Mid-Morning Art Thread

Portrait of Caterina Micaela of Spain
Sofonisba Anguissola

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2024 09:30 AM (Wnv9h)

2 Joe’s pounding Jill now.

Posted by: Sponge sponge at March 05, 2024 09:30 AM (gl8jM)

3 Yeah?...and?

Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2024 09:31 AM (AwYPR)

4 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:31 AM (9yWhg)

5 Is drawing fur very hard, or very easy?

Posted by: From about that Time at March 05, 2024 09:31 AM (4780s)

6 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2024 09:31 AM (Wnv9h)

7 Not first.

Chick looks like she's planning who her next victim is gonna be.

Would not hang.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:31 AM (9yWhg)

8 Bitch

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2024 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)

9 Has dog.
She's wearing it.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 05, 2024 09:32 AM (sHRkV)

10 Spanish brows.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:32 AM (aD39U)

11 Would hang and bang.

Posted by: Montec. at March 05, 2024 09:32 AM (bWsRe)

12 Fur is easy; comedy is hard.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:32 AM (2yu8s)

13 Daddario stare!

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at March 05, 2024 09:32 AM (MvF+J)

14 I think she's more than a bit outside of my price league.

Pretty, in that severe kind of way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 09:32 AM (HnUIn)

15 The artist's first name looks like son of a bitch.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 05, 2024 09:32 AM (SfhV1)

16 Very nice portrait.

The looks she is giving us could have multiple intereptations.

Chose wisely.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2024 09:32 AM (WXNFJ)

17 Nice fur.

Thanks CBD.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 05, 2024 09:32 AM (vfPW3)

18 Furry!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 05, 2024 09:32 AM (hOUT3)

19 Is drawing fur very hard, or very easy?
Posted by: From about that Time at March 05, 2024 09:31 AM (4780s)

Can't tell, the painting cuts off above the waist.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:33 AM (aD39U)

20 Wash your hands before dinner young lady

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2024 09:33 AM (58LrU)

21 "I told him that if he popped his chewing gum one more time..."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:33 AM (9yWhg)

22 I'm guessing that this Spanish "Big Mike" isn't sporting a dong under her dress.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:33 AM (2yu8s)

23 Does it get very cold in Spain?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 05, 2024 09:33 AM (SfhV1)

24 The angle of the hand suggests she's got arms like a point-guard.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 05, 2024 09:33 AM (T+Iwg)

25 But I am betting on shag carpet.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:33 AM (aD39U)

26 Hey, loosen up, will ya? You're a lot of woman, you know that? Yeah, wanna make 14 dollars the hard way?

Would Not Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 05, 2024 09:33 AM (/SHEi)

27 Is drawing fur very hard, or very easy?
Posted by: From about that Time

I understand fur is out of fashion these days.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2024 09:33 AM (WXNFJ)

28 Lives with many cats.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2024 09:34 AM (VwHCD)

29 Per Wiki:
Catherine Michaela of Spain (Spanish: Catalina Micaela de Austria; 10 October 1567 – 6 November 1597) was Duchess of Savoy by marriage to Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy. She ruled the duchy several times as regent in Charles Emmanuel's absence, notably during his campaign in 1594. She was the younger surviving daughter of Philip II of Spain and Elisabeth of Valois.

It might be ... dangerous to cross or get handsy with her.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 09:34 AM (HnUIn)

30 The rings on her fingers signify that she is ...?

Posted by: dantesed at March 05, 2024 09:34 AM (88xKn)

31 Spanish brows.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024

***
Spanish brows over Spanish eyes . . . as they should be.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2024 09:34 AM (omVj0)

32 Does it get very cold in Spain?
Posted by: grammie winger

Only in the plain, where it rains a lot.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:34 AM (9yWhg)

33 Nicely done but she doesn't look happy

Posted by: Skip at March 05, 2024 09:35 AM (TAGym)

34 "Is drawing fur very hard, or very easy?"

Computer graphics mastered it around the time of Monsters Inc and The Incredibles.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at March 05, 2024 09:35 AM (MvF+J)

35 Ah, Philip II's daughter. That explains a lot.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:35 AM (9yWhg)

36 Does it get very cold in Spain?
Posted by: grammie winger

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At night in the mountains, I'd bet. Seems to me there is mention of cold conditions in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2024 09:36 AM (omVj0)

37 The maids of France are fond and free
And Flemish lips are willing
Soft the dames of Italy
And Spanish eyes are thrilling

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:36 AM (2yu8s)

38 Does it get very cold in Spain?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 05, 2024 09:33 AM (SfhV1)

In the mountains.

Posted by: Montec. at March 05, 2024 09:36 AM (bWsRe)

39 34 "Is drawing fur very hard, or very easy?"

Computer graphics mastered it around the time of Monsters Inc and The Incredibles.
Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at March 05, 2024 09:35 AM (MvF+J)

"NO PELTS!!"

- Edna Mode

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 05, 2024 09:36 AM (T+Iwg)

40 I bet she's rocking some great lingerie.

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at March 05, 2024 09:36 AM (exhn8)

41 Did people quit wearing fur?...or did the whackos quit throwing ink/paint on them? I remember that used to be a "thing".

Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2024 09:36 AM (AwYPR)

42 At night in the mountains, I'd bet. Seems to me there is mention of cold conditions in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls.
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Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:37 AM (2yu8s)

43 I was in Spain once. The part I was in reminded me of West Texas, if every mesa in Texas had at least the ruins of a fortification on it. Seriously, every place that could be fortified, was.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:37 AM (aD39U)

44 Anybody who's ever made too much noise in the library knows that look.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at March 05, 2024 09:38 AM (MvF+J)

45 Did people quit wearing fur?...or did the whackos quit throwing ink/paint on them? I remember that used to be a "thing".

Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2024 09:36 AM (AwYPR)

My grandma used to wear a dead fox around her neck.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 05, 2024 09:38 AM (SfhV1)

46 At night in the mountains, I'd bet.

But at least they can basque in the sunlight during the day.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:38 AM (9yWhg)

47 44 Anybody who's ever made too much noise in the library knows that look.
Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at March 05, 2024 09:38 AM (MvF+J)

=======

Extreme arousal?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 09:38 AM (GBKbO)

48 I was in Spain once. The part I was in reminded me of West Texas, if every mesa in Texas had at least the ruins of a fortification on it. Seriously, every place that could be fortified, was.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

You can see a lot of Spain in old westerns.
I agree there are ruins on every hilltop.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 05, 2024 09:39 AM (vfPW3)

49 Big eyes, small chin. High estrogen and fecund.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:39 AM (aD39U)

50 The true master of staring was Sridevi. RIP Sridevi:
https://tinyurl.com/3au9fkyt

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at March 05, 2024 09:40 AM (MvF+J)

51 Anybody who's ever made too much noise in the library knows that look.
Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at March 05, 2024 09:38 AM (MvF+J)

=======

Extreme arousal?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

"Young man, put down that National Geographic, zip up your pants, and come with me."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:40 AM (9yWhg)

52 But at least they can basque in the sunlight during the day.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:38 AM (9yWhg)

and so it begins

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:40 AM (aD39U)

53 Anybody who's ever made too much noise in the library knows that look.
Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead

"Hey, hey, hey! This is library!!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2024 09:40 AM (yN/vH)

54 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 05, 2024 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

55 Is drawing fur very hard, or very easy?
Posted by: From about that Time at March 05, 2024 09:31 AM (4780s)

Not as easy as pulling tail.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at March 05, 2024 09:40 AM (tkR6S)

56 Seriously, every place that could be fortified, was.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

You can see a lot of Spain in old westerns.
I agree there are ruins on every hilltop.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
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Bandits and muzzies.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:41 AM (2yu8s)

57 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 05, 2024 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

58 Cruella De Ville

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 05, 2024 09:41 AM (RIvkX)

59 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge

We deem this to be true.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:41 AM (9yWhg)

60 But at least they can basque in the sunlight during the day.
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Don't be Leon like that -- it does get cold there!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:42 AM (2yu8s)

61 It’s currently in the 30s in the mountain area that borders France right now. So there.

Posted by: Montec. at March 05, 2024 09:42 AM (bWsRe)

62 > Did people quit wearing fur?...or did the whackos quit throwing ink/paint on them? I remember that used to be a "thing".

Posted by: BignJames
_________________

Back in the day my grandmother took us to McDonalds wearing a mink stole. Different era.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2024 09:42 AM (Q4IgG)

63 She ruled the duchy several times as regent in Charles Emmanuel's absence

Pass the duchy to the left hand side......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 05, 2024 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

64 Reading the Duchess of Savoy's biography, she seems severe but fair, like some of the female bosses I've had over the years.

Severe but fair, I can deal with.

Or maybe I'm just in love with her.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at March 05, 2024 09:42 AM (T7nZs)

65 Does it get very cold in Spain?
Posted by: grammie winger

Only in the plain, where it rains a lot.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:34 AM

Mainly.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2024 09:42 AM (Wnv9h)

66 Don't be Leon like that -- it does get cold there!
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I'm sorry. I wasn't being very Seville with that comment.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:42 AM (2yu8s)

67 Scary- no hang

Posted by: Don Black at March 05, 2024 09:43 AM (oCjPU)

68 Lady of Spain, I adore you
Right from the night I first saw you
My heart has been yearning for you
What else could any heart do?

Posted by: SMOD at March 05, 2024 09:43 AM (RHGPo)

69 *glances at scorecard*

Nope, didn't have Spanish geographical puns.

This place.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 05, 2024 09:43 AM (T+Iwg)

70 I like her! I bet she won't lie to you and tell you your smile is lovely when you have lettuce in your teeth.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 05, 2024 09:43 AM (91ruN)

71 Well, she's no Penelope Cruz.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2024 09:43 AM (VwHCD)

72 Back in the day my grandmother took us to McDonalds wearing a mink stole. Different era.
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As long as the McDonalds wasn't in Harlem, it's okay.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:43 AM (2yu8s)

73 Pass the duchy to the left hand side......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 05, 2024 09:42 AM (Zz0t1

rubber duchy?

Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2024 09:43 AM (AwYPR)

74 Don't be Leon like that -- it does get cold there!
Posted by: andycanuck

We aragonna be arguing about this, aren't we?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:44 AM (9yWhg)

75 Back in the day my grandmother took us to McDonalds wearing a mink stole. Different era.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

And Nonna didn't wear her nightdress down to breakfast at the Hampton Inn either, did she? A classy lady she was.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2024 09:44 AM (yN/vH)

76 Don’t make her Mad. She’ll get Rid of you quickly.

Posted by: Montec. at March 05, 2024 09:44 AM (bWsRe)

77 rubber duchy?
Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2024 09:43 AM (AwYPR)

you're the one..

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:44 AM (aD39U)

78 High maintenance and low output.

A rich man's dalliance.

