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Greetings and felicitations Horde! It's Thursday night, let's have a little fun!

Retirement Procedings

Lt. Colonel Robert Maclaren retired from the British Army in 2001 after a long fulfilling career. On the day that he retired he received a letter from the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Defence setting out details of his pension and, in particular, the tax-free ‘lump sum’ award, (based upon completed years of service), that he would receive in addition to his monthly pension.
The letter read "Dear Lt. Colonel Maclaren, We write to confirm that you retired from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards on 1st March 2001 at the rank of Lt Colonel, having been commissioned into the British Army at Edinburgh Castle as a 2nd Lieutenant on 1st February 1366. Accordingly your lump sum payment, based on years served, has been calculated as £68,500. You will receive a cheque for this amount in due course. Yours sincerely Army Paymaster”
Colonel Maclaren replied; “Dear Paymaster, Thank you for your recent letter confirming that I served as an officer in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards between 1st February 1366 and 1st March 2001 – a total period of 635 years and 1 month. I note however that you have calculated my lump sum to be £68, 500, which seems to be considerably less than it should be bearing in mind my length of service since I received my commission from King Edward III. By my calculation, allowing for interest payments and currency fluctuations, my lump sum should actually be £6, 427, 586, 619. 47p. I look forward to receiving a cheque for this amount in due course. Yours sincerely, Robert Maclaren (Lt Col Retd)”
A month passed by and then in early April, a stout manilla envelope from the Ministry of Defence in Edinburgh dropped through Col. Maclaren’s letter box, it read:

Find out what it said here

On Melting Pots

The Melting Pot Myth Is Destroying America

As for what, precisely, “America” is — other than a set of “unifying beliefs and political ideals” — Thornton didn’t deign to explain. Very few of these apologetics ever do, save for obligatory hand-waving about “ideals” and “beliefs” and “creeds.” That is a feature, rather than a bug, of the concept: When you reduce your country’s identity to a shapeless, inchoate ooze of incoherence — a pot that melts away all that is concrete and distinctive — it becomes impossible for that identity to mean much of anything at all. The melting pot abstracts America out of existence.
In fact, the “melting pot” theory of American identity is far broader and more abstract than any actual melting pot — or, at least, any melting pot whose contents are worth serving. The dishes one prepares in a melting plot have a distinctive flavor — ideally an appetizing one — requiring that the cook carefully choose what to put in to them while simultaneously leaving many things out of them. Not only that, but the mix of what the cook adds must meet a specific, predetermined balance; too little salt leaves a dish bland, and too much makes it inedible.

He misses the point. I wrote about the melting pot concept (checks date. Oh god, ten years ago).

Having tortured the analogies beyond reason, let's leave them for a moment and introduce humans to the mix. There are any number of tendencies that are inherent in human beings, but one of the most basic is that we are tribal by nature. The founding fathers recognized this and realized that the great American experiment could very well fail if its citizens retained their preexisting tribal loyalties in their new country. There had to be something to supplant the old tribal affiliation, and thus the melting pot concept was born. Nobody was denying that individual citizens had been Dutch, or English, or Spanish or French, but now they were American. The previous tribal identities became part of a larger, better identity that superceded the old one. Salt does not lose its saltiness when it becomes part of the soup, but the soup is greater than the salt alone. Everyone loves soup. Who eats straight salt?

He simply hand waves away inconvenient things about the melting pot that make it work. I can easily explain the political ideals that make this country work, so can most of y'all. The founders debated about them endlessly. Here he just declared them undefined and moves on. Second, yes, absolutely it means leaving things out. You can not become an American while simultaneously thinking that you effectively own your wife and daughters. That goes away when you swear to abide by the laws of this land. It's why I deplore terms like Irish-American or African-American. They're backwards. I know we don't expect this anymore, but we should. The article mentions Ilhan Omar, and quotes a speech where she clearly indicates that she considers herself a Somali, not an American. She's violating her oath of citizenship. It should be stripped from her, and she should be deported back to Somalia. It won't happen, of course, but it should. The melting pot would work just fine if we defended the end result (the American “soup” ) from ingredients which poison it.

Utopia

Starvation, Surveillance, and Back-Alley Abortions: Romanian Dissident Reveals Horrors of Living Under a Communist Regime

“In sixth grade, I remember it was the first time when I had to stay in line for sugar,” she said. It was a hot summer day, and Ionescu said that after three hours of waiting, she fainted. “You could stay in line for four, five hours, six hours, seven hours waiting for the car to arrive with produce for the trucks. But that didn’t mean that everyone was able to get something. You never knew. You never knew if it was meat, sugar, or oil.”

The woman being quoted in the article is a good friend of mine, as is her husband. He's so virulently anti-communist that he makes me look like a red-diaper baby, and I think all communists should be given free helicopter rides. December 25 is a double holiday for them. Christmas, of course, but also execute the dictator day. I'm really not sure which they relish more.

World Down Syndrome Day

Today is World Down Syndrome Day. I love this woman. She's kicking all kinds of ass, and I'm over here cheering her on. Put that bit in your teeth and RUN WITH IT! LET'S FUCKING GO!!!!

pic.twitter.com/FUbPpc4h9b
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) March 22, 2024

I Need More Details

Father of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley convicted of involuntary manslaughter for son's crimes

On Thursday, a Michigan jury reached a guilty verdict for James Crumbley, the father of school shooter Ethan Crumbley, for four counts of involuntary manslaughter. The charges stemmed from his 15-year-old son committing a mass shooting at a high school.
The Michigan parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, were both charged in the case with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, according to a report from Fox News. Jennifer Crumbley was found guilty of the charges in February.
The Crumbley's legal defense lawyer, Keith Johnson, pointed out the precedent being set in the case by charging parents for their child's crimes, saying, "This is a historic case because the prosecutors are seeking to hold a parent responsible for the actions of a child … the violent actions that led to the death of other children. And so this is a test case to see the limits of parents' responsibility for the actions of their children who are of a high school age."

I need to know what legal justification there is for the verdict. I'm not saying that there isn't one -”Dad, I wanna kill the kids at my school” “Ok son, here take my gun” would do it, I suppose, but this is a very slippery slope.

Old Reliable

Here's Why a Home Landline Phone Is a Good Idea, Even in 2024

On Thursday morning, AT&T users in many of the most populous cities in the US woke up to no network service on their phones. The major outage appears to have lasted more than 12 hours, leaving many people without one of their most critical lines of access to the modern world.
The carrier quickly apologized to customers.
"Keeping our customers connected remains our top priority, and we are taking steps to ensure our customers do not experience this again in the future," the company said in a statement.
AT&T also assured people that the outage was not the result of a cyberattack, and in fact blamed "the application and execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network."
For many customers, the outage was also a reminder of the perils of relying only on mobile phones, and it may have made some people rethink the place of a home device that used to be standard issue but is now nearly obsolete: the landline telephone.

We had a landline when we moved here. Had dial-up internet too, it took Sudden Link like 3 or 4 months to get “high speed”(my ass) internet installed to the house, but we discontinued it after that happened. Maybe we should re-consider.

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by conspiracies:

Lady, have you seen society today? What makes you think Satan needs to be subtle? pic.twitter.com/7D5qGboumS
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) March 22, 2024

Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM

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1 Hello!

Posted by: lin-duh at March 21, 2024 10:00 PM (PZo5T)

2 (Jump to bottom of comments)

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2024 10:01 PM (7PNM7)

3 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at March 21, 2024 10:01 PM (w3u3d)

4 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2024 10:01 PM (WXNFJ)

5 First?

Posted by: Farmer at March 21, 2024 10:01 PM (55Qr6)

6 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz

Posted by: Ciampino - countdown ..... at March 21, 2024 10:01 PM (qfLjt)

7 Howdy!

Posted by: Gref at March 21, 2024 10:01 PM (5fDan)

8 Almost.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at March 21, 2024 10:01 PM (w3u3d)

9 Yooooo. Doooood.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 21, 2024 10:01 PM (rJ7Hd)

10 This blog smells funny. What's going on?

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2024 10:01 PM (7PNM7)

11 Sorry I'm late, my socks were on the wrong feet.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 21, 2024 10:02 PM (IrqV8)

12 Thursday ONT - yay!

Posted by: mindful webworker - of course at March 21, 2024 10:02 PM (LTuPV)

13 1,000,000 microbursts = 1 burst

Posted by: Final Arbiter of Reality at March 21, 2024 10:03 PM (hwyPT)

14 Darn it, late again, but tomorrow night is another day, eh!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 21, 2024 10:04 PM (hOUT3)

15 OK, then.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 21, 2024 10:04 PM (w6EFb)

16 I really like that vid of the margarita girl. Bad ass.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 21, 2024 10:04 PM (rJ7Hd)

17
Re the "TCorBor" nova mentioned last thread, which will probably go off again sometime between now and Sept.

Peak magnitude will be between 3 and 2. It's normally about 10th magnitude. It will be naked eye visible for sure, but not all that bright. Over 100 stars are brighter than this.

Look it up in Stellarium and see where and when to look in the local sky if this things goes off.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 21, 2024 10:04 PM (w6EFb)

18 10 This blog smells funny. What's going on?
Posted by: fd at March 21, 2024 10:01 PM (7PNM7)

11 Sorry I'm late, my socks were on the wrong feet.
Posted by: tankdemon at March 21, 2024 10:02 PM (IrqV8

Sometimes, the answer is right in front of you.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 21, 2024 10:04 PM (rJ7Hd)

19 That Crumbley shooting is not a real precedent. Those people were bizarre to say the least. The Kid does Real Crime research, can't imagine where she got that idea from her War Crime researcher Dad, but that Crumbley business is CRAZY.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:05 PM (9yXr+)

20 Here

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 10:06 PM (51phj)

21 Damn

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 10:07 PM (W3AhE)

22 Melting!

Posted by: The Wicked Witch of the West at March 21, 2024 10:07 PM (SYTee)

23 Storm just hit and it sounds like hail

Posted by: lin-duh at March 21, 2024 10:07 PM (PZo5T)

24 If I was in the military I would want to be in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. It just sounds badass, and I would look awesome in a plaid skirt.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 21, 2024 10:07 PM (k70+I)

25 Anime OVAs watched:

Darkstalkers
Project A-ko
Cream Lemon

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:08 PM (9yXr+)

26 I would look awesome in a plaid skirt.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 21, 2024 10:07 PM (k70

That's sus, as the kids say.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 21, 2024 10:09 PM (3CVIc)

27 Melting!
Posted by: The Wicked Witch of the West

Man that Dorothy and her chicken are both bitches.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:09 PM (9yXr+)

28 >>As for what, precisely, “America” is

America is a flop house and economic zone ruled over by homosexuals, pedophiles, AWFLs, and Corruptocrats, who dispatch their swarms of bureaucrats, jackboots and other associated rabble to make the lives of the citizenry as miserable as possible.

Hunter S. Thompson probably wrote it better.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 21, 2024 10:09 PM (XV/Pl)

29 I nooded. Maybe someone tried earlier, but with the server burping on attempts to send comments in, it might have gotten eaten by a grue.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 21, 2024 10:10 PM (qPw5n)

30 Waxing Gibbous Moon out there.

Posted by: Lunacy Personified at March 21, 2024 10:10 PM (V5BDR)

31 If I was in the military I would want to be in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. It just sounds badass, and I would look awesome in a plaid skirt.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Plus guarding dragons would be cool.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 21, 2024 10:10 PM (FVME7)

32 Oh...and FIRST!!!!
My hash changed...when did that happen?

Posted by: lin-duh at March 21, 2024 10:11 PM (PZo5T)

33 Hunter S. Thompson probably wrote it better.
Posted by: Thomas Bender'

The Great Shark Hunt is still mostly my favorite book.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:11 PM (9yXr+)

34 @10

>>This blog smells funny. What's going on?

I uncorked a bad batch of Kambutcha...

Sorry.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 21, 2024 10:11 PM (XV/Pl)

35 Sorry, but the monster energy drink woman has a distinct whiff of Calypso Louis and his numerology. I doubt the people at Monster know a lot of ancient Hebrew text.

Could she be....Satan?

https://tinyurl.com/3bwfhnkx

Posted by: Archimedes at March 21, 2024 10:11 PM (CsUN+)

36 Waxing Gibbous Moon out there.
Posted by: Lunacy Personified

Gibbons who?
Never heard of him and get his hairy self inside.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 10:12 PM (51phj)

37 Good evening horde. Have a good ONT. Thanks WD.

Posted by: TRex at March 21, 2024 10:12 PM (IQ6Gq)

38 @33

>>The Great Shark Hunt is still mostly my favorite book.

With all due respect to Hemingway, Hunter S Thompson was the greatest American author.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 21, 2024 10:12 PM (XV/Pl)

39 34 I uncorked a bad batch of Kambutcha...

Sorry.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March

I thought it was the farting stars.

Posted by: Piper at March 21, 2024 10:12 PM (ZdaMQ)

40 F*ck you auto correct

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 10:12 PM (51phj)

41 Good for the Ministry of Deefence.

For the pedantic, no current UK regiment traces back to King Edward the II. None. The Life Guards only go back to the 1650.

