The Morning Report (4/5/24)

Good morning Horde. Until J.J. Sefton returns to his post. I'll be handling the Thursday and Friday Morning Reports. So let us delve into The Morning Report and enjoy the Mystery Click.

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International Items of Note

SHIP INFERNO Terrified tourists leap overboard from burning ferry heading to Thailand’s ‘Death Island’ as more than 100 rescued

Ukraine ‘will become a member of NATO’ – top US diplomat
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has insisted that Kiev will be allowed to join the Western military bloc

Botswana Threatens to Send 20,000 Elephants to Germany in Trophy Hunting Spat

Physically healthy 28-year-old woman will be euthanised next month

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Domestic ~~Bits~~ Bliss

Bidenomics Is All Good – You’re the Problem

Quaker Oats Shutters Danville Plant, 500+ Workers Lose Their Jobs

Tuberculosis breaks out at Chicago migrant shelters following measles cases - Confirmed tuberculosis cases come as more than 55 measles cases have been confirmed in Chicago

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Science, Health & Safety Issues

A not so happy ending! Woman, 61, suffers BRAIN BLEED while having sex - as experts warn it's way more common than you'd expect

Washington governor commits energy suicide with new plan to outlaw natural gas

PATIENT LEAVES HOSPITAL AS TRANSPLANTED GENE-HACKED PIG ORGAN SEEMS TO BE FUNCTIONING WELL - HE HASN'T BEEN THIS HEALTHY IN A LONG TIME.

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Miscellaneous News

We need to talk about Trader Joes

Death row inmate's bizarre final meal before he's executed for brutal double killing

UC Berkeley condemns professor's dating advice to student: 'hurtful and threatening'

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Feel Good Story of The Day.

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Genius Award Winning Actions

Shocking moment woman melts down on Spirit Airlines flight and yells the n-word at cops as they haul her off the jet

Here's hoping you have a great weekend.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 07:09 AM

Comments

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1 First and day drinking has been authorized.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 05, 2024 07:13 AM (XV/Pl)

2 The Farm Report. The only news that matters.

Posted by: fd at April 05, 2024 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

3 Not just TB, but medicine-resistant TB.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 07:17 AM (6IDWi)

4 Happy Fricking Firday

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 07:17 AM (ENQN6)

5 LOL!

Thanks MisHum!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at April 05, 2024 07:17 AM (PFYt9)

6 >>Death row inmate's bizarre final meal before he's executed for brutal double killing

This headline and the actual body of the story are exhibit 3456762 on why journalism is dog sh*t.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 05, 2024 07:18 AM (XV/Pl)

7 Why did the phrase "transplanted gene hacked pig organ" immediately make me picture Henry Waxman?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 05, 2024 07:18 AM (GkFGh)

8 Doctor, doctor. Give me the newz!

Posted by: Got a bad case of loving you at April 05, 2024 07:19 AM (dg+HA)

9
TB or not TB... that is the question.

Posted by: William ShakeSpear at April 05, 2024 07:19 AM (RKVpM)

10 7 Why did the phrase "transplanted gene hacked pig organ" immediately make me picture Henry Waxman?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 05, 2024 07:18 AM (GkFGh)

***SNORT***

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at April 05, 2024 07:20 AM (QXQ4l)

11 It was actually just a short, fat little mental patient.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 05, 2024 07:21 AM (GkFGh)

12 Red Guard --> Green Guard?!

Biden Builds a Domestic Green Army
He’s shrinking the real Army but arming a political Climate Corps.

By The Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal, April 2, 2024:

Who says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has no influence? Her vision to mobilize a government Climate Corps to promote green politics is becoming a reality. President Biden wants to shrink the real Army, but his budget includes more than $8 billion for a domestic green political army.

The political model is FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps, which paid Americans to work when nearly one in four were jobless. The U.S. now has a labor shortage, but the Biden Administration wants to mobilize more than 20,000 initially for the Climate Corps—and some 50,000 by 2031. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey want the Climate Corps to employ 1.5 million over five years. . .
The Sunrise Movement, another far-left outfit, says the Climate Corps can “raise the bar for all employment” and “allow us to use the government as a way of designing our own society and setting new norms for the workplace.” Ah, yes, a children’s crusade to remake America—paid for by your tax dollars.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 07:21 AM (6IDWi)

13 I entered med school in 1979 and retired in 2019. In those 40 years I saw zero cases of actual measles.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 07:21 AM (991eG)

14 It was actually just a short, fat little mental patient.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 05, 2024 07:21 AM (GkFGh)

I prefer rotund. Sounds classier somehow.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 05, 2024 07:22 AM (4I/2K)

15 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 07:22 AM (nR2nR)

16 TGIF!

And yes, thank you Mis Hum.
Continued prayers for JJ.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 07:23 AM (6IDWi)

17 >>Death row inmate's bizarre final meal before he's executed for brutal double killing

French fries, a strawberry shake, two pieces of cornbread, a deep-fried infant, and a cup of coffee, black.

(wipes mouth on prison-cuff)

"I'm ready."

Posted by: ZOD at April 05, 2024 07:23 AM (5HQE5)

18 Just had some excitement. Four fire trucks and and ambulance pulled up to our neighbors house across the street. Fairly certain they had a false alarm but we will never know as that neighbor has become a recluse along with her children. I have a gut feeling that she is in witness protection and something has happened in the last few months to make her scared.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 05, 2024 07:24 AM (QNSds)

19 Hee Haw's KORN! Great pic to lead the temporary Morning Report, MisHum.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 05, 2024 07:24 AM (mupln)

20 Terrified tourists leap overboard from burning ferry heading to Thailand’s ‘Death Island’ as more than 100 rescued

Not sure I'd book passage to someplace named "death Island".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 07:24 AM (nR2nR)

21 13 I entered med school in 1979 and retired in 2019. In those 40 years I saw zero cases of actual measles.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 07:21 AM (991eG)

But were you looking?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at April 05, 2024 07:25 AM (QXQ4l)

22 Washington Governor Jay Inslee has signed new legislation that will effectively outlaw the use of natural gas in the state.

Natural Gas is 21% of all electricity generation.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 07:26 AM (ENQN6)

23 Terrified tourists leap overboard from burning ferry heading to Thailand’s ‘Death Island’ as more than 100 rescued

Not sure I'd book passage to someplace named "death Island".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 07:24 AM (nR2nR)
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They really should have read the fine print on the travel brochure...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 05, 2024 07:26 AM (7fElN)

24 The U.S. now has a labor shortage, but the Biden Administration wants to mobilize more than 20,000 initially for the Climate Corps—and some 50,000 by 2031. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey want the Climate Corps to employ 1.5 million over five years.

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That's a whole lot of stupid lamebrains to throw paint at famous artworks, lay in the roads, and organize screaming protests to p*ss off the rest of the country.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 05, 2024 07:27 AM (mupln)

25 To celebrate the Oklahoma inmate's vegan choice for a last meal I present Oklahoma Blood playing Stomping Nachos. Back in the days when the internet was lots of fun, there was a website dedicated to death row inmates last meals. It was pretty great.

https://youtu.be/9AEaKpPmuzs

Speaking of food...

https://youtu.be/nGeKSiCQkPw

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 05, 2024 07:27 AM (ksmXa)

26 Thanks for the Morning Report M.H. The Quaker Oats story will get your blood going this am.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 05, 2024 07:27 AM (o5xMZ)

27 Thank you, MH. Prayers up for JJ! TGIF

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 05, 2024 07:27 AM (xT8gx)

28 Continued prayers for J.J. this morning and a shout of appreciation for the COBs who will be filling in for him!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 05, 2024 07:28 AM (7fElN)

29 Thank you for doing this, MisHum.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 05, 2024 07:28 AM (a1415)

30 "
Not sure I'd book passage to someplace named "death Island".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 07:24 AM (nR2nR)
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They really should have read the fine print on the travel brochure...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel "

Formerly known as "Bloodbath Island".

Posted by: fd at April 05, 2024 07:28 AM (vFG9F)

31 Remember that ubama wanted a civilian defense force as strong as our military.

Posted by: Eromero at April 05, 2024 07:29 AM (o2ZRX)

32 >>Not sure I'd book passage to someplace named "death Island".

Should've taken a ferry to Phucket island.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 07:30 AM (6IDWi)

33 The U.S. now has a labor shortage, but the Biden Administration wants to mobilize more than 20,000 initially for the Climate Corps—and some 50,000 by 2031. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey want the Climate Corps to employ 1.5 million over five years. . .

AND

Quaker Oats Shutters Danville Plant, 500+ Workers Lose Their Jobs
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Wait. We have a labor shortage because a plant closed, yet we have 10 million new "workers" in the United States. Something doesn't add up here...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 05, 2024 07:30 AM (7fElN)

34 Shocking moment woman melts down on Spirit Airlines flight and yells the n-word at cops as they haul her off the jet

Northwest she wanted to be moved to a Northwest filght.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 07:30 AM (ENQN6)

35 Why did the phrase "transplanted gene hacked pig organ" immediately make me picture Henry Waxman?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 05, 2024 07:18 AM (GkFGh)

Waxman used to be my Congress critter. Is he still in office? Is he still alive? Or a wax museum exhibit….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 05, 2024 07:31 AM (xT8gx)

36
The Trader Joe's story is basically the same as Aldi's:

According to Hernández, Trader Joe’s branding has a unique appeal for millennial and Gen Z consumers who gravitate toward product “dupes”—private-label items that are indistinguishable from the name brands—that make them feel like they’re hacking the grocery aisle. “All the articles about Trader Joe’s from a millennial lens talk about dupes,” she says. “The rebranding of private label as a budget hack resonates with our generation.”

The private label brands are indistinguishable from 'name' brands in every way except price, where they're probably half as expensive.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 07:31 AM (RKVpM)

37 Good morning, MisHum,
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at April 05, 2024 07:31 AM (53oGX)

38 In 1995 I took my son to a McDonalds in South Carolina. He went into the gym/playground they have where the kids can crawl all over the place.

I noticed a kid with splotches and heard some remark a lady made who was sitting with a bunch of other women and realized that I had accidently wandered into a Measles Party. Yes, that was a thing there.

Posted by: pawn at April 05, 2024 07:33 AM (QB+5g)

39 20 Terrified tourists leap overboard from burning ferry heading to Thailand’s ‘Death Island’ as more than 100 rescued

Not sure I'd book passage to someplace named "death Island".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 07:24 AM (nR2nR)

THE NAME IS IRONIC!

Posted by: Irony, not coincidence at April 05, 2024 07:33 AM (53oGX)

40 Trader Joe's does have some good stuff.

With insufferable pricks as a customer base.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 05, 2024 07:34 AM (a1415)

41 Good Morning Morons

Posted by: vic at April 05, 2024 07:35 AM (A5THL)

42 The Gene-hacked pig organ story…. For a moment I thought it was a story about Gene Hackman, the French Connection guy…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 05, 2024 07:35 AM (xT8gx)

43 "Why did the phrase "transplanted gene hacked pig organ" immediately make me picture Henry Waxman?"

It made me think of the movie "The Replacements".

Posted by: fd at April 05, 2024 07:35 AM (vFG9F)

44 I looked up that Danville plant closure. Pepsi says they'll consolidate it's operations with "another facility," but doesn't specify where.

I wonder if it's in a stateside plant, or MX.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 07:35 AM (0FoWg)

45 Good morning Mis Hum, thanks for filling in
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at April 05, 2024 07:36 AM (ynEI8)

46 Does Trader Joe's still sell that cheap wine? Like for $2 or something.

Posted by: dantesed at April 05, 2024 07:36 AM (88xKn)

47 I've been finding that "store brand" products are usually better than the "real" stuff. Especially at Wegmans and Aldis.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 05, 2024 07:37 AM (GkFGh)

48 35 Why did the phrase "transplanted gene hacked pig organ" immediately make me picture Henry Waxman?

Pig man?

https://youtu.be/O2cl1P5HxR0

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at April 05, 2024 07:38 AM (dg+HA)

49 Boker Tov Patriots

Thank You Misanthropic Humanitarian

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 05, 2024 07:38 AM (pVWRI)

50 The Gene-hacked pig organ story…. For a moment I thought it was a story about Gene Hackman, the French Connection guy…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 05, 2024 07:35 AM (xT8gx)

Gene Hackpig played the admiral in "Behind Enemy Swines."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 07:39 AM (0FoWg)

51 Speaking of Hee Haw, wasn’t there a regular bit where one of their cast (Junior Sample, clad in overalls?) asked you to call “BR549”?…. As a kid I always wondered why that was funny, but it always got the canned laugh track…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 05, 2024 07:39 AM (xT8gx)

52 "Sorry, Death Island is over that way. This is Taxes Island."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 05, 2024 07:39 AM (GkFGh)

53 California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that 480 new cameras are being installed “along freeways and in Oakland to make the area safer.”

Describing the cameras as “high tech,” the Democrat said in a video posted on X that this will “help law enforcement identify vehicles linked to crimes using real-time information and alerts.”
What Newsom was talking about are Flock Safety’s cameras that critics say are used to create AI-powered mass surveillance networks that keep a very close eye on movement but also the behavior of people caught in its “sights.”

Flock is in the business of automatic number plate recognition tech, primarily sold to law enforcement, that can be installed even in areas with no electricity by using solar panels. The real-time component stems from Flock using databases of cars “marked” in advance, while the cameras’ connection to phone towers means the police and federal agencies can be alerted to their location instantly.

Sure, OK, totally cool. When will we get drones like they use in China that bark orders at citizens from overhead?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 07:40 AM (6IDWi)

54 Wait until Jay Inslee hears from Microsoft and Amazon on electrical power generation. Ain't going to be data centers, especially the huge ones required for AI, without electricity.

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 05, 2024 07:40 AM (9oaP6)

55 Good Morning Miss Hum

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 07:40 AM (ENQN6)

56 Thanks for picking up the slack, Mis Hum. The COBS here do great work. Continued prayers for JJ.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 05, 2024 07:40 AM (SfhV1)

57 50 - LoL. Glad you’re here, YD

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 05, 2024 07:40 AM (xT8gx)

58 loving some Steppenwolf to kick off the morning.

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 05, 2024 07:41 AM (9oaP6)

59 Henry Waxpig rolled out the pork barrel in CA.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 07:42 AM (0FoWg)

60 "As a kid I always wondered why that was funny, but it always got the canned laugh track…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt"

You would be surprised how many people use "BR549" as a password.

Posted by: fd at April 05, 2024 07:42 AM (vFG9F)

61 > I've been finding that "store brand" products are usually better than the "real" stuff. Especially at Wegmans and Aldis.
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IIRC many products like pastas, canned foods and the like are all made in the same plants, but during different "runs." I guess the theory is that the first run, or one in the middle is better than being the last.

Or something.

We buy store brand bulk items frequently and see no difference. Occasionally there's a QA issue or we're up against a sell-by date, but that's about it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 05, 2024 07:42 AM (Q4IgG)

62
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 05, 2024 07:43 AM (bEb2S)

63 Should've taken a ferry to Phucket island.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 07:30 AM (6IDWi)

man, that was a nice place to pull in to.

except for the time the geniuses had us pull in straight from ending the Somalia mission, with a ship full of marines who hadn't seen safe land in a year....

it went about as well as one would expect...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 07:43 AM (bving)

64 53 — That Newsom story and his crime fighting cameras makes no sense because in Cali who cares if you find the criminal? I mean they’re instantly released with cashless bail anyway, Gascon style…. This is just Newsom amping up the surveillance state for normies…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 05, 2024 07:44 AM (xT8gx)

65 You would be surprised how many people use "BR549" as a password.
Posted by: fd at April 05, 2024 07:42 AM (vFG9F)
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*sigh*

Now, I gotta go change the password to all of my accounts....(I use the same one because it's more convenient that way.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 05, 2024 07:44 AM (7fElN)

66 The AI fad is just silly. It's a woobie. Insecure dolts want a magic box to confirm whatever nonsense it is they already want to do, so that when everything inevitably goes Tango Uniform they can point to it and say "we were just doing what the magic box said".

It's sinking an embarrassing amount of time, money, space, and power into what amounts to little more than a vanity project.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 05, 2024 07:44 AM (GkFGh)

67 Come for an adventure that you will remember for the rest of your life!

Posted by: Death Island Tours at April 05, 2024 07:44 AM (vFG9F)

68 We buy store brand bulk items frequently and see no difference. Occasionally there's a QA issue or we're up against a sell-by date, but that's about it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 05, 2024 07:42 AM (Q4IgG)

The "sell by" date on those packages has nothing to do with the quality of the product. it is a misnomer.

Posted by: vic at April 05, 2024 07:45 AM (A5THL)

69 Back when inmates were executed in PA their last meal was a choice between chicken pot pie or meat loaf. No lavish requests.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2024 07:45 AM (0EOe9)

70 29 Thank you for doing this, MisHum.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 05, 2024 07:28 AM (a1415)

You're welcome. I might be doing more than Thursday and Fridays. We'll see.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at April 05, 2024 07:45 AM (QXQ4l)

71 When the head of the federal reserve tells you that many more banks are going to go under, you may have a problem.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 07:46 AM (lTGtQ)

72 Back when inmates were executed in PA their last meal was a choice between chicken pot pie or meat loaf. No lavish requests.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2024 07:45 AM (0EOe9)

In Texas, they changed it some time back to be "you get whatever the cafeteria is serving".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 07:47 AM (nR2nR)

73 Oh, LOL - Californians could try this?
https://tinyurl.com/2ukkpkhe

Drivers plot extreme ways to avoid being caught on Sadiq Khan’s enforcement cameras

London drivers are planning to skirt around Mayor Sadiq Khan's controversial Ulez scheme by using a novel new technique to intentionally obscure their number plates from enforcement cameras.

Ulez penalises owners of vehicles which don't meet certain environmental standards with a £12.50 daily charge - which has been criticised as unaffordable and unsustainable after being rolled out across the entirety of Greater London in August 2023.

But would-be fare dodgers have identified a way to get around the fines: magnetic leaves.

Drivers can hook up electromagnets under their number plates, which bind the 'leaves' - small metal plates in a green plastic wrap - over one or more letters and numbers, rendering recognition software useless.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 07:47 AM (6IDWi)

74 When the head of the federal reserve tells you that many more banks are going to go under, you may have a problem.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 07:46 AM (lTGtQ)

Everything is perfectly fine, and we have to fundamentally transform everything because everything is terrible.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 05, 2024 07:47 AM (GkFGh)

75
IIRC many products like pastas, canned foods and the like are all made in the same plants, but during different "runs." I guess the theory is that the first run, or one in the middle is better than being the last.

One of my many part time jobs as a teen was in a 'music' store. The owner basically had a 55 gallon drum of some sort of oil useful for musical instrurments. My job was to put plastic bottles on the assembly line. First one batch with one name, then another batch with another name, then another batch with a third name. Usually four different brands per night. Same exact product. The next person on the line did something, I forget what, but the last person screwed the lid on and the bottle dropped into a laundry basket.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 07:47 AM (RKVpM)

76 That 28 year old who wants to be euthanized....Who is the doctor that told her there is nothing more they can do for her? Depression is awful, but it shouldn't be allowed to kill you on purpose.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 05, 2024 07:47 AM (SfhV1)

77 by WorldTribune Staff, April 1, 2024

Mark Wingate, who served on the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, testified on Monday that there was no signature verification done on Fulton County absentee ballots in the 2020 election.

