 4 hours, and his vitals are good and his brain is functioning normally.
1/6 – Our Country is Screwed asked for prayers for his daughter. At 26 years old, she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. They are still running tests and scans to determine what treatment options are available.
1/27 Update – She will be starting chemo in a couple of weeks, followed by surgery and then radiation. She has a long road ahead of her, but she is strong and has a positive attitude. He said it’s really hard being 14 hours away from her.
1/12 – Washington Nearsider’s last day of employment has come and gone. He plans to withdraw his TSP and retirement contributions to buy time and then evaluate whether or not to list his house. His ex-wife, learning of his change in employment, is filing to contest his sole custody of their two children, and his lawyer has explained that without a job, he is likely to lose custody. Please pray that he can find employment sufficient to keep his house and his kids before losing both.
2/3 Update -Washington Nearsider has been and remains sincerely grateful for the prayers and well-wises of the Horde. He has withdrawn his TSP and has enough money left to get through late March – early April. He will accrue debt with the custody hearings which begin 3/6. He has 3 interviews scheduled for the week of 2/5. He is also attempting to expand his custom model building services to bring in additional income by leaning on 20 years of experience building models of all kinds: building planes, tanks, ships, etc. Please contact him through the comments or email Annie’s Stew, and she can send you his direct contact information. He sends his thanks for his daily dose of sanity in an otherwise crazy world, and for the constant stream of wonderful Fani Willis euphemisms.
1/20 – Cybersmythe asked for prayers for his sweetie’s son, who is in rehab.
2/3 Update – The son is out of rehab. They appreciate the prayers and hope for continued recovery.
1/20 – Jewells said she has spent the last 2 days recovering from the latest chemo treatment. Praise God, it has gone much better. She still had pain, but was able to manage it with oxy, but it makes her very weak.
2/15 – Jewells has an update that the PET scan showed great results, and her MRI showed no cancer!
1/26 – Don Black asks for your prayers for his kidney surgery.
1/27 – Emmie asked for prayers for Mr. Bassman, for his upcoming knee replacement surgery. Also, they are having patient-sitters come in when Emmie has to go out, and there’s a certain amount of anxiety related to both of them. Prayers that it all goes well would be good.
2/3 Update – Thank you for the prayers! The surgery went well and recovery is coming along nicely. His patient-sitters were a big help. The family and church friends have been a huge encouragement and a great resource.
1/27 – Tonypete asked for prayers of thanksgiving for his 14 year old granddaughter. She has expressed a strong interest in being baptized. Her parents are disinterested, so Mimi is picking up the slack here. Hopefully this step leads to many others on her journey to a positive life.
1/27 – Mindful Webworker welcomes prayers – daughter Sugar Plum Fairly miscarried this week. It was the second time in recent years. She and the wonderful son-in-law are hurt, but taking it in stride.
1/27 – RetSgtRN gave an update on her son-in-law, Kenny. His bone marrow biopsy last week showed 100% donor marrow, which means the cancer is gone. She sent a thank you for the many prayers sent his way. This is such a blessing for him, her daughter, and her two grandsons.
1/27 BrianinTn asked for prayers and support for Rich (in St. Petersburg), who is suffering from the advanced stages of Parkinson’s disease, and is to the point where he can no longer work, and even has trouble standing or sitting up for any length of time. Please give your prayers and support to someone who is without a doubt the nicest guy BrianinTn has even known.
1/27 – Dash my lace wings! humbly asked for prayers for her worsening lower back pain. She got checked, and an X-ray showed her spine is all curvy – not scoliosis bad, but definitely not straight. She appreciates prayers that they can get it straightened out and pain-free in short order.
2/3 – Teresa in Fort Worth would appreciate prayers for Leigh, the director of a school for students of all ages with Down Syndrome. Leigh has been diagnosed with Soft Tissue Sarcoma. The tumor was removed this week, and they think they got all of it. Leigh would appreciate the prayers.
2/3 – Reforger asked for prayers for his Coworker, “D”, a widowed mom of 4 who is having a rough time with daughter #1. The daughter is skipping school, was caught 3 times and now police and social workers are involved. “D” is beside herself. She is having to miss work (and pay) to do probation stuff and keep appointments with “therapists”.
2/10 Update – Reforger reports that Coworker “D” and her daughter are doing better. He also relayed a funny story that ended up with him being able to bless “D” with another $200!
2/3 – Naughty Pine asked for prayers for Rachelle, a para-pro who retired from working in Detroit and has to continue working elsewhere. She discovered she was put into the wrong payscale and HR has given her the run-around, despite clear proof. She’s afraid of making waves, but Naughty Pine convinced her that does no one any good, to continue with this error. Naughty Pine would also appreciate prayers for her Arizona-bound neighbors. They have a long trip ahead, with moving van, trailers, etc. Also, please pray she gets good new neighbors.
2/3 – I’m Gumby Damn It requested prayers for an emotional hardship. He trained a two-man crew to install bath remodeling products for his little company, and they went around him and were hired by his vendor.
2/3 – Polliwog the ‘Ette would appreciate prayers for Inspector’s back pain. It’s been bad enough that he’s had to admit it’s a problem. It also keeps him from sleeping or being able to do even mild exercise, both of which are important for managing his blood pressure. They’d appreciate prayers for complete healing, but also wisdom on how to prevent future problems.
2/10 Update – As soon as she asked for prayers, God brought to mind something that helped Inspector the last time, but they’d forgotten to try. His back is substantially better, and he’s become convinced that it’s the sitting, not the exercise, that causes problems, and that is also a victory.
2/3 – Brother Tim is currently homeless. He spent the last 3 nights at a hotel, but he’s short on cash now. He needs a new job and a place to stay. He’s looking for another roommate situation, but they are few and far between. He is trying to make new connections, too. He’s not looking for funds, but advice and prayers are appreciated.
2/6 – 496 requested prayers for his wife and daughter as they begin a formal process of reconciliation. Please pray for warm hearts and cool heads at a minimum. He would also like prayers for his boss, “S.T.”. About a year ago his wife’s breast cancer returned. Initial treatment looked successful, but it is back now, and in her brain.
2/3 – Fenelon Spoke asked for “P”, who needs prayers for his return to faith as a Christian. Also, prayers for Pam, who needs continued healing after a pacemaker insertion, are appreciated.
2/8 – It’s me, Donna, asked for prayers after some bad lab tests. It turns out it’s not as bad as thought and easily treated. Thanks so much for the prayers.
2/10 – Sock Monkey asked for prayers for his BIL, who woke up 2/9 with no feeling in his legs and unable to walk. After a lengthy visit to the ER, a growth was discovered on his spine. Doctors were only able to remove part of it during an 8.5 hour surgery on 2/10. The mass is probably cancerous, but they don’t know what type. His prognosis for walking again is not high. The family would appreciate prayers for healing, strength, and comfort.
2/10 - Mindful webworker asked for prayers for a dear, long-time family friend, Levi, who is in a desperate, dangerous state of distress and is an immediate threat to himself and others. Please send up prayers that he can swiftly be freed from the demons that confuse his mind and torture his soul, and that his family would be protected, and that he would return to Jesus.
2/10 – Martini Farmer asked for prayers for his son, who lost his job this past week due to DEI.
2/10 – Beserker-Dragonheads Division is in the hospital. He had a cardiac cath, then was sent straight in for bypass surgery.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 07:25 AM

Comments

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1 Thank you, MisHum

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2024 07:28 AM (a1415)

2 Weeeeee!

Posted by: fluffy at February 17, 2024 07:28 AM (86W+h)

3 Prayers up for all the horde!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 17, 2024 07:28 AM (D9BU0)

4 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2024 07:28 AM (a1415)

Youre welcome.
Who would have thought I would set my alarm clock on a Saturday?
The fish calleth or so my imagination says.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at February 17, 2024 07:30 AM (QXQ4l)

5 "The fish calleth or so my imagination says."

Just let it go to voice mail.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2024 07:31 AM (a1415)

6 I could have been first but I had to paint my toenails with whiteout.

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2024 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

7 Carried over:

Country Music has been infected by rap for a few years now. Anyway, it sucks and now it will suck even more.

I grew up with Hee Haw and Lester and Earl. The crap they put out nowadays is garbage. In fact, most everything is crap nowadays. They should just call entropy "craptropy".

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2024 07:32 AM (vFG9F)

8 Indian Launch successful. Again.

Posted by: Ciampino - ROCKET SCIENCE went all the way ... at February 17, 2024 07:32 AM (qfLjt)

9 Boker Tov Patriots

with biden in the WH and the dems and deep state, we are no better than Russia

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 17, 2024 07:33 AM (PQ4m2)

10 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 07:33 AM (T4tVD)

11 Good news, Jewells!

Prayers for those who need prayer.

Posted by: KT at February 17, 2024 07:33 AM (rrtZS)

12 Good morning horde
Seen a few places now that K cup coffee is quite stale sitting in storage for too long

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 07:35 AM (fwDg9)

13 "In fact, most everything is crap nowadays."

A toast, to absent friends.

The Crap Tree, by Dave In Texas (RIP)

https://daveintexas.wordpress.com/2006/12/21/the-crap-tree/

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2024 07:35 AM (a1415)

14 Prayers up for all the Horde's intentions. Those asked and unasked.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 17, 2024 07:35 AM (ju2Fy)

15 Willard from last thread....

Thanks JT
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 07:36 AM (T4tVD)

16 6 I could have been first but I had to paint my toenails with whiteout.
Posted by: fd at February 17, 2024 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

Surprised you didn't use the new color Fiat Black

Which btw will be in the Hobby Thread today. Sefton is being held at the Hobby Lobby Detention Camp this weekend.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at February 17, 2024 07:36 AM (QXQ4l)

17 The next song queued up after the Mozart tune is an Ozzy song. I wonder if they will still be listening to Ozzy in a couple hundred years.

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2024 07:36 AM (vFG9F)

18 Prayers up for alla Youse !

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 07:37 AM (T4tVD)

19 For a snow event, looks largely like a bust here, doubt got much more than a inch, maybe 2

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 07:37 AM (fwDg9)

20 "Surprised you didn't use the new color Fiat Black"

Does it work on toe fungus too? Not that I have any, after applying the whiteout and the flossing and all.

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2024 07:38 AM (vFG9F)

21 "I wonder if they will still be listening to Ozzy in a couple hundred years."

Just imagine in 100 years, some late teen stumbling across an accessible audio file of Crazy Train.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2024 07:38 AM (a1415)

22 3) I've also decided to sacrifice my thick skin.

*********

*poke*

(just testing)

Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 07:39 AM (991eG)

23 Oh, and good morning y'all. Thanks MisHum!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 07:39 AM (991eG)

24 I hope JJ is feeling better by now. I'm unofficially adding him to the list

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2024 07:40 AM (vFG9F)

25 Prayers for all the horde

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 17, 2024 07:41 AM (L4her)

26 "Sefton is being held at the Hobby Lobby Detention Camp this weekend."

Did Jesus get him?

* Reference to stupid Superbowel ad, and links to Hobby Lobby*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2024 07:41 AM (a1415)

27 hope JJ is feeling better by now. I'm unofficially adding him to the list
Posted by: fd

Good idea

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 17, 2024 07:41 AM (L4her)

28 fd - I don't remember much of Flatt and Scruggs. Think by the time I came in it was "I'm Buck" "and I'm Roy" in the opening.
The bubbly laugh of the blonde with the, Dutch boy I guess, hairdo stole my heart.

Far as country music, it really went downhill when they started pushing the R&R with a slight twang.
It was neither.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 17, 2024 07:43 AM (o3xwr)

29 Snow didn't even stick on walk and driveway much, I had no energy to be clearing it if it did

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 07:43 AM (fwDg9)

30 Prayers for the Horde's needs, silent and voiced.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 17, 2024 07:43 AM (M8pNi)

31 We are traveling today - we'll be gadding about for almost 2 weeks
I actually dislike traveling - it mskes me anxious.
I would appreciate a prayer for our safety

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 17, 2024 07:43 AM (L4her)

32 24 I hope JJ is feeling better by now. I'm unofficially adding him to the list
Posted by: fd at February 17, 2024 07:40 AM (vFG9F)

I was in top secret communications with JJ yesterday. He is better. But he took me up on the offer to fill in today. He's a good Moron, glad to help him out.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at February 17, 2024 07:43 AM (QXQ4l)

33 Who would have thought I would set my alarm clock on a Saturday?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

An Alarm Clock?
Without telling us, tell us you're recently retired.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 17, 2024 07:44 AM (M8pNi)

34 26 "Sefton is being held at the Hobby Lobby Detention Camp this weekend."

Did Jesus get him?

* Reference to stupid Superbowel ad, and links to Hobby Lobby*

Honestly, I did not know of a SB add such as this.

I enjoy Hobby Lobby. And Blick's.
And I will have to check out Jerry's Artarama.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at February 17, 2024 07:45 AM (QXQ4l)

35 33 Who would have thought I would set my alarm clock on a Saturday?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

An Alarm Clock?
Without telling us, tell us you're recently retired.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 17, 2024 07:44 AM (M8pNi)

Yes.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at February 17, 2024 07:46 AM (QXQ4l)

36 Good Saturday morning, horde.

That is a long list, and you know it's not even the half of it! Those who have asked, have been lifted in prayer. Those who have not asked have also been lifted in prayer.

Praise Him for taking jewells' cancer from her!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 17, 2024 07:46 AM (OX9vb)

37 I would appreciate a prayer for our safety
Posted by: vmom

Hope you anxiety is unfounded and you have a great time.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 17, 2024 07:47 AM (M8pNi)

38 MisHum- why don't you like Poskin? Have you ever even Posked?

Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 07:47 AM (991eG)

39 I forgot to reset alarm as had it for work last Saturday so it dutifully set off this morning.

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 07:48 AM (fwDg9)

40 For a snow event, looks largely like a bust here, doubt got much more than a inch, maybe 2
Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 07:37 AM (fwDg9)

You can have some of mine !

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 07:48 AM (T4tVD)

41 Good mid-Feb morn' to all.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2024 07:49 AM (4I/2K)

42 38 MisHum- why don't you like Poskin? Have you ever even Posked?
Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 07:47 AM (991eG)

It's obvious that Colorado and Wisconsin towns are named differently

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at February 17, 2024 07:50 AM (QXQ4l)

43 BRCC AK47

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2024 07:50 AM (ENQN6)

44 Vmom, prayers for safe travels and a joyful time.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 17, 2024 07:51 AM (OX9vb)

45 TeeJ, if you ever watched "The Beverly Hillbillies", you've heard Lester and Earl. Bluegrass really, which gets lumped into "Country Music".

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2024 07:52 AM (vFG9F)

46 The cat woke me up to go out and pee. It's raining. He is not pleased. Coffee.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 17, 2024 07:52 AM (aD39U)

47 Most gracious heavenly Father, we thank you for blessings. too numerous to count, already received. We place these loved ones, family, and friends before you, knowing that you can restore them. Please grant them relief from their physical and spiritual pain.
in Christ’s name,
Amen.

Posted by: Eromero at February 17, 2024 07:52 AM (Wed3T)

48 TeeJ, if you ever watched "The Beverly Hillbillies", you've heard Lester and Earl. Bluegrass really, which gets lumped into "Country Music".
Posted by: fd at February 17, 2024 07:52 AM (vFG9F)

We have both kinds of Country Music!

Posted by: Barmaid at Bob's Country Bunker at February 17, 2024 07:53 AM (4I/2K)

49 Yonder Horde

It's 21 degrees this morning and there's fluffy dusting of snow on the ground.

The groundhog lied.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2024 07:53 AM (Q4IgG)

50 >>>I certainly hope you survived all of the chocolate consumption this past week.

I need to go buy some more. At discount.

Posted by: m at February 17, 2024 07:53 AM (1BWJp)

51 >>>Oh my goodness! What a waste of God's nectar.
People used to clean their hands with coffee.

"God's nectar." LOL

Posted by: m at February 17, 2024 07:54 AM (1BWJp)

52 I grew up with Hee Haw and Lester and Earl. The crap they put out nowadays is garbage. In fact, most everything is crap nowadays. They should just call entropy "craptropy".
Posted by: fd at February 17, 2024 07:32 AM (vFG9F)

Here is Earl playing with The Byrds.

Good stuff.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 17, 2024 07:54 AM (R/m4+)

53 I would humbly ask to lift up my daughter Michele in prayer for healing. She has suffered for years from severe debilitating migraines that have resulted in her becoming largely withdrawn from society

Thanks in advance y'all.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 07:55 AM (991eG)

54 Oops, forget the link with Earl.

http://tinyurl.com/2n5ktusb

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 17, 2024 07:55 AM (R/m4+)

55 49 Yonder Horde

It's 21 degrees this morning and there's fluffy dusting of snow on the ground.

The groundhog lied.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2024 07:53 AM (Q4IgG)

We are currently at 3
With a wind chill of -8.

