Biden, Having Drained the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Boost Democrats' Chances for the 2022 Midterms, Now Breaks a Promise and Says He's Not Going to Re-Fill It

Biden lied. He's willing to weaponize the government and deplete critical wartime stocks for short-term political advantage.

He's an evil old vulture.

The Department of Energy said it has canceled its plans to purchase millions of barrels of oil to refill the depleted U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as oil prices rise to a five-month high.
In canceling the SPR purchase, the Energy Department said it was "keeping the taxpayer's interest at the forefront" of its buyback plan, which is to refill the depleted reserves so long as prices remain below $79 per barrel.
Prices for global benchmark Brent crude and U.S.-based West Texas Intermediate soared well higher Tuesday, with Brent prices nearing $90 per barrel and WTI climbing slightly above $85 per barrel, amid worries about supply from Russia and producers in the Middle East.
"We will not award the current solicitations for the Bayou Choctaw SPR site and will solicit available capacity as market conditions allow," DOE officials said, adding that they "will continue to monitor market dynamics" for future refills.
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Like other SPR caverns along the U.S. Gulf Coast, its levels remain depleted to historic lows following President Joe Biden's 180 million-barrel drawdown of SPR oil in March 2022, aimed at stabilizing energy costs for consumers in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
It was the largest one-time drawdown in the history of the stockpile. And while the sales did help alleviate prices for consumers, they also sent levels plummeting to a 40-year low and prompted concerns that a lengthy depletion period could leave the U.S. vulnerable and resource-strapped in the event of an emergency.
Wednesday's delay could also risk putting the administration off track as it looks to meet its promise of fully replenishing the SPR by the end of the year.

Biden's fantasies about everyone owning an electric vehicle are being exposed as an exhaust pipe dream.

Ford Motor Company announced Thursday that due to a lack of demand from customers, they will delay the rollout and manufacturing of new electric vehicles.
"In a manufacturing update Thursday, Ford announced that it is pushing back the production launch of its planned three-row electric SUV at its assembly plant in Oakville, Ontario, from 2025 to 2027," Fox Business reports. "Ford lost about $4.7 billion on EVs last year and projects losses in the range of $5 billion to $5.5 billion this year."

Two weeks ago the CEO of Hertz resigned after the company's failed electric vehicle experiment.

America's Least Favorite Gay Uncle says that if you don't buy an EV, you ain't black.

I mean, "You ain't a hepcat."

Via the Daily Mail:

Buttigieg was speaking on Fox News Tuesday afternoon when he was asked about a downturn in sales of Teslas and electric vehicles despite Biden's administration pushing them.
He said: 'Let's be clear, the automotive sector is moving toward EVs and we can't pretend otherwise. Sometimes, when these debates happen, I feel like it's the early 2000s and I'm talking to some people who think that we can just have landline phones forever.'

Oh Secretary Bootyjuice, you're so Fashion Forward.

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Wall Street is bracing for the first Tesla sales decline in four years as appetite for electric cars continues to slow.
The last time it saw a year-on-year decline in deliveries was in the first half of 2020 when car makers had to shut down factories due to COVID.
Even with sales down of EVs, Democrats continue to push for them and against gas-powered vehicles.
At least eight states are planning to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars in the next decade - and others are considering joining them.
Only zero-emission vehicles can be sold in participating states beginning from the 2035 model year, according to the Advanced Clean Cars II legislation.

Biden spent $7.5 billion of this nation's ever-shrinking capital to build charging stations for EVs.

He built SEVEN charging stations in two years.

President Biden has long vowed to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations in the United States by 2030. Those stations, the White House said, would help Americans feel confident purchasing and driving electric cars, and help the country cut carbon pollution.
But now, more than two years after Congress allocated $7.5 billion to help build out those stations, only 7 EV charging stations are operational across four states. And as the Biden administration rolls out its new rules for emissions from cars and trucks -- which will require a lot more electric cars and hybrids on the road -- the sluggish build-out could slow the transition to electric cars.
"I think a lot of people who are watching this are getting concerned about the timeline," said Alexander Laska, deputy director for transportation and innovation at the center-left think tank Third Way.

In March, Biden pushed new rules on tailpipe emissions designed to force everyone to buy an EV.

Benjamin Zycher writes that the EPA justifies these new rules by, get this, lying about the data.

Biden's EPA can justify his new EV rules only by cooking the books

Before federal regulations are implemented, they must be justified with an extensive analysis of costs and effects. The new Environmental Protection Agency rule forcing a massive shift toward electric vehicles is no exception. Weighing in at 1,181 pages, it is accompanied by an additional 884 pages of "regulatory impact analysis."
The EPA analysis justifying this rule is not unique in its length, but it is unique in its dishonesty.
EPA claims that the rule will reduce total greenhouse gas emissions over 2027-2055 by 7.2 billion metric tons. But despite a long and disingenuous discussion of the purported adverse effects of greenhouse gas emissions, EPA admits that it "did not...specifically quantify changes in climate impacts resulting from this rule in terms of avoided temperature change or sea-level rise."
The reason for that failure is obvious: The answer would be embarrassing. If we apply EPA's own climate model, with assumptions that exaggerate the climate effects of reductions in GHG emissions, the rule would reduce global temperatures in 2100 by 0.0068 degrees Celsius -- an effect far too small to be detectable.
Yet somehow, EPA claims that the rule will yield "climate benefits" of $1.6 trillion. How is that possible for a near-zero effect on temperatures? As with the entire Biden climate regulatory regime across all agencies, EPA multiplies asserted reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by the "social cost of carbon," a fictitious number that supposedly measures damage caused by the emissions.
This multiplier is fictitious because it is derived from an assumed future emissions scenario ("Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5") so extreme that it has virtually no chance of becoming reality. And this is incorporated into climate models that already overstate the actual satellite temperature measurements by a factor of about 2.5. The result? Climate doom and gloom predictions wholly at odds with the actual evidence.

So, Biden drained the SPR in a midterm election year, promised to refill it, but has now stopped even the trickle into the SPR b/c refilling it might put upward pressure on oil prices during a presidential election year; Biden giveth, Biden taketh away (but mostly taketh)... pic.twitter.com/xxua6buHW5
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1 What a great plan.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 05, 2024 01:01 PM (DRSnL)

2 not first?

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 01:01 PM (bving)

3 and yeah, we ALL saw this coming at the time...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 01:02 PM (bving)

4 I'm certain there is some China money going to the Biden family for this decision.

Posted by: RealityMain at April 05, 2024 01:03 PM (xsWV3)

5 The Department of Energy said it has canceled its plans to purchase millions of barrels of oil to refill the depleted U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as oil prices rise to a five-month high.
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There's a reason the SPR isn't supposed to be drained for stupid, ill-conceived reasons that leave us at a strategic disadvantage, but hey, whatever.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:04 PM (HnUIn)

6 More sabotage if he loses in ~~November~~ December.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:04 PM (ynpvh)

7 We can just install wind turbines on top of electric cars. Problem solved.

Posted by: brak at April 05, 2024 01:04 PM (AR07F)

8 Ha. The Uniparty only talks about "taxpayer interest" when it suits them. The rest of the time it's Critical Investment and Our Civic Responsibility.

When they start talking about thinking of the taxpayers, run.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 01:04 PM (4VBfN)

9 As part of a national slowdown in sales for one of America's oldest automakers, many gas-powered and EV Ford F-150 pickup trucks are parked in several rows in the back lots of the Michigan International Speedway.
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"Several rows."

There's hundreds of the trucks there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 05, 2024 01:05 PM (Q4IgG)

10 5 The Department of Energy said it has canceled its plans to purchase millions of barrels of oil to refill the depleted U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as oil prices rise to a five-month high.
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There's a reason the SPR isn't supposed to be drained for stupid, ill-conceived reasons that leave us at a strategic disadvantage, but hey, whatever.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:04 PM (HnUIn)

Hey now, 10% of what was paid by the Chinese for the oil isn't a stupid reason...it's a financial one.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:05 PM (ynpvh)

11 He said: 'Let's be clear, the automotive sector is moving toward EVs and we can't pretend otherwise. Sometimes, when these debates happen, I feel like it's the early 2000s and I'm talking to some people who think that we can just have landline phones forever.'
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Then why do you need to force the issue? If it's inevitable, why all the new rules and prohibitions?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:05 PM (HnUIn)

12 "He built SEVEN charging stations in two years."