No validation of Voter list against county records.
No sig ver
No chain of custody

Will not all of this come up in the PDT trial?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 07:48 AM (ENQN6)

78 Speaking of Hee Haw, wasn’t there a regular bit where one of their cast (Junior Sample, clad in overalls?) asked you to call “BR549”?…. As a kid I always wondered why that was funny, but it always got the canned laugh track…

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Junior Samples used to team up in skits with Misty Rowe and they were always so funny. He was always so bad at reading his lines that you couldn't help but laugh.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 05, 2024 07:48 AM (mupln)

79 76 That 28 year old who wants to be euthanized....Who is the doctor that told her there is nothing more they can do for her? Depression is awful, but it shouldn't be allowed to kill you on purpose.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 05, 2024 07:47 AM (SfhV1)

Grammie
Why do we cut tits and dicks off a kid? I think the Med Community really really needs to go back to do no harm.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 07:49 AM (ENQN6)

80 "You're welcome. I might be doing more than Thursday and Fridays. We'll see.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian"

Just don't let it get to you. Revel in the absurdity.

Posted by: fd at April 05, 2024 07:49 AM (vFG9F)

81 Wait until Jay Inslee hears from Microsoft and Amazon on electrical power generation. Ain't going to be data centers, especially the huge ones required for AI, without electricity.
Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 05, 2024 07:40 AM (9oaP6)

no, no. you misunderstand tovarisch.

THEY will continue to receive power from nat gas generators.

YOU will have to give up natural gas for electricity or heating or cooking or anything else.

remember, some animals are more equal...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 07:49 AM (bving)

82 >>This is just Newsom amping up the surveillance state for normies…

Exactly.
He is owned by China - details in the new Peter Schweizer book.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 07:50 AM (6IDWi)

83 Everything is perfectly fine, and we have to fundamentally transform everything because everything is terrible.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

The trick is to fool everyone until the second week of November, then implement the first five year plan.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 07:50 AM (lTGtQ)

84 what amounts to little more than a vanity project.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 05, 2024 07:44 AM (GkFGh)

I agree that it's overblown, at least to some degree. It's certainly going to have some success, for some measures of """success."""

As for it being a vanity project - well, I think it's a bit of an understatement to call a bunch of megalomaniac nerds seeking to create a simulacrum of life in their own image so they can use it to annihilate and redesign all human societies "vain."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 07:50 AM (0FoWg)

85 Who says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has no influence? Her vision to mobilize a government Climate Corps to promote green politics is becoming a reality.
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Why does this remind me of the 'Junior Anti-Sex League' in Orwell's 1984?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2024 07:51 AM (fs1hN)

86 I didn't know any of that about Trader Joe's. I rarely shop there (stores are so small and the shoppers are irritating), but it surely gives me pause to think they're acting unethically with regard to coming up with some of their specialty items. Asking for product samples under the guise of private labeling, then copying the recipes and releasing their own products. Basically screwing the new entrepreneur.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 05, 2024 07:51 AM (mupln)

87 75 I was working for a friend that had a business installing or upgrading automated conveyors. We were working on one in a soap plant, making adjustments as it ran. The operator said they had to shut down for product change. Surprisingly, this only took a couple minutes. All they did was change the labels. They went from pet shampoo to baby shampoo.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2024 07:51 AM (0EOe9)

88 11 It was actually just a short, fat little mental patient.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 05, 2024 07:21 AM

Don't be a bigot. He identified as a pig; he was a pig.

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at April 05, 2024 07:51 AM (UWRAE)

89 How do we know when we've hit peak Climate?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 05, 2024 07:52 AM (SfhV1)

90 I got up earlier than expected, which is OK because I need to get a head-start on my drive to Portland. Don't worry; I'll be in suburbia the whole time and not heading into the actual dystopian parts of the city.

Posted by: PabloD at April 05, 2024 07:52 AM (PR9Pa)

91 "You're welcome. I might be doing more than Thursday and Fridays. We'll see."

Every effort is truly appreciated.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 05, 2024 07:53 AM (a1415)

92 >>79 76 That 28 year old... Depression is awful, but it shouldn't be allowed to kill you on purpose. Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 05, 2024 07:47 AM (SfhV1)

She's a lot of water.

Posted by: ZOD Muad-Dibh at April 05, 2024 07:53 AM (5HQE5)

93 Every effort is truly appreciated.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 05, 2024 07:53 AM (a1415)

Yep.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 05, 2024 07:53 AM (SfhV1)

94 Trailways Bus Service > Spirit Airlines

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 05, 2024 07:53 AM (R/m4+)

95 Thank you, MisHum.
Praying every day for JJ and his family.
Praying also for Ace and cobs and Morons.

Do you renounce the Joe Biden?
Yes, I renounce him.
Do you renounce all his works?
Yes, I renounce them.
Do you renounce all his ways?
Yes, I renounce them.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at April 05, 2024 07:54 AM (gxokI)

96
Mark Wingate, who served on the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, testified on Monday that there was no signature verification done on Fulton County absentee ballots in the 2020 election.

No validation of Voter list against county records.
No sig ver
No chain of custody

Will not all of this come up in the PDT trial?
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 07:48 AM (ENQN

———-

Certified cleanest election in history

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 05, 2024 07:54 AM (KNAsX)

97 44 I looked up that Danville plant closure. Pepsi says they'll consolidate it's operations with "another facility," but doesn't specify where.

I wonder if it's in a stateside plant, or MX.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 07:35 AM (0FoWg)

If they don't say... you know the answer.

Posted by: Irony, not coincidence at April 05, 2024 07:54 AM (53oGX)

98 off sock

Posted by: Inogame at April 05, 2024 07:55 AM (53oGX)

99 I've been finding that "store brand" products are usually better than the "real" stuff. Especially at Wegmans and Aldis.

I managed to get a tour of the Imperial Sugar factory in Sugar Land, TX before OSHA shut down the tours, and before the factory closed. Amazing tour, and discussion of how they removed the bugs and bug parts from the sugar. Also got to see the packaging room where empty bags from every sugar brand were being loaded from the same hopper.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 07:55 AM (lTGtQ)

100 thanks for stepping in mis hum. appreciate the efforts.

and payers for jj, and for any others in the horde who need them.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 07:55 AM (bving)

101 89 How do we know when we've hit peak Climate?
____

When Al Gore is eaten by a polar bear.
When the Paolo experiences, how you say, shrinkage?
When Nancy Pelosi quits drinking.
When AOC throws herself into a Volcano to appease Gaia.
When Greta Doomberg gets laid.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2024 07:56 AM (fs1hN)

102 Thanks, MisHum!

Posted by: m at April 05, 2024 07:56 AM (o3SCB)

103 They're calling the man with the gene hacked pig organ "Gene Hackman".

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 07:56 AM (4VBfN)

104 >>How do we know when we've hit peak Climate?

Well, all their little projects always include the word "zero," so. . . use your imagination

Net Zero
Vision Zero
Zero Health Gaps Pledge

you get the gist of where this is going

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 07:57 AM (6IDWi)

105
I was kind of a meticulous worker on that assembly line. I put all the bottles with labels facing forward, nice and neat like. At some point the first evening on the job the owner asked me, "Are you putting them all face forward for a reason?"

He then pointed out they were all falling into one huge laundry basket. I just laughed and continued to put them all face forward 'cause OCD.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 07:57 AM (RKVpM)

106 >>>UC Berkeley condemns professor's dating advice to student: 'hurtful and threatening'

LOL snowflakes

Posted by: m at April 05, 2024 07:57 AM (o3SCB)

107 TGIF:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnBbjc5hmho

Posted by: ZOD at April 05, 2024 07:58 AM (5HQE5)

108 >>>PATIENT LEAVES HOSPITAL AS TRANSPLANTED GENE-HACKED PIG ORGAN SEEMS TO BE FUNCTIONING WELL - HE HASN'T BEEN THIS HEALTHY IN A LONG TIME.

Why so all-caps?

Posted by: m at April 05, 2024 07:58 AM (o3SCB)

109 The dummy psychiatrist who told her "it's never going to get any better" should have their license revoked for malpractice.

What is it you would say you do here?

That person gets paid for their "expertise". Incredible.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 07:59 AM (4VBfN)

110 You all know the Hot/Crazy matrix, right? There's an advanced 3d model that has a vector for age.

e.g., with age, Gisele Bundchen is moving down on the Hot axis while moving up on the Crazy.

It's Science!

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 05, 2024 07:59 AM (Gse2f)

111 Here's hoping the guy with the pig kidney is fully cured.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 07:59 AM (991eG)

112 The dummy psychiatrist who told her "it's never going to get any better" should have their license revoked for malpractice.
_______

Psychiatrist sounds depressed. I have a suggestion....

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2024 07:59 AM (fs1hN)

113 I've been finding that "store brand" products are usually better than the "real" stuff. Especially at Wegmans and Aldis.

i'll disagree with regard to potato chips. for some reason the Aldi brand always seems almost stale. ihey're just not quite right, but i can't always say exactly why.

but yeah, a LOT of store brand is close enough, if not better.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:00 AM (bving)

114 "Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord, my soul.
I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live."

Psalm 146:1-2

Posted by: Marcus T at April 05, 2024 08:00 AM (gChab)

115 111 Here's hoping the guy with the pig kidney is fully cured.
_____

He's bacon on it!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2024 08:00 AM (fs1hN)

116 105
I was kind of a meticulous worker on that assembly line. I put all the bottles with labels facing forward, nice and neat like. At some point the first evening on the job the owner asked me, "Are you putting them all face forward for a reason?"

He then pointed out they were all falling into one huge laundry basket. I just laughed and continued to put them all face forward 'cause OCD.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 07:57 AM (RKVpM)

'Cause it was the right thing to do.
--'cause also OCD

Posted by: m at April 05, 2024 08:00 AM (o3SCB)

117 Another condescending leftist reporter gets smacked down:

Speaking to the Bild newspaper, Botswanan President Mokgweetsi Masisi said his country was suffering from an elephant plague after recent conservation efforts, and the Botswanan people are dependent on some of the animals being culled through controlled and “sustainable” hunting.

“We are paying the price for preserving these animals for the world,” Masisi told the German tabloid, explaining it was very easy for left-wing politicians like Lemke of the Green party “to sit in Berlin and have an opinion about our affairs in Botswana.”

He explained that his government had already offloaded 8,000 of the animals to nearby Angola due to their exploding population, and threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Berlin so German politicians can “live together with the animals in the way you are trying to tell us to.”

“We would like to make such an offer to the Federal Republic of Germany. We don’t take no for an answer. 20,000 wild elephants for Germany. This is not a joke,” Masisi warned.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 05, 2024 08:01 AM (eXDec)

118 >>I've been finding that "store brand" products are usually better than the "real" stuff. Especially at Wegmans and Aldis.

I've found checking the ingredients and portion size w/store brands is a must - but I shop at standard grocery stores, not Trader Joes, so maybe that's why?

For example, store brand oatmeal packets are nearly half the portion size of Quaker oats ones, store brand juice was primarily sugar water - that sort of thing.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 08:01 AM (6IDWi)

119 Occasional socializing is good for a marriage IMHO. My wife and I had been annoyed with each other yesterday but we’d planned dinner out with neighbors so we went (initially feeling grumpy). But we had a great time and somehow mysteriously interacting with neighbors over dinner we “forgot” about our squabble and made up when we got home. I suspect we might still be arguing without that dinner…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 05, 2024 08:01 AM (xT8gx)

120 Store brand corn chips $2, Fritos $5. It's not a hard choice to make.

Posted by: fd at April 05, 2024 08:01 AM (vFG9F)

121 "Here's hoping the guy with the pig kidney is fully cured.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 07:59 AM (991eG)"

I'm just glad he lived and didn't get smoked.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 05, 2024 08:02 AM (gChab)

122
Any way you slice it, the guy with the pig kidney has a good reason to ham it up the rest of his life.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 08:02 AM (RKVpM)

123 >>Gene-hacked pig organ

(Mutates mouth)

Gene-hacked pie-organ.

You will give all pecan pie to Zod. Do this now.

Posted by: ZOD at April 05, 2024 08:02 AM (5HQE5)

124 115 111 Here's hoping the guy with the pig kidney is fully cured.
_____

He's bacon on it!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2024 08:00 AM (fs1hN)

You got to ham it to him, though, he did the right thing.

Posted by: Boswell at April 05, 2024 08:02 AM (K+UlC)

125 >>“We would like to make such an offer to the Federal Republic of Germany. We don’t take no for an answer. 20,000 wild elephants for Germany. This is not a joke,” Masisi warned.

I'd be happy to send some of the timber wolves recently released in CO to D.C. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 08:02 AM (6IDWi)

126 UK DIE survey from the advocacy group found that the training was “particularly unpopular” among minorities and members of the LGBT community, with 62 per cent of workers surveyed saying they had to conceal what they “really think about the training they’ve received,” including 22 per cent who “have been compelled to say things that they don’t really believe.”

Many L and G do not believe in the T Theory. My guess if they answered honestly it would be in the 90% range.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 08:02 AM (ENQN6)

127 Morning MH!

Great pic.

Posted by: mpfs at April 05, 2024 08:02 AM (ogS72)

128 ... and enjoy the Mystery Click.

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

I did! Never heard that, but enjoyed it ...

Had no idea that Steppenwolf (a little before my time in the late 60s) was a Canadian-American band at that they were still recording (as John Kay and Steppenwolf) in '84 and beyond -- although someone in the comments said that "Give Me News I Can Use" was recorded in '78 (with the Muscle Shoals musicians?).

Creepy how relevant that song is today ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 05, 2024 08:02 AM (KtoBc)

129 Here's hoping the guy with the pig kidney is fully cured.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 07:59 AM (991eG)

as long as he can stay off the sauce....

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:03 AM (bving)

130 >>Any way you slice it, the guy with the pig kidney has a good reason to ham it up the rest of his life.

*snort*

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 08:03 AM (6IDWi)

131 “We would like to make such an offer to the Federal Republic of Germany. We don’t take no for an answer. 20,000 wild elephants for Germany. This is not a joke,” Masisi warned.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Just for the record, an elephant tag runs around six figures, which would pay for five or six anti poaching rangers.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 08:03 AM (lTGtQ)

132 So Beyonce has broken into country and is cursing in her mid songs like it's rap.

Also it turns out she wants to do country because you may not have known this but it was actually invented 300 years ago by a sassy black lesbian. Same woman went to the moon but "they" covered it up. True story.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 08:03 AM (4VBfN)

133 Thanks for stepping in, MisHum.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:04 AM (HnUIn)

134 86 I didn't know any of that about Trader Joe's. I rarely shop there (stores are so small and the shoppers are irritating), but it surely gives me pause to think they're acting unethically with regard to coming up with some of their specialty items. Asking for product samples under the guise of private labeling, then copying the recipes and releasing their own products. Basically screwing the new entrepreneur.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 05, 2024 07:51 AM (mupln)

Worked in food production for a few decades... generally there is an agreement to compensate for R&D if a company uses your work to take a product to market. Sounds like TJ's is going after tiny players they know can't produce the volume and probably aren't' sophisticated enough to produce this type of agreement. Shady.
Small world though, food production... I'm out now, but wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't known.
on the price points, it extremely common for store brands to be "cheaper" made.Certain companies request specifically to downgrade ingredients to meet price goals. Aldi, Costco, Sams, they all contract with brand producers buy a cheaper recipe and store label them. same producer, cheaper ingredient

Posted by: Inogame at April 05, 2024 08:04 AM (53oGX)

135 No validation of Voter list against county records.
No sig ver
No chain of custody

Will not all of this come up in the PDT trial?
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 07:48 AM (ENQN6)

Hearsay. Fruit of the Loom. No standing. Please don't vote me out of office. -- Judge McAfee

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 08:04 AM (nR2nR)

136 Milk seems to be a little sketchy with store brands. I usually get milk at the Braums store. They have their own dairy herds and bottling operation and it's always good. If, for some reason, I run out and make a quick trip to the local Dol Gen, theirs tastes like the cows have been grazing in the onion patch. I've had Aldi's in this area, and it's OK. Likewise Walmart Great Value.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2024 08:04 AM (0EOe9)

137 The dummy psychiatrist who told her "it's never going to get any better" should have their license revoked for malpractice.

Chick needs to get out:

A gram of coke all nice and laid out. A Jack Daniels and Coke on ice and a Symbian would be a good test of his diagnosis.

Posted by: pawn at April 05, 2024 08:04 AM (QB+5g)

138 I just hope the pig man doesn't start pooping out of his shoulders.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 08:04 AM (0FoWg)

139 >>>I'm just glad he lived and didn't get smoked.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 05, 2024 08:02 AM (gChab)
———
I’m rooting for him.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 05, 2024 08:05 AM (o5xMZ)

140 >>Here's hoping the guy with the pig kidney is fully cured.

And his care providers aren't hamstrung by health insurance red tape.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 08:05 AM (6IDWi)

141 Ukraine ‘will become a member of NATO’ – top US diplomat
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has insisted that Kiev will be allowed to join the Western military bloc
++++
What about specifics? Honestly, American diplomats have been saying this for more than a decade (except for during the Trump Interregnum). It's one of the reasons there's a war in Ukraine.

So what makes Blinken's assertion meaningfully different than Lloyd Austin's a couple of months before the Russo-Ukraine war started? What makes it any different from the maneuvering and desire for the same under Obama?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:05 AM (HnUIn)

142 I once shot an elephant wearing no pants.

Posted by: A German cop at April 05, 2024 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

143 I managed to get a tour of the Imperial Sugar factory in Sugar Land, TX before OSHA shut down the tours, and before the factory closed. Amazing tour, and discussion of how they removed the bugs and bug parts from the sugar. Also got to see the packaging room where empty bags from every sugar brand were being loaded from the same hopper.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 07:55 AM (lTGtQ)

Let me tell you about fig newtons and bugs...

Posted by: Inogame at April 05, 2024 08:06 AM (53oGX)

144 Does this mean the pig guy has to squeal like a pig???

Posted by: dantesed at April 05, 2024 08:06 AM (88xKn)

145
I wonder if it's in a stateside plant, or MX.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 07:35 AM (0FoWg)

If they don't say... you know the answer.
Posted by: Irony, not coincidence at April 05, 2024 07:54 AM (53oGX)

That was my first thought as well. And it's probably correct. Definitely the trend.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 05, 2024 08:07 AM (w61ve)

146 Let me tell you about fig newtons and bugs...
Posted by: Inogame at April 05, 2024 08:06 AM (53oGX)

where else do you expect the crunch to come from...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:07 AM (bving)

147 Tuberculosis breaks out at Chicago migrant shelters following measles cases - Confirmed tuberculosis cases come as more than 55 measles cases have been confirmed in Chicago
++++
Remember when these diseases were virtually unknown in this country after they were conquered and vanquished by first-world sanitation, medicine and nutrition?