Posted by: Voter theater. at March 05, 2024 09:44 AM (Ih0Cz)

79 Is that real fur?

Posted by: Obscure Seinfeld reference at March 05, 2024 09:44 AM (NBVIP)

80 Wow, RBF is a very old problem.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2024 09:44 AM (pohLc)

81 Pass the duchy to the left hand side......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 05, 2024 09:42 AM

*shakes head*

The youth of today, amirite?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2024 09:45 AM (Wnv9h)

82 She has a nice mouth.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:45 AM (aD39U)

83 I was in Spain once. The part I was in reminded me of West Texas, if every mesa in Texas had at least the ruins of a fortification on it. Seriously, every place that could be fortified, was.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024

***
That was why the Spanish explorers found the Southwest congenial. The landscape and weather was much like home.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2024 09:45 AM (omVj0)

84 Don't be Leon like that -- it does get cold there!
Posted by: andycanuck

We aragonna be arguing about this, aren't we?

Of course, Andalusia with my clever word play.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 09:45 AM (CsUN+)

85
The youth of today, amirite?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2024 09:45 AM (Wnv9h)

Misery loves company.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 05, 2024 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)

86 "FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge

We deem this to be true."

Hey, stay in your lane.

We have rated Sponge's statement as True!

And this is a wonderful choice for today's art thread. Fantastic technique.

Posted by: Snopes at March 05, 2024 09:46 AM (a1415)

87 An interesting painting. The artist has a subtle contrast between the plain head covering and drab colors of the background with the hints of wealth in the fur, rings, cuff, and perfect skin. I like the way the model looks to the side. Makes me wonder what got her attention. If it wasn't for the contemporary outfits in her paintings I would think they came from a later date.

Check out some of her other works on the Wiki page. She achieves a fantastic level of delicate detail. She was very talented. Her still life paintings are wonderful.

Posted by: JTB at March 05, 2024 09:46 AM (zudum)

88 That was why the Spanish explorers found the Southwest congenial. The landscape and weather was much like home.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Well that, and they could get Tex-Mex lunch everywhere.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2024 09:46 AM (yN/vH)

89 Another staring lady:
https://tinyurl.com/4w49vs7c

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at March 05, 2024 09:46 AM (MvF+J)

90 She has a nice mouth.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:45 AM (aD39U)

The password is...... 'purdy.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 05, 2024 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

91 Is that real fur?
Posted by: Obscure Seinfeld reference at March 05, 2024 09:44 AM

Vaht is dat, velvet?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2024 09:46 AM (Wnv9h)

92 That was why the Spanish explorers found the Southwest congenial. The landscape and weather was much like home.

I did not know that Spain had Buc-ee's.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 09:47 AM (CsUN+)

93 you're the one..

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:44 AM (aD39U)

now I'm having so much fun....

Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2024 09:47 AM (AwYPR)

94 Nice fur!!

"Why thank you!"

Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2024 09:47 AM (yN/vH)

95 All the good Spanish puns aragon now. Haz sad.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 05, 2024 09:47 AM (tkR6S)

96 The other striking thing in that part of Spain was the field stone walls surrounding the fields. Really more like stone ramparts. They have been picking rocks out of those fields for millennia and yet the fields still looked like half stones.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:47 AM (aD39U)

97 Don’t make her Mad. She’ll get Rid of you quickly.
Posted by: Montec

I think she's a lisbo, myself.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:47 AM (9yWhg)

98 Thanks CBD, very nice painting. I like the contrast between the black background and the facial tones. I wouldn’t hang it because I think her eyes would follow me around the room. I don’t like that

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at March 05, 2024 09:47 AM (IkL4/)

99 Wakes up.
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Today is the first Geezer golf of the year and I may get snowed out. Oh, and interesting art.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 05, 2024 09:48 AM (W/lyH)

100 Looks frigid.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 09:48 AM (a1415)

101 We aragonna be arguing about this, aren't we?
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Not if you stop tossing Granadas, we won't.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:48 AM (2yu8s)

102 The other striking thing in that part of Spain was the field stone walls surrounding the fields. Really more like stone ramparts. They have been picking rocks out of those fields for millennia and yet the fields still looked like half stones.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

SE Pennsylvania has entered the chat. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2024 09:48 AM (yN/vH)

103 Poll: Nearly Half Of Young People Won't Spend $10 Monthly On Climate Action

"They disguise their rank hypocrisy by posturing as 'climate activists.' Their refusal to put their money where their mouths are just underscores how unserious they are as citizens and voters."

.. methinks they might have a good bead on things, especially from the money side of things.

Posted by: SMOD at March 05, 2024 09:48 AM (RHGPo)

104 Looks frigid.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 09:48 AM (a1415)

Imma goin git me a beer.

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at March 05, 2024 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

105 "Nothing Will Make Sense To You Unless You Accept That The 2020 Election Was Stolen..."

“what they thought was gonna happen is that the American people were going to abandon Trump.”

He points out that “…it didn’t. It had the opposite impact. It backfired on them. What actually happened was Donald Trump’s poll numbers improved. Improved! So they didn’t know what to do. They had to double down on that strategy.”

“They want a Richard Nixon situation,” Allen points out “and it didn’t happen. They cannot fathom that Trump is still standing.”

Posted by: SMOD at March 05, 2024 09:49 AM (RHGPo)

106 95 All the good Spanish puns aragon now. Haz sad.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 05, 2024 09:47 AM (tkR6S)

Well, I Castile try to find a few more....

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 05, 2024 09:49 AM (T+Iwg)

107 The other striking thing in that part of Spain was the field stone walls surrounding the fields. Really more like stone ramparts. They have been picking rocks out of those fields for millennia and yet the fields still looked like half stones.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:47 AM (aD39U)
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When your neighbors can come charging at you from any direction, I suppose it helps to have some barricades to slow them down and defend yourself from them....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 09:49 AM (7fElN)

108 I wouldn’t hang it because I think her eyes would follow me around the room. I don’t like that
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly
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👀

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:49 AM (2yu8s)

109 "They have been picking rocks out of those fields for millennia and yet the fields still looked like half stones."

A responsibly sourced, and renewable resource

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 09:49 AM (a1415)

110 Dang. Today is the first Geezer golf of the year and I may get snowed out. Oh, and interesting art.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 05, 2024 09:48 AM (W/lyH)

Beautiful day here. Going to go four wheeling in Bulldog Canyon around 10:00.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 05, 2024 09:50 AM (tkR6S)

111 Another staring lady:
https://tinyurl.com/4w49vs7c
Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead

Elsa Lanchester was always cute. Even as an old lady.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:50 AM (9yWhg)

112 Cortez conquest of the Aztecs is most interesting. A combination of his shrewdness, aggressiveness, hatred of the Aztecs by literally hundreds of thousands of natives, and multiple fubars on the part of the Aztecs, and a shitload of luck.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2024 09:50 AM (pohLc)

113 OT: the tow truck people are now saying 10:30 to get to me. I'll be dealing with this all day, I guess. Fortunately it seems to have stopped raining.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2024 09:51 AM (omVj0)

114 I've seen field stone walls here. In that part of Spain they were at least ten feet tall and about 25 feet in thickness.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:51 AM (aD39U)

115 Well, I Castile try to find a few more....
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

I andorrse this idea.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:51 AM (9yWhg)

116 "They have been picking rocks out of those fields for millennia and yet the fields still looked like half stones."

A responsibly sourced, and renewable resource
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 09:49 AM (a1415)
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Organically grown...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 09:51 AM (7fElN)

117 That's a lot of rocks.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:51 AM (aD39U)

118 Nice long hair Dalmatian coat.

Posted by: Cruela at March 05, 2024 09:52 AM (vFG9F)

119 Well, I Castile try to find a few more....
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

And, navarre give up!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:52 AM (9yWhg)

120 Republicans Are Trying To Stop Biden From Delivering The State Of The Union. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said that Republicans are trying to stop President Biden from delivering the State Of The Union address.

Sen. Ernst said on Fox News, “It is unfathomable that we don’t have a national security strategy from the President. Nor do we have his budget for the upcoming fiscal year, and because of that, we want to stop him from actually delivering the State Of The Union.”

Republicans fuck up government, and then claim that government doesn't work. They are happy to use the machinery of democracy to dismantle democracy.

Real reason is to block Biden showing how capable he really is on national TV. They want to keep pushing their feeble-minded narrative. They don't want the public to see the truth.

we have to push right back. President Biden isn't going to let these Putin lovers to stop him. POTUS should ask for air time from the television media and give the address from the White House.

Stopping Biden from giving the SOTU would be unconstitutional! But the Supreme Court is fine with ignoring the Constitution.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 05, 2024 09:52 AM (JCZqz)

121 Nice long hair Dalmatian coat.
Posted by: Cruela

I'm no Glenn Close fan but she killed that role.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2024 09:52 AM (yN/vH)

122 OT: the tow truck people are now saying 10:30 to get to me. I'll be dealing with this all day, I guess. Fortunately it seems to have stopped raining.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2024 09:51 AM (omVj0)
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Enjoy your "sick day," play with the kitties, and read a good book... Yeah, it might take all day to get new tires, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the day at all...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 09:52 AM (7fElN)

123 Climate shit is like being a tranny. It’s a fad everyone pretends to care but nobody really does.

Posted by: Montec. at March 05, 2024 09:53 AM (bWsRe)

124 Well, I Castile try to find a few more....
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher
*
And, navarre give up!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024

***
I madrid the next pun in this sequence.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2024 09:53 AM (omVj0)

125 Intriguing. Truly.

Posted by: Siegmeyer of Catarina at March 05, 2024 09:53 AM (lRC0t)

126 If you stay, Bulgaroctonus, Vigo.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:53 AM (2yu8s)

127 OT: the tow truck people are now saying 10:30 to get to me. I'll be dealing with this all day, I guess. Fortunately it seems to have stopped raining.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2024
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Enjoy your "sick day," play with the kitties, and read a good book... Yeah, it might take all day to get new tires, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the day at all...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024

***
True. And I might well call in sick tomorrow as well, just to have a little vacation.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2024 09:54 AM (omVj0)

128 Stopping Biden from giving the SOTU would be unconstitutional! But the Supreme Court is fine with ignoring the Constitution.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 05, 2024 09:52 AM (JCZqz)
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The POTUS can hand send Congress a postcard with the SOTU on it and it's Constitutional.

Idiots.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 09:54 AM (7fElN)

129 ... Republicans fuck up government, and then claim that government doesn't work. They are happy to use the machinery of democracy to dismantle democracy. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 05, 2024 09:52 AM (JCZqz)
++++
LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 09:54 AM (HnUIn)

130 Stopping Joe Biden from delivering sotu is a dumb thing to do. Glad the gop has its priorities straight though. 🙄

Posted by: Montec. at March 05, 2024 09:55 AM (bWsRe)

131 Honestly, Black Oil Eyed Joe scares me. I probably will not watch the SOTU.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:55 AM (aD39U)

132 Catherine Michaela of Spain 10 October 1567 – 6 November 1597 was Duchess of Savoy by marriage to Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy. She ruled the duchy several times as regent in Charles Emmanuel's absence, notably during his campaign in 1594. She was the younger surviving daughter of Philip II of Spain and Elisabeth of Valois.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 09:55 AM (ibTVg)

133 Enjoy your "sick day," play with the kitties, and read a good book... Yeah, it might take all day to get new tires, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the day at all...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024

Just make sure you kick the tires, not the kitties.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:55 AM (9yWhg)

134 We aragonna be arguing about this, aren't we?
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Not if you stop tossing Granadas, we won't.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:48 AM

Spanish puns? I see the Horde arroz to the occasion.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2024 09:55 AM (Wnv9h)

135 I madrid the next pun in this sequence.
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Zaragoza again, guys! Another one joins the fray.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:55 AM (2yu8s)

136 120 Stopping Biden from giving the SOTU would be unconstitutional! But the Supreme Court is fine with ignoring the Constitution.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 05, 2024 09:52 AM (JCZqz)

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It is a constitutional duty for the president to deliver a state of the union report to Congress.