That's a "moon shot" level achievement, Jack!

Posted by: President Balls-On-Chin at April 05, 2024 01:05 PM (snyZJ)

13 "I think a lot of people who are watching this are getting concerned about the timeline,"

lol

Posted by: The Fine Art of Understatement at April 05, 2024 01:05 PM (3gh+6)

14 "Wednesday's delay could also risk putting the administration off track as it looks to meet its promise of fully replenishing the SPR by the end of the year."

anyone else think that this "administration" is just waiting to see if they win in november or not? if they DO lose, they'll go ahead and purchase as much as possible to drive up gas prices so they can blame it and "inflation" on PDJT.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 05, 2024 01:05 PM (bving)

15 7 We can just install wind turbines on top of electric cars. Problem solved.

Posted by: brak at April 05, 2024 01:04 PM (AR07F)

Make sure the cars aways run downhill. Cumala Harris and AOC approve this message.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:05 PM (ynpvh)

16 Operation: Fuck Up Everything!

Posted by: davidt at April 05, 2024 01:06 PM (SYTee)

17 But now, more than two years after Congress allocated $7.5 billion to help build out those stations, only 7 EV charging stations are operational across four states. ...
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You mean that government infrastructure project of questionable value is spending a fortune while getting nothing done? Why, that *never* happens!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:06 PM (HnUIn)

18 Can't refill the SPR now anyway, since the squatters moved in. Takes forever to clear them out.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Healthful Glow at April 05, 2024 01:06 PM (MvF+J)

19 People all chose not to be shackled to landlines just like they're choosing not to be shackled to evs now. The condescending poofter.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 05, 2024 01:06 PM (Y6IkP)

20 350 million barrels doesn't seem like an awful lot... a modest facility could hold that and you wouldn't even see it on a satellite image... maybe not. What is that, like, a couple hundred tanker trailers full? I don't even know. I just always have this automatic assumption that "Big Numbers" are never really as big as you think they are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 05, 2024 01:06 PM (VoAdT)

21 > Biden's fantasies about everyone owning an electric vehicle are being exposed as an exhaust pipe dream.

Simple math demonstrates that EVs HAVE TO BE niche with today's technology.

1. We don't have the electrical power production capability to fill up EVs at our current usage rate if we replace all of the ICE vehicles on the road. We don't even have enough to replace a significant percent.

2. We don't have the rare earth minerals required to create all the batteries necessary to replace a significant percentage of ICE vehicles on the road.

3. Even if we did have enough rare earth minerals, China controls the market. They could yank the rug out from under the entire world market if they wanted to.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:06 PM (eyxn4)

22 This multiplier is fictitious because it is derived from an assumed future emissions scenario ("Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5") so extreme that it has virtually no chance of becoming reality. And this is incorporated into climate models that already overstate the actual satellite temperature measurements by a factor of about 2.5. The result? Climate doom and gloom predictions wholly at odds with the actual evidence.
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Perfect government math, in other words.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:06 PM (HnUIn)

23 The SPR was going to be topped off during Trump's term when oil prices were low.

But Schumer torpedoed it.

Fvck you Schumer, get a$$ cancer of the mouth.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 05, 2024 01:07 PM (wDA3Q)

24 Afternoon Ace. Ryan Long did a funny video as a laid off writer for Vice ithink it was. Everything he pitched sounded like the Indonesian tranny headline. Spot on showing how delusional and useless the propaganda ministries really are

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 05, 2024 01:07 PM (ixVYR)

25 I keep seeing Biden's name on all this stuff.

Are we sure this is the same Joe Biden? The guy who shits his pants, can't string words together unless he's drugged up on amphetamines?

That guy? He's making all these decisions? And everyone's just listening to him, as he tells them what to do?

Ok, if you say so.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 05, 2024 01:07 PM (dGCAG)

26 16 Operation: Fuck Up Everything!

Posted by: davidt at April 05, 2024 01:06 PM (SYTee)

Operation CF FUBAR well underway...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:07 PM (ynpvh)

27 Dopey liberals will never give up on their electric cars. It's like high speed rail. It's a virtue signal, it's graft, it's forcing change on people they disdain. It's a leftwing wet dream.

Posted by: brak at April 05, 2024 01:07 PM (AR07F)

28 18 Can't refill the SPR now anyway, since the squatters moved in. Takes forever to clear them out.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Healthful Glow at April 05, 2024 01:06 PM (MvF+J)

Not if you start pouring oil in there...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:07 PM (ynpvh)

29 Make Guillotines great again!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at April 05, 2024 01:07 PM (17s+e)

30 19 People all chose not to be shackled to landlines just like they're choosing not to be shackled to evs now. The condescending poofter.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 05, 2024 01:06 PM (Y6IkP)

Nobody "cut the cord" when they got their first briefcase sized car-phone that didn't work half the time.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 05, 2024 01:07 PM (VoAdT)

31 Hey Mayo Pete, you'll have to pry my landline phone out of my cold dead hands.
Plus I have one at work, too.
Neener neener.

Posted by: wth at April 05, 2024 01:07 PM (v0R5T)

32 The SPR was going to be topped off during Trump's term when oil prices were low.

But Schumer torpedoed it.

Fvck you Schumer, get a$$ cancer of the mouth.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 05, 2024 01:07 PM (wDA3Q)
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"We can drain it indefinitely and never refill it" is the basic of attitude of government finance, so it should be unsurprising that the attitude extends to physical goods.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:08 PM (HnUIn)

33 Simple math demonstrates that EVs HAVE TO BE niche with today's technology.

1. We don't have the electrical power production capability to fill up EVs at our current usage rate if we replace all of the ICE vehicles on the road. We don't even have enough to replace a significant percent.

2. We don't have the rare earth minerals required to create all the batteries necessary to replace a significant percentage of ICE vehicles on the road.

3. Even if we did have enough rare earth minerals, China controls the market. They could yank the rug out from under the entire world market if they wanted to.

Other than that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 05, 2024 01:08 PM (CsUN+)

34
We never claimed that but if we did it was for a good reason prole. Now if you'll excuse us we have to get back to the business of good governing by cutting off your freedoms some more.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 01:08 PM (RKVpM)

35 $4.19 a gallon and jumping. 10 a gallon every 5 to six days here. $5+ a gallon by Memorial day and who knows how high by mid summer. Joe ain't gonna be able to manipulate this one.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * hanging out at the corner of Crazy and Sanity at April 05, 2024 01:08 PM (aevEN)

36 I guess it's true what they say - the best strategy is no strategy.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 01:09 PM (4VBfN)

37 I just got back from a few errands. While out, I went by our "dealer's row" off the interstate bypass. Lots that were nearly empty a year ago are now full, but I betcha the majority of inventory are glorified golf carts.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2024 01:09 PM (0EOe9)

38 1) Not going to refill because if there is a crisis, we are fucked and will have to let China have Taiwan for a few bills in Biden's pocket?

2) Not going to refill because it would cause gas prices to rise further and hurt Biden's election chances?

3) Not going to refill because they want to put further pressure on people to HAVE to give up their cars and get on the fucking train? The whole EV transition is a pipe dream enviro boondoggle. The real play is to limit personal mobility.

All of the above.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 05, 2024 01:09 PM (di6C2)

39 Had to repost because worthy:

"The Rock has boxed himself in politically. His endorsement of King Droolymouth Sundown Fingerbanger the First has confirmed he is as dumb as a box of him.
Posted by: Minuteman at April 05, 2024 01:04 PM"

Posted by: fd at April 05, 2024 01:09 PM (vFG9F)

40 "We can drain it indefinitely and never refill it" is the basic of attitude of government finance, so it should be unsurprising that the attitude extends to physical goods.

we'll just print more oil

Posted by: brak at April 05, 2024 01:09 PM (AR07F)

41 On EVs:

MARKET SATURATION, MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT!?!?!

Posted by: Jules Winnfield at April 05, 2024 01:09 PM (DeFcY)

42 He's an evil old vulture.

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This asshole is out of control. He's out of control, and we'll be lucky to live through it.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 05, 2024 01:09 PM (1rEO3)

43 Decrepit Joe will drain the rest of the SPR during the summer in an attempt to keep his reelection afloat. Because (insert Junta lies here).