An American Astronaut, one of the original 7, billed a per diem milage amount for his orbital flight. The NASA pay office sent him an invoice for the Atlas Booster cost, which was much higher. He cancelled his per diem paperwork.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 21, 2024 10:12 PM (u82oZ)

42 Good evening morons and great ONT wd

I need to know what legal justification there is for the verdict. I'm not saying that there isn't one -”Dad, I wanna kill the kids at my school” “Ok son, here take my gun” would do it, I suppose, but this is a very slippery slope.
===
From details I have learned, the parents were negligent and bear guilt imho.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 10:13 PM (RIvkX)

43 Love that Down's woman's video. My Uncle had Down's Syndrome and was a hell of a man.

When someone said or did something outrageously stupid to him, he'd turn to whoever was closest to him and say -

"Wow, and they say I'm[i/] retarded!"

Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2024 10:13 PM (WXNFJ)

44 We're a melting pit, alright. But all the recent ingredients are shit. Doesn't matter how top-shelf the initial ingredients are, add shit once and all you have forever after is shit.

Posted by: Shit Fondue at March 21, 2024 10:13 PM (esX6D)

Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2024 10:13 PM (WXNFJ)

46 So, I watched the 4k of "Crystal Skull" (you know what I mean). And I know people hate it, but I found it more entertaining and less stupid (refrigerator aside) than the "Temple of Doom" one. Yeah, Shia Side O'Beef is a jerk and a retard, but that doesn't really impinge on the film.

After that, I started watching the second and last season of my favorite Doctor from Doctor Who. Yeah, whatever bitches, I am the Lone Baker Fan.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 21, 2024 10:13 PM (CHHv1)

47 I uncorked a bad batch of Kambutcha...

Sorry.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 21, 2024 10:11 PM (XV

For there to be a 'bad batch' of Kambutcha, there must also be a 'good batch' of Kambutcha.

Given that there is no such thing as a 'good batch' of Kambutcha, it follows that there cannot be a 'bad batch' of Kambutcha.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 21, 2024 10:13 PM (3CVIc)

48
Just plugged it in Stellarium (use "T CrB" in the search box).

It's just rising right now, turns out, ENE locally. Magnitude is 10.5, can't see with the nekkid eye by a long shot.

When the things goes off, you'll see a halfway bright star there for a while. It's gone off twice since discovery in 1866, and 1946.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 21, 2024 10:13 PM (w6EFb)

49 So what happens if that Brit manages to round up a few marching band banners? Does he get more money? Maybe a few cannon?

Posted by: SimoHayha at March 21, 2024 10:14 PM (HBnxr)

50 @47

>>Given that there is no such thing as a 'good batch' of Kambutcha, it follows that there cannot be a 'bad batch' of Kambutcha.

This sounds suspiciously like a maxim.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 21, 2024 10:14 PM (XV/Pl)

51 The Lionel Richie flooring van reminds me of an Iowa National Guard helicopter unit. They flew a lot of night missions in Iraq, so they had the motto "All Night Long", and made Lionel Richie the unit mascot.
https://tinyurl.com/228xnde5
https://tinyurl.com/2txxj2uw
https://tinyurl.com/ybzzjy8y

They even met him during a CBS interview and got his approval lol...From a Stars and Stripes article: During the CBS appearance, Winborn and Hoover [unit leaders] got to meet Richie, who is the son of an Army captain and was named an honorary member of the company.

“This is incredible,” Richie said as he strode up to Winborn and Hoover, who were positioned beside a Chinook.

Posted by: Military Moron at March 21, 2024 10:15 PM (ycI94)

52 Dune Part 2:

I admit I'm still thinking about it.
That's the sign of a Great Movie: even if you don't like it and dismiss it, does it stick in your mind?

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:15 PM (9yXr+)

53 Monster beverages was founded by the son of Dr. Michael Savage, now a billionaire.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 10:15 PM (RIvkX)

54 Government should mandate that the sock industry Print "Right" and "Left" prominently on all their wares and in your language of choice. They've been skating too long!

Posted by: Big Sock Blows! at March 21, 2024 10:16 PM (V5BDR)

55 We have people flooding in from socialist shitholes who think one set of rules for "elites" and another set for them is just fine as long as the govt. keeps the handouts coming.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 10:16 PM (51phj)

56 This blog smells funny. What's going on?

One word: penguins

Posted by: Ciampino - countdown ...... at March 21, 2024 10:16 PM (qfLjt)

57 >>Given that there is no such thing as a 'good batch' of Kambutcha, it follows that there cannot be a 'bad batch' of Kambutcha.

This sounds suspiciously like a maxim.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 21, 2024 10:14 PM (XV/Pl)

If you outlaw maxims, only the outlaws will have maxims.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 21, 2024 10:16 PM (3CVIc)

58 Failure to keep your firearms locked up, particularly when you know your child is a psycho, most certain can be enough negligence to make you culpable for your child shooting someone. They're not being held to account for their child's actions, but for their own that contributed to it.

If they had done what you say, they would be tried for felony murder.

Posted by: GWB at March 21, 2024 10:17 PM (69JzL)

59 Was the AT&T landline sytem unaffected?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 21, 2024 10:17 PM (63Dwl)

60 From details I have learned, the parents were negligent and bear guilt imho.
Posted by: San Franpsycho'

It's not a simple 'The parents had guns in the house!' type of thing. The 'parents' were so awful they are really, really liable.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:17 PM (9yXr+)

61 Find out what it said here
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Very good; I thought it was going to have been something like "These years don't count because you were serving the deposed Stuarts -- twice -- and one non-royal, Cromwell etc. etc. so only your service to Elizabeth II is being recompensed."

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 10:17 PM (2yu8s)

62 Great ad for Down Syndrome people! I wonder if that's the actress from Signed Sealed and Delivered.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 21, 2024 10:18 PM (w6EFb)

63 Look it up in Stellarium and see where and when to look in the local sky if this things goes off.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 21, 2024 10:04 PM (w6EFb)
===

When we go to Sonoma this summer.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 10:18 PM (RIvkX)

64 Failure to keep your firearms locked up, particularly when you know your child is a psycho, most certain can be enough negligence to make you culpable for your child shooting someone. They're not being held to account for their child's actions, but for their own that contributed to it.

If they had done what you say, they would be tried for felony murder.
Posted by: GWB'

It's far past that. The parents are... whack.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:18 PM (9yXr+)

65 It would be wise to consult the He-Gassen Scrolls. There is much wisdom within.

Posted by: Lord Yoshi Toranaga Has Cleared The Room at March 21, 2024 10:18 PM (v0/YA)

66 Well poop. I forgot to put the trash cans out. I hear my neighbor putting his out - I wonder if he will take pity on me and drag mine down there, too.

Posted by: Piper at March 21, 2024 10:18 PM (ZdaMQ)

67
Pixy must be pissed about all those wise-ass upside down, bassackwards seasons crap I've been making.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 21, 2024 10:19 PM (w6EFb)

68 Monster beverages was founded by the son of Dr. Michael Savage, now a billionaire.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
--
The spawn of Lin-Duh loves the stuff. Drinks 1-2 cans a day and it's not cheap.

Posted by: lin-duh at March 21, 2024 10:19 PM (PZo5T)

69 Re: Crumbley- the kid and his parents were in a meeting with school officials in which the school told them that they would be checking on the kid a lot more intensely from then on because they had concerns he might do something like that. Kid is dismissed without supervision. So kid retrieves weapon from locker, and starts shooting.

Yes, the kid was teetering on the edge, but the school pushed him over it and were, moreso than the parents, negligent in their duties. Why let A kid who you suspect has a weapon and the intention to cause harm to roam free on his own immediately after telling him he is about to be placed under a draconian surveillance protocol?

Posted by: tankdemon at March 21, 2024 10:19 PM (IrqV8)

70 We've got a "landline" too, but if Spectrum goes out, it goes out as well. I think Publius said they simply don't want to maintain the old actual lines.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 21, 2024 10:19 PM (w6EFb)

71 I think naming the kid "Ethan Crumbley" is prima facie evidence of guilt.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 10:21 PM (tkR6S)

72 andycanuck

Lots of ways a paymaster can have fun with that request. Yours is good as well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 21, 2024 10:21 PM (u82oZ)

73 Now, did the parents have the right to have guns? Absolutely and there has to be no consequence for their crazed son taking their guns and committing a crime.
I'm totally serious, that is my position.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:21 PM (9yXr+)

74 WeirdDave: Under "Utopia", the link "Starvation, Surveillance, and Back-Alley Abortions: Romanian Dissident Reveals Horrors of Living Under a Communist Regime" just links back to this comments thread.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 21, 2024 10:21 PM (qPw5n)

75 Prediction: If Netanyahu speaks before Congress some Democrat POS will allow in a bunch of pro-Hamas protestors to disrupt his speech.
Also, the sun will come up tomorrow...

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 10:21 PM (51phj)

76 Wind just gusted 28.5mph, per the anemometer mounted up at the 19 ft. above ground mark. Average wind (immediate past hour), is 18.1 mph.

I'm still going to have to install a Good Old Fashioned manual rain gauge out back. The electronic one gives a reading of Inches in the immediate Past Hour, but no accumulative readings.

Still, it's kinda cool to look over at the display, and be able to quantify the "howlin' out thar!" as actual data.

*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 21, 2024 10:22 PM (e6UQI)

77 Was the AT&T landline sytem unaffected?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 21, 2024 10:17 PM (63Dwl)

Don't know about AT&T, but NoVA Verizon decommissioned all that bulletproof self-sufficient copper network a few years ago, becasue what could possible go wrong with an internet based backbone substitute for the communication system that served mere citizens for over a century.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 21, 2024 10:23 PM (hOUT3)

78 Erebus- ex-killer whale

My advice would be to ignore Biden and his junta. Do what you need to do, and don't explain.

And aren't you really a Volcano? Or maybe a RN Monitor?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 21, 2024 10:24 PM (u82oZ)

79 You should always have a landline just in case!

Posted by: Land Line Salesman at March 21, 2024 10:24 PM (esX6D)

80 If the parents really went out of their way to be perverted whackos, which they did, and hand their whacked son guns and told him to go kill people?
Yes, the did do this, and THEN they are liable.

The 'parents' launched this kid and then tried to hide from their acts. It's not some issue of some kind with no history. The entire family is a mess.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:24 PM (9yXr+)

81 24 If I was in the military I would want to be in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. It just sounds badass, and I would look awesome in a plaid skirt.
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No kilts as they're a mounted regiment but here 's their forerunner regiment charging at Waterloo:
https://tinyurl.com/sd3mw5de

BTW, the uncle of the female artist, Lady Butler, was the Colonel who arranged for the regiment to 'charge' her at her easel for painting [or sketching it first], live.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 10:24 PM (2yu8s)

82 75 Prediction: If Netanyahu speaks before Congress some Democrat POS will allow in a bunch of pro-Hamas protestors to disrupt his speech.
Also, the sun will come up tomorrow...
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale

Maybe some Republicans can have families of Israeli victims to yell back, and we can have a good 'ole brawl in the House. We keep inviting hordes of unassimilated migrants from 3rd world shitholes, might as well adopt some of their customs, too, to make them feel more at home.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 21, 2024 10:26 PM (ycI94)

83 *pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX'

Yeah... there was a whole thing where I felt bad as I told Jim I thought anyone drinking Jim Beam was a quote 'lowlife', so...
Sorry about that.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:26 PM (9yXr+)

84 *pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX'

Yeah... there was a whole thing where I felt bad as I told Jim I thought anyone drinking Jim Beam was a quote 'lowlife', so...
Sorry about that.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:26 PM (9yXr+)

85 I watched the first episode of Netflix' version of The Three Body Problem tonight. It was pretty good, except for the over the top cast diversity and almost complete lack of white men. It certainly moves faster than the Chinese version that aired a few months ago.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 21, 2024 10:27 PM (CsUN+)

86 WeirdDave: Under "Utopia", the link "Starvation, Surveillance, and Back-Alley Abortions: Romanian Dissident Reveals Horrors of Living Under a Communist Regime" just links back to this comments thread.

Thank you. Link fixed.

Posted by: Weirddave at March 21, 2024 10:27 PM (efwlG)

87 Parents should be criminally liable for everything their children do from cradle to grave. The family that goes to prison together stays together.

Posted by: Modern Problems Require Nonsolutions at March 21, 2024 10:28 PM (esX6D)

88 Hey! It's been a day and a half since a Boeing plane had something fall off in flight!

I got nothin.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2024 10:28 PM (9BeIJ)

89 66 Well poop. I forgot to put the trash cans out. I hear my neighbor putting his out - I wonder if he will take pity on me and drag mine down there, too.
-------
Tomorrow is my garbage-day too, Piper!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 10:28 PM (2yu8s)

90 Bringing employees with Down syndrome into the workplace drives increased productivity.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 10:28 PM (RIvkX)

91 Parents should be criminally liable for everything their children do from cradle to grave. The family that goes to prison together stays together.
Posted by: Modern Problems Require Nonsolutions'

So... Turkey, where if you have contact with police no matter what your age they ask your father's name?

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:29 PM (9yXr+)

92 Have a great night, everyone.

May you remain blessed, your pets adore you, and ghosts from the Battle of Waterloo not charge you while in the loo.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 21, 2024 10:29 PM (u82oZ)

93 I got nothin.
Posted by: nurse ratched'

I got you baby with my little paws.

Posted by: Ocean Otters at March 21, 2024 10:30 PM (9yXr+)

94 Phone company land line specialists have been retiring for decades and not many were replaced.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 21, 2024 10:33 PM (63Dwl)

95 Bringing employees with Down syndrome into the workplace drives increased productivity.
Posted by: San Franpsycho'

Had a weird conversation with a Catholic colleague about Deep Space NASA human probes, where I pointed out that any human being not pulling their weight due to defect or age would not be tolerated, due simply to practical issues.
Incredibly, he had NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THIS.

Posted by: Ocean Otters at March 21, 2024 10:33 PM (9yXr+)

96 Erebus- ex-killer whale

My advice would be to ignore Biden and his junta. Do what you need to do, and don't explain.

And aren't you really a Volcano? Or maybe a RN Monitor?
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Just predicting the obvious.
Of course the Republicans will be completely unprepared for it.
These days I'm the God of darkness and shadows and I rule over a dark part of tge underworld.
All I know is that it's dark, damp, smells funky, and I can't see shit.

I was a killer whale until I encountered a Japanese whaling ship.
Last thing I heard: F*ck you whale!
Then lots of stabbing.
The Erebus thing came about when I lost a reincarnation coin toss.

Some lucky sod is up there flying Boeings, last I heard.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 10:33 PM (51phj)

97 People like the Monster Drink lady are weird. You're think they would have better things to do with their time.

Years back, when I was working for Waldenbooks, there was a big stink because one of the towers on the front case of The Little Mermaid looked like a penis. Frankly, I'd looked st the picture a thousand times and never noticed it. A bit later, someone found a bare breasted, complete with nipples, mermaid in a Where's Waldo illustration. It took four of us - the manager, the assistant manager and two sales clerks -- hours to find her. Whoever found her in the first place had too much time on their hands and needed to find a hobby.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at March 21, 2024 10:34 PM (ET1Q8)

98 Musk: "We're sending human beings into Deep Space, nobody is coming back."
"What do we do with the Old, the debilitated?"

Posted by: Ocean Otters at March 21, 2024 10:34 PM (9yXr+)

99 Bringing employees with Down syndrome into the workplace drives increased productivity.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Well, sometimes. One of the teams I was brought in to 'help out' was tasked with filling containers with 3 lbs of coleslaw. That was it - they had a go/nogo scale to help them. The trouble was, they felt to be great employees, they had to cram as much coleslaw into that container as possible. One of the gentlemen was even standing on top of the mound of slaw to get just a little bit more into the tub. The Co. was losing $$ on every tub they packed.

We ended up changing the job duties. Great folks tho'. They loved their jobs, and everyone at the Co. loved them too.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2024 10:37 PM (WXNFJ)

100 {86} Thank you. Link fixed.

Posted by: Weirddave at March 21, 2024 10:27 PM (efwlG)

Quite welcome. Thank you for posting that. It's no wonder that she and her husband have a burning hatred for communists given what they went through.

"Today, she said her family is very happy in the United States, but sees the proverbial writing on the wall: the growth of a centralized, socialist-lite government in America could eventually destroy the country."

Yup, and who would recognize the danger better than someone who lived through and escaped it once already? Heed this woman's warning.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 21, 2024 10:37 PM (qPw5n)

101 ...crazed son taking their guns and committing a crime.
I'm totally serious, that is my position.
Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:21 PM (9yXr+)
===

This does not describe the situation. It would be more accurate to say the parents recklessly furnished their crazed son with a weapon.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 10:38 PM (RIvkX)

102 Pooky went to Edinburgh Castle and nearly caused an international incident, so I'm going to show him the retirement tweet.

Posted by: pookysgirl had to assert authority in that instance at March 21, 2024 10:38 PM (dtlDP)

103 My advice would be to ignore Biden and his junta. Do what you need to do, and don't explain.'

This is about the dumbest thing I've seen here in a while.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:38 PM (9yXr+)

104 89 66 Well poop. I forgot to put the trash cans out. I hear my neighbor putting his out - I wonder if he will take pity on me and drag mine down there, too.
-------
Tomorrow is my garbage-day too, Piper!!!
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 10

Hope you didn’t forget! I have a 6a class so I will just wake up a few minutes earlier instead of throwing my hair in a ponytail and running out the door in my usual just in time (barely) style.

Posted by: Piper at March 21, 2024 10:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

105 May you remain blessed, your pets adore you, and ghosts from the Battle of Waterloo not charge you while in the loo.
---------
An English toy-soldier wargamer friend of mine had the "Thin Red Streak Tipped With A Line of Steel" painting in his downstairs bathroom!

https://tinyurl.com/2jrfrarz
93rd Sutherland Highlanders at Balaclava in the Crimean War, the same battle as the Charge of the Light Brigade. [Also the less-famous Charge of the Heavy Brigade.]

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 10:39 PM (2yu8s)

106 We will remove all ability of parents to discipline their children labeling any enforcement of any limit "abuse."

We will then hold you legally liable for the antics.

//Love the Democrats

P.S. Nobody is responsible for Omar Mateen or the Tranny Shooter

//The same folks

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 10:40 PM (X0I7i)

107 Have sex, okay sure easy. But can the Down S gal abstain until married? There's a challenge.
💒

(I failed)

Posted by: mindful webworker - late learner at March 21, 2024 10:40 PM (LTuPV)

108 I have a landline phone for reason: all my internet and cable TV is bundled by Charter Communications. I can't subscribe to these bundled Charter services unless I have a landline phone, too.

A landline comes in sort of handy on all those occasions when I'm required to list a phone number but prefer not to, i.e., "field required." The chord that attaches to my landline phone is disconnected. The only time I ever plug it in is when there's a problem with my real phone, i.e., I left it at a friend's house.

So... fair dinkum.

Posted by: mnw at March 21, 2024 10:41 PM (NLIak)

109 I also need a locksmith tomorrow, because I am pretty certain the key to my storage locker is six states away.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 10:41 PM (X0I7i)

110 On that note, kitties are snoring away, time for bed. Sweet dreams, y’all.

Posted by: Piper at March 21, 2024 10:41 PM (ZdaMQ)

111 My hair is too short for a ponytail.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 10:41 PM (2yu8s)

112 Pull my wire!

Posted by: Randy Landline Tech at March 21, 2024 10:41 PM (V5BDR)

113 This does not describe the situation. It would be more accurate to say the parents recklessly furnished their crazed son with a weapon.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 10:38 PM (RIvkX)

Is there any legal requirement to keep firearms locked up if children are in the home? Seems to me it would be prudent, even if not required.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 10:41 PM (tkR6S)

114 My mother escaped Castro's Cuba.
She cried when shitbird Robert's helped declare Obamacare Constitutional.
She knew it was a major step in the destruction of America.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 10:41 PM (51phj)

115 This does not describe the situation. It would be more accurate to say the parents recklessly furnished their crazed son with a weapon.
Posted by: San Franpsycho'

Yes, my legal position is it is not a simple unsecured gun. That family was SO dysfunctional it shocked even me, I'm not easily shocked, and they all but launched that kid into murder.

I'm not sure what do with it, media-wise.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:41 PM (9yXr+)

116 Toto just wrapped up here in Las Cruces. It was my first time hearing them live and I must say they are a pretty good opening act as in, holy smokes, they can play. The Rains Down in Africa with all 5 vocal parts popping off is a very moving musical experience.

I am thinking they have a future in the music business.

Posted by: Lost in Space at March 21, 2024 10:43 PM (MKZJs)

117 Sven! Good to see you, friend! Sorry about your key. Hope all is okay, all the things we say that are polite…and now going to bed. Night! 😀

Posted by: Piper at March 21, 2024 10:43 PM (ZdaMQ)

118 I also need a locksmith tomorrow, because I am pretty certain the key to my storage locker is six states away.
Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 10:41 PM (X0I7i)

Bolt cutters.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 21, 2024 10:44 PM (R4t5M)

119 Is there any legal requirement to keep firearms locked up if children are in the home? Seems to me it would be prudent, even if not required.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon'

The Socialist Republic Of Canada has regulations, please don't bring them here with you, AOP.
Some cities and states have them but this business was SO nutso and the 'parents' so not only irresponsible but for-real encouraged the kid to go kill people, they were found liable.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:44 PM (9yXr+)

120 98 Musk: "We're sending human beings into Deep Space, nobody is coming back."
"What do we do with the Old, the debilitated?"
Posted by: Ocean Otters at March 21, 2024 10:34 PM (9yXr+)
----------------

'..., nobody is coming back."

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 10:44 PM (k0kKs)

121 113 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 10:41 PM (tkR6S)

What use is a weapon that has to be locked away with the action stripped out and kept in another zipcode for home defense?

I am certain San Franpsycho and the Donks in Michigan would be okay with my hobbling and amputating my wayward childrens' thumbs to protect the donk "education mills" given you know I am evidently responsible for their every action.

Bonus points for the same cocksucking party advocating that 14 year olds get the vote.

The Democrats- who can simultaneously argue that a 26 year old is not an adult regarding health insurance, but that a 12 year old can make medical calls on abortion.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 10:44 PM (X0I7i)

122 Am I too late for the garbage?

No lady, hop in!

Posted by: Henny Trashman at March 21, 2024 10:45 PM (V5BDR)

123 118 Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 21, 2024 10:44 PM (R4t5M)

Sven being Sven I bought a lock that makes that a hard row to hoe, sister in law is coming to town Monday afternoon elseways I would drive to Ohio.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 10:45 PM (X0I7i)

124 117 Posted by: Piper at March 21, 2024 10:43 PM (ZdaMQ)

Thanks have a good rest.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 10:46 PM (X0I7i)

125 90 Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 10:28 PM (RIvkX)

Absolutely, particularly in the "non-partisan civil service."

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 10:47 PM (X0I7i)

126 Tp, yes job design is important lol

If Boy F. did that job he would take an hour to fill each tub to exactly 3.000 pounds

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 10:48 PM (RIvkX)

127 I seriously had a conversation with the guy I stupidly tested my SF fiction book over, and he genuinely had not seen come close to considering anything about what would happen in Far Space human beings.
He had never even thought about it.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:48 PM (9yXr+)

128 "She cried when shitbird Robert's helped declare Obamacare Constitutional."

That was a sad day. I was pissed. The only time the Constitution matters to those people is when they can use it in their favor.

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2024 10:48 PM (7PNM7)

129 Posted by: Archimedes at March 21, 2024 10:11 PM (CsUN+)

You don't have to know anything about anything to be a vehicle for Satan. He kind of prefers if you don't know shit.

Doesn't mean the lady is "right" but her being wrong doesn't mean that the devil doesn't rule our realm.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2024 10:48 PM (lX8VI)

130 The Socialist Republic Of Canada has regulations, please don't bring them here with you, AOP.
Some cities and states have them but this business was SO nutso and the 'parents' so not only irresponsible but for-real encouraged the kid to go kill people, they were found liable.
Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:44 PM (9yXr+)

I was being careful not to recommend legislation, just asking a question. And a gun-safe law would not have deterred those shitbirds anyway, I am sure. And as for the "prudent" remark? Well, keeping guns locked away from unsupervised children might save one the heartbreak of coming home to find a dead kid.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 10:49 PM (tkR6S)

131 This is about the dumbest thing I've seen here in a while.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:38 PM (9yXr+)

Coming from one of the biggest douchebags on this blog? It doesn't mean much.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 21, 2024 10:49 PM (+Y7Hy)

132 Monster Lady is sort of MILFy.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 21, 2024 10:49 PM (ufFY8)

133 That was a sad day. I was pissed. The only time the Constitution matters to those people is when they can use it in their favor.

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2024 10:48 PM (7PNM7)

It was a big day for me. Learned a lot and never forgot it.

Yet no prominent election-minded righty had anything bad to say about Roberts until Trump came along. When he started badmouthing Bush and Roberts and the rest of the fake bullshitters is when I really perked up.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2024 10:50 PM (lX8VI)

134 130 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 10:49 PM (tkR6S)

Eh, I think the world would have been the better off had the Tranny Shooters (plural) hit their own reset buttons you know rather than decent kids.

That is just me though.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 10:51 PM (X0I7i)

135 I did an ALIEN pitch to Dark Horse back in the The Day, and it involved people who had never been to Earth and find it terrifying and frightening, like a Heironymous Bosch painting. Carrying ropes in case gravity fails.
Becoming shut-ins terrified of the Sun.
I had a great sequence of a character going on a date to a nice restaurant and having a panic attack at people drinking from cups with no lids.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:52 PM (9yXr+)

136 I am certain San Franpsycho and the Donks in Michigan ...
Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 10:44 PM (X0I7i)
====
Nuh uh.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 10:52 PM (RIvkX)

137 A fellow kept a 1911 out until the boys were 8.
What?
They aren't strong enough to rack it until that age and by that time they are old enough to understand , no.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 10:53 PM (k0kKs)

138 This is about the dumbest thing I've seen here in a while.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:38 PM (9yXr+)

Coming from one of the biggest douchebags on this blog? It doesn't mean much.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo'

I'll own that, if you want to discuss Jewish Kaballah.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:53 PM (9yXr+)

139 71
"Ethan Crumbley"

If any of Dickens' books had had a school shooter, this name would have fit.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 21, 2024 10:53 PM (roH4R)

140 136 Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 10:52 PM (RIvkX)

You sure?

I have a deep fucking issue with the Motor City Moron Militia deciding they are "co-parents" when it comes to pumping the kids with "Not All Boys Are Blue" and other horsefuckery and then deciding when the little nutjob finally goes full retard it is YOUR problem.

I'll bet you twenty internets no donk of non-pallor is EVER held responsible for their 17 year old gangbangers' antics.

Care to take that bet?

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 10:54 PM (X0I7i)

141 We managed to get to 1908 without a Melting Pot. I'd say its time to throw it in the garbage.

East and West, and North and South, the palm and the pine, the pole and the equator, the crescent and the cross—how the great Alchemist melts and fuses them with his purging flame! Here shall they all unite to build the Republic of Man and the Kingdom of God. Ah, Vera, what is the glory of Rome and Jerusalem where all nations and races come to worship and look back, compared with the glory of America, where all races and nations come to labour and look forward!-------------Israel Zangwill, 1908.

Yes, that does sound crazy.

Posted by: Eric2 at March 21, 2024 10:54 PM (q7Vou)

142 The only Ethan I have known of late was a little shitstain.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 10:54 PM (51phj)

143 They bought the weapon, gave it to him without training, knowing he had violent tendencies.

Negligent enough for me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 10:55 PM (RIvkX)

144 What use is a weapon that has to be locked away with the action stripped out and kept in another zipcode for home defense?

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 10:44 PM (X0I7i)

Not much use at all. It's a judgment call. If your kids are well-grounded on the fundamentals of firearms safety, then locking up all the guns is probably unnecessary. But if they are trans, or otherwise nutso, you probably ought to. At least whenever you are not there to keep an eye on them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 10:56 PM (tkR6S)

145 Yeah, whatever bitches, I am the Lone Baker Fan.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 21, 2024 10:13 PM (CHHv1)

I like Baker too.

And Tegan.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 21, 2024 10:56 PM (ufFY8)

146 Hey, CBD, speaking of that, someone talk about 'Jewish' Theosophy.
I'd love to hear about that.
Illuminate us.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 10:56 PM (9yXr+)

147 I'll bet you twenty internets no donk of non-pallor is EVER held responsible for their 17 year old gangbangers' antics.

THIS.

Let me know when all those black moms are going to prison.

Posted by: Guy who is really waiting for that Caged Heat sequel at March 21, 2024 10:56 PM (esX6D)

148 139 71
"Ethan Crumbley"

If any of Dickens' books had had a school shooter, this name would have fit.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

'Pip' is right out.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2024 10:56 PM (WXNFJ)

149 Is there any legal requirement to keep firearms locked up if children are in the home? Seems to me it would be prudent, even if not required. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon'

Our household was full of firearms. The ammo was locked up in cabinet and the guns were out in the open on a gun rack with them cable locked to the gun rack.

More importantly, having taught early on about firearms we didn't pay much attention until it was time to head out to murder cans or go camoing. This part was just as important as locking them up.

Posted by: Lost in Space at March 21, 2024 10:57 PM (MKZJs)

150 Setting aside the joke about enlisting 600 years ago, that doesn't seem like a lot of money. However I can't tell from the article when he actually enlisted. Since he retired as an LTC, I assume he had at least 20 yrs of service, & more likely 25.

A pound is worth $1.26. I realize that's not his pension.

Posted by: mnw at March 21, 2024 10:57 PM (NLIak)

151 143 Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 10:55 PM (RIvkX)

I'll say again, the law and precedent will NEVER be evenly enforced and exists just to fuck with white parents.

Parents can be held responsible for negligence on child rearing but nobody in the schools is to blame when "the most special victim class" ground and pounds Latina and White chicks to death after MULTIPLE assaults on school grounds.

Fuck the left and fuck their fans.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 10:58 PM (X0I7i)

152 {121} ... "What use is a weapon that has to be locked away with the action stripped out and kept in another zipcode for home defense?" ...

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 10:44 PM (X0I7i)

It isn't. The Government of Canada would prefer that you bend over and take it up the arse for the criminal forces of darkness, or just die quietly thank you very much. It's less paperwork, y'see.

And if you think I'm kidding, read this story about a two and a half year legal fight this guy (a firearms instructor) had with the government because he fired 3 warning shots at four assailants who had lobbed Molotov cocktails at his home and had set his porch and exterior of the house ablaze. He got it under control with a garden hose and then called 911, and that's when his real troubles started.

https://archive.is/BcLHh

They did clear him, but the legal bills must have bankrupted him. The process IS the punishment.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 21, 2024 10:58 PM (qPw5n)

153 Eh, I think the world would have been the better off had the Tranny Shooters (plural) hit their own reset buttons you know rather than decent kids.

That is just me though.
Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 10:51 PM (X0I7i)

No disagreement from me. But the tranny freaks get off on killing normies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 10:59 PM (tkR6S)

154 NEVER fire warning shots.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 10:59 PM (51phj)

155 Parents can be held responsible for negligence on child rearing but nobody in the schools is to blame when "the most special victim class" ground and pounds Latina and White chicks to death after MULTIPLE assaults on school grounds.

Had the coward Gov of TN arrested every member of the NGOs that had contact with the tranny shooter we'd be living in a very different world right now.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 10:59 PM (ibTVg)

156
I was being careful not to recommend legislation, just asking a question. And a gun-safe law would not have deterred those shitbirds anyway, I am sure. And as for the "prudent" remark? Well, keeping guns locked away from unsupervised children might save one the heartbreak of coming home to find a dead kid.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 10:49 PM (tkR6S)

well, I suppose if it keeps one child safe, it is a good idea.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 21, 2024 11:00 PM (D7oie)

157 152 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 21, 2024 10:58 PM (qPw5n)

The rest of the Anglosphere has no right to self-defense.

Sorry.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:00 PM (X0I7i)

158 155 Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 10:59 PM (ibTVg)

There is a reason the Trannyfesto was not released.

A lot of NGO workers need corrected.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:01 PM (X0I7i)

159 "Irish stew" would've been a better analogy than "melting pot." Immigrants (Irish; German; Latino; what have you) always retained some of their heritage.

This new thing where Arab immigrants detest America from the gitgo is something new.

Posted by: mnw at March 21, 2024 11:01 PM (NLIak)

160 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 21, 2024 11:02 PM (xA5g+)

161 154 Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 10:59 PM (51phj)

Eh back home in Ohio has added warning shots to self-defense doctrine.

As always know your local laws.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:02 PM (X0I7i)

162 I still have my landline. Its useful. Verizon keeps raising the bill though. Doing it with my smartphone too.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 21, 2024 11:03 PM (xA5g+)

163 I notice the website is doing something odd where some times when I refresh I just get a blank page.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 11:03 PM (ibTVg)

164 I reiterate: CBD can yell but I want to hear his take on 'Jewish' 'Kaballah' and its take on there is no individual Thing but all is simply a part of some Universal Thing.
I want to hear about this.
I want to hear his take on this.
I also want to hear about his interpretation on Tikkun Olam. I want to hear about this.
Also, I'm not a 'douchebag' I'm too unpleasant to be that.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 11:04 PM (9yXr+)

165 164 Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 11:04 PM (9yXr+)

I am a clockwork deist, we are all God's weekend hobby experiment.

Pick at me, not the people who just endured massacres and rapes.

Thanks.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:05 PM (X0I7i)

166 Well I was pretty close, 5th isn't bad. How are folks doing tonight?
We had a trip to DeKalb for Jules' eye appointment. Went great, this is the 3rd time she hasn't had to get a shot in her eye for her muscular dystrophy.
We then went to Hy-Vee, big grocery store that has a lot of stuff we can't get at home. That was fun but when we got home I was tired and just couldn't get all the stuff done that I'd planned.
There's always tomorrow and I can hang here and be entertained by you all. TY WD for this girthy ONT.

Posted by: Farmer at March 21, 2024 11:06 PM (55Qr6)

167 {163} I notice the website is doing something odd where some times when I refresh I just get a blank page.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 11:03 PM (ibTVg)

Yup. Pixy needs to get out the deworming medication for the server.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 21, 2024 11:06 PM (qPw5n)

168 Eh back home in Ohio has added warning shots to self-defense doctrine.

As always know your local laws.
Posted by: sven

Still a bad idea.
I like to read about self defense incidents or watch videos and an absurdly high amount of the time warning shots just end badly in some way.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 11:06 PM (51phj)

169 I want to hear, SEE, a for-real Tikkun Olam definition from a supposedly Right-Wing person on this blog.
I want to see some idea about Kabballah from someone on this Blog.
I want to see it.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 11:08 PM (9yXr+)

170 I like to read about self defense incidents or watch videos and an absurdly high amount of the time warning shots just end badly in some way.

Too many people have been arrested for "brandishing" or firing warning shots just because they don't want to shoot the thug staring them down.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 11:08 PM (ibTVg)

171 The grocery clerk at the supermkt where I shop has Downs. He's the nicest clerk I've ever met. He's been there for at least 15 yrs & never seems to miss a day of work.

Posted by: mnw at March 21, 2024 11:08 PM (NLIak)

172 168 Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 11:06 PM (51phj)

It all goes to what the purpose of self-defense laws are.

Allowing for warning shots not landing the shooter in jail leads to a more polite society.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:08 PM (X0I7i)

173 well, I suppose if it keeps one child safe, it is a good idea.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 21, 2024 11:00 PM (D7oie)

If it keeps your child safe, it's a good idea. For my own guns, I would sooner hide them cleverly than simply lock them in a gun safe. What does the presence of a gun safe tell a burglar? "Hey, there are guns here. Maybe a lot of them! $$$$!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 11:09 PM (tkR6S)

174 170 Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 11:08 PM (ibTVg)

Quite it makes people afraid to engage in active self-defense and deterrence.

I am of the two center mass type of person, but if I were on a skip trace or investigation job I would like the option to show a weapon to deescalate.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:10 PM (X0I7i)

175 162 I still have my landline. Its useful. Verizon keeps raising the bill though. Doing it with my smartphone too.

we have to pay like $40 a month in tax for the landline! to cover free phone service for the underprivileged or something.

once it hit $60/mo for nothing but a single landline we got rid of it. it's ridiculous!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 21, 2024 11:11 PM (AcWfM)

176 Mr. Neal: you don't want to SEE it, you want to argue about it. Maybe that's why you don't.

Posted by: madtom at March 21, 2024 11:12 PM (go+84)

177 A 'melting pot' may sound good in theory, but what if they don't melt?

Posted by: davidt at March 21, 2024 11:13 PM (SYTee)

178 175

I CAN'T get rif of it, unless I want to find a new internet & cable TV provider. It's BUNDLED.

Posted by: mnw at March 21, 2024 11:13 PM (NLIak)

179 {173} ... What does the presence of a gun safe tell a burglar? "Hey, there are guns here. Maybe a lot of them! $$$$!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 11:09 PM (tkR6S)

I'm the bastard who would sink that monster safe in two feet of concrete all around except for the door, and just leave a 3M sticky-note on the inside back-wall: "Thank You Mario, But Our Princess is in Another Castle"

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 21, 2024 11:13 PM (qPw5n)

180 sven, As an addendum to one of your comments, democrats also believe that children age five and under are informed enough to change their gender. If they are inconvenient children they can now be murdered immediately after being born.

Were I a judge in a case where a 5 year old is pleading to change his gender, I would first remedy this be declaring no action until the child is a least 21 and child should be removed from the mentally ill mother who so desperately wants higher social standing by raising a trans.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 21, 2024 11:13 PM (Sgq8y)

181 I'm not a tikkun olam joo I'm a moshiach habah joo.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 11:13 PM (RIvkX)

182 180 Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 21, 2024 11:13 PM (Sgq8y)

Quite humoring ANY of their shit is how we got here, good to see you.

Again the donks are co-parent right up until nature takes its course then suddenly it is YOUR kid again.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:14 PM (X0I7i)

183 Oh boy, this is going to be good.

* Throws Bag of Popcorn in Microwave *

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 21, 2024 11:14 PM (XV/Pl)

184 It all goes to what the purpose of self-defense laws are.

Allowing for warning shots not landing the shooter in jail leads to a more polite society.
Posted by: sven

It's nice that OH added that.
I am betting if one of those warning shots hits an innocent person the shooter isn't protected.
Sorry, but if you are justified in using lethal force, but aren't willing to use it, get rid of the gun.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 11:15 PM (51phj)

185 184 Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 11:15 PM (51phj)

You are responsible for where every bullet in a self-defense shoot lands period unlike say LAPD on the Dorner duck hunt.

It is what it is, there are situations where "brandishing" calms people down.

I have been involved in three near shoots during my time as a rent a cop/bodyguard in my younger years.

I am glad I have not killed anyone.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:17 PM (X0I7i)

186 Orange seems to be doing a little better lately at talking about things voters actually care about, instead of bashing people he dislikes.

Hope it persists, but... I doubt it.

Posted by: mnw at March 21, 2024 11:18 PM (NLIak)

187 Sorry, but if you are justified in using lethal force, but aren't willing to use it, get rid of the gun.

People engaged in self protection should have very broad protections. The notion that Joe Normie, woken up at 4 AM by a yutes coming into rape his wife, should be held to a higher standard then Officer Donut or FBI Special Agent LadyBalls is ridiculous.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 11:18 PM (ibTVg)

188 177 Posted by: davidt at March 21, 2024 11:13 PM (SYTee)

The democrats keep blowing the kiln out.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:18 PM (X0I7i)

189 165
'I'm not a 'douchebag' I'm too unpleasant to be that.'

Don't antagonize CBD when they are so many deserving democrats around.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 21, 2024 11:20 PM (roH4R)

190 Thanks for another dandy ONT, WD. Vinyl Richie flooring and some Brit humor too.

Posted by: scampydog at March 21, 2024 11:20 PM (41CYW)

191 189 Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 21, 2024 11:20 PM (roH4R)

Is there a banned person or is my saying "waste the banality and superficiality on me for a bit" a problem?

I was 165.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:22 PM (X0I7i)

192 147 I'll bet you twenty internets no donk of non-pallor is EVER held responsible for their 17 year old gangbangers' antics.

THIS.

Let me know when all those black moms are going to prison.
Posted by: Guy who is really waiting for that Caged Heat sequel at March 21, 2024 10:56 PM (esX6D)

Caged Heat II came out in 1994 according to IMDB.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 21, 2024 11:22 PM (z+89e)

193 People engaged in self protection should have very broad protections. The notion that Joe Normie, woken up at 4 AM by a yutes coming into rape his wife, should be held to a higher standard then Officer Donut or FBI Special Agent LadyBalls is ridiculous.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 11:18 PM (ibTVg)

If they have already broken into your home, things have progressed beyond the point that warning shots might scare them off. Shoot to neutralize the threat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 11:23 PM (tkR6S)

194 Back in the Living Aboard the Sloop New Dawn years, my fone, and consequently my (dial up) internet, was a land line.

Connected via heavy marine shore connection cable, it effected the connection via four heavy-pins/sockets, wth a highly polished "screw down" collar on the socket. Big ol' gasket under the cap. Once that was plugged in and connected next to the actual 30A Shorepower cable, that connection was SOLID.

I ran my own Two Pair line, from the Southwest Bell distribution panel, down under the docks, to terminate at my boat-slip's Dock Box. That was the "demark", where the line became "mine" and not SWB's.

But, that 370 ft. of line I hung under the docks? Two pair, inside a silicone anti-corrsion gel core, then the usual Vinyl sheath. But around that, was a heavy Solid Copper shield, think about 3x the thickness of Heavy Duty aluminm foil. And THEN, the actual exterior (very thick, heavy duty) Vinyl.

Connections made up and coated with a generous application of No-Ox. And that heavy copper sheath? Direct to each end's Ground at the box.

Never had problems with scratchy "dial up" modem probs again, after that.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 21, 2024 11:23 PM (e6UQI)

195 I kept my guns and my boys' rifles in my closet in my room.

My boys didn't go in my room when I wasn't home. Neither did their friends. I guess I just was lucky to have good kids.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2024 11:23 PM (GiPYS)

196 Sorry. I meant 164.
My warning shot missed.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 21, 2024 11:24 PM (roH4R)

197 "For many customers, the outage was also a reminder of the perils of relying only on mobile phones, and it may have made some people rethink the place of a home device that used to be standard issue but is now nearly obsolete: the landline telephone."

We lost cell coverage for a pretty good while after Katrina. Our land line never failed. But, after years of dealing with robo calls, dozens a day despite being on no call lists, we finally had to kill it. Rather a bit of peace and quiet daily opposed to a week or two without service.

Posted by: javems at March 21, 2024 11:24 PM (8I4hW)

198 If they have already broken into your home, things have progressed beyond the point that warning shots might scare them off. Shoot to neutralize the threat.

I'd argue Joe Normie should be held innocent if he brandishes, shoots a yute in the face, or shots a yute in the back.

What he *should* do is a separate question then what Officer Donut can later charge him for after considering what the press and local racial grievance groups will say...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 11:25 PM (ibTVg)

199 Don't antagonize CBD when they are so many deserving democrats around.
Posted by: Dr. Claw'

I really would like to see an essay by CBD and SanFranPsycho explaining Tikkun Olam and Kabbalah and why they are Not That.
I can do it with Eastern Orthodox, so not a lot of sympathy here. I got myself into a fair amount of trouble due to describing why exactly no Eastern Orthodox Church can allow itself to be Nationalist, and the Russians aren't 'all that'.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 11:25 PM (9yXr+)

200 193 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 11:23 PM (tkR6S)

There was a shoot in seattle where "the usual suspects" were pretending they were SPD.

Guy shot through the door not hitting any of them.

I'd prefer some retard asshole Soros DA not be able to charge them.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:26 PM (X0I7i)

201 You are responsible for where every bullet in a self-defense shoot lands period unlike say LAPD on the Dorner duck hunt.

It is what it is, there are situations where "brandishing" calms people down.

I have been involved in three near shoots during my time as a rent a cop/bodyguard in my younger years.

I am glad I have not killed anyone.
Posted by: sven

I am more than aware that every bullet has a lawyer attached as they sat.
I have also had a few situations where someone intended to shoot me for their bad driving and my gun was what saved me.
I was glad I didn't have to shoot them, but make no mistake, I had a red line of sorts.
Had they committed a certain action I would have pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 11:26 PM (51phj)

202 Caged Heat II came out in 1994 according to IMDB.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here'

Haha

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 11:27 PM (9yXr+)

203 199

With all due respect, this is a conservative blog for current affairs. Not a comparative religion blog.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 21, 2024 11:28 PM (roH4R)

204 We lost cell coverage for a pretty good while after Katrina. Our land line never failed. But, after years of dealing with robo calls, dozens a day despite being on no call lists, we finally had to kill it. Rather a bit of peace and quiet daily opposed to a week or two without service.
Posted by: javems at March 21, 2024 11:24 PM (8I4hW)

I gave up my land line in Alberta many years ago. It was always a noisy line. I could get dial-up internet, but it was real slow. And I was too far from the "central office" to get the faster Internet that was carried on the phone lines.

CB or ham radio would be a good backup if the cell tower go down.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 11:30 PM (tkR6S)

205 With all due respect, this is a conservative blog for current affairs. Not a comparative religion blog.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 21, 2024 11:28 PM (roH4R)

*closes up powerpoint presentation on Zoroastrianism*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 21, 2024 11:30 PM (k70+I)

206 200

'I'd prefer some retard asshole Soros DA'

Domestic terrorists, pure and simple.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 21, 2024 11:30 PM (roH4R)

207 People engaged in self protection should have very broad protections. The notion that Joe Normie, woken up at 4 AM by a yutes coming into rape his wife, should be held to a higher standard then Officer Donut or FBI Special Agent LadyBalls is ridiculous.
Posted by: 18-1

Not sure where I said that.
My point is that if you aren't willing to use the gun to properly defend your life, then you shouldn't own it.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 11:30 PM (51phj)

208 *closes up powerpoint presentation on Zoroastrianism*

We didn't start the fire...

Posted by: Some Farsi at March 21, 2024 11:31 PM (ibTVg)

209 201 Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 11:26 PM (51phj)

Back in 1993 I was working a security contract on a construction sight where someone had done ~ 25,000 bucks worth of damage to plows and backhoes. My boss was working the contract as well and was pretty sure that the place would be hit one friday. I was carrying a .357 he was carrying a glock he told me not to fire until he fired. A figure in shadows ran up with a two foot cylinder acting like he was working a pump to rack a shell.

It was a hobo with an umbrella, we beat the shit out of him literally subduing him.

He had taken to pissing and shitting in the exhaust of the equipment slashing it up and being an asshole because he lived in a storm sewer that was being exposed.

I am glad I did not kill him and had he fired on us I would have happily.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:31 PM (X0I7i)

210 There was a shoot in seattle where "the usual suspects" were pretending they were SPD.

Guy shot through the door not hitting any of them.

I'd prefer some retard asshole Soros DA not be able to charge them.
Posted by: sven

Think I saw that video
T
Apartment complex.
Guy claimed he and his accomplice was there to change an air filter.
Guy started trying to kick down the door with gun in hand.
Those were not warning shots and fully justified.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 11:33 PM (51phj)

211 After that, I started watching the second and last season of my favorite Doctor from Doctor Who. Yeah, whatever bitches, I am the Lone Baker Fan.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Trust me, you are not the lone fan of Tom Baker's run as the Doctor. He brought an eccentricity to the role that suited a protagonist who was quite literally alien. No one afterwards was quite able to pull that off - the best of them, David Tennant and Peter Capaldi could really only manage quirkiness, and that doesn't quite cut it.

It didn't hurt either that he had some of the hotter companions - Sara Jane Smith and the two Romanas.

Posted by: John Drake at March 21, 2024 11:34 PM (YlVKd)

212 210 Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 11:33 PM (51phj)

You answer one question wrong sans lawyer and the Soros asshole can charge you.

American society is either about to get a lot more polite or a lot more anarchial.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:34 PM (X0I7i)

213
You answer one question wrong sans lawyer and the Soros asshole can charge you.

American society is either about to get a lot more polite or a lot more anarchial.
Posted by: sven

Which is why you don't talk to the police.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 11:36 PM (51phj)

214 We have a landline phone set in the earthquake kit because the phone lines might still have power during a blackout, or if the cell towers have fallen.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 11:36 PM (RIvkX)

215 There was a shoot in seattle where "the usual suspects" were pretending they were SPD.

Guy shot through the door not hitting any of them.

I'd prefer some retard asshole Soros DA not be able to charge them.
Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:26 PM (X0I7i)

Seems to me there are very few circumstances where shooting through a door is justified. Maybe if your porch cam shows actual, real zombies beating on your door. Otherwise, take a defensive position, and let them beat down the door, and then shoot to kill. The broken-door door stands as testimony that you were in fear of your life.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 11:37 PM (tkR6S)

216 Seems to me there are very few circumstances where shooting through a door is justified. Maybe if your porch cam shows actual, real zombies beating on your door. Otherwise, take a defensive position, and let them beat down the door, and then shoot to kill. The broken-door door stands as testimony that you were in fear of your life.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon'

Return to Canada with your Socialist imprinting.
If they are on your property they are subject to you.
Fuck.
You.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 11:38 PM (9yXr+)

217 Seems to me there are very few circumstances where shooting through a door is justified. Maybe if your porch cam shows actual, real zombies beating on your door. Otherwise, take a defensive position, and let them beat down the door, and then shoot to kill. The broken-door door stands as testimony that you were in fear of your life.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Well this guy had a ring camera so it proved him innocent.
It also depends on your state laws.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 11:39 PM (51phj)

218 215 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 11:37 PM (tkR6S)

Your door is your property as well, part of why I have shotguns is to minimize the likelihood of overpenetration for the neighbors 50 yards away.

Nice thing about my place is if the family is in hyper-vigilance mode you have three militarily trained shooters with two fatal funnels in and overwatch on the third door organically.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:40 PM (X0I7i)

219 My final semester of college 2 roommates were taking a seminar in comparative religion so I would smoke a ton of weed and go "audit" the course with them. I loved it. The course.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 11:40 PM (RIvkX)

220 216 Posted by: LenNeal at March 21, 2024 11:38 PM (9yXr+)

AOP is a good fella, and we are all prisoners of our education and upbringing to whatever extent.

In Texas the Seattle guy would have gotten a medal.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:41 PM (X0I7i)

221 Len, chill.
AOP is a solid guy and a gun owner as well IIRC.
I was fortunate enough to meet him a while back and can vouch for him.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 11:42 PM (51phj)

222 Your door is your property as well, part of why I have shotguns is to minimize the likelihood of overpenetration for the neighbors 50 yards away.

Nice thing about my place is if the family is in hyper-vigilance mode you have three militarily trained shooters with two fatal funnels in and overwatch on the third door organically.
Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:40 PM (X0I7i)

My bullets are my property, too. Why would I waste them firing blind, when I cannot even see the skel I'm supposedly shooting at?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 11:43 PM (tkR6S)

223 BTW, AOP does not need me to vouch for him

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 11:43 PM (51phj)

224 222 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 11:43 PM (tkR6S)

I can see just fine with a ring camera....

Frankly were it up to me I would have remote turrets on the four corners with 9mm Ruger PC Chargers therein.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:46 PM (X0I7i)

225 Comparative Religion, 101.

In Texas, the Jews do not recognize the Divinity of Christ.

In Texas, the Presbyterians do not recognize the Station of the Pope.

In Texas, Southern Baptists do not recognize one another in a Liquor Store.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

(.... adds voucher for AOP. Know 'im, broke bread with 'im, drove a couple hunnerd miles with 'im, shot with 'im. 'es a Good Bloke, 'e is! )

Posted by: Jim at March 21, 2024 11:48 PM (e6UQI)

226 Here is the video of the incident
https://tinyurl.com/3cu24ydv

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 11:48 PM (51phj)

227
Return to Canada with your Socialist imprinting.
If they are on your property they are subject to you.
Fuck.
You.
Posted by: LenNeal
-------

Make a counter-argument if you wish, but to deliberately insult a respected poster reflects very poorly, and probably correctly on your character.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 21, 2024 11:50 PM (XeU6L)

228 I can see just fine with a ring camera....

Frankly were it up to me I would have remote turrets on the four corners with 9mm Ruger PC Chargers therein.
Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:46 PM (X0I7i)

Having a camera makes a difference, for sure. But does it make enough difference to discourage a hostile DA from charging you?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 11:50 PM (tkR6S)

229 As kids, we ran around blasting our cap guns. We all knew the difference from real weapons.

Our "old house" was originally a place for dad's & grampa's generation to drink & play poker after quail hunting. It was expanded for younger generations' recreation. Throughout, there were rifles on the rack in the back. Kids did not mess with them. (Those were days high schoolers had gun racks in the cab of their pick-ups.)

That bullet hole in the back window, taped over and preserved for decades? At a party, one of Dad's guests, intoxicated, pointed a rifle at Dad and asked, "Y' think it's loaded?" Dad told him to put it down. Instead, the fool fired out the window. Stupider than any of the young'n's.
____

Rambling, am I? Must be time to ramble on. To dreamtime.

https://youtu.be/EYeG3QrvkEE

💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - with a bullet at March 21, 2024 11:51 PM (LTuPV)

230 Under the RCA brand, you can buy a doorbell camera, just as good as Ring, but that DOES NOT connect to a "mother" network.

The RCA here connects ONLY to the house wi-fi, and I pay good money for an I.T. guy to make damn sure that the wi-fi has NO "open ports" to be exploited by "surfers", and that the RCA has NO open avenues to talk to "mother", even if it wanted to. Which, it doesn't.

Their fone app is a bit kludgier than Ring's. But the image clarity is profoundly good.

Even the RCA's terms of service at satisfactory. With Ring, THEY own every frame of image you've recorded. RCA? YOU own the images. All of 'em.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 21, 2024 11:52 PM (e6UQI)

231 228 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 11:50 PM (tkR6S)

If armed thugs misidentifying themselves as LE get interference ran for them by "the powers that be" perhaps we need to have a community nickle plating facility to reduce the evidence to solution.

Posted by: sven at March 21, 2024 11:53 PM (X0I7i)

232 Why would I waste them firing blind, when I cannot even see the skel I'm supposedly shooting at?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I understand the greater point of 'Know your target & what's beyond,' but if someone is attempting to break down your door at 3am it's not like they are around the corner at the Stop n' Rob sipping on a slushie thinking about world peace.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 21, 2024 11:54 PM (IG4Id)

233 Having a camera makes a difference, for sure. But does it make enough difference to discourage a hostile DA from charging you?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Nothing can stop a sleazy DA from being a scumbag.
A video can help tour case, tho.
The one I posted is pretty cut and dried.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 11:55 PM (51phj)

234 Here is the video of the incident
https://tinyurl.com/3cu24ydv
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 11:48 PM (51phj)

Sven mentioned SPD, and I thought "Seattle Police Department". Were there two shoot-through-the door incidents? Looks like the tenant in the video had the presence of mind to direct his rounds away from the door to the other unit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 11:56 PM (tkR6S)

235 @46/BeckoningChasm: Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker were my favourites. I tuned out after half a season of Peter Davison.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 21, 2024 11:56 PM (qPw5n)

236 Well, maybe there were two incidents in different places.
This one was caught on video.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 11:58 PM (51phj)

237 Well, maybe there were two incidents in different places.
This one was caught on video.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 21, 2024 11:58 PM (51phj)

I watched the video. Sort of looks like the tenant with the gun, assuming he had real-time video, made an effort to miss the perp. Because he could have shot that fucker dead in the ass.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 22, 2024 12:02 AM (tkR6S)

238 I see the blog is still making you prove you want to keep reading and commenting.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 12:03 AM (di6C2)

239 The symbology Karen above really put a lot of thought into her harangue - I mean, bringing visual aids to a customer service desk? Pareidolia also may have played something of a role here. A logo associated with monstrous levels of intensity wouldn't be out of line displaying a series of stylized talon slashes, and sounds a bit more likely than a trendy group of designers saying "Hey, we could work in the Hebrew characters for 666 in this and ... somehow profit from that?

The only possible point the Karen there might have there is in relation to the cross enclosed within the letter O, but it isn't what she thinks it is. That rendering is derived from Germanic runes, and while it might denote paganism, it could just be a call-back to the various Metal genres.

The upside down cross thing is an irritation in particular - anyone who's looked at the earliest history of Christianity recognizes that upside down cross is in reference to the martyrdom of Peter, along with a number of other usages that are solidly on the side of the angels. TL/DR: Karens shouldn't trifle with theology.

Posted by: John Drake at March 22, 2024 12:04 AM (YlVKd)

240 234 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2024 11:56 PM (tkR6S)

There was another incident it made the news I will try to find it.

The new game in Seattle is pretending they are cops to rob at gunpoint (if you are lucky.)

https://youtu.be/oCvh8R6hM6I?si=bDbS31WEsAwMijw5

Here, frankly things like this make me want to take the risk of having a binary trigger on a 9mm carbine.

I prefer shotguns for CQB, but the peacemaker or the Security 9 will do well enough.

Posted by: sven at March 22, 2024 12:05 AM (X0I7i)

241 HERE is the Seattle video
https://tinyurl.com/4zr2e4m8
Thanks for pointing that out AOP

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 22, 2024 12:06 AM (51phj)

242 Because he could have shot that fucker dead in the ass.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Shoot Low Boys - They're Riding Shetland Ponies

Posted by: Lewis Grizzard at March 22, 2024 12:06 AM (XeU6L)

243 Some famous guy once said, to keep someone away from your house get a shotgun and shoot it through the front door. I think he was VP at the time.

Most places you'll just end up with a fucked up front door and massive legal fees, unless, of course, you kill someone.

Posted by: javems at March 22, 2024 12:06 AM (8I4hW)

244 https://youtu.be/_PXJz38_7a8?si=BST8vzzSCE5fMjzh

Guy kicks in door in Florida, gets retired.

Posted by: sven at March 22, 2024 12:07 AM (X0I7i)

245 I am trying to think of an artistic usage for an upside down cross that did NOT refer to Peter (classical art.) Not coming up with much. Oh, who was the X cross?

*looks it up*

Ah, St Andrew. And the first result says it is a popular BDSM device.

Fuck this modern world.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 12:08 AM (di6C2)

246 241 Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 22, 2024 12:06 AM (51phj)

Good aftermath vid, yes same incident in Auburn.

Like I said makes me want possibly an AR-10 if I ever live out in the country.

The nice thing about the AR-10 with proper compensator is it is "the BAR that works."

Posted by: sven at March 22, 2024 12:09 AM (X0I7i)

247 https://tinyurl.com/4mxarc62
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

You have to see #20

Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2024 12:10 AM (fwDg9)

248 Dragon's Dogma 2 seems to be hitting a bit of a snag. Glad I did not buy to play tonight.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 12:12 AM (di6C2)

249 https://youtu.be/oCvh8R6hM6I?si=bDbS31WEsAwMijw5

Here, frankly things like this make me want to take the risk of having a binary trigger on a 9mm carbine.

I prefer shotguns for CQB, but the peacemaker or the Security 9 will do well enough.
Posted by: sven at March 22, 2024 12:05 AM (X0I7i)

Watched the video. Looks like the perps either succeeded in breaking open the door, or the homeowner opened it. In any case, he was not firing blind. A round did take out the glass in the storm door. Looked like a good shoot to me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 22, 2024 12:14 AM (tkR6S)

250 Posted by: John Drake at March 22, 2024 12:04 AM (YlVKd)

The upside down cross is currently a Satanic symbol.

Posted by: polynikes at March 22, 2024 12:14 AM (MNhXM)

251

Joe Biden advises we get a shotgun.

https://youtu.be/CrzyRXSxuAg
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or the musical version

https://youtu.be/F-mztxHgYQo

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 22, 2024 12:16 AM (63Dwl)

252 247 https://tinyurl.com/4mxarc62
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

You have to see #20
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2024 12:10 AM (fwDg9)

Will #7 shock me?

3?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 12:16 AM (di6C2)

253 Is it wrong if I assume the Downs girl participated in the Special Olympics?

Posted by: polynikes at March 22, 2024 12:19 AM (MNhXM)

254
Like I said makes me want possibly an AR-10 if I ever live out in the country.

The nice thing about the AR-10 with proper compensator is it is "the BAR that works."
Posted by: sven

I just finished building one with mostly Palmetto State Armory parts.
Mostly because they were often out of what I wanted.
16" barrel in .308.
I want to see how loud it is before I go with a muzzle brake or flash hider.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 22, 2024 12:19 AM (51phj)

255 More fallout from the Sweet Baby Inc brouhaha

The editor for Kotaku, who had been in charge for less than a year, has been fired. In fact the company that now owns this gaming e-rag have told the staff to focus on writing guides and skip the news which has further enraged the snowflakes at the keyboards.

I may need more popcorn.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2024 12:20 AM (SVhGv)

256 254 Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 22, 2024 12:19 AM (51phj)

There is a directional vectored muzzle brake that reduces noise for the shooter.

I am also a fan of the 18" dissipater length.

Posted by: sven at March 22, 2024 12:23 AM (X0I7i)

257 Tom Baker will always be the real Doctor for me.
One episode I re-watched recently was "the stones of blood" , which involves some occult rituals and sacrifices before we get to the aliens behind it. The reason for the creepiness of this one is that it was made with some people from the Hammer Studios working on the production, and some of it might have been filmed at Hammer. If you want to see a Dr. Who / Hammer Films mash-up, this one is it!
.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 22, 2024 12:23 AM (S6gqv)

258 I may need more popcorn.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2024 12:20 AM (SVhGv)

Guides? I do not remember Kotaku (even... 15 year ago) writing guides. They mostly did news on games. What games looked good. Hey, here's a game you might not have heard about. That kind of thing. It's just a ways back they stopped focusing on anything besides their own personal cultural axes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 12:25 AM (di6C2)

259 255 Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2024 12:20 AM (SVhGv)

At some point business will get back to making money instead of morals....

maybe we are heading there.

Posted by: sven at March 22, 2024 12:25 AM (X0I7i)

260 "Stones of Blood" had Douglas Adams listed in the credits.

The flashing light robots I remember them well. No Asimov Laws so they found their own creators guilty and blew them up.

Charming it wasn't.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2024 12:25 AM (SVhGv)

261 Aeitius

There are times I wonder if I'm the same species as the posters.

Tonight is one of those times.

Posted by: mnw at March 22, 2024 12:26 AM (NLIak)

262
There is a directional vectored muzzle brake that reduces noise for the shooter.

I am also a fan of the 18" dissipater length.
Posted by: sven

Thanks.
I may look into that.
With iron sights and a Romeo 5 it weighs 9.2 pounds unloaded.
A sling is in order.
I can add a bipod, but that may be range only fir tge most part.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 22, 2024 12:27 AM (51phj)

263 After 44 hours Recuva finished the file scan - very disappointing.. It appears when the pop up said, Ascript has stopped running do you want to continue? The implication was beyond my understanding. I clicked yes and all my movies were sent to the either.

At least tomorrow the blog will be on W7 , not this - not bustling for commenting ipad.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 22, 2024 12:29 AM (yXf+h)

264 The best Justice robots of all time were in the Red Dwarf episode "Justice". That's one where I think I laughed til I could hardly breathe from beginning to end - but best part of all was Kryten's defense if Rimmer.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 22, 2024 12:30 AM (S6gqv)

265 Well these e-rags need to focus on a model that generates revenue since all the 'free' money has about dried up.

I hear the majority shareholder for Paramount is now shopping for a buyer. If you have like $14 billion they may sell. Of course the buyer also buys the debts and dealing with Charter for streaming.

Hopefully the proxy war for Disney kicks Iger to the curb while also kicking George Lucas in the nuts for siding with the Evil Mouse.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2024 12:31 AM (SVhGv)

266 There are times I wonder if I'm the same species as the posters.

Tonight is one of those times.
Posted by: mnw at March 22, 2024 12:26 AM (NLIak)

For Kotaku? I have not even checked it out in about 10 years. It went bad, so I stopped going there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 12:31 AM (di6C2)

267 To be fair, I'd just want Star Trek. I might be able to rustle up a couple hundred dollars if I wanted to overpay at this point.

I miss having nice things. Everything seems to be crap.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 12:33 AM (di6C2)

268 The upside down cross is currently a Satanic symbol.
Posted by: polynikes

Some Satanists have indeed adopted the inverted cross as a means of further blaspheming the perversion of standard Christian worship. There's two problems. though - out-and-out Satanists are negligible in the U.S. in terms of sheer number, and most of them are LARPing in the hopes of offending normal people's sensibilities. The few that could genuinely be called Satanists in the disturbing sense of the word are, as I once heard it expressed "either rich perverts or poverty-stricken losers."

Those last two you do need to worry about, but there's a whole host of spiritual dangers out there that deserve more of our attention. Plus, the runic symbol (it could also be Celtic, drawn from its Germanic counterpart) is designed such that inverting it doesn't really change the image of the cross. So, much ado about (likely) nothing.

Posted by: John Drake at March 22, 2024 12:33 AM (YlVKd)

269 Headline: "Democrat Frontrunner In Tight [MD] Senate Race Apologizes For Racial Slur"

Rep. David Trone (D-MD) said "jigaboo" when he meant to say "bugaboo."

Posted by: mnw at March 22, 2024 12:34 AM (NLIak)

270 My favorite Biden shotgun video (sorry ettes):

https://youtu.be/MFjF9kW9Mcc

Posted by: javems at March 22, 2024 12:35 AM (8I4hW)

271 Hopefully the proxy war for Disney kicks Iger to the curb while also kicking George Lucas in the nuts for siding with the Evil Mouse.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2024 12:31 AM (SVhGv)

And on Disney... I doubt it will make much difference. They lost the spirit. When Eisner took over, there was still enough of the feeling to influence the revitalization. Now it is just communism and political aspiration. To find out how to mold the kids into vessels for their ideology, not inspire wonder and romance* in them.

*And I mean romance in the Three Musketeer Count of Monte Cristo way. The spirit of daring do, as it were.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 12:35 AM (di6C2)

272 A buddy of mine is married to a wonderful.Czech woman. Her stories are both fascinating and compelling.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 22, 2024 12:36 AM (W/lyH)

273 You mean a return to a basically positive Star Trek.

Kill the dark uniforms. Kill the murky lighting. Banish the secret cabals infesting Star Fleet, if I want that I will watch Mobile Suit Gundam.

And while we are at it - set sail with a new crew on a new ship.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2024 12:36 AM (SVhGv)

274 Aetius

No. Guns & shooting people.

Posted by: mnw at March 22, 2024 12:37 AM (NLIak)

275 269 Headline: "Democrat Frontrunner In Tight [MD] Senate Race Apologizes For Racial Slur"

Rep. David Trone (D-MD) said "jigaboo" when he meant to say "bugaboo."
Posted by: mnw at March 22, 2024 12:34 AM (NLIak)

Hmmm. Looked him up.

White
Dem
Black racial slur (how do people mix these things up?!)

This could get interesting or it will feel more like Orwell than ever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 12:37 AM (di6C2)

276 Found suit for my FIL's funeral early next week in his closet. All I need to do is by a nice white shirt and nice black tie to go with it and I'll have his ensemble.
Now to do the white and red envelopes and have funds ready to pay for his banquet afterwards...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 22, 2024 12:38 AM (ynpvh)

277 273 You mean a return to a basically positive Star Trek.

Kill the dark uniforms. Kill the murky lighting. Banish the secret cabals infesting Star Fleet, if I want that I will watch Mobile Suit Gundam.

And while we are at it - set sail with a new crew on a new ship.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2024 12:36 AM (SVhGv)

I miss the red uniforms from Wrath of Khan.

It was excessive, but I still fricking love the fly by of the Enterprise from Motion Picture. A tall ship. A thing of beauty.

NO CAPITAL SHIPS AS FIGHTER COMBAT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 12:39 AM (di6C2)

278 Aetius, you maybe right.

But at this point nothing at Disney will change unless the boardroom is purged of Igernauts.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2024 12:40 AM (SVhGv)

279 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 22, 2024 12:38 AM (ynpvh)

Hang in there jim. My condolences.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 12:40 AM (di6C2)

280 Rep. David Trone (D-MD) said "jigaboo" when he meant to say "bugaboo."
Posted by: mnw at March 22, 2024 12:34 AM (NLIak)

That's hilarious.

Posted by: javems at March 22, 2024 12:41 AM (8I4hW)

281 It was excessive, but I still fricking love the fly by of the Enterprise from Motion Picture. A tall ship. A thing of beauty.

NO CAPITAL SHIPS AS FIGHTER COMBAT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 12:39 AM (di6C2)

That alone was worth the price of admission.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 22, 2024 12:42 AM (W/lyH)

282 Yeah Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is the high water mark for the movies. Plus how to write a good sequel that has plenty of action and some real moral quandary with the Genesis Torpedo.

"Watch out! Genesis will do it in six minutes!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2024 12:43 AM (SVhGv)

283 The M-1A and the Garand, plus the 1911 for last call. There WILL be considerable spent brass.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 22, 2024 12:44 AM (KATBx)

284 "Watch out! Genesis will do it in six minutes!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2024 12:43 AM (SVhGv)

"I was not evaluating it's moral implications, Doctor."

Also took on aging. Family. Revenge.

And actual struggle for Kirk. Not fake peril but real consequences. He makes mistakes, but shows why he is still the best Captain that they ever articulated in movies or tv.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 12:46 AM (di6C2)

285 279 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 22, 2024 12:38 AM (ynpvh)

Hang in there jim. My condolences.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 12:40 AM (di6C2)

Most of the stuff is done for his funeral now. Still going through wife's things. Not looking forward to going through FIL's things, but at least BILs should THEORETICALLY be able to do that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 22, 2024 12:46 AM (ynpvh)

286 269 Headline: "Democrat Frontrunner In Tight [MD] Senate Race Apologizes For Racial Slur"

Rep. David Trone (D-MD) said "jigaboo" when he meant to say "bugaboo."
Posted by: mnw

Heh! He's a sleazy, smarmy, nasty, little punk. This scumbag will worm his way out of any further controversy. Nothing will happen.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 22, 2024 12:46 AM (Kdi1r)

287 Mrs.D's nephew is a high functioning Down's kid. Just graduated from high school and is a basketball nut. Follows the Trailblazers religiously. He was the ball boy and assistant manager for his high school team. Did that for three years. In the last game.of the season the coach had him suit up and start. The other team knew what was up so the were.pretty light on the defense and he goes down and bangs in a three-pointer. WTF!!?? So they up the D and he does it again. He finished the game with 9points.
Pretty cool.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 22, 2024 12:47 AM (W/lyH)

288 283 The M-1A and the Garand, plus the 1911 for last call. There WILL be considerable spent brass.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 22, 2024 12:44 AM (KATBx)

.30-06 inside? Ouch. My eardrums have never done anything to me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 12:47 AM (di6C2)

289 No. Guns & shooting people.
Posted by: mnw at March 22, 2024 12:37 AM (NLIak)

If they are wearing masks, and in the act of busting your down with the intent of robbing or killing you, they have ceased to be "people" and have voluntarily become targets.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 22, 2024 12:49 AM (tkR6S)

290 Just for trying to airbrush James Tiberius Kirk out - Paramount delenda est.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2024 12:50 AM (SVhGv)

291 javems, That was a great video, thank you.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 22, 2024 12:51 AM (Sgq8y)

292 This sounds about right:

From Insty.
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE PROBLEM WITH OUR MEDICAL SCHOOLS RIGHT NOW… Woke doctors thought a tool that accounts for ethnic differences in kidney function was racist, so they removed it and screwed up the entire kidney transplant database.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 12:51 AM (di6C2)

293 Posted by: John Drake at March 22, 2024 12:33 AM (YlVKd)

The point was you said the upside down cross was particularly bothersome to you because it is a Historic Christian symbol related to Peter’s crucifixion.

Now you change it to that yes Satanists use it but their numbers are insignificant.

Whatever. Eyes Wide Shut.

Posted by: polynikes at March 22, 2024 12:52 AM (MNhXM)

294 Disney laid off 28k in 2020 and I doubt they backfilled those positions with the old guard, magic believers. This more recent round of 7,000 cuts likely did not go after the batch of post modernist thinkers. If the proxy war ends the Iger era the new crew will have a lot of housecleaning. I will be surprised if the brand fully regains the magic and money flow.

Posted by: scampydog at March 22, 2024 12:52 AM (41CYW)

295 Oh well time to wander away. Night.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2024 12:53 AM (SVhGv)

296 What happens if biden loses? Voters forget why they hate democrats ;but still hate rethugliKKKans. Everyone in democrat party is discredited except the left base. AOC takes over the democrat party. Media/deep state/donor class/multi national corporations/ anti-trump activists sabotage trump. Blue states will try to arrest trump and take a liberal version of resisting arrest. With chinese and nato countries sabotage economy and red states. This is just for starters and the military can always do its duty.

Posted by: raimondo at March 22, 2024 12:53 AM (itABg)

297 290 Just for trying to airbrush James Tiberius Kirk out - Paramount delenda est.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2024 12:50 AM (SVhGv)

Yes. They do not understand the property, just see it as a vessel. Just like Disney. Just like Kathleen Kennedy with Star Wars and Indiana Jones (and this includes Kennedy as well as all the other carbon units that infest disney and lucas film.)

They do not see things as an end unto themselves. These properties were valued as things unto themselves.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 12:54 AM (di6C2)

298 Bless raimondo's little heart.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 22, 2024 12:54 AM (bo7UB)

299 Oregon: SHUTTING DOWN small farms “to protect the people” –

https://tinyurl.com/msrephnj

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #166 at March 22, 2024 12:54 AM (qfLjt)

300 Night anna.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 12:55 AM (di6C2)

301 Well, for a change of pace today, I cleaned up an old Studebaker overdrive lockout cable, and got it working smoothly once more, and installed it under the dash of my Lark. Then I added a bracket and tab to the throttle bellcrank on the firewall for the kickdown switch, and mounted that. And if I depress the gas pedal right to the floor, the tab depresses the plunger in the kickdown switch, and closes the "normally open" set of contacts, as proven by a test light.
so now I can go ahead and install the overdrive transmission I have waiting to use.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 22, 2024 12:57 AM (tkR6S)

302 Judge quotes Dr. Seuss in dismissal of Blagojevich suit seeking to again run for office:

https://tinyurl.com/yc4v2vhf

Posted by: Ciampino - A room temperature IQ at March 22, 2024 12:59 AM (qfLjt)

303 This made me chuckle. It's an article about Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) batteries and how they might be built, refering to Lithium-Ion batteries as (LiBs)...
" these batteries could be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than LiBs". Yeah, Libs are expensive, especially when they travel about the wold in their private jets trying stop CO2 emissions...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 22, 2024 12:59 AM (ynpvh)

304 CNN Accidentally Admits Judge Lied About Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Value

https://t.co/q1FhVlqCam

Posted by: Ciampino - A room temperature IQ? at March 22, 2024 01:00 AM (qfLjt)

305 Not looking forward to going through FIL's things, but at least BILs should THEORETICALLY be able to do that.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
--------

So sorry, Jim. It's hard enough to lose a loved one. And then... to sort through their belongings. Ugh.

"Theoretically", you shouldn't have to be the only one to do it. But, if everyone else *cheeses out*? Just know you're not the only one what got it all dumped onto them.

{{hugs}}

Posted by: JQ at March 22, 2024 01:01 AM (njWTi)

306 raimbot is in trouble and scared out of his wits...

https://youtu.be/r3Dju2i4FZw?si=GUykmsf3Jgw0zC2l

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 22, 2024 01:02 AM (Kdi1r)

307 Included in the Dems omnibus bill is $3.5 Billion for the FBIs new headquarters in Maryland, which would include the hiring of 7,500 NEW agents.

Also included is a new FBI office in DC for 1,000 NEW agents, that ‘will support day-to-day engagement with the DOJ.”

Posted by: Ciampino - Bright as Alaska in December at March 22, 2024 01:02 AM (qfLjt)

308 Have a good night folks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 22, 2024 01:03 AM (di6C2)

309 @306 Why? AOC will take over the democrat party.

Posted by: raimondo at March 22, 2024 01:04 AM (itABg)

310 Botswana threatens to send 10,000 elephants to Hyde Park in trophy hunting row

https://tinyurl.com/27budd8p

Posted by: Ciampino - Fell out of the family tree at March 22, 2024 01:04 AM (qfLjt)

311 291 javems, That was a great video, thank you.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 22, 2024 12:51 AM (Sgq8y)

Thanks. Hate to rag on the gals, as there are many who can out shoot me, I'm sure.

I did see some of your posts earlier this year and am glad you had a good Christmas. We hosted the family Christmas party this year. Had a good turnout, including a bunch of young ones.

Posted by: javems at March 22, 2024 01:05 AM (8I4hW)

312 I kept my land line around for a backup to mobile, until a string of tornados knocked out power and communications was spotty. My land line was out of commission while my mobile phone continue to work. I did have DSL through the line, although I doubt that was the reason it didn't work.

Posted by: gld at March 22, 2024 01:06 AM (pCXlW)

313 305
...
Posted by: JQ at March 22, 2024 01:01 AM (njWTi)

Thanks, JQ. It's been slow going just clearing my wife's stuff as she was...a pack rat (the nice way of putting it), and I've been doing a little sometimes, a lot others, but not what I really want to be doing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 22, 2024 01:06 AM (ynpvh)

314 AOC won’t win her seat again unless they cheat for her.

Posted by: polynikes at March 22, 2024 01:06 AM (MNhXM)

315 I will allow AOC to take over the Dem party, but only if she shows us her tits.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 22, 2024 01:06 AM (ufFY8)

316 Biden administration backs a $50 billion bond using frozen assets to give to Ukraine with Congress not expected to vote on additional funds until April

https://mol.im/a/13224095

Posted by: Ciampino - Fell out of the family tree? at March 22, 2024 01:06 AM (qfLjt)

317 I think I'll turn in too. More stuff to do in the morrow. Night all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 22, 2024 01:07 AM (ynpvh)

318 Polynikes, Eyes Wide Shot isn't a documentary. Perhaps I failed (most likely I did - being 29 has its drawbacks), but what I was trying to assert that there are many people who LARP as Satanists and those who are actually trying to follow what they believe are the dictates of their vile faith have, in some cases, made use of an inverted cross in the blasphemous mockery of Christian worship, along with a number of other things and rituals sacral in nature. (Take a look at the Black Mass as a stomach-churning example of what some of these degenerates do.)

But the inverted cross is not something I would routinely take offense to, given its prominent display in christian ritual, liturgy, and celebration. Even the Pope sits on a chair with an inverted cross on it. Like the pentangle or its later cousin, the pentagram, were part of the sacred iconography of the Early Church.

Some people appropriated those items and attempted to re-purpose it for their horrific rites. But every effort to date to gauge which Satanists are the real deal (Anton Lavey, for example, was not sincere in his beliefs by his own admission) always comes up with incredibly small numbers.

Posted by: John Drake at March 22, 2024 01:08 AM (YlVKd)

319 I'm fine with AOC taking over the Democrat Party. It's what they are. The retarded banality of Evil.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 22, 2024 01:11 AM (Kdi1r)

320 This made me chuckle. It's an article about Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) batteries and how they might be built, refering to Lithium-Ion batteries as (LiBs)...
" these batteries could be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than LiBs". Yeah, Libs are expensive, especially when they travel about the wold in their private jets trying stop CO2 emissions...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 22, 2024 12:59 AM (ynpvh)

Sodium-sulfur batteries have been around for close to 60 years, but have proven to be problematic. Start having problems after a thousand charge/discharge cycles. I see no reason why lithium/sulfur would do any better. And they must be run at an elevated temperature, because both the sodium and sulfur must be in the liquid state.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 22, 2024 01:11 AM (tkR6S)

321 The House Appropriations Committee just released a $1.2 trillion government spending bill at 2AM.
Slipped in there is $400k from our taxes funneled to Briarpatch Youth Services.

https://t.co/CmMxmFivPU

Youth Services? Is that what they call them these days?

Posted by: Ciampino - All one burger short of a happy meal at March 22, 2024 01:13 AM (qfLjt)

322 And they must be run at an elevated temperature, because both the sodium and sulfur must be in the liquid state.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 22, 2024 01:11 AM

Could this be achieved by keeping them at a higher pressure inside a very strong battery case?

Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 22, 2024 01:14 AM (VxbvY)

323 Having trouble with this infernal device. Calling it night.

Posted by: javems at March 22, 2024 01:14 AM (8I4hW)

324 I will allow AOC to take over the Dem party, but only if she shows us her tits.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 22, 2024 01:06 AM (ufFY

They are better tits than Joe Biden's, to be sure. Probably edge out Kamala's, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 22, 2024 01:15 AM (tkR6S)

325 We had a gay Satanist, or something called Daddy Satan come out in favor of "palestinians" at a drag show at a leftist bookstore in Phoenix.
Caused a bit of backlash when sane people objected to them welcoming children at said drag show.
Idiot of course ignored the fact that would be murdered for being gay by Islamic believers.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 22, 2024 01:15 AM (51phj)

326 Found suit for my FIL's funeral early next week in his closet. All I need to do is by a nice white shirt and nice black tie to go with it and I'll have his ensemble.
Now to do the white and red envelopes and have funds ready to pay for his banquet afterwards...
Posted by: jim
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A couple of years ago, a good friend of 50+ years died. His closest relative lived 500 miles away, and, this was during the Covid panic. I became the local contact for several incidental matters regarding the dispersal of the physical estate, and other things.

The body was to be shipped back to his home. I won't forget the day that the funeral parlor called and said, 'You may come by and pick up your friend's clothes'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 22, 2024 01:15 AM (XeU6L)

327 Could this be achieved by keeping them at a higher pressure inside a very strong battery case?
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 22, 2024 01:14 AM (VxbvY)

They do have strong steel cases. Both sodium and sulfur are solid at room temperature. And both are highly reactive with oxygen. Breach the case, and a fire is nearly certain. There are a few places that use sodium-sulfur batteries for bulk storage of power for utilities. Really not suited for vehicle use. Ford did try, in the 1960's.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 22, 2024 01:18 AM (tkR6S)

328 Idiot of course ignored the fact that would be murdered for being gay by Islamic believers.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 22, 2024 01:15 AM (51phj)

The muzzies would murder him for being a Satanist, too, That's allah's turf, and he is a jealous god.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 22, 2024 01:21 AM (tkR6S)

329 There are a few other areas where you either didn't grasp or willfully refused to understand from my original post, but that's by the by at this point. Maybe if I make a declaration of my beliefs, I can get the point across.

I'm a Christian.
I have never or would ever support or defend Satanists.
An invered cross arose from, and continues as a Christan symbol.
Genuine Satanists whether one looks at academic studies or government investigations consistently fail to find practicing Satanists in any major degree.

And the list could continue. There are very real and serious problems aimed at Christianity that deserve our full attention - what some Karen believes she sees in the design and packaging of an energy drink probably isn't one.

Posted by: John Drake at March 22, 2024 01:23 AM (YlVKd)

330 And the list could continue. There are very real and serious problems aimed at Christianity that deserve our full attention - what some Karen believes she sees in the design and packaging of an energy drink probably isn't one.

Posted by: John Drake at March 22, 2024 01:23 AM (YlVKd)

One is reminded of the big moral panic centered on Proctor and Gamble's use of the "man-in'the-moon" logo.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 22, 2024 01:26 AM (tkR6S)

331
One is reminded of the big moral panic centered on Proctor and Gamble's use of the "man-in'the-moon" logo.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 22, 2024 01:26 AM (tkR6S)

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

"If you believe ... there's a man in the moon, man in the moon ..."

/R.E.M. on behalf of Andy Kaufmann

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 22, 2024 01:30 AM (NNq22)

332 *man ON the moon

Yeah, time for bed ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 22, 2024 01:31 AM (NNq22)

333 Found suit for my FIL's funeral early next week in his closet. All I need to do is by a nice white shirt and nice black tie to go with it and I'll have his ensemble.
Now to do the white and red envelopes and have funds ready to pay for his banquet afterwards...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 22, 2024 12:38 AM (ynpvh)

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

Wait, you recently lost your wife and now her father?

God Almighty. They and you will be in my prayers ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 22, 2024 01:36 AM (NNq22)

334 Well, getting sleepy here. Time for bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 22, 2024 01:49 AM (tkR6S)

335 Evening.

*Watches Downs video*

Fuckin' retards are getting laid more than me.

Fuck my life.

Posted by: Robert at March 22, 2024 01:59 AM (1Yy3c)

336 *Watches the Monster video*

Jesus, lady, if you're gonna grift you gotta think big. What you're doing is penny ante bullshit.

I bet she fucks like a beast.

Posted by: Robert at March 22, 2024 02:03 AM (1Yy3c)

337 Robert.

Register to vote (D).

Show your Voter Registration Card to the birds at the bar.

PROOF, that you're retarded, certified by your local government!

Oh, and do trade the red MAGA hat for the black one with the Circle A on the peak.

Aunty Tard is really popular with the 'tard chicks, dontchaknow.

Tatts and weird hair dyes, optional.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 22, 2024 02:08 AM (e6UQI)

338 "Getting laid" just ain't all that.

Yeah, I'm an old broad, so say what ya will... Hubby was good, while it lasted. (He can't 'do it' any more.) But so what?

Sex is for the young 'uns.

Scary these days, tho. Too many freaky-deaky diseases!

Posted by: JQ at March 22, 2024 02:21 AM (njWTi)

339 ...Scary these days, tho. Too many freaky-deaky diseases! Posted by: JQ at March 22, 2024 02:21 AM (njWTi)

"Retardiumitius" might just BE and STD.

First symptom, is registering (D), and proving to the birds at the bar that yer a 'tard?

Opps. Ooopsie!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 22, 2024 02:26 AM (e6UQI)

340 *Intimacy* is really cool. That's where it's at!

Secks =/= intimacy, necessarily.

A good relationship can survive beyond secks. Younger people search for that *something* and turn to secks for fulfillment, but often are disappointed after the one-nighter or brief fling... they crave a connection, but have been programmed to shun monogamy and marriage.

Sad.

Posted by: JQ at March 22, 2024 02:27 AM (njWTi)

341 WTH?

Every other 'refresh' gets me a 502error tonight...

PITA

Posted by: JQ at March 22, 2024 02:31 AM (njWTi)

342 JQ.

We're approaching 19 years, here.

I told her if she'd had shot me when she wanted to, that she'd be out of jail, by now.

Counting my Blessings, here!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 22, 2024 02:32 AM (e6UQI)

343 LOL, Jim SND!

Yeah, I coulda off'd my exes & been out by now..

Turns out, they're gone anyway!

I DIDN'T DO IT!!!!

(didn't even get to watch...

)

Posted by: JQ at March 22, 2024 02:48 AM (njWTi)

344

Posted by: JQ at March 22, 2024 02:49 AM (njWTi)

345 But do all your Ex-es live in Texas ???

Posted by: Adriane the Helpful Critic . . . at March 22, 2024 02:54 AM (4Winp)

346 Israel Zangwill, a British jew, coined the term "melting pot." Working towards White Genocide drip by drip...EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Posted by: Buch at March 22, 2024 02:54 AM (K99w4)

347 247 https://tinyurl.com/4mxarc62
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

You have to see #20
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2024 12:10 AM (fwDg

Thanks Skip !

Posted by: JT at March 22, 2024 02:54 AM (T4tVD)

348 Monster using 666 as its logo is a "conspiracy"?!?
Seem to me more like Ace/ONT is just another apologist for jews genociding White civilization. Sad.

Posted by: Buch at March 22, 2024 02:58 AM (K99w4)

349 But do all your Ex-es live in Texas ???
Posted by: Adriane the Helpful Critic
--------

LOL

No. They're dead.

Posted by: JQ at March 22, 2024 03:15 AM (njWTi)

350 I don't 'hang my hat' in Tennessee, either

Posted by: JQ at March 22, 2024 03:22 AM (njWTi)

351 acecomments.mu.nu is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 502

Very annoying. Happening a LOT tonight!

Anyone else having this problem?

Posted by: JQ at March 22, 2024 03:23 AM (njWTi)

352 Yep. Usually takes a couple of refreshes and then the page shows up. I'm at work so the firewall here can make this site an 'adventure' anyway.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 22, 2024 03:29 AM (Kdi1r)

353 JQ - : -))

Posted by: Adriane the Helpful Critic . . . at March 22, 2024 03:32 AM (4Winp)

354
WHooooo, guess which Twilight Zone episode is on?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 22, 2024 03:37 AM (wjjYr)

355
Okay, you don't care to guess?

TO SERVE MAN

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 22, 2024 03:40 AM (wjjYr)

356 354: the one with Dennis Hopper?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 22, 2024 03:40 AM (Kdi1r)

357 Posted by: Blonde Morticia

I give up.

Which one?

Posted by: JQ at March 22, 2024 03:40 AM (njWTi)

358 Oh, the cooking episode.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 22, 2024 03:41 AM (Kdi1r)

359 Oh, ooops. Too late. LOL

IT'S A COOK BOOK!

Posted by: JQ at March 22, 2024 03:41 AM (njWTi)

360
Ladies and gentlemen of the earth, we eat -- er, greet you in pieces with French toast -- er, in peace and friendship.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 22, 2024 03:44 AM (wjjYr)

361 It'll be a bittersweet time, when I finally get control over the teevee remote....

Yeah, won't happen unless hubby goes into a coma or nursing home.

*sigh*

Yes, there's another teevee but no comfy place from which to watch it.

Posted by: JQ at March 22, 2024 03:50 AM (njWTi)

362 347 247 https://tinyurl.com/4mxarc62
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Thanks Skip!

Posted by: MeLurkYouLongTime at March 22, 2024 03:58 AM (2FZtL)

363 It is a good one

Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2024 04:01 AM (fwDg9)

364 PIXY NOOD IS UP

Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2024 04:03 AM (fwDg9)

365 Skip mentioned that 502 issue in the tech thread.

Should be fixed now, sorry about that.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 22, 2024 04:19 AM (BLOW1)

366 Don't think 2 conductor plain old telephone service is reliable, because AT&T has abandoned it. It once was, but is no longer.

Posted by: Jim at March 22, 2024 05:29 AM (zhWvq)

367 WeirdDave!

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