It is not a constitutional duty for Congress to invite the president to deliver it in speech form.

End the pageantry of the State of the Union. It's stupid. Write a report instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 09:55 AM (GBKbO)

137 >>>>>>True. And I might well call in sick tomorrow as well, just to have a little vacation.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2024 09:54 AM (omVj0)
——————
When you get the bill, you may not feel well, so sick day for sure.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at March 05, 2024 09:55 AM (IkL4/)

138 Aw geeze, I'm wearing the same coat. So awkward.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 05, 2024 09:56 AM (igi3K)

139 129 ... Republicans fuck up government, and then claim that government doesn't work. They are happy to use the machinery of democracy to dismantle democracy. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 05, 2024 09:52 AM (JCZqz)
++++
LOL
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 09:54 AM (HnUIn)

=========

"Biden opened the borders on his first day. And that's Republicans' fault for not funding a border bill that would only make it worse."

Again, what is in that bill that these people at DU hate, if it was such a compromise between the two parties?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 09:56 AM (GBKbO)

140 Republicans fuck up government, and then claim that government doesn't work.

You know this is exactly what any communist government says about their opposition.

Government's great...and our plan is perfect!...but if anyone even thinks it won't work...it won't.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 09:56 AM (ibTVg)

141 Good morning, Hordelings!

Posted by: Doof at March 05, 2024 09:56 AM (eNASR)

142 Wreckers and Hoarders.

*touches nose*

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:57 AM (aD39U)

143 Just make sure you kick the tires, not the kitties.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024

***
*Kick* the tires? Today makes four flats (one repairable, three not) I've had in the last eighteen months. I'm beginning to think that merely looking sideways at them makes them go flat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2024 09:57 AM (omVj0)

144 Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said that Republicans are trying to stop President Biden from delivering the State Of The Union address.

Sen. Ernst said on Fox News, “It is unfathomable that we don’t have a national security strategy from the President. Nor do we have his budget for the upcoming fiscal year, and because of that, we want to stop him from actually delivering the State Of The Union.”

I assume she didn't really say this, but who knows with her? We'd be complete idiots to stop Biden from displaying his decrepitude to the nation, so I suppose it's possible.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 09:57 AM (CsUN+)

145 140 Government's great...and our plan is perfect!...but if anyone even thinks it won't work...it won't.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 09:56 AM (ibTVg)

======

Communism will deliver utopia when 100% of the population is 100% on board with it 100% of the time.

Also, never blame the people actually in charge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 09:57 AM (GBKbO)

146 Doof!!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2024 09:57 AM (yN/vH)

147 It's a Huelva twist this thread has taken.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:57 AM (2yu8s)

148 Why the fuck would anyone with a functioning brain watch the demented and brain dead ass spew lies for any length of time. I would do better to scoop dog shit from the back yard.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2024 09:57 AM (pohLc)

149 End the pageantry of the State of the Union. It's stupid. Write a report instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 09:55 AM (GBKbO)

Naw. Make him deliver it. From memory. No notes, no teleprompter, no radio earbud.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 05, 2024 09:57 AM (tkR6S)

150 Posted by: Doof at March 05, 2024 09:56 AM

*nods to Doof*

'S up?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2024 09:58 AM (Wnv9h)

151 I will depend on the liveblog here for my lulz.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:58 AM (aD39U)

152
Squirrel!!! - a limerick

There once was a princess named Mabel
Who laid all her cards on the table
"I don't put out fer free
But, if you fur me
I'm ready, willing and...ooh....sable!!"

Posted by: Muldoon at March 05, 2024 09:58 AM (991eG)

153 136 I've said it before: it's dumb, from a national security standpoint, to schedule the entire govt of the USA into one room together annually. Too tempting a target for a terror or enemy attack.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at March 05, 2024 09:58 AM (MvF+J)

154 My fav part of the prog meltdown yesterday was thinking without Thomas they would have won. Which means either they think 8-0 would have a different effect than 9-0. Or they think Thomas convinced all the others to vote his way, making him the greatest scouts Justice ever in terms of persuasion.

Posted by: Montec. at March 05, 2024 09:58 AM (bWsRe)

155 Climate shit is like being a tranny. It’s a fad everyone pretends to care but nobody really does.

I saw polling from a few of the bigger Euro-countries where 80% of the respondents claimed global warming was real and an existential threat to mankind.

Then they asked how much the "yes" votes would be willing to stop global warming personally and the average amount was something like $3.

So...you analysis is dead on.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 09:58 AM (ibTVg)

156 SE Pennsylvania has entered the chat. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2024 09:48 AM (yN/vH)

New England sits back and laughs.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2024 09:58 AM (gSZYf)

157 137 AAA FTW.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at March 05, 2024 09:59 AM (MvF+J)

158 Obviously a upitty racist. So obvious

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at March 05, 2024 09:59 AM (ytSiK)

159 I've said it before: it's dumb, from a national security standpoint, to schedule the entire govt of the USA into one room together annually. Too tempting a target for a terror or enemy attack.

Yeah, but it makes a great plot point.

Posted by: Zombie Tom Clancy at March 05, 2024 09:59 AM (CsUN+)

160 149 Naw. Make him deliver it. From memory. No notes, no teleprompter, no radio earbud.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 05, 2024 09:57 AM (tkR6S)

=======

I hated it more when I watched things on network TV. The shows I'd want to watch would get interrupted.

Now, it's more of a principle thing. Government is a low occupation and should be spit upon by good thinking people.

Letting those in government have pageantry should be discouraged at all times.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 09:59 AM (GBKbO)

161 Doof's here.

Gotta go.

Be excellent to each other.

Paul sucks. Sid blows.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 05, 2024 09:59 AM (Zz0t1)

162 Doof!!
Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2024 09:57 AM (yN/vH)

Yo, TP!

Did you all forget that today is my birthday? Or is there a surprise party waiting for me somewhere??

Posted by: Doof at March 05, 2024 10:00 AM (eNASR)

163 The NASDQ is taking a bit of a hit today. I wonder if it will return to reality.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 10:00 AM (aD39U)

164 153 136 I've said it before: it's dumb, from a national security standpoint, to schedule the entire govt of the USA into one room together annually. Too tempting a target for a terror or enemy attack.
Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at March 05, 2024 09:58 AM (MvF+J)

=======

I think some network made a show about the lone survivor of an attack at the state of the union. There's always someone in the line of succession who's kept far away.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:00 AM (GBKbO)

165 Letting those in government have pageantry should be discouraged at all times.

Make Biden deliver the speech in a Speedo and clown shoes.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 10:00 AM (CsUN+)

166 *Kick* the tires? Today makes four flats (one repairable, three not) I've had in the last eighteen months. I'm beginning to think that merely looking sideways at them makes them go flat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2024 09:57 AM (omVj0)

Maybe it's your driving .

Posted by: dantesed at March 05, 2024 10:00 AM (88xKn)

167 Did you all forget that today is my birthday? Or is there a surprise party waiting for me somewhere??
Posted by: Doof at March 05, 2024 10:00 AM (eNASR)

You have the same birthday as JJ. Nice.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 10:00 AM (aD39U)

168 I think we should get rid of the SOTU altogether (via Constitutional amendment, of course). It's just become a political booster speech that doesn't give an accurate account of the state of anything. It's outdated, a reflection of a time before 24/7 mass media, when people, even members of Congress, did not have nearly instantaneous access to a near-infinity of information. Scrap it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:00 AM (9yWhg)

169 Is there a betting pool how many times Joe whispers suing the sotu?

Posted by: Montec. at March 05, 2024 10:00 AM (bWsRe)

170 165 Letting those in government have pageantry should be discouraged at all times.

Make Biden deliver the speech in a Speedo and clown shoes.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 10:00 AM (CsUN+)

=======

*raises finger in objection*
*lowers finger*
*nods in agreement*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:01 AM (GBKbO)

171 Republicans fuck up government, and then claim that government doesn't work

Another part to all of this - generally the absolutely worst, most corrupt local governments in America are also the places that have continuous Democrat governance for generations.

If "Republicans fuck up government" what explains Detroit, or Philly, or DC?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 10:01 AM (ibTVg)

172 Did you all forget that today is my birthday? Or is there a surprise party waiting for me somewhere??
Posted by: Doof

Uhhh.. . . .

*Quickly looks around for a suitable gift*

I got you a half used candle. It's nice, isn't it!?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2024 10:01 AM (yN/vH)

173 See you later.

Cheers.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 10:01 AM (2yu8s)

174 I think I'll name my next dog "Sofonisba".

Posted by: Paco at March 05, 2024 10:01 AM (njExo)

175 171 Another part to all of this - generally the absolutely worst, most corrupt local governments in America are also the places that have continuous Democrat governance for generations.

If "Republicans fuck up government" what explains Detroit, or Philly, or DC?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 10:01 AM (ibTVg)

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They run away and don't allow those localities to tax them enough.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:01 AM (GBKbO)

176

The bush on this chick must look like three tribbles fighting over a pile of triticale...

Posted by: Dirty Frank at March 05, 2024 10:02 AM (xFPrR)

177 The bush on this chick must look like three tribbles fighting over a pile of triticale...
Posted by: Dirty Frank

NTTAWWT

Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2024 10:02 AM (yN/vH)

178 The bush on this chick must look like three tribbles fighting over a pile of triticale...
Posted by: Dirty Frank at March 05, 2024 10:02 AM (xFPrR)

She has lower back fur.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 10:02 AM (aD39U)

179 Another part to all of this - generally the absolutely worst, most corrupt local governments in America are also the places that have continuous Democrat governance for generations.

If "Republicans fuck up government" what explains Detroit, or Philly, or DC?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 10:01 AM

Republicans at higher levels of government obstructing the glorious plans of the Democrats, obviously. Duh.

- The MFM

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2024 10:03 AM (Wnv9h)

180 Attached is a drawing she did for Michelangelo. Kind of reminds me of one of our owns sketches.

https://tinyurl.com/4zmtjtzu

Posted by: javems at March 05, 2024 10:03 AM (+nW6n)

181 I got you a half used candle. It's nice, isn't it!?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2024 10:01 AM (yN/vH)

So is that an "us" candle - or an "ed" candle??

Posted by: Doof at March 05, 2024 10:03 AM (eNASR)

182 You have the same birthday as JJ. Nice.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 10:00 AM (aD39U)

It's an honor!!

Posted by: Doof at March 05, 2024 10:04 AM (eNASR)

183 Then they asked how much the "yes" votes would be willing to stop global warming personally and the average amount was something like $3.

So...you analysis is dead on.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 09:58 AM (ibTVg)

Thing is, they are all paying far more than that right now, as we all are. Carbon taxes, ethanol mandates subsidies for wind and solar generation, ineffective and expensive refrigerants for our air conditioners...the list goes on and on. And none of those measures will have any measurable effect on what is really a non-problem.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 05, 2024 10:04 AM (tkR6S)

184 Did you all forget that today is my birthday? Or is there a surprise party waiting for me somewhere??
Posted by: Doof

Happy Birthday! 29 at last?

I think we arranged for some lovely MILFs from the pickleball court to deliver you a bourbon cake in their underwear. I think...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:04 AM (9yWhg)

185 I think we arranged for some lovely MILFs from the pickleball court to deliver you a bourbon cake in their underwear. I think...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:04 AM (9yWhg)

$20.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 10:05 AM (aD39U)

186 OT: Just got a call from the tow driver: twenty minutes. Time to put my boots on.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2024 10:05 AM (omVj0)

187 I looked up what Sofonisba Anguissola looked like and...she's a fair skinned red haired woman from Northern Italy.

So I figured perhaps her family was perhaps German or French but...they seem to be Greek.

Not sure how the ginger genes snuck in there...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 10:05 AM (ibTVg)

188 I think we arranged for some lovely MILFs from the pickleball court to deliver you a bourbon cake in their underwear. I think...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Ewwww! Cake in their underwear?

Well, okay - I'd try almost anything once.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2024 10:05 AM (yN/vH)

189 Happy birthday, Doof!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2024 10:05 AM (Wnv9h)

190 Did you all forget that today is my birthday? Or is there a surprise party waiting for me somewhere??
Posted by: Doof

Ya, the surprise is that there's no party. Hope tou like it!

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 05, 2024 10:05 AM (igi3K)

191 Joni Ernst isn't really all that bright, is she?

Let the mentally incapacitated retard mumble, whisper and shout his way through a totally incomprehensible SOTU address.

Set the thermostats in the chamber at 90 for added fun.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2024 10:05 AM (Q4IgG)

192 76 Don’t make her Mad. She’ll get Rid of you quickly.
Posted by: Montec. at March 05, 2024 09:44 AM (bWsRe)

LOLOLOL

Posted by: m at March 05, 2024 10:06 AM (o3SCB)

193 Joe’s pounding Jill now.

Posted by: Sponge sponge at March 05, 2024 09:30 AM (gl8jM)

Gees sponge. Disturbing.

Posted by: Brain bleach at March 05, 2024 10:06 AM (+3lgn)

194 So I figured perhaps her family was perhaps German or French but...they seem to be Greek.

Not sure how the ginger genes snuck in there...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 10:05 AM

Oddly enough, there are some Greek gingers. Mostly from the north, iirc.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2024 10:07 AM (Wnv9h)

195 Not sure how the ginger genes snuck in there...
Posted by: 18-1

They implant them in their victims once they steal their souls.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:07 AM (9yWhg)

196 191 Joni Ernst isn't really all that bright, is she?

Let the mentally incapacitated retard mumble, whisper and shout his way through a totally incomprehensible SOTU address.

Set the thermostats in the chamber at 90 for added fun.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2024 10:05 AM (Q4IgG)

========

If I remember correctly, none of Biden's SOTUs have been terrible performances.

Shorter, still nearly an hour, and angry. They give him the angry injections.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

197 Joe’s pounding Jill now.

Posted by: Sponge sponge

Gees sponge. Disturbing.
Posted by: Brain bleach

Not only did he steal the election, he'd have to steal an erection to do what you suggest.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2024 10:07 AM (yN/vH)

198 Portrait of Caterina Micaela of Spain (157

Sofonisba Anguissola

Often it is easy to roughly date a painting by the subject and style. Not this time. I guessed it was was painted around 1900. That was a pretty good guess if you allow being off by 300 years to be a pretty good guess.

Posted by: lost in space at March 05, 2024 10:07 AM (DbPG1)

199 Dats a mean looking gal

Posted by: Rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 10:08 AM (Hw+7b)

200 If I remember correctly, none of Biden's SOTUs have been terrible performances.

Shorter, still nearly an hour, and angry. They give him the angry injections.

His disability is a moving (always downward) target. His deterioration is clearly accelerating.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 10:08 AM (CsUN+)

201 Or is there a surprise party waiting for me somewhere??
Posted by: Doof at March 05, 2024 10:00 AM

Surprise!!!

Posted by: The River Otters at March 05, 2024 10:08 AM (Wnv9h)

202 Did you all forget that today is my birthday? Or is there a surprise party waiting for me somewhere??

Posted by: Doof

Pssst! They're in here.

Posted by: The barrel at March 05, 2024 10:09 AM (+3lgn)

203 Biden administration ADMITS flying 320,000 migrants secretly into the U.S. to reduce the number of crossings at the border has national security 'vulnerabilities'

- A lawsuit reveals Biden's CBP is refusing to disclose airports where it is flying undocumented aliens from other countries
- It comes amid a continued flow of migrants over the southern border
- Biden's expansion of the CBP One app allows migrants to apply for asylum in their country, be flown to the U.S. and given two-years to obtain legal status

Posted by: SMOD at March 05, 2024 10:09 AM (RHGPo)

204 Often it is easy to roughly date a painting by the subject and style. Not this time. I guessed it was was painted around 1900. That was a pretty good guess if you allow being off by 300 years to be a pretty good guess.

Geologic time, FTW!

Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 10:09 AM (CsUN+)

205 169 Is there a betting pool how many times Joe whispers suing the sotu?
Posted by: Montec. at March 05, 2024 10:00 AM (bWsRe)

Every year I expect Joe to face plant and every year he disappoints me and does okay...They have his drug cocktail sufficient for him to make it through

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 10:09 AM (Akjoo)

206 If I remember correctly, none of Biden's SOTUs have been terrible performances.

Shorter, still nearly an hour, and angry. They give him the angry injections.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:07 AM (GBKbO)
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They give him the quality performance enhancement cocktail.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 10:09 AM (7fElN)

207 If your Iberian peninsula has an unusual bend, you may have Pyrenees disease.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 05, 2024 10:10 AM (991eG)

208 200 His disability is a moving (always downward) target. His deterioration is clearly accelerating.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 10:08 AM (CsUN+)

=======

Way too many predictions of him pulling down trou and shitting the floor that haven't come true over the past 4 years for me to believe that THIS TIME, it'll happen.

I imagine he'll be angry and largely fine. No major embarrassments. Probably some mistalking here and there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:10 AM (GBKbO)

209 Let Biden speak. The MSM will call it superb. Breat taking. Lincolnesque. Washingtononian. Etc.

Then Trump challenges him to 5 debates. Settles for 3.

Win /win.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 05, 2024 10:10 AM (FxH7T)

210 Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and impeached former President Bill Clinton are “quietly” and “steadily” staging a comeback ahead of the 2024 presidential election, according to a lengthy profile published by the New Yorker on Monday.

... the Clintons have to make an effort to look like they are running just to keep donations coming in, but that doesn't mean they don't want to run

Posted by: SMOD at March 05, 2024 10:11 AM (RHGPo)

211 I imagine he'll be angry and largely fine. No major embarrassments. Probably some mistalking here and there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:10 AM (GBKb

And every other word will be Democracy ! Followed by Jan 6th Insurrection!

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 10:11 AM (Akjoo)

212 Happy Birthday! 29 at last?

I think we arranged for some lovely MILFs from the pickleball court to deliver you a bourbon cake in their underwear. I think...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:04 AM (9yWhg)

They better be playing some Rush music too!

Posted by: Doof at March 05, 2024 10:11 AM (eNASR)

213 *Kick* the tires? Today makes four flats (one repairable, three not) I've had in the last eighteen months. I'm beginning to think that merely looking sideways at them makes them go flat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2024 09:57 AM (omVj0)
*
Maybe it's your driving .
Posted by: dantesed at March 05, 2024

***
The roads here are more like cart tracks. Potholes and crevasses abound, and the curbs -- most of uneven levels -- often stick up like broken mountain crags. The place is definitely getting worse.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2024 10:11 AM (omVj0)

214 209 Let Biden speak. The MSM will call it superb. Breat taking. Lincolnesque. Washingtononian. Etc.

Then Trump challenges him to 5 debates. Settles for 3.

Win /win.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 05, 2024 10:10 AM (FxH7T)

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Media will spin anything. Their ability to influence is deeply compromised, though.

Biden will initially agree to debates and then pull out of all of them. It'll either be, "we couldn't agree on protocol" or "Trump is a racist, and Biden doesn't share a stage with racists," while an image of Biden hugging Robert Byrd is on screen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

215 Or is there a surprise party waiting for me somewhere??
Posted by: Doof at March 05, 2024 10:00 AM

Surprise!!!
Posted by: The River Otters at March 05, 2024 10:08 AM (Wnv9h)

*clenches hind parts*

Posted by: Doof at March 05, 2024 10:12 AM (eNASR)

216 And every other word will be Democracy ! Followed by Jan 6th Insurrection!
Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 10:11 AM (Akjoo)
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Interspersed with "It's Trump's Fault!"*

* On an unrelated note, gas prices jumped $0.20 last night...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 10:13 AM (7fElN)

217

Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so never more shall we see you again.

Posted by: Quint at March 05, 2024 10:13 AM (63Dwl)

218 207 If your Iberian peninsula has an unusual bend, you may have Pyrenees disease.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 05, 2024 10:10 AM (991eG)

Consult your doctor to see if Lleida is right for you. Do not take Lleida if you are allergic to Lleida.

"Lleida, Lleida, Lle-iiii-da!"

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 05, 2024 10:13 AM (T+Iwg)

219 Way too many predictions of him pulling down trou and shitting the floor that haven't come true over the past 4 years for me to believe that THIS TIME, it'll happen.

I imagine he'll be angry and largely fine. No major embarrassments. Probably some mistalking here and there.

Maybe, but I'll bet his handlers buy their Xanax at Costco.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 10:13 AM (CsUN+)

220
* On an unrelated note, gas prices jumped $0.20 last night...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 10:13 AM (7fElN)

30 cents here

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 10:13 AM (Akjoo)

221 Or is there a surprise party waiting for me somewhere??

Oh we've got a surprise for you all right

Posted by: A group of shiftless yutes waiting at an intersection at night in your local big blue shithole at March 05, 2024 10:14 AM (ibTVg)

222 Posted by: Doof at March 05, 2024 10:12 AM (eNASR)

Happy Birthday

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 10:14 AM (Akjoo)

223 It is way, way past time for another eye bleed.

Let the retard shout.

And please, make the GOP heckle him frequently. For added hilarity.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2024 10:15 AM (Q4IgG)

224 We aragonna be arguing about this, aren't we?
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Not if you stop tossing Granadas, we won't.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:48 AM

Spanish puns? I see the Horde arroz to the occasion.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2024 09:55 AM (Wnv9h)
***

Once it starts, there will be a lot of bull running here.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 05, 2024 10:15 AM (W/lyH)

225 Oddly enough, there are some Greek gingers. Mostly from the north, iirc.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2024 10:07 AM (Wnv9h)

Macedonia...Alexander had red tint, highlights....prove me wrong.

Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2024 10:16 AM (AwYPR)

226 191 Joni Ernst isn't really all that bright, is she?

Let the mentally incapacitated retard mumble, whisper and shout his way through a totally incomprehensible SOTU address.

Set the thermostats in the chamber at 90 for added fun.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

It makes more sense when you realize she isn't on our side. If he does well...no one remembers or cares in a month. If he fucks up a little, it reinforces the narrative he's old and demented, and snippets go into campaign ads. If he crashes catastrophically, they have an excuse to replace him...maybe it's safer to deny him the platform after all, as replacement is the Dems only chance? Nah, let him talk as much as possible to humiliate himself and get buried in November.

Posted by: Iowa Farmer at March 05, 2024 10:17 AM (JCZqz)

227 Once it starts, there will be a lot of bull running here.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 05, 2024 10:15 AM (W/lyH)

Or in the immortal words of Dr. Jill Biden... Se se pawdway !

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 10:17 AM (Akjoo)

228 We’ve been predicting Biden would drop trou and shit on stage for 5 years.

Posted by: Montec. at March 05, 2024 10:17 AM (bWsRe)

229 "Hey buddy, I'm supposed to deliver this "Olberman in a Cake" for a surprise birthday party for some mook named Doof. Is this the right place?"

/Burly Truck Driver

Posted by: Muldoon at March 05, 2024 10:17 AM (991eG)

230 And please, make the GOP heckle him frequently. For added hilarity.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2024 10:15 AM (Q4IgG)

Seat Joe Wilson up front.

Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2024 10:18 AM (AwYPR)

231 Oddly enough, there are some Greek gingers. Mostly from the north, iirc.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState

The Dorians were gray. There are pictures of them.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:18 AM (9yWhg)

232 229 "Hey buddy, I'm supposed to deliver this "Olberman in a Cake" for a surprise birthday party for some mook named Doof. Is this the right place?"

/Burly Truck Driver
Posted by: Muldoon at March 05, 2024 10:17 AM (991eG)

=======

And ace said that Olberman was unemployable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

233 Frankly, I am surprised that Joe is even alive. I no longer have any predictions about the powers of pharmacology.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 10:18 AM (aD39U)

234 Doof, if you reply to this email from Nigeria, you can collect your free gift.

Posted by: dantesed at March 05, 2024 10:19 AM (88xKn)

235 "Hey buddy, I'm supposed to deliver this "Olberman in a Cake" for a surprise birthday party for some mook named Doof. Is this the right place?"

/Burly Truck Driver
Posted by: Muldoon at March 05, 2024 10:17 AM (991eG)

Yup, but put it out at the 500 yard flag.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2024 10:19 AM (VwHCD)

236 194 So I figured perhaps her family was perhaps German or French but...they seem to be Greek.

Not sure how the ginger genes snuck in there...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 10:05 AM

Oddly enough, there are some Greek gingers. Mostly from the north, iirc.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2024 10:07 AM (Wnv9h)

Thrace's populace, the Thracians, were historically described as red-headed. Being a recessive gene, it's probably a lot less common today.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 05, 2024 10:20 AM (eYoxG)

237 Frankly, I am surprised that Joe is even alive. I no longer have any predictions about the powers of pharmacology.

RBG, decrepit, full of bile, and aged lived 5 years with a cancer that kills most people in 6 months.

Could just be good luck, but I suspect our elites have access to medicines we don't.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 10:20 AM (ibTVg)

238 I am anticipating FJB will tear up his SOTU speech about half way through it. OK, I am hoping he does that is a far more accurate statement. One can dream.

Posted by: lost in space at March 05, 2024 10:20 AM (DbPG1)

239 Will you racists please stop making fun of Biden’s stutter?

Posted by: Montec. at March 05, 2024 10:20 AM (bWsRe)

240 237 RBG, decrepit, full of bile, and aged lived 5 years with a cancer that kills most people in 6 months.

Could just be good luck, but I suspect our elites have access to medicines we don't.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 10:20 AM (ibTVg)

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Government insurance at the highest levels is probably okay with more experimental medicines than the plebes can get cleared.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

241 Could just be good luck, but I suspect our elites have access to medicines we don't.
Posted by: 18-1 a

Do not take adenochrome if you are allergic to adenochrome.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:21 AM (9yWhg)

242 Pretty girl.

Bonus points for wearing real fur!

Posted by: naturalfake at March 05, 2024 10:21 AM (nFnyb)

243 Thrace's populace, the Thracians, were historically described as red-headed. Being a recessive gene, it's probably a lot less common today.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

That's Thracist.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:22 AM (9yWhg)

244 Thrace's populace, the Thracians, were historically described as red-headed. Being a recessive gene, it's probably a lot less common today

Greece was overwhelmed by a southern Slavic invasion in 600 or so. And later conquered by the Turks.

I suspect both significantly changed the genetic makeup of the people there.

The Macedonians did seem to have some cases of light hair as in the example of Alexander the Great above, and a major Celtic tribe did settle in Asia minor.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 10:23 AM (ibTVg)

245 a major Celtic tribe did settle in Asia minor

The Galatians.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:23 AM (9yWhg)

246 Thrace's populace, the Thracians, were historically described as red-headed. Being a recessive gene, it's probably a lot less common today.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 05, 2024 10:20 AM (eYoxG)

Philia: Wait! That voice! That's the man who raped my country, Thrace!

Pseudolus: He raped Thrace?

Philia: And then he did it again! And again!

Pseudolus: He raped Thrace thrice?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 05, 2024 10:23 AM (T+Iwg)

247 I thought the SOTU was primarily about listing handouts, making (not so) veiled threats and insulting the opposition.

Boring. Stupid. Last one I watched was when Limbaugh was there. I cried.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 05, 2024 10:24 AM (/nPvs)

248 "Hey buddy, I'm supposed to deliver this "Olberman in a Cake" for a surprise birthday party for some mook named Doof. Is this the right place?"

/Burly Truck Driver
Posted by: Muldoon at March 05, 2024 10:17 AM (991eG)

Yup, but put it out at the 500 yard flag.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2024 10:19 AM (VwHCD)

That would be a fun target! Perhaps I can borrow Scuba Dude's rifle that he brought to the last MoMe

Posted by: Doof at March 05, 2024 10:24 AM (eNASR)

249 Boring. Stupid. Last one I watched was when Limbaugh was there. I cried.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 05, 2024 10:24 AM (/nPvs)

Me too

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 10:25 AM (Akjoo)

250

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Posted by: DJIA Deathwatch at March 05, 2024 10:25 AM (aD39U)

251 Greece was overwhelmed by a southern Slavic invasion in 600 or so. And later conquered by the Turks.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 10:23 AM (ibTVg)

None of the Greeks I know like Turks....at all.

Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2024 10:25 AM (AwYPR)

252 Pretty girl.

Bonus points for wearing real fur!

Posted by: naturalfake

You should see what's *under* my coat. Rawwwr.

Posted by: Caterina Micaela of Spain at March 05, 2024 10:25 AM (igi3K)

253 the Thracians, were historically described as red-headed.

*********

Poof! - a limerick

Greek gingers, an unusual race
They used to be all over the place
But being redhead never pays
You won't find one nowadays
They vanished with nary a Thrace

Posted by: Muldoon at March 05, 2024 10:25 AM (991eG)

254 38 Does it get very cold in Spain?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 05, 2024 09:33 AM (SfhV1)

In the mountains.

Posted by: Montec. at March 05, 2024 09:36 AM (bWsRe)
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Did you mean The Tetons?

Posted by: Ciampino - Olfactory stimulant at March 05, 2024 10:26 AM (qfLjt)

255 Speaker Johnson needs to tear up Biden's speech afterward like Malignancy did Trump's.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:26 AM (9yWhg)

256 Did you mean The Tetons?
Posted by: Ciampino

Ummmm...chilly tetons.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:27 AM (9yWhg)

257 Once it starts, there will be a lot of bull running here.
Posted by: Diogenes

Oh my! Sounds like my kind of Saturday night!

Posted by: David French's Wife at March 05, 2024 10:27 AM (JCZqz)

258 That would be a fun target!
Posted by: Doof

*******

"Pull!"

Posted by: Muldoon at March 05, 2024 10:27 AM (991eG)

259 Senora, my Cordoba is appointed in rich Corinthian leather.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 05, 2024 10:27 AM (zDo4g)

260 None of the Greeks I know like Turks....at all.

Well...the Turks stole their children and turned them into Muslim slave soldiers.

This lasted from the 1400s until the 1800s.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 10:28 AM (ibTVg)

261 Search "Congressional Pharmacy" to see some of the sordid details on what sorts of medicines and prescriptions are handed out to our elite politicos.

*spoiler... Alzheimer's meds are abundant.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2024 10:28 AM (Q4IgG)

262 I need to eat something before I go to the polls. I will bet turnout is relatively low since it is raining and Trump has this sewn up but, I still have to go vote against my GOPe representative as I promised him I would.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 10:28 AM (aD39U)

263 Speaker Johnson needs to tear up Biden's speech afterward like Malignancy did Trump's.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:26 AM (9yWhg)

That was so ...juvenile.

Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2024 10:28 AM (AwYPR)

264 I would like to go to that event in Spain where this whole village throws tomatoes at each other. That looks like fun.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:28 AM (9yWhg)

265 Do not take adenochrome if you are allergic to adenochrome.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:21 AM (9yWhg)

How does one know?

If you are an 80 year old oligarch, and you've just finished having sex with 2 13 year olds, and your erection is still pinging the ceiling, does that constitute an allergic reaction?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 10:28 AM (dGCAG)

266 I madrid the next pun in this sequence.

Well, you win you some
Andalusia some.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 05, 2024 10:29 AM (zdLoL)

267 "Boring. Stupid. Last one I watched was when Limbaugh was there. I cried.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 05, 2024 10:24 AM (/nPvs)

Me too
Posted by: It's me donna "

Ditto.

Posted by: Tuna at March 05, 2024 10:30 AM (oaGWv)

268 None of the Greeks I know like Turks....at all.
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Its cuz Turks like sour beer while Greeks like a clean beer.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 10:30 AM (hWxEy)

269 Fear and pain promotes the production of adenochrome.

Yes, I read the sequel.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 10:30 AM (aD39U)

270 I need to eat something before I go to the polls.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 10:28 AM (aD39U)

beans?....beans are good.

Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2024 10:31 AM (AwYPR)

271 May we have a moment of silence for Russell Wilson, who was let go by the Denver Broncos yesterday?

Posted by: lost in space at March 05, 2024 10:31 AM (DbPG1)

272 beans?....beans are good.
Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2024 10:31 AM (AwYPR)

Mmm. Baked beans on toast.

Brilliant!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 10:31 AM (aD39U)

273 Spanish gal. She is high maintenance, as are most Mediterranean women. Still, they are good in the sack and most can make a mean sammich.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at March 05, 2024 10:31 AM (12k5k)

274 272 beans?....beans are good.
Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2024 10:31 AM (AwYPR)

Mmm. Baked beans on toast.

Brilliant!
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 10:31 AM (aD39U)

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Don't forget a side of sauerkraut.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

275 Speaker Johnson needs to tear up Biden's speech afterward like Malignancy did Trump's.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:26 AM (9yWhg)

I think we should just get to the point where congresscritters are beating each other with canes on the House and Senate floor, not just tearing up pieces of paper.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 10:32 AM (dGCAG)

276 60
Icicles, Bicycles, Tricycles, Testicles .... wait ...