Posted by: Gref at April 05, 2024 01:10 PM (5fDan)

44 You're misinformed. Biden never said that.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 01:10 PM (4VBfN)

45 Brandon is asho

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 05, 2024 01:10 PM (fPaY0)

46 The SPR will get filled back up as soon as California completes its high speed train.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at April 05, 2024 01:10 PM (17s+e)

47 This asshole is out of control. He's out of control, and we'll be lucky to live through it.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 05, 2024 01:09 PM (1rEO3)

He is a puppet, and his handlers figure they will make him the focal point and just steal the election again.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 05, 2024 01:10 PM (di6C2)

48 I'm certain there is some China money going to the Biden family for this decision.
Posted by: RealityMain at April 05, 2024 01:03 PM (xsWV3)

Maybe, but didn't someone report earlier that the Administration had stated that opposing Taiwan independence is now official policy? Seems like that would be a bigger deal for the ChiComs than the SPR having oil. After all, we sent all our munitions to THE Ukraine, we made serving in the military toxic to anyone, and everyone, who would be a useful member of the military, and we're escalating tensions with Russia. It's not like China needs to worry about the US flexing its spindly little arms over anything.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 01:10 PM (nR2nR)

49 He said: 'Let's be clear, the automotive sector is moving toward EVs and we can't pretend otherwise.

What a fucking weasel. You're twisting the arm of the industry to make it ignore the market, and then saying "look, this change is just happening, without a gigantic jackboot of mandates and regulation stomping all over things! All just magically!"

Posted by: spindrift at April 05, 2024 01:10 PM (OguvZ)

50 > But now, more than two years after Congress allocated $7.5 billion to help build out those stations, only 7 EV charging stations are operational across four states. ...
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Now do the FSK Bridge in Baltimore.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 05, 2024 01:10 PM (Q4IgG)

51 We can just install wind turbines on top of electric cars. Problem solved.

Posted by: brak at April 05, 2024 01:04 PM (AR07F)

Make sure the cars aways run downhill. Cumala Harris and AOC approve this message.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:05 PM (ynpvh)
........

I'm partial to the really long extension cord idea.

Posted by: wth at April 05, 2024 01:11 PM (v0R5T)

52 he said this the day b4 Blinken came out and said Ukes to join NATO.....at that announcement.... oil shot up $2 per barrel....and has gone up another $1 per barrel today....he knew it would become too expensive ....because he knew what Blinken's action would do

Posted by: jb at April 05, 2024 01:11 PM (bsZ5t)

53 Joe can just roll the vette over to Ukraine with a siphon hose. We know he sucks.

Posted by: DaveA at April 05, 2024 01:11 PM (PMJuY)

54 Buy low, sell high!

Joe ain't no ordinary dummy!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 01:11 PM (991eG)

55 Biden's fantasies about everyone owning an electric vehicle are being exposed as an exhaust pipe dream.

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Making "Leading From Behind" Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 05, 2024 01:11 PM (1rEO3)

56 Lift your boot off the neck of the american petroleum industry.

Let them pay their taxes in oil or gasoline for a little while.

You'll have the reserve full to the brim in ten fucking minutes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 05, 2024 01:11 PM (VoAdT)

57 Don't trannies do it in the rain?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 05, 2024 01:11 PM (63Dwl)

58 Wait, were landlines banned?

Seriously, though, these cultists keep pushing this nonsense. Landlines, horses, horse and buggies, etc., like it's some sort of clever insult, while the people they are trying to insult know 100% that all of those transitions occurred because people wanted the new product, not because laws were being passed to make a few families that had invested in China and Afghanistan wealthy.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at April 05, 2024 01:11 PM (6Gcwb)

59 "I think a lot of people who are watching this are getting concerned about the timeline," said Alexander Laska, deputy director for transportation and innovation at the center-left think tank Third Way.

Oh, I think a lot of people who are watching this are seeing the exact thing they expected: Government inefficiency and graft. It's so commonplace no one is really concerned about it anymore.

Posted by: huerfano at April 05, 2024 01:12 PM (VGOMa)

60 I feel like it's the early 2000s and I'm talking to some people who think that we can just have landline phones forever.'

Did he focus group that response?

Wireless phones solved a problem and were better than the thing they replaced. Therefore the government didn't have to heavily subsidize them and "nudge" consumers into purchasing them.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 05, 2024 01:12 PM (eXDec)

61 More sabotage if he loses in ~~November~~ December.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:04 PM (ynpvh)

January is what counts. Expect the House to try and deny Trump the win if they're unable to pull off the cheat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 01:12 PM (nR2nR)

62 $7.5 billion for a border wall? "We can't afford it."
$7.5 billion for EV chargers at $15k a pop? "We can't afford not to do it."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:12 PM (HnUIn)

63 Biden's financial secret: buy high, sell low.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 05, 2024 01:12 PM (RIvkX)

64 (looks at landline phone)

Posted by: Moron Robbie at April 05, 2024 01:12 PM (6Gcwb)

65 He is a puppet, and his handlers figure they will make him the focal point and just steal the election again.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

You sound like you need cheering up. Please go read comment #69 in the Morning Rant. You'll feel better.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 05, 2024 01:12 PM (CsUN+)

66 Remind me again which section of the constitution gives a president, or any unelected bureaucrat, the right to tell me what I am allowed to purchase?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 01:12 PM (lTGtQ)

67 20 350 million barrels doesn't seem like an awful lot... a modest facility could hold that and you wouldn't even see it on a satellite image... maybe not. What is that, like, a couple hundred tanker trailers full? I don't even know. I just always have this automatic assumption that "Big Numbers" are never really as big as you think they are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 05, 2024 01:06 PM (VoAdT)
1 barrel = 42 gallons of oil.
350 MILLION barrels = 14.7 BILLION gallons of oil. That's quite a bit of oil...≈22,260 Olympic swimming pools-worth.
/off math

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:13 PM (ynpvh)

68 "Hey gang, how's this sound? The rubes won't give up their ICE cars unless we nudge them. How about we start banning repair parts like those thingies that spark or something? Kinda like banning bullets when we can't ban the guns".

28 year old White House staffer at a brainstorming session

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2024 01:13 PM (0EOe9)

69
We don't have the rare earth minerals required to create all the batteries necessary to replace a significant percentage of ICE vehicles on the road.

Toyota seems to have been the smart ones in this, continuing to create hybrid vehicles which would be pretty exceptional in driving in stop and go city traffic while relying predominately on the battery and braking system to recharge the battery.

Their battery for the hybrid require 1/192th of the rare material of a 100% battery powered vehicle. But our 'betters' know better.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 01:13 PM (RKVpM)

70 We can't have landmines anymore?

Posted by: davidt at April 05, 2024 01:13 PM (SYTee)

71 Also willowed

"FDA to allow anonymous gay men to donate sperm as long as their risk of spreading HIV is low""

Squat here please, sir.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at April 05, 2024 01:13 PM (6Gcwb)

72 32 "We can drain it indefinitely and never refill it" is the basic of attitude of government finance, so it should be unsurprising that the attitude extends to physical goods.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:08 PM (HnUIn)

"F*** You, Plebe, we don't have to refill it, we can all jet off to Costa Rica whenever we feel like it!" is the real answer.

Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 01:13 PM (UnA8+)

73 Trump did say doody though.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 01:13 PM (4VBfN)

74 >>Biden's fantasies about everyone owning an electric vehicle are being exposed as an exhaust pipe dream.

The transition to EV's was always bullsh*t, there are over 280M f**king ICE vehicles in the country, the average EV battery is 40Kwh, do f**king basic math, it's f**king impossible.

And along with cars, they want everything to be electric powered.

HOW THE F******K ARE WE LOSING TO THESE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 05, 2024 01:13 PM (XV/Pl)

75 The entire junta rule is a worldwide nightmare.

For example, buried in today huge jobs report is the news that most of the "jobs" created are janitorial level jobs in hospitals, hospitality and, wait for it...government.

Black Americans saw jobs declines according to the report.