I certainly hope Mr. Heater is working this morning.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at February 17, 2024 07:55 AM (QXQ4l)

56 You got it Muldoon !

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 07:56 AM (T4tVD)

57 Got a foot of snow.
Hit dead center on a snow band.
Firing up the snow blower.

Posted by: Redenzo at February 17, 2024 07:56 AM (V/pbu)

58 Blicks is Mrs fd's favorite store. I got her a stool from there last Christmas. An art stool. That's what she wanted.

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2024 07:57 AM (vFG9F)

59 58 Blicks is Mrs fd's favorite store. I got her a stool from there last Christmas. An art stool. That's what she wanted.
Posted by: fd at February 17, 2024 07:57 AM (vFG9F)

A smart husband, giving the gift the wife wants.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at February 17, 2024 07:59 AM (QXQ4l)

60 47 Most gracious heavenly Father, we thank you for blessings. too numerous to count, already received. We place these loved ones, family, and friends before you, knowing that you can restore them. Please grant them relief from their physical and spiritual pain.
in Christ’s name,
Amen.
Posted by: Eromero at February 17, 2024 07:52 AM (Wed3T)

Thank you, Eromero!

Posted by: m at February 17, 2024 07:59 AM (1BWJp)

61 Snowing here in NJ

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 17, 2024 07:59 AM (PQ4m2)

62 Good morning all! Not sure who is sending in the updates on me but thank you! Just to be clear the brain MRI was done to be sure the cancer had not spread, I never had cancer in my brain thankfully. I will still be doing chemo treatments for the lung cancer but the results were definitely something to cheer about!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 17, 2024 07:59 AM (iF0sF)

63 fd - I do of course remember them visiting the Hillbillies.
So long ago. Back when my two dogs, and sometimes little sis' big white cat, would follow me with my 1894 Spittin' Image and a fishing pole down to the creek.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 17, 2024 08:00 AM (o3xwr)

64 Saw "Walk a Crooked Mile" on youtube last night. 1948 storyline unimaginable today: a couple of G-Men pursue a Communist spy ring in LA smuggling out atomic secrets. A young Raymond Burr as bad guy (he played great bad guys before Perry Mason). Corny, hard-bitten but wonderful patriotism.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 17, 2024 08:00 AM (70Dov)

65 Morning Horde. Prayers to all of the Horde and their lives ones in need.
My want add prayers to the Ukrainian soldiers trying to survive retreating from Avdivka. The head of army ordered them out

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2024 08:00 AM (aYFzn)

66 61 Snowing here in NJ
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 17, 2024 07:59 AM (PQ4m2)

I currently know where there is an Airens snowblower unguarded in your neck of the woods.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at February 17, 2024 08:01 AM (QXQ4l)

67 > We are currently at 3
With a wind chill of -8.

I certainly hope Mr. Heater is working this morning.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra
_______________

This past Tuesday - Thursday we were able to sit outside on the deck, in shorts. Not so much today, obviously. But it is forecast to warm back up into the mid-50's by Tuesday next week.

Unless the forecasters change their minds. Which is highly likely.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2024 08:01 AM (Q4IgG)

68 62 ... the brain MRI was done to be sure the cancer had not spread, I never had cancer in my brain thankfully.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 17, 2024 07:59 AM (iF0sF)

Such good news!

Posted by: m at February 17, 2024 08:02 AM (1BWJp)

69 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2024 08:02 AM (u82oZ)

70
Unless the forecasters change their minds. Which is highly likely.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2024 08:01 AM (Q4IgG

I hope you can do that soon.

Where about are you located? I shouldn't complain, its been the nicest winter I can remember in years.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at February 17, 2024 08:03 AM (QXQ4l)

71 Muldoon, prayers for your daughter.
Has she tried any of the newest kinds of migraine prevention meds?
i have a couple of coworkers who seem happy with Qulipta

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 17, 2024 08:03 AM (L4her)

72 MisHum, you're a good guy

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 17, 2024 08:04 AM (L4her)

73 "Here is Earl playing with The Byrds."

I never seen that! Ain't the utoob amazing?

He makes it look so easy to play the banjo. I'm sure it's not though. I always wanted to try to learn but other things have taken priority. A short attention span has hindered my history with string instruments.

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2024 08:04 AM (vFG9F)

74 62 ... the brain MRI was done to be sure the cancer had not spread, I never had cancer in my brain thankfully.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 17, 2024 07:59 AM (iF0sF)

Such good news!

Continued prayers Jewells !

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 08:05 AM (T4tVD)

75 {{{ jewells45}}}

This is more good news, cherished one. Of course I knew your brain was not in trouble.

F* that f*ing f*er cancer in the back f*ing hole, that f*er.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2024 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

76 Redenzo, pace yourself. Too many ppl overdo snow clearing and wind up not-good.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 17, 2024 08:05 AM (L4her)

77 72 MisHum, you're a good guy
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 17, 2024 08:04 AM (L4her)

Nah, not really. But, thank you.

But, I hope you do enjoy your 2 week vacation.
I understand some of the anxiousness you experience.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at February 17, 2024 08:06 AM (QXQ4l)

78 Watched Waterloo (1970) last night. Rod Steiger defined 'hamming it up'. If you look up 'ham' in the dictionary, it should have his picture. 1st hour interminably dull. 2nd hour, mostly the battle. Couldn't tell who was who or which side was which. And some of the accents were indecipherable.

Bottom line: like Godfather III, I can now say: I have seen it.

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2024 08:06 AM (geLO8)

79 Jewells, that's great!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 17, 2024 08:06 AM (L4her)

80 75 {{{ jewells45}}}

This is more good news, cherished one. Of course I knew your brain was not in trouble.

F* that f*ing f*er cancer in the back f*ing hole, that f*er.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2024 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

^^^THIS^^^

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at February 17, 2024 08:06 AM (QXQ4l)

81 Thanks in advance y'all.
Posted by: Muldoon

Michele is in my prayers.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 17, 2024 08:07 AM (M8pNi)

82 Nevergiveup

Good morning!

Belated congratulations on another safely delivered grandchild. That is true wealth.

Hope your contracting gig to right the listing ship that is BuMed is not taking time away from enjoying the grands.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2024 08:08 AM (u82oZ)

83 Misanthropic Humanitarian

** Snort **

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2024 08:08 AM (u82oZ)

84 There is no Godfather 3. What are you taking about?

Posted by: Montec at February 17, 2024 08:09 AM (vmfG7)

85 The groundhog lied.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

It's payback for the groundhog de Blasio killed 10 years ago.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 17, 2024 08:10 AM (L4her)

86 Such good news!

Continued prayers Jewells !
Posted by: JT

JT said it, and I concur.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 17, 2024 08:10 AM (M8pNi)

87 "There is no Godfather 3. What are you taking about?
Posted by: Montec"

Was too. That was the one with the volcano.

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2024 08:10 AM (vFG9F)

88 Brennan then handpicked his lackeys, used selective intelligence that only bolstered his bias, excluded others, and dismissed the State Department and the Defense Intelligence Agency’s findings entirely since they weren’t sold on the Kremlin-Trump ties. Two senior CIA officials involved in Russia operations were also put on mute. And the National Security Agency remained skeptical of the collusion ties. Only three of the 17 agencies that form our intelligence community agreed with the CIA’s conclusion that Russia initiated operations to ensure a Trump win.

Putin actually liked Hillary as she was incompetent and he thot he could boss her around, kinda like Joe in a pant suit.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2024 08:10 AM (ENQN6)

89 I didn't make enough coffee this morning

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 08:10 AM (fwDg9)

90 Hope your contracting gig to right the listing ship that is BuMed is not taking time away from enjoying the grands.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2024 08:08 AM (u82oZ)

LOL, the Gov and Gov Contractors move so slow, legal has not finalized the contract yet as the program continues to crash

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 17, 2024 08:11 AM (PQ4m2)

91 Muldoon

Prayers ascending for your daughter Michele.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2024 08:11 AM (u82oZ)

92 >>aD39U)

>>47 Most gracious heavenly Father, we thank you for blessings. too numerous to count, already received. We place these loved ones, family, and friends before you, knowing that you can restore them. Please grant them relief from their physical and spiritual pain.
in Christ’s name,
Amen.
Posted by: Eromero at February 17, 2024 07:52 AM (Wed3T)

That's beautiful.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 17, 2024 08:12 AM (FKIVw)

93 Also, good thoughts for all who are ailing or in distress

This too shall pass

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2024 08:13 AM (geLO8)

94 We have both kinds of Country Music!
Posted by: Barmaid at Bob's Country Bunker at February 17, 2024 07:53 AM (4I/2K)

I really despise today's popular country music, but there is a lot of good stuff in the "alt country" genre, which is more like the old country.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 17, 2024 08:13 AM (OX9vb)

95 > Where about are you located? I shouldn't complain, its been the nicest winter I can remember in years.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra
_________________

I'm in Kentucky, south of Louisville and not too far from Fort Knox.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2024 08:13 AM (Q4IgG)

96 F* that f*ing f*er cancer in the back f*ing hole, that f*er.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2024 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

What have I done?

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 17, 2024 08:15 AM (iF0sF)

97 Muldoon, I've added Michelle to my prayers.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 17, 2024 08:15 AM (OX9vb)

98 95 I'm in Kentucky, south of Louisville and not too far from Fort Knox.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2024 08:13 AM (Q4IgG)

Those are some decent country song lyrics!

Posted by: m at February 17, 2024 08:15 AM (1BWJp)

99 This every day is Saturday thing is getting out of hand and we'll be luck to survive it.
Nonetheless

Prayers up for those that have asked us for them;
Prayers up for those that know they need them but have not asked us for them;
Prayers up for those that need them but don’t know it yet; and
Prayers up for those who pray alone, asking for help in silence, and whose prayers are known but to God!

And thanks be to God for all the many blessings he has bestowed on so many people on this very prayer list.

What a great community we are so fortunate to have here!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at February 17, 2024 08:16 AM (hOUT3)

100 100

Posted by: m at February 17, 2024 08:16 AM (1BWJp)

101 The other day Buckley the Wonder Dog picked up his toy plush puppy that has the same coloring as Buckles (tri-color), carried it over to the feeding dish and set him down next to the dish (there was some food in the dish). Yesterday Buckley brought a rawhide chew over to the plush puppy and set the chew down next to the puppy and laid down next to him. ?Latent maternal instincts or just being companionable?

Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 08:17 AM (991eG)

102 Thank you all for praying for our friend Pastor Joe. He is home, doing very well, all praise to God. Everything went perfectly, only God can do that. He returns to Mayo on Wednesday for his stitches to be removed. Thanks again for all the prayers.

We are usually gone by this time on Saturday mornings or we have the grandkids here -- just want you to know that even though I don't show up in this thread as a commenter, I read the requests and all the comments and I join with you in prayer throughout the week.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at February 17, 2024 08:18 AM (JrYM1)

103 My coffee is a pour-over, Publix French Roast Dark, in an Ember cup.

The Ember cup is the best thing for drinking coffee so far. Has a battery-driven heater that somehow gets some of its heat from the too-hot-to-drink-yet coffee poured in to fill it, then keeps the coffee at the right temp so you can drink it over fifteen minutes or more without it going cool.

It's pulsing white light strip near the base is telling me it's in its heat-acquisition stage.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 17, 2024 08:19 AM (KiBMU)

104 A Bible joke:

A father was reading Bible stories to his young son. He read, “The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city, but his wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt.”

His son asked, “What happened to the flea?”

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2024 08:19 AM (KXu8V)

105 Nevergiveup

It is odd to say to a Dental Corps stalwart, but I see you riding to the rescue, with a yellow guidon streaming above. May all the rapacious and clueless Flags, whooping and yelling outside the fort, (Dunning-Krugers one and all)
be cast aside when you rescue the hostages in the center. Some snazzy rescue music like Bizet's Devil's Gallop will be playing in the background.

Fade to a senior Nursing Corp leader, fit and comely, gazing in your eyes and saying "Thank You, masked Captain."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2024 08:19 AM (u82oZ)

106 Mornin' Horde. Prayers for all y'all.

Jewells, thankful for every bit of good news and will keep praying for more good news.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 08:19 AM (1eY81)

107 Praying Berkserker makes a full recovery. I love that guy.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 17, 2024 08:19 AM (iF0sF)

108 Posted by: Eromero at February 17, 2024 07:52 AM (Wed3T)

Amen. Thank you!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2024 08:21 AM (KXu8V)

109 Muldoon

Say Hi for me to Buckley the Wonder Dog.

What a mass of fur, and so loveably! Good memories.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2024 08:21 AM (u82oZ)

110
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 17, 2024 08:21 AM (kQ2Qm)

111 Hiya Screamie !

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 08:22 AM (T4tVD)

112 FenelonSpoke

Good joke.

Hope you, FenelonSpouse, and FenelonSon are thriving.

Please give my appreciation for Jessica, just because.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2024 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

113 Yes, Berserker is a very nice guy with a good sense of humor. I had the pleasure of meeeting he and his wife several years ago at our NJ moron meet up.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2024 08:23 AM (KXu8V)

114 Good morning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 17, 2024 08:23 AM (R4t5M)

115 Where about are you located? I shouldn't complain, its been the nicest winter I can remember in years.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra

Uh-oh !

NOW ya done it !

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 08:23 AM (T4tVD)

116 whazzup JT!

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 08:24 AM (1eY81)

117 Coffee Thread is early today! Thanks, MisHum!

I'm all cleaned up and about to head out: breakfast at my favorite neighborhood grill, stocking up on chow at Aldi, and a quick visit to the bank. It's damp and gloomy outside -- a perfect backdrop for sitting in a well-lit, warm dining room to sip coffee and scarf up some eggs and bacon while I read my Elmer Kelton Western novel.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2024 08:25 AM (omVj0)

118 Praying Berkserker makes a full recovery. I love that guy.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 17, 2024 08:19 AM (iF0sF)

May the Ham Fairy NOT make a visit to him during his recovery.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2024 08:25 AM (4I/2K)

119 Waterloo is a bit ham up, but a much closer to reality than the newer Napoleon movie.

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 08:26 AM (fwDg9)

120 I had the pleasure of meeeting he and his wife several years ago at our NJ moron meet up.

I could not stop laughing every time I was around him last year in Texas. His wife is a gem!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 17, 2024 08:27 AM (iF0sF)

121 jewells45 fuck cancer

You have unleashed my carefully hidden potty mouth side (from my service days), but only when it refers to cancer. I used to curse for 5 minutes, in 5 languages, if needed, without repeating myself.

I am not like that at all around the kids. I have even told the second grade boys that an obsession with farts is not wise.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2024 08:27 AM (u82oZ)

122 Posted by: NaCly Dog at February

Thanks, dear. The young man is home with us this weekend as he has to go do something with his design and build class next weekend. He spent almost six hours in that class yesterday and had only eaten a bit so he was ravenous and we took him out for dinner. I will tell Jessie . She hadn't been in church because she's wobbly. FenSpouse will take me up to see her on Monday. My car still isn't repaired but FenSpouse has Washington's Birthday off.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2024 08:28 AM (Ki//m)

123 Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 17, 2024 08:27 AM (iF0sF)

Yes; Indeed Mrs. B-D is a gem.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2024 08:29 AM (Ki//m)

124 whazzup JT!
Posted by: screaming in digital

I'm gettin' ; and I gotta ready to engage in snow removal and I gotta tell ya I 'm about as enthused about that as I would be about shitting a duck.

What's that poem ?

I never shit a duck
I never saw the sea
a cockle doodle doodle doodle doodle doo a dee ?

(or sumpin' like dat)

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 08:30 AM (T4tVD)

125 Prayers ascending for those in need, and for Beserker-Dragonheads Division and his charming wife. May his nurses speed him on his way home.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2024 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

126 Quick update, the past couple of weeks I have been couch surfing at best buddy's, or more precisely recliner riding. After prayer, reflection, and a close call with a scammer (when your "management company portal" has Cyrillicon it it'ssort ofadead giveaway), I switched tactics and am seeing if ownership of a trailer might be in my future.

Best of love to this crazy amazing Horde, and to He in whom all thingsare possible! (Except decaffeinated coffee.)

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at February 17, 2024 08:31 AM (ajGvD)

127 Ain't seen a BebHad post in awhile..hope all is well at Rancho Haddo....

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 08:32 AM (T4tVD)

128 Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 17, 2024 08:27 AM (iF0sF)

So good to hear!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2024 08:33 AM (+8yyq)

129 Not to worry, JT. Ben Had was posting yesterday in the Quickies and the Cafe.

How's that birdbath?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 17, 2024 08:33 AM (OX9vb)

130 Bill Barr Says Voting for This Person Is 'National Suicide'

Makes me want to crawl over broken glass.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2024 08:34 AM (ENQN6)

131 Snow is pretty out there. Roads are fine.
Pretty much a non-event.
So glad I don't watch TV anymore.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 17, 2024 08:37 AM (NBVIP)

132 Local News Headline: Pickleball Explodes in Popularity.

Muldoonified Subhead: Three elderly Popularity residents treated for minor injuries and released.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 08:39 AM (991eG)

133 Mornin', all! Imma take a sick day today. Autoimmune issues suck. I'm glad to read all the good news regarding the Horde! *waves to Jewells*

Sending up prayers and offering sufferings for Morons everywhere.

Posted by: Catherine at February 17, 2024 08:40 AM (ZSsrh)

134 So, a house in Sterling, VA "exploded" last night. Massive EMS response.

Anyone know what happened? Videos on local VA news sites are wild.

*I have a cousin who lives in Sterling... not affected, knows nothing*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2024 08:40 AM (Q4IgG)

135 Morning Catherine. Haven't seen you in awhile! Enjoy your sick day

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 17, 2024 08:41 AM (iF0sF)

136 Not to worry, JT. Ben Had was posting yesterday in the Quickies and the Cafe.

How's that birdbath?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 17, 2024 08:33 AM (OX9vb)

Engulfed in snow !

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 08:41 AM (T4tVD)

137 Have a great day, everyone.

May there be wonders and tranquility around you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2024 08:41 AM (u82oZ)

138 131 Snow is pretty out there. Roads are fine.
Pretty much a non-event.
So glad I don't watch TV anymore.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 17, 2024 08:37 AM (NBVIP)

It’s like that meme from the Corona days of an Amish guy saying we’re not afraid of Covid. And the non-Amish guy asking how come? To which the Amish guy replies we don’t own a TV.

Posted by: Montec at February 17, 2024 08:41 AM (vmfG7)

139 Good morning Hordelings! Prayers up for all listed and not listed.

Enjoying my coffee with a little whiskey this morning - looking out at the purty snow we got overnight here in central MD.

Posted by: Doof at February 17, 2024 08:42 AM (RFPHU)

140 Engulfed in snow !
Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 08:41 AM (T4tVD)

So, slushy!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 17, 2024 08:42 AM (OX9vb)

141 Birds will be snow boarding today

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 08:42 AM (fwDg9)

142 The single family home in the Sterling, Virginia neighborhood was known to contain numerous pickleballs.

Posted by: Another Muldoonish attempt at February 17, 2024 08:43 AM (NBVIP)

143 Jewels, I hope to. I have needed one all week and couldn't take it. So much driving in my life that I don't get to comment much, but I pray for everyone here and join in all anger and celebrations!

Posted by: Catherine at February 17, 2024 08:43 AM (ZSsrh)

144 "Engulfed in snow !
Posted by: JT"

We'll be right over!

Posted by: the penguins at February 17, 2024 08:44 AM (vFG9F)

145 I grew up in a very snow area. It was no big deal. I can count on one hand the number of times school was closed. And that was feet of snow falling, not inches.

And so I crack up when a few inches of snow is now a national news event.

Posted by: Montec at February 17, 2024 08:44 AM (vmfG7)

146 I am deeply grateful for my sister-in-law Elyse, Inspector's youngest older sister. It's just she and him now out of five siblings.

Inspector was supposed to be his oldest sister's executor, but he's still employed while Elyse is retired so she has taken on the task. Which means having to travel from San Diego to Detroit in winter, mountains of paperwork to even get started cleaning up the house (which is nice, but the interior was trashed even before their sister went undiscovered for a week) and deal with uncooperative relatives. I will never be able to thank her enough.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 17, 2024 08:44 AM (nC+QA)

147 Local News Headline: Pickleball Explodes in Popularity.

Muldoonified Subhead: Three elderly Popularity residents treated for minor injuries and released.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 08:39 AM (991eG)

Do not make fun of the greatest sport ever invented!!!

Posted by: Doof at February 17, 2024 08:46 AM (RFPHU)

148 So are snow days now a relic of ancient school history?
Cantja just Zoom?
Hey it was good enough for two years...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 17, 2024 08:47 AM (NBVIP)

149
After the snow ended, I put some seed out this morning for the birds, very close to the house. It's kinda interesting to watch them play 'King of the Hill' and battle for position. One bird lost, flew a couple feet away, and behaved like he had just missed a two foot putt. He repeatedly kicked the snow and stomped around in anger.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 17, 2024 08:47 AM (nIvob)

150 Berserker is out of the hospital and his procedure went well. Update was too late to make the list.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 17, 2024 08:47 AM (USTAS)

151 "Local News Headline: Pickleball Explodes in Popularity."

I had heard they were trying to court boomers.

Posted by: the penguins at February 17, 2024 08:48 AM (vFG9F)

152 Morning all. Prayers up!

Posted by: Mick at February 17, 2024 08:48 AM (sVc11)

153 Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 08:17 AM (991eG)

That is adorable. I didn't know dogs did that for real.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 17, 2024 08:49 AM (nC+QA)

154 >After the snow ended, I put some seed out this morning for the birds, very close to the house. It's kinda interesting to watch them play 'King of the Hill' and battle for position. One bird lost, flew a couple feet away, and behaved like he had just missed a two foot putt. He repeatedly kicked the snow and stomped around in anger.
_____________

I need to refill ours. The blackbirds got to it the other day and ravaged it. They're really a nuisance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2024 08:49 AM (Q4IgG)

155 Thank you notsothoreau for the update. Great news!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 17, 2024 08:49 AM (iF0sF)

156 So, a house in Sterling, VA "exploded" last night. Massive EMS response.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

Either a gas leak or a meth cooking house.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 17, 2024 08:50 AM (M8pNi)

157 >Anyone know what happened? Videos on local VA news sites are wild.

natural gas explosion

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2024 08:51 AM (geLO8)

158 Good morning again dear horde with gratitude to mh and annie

2/15 – Jewells has an update that the PET scan showed great results, and her MRI showed no cancer!

b"h finally some good news around here

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2024 08:51 AM (RIvkX)

159 2nd pot of coffee started.
(Decaf isn't coffee, it is just colored water and has no business misnaming itself.)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 17, 2024 08:51 AM (M8pNi)

160 Good morning Horde. I certainly hope you survived

all of the chocolate consumption this past week.

Even now, all those Cocoa Flavanols are racing through your veins and arteries just...just doing stuff and making you more healthy!!!

They're doing stuff, people! Stuff!!!!

Eat More Chokkolat!!!

Posted by: naturalfake,Advisor to Big Chocolate at February 17, 2024 08:51 AM (nFnyb)

161 Well..I better get ready for the day. First time in 2 weeks I feel like getting out and doing something. Hobby Lobby, Dollar Tree and local grocery store on the agenda.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 17, 2024 08:51 AM (iF0sF)

162
I had heard they were trying to court boomers.

Posted by: the penguins at February 17, 2024 08:48 AM

At my 'Y' they set up three pickleball nets across the basketball court. With zero exaggeration, most of the people playing are in their 70's, 80's, and 90's.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 17, 2024 08:52 AM (nIvob)

163 >a house in Sterling, VA "exploded"

Story is, emergency call was made about odor of NG. When responders were at the site investigating, house blew up. A firefighter was killed.

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2024 08:52 AM (geLO8)

164 No snow here in beautiful upstate SC, of course. Expected high of 57, perfect trail running weather. Top priority today is putting up the bird feeder that my cousins bought for Mom as a house warming gift.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 08:53 AM (1eY81)

165 A story from Fox about a very brave man. Gay was trying to kick him out of Harvard for not behaving "properly". He had a great closing remark:

http://tinyurl.com/yn8utzn2

Posted by: pawn at February 17, 2024 08:53 AM (QB+5g)

166 *The blackbirds got to it the other day and ravaged it. They're really a nuisance.*

You could bake us in a pie.

Posted by: 24 of us at February 17, 2024 08:53 AM (NBVIP)

167 Decided I want to read The Camp of the Saints, but I can't find it anywhere in English for less than $150. Amazon has one hardcover from a third party seller for $975. Abe Books doesn't have it. The local library doesn't have it. Looks like it has been essentially banned.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 17, 2024 08:54 AM (Dm8we)

168 Do not make fun of the greatest sport ever invented!!!
Posted by: Doof

******

I do not make fun, I only seek to inform the public of the potential hazards of the sport.

Besides, how could anybody possibly make fun of a sport with the word 'pickle' in the name?

Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 08:54 AM (991eG)

169 I could not stop laughing every time I was around him last year in Texas. His wife is a gem!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 17, 2024 08:27 AM (iF0sF)

She is! Non-commenting spouses who come to MoMees are *always* well worth spending time with. Mama RMBS was a delight as well.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 17, 2024 08:55 AM (nC+QA)

170 People, hundreds of years ago I worked for a natural gas utility. If you ever smell gas, GET OUT. Don't turn any light switches or ANY electrical thing on or off. GTFO, call 911 from outside.

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2024 08:55 AM (geLO8)

171 Morning Horde. Prayer up for all asking and not..

Coworker D's daughters have identified me as a prime sucker.
I'm getting accosted a lot to take a puppy from one of their friends litter.
A specific puppy. The one they both have fallen in love with.
"We know you will take good care of her".
No good deed goes unpunished.

I seriously doubt Mrs. R will go for it though as neither of us are over the last family members passing.
I think puppies are the only cure for that but she isn't of that mindset.
I'm probably going to get a new puppy as the daughters are correct.
I'm a sucker.

Posted by: Reforger at February 17, 2024 08:55 AM (Df1rq)

172 to travel from San Diego to Detroit in winter
Posted by: Polliwog

That's a tough trip... leaving SD in winter (leaving CA isn't a problem!) and going to the 'murder capital of the US in winter.

Very nice of her to take the hit for Inspector. Family: gotta love them (most of the time!).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 17, 2024 08:55 AM (M8pNi)

173 Eat More Chokkolat!!!
Posted by: naturalfake,Advisor to Big Chocolate at February 17, 2024 08:51 AM (nFnyb)

I put a scoop of roasted cacao in with my coffee grind. Coffee plus flavanols, and so tasty.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 17, 2024 08:56 AM (OX9vb)

174 Dillholes play pickleball.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 17, 2024 08:56 AM (R4t5M)

175 The gap between the Negro and most other groups in American society is widening.
The fundamental problem, in which this is most clearly the case, is that of family structure. The evidence — not final, but powerfully persuasive — is that the Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling. A middle-class group has managed to save itself, but for vast numbers of the unskilled, poorly educated city working class the fabric of conventional social relationships has all but disintegrated. There are indications that the situation may have been arrested in the past few years, but the general post-war trend is unmistakable. So long as this situation persists, the cycle of poverty and disadvantage will continue to repeat itself.

This was written 60 years ago.
When Non-marital birthrates for black was 21%.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2024 08:56 AM (ENQN6)

176 Pickleball is the Ping Pong of Honey I Shrunk The Kids.

Think about it.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 08:57 AM (991eG)

177 Great news for our friend Leigh (^^^^02/03^^^^) - turns out that the mass in her shoulder is BENIGN, and she does NOT have Soft Tissue Sarcoma!!!! She thanks everyone for their prayers on her behalf.

Shocked to hear about Berserker - glad to hear he is on the mend.

Jewells, wonderful news!!!!

Muldoon, will pray for your Michele - I am sure she gets suggestions all the time, but has she tried a gluten-free diet? I know some people find substantial relief on that. Also, these GLP-1 and -2 meds (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound) seem to help some people with migraines. I'm not sure they know why, but they speculate that it may have something to do with reducing inflammation. I hope that she can find relief soon.

Prayers for all who need them ❤🙏

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at February 17, 2024 08:58 AM (SRRAx)

178 I think we got about 10 inches of snow here. It's pretty but a pain to shovel as we have no snowblower. Spouse said " should have parked the car at the top of the driveway", but we didn't think it would be this much. Have to get the young man up to help with shovelling after he has a waffle. I have a friend who refers to having to get his sometimes recalcitrant snowblower working as addressing it with "foul imprecations." I laughed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2024 08:59 AM (Ki//m)

179 I do not make fun, I only seek to inform the public of the potential hazards of the sport.

Besides, how could anybody possibly make fun of a sport with the word 'pickle' in the name?
Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 08:54 AM (991eG)

Old Fat Ball
Fat Lazy Ball
Shuffle Ball

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2024 08:59 AM (ENQN6)

180 Prayers for those requested, for those in need, for all of the Horde.

Posted by: L - Now King of BS can't remember last evening so just forget about it at February 17, 2024 09:00 AM (GshMh)

181 *When Non-marital birthrates for black was 21%.*

I can help lower that number.

Posted by: Margaret Sanger at February 17, 2024 09:00 AM (NBVIP)

182 157 >Anyone know what happened? Videos on local VA news sites are wild.

natural gas explosion
Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2024 08:51 AM (geLO

But I've been told before here that this never happens. Even though it does - seemingly multiple times just this year in VA.

Apparently, it was as bad as a bomb going off.

I'm not sure, when responding to a gas leak, if you get there and it's bad, you can't the whole line shut from the source (even if you take down the neighborhood's gas for awhile). Less gas would be less boom. But I don't have gas, so I don't know if this is a solution.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 17, 2024 09:01 AM (exHjb)

183 Shuffle Ball
Posted by: rhennigantx

Bingo!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 17, 2024 09:01 AM (R4t5M)

184 typo - can't get, not can't

Posted by: Nova Local at February 17, 2024 09:01 AM (exHjb)

185 Oops.

*When Non-marital birthrates for blacks was 21%.*

I can help lower that number.

Posted by: Margaret Sanger at February 17, 2024 09:01 AM (NBVIP)

186 Decided I want to read The Camp of the Saints, but I can't find it anywhere in English for less than $150. Amazon has one hardcover from a third party seller for $975. Abe Books doesn't have it. The local library doesn't have it. Looks like it has been essentially banned.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 17, 2024 08:54 AM (Dm8we)

TCotS was essentially banned the moment it came out.

I got a copy for like a buck fiddy several years ago. And Amazon used to have a paperback for sale.

Buuuuuut, events, as they say, have caught up, and now I suppose it's considered 'unsafe" as well as "racist" by Our Betters.

Probably, the book should've had a large warning label applied to the front.: WARNING: Not to be used as an instruction manual.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 17, 2024 09:01 AM (nFnyb)

187 W. PA has had a couple house explosions this year.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 17, 2024 09:02 AM (R4t5M)

188 "Besides, how could anybody possibly make fun of a sport with the word 'pickle' in the name?"

Who's up for a quick game of Cornhole?

* Giggles*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2024 09:02 AM (a1415)

189 Oh my goodness! What a waste of God's nectar.

People used to clean their hands with coffee.
Soap is an everyday essential, but this incredibly useful (and lifesaving) cleanser hasn’t always existed."

you want to hear about a waste of good coffee? Let me tell you about the naturopathic healer who loves to prescribe Coffee Enemas.

don't reuse the results.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2024 09:02 AM (q3gwH)

190 Berserker is out of the hospital and his procedure went well. Update was too late to make the list.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Good news!
After cardiac surgery they want you up and around as soon as you wake up (and get the damn tube out of your throat), they also want you to go home quickly and get back to your life. (I don't want to experience a CABG op ever again!)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 17, 2024 09:03 AM (M8pNi)

191 I like the smell of coffee beans and some coffees. So I drink tea.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2024 09:03 AM (4I/2K)

192 When the study authors put their names in Open Payments, of the 92 individuals based in the US, 55 panel and task force members (53 panel and 2 task force members)—60 percent—had conflicts of interest (COI) during the selected timeframe of 2016-19. This period was chosen to include the year that development of the DSM-5-TR commenced and the three years preceding, a time consistent with previous research on conflicts of interest and consistent with the APA’s disclosure requirements for the fifth revision (DSM-5) of the manual.

Collectively, these 92 individuals received a total of $14.24 million.

The DSM is bought and paid for by Big Pharma.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2024 09:04 AM (ENQN6)

193 174 Dillholes play pickleball.

Some of them can be total gherks.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 17, 2024 09:05 AM (NBVIP)

194 I got a one-day suspension from commenting at YouTube last night. I asked if they had a merit badge or something, but I haven't heard back from them.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 17, 2024 09:05 AM (woPEM)

195 Good morning, Lovelies!

Posted by: ALH at February 17, 2024 09:05 AM (scDms)

196 183 Shuffle Ball
Posted by: rhennigantx

Bingo!
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 17, 2024 09:01 AM (R4t5M)

thanks I thot it was funny

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2024 09:06 AM (ENQN6)

197 Glad to see all the old farts out playing Pickle Ball.

We needed a rest.

Posted by: Concrete Shuffleboard Courts at February 17, 2024 09:06 AM (R/m4+)

198 Thanks, naturalfake. I read somewhere that The Social Contract Press bought the rights, but I couldn't find it on their website either. Not gonna waste any more time looking.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 17, 2024 09:07 AM (Dm8we)

199 Biff it's available on line and free, I read it about a year ago and maybe 2 weeks ago on Book thread someone posted a link I believe.
It was interesting, but I think missed mark in Europe, but we are living a rhythm of it so worth reading

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 09:08 AM (fwDg9)

200 191 me too!

Posted by: ALH at February 17, 2024 09:08 AM (scDms)

201 >>At approximately 7:38 p.m. on Friday, February 16, 2024, the Loudoun County Emergency Communications Center received a 911 call reporting an odor of gas outside of a residence in the 300 block of Silver Ridge Drive in Sterling. Upon arrival, units from Sterling located a 500-gallon underground propane tank with a leak on the side of the residence and requested the Loudoun County’s Hazardous Materials Response Team, as well as additional units from Sterling, South Riding, numerous Command Staff and Safety Officers.

http://tinyurl.com/3rt482ar

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2024 09:08 AM (LkLld)

202 I wish I was banned from YouTube commenting. Do way more than should but get a kick out of posters liking mine.

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 09:09 AM (fwDg9)

203 Good morning, Horde, and thank you Annie & Mis Hum for the prayer list!

We thank God for His continued blessings upon all of us and for the many prayers He has so graciously answered. May He continue to bless all those who are asking, as well as those who feel unable or unworthy to ask for His divine love.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at February 17, 2024 09:10 AM (kOluj)

204 Biff it's available on line and free, I read it about a year ago and maybe 2 weeks ago on Book thread someone posted a link I believe.
It was interesting, but I think missed mark in Europe, but we are living a rhythm of it so worth reading
Posted by: Skip
_________

Thanks. I'll look for that, but I don't like reading books on a screen. Would prefer a hard copy if I could just find it for a reasonable price.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 17, 2024 09:11 AM (Dm8we)

205 A Stick Of Dynamite 2,000 BTU

Cubic Feet = BTU / 1037

2000/1037= About 2

So 2 Cubic Feet of Nat Gas = ACME BOOM STICK

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2024 09:12 AM (ENQN6)

206 damn do i post some worthless shit

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2024 09:12 AM (ENQN6)

207 I'm not sure, when responding to a gas leak, if you get there and it's bad, you can't the whole line shut from the source (even if you take down the neighborhood's gas for awhile). Less gas would be less boom. But I don't have gas, so I don't know if this is a solution.
Posted by: Nova Local at February 17, 2024 09:01 AM (exHjb)

of course any individual building can be turned off at the meter, and there are generally junctions and subvalves that can shut off areas. But only a utility rep would know how to find those. The problem with a gas leak is that it essentially becomes a fuel-air bomb. I was 2 blocks away from a small commercial building that blew up that way once. That was a Big Bada Boom, and the most amazing part was little burnt pieces of paper goods and other charred items raining down over the neighborhood for the next 15 minutes. It was closed at the time, no fatalities.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2024 09:14 AM (q3gwH)

208 >>At approximately 7:38 p.m. on Friday, February 16, 2024, the Loudoun County Emergency Communications Center received a 911 call reporting an odor of gas outside of a residence in the 300 block of Silver Ridge Drive in Sterling. Upon arrival, units from Sterling located a 500-gallon underground propane tank with a leak on the side of the residence and requested the Loudoun County’s Hazardous Materials Response Team, as well as additional units from Sterling, South Riding, numerous Command Staff and Safety Officers.

http://tinyurl.com/3rt482ar
Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2024 09:08 AM (LkLld)

Boy, that blowed up good!

Posted by: Big Jim McBob, Farm Film Report at February 17, 2024 09:15 AM (4I/2K)

209 > Upon arrival, units from Sterling located a 500-gallon underground propane tank with a leak on the side of the residence....
___________

IIRC, buried propane tanks are not your typical above ground tank, you know, buried. They're purpose built so they don't rust.

And then leak. And then possibly explode.

Both my tanks are above ground however one, at a house I had just purchased, was partially buried and ruptured one summer day... due to rust. No explosion, but it scared the shit out of us.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2024 09:15 AM (Q4IgG)

210 The club where I play pickleball certainly has its share of "seasoned citizens" (as El Rushbo used to call them). But there are lots of MILFs and appealingly dressed young ladies there too. Y'all don't know what you're missing!!

Posted by: Doof at February 17, 2024 09:15 AM (RFPHU)

211 damn do i post some worthless shit
Posted by: rhennigantx

It's a large club.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 17, 2024 09:15 AM (R4t5M)

212 Great picture today, Mis Hum. Time for that second cup

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 17, 2024 09:16 AM (TmlVL)

213 Up, dressed warmly for the 20°, Daisy dog walked, pets fed, and first cup of coffee in hand. It's a good start for the day.

Praying for all God's needy children. Comfort for troubled hearts & minds; easing for the aches of toil & body; truth & faith for the lost & confused. Patience with Heaven's unfolding plans.

Thanks for hope and healing.

More coffee...

Posted by: mindful webworker - daily at February 17, 2024 09:16 AM (fuB9Z)

214 Mr. Gaga:
re the Ember cup: there's an app you can add to your cell phone to control the temperature. (Mine's currently at 142 degrees. I'm thinking of bumping it up to 144.) And it stays at that to the last swallow. Took me a while to understand it.

Posted by: Wenda at February 17, 2024 09:17 AM (IaGYs)

215 Gas leak explosion?

You are talking about Biden, right?

Posted by: dantesed at February 17, 2024 09:17 AM (88xKn)

216 A 'fuel-air bomb' is how a partially full container of gasoline is much more dangerous than a full container of gasoline.

Posted by: davidt at February 17, 2024 09:17 AM (SYTee)

217 Posted by: mindful webworker - daily at February 17, 2024 09:16 AM (fuB9Z

Thanks, mindful, for those prayerful thoughts and for the prayers.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2024 09:19 AM (2nMjY)

218 Biff I suspect it's long out of print being a banned Leftist story

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 09:19 AM (fwDg9)

219 216 A 'fuel-air bomb' is how a partially full container of gasoline is much more dangerous than a full container of gasoline.
Posted by: davidt at February 17, 2024 09:17 AM (SYTee)

Learned that on a National Geo show my kids watched...almost empty causes the biggest boom when it comes to gasoline...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 17, 2024 09:21 AM (exHjb)

220 Biff I suspect it's long out of print being a banned Leftist story
Posted by: Skip
________

It is long out of print, but damn, why aren't there some used copies floating around for a decent price? Even the ebay prices are outrageous.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 17, 2024 09:21 AM (Dm8we)

221 Give me 7 sticks of Dynamite

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 09:22 AM (fwDg9)

222 Loudon County response team screwed up badly, apparently had not been trained to deal with that. When a gas or propane leak is identified, the ONLY priority is evacuating the property immediately and exposing as few people as possible to the danger. It sounds like they put a bunch of people into the structure in a standard response and they were inside when it exploded. (they might have triggered the explosion somehow)

It reminds me a bit of a very sad case in Arizona in the late 70's. There were some railroad tank cars full of pressurized propane and a fire had broken out under one because of a leak. The local volunteer fire department went to put it out to try to prevent an explosion - and then it blew up, killing *everyone* in that entire VFD, 9 or 10 guys. Tragic.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2024 09:22 AM (q3gwH)

223 Good morning! I got Camp of the Saints from Gutenberg.org for free, but that was some years ago.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 17, 2024 09:24 AM (MeG8a)

224 A 'fuel-air bomb' is how a partially full container of gasoline is much more dangerous than a full container of gasoline.
Posted by: davidt at February 17, 2024 09:17 AM (SYTee)

Learned that on a National Geo show my kids watched...almost empty causes the biggest boom when it comes to gasoline...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 17, 2024 09:21 AM (exHjb)

*me, inside, watching former gf's 25 year-old dumbass son outside on back patio re-lighting the bbq grill with gasoline poured from a nearly empty gas can. Ya cain't fix willful stupidity.*

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2024 09:24 AM (4I/2K)

225 An "underground propane tank" and a "natural gas leak" are not the same thing. Gas lines from a utility can be shut off at a couple of places. A propane tank has enough fuel to set off a major fire or explosion all by itself, and the shutoff is usually right next to the leak.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 17, 2024 09:25 AM (zdLoL)

226 https://archive.org/details/
campofsaints0000rasp/page/n7/mode/2up

Camp of Saints

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2024 09:25 AM (ENQN6)

227 I posted this a while back but I like it. It's about St. Philip Neri who was saint of laughter and joy:

http://tinyurl.com/yk2yd5cw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2024 09:26 AM (lRvfO)

228 Ohhhh, St Philip Neri is a Saint, there is a church in Plymouth Whitemarch I worked at like my 2nd day at old company and just rediscovered where that was recently

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 09:31 AM (fwDg9)

229 https://archive.org/details/
campofsaints0000rasp/page/n7/mode/2up

Camp of Saints
Posted by: rhennigantx
__________

Said "Item cannot be found" when I went to that link. And a search of Camp of the Saints and Jean Raspail at the Project Gutenberg site returned no hits. Did they ban it too?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 17, 2024 09:31 AM (Dm8we)

230 The amigos showed up onsite at 730. Code Enforcement showed up at 745 and told them not to work until 9.
So, they went home. I showed up at 8 and went home.

Posted by: Jamaica at February 17, 2024 09:31 AM (IG7T0)

231 The club where I play pickleball certainly has its share of "seasoned citizens" (as El Rushbo used to call them). But there are lots of MILFs and appealingly dressed young ladies there too. Y'all don't know what you're missing!!
Posted by: Doof at February 17, 2024 09:15 AM (RFPHU)

Yeah, where we've been going since joining the cult. There are no fatties. Older folks, yep.

But, some of those are ex-tennis pros(!) or old tennis fanatics who've taken up pickleball so they can still compete in the tournaments.

If we wanted to pay $150/mn at the asspensive club, there are mostly younger professionals playing. I suppose it scratches the same itch as does tennis or racketball or squash or handball. Just depends on the level you're at as to how much running around the court you'll be doing.

It's fun and social. The games are short. I can see why it's growing in popularity.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 17, 2024 09:32 AM (nFnyb)

232 Decided I want to read The Camp of the Saints, but I can't find it anywhere in English for less than $150. Amazon has one hardcover from a third party seller for $975. Abe Books doesn't have it. The local library doesn't have it. Looks like it has been essentially banned.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 17, 2024 08:54 AM (Dm8we)
~~~~~

Pretty sure you can get it on Scribd(dot)com. You'll have to set up an account, but they have a 30-day free trial. (Just remember to cancel that later! lol)

Posted by: IrishEi at February 17, 2024 09:34 AM (5GDFY)

233 Saturday morning work bitch.
They hired a whole new maintnence department. Kept one guy. He was a good Gremlin. Spoke very little English. Fixed everything.
I'd worked with him for 5 years now and only sort of figured out what he did.
Very, very important individual. Just went about doing his thing.
New guy comes in. Changes how things are done.
Javi gets frustrated with ignorant meatball telling him how to do a job J has done for 15 years.
Javi quits.
This is going to be a very expensive, dangerous learning curve.
Molten metal is very unforgiving.

Posted by: Reforger at February 17, 2024 09:35 AM (MoYQF)

234 6 I could have been first but I had to paint my toenails with whiteout.

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2024 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

No Polish Remover? Hard to find in Poland, however.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 09:35 AM (ynpvh)

235 People, hundreds of years ago I worked for a natural gas utility. If you ever smell gas, GET OUT. Don't turn any light switches or ANY electrical thing on or off. GTFO, call 911 from outside.
Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2024 08:55 AM (geLO

---
A few days ago I walked past a construction site and saw the workers start to run towards me. I found out later that there was a gas leak in the area....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 17, 2024 09:35 AM (BpYfr)

236 A local neighborhood is having their 3rd Annual Pickleball Tournament today. They are labeling it a Classic.

*snorts*

But you say MILFS and younger hotties? I might have to squeeze in a swing by.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2024 09:36 AM (4I/2K)

237 It is long out of print, but damn, why aren't there some used copies floating around for a decent price? Even the ebay prices are outrageous.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 17, 2024 09:21 AM (Dm8we)
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Supply and demand, but mostly demand.

One thing I've learned over the years is that for 'collectible' things, price is entirely based on demand. I saw an auction for an Edo-period Japanese matchlock - super-rare, gorgeous, and yet a good condition M1 Garand - which were made by the million and are as scarce as Glocks on the collector circuit - will certainly sell for more.

So as demand for the book surged, everyone realized they could make people pay through the nose. When interest falls, it will go back to a bargain.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 09:36 AM (llXky)

238 235 People, hundreds of years ago I worked for a natural gas utility. If you ever smell gas, GET OUT. Don't turn any light switches or ANY electrical thing on or off. GTFO, call 911 from outside.
Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2024 08:55 AM (geLO
---
A few days ago I walked past a construction site and saw the workers start to run towards me. I found out later that there was a gas leak in the area....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 17, 2024 09:35 AM (BpYfr)

Methane (what Nat Gas is mostly made of) is colorless and odorless. They have to add mercaptin to make it stink.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 09:37 AM (ynpvh)

239 On imprecation: you can call that snowblower all kinds of names without violating an actual commandment. Until you invoke the Creator, or condemn something to Hell in a way that would involve something only the Creator can do, you're just name-calling, which is rude perhaps, but not a sin. Remarking on its ancestry, for instance, or its degree of misbegottenness, miscegenation, or legitimacy, is not a biblical curse.

Ian Fleming said once that the best cuss-word in Japanese was a fierce "shimatta!" which meant "I've made a mistake!"

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 17, 2024 09:37 AM (zdLoL)

240 So as demand for the book surged, everyone realized they could make people pay through the nose. When interest falls, it will go back to a bargain.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 09:36 AM (llXky)

*Beanie Babies has entered the chat*

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2024 09:37 AM (4I/2K)

241
So, a house in Sterling, VA "exploded" last night. Massive EMS response.

Anyone know what happened? Videos on local VA news sites are wild.

*I have a cousin who lives in Sterling... not affected, knows nothing*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2024 08:40 AM

that's methed up

Posted by: Mike Tyson at February 17, 2024 09:38 AM (kQ2Qm)

242 It's fun and social. The games are short. I can see why it's growing in popularity.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 17, 2024 09:32 AM (nFnyb)
---
The locals are playing it here, and it reminds me of paddle ball, aka platform tennis. That used to be an upscale winter sport, played in a cage with a heavy ball and wooden paddles (with holes drilled in them). The courts were metal, and heated. My grandparents loved it, played mixed doubles. They'd play a set, then come up to the clubhouse for coffee or cocoa, then back down to the court. I assume we're now dealing with a more plebian form of the sport.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 09:40 AM (llXky)

243 239 On imprecation: you can call that snowblower all kinds of names without violating an actual commandment. Until you invoke the Creator, or condemn something to Hell in a way that would involve something only the Creator can do, you're just name-calling, which is rude perhaps, but not a sin. Remarking on its ancestry, for instance, or its degree of misbegottenness, miscegenation, or legitimacy, is not a biblical curse.

Ian Fleming said once that the best cuss-word in Japanese was a fierce "shimatta!" which meant "I've made a mistake!"

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 17, 2024 09:37 AM (zdLoL)

I'd think it'd be "YOU'VE made a mistake!"
Then I'm sure using terms that have equivalencies in many languages around the world (e.g. son of a whore, etc, only more vulgar) would generally get a reaction.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 09:40 AM (ynpvh)

244 241
So, a house in Sterling, VA "exploded" last night. Massive EMS response.

Anyone know what happened? Videos on local VA news sites are wild.

*I have a cousin who lives in Sterling... not affected, knows nothing*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2024 08:40 AM

that's methed up

Posted by: Mike Tyson at February 17, 2024 09:38 AM (kQ2Qm)

so it wasn't a gas?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 09:41 AM (ynpvh)

245 Well at least I'm home and somewhat in time for coffee. I would like to say its been a fun 2 weeks but holy shit. I don't recommend it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 17, 2024 09:42 AM (VwHCD)

246 Youse guys got an early start this morning.

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2024 09:42 AM (AwYPR)

247 Should get moving or take a nap

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 09:42 AM (fwDg9)

248 *Beanie Babies has entered the chat*

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2024 09:37 AM (4I/2K)
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Baseball cards, comic books, you name it.

I mean rarity does feature in some things, but not as much as one would think. I'm looking for a Chinese rifle, either Hanyang pattern or Mauser and they are quite rare, but they pop up. Garands are much more expensive and they're ubiquitous. All about the demand.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 09:43 AM (llXky)

249 A few days ago I walked past a construction site and saw the workers start to run towards me. I found out later that there was a gas leak in the area....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 17, 2024 09:35 AM (BpYfr)

My Dad saw a diesel runaway explode when they hit a gas line on a project.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2024 09:43 AM (ENQN6)

250 Man, that's sad about the lady in the sidebar. She shouldn't have done the naughty thing, but the Internet does turn embarrassing mistakes into abject, life-ruining humiliations that people can never move on from.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2024 09:44 AM (0FoWg)

251 Thanks for the Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

Prayers for the Horde and all intentions.

May God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 17, 2024 09:44 AM (KglbO)

252 246 Youse guys got an early start this morning.

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2024 09:42 AM (AwYPR)

I'm on the Left coast myself. Got text over an hour ago from BIL about my FIL's dialysis, so it woke me up. Been milling about since then, unable to attain sleep (and, having been by myself, thinking about my loss and sorrow).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 09:44 AM (ynpvh)

253 250 Man, that's sad about the lady in the sidebar. She shouldn't have done the naughty thing, but the Internet does turn embarrassing mistakes into abject, life-ruining humiliations that people can never move on from.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2024 09:44 AM (0FoWg)

There's an old saying: "Get a Room!". Doesn't matter if you think you're all alone in nature...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 09:45 AM (ynpvh)

254 A gas salt storage dome in a rural area near Brenham exploded on April 7, 1992, killing three people and injuring 21.

The massive explosion destroyed houses and left nearby wooded areas with nothing more than smoldering tree trunks. The explosion was so large, it rattled windows in Houston.

The blast killed 5-year old Derick Meinen; Gloria Driver, 46; and Delores Medve, 27.

The underground storage dome, operated by Seminole Pipeline Co., stored liquefied petroleum gas. Gas began leaking from the dome and a large cloud of gas formed in a low area. The gas ignited and ripped apart at least five nearby houses, crushing one mobile home, killing Derick Meinen. The blast rippled across the rural area damaging as many as 50 structures.

- - - KTRK ABC13 news report.

Apparently, a vehicle leaving the area to get help drove into a low spot on the road that was filled with LPG vapors and set it off.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2024 09:45 AM (4I/2K)

255 254
...
Apparently, a vehicle leaving the area to get help drove into a low spot on the road that was filled with LPG vapors and set it off.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2024 09:45 AM (4I/2K)

I guess no phone (cell or otherwise) was available...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 09:47 AM (ynpvh)

256 > If you ever smell gas, GET OUT. Don't turn any light switches or ANY electrical thing on or off.

this includes using a hardline phone. Don't pick up the receiver to call for help. Go outside and call for help.

ANY flow of electricity could be the spark that blows your house to smithereens.

GTFO.

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2024 09:47 AM (geLO8)

257 251 Thanks for the Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

Prayers for the Horde and all intentions.

May God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 17, 2024 09:44 AM (KglbO)

I would like God to bless us, but do we deserve it? Do we, as a nation that allows abortion, mutilation of children, and other atrocities deserve it? May God have MERCY and show us GRACE. That's the best I can ask.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 09:48 AM (ynpvh)

258 @243 Jim, at that point we're getting into real philosophy. The Fleming yell was for things like getting to the train and realizing you'd forgotten your papers, or hitting your thumb with a hammer -- the self-curse on the nature of things for which we often say "dammitall." For insults and curses between people, well now, that brings in a whole different grammar. Many fighting words don't offend the Creator, but get the fight going anyway.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 17, 2024 09:48 AM (zdLoL)

259 Who would have thought I would set my alarm clock on a Saturday?
The fish calleth or so my imagination says.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at February 17, 2024 07:30 AM (QXQ4l)

The hint of the ice melt on the lake is seen; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the fish is heard in our land;

Posted by: Kindltot at February 17, 2024 09:48 AM (D7oie)

260 Well at least I'm home and somewhat in time for coffee. I would like to say its been a fun 2 weeks but holy shit. I don't recommend it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 17, 2024 09:42 AM (VwHCD)

Glad you're here!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2024 09:48 AM (4I/2K)

261 Man, that's sad about the lady in the sidebar. She shouldn't have done the naughty thing, but the Internet does turn embarrassing mistakes into abject, life-ruining humiliations that people can never move on from.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2024 09:44 AM (0FoWg)

Not just the internet, our criminal "justice" system is designed to keep people from ever being able to get away from their mistakes. Not just she-bopping women, but even young men who do stupid things, pay for those things, and then have them follow them around the rest of their lives.

That's not justice. That's anti-human. And dare I say, anti-Christian.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 09:49 AM (GtZ7X)

262 Apparently, a vehicle leaving the area to get help drove into a low spot on the road that was filled with LPG vapors and set it off.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2024 09:45 AM (4I/2K)

I think there is dash cam of a cop running from that in his patrol car on youboob.

Posted by: Reforger at February 17, 2024 09:51 AM (MoYQF)

263 256 > If you ever smell gas, GET OUT. Don't turn any light switches or ANY electrical thing on or off.

this includes using a hardline phone. Don't pick up the receiver to call for help. Go outside and call for help.

ANY flow of electricity could be the spark that blows your house to smithereens.

GTFO.

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2024 09:47 AM (geLO

hardline phone: can be over 100VDC. In olden days with mechanical ringer: Receiving a call? Electricity to the ringer could make things go Kaboom!, like the cereal, only worse.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 09:51 AM (ynpvh)

264 Berserker! You survived the ministrations of the nurses! Great to see you here.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 09:52 AM (1eY81)

265 Try
https://shorturl.at/fsyBX
for the online Camp of the Saints!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at February 17, 2024 09:53 AM (hOUT3)

266 Actually looks nice outside from inside

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 09:53 AM (fwDg9)

267 264 Berserker! You survived the ministrations of the nurses! Great to see you here.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 09:52 AM (1eY81)

Doctors practice; you have to be patient.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 09:54 AM (ynpvh)

268 Q: For identical liquid quantities which is heavier - water or butane?

A: Water. Butane is a lighter fluid.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2024 09:55 AM (4I/2K)

269 Bers, good to see you here!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at February 17, 2024 09:55 AM (hOUT3)

270 Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 17, 2024 09:48 AM (zdLoL)

My go-to exclamation of the first sort is "Mice!" In general, I avoid the later, but apparently wondering if a person (who is usually witty and has very interesting anecdotes) being especially disagreeable might be drunk counts.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 17, 2024 09:56 AM (nC+QA)

271 258 @243 Jim, at that point we're getting into real philosophy. The Fleming yell was for things like getting to the train and realizing you'd forgotten your papers, or hitting your thumb with a hammer -- the self-curse on the nature of things for which we often say "dammitall." For insults and curses between people, well now, that brings in a whole different grammar. Many fighting words don't offend the Creator, but get the fight going anyway.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 17, 2024 09:48 AM (zdLoL)

Indeed, and that DOES, I believe, offend the creator.
BTW, zdLOL? Great hash. ZOD may demand it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 09:56 AM (ynpvh)

272 Not just the internet, our criminal "justice" system is designed to keep people from ever being able to get away from their mistakes. Not just she-bopping women, but even young men who do stupid things, pay for those things, and then have them follow them around the rest of their lives.

------

Not just stupid things. Sometimes a guy can do the *right* thing, and they'll just dredge up some obscure law, pillory the guy, ruin his reputation, take away some of the best years of his life, and leave him to rebuild from nothing.

Ask me how I know.

When our sanctimonious, hypocritical, sneering society turns on you, ya gotta be really mentally tough to soldier on. Not everyone is. That lady is a case in point.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2024 09:56 AM (0FoWg)

273 130 Bill Barr Says Voting for This Person Is 'National Suicide'

Makes me want to crawl over broken glass.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2024 08:34 AM (ENQN6)

LOL

Posted by: m at February 17, 2024 09:57 AM (1BWJp)

274 268 Q: For identical liquid quantities which is heavier - water or butane?

A: Water. Butane is a lighter fluid.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2024 09:55 AM (4I/2K)

Useless fact of the day: The density of Saturn is less than that of water at standard temp & pressure (STP). Thus, if you could find a big enough container of water, Saturn would float.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 09:57 AM (ynpvh)

275 274 268 Q: For identical liquid quantities which is heavier - water or butane?

A: Water. Butane is a lighter fluid.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2024 09:55 AM (4I/2K)

Useless fact of the day: The density of Saturn is less than that of water at standard temp & pressure (STP). Thus, if you could find a big enough container of water, Saturn would float.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 09:57 AM (ynpvh)

Just don't ask me about Uranus.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 09:58 AM (ynpvh)

276 Well at least I'm home and somewhat in time for coffee. I would like to say its been a fun 2 weeks but holy shit. I don't recommend it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 17, 2024 09:42 AM (VwHCD)

Glad you're doing better. Do they have you set up for physical therapy yet?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 17, 2024 09:58 AM (nC+QA)

277 Apparently, a vehicle leaving the area to get help drove into a low spot on the road that was filled with LPG vapors and set it off.
Posted by: Count de Monet

I was driving I to Housto from Sugar Land when that happened. I was on the big highway 59 curve. I thought it was lightning until I got to work and found out

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 17, 2024 09:59 AM (XxyBm)

278 Thus, if you could find a big enough container of water, Saturn would float.

******

But you would get those bothersome rings around the tub.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 09:59 AM (991eG)

279 ...there is a lot of good stuff in the "alt country" genre, which is more like the old country.

Dwight Yoakum and a few others tried to revive country music but it didn't catch on.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 17, 2024 09:59 AM (sNc8Y)

280 138 It’s like that meme from the Corona days of an Amish guy saying we’re not afraid of Covid. And the non-Amish guy asking how come? To which the Amish guy replies we don’t own a TV.
Posted by: Montec at February 17, 2024 08:41 AM (vmfG7)

Nice.

Posted by: m at February 17, 2024 09:59 AM (1BWJp)

281 Bill Barr should eat a shame-bullet long before some horny realtor should. But he won't, because when you join the Chesapeake Bay Demon Club, they surgically remove your sense of shame along with the rest of your withered little soul.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2024 09:59 AM (0FoWg)

282 Berserker! You survived the ministrations of the nurses! Great to see you here.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 09:52 AM (1eY81)

My nurses were off the chart. Living dolls all of them. Amazing people. One was a beautiful blonde who told me her nick name was nurse ratched. I told her I think I know her sister. lol. Seriously though, these people were amazing. Funny, right on the top of things, just amazing. There was one midnight crawler that would come around to take blood in the wee hours. I almost beat her with a food tray. They never sent her again.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 17, 2024 10:00 AM (VwHCD)

283 Berserker, I am so glad that you are still with us! Gentle {{{hugs}}} from Texas. Take care of yourself, please!

You can get a cool tattoo on your new scar and show it to everyone at this year's Texas MoMe 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at February 17, 2024 10:00 AM (SRRAx)

284 Useless fact of the day: The density of Saturn is less than that of water at standard temp & pressure (STP). Thus, if you could find a big enough container of water, Saturn would float.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 09:57 AM (ynpvh)

Not useless. That just might come in handy someday. Like the scrap lumber pieces I keep in the garage.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2024 10:00 AM (4I/2K)

285 I say dare me with hot coals to walk over to the vote booth

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 10:00 AM (fwDg9)

286 Having successfully whined up a batch of blueberry pancakes, and showing interest in the downstream process, was promptly told to get the f*ck out of the kitchen.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2024 10:01 AM (RIvkX)

287 278 Thus, if you could find a big enough container of water, Saturn would float.

******

But you would get those bothersome rings around the tub.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 09:59 AM (991eG)

Yeah, well, Uranus has rings too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:01 AM (ynpvh)

288 Dwight Yoakum and a few others tried to revive country music but it didn't catch on.
Posted by: Oddbob
---
Dwight will be in my area next weekend. I think I'm gonna go. Just not sure whether to buy a ticket for mom too.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 10:01 AM (1eY81)

289 Glad you're doing better. Do they have you set up for physical therapy yet?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 17, 2024 09:58 AM (nC+QA)

Well I'm walking around fine, I'm rehabbing at home. I think after 6weeks of healing they'll probably want me to do something.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 17, 2024 10:01 AM (VwHCD)

290 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Uranus

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:01 AM (ynpvh)

291 Good morning all.
Would have been here sooner but Saturday morning necessity is reading all the comments and catching up with how everyone is doing.
Always happy to see those familiar nics posting and know that where there is life, there is hope.
❤️

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 17, 2024 10:02 AM (t/2Uw)

292 Okay, just checked. Uranus would sink in water; too dense.
https://planetseducation.com/density-of-planets/

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:02 AM (ynpvh)

293 Not just stupid things. Sometimes a guy can do the *right* thing, and they'll just dredge up some obscure law, pillory the guy, ruin his reputation, take away some of the best years of his life, and leave him to rebuild from nothing.

Ask me how I know.

When our sanctimonious, hypocritical, sneering society turns on you, ya gotta be really mentally tough to soldier on. Not everyone is. That lady is a case in point.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2024 09:56 AM (0FoWg)

Exactly. I know you mentioned your situation before.

As a general principle, it's true across all kinds of realms, the people who financially benefit from WHATEVER industry there exists, should NOT be the ones who make the rules about how that industry works.

Not just politicians, but obviously, our so-called justice system, are perfect examples.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:02 AM (GtZ7X)

294 ...there is a lot of good stuff in the "alt country" genre, which is more like the old country.

Dwight Yoakum and a few others tried to revive country music but it didn't catch on.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 17, 2024 09:59 AM (sNc8Y)

Who's gonna fill their shoes?
https://youtu.be/vxHjRqnY7zA

Posted by: Zombie George Jones at February 17, 2024 10:03 AM (4I/2K)

295 I was driving I to Housto from Sugar Land when that happened. I was on the big highway 59 curve. I thought it was lightning until I got to work and found out

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 17, 2024 09:59 AM (XxyBm)

A backhoe in Cheyenne hit a gas line. We saw the flame spike from about 50 miles away in Colorado. John (late, first) husband was afraid it was the ammonium nitrate plant he worked at. Backhoe driver was essentially vaporized.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 17, 2024 10:03 AM (nC+QA)

296 Nice site for positive stories and Christian music:

https://www.faithpot.com/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2024 10:04 AM (5i4w0)

297 Okay, just checked. Uranus would sink in water; too dense.
https://planetseducation.com/density-of-planets/
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:02 AM (ynpvh)

It does now, but it's not as young and buoyant as it used to be.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:04 AM (k3aEX)

298 293 Not just stupid things. Sometimes a guy can do the *right* thing, and they'll just dredge up some obscure law, pillory the guy, ruin his reputation, take away some of the best years of his life, and leave him to rebuild from nothing.

Ask me how I know.

When our sanctimonious, hypocritical, sneering society turns on you, ya gotta be really mentally tough to soldier on. Not everyone is. That lady is a case in point.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2024 09:56 AM (0FoWg)

Exactly. I know you mentioned your situation before.

As a general principle, it's true across all kinds of realms, the people who financially benefit from WHATEVER industry there exists, should NOT be the ones who make the rules about how that industry works.

Not just politicians, but obviously, our so-called justice system, are perfect examples.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:02 AM (GtZ7X)

And make sure to apply other obscure and not-so-obscure laws against them for fun and profit.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:05 AM (ynpvh)

299 You can get a cool tattoo on your new scar and show it to everyone at this year's Texas MoMe 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at February 17, 2024 10:00 AM (SRRAx)

Its a long scar. They did a quad bypass. I was lucky. I would have never made it to the end of the year had I not started the ball rolling with getting some tests. The cath showed 2 arteries were 100% blocked, the widow maker was 95%, and a 4th was 80%. Scary shit, but I'm all rebuilt now.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 17, 2024 10:05 AM (VwHCD)

300 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 17, 2024 10:01 AM (VwHCD

Nice to see you, BD. Don't go careening down the highway on a Harley at top speeds quite yet.😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2024 10:05 AM (5i4w0)

301 Bitter Sweetdick is a great name

thx ace

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2024 10:07 AM (ENQN6)

302 I think after 6weeks of healing they'll probably want me to do something.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

*********

6-8 weeks for the sternum (bone) to heal, but there is a similar timeframe for damaged muscle cells (myocytes) to heal and for the inflammation from the healing process to subside. Injured cardiac myocytes are vulnerable to electrical irregularities causing abnormal heart rhythm. Pay attention to any sensation of irregular heart beat. . Best wishes for a good recovery, just don't get impatient.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 10:07 AM (991eG)

303 299 You can get a cool tattoo on your new scar and show it to everyone at this year's Texas MoMe 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at February 17, 2024 10:00 AM (SRRAx)

Its a long scar. They did a quad bypass. I was lucky. I would have never made it to the end of the year had I not started the ball rolling with getting some tests. The cath showed 2 arteries were 100% blocked, the widow maker was 95%, and a 4th was 80%. Scary shit, but I'm all rebuilt now.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 17, 2024 10:05 AM (VwHCD)

At $6million, it was a bargain.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:07 AM (ynpvh)

304 Useless fact of the day: The density of Saturn is less than that of water at standard temp & pressure (STP). Thus, if you could find a big enough container of water, Saturn would float.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 09:57 AM (ynpvh)

Not useless. That just might come in handy someday. Like the scrap lumber pieces I keep in the garage.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2024 10:00 AM (4I/2K)

And basically, moving to Saturn isn't an option for getting off this lousy planet... unless you're a fish.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:08 AM (k3aEX)

305 Got an 8" or so scar from my transplant. The muscle(s) there were never the same. They cramp sometimes when I exert them. Oh well.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:08 AM (ynpvh)

306 304 Useless fact of the day: The density of Saturn is less than that of water at standard temp & pressure (STP). Thus, if you could find a big enough container of water, Saturn would float.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 09:57 AM (ynpvh)

Not useless. That just might come in handy someday. Like the scrap lumber pieces I keep in the garage.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2024 10:00 AM (4I/2K)

And basically, moving to Saturn isn't an option for getting off this lousy planet... unless you're a fish.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:08 AM (k3aEX)

Eh, I'm getting off one day, the day I push up daisies. I'll be with my wife then.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:09 AM (ynpvh)

307 Boy, that blowed up good!
Posted by: Big Jim McBob, Farm Film Report at February 17, 2024 09:15 AM (4I/2K)
===

Real good.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2024 10:09 AM (RIvkX)

308 {{{Sharon}}}

I had a dream last night I was at the TX MoMe. I woke up just as you and Iris were arriving. Is it October yet?

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 10:09 AM (1eY81)

309 308 {{{Sharon}}}

I had a dream last night I was at the TX MoMe. I woke up just as you and Iris were arriving. Is it October yet?

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 10:09 AM (1eY81)

Sorry, but another 8 months of Biden or his suck-cessor to go through.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:10 AM (ynpvh)

310 Nice story from "Faithpot" about a kindly school custodian:

http://tinyurl.com/2bmdx27e

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2024 10:11 AM (5i4w0)

311 But you would get those bothersome rings around the tub.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 09:59 AM (991eG)

There's a magic eraser commercial with a guy cleaning tub rings....looks like he's been cleaning car parts in the tub.

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2024 10:11 AM (AwYPR)

312 I had a dream last night I was at the TX MoMe. I woke up just as you and Iris were arriving. Is it October yet?
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 10:09 AM (1eY81)

What a lovely dream, and what a disappointing moment to wake up.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 17, 2024 10:11 AM (nC+QA)

313 And make sure to apply other obscure and not-so-obscure laws against them for fun and profit.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:05 AM (ynpvh)

Yeah, for example I don't know what laws the dead Russian guy may have broken. Maybe some important ones, maybe not.

What I do know though, in this country we can watch selective prosecutions being pursued against political opponents, or particularly inconvenient groups. It's happening before our very eyes, and the ones cheering it on don't even realize they're the ones who would have been cheering the cattle cars removing unwanted people "to the east" in the last century.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:12 AM (k3aEX)

314 311 But you would get those bothersome rings around the tub.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 09:59 AM (991eG)

There's a magic eraser commercial with a guy cleaning tub rings....looks like he's been cleaning car parts in the tub.

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2024 10:11 AM (AwYPR)

Just good clean...ash and grease?
Is that the bald guy magic eraser, Mr. Kleen?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:12 AM (ynpvh)

315 The cath showed 2 arteries were 100% blocked, the widow maker was 95%, and a 4th was 80%. Scary shit, but I'm all rebuilt now.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 17, 2024 10:05 AM (VwHCD)

Day-um!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2024 10:13 AM (q3gwH)

316 What a lovely dream, and what a disappointing moment to wake up.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette
---
Yeah, we had not started shooting yet... :-)

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 10:13 AM (1eY81)

317 Scary shit, but I'm all rebuilt now.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 17, 2024 10:05 AM (VwHCD)

Holy moley!! Was that cardiac intervention ever timely!!

Some power wants you around on this Earth for awhile longer.

Posted by: Count de Monet, 4 stents and counting, we're still adding on. at February 17, 2024 10:13 AM (4I/2K)

318 Eh, I'm getting off one day, the day I push up daisies. I'll be with my wife then.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:09 AM (ynpvh)

But not today.

Keep getting up, keep moving. That's your mission... for now.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:14 AM (k3aEX)

319 Berserker! You survived the ministrations of the nurses! Great to see you here.
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 09:52 AM (1eY81)

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 10:14 AM (T4tVD)

320 Sorry, but another 8 months of Biden or his suck-cessor to go through.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
---
I just hope I'm in TX with the Horde when the SHTF.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 10:14 AM (1eY81)

321 {{{SiD}}}

Miss you!
My new G arrived at my local dealer yesterday and I got to hold it even though I can't take it home for a week. The guy carried out the case and looked surprised that I had to have it shipped as they sell a lot of them. Then he opens the case and saw that it was lavender and said Now I understand.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 17, 2024 10:14 AM (t/2Uw)

322
You can get a cool tattoo on your new scar and show it to everyone at this year's Texas MoMe 😂😂😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Wort

He's already got a zipper scar, he doesn't need any tattoo for it!

Hope your recovery goes well Berserker-Dragonheads.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 17, 2024 10:15 AM (M8pNi)

323 313
...
What I do know though, in this country we can watch selective prosecutions being pursued against political opponents, or particularly inconvenient groups. It's happening before our very eyes, and the ones cheering it on don't even realize they're the ones who would have been cheering the cattle cars removing unwanted people "to the east" in the last century.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:12 AM (k3aEX)

They have no sense that they are the Nazis they claim to be fighting. The cognitive dissonance would be great, if they had a mind to think about it, which they don't.

The cattle car for you! And the cattle car for you! And the cattle car for YOU!!!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:15 AM (ynpvh)

324 Just good clean...ash and grease?
Is that the bald guy magic eraser, Mr. Kleen?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:12 AM (ynpvh)

Mr. Clean....wonder why he hasn't been cancelled?

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2024 10:15 AM (AwYPR)

325 6-8 weeks for the sternum (bone) to heal, but there is a similar timeframe for damaged muscle cells (myocytes) to heal and for the inflammation from the healing process to subside. Injured cardiac myocytes are vulnerable to electrical irregularities causing abnormal heart rhythm. Pay attention to any sensation of irregular heart beat. . Best wishes for a good recovery, just don't get impatient.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 10:07 AM (991eG)

I'm taking my time. I feel like I fell out of a plane, but it gets better every day. I had a very good surgeon. His patients are known to heal quicker and better. He did my mom's bypass in 2004 and her recovery was amazing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 17, 2024 10:16 AM (VwHCD)

326 I assume we're now dealing with a more plebian form of the sport.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 09:40 AM (llXky)

It's been democratized for your safety!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 17, 2024 10:16 AM (nFnyb)

327 My new G arrived at my local dealer yesterday and I got to hold it even though I can't take it home for a week. The guy carried out the case and looked surprised that I had to have it shipped as they sell a lot of them. Then he opens the case and saw that it was lavender and said Now I understand.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
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LOL!

I need pix of all the 'rons shooting it, please. Surely they are secure enough in their masculinity to do so.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 10:17 AM (1eY81)

328 322
You can get a cool tattoo on your new scar and show it to everyone at this year's Texas MoMe 😂😂😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Wort

He's already got a zipper scar, he doesn't need any tattoo for it!

Hope your recovery goes well Berserker-Dragonheads.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 17, 2024 10:15 AM (M8pNi)

My wife was never for tattoos. Even after her mastectomy and reconstructive surgery, she eschewd them, only to find out she already had small ones from one the docs needed to mark her body for radiation therapy.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:17 AM (ynpvh)

329 When our sanctimonious, hypocritical, sneering society turns on you, ya gotta be really mentally tough to soldier on. Not everyone is. That lady is a case in point.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2024 09:56 AM (0FoWg)
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A big part of the problem is that we've forgotten how to forgive one another, including ourselves. If you don't believe in God, you can't accept His mercy, and all you have is shame and desolation.

Some people have no shame, and that's also why we are where we are today. All the elites are completely devoid of any self-examination and incapable of contrition or remorse. They're the direct heirs of the Puritans - they are the Elect, the Chosen, and their salvation is guaranteed. They are perfect as they are.

A lot of other people adopt this mindset, but are not protected like the elites and they also haven't fully internalized the "I did nothing wrong" mindset.

Thus, we have a society that tells you "anything goes" but randomly punishes little people for acting on it. (cont)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 10:17 AM (llXky)

330 This President's Day weekend, let's remember our best president, William Henry Harrison, who left office before he could fuck things up.

Posted by: Wally at February 17, 2024 10:18 AM (2D5vf)

331 The cattle car for you! And the cattle car for you! And the cattle car for YOU!!!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Comrade jim, but is for common good and preservation of Our Precious Democracy, so is all ok, da!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at February 17, 2024 10:18 AM (hOUT3)

332 They have no sense that they are the Nazis they claim to be fighting. The cognitive dissonance would be great, if they had a mind to think about it, which they don't.

The cattle car for you! And the cattle car for you! And the cattle car for YOU!!!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:15 AM (ynpvh)

As bitter as I may sound sometimes, I do think there are reasons to be hopeful, there are signs more people are waking up.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:18 AM (k3aEX)

333 324 Just good clean...ash and grease?
Is that the bald guy magic eraser, Mr. Kleen?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:12 AM (ynpvh)

Mr. Clean....wonder why he hasn't been cancelled?

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2024 10:15 AM (AwYPR)

He wears an ear-ring on the gay ear these days, I think. So protected as LGBTWTFBBQ or something?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:18 AM (ynpvh)

334 As a general principle, it's true across all kinds of realms, the people who financially benefit from WHATEVER industry there exists, should NOT be the ones who make the rules about how that industry works."

and this is where institutional capture comes in. In any industry or business, the only people motivated to fight for control over it for 30 years or more without ceasing are those who will benefit the most from that control. Pharma takes over the FDA, etc.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2024 10:18 AM (q3gwH)

335 Then he opens the case and saw that it was lavender and said Now I understand.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 17, 2024 10:14 AM (t/2Uw)

You *are* bringing that to the MoMee, right?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 17, 2024 10:18 AM (nC+QA)

336 Off every Topic so far: this latest Tucker Carlson interview with Mike Benz ("Uncensored: The National Security State & the Inversion of Democracy") is mind-blowing. This guy is connecting so many dots. Never heard of him before.

Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2024 10:19 AM (t7wVu)

337 Having a government that took law and order seriously would be a good starting point in reversing some of this rot. Yet at the moment there is little prospect of such common sense on the horizon. People deserve the government they get, and there are too few living on these isles who care sufficiently. However, the signs of degradation grow more numerous by the day, lifting the scales from everybody’s eyes, albeit slowly.

http://tinyurl.com/55h7staf

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2024 10:20 AM (ENQN6)

338 Holy moley!! Was that cardiac intervention ever timely!!

Some power wants you around on this Earth for awhile longer.

Posted by: Count de Monet, 4 stents and counting, we're still adding on. at February 17, 2024 10:13 AM (4I/2K)

Yeah, my mom who died in 2011. She likes to strike from the grave. She's done it once before, and this year in the end of november when I was getting the house ready for the holidays I heard her voice from out of nowhere. 2 simple words... "last christmas". It was a warning, and I listened.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 17, 2024 10:20 AM (VwHCD)

339 Beserker?? Get well soon !

Posted by: runner at February 17, 2024 10:21 AM (V13WU)

340 I'm taking my time. I feel like I fell out of a plane, but it gets better every day. I had a very good surgeon. His patients are known to heal quicker and better. He did my mom's bypass in 2004 and her recovery was amazing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 17, 2024 10:16 AM (VwHCD)

I think my incision/sternum healed before the artery mapping ink wore off.

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2024 10:21 AM (AwYPR)

341 ...just don't get impatient.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 10:07 AM (991eG)

Right. Because most deadly infections are caught while IN the hospital.

And besides, it costs a lot (*resists urge to say it costs an arm and a leg*).

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:22 AM (k3aEX)

342 This President's Day weekend, let's remember our best president, William Henry Harrison, who left office before he could fuck things up.
Posted by: Wally at February 17, 2024 10:18 AM (2D5vf)
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And Silent Cal, who had the supremely good sense to sign few laws and say little.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 17, 2024 10:22 AM (bRHEL)

343 Man, that's sad about the lady in the sidebar. She shouldn't have done the naughty thing, but the Internet does turn embarrassing mistakes into abject, life-ruining humiliations that people can never move on from.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2024 09:44 AM (0FoWg)

Yeah, on the other hand, I don't think I've ever gone out on the beach looked around and said.

"Welp, nobody's close. Time to jackoff!!!!"

Though I'm guessing she was a nut and a short stay at the nuthouse would've been a better solution.

And since she didn't appear to be a danger to anyone, I'm not sure why her name was given out over the internet/media.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 17, 2024 10:23 AM (nFnyb)

344 341 ...just don't get impatient.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 10:07 AM (991eG)

Right. Because most deadly infections are caught while IN the hospital.

And besides, it costs a lot (*resists urge to say it costs an arm and a leg*).

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:22 AM (k3aEX)

Michelle Fields wept.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:23 AM (ynpvh)

345 BDD, just curious, did you have symptoms indicating your blockages and if so, what were they?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 17, 2024 10:23 AM (MeG8a)

346 What about Cowboy Copas?

Posted by: Zombie Porter Wagoner at February 17, 2024 10:23 AM (V5BDR)

347 341 ...just don't get impatient.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 17, 2024 10:07 AM (991eG)

Right. Because most deadly infections are caught while IN the hospital.

And besides, it costs a lot (*resists urge to say it costs an arm and a leg*).

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:22 AM (k3aEX)

I saw some statistic that more people die in hospitals from mis/mal/dis-treatment than die from gunshot wounds each year. We need Hospital-Control. Need to limit the number of surgeons and patients they can have at anytime to prevent them from becoming assault hospitals.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:24 AM (ynpvh)

348 >>Off every Topic so far: this latest Tucker Carlson interview with Mike Benz ("Uncensored: The National Security State & the Inversion of Democracy") is mind-blowing. This guy is connecting so many dots. Never heard of him before.

I started following him on Twitter a while ago. I think he worked in government at one time, State Dept maybe, but whatever his background he seems to have one of the best takes of anyone I've run across about the weaponization of government against us.

The video is excellent and confirms what we pretty much already knew but in great detail. Our own government ran a color revolution against us in 2020.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2024 10:24 AM (LkLld)

349 Polli, oh absolutely! I can't wait to run the course with it. It is so pretty.
Can't wait to see everybody. Wish Texas was twice a year.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 17, 2024 10:24 AM (t/2Uw)

350 (cont) Last night over dinner my middle daughter announced that she was going to a Catholic speed-dating event at a local parish next weekend. I reflected that if I were her age, I'd do the same and probably be married by 23 given the shortage of eligible men.

My wife pointed out that I was in fact 22 at one point, and did nothing of the sort, instead choosing sin over virtue. After a moment, I agreed and said that it is only over the past few years that I have come to terms with what a sinful wretch I was in those days.

Which gets back to my point: you can change, you can repent. God rejoices when sinners turn away. Christ came to save sinners, not the righteous. It is never too late to repent. After a lifetime of affairs, divorces, remarriages, no less than John Wayne was received into the Church on his deathbed and was reconciled. Confession is a wonderful thing, absolution frees us from the chains of sins that keep us from God. As a society, we have lost that, and we must get it back.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 10:24 AM (llXky)

351 I bought a hardcover copy of Camp of the Saints back in college because it was assigned as part of a military history course. I didn't even read it at the time, but I do recall the instructor saying that the future wars would not be between east and west but between the first world and the third world. I read it years later and didn't think much of it at the time, but in hindsight that instructor was a modern-day Nostradamus.

Maybe I'll spend my days hand-copying it and distributing the pages like they did in the USSR with samizdat materials.

Posted by: PabloD at February 17, 2024 10:25 AM (bDE7A)

352 342 This President's Day weekend, let's remember our best president, William Henry Harrison, who left office before he could fuck things up.
Posted by: Wally at February 17, 2024 10:18 AM (2D5vf)
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And Silent Cal, who had the supremely good sense to sign few laws and say little.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 17, 2024 10:22 AM (bRHEL)

Didn't Slient Cal make use of the pocket veto?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:25 AM (ynpvh)

353 Can't wait to see everybody. Wish Texas was twice a year.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
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#metoo

If I could get my shit together I still wanna do a miniMoMe in SC, something low key. But I'll never get my shit together.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 10:26 AM (1eY81)

354 and this is where institutional capture comes in. In any industry or business, the only people motivated to fight for control over it for 30 years or more without ceasing are those who will benefit the most from that control. Pharma takes over the FDA, etc.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2024 10:18 AM (q3gwH)

And the extent to which the revolving door from government to industry and back again, has to be closed. Locked. Removed from its hinges, burned, and fed to the wolves.

Then blow up the wolves.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:27 AM (AUuUW)

355 If I could get my shit together I still wanna do a miniMoMe in SC, something low key. But I'll never get my shit together.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 10:26 AM (1eY81)

I'm in.

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2024 10:27 AM (AwYPR)

356 353 Can't wait to see everybody. Wish Texas was twice a year.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
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#metoo

If I could get my shit together I still wanna do a miniMoMe in SC, something low key. But I'll never get my shit together.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 10:26 AM (1eY81)

I assume SC is NOT Southern California...
Carolinas, so far away.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:28 AM (ynpvh)

357 I see so many good memes about coffee that I am envious of people who drink it. I can't stand the taste, and I'm the only one in my family who never drinks it. Maybe it's a genetic thing, I don't know.

Posted by: RebeccaH at February 17, 2024 10:29 AM (Nvors)

358 Berserker - I don't know you personally, but I raise a glass of warm sausage gravy to toast your successful heart surgery.

Chug-chug-chug...

Can I get the name of that doctor?

Posted by: PabloD at February 17, 2024 10:30 AM (bDE7A)

359 Man, it looks like it's going to struggle to get out of the 20's today. I think I'm going to make a pot of beef vegetable soup. Have it tonight for dinner. Supposed to get down into the teens with potential wind chills in the single digits.

The groundhog lied.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2024 10:30 AM (Q4IgG)

360 Off every Topic so far: this latest Tucker Carlson interview with Mike Benz ("Uncensored: The National Security State & the Inversion of Democracy") is mind-blowing. This guy is connecting so many dots. Never heard of him before.
Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2024 10:19 AM (t7wVu)

I listened to it last night (couldn't watch it, he looks like melting wax). Very thorough, an almost autistic level of knowledge of who is connected to what.

Reminds me of Whitney Webb, who is also something of an autist, who has all the corrupt pols in her crosshairs.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:30 AM (AUuUW)

361 The video is excellent and confirms what we pretty much already knew but in great detail. Our own government ran a color revolution against us in 2020.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2024 10:24 AM (LkLld)
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The problem that these people are running into is that there is no "game over" in life, where your cheat is made permanent. There's always something else coming up, and having cheated once, it's harder to cheat again, and after a while, people figure it out, and the game starts to evolve in ways they didn't expect.

Moreover, the people in charge are so starved for attention that they are compelled to seek praise and run victory laps for how clever they are. They're smart! They tricked you, loser! Deal with it!

That leads to places they haven't thought about, and historical parallels they never bothered to look up.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 10:31 AM (llXky)

362 Then he opens the case and saw that it was lavender and said Now I understand.

A handful of manufacturers are marketing directly to the fairer sex and IMO, that's a good thing. When we're walking around a gun show together, the Mrs. will often point to a pistol with some garish color or laser engraving and say "Oooh, that's pretty." To which I mutter under my breath "Pimp gun." We did go out of our way to get her a pink Ruger PC9 that was a special edition for some distributor.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 17, 2024 10:31 AM (sNc8Y)

363 I'm in.
Posted by: BignJames
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So my original idea was just to pick a Saturday or Sunday to meet up at PSA (Woodruff Rd... ugh) to shoot for a bit and then go eat.

I'd love to host a smallish group at my place someday, but not quite ready for that yet and not sure when I will be. It would be *very* low key. I'm not an event planner.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 10:32 AM (1eY81)

364 En mi casa toman Bustelo!

Posted by: Wealth of Riches at February 17, 2024 10:32 AM (V5BDR)

365 268 Q: For identical liquid quantities which is heavier - water or butane?

A: Water. Butane is a lighter fluid.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2024 09:55 AM (4I/2K)

; )

Posted by: m at February 17, 2024 10:33 AM (1BWJp)

366 BDD, just curious, did you have symptoms indicating your blockages and if so, what were they?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 17, 2024 10:23 AM (MeG8a)

Well, I noticed a shortness of breath under excursion that seemed new. I had no other symptoms. No chest pains, no arm pains, etc. I moved out of one house, into another, and renovated both. There were times where my breathing was a little labored. This recent one was new. There was an old kick start harley we rebuilt, and after 6-7 rapid kicks I couldn't catch my breath, so I knew something was off.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 17, 2024 10:33 AM (VwHCD)

367 Any "new" info on KC shooters?

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2024 10:33 AM (AwYPR)

368 I saw some statistic that more people die in hospitals from mis/mal/dis-treatment than die from gunshot wounds each year. We need Hospital-Control. Need to limit the number of surgeons and patients they can have at anytime to prevent them from becoming assault hospitals.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:24 AM (ynpvh)

I'm pretty sure they're trying to get rid of all the doctors that have the thing that goes up.

I'm not sure that's the right answer.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:33 AM (AUuUW)

369 I didn't even read it at the time, but I do recall the instructor saying that the future wars would not be between east and west but between the first world and the third world. I read it years later and didn't think much of it at the time, but in hindsight that instructor was a modern-day Nostradamus.

++++
I'm reading a sci fi book written by a Chinese author. There is a passage that describes this. When technology reaches a point where even small countries can own devastating weaponry, they have an advantage over large countries that have much larger populations to protect. It changes the dynamic.
I'm finding a lot of political commentary that applies to today. Surprised the Chinese allowed this book to be published.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 17, 2024 10:34 AM (t/2Uw)

370 Berserker - I don't know you personally, but I raise a glass of warm sausage gravy to toast your successful heart surgery.

Chug-chug-chug...

Can I get the name of that doctor?

Posted by: PabloD at February 17, 2024 10:30 AM (bDE7A)

Dr Mark Anderson. He's a top cardiac surgeon.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 17, 2024 10:35 AM (VwHCD)

371 The video is excellent and confirms what we pretty much already knew but in great detail. Our own government ran a color revolution against us in 2020.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2024 10:24 AM (LkLld)

Funny thing is, Tucker had a harder time interrupting him than he did Vlad the Imputin.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:35 AM (AUuUW)

372 I assume SC is NOT Southern California...
Carolinas, so far away.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Yep, upstate South Cackalacky.

And when I say "LA" it means "lower Alabama." :-)

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 10:35 AM (1eY81)

373 353 Can't wait to see everybody. Wish Texas was twice a year.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
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Across the Alley from the Alamo ?

http://tinyurl.com/423bz84v

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 10:36 AM (T4tVD)

374 So my original idea was just to pick a Saturday or Sunday to meet up at PSA (Woodruff Rd... ugh) to shoot for a bit and then go eat.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 10:32 AM (1eY81)

Sounds easy enough...does PSA do groups?

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2024 10:36 AM (AwYPR)

375 @347 We need Hospital-Control.

You're on to something. Credit where due, though:
They do seem to have that 5-day waiting period down pat.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 17, 2024 10:37 AM (zdLoL)

376 Berserker get well soon

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 10:37 AM (fwDg9)

377
Any "new" info on KC shooters?

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2024 10:33 AM

shooters? no, there's no "shooters"

obviously, it's all the guns' fault...Mr.Taylor Swift said so

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 17, 2024 10:37 AM (kQ2Qm)

378 >>That leads to places they haven't thought about, and historical parallels they never bothered to look up.

In a significant number of countries where we have been involved in regime change the result is civil unrest that lasts a very long time, Iran being the most obvious example.

Too many people know in their gut that 2020 was not normal and no amount of pressure from government or their partners in the media/social media, NGOs, etc. are going to change their minds. In fact, to paraphrase that great philosopher Princess Leia the more they turn the screws the more will resist.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2024 10:38 AM (LkLld)

379 Berserker get well soon
Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 10:37 AM (fwDg9)

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 10:38 AM (T4tVD)

380 I'm taking my time. I feel like I fell out of a plane, but it gets better every day. I had a very good surgeon. His patients are known to heal quicker and better. He did my mom's bypass in 2004 and her recovery was amazing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 17, 2024 10:16 AM (VwHCD)
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Four years ago I thought I was having a heart attack and it turned out to be acute myocarditis, that presented the same way. Ambulance came, I got the usual treatment, and things settled down. They ran all the tests and my arteries were clear, nothing wrong with cholesterol, etc. To this day, no one knows why I was struck down. I mean, I was stressed, was pushing myself too hard physically (the attack came after swapping out the basement appliances, so exhaustion played a role), and because of that, my cardiologist said to stay away from the Vaxx because a myocarditis was associated with it and I could drop dead.

Anyhow, I used my convalescence to do the research for what became Long Live Death, which was published in 2020, just in time to explain where we are. I didn't intend to write a book, I just wanted to chill.

Relax, and use your time well.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 10:38 AM (llXky)

381 >Any "new" info on KC shooters?

Posted by: BignJames

charged as juveniles

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2024 10:39 AM (geLO8)

382 Any "new" info on KC shooters?
Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2024 10:33 AM (AwYPR)

Everyone's now saying they are juvies, yoots, rapscallions.

I guess that's an attempt to soften their image. Can't change their skin color.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:39 AM (AUuUW)

383 obviously, it's all the guns' fault...Mr.Taylor Swift said so

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 17, 2024 10:37 AM (kQ2Qm)

Oh?...gee, I missed that.

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2024 10:39 AM (AwYPR)

384 369 I didn't even read it at the time, but I do recall the instructor saying that the future wars would not be between east and west but between the first world and the third world. I read it years later and didn't think much of it at the time, but in hindsight that instructor was a modern-day Nostradamus.

++++
I'm reading a sci fi book written by a Chinese author. There is a passage that describes this. When technology reaches a point where even small countries can own devastating weaponry, they have an advantage over large countries that have much larger populations to protect. It changes the dynamic.
I'm finding a lot of political commentary that applies to today. Surprised the Chinese allowed this book to be published.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 17, 2024 10:34 AM (t/2Uw)

The Chinese can't prevent the shrinkage of their population. The one-child policy for all those decades ruined them;

1) Selective abortions so the one child was male.
2) No siblings
3) No aunts/uncles/cousins

This leads to many women over there not wanting to have kids of their own. It's estimated, if things continue for another 60-80 years, 300-400 million population.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:40 AM (ynpvh)

385
charged as juveniles

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2024 10:39 AM

those who wagered on "prohibited possessor" can collect their quatloos at the pay window

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 17, 2024 10:40 AM (kQ2Qm)

386 Med Page Today:

Winners & Losers of the Mass Exodus From U.S. News' Med School Rankings
— Who comes out on top?
by Bryan Carmody, MD, MPH
February 2, 2023
Last Updated February 3, 2023

Posted by: L - Now King of BS can't remember last evening so just forget about it at February 17, 2024 10:41 AM (GshMh)

387 The video is excellent and confirms what we pretty much already knew but in great detail. Our own government ran a color revolution against us in 2020.

...as Trump is now running against the Deep State, "playbook known". Anyways, Mike Benz' ability to paint the picture is very impressive.

Gotta hand it to Tucker, he stops Benz at one point and distills things even further for us, "you mean the Pentagon turned these abilities against Americans?!" Something like that. Anyways, that showed me he was just playing dumb with Putin so that Putin could get his points across.

Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2024 10:41 AM (ZpQic)

388 >>Funny thing is, Tucker had a harder time interrupting him than he did Vlad the Imputin.

I like Tucker, seems like a decent guy with basically good intentions. But he seems very naive about his own government on many issues.

Probably because he was raised in that environment.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2024 10:41 AM (LkLld)

389 375 @347 We need Hospital-Control.

You're on to something. Credit where due, though:
They do seem to have that 5-day waiting period down pat.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 17, 2024 10:37 AM (zdLoL)

Unless you've come for the suicide/euthanasia special.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:42 AM (ynpvh)

390 You're on to something. Credit where due, though:
They do seem to have that 5-day waiting period down pat.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 17, 2024 10:37 AM (zdLoL)

Definitely one of the drawbacks of living in a smaller city/town. Fewer doctors, especially specialists.

At least we're not Canada though, who is having a hard time finding doctors who will sign off on government suicides. Such a pity, so many poors and miserable retches who need to go.....

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:42 AM (AUuUW)

391 A handful of manufacturers are marketing directly to the fairer sex and IMO, that's a good thing. When we're walking around a gun show together, the Mrs. will often point to a pistol with some garish color or laser engraving and say "Oooh, that's pretty." To which I mutter under my breath "Pimp gun." We did go out of our way to get her a pink Ruger PC9 that was a special edition for some distributor.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 17, 2024 10:31 AM (sNc8Y)
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Yes, and .32 is seeing a revival because it packs much more power than a .22LR, is more reliable, but still very mild to shoot. Charter Arms' .32 Magnum revolver is called the "Undercoverette" to appeal to the ladies who want a magnum, but less recoil.

My daughters are really grooving to .32 ACP, and I'm seeing more ammo for it, and some new production guns chambered in it. Some of those will certainly be pink.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 10:43 AM (llXky)

392 382 Any "new" info on KC shooters?
Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2024 10:33 AM (AwYPR)

Everyone's now saying they are juvies, yoots, rapscallions.

I guess that's an attempt to soften their image. Can't change their skin color.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:39 AM (AUuUW)

They're just about to turn their lives around and go to Kowledge.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:43 AM (ynpvh)

393 Sounds easy enough...does PSA do groups?
Posted by: BignJames
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Not sure, but I can call and ask.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 10:44 AM (1eY81)

394
I like Tucker, seems like a decent guy with basically good intentions. But he seems very naive about his own government on many issues.

Probably because he was raised in that environment.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2024 10:41 AM (LkLld)
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Tucker's whole schtick is to appear naive. He has a great confused/shocked expression, and he uses that to highlight significant portions of interviews. I'm not saying he's faking it, but that's one of his strengths and why he is effective. He doesn't just nod, or talk over people like some reporters, he pauses and gives the incredulous look, and then asks for confirmation. That adds to the impact of those moments.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 10:45 AM (llXky)

395 charged as juveniles

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2024 10:39 AM

If they stay in the juvie system, we may never know anything else.

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2024 10:47 AM (AwYPR)

396 381. charged as juveniles
Posted by: Don Black

And the law should be questioning their parents regarding their parental responsibilities and the press taking the opportunity to convict them in the news.

Posted by: L - Now King of BS can't remember last evening so just forget about it at February 17, 2024 10:47 AM (GshMh)

397 "Praise Him for taking jewells' cancer from her!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! "

I missed this wonderful news!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 17, 2024 10:47 AM (QwWES)

398 This leads to many women over there not wanting to have kids of their own. It's estimated, if things continue for another 60-80 years, 300-400 million population.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:40 AM (ynpvh)
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Yes, and families will resist their only heir being used as cannon fodder, which is the traditional Chinese way of war.

Interesting times ahead.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 10:47 AM (llXky)

399 Anyways, that showed me he was just playing dumb with Putin so that Putin could get his points across.
Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2024 10:41 AM (ZpQic)

I wouldn't say playing dumb. I don't think any of us would have been able to say to Vlad, "so down there hoss, you're filibustering."

It would be like getting in the batters box against Bob Gibson, and shouting out to the mound saying "hey, don't throw so hard, and not so close to my chin!"

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:47 AM (azC9v)

400 Morning Hordemates!
It's 3-2-1 ribs today!
Woohoo!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 17, 2024 10:49 AM (W/lyH)

401
And the law should be questioning their parents regarding their parental responsibilities and the press taking the opportunity to convict them in the news.

Posted by: L - Now King of BS can't remember last evening so just forget about it at February 17, 2024 10:47 AM (GshMh)
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Michigan passed a "safe storage" law that allows criminal charges against parents for not storing guns properly.

Anyone want to take bets on whether this will only be used against affluent white parents?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 10:49 AM (llXky)

402 I like Tucker, seems like a decent guy with basically good intentions. But he seems very naive about his own government on many issues.

Probably because he was raised in that environment.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2024 10:41 AM (LkLld)

I don't think he's naive. What he doesn't say, is how much being a corporate media employee tempered what he could and could not say, even though he says they didn't (of course they did!).

He's letting it all out now. Who he interviews is as much a signifier of that as anything, and yet he does admit when he was in corporate media, he didn't realize how bad it was, how far it went.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:50 AM (azC9v)

403 Sounds easy enough...does PSA do groups?
Posted by: BignJames
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Not sure, but I can call and ask.
Posted by: screaming in digital
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Ah yes, looking over the website more closely it appears that they do...

Maybe we pick a few possible days, I call PSA to see what I can arrange there, and then I beg one of our fine COBs to put in the sidebar???

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 10:50 AM (1eY81)

404 Erratum for the gun nerds. LC9, not PC9. The editors regret the error.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 17, 2024 10:52 AM (sNc8Y)

405 He's letting it all out now. Who he interviews is as much a signifier of that as anything, and yet he does admit when he was in corporate media, he didn't realize how bad it was, how far it went.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:50 AM (azC9v)
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It was crazy seeing people freak out over interviewing Putin. Even in the worst part of the Cold War, getting an interview with the Soviets was a desired "get."

The pathetic part is all the GOPe simps screaming treason about it. Yeah, be completely ignorant of our adversaries, that's the way to win!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 10:52 AM (llXky)

406 Two juvenile suspects have been charged in connection with Wednesday's mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade that left one person dead and 22 others injured.

The two suspects, who are not being named due to their ages, are being held on gun-related charges and resisting arrest, according to the 16th Judicial Circuit Court of Missouri's Jackson County Family Court Division. Additional charges are expected as the investigation continues, officials said.

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2024 10:52 AM (geLO8)

407 Gotta run. Busy day ahead.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:54 AM (ynpvh)

408 It was crazy seeing people freak out over interviewing Putin. Even in the worst part of the Cold War, getting an interview with the Soviets was a desired "get."

The pathetic part is all the GOPe simps screaming treason about it. Yeah, be completely ignorant of our adversaries, that's the way to win!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 10:52 AM (llXky)

Might be something of an oversimplification, but I'd say anyone complaining about his interview, including those who are complaining he wasn't "harder" on Pootin, are in on the grift/op.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:54 AM (azC9v)

409 I’m continuing my prayers for everyone! Jewells, I’m so glad to hear the happy news!

Posted by: Moonbeam at February 17, 2024 10:55 AM (rbKZ6)

410 "The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God."

Romans 8:6-8

Posted by: Marcus T at February 17, 2024 10:55 AM (d9i2R)

411 361 The video is excellent and confirms what we pretty much already knew but in great detail. Our own government ran a color revolution against us in 2020.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2024 10:24 AM (LkLld)

Biden/Blinken have tried 2 or 3 times to start up a color revolution against Netanyahu in Israel, but every time it gets close to succeeding, Hamas jumps out and says "NO NEGOTIATIONS! ALL JEWS MUST DIE!!!" and Bibi ends up looking smarter than anybody else. The latest effort, involving Biden's declaration to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian State was (according to Israeli sources) based on the belief that Benny Gantz would agree and push Netanyahu out of the PM slot. Well 2 days ago Gantz (who is in the war cabinet) said that Netanyahu was right, and that he would never accept a Palestinian State, either. Looks like the entire effort by Biden and Blinken is dead about 5 days after it began.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2024 10:55 AM (q3gwH)

412 Country Music has been infected by rap for a few years now. Anyway, it sucks and now it will suck even more.

I grew up with Hee Haw and Lester and Earl. The crap they put out nowadays is garbage. In fact, most everything is crap nowadays. They should just call entropy "craptropy".
Posted by: fd at February 17, 2024 07:32 AM (vFG9F)

The kind of country you want is now called "Alt Country". Some good performers still doing it. Hayes Carll, Corb Lund, David Allen Coe, Ray Wiley Hubbard, plus many others. You have to seek it out, it does not get airplay on the radio, because media is the enemy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 17, 2024 10:55 AM (tkR6S)

413 I understand that Carlson is fractious and holds incendiary opinions. I certainly don't agree with all his opinions, and I don't blame Ace for disagreeing with him either.

My one quibble is that, unlike Ace, I'm not ready to call him a dishonest scam artist yet. He's a journalist. He's almost definitely an evil liar. But he's one of the vanishing few who I'm not confident enough to condemn as an evil liar. Yet.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2024 10:55 AM (0FoWg)

414 BUT ROOSHIA GOT SPACE LASERS, HE GONNA GIT US ALL!!!!!

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:56 AM (azC9v)

415 Maybe we pick a few possible days, I call PSA to see what I can arrange there, and then I beg one of our fine COBs to put in the sidebar???

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 10:50 AM (1eY81)

Could be a plan...there's a State run outdoor range in Pauline...free...they have about 10 sheltered handgun stations, and rifle stations.

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2024 10:57 AM (AwYPR)

416 411 361 The video is excellent and confirms what we pretty much already knew but in great detail. Our own government ran a color revolution against us in 2020.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2024 10:24 AM (LkLld)

Biden/Blinken have tried 2 or 3 times to start up a color revolution against Netanyahu in Israel, but every time it gets close to succeeding, Hamas jumps out and says "NO NEGOTIATIONS! ALL JEWS MUST DIE!!!" and Bibi ends up looking smarter than anybody else. The latest effort, involving Biden's declaration to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian State was (according to Israeli sources) based on the belief that Benny Gantz would agree and push Netanyahu out of the PM slot. Well 2 days ago Gantz (who is in the war cabinet) said that Netanyahu was right, and that he would never accept a Palestinian State, either. Looks like the entire effort by Biden and Blinken is dead about 5 days after it began.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2024 10:55 AM (q3gwH)

Their own judicial system is killing them. There are no restraints on their high court, and when they tried legislating some small, reasonable limits, the court said, "Hell no, denied!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:57 AM (ynpvh)

417 Might be something of an oversimplification, but I'd say anyone complaining about his interview, including those who are complaining he wasn't "harder" on Pootin, are in on the grift/op.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:54 AM (azC9v)
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The "tell" was that organizations that fell over themselves into interview Arafat, Saddam, etc. joined in the condemnation.

It's pretty clear at this point that in Cold War 2, we are the Soviets, and you'll take our Pravda and believe it or else.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 10:57 AM (llXky)

418 Yes, and families will resist their only heir being used as cannon fodder, which is the traditional Chinese way of war.

Interesting times ahead.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 10:47 AM (llXky)

I wondered at the time if, for that very reason, China didn't find it *very* convenient to have a rapidly spreading disease that mostly killed old people.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 17, 2024 10:58 AM (nC+QA)

419 Could be a plan...there's a State run outdoor range in Pauline...free...they have about 10 sheltered handgun stations, and rifle stations.
Posted by: BignJames
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I'd be up for that as well!!

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 10:58 AM (1eY81)

420 >>He's letting it all out now. Who he interviews is as much a signifier of that as anything, and yet he does admit when he was in corporate media, he didn't realize how bad it was, how far it went.

That's what I mean. Even when he was at Fox he pushed the envelope more than most which is why they canned him but he's seeing just how bad it really is now. Don't forget, he grew up in the privileged class and his father was CIA so he likely believed they were a force for good only.

He is an excellent interviewer. He understands that we want to hear from the person he is interviewing not him most of the time.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2024 10:59 AM (LkLld)

421 Let's find out how much money was spent on mental health in their particular school dustricts, in high schools, too.

We're bleeding money to mysterious school programs, apparently bearing little to no positive results.

Posted by: L - Now King of BS can't remember last evening so just forget about it at February 17, 2024 10:59 AM (GshMh)

422 My one quibble is that, unlike Ace, I'm not ready to call him a dishonest scam artist yet. He's a journalist. He's almost definitely an evil liar. But he's one of the vanishing few who I'm not confident enough to condemn as an evil liar. Yet.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2024 10:55 AM (0FoWg)

Does Ace say he's dishonest? A scam artist?

If so, Ace is wrong. Again.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 11:00 AM (azC9v)

423 BUT ROOSHIA GOT SPACE LASERS, HE GONNA GIT US ALL!!!!!

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 10:56 AM (azC9v)
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Have you seen the memes where they are made out of looted Ukrainian appliances?

This is why the elites will lose - they are too stupid to stick with a lie beyond three weeks. At least the Communists twisted the truth gradually.

RUSSIA IS WEAK, AND LOSING does not mesh will with OMG SPACE LAZERS!!1!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 11:00 AM (llXky)

424 The pathetic part is all the GOPe simps screaming treason about it. Yeah, be completely ignorant of our adversaries, that's the way to win!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 10:52 AM (llXky)

Yeah, that was a tell. I could be wrong, but the last time I can recall Putin granting Western media a long form interview was in the late 90s or maybe early '00s. And it was very interesting, and provided insight into his thinking. It was not a controversial thing to do. He's sort of a big wheel down at the nuclear-armed nations club, so people wanted to hear him out.

It's rare and important, and many of the people who read that interview with avid interest back then are the same ones who now shriek about this one.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2024 11:00 AM (0FoWg)

425 Just realized I drank my second cup of coffee and haven't made anything to eat yet.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 17, 2024 11:01 AM (t/2Uw)

426 Looks like the entire effort by Biden and Blinken is dead about 5 days after it began.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2024 10:55 AM (q3gwH)

Thank God.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 17, 2024 11:01 AM (nC+QA)

427 Shit, it's 11:00 and I've accomplished nothing today except consuming covfefe and breakfast. I'm out. Have a good one and catch y'all later.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 11:01 AM (1eY81)

428 Looks like the entire effort by Biden and Blinken is dead about 5 days after it began.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2024 10:55 AM (q3gwH)

Thank God.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 17, 2024 11:01 AM (nC+QA)
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This is going to end with the US completely expelled from the Middle East.

Which I'm fine with, but the powers that be will go berzerk.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 11:02 AM (llXky)

429 Two juvenile suspects have been charged in connection with Wednesday's mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade that left one person dead and 22 others injured.

The two suspects, who are not being named due to their ages, are being held on gun-related charges and resisting arrest, according to the 16th Judicial Circuit Court of Missouri's Jackson County Family Court Division. Additional charges are expected as the investigation continues, officials said.
Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2024 10:52 AM (geLO

Ugh. This is a crime that indicates, at best, sociopathology. Mass killing isn't buzzing your bean at the beach.

They should be charged as adults and if found guilty, executed if they have it. Otherwise, life without parole. No way these two sick creeps should ever be back on the streets.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 17, 2024 11:03 AM (nFnyb)

430 Does Ace say he's dishonest? A scam artist?

Yeah, in the sidebar. Says he's concealing his true agenda behind a smokescreen of just ask questions, etc.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2024 11:03 AM (0FoWg)

431 43 BRCC AK47
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2024 07:50 AM (ENQN6)

Don’t take no chemist to understand the equation AK-47

Posted by: Cyco at February 17, 2024 11:04 AM (Bn2JH)

432 That's what I mean. Even when he was at Fox he pushed the envelope more than most which is why they canned him but he's seeing just how bad it really is now. Don't forget, he grew up in the privileged class and his father was CIA so he likely believed they were a force for good only.

He is an excellent interviewer. He understands that we want to hear from the person he is interviewing not him most of the time.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2024 10:59 AM (LkLld)

I guess that's the thing we don't know for sure, what he knew and when he knew it.

I don't doubt there was SOME naivety, simply because of who he was and wasn't allowed to have on air. They were systematically controlling his access to information, but he often talks about how much he's struggled with that, having grown up in the world he did, and worked in the places he has, to realize how much of it was part of the op.

But that's what we all don't know for sure. Who was/is part of the Deep State. We can't always know.

I learned last week that Gloria Steinem was always an agent of the CIA. Her job was to control the direction the feminazi movement went.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 11:04 AM (azC9v)

433 427 Shit, it's 11:00 and I've accomplished nothing today except consuming covfefe and breakfast. I'm out. Have a good one and catch y'all later.
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 17, 2024 11:01 AM (1eY81)

I get up around 7, get out of bed around 9

Posted by: GnR at February 17, 2024 11:05 AM (Bn2JH)

434 Wondered outside, cleaned off truck and little snow at bottom of the driveway. Getting breezy but above freezing at least

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2024 11:05 AM (fwDg9)

435 Well, time to head out and get stuff done.

Okay, no. I'm just going to goof off away from the computer.

God bless you all!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 17, 2024 11:06 AM (llXky)

436 Yes, and .32 is seeing a revival because it packs much more power than a .22LR, is more reliable, but still very mild to shoot. Charter Arms' .32 Magnum revolver is called the "Undercoverette" to appeal to the ladies who want a magnum, but less recoil.

My daughters are really grooving to .32 ACP, and I'm seeing more ammo for it, and some new production guns chambered in it. Some of those will certainly be pink.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

I got an Undercoverette some time back. Very small especially with the oprional sliver grips and might be a bit of a kicker with the hotter 32 H&R magnums.

But, never shot it yet as I saw a Taurus 327 right after that I snapped up. The 327 is bigger but fun in that it can shoot five different cartridges.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 17, 2024 11:06 AM (cOq4q)

437 Morning from lovely AZ. Taking a break from the snow and visiting my sister for the holiday weekend. Glad to see positive updates from Jewells & Berserker!

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 17, 2024 11:07 AM (z0Mbj)

438 Yeah, in the sidebar. Says he's concealing his true agenda behind a smokescreen of just ask questions, etc.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2024 11:03 AM (0FoWg)

Oh, I never look at the sidebar. And when I skim it now, it looks like Fannie and Sweetdick all the way down.

Tucker's not hiding an agenda. That's nonsense. Whether one agrees with him or not, he's laid his cards on the table, much more clearly than damn near anyone who works in media, of any kind.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2024 11:08 AM (azC9v)

439 Blue skies appearing outside now.

Btw, today is the anniversary of Rush Limbaugh's passing. I still miss him, too.

Posted by: L - Now King of BS can't remember last evening so just forget about it at February 17, 2024 11:08 AM (GshMh)

440 Yeah it was 2000. "First Person," a book where he gave interviews for various journalists. I need to buy it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2024 11:08 AM (0FoWg)

441 The Chinese can't prevent the shrinkage of their population. The one-child policy for all those decades ruined them;

1) Selective abortions so the one child was male.
2) No siblings
3) No aunts/uncles/cousins

This leads to many women over there not wanting to have kids of their own. It's estimated, if things continue for another 60-80 years, 300-400 million population.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:40 AM (ynpvh)

And the Chinese have never done a real, honest to God evaluation of Mao, his legacy, and CPC rule.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2024 11:09 AM (Bn2JH)

442 But, never shot it yet as I saw a Taurus 327 right after that I snapped up. The 327 is bigger but fun in that it can shoot five different cartridges.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 17, 2024 11:06 AM (cOq4q)

I'm interested in .327 but don't see a lot of info...S&W has a model but they're always out of stock.

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2024 11:10 AM (AwYPR)

443 Btw, today is the anniversary of Rush Limbaugh's passing. I still miss him, too.
Posted by: L - Now King of BS can't remember last evening so just forget about it at February 17, 2024 11:08 AM (GshMh)

I rolled out of the rack that day in a bitterly cold TX Panhandle, and thought to myself, “I hadn’t heard Rush in awhile. Let’s hit the airwaves.” So I tuned into his show…and found out.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2024 11:11 AM (Bn2JH)

444 Notice how quick they were to charge the parents of that white kid. Think they'll do the same with the Kansas City shooters?

Posted by: Wally at February 17, 2024 11:12 AM (tcUSx)

445 All these people who think they can solve the Israeli/Hamas war from some foreign country have no clue about how Israelis are feeling. Israelis are no longer safe in their own homes. Their comfortable lives have been totally disrupted by murder, rape and the burning to the ground of entire communities. Yes, let's give the perpetrators of this horrendous crime against humanity their own country as a reward. Let's make it right next to where the innocent victims live and work. Let's rebuild Gaza so they can continue to live off the welfare the world provides so they can continue to not produce anything to make the world a better place.
I like the Israelis who live in a completely integrated society, produce Medical and technological wonders and live peaceably in a communal lifestyle that communism has been unsuccessful in achieving in 100 years of trying.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 17, 2024 11:13 AM (t/2Uw)

446 Btw, today is the anniversary of Rush Limbaugh's passing. I still miss him, too.
Posted by: L - Now King of BS can't remember last evening so just forget about it at February 17, 2024 11:08 AM (GshMh)

Yeah, me too.

If Rush were still alive, the last three years would been commentary for the ages.

Interesting how after Rush died, talk radio kinda just fell apart. The irreplaceable man, I guess. Commentary now seems so small and pedestrian.

Big, important things are happening and all we hear is mumbles and shrieks.

Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 17, 2024 11:14 AM (nFnyb)

447 >>> Their own judicial system is killing them. There are no restraints on their high court, and when they tried legislating some small, reasonable limits, the court said, "Hell no, denied!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

The 'judicial system' is weakest and most corruptable organ in any state. The 'judge' gives lawful credibility to even the most egregious acts of despotic state actors.
This is true here, there, anywhere.

It's also why when shit goes sideways judges become of special interest for all parties, whether they be the 'legitimate' government or 'insurrectionists'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 17, 2024 11:14 AM (cOq4q)

448 Morning from lovely AZ. Taking a break from the snow and visiting my sister for the holiday weekend. Glad to see positive updates from Jewells & Berserker!
Posted by: Jordan61

There are lots of really pretty areas.
What area are you visiting?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 17, 2024 11:15 AM (M8pNi)

449 Decided I want to read The Camp of the Saints, but I can't find it anywhere in English for less than $150. Amazon has one hardcover from a third party seller for $975. Abe Books doesn't have it. The local library doesn't have it. Looks like it has been essentially banned.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 17, 2024 08:54 AM (Dm8we)

Pretty sure Project Gutenberg has a free download available.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 17, 2024 11:15 AM (tkR6S)

450 Nood.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 17, 2024 11:15 AM (M8pNi)

451 There are lots of really pretty areas.
What area are you visiting?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 17, 2024 11:15 AM (M8pNi)

=====

Near Queen Creek.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 17, 2024 11:16 AM (z0Mbj)

452 Might be him. Archived State Department page.

Michael A. Benz
DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION POLICY
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS

http://tinyurl.com/4spe2hpj

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2024 11:17 AM (LkLld)

453
Apache Junction, a couple miles north.
Sunrise was really pretty for us this morning.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 17, 2024 11:19 AM (M8pNi)

454 256 > If you ever smell gas, GET OUT. Don't turn any light switches or ANY electrical thing on or off.

this includes using a hardline phone. Don't pick up the receiver to call for help. Go outside and call for help.

ANY flow of electricity could be the spark that blows your house to smithereens.

GTFO.
Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2024 09:47 AM

This happened in Durham NC a couple of years ago. Utility crew broke a line in a retail district and told everyone to get out. A man working in his cafe was the last one to heed the warning. He took out his cell phone to call one of his kids to let him know he was closing up and caused a huge explosion. Tragically, he was killed.

Posted by: Moonbeam at February 17, 2024 11:28 AM (rbKZ6)

455 384
1) Selective abortions so the one child was male.
2) No siblings
3) No aunts/uncles/cousins
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:40 AM (ynpvh)

These are powerfully bad things.

Posted by: m at February 17, 2024 11:35 AM (1BWJp)

456 Prayers for all.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * need a new hobby at February 17, 2024 11:35 AM (ajmLD)

457 Their own judicial system is killing them. There are no restraints on their high court, and when they tried legislating some small, reasonable limits, the court said, "Hell no, denied!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2024 10:57 AM (ynpvh)

There is a way to fix that...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 17, 2024 11:49 AM (tkR6S)

458 Near Queen Creek.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 17, 2024 11:16 AM (z0Mbj)

You're not that far from me, and AZ Deplorable. Maybe a dozen miles. There's a fun Old West style saloon and eatery in Queen Creek, right on the main drag. You want to try and do a meetup?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 17, 2024 11:57 AM (tkR6S)

459 I never would've guessed that you could make me vomit with eight words...

https://youtu.be/nb4KJaUpVNE?si=iOXirp3xIaGAmLMc

Posted by: Jack Scheidt at February 17, 2024 01:57 PM (JPYkl)

460 Oh, maybe I should've included those eight words in my post, rather than just blindsiding you with a link... "Arizona School Fires Rachel Dolezal Over OnlyFans Account."

Posted by: Jack Scheidt at February 17, 2024 01:59 PM (JPYkl)

461 It is great to read that Jewells is doing better. Payers work!

Posted by: Theodore at February 17, 2024 08:15 PM (pGonq)

462 Incrеdible points. Sound arguments. Keep up the gгeat spirit.

Posted by: shrub at February 18, 2024 05:14 PM (98HwX)

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