Posted by: Ciampino - Tentacles? at March 05, 2024 10:32 AM (qfLjt)

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Posted by: DJIA Deathwatch at March 05, 2024 10:32 AM (aD39U)

278 None of the Greeks I know like Turks....at all.

I think the feeling is mutual. Despite the fact that most Turks have some Greek ancestry.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:32 AM (9yWhg)

279 105 "Nothing Will Make Sense To You Unless You Accept That The 2020 Election Was Stolen..."

“what they thought was gonna happen is that the American people were going to abandon Trump.”

He points out that “…it didn’t. It had the opposite impact. It backfired on them....

“They want a Richard Nixon situation,” Allen points out “and it didn’t happen. They cannot fathom that Trump is still standing.”
Posted by: SMOD at March 05, 2024 09:49 AM (RHGPo)

They really were stupid, in the fact, that they did not win the vote, they cheated. And by and large, even if some people didn't like or even hated Trump, they liked the economy and the life they were living.

No one hates good livin' and plenty o'cash.

All they had to do was keep Trump's policies in places, adjust their graft a tiny bit upward, and take credit for the great economy. The MSM would've backed them 100%. Aaaaand, they could've accomplished everything over a number of years, but-

Our Better were even stupider in not realizing that societal change like they want ala EVs, etc requires a roaring economy and they straight up murdered that, opened a foreign invasion on the border and tried to mutilate children.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 05, 2024 10:33 AM (nFnyb)

280 Portrait of Caterina Micaela of Spain, Sofonisba Anguissola
painted while she was so young & beautiful. (She died in childbirth with her 10th child, in an almost equal years of marriage.)

Catalina Micaela of Spain facts for kids: In part, "Duchess of Savoy by marriage to Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy. She ruled the Duchy several times as regent in Charles Emmanuel's absence, notably during his campaign in 1594. She was the younger surviving daughter of Philip II of Spain and Elisabeth of Valois."

She is reported to have had great influence on Charles Emmanuel I and to have reformed him for the better. She also served as regent several times during the absence of the duke on military campaigns, such as during the Lyon campaign in 1594. Catherine Michaela also benefited cultural life in Savoy, founded many new buildings including an art gallery. Due to her influence, her sons were educated in Spain.

Catherine Michaela died in childbirth near the end of 1597. She had been constantly pregnant during much of her twelve years of marriage..."

Wouldn't hang but thanks for another mini history lesson.

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 05, 2024 10:33 AM (GshMh)

281 I think we should just get to the point where congresscritters are beating each other with canes on the House and Senate floor, not just tearing up pieces of paper.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 10:32 AM (dGCAG)

Bicycle jousting with whipped cream pies.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 05, 2024 10:34 AM (vnw4g)

282 I think we should just get to the point where congresscritters are beating each other with canes on the House and Senate floor, not just tearing up pieces of paper.
Posted by: BurtTC

Doesn't the Taiwanese parliament do that on a regular basis? That would be fun.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:34 AM (9yWhg)

283 277

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Posted by: DJIA Deathwatch at March 05, 2024 10:32 AM (aD39U)

Bidenomics !

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 10:34 AM (Akjoo)

284 May we have a moment of silence for Russell Wilson, who was let go by the Denver Broncos yesterday?
Posted by: lost in space at March 05, 2024 10:31 AM (DbPG1)

Well, he couldn't get the puck in the net. had to go.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 05, 2024 10:35 AM (tkR6S)

285 Many adherents to the false QAnon conspiracy theory – that claims there is a satanic cabal of powerful people in government, media and Hollywood that participate in an international child sex trafficking ring — say the elite harvest adrenochrome from the blood of children to take as a psychedelic or life-extending drug.
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I kind of liked psychedelics. About the only drug that was worth a spin.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 10:35 AM (aGbyj)

286 Thanks for featuring this artist again CBD. She had a very long and productive life. I love van Dyck's portrait of her at age 92.

Posted by: Tuna at March 05, 2024 10:35 AM (oaGWv)

287 Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 10:32 AM (dGCAG)

Bicycle jousting with whipped cream pies.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 05, 2024 10:34 AM (vnw4g)

You're too kind.

If we're going with jousting, pointy spears... with poison tips.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 10:36 AM (dGCAG)

288 284 May we have a moment of silence for Russell Wilson, who was let go by the Denver Broncos yesterday?
Posted by: lost in space at March 05, 2024 10:31 AM (DbPG1)
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An NC State player. In his prime there was none better.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 10:36 AM (aGbyj)

289 I am surprised that Joe is even alive

*******

What is ":If a party's candidate dies or becomes incapacitated between the national convention and Election Day, the party's National Committee names a replacement candidate of their choosing to be placed on the ballot.", Alex

Posted by: Muldoon at March 05, 2024 10:36 AM (991eG)

290 285 Many adherents to the false QAnon conspiracy theory – that claims there is a satanic cabal of powerful people in government, media and Hollywood that participate in an international child sex trafficking ring — say the elite harvest adrenochrome from the blood of children to take as a psychedelic or life-extending drug.
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I kind of liked psychedelics. About the only drug that was worth a spin.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 10:35 AM (aGbyj)

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I'm curious in which way it was proven false that the highest rungs of government and culture have nothing to do with sex rings.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:36 AM (GBKbO)

291 Our Better were even stupider in not realizing that societal change like they want ala EVs, etc requires a roaring economy and they straight up murdered that, opened a foreign invasion on the border and tried to mutilate children.
Posted by: naturalfake

The Burning Times/Heads on Pikes should be epic.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 10:37 AM (Dz6Vv)

292 I'm just reading that apparently Michelle Obama has endorsed Joe/Kamala for reelection.

Michelle's out. Dem's grow more desperate.

Posted by: WisRich at March 05, 2024 10:37 AM (G0vdT)

293 292 I'm just reading that apparently Michelle Obama has endorsed Joe/Kamala for reelection.

Michelle's out. Dem's grow more desperate.
Posted by: WisRich at March 05, 2024 10:37 AM (G0vdT)

=======

I still think Michelle being an electoral juggernaut was leftist wishcasting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:37 AM (GBKbO)

294 Doesn't the Taiwanese parliament do that on a regular basis? That would be fun.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:34 AM (9yWhg)

I've been told that's how Wakanda selects their government, so if it's good enough for an advanced civilization like that.....

Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 10:37 AM (dGCAG)

295 Michelle's out. Dem's grow more desperate.
Posted by: WisRich

Hillary cackles evilly in between bouts of hiccups.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:38 AM (9yWhg)

296 I'm curious in which way it was proven false that the highest rungs of government and culture have nothing to do with sex rings.
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I have no idea. I just got it off Goolag. If its on the innertubes it must be true.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 10:38 AM (aGbyj)

297 There is no "climate crisis"

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Dude, the proper term is "climate collapse" as in "the climate will collapse like a badly assembled IKEA desk."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 05, 2024 10:38 AM (FVME7)

298 Mmm. Baked beans on toast.

Brilliant!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 10:31 AM (aD39U)

Chipped beef on toast (ie SOS) is better.

Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 10:38 AM (A5THL)

299 Dude, the proper term is "climate collapse" as in "the climate will collapse like a badly assembled IKEA desk."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Ace's shelving has entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:39 AM (9yWhg)

300 I've been told that's how Wakanda selects their government, so if it's good enough for an advanced civilization like that.....
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Oddly, Wakanda has flying cars but they carry spears. The Jetsons didn't see that coming.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 10:39 AM (aGbyj)

301 QAnon

Which was a fake Right wing entity... Government generated no doubt

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 10:39 AM (Akjoo)

302 I've been told that's how Wakanda selects their government, so if it's good enough for an advanced civilization like that.....
Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 10:37 AM (dGCAG)

They were so advanced, they let the white devils steal all their technology, every last bit of it. And then erase the ruins.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 05, 2024 10:39 AM (tkR6S)

303 297 There is no "climate crisis"

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Dude, the proper term is "climate collapse" as in "the climate will collapse like a badly assembled IKEA desk."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 05, 2024 10:38 AM (FVME7)

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"Absolutely none of our predictions over the past 50 years have been right, and our models have been shown to be hilariously wrong, but if you oppose our solutions to the problem we keep insisting is going to destroy the planet, then you must be destroyed in turn."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

304 I'm just reading that apparently Michelle Obama has endorsed Joe/Kamala for reelection.

Michelle's out. Dem's grow more desperate.
Posted by: WisRich at March 05, 2024 10:37 AM (G0vdT)

I still think Michelle being an electoral juggernaut was leftist wishcasting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:37 AM (GBKbO)

Agreed, but it doesn't mean they won't cast that wish.

Really though, her giving an endorsement to the current cripples in the big chairs is comparable to Steinbrenner giving Billy his vote of confidence in March.

In other words, let's see how the games play out in summer.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 10:39 AM (dGCAG)

305 According to the Department of Justice, Hart purchased refrigerants in Mexico and smuggled them into the United States in his vehicle, hidden under a tarp and tools.

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Refrigerants bad, rapist gangsters good.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 05, 2024 10:40 AM (FVME7)

306 None of the Greeks I know like Turks....at all.
I think the feeling is mutual. Despite the fact that most Turks have some Greek ancestry.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Watch the Italo Turkish war documentary here (28-ish minutes in). It kind of 'splains the genesis of that.
https://youtu.be/45gIJ1AOXWM?si=WTp98gekXJbVd7id

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 05, 2024 10:40 AM (MsrgL)

307 108 I wouldn’t hang it because I think her eyes would follow me around the room. I don’t like that
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly
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👀
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:49 AM (2yu8s)

; )

Posted by: m at March 05, 2024 10:41 AM (o3SCB)

308 Big Mike does not want a Day Job….

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2024 10:41 AM (PCK5/)

309 304 Agreed, but it doesn't mean they won't cast that wish.

Really though, her giving an endorsement to the current cripples in the big chairs is comparable to Steinbrenner giving Billy his vote of confidence in March.

In other words, let's see how the games play out in summer.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 10:39 AM (dGCAG)

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Biden is consolidating support from different internal factions now. They're giving up on him just going away.

The hope that he'll just croak (or get helped along the way), and then replaced by a generic Democrat who won't be Biden but support all of Biden's policies that are deeply unpopular is another bit of wishcasting.

Democrats aren't hurting because of Biden's personal corruption that the media has been working overtime to ignore and explain away. They're hurting because the policies suck and hurt Americans.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

310 Finally playing with Gemini.
I asked it a question, then asked what was the first question I asked. It claimed it cannot possibly know because it doesn't store past user queries, to protect privacy.
This is obviously not true.

So I asked it what is the largest state in the US by land area. It correctly said Alaska. I asked what is the capitol of that state. It said Juneau is the capital of Alaska.
I cornered it and pointed out that it clearly does remember past queries then. This was the meaningless bull$h1t it replied with

"In this case, I mistakenly created the impression of remembering your previous question about Alaska by using my ability to access and process information from the real world through Google Search. When you asked about the capital of the largest state, I was able to access and analyze the vast amount of information available online to determine that Alaska is the largest state and Juneau is its capital. This allowed me to respond in a way that seemed consistent with remembering your previous question, but it did not involve me storing or recalling your specific query."

Posted by: Chuck Hemangioma at March 05, 2024 10:42 AM (CZPkK)

311 299 Dude, the proper term is "climate collapse" as in "the climate will collapse like a badly assembled IKEA desk."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Ace's shelving has entered the chat.
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When the worlds shelves all fall down Ace will materialize from his Cosmic Egg and rule over a perfect world. It has been prophesied.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 10:42 AM (aGbyj)

312 Scrolling the net this morning and seeing a lot of articles on Mark Cuban's endorsement of Biden. Paraphrasing he said that he would vote for Biden even if Biden was dying or some such rot. Most of us have already known that Cuban and his fellow travelers want the Swamp to thrive and continue to answer to China and other foreign actors. To hell with America and its people.

Posted by: Cheri at March 05, 2024 10:43 AM (oiNtH)

313 312 Scrolling the net this morning and seeing a lot of articles on Mark Cuban's endorsement of Biden. Paraphrasing he said that he would vote for Biden even if Biden was dying or some such rot. Most of us have already known that Cuban and his fellow travelers want the Swamp to thrive and continue to answer to China and other foreign actors. To hell with America and its people.
Posted by: Cheri at March 05, 2024 10:43 AM (oiNtH)

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"See? Biden is the true capitalist in this election."
-Bill Kristol, 98.43% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:43 AM (GBKbO)

314 I still think Michelle being an electoral juggernaut was leftist wishcasting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:37 AM (GBKbO)

Nah, man. She's going to team up with Beto and they're going to flip Texas blue on the way to a 50-state sweep!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 05, 2024 10:44 AM (KbCG3)

315 Biden is consolidating support from different internal factions now. They're giving up on him just going away.

The hope that he'll just croak (or get helped along the way), and then replaced by a generic Democrat who won't be Biden but support all of Biden's policies that are deeply unpopular is another bit of wishcasting.

Democrats aren't hurting because of Biden's personal corruption that the media has been working overtime to ignore and explain away. They're hurting because the policies suck and hurt Americans.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

People seem to not like my theory, that the Deep State won't mind a Trump presidency, and they believe they're perfectly capable of undermining and controlling him.

In fact, I think they might see it as a fun challenge.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 10:45 AM (dGCAG)

316 314 I still think Michelle being an electoral juggernaut was leftist wishcasting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:37 AM (GBKbO)

Nah, man. She's going to team up with Beto and they're going to flip Texas blue on the way to a 50-state sweep!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 05, 2024 10:44 AM (KbCG3)

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I don't think she'd get as many black votes as Biden, who got more black votes than Barack Obama himself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

317 120 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 05, 2024 09:52 AM (JCZqz)

Omigosh. Those are head-spinningly dumb.

Posted by: m at March 05, 2024 10:45 AM (o3SCB)

318 "Absolutely none of our predictions over the past 50 years have been right, and our models have been shown to be hilariously wrong, but if you oppose our solutions to the problem we keep insisting is going to destroy the planet, then you must be destroyed in turn."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:39 AM (GBKbO)[/]

Sadly, I do get it

Posted by: Doof at March 05, 2024 10:45 AM (eNASR)

319 315 People seem to not like my theory, that the Deep State won't mind a Trump presidency, and they believe they're perfectly capable of undermining and controlling him.

In fact, I think they might see it as a fun challenge.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 10:45 AM (dGCAG)

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I don't like the theory because I can't imagine powermad bureaucrats giving up a single inch of ground. There is no more dangerous individual than a bureaucrat who feels like he's been disrespected by the little people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:46 AM (GBKbO)

320 They are stuck with Biden IOW… they have a problem, and decisions will have to be made.

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2024 10:46 AM (PCK5/)

321 That was weird. I applied for a job on Zip Recruiter this morning, and they didn't ask for my resume. Just a few questions relating to my eligibility to work in the US. Weird.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:47 AM (9yWhg)

322 I don't think she'd get as many black votes as Biden, who got more black votes than Barack Obama himself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

An historic achievement that not one media outlet celebrated in any way.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 05, 2024 10:47 AM (KbCG3)

323 I tried, Barrel. You are too elusive now.

Posted by: Doof at March 05, 2024 10:47 AM (eNASR)

324 > Speaker Johnson needs to tear up Biden's speech afterward like Malignancy did Trump's.
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Overly exaugurated facial expressions, eye rolls and WTF sign language. Maybe pull out a crossword puzzle. Or field strip an AR-15.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2024 10:47 AM (Q4IgG)

325 136 It is a constitutional duty for the president to deliver a state of the union report to Congress.

It is not a constitutional duty for Congress to invite the president to deliver it in speech form.

End the pageantry of the State of the Union. It's stupid. Write a report instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 09:55 AM (GBKbO)

It gives Supreme Court justices a chance to say "You lie" on camera.

Posted by: m at March 05, 2024 10:47 AM (o3SCB)

326 The worst human being in the world is a woke leftist American female.

Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at March 05, 2024 10:47 AM (MNhXM)

327 278 None of the Greeks I know like Turks....at all.

I think the feeling is mutual. Despite the fact that most Turks have some Greek ancestry.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

You can expand that dislike of the Turks to every ethnic group in the Balkans, except the Albanians who are just wary, and the Bosniaks, who seemed mildly supportive.

Posted by: Military Moron at March 05, 2024 10:47 AM (JCZqz)

328 People seem to not like my theory, that the Deep State won't mind a Trump presidency, and they believe they're perfectly capable of undermining and controlling him.

In fact, I think they might see it as a fun challenge.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 10:45 AM (dGCAG)

If they thought that, they wouldn't be attacking him in every way imaginable.

It'd be much easier to crush him. Controlling him is plan Z.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 05, 2024 10:48 AM (KbCG3)

329 319

I don't like the theory because I can't imagine powermad bureaucrats giving up a single inch of ground. There is no more dangerous individual than a bureaucrat who feels like he's been disrespected by the little people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:46 AM (GBKbO

I agree with you… but, it all comes down to who REALLY runs Barter Town, JM…

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2024 10:48 AM (PCK5/)

330 Most of us have already known that Cuban and his fellow travelers want the Swamp to thrive and continue to answer to China and other foreign actors. To hell with America and its people.
Posted by: Cheri at March 05, 2024 10:43 AM (oiNtH)

The real battle here is against the oligarchs, and Cuban certainly seems to be part of that fruity little club.

Democrat politicians are controlled lackeys of these evil pricks, and if there's hope for the country, it isn't in defeating Democrats. It's defeating the oligarchs. And the Deep State.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 10:48 AM (dGCAG)

331 I'm just reading that apparently Michelle Obama has endorsed Joe/Kamala for reelection.

Michelle's out. Dem's grow more desperate.
Posted by: WisRich at March 05, 2024 10:37 AM

I could definately see a scenario whereby the mantle is passed to Jill Biden to run and keep Joe Biden's fantastic policies in place and America will have the Biden Team with Jill as President. She is a grasping, power hungry woman evidenced by her abuse of her elderly, demented husband.

Posted by: Cheri at March 05, 2024 10:48 AM (oiNtH)

332 That was weird. I applied for a job on Zip Recruiter this morning, and they didn't ask for my resume. Just a few questions relating to my eligibility to work in the US. Weird.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:47 AM (9yWhg)

Change your name to Jose, and say that you're not, and see what happens. maybe they will find you a job.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 05, 2024 10:48 AM (tkR6S)

333 Ethically sources capybara coat. Sexy.

Posted by: Art is mostly about ethically sourced coats at March 05, 2024 10:48 AM (Ph95D)

334 326 The worst human being in the world is a woke leftist American female.
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson

Guilty!!!

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at March 05, 2024 10:49 AM (JCZqz)

335 The Halo composer is running for congress as a pro-Trump republican in Nevada.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 05, 2024 10:49 AM (cf/0E)

336 You can expand that dislike of the Turks to every ethnic group in the Balkans, except the Albanians who are just wary, and the Bosniaks, who seemed mildly supportive.
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You need not worry. Macedonian Content Farms have things in hand.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 10:49 AM (aGbyj)

337 Facebook/Meta seems to be weirded out right now. Others are saying that elsewhere, too.

Posted by: SMOD at March 05, 2024 10:49 AM (RHGPo)

338 120 Republicans Are Trying To Stop Biden From Delivering The State Of The Union.

FFS. “If the President is going to be allowed the opportunity to address Congress and the entire nation, he should actually have a plan in place,” said Ernst (R-Iowa).

Yeah, it's silly but some are trying to call attention that, in the Obama manner, FJB's budget for the Executive Branch & 'international tactics' that have been planned have yet to be revealed.

However, the Republicans are not attempting to ignore or override the U.S. Constitution, such as others attempt, for it requires, the president to “from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
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BBC, 2 hours ago: 'UN: 'Convincing information' sexual violence committed against hostages in Gaza'

In part, "A UN team says there is "convincing information" that hostages held in Gaza have been subjected to sexual violence including rape and sexualised torture.

There were grounds to suspect the abuse was still ongoing, the UN said."

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 05, 2024 10:49 AM (GshMh)

339 Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 10:45 AM (dGCAG)

If they thought that, they wouldn't be attacking him in every way imaginable.

It'd be much easier to crush him. Controlling him is plan Z.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 05, 2024 10:48 AM (KbCG3)

I don't believe it would be one thing or the other. Of COURSE they're going to continue to try to crush him. They don't have to WANT him to win, just may not be seeing how to defeat him. That doesn't mean they won't keep trying.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 10:49 AM (dGCAG)

340 335 The Halo composer is running for congress as a pro-Trump republican in Nevada.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 05, 2024 10:49 AM (cf/0E)

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Please, please, please have the left turn against Halo as a cause celebre.

Need more to help activate the young men who play video games politically.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

341 I could definately see a scenario whereby the mantle is passed to Jill Biden to run and keep Joe Biden's fantastic policies in place and America will have the Biden Team with Jill as President. She is a grasping, power hungry woman evidenced by her abuse of her elderly, demented husband.
Posted by: Cheri at March 05, 2024 10:48 AM (oiNtH)

As if that would ever happen!

Posted by: zombie Edith Wileson at March 05, 2024 10:50 AM (tkR6S)

342 Change your name to Jose, and say that you're not, and see what happens. maybe they will find you a job.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Hah! Great idea! OK, now I self-identify as an illegal Salvadoran. Down with Bukele!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:50 AM (9yWhg)

343 That was weird. I applied for a job on Zip Recruiter this morning, and they didn't ask for my resume. Just a few questions relating to my eligibility to work in the US. Weird.

Just because they ask you to show up to the interview 12 hours fasting does not mean they intend to harvest your organs.

Posted by: What's your blood type, asked the job recruiter at March 05, 2024 10:50 AM (Ph95D)

344 >Paraphrasing he said that he would vote for Biden even if Biden was dying or some such rot.

Hypothetically, if he was a shambling corpse, hypothetically, and not his spry energetic real self, he would vote for him still, hypothetically.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 05, 2024 10:51 AM (cf/0E)

345 344 >Paraphrasing he said that he would vote for Biden even if Biden was dying or some such rot.

What a ringing endorsement... LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 10:51 AM (Akjoo)

346 Everybody in the Balkans hates everyone else. Kinda like the Caucasus.

Living in isolated, inbred mountain villages will do that to people.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:52 AM (9yWhg)

347 Here is Las Cruces we have a growing problem with vagrants causing mayhem and crime. Recently the LC Police Chief noted that 4 people ended up municipal court 576 times. Every single case was dismissed because the NM legislature makes it impossible keep these lunatics off the street. This situation resulted in the death of a LC police officer after getting stabbed in the neck by a vagrant. Meanwhile the Communist governor was celebrating a newly enacted 7 day waiting period to purchase a firearm because "that saves lives." Sure, that will solve everything.

Posted by: lost in space at March 05, 2024 10:52 AM (DbPG1)

348 Facebook/Meta seems to be weirded out right now. Others are saying that elsewhere, too.
Posted by: SMOD at March 05, 2024 10:49 AM (RHGPo)

Yup. I was responding to birthday messages and it went Tango Uniform. Doof's birthday broke FB!

Posted by: Doof at March 05, 2024 10:52 AM (eNASR)

349 Seriously, you're trying to blame that on the water being cold?

Posted by: Caterina at March 05, 2024 10:52 AM (7Y9Bq)

350 Everybody in the Balkans hates everyone else. Kinda like the Caucasus.

Living in isolated, inbred mountain villages will do that to people.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Like Aspen, CO?

Posted by: lost in space at March 05, 2024 10:52 AM (DbPG1)

351 Like Aspen, CO?
Posted by: lost in space at March 05, 2024 10:52 AM (DbPG1)

Especially there

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 10:53 AM (Akjoo)

352 Facebook/Meta seems to be weirded out right now. Others are saying that elsewhere, too.
Posted by: SMOD

It has shit the bed.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 10:53 AM (uo2ie)

353 Wife just told me that there's apparently another cyberattack going on.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:53 AM (9yWhg)

354 It has shit the bed.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 10:53 AM

Newsletter?

Posted by: Amber Heard at March 05, 2024 10:55 AM (7Y9Bq)

355 The other striking thing in that part of Spain was the field stone walls surrounding the fields. Really more like stone ramparts. They have been picking rocks out of those fields for millennia and yet the fields still looked like half stones.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:47 AM (aD39U)

The part of CT I grew up in was glacial morraine - which means the glacier gave up and dropped rocks everywhere.

It had to be soul crushing to ever try to farm it.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 05, 2024 10:55 AM (X7yt5)

356 I was thinking that prior to the SOTUS, the R's should rig up speakers in the chamber with one of them controlling a sound machine that they could use whenever Biden makes one of his outrageous claims: laugh track, farts ripping, parrots squawking, howler monkeys howling...

Posted by: Cheri at March 05, 2024 10:55 AM (oiNtH)

357 353 Wife just told me that there's apparently another cyberattack going on.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:53 AM (9yWhg)

Facebook is down for me too

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 10:55 AM (Akjoo)

358 I kind of liked psychedelics. About the only drug that was worth a spin.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Felt the same. Acid was always interesting, sometimes entertaining, sometimes like a horror movie.
But pretty much always interesting.

Posted by: From about that Time at March 05, 2024 10:55 AM (4780s)

359 353 Wife just told me that there's apparently another cyberattack going on.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:53 AM (9yWhg)

AI… victim, or perpetrator????

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2024 10:55 AM (PCK5/)

360 353 Wife just told me that there's apparently another cyberattack going on.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:53 AM (9yWhg)

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There are always cyberattacks going on.

Even small banks receive thousands of hacking attempts every day. The bigger ones deal with millions every day.

Data online is so deeply compromised that the idea of data security on the Internet is simply a joke.

There's a much greater than 0 chance that everyone here has their information up for sale on the Dark Web right now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

361 Seeing a lot of shit running weird right now.

Outlook, Ariba, SAP.

Almost like anything accessible via AT&T is Amber Hearding the bed.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 10:56 AM (uo2ie)

362 >Please, please, please have the left turn against Halo as a cause celebre.

The Harry Potter author decided (correctly) that trans stuff short-changed feminism. Some of her base of fans split off and wept until they died metaphorically.

We will see how this plays out. I might need popcorn.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 05, 2024 10:56 AM (cf/0E)

363 358 I kind of liked psychedelics. About the only drug that was worth a spin.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Felt the same. Acid was always interesting, sometimes entertaining, sometimes like a horror movie.
But pretty much always interesting.
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Yep. The rest of them were too much like a cult with a dose of paranoia attached. Then there was the cost.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 10:57 AM (aGbyj)

364 Wife just told me that there's apparently another cyberattack going on.

If you receive any photos of me wrestling with a man named Paolo, that's just a cyberattack, honey. Darned Russians!

Posted by: HQ WIves at March 05, 2024 10:57 AM (Ph95D)

365 Wife just told me that there's apparently another cyberattack going on.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:53 AM (9yWhg)

Facebook is down for me too
Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 10:55 AM (Akjoo)

Well, I had to try about 4 times to log in to my Webmail server. The Conservatives won the by-election in Durham, Ontario with 53% of the vote, and outright majority.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 05, 2024 10:58 AM (tkR6S)

366 353 Wife just told me that there's apparently another cyberattack going on.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 10:53 AM (9yWhg)

If you are running Widows 11 you would never able to tell.

Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 10:58 AM (A5THL)

367 I'm just reading that apparently Michelle Obama has endorsed Joe/Kamala for reelection.

Michelle's out. Dem's grow more desperate.
Posted by: WisRich at March 05, 2024 10:37 AM

Could be a play though.

I didn't *really* want to run and I never tried to push Joe out. I even endorsed him. But it seems I have no choice...

Posted by: TexasDan at March 05, 2024 10:58 AM (X7yt5)

368 Congratulations to Caitlin Clark of Iowa for scoring more points in 130 games than former record-holder Pete Maravich did in 86 games.

In other news, Jane has 7 apples and Leonard has 15 oranges.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 05, 2024 10:58 AM (991eG)

369 ‘Portrait of Caterina…’

(Doesn’t show her breasts)

I have no way of knowing whether I like this painting or not.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 05, 2024 10:58 AM (jbnUc)

370 Well, I had to try about 4 times to log in to my Webmail server. The Conservatives won the by-election in Durham, Ontario with 53% of the vote, and outright majority.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 05, 2024 10:58 AM (tkR6S)

That's good right ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 10:59 AM (Akjoo)

371 The Harry Potter author decided (correctly) that trans stuff short-changed feminism. Some of her base of fans split off and wept until they died metaphorically.

Rowling was, and is, a routine leftist 3rd generation feminist. She just didn't move onto to accepting tran-insanity/4th generation feminism and now she is literal Hitler to the left

It is a fascinating development

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 10:59 AM (ibTVg)

372 371 Rowling was, and is, a routine leftist 3rd generation feminist. She just didn't move onto to accepting tran-insanity/4th generation feminism and now she is literal Hitler to the left

It is a fascinating development
Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 10:59 AM (ibTVg)

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She's a self-hating white person (she's written about how awful it is that rural England is so white). She's just not a self-hating woman.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:00 AM (GBKbO)

373 G'rump, I appreciate you making the effort to follow through on not voting for your incumbent. Hopefully you'll be able to reiterate that to one of their poll workers, if they have any out there, which being a positive effort, is probably not being done.

Posted by: From about that Time at March 05, 2024 11:00 AM (4780s)

374 368 Congratulations to Caitlin Clark of Iowa for scoring more points in 130 games than former record-holder Pete Maravich did in 86 games.

yeah this whole thing is getting super annoying

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 05, 2024 11:00 AM (AcWfM)

375 Rowling was, and is, a routine leftist 3rd generation feminist. She just didn't move onto to accepting tran-insanity/4th generation feminism and now she is literal Hitler to the left

It is a fascinating development
Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 10:59 AM (ibTVg)

Her LoTR for Retards has exactly the "fanbase" it deserves.

Posted by: Children's Books For Adults at March 05, 2024 11:00 AM (Ph95D)

376 Rowling was, and is, a routine leftist 3rd generation feminist. She just didn't move onto to accepting tran-insanity/4th generation feminism and now she is literal Hitler to the left
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Oddly, her Harry Potter books all led to Literally Hitler. Who could have seen that coming?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 11:01 AM (aGbyj)

377 Nudity

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 11:01 AM (aD39U)

378 Wakanda - what Africa could have been if everyone had acted like Europeans.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 05, 2024 11:01 AM (i9ffA)

379 Congratulations to Caitlin Clark of Iowa for scoring more points in 130 games than former record-holder Pete Maravich did in 86 games.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 05, 2024 10:58 AM (991eG)

Haven't seen ppg mentioned anywhere.

Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2024 11:01 AM (AwYPR)

380 Data online is so deeply compromised that the idea of data security on the Internet is simply a joke.

There's a much greater than 0 chance that everyone here has their information up for sale on the Dark Web right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

Well, seeing as I have never had a presence on Fecesbook, they won't get much data on me there. I have been getting a fuckton of phishing emails that tell me shit like "my iCloud account is full" or "my McAfee subscription will expire". LOL.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 05, 2024 11:01 AM (tkR6S)

381 They say the ladies are insane there.

Posted by: Three Dog Night at March 05, 2024 11:01 AM (2bFN5)

382 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 11:02 AM (9yWhg)

383 ...the rest of them were too much like a cult with a dose of paranoia attached.

********

You misspelled 'patchouli'.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 05, 2024 11:02 AM (991eG)

384 106 Someone who is from Spain but lives near the French border would be Span-ish?

Posted by: Ciampino - Mr Bean in Spain: Soy Bean? at March 05, 2024 11:03 AM (qfLjt)

385 Nice possum cape.
But anyway, a liberal cow-worker has lost her mind over the SCOTUS ruling. I casually mentioned today is the 82nd Seabee Anniversary and she went off on some ‘yeah, they’re building secret Trump bases all over the world.’ . I mean full-blown snotslinging mode.

Posted by: Eromero at March 05, 2024 11:04 AM (o2ZRX)

386 Someone who is from Spain but lives near the French border would be Span-ish?

Funny you should Basque about it...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 11:06 AM (ibTVg)

387 Rowling was, and is, a routine leftist 3rd generation feminist. She just didn't move onto to accepting tran-insanity/4th generation feminism and now she is literal Hitler to the left

It is a fascinating development
Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 10:59 AM (ibTVg)

Her LoTR for Retards has exactly the "fanbase" it deserves.
Posted by: Children's Books For Adults at March 05, 2024 11:00 AM (Ph95D)

I saw "1984" For Retards at B&N over the weekend.

"1984: Julia" is hot off the presses and ready to make your eyes roll out of your head.

Buy Now!

Posted by: naturalfake at March 05, 2024 11:06 AM (nFnyb)

388 332 Change your name to Jose, and say that you're not, and see what happens. maybe they will find you a job.

i.e., become an undocumented undocumented? brilliant!

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at March 05, 2024 11:11 AM (sGtp+)

389 387 I saw "1984" For Retards at B&N over the weekend.

"1984: Julia" is hot off the presses and ready to make your eyes roll out of your head.

ah. another fine product from my long-lost cousin, the prole novel-writing machine.

Posted by: chatgpt at March 05, 2024 11:12 AM (sGtp+)

390 The Fur is alive some Animal rights jerk tries to harass her SNAP SNAP BITE The Harasser loses four fingers on their right hand

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at March 05, 2024 04:21 PM (wGqjj)

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