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 05, 2024 01:13 PM (xcNAP)

76 January is what counts. Expect the House to try and deny Trump the win if they're unable to pull off the cheat.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 01:12 PM (nR2nR)

No coup in the history of the world has just rolled over for a counter coup. Hell, even Otho waited until he lost a battle to fall on his sword.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 05, 2024 01:13 PM (di6C2)

77 Funny that when cars first appeared in the 1800's, there was debate over steam, electric or ICE.
But muh new technology!
I want a Flocken Elektrowagen!

Posted by: wth at April 05, 2024 01:14 PM (v0R5T)

78 I feel like it's the early 2000s and I'm talking to some people who think that we can just have landline phones forever.'

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

The correct analogy would be trying to convince people to go back to land lines after cell phones had been in wide use.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 05, 2024 01:14 PM (2UnvF)

79 350 MILLION barrels = 14.7 BILLION gallons of oil. That's quite a bit of oil...≈22,260 Olympic swimming pools-worth.

I've never understood why Olympic swimming pools became a measure of volume. It isn't like most people have ever been in one. I prefer the spherical giraffe unit.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 05, 2024 01:14 PM (CsUN+)

80 Mayor Pete has to be one of the dumbest people ever to be elevated to a cabinet position.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2024 01:14 PM (fs1hN)

81 Meet the transgender Seattle attorney who is defending the far-left activists who disrupted a city council meeting

Remember that movie Mannequin? This is what you'd get if you brought a blow up doll to life instead.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 05, 2024 01:14 PM (ibTVg)

82 "He built SEVEN charging stations in two years."

Is one on Martha's Vineyard?

Posted by: fd at April 05, 2024 01:14 PM (vFG9F)

83 350 million barrels doesn't seem like an awful lot... a modest facility could hold that and you wouldn't even see it on a satellite image... maybe not. What is that, like, a couple hundred tanker trailers full? I don't even know. I just always have this automatic assumption that "Big Numbers" are never really as big as you think they are.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

What the article ignores is the purpose of the SPR. It's was not meant for playing Jr. Arbitrage Manager. It's meant for actual wartime emergencies. The usage of it absent a war should be an impeachable offense. But, no. We have the GOP playing loafer follies in the cloakroom.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 05, 2024 01:14 PM (IG4Id)

84 9 As part of a national slowdown in sales for one of America's oldest automakers, many gas-powered and EV Ford F-150 pickup trucks are parked in several rows in the back lots of the Michigan International Speedway.

----

I know how to get some use out of those rows of trucks

-Zombie Evel Knievel

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 05, 2024 01:14 PM (2kdiJ)

85 He said: 'Let's be clear, the automotive sector is moving toward EVs and we can't pretend otherwise.

-

Let's be clear - they are not, and they never will.

Unless there is some plan to send forces to physically take vehicles away from citizens. In which case, there will be no vehicles.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2024 01:14 PM (lTGtQ)

86 Biden's financial secret: buy high, sell ~~low~~ out.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 05, 2024 01:12 PM

Posted by: huerfano at April 05, 2024 01:14 PM (VGOMa)

87 I'm partial to the really long extension cord idea.

*******

Charge the batteries continuously with an exercise bike ridden in turns by a team of "newcomers" that travels wherever you go.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 01:15 PM (991eG)

88 Because if there's anyone with a low risk of spreading AIDS it's an anonymous gay man.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 01:15 PM (4VBfN)

89 350 million barrels doesn't seem like an awful lot... a modest facility could hold that and you wouldn't even see it on a satellite image... maybe not. What is that, like, a couple hundred tanker trailers full? I don't even know. I just always have this automatic assumption that "Big Numbers" are never really as big as you think they are.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 05, 2024 01:06 PM (VoAdT)

It's 19.25 billion gallons.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 01:15 PM (nR2nR)

90 Biden's fantasies about everyone owning an electric vehicle are being exposed as an exhaust pipe dream.

--

Biden has no fantasies about electric cars... He only dreams of pudding cups

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 05, 2024 01:15 PM (2kdiJ)

91 Their battery for the hybrid require 1/192th of the rare material of a 100% battery powered vehicle. But our 'betters' know better.

AFAIK, there is also no problem with hybrids bursting into unquenchable flames.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 05, 2024 01:16 PM (CsUN+)

92 It’s like these people sit around and think

“What’s the most retarded shit we can write about?”

They're just following the process:

https://youtu.be/Ia7fUQXskvA

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at April 05, 2024 01:16 PM (DTX3h)

93 Biden's fantasies about everyone owning an electric vehicle are being exposed as an exhaust pipe dream.
.......

...with a banana in it.

Posted by: wth at April 05, 2024 01:16 PM (v0R5T)

94 January is what counts. Expect the House to try and deny Trump the win if they're unable to pull off the cheat.

-

Iirc One of the first things the House did was plug that hole in the rules. They will deny Trump certification and wait for the clock to run out, and that's that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at April 05, 2024 01:16 PM (6Gcwb)

95 33 Simple math demonstrates that EVs HAVE TO BE niche with today's technology.

1. We don't have the electrical power production capability to fill up EVs at our current usage rate if we replace all of the ICE vehicles on the road. We don't even have enough to replace a significant percent.

2. We don't have the rare earth minerals required to create all the batteries necessary to replace a significant percentage of ICE vehicles on the road.

3. Even if we did have enough rare earth minerals, China controls the market. They could yank the rug out from under the entire world market if they wanted to.

Other than that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 05, 2024 01:08 PM (CsUN+)

They DON'T want to replace all the ICE vehicles. They don't wan you to have any vehicles. They want you to live in panopticons called "walkable cities", unable to leave.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:16 PM (ynpvh)

96 Every time I think about Pete Bootyjuice I remember that video of him a few years back where he is climbing out of his SUV and then putting on a helmet and getting on his bike. He had a bevy of helpers to do this task. He then bicycles a few blocks to the capital.

He is a complete sham and a fraud.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 05, 2024 01:16 PM (F6UFz)

97 HOW THE F******K ARE WE LOSING TO THESE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 05, 2024 01:13 PM (XV/Pl)
==================
The question I ask every day, though maybe phrased as "how are Democrats even slightly competitive?!?!"

Propaganda is much of the answer, I think. And complete civic ignorance, and infantilized citizen fearfulness.

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 05, 2024 01:16 PM (xcNAP)

98 Here is the current SPR data. The total capacity is 714Mbbl. The current level is 364Mbbl, so I guess 50% full. The SPR was instituted in 1975 in reaction to Arab supply shocks.
spr.doe.gov/dir/dir.html

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Healthful Glow at April 05, 2024 01:16 PM (MvF+J)

99 Well if we got off our asses and switched over to all electric tanks and mobile artillery, we wouldn't even need an oil reserve, so mnyeah.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 05, 2024 01:16 PM (VoAdT)

100 I, for one, stand four-square and rock-ribbed against any tailpipe emissions standards.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & Cuck-CCP) at April 05, 2024 01:17 PM (a3Q+t)

101 It’s strategic. Only for Democrat re-election purposes.

Posted by: Montec at April 05, 2024 01:17 PM (qNtQk)

102 81 Meet the transgender Seattle attorney who is defending the far-left activists who disrupted a city council meeting

Remember that movie Mannequin? This is what you'd get if you brought a blow up doll to life instead.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 05, 2024 01:14 PM (ibTVg)

The point of being a troon is to at least ATTEMPT to pass, even if it's impossible.

This dude is.... there aren't even words, man. There's just violence.

Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 01:17 PM (UnA8+)

103 The correct analogy would be trying to convince people to go back to land lines after cell phones had been in wide use.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 05, 2024 01:14 PM (2UnvF)

The correct analogy is trying to ban landlines to make way for two cans and string because it's better for Earf.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 01:17 PM (4VBfN)

104 How climate change is hitting vulnerable
Indonesian trans sex workers

I worry about that daily.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 05, 2024 01:17 PM (YAtuc)

105 No coup in the history of the world has just rolled over for a counter coup. Hell, even Otho waited until he lost a battle to fall on his sword.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 05, 2024 01:13 PM (di6C2)
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Heh. Otho. That guy!

Posted by: Vespasian at April 05, 2024 01:17 PM (DeFcY)

106 The average price paid for oil in the SPR is $29.70. Refilling it at $79 is a loss of about $50 per barrel. But Trump was an idiot and industry simp for wanting to buy oil when it was around $30 in 2020. Oh, and because DOE sells the oil on the open market, a lot of the tankers went to China. Freaking geniuses.