Joe Mannix remembers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:07 AM (HnUIn)

148 I just hope the pig man doesn't start pooping out of his shoulders.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 08:04 AM (0FoWg)

Just wait until a bunch of Shoats follow him home.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 05, 2024 08:07 AM (R/m4+)

149 "German Police Patrol Without Pants to Protest Uniform Shortage"

They are blaming it on Ukraine. I am not making this up.

Posted by: fd at April 05, 2024 08:07 AM (vFG9F)

150 - Well, I talked to the (no such thing as former) Marine last evening that I asked for prayer for yesterday.
He got discharged Tuesday morning. Nothing they can do now.
On hospice care, pain killers.
Maybe two weeks,,, maybe.

Posted by: TeeJ at April 05, 2024 08:08 AM (dWUm0)

151 >>Here's hoping the guy with the pig kidney is fully cured.

Sure went to enough truffle to save him.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 08:08 AM (6IDWi)

152 137 The dummy psychiatrist who told her "it's never going to get any better"
Posted by: pawn at April 05, 2024 08:04 AM (QB+5g)

Or who didn't tell her that. The quote is traced to the patient:

Despite living with her 40-year-old boyfriend in a house with their two cats, she says she is now tired of living.

A psychiatrist told her ‘there’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better.’

This was the point Zoraya decided she wanted to die and told The Free Post: ‘I was always very clear that if it doesn’t get better, I can’t do this anymore.’

Posted by: m at April 05, 2024 08:08 AM (o3SCB)

153 Washington state banning natural gas..what could possibly go wrong?

Everything.

Posted by: mpfs at April 05, 2024 08:08 AM (ogS72)

154 Let me tell you about fig newtons and bugs...

Posted by: Inogame

Yeah, I now understand why brown sugar is brown.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 08:08 AM (lTGtQ)

155 I’m rooting for him.
_____

Hoping there's no more truffle for him.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2024 08:08 AM (fs1hN)

156 143 My Dad, the baker, would look over sugar bags he got in the shop, 25 LB IIRC. If he saw a water stain on the bag he would give it the sniff test and sometimes send it back to the supplier. Rats are common in warehouses with food product, especially sugar, and they like to mark their territory.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2024 08:09 AM (0EOe9)

157 Ukraine --> NATO... I thought there had to be a vote on it by current members. The US can't simply say "make it so."

No?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 05, 2024 08:09 AM (Q4IgG)

158 Good morning everyone. Thank you MisHum.

Continued prayers for J.J.

Verse for the Day:

"Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know that they are doing evil. Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven, and you upon earth; therefore let your words be few."

–Ecclesiastes 5:1-2

Posted by: Tonypete at April 05, 2024 08:09 AM (WXNFJ)

159 The dummy psychiatrist who told her "it's never going to get any better" should have their license revoked for malpractice.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 07:59 AM (4VBfN)

She was the patient but she wasn't the client, IYKWIM.

The state, which will be relieved of the burden of her expense, does not consider it malpractice.

Remember, socialized medicine is a wonderful idea which works great as long as no one needs medical care.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 08:09 AM (nR2nR)

160 Many L and G do not believe in the T Theory. My guess if they answered honestly it would be in the 90% range.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 08:02 AM (ENQN6)

I told HR that it "amounted to sexual harrasment to force me to endure that bullshit".
I don't talk about sex at work as I could easily wind up offending someone. WTH do you get to offend me in a way I can't even get away from?

I didn't have to go through the "class".

Posted by: Reforger at April 05, 2024 08:10 AM (B705c)

161 You know what sucks?

That we have no-joke reached a point in our nation when you can look at weather reports for areas in the eclipse and think "This is not true. The reporting agencies are reporting false information so to not jeopardize the $6B economic impact that the eclipse vacationers are going to bring to areas."

https://tinyurl.com/2bq5jm3z

We will somehow have clouds and 60%+ chance of rain Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, but Monday (eclipse day) is going to be "partly cloudy" with an 8% chance of rain in the middle of all of that. Just in an attempt to hope people don't cancel their trips.

I hate this timeline.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - If this is how Georgia hires attorneys, imagine how they manage elections at April 05, 2024 08:10 AM (6TLQp)

162 "Here's hoping the guy with the pig kidney is fully cured.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 07:59 AM (991eG)"

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

But to get the operation did he have to go into hock?

/Trying to imagine the dilemma of Hannibal Lecter as a Muslim pondering how to pair this guy's organs with a good Chianti and some fava beans ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 05, 2024 08:10 AM (KtoBc)

163 Steppenwolf was a great band and if there were a god they'd be in the R&RHOF, if only for John Kay's backstory. Name me a better rock song than Born to be Wild.

Monster is their nine-minute history of America. Written in 1969 it's a fitting anthem for today.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfy7pkd

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 05, 2024 08:10 AM (Gse2f)

164 [takes dollar, looks around furtively]

Word on the street is, it's really hard to cut through razor wire while you're being shot at with aimed accurate fire.

Posted by: Johnny The Shoeshine Guy at April 05, 2024 08:10 AM (PAj1W)

165 Great opening picture - been a while since I thought of "Charlie Farquharson".

Nicely chosen, MisHum!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 05, 2024 08:11 AM (qPw5n)

166 150 - Well, I talked to the (no such thing as former) Marine last evening that I asked for prayer for yesterday.
He got discharged Tuesday morning. Nothing they can do now.
On hospice care, pain killers.
Maybe two weeks,,, maybe.
Posted by: TeeJ at April 05, 2024 08:08 AM (dWUm0)

Blessings on him, Teej.

Posted by: m at April 05, 2024 08:11 AM (o3SCB)

167 Remember when these diseases were virtually unknown in this country after they were conquered and vanquished by first-world sanitation, medicine and nutrition?

Mannix
-------

Biden 2024: If you like your Chilean Home Invasion Rape Gangs, you can keep your Chilean Home Invasion Rape Gangs.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 08:11 AM (4VBfN)

168 Morning everyone, thx MisHum for stepping up. In interesting local news sw of me in Middletown NY a Haitian illegal has been arrested for killing his two roommates who were also Haitian illegals. A three are believed to have been sent upstate by the Adams administration in NYC. A self correcting problem?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 05, 2024 08:12 AM (ixVYR)

169 >>e.g., with age, Gisele Bundchen is moving down on the Hot axis while moving up on the Crazy.

It's Science!

Also: Heidi Klum

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 08:12 AM (6IDWi)

170 146 Let me tell you about fig newtons and bugs...
Posted by: Inogame at April 05, 2024 08:06 AM (53oGX)

where else do you expect the crunch to come from...
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:07 AM (bving)

Of all cookies Nabisco (Mondelez now) produces, the fig newton is allowed to have the most foreign ingredients.
It is also allowed to have the most insect parts.
Back when I was part of that team we'd mix up one ton doughs and 400-450 lbs of it could be breakage from any other dough in the facility. Stuff like Oreos. The fig would hide that much flavor.

Posted by: Inogame at April 05, 2024 08:12 AM (53oGX)

171 Just for the record, an elephant tag runs around six figures, which would pay for five or six anti poaching rangers.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 08:03 AM (lTGtQ)

I shot an elephant in my lederhosen this morning.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 08:12 AM (ENQN6)

172 My Dad, the baker, would look over sugar bags he got in the shop, 25 LB IIRC. If he saw a water stain on the bag he would give it the sniff test and sometimes send it back to the supplier. Rats are common in warehouses with food product, especially sugar, and they like to mark their territory.

Posted by: bill in arkansas

The sugar plants receive their raw material in rail cars, coal sized chunks of raw sugar. They store it in piles in warehouses on the floor. Then, they use front loaders to dump it in the boiling pots and remelt it. People who lived anywhere near the plant always had rat and roach problems.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 08:13 AM (lTGtQ)

173
Ukraine --> NATO... I thought there had to be a vote on it by current members. The US can't simply say "make it so."

No?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 05, 2024 08:09 AM

Yes, it requires a unanimous vote of all members.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 08:13 AM (RKVpM)

174 ... However, while inflation is down, it’s still up, and it has added to the inflation we’ve already had. For some reason, the Wall Street Journal thinks things are better.
++++
It isn't the only issue, but there *is* a perception problem, and that problem is of the Party's own making.

The Party has had its officials and propaganda organs pounding constantly on a profound misunderstanding (or lie, depending on the individual involved) about inflation. The implied message in most Party messaging operations has been, "once inflation goes down, you'll be able to afford things again." This is bullshit, for two reasons.

First, "inflation is down" does not mean "prices are down" and the Party constantly conflates the two concepts. They've told people, "we're going to bring prices down" and they've delivered, "price increases are leveling off somewhat." Not a good strategy to improve popularity. Second, wages largely haven't kept up and people know it, and they feel every time they take out their wallets. As a bonus, there's the purely psychological problem of "damn, that's a big bill compared to how things used to be," which remains even if wages *do* keep up.

They screwed up.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:14 AM (HnUIn)

175 Biden 2024: If you like your Chilean Home Invasion Rape Gangs, you can keep your Chilean Home Invasion Rape Gangs.
Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 08:11 AM (4VBfN)
++++
Also Biden 2024: and if you don't like them, fuck you.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:14 AM (HnUIn)

176
A psychiatrist told her ‘there’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better.’

This was the point Zoraya decided she wanted to die and told The Free Post: ‘I was always very clear that if it doesn’t get better, I can’t do this anymore.’
Posted by: m at April 05, 2024 08:08 AM (o3SCB)

———-

My opinion is that most psychological issues are spiritual in nature.

Something like only 40% of patients show improvement in counseling.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 05, 2024 08:14 AM (KNAsX)

177 Ok, I looked it up. Pork shoulders are called "butts" because the large barrels they were sold in were called butts.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 08:14 AM (0FoWg)

178 13 I entered med school in 1979 and retired in 2019. In those 40 years I saw zero cases of actual measles.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 07:21 AM (991eG)

huh

Posted by: m at April 05, 2024 08:15 AM (o3SCB)

179 172 Yep. Then when the final product gets to the distributor, same problem. A nice dark warehouse full of grub sure attracts the rats.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2024 08:16 AM (0EOe9)

180 Ok, I looked it up. Pork shoulders are called "butts" because the large barrels they were sold in were called butts.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Really?
-- Bertha Butts

Posted by: Bertha at April 05, 2024 08:16 AM (XYrRT)

181 It's National Deep Dish Pizza Day! 🍕

Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2024 08:16 AM (NpAcC)

182 Or who didn't tell her that. The quote is traced to the patient

Posted by: m at April 05, 2024 08:08 AM (o3SCB)

Always possible anyone is lying, but my trust for the mental health profession in general is roughly nil. They are almost to a man dumb leftist stooges which doesn't speak highly for them.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 08:16 AM (4VBfN)

183 According to Wikipedia Junior Samples only lived to 57. His weight would often get close to 400 lbs; died of a heart attack (no surprise at that weight). He must’ve been smart…. His confusion was all affectation and it’s hard to play dumb without being smart. That make any sense?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 05, 2024 08:16 AM (xT8gx)

184 Howdy Mis Hum. You getting time-and-a-half COB pay for the extra 2 days of work?

Posted by: Doof at April 05, 2024 08:16 AM (a1415)

185 Ukraine --> NATO... I thought there had to be a vote on it by current members. The US can't simply say "make it so."

No?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 05, 2024 08:09 AM

Yes, it requires a unanimous vote of all members.

Posted by: Divide by Zero

Right now, Hungary holds the veto.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 08:16 AM (lTGtQ)

186 Ok, I looked it up. Pork shoulders are called "butts" because the large barrels they were sold in were called butts.

--

Yep. Seventh graders laugh when they say "buttload," but it's a real thing. And not just in the homosexual community.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - If this is how Georgia hires attorneys, imagine how they manage elections at April 05, 2024 08:17 AM (6TLQp)

187 She was the patient but she wasn't the client, IYKWIM.

The state, which will be relieved of the burden of her expense, does not consider it malpractice.

Remember, socialized medicine is a wonderful idea which works great as long as no one needs medical care.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 08:09 AM (nR2nR)

-----------

“Maybe you’re better off to tell your mother to take a pill, take a painkiller." -- DogEater in 2009

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 05, 2024 08:17 AM (KtoBc)

188 A domestic army, huh? Who's the enemy?

Posted by: t-bird at April 05, 2024 08:17 AM (Bciel)

189 Yes, it requires a unanimous vote of all members.
______

Maybe that's what Obama is doing in these secret meetings with European leaders. Giving them the message from the Deepstate that they have been compromised.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2024 08:17 AM (fs1hN)

190 Posted by: TeeJ at April 05, 2024 08:08 AM (dWUm0)

prayers Teej

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:17 AM (bving)

191 My last job before retirement was San Diego Co public health medical biller.

You would shocked at how much TB is being treated in the county and that's well before the Biden invasion.

I never knew how many forms of TB there were until then. It was costing us millions. I can't imagine what the price tag is now.

Posted by: mpfs at April 05, 2024 08:17 AM (ogS72)

192 Light sensitivity (low-light resolution) declines with age, and it sometimes hits me just how much.

One of my favorite coffee cups is dark blue. My kitchen is dim in the morning. My coffee is black.

A few years ago, I could pour coffee into this cup and see it rise from the bottom all the way until the cup was full and never thought twice about it. Now, it pours into a black void until it gets fairly close to full. In another year or two, I'm going to have to turn on the lights to pour my coffee.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:17 AM (HnUIn)

193 TB and Measels.......reminds me of the time about 16 yrs ago my yearly TB test for work came up positive. They put me on INH and B vitamin. Took that shi+ for about 3 months until they discovered they had a bad batch of testing "fluid". Turns out there were about 30 of us being treated when we didn't need to be. Oops our bad........

Also when I am asked on death row for my last meal request it will be salmon.

Posted by: Molly k. at April 05, 2024 08:18 AM (j/yko)

194 Steppenwolf AND Don Harron? Have we morphed into a Canuck blog? Actually, it's fine with me as I am a fan of both. Harron was married four times. Maybe that frayed sweater and hat were hard to live with. He passed at age 90 in 2015.

Posted by: Maple Leaf at April 05, 2024 08:18 AM (V5BDR)

195 A not so happy ending! Woman, 61, suffers BRAIN BLEED while having sex - as experts warn it's way more common than you'd expect.

I told you I was gonna **** your brains out, and I think I did!!

Posted by: Just the punchline at April 05, 2024 08:18 AM (XYrRT)

196 186 Ok, I looked it up. Pork shoulders are called "butts" because the large barrels they were sold in were called butts.

--

Yep. Seventh graders laugh when they say "buttload," but it's a real thing. And not just in the homosexual community.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - If this is how Georgia hires attorneys, imagine how they manage elections at April 05, 2024 08:17 AM (6TLQp)

Just stay out of the Senate conference chambers...

Posted by: Inogame at April 05, 2024 08:18 AM (53oGX)

197 Let me tell you about fig newtons and bugs...

--

I once read an article many years ago that I never forgot. It was all about how minute pieces of bugs remain in our food products. One of the standouts I remember was popcorn. My girlfriend and I used to go to the movies and ask each other if we wanted a bucket of bug heads from the concession counter. With butter!

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 05, 2024 08:18 AM (mupln)

198 True or False: Other than the usual predictable noises, Democrats are acting in an election year like people who don't give a fuck which way anyone actually votes

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 08:18 AM (4VBfN)

199 Back when inmates were executed in PA...Three since 1976 none at all in this millennium. PA could easily have afforded the choice between Primanti's and Philly cheese steak.

The inmate in question, if you stayed on the clickbater long enough to find the half-sentence, opted to finish his leftovers from the machines. We are being executed by click bait.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 05, 2024 08:18 AM (zdLoL)

200 186 Pulling targets up and down at the rifle range was called pulling butts in the Corps. I guess coming from buttress?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2024 08:19 AM (0EOe9)

201 AT DRUDGE

CIA WARNS IRAN ATTACK 'WITHIN 48 HOURS'
'PALESTINIAN INTIFADA' DRILLS

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 08:19 AM (ENQN6)

202 13 I entered med school in 1979 and retired in 2019. In those 40 years I saw zero cases of actual measles.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 07:21 AM (991eG)
----
Saw it in East Africa (1956 - 1966) every now and then in boarding school. I'm pretty sure I never got it but I remember getting chicken pox. Never got mumps either. About 15 years ago I had a mild case of shingles and also another mild case in the last 2 years.

Posted by: Ciampino - but I did stay at a Holiday Inn ... at April 05, 2024 08:19 AM (qfLjt)

203 Heh, I just received my latest global PMI heat map. A sea of red. The only region in the green is the middle east, whose only products are oil and gas. Europe is a mess.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 08:20 AM (lTGtQ)

204 Regarding Ukraine --> NATO

I read the other day Germany was against Ukraine entering NATO... seemed to suggest they'd vote "no."

I think "president Blinken" is wishcasting. But who knows.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 05, 2024 08:20 AM (Q4IgG)

205 e.g., with age, Gisele Bundchen is moving down on the Hot axis while moving up on the Crazy.

It's Science!

Also: Heidi Klum
Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 08:12 AM (6IDWi)

that seems like the kind of crazy i could deal with. of course who knows what she's like behind closed doors, but i've always found her very pretty and she seems funny enough to be mostly normal.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:20 AM (bving)

206 The US can't simply say "make it so." No?

Yes, it requires a unanimous vote of all members."

And this is why it is just being hyped by the Biden admin to piss of Putin. Turkey is never going to vote "Yes".

I'm surprised that Finland got in. Don't know what the Turks got in return other than entrance visas.

Posted by: pawn at April 05, 2024 08:20 AM (QB+5g)

207 >>My opinion is that most psychological issues are spiritual in nature.

Something like only 40% of patients show improvement in counseling.

And what about some of the most basic things, like: change your diet, stop drinking and taking unnecessary drugs (the pill causes depression, iirc), daily exercise, get out in the sun?

Saw a lifter claim that no one who lifts weights regularly is depressed because you learn to set goals, improve yourself - realize you are in control of outcomes. I'd imagine something as simple as that could go a long way for someone who feels so helpless?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 08:20 AM (6IDWi)

208 Psychiatrist should have told her "you're 28, dumbshit. You have a boyfriend. Quit being a cat lady. Tell him to pull out his wiener and shoot a Dutch baby into you. You might find some more meaning to your life than vacuous Western materialism is currently providing you."

Maybe I should be a head shrinker.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 08:21 AM (0FoWg)

209 CIA WARNS IRAN ATTACK 'WITHIN 48 HOURS'

-

go fill up your cars, because that's $5 gas by tomorrow.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - If this is how Georgia hires attorneys, imagine how they manage elections at April 05, 2024 08:21 AM (6TLQp)

210 Joe Mannix, you might shift to shipboard lighting. Red at night, let’s to see to pour coffee and preserves your night vision.
Chief Eromero

Posted by: Eromero at April 05, 2024 08:21 AM (o2ZRX)

211 In a statement, Quaker Oats said that after a granola bar recall in December, they decided it was best to consolidate manufacturing of the product in a newer facility.

The dumbfucks that were in the sanitation crew must feel pretty good about their efforts now. (Actually, I have no idea the cause of the issue, but my guess is contamination.)

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 05, 2024 08:21 AM (ufFY8)

212 Not sure about the spirituality thing. People who have been abused, for example, are suffering effects from the abuse, not a spirituality problem. A quality therapist can help them sort through it.

Yes, God can do anything, including sending a quality therapist.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 08:21 AM (4VBfN)

213 "price increases are leveling off somewhat."

--

How convincing. Not a nebulous statement at all.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 05, 2024 08:21 AM (mupln)

214 I never knew how many forms of TB there were until then. It was costing us millions. I can't imagine what the price tag is now.
Posted by: mpfs at April 05, 2024 08:17 AM (ogS72)

You cant bring them here
Without bringing there here

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 08:21 AM (ENQN6)

215 It's also,
National Peeps Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2024 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

216 Morning everyone, thx MisHum for stepping up. In interesting local news sw of me in Middletown NY a Haitian illegal has been arrested for killing his two roommates who were also Haitian illegals. A three are believed to have been sent upstate by the Adams administration in NYC. A self correcting problem?

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

"With acceptable collateral damage to thousands of American robbery, rape, & murder victims."

-- Baby Groot Spokeshole JKP

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 05, 2024 08:22 AM (KtoBc)

217 Instead of helping Russia find an off ramp to end the slaughter, Blinken signals that the US wants it to keep it going. Ukraine will be bled dry.

Meanwhile, the root cause of Gaza is Biden/Jarrett/Blinken giving Iran a greenlight. If we had real journalism we'd all know that Hamas is using weapons that Blinken left behind in Afghanistan paid for with money that Obama/Biden gave to Iran.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 05, 2024 08:22 AM (Gse2f)

218 The truly horrifying thing in the Dutch euthanasia article is, in my opinion, buried toward the end of it. This woman's gaslighting and murder by the state is a specific and appalling nightmare, but the euthanasia program itself is so horrifying that the following statement is, per the article true:

The Netherlands was the first country in the world to legalise assisted suicide in 2001.
In 2022 there were 8,720 euthanasia deaths in the country, representing 5% of all deaths there, up by 4% the year before.

5% of *all* deaths are euthanasia. That's staggering and horrifying to an almost indescribable degree. If even just 10% of those were gaslighting murders like the case presented, that's almost a thousand examples of sad or depressed people being convinced to let let the state murder them in a single year.

"Your life sucks and you're unhappy. Have you considered letting us kill you and put you out of our misery" is a statement that can only be uttered by a state system that is approaching maximum depravity.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:22 AM (HnUIn)

219 Psychiatrist should have told her "you're 28, dumbshit. You have a boyfriend. Quit being a cat lady. Tell him to pull out his wiener and shoot a Dutch baby into you. You might find some more meaning to your life than vacuous Western materialism is currently providing you."

Maybe I should be a head shrinker.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 08:21 AM (0FoWg)
---
They'd never let you join their guild. There's no money in curing patients. You'd make the rest of them look bad.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 05, 2024 08:23 AM (7fElN)

220
That we have no-joke reached a point in our nation when you can look at weather reports for areas in the eclipse and think "This is not true. The reporting agencies are reporting false information so to not jeopardize the $6B economic impact that the eclipse vacationers are going to bring to areas."

Holiday weekends in the PA NJ area are always filled with rosy forecasts. Especially in summer when the NJ beach towns rely on tourism, beach tag, and parking fees. In this area a northeaster is three days of rain and colder temperatures, period. They know one is coming and lie.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 08:23 AM (RKVpM)

221 Instead of helping Russia find an off ramp to end the slaughter, Blinken signals that the US wants it to keep it going

--

ding ding ding

Same as its been for the last three or so years. Billions for laundering, not a penny for peace talks.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - If this is how Georgia hires attorneys, imagine how they manage elections at April 05, 2024 08:23 AM (6TLQp)

222 Actually don't something like 1 in 7 cat owners suffer from a parasite that fucks their mind, or was that Fake News?

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 08:23 AM (4VBfN)

223 I entered med school in 1979 and retired in 2019. In those 40 years I saw zero cases of actual measles.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 07:21 AM (991eG)

huh
Posted by: m at April 05, 2024 08:15 AM (o3SCB)

I was assured we were all 29...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:23 AM (bving)

224 Sugar is poison; a little natural stuff already in the food is one thing but adding it is drug usage.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 05, 2024 08:24 AM (KAi1n)

225 5% of *all* deaths are euthanasia. That's staggering and horrifying to an almost indescribable degree. If even just 10% of those were gaslighting murders like the case presented, that's almost a thousand examples of sad or depressed people being convinced to let let the state murder them in a single year.

--

Reverse abortion. The depop people want you coming and going.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 05, 2024 08:25 AM (mupln)

226 That we have no-joke reached a point in our nation when you can look at weather reports for areas in the eclipse and think "This is not true. The reporting agencies are reporting false information so to not jeopardize the $6B economic impact that the eclipse vacationers are going to bring to areas."
-

Holiday weekends in the PA NJ area are always filled with rosy forecasts. Especially in summer when the NJ beach towns rely on tourism, beach tag, and parking fees. In this area a northeaster is three days of rain and colder temperatures, period. They know one is coming and lie.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

-

I don't live in a tourist-driven area so this is the first time I've ever noticed it with my own eyes. It's disheartening to say the least.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - If this is how Georgia hires attorneys, imagine how they manage elections at April 05, 2024 08:25 AM (6TLQp)

227 "Bidenomics Is All Good – You’re the Problem"

Some things you don't hear being pushed to the max by Media anymore -

Bidenomics
Build Back Better
The unvaccinated ARE THE PROBLEM
Self-driving cars
The Hydrogen Economy
Joe Biden had a stutter at birth
St. Fauci
Goddess RBG
San Francisco is the Jewel of the West Coast

Posted by: Gref at April 05, 2024 08:25 AM (5fDan)

228 220 Rosy reports of NO great white sharks on lunch patrol in the bay. Nosiree,none,swearsie.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2024 08:25 AM (0EOe9)

229 Posted by: Ciampino - but I did stay at a Holiday Inn ... at April 05, 2024 08:19 AM (qfLjt)

Is there anything you didn't catch?

Posted by: dantesed at April 05, 2024 08:26 AM (88xKn)

230 CIA WARNS IRAN ATTACK 'WITHIN 48 HOURS'

An easy way for them to transmit the 'go' command, isn't it? All sorts of plausible deniability.

Posted by: t-bird at April 05, 2024 08:26 AM (LQsBY)

231 Regarding the euthanasia in the Netherlands how many of those who are euthanized are Muslims , who have been invading Netherlands for years. I bet the answer would be pretty close to zero

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 05, 2024 08:26 AM (ixVYR)

232 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

What a waste. They should just wait until the kid's 2nd grade teacher decides the gender.

https://tinyurl.com/3hx58jd8

Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2024 08:26 AM (NpAcC)

233 good morning Mishum, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 05, 2024 08:27 AM (DJ8iH)

234 218 The truly horrifying thing in the Dutch euthanasia article is, in my opinion, buried toward the end of it. This woman's gaslighting and murder by the state is a specific and appalling nightmare, but the euthanasia program itself is so horrifying that the following statement is, per the article true:

The Netherlands was the first country in the world to legalise assisted suicide in 2001.
In 2022 there were 8,720 euthanasia deaths in the country, representing 5% of all deaths there, up by 4% the year before.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:22 AM (HnUIn)

Wonder why the press picked up on this story, out of all those numbers.

Posted by: m at April 05, 2024 08:27 AM (o3SCB)

235 TB and Measels.......reminds me of the time about 16 yrs ago my yearly TB test for work came up positive. They put me on INH and B vitamin. Took that shi+ for about 3 months until they discovered they had a bad batch of testing "fluid". Turns out there were about 30 of us being treated when we didn't need to be. Oops our bad........
Posted by: Molly k. at April 05, 2024 08:18 AM (j/yko)
++++
There was a similar problem once in Germany.

German forensics started noticing a trend in various murder cases that had DNA evidence from the same person. They started up a serial killer task force, but had enormous problems trying to nail the guy down. He struck all over the country, with no pattern. No geographic or demographic trends among the sites or victims. Then other countries saw the same DNA at some murder scenes, and it turned into an EU task force.

They found that the swabs were manufactured by a German country and one production line had an intermittent problem. The dude working that line - an old-timer who never missed a day of work - provided the "serial killer's" DNA.

It's unknown how many murderers walked away free from their crimes as a result.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:27 AM (HnUIn)

236 Thanks for stepping up.
Big shoes to fill.

Posted by: Marlene at April 05, 2024 08:27 AM (ZEqzb)

237 Pulling targets up and down at the rifle range was called pulling butts in the Corps. I guess coming from buttress?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2024 08:19 AM (0EOe9)

so the targets above the ground are flying buttresses?

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:27 AM (bving)

238 fd, if you're around:

Car is doing fine. A great highway cruiser.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - If this is how Georgia hires attorneys, imagine how they manage elections at April 05, 2024 08:28 AM (6TLQp)

239 - Thank you m and Sturm T.
I gotta go.

Posted by: TeeJ at April 05, 2024 08:28 AM (dWUm0)

240 > CIA WARNS IRAN ATTACK 'WITHIN 48 HOURS'
'PALESTINIAN INTIFADA' DRILLS
____________

There have been reports like this coming out of various intel shops for the last 6 months. It's a no shit sort of thing with me... of course Iran will make some sort of effort to attack Israel.

They say that daily. Whether the CIA is behind the attacks is debatable, but likely.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 05, 2024 08:28 AM (Q4IgG)

241
CIA WARNS IRAN ATTACK 'WITHIN 48 HOURS'
'PALESTINIAN INTIFADA' DRILLS

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 08:19 AM

Saw a video this morning which claimed to be from Israel with a caravan of tractor trailers carrying ballistic missiles somewhere.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 08:28 AM (RKVpM)

242 Hmm. Build Back Better for Gaza? Where you can work, shop, bank, worship and take hostages within your designated 15 min city?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2024 08:29 AM (fs1hN)

243 True or False: Other than the usual predictable noises, Democrats are acting in an election year like people who don't give a fuck which way anyone actually votes
Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 08:18 AM

Odd...innit?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 05, 2024 08:29 AM (Wnv9h)

244 Wonder why the press picked up on this story, out of all those numbers.
Posted by: m at April 05, 2024 08:27 AM (o3SCB)
++++
Because it's sensational and even by the standards presented, aberrant.

This is a reasonably attractive young woman with a mate. Every possible red flag is flying and the state is proceeding anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:29 AM (HnUIn)

245 CIA WARNS IRAN ATTACK 'WITHIN 48 HOURS'
An easy way for them to transmit the 'go' command, isn't it? All sorts of plausible deniability.
Posted by: t-bird at April 05, 2024 08:26 AM (LQsBY)

Does this mean we have to mask up and follow the arrowed lines at Wally World again?

Landru! Save Us!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 05, 2024 08:29 AM (R/m4+)

246 It's also,
National Peeps Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Of all the examples of black sorcery that we are presented with in today's world, peeps are the worst.

Posted by: Just the punchline at April 05, 2024 08:29 AM (XYrRT)

247 The second THE Ukraine is admitted into Nato, Putin should nuke Philadelphia, New York, and DC.

Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 08:29 AM (UnA8+)

248 They found that the swabs were manufactured by a German country and one production line had an intermittent problem. The dude working that line - an old-timer who never missed a day of work - provided the "serial killer's" DNA.

It's unknown how many murderers walked away free from their crimes as a result.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

-

That reminds me of a COVID test that will ping on a cold virus because it's a cold virus.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - If this is how Georgia hires attorneys, imagine how they manage elections at April 05, 2024 08:29 AM (6TLQp)

249 CIA WARNS IRAN ATTACK 'WITHIN 48 HOURS'
'PALESTINIAN INTIFADA' DRILLS
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 08:19 AM (ENQN6)
++++
Attack against whom? Israel, I assume?

Well, the Party won't mind that one little bit. Israel can probably defeat Iran, but it might not be possible without American military aid and the Party will withhold it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:30 AM (HnUIn)

250 Washington state banning natural gas..what could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: mpfs at April 05, 2024 08:08 AM (ogS72)

Aren't they also working on destroying all their hydro?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 08:30 AM (nR2nR)

251 I wish I could say the same thing for my project Robbie.

Posted by: fd at April 05, 2024 08:30 AM (vFG9F)

252 Record number of Americans dipped into their 401(K) last year for financial emergencies - with 40% withdrawing from retirement savings to avoid foreclosure

Posted by: SMOD at April 05, 2024 08:30 AM (xD1jX)

253 True or False: Other than the usual predictable noises, Democrats are acting in an election year like people who don't give a fuck which way anyone actually votes

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 08:18 AM (4VBfN)

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

It's been TRUE since "~~inauguration~~ Junta soft-coup fulfillment day" 2021.

I never get an answer to my three-year long question: "If they cancel elections -- or come right out and proudly admit with glee that they're stealing them (*Molly Ball‘s piece titled “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election” has entered the chat*) -- who's gonna stop them?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 05, 2024 08:31 AM (KtoBc)

254 That reminds me of a COVID test that will ping on a cold virus because it's a cold virus.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - If this is how Georgia hires attorneys, imagine how they manage elections at April 05, 2024 08:29 AM (6TLQp)
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Nah, that wasn't an innocent and subtle error with profound consequences. That was having a known-bad test that conflated SARS-CoV-2 with various other viruses (including influenza) combined with invalid amplification levels, then rolling it out and making it mandatory to cause panic and increase state power.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:31 AM (HnUIn)

255 Of all the examples of black sorcery that we are presented with in today's world, peeps are the worst.
Posted by: Just the punchline at April 05, 2024 08:29 AM (XYrRT)
*****
I've never met anyone that after eating a Peep has asked for more.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2024 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

256 Saw a video this morning which claimed to be from Israel with a caravan of tractor trailers carrying ballistic missiles somewhere.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 08:28 AM (RKVpM)

so, now that we've passed the 48 hour mark, have they identified who was in the food convoy in Israel that wasn't supposed to be there causing the IDF to hit it?

i suppose it's possible that it truely was an accident / misidentification, but based on past "relief" efforts in gaza i feel like there were HVTs in at least some of those vehicles...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:32 AM (bving)

257 I've never met anyone that after eating a Peep has asked for more.

Posted by: redridinghood

Peeps are only good after they have gone stale.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 08:33 AM (lTGtQ)

258 Despite the celebratory tone of the transplant headline, xenotransplantation remains a bit of a pipe dream. First of all, the entire process is time, labor and resource intensive. The first patient to receive a genetically modified pig heart was in ICU on ECMO (heart-lung bypass machine) for 5 weeks pre=transpllant and expected to be in hospital for 2-3 months post-transplant. He died of rejection ~2 months post-transplant..

The Univ. of Maryland provided that care pro bono, but who is going to pay that hospital bill for the thousands of patients who may "qualify" for a xenotransplant? Never mind the moral/ethical issues and the as-yet inability to overcome organ rejection despite the gene alteration.

Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD do it.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 08:34 AM (991eG)

259 i suppose it's possible that it truely was an accident / misidentification, but based on past "relief" efforts in gaza i feel like there were HVTs in at least some of those vehicles...
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:32 AM (bving)
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There were or there weren't. It's an active war zone. Wars suck and innocent people die in them, sometimes lots and lots of innocent people.

The Party's position on that even is particularly galling when you consider our far worse errors during and following the Afghanistan withdrawal. We hit somebody's family car in a face-saving effort after the bugout went pear-shaped, but it's best not to talk about that...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:34 AM (HnUIn)

260 Of all the examples of black sorcery that we are presented with in today's world, peeps are the worst.
Posted by: Just the punchline at April 05, 2024 08:29 AM (XYrRT)
*****
I've never met anyone that after eating a Peep has asked for more.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2024 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

you're both just misinformed. peeps are good. peeps are nice. peeps are pure junk food. so i only have a few during Easter season and only then.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:34 AM (bving)

261 Watching the eclipse here in Austin.

And watching. And watching....

Why is it taking so long?

Posted by: eleven at April 05, 2024 08:34 AM (iziT8)

262 a Symbian would be a good test of his diagnosis.

No doubt a Symbian Easing the Liberation Front.

With a 240V Spel-Chek "plugged up" on the aux socket.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 05, 2024 08:35 AM (zdLoL)

263 Good morning, horde.

Posted by: Gryph at April 05, 2024 08:35 AM (aCVzN)

264 Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD do it.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 08:34 AM (991eG)

Huh?

Posted by: Gain of Function Labs Everywhere at April 05, 2024 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

265
I never get an answer to my three-year long question: "If they cancel elections -- or come right out and proudly admit with glee that they're stealing them (*Molly Ball‘s piece titled “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election” has entered the chat*) -- who's gonna stop them?"
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 05, 2024 08:31 AM (KtoBc)

I've been asking since 2011, brother. More telling.

And it was a hard nut to crack. Few believed me that IF Obama canceled the 2012 election "nothing would happen".

They said no no there would be a huge revolt. Elected Republicans would never stand for it.

Uh huh.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 08:35 AM (4VBfN)

266
The second THE Ukraine is admitted into Nato, Putin should nuke Philadelphia, New York, and DC.

Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 08:29 AM

Just to add another item to the debate, I was listening to an RT (Russia) video this morning where the announcer in English did not preface Ukraine with 'the'.

As to Nato unanimous vote for starting WWIII? Ain't gonna happen. The two newest members will see to that. I don't think Turkey is going to be too keen either.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 08:35 AM (RKVpM)

267 Posted by: Gain of Function Labs Everywhere
______

Why can't we have common sense GOF lab control?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2024 08:36 AM (fs1hN)

268 Trader Joe's has been owned by Aldi since 1979.

So they imitate other growing brands, big deal.
If you own one, be suspicious of ANYONE trying to get into your shit, and be as efficient as you can. The example about their wholesale cost of $7 being usurped by a $2.79 competitor? AYFKM? Some inefficiencies their, it seems.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 05, 2024 08:36 AM (ufFY8)

269 The transplant surgeon who did the first pig heart transplant (Univ of Maryland) unironically observed that he hoped "the new heart will last the rest of [the patient's] life.

Turns out he was correct.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 08:36 AM (991eG)

270 303,000 jobs added in March.
100,000 better than expected.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2024 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

271 Heh, I just received my latest global PMI heat map. A sea of red. The only region in the green is the middle east, whose only products are oil and gas. Europe is a mess.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 08:20 AM (lTGtQ)
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And this will be reflected in an "unexpectedly hot" PPI and then in "unusual persistent consumer price pressure."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:37 AM (HnUIn)

272 Well crap, fd. Sorry. It's going to be worth it, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - If this is how Georgia hires attorneys, imagine how they manage elections at April 05, 2024 08:37 AM (6TLQp)

273 you're both just misinformed. peeps are good. peeps are nice. peeps are pure junk food. so i only have a few during Easter season and only then.
Posted by: SturmToddler

The production line to conjure up peeps has been closed for decades. They simply pull a few cases out of long term storage for the poor misguided souls that need one or two each year. They have no expiration date. They never go 'bad' as they were created 'bad'.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 05, 2024 08:37 AM (XYrRT)

274 I wonder what would happen if the Rooshinz just put out a statement that said "listen up, Yankees... One thing we share in common, along with the rest of the human species, is a hatred of your government. And it's about to start a huge, pointless war with us over a country none of you care about. They will lose it like they always do, but the stakes are as high as they get this time around. Maybe you should get rid of them - like, yesterday. Clock's tickin', fellas."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 08:37 AM (0FoWg)

275 There were or there weren't. It's an active war zone. Wars suck and innocent people die in them, sometimes lots and lots of innocent people.

The Party's position on that even is particularly galling when you consider our far worse errors during and following the Afghanistan withdrawal. We hit somebody's family car in a face-saving effort after the bugout went pear-shaped, but it's best not to talk about that...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:34 AM (HnUIn)

Oh i fully agree Joe, and i do believe it's possible that it was just bad timing / luck/ whatever you want to call it. you're right, it's an active war zone and bad things happen to good people some times.

I was just wondering since we have SO many incidents of unhwra allowing support, if not actively supporting, hamas that i figure odds are better than slim that there was something fishy going on as well...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:37 AM (bving)

276 >>> 117 Another condescending leftist reporter gets smacked down:

Speaking to the Bild newspaper, Botswanan President Mokgweetsi Masisi said his country was suffering from an elephant plague after recent conservation efforts, and the Botswanan people are dependent on some of the animals being culled through controlled and "sustainable" hunting.
==
.... threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Berlin so German politicians can "live together with the animals in the way you are trying to tell us to."

"We would like to make such an offer to the Federal Republic of Germany. We don't take no for an answer. 20,000 wild elephants for Germany. This is not a joke," Masisi warned.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 05, 2024 08:01 AM (eXDec)

President Masisi ought to get a crowdfunding site set up so Botswana can airdrop elephants directly into German politicians' back yards.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 05, 2024 08:37 AM (llON8)

277 265.

I've been shouting from the rooftops just about that exact same thing for going on three-and-a-half years.

There is a non-zero chance that Biden could end up back in the Oval Office, almost certainly because of shady election. And there is no Republican out there who seems interested in what to do about this; even Trump still seems to think he can coast through an election on his personal favorability and general popularity.

Posted by: Gryph at April 05, 2024 08:38 AM (aCVzN)

278 "40% withdrawing from retirement savings to avoid foreclosure"

Whoa! That's really bad.

Posted by: pawn at April 05, 2024 08:38 AM (QB+5g)

279 The U.S. now has a labor shortage, but the Biden Administration wants to mobilize more than 20,000 initially for the Climate Corps—and some 50,000 by 2031. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey want the Climate Corps to employ 1.5 million over five years.

So they want to take 1.5 million "studies" graduates from the hypothetical Make Things workforce and have them sit around banning the Making of Things, and somehow all the Things they want or need in life will Just Happen.

And it will cost us tens of billions in salary, office, benefits, pensions, travel, grift and all the usual excesses of useless bureaucracy but there is no new wealth actually being generated to tax to underwrite this mischief.

And the few remaining businesses will have to hire a counter-workforce to mitigate the legal and regulatory burdens.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 05, 2024 08:38 AM (4HcMG)

280 A company in China offered to sell my wife's product but over the months it became evident all they wanted to do was pirate it. We bailed.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 08:38 AM (4VBfN)

281 Just heard a loud crash in another room so I think I'm done for a bit. Y'all have fun.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - If this is how Georgia hires attorneys, imagine how they manage elections at April 05, 2024 08:38 AM (6TLQp)

282 you're both just misinformed. peeps are good. peeps are nice. peeps are pure junk food. so i only have a few during Easter season and only then.
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:34 AM (bving)
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You're clearly not alone, because they always sell.

I've never liked 'em, though. Not even as a little kid. And I have a serious sweet tooth that was very, very hard to break when I started my diet late last year. Even with my profound and unbreakable love of sugar, I never cared for Peeps.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:38 AM (HnUIn)

283 @253

>>who's gonna stop them?

Unless patriotic black Americans storm the tabulation centers in Philly, Atlanta, Detroit and other locales, nobody is going to stop them.

As was noted, there were over 23k dead people registered to vote in Texas in one week in March, 7k in one week in Missouri, inexplicably, there are millions upon millions of people being registered to vote, mail in balloting and election seasons are now a feature of our election process.

And by and large, the GOP does not care about any of this or actually winning.

So, we're f**ked until a Boltzmann Brain appears and provides a solution to our problem.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 05, 2024 08:39 AM (XV/Pl)

284 269 The transplant surgeon who did the first pig heart transplant (Univ of Maryland) unironically observed that he hoped "the new heart will last the rest of [the patient's] life.

Turns out he was correct.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 08:36 AM (991eG)

Hahaha. Very astute! Right up there with "50% chance of rain"

Posted by: Molly k. at April 05, 2024 08:39 AM (j/yko)

285 Maybe you should get rid of them - like, yesterday.
_____

See! Russian Colloozhyn! You have to vote for Biden in order to keep Russia as our sworn enemy!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2024 08:40 AM (fs1hN)

286 Good morning all. Thanks for taking over Thursday and Fridays MisHum.

That story about the woman who will be euthanized. I don't have words. I have never suffered from any mental illness so I hate to judge but I'm fighting for my life and she's just saying ah.. fuck it.

Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at April 05, 2024 08:40 AM (iF0sF)

287 303,000 jobs added in March.
100,000 better than expected.

Posted by: redridinghood

Every single jobs number for the past twelve months has been adjusted downward retroactively, why should I believe this one?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 08:40 AM (lTGtQ)

288 I wonder what would happen if the Rooshinz just put out a statement that said "listen up, Yankees... One thing we share in common, along with the rest of the human species, is a hatred of your government. And it's about to start a huge, pointless war with us over a country none of you care about. They will lose it like they always do, but the stakes are as high as they get this time around. Maybe you should get rid of them - like, yesterday. Clock's tickin', fellas."

"And as a sign of good will, and to kick things off, we'll convert Babylon DC into a crater."

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 05, 2024 08:40 AM (4HcMG)

289 303,000 jobs added in March.
100,000 better than expected.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2024 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

and what do the previous months revisions look like? are they staying on trend?

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:40 AM (bving)

290 I wonder what would happen if the Rooshinz just put out a statement that said "listen up, Yankees... One thing we share in common, along with the rest of the human species, is a hatred of your government. And it's about to start a huge, pointless war with us over a country none of you care about. They will lose it like they always do, but the stakes are as high as they get this time around. Maybe you should get rid of them - like, yesterday. Clock's tickin', fellas."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 08:37 AM (0FoWg)
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Immediate declaration of war by Congress, followed by rapid dissolution of the country. About half of people would vigorously support the war declaration (the quarter of the population all-in on whatever the Party says, another quarter or more of default/"my country, right or wrong" patriots), the rest will passively or actively refuse to cooperate.

Just a guess.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:41 AM (HnUIn)

291 >>> 208 Psychiatrist should have told her "you're 28, dumbshit. You have a boyfriend. Quit being a cat lady. Tell him to pull out his wiener and shoot a Dutch baby into you. You might find some more meaning to your life than vacuous Western materialism is currently providing you."

Maybe I should be a head shrinker.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 08:21 AM (0FoWg)

You'd probably be more helpful than 98, 99 % of the current 'professionals'.
https://shorturl.at/gDFP6

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 05, 2024 08:41 AM (llON8)

292 How many of those jobs were a) in the govt or b) low wage? I’d wage over half.

Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 08:41 AM (fCMsD)

293
The RT (Russia Today, I think) broadcast started by talking about AntKnee Fauci and could have been written by anyone here. The Russians know the truth even though our media have sainted the murdering piece of shit.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 08:41 AM (RKVpM)

294 >>As to Nato unanimous vote for starting WWIII? Ain't gonna happen. The two newest members will see to that. I don't think Turkey is going to be too keen either.

Erdogan has already said he thinks Ukraine deserves NATO membership. I don't think Biden would be saying this if he didn't think he had support.

I'm not as confident these idiots don't march us closer to WWIII.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 05, 2024 08:41 AM (LkLld)

295 you're both just misinformed. peeps are good. peeps are nice. peeps are pure junk food. so i only have a few during Easter season and only then.
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:34 AM (bving)
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You're clearly not alone, because they always sell.

I've never liked 'em, though. Not even as a little kid. And I have a serious sweet tooth that was very, very hard to break when I started my diet late last year. Even with my profound and unbreakable love of sugar, I never cared for Peeps.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:38 AM (HnUIn)
*******
Peeps are nasty.
I think the only reason peeps sell is for decor.
They make Easter baskets look more colorful like Easter grass.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2024 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

296 "Your life sucks and you're unhappy. Have you considered letting us kill you and put you out of our misery" is a statement that can only be uttered by a state system that is approaching maximum depravity.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:22 AM (HnUIn)

750M and we've only got slots for 25 Dutch. You're not on the list. Roll up your sleeve.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 08:42 AM (nR2nR)

297 The Propaganda Press keep saying Ted Cruz is going to get beat in Texas in this upcoming election.

Is that real? I don't even know who the Demofacist baby killers are running against Cruz, and Senators are generally hard to beat. What do Texan morons think?

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 05, 2024 08:42 AM (4DGzf)

298 How many of those jobs were a) in the govt or b) low wage? I’d wage over half.
Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 08:41 AM (fCMsD)
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You forgot c) filled by illegals

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 05, 2024 08:42 AM (7fElN)

299 The Trader Joes article started getting pretty woke when looped in racism and other bullshit. Nothing TJ does is illegal and barely unethical, if at all. Businesses have been copying success since the beginning of time. The small unique brands who get copied have a little monopoly complex and feel like they should not have to continue competing once they have their niche. I have yet to get to TJ since the closest one is in Winter Park and that's too damn far for groceries but will go one day.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at April 05, 2024 08:43 AM (P7Iz+)

300 Every single jobs number for the past twelve months has been adjusted downward retroactively, why should I believe this one?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 08:40 AM (lTGtQ)
******
Of course.
It's all smoke and mirrors with this administration.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2024 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

301 These are the rules;

Biden can meddle in Israel’s elections. But if Poootin meddles in American elections it’s a threat to democracy.

Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 08:44 AM (fCMsD)

302 How many of those jobs were a) in the govt or b) low wage? I’d wage over half.

Posted by: Montec

Every net new job since the fall of 2022 is a part time job. Not a single new full time job (net) has been created in over a year.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 08:44 AM (lTGtQ)

303 Is that real? I don't even know who the Demofacist baby killers are running against Cruz, and Senators are generally hard to beat. What do Texan morons think?
Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 05, 2024 08:42 AM (4DGzf)

Typical lefty trash talk. All they want to do is demoralize you and make you miserable. It's their purpose in life to the extent they have one. And I'm no Cruz fan.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 08:45 AM (4VBfN)

304 302.

When it comes to working part-time, I got pretty lucky in finding just the right job at the right time that allowed me to stay in my current (and admittedly meager) dwelling.

Posted by: Gryph at April 05, 2024 08:45 AM (aCVzN)

305 They make Easter baskets look more colorful like Easter grass.

Posted by: redridinghood

We used to call it Eastroturf.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 08:45 AM (lTGtQ)

306 20,000 wild elephants for Germany? Shucks. He'll never get them past Cisalpine Gaul. It's been tried.

I'd expect worldwide trouble in the oats and oat-adjacent business. Lots of noise about the possibly-carcinogenic spray stalk strengthener that makes the UK oat fields six times as productive as North America's, and speculation about how much of 'that product' is finding its way here already. We have to royals to act as our mine canaries, so as it gains traction, there will be oatcots.

US domestic oat production was already crippled, over the last 30 years, by an infestation that caused empty heads. You'd think that would be more popular, considering. And now this.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 05, 2024 08:45 AM (zdLoL)

307 >>Actually don't something like 1 in 7 cat owners suffer from a parasite that fucks their mind, or was that Fake News?

Yes! I recall reading a covid-era conspiracy theory that they made Ivermectin inaccessible because it treats Toxoplasmosis and crazy cat ladies are good Lefties, LOL.

More seriously, get a calm, friendly dog and walk it for a few miles every day. Science studies have shown dogs make people happier. Silly, but why not try that instead of "yeah, you're hopeless, kill yourself."

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 08:46 AM (6IDWi)

308 That killing of supposedly innocent aid workers in Gaza…. All the usual suspects are losing their minds and Brandon now insists on a ceasefire in a call with Bibi. It’s all gaslighting all the time. I admit I have no clue: were they truly innocent aid workers or something less than that? But good grief people need to grow up; it’s a war and BTW it wasn’t a war started by Israel, it was started by those Hamas savages who per the opinion poll strippers are supported by some ridiculous 80% or more of all Gazans. Sheesh…. FAFO

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 05, 2024 08:46 AM (xT8gx)

309 294 Erdogan has already said he thinks Ukraine deserves NATO membership. I don't think Biden would be saying this if he didn't think he had support.

I'm not as confident these idiots don't march us closer to WWIII.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 05, 2024 08:41 AM (LkLld)

Erdogan still thinks he's going to be the Caliph of whatever Muslim Cockroach Empire slinks out of the wreckage of WW3.

Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 08:47 AM (UnA8+)

310 "There is a non-zero chance that Biden could end up back in the Oval Office, almost certainly because of shady election. And there is no Republican out there who seems interested in what to do about this; even Trump still seems to think he can coast through an election on his personal favorability and general popularity."

Is this your first political election?

Posted by: pawn at April 05, 2024 08:47 AM (QB+5g)

311 More seriously, get a calm, friendly dog and walk it for a few miles every day. Science studies have shown dogs make people happier. Silly, but why not try that instead of "yeah, you're hopeless, kill yourself."
Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 08:46 AM (6IDWi)
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Because the state would rather kill her. The state does not view human life as inherently valuable and worthy of maintaining.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:48 AM (HnUIn)

312 ... I was just wondering since we have SO many incidents of unhwra allowing support, if not actively supporting, hamas that i figure odds are better than slim that there was something fishy going on as well...
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:37 AM (bving)
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Yeah, I dig it. And my guess is, "probably, yeah."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:48 AM (HnUIn)

313 307 Silly, but why not try that instead of "yeah, you're hopeless, kill yourself."
Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 08:46 AM (6IDWi)

In 2024, telling people to kill themselves is practically the official American National Pastime.

Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 08:48 AM (UnA8+)

314 I'm not usually here but wanted to say Thank You Mis Hum. I loved the mystery click. Very appropriate.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 05, 2024 08:49 AM (t/2Uw)

315 When it comes to working part-time, I got pretty lucky in finding just the right job at the right time that allowed me to stay in my current (and admittedly meager) dwelling.

Posted by: Gryph

A big part of the problem is our socialized medicine debacle. Employers can afford to hire part time but can not afford full time which requires medical. I personally know a few people in my area that are working part time at two and sometimes three jobs to get a work schedule that pays the bills, but of course no insurance.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 08:49 AM (lTGtQ)

316 That professor was perhaps hoping to be fired.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 05, 2024 08:49 AM (w6EFb)

317 We used to call it Eastroturf.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 08:45 AM (lTGtQ)
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:: polite applause ::

Well done.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 08:49 AM (HnUIn)

318 310. No. You might say that 2008 was my last. I can't listen to commercial-terrestrial news-talk radio anymore because every lsat pundit -- to a man -- opines as if it matters who we vote for.

Posted by: Gryph at April 05, 2024 08:50 AM (aCVzN)

319 True or False: Other than the usual predictable noises, Democrats are acting in an election year like people who don't give a fuck which way anyone actually votes
Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 08:18 AM

Odd...innit?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 05, 2024 08:29 AM (Wnv9h)

Supposedly, there is an "event" which will happen this fall and all the billionaires are in a lather to get their hidey-hole bunkers completed before then.

I follow a bunch of yachting news and, apparently, a bunch of those same billionaire are putting their boats through refits or, in the case of Zuckerberg, just bought new ones.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 08:50 AM (nR2nR)

320 The cat thing can cause some issues with pregnant women. When Mrs. Montec was pregnant I had to clean the fucking cat box for the entire pregnancy. Still not sure if that was legit or I got scammed 🤣

Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 08:51 AM (fCMsD)

321
US domestic oat production was already crippled, over the last 30 years, by an infestation that caused empty heads. You'd think that would be more popular, considering. And now this.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

That empty head disease isn't just affecting oats.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 08:51 AM (lTGtQ)

322 peeps...peEPS...PEEPS!

Posted by: mpfs at April 05, 2024 08:51 AM (ogS72)

323 Yeah, dumbasses in Gaza who got whacked handing out granola bars (or whatever) were dumbasses. Why help a bunch of joo hating rapist-supporting illiterate amoral Muzzie assholes?

I have near zero sympathy for the Gazans and those enabling them.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 05, 2024 08:52 AM (ufFY8)

324 If there’s a big “event” requiring a Bunker why does Zuck need a new boat? I don’t get it.

Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 08:52 AM (fCMsD)

325 Is that real? I don't even know who the Demofacist baby killers are running against Cruz, and Senators are generally hard to beat. What do Texan morons think?
Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 05, 2024 08:42 AM (4DGzf)

His opponent is a smooth talking former football player who loves abortion. Ted Cruz has never been beloved, so it could be a contest. But honestly I can’t see Cruz losing in a presidential year with Trump up top…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 05, 2024 08:52 AM (xT8gx)

326 320.

Fatal toxoplasmosis is like those brain-eating parasites that invade your nose through river water. The chances of either happening to you are astronomical, but if it bleeds, it leads.

Posted by: Gryph at April 05, 2024 08:52 AM (aCVzN)

327 Regarding the steady rise in euthanasia in the Netherlands, I'd be interested to know if there is any incentive/compensation related to steering patients to that.

The UK had a scandal when it came out that there were monetary incentives given to hospitals that met or exceeded it's participation in the Liverpool Care Pathway program (not treating ornery seniors and difficult people with disabilities/cognitive issues). It was finally the doctors who pushed back because they were being pressured to kill more and more people.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 08:52 AM (6IDWi)

328 Watching the eclipse here in Austin.

And watching. And watching....

Why is it taking so long?
Posted by: eleven

The Earth won't eclipse the sun today until sundown, but you should be able to watch it.

Posted by: t-bird at April 05, 2024 08:53 AM (YlJ5o)

329 Washington Governor Jay Inslee has signed new legislation that will effectively outlaw the use of natural gas in the state.

Natural Gas is 21% of all electricity generation.

And for a lot of oil fields, natural gas is a waste product. A CCGT plant is about as "clean" as it gets, makes great base-load, helps (somewhat) to level the grid, with its small foot-print can be located closer to where the energy is used (cuts down on grid build-out and associated losses pushing electrons over great distances).

Only downsides, true of all thermals, you need cooling and fuel.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 05, 2024 08:53 AM (4HcMG)

330 How would you even go about shipping 20,000 elephants to Europe? It's not like you can just pack 'em in a trunk, eh?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 08:53 AM (991eG)

331 During WW1, the Kaiser once stated having Austria Hungary as an ally was like wearing a corpse around your neck. That would be Uke NATO membership. Providing nothing, always asking for more.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2024 08:53 AM (0EOe9)

332 Wow, who knew Peeps rose to the divisive levels of crossbows vs longbows, bourbon vs scotch, Trump vs Disantis, etc.

Posted by: Doof at April 05, 2024 08:54 AM (a1415)

333 The Earth won't eclipse the sun today until sundown, but you should be able to watch it.

In the meantime, you can rely on clouds for that eclipse.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 05, 2024 08:54 AM (4HcMG)

334 Someone mentioned Junior Samples upthread, which made me look up other Hee Haw cast members who were overweight. Slim Pickens died age 64, but both Lulu Roman and Gailard Sartain are still kicking at 77.

Posted by: Lulu's Diner at April 05, 2024 08:54 AM (V5BDR)

335 The Earth won't eclipse the sun today until sundown, but you should be able to watch it.
Posted by: t-bird at April 05, 2024 08:53 AM (YlJ5o)
++++
The only eclipse worth experiencing is a total eclipse of the the heart. Love wins.

Posted by: Bonnie Tyler at April 05, 2024 08:54 AM (HnUIn)

336 >>Erdogan still thinks he's going to be the Caliph of whatever Muslim Cockroach Empire slinks out of the wreckage of WW3.

After the recent local elections in Turkey he might be a bit more worried about hanging on to his job. His party got smoked. He won his reelection not too long ago so he's probably not in immediate danger but the ground is shifting under him.

He's in a weird position, member of NATO but Erdogan is also an ally of Putin. He's been playing a bit of a dual game since the war started but this is going to make things even dicier.

It was very odd of Blinken to make that statement about NATO. I'm sure they are trying to pressure Congress into giving Ukraine money but at the same time they are just giving Putin more reason to escalate.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 05, 2024 08:54 AM (LkLld)

337 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0

This is Seattle’s public defender.

https://tinyurl.com/3anss85p

Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2024 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

338 Just to add another item to the debate, I was listening to an RT (Russia) video this morning where the announcer in English did not preface Ukraine with 'the'.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 08:35 AM (RKVpM)

It appears that there are a number of commenters here who get, at least, mildly annoyed by saying THE Ukraine. Now, I'm not... normally... one to go out of my way to annoy people but...

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 08:55 AM (nR2nR)

339
Arrived at the show site. Found out we brought Puff instead of Spark for Beginner Puppy competition. Now we have to see if the superintendent will let us make a change. If it was a regular class we couldn't.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 05, 2024 08:56 AM (lnJ3G)

340 It appears that there are a number of commenters here who get, at least, mildly annoyed by saying THE Ukraine. Now, I'm not... normally... one to go out of my way to annoy people but...
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Speakin' of which, Mornin', All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2024 08:56 AM (9yWhg)

341 The production line to conjure up peeps has been closed for decades. They simply pull a few cases out of long term storage for the poor misguided souls that need one or two each year. They have no expiration date. They never go 'bad' as they were created 'bad'.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 05, 2024 08:37 AM (XYrRT)

Who hurt you as a child that you should think such things?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 08:56 AM (nR2nR)

342 I've been finding that "store brand" products are usually better than the "real" stuff. Especially at Wegmans and Aldis.

i'll disagree with regard to potato chips. for some reason the Aldi brand always seems almost stale. ihey're just not quite right, but i can't always say exactly why.

but yeah, a LOT of store brand is close enough, if not better.
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:00 AM (bving)

Back in my day, they called this "generics."

Posted by: But That's Not Important Right Now at April 05, 2024 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

343 Charlie KORN Ferguson. Loved that bit. And Hee Haw in general.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2024 08:57 AM (9yWhg)

344 This is Seattle’s public defender.

https://tinyurl.com/3anss85p
Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2024 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

Finally, a boob thread.

LOL

WTF?

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 05, 2024 08:57 AM (ufFY8)

345 The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more), at 1.2 million, was little changed in March. The long-term unemployed accounted for 19.5 percent of all unemployed people.

Both the unemployment rate, at 3.8 percent, and the number of unemployed people, at 6.4 million, changed little in March.

This is one of those things that seems very strange. We have all these openings and billions spent on state and federal employment agencies. And now dems want a city based green card program for 10 to 15 million illegals.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 08:58 AM (ENQN6)

346 This is Seattle’s public defender.

—-

Wooooooooowwwww.

Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 08:58 AM (fCMsD)

347 334

Gailard Sartain's work with John Cherry and Jim Varney was some of my favorite stuff growing up. It was a bit of a departure from the country yokel he was otherwise known for playing.

Posted by: Gryph at April 05, 2024 08:58 AM (aCVzN)

348 The private label brands are indistinguishable from 'name' brands in every way except price, where they're probably half as expensive.

That entire article is a lot of words to claim Trader Joe’s is racist because the Pacific Islander theming of the stores makes wokies uncomfortable. Also they clone expensive garbage made by women/minority owned companies and it costs 1/4th as much. Learn to compete, ladies.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 05, 2024 08:58 AM (FD5dr)

349 Microsoft says it is possible China was able to use a quantum computer to hack US government email systems in 2023. That would be big, if true.

https://shorturl.at/egktD

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 05, 2024 08:58 AM (ES0pL)

350 The cat thing can cause some issues with pregnant women. When Mrs. Montec was pregnant I had to clean the fucking cat box for the entire pregnancy. Still not sure if that was legit or I got scammed 🤣
Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 08:51 AM (fCMsD)

i'm betting scammed...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:58 AM (bving)

351 343 Charlie KORN Ferguson. Loved that bit. And Hee Haw in general.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2024 08:57 AM (9yWhg)

Hew Haw was a summer replacement test for LaughIn. And ran for something like 15 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 08:59 AM (ENQN6)

352 347 334

Gailard Sartain's work with John Cherry and Jim Varney was some of my favorite stuff growing up. It was a bit of a departure from the country yokel he was otherwise known for playing.
Posted by: Gryph at April 05, 2024 08:58 AM (aCVzN)

I'm going to use the mention of these three to let it be known that "Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam" is one of my favorite movies.

Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 08:59 AM (UnA8+)

353 I'm not as confident these idiots don't march us closer to WWIII.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 05, 2024 08:41 AM (LkLld)

The recent Rasmussen poll revealing the howling void of ethics and will to power of the elites should confirm our worst imaginings for 2024, especially should it be clear Trump is carrying the day.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 05, 2024 08:59 AM (0XNQb)

354 Pentagon defends pace of weapon shipments as Ukraine worries it’s too late

.. this .. amid reports that the EU has supplied 1,000,000 155mm artillery shells to Ukraine (200,000 in March)

Posted by: SMOD at April 05, 2024 08:59 AM (RHGPo)

355 Can food be patented or copyrighted? I honestly don’t know.

Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 08:59 AM (fCMsD)

356 Thanks for stepping in, MisHum.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

seconded !

Posted by: JT at April 05, 2024 09:00 AM (T4tVD)

357 Compare and contrast:

- 28 year old Dutch woman seeks euthanasia

-vs-

-57 year old pig heart recipient burns through seven-digit hospital expenses to extend his life 2 months

and for god measure, let's throw in:

-Murderer on death row for 20 years before execution

Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 09:00 AM (991eG)

358 @ImMeme0
This is Seattle’s public defender.

https://tinyurl.com/3anss85p
Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2024 08:54 AM (NpAcC)
++++
Drag queen PDs. Good grief. As if PDs have a great track record as it is.

That person's very presence is prejudicial to juries, either positive or negative. The progs will vote with him because Stunning and Brave, and non-progs will be inclined to vote against him because abhorrent and repulsive.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 09:00 AM (HnUIn)

359 Watching the eclipse here in Austin.

And watching. And watching....

Why is it taking so long?
Posted by: eleven

The Earth won't eclipse the sun today until sundown, but you should be able to watch it.
Posted by: t-bird at April 05, 2024 08:53 AM

Isn't the eclipse supposed to be Monday, 4/8?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 05, 2024 09:01 AM (Wnv9h)

360 330 How would you even go about shipping 20,000 elephants to Europe? It's not like you can just pack 'em in a trunk, eh?
Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 08:53 AM (991eG)

Circus Trains

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 09:01 AM (ENQN6)

361 352.

Ditto. Hands-down the best illustration of Varney's comic range, and a great supporting cast.

Posted by: Gryph at April 05, 2024 09:01 AM (aCVzN)

362 Also they clone expensive garbage made by women/minority owned companies and it costs 1/4th as much. Learn to compete, ladies.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 05, 2024 08:58 AM (FD5dr)

LOL it's not that simple. There's nothing wrong with small businesses and having them around is generally good.

These larger companies can easily cannibalize years of their creative work and research by using existing giant relationships to undercut prices on essentially stolen IP.

A sole proprietor trying to break into a market with a product or products is fucked in those cases.

Oh yeah but we're conservatives we love corporations, I forgot.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 09:02 AM (4VBfN)

363 Man, 76, bitten by toilet rat hospitalized with organ failure due to bacterial infection

https://tinyurl.com/4cnphsph

Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2024 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

364 German envirominster: “in light of the alarming loss of biological diversity,” Germany is saddled with ensuring that the “import of hunting trophies is sustainable and legal.”

Now that the auroch is gone, Germany could use some biodiversity other than the human influx. You go, Botswana.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 05, 2024 09:02 AM (zdLoL)

365 358 Drag queen PDs. Good grief. As if PDs have a great track record as it is.

That person's very presence is prejudicial to juries, either positive or negative. The progs will vote with him because Stunning and Brave, and non-progs will be inclined to vote against him because abhorrent and repulsive.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 09:00 AM (HnUIn)

You'd have to think that even like 75% of Troons would find that dude offensive.

Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 09:02 AM (UnA8+)

366
This is Seattle’s public defender.

That's a man, baby.

Posted by: Austin Powers at April 05, 2024 09:02 AM (RKVpM)

367
i'm betting scammed...
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:58 AM (bving)

__________

Agreed. I know if I had my knee replaced, I'd be having to mow the yard and lug 5-gallon water buckets three days later.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 05, 2024 09:02 AM (lnJ3G)

368 And not just sole props but family businesses with a few employees.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 09:02 AM (4VBfN)

369 My internet keeps going on the blink lately. Third time in many days. Always in the morning, anyone else having problems?

Posted by: dantesed at April 05, 2024 09:03 AM (88xKn)

370 Can food be patented or copyrighted? I honestly don’t know.
Posted by: Montec

Recipes can't be copyrighted, but they can be protected as a trade secret (e.g., the recipe for Coke).

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2024 09:03 AM (9yWhg)

371 progs will vote with him because Stunning and Brave, and non-progs will be inclined to vote against him because abhorrent and repulsive.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 09:00 AM (HnUIn)

It’s Seattle so the prog to non prog ratio is 13:1

Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 09:03 AM (fCMsD)

372 This is Seattle’s public defender.

https://tinyurl.com/3anss85p
Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2024 08:54 AM

WASTF!

Posted by: Seattle's Defendants at April 05, 2024 09:03 AM (Wnv9h)

373 "These standards are going to make America's power grid more resilient," said DOE Secretary Jennifer Granholm, adding "They'll support good-paying, high-quality manufacturing jobs [for the Chinese], and they'll help us deploy more affordable and reliable and clean electricity more quickly across the country."

Posted by: SMOD at April 05, 2024 09:03 AM (RHGPo)

374 I personally know a few people in my area that are working part time at two and sometimes three jobs to get a work schedule that pays the bills, but of course no insurance.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 08:49 AM (lTGtQ)

That's what Obongo Care is for silly.

Posted by: Ignorant Wine Mom In her Tesla at April 05, 2024 09:04 AM (R/m4+)

375 My internet keeps going on the blink lately. Third time in many days. Always in the morning, anyone else having problems?
Posted by: dantesed at April 05, 2024 09:03 AM (88xKn)

Yeah! What gives?!?

Posted by: Your Neighbor Stealing Your Internet at April 05, 2024 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

376 I've been finding that "store brand" products are usually better than the "real" stuff. Especially at Wegmans and Aldis.

i'll disagree with regard to potato chips. for some reason the Aldi brand always seems almost stale. ihey're just not quite right, but i can't always say exactly why.

but yeah, a LOT of store brand is close enough, if not better.
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 08:00 AM (bving)

Back in my day, they called this "generics."
Posted by: But That's Not Important Right Now at April 05, 2024 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

my favorite was always "beer"...

but there's a slight difference that's happened in the last 10-20 years. the generics have switched to "store brand". i guess it's some kind of advertising "remove the stigma" of a generic or something.

interestingly, i've noticed that some stores, food lion, kroger, etc. have a store brand and also an even cheaper option that IS basically store generic

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 09:04 AM (bving)

377 I had chicken pox and measles. Back in the day, if one kid got it, they would have those "parties" to expose the other kids. They would get sick anyway so might as well get it over with. Plus, that's how you get herd immunity.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 05, 2024 09:04 AM (yeEu9)

378 In a sane society that Seattle public defender would be thrown out of the courtroom by the judge for making a mockery of the court. Being mentally ill should be a valid exclusion from the bar

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 05, 2024 09:04 AM (xT8gx)

379 359 Isn't the eclipse supposed to be Monday, 4/8?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 05, 2024 09:01 AM (Wnv9h)

Not just Eclipse Day...

...but also Rex Manning Day.

Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 09:04 AM (UnA8+)

380 Not sure I'd book passage to someplace named "death Island".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 07:24 AM (nR2nR)
---

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Don't worry, it's just a name.

Posted by: Simpsons did it at April 05, 2024 09:04 AM (Sdxg0)

381 Microsoft says it is possible China was able to use a quantum computer

Nah, some lax bullshit enabled Chynah to steal the keys.
Or corruption.
China are masters at ripping people off.

Also, Microsoft?
Our gubmint is so stupid.

Also gave the author a chance to spew about quantum computers.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 05, 2024 09:04 AM (ufFY8)

382 > This is Seattle’s public defender.
_________

Imagine that's who you get to represent your best interests.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 05, 2024 09:04 AM (Q4IgG)

383 There's nothing wrong with small businesses and having them around is generally good.

There’s a spectrum. Some small business is good. Some of them treat customers like shit because there’s nowhere else to go.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 05, 2024 09:05 AM (FD5dr)

384 >>The recent Rasmussen poll revealing the howling void of ethics and will to power of the elites should confirm our worst imaginings for 2024, especially should it be clear Trump is carrying the day.

The newly installed RNC along with Trump raised $65 million in March in their first month on the job and Trump is holding a fundraiser at Mar A Lago this weekend where the plan is to raise north of $30 million.

Seems pretty clear that in the real world Trump is crushing Biden. The only way for Biden to win is by cheating to a much greater degree than in 2020 so who knows what they will do.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 05, 2024 09:05 AM (LkLld)

385 Can food be patented or copyrighted? I honestly don’t know.

Posted by: Montec

Corn was patented by Monsanto. True story. Their genetically modified corn was patented, and when the dna was spread by the wind to adjacent farms and collected in the tassels, Monsanto started suing the farmers.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 09:05 AM (lTGtQ)

386 Grocery stores don’t make their own stuff. They buy stuff and put their label on it. So whatever the store brand is, it came from the same place that the “brand name” came from. But at a significant discount.

Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 09:06 AM (fCMsD)

387 >>This is Seattle’s public defender.
https://tinyurl.com/3anss85p

Clown world. That is a massive insult to women.
- - -
>>This is one of those things that seems very strange. We have all these openings and billions spent on state and federal employment agencies. And now dems want a city based green card program for 10 to 15 million illegals.

A guess?
They have been directed to hire 50%+ non-white, as is happening all across the corporate world, so they need to find more non-white, DEI-approved candidates.

BLM Effect: 94% of New Jobs at S&P 100 Corporations Went to Non-Whites After Protests - Report. . . But according to Bloomberg, corporate America responded to the unrest with more than donations and statements in support of the neo-Marxist group.

Major companies hired hundreds of thousands of new employees, and the lion’s share of them were minorities.

In a story headlined “Corporate America Promised to Hire a Lot More People of Color. It Actually Did,” Bloomberg reported that S&P 100 companies hired minorities almost to the exclusion of white people.
https://tinyurl.com/47zna5pe

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 09:06 AM (6IDWi)

388
Yeah! What gives?!?
Posted by: Your Neighbor Stealing Your Internet

_________

Chutzpah: when your neighbor calls you to complain your internet has gone out and when are you getting it fixed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 05, 2024 09:06 AM (lnJ3G)

389 At the vet rn my doggo got up in the middle of the night couldn't walk or even stand her eye both have diastagmis and her head is completely at a tilt. No word yet on a diagnosis but it doesn't look good for her.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 05, 2024 09:07 AM (qZvE8)

390 The UK had a scandal when it came out that there were monetary incentives given to hospitals that met or exceeded it's participation in the Liverpool Care Pathway program (not treating ornery seniors and difficult people with disabilities/cognitive issues). It was finally the doctors who pushed back because they were being pressured to kill more and more people.
_____

I heard something similar about about incentives paid to US hospitals during the plandemic. Well, except there was no pushback from the 'care providers' other than a few nurses who were told to shutup.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2024 09:07 AM (fs1hN)

391 The Earth won't eclipse the sun today until sundown, but you should be able to watch it.
Posted by: t-bird at April 05, 2024 08:53 AM

Isn't the eclipse supposed to be Monday, 4/8?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 05, 2024 09:01 AM (Wnv9h)

Forget about it. He's on a roll.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 05, 2024 09:07 AM (iODuv)

392 The cat thing can cause some issues with pregnant women. When Mrs. Montec was pregnant I had to clean the fucking cat box for the entire pregnancy. Still not sure if that was legit or I got scammed 🤣
Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 08:51 AM (fCMsD)

It's my understanding from my wife, who's a crazy cat lady, that it is an issue for pregnant women but only if they first get exposed while they're pregnant. If they were exposed earlier it's NBD. She's not a doctor though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 09:07 AM (nR2nR)

393 Man, 76, bitten by toilet rat hospitalized with organ failure due to bacterial infection
https://tinyurl.com/4cnphsph
Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2024 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

I saw The Toilet Rats open for The Boomtown Rats at London's Wembley Stadium in 1983.

I was up all night.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 05, 2024 09:08 AM (R/m4+)

394 386

Grocery stores don’t make their own stuff. They buy stuff and put their label on it.
----
Most of the time, that's true. But not always. Sometimes a distributorship will manufacture their own stuff at separate facilities; this tends to be especially true for health/beauty aids.

Posted by: Gryph at April 05, 2024 09:08 AM (aCVzN)

395 No validation of Voter list against county records.
No sig ver
No chain of custody

Will not all of this come up in the PDT trial?
---
He did.
In every single hearing, alleged all the things we know now were true.
Brought forth evidence; affidavit, eye witnesses, public reports, etc.

And in every single fucking one, every single worthless judge did the same thing:
1) refused to allow any evidence to be admitted.
2) ruled the lack of evidence required dismissing the case.

Trump wasn't allowed a trial on any case. There were no trials--just summary dismissals at preliminary hearings.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 05, 2024 09:08 AM (yikga)

396 BruceWayne at April 05, 2024 09:07 AM

Sorry to hear that.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 05, 2024 09:08 AM (LkLld)

397 You'd have to think that even like 75% of Troons would find that dude offensive.
Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 09:02 AM (UnA8+)
++++
I'd *like* to believe that, but I don't.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 09:08 AM (HnUIn)

398 Under DOE's regulations, energy efficiency gains will be achieved with 75% of the transformers on the market being manufactured with grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES) and another 25% being manufactured with amorphous alloy, a lesser-used electric steel core material. Manufacturers will be given five years to ensure total compliance with the regulations.

... that is 75% and 25% of the transformers, not a gain in efficiency of 25% or 75%. Transformers are already 95% – 99% efficient (99.7% for large transformers), so we are talking about maybe up to 4%, if they are lucky, mostly on smaller residential transformers.

Posted by: SMOD at April 05, 2024 09:08 AM (RHGPo)

399 Who are these neighbors getting your internet? Password people, passwords!!!

Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 09:09 AM (fCMsD)

400 If you put an anaconda in your toilet, it will take care of the rat problem.

Flush an alligator to take care of the anacondas.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 05, 2024 09:09 AM (eXDec)

401 Grocery stores don’t make their own stuff. They buy stuff and put their label on it. So whatever the store brand is, it came from the same place that the “brand name” came from. But at a significant discount.
Posted by: Montec

I used to work in the packaging industry. I have been to MANY planets while they have changed the run from the name brand to the great value brand with the exact same product. You are paying for r and d and marketing when you buy name brand for many many things.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 05, 2024 09:09 AM (qZvE8)

402 If there’s a big “event” requiring a Bunker why does Zuck need a new boat? I don’t get it.
Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 08:52 AM (fCMsD)

It's not so much that it needs a bunker as it needs a secure location away from others. Bunker is one choice, boat is another. Boat is mobile.

You could stay in bunker until things calm down, see where it's safe, and use boat to get there. Assuming, of course, that any of this is for real.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 09:09 AM (nR2nR)

403 Chutzpah: when your neighbor calls you to complain your internet has gone out and when are you getting it fixed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 05, 2024 09:06 AM (lnJ3G)

There was a video of a guy getting a knock at the door from a neighbor demanding his wi-fi password because he had been using his wi-fi for years. The guy just put in a password. Neighbor felt entitled because it was in the air and free.

Some old Brit.

Pretty funny.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 05, 2024 09:09 AM (ufFY8)

404 Just to add another item to the debate, I was listening to an RT (Russia) video this morning where the announcer in English did not preface Ukraine with 'the'.

Was she doing it in a thick Natasha accent? Because cartoon Russians doesn't use 'the'.

I always use 'the' Ukraine, because that's what it always was in English, and that got reinforced in German (where EVERYthing gets prefaced with 'the').

Posted by: t-bird at April 05, 2024 09:09 AM (T6h83)

405 Good morning, all! Thank you, MisHum, for all you do, for stepping in Thursdays and Fridays while J.J. is away, and for the enjoyable morning Mystery Click.
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Remarks by President Biden at Greek Independence Day Reception, March 29, 2024

THE PRESIDENT: (In part) They’re a big part of the reason my Greek American constituents in Delaware sometimes refer to me as — the man sitting behind you, Father, who helped me my very first campaign — directly behind you — was — the nickname I got early on when I won by 3,200 votes in — for the Senate seat when I was 29 years old is because — started calling me “Joe Biden-opoulos” because — (laughter) — oh, you think I’m kidding. I’m not — I’m not joking. Am I? I’m not joking. Because of the overwhelming support from the Greek American community.

And — and I’m a little worried. My sister is sitting next to Tom Hanks. (Laughter.) But, Tom — welcome, pal. Welcome.
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Darn! After decades of my 'understanding' it was the Frank Sheeran who helped halt delivery of newspapers with anti-Biden ads right before the 1972 US Senate election in Delaware and, thus, brought in that slim margin of votes to push Joey over the line.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 05, 2024 09:11 AM (GshMh)

406
I used to work in the packaging industry. I have been to MANY planets while they have changed the run from the name brand to the great value brand with the exact same product. You are paying for r and d and marketing when you buy name brand for many many things.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 05, 2024 09:09 AM

Interesting. I've never seen you.......and I've been to most planets.

Posted by: Space Ace at April 05, 2024 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

407 The Earth won't eclipse the sun today until sundown, but you should be able to watch it.
Posted by: t-bird at April 05, 2024 08:53 AM

Isn't the eclipse supposed to be Monday, 4/8?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 05, 2024 09:01 AM (Wnv9h)

Forget about it. He's on a roll.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 05, 2024 09:07 AM (iODuv)

just wait for the update from anchorbabe fashion cop later today on As the World Turns...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 09:11 AM (bving)

408 404 I always use 'the' Ukraine, because that's what it always was in English, and that got reinforced in German (where EVERYthing gets prefaced with 'the').
Posted by: t-bird at April 05, 2024 09:09 AM (T6h83)

I was under the impression that using "THE" is a way to say you support it being given back to Russia.

And, well, I'm sick and tired of Grifty Z and just want this shit over, so go Based Chad Vlad.

Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 09:11 AM (UnA8+)

409 Ukraine ‘will become a member of NATO’ – top US diplomat

Out: Dropping libel on your opponent

In: Starting WWIII and cancelling elections

Posted by: October Surprise at April 05, 2024 09:11 AM (ibTVg)

410 That Seattle PD is Ackbar-worthy.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2024 09:11 AM (9yWhg)

411 Microsoft says it is possible China was able to use a quantum computer to hack US government email systems in 2023. That would be big, if true.

https://shorturl.at/egktD

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood

More likely they got insider'd and they're covering their asses.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at April 05, 2024 09:12 AM (OUMaO)

412 Problems with an upgrade installed on some Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters rolling off the production line have now disrupted plans to incorporate those upgrades on existing aircraft, and the F-35 Joint Program Office does not have a date for when those jets will get the much-anticipated retrofits.

The F-35 program “was scheduled to begin TR-3 [Technology Refresh 3] retrofits in April 2024 with the intent to modify 149 aircraft over the subsequent 12-month period,” JPO spokesperson Russ Goemaere told Breaking Defense. But now, “[t]he Program is working closely with F-35 customers to establish a new start date for those modifications based on a number of factors including software and supply chains.

Posted by: SMOD at April 05, 2024 09:12 AM (RHGPo)

413 Lulu Roman and Gailard Sartain are still kicking at 77.
Posted by: Lulu's Diner at April 05, 2024 08:54 AM (V5BDR)

I appears LuLu has slimmed down a good bit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 09:12 AM (nR2nR)

414 RNC Cleans House To Get Everybody On The Same Page About Election Integrity

https://tinyurl.com/4hdyfzz3

Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2024 09:12 AM (NpAcC)

415 Most of the time, that's true. But not always. Sometimes a distributorship will manufacture their own stuff at separate facilities; this tends to be especially true for health/beauty aids.
Posted by: Gryph at April 05, 2024 09:08 AM (aCVzN)
++++
The production processes differ depending on the client and the label they put on it.

I once did some work for a bacon manufacturer and their plant I visited made products under something like a dozen different labels - everything from cheap stuff that wasn't very good to premium, thick-cut, properly-processed top-end product. "It comes from the same factory, so who cares" is often the wrong approach. The "same factory" can turn out wildly different goods quality depending on what the client orders.

You see this all the time in tools. Ryobi and Rigid and Milwaukee are all TTI brands and they share a lot of design, but TTI also makes an effort to differentiate (less-successfully with Rigid, which is often right up there with Milwaukee at a lower price) to maintain market segments. Ryobi stuff is almost never "Milwaukee in green" even though it's the same parent and often the same factory.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 09:13 AM (HnUIn)

416 Because cartoon Russians doesn't use 'the'.

Because Russian does not have articles.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2024 09:13 AM (9yWhg)

417 And in every single fucking one, every single worthless judge did the same thing:
1) refused to allow any evidence to be admitted.
2) ruled the lack of evidence required dismissing the case.

Didn't they play the standing game in some of them as well as in neither the "losing" party in the election, the people that voted in the stolen election, or the states themselves have standing to have this care heard.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 05, 2024 09:14 AM (ibTVg)

418 414 RNC Cleans House To Get Everybody On The Same Page About Election Integrity
___

R voters need to clean house of R office holders to get them on the same page as well.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2024 09:14 AM (fs1hN)

419 and that got reinforced in German (where EVERYthing gets prefaced with 'the').
Posted by: t-bird at April 05, 2024 09:09 AM (T6h83)

Can confirm. All the German doms are like "you will drink from THE toilet". Or so I've been told.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 09:14 AM (4VBfN)

420 Speaking of earning, dumping Ronna Romney McDaniels as RNC chairwoman worked. The money is pouring in.

Axios reported, “Trump, RNC report raising $65.6 million in March.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 09:15 AM (ENQN6)

421 417.

I thought depending on the courts to sort it all out was a big mistake in the first place. When the problem is too much power in the federal government, the last thing you should be doing is going to a branch of the federal government for arbitration.

Posted by: Gryph at April 05, 2024 09:15 AM (aCVzN)

422 You could stay in bunker until things calm down, see where it's safe, and use boat to get there. Assuming, of course, that any of this is for real.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 09:09 AM (nR2nR)
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These people are idiots. Assuming they can even *get* to their distant bunkers in the first place (unlikely), they're unlikely to survive for long. It's a big, juicy target and there will be little civil order to prevent them from being breached and their occupants literally eaten. And if that doesn't happen, what incentive do the mercenaries have to not run their own coup and take over?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 09:15 AM (HnUIn)

423 I am still astounded at the Ukistan thing. 3 years ago nobody had heard of the place. Now it’s the most important country ever.

I was skiing at this one resort in the Rockies earlier this year. The main lodge always flew American and Canadian flags. This year, they added the fucking Ukrainian flag.

It’s like a virus that has spread uncontrollably worldwide.

Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 09:16 AM (fCMsD)

424 WE LOVE YOU JJ

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 09:16 AM (4VBfN)

425 This morning, as a result of online searches:

"Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot. Why did this happen?

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 05, 2024 09:16 AM (GshMh)

426
Was she doing it in a thick Natasha accent? Because cartoon Russians doesn't use 'the'.

Posted by: t-bird at April 05, 2024 09:09 AM

She actually sounded complete devoid of any sort of accent, either Russian or American regional.

Posted by: Austin Powers at April 05, 2024 09:16 AM (RKVpM)

427 You see this all the time in tools. Ryobi and Rigid and Milwaukee are all TTI brands and they share a lot of design, but TTI also makes an effort to differentiate (less-successfully with Rigid, which is often right up there with Milwaukee at a lower price) to maintain market segments. Ryobi stuff is almost never "Milwaukee in green" even though it's the same parent and often the same factory.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 09:13 AM (HnUIn)

DeWalt and B n D are same.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 09:16 AM (ENQN6)

428 Posted by: Space Ace at April 05, 2024 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

space ghost >> space ace

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 09:17 AM (bving)

429 I went to one Trader Joe’s, one time. I was not impressed.

Posted by: An-225 Mriya at April 05, 2024 09:17 AM (e0dkU)

430 Jennifer Granholm is one of the most vapid, dumb-as-a rock people I've ever had the misfortune to hear speak. Maybe not quite as dumb as Deb Haaland, though. The entire cabinet is filled with misfits, perverts, low IQ ideologues, and the truly evil. Looking at you, Mayorkas.

"Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences."

Posted by: Scum Rises To Top at April 05, 2024 09:17 AM (V5BDR)

431 If all hell breaks loose their bunker will just be the place they live alone for a year. And then they will be exposed to whatever is outside anyway. It’s kinda dumb.

Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 09:17 AM (fCMsD)

432 At least with food, a lot of times with Store brands, it'll say on the back who made it. "Produced by [X] for [Y] Grocery Store".

Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 09:17 AM (UnA8+)

433 I had chicken pox and measles. Back in the day, if one kid got it, they would have those "parties" to expose the other kids. They would get sick anyway so might as well get it over with. Plus, that's how you get herd immunity.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 05, 2024 09:04 AM (yeEu9)

Chick pox, had a party.
Measles, don't recall.
Mumps, no party.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 09:18 AM (nR2nR)

434 Jennifer Granholm is one of the most vapid, dumb-as-a rock people I've ever had the misfortune to hear speak.
____

And yet she's rich beyond belief. How does that happen?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2024 09:18 AM (fs1hN)

435 It’s like a virus that has spread uncontrollably worldwide.

It is a testament to how many NPCs there are and how easy it is to control them.

Remember in 2012 calling Russia a threat was something to be made fun of and in the 2014 war no one in Europe/US gave a crap and yet now in 2024 they are the greatest threat to the world since Hitler...

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

436 https://donsurber.substack.com/p/
this-weeks-wins

Well worth the reading time.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 09:18 AM (ENQN6)

437 At hospital awaiting surgical check in.
Iyiyi

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at April 05, 2024 09:18 AM (mnYJJ)

438 Here is your punchline to the jobs number. In March, full-time jobs dropped by 6,000 as Part-time jobs soared by 691,000.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 09:19 AM (lTGtQ)

439 > Axios reported, “Trump, RNC report raising $65.6 million in March.”
___________

It occurs to me that $65M would buy a lot of votes. Wonder what the GOP will piss it away on instead.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 05, 2024 09:19 AM (Q4IgG)

440 WE LOVE YOU JJ
Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 09:16 AM (4VBfN)
*****
Yes we do! 🙏❤️

Thank you MisHum for holding down the fort.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2024 09:19 AM (NpAcC)

441 How would you even go about shipping 20,000 elephants to Europe? It's not like you can just pack 'em in a trunk, eh?
Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 08:53 AM (991eG)

Yes, how would you pack-a-derm?

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at April 05, 2024 09:19 AM (JRP2U)

442 Japanese cars perfected the brand name and off brand name scam.

There is no such thing as Acura in Japan. It’s just Honda. But in the US Honda created Acura as a way to sell Hondas for 30% more to dumb Americans who are impressed by badges and marketing.

Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 09:19 AM (fCMsD)

443 434 Jennifer Granholm is one of the most vapid, dumb-as-a rock people I've ever had the misfortune to hear speak.
____

And yet she's rich beyond belief. How does that happen?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2024 09:18 AM (fs1hN)

Look up Proterra

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 09:19 AM (ENQN6)

444 430 Jennifer Granholm is one of the most vapid, dumb-as-a rock people I've ever had the misfortune to hear speak. Maybe not quite as dumb as Deb Haaland, though. The entire cabinet is filled with misfits, perverts, low IQ ideologues, and the truly evil. Looking at you, Mayorkas.
**

Pridefully stupid, implacably unself-aware, viciously anti-American. It will be a miracle if we survive them.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 05, 2024 09:20 AM (0XNQb)

445 There is no such thing as Acura in Japan. It’s just Honda. But in the US Honda created Acura as a way to sell Hondas for 30% more to dumb Americans who are impressed by badges and marketing.
Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 09:19 AM (fCMsD)

Now do Caddy Excalade

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 09:20 AM (ENQN6)

446 Pridefully stupid, implacably unself-aware, viciously anti-American. It will be a miracle if we survive them.
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 05, 2024 09:20 AM (0XNQb)

Now do Buttjuicy

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 09:21 AM (ENQN6)

447 There is no such thing as Acura in Japan. It’s just Honda. But in the US Honda created Acura as a way to sell Hondas for 30% more to dumb Americans who are impressed by badges and marketing.
Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 09:19 AM (fCMsD)

Now do Caddy Excalade
Posted by: rhennigantx

*lexus has entered the chat*

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 05, 2024 09:21 AM (AX2wr)

448 There is no such thing as good Velveeta type mac and cheese. It can't even rightly be called food. But I like it, and the Walmart generic stuff is easily the best version on the market.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 09:21 AM (0FoWg)

449 442 There is no such thing as Acura in Japan. It’s just Honda. But in the US Honda created Acura as a way to sell Hondas for 30% more to dumb Americans who are impressed by badges and marketing.
Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 09:19 AM (fCMsD)

Also Toyota, with Lexus and (until 2016) Scion.

Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 09:22 AM (UnA8+)

450 You see this all the time in tools. Ryobi and Rigid and Milwaukee are all TTI brands and they share a lot of design, but TTI also makes an effort to differentiate (less-successfully with Rigid, which is often right up there with Milwaukee at a lower price) to maintain market segments. Ryobi stuff is almost never "Milwaukee in green" even though it's the same parent and often the same factory.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 09:13 AM (HnUIn)

interesting. so would you say rigid is milwaukee essentially? or is it worth the price to buy milwaukee for a home owner project sort of thing?

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 09:22 AM (bving)

451 There is no such thing as Acura in Japan. It’s just Honda. But in the US Honda created Acura as a way to sell Hondas for 30% more to dumb Americans who are impressed by badges and marketing.

Posted by: Montec

If I am recalling correctly, in the eighties, Congress created some law intended to slow imports of cars from Japan, and the gist of the law was to restrict by brand. So, the Japanese created a new company for each brand and doubled their imports.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 09:22 AM (lTGtQ)

452 Now do Caddy Excalade
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 09:20 AM (ENQN6)

Yeah absolutely. GM is the OG of this. But at least they’ve all been around a long time. Honda just straight up created Acura out of thin air and Americans shrugged and said OK here’s 30% more for a Legend vs an Accord.

Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 09:22 AM (fCMsD)

453 The recent Rasmussen poll revealing the howling void of ethics GAWD we are such click-baited rubes. Slack. Jawed.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 05, 2024 09:23 AM (zdLoL)

454 There is no such thing as good Velveeta type mac and cheese. It can't even rightly be called food. But I like it, and the Walmart generic stuff is easily the best version on the market.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Mac 'n' cheese is the world's most perfect food. Put shrimp in it and it's positively ambrosial.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2024 09:23 AM (9yWhg)

455 >>>>t]he Program is working closely with F-35 customers to establish a new start date for those modifications based on a number of factors including software and supply chains.

Posted by: SMOD
--------------------

They should stop farming out essential tech.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 05, 2024 09:23 AM (uqhdD)

456 448 There is no such thing as good Velveeta type mac and cheese. It can't even rightly be called food. But I like it, and the Walmart generic stuff is easily the best version on the market.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 09:21 AM (0FoWg)

I use real meat and ro-tel to make fake canned chili palatable.

I can't make real chili anyway since I'm not from Texas.

Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 09:23 AM (UnA8+)

457 How would you even go about shipping 20,000 elephants to Europe? It's not like you can just pack 'em in a trunk, eh?
Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 08:53 AM (991eG)

Yes, how would you pack-a-derm?
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at April 05, 2024 09:19 AM (JRP2U)

head & shoulders?

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 09:24 AM (bving)

458 >>It occurs to me that $65M would buy a lot of votes. Wonder what the GOP will piss it away on instead.

There's a completely new team at the RNC now which is a big reason they did raise $65 million in their first month. One of Trump's finance guys is overseeing the money and his daughter in law is vice chair.

One of the first things she did was bring on Scott Pressler who has spent the last couple of years begging Ronna to help him with his non-stop voter registration activities in swing states around the country and his focus on early voting.

Things are definitely changing at the RNC. We'll see how it turns out but they are off to a very good start.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 05, 2024 09:24 AM (LkLld)

459 Mac 'n' cheese is the world's most perfect food. Put shrimp in it and it's positively ambrosial.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2024 09:23 AM (9yWhg)

Sprinkle some bacon. Mmmmm mmm mmm

Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 09:24 AM (fCMsD)

460 Look up Proterra

Posted by: rhennigantx

No kidding. I was in the transport industry at the time. Amazing level of corruption, and she not only directed government contracts to a firm she was on the board of, she managed to sell the stock tax free.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 09:24 AM (lTGtQ)

461 I can't make real chili anyway since I'm not from Texas.
Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 09:23 AM (UnA8+)

The Texas stuff is... fine. It's fine. That's all.

Real chile is green chile, not tex mex.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 09:25 AM (0FoWg)

462 Yes, how would you pack-a-derm?
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at April 05, 2024 09:19 AM (JRP2U)

It's very tusk and go.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2024 09:25 AM (9yWhg)

463 >>>
If I am recalling correctly, in the eighties, Congress created some law intended to slow imports of cars from Japan, and the gist of the law was to restrict by brand. So, the Japanese created a new company for each brand and doubled their imports.

Posted by: Thomas Paine
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The Rockefeller Syndrome

Posted by: Braenyard at April 05, 2024 09:25 AM (uqhdD)

464 >>Mac 'n' cheese is the world's most perfect food. Put shrimp in it and it's positively ambrosial.

Lobster. Trust me on this.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 05, 2024 09:25 AM (LkLld)

465 There is no such thing as good Velveeta type mac and cheese. It can't even rightly be called food. But I like it, and the Walmart generic stuff is easily the best version on the market.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 09:21 AM (0FoWg)

Seriously?

I indulge very occasionally and tried some "premium" brand recently and it was beyond vile.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 09:25 AM (4VBfN)

466 Rasmussen has Trump up 8 today. Tomorrow it will be Biden up 12. That outfit is a joke.

Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 09:25 AM (fCMsD)

467 interesting. so would you say rigid is milwaukee essentially? or is it worth the price to buy milwaukee for a home owner project sort of thing?
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 09:22 AM (bving)
++++
Depends on the tool, unfortunately. There's no guarantee. Rigid is sometimes as good as - and rarely better than - its Milwaukee cousin. Sometimes not.

As a homeowner/DIYer (which is where I land), I don't see how buying top-line tools is worth the money. Yes, they're better. Yes, it would be great to have them. No, I don't need them, and no, I don't have a bottomless budget. Cheap shit is cheap shit and I don't want it, but mid-line tools are just fine for me and sometimes a cheap but not terrible tool is just what the doctor ordered. I don't need a vacuum pump very often, and a cheap one that isn't all that robust is fine for me because I'm not using it every day in my job as an HVAC tech.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 09:26 AM (HnUIn)

468 Mac 'n' cheese is the world's most perfect food. Put shrimp in it and it's positively ambrosial.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2024 09:23 AM (9yWhg)
hmm, haven't tried shrimp but will have to now...

but i've done chunked leftover ham. and chili, and also did pulled pork this week.

all fantastic.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 09:26 AM (bving)

469 Lobster. Trust me on this.
Posted by: JackStraw

Yes, lobster works, too.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2024 09:26 AM (9yWhg)

470 Examples of precautions needed for confirmed cases of infectious TB, below. (Each state, the CDC, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, etc. address Infection Control and more.)

Hospital-based precautions
Patients with confirmed infectious TB or those being evaluated for active TB disease should be kept in airborne isolation precautions until active TB disease is ruled out or the patient is deemed to be noninfectious.

Does TB patient need to be isolated in home?
You will need to be in home isolation for at least two weeks, but it might be longer. Your TB specialist nurse/ doctor will tell you when you can stop home isolation.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 05, 2024 09:26 AM (GshMh)

471 interesting. so would you say rigid is milwaukee essentially? or is it worth the price to buy milwaukee for a home owner project sort of thing?

Go to Harbor Freight and and get the Chicago/Bauer/Warrior brands, they are basically "4th shift" TTI products.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 05, 2024 09:26 AM (4HcMG)

472 459 Sprinkle some bacon. Mmmmm mmm mmm
Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 09:24 AM (fCMsD)

I bake my own mac-and-cheese with ground sausage in it.

Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 09:27 AM (UnA8+)

473 Re the n using the n word on the Vegas Spirit airlines flight.

Who is shocked? Ns us the n word all the time.

Us Caucasian Americans and those African Americans (we get the same six syllables, so there!), racists we are definitely not, don't use the n word, only the racist ns do. And for them, they get a pass.

Listen to some rap.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 05, 2024 09:27 AM (KiBMU)

474 Matthew Colangelo's case against PDJT goes to trial next week, for calling the payoff to Stormy Davis a legal cost when it (according to the charge) it was a prostitution payment. The entire point of the charge is to embarrass Trump, and now they have tried to take away Trump's 1A right to defend himself. The crazed Manhattan Democrats seriously think they can put a former President in jail for this ridiculous charge. This entire case takes TDS to insanity level.

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 05, 2024 09:27 AM (YBR5e)

475 I indulge very occasionally and tried some "premium" brand recently and it was beyond vile.
Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 09:25 AM (4VBfN)

There are certain foods I ate a lot of when I was very poor. That's one I still love. Pasta puttanesca is another.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 09:27 AM (0FoWg)

476 I don't need a vacuum pump very often, and a cheap one that isn't all that robust is fine for me because I'm not using it every day in my job as an HVAC tech.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 09:26 AM (HnUIn)

I’m with you. Longevity is not really a concern for me. I use the tools I have a few times a year. They’ll last a long time no matter the brand.

Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 09:27 AM (fCMsD)

477 Canned tuna is also good in mac 'n' cheese.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2024 09:28 AM (9yWhg)

478 >>If all hell breaks loose their bunker will just be the place they live alone for a year. And then they will be exposed to whatever is outside anyway. It’s kinda dumb.

Thought that's why they're building bunkers in New Zealand - far, far away from the Hell on earth they are creating in the U.S.? The crazy, tyrannical PM got guns outlawed and implemented a zero covid case lockdown for years.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 09:28 AM (6IDWi)

479 Although a rigid tool is devoutly prayed for around here,
it's RIDGID. Don't you have their calendar for reference?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 05, 2024 09:28 AM (zdLoL)

480 At the vet rn my doggo got up in the middle of the night couldn't walk or even stand her eye both have diastagmis and her head is completely at a tilt. No word yet on a diagnosis but it doesn't look good for her.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 05, 2024 09:07 AM (qZvE

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So sorry, BruceWayne. Is your dog a senior? A friend's dog had something called Old Dog syndrome that caused a head tilt and bad vertigo. He was fine after a couple of weeks. Hope that's all it is with your pup too.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 05, 2024 09:28 AM (3ImbR)

481 Mac 'n Cheese with Andouille sausage...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 05, 2024 09:28 AM (Q4IgG)

482 As a homeowner/DIYer (which is where I land), I don't see how buying top-line tools is worth the money. Yes, they're better. Yes, it would be great to have them. No, I don't need them, and no, I don't have a bottomless budget. Cheap shit is cheap shit and I don't want it, but mid-line tools are just fine for me and sometimes a cheap but not terrible tool is just what the doctor ordered.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 09:26 AM (HnUIn)

cool, thank you sir. I tend towards the midline stuff normally, but for some jobs have considered the need to upgrad. was wondering if i should look differently.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 09:29 AM (bving)

483 >>>@437 At hospital awaiting surgical check in. Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at April 05, 2024 09:18 AM (mnYJJ)
====================
Prayers are up for a successful procedure and a speedy recovery.

Posted by: Kathy at April 05, 2024 09:29 AM (yG7uN)

484 WA state did some initiative signing measures that have been successful in bypassing the legislature since they have been the largest number of measures gathered ever. Inslee can’t do anything to stop them. One made state income tax impossible to implement. Brian Heywood of “Let’s Go Washington” I stumbled on this on y/t by a conservative activist named Glen Morgan. His handle is “We The Governed” I wish they can null and void this stupid natural gas ruling.

Posted by: Rex B at April 05, 2024 09:29 AM (5h/8D)

485 481 Mac 'n Cheese with Andouille sausage...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 05, 2024 09:28 AM (Q4IgG)

Chorizo.

Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 09:29 AM (UnA8+)

486 Read that article about Trader Joe's and learn a little something about how store brands get researched and made.

It's called copying.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 05, 2024 09:29 AM (KiBMU)

487 Go to Harbor Freight and and get the Chicago/Bauer/Warrior brands, they are basically "4th shift" TTI products.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 05, 2024 09:26 AM (4HcMG)
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Warrior is almost always shit. Bauer is often alright and they have a really wide selection of tools. At HF, their top-line brand - Hercules - is actually pretty good and I have several Hercules tools. The real benefit for me as a homeowner is that the tools in that the cordless line are decent to quite good (I've never gotten Hercules shit), but the batteries are actually very good (same battery tech as the big brands, unless you're talking stacked lithium polymer, which Hercules doesn't have at all) and downright cheap in comparison to most of the big hardware store brands.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 09:29 AM (HnUIn)

488 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 09:13 AM (HnUIn)

I cast lots of Rigid's stuff. Very high Q/A bar on every piece we produce. Good shit. I suspect the rest of their products have the same standards.

Posted by: Reforger at April 05, 2024 09:29 AM (B705c)

489 Amazon Brand - Denali by SKIL is a great value.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 09:29 AM (ENQN6)

490 These people are idiots. Assuming they can even *get* to their distant bunkers in the first place (unlikely), they're unlikely to survive for long. It's a big, juicy target and there will be little civil order to prevent them from being breached and their occupants literally eaten. And if that doesn't happen, what incentive do the mercenaries have to not run their own coup and take over?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 09:15 AM (HnUIn)

I do not disagree. I've always said that I find it amusing that they're engineering the overthrow of the western world which both provides them with their wealth and the value they gain from it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 09:29 AM (nR2nR)

491 Mac 'n Cheese with Andouille sausage...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 05, 2024 09:28 AM (Q4IgG)

Anything is better with andouille. I'd consider eating a light bulb full of it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 09:30 AM (0FoWg)

492 So sorry, BruceWayne. Is your dog a senior? A friend's dog had something called Old Dog syndrome that caused a head tilt and bad vertigo. He was fine after a couple of weeks. Hope that's all it is with your pup too.
Posted by: IrishEi at

Thanks IrishEi. Yah she is she's almost 13yo lab. That sounds a lot like what's going on. Hopefully that is the case.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 05, 2024 09:30 AM (AX2wr)

493 Thought that's why they're building bunkers in New Zealand - far, far away from the Hell on earth they are creating in the U.S.? The crazy, tyrannical PM got guns outlawed and implemented a zero covid case lockdown for years.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2024 09:28 AM (6IDWi)
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Yeah, until the revolution comes and they break into the armories.

This never goes any differently.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 09:30 AM (HnUIn)

494
NAKED
A
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Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 09:31 AM (ENQN6)

495
Lobster. Trust me on this.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 05, 2024 09:25 AM

Ravioli stuffed with lobster.

See where they wanna force the lobster fisherman to toss back one-pound lobsters?
Also, tag their boats and restrict their locations?
Also, ten mph speed limit at all times?

Big Brother needs to be a whole lot less Big.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 09:31 AM (RKVpM)

496 >>> or is it worth the price to buy milwaukee for a home owner project sort of thing?

Posted by: SturmToddler
--------------------------

Depends on how much spending money you have. The best is the best for a reason. But make your choice considering future purchases. Batteries are expensive and each brand is proprietary. It's very convenient to have transferable batteries.

Ryobi is satisfactory, my stuff has held up well. Except for the 3/8" too small circle saw.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 05, 2024 09:31 AM (uqhdD)

497 Noodus nudus gratia artis.

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

498 cool, thank you sir. I tend towards the midline stuff normally, but for some jobs have considered the need to upgrad. was wondering if i should look differently.
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 09:29 AM (bving)
++++
When I come up against something too big for the tool I have, I usually rent. If it's a project that's going to take a long time or be a recurring thing, I'll buy the better tool and chalk it up as an expensive duplication I didn't foresee. But I usually just rent what I need in those cases, since it's usually for a day or two and much cheaper than buying the high-end tool that I only actually *needed* once.

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

499 Mac 'n Cheese with Andouille sausage...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 05, 2024 09:28 AM (Q4IgG)

Anything is better with andouille. I'd consider eating a light bulb full of it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 09:30 AM (0FoWg)

ya'll got me starving. i'mma have to eat now. even if it is VERY early for lunch.

maybe i can call it 2nd breakfast & 1st lunch and i'll be fine.. lol

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 09:33 AM (bving)

500 Watching the eclipse here in Austin.

And watching. And watching....

Why is it taking so long?
Posted by: eleven at April 05, 2024 08:34 AM (iziT

You need deep focus to see the eclipse.

Posted by: Mr. Pitt at April 05, 2024 09:35 AM (aD39U)

501 WA state did some initiative signing measures that have been successful in bypassing the legislature since they have been the largest number of measures gathered ever. Inslee can’t do anything to stop them. One made state income tax impossible to implement. Brian Heywood of “Let’s Go Washington” I stumbled on this on y/t by a conservative activist named Glen Morgan. His handle is “We The Governed” I wish they can null and void this stupid natural gas ruling.

Posted by: Rex B at April 05, 2024 09:29 AM (5h/8D)

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We have a guy running for State Senate here in Northern AZ (against a McCain RINO) who wants to use this approach to bypass "The Veto Queen" (Soros Butt-Bitch Katie Hobbs); here it would be a series of "continual resolutions" voted on by the public and enacted into law to bypass her (Republicans hold a one-seat majority in both the state Senate & House).

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 05, 2024 09:35 AM (KtoBc)

502 >>You go, Botswana.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 05, 2024 09:02 AM

There are plenty of people in Germany--more than a few of whom are actual Germans--who would look right spiffy wearing about 40,000 tons of panicked elephant about now. Flattering, you might say.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 05, 2024 09:35 AM (wzAuc)

503 Regarding the Trader Joe's link - this is commonplace in the food industry. My landlord in Florida was a "chef" for TGI Friday's chain. He would travel all over the country to hot restaurants and order two appetizers, two entrees and two desserts. He'd eat a little from each dish to determine whether he thought it had potential for a wider market and if so would have the leftovers boxed up. Whereupon he'd immediately go back to his van that had a complete dry ice setup in it - he'd package the food up and send it off to TGI Friday's corporate labs where they would figure out what was in each dish, how much was in it and how to copy it *exactly*.
He was the one that came up with their Jack Daniels Sauce. Or rather, he found it at a restaurant and copied it.

Posted by: Defenestratus at April 05, 2024 09:38 AM (1TrTR)

504 I was in the local O'Reilly's Auto Parts the other day and one of the employees was on the phone with a customer and was obviously having trouble finding what the customer wanted. She said out loud that the guy on the phone was looking for a flux capacitor for an 83 Delorean. The other employees were trying not to laugh and let it go on for a while. Guy on phone was the husband of a long-time worker who "baptizes" newbies with the joke. Everyone laughed, including me.

Posted by: Good Humor at April 05, 2024 09:38 AM (V5BDR)

505 We have a guy running for State Senate here in Northern AZ (against a McCain RINO) who wants to use this approach to bypass "The Veto Queen" (Soros Butt-Bitch Katie Hobbs); here it would be a series of "continual resolutions" voted on by the public and enacted into law to bypass her (Republicans hold a one-seat majority in both the state Senate & House).
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 05, 2024 09:35 AM (KtoBc)

I know Kari Lake won. I wish you the best in AZ, and want to thank you guys for Brian Heywood. He’s an AZ expat helping here in WA!

Posted by: Rex B at April 05, 2024 09:41 AM (5h/8D)

506 I was in the local O'Reilly's Auto Parts the other day and one of the employees was on the phone with a customer and was obviously having trouble finding what the customer wanted. She said out loud that the guy on the phone was looking for a flux capacitor for an 83 Delorean. The other employees were trying not to laugh and let it go on for a while. Guy on phone was the husband of a long-time worker who "baptizes" newbies with the joke. Everyone laughed, including me.
Posted by: Good Humor at April 05, 2024 09:38 AM (V5BDR)
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My first thought was, "it's amazing that worked."

My second thought was, "holy shit, 'Back to the Future' came out almost 40 years ago."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 09:41 AM (HnUIn)

507 377 I had chicken pox and measles. Back in the day, if one kid got it, they would have those "parties" to expose the other kids. They would get sick anyway so might as well get it over with. Plus, that's how you get herd immunity.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Yes, I recall that, too. But my by far younger brother (who never participated in such parties) was the "1 child out of every 1,000 who get measles will develop encephalitis (swelling of the brain)." CDC

And years later, a neighbor's young daughter developed encephalitis which led to serious, long term complications.

The CDC says measles can be serious in all age groups.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 05, 2024 09:42 AM (GshMh)

508 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 09:27 AM (0FoWg)

I'll try the Walmart one and see. I still like ramen cups of soup when I'm in a flare.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 09:43 AM (4VBfN)

509 Prayers up Der Commissar!!!

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 09:51 AM (4VBfN)

510 Botswana can afford to send 20,000 elephants? Guess they don't need foreign aid.

Posted by: Don Draper at April 05, 2024 09:58 AM (TNHr0)

511 Fine alternate-style Morning Report for a Friday, Misanthropic Humanitarian!

Great opening. More prayers up for J.J.

Posted by: KT at April 05, 2024 10:04 AM (rrtZS)

512 Newsom and his 480 Oakland flock cams

In the rollout video GavGov says “privacy is foundational.” He simply blurts that bit out.

Posted by: 13times at April 05, 2024 10:08 AM (X2ujo)

513 510 Botswana can afford to send 20,000 elephants? Guess they don't need foreign aid.
Posted by: Don Draper at April 05, 2024 09:58 AM (TNHr0)

They haven’t needed foreign aid in some time. It has the rep of being the best run country in Africa.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 05, 2024 10:21 AM (e0dkU)

514 Copying recipies. Ha!

Terry Greenfield, an honest to god, NASA Apollo engineer that I worked with has a story in his book "In Search of Caesar" (available on Amazon) that a famous restaurant, Ramones, in Cocoa Beach back in the day, had a world-class Caesar Salad dressing.

All kinds of efforts were made to try and get the chief to give up the recipe but he wouldn't tell.

Finally someone put an empty garbage bag in the trash can he used when he was making the recipe. When he was done they absconded with the trash bag and that is how the famous "Ramones" Caesar Salad recipe was finally discovered.

Posted by: pawn at April 05, 2024 10:34 AM (QB+5g)

515 389 At the vet rn my doggo got up in the middle of the night couldn't walk or even stand her eye both have diastagmis and her head is completely at a tilt. No word yet on a diagnosis but it doesn't look good for her.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 05, 2024 09:07 AM (qZvE

Oh, no!

Posted by: m at April 05, 2024 11:31 AM (o3SCB)

516 Mis Hum

Nice job. I'd like to have the "politics" aggregation included when possible.

1972 Democrats For Nixon:

Gov. John Connally got the last first class ticket on the Titanic. And then he went bankrupt, too. Guy had no luck at all after '72.

Posted by: KC Wolf (mnw) at April 05, 2024 01:02 PM (NLIak)

517 Do you look a bit like the KORN news guy, MisHum?

Posted by: m at April 05, 2024 01:47 PM (o3SCB)

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