Mid-Morning Art Thread

A Game of Tric Trac
Judith Leyster

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Yo!

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 09:30 AM (JunzL)

2 WTFO

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 06, 2024 09:30 AM (ENQN6)

3 I got threes and a gun.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 06, 2024 09:31 AM (OG98j)

4 While smokin' some rocks...

Posted by: BignJames at March 06, 2024 09:31 AM (AwYPR)

5 Eh, pullup a da chair, we gonna smokee da pot.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 06, 2024 09:31 AM (VwHCD)

6 Tric Trac? Is that anything like Gnip Gnop?

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 09:31 AM (JunzL)

7 The Three Clowns.

Posted by: dantesed at March 06, 2024 09:31 AM (88xKn)

8 Tric-Trac-Troe.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 06, 2024 09:32 AM (Rls1J)

9 Tric Trac Tro

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 06, 2024 09:32 AM (ENQN6)

10 "Tric trac, I was feelin' her rack,
Long about a Saturday night"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 09:32 AM (9yWhg)

11 I sense a theme... Women artists for women's month... Good shadow work otherwise meh

Posted by: It's me donna at March 06, 2024 09:32 AM (Akjoo)

12 Playing for the pink slip to the donkey cart.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2024 09:32 AM (qne3Q)

13 Wonder what they be smokin', eh?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 06, 2024 09:32 AM (hOUT3)

14 Nice hat.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 06, 2024 09:32 AM (Rls1J)

15 Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays?

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at March 06, 2024 09:32 AM (NBVIP)

16 Besides "cause of a wicked case of crooked-head," what is 'tric trac?'

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:33 AM (HnUIn)

17 Trictrac (also tric trac or tric-trac) is a French board game of skill and chance for two players that is played with dice on a game board similar, but not identical, to that of backgammon. It was "the classic tables game" of France in the way that backgammon is in the English-speaking world.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 06, 2024 09:33 AM (ENQN6)

18 No dog.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 06, 2024 09:33 AM (bLvUu)

19 See the person on the right!?!?!? Proof trans people have always existed!!!!!

Posted by: Deranged LGBTQIA2S+ evangelist at March 06, 2024 09:33 AM (ycI94)

20 I was unaware that the sombrero had its origins in the Netherlands.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 09:33 AM (CsUN+)

21 They appear to be drunk. One will soon cheat. It will lead to dueling.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:33 AM (HnUIn)

22 Is Tric Trac like Tic-Tac-Toe?

Posted by: redridinghood at March 06, 2024 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

23 Alternative title : Board Meeting of the Gay Men's Health Crisis

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 06, 2024 09:33 AM (58LrU)

24 The time before video games and meth

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2024 09:33 AM (Q4IgG)

25 A foppish crew, they are.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2024 09:34 AM (qne3Q)

26 I sense a theme... Women artists for women's month... Good shadow work otherwise meh
Posted by: It's me donna at March 06, 2024 09:32 AM (Akjoo)

I'll be sitting out the June art threads then

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 09:34 AM (JunzL)

27 Alternative title : Board Meeting of the Gay Men's Health Crisis
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 06, 2024 09:33 AM (58LrU)
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Crises have boards now?

Bureaucracy has gotten out of control.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:34 AM (HnUIn)

28 Well done M. Douf on that first, your birthday powers apparently remain in force!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 06, 2024 09:34 AM (hOUT3)

29 I love the way the flame from the little lamp lights up their faces.

Posted by: Tuna at March 06, 2024 09:34 AM (oaGWv)

30 Tric Trac looks a lot like Backgammon.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 09:34 AM (1Z8zZ)

31 Dude on the right is all in with a drinking straw.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2024 09:35 AM (qne3Q)

32 Not what I was expecting on Alamo Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 06, 2024 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

33 A foppish crew, they are.

One might even call them dandys or men about town.
*cue Peter Boyle*

Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 09:35 AM (CsUN+)

34 I don't know anything about Tric Trac, but I'll bet all three of those guys could use a Tic-Tac.

Posted by: PabloD at March 06, 2024 09:36 AM (wEicy)

35 Renaissance French Joey Tribiana " How you doin?!?"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2024 09:36 AM (ibTVg)

36 The Urban Sombrero:

https://youtu.be/eiBuckMLrLY

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at March 06, 2024 09:36 AM (NBVIP)

37 Looks like a velvet painting.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 06, 2024 09:36 AM (w9Wax)

38 Thought bubble on guy on the right: "Oh look, some chick is painting our picture."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2024 09:36 AM (qne3Q)

39 Shouldn't they be protecting the King of France?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 06, 2024 09:36 AM (aD39U)

40 Is she holding a crack pipe?

Posted by: TC at March 06, 2024 09:36 AM (6dtho)

41 If this had dogs playing, it would be art.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 06, 2024 09:36 AM (5/zJL)

42 I love the way the flame from the little lamp lights up their faces.
Posted by: Tuna at March 06, 2024 09:34 AM (oaGWv)

That's not as fun as it sounds. -- Aaron Bushnell

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 09:36 AM (1Z8zZ)

43 Not what I was expecting on Alamo Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Me neither. This hertz my feelings.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 09:36 AM (9yWhg)

44 Late night tric-trac and beer. Going to have a major hangover tomorrow.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 06, 2024 09:37 AM (eYoxG)

45 They're looking pretty Cavalier about it all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 06, 2024 09:37 AM (omVj0)

46 The closest guy is wearing a garter. Fag.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 06, 2024 09:37 AM (aD39U)

47 Alternate title:

"Three Idiots, Each Less Than an Arm's Reach Away From a Genuine Magic Lamp Totally Ignore It and Later Die in Poverty"

Posted by: naturalfake at March 06, 2024 09:38 AM (nFnyb)

48 I'll be sitting out the June art threads then
Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 09:34 AM (JunzL)

I am afraid to ask what that month has in store for us!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 06, 2024 09:38 AM (hOUT3)

49 WTF is Tric Trac?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 06, 2024 09:38 AM (pohLc)

50 No Troe?

Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 09:38 AM (bWsRe)

51 They're looking pretty Cavalier about it all.

They are looking to dragoon in a fourth player

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2024 09:38 AM (ibTVg)

52 The . . . woman? . . . on the right appears to be handling a clay pipe. She's holding it the wrong way to smoke it, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 06, 2024 09:38 AM (omVj0)

53 "Go Fish!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2024 09:38 AM (7fElN)

54 Not what I was expecting on Alamo Day.
Posted by: redridinghood
----
Me neither. This hertz my feelings.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 09:36 AM (9yWhg)
++++
Celebrations aren't always in the Budget.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:38 AM (HnUIn)

55 The guy in blue looks like Oliver Reed.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 09:38 AM (9yWhg)

56 WTF is Tric Trac?

Looks like early backgammon?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2024 09:38 AM (ibTVg)

57 Look at the forehead on that chick. Fuck.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 06, 2024 09:39 AM (FmapG)

58 Today, we're going to show you a simple trick to turn an antique metal gravy boat into an oil lamp!

Posted by: YouTube click bait video at March 06, 2024 09:39 AM (ycI94)

59 Those guys are fags.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 06, 2024 09:39 AM (pohLc)

60 "Who brought the heroin?"

Posted by: XTC at March 06, 2024 09:39 AM (UnA8+)

61
This was painted through beer goggles, am I right?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 06, 2024 09:40 AM (xG4kz)

62 I'll be sitting out the June art threads then

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 09:34 AM (JunzL)

Isn't June "American Whiskey Month?"

[I have no idea what any of these months are unless it becomes a joke on AoSHQ!]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 09:40 AM (gSZYf)

63 I think that guy on the left is cheating. His left hand is cupped like it's holding some game pieces...or his codpiece...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2024 09:40 AM (7fElN)

64 Never heard of the game, supposed someone has looked up the rules already

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2024 09:40 AM (K/ZDf)

65 @27 Joe Mannix back in the day that was a big group in the AIDS community. When I was in college they used to put flyers all over campus.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 06, 2024 09:40 AM (58LrU)

66 The closest guy is wearing a garter. Fag.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 06, 2024

***
The guy to the left has a rather feminine face. Maybe I'm influenced by the long hair, though. He does have pretty big hands.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 06, 2024 09:40 AM (omVj0)

67 Bachelor party. Later on there will be a naked girl who pops out of a cake.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2024 09:40 AM (qne3Q)

68
Spot the tranny!

Trick question -- they all are trannies!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 06, 2024 09:40 AM (xG4kz)

69 Dutch baroque is my favorite art genre, particularly pieces that use chiaroscuro to give the picture depth. I'm not familiar with this particular artist, but still, 10/10 would hang.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at March 06, 2024 09:41 AM (2AUjo)

70 Today, we're going to show you a simple trick to turn an antique metal gravy boat into an oil lamp!
Posted by: YouTube click bait video at March 06, 2024 09:39 AM (ycI94)
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I'm not interested unless it comes with a wish-granting genie!

Posted by: Aladdin at March 06, 2024 09:41 AM (7fElN)

71 I'll be sitting out the June art threads then
Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 09:34 AM (JunzL)
++++
Maybe CBD will observe Pride Month on the Art Thread with images of beautiful women and handsome men doing things that have nothing to do with contemporary gender politics!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:41 AM (HnUIn)

72 There's a charm in these candid pictures of common people doing everyday things. The Dutch really had this genre down.

Posted by: Kris at March 06, 2024 09:41 AM (OyyDO)

73 Trictrac is a French board game of skill and chance for two players that is played with dice on a game board similar, but not identical, to that of backgammon. It was "the classic tables game" of France in the way that backgammon is in the English-speaking world.

The allocation of the men and seating may be by mutual agreement or drawing lots. Once those are decided, the players place their men in three or four piles on their talon on their own side of the board. The player whose talon is to the right moves the men clockwise; the other player moves them anticlockwise. Each player places a peg (fichet) in the hole in the end rail nearest the talon. The flag (pavillon) goes in the hole in the middle, between the two pegs. The three holes in the opposite end rail are not used. The three jetons are lined up against the end rail between the two talons.

The men travel a circuit, first along the player's side of the board from the talon to the rest corner, then along the opponent's, or adverse, side from the adverse rest corner to the adverse talon, before being borne off the board.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 06, 2024 09:41 AM (w9Wax)

74 Never heard of the game, supposed someone has looked up the rules already
Posted by: Skip

Didn't have any. Before Calvinball, there was Calvin Tric Trac.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 09:41 AM (9yWhg)

75 French version of backgammon

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2024 09:42 AM (K/ZDf)

76 Look at the forehead on that chick. Fuck.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 06, 2024 09:39 AM (FmapG)

yeah, thats an eighthead.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 06, 2024 09:42 AM (VwHCD)

77 Look at the forehead on that chick. Fuck.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 06, 2024

***
I've never had complaints.

Posted by: Christina Ricci at March 06, 2024 09:42 AM (omVj0)

78
I see that Peyton Manning's seventh great grandmother is present.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 06, 2024 09:43 AM (xG4kz)

79 45 They're looking pretty Cavalier about it all.
____

Meneer Dean Wade is missing from the painting as he was off defeating the celts.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 06, 2024 09:43 AM (fs1hN)

80 Bachelor party. Later on there will be a naked girl who pops out of a cake.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2024 09:40 AM (qne3Q)
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So, umm, about that, well, you see, I misread the instructions. The end of the recipe very clearly said:
- bake cake
- girl climbs into cavity in cake

So, well, I guess I kind of, sort of, umm, well, misread that. I don't know what happened, but I got those parts backwards. I mean, don't worry - it's all okay and everything, because there is definitely a girl in the cake - but she won't be jumping out.

I'm really sorry. I blew it.

Posted by: The Baker at March 06, 2024 09:43 AM (HnUIn)

81 Jackprot! Bringo! Broo!

Posted by: Dr. Steve Brule at March 06, 2024 09:43 AM (9jDya)

82 Never heard of the game, supposed someone has looked up the rules already
Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2024 09:40 AM (K/ZDf)
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Apparently there are rules for when someone's die breaks. The game can be a bit violent....(also dice back then were a lot more fragile than modern dice)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2024 09:44 AM (7fElN)

83 The fellow in the rear, dozing over the game, appears less detailed than do the others, as if he were added later or in a hurry.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 06, 2024 09:44 AM (omVj0)

84 So, well, I guess I kind of, sort of, umm, well, misread that. I don't know what happened, but I got those parts backwards. I mean, don't worry - it's all okay and everything, because there is definitely a girl in the cake - but she won't be jumping out.

Meh, good enough

Posted by: A Papua New Guinea Bachelor Party at March 06, 2024 09:45 AM (ibTVg)

85 I've never had complaints.

You? Again?

Posted by: Samuel L Jackson from Black Snake Moan at March 06, 2024 09:45 AM (ibTVg)

86 72 There's a charm in these candid pictures of common people doing everyday things. The Dutch really had this genre down.
Posted by: Kris at March 06, 2024 09:41 AM (OyyDO)

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Four Guys Dressed In Black While Cleaning Their Blunderbusses In A Poorly-Lit Shed is on of my favorite pieces from the genre.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2024 09:45 AM (qne3Q)

87 Board games. Shit. Life is too short to waste it dikkin around with board games. Rather build a rifle, or restore an antique motorcycle. Maybe reload up some home brew ammo.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 06, 2024 09:46 AM (pohLc)

88
The rules for the French game of "Pin the Tail on the Surrender Monkey" are few, but there were so many targets in a typical gathering of French folk. Draws were quite common.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 06, 2024 09:46 AM (xG4kz)

89 I imagined the setting of this picture with more light, like outside in the sun. It really doesn't work. Too much light would ruin the mood. Leyster's use of a single lamp light makes this picture more fun and intimate. Too much light would be distracting. Nice.

Posted by: Kris at March 06, 2024 09:46 AM (OyyDO)

90 Meh, good enough
Posted by: A Papua New Guinea Bachelor Party at March 06, 2024 09:45 AM (ibTVg)
++++
*snort*

This place never fails to deliver.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:47 AM (HnUIn)

91 Maybe CBD will observe Pride Month on the Art Thread with images of beautiful women and handsome men doing things that have nothing to do with contemporary gender politics!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:41 AM (HnUIn)

I thought that was your job. At least the beautiful women part.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 06, 2024 09:48 AM (aD39U)

92 54 Not what I was expecting on Alamo Day.
Posted by: redridinghood
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Me neither. This hertz my feelings.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 09:36 AM (9yWhg)
++++
Celebrations aren't always in the Budget.

Pays to be thrifty

Posted by: Taggart at March 06, 2024 09:48 AM (MjIVI)

93 Life is too short to waste it dikkin around with board games.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

You always lost at Scrabble, right?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 09:48 AM (9yWhg)

94 Board games. Shit. Life is too short to waste it dikkin around with board games. Rather build a rifle, or restore an antique motorcycle. Maybe reload up some home brew ammo.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 06, 2024 09:46 AM (pohLc)

They're French.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 09:48 AM (1Z8zZ)

95 I imagined the setting of this picture with more light, like outside in the sun. It really doesn't work. Too much light would ruin the mood. Leyster's use of a single lamp light makes this picture more fun and intimate. Too much light would be distracting. Nice.
Posted by: Kris at March 06, 2024 09:46 AM (OyyDO)
++++
Everyone I know agrees, and has told me that large amounts of light makes any time they spend with me much less palatable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:48 AM (HnUIn)

96 59 Those guys are fags.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 06, 2024 09:39 AM (pohLc)

Nah.

If they were, Muslims would have thrown them off a building.

Posted by: XTC at March 06, 2024 09:49 AM (UnA8+)

97 Life is too short to waste it dikkin around with board games.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

You always lost at Scrabble, right?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 09:48 AM (9yWhg)
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I'm guessing the game of Life is not his bag...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2024 09:49 AM (7fElN)

98 The guy in blue's nails on his left hand appear to be . . . pointed. Maybe this captured the moment before he transformed into a werewolf.

That would have been one big surprise for the game.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 06, 2024 09:50 AM (omVj0)

99 Morning.

Always that one asshole that has to look right at the camera.

Kind of ambivalent about this one.

What's tric trac?

Posted by: Robert at March 06, 2024 09:50 AM (urz6M)

100 Wow, Bob Ross on the left is sporting an epic 'Fro.

Posted by: t-bird at March 06, 2024 09:50 AM (173mD)

101 I'm guessing the game of Life is not his bag...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2024 09:49 AM (7fElN)

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Maybe he's more of a Chutes and Ladders guy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2024 09:50 AM (qne3Q)

102 So, umm, about that, well, you see, I misread the instructions. The end of the recipe very clearly said:
- bake cake
- girl climbs into cavity in cake

So, well, I guess I kind of, sort of, umm, well, misread that. I don't know what happened, but I got those parts backwards. I mean, don't worry - it's all okay and everything, because there is definitely a girl in the cake - but she won't be jumping out.

I'm really sorry. I blew it.
Posted by: The Baker

"Were gonna be in a lot of trouble with the Chippendale Corporation, Frank!"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 09:50 AM (9yWhg)

103
There was a song, too!

"Tric trac, I was peeing out back ..."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 06, 2024 09:51 AM (xG4kz)

104 Maybe he's more of a Chutes and Ladders guy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2024 09:50 AM (qne3Q)

Hungry hungry hippos.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 06, 2024 09:51 AM (aD39U)

105 97 Life is too short to waste it dikkin around with board games.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

You always lost at Scrabble, right?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 09:48 AM (9yWhg)
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I'm guessing the game of Life is not his bag...
-------------------
He always tries to take Asia and fails.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 06, 2024 09:51 AM (FmapG)

106 Isn't June "American Whiskey Month?"

[I have no idea what any of these months are unless it becomes a joke on AoSHQ!]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 09:40 AM (gSZYf)

Not sure. I do know that June 14th is National Bourbon Day. And now I just discovered that September is "National Bourbon Heritage Month".

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 09:51 AM (JunzL)

107 Not what I was expecting on Alamo Day.
Posted by: redridinghood
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Me neither. This hertz my feelings.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 09:36 AM (9yWhg)
++++
Celebrations aren't always in the Budget.
*
Pays to be thrifty
Posted by: Taggart at March 06, 2024

***
As long as we're Enterprising

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 06, 2024 09:51 AM (omVj0)

108 Everyone I know agrees, and has told me that large amounts of light makes any time they spend with me much less palatable.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:48 AM (HnUIn)

Just put a bag over your head like the Elephant Man.

Posted by: Robert at March 06, 2024 09:51 AM (urz6M)

109 Everyone I know agrees, and has told me that large amounts of light makes any time they spend with me much less palatable.

Oh, boo hoo.

Posted by: Linus Roache: Purifier at March 06, 2024 09:51 AM (CsUN+)

110 He always tries to take Asia and fails.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 06, 2024 09:51 AM (FmapG)

Ukraine is weak.

Posted by: Obligatory at March 06, 2024 09:52 AM (aD39U)

111 The non rumble link to the Viva Frei link for the Georgia Senate hearings going on now.

It's big.

Low key, but revealing far more rot than we expected.

https://tinyurl.com/mkbm7wv5

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 09:52 AM (a1415)

112 Montana poll

Trump +21
Tester +2

We love Trump!! Also, we love the guy who will stop Trump from getting anything done!

I will never understand these people.

Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 09:52 AM (bWsRe)

113 Just put a bag over your head like the Elephant Man.
Posted by: Robert at March 06, 2024 09:51 AM (urz6M)
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I dunno if that'll work, but it can't hurt. And post-COVID, people don't even get confused by stuff like that. No time like the present!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:52 AM (HnUIn)

114 Not sure. I do know that June 14th is National Bourbon Day. And now I just discovered that September is "National Bourbon Heritage Month".
Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 09:51 AM (JunzL)

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Every March is Irish Whiskey Month, at least at my house.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2024 09:52 AM (qne3Q)

115 Board games, eh?

Does anyone have wood for my sheep?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2024 09:53 AM (7fElN)

116 I will never understand these people.
Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 09:52 AM (bWsRe)
++++
Politics has never been a game controlled by reason.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:53 AM (HnUIn)

117 112 Montana poll

Trump +21
Tester +2

We love Trump!! Also, we love the guy who will stop Trump from getting anything done!

I will never understand these people.
Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 09:52 AM (bWsRe)

=======

"Tester's opponent is crazy. Also, I know Tester's name. Also, Tester's office fixed my mother's Medicare problems ten years ago. Also, he has a gun in a commercial."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 09:53 AM (GBKbO)

118 Every March is Irish Whiskey Month, at least at my house.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2024 09:52 AM (qne3Q)
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What do you recommend? I've tried several, but I've never met an Irish I like as well as Scotch or Bourbon.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:53 AM (HnUIn)

119 Nikki is supposed to be dropping out today at about 10. The wailing, gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments should be epic.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 09:53 AM (CsUN+)

120 Everyone I know agrees, and has told me that large amounts of light makes any time they spend with me much less palatable.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

So YD got the looks, and you got the brains?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 09:54 AM (9yWhg)

121 I wish I had a watermelon.

Posted by: Stymie Beard at March 06, 2024 09:54 AM (V5BDR)

122 115 Board games, eh?

Does anyone have wood for my sheep?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2024 09:53 AM (7fElN)

I will give you (2) wood on my next turn for your sheep right now.

Yes, I know I screwed you over the last time we played, but you can trust me this time.

(Hey, that line works for the GOP!)

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 06, 2024 09:54 AM (9mfKN)

123 This place never fails to deliver.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:47 AM (HnUIn)

Ironic statement from you considering your lack of delivery of Mannix babes yesterday

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 09:54 AM (JunzL)

124 > Not sure. I do know that June 14th is National Bourbon Day. And now I just discovered that September is "National Bourbon Heritage Month".
Posted by: Doof
______________

Every day should be "National Bourbon Day" just as every month should be.

Just sayin'

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2024 09:54 AM (Q4IgG)

125 119 Nikki is supposed to be dropping out today at about 10. The wailing, gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments should be epic.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 09:53 AM (CsUN+)

=======

How many people who have left the Republican Party a dozen times since 2015 will leave the Republican Party?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 09:54 AM (GBKbO)

126 Nice fro on the left.

Posted by: bjjfiter at March 06, 2024 09:54 AM (2KID7)

127 So YD got the looks, and you got the brains?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 09:54 AM (9yWhg)
++++
Truthfully, he got both.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:54 AM (HnUIn)

128 Guys Dressed In Black While Cleaning Their Blunderbusses

The night watch militia commissioned the portrait of themselves, then it hung over the fireplace in their pipe-smoking room for several centuries. When it was finally cleaned, there was an art review in American Rifleman.

But not good enough for you.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 06, 2024 09:55 AM (zdLoL)

129 What do you recommend? I've tried several, but I've never met an Irish I like as well as Scotch or Bourbon.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:53 AM (HnUIn)

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Try Powers Three Swallow. It's a little hard to find, but worth the effort.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2024 09:55 AM (qne3Q)

130 108 Everyone I know agrees, and has told me that large amounts of light makes any time they spend with me much less palatable.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:48 AM (HnUIn)

Just put a bag over your head like the Elephant Man.
----------------
Dr. Pimple Popper is available.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 06, 2024 09:55 AM (FmapG)

131 How many people who have left the Republican Party a dozen times since 2015 will leave the Republican Party?

You mean Ace?

I keed, I keed, please don't ban me.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 09:55 AM (CsUN+)

132 112 Montana poll

Trump +21
Tester +2

We love Trump!! Also, we love the guy who will stop Trump from getting anything done!

I will never understand these people.
Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 09:52 AM (bWsRe)

Back in the day, my state (very red)… voted for two excrements, Claire McCaskill and Jay Nixon to hold their offices. It made absolutely no sense…

Posted by: tubal at March 06, 2024 09:55 AM (PCK5/)

133 Also, he has a gun in a commercial."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 09:53 AM (GBKbO)

Was he wearing a plaid shirt?

Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 09:55 AM (bWsRe)

134 Every March is Irish Whiskey Month, at least at my house.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2024 09:52 AM (qne3Q)
++++
What do you recommend? I've tried several, but I've never met an Irish I like as well as Scotch or Bourbon.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:53 AM (HnUIn)

Redbreast and Teeling are acceptable as far as Irish. But neither are anywhere near as good as bourbon.

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 09:56 AM (JunzL)

135 Not what I was expecting on Alamo Day.
Posted by: redridinghood
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Me neither. This hertz my feelings.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 09:36 AM (9yWhg)
++++
Celebrations aren't always in the Budget.

Pays to be thrifty
Posted by: Taggart at March 06, 2024 09:48 AM

Punning is always a fun Enterprise.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 06, 2024 09:56 AM (5sOEG)

136 113 I dunno if that'll work, but it can't hurt. And post-COVID, people don't even get confused by stuff like that. No time like the present!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:52 AM (HnUIn)

Have you considered a castle in the mountains of Transylvania?

Perhaps a nice large cape to keep the sun off of your neck and back?

Posted by: XTC at March 06, 2024 09:56 AM (UnA8+)

137 131 How many people who have left the Republican Party a dozen times since 2015 will leave the Republican Party?

You mean Ace?

I keed, I keed, please don't ban me.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 09:55 AM (CsUN+)

Flirtin’ with Disaster there, mon ami…

Posted by: tubal at March 06, 2024 09:57 AM (PCK5/)

138 Every day should be "National Bourbon Day" just as every month should be.

Just sayin'
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2024 09:54 AM (Q4IgG)

It is as far as I'm concerned!

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 09:57 AM (JunzL)

139 132 Back in the day, my state (very red)… voted for two excrements, Claire McCaskill and Jay Nixon to hold their offices. It made absolutely no sense…
Posted by: tubal at March 06, 2024 09:55 AM (PCK5/)

=======

I'm deeply suspicious of any urban center and the validity of their voting.

Essentially, I question their voter rolls, the actual turnout numbers, and how they always seem to find just enough in key races.

Any Republican governor would cement power by doing full audits of voter rolls versus the actual census.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 09:57 AM (GBKbO)

140 Every March is Irish Whiskey Month, at least at my house.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2024 09:52 AM (qne3Q)
++++
What do you recommend? I've tried several, but I've never met an Irish I like as well as Scotch or Bourbon.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:53 AM (HnUIn)

Redbreast and Teeling are acceptable as far as Irish. But neither are anywhere near as good as bourbon.
Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 09:56 AM

Knappogue (sp?) Castle is nice. Single malt. Bourbon barrel aged, iirc.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 06, 2024 09:57 AM (5sOEG)

141 19

Oh, that's a real woman on the right. It's just Bea Arthur's great great great great grandmother.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at March 06, 2024 09:58 AM (VTrkF)

142 Try Powers Three Swallow. It's a little hard to find, but worth the effort.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2024 09:55 AM (qne3Q)
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Redbreast and Teeling are acceptable as far as Irish. But neither are anywhere near as good as bourbon.
Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 09:56 AM (JunzL)
++++
I'll try to find and sample the Powers and Redbreast. I have a bottle of Teeling in my cabinet right now and it does little for me. I don't hate it by any means, but its primary lot in life seems to be taking up space in my liquor cabinet.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:58 AM (HnUIn)

143 133 Also, he has a gun in a commercial."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 09:53 AM (GBKbO)

Was he wearing a plaid shirt?
Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 09:55 AM (bWsRe)

======

*nods sagaciously*

There was an axe in a stump right behind him just out of focus, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 09:58 AM (GBKbO)

144 When is national "F*ck You, Leave Me Alone" month?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 09:58 AM (gSZYf)

145 Have you considered a castle in the mountains of Transylvania?

Perhaps a nice large cape to keep the sun off of your neck and back?
Posted by: XTC at March 06, 2024 09:56 AM (UnA8+)
++++
In *this* economy? Are you kidding?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:58 AM (HnUIn)

146 When is national "F*ck You, Leave Me Alone" month?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 09:58 AM (gSZYf)
++++
Don't be so antisocial. We're all in this together. Stay safe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:59 AM (HnUIn)

147 The non rumble link to the Viva Frei link for the Georgia Senate hearings going on now.

It's big.

Low key, but revealing far more rot than we expected.

https://tinyurl.com/mkbm7wv5
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 09:52 AM (a1415)
******
Fani needs to be thrown in jail.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 06, 2024 09:59 AM (NpAcC)

148 Trump +21
Tester +2

We love Trump!! Also, we love the guy who will stop Trump from getting anything done!

I will never understand these people.
Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 09:52 AM (bWsRe)

I assume it's some combination of divided government ftw, but he's got seniority, and we don't even know who's running against him.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 10:00 AM (1Z8zZ)

149 "Low key, but revealing far more rot than we expected.

https://tinyurl.com/mkbm7wv5
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 09:52 AM (a1415)
******
Fani needs to be thrown in jail."

It's getting worse for Fani by the minute.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 10:00 AM (a1415)

150 Knappogue (sp?) Castle is nice.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 06, 2024 09:57 AM (5sOEG)

Agreed. it was my introduction to good Irish whiskey. Redbreast is quite good too.

But for complexity it is tough to beat a good Single Malt Scotch!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 10:00 AM (gSZYf)

151 When is national "F*ck You, Leave Me Alone" month?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 09:58 AM (gSZYf)
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That's only celebrated on the Acetopian calendar...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2024 10:01 AM (7fElN)

152 Nikki is supposed to be dropping out today at about 10. The wailing, gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments should be epic.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 09:53 AM (CsUN+)

How will her supporters react?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 10:01 AM (1Z8zZ)

153

Loser bottoms tonight...

Posted by: Don Lemonparty at March 06, 2024 10:01 AM (HRQvT)

154 It's getting worse for Fani by the minute.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 10:00 AM (a1415)
++++
At worst, she ends up in a think tank somewhere as compensation for serving the Party.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 10:01 AM (HnUIn)

155 When is national "F*ck You, Leave Me Alone" month?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 09:58 AM (gSZYf)

Become a truck driver and every day is "F*ck You, Leave Me Alone" month.

Posted by: Robert at March 06, 2024 10:01 AM (+7Jb5)

156 "Palestinian" Authority Commits to Hamas Unity Government to Fight Israel

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I thought you couldn't hardly a "Palestinian" who supports Hamas.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 10:01 AM (FVME7)

157 When is national "F*ck You, Leave Me Alone" month?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 09:58 AM (gSZYf)

Will you accept "Get Off My Lawn Week"??

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 10:01 AM (JunzL)

158 139
I'm deeply suspicious of any urban center and the validity of their voting.

Essentially, I question their voter rolls, the actual turnout numbers, and how they always seem to find just enough in key races.

Any Republican governor would cement power by doing full audits of voter rolls versus the actual census.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 09:57 AM (GBKbO)

Yep. We have instituted Photo ID, a valid one, to be presented when voting by any means… also we are not an illegal friendly state, the boils on our asses St Louis, KC & Columbia notwithstanding…

Posted by: tubal at March 06, 2024 10:01 AM (PCK5/)

159 All In - (a short, often ribald, narrative poem from Ireland with AABBA rhyme scheme, generally involving wordplay or puns)

An unlucky Frenchman named Frost
Played Tric Trac no matter the cost
But he'd rather ought not
Put it all in the pot
But he rolled his best pair o' dice... Lost!

Posted by: Muldoon at March 06, 2024 10:01 AM (991eG)

160 Don't be so antisocial. We're all in this together. Stay safe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:59 AM (HnUIn)

When we have a flat tax or a consumption tax then I am all in!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 10:02 AM (gSZYf)

161 I don't hate it by any means, but its primary lot in life seems to be taking up space in my liquor cabinet.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:58 AM (HnUIn)

I've got a bottle of Black Barrel, just in case someone asks for Irish.

Posted by: BignJames at March 06, 2024 10:02 AM (AwYPR)

162 When is national "F*ck You, Leave Me Alone" month?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 09:58 AM (gSZYf)

During Pride month, no?

Posted by: dantesed at March 06, 2024 10:02 AM (88xKn)

163 145 In *this* economy? Are you kidding?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:58 AM (HnUIn)

Blah.

Posted by: XTC at March 06, 2024 10:02 AM (UnA8+)

164 160 Don't be so antisocial. We're all in this together. Stay safe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 09:59 AM (HnUIn)

When we have a flat tax or a consumption tax then I am all in!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 10:02 AM (gSZYf)

========

"We can do that. In addition to the income tax."
-Government

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 10:02 AM (GBKbO)

165 Nikki is supposed to be dropping out today at about 10. The wailing, gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments should be epic.

Don't go away mad, Nikki. Just go away.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at March 06, 2024 10:03 AM (DIB8X)

166 But for complexity it is tough to beat a good Single Malt Scotch!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 10:00 AM (gSZYf)

"Good" and "scotch" are mutually exclusive

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 10:03 AM (JunzL)

167 It's no Fizzbin.

Posted by: Captain Quirk at March 06, 2024 10:04 AM (vFG9F)

168 "Good" and "scotch" are mutually exclusive
Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 10:03 AM (JunzL)
++++
Begun, the whiskey wars have.

Alternatively:
Begun, the whisky wars have.

Can't even agree on the spelling!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 10:04 AM (HnUIn)

169 Nikki is supposed to be dropping out today at about 10. The wailing, gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments should be epic.
Don't go away mad, Nikki. Just go away.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

O Nikki, Dear, we thee implore
To go away and sin no more.
Or, if that effort be too great,
To go away at any rate.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:05 AM (9yWhg)

170 "Good" and "scotch" are mutually exclusive
Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 10:03 AM (JunzL)

How long ago did you take that blow to the head?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 10:05 AM (1Z8zZ)

171 "Good" and "scotch" are mutually exclusive
Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 10:03 AM (JunzL)

Your dislike of scotch just means there’s more for me.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 06, 2024 10:05 AM (9mfKN)

172 This Ashleigh Merchant is a nice looking woman. She should win her case accordingly.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 10:05 AM (CsUN+)

173 CBD, National Leave Me The Fuck Alone Day was February 13th.

https://tinyurl.com/2fxm7xfh

Posted by: redridinghood at March 06, 2024 10:06 AM (NpAcC)

174 "I've got a bottle of Black Barrel, just in case someone asks for Irish."

That sounds ever so slightly dirty.

Posted by: Tuna at March 06, 2024 10:06 AM (oaGWv)

175 Can't even agree on the spelling!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 10:04 AM (HnUIn)

Actually, there's a rule for whether the word whiskey contains an 'e' or not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 10:06 AM (1Z8zZ)

176 This Ashleigh Merchant is a nice looking woman. She should win her case accordingly.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 10:05 AM (CsUN+)
++++
:: raises hand to object ::
:: reconsiders ::

Beats the current legal system, I think. At least it would be somewhat predictable, and would be no more unfair.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 10:06 AM (HnUIn)

177 Nikki's speech sounds more like a campaign speech than a concession.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 06, 2024 10:06 AM (5GDFY)

178 Actually, there's a rule for whether the word whiskey contains an 'e' or not.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 10:06 AM (1Z8zZ)
++++
Oh yes.

Except for the exceptions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 10:06 AM (HnUIn)

179 Frankfurt becomes first German city to hang Ramadan decorations to fight 'anti-Muslim racism'

-
He said that
Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang Ramadamadingdong
Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang Ramadamadingdong

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 10:07 AM (FVME7)

180 Can't even agree on the spelling!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Isn't it a legal issue? Like the stuff from one special place (Kentucky? Ireland?) has to be spelled "whiskey," and that from everywhere else is "whisky?" That's one of those factoids that's sticking around in the cobwebs of my brain.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:07 AM (9yWhg)

181 Except for the exceptions.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 10:06 AM (HnUIn)

Exceptions prove the rule.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 10:07 AM (1Z8zZ)

182 He always tries to take Asia and fails.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 06, 2024 09:51 AM (FmapG)

Well, duh.

Posted by: Vizzini at March 06, 2024 10:07 AM (PiwSw)

183 When is steak and blowjob day?

Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 10:08 AM (bWsRe)

184 Nikki's speech sounds more like a campaign speech than a concession.

Got a link?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 10:08 AM (CsUN+)

185 In one of the tiny, state-level races, the sitting NC superintendent of education lost her primary last night to a challenger backed by some conservative groups.

Most of my votes went to heavy losers (NC AG got 3rd from last out of about 10, NC-8 came dead last, etc.), but it was nice to see my vote against an incumbent work out at least once.

Not that the NC superintendent seems to be terrible, but I support upstarts from the right.

Also, Robinson won easily, which was cool.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 10:08 AM (GBKbO)

186 That sounds ever so slightly dirty.

Posted by: Tuna at March 06, 2024 10:06 AM (oaGWv)

Wait till you taste it.

Posted by: BignJames at March 06, 2024 10:08 AM (AwYPR)

187 183 When is steak and blowjob day?
Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 10:08 AM (bWsRe)

Could be everyday with the right woman.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 06, 2024 10:08 AM (9mfKN)

188 Isn't it a legal issue? Like the stuff from one special place (Kentucky? Ireland?) has to be spelled "whiskey," and that from everywhere else is "whisky?" That's one of those factoids that's sticking around in the cobwebs of my brain.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:07 AM (9yWhg)

If the name of the place of origin contains an 'e' then whiskey, if not... not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 10:09 AM (1Z8zZ)

189 what is happening in this painting

Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2024 10:09 AM (oCjPU)

190 "Good" and "scotch" are mutually exclusive
Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 10:03 AM (JunzL)

Your dislike of scotch just means there’s more for me.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric

Exactly. There's great scotch and Kentucky swill.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2024 10:09 AM (xFG0d)

191 57 Look at the forehead on that chick. Fuck.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 06, 2024 09:39 AM (FmapG)
----
Can you say Roundhead?

Posted by: Ciampino - waiting for it at March 06, 2024 10:10 AM (qfLjt)

192 Ms merchant may have just tied the DoJ into the case.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 10:10 AM (a1415)

193 Also, Robinson won easily, which was cool.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 10:08 AM (GBKbO)

Who could compete with "two plus two does not equal transgender"?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 10:10 AM (1Z8zZ)

194 Whiskey has the same rules as champagne?

Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 10:10 AM (bWsRe)

195 Oh....and the White House, too.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 10:11 AM (a1415)

196 Exactly. There's great scotch and Kentucky swill.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2024 10:09 AM (xFG0d)

piffle

Posted by: BignJames at March 06, 2024 10:11 AM (AwYPR)

197 Can't even agree on the spelling!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Isn't it a legal issue? Like the stuff from one special place (Kentucky? Ireland?) has to be spelled "whiskey," and that from everywhere else is "whisky?" That's one of those factoids that's sticking around in the cobwebs of my brain.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:07 AM (9yWhg)

This shit gets more confusing that keeping track of a tranny's personal pronouns.

It's all whiskey to me.

Posted by: Robert at March 06, 2024 10:12 AM (d/f7B)

198 194 Whiskey has the same rules as champagne?
Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 10:10 AM (bWsRe)

======

Alcohol law is full of stuff like that.

However, Kentucky can claim all day that they are the only ones who can make bourbon, but there's not one LEGAL definition of it that includes the requirement that it be made in Kentucky. Not even in Kentucky.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

199 I see a needle and a spoon and a trip to the Moon , Baby!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 06, 2024 10:12 AM (q2/In)

200 197 This shit gets more confusing that keeping track of a tranny's personal pronouns.

It's all ~~whiskey~~ whisky to me.
Posted by: Robert at March 06, 2024 10:12 AM (d/f7B)

=======

FIFY.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

201 Senate Chair: "Is there any other reason you can think of for the Vice President of the United States to be meeting with Ms Willis?"

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 10:13 AM (a1415)

202 Ka-boom

@disclosetv
·
8s
NOW - Nikki Haley quits campaign, congratulates Trump.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 06, 2024 10:13 AM (IG4Id)

203 Hmmm, Powell said rates aren’t coming down for a while. Biden has to be seething.

Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 10:13 AM (bWsRe)

204 Nikki suspended her campaign

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/ status/1765394781998333993

Posted by: Ann at March 06, 2024 10:13 AM (4neFu)

205 Y'all take your hooch waaaaaaaaay to seriously.

I stick to the basics -- vodka and rum. In the big plastic bottles.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:13 AM (9yWhg)

206 180
Isn't it a legal issue? Like the stuff from one special place (Kentucky? Ireland?) has to be spelled "whiskey," and that from everywhere else is "whisky?" That's one of those factoids that's sticking around in the cobwebs of my brain.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:07 AM (9yWhg)
----
Scotland's produce is whisky. The American stuff is whiskey. I don't know about Irish version.

Posted by: Ciampino - waiting for it again at March 06, 2024 10:13 AM (qfLjt)

207 There's great scotch and Kentucky swill.
Posted by: rickb223

I'm sitting right here, you know.

Posted by: C2H5OH at March 06, 2024 10:13 AM (w9Wax)

208 202 Ka-boom

@disclosetv
·
8s
NOW - Nikki Haley quits campaign, congratulates Trump.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 06, 2024 10:13 AM (IG4Id)

=======

Remember how she outspent Trump 15-1 in SC?

That was great.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

209 ABC: Who is Jason Palmer? Biden loses the American Samoa Democratic caucuses to entrepreneur
He calls himself a "problem solver" and says the president should be younger.

https://tinyurl.com/msuxm52w

Via Drudge

Posted by: Robert at March 06, 2024 10:14 AM (d/f7B)

210 Alcohol law is full of stuff like that.

However, Kentucky can claim all day that they are the only ones who can make bourbon, but there's not one LEGAL definition of it that includes the requirement that it be made in Kentucky. Not even in Kentucky.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Glenn Reynolds teaches a class on alcohol law. We should ask him.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:14 AM (9yWhg)

211 "I stick to the basics -- vodka and rum. In the big plastic bottles."

Valu-Rite is for closers!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 10:14 AM (a1415)

212 Dolley has this tendency of wanting to save her favorite bottles of whiskey for so long that they end up just tasting like ethanol by the time she goes for a third or fourth tasting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 10:15 AM (GBKbO)

213 "Good" and "scotch" are mutually exclusive
Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 10:03 AM (JunzL)

Your dislike of scotch just means there’s more for me.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric

Exactly. There's great scotch and Kentucky swill.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2024 10:09 AM (xFG0d)

And yet so many scotch producers age their nasty dirt-flavored crap in used bourbon barrels. Hard to imagine how much worse it would be if not for the residual bourbon making it suck somewhat less.

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 10:15 AM (JunzL)

214 Hmmm, Powell said rates aren’t coming down for a while. Biden has to be seething.
Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 10:13 AM (bWsRe)
++++
LOL

Butbubtbutbut the Fed signaled a bunch of rates cuts in December! We're all counting on them!

Posted by: Give it 90 minutes, tops at March 06, 2024 10:15 AM (HnUIn)

215 Scotland's produce is whisky. The American stuff is whiskey. I don't know about Irish version.
Posted by: Ciampino - waiting for it again at March 06, 2024 10:13 AM (qfLjt)

Ireland, therefore Whiskey.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 10:15 AM (1Z8zZ)

216 I find it curious the only two places Delhi Harlot wins is Deep State Town and Pedophilia Land

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at March 06, 2024 10:15 AM (VTu1l)

217 152 Nikki is supposed to be dropping out today at about 10. The wailing, gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments should be epic.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 09:53 AM (CsUN+)

How will her supporters react?
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Lamentations of the wymynz.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 06, 2024 10:15 AM (FmapG)

218 Now I can get back to making sure all of the posters here are using their real names!

Posted by: Nicole Hayleighmeister at March 06, 2024 10:15 AM (NBVIP)

219 That ditzy broad, Nikki, burned all of her bridges if you ask me. Damn her hide!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 06, 2024 10:16 AM (q2/In)

220 Looks like the WH was colluding in the Georgia case.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 06, 2024 10:16 AM (NpAcC)

221 When is national "F*ck You, Leave Me Alone" month?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 09:58 AM (gSZYf)

For me, it starts January 1 and ends Dec 31. Its set for auto renew.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 06, 2024 10:16 AM (VwHCD)

222 Dolley has this tendency of wanting to save her favorite bottles of whiskey for so long that they end up just tasting like ethanol by the time she goes for a third or fourth tasting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I actually collect cool booze bottles, but only after they're empty.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:16 AM (9yWhg)

223 If Trump wins in November, is it possible the Left will pivot and say he actually won in 2020 and he can't serve a third term?

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 06, 2024 10:16 AM (36/HY)

224 218 Now I can get back to making sure all of the posters here are using their real names!
Posted by: Nicole Hayleighmeister at March 06, 2024 10:15 AM (NBVIP)

=======

I'm never going to forgive my mother for giving me the first name The.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 10:16 AM (GBKbO)

225 Vermont is pedo-land? I must be missing something.

Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 10:16 AM (bWsRe)

226 If Trump wins in November, is it possible the Left will pivot and say he actually won in 2020 and he can't serve a third term?
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 06, 2024 10:16 AM (36/HY)

Makes sense.
- Colorado Supreme Court

Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 10:17 AM (bWsRe)

227 legal def or bourbon

What makes bourbon bourbon? Bourbon is a uniquely American whiskey that is federally defined and regulated. Bourbon is a type of whiskey distilled from primarily corn with strict requirements on how and where it it is distilled, aged, and bottled. Louisville-based attorney, Brian Haara explains the federal regulations that define bourbon and what must and cannot be added to whiskey bearing the bourbon label.

Posted by: vic at March 06, 2024 10:17 AM (A5THL)

228 Vermont is pedo-land? I must be missing something.
Posted by: Montec

I think Stephen King lives in Maine... errr, what? No, I didn't ...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 06, 2024 10:17 AM (IG4Id)

229 So it appears Haley will eventually endorse Trump. I hope it does not take to long. We have to start unifying the Republican party and focus on the real enemies on the Left, and those internal trojan RINOs. November is not that far away

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 06, 2024 10:17 AM (PQ4m2)

230 If Trump wins in November, is it possible the Left will pivot and say he actually won in 2020 and he can't serve a third term?
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 06, 2024 10:16 AM (36/HY)

Given that saying that would be a deliberate misreading of the Constitution, sure.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 10:17 AM (1Z8zZ)

231 Vermont is pedo-land? I must be missing something.
Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 10:16 AM (bWsRe)
++++
It's really easy to figure out.

Does Place X have a government?
If yes, it's at least tolerant of kid diddling.
If no, it might not be.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 10:18 AM (HnUIn)

232 Powell said cuts "are likely sometime this year." Which means he's caving to political pressure. There is no reason for interest rates to be below 5%.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 06, 2024 10:18 AM (o5xaO)

233 223 If Trump wins in November, is it possible the Left will pivot and say he actually won in 2020 and he can't serve a third term?
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 06, 2024 10:16 AM (36/HY)

Wasn't sworn in, didn't get the elector slates, wasn't certified by Congress, so no real argument there for ineligibility.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 06, 2024 10:18 AM (eYoxG)

234 11 "I stick to the basics -- vodka and rum. In the big plastic bottles."

Valu-Rite is for closers!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 10:14 AM (a1415)
*******
I prefer GREY GOOSE.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 06, 2024 10:18 AM (NpAcC)

235 I find it curious the only two places Delhi Harlot wins is Deep State Town and Pedophilia Land

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at March 06, 2024 10:15 AM (VTu1l)

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

She also won Beijing and Kiev, where she's in a dead heat with F. Joe.

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 06, 2024 10:18 AM (cnXHa)

236 From the archives:

IF AT WHIST YOU DON’T SUCCEED

A card playing man known as Blackjack McNess
Whose life was an absolute horrible mess
Failed at poker, gin and rummy
Failed at bridge, (he was a dummy)
But he finally reached the pinochle of success

Posted by: Muldoon at March 06, 2024 10:18 AM (991eG)

237 Looks like the WH was colluding in the Georgia case.

It really, really does. Joe is going down.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 10:18 AM (CsUN+)

238 And yet so many scotch producers age their nasty dirt-flavored crap in used bourbon barrels. Hard to imagine how much worse it would be if not for the residual bourbon making it suck somewhat less.

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 10:15 AM (JunzL)

Watch this

Canadian > Blended > Scotch

Posted by: BignJames at March 06, 2024 10:18 AM (AwYPR)

239 What makes bourbon bourbon? Bourbon is a uniquely American whiskey that is federally defined and regulated. Bourbon is a type of whiskey distilled from primarily corn with strict requirements on how and where it it is distilled, aged, and bottled. Louisville-based attorney, Brian Haara explains the federal regulations that define bourbon and what must and cannot be added to whiskey bearing the bourbon label.

Posted by: vic at March 06, 2024 10:17 AM (A5THL)

Don't know whats in it, but I like it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 06, 2024 10:19 AM (VwHCD)

240 Vermont is populated mostly by cows.

and Nimrata is of the type that worships cows, right?

so it all makes sense!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 06, 2024 10:19 AM (AcWfM)

241 We have to start unifying the Republican party and focus on the real enemies on the Left, and those internal trojan RINOs.

Like Nikki Haley.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 10:19 AM (1Z8zZ)

242 Nikki's "dropping out" doesn't mean you can't send her money, right?

I suspect her campaign will still rake in a couple million between now and November. That sweet, sweet grift.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2024 10:19 AM (Q4IgG)

243 232 Powell said cuts "are likely sometime this year." Which means he's caving to political pressure. There is no reason for interest rates to be below 5%.
Posted by: Halfhand at March 06, 2024 10:18 AM (o5xaO)

The reason is that rates at their current levels blow up a lot of real estate that was underwritten at much lower interest rates. There might be other areas struggling due to it, but real estate is the big one.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 06, 2024 10:19 AM (eYoxG)

244 AG Garland Vows Challenges to Election Integrity Laws, Task Force Prosecutions

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Well, at least he's honest. If there's one thing he can't stand it's integrity!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 10:20 AM (FVME7)

245 Powell said cuts "are likely sometime this year." Which means he's caving to political pressure. There is no reason for interest rates to be below 5%.
Posted by: Halfhand at March 06, 2024 10:18 AM (o5xaO)
++++
There are two reasons for it, neither of them good.

The lesser reason is top prop up the equity markets and keep those stock exchange numbers nice and high.

The greater reason is to defend the high-risk arbitrage games in Treasuries that have become one of the largest sources (if not the largest source) of market liquidity.

Neither is a good reason.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 10:20 AM (HnUIn)

246 232 Powell said cuts "are likely sometime this year." Which means he's caving to political pressure. There is no reason for interest rates to be below 5%.
Posted by: Halfhan

It takes a long time for cuts to have a real effect. Sometime this year will be too late for the election. It had to be done now.

Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 10:20 AM (bWsRe)

247 That ditzy broad, Nikki, burned all of her bridges if you ask me.

Well, except for the bridges of those guys whose inches she was fighting for.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 06, 2024 10:20 AM (2ocoG)

248 I've got a bottle of Black Barrel, just in case someone asks for Irish.

Posted by: BignJames at March 06, 2024 10:02 AM (AwYPR)

Like this?

https://is.gd/OmARpD

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 10:20 AM (gSZYf)

249 Looks like the WH was colluding in the Georgia case.

It really, really does. Joe is going down.

He never stopped.
*tee hee*

Posted by: Dr. Jill at March 06, 2024 10:20 AM (CsUN+)

250 The reason is that rates at their current levels blow up a lot of real estate that was underwritten at much lower interest rates. There might be other areas struggling due to it, but real estate is the big one.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 06, 2024 10:19 AM (eYoxG)
++++
Banks and local governments really, really, really, desperately hate real estate downturns.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 10:20 AM (HnUIn)

251 179 Frankfurt becomes first German city to hang Ramadan decorations to fight 'anti-Muslim racism'

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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 10:07 AM (FVME7)

Islam is NOT A RACE.

Posted by: XTC at March 06, 2024 10:21 AM (UnA8+)

252
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 10:20 AM

Clean up at penultimate comment on JJ thread.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 06, 2024 10:21 AM (RKVpM)

253 Frankfurt-istan.

Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 10:22 AM (bWsRe)

254 I tried scotch once. Tasted kind of soapy.

Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2024 10:22 AM (oCjPU)

255 Pays to be thrifty
Posted by: Taggart at March 06, 2024 09:48 AM

Then you won't be needing that match.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at March 06, 2024 10:22 AM (aD39U)

256 Islam is NOT A RACE.
Posted by: XTC

Well, it is a race to the end.

* BONG RIP

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 06, 2024 10:22 AM (IG4Id)

257 Like this?

https://is.gd/OmARpD
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

You, Sir, are a great human being.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:23 AM (9yWhg)

258 Note to Nikki: If you have any interest in making yourself relevant again, endorse and campaign for Trump with total, unreserved enthusiasm. The threat to our country from the democrats is surpassingly grave.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 06, 2024 10:23 AM (36/HY)

259 Hahaha.

"Wade rounded billing to the nearest work day."

Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 10:23 AM (CsUN+)

260 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Speaking of games. I took $20 off the geezers yesterday in golf. Woohoo!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 06, 2024 10:23 AM (W/lyH)

261 If Trump wins in November, is it possible the Left will pivot and say he actually won in 2020 and he can't serve a third term?
Posted by: Ordinary American

They can say it. But they better be willing to offer up some heavy hitters for execution for treason. Because that's exactly what it would be. Treason.

And treason demands a body count.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2024 10:23 AM (xFG0d)

262 Islam is NOT A RACE.

Which is why they normally call it "Islamophobia". One of the rare instances of something the left calls a "phobia" actually being fear. Being afraid of I KEEL YOU is real, being afraid of Dylan Mulvaney not so much.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 06, 2024 10:24 AM (2ocoG)

263 Like this?

https://is.gd/OmARpD
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 10:20 AM (gSZYf)

I scrolled all the way thru.

Posted by: BignJames at March 06, 2024 10:24 AM (AwYPR)

264 251 Islam is NOT A RACE.
Posted by: XTC at March 06, 2024 10:21 AM (UnA8+)

and it is not a real religion. It is a dearth cut.

Posted by: vic at March 06, 2024 10:24 AM (A5THL)

265 He never stopped.
*tee hee*
Posted by: Dr. Jill

*collective barf*

Posted by: the Horde at March 06, 2024 10:24 AM (vFG9F)

266 Legally, Bourbon is a pretty simple liquor. At least 51% corn mash bill, aged in new oak barrels, and made in the United States (and some other sh*t that isn't important)

That's why we have an incredible variety of it. As consumers, we win.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 10:25 AM (gSZYf)

267 If Trump wins in November, is it possible the Left will pivot and say he actually won in 2020 and he can't serve a third term?
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 06, 2024 10:16 AM (36/HY)
++++
Nope. He didn't win in 2020. Even if he won it legitimately, he didn't win the EC vote and so did not win. Even if the EC vote was informed and controlled by fraud, it doesn't change the fact that he did not win the presidential election.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 10:25 AM (HnUIn)

268 Here's pretty good art
https://tinyurl.com/3ysnm4kx

Posted by: Ciampino - my Dad was good with peels at March 06, 2024 10:25 AM (qfLjt)

269 and it is not a real religion. It is a dearth cut.

*taps the Mark Steyn sign again*
Islam is a political system pretending to be a religion.
The left is a religion pretending to be a political system.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 06, 2024 10:25 AM (2ocoG)

270 258 Note to Nikki: If you have any interest in making yourself relevant again, endorse and campaign for Trump with total, unreserved enthusiasm. The threat to our country from the democrats is surpassingly grave.
---------

Nikki never expected to win. Her plan was to play the long game and be the backup nominee if Trump is cancelled.

Posted by: ET at March 06, 2024 10:25 AM (eh1/Q)

271 He never stopped.
*tee hee*
Posted by: Dr. Jill

*collective barf*
Posted by: the Horde at March 06, 2024 10:24 AM (vFG9F)
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Great. Now we have to clean that up.

Posted by: The Horde Custodial Staff at March 06, 2024 10:25 AM (7fElN)

272 First time I've seen VivaBarnesLaw. He's very sharp.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 10:25 AM (CsUN+)

273 Yup,late again.

Are they doing hash?

Posted by: mpfs at March 06, 2024 10:26 AM (wMSZ1)

274 https://is.gd/OmARpD
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 10:20 AM (gSZYf)

Some of them gals lacked polka dots, which is a shame cuz freckles on a dame are hot as hell.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 10:26 AM (1Z8zZ)

275 238 Canadian > Blended > Scotch
Posted by: BignJames at March 06, 2024 10:18 AM (AwYPR)

Canadian _is_ Blended.

Posted by: XTC at March 06, 2024 10:27 AM (UnA8+)

276 The lesser reason is top prop up the equity markets and keep those stock exchange numbers nice and high.

Fk the equity markets. This was the same mistake Greenspan made. Market was down, Greenspan cut rates, the market rallied for a couple of days and then resumed its downward trend. The cycle repeated until we got to near zero rates. Zero rate policy encourages govt money-printing which is what got us into this MMT pickle to begin with.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 06, 2024 10:27 AM (o5xaO)

277 Lee Smith gets it:

"The Left isn't about Saul Alinsky or progressive politics are anything like that -- that just gilds their psychopathy with intellectual 'seriousness.' They're monsters, the vanguard of evil."

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 06, 2024 10:28 AM (36/HY)

278 I find the green-eyed redhead to be the most bewitching

sadly, I never dated a redhead

never saw that pot of gold

Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2024 10:28 AM (oCjPU)

279 Every March is Irish Whiskey Month, at least at my house.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2024 09:52 AM (qne3Q)

Hear hear!!!

I drink Bushmills because it was the first/most affordable I found. My husband always drank MGD in a bottle. But I wanted a more directed (less bloating, fast-acting!) experience. He only drank the whiskey with me for my sake (and... possibly his, IYKWIM).

I'm thinkin' I need to try Scotch and/or Bourbon though.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at March 06, 2024 10:28 AM (JCLJi)

280 262 Islam is NOT A RACE.

Which is why they normally call it "Islamophobia". One of the rare instances of something the left calls a "phobia" actually being fear. Being afraid of I KEEL YOU is real, being afraid of Dylan Mulvaney not so much.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 06, 2024 10:24 AM (2ocoG)
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I'm no linguist but I think it should be called Islamomisia.
Also homomisia. Same root as misogyny.

Posted by: Ciampino - where are all the English/Greek scholars? at March 06, 2024 10:28 AM (qfLjt)

281 CC and Crown Royal are good

Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2024 10:29 AM (oCjPU)

282 Blended Scotch - daily sipper - Famous Grouse

Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2024 10:29 AM (xFG0d)

283 and it is not a real religion. It is a dearth cut.

I don't care about making the distinction. If a group collectively acts against my best interests they are my enemy. That goes for Islam as well as Minnesota Lutherans who work to push refugee immigration. The argument about which is a "religion" and which is not is a distinction without a difference to me.

Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 10:30 AM (6zjv5)

284 It would be something if they managed to tie Heels up Harris and the GA prosecution team together in Trumps case. They could shit can their execrable VP and Fani simultaneously and try make it look like they're playing straight, then bolster the democratic ticket with someone else.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at March 06, 2024 10:30 AM (DIB8X)

285 Note : I have not tried mixing Crown Royal with Royal Crown.

I know, the thought of not drinking a whiskey straight (or at worst, on the rocks) just sent the Horde into conniptions.

Posted by: XTC at March 06, 2024 10:30 AM (UnA8+)

286 I don't think there's an irrational fear of a violent, supremacist ideology that hides in a thin shell of a religion.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 06, 2024 10:30 AM (IG4Id)

287 OMG: the guy just read Fani's name in court.

Gorilla Grip Pussy Power.

Class, all class.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 10:30 AM (CsUN+)

288 Legally, Bourbon is a pretty simple liquor. At least 51% corn mash bill, aged in new oak barrels, and made in the United States (and some other sh*t that isn't important)

That's why we have an incredible variety of it. As consumers, we win.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 10:25 AM (gSZYf)

To your earlier point of complexity, and as you and I have occasionally discussed -- As much as I love bourbon, I am finding many varieties of American rye whiskey to be enjoyable for their increased complexity due to them being less on the sweet side.
Similar rules as far as legal definition of bourbon -- just that American rye must be at least 51% rye. The ones that are fully or almost fully rye are fantastic.

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 10:31 AM (JunzL)

289 A Game of Tric Trac
Judith Leyster
Date: c.1631
Genre: genre painting
Location: Worcester Art Museum (WAM), Worcester, MA, UK

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 06, 2024 10:31 AM (ENQN6)

290 Canadian _is_ Blended.
Posted by: XTC at March 06, 2024 10:27 AM (UnA8+)

w/rye

Posted by: BignJames at March 06, 2024 10:31 AM (AwYPR)

291 I don't care about making the distinction. If a group collectively acts against my best interests they are my enemy. That goes for Islam as well as Minnesota Lutherans who work to push refugee immigration. The argument about which is a "religion" and which is not is a distinction without a difference to me.
Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality

Except that, in posing as a "religion," Islam can claim 1st-Amendment protection for its barbarities.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:31 AM (9yWhg)

292 https://tinyurl.com/3ysnm4kx
Posted by: Ciampino - my Dad was good with peels at March 06, 2024 10:25 AM (qfLjt)

That's just the weirdest thing.

Posted by: Robert at March 06, 2024 10:33 AM (etXD1)

293 Watching this hearing, I almost get a Nixon vibe.

I was still in High School, but working part time, and the Watergate stuff was kinda on the periphery of my awareness.

And some of the events being revealed then, that at the time didn't really seem important to me, blew up the entire White House.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 10:33 AM (a1415)

294 Famous Grouse is aa blended Scotch whisky made famous by the WEB Griffin military books.

Posted by: vic at March 06, 2024 10:33 AM (A5THL)

295 232 Powell said cuts "are likely sometime this year." Which means he's caving to political pressure. There is no reason for interest rates to be below 5%.
Posted by: Halfhand at March 06, 2024 10:18 AM (o5xaO)
----------
Not really. Markets originally had cuts starting in 2nd qtr then when inflation data came in a little hotter than expected, markets adjusted expectations to Q3/Q4.

The standard thinking is interest rate moves usually take 6 months to fully take effect in the economy.

Posted by: WisRich at March 06, 2024 10:34 AM (G0vdT)

296 Except that, in posing as a "religion," Islam can claim 1st-Amendment protection for its barbarities.

Another failing of the Bill of Rights - I don't think the document or me who wrote it were perfect.

If a group wants to kill me, or even simply subjugate me politically or economically, I don't care if they are motivated by a sincere belief in a deity or simple personal hatred or greed. Piss on them either way.

Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 10:34 AM (6zjv5)

297 Watching this hearing, I almost get a Nixon vibe.

Nixon was FAR less corrupt.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 10:35 AM (CsUN+)

298 And now, from Harvard Medical.School . . .

https://tinyurl.com/bdhnp559

And he looks like a Harvard genius!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 10:35 AM (FVME7)

299 " then bolster the democratic ticket with someone else."

Swarthy, rested and ready!

Posted by: Nikki at March 06, 2024 10:35 AM (a1415)

300 Speaking of booze....

Anyone have an "Infinity Bottle?"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2024 10:35 AM (Q4IgG)

301 Billing by the day....
Seems honest.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 10:36 AM (a1415)

302 San Francisco voters passed a pair of law-and-order ballot measures on Tuesday night, including one that would require welfare recipients suspected of using drugs to undergo screenings to receive benefits. It marks yet another rebuke of progressive policies in the famously liberal city, following the recall of far-left mick-faced District Attorney Chesa Boudin, a Weather Underground legacy, in 2022.

Posted by: SMOD at March 06, 2024 10:36 AM (RHGPo)

303 OMG: the guy just read Fani's name in court.

Gorilla Grip Pussy Power.

Class, all class.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 10:30 AM (CsUN+)

That's seriously what her boyfriend called her?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 06, 2024 10:36 AM (2ocoG)

304 And now, from Harvard Medical.School . . .

https://tinyurl.com/bdhnp559

And he looks like a Harvard genius!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 10:35 AM (FVME7)
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He looks like the guy every father sees his daughter bring home in a dream, then wakes up in a cold sweat and blind panic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 10:37 AM (HnUIn)

305 203 Hmmm, Powell said rates aren’t coming down for a while. Biden has to be seething.
Posted by: Montec

Quarter or even half point cut in June wasn't going to do anything before Nov other than make the Fed look political. And add credence to election manipulation.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 06, 2024 10:37 AM (JkCto)

306 "That's seriously what her boyfriend called her?"

That was her name for whatever platform she was posting on.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 10:37 AM (a1415)

307 San Francisco voters passed a pair of law-and-order ballot measures on Tuesday night, including one that would require welfare recipients suspected of using drugs to undergo screenings to receive benefits. ...
Posted by: SMOD at March 06, 2024 10:36 AM (RHGPo)
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So, in other words, nothing. It will be targeted only at certain welfare recipients and used for political purposes.

What's wrong, SF? Why not make drug testing mandatory for *all* welfare recipients?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 10:38 AM (HnUIn)

308 That's seriously what her boyfriend called her?

IIRC, it's what she called herself.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 10:38 AM (CsUN+)

309 Gorilla Grip Pussy Power.

I thought he had her as "Gorilla Grip Pussy Pal"?

either way, super classy

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 06, 2024 10:38 AM (AcWfM)

310 And now, from Harvard Medical.School . . .

https://tinyurl.com/bdhnp559

And he looks like a Harvard genius!

He looks Satanic.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:38 AM (9yWhg)

311 >San Francisco voters passed a pair of law-and-order ballot measures on Tuesday night

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I'm sure there's a judge out there who will overturn said ballot measures

Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2024 10:38 AM (oCjPU)

312 IIRC, it's what she called herself.

Turns out that's sadly fake news. It's what the woman Alec Baldwin shot called herself.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 06, 2024 10:39 AM (2ocoG)

313 >>225 Vermont is pedo-land? I must be missing something.
Posted by: Montec at March 06, 2024 10:16 AM (bWsRe)

Ben and Jerry were connected to Pizzagate somehow. Two aging gay hippies - it makes sense.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at March 06, 2024 10:39 AM (n+WKq)

314 He looks like the guy every father sees his daughter bring home in a dream, then wakes up in a cold sweat and blind panic.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 10:37 AM (HnUIn)

Two years probation. No doubt he'll put this behind him and go straight. Probably become an investment banker, maybe a candidate for office in the Dem party.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 10:39 AM (1Z8zZ)

315 248

Like this?

https://is.gd/OmARpD

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 10:20 AM (gSZYf)
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Very nice.

Posted by: Ciampino - red sky in the morning at March 06, 2024 10:39 AM (qfLjt)

316 Isn't June "American Whiskey Month?"

[I have no idea what any of these months are unless it becomes a joke on AoSHQ!]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 09:40 AM (gSZYf)

I thought you knew EVERYTHING !

Posted by: JT at March 06, 2024 10:40 AM (T4tVD)

317 Knappogue (sp?) Castle is nice.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 06, 2024 09:57 AM (5sOEG)

Agreed. it was my introduction to good Irish whiskey. Redbreast is quite good too.

But for complexity it is tough to beat a good Single Malt Scotch!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 10:00 AM

*fistbump*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 06, 2024 10:40 AM (5sOEG)

318 Fanni seems a stupid tool. Real conspirators here are Wade, controlled by ADA Desantis (sp?), acting for White House, Dem Party, and DoJ.
This will all be swept under the table, when they all should just be shot. Biden, Garland, and the local three . Send a message.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 06, 2024 10:41 AM (4780s)

319 119 Nikki is supposed to be dropping out today at about 10. The wailing, gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments should be epic.
Posted by: Archimedes

On Super Tuesday, the GOP Gets What It Wants. Republicans around the country have voted, and they couldn’t have spoken more clearly: Sign us up for four more years of this!

Haley had given Trump critics what they’d longed for: A one-on-one fight between him and a traditional conservative for control of the party. It just came eight years too late to redirect a Republican party now realigned in Trump’s image. The skeptics remain a sizable rump coalition; between 15 and 40 percent of GOP primary voters supported Haley in most states. To everyone’s faint surprise, she even won Vermont yesterday.

Posted by: Intercepted The Bulwark Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 06, 2024 10:41 AM (ycI94)

320 "That's seriously what her boyfriend called her?"

That was her name for whatever platform she was posting on.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

I call bullshit. She had better be able to squat down and pick up a bowling ball with it. Just like in Subic Bay or Tijuana.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2024 10:41 AM (xFG0d)

321 Speaking of booze....

Anyone have an "Infinity Bottle?"
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2024 10:35 AM (Q4IgG)

Yup! I started it about 5 years ago. It's outstanding! I only share its contents select people.
Took it to a bourbon tasting event once. It was only 50% full at the time, and I was offered $250 for it. Never would consider selling it!

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 10:42 AM (JunzL)

322 Read about the symbolism of the painting and the game being played. The person in the white cap does not look feminine; the person in the large dark hat looks almost feminine (young Sly Stallone in lipstick), and the bored person could be waiting for the other two, more involved in the game, to strike some agreement.

Interesting but wouldn't hang. Her work seems to belittle almost every subject, short of the tulip in a vase, but maybe that's the way Leyster found her place as an artist.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at March 06, 2024 10:42 AM (GshMh)

323 Isn't June "American Whiskey Month?"

[I have no idea what any of these months are unless it becomes a joke on AoSHQ!]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 09:40 AM (gSZYf)

It wasn't on the COB Test ?

Posted by: JT at March 06, 2024 10:42 AM (T4tVD)

324 I call bullshit. She had better be able to squat down and pick up a bowling ball with it. Just like in Subic Bay or Tijuana.

Bullshit is correct, it's a Twitter hoax. The actual quote is from the Alec Baldwin trial, not the Fani one.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 06, 2024 10:42 AM (2ocoG)

325 The skeptics remain a sizable rump coalition; between 15 and 40 percent of GOP primary voters supported Haley in most states. To everyone’s faint surprise, she even won Vermont yesterday.
Posted by: Intercepted The Bulwark Transmissions

She got 18% in Texas.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2024 10:42 AM (xFG0d)

326 Tric Trac is a game played among heroin-addicted hookers, more informally known as "spin the needle." Usually engaged in when there's only enough smack left for one hit.

Posted by: Gee that got dark fast at March 06, 2024 10:43 AM (tczCu)

327 Speaking of booze....

Anyone have an "Infinity Bottle?"
Posted by: Martini Farmer

What is that?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:43 AM (9yWhg)

328 She apparently said "Gorilla Grip Pussy Pal".

https://tinyurl.com/bde59f97

Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 10:43 AM (CsUN+)

329 Painting is an illustration of Raytheon Nikki's team deciding to suspend her campaign?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 06, 2024 10:44 AM (dGCAG)

330 Trump said pussy!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 10:44 AM (FVME7)

331 Speaking of booze....

Anyone have an "Infinity Bottle?"
Posted by: Martini Farmer

What is that?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:43 AM (9yWhg)

$20 - same as in town

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 10:44 AM (JunzL)

332 328 She apparently said "Gorilla Grip Pussy Pal".

https://tinyurl.com/bde59f97

and this is the RUST trial! it's hannah's name somewhere

I dunno people are weird

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 06, 2024 10:44 AM (AcWfM)

333 Speaking of booze....

Anyone have an "Infinity Bottle?"
Posted by: Martini Farmer

What is that?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:43 AM (9yWhg)
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I was picturing a Klein bottle...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2024 10:44 AM (7fElN)

334 Has the Swamp Queen flounced off the stage yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 06, 2024 10:45 AM (pUa4U)

335 > Speaking of booze....

Anyone have an "Infinity Bottle?"
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2024 10:35 AM (Q4IgG)

Yup! I started it about 5 years ago. It's outstanding! I only share its contents select people.
Took it to a bourbon tasting event once. It was only 50% full at the time, and I was offered $250 for it. Never would consider selling it!
Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 10:42 AM (JunzL)
____________

I started one many years ago but something I put in it soured the batch. I need to start another one....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2024 10:45 AM (Q4IgG)

336 The guy looking at us in the picture looks a little like Gary Oldman.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at March 06, 2024 10:45 AM (xPJvm)

337 She apparently said "Gorilla Grip Pussy Pal".

https://tinyurl.com/bde59f97

Yup, and that's the Alec Baldwin trial. The first clue was that a person of white is in the video.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 06, 2024 10:46 AM (2ocoG)

338 The ones that are fully or almost fully rye are fantastic.

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 10:31 AM (JunzL)

Get thee to Vermont! WhistlePig is making incredibly complex ryes.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 10:46 AM (gSZYf)

339 MSNBC pundit Rachel Maddow said it is “irresponsible” of news organizations to carry former President Trump’s remarks when they know he is going to make false statements.

.. this coming from the person that a federal judge ruled is known for expressing her opinion, and not necessarily the facts.

Posted by: SMOD at March 06, 2024 10:46 AM (RHGPo)

340 and this is the RUST trial! it's hannah's name somewhere

I dunno people are weird

Hannah was far more likely to be able to back that up than Fani.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 06, 2024 10:46 AM (2ocoG)

341 Fani hearing.
Relying on the "you know it when you see it" strategy does not seem to be too wise when confronted with people who refuse to see.

Posted by: fd at March 06, 2024 10:47 AM (vFG9F)

342 In simple terms, and infinity bottle is a blend of whiskeys from various bottles. It's a unique bottle that you never let get fully empty and you only put what you consider "good stuff" in it. I keep mine 1/3 to 2/3 full at any given time.

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 10:47 AM (JunzL)

343 Holy crap, the Fanni stuff is way worse than we thought.

His 1st contract was a cap off $15k a month.
It expires.
They go out of town.
Two weeks later, new contract.
New cap is $35k a month.
Nearly every month, he bills the cap.
All approved without question or reduction.
And several months, billed at cap, was even before the grand jury was convened--before there was any work to be done!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 06, 2024 10:47 AM (yikga)

344 It's nort whiskeh unlessh it's been filtered through the desiccated guts of long dead Scoootsmen~! ARRR~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 06, 2024 10:47 AM (IG4Id)

345 An "Infinity Bottle" is an empty bottle that you put your last little bit of whiskey from an opened bottle in. You end up mixing your own "special blended whiskey" from the spirits you enjoy.

They typically will be complex, very smooth and unique.

Takes years to make.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2024 10:47 AM (Q4IgG)

346 Get thee to Vermont! WhistlePig is making incredibly complex ryes.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Love pastrami on rye. Never had a rye whiskey.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2024 10:47 AM (xFG0d)

Posted by: Ford at March 06, 2024 10:48 AM (25k9m)

348 Trump said pussy!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 10:44 AM (FVME7)

Not a traditional conservative!

Let's arrest him, and take away his property.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 06, 2024 10:48 AM (dGCAG)

349 No oath of office taken.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 10:49 AM (a1415)

350 325 The skeptics remain a sizable rump coalition; between 15 and 40 percent of GOP primary voters supported Haley in most states. To everyone’s faint surprise, she even won Vermont yesterday.
Posted by: Intercepted The Bulwark Transmissions

She got 18% in Texas.
Posted by: rickb223

More importantly, most of her primary votes were from Democrats who crossed over to vote for her.

Posted by: Intercepted The Bulwark Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 06, 2024 10:49 AM (ycI94)

351 Found the oath, they forgot to file it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 10:49 AM (a1415)

352 a sizable rump coalition

The Kardashians?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:49 AM (9yWhg)

353 Get thee to Vermont! WhistlePig is making incredibly complex ryes.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 10:46 AM (gSZYf)

Will be there in October, just prior to the Tx MoMe.

New Riff in northern Kentucky is also making outstanding rye varieties. Their Balboa Rye is incredible.

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 10:50 AM (JunzL)

354 The ones that are fully or almost fully rye are fantastic.

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 10:31 AM (JunzL)

Get thee to Vermont! WhistlePig is making incredibly complex ryes.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 10:46 AM

I haven't had a good rye in the house in quite a while. Might have to remedy that soon.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 06, 2024 10:50 AM (5sOEG)

355 The skeptics remain a sizable rump coalition; between 15 and 40 percent of GOP primary voters supported Haley in most states. To everyone’s faint surprise, she even won Vermont yesterday.
Posted by: Intercepted The Bulwark Transmissions

She got 18% in Texas.
Posted by: rickb223

More importantly, most of her primary votes were from Democrats who crossed over to vote for her.
Posted by: Intercepted The Bulwark Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 06, 2024 10:49 AM (ycI94)

Can't we just give Vermont to Canada?

Why do we need it?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 06, 2024 10:50 AM (dGCAG)

356 This judge. Would taking a piece of gum be grounds for dismissal?

Posted by: fd at March 06, 2024 10:51 AM (vFG9F)

357 Nikki has announced she will leave the Titanic and get into a life boat.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 10:51 AM (FVME7)

358 Can't we just give Vermont to Canada?

Why do we need it?
Posted by: BurtTC at March 06, 2024 10:50 AM (dGCAG)
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Maple syrup for our French toast?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2024 10:51 AM (7fElN)

359 I know Ace loves the Fani Willis case, so I'm hoping for a flaming skull first post from him today.

Posted by: Intercepted The Bulwark Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 06, 2024 10:51 AM (ycI94)

360 302 San Francisco voters passed a pair of law-and-order ballot measures on Tuesday night, including one that would require welfare recipients suspected of using drugs to undergo screenings to receive benefits. It marks yet another rebuke of progressive policies in the famously liberal city, following the recall of far-left mick-faced District Attorney Chesa Boudin, a Weather Underground legacy, in 2022.
Posted by: SMOD at March 06, 2024 10:36 AM (RHGPo)

=======

I remember years ago when Florida tried to do this.

The courts smacked it down hard, and the left was giddy.

Weird how times change.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 10:51 AM (GBKbO)

361 On Super Tuesday, the GOP Gets What It Wants. Republicans around the country have voted, and they couldn’t have spoken more clearly: Sign us up for four more years of this!

Haley had given Trump critics what they’d longed for: A one-on-one fight between him and a traditional conservative for control of the party. It just came eight years too late to redirect a Republican party now realigned in Trump’s image. The skeptics remain a sizable rump coalition; between 15 and 40 percent of GOP primary voters supported Haley in most states. To everyone’s faint surprise, she even won Vermont yesterday.
Posted by: Intercepted The Bulwark Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 06, 2024 10:41 AM (ycI94)

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Weird how this minority of the party keeps demanding complete control of the party, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

362 352 a sizable rump coalition

The Kardashians?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Hmmmm. Second look at the GOP?

Posted by: Sir Mix-a-Lot at March 06, 2024 10:53 AM (ycI94)

363 Maple syrup for our French toast?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2024 10:51 AM (7fElN)

Meh. I like Mrs. Butterworths.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 06, 2024 10:53 AM (dGCAG)

364 I remember years ago when Florida tried to do this.

The courts smacked it down hard, and the left was giddy.

Weird how times change.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 10:51 AM (GBKbO)

These damn parties keep switching!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 06, 2024 10:53 AM (KbCG3)

365 350 More importantly, most of her primary votes were from Democrats who crossed over to vote for her.
Posted by: Intercepted The Bulwark Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 06, 2024 10:49 AM (ycI94)

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Mostly left-leaning independents/unaffiliated since most primaries were at least partially closed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

366 I see a theme this week - women artists. Celebrating Women's History Month/International Working Women's Day ??

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2024 10:53 AM (V13WU)

367 I saw WhistlePig open for Meatloaf at the Stampede Corral in '78.

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 06, 2024 10:53 AM (8kfkB)

368 Can't we just give Vermont to Canada?

Why do we need it?
Posted by: BurtTC

That almost happened. Due to colonial territorial disputes, Vermont was not one of the 13 colonies during the Revolution, and was de facto independent. It was allied with the 13, however. But at one point it was putting out feelers to the British to switch sides.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:54 AM (9yWhg)

369 This gig questioning Ms Merchant is just walking right down a series of questions to cover the points of possible corruption.

Truly amazing to watch.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 10:54 AM (a1415)

370 An "Infinity Bottle" is an empty bottle that you put your last little bit of whiskey from an opened bottle in.
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The words are English, but I do not understand the last clause in that sentence.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 06, 2024 10:54 AM (DeFcY)

371 What if Trump makes her his VP ???

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2024 10:54 AM (V13WU)

372 I haven't had a good rye in the house in quite a while. Might have to remedy that soon.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 06, 2024 10:50 AM (5sOEG)

Take a drive up to the WhistlePig tasting room in Quechee.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 10:55 AM (gSZYf)

373 Gig= guy

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 10:55 AM (a1415)

374 Weird how this minority of the party keeps demanding complete control of the party, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

It's rather astonishing to me, how those little letters R and D, control what people do to such a large extent.

There are many many many people who act as if they are aligned with D, who really are disgusted and tired of what the D pols do, but there are probably at least as many people who align with the R's, who really have nothing in common with that stupid minority of people who vote for Raytheon Nikki.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 06, 2024 10:55 AM (dGCAG)

375 371 What if Trump makes her his VP ???

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2024 10:54 AM (V13WU)

Trump '24: He's learned nothing.

But I don't see that happening in four million years. Five million, maybe.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 06, 2024 10:55 AM (KbCG3)

376 What if Trump makes her his VP ???
Posted by: runner

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:56 AM (9yWhg)

377 374 There are many many many people who act as if they are aligned with D, who really are disgusted and tired of what the D pols do, but there are probably at least as many people who align with the R's, who really have nothing in common with that stupid minority of people who vote for Raytheon Nikki.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 06, 2024 10:55 AM (dGCAG)

=======

Tribalism didn't go away when we build steel towers instead of living in mud huts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 10:56 AM (GBKbO)

378 Found the oath, they forgot to file it.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Couldn't find the right bastard ?

Posted by: JT at March 06, 2024 10:56 AM (T4tVD)

379 I know Ace loves the Fani Willis case, so I'm hoping for a flaming skull first post from him today.

Choice between Fani and Nikki. Man, that's a tough one.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 10:56 AM (CsUN+)

380 That almost happened. Due to colonial territorial disputes, Vermont was not one of the 13 colonies during the Revolution, and was de facto independent. It was allied with the 13, however. But at one point it was putting out feelers to the British to switch sides.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:54 AM (9yWhg)

No reason I can think of not to correct that mistake now.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 06, 2024 10:56 AM (dGCAG)

381 371 What if Trump makes her his VP ???
Posted by: runner at March 06, 2024 10:54 AM (V13WU)

What if Trump wears a dress? What if Trump jumps off a cliff?

What if Trump...

You get it.

Posted by: blaster at March 06, 2024 10:56 AM (ASVTS)

382 ... Haley had given Trump critics what they’d longed for: A one-on-one fight between him and a traditional conservative for control of the party. It just came eight years too late to redirect a Republican party now realigned in Trump’s image. The skeptics remain a sizable rump coalition; between 15 and 40 percent of GOP primary voters supported Haley in most states. To everyone’s faint surprise, she even won Vermont yesterday.
Posted by: Intercepted The Bulwark Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 06, 2024 10:41 AM (ycI94)
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"Traditional conservative." Funny. She isn't. She never was.

She's a traditional establishment GOP party-line Republican. That has nothing to do with conservatism. Trump isn't a "traditional conservative," either.

This had nothing to do with "conservatism" and everything to do with the festering boil that is the GOP. Only the blown-out cucks of ConInc could reasonably pretend otherwise.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 10:57 AM (HnUIn)

383 >>Jeremy Pauley admitted being part of a nationwide network that bought and sold human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary

Looking at that photo and thinking: isn't it amazing we've entered an age where people wear their depravity so openly? It would be a joke to show someone a handful of photos, including this dude, and the ask "Which one do you think is trafficking in human remains?"

I mean, I WORSHIP SATAN is pretty much tattooed and spiked all across his body.

Same goes for that Spanish Doritos spokesperson: Which one of the people pictures gleefully, openly talks about sexually abusing an underage family member and mocks rape victims?" Of course it's the dude dressed as a cartoon version of a woman.

APOSEMATISM is real, you guyz!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2024 10:57 AM (6IDWi)

384 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 10:56 AM (9yWhg)

YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSS!!!!!

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2024 10:57 AM (V13WU)

385 382 She's a traditional establishment GOP party-line Republican. That has nothing to do with conservatism. Trump isn't a "traditional conservative," either.

This had nothing to do with "conservatism" and everything to do with the festering boil that is the GOP. Only the blown-out cucks of ConInc could reasonably pretend otherwise.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 10:57 AM (HnUIn)

=======

I'd love to vote for a traditional conservative.

Where is that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

386 What if Trump makes her his VP ???

Probably wouldn't be the most disappointing thing he's done -- that would likely involve Fauci -- but I don't see what she would bring to the ticket.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 06, 2024 10:57 AM (sNc8Y)

387 But seriously, she checks off many boxes...and she was his UN ambassador..

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2024 10:57 AM (V13WU)

388 I see a theme this week - women artists. Celebrating Women's History Month/International Working Women's Day ??

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2024 10:53 AM (V13WU)

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We need a "Men Make The Best Women" Month or at least Day.

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 06, 2024 10:57 AM (8kfkB)

389 "Choice between Fani and Nikki. Man, that's a tough one."

I don't think there are any loose Nikki threads to pull that will take down the Biden Administration.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2024 10:58 AM (a1415)

390 Tribalism didn't go away when we build steel towers instead of living in mud huts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 10:56 AM (GBKbO)

I still have my nose bone, so.....

Posted by: BurtTC at March 06, 2024 10:58 AM (dGCAG)

391 350 325 The skeptics remain a sizable rump coalition; between 15 and 40 percent of GOP primary voters supported Haley in most states. To everyone’s faint surprise, she even won Vermont yesterday.
Posted by: Intercepted The Bulwark Transmissions

She got 18% in Texas.
Posted by: rickb223

More importantly, most of her primary votes were from Democrats who crossed over to vote for her.

Posted by: Intercepted The Bulwark Transmissions

Yeah. Democrats who abandoned senile Joe Biden

Posted by: SMOD at March 06, 2024 10:58 AM (RHGPo)

392 I am just trying to help you people, to think the unthinkable , so you ready yourselves....

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2024 10:58 AM (V13WU)

393 We need a "Men Make The Best Women" Month or at least Day.
Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 06, 2024 10:57 AM (8kfkB)
++++
We have one. It's called "Pride Month," and it's the month traditionally associated with weddings.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 10:58 AM (HnUIn)

394 "Traditional conservative." Funny. She isn't. She never was.

She's a traditional establishment GOP party-line Republican. That has nothing to do with conservatism. Trump isn't a "traditional conservative," either.

This had nothing to do with "conservatism" and everything to do with the festering boil that is the GOP. Only the blown-out cucks of ConInc could reasonably pretend otherwise.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 06, 2024 10:57 AM (HnUIn)

Just goes to show that conservative is a lousy descriptor in this case.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2024 10:58 AM (1Z8zZ)

395 Speaking of art

@TRobinsonNewEra
Saudi Arabia unveils first AI robot, naming it Mohammad.

Acts like a Mohammad instantly.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 06, 2024 10:59 AM (IG4Id)

396 Probably wouldn't be the most disappointing thing he's done -- that would likely involve Fauci -- but I don't see what she would bring to the ticket.
Posted by: Oddbob at March 06, 2024 10:57 AM (sNc8Y)

Nikki Haley is an evil piece of shit.

People who don't know that have no business making decisions about what to eat for breakfast, let alone national policy.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 06, 2024 10:59 AM (dGCAG)

397 We need a "Men Make The Best Women" Month or at least Day.
Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 06, 2024 10:57 AM (8kfkB)

No. No we don't.

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2024 10:59 AM (V13WU)

398 >> "Choice between Fani and Nikki. Man, that's a tough one."

That sounds like a punchline. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2024 10:59 AM (6IDWi)

399 Well. I missed all the rental car puns. I guess I'll have to try harder.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 06, 2024 10:59 AM (W/lyH)

400 I am just trying to help you people, to think the unthinkable , so you ready yourselves....
Posted by: runner at March 06, 2024 10:58 AM (V13WU)
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What do you mean, "you people??"

Posted by: Kirk "SGT Osiris" Lazarus at March 06, 2024 11:00 AM (DeFcY)

401 Trump make Merchant his VP? I can get behind that, she seems smart and looks good.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 06, 2024 11:00 AM (4780s)

402 391 Yeah. Democrats who abandoned senile Joe Biden
Posted by: SMOD at March 06, 2024 10:58 AM (RHGPo)

=======

Not committed got 12% of the Democrat vote in NC.

Hard to imagine those going Joe, but primary votes aren't really predictive of general elections.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 06, 2024 11:00 AM (GBKbO)

403 >> I am just trying to help you people, to think the unthinkable , so you ready yourselves....

for something that is never going to happen.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2024 11:00 AM (LkLld)

404 nood mid morning

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 06, 2024 11:00 AM (IG4Id)

405 I seem to remember that Nikki Haley was probably ahead of Mitt Romney in trying to take political advantage on Jan 6, 2021.

Posted by: SMOD at March 06, 2024 11:00 AM (RHGPo)

406 Yup! I started it about 5 years ago. It's outstanding! I only share its contents select people.
Took it to a bourbon tasting event once. It was only 50% full at the time, and I was offered $250 for it. Never would consider selling it!

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2024 10:42 AM (JunzL)

New to me. Can you use brandy/cognac? Amaretto? Spiced Rum? Anything?

Posted by: BignJames at March 06, 2024 11:01 AM (AwYPR)

407 379 I know Ace loves the Fani Willis case, so I'm hoping for a flaming skull first post from him today.

Choice between Fani and Nikki. Man, that's a tough one.
Posted by: Archimedes

Nikki was a foregone conclusion. We can point and laugh, but there's no real impact. Fani, however, is an ever-evolving trainwreck that may have larger implications.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 06, 2024 11:01 AM (ycI94)

408 >>We need a "Men Make The Best Women" Month or at least Day.

There's something like 160 days of every year designated for some sort of LGBT celebration.

That's freakin' enough.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2024 11:01 AM (6IDWi)

409 387 But seriously, she checks off many boxes...and she was his UN ambassador..
Posted by: runner at March 06, 2024 10:57 AM (V13WU)

Yes, but she is VERY unpopular with the MAGA crowd.

This trial ballon was floated, shot down, torn to shreds, thrown in the fire, and the ashes scattered over the sea.

Posted by: blaster at March 06, 2024 11:02 AM (ASVTS)

410 Trump make Merchant his VP? I can get behind that, she seems smart and looks good.
Posted by: From about That Time

Decent rack.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 06, 2024 11:02 AM (9yWhg)

411 It's rather astonishing to me, how those little letters R and D, control what people do to such a large extent.

Brand loyalty. A defining characteristic that drives sports viewership, consumer choices, and politics for some. Trending down, thankfully, for the younger generations.

Posted by: Pimp Hand of Reality at March 06, 2024 11:02 AM (6zjv5)

412 North Carolina state law provides for semi-closed primaries, meaning that a voter generally must be registered as a party member in order to participate in that party's primary. A previously unaffiliated voter can participate in the primary of his or her choice.

.. so those 12% of "not committed" were Democrats or independents in NC.

Posted by: SMOD at March 06, 2024 11:03 AM (RHGPo)

413 But for complexity it is tough to beat a good Single Malt Scotch!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2024 10:00 AM

*fistbump*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 06, 2024 10:40 AM (5sOEG)

This.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 06, 2024 11:03 AM (W/lyH)

414 330 Trump said pussy!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

Exactly, juvenile & feminine. The 'c' word, which became genderless and versatile, was long ago adopted by feds as it does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, or political affiliation.

Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at March 06, 2024 11:03 AM (GshMh)

415 395 Acts like a Mohammad instantly.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 06, 2024 10:59 AM (IG4Id)

The 12th Imam, He is Risen.

Posted by: XTC at March 06, 2024 11:05 AM (UnA8+)

416 Trump make Merchant his VP? I can get behind that, she seems smart and looks good.
Posted by: From about That Time

Decent rack.

Press secretary more likely. She would annihilate the press monkeys.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 11:08 AM (CsUN+)

417 And now, from Harvard Medical.School . . .

https://tinyurl.com/bdhnp559

And he looks like a Harvard genius!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 06, 2024 10:35 AM (FVME7)

And his sentence? Two years' probation! If it were up to me, they'd be shoving him into a seacan, and pumping it full of phosgene.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 06, 2024 11:10 AM (tkR6S)

418 Something happened to Ace. A glitch in the matrix?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 06, 2024 11:10 AM (CsUN+)

419 Bullshit is correct, it's a Twitter hoax. The actual quote is from the Alec Baldwin trial, not the Fani one.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 06, 2024 10:42 AM (2ocoG)

No reason both the dumb twats can't use similar nics.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 06, 2024 11:14 AM (tkR6S)

420 But seriously, she checks off many boxes...and she was his UN ambassador..
Posted by: runner at March 06, 2024 10:57 AM (V13WU)

U.N. Ambassador is the perfect job for a toxic c*** that you want nowhere near the reins of power.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 06, 2024 11:21 AM (tkR6S)

421 Game of tric trak -- check the controlled substance pipe. No wonder he's smilin'.

Posted by: Ray Mota at March 06, 2024 11:49 AM (sw3xv)

422 I had to look up Tric Trac. That is a complicated game, but I like the idea of a backgammon varient where you violently throw the dice at your foes rail and playing pieces. It even has special rules for how to count a die that is broken. Old dice are bond and break easier than modern ones.

I also think that the standard for determining if a die is cocked is to put a second die on it and see if it slides off is awesome, and I think I might use that for my role-playing games.

Posted by: ZilWerks at March 06, 2024 12:18 PM (0MpOC)

423 There was also around that time a popular drinking game that the Dutch liked;They had glass goblets with concentric circles painted on the glass like a graduated measuring cup. The goal was to drink just enough for the level or meniscus of booze to reach that next line. If it stopped short or went past the line, you had to fill your goblet up to the top and start over. The winner was the first to empty the glass and sip each time the correct amount.

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at March 06, 2024 02:26 PM (LKMDZ)

424 Judith Leyster (1609-1660) born in Haarlem. Very good painter whose work was forgotten or misattributed to her hubby or Frans Hals. Great painter!

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at March 06, 2024 02:29 PM (LKMDZ)

425 Go Fish

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at March 06, 2024 05:13 PM (wGqjj)

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