Posted by: the dandy at April 05, 2024 01:17 PM (w83EC)

107 Spoiler alert

Democrat alternate electors are perfectly legal

Posted by: Moron Robbie at April 05, 2024 01:18 PM (6Gcwb)

108
I'm gonna laugh when during the Francis Scott Key bridge rebuild they have to factor in the cost of 'over-engineering' the bridge to allow for the additional weight of battery powered cars all waiting on the span to cross. Which is a not-at-all unsubstantial difference from ICE vehicles.

Somehow it will be Trumps fault.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 01:18 PM (RKVpM)

109 74 HOW THE F******K ARE WE LOSING TO THESE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 05, 2024 01:13 PM (XV/Pl)

Because AWFLs are addicted to killing babies.

Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 01:18 PM (UnA8+)

110 > I've never understood why Olympic swimming pools became a measure of volume. It isn't like most people have ever been in one.

It's a large volume that most Americans can conceptualize.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:18 PM (eyxn4)

111 The question I ask every day, though maybe phrased as "how are Democrats even slightly competitive?!?!"
------

Hi. Have you met us?

Posted by: Elected Republicans at April 05, 2024 01:19 PM (4VBfN)

112 HOW THE F******K ARE WE LOSING TO THESE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 05, 2024 01:13 PM (XV/Pl)
==================
The question I ask every day, though maybe phrased as "how are Democrats even slightly competitive?!?!"

Propaganda is much of the answer, I think. And complete civic ignorance, and infantilized citizen fearfulness.

The desire to get something for nothing is very strong among some people.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 05, 2024 01:19 PM (CsUN+)

113 82 "He built SEVEN charging stations in two years."

Is one on Martha's Vineyard?
______

Probably all seven.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2024 01:19 PM (fs1hN)

114 Here is the current SPR data. The total capacity is 714Mbbl. The current level is 364Mbbl

I'm sure those are accurate, trust worthy numbers. Just like the CPI, the jobs and UE numbers.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * hanging out at the corner of Crazy and Sanity at April 05, 2024 01:19 PM (aevEN)

115 And Biden told the Ukrainians to stop attacking Russian oil refineries, a campaign that seems to be having some success.

After all, the attacks were driving up the price of oil, and Joe's reelection comes first.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 05, 2024 01:19 PM (YAtuc)

116 Buy low, sell high!

Joe ain't no ordinary dummy!
Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 01:11 PM (991eG)
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*fistbump*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 05, 2024 01:20 PM (RIvkX)

117 75 The entire junta rule is a worldwide nightmare.

For example, buried in today huge jobs report is the news that most of the "jobs" created are janitorial level jobs in hospitals, hospitality and, wait for it...government.

Black Americans saw jobs declines according to the report.

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 05, 2024 01:13 PM (xcNAP)

I also bet that almost all the gains were in the illegal immigrant sector.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:20 PM (ynpvh)

118 But Trump was an idiot and industry simp for wanting to buy oil when it was around $30 in 2020. Oh, and because DOE sells the oil on the open market, a lot of the tankers went to China. Freaking geniuses.
Posted by: the dandy

Pelosi blocked him out of spite, and everyone just moved on. Congress needs a Hercules to clean it out.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 05, 2024 01:20 PM (IG4Id)

119 114 If I knew where the dipstick is, I could check it myself. If anybody has more reliable numbers, sock em to us.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Healthful Glow at April 05, 2024 01:21 PM (MvF+J)

120 I've never understood why Olympic swimming pools became a measure of volume. It isn't like most people have ever been in one.

It's a large volume that most Americans can conceptualize.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:18 PM (eyxn4)
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It's as explicable as measuring asteroid size in terms of giraffes.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 05, 2024 01:21 PM (DeFcY)

121 He is a complete sham and a fraud.

Ah, but would you say he's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of two mockeries of a sham.

https://tinyurl.com/wwh375mv

Posted by: Archimedes at April 05, 2024 01:21 PM (CsUN+)

122 I've never understood why Olympic swimming pools became a measure of volume. It isn't like most people have ever been in one.

It's a large volume that most Americans can conceptualize.
Posted by: bonhomme

How many cubic Lizzos is that?

Posted by: Miklos, only very mildly curious at April 05, 2024 01:21 PM (7KVXA)

123 Biden's gonna go
Biden's gonna go
Oh, Biden's gonna go
in November.

They're going to throw him out
We're going to vote him out
He's really such a lout
Oh, Biden's gonna go
in November.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 05, 2024 01:22 PM (VMSDU)

124 "He built SEVEN charging stations in two years."

Is one on Martha's Vineyard?
______
Probably all seven.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2024

***
Lemme guess. Two on Martha's Vineyard, one on Long Island (way out), one on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, one in Chicago, and two in the DC suburbs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 05, 2024 01:22 PM (J2vNu)

125 I'm talking to some people who think that we can just have landline phones forever.'

******

Hmmm. I just got off the phone talking to my 92-year-old mother in law. She wanted to know what channel the hockey game is on Sunday. She uses her landline exclusively. She's not very big but could probably check Mayor Pete into the corner boards with ease.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 01:22 PM (991eG)

126 The future of EV's:

https://tinyurl.com/3twhdt4t

Posted by: wth at April 05, 2024 01:22 PM (v0R5T)

127 Thomas Massie says the SecDef and State Department claim they don't know how many Ukrainians have been killed in this war and refused to even give a rough estimate.

http://tiny.cc/y6wnxz

Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:22 PM (eyxn4)

128 79 350 MILLION barrels = 14.7 BILLION gallons of oil. That's quite a bit of oil...≈22,260 Olympic swimming pools-worth.

I've never understood why Olympic swimming pools became a measure of volume. It isn't like most people have ever been in one. I prefer the spherical giraffe unit.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 05, 2024 01:14 PM (CsUN+)

45,112 acre-feet? A bit more relatable. Imagine an area of 10 acres, with a skyscraper sitting on it, 4,511 feet tall...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:23 PM (ynpvh)

129 I've never understood why Olympic swimming pools became a measure of volume. It isn't like most people have ever been in one.

It's a large volume that most Americans can conceptualize.

I'd be willing to bet that if you asked the average American what size cube is equivalent to an Olympic swimming pool, they'd be off by orders of magnitude.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 05, 2024 01:23 PM (CsUN+)

130 There's no official size for an Olympic swimming pool but it sounds yuge.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 05, 2024 01:23 PM (VMSDU)

131 Thomas Massie says the SecDef and State Department claim they don't know how many Ukrainians have been killed in this war and refused to even give a rough estimate. ...
Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:22 PM (eyxn4)
++++
Yet they seem to "know" the exact number of Gaza women and children who have died...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:23 PM (HnUIn)

132 Buy low, sell high!

Years ago, I went to a presentation by a couple of Canadian economists entitled:

"Buy high, sell low: Canada plays the world oil market"

Apparently the Canadian government would panic in oil crises and buy oil to put into the Canadian oil reserve, and would then decide later that they really didn't need the oil, and would sell it at a big loss.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 05, 2024 01:23 PM (YAtuc)

133 Thomas Massie says the SecDef and State Department claim they don't know how many Ukrainians have been killed in this war and refused to even give a rough estimate.

http://tiny.cc/y6wnxz
Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:22 PM (eyxn4)

But they don't seem to mind telling anyone who will listen that 100 Million kids are dying in gaza?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 05, 2024 01:24 PM (pVWRI)

134 They will drain the SPR and have Biden EO it out of existence.
They want it to burn.
Let it burn.
The Left are coke heads and drunks, don't get involved. They aren't listening and will blame you

Posted by: Jamaica at April 05, 2024 01:24 PM (IG7T0)

135 Pelosi blocked him out of spite, and everyone just moved on. Congress needs a Hercules to clean it out.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 05, 2024 01:20 PM (IG4Id)

Out of spite or because it weakens America? With leftards, never attribute to personal what could also be political.

Posted by: Elected Republicans at April 05, 2024 01:24 PM (4VBfN)

136 89 350 million barrels doesn't seem like an awful lot... a modest facility could hold that and you wouldn't even see it on a satellite image... maybe not. What is that, like, a couple hundred tanker trailers full? I don't even know. I just always have this automatic assumption that "Big Numbers" are never really as big as you think they are.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 05, 2024 01:06 PM (VoAdT)

It's 19.25 billion gallons.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 01:15 PM (nR2nR)

barrel of oil is 42 gal, or 54 gal?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:24 PM (ynpvh)

137 A vote for Biden is just a vote for a presidential funeral.

Posted by: Malicious Compliance at April 05, 2024 01:24 PM (OBuuS)

138 She's not very big but could probably check Mayor Pete into the corner boards with ease.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 01:22 PM (991eG)
===

A light breeze could do that.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 05, 2024 01:24 PM (RIvkX)

139 Earthquakes and eclipses. Disease and inflationary pricing.

If the Horsemen aren't riding, they soon will be.

Posted by: jmel at April 05, 2024 01:24 PM (RWHIh)

140 Getting rid of landlines was a profoundly stupid idea, but the phone companies love it.

Posted by: Max Power at April 05, 2024 01:24 PM (Hucnr)

141 Bridge engineering is simple. Barely an inconvenience!

And with DEI, our capabilities have only improved!

Posted by: Florida International University at April 05, 2024 01:25 PM (a3Q+t)

142 108
I'm gonna laugh when during the Francis Scott Key bridge rebuild they have to factor in the cost of 'over-engineering' the bridge to allow for the additional weight of battery powered cars all waiting on the span to cross. Which is a not-at-all unsubstantial difference from ICE vehicles.

Somehow it will be Trumps fault.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 01:18 PM (RKVpM)

You'll laugh yourself to death when the Democrat Junta in Power in 2029 says 5 Trillion Dollars is needed to strengthen many bridges and elevated roadways to be able to carry EV cars and trucks stalled bumper-to-bumper.

Posted by: Gref at April 05, 2024 01:25 PM (5fDan)

143 Thomas Massie says the SecDef and State Department claim they don't know how many Ukrainians have been killed in this war

Cheapest war the United States has ever fought!

Posted by: Miss Lindsey, Ghoul! at April 05, 2024 01:25 PM (YAtuc)

144 Out of spite or because it weakens America? With leftards, never attribute to personal what could also be political.
Posted by: Elected Republicans at April 05, 2024 01:24 PM (4VBfN)
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"Power of And" (TM)

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 05, 2024 01:25 PM (DeFcY)

145 127 Thomas Massie says the SecDef and State Department claim they don't know how many Ukrainians have been killed in this war and refused to even give a rough estimate.

http://tiny.cc/y6wnxz

Posted by: bonhomme
------------------------

Teacher, teacher, I know, I know the answer.
How many have been killed in Ukraine?
TOO MANY.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 05, 2024 01:25 PM (VMSDU)

146 > It's as explicable as measuring asteroid size in terms of giraffes.

Don't be silly. Most people haven't seen a giraffe up close. Additionally, they are very irregularly shaped. If I had to guess the volume of a giraffe, I'd have no idea where to begin.

An Olympic sized pool is a big box. It has a regular length, width, and depth. It's very easy to conceptualize the volume of it.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:25 PM (eyxn4)

147 104 How climate change is hitting vulnerable
Indonesian trans sex workers

I worry about that daily.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 05, 2024 01:17 PM (YAtuc)

Trannies. In Indonesia. In the sex trade. That are vulnerable.
That's like, what? a few dozen?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:25 PM (ynpvh)

148 >>> The future of EV's:

https://tinyurl.com/3twhdt4t
Posted by: wth at April 05, 2024 01:22 PM (v0R5T)

I hate flocken electrowagons.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 05, 2024 01:26 PM (Y6IkP)

149 He is a complete sham and a fraud.
Posted by: washrivergal at April 05, 2024 01:16 PM (F6UFz)
.......

Mayo Pete's bicycle had no seat.

Posted by: wth at April 05, 2024 01:26 PM (v0R5T)

150 104 How climate change is hitting vulnerable
Indonesian trans sex workers

Really? Impacted how? Getting hotter and stickier than before? Isn't that what Lume and Mando are for?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 05, 2024 01:28 PM (N39Ws)

151 I'd be willing to bet that if you asked the average American what size cube is equivalent to an Olympic swimming pool, they'd be off by orders of magnitude.

The answer is a cube of roughly 44.5 ft on a side.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 05, 2024 01:28 PM (CsUN+)

152 They want to communicate "a lot" and have people remember it. So imagery is used. The actual amount doesn't matter.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 01:28 PM (4VBfN)

153 Mayo Pete's bicycle had no seat.
Posted by: wth at April 05, 2024 01:26 PM (v0R5T)
++++
:: shudders ::

As a kid, I *very* nearly lost my balls when my bicycle saddle sheared off the post. Thankfully it was just a borderline-grievous thigh injury.

Horrifying memory I haven't thought of in a long time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:28 PM (HnUIn)

154 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 01:15 PM (nR2nR)

My bad. I thought a barrel was 55 gallons.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 01:28 PM (nR2nR)

155 I'd be willing to bet that if you asked the average American what size cube is equivalent to an Olympic swimming pool, they'd be off by orders of magnitude.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 05, 2024 01:23 PM (CsUN+)

I'm guessing each side would be six elephants wide.

Posted by: spindrift at April 05, 2024 01:28 PM (OguvZ)

156 I'm glad SOMEONE is thinking about the poor Trans sex workers.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 05, 2024 01:28 PM (1bNHn)

157
Some bridge collapsed somewhere in the past decade when they put too many layers of asphalt on it, where preparing to put another layer on it and the weight of the trucks full of asphalt made it go bye-bye.

Fred Sanford: "You big dummies."

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 01:28 PM (RKVpM)

158 BTW, the Ukrainians are about to lose the city of Chasov Yar, so they are focused on the important things - renaming streets in Chasov Yar to remove all traces of Russian influence before the Russians march in.

Take that, Yuri Gagarin! You no longer have a street in Chasov Yar named after you!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 05, 2024 01:29 PM (YAtuc)

159 An Olympic sized pool is a big box. It has a regular length, width, and depth. It's very easy to conceptualize the volume of it.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:25 PM

So, how many Lizzos cannonballing into an Olympic-sized pool does it take to empty it?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 05, 2024 01:29 PM (a3Q+t)

160 It's as explicable as measuring asteroid size in terms of giraffes.

Don't be silly. Most people haven't seen a giraffe up close. Additionally, they are very irregularly shaped. If I had to guess the volume of a giraffe, I'd have no idea where to begin.

I think you may be taking this more seriously than was intended.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 05, 2024 01:29 PM (CsUN+)

161 139 Earthquakes and eclipses. Disease and inflationary pricing.

If the Horsemen aren't riding, they soon will be.

Posted by: jmel at April 05, 2024 01:24 PM (RWHIh)

At least Lizzo won't be famine...unless she ate all the food.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:29 PM (ynpvh)

162 136 89 350 million barrels doesn't seem like an awful lot... a modest facility could hold that and you wouldn't even see it on a satellite image... maybe not. What is that, like, a couple hundred tanker trailers full? I don't even know. I just always have this automatic assumption that "Big Numbers" are never really as big as you think they are.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
--------------------------

It's like money; When you have good cash flow a dollar or a dollar there is nothing. When you have no cash flow a reserve put away is very meaningful.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 05, 2024 01:29 PM (VMSDU)

163 Todays Official Schedule:

12:15 President takes a helicopter ride to see downed Key Bridge.
1:30 Meets with federal workers doing stuff in connection with fretting over the lost bridge
2:00 gives a speech and shakes hands with survivors
3:00 On vacation

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 05, 2024 01:29 PM (LIJZ3)

164 Getting rid of landlines was a profoundly stupid idea, but the phone companies love it.
Posted by: Max Power at April 05, 2024 01:24 PM (Hucnr)
.......

They save money on phonebooks.

Posted by: wth at April 05, 2024 01:29 PM (v0R5T)

165 Yo, that's like a gazillion gazillion OE 40 ouncers!

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2024 01:30 PM (0EOe9)

166 I'm guessing each side would be six elephants wide.

Asian or African?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 05, 2024 01:30 PM (CsUN+)

167
Those aren't CPAP strap markings on Joe's face. Those are from the ballgag straps.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 05, 2024 01:30 PM (+oR7L)

168 Indonesian Trans Sex Workers . . .

don't knock it until you try it!

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 05, 2024 01:30 PM (iFTx/)

169 42 gallons per barrel.

Posted by: huerfano at April 05, 2024 01:30 PM (VGOMa)

170 We in Brattleboro demand that Preserent Biden has to do something about these earthquakes that are being cause by climate change. Two many people have died and there blood is one the handes of the denyers.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro Vermouth at April 05, 2024 01:30 PM (vFG9F)

171 142 108
I'm gonna laugh when during the Francis Scott Key bridge rebuild they have to factor in the cost of 'over-engineering' the bridge to allow for the additional weight of battery powered cars all waiting on the span to cross. Which is a not-at-all unsubstantial difference from ICE vehicles.

Somehow it will be Trumps fault.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 01:18 PM (RKVpM)

You'll laugh yourself to death when the Democrat Junta in Power in 2029 says 5 Trillion Dollars is needed to strengthen many bridges and elevated roadways to be able to carry EV cars and trucks stalled bumper-to-bumper.

Posted by: Gref at April 05, 2024 01:25 PM (5fDan)

It'll be much higher than that. Estimates for infrastructure repairs is at $2.6T currently, but by 2029, inflation will easily make it much, much higher.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:31 PM (ynpvh)

172 Isn't that what Lume and Mando are for?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 05, 2024 01:28 PM (N39Ws)

=====

Speaking of, why are these a thing all of a sudden? Are people just not showering anymore?

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 05, 2024 01:31 PM (DRSnL)

173 I guess the sidebar link about the Seattle attorney means we can get by without Mannix girls today.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 05, 2024 01:31 PM (1bNHn)

174 These people can't be that stupid, Biden excepted. Must be an angle of some kind (except the obtuse kind).

Posted by: javems at April 05, 2024 01:31 PM (8I4hW)

175 151 I'd be willing to bet that if you asked the average American what size cube is equivalent to an Olympic swimming pool, they'd be off by orders of magnitude.

The answer is a cube of roughly 44.5 ft on a side.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 05, 2024 01:28 PM (CsUN+)

But you ain't average.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:32 PM (ynpvh)

176 Kamala Harris claims college women's basketball "weren't allowed to have brackets until 2022."

WTAF?

The first women's NCAA tournament was 1982, 40 years before that. And yes, the tournament was conducted using brackets.

http://tiny.cc/i7wnxz

Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:32 PM (eyxn4)

177 Thomas Massie says the SecDef and State Department claim they don't know how many Ukrainians have been killed in this war

It's another example of Biden Junta Standard Operating Procedure: Lie.

Posted by: Gref at April 05, 2024 01:32 PM (5fDan)

178 Turned the news on for a sec and it was wall to wall earthquake... A 4.7 earthquake ? Seriously ? I guess being from CA makes me jaded but still...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 05, 2024 01:32 PM (Akjoo)

179 Lemme guess. Two on Martha's Vineyard, one on Long Island (way out), one on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, one in Chicago, and two in the DC suburbs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 05, 2024 01:22 PM (J2vNu)

One was in Hawaii.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 01:32 PM (nR2nR)

180 Oh wow, the democrats are completely and utterly full of shit and will brazenly lie to all of us in pursuit of even a sliver more power?

Be still my heart!

Posted by: ballistic at April 05, 2024 01:32 PM (oqH4h)

181 "I feel like it's the early 2000s and I'm talking to some people who think that we can just have landline phones forever."

Umm ... there's still 100 million landlines in the USA

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 05, 2024 01:32 PM (iFTx/)

182 Giraffes have 2 to 5 horns called "occicones".

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 05, 2024 01:33 PM (a3Q+t)

183 14.7 billion gallons. Let's put that in terms we Morons can understand.

That is the equivalent of 233 million hogsheads.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 01:33 PM (991eG)

184 I want a volcano or two to pump out enough CO2 to push the ppm to 500. Make the entire Climate Change effort moot.

Posted by: Jamaica at April 05, 2024 01:33 PM (IG7T0)

185 > I think you may be taking this more seriously than was intended.

Fair enough. I do tend to do that.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:33 PM (eyxn4)

186 177 Thomas Massie says the SecDef and State Department claim they don't know how many Ukrainians have been killed in this war

But they know how many innocent "Palestinians" have died... 30 thousand !

Posted by: It's me donna at April 05, 2024 01:33 PM (Akjoo)

187 12:15 President takes a helicopter ride to see downed Key Bridge.

-----------

"It's the Francis Luther KING Jr. bridge, h8r!"

-- Baby Groot Spokeshole KJP

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 05, 2024 01:33 PM (1rEO3)

188 Shouldn't they stop building new homes at certain elevations?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 05, 2024 01:33 PM (J8LnB)

189 How many furlongs?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 01:33 PM (991eG)

190 154 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 01:15 PM (nR2nR)

My bad. I thought a barrel was 55 gallons.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 01:28 PM (nR2nR)

https://tinyurl.com/yt5rv5dh

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:34 PM (ynpvh)

191 156 I'm glad SOMEONE is thinking about the poor Trans sex workers.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 05, 2024 01:28 PM (1bNHn)

In a Muslim Country, no less.

Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 01:34 PM (UnA8+)

192 A furlong is the distance from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail of an adult male mink.

Duh!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 01:34 PM (991eG)

193 The SPR is a big salt dome. Do we know what happens if it is drained and refilled?

No, it is unknown.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 01:34 PM (ENQN6)

194 157
Some bridge collapsed somewhere in the past decade when they put too many layers of asphalt on it, where preparing to put another layer on it and the weight of the trucks full of asphalt made it go bye-bye.

Fred Sanford: "You big dummies."

Posted by: Divide by Zero a
-------------------------------

One of my trucks took down the electric line that powered a small neighborhood. The light company sued saying the height of the box was too tall. Turns out the neighborhood had added so many layers of asphalt it raised the box to height.

However, the higher asphalt caused the light wire to be lower than code. Truck was legal, wire was not.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 05, 2024 01:34 PM (VMSDU)

195 189 Now we're talking. Let's see. Secretariat was ahead by....

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2024 01:35 PM (0EOe9)

196 Speaking of, why are these a thing all of a sudden? Are people just not showering anymore?
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 05, 2024 01:31 PM (DRSnL)
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People are fat and their rolls get smelly.

Either that or people are constantly concerned with the aroma of their nether regions, regardless of whether or not they plan to have another person's face in close proximity to them.

Posted by: ballistic at April 05, 2024 01:35 PM (oqH4h)

197 How many giraffes/furlong?

Posted by: Jamaica at April 05, 2024 01:35 PM (IG7T0)

198 189 How many furlongs?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 01:33 PM (991eG)

Only works if you count them by fortnight.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:35 PM (ynpvh)

199 I'm guessing each side would be six elephants wide.

Asian or African?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 05, 2024 01:30 PM

Only Asian elephants are elephants. The ones in Africa are Loxodonts.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 05, 2024 01:35 PM (a3Q+t)

200 Thomas Massie says the SecDef and State Department claim they don't know how many Ukrainians have been killed in this war and refused to even give a rough estimate. ...
Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:22 PM (eyxn4)
++++
Yet they seem to "know" the exact number of Gaza women and children who have died...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:23 PM (HnUIn)

They are:

A. Lying
2. Choosing to lie because giving anything even remotely like an honest answer would have people use expressions like "holy fucking shit"
III. Then people would ask about Russian losses and things would get really bad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 01:35 PM (nR2nR)

201 197 How many giraffes/furlong?

Posted by: Jamaica at April 05, 2024 01:35 PM (IG7T0)

Depends on your standard giraffe. Has that length been standardized?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:35 PM (ynpvh)

202 I guess the sidebar link about the Seattle attorney means we can get by without Mannix girls today.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 05, 2024 01:31 PM (1bNHn)
---
He's gonna poke someone's eye out with those sharp elbows...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 05, 2024 01:36 PM (7fElN)

203
My landline is not currently connected but could be re-instituted in about five minutes. Phone jacks exist in just about every room in the house. It's a decent network to have so I'm never ripping the wiring out.

What is old seems to always come back in again. Something will change.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 01:36 PM (RKVpM)

204 Turned the news on for a sec and it was wall to wall earthquake... A 4.7 earthquake ? Seriously ? I guess being from CA makes me jaded but still...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 05, 2024 01:32 PM (Akjoo)
.......

4.7 in New York City is not nearly big enough.

Posted by: wth at April 05, 2024 01:36 PM (v0R5T)

205 FACT: Black women weren't allowed to have speaking roles in film until Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 01:36 PM (4VBfN)

206 176 Kamala Harris claims college women's basketball "weren't allowed to have brackets until 2022."

WTAF?

The first women's NCAA tournament was 1982, 40 years before that. And yes, the tournament was conducted using brackets.

http://tiny.cc/i7wnxz

Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:32 PM (eyxn4)

Did she also say college women's basketball "still isn't allowed to have Venn Diagrams in the Women's Tournament"?

Posted by: Gref at April 05, 2024 01:37 PM (5fDan)

207 Only Asian elephants are elephants. The ones in Africa are Loxodonts.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher

Of course, you racist! Are you some kind of Greek homo?

Posted by: Al Sharptone at April 05, 2024 01:37 PM (CsUN+)

208 The SPR is a big salt dome. Do we know what happens if it is drained and refilled?

No, it is unknown.

There was an article a while ago (last year? five years? who knows; time is an illusion) that suggested that if the SPR is emptied enough, parts of it could collapse or otherwise render it not fit for purpose.

So, you know, that sounds great.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at April 05, 2024 01:37 PM (l8gTz)

209 This thing is a public defender in Seattle.

Imagine having to trust your life to a hideous dude cosplaying as a woman with giant tits and nipples like AA batteries on end.

http://tiny.cc/q7wnxz

Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:37 PM (eyxn4)

210
FACT: Black women weren't allowed to have speaking roles in film until Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 01:36 PM

Butterfly McQueen has entered the chat...

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 05, 2024 01:37 PM (bEb2S)

211 172 Isn't that what Lume and Mando are for?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 05, 2024 01:28 PM (N39Ws)

=====

Speaking of, why are these a thing all of a sudden? Are people just not showering anymore?

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 05, 2024 01:31 PM (DRSnL)

Be Stinky for Mother Gaia!
Also works to repel people from each other, thus reducing population...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:37 PM (ynpvh)

212 F(bs)= [dtgf/gft]^2

Posted by: Jamaica at April 05, 2024 01:38 PM (IG7T0)

213 If we put oil back in the SPR it could tip over.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 01:38 PM (4VBfN)

214 This busty, freckled bikini girl wants the right to choose her mode of transportation and for her government not to intervene with mandatory and socially-destructive experiments:
http://tiny.cc/s7wnxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:38 PM (HnUIn)

215 *Turned the news on for a sec*

Ok, I think I've found your problem.

Posted by: Don't watch it at April 05, 2024 01:38 PM (CflDX)

216 OMG!! Pay no attention to the illegal immigrant invasion, rampant crime and fiscal disaster in NY and NJ. There is an EARTHQUAKE!! It's time for more MAIL IN BALLOTS, because you shouldn't go outside. It's too DANGEROUS OMG!!

Posted by: Truthbomb at April 05, 2024 01:38 PM (tWQrm)

217 This thing is a public defender in Seattle.

Imagine having to trust your life to a hideous dude cosplaying as a woman with giant tits and nipples like AA batteries on end.

http://tiny.cc/q7wnxz
Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:37 PM (eyxn4)
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Well, maybe your plea of "not guilty by reason of insanity" will be enhanced if you are seen to have gone with this public defender instead of a normie.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 05, 2024 01:39 PM (7fElN)

218 Isn't that what Lume and Mando are for?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 05, 2024 01:28 PM (N39Ws)

Underboob!!!

Posted by: Dr. Shannon Klingman at April 05, 2024 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)

219
I have a "landline". It's provided by Charter(Spectrum) via the cable modem. I even have a little box that allows me to drive rotary dial phones, which is a something of a hobby of mine.

If by "landline" you mean the old POTS last mile copper pair system, that still exists. However that last mile is getting shorter and shorter. That have various "boxes" that get that on digital networks and fiber optic fairly quickly.

They are trying to phase out that the last mile copper pair by attrition. It's just not that profitable. Maintaining that is a bitch, with the "everyone must be served" laws that apply to those.

Landlines, meaning non wireless will be around for a long time. It's just the old copper pair last mile is phasing out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 05, 2024 01:39 PM (w6EFb)

220 HOW THE F******K ARE WE LOSING TO THESE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 05, 2024 01:13 PM (XV/Pl)

Tucker was chatting with MTG the other day, and she says Johnson is going to cave on Ukraine funding this weekend.

We already know half the R's in the Senate is all about defending Ukraine, as the most important thing in the world, and MTG believes enough R's in the House will vote for it, so we'll be funneling more money over there.

She's suggesting maybe Johnson has been gotten to, that he's being blackmailed. I think she might be right.

So how are "we" losing to the Democrats? "We" don't have anyone representing us in DC, that's how.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 05, 2024 01:39 PM (dGCAG)

221 TITillating.

Posted by: Hubba hubba at April 05, 2024 01:40 PM (CflDX)

222 209 This thing is a public defender in Seattle.

Imagine having to trust your life to a hideous dude cosplaying as a woman with giant tits and nipples like AA batteries on end.

http://tiny.cc/q7wnxz
Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:37 PM (eyxn4)
_______

Looks like that Spanish actor dude, what's his name? Javier Bardem? Oddly enough, this freak does a good, calm job of defending his client in the video. Usually these tranny freaks are screeching, hysterical lunatics.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 05, 2024 01:40 PM (iFTx/)

223 Shut up, Wesley.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 05, 2024 01:40 PM (RIvkX)

224 178 Turned the news on for a sec and it was wall to wall earthquake... A 4.7 earthquake ? Seriously ? I guess being from CA makes me jaded but still...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 05, 2024 01:32 PM (Akjoo)

Ground back east is not as fractured as the ground here out west. A quake over there will be felt more severely over a larger area as a result. That's how it was possible for the great quakes in the New Madrid region of Missouri were felt all the way back to the east coast, IIRC.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:40 PM (ynpvh)

225 Meet the transgender Seattle attorney who is defending the far-left activists who disrupted a city council meeting

********

Counselor, are you mocking me?

Posted by: Judge Chamberlain Haller at April 05, 2024 01:40 PM (991eG)

226 My new landline came with my internet / cable box.
Suck that, Mayo Pete.

Posted by: wth at April 05, 2024 01:40 PM (v0R5T)

227 https://tinyurl.com/yt5rv5dh
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:34 PM (ynpvh)

That was, in fact, where I went to discover that your number was correct and mine was less so.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 01:41 PM (nR2nR)

228 What You Need to Know - Mar 2, 2024
How Mando Works. Mando's whole-body deodorant uses cornstarch, ...tapioca starch, and arrowroot powder ...
------------

Here, lick my armpit, it tastes good.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 05, 2024 01:41 PM (VMSDU)

229 183 14.7 billion gallons. Let's put that in terms we Morons can understand.

That is the equivalent of 233 million hogsheads.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 01:33 PM (991eG)

Those units to be used on Muzzies?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:41 PM (ynpvh)

230 >>>Turned the news on for a sec and it was wall to wall earthquake... A 4.7 earthquake ? Seriously ? I guess being from CA makes me jaded but still...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 05, 2024 01:32 PM (Akjoo)

The IDF could start using nerve gas on the Gazans today and it wouldn't be in the news cycle for five days, not after an earthquake in the Center of the US Media Universe.

Posted by: Gref at April 05, 2024 01:41 PM (5fDan)

231 211 I wish they would have had Lume or Mando during the DMSO craze. Worked in a shop where most of the guys had a lot of seniority and aches and pains. Whole damn place smelled like rotten garlic due to the DMSO.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2024 01:41 PM (0EOe9)

232 > Speaking of, why are these a thing all of a sudden? Are people just not showering anymore?

There was a woman at the gym yesterday. I could clearly smell her BO from at least 20 feet away. She smelled like an old bucket of corn chips. Yes, it's a gym and people get a little smelly. But if you are easy to smell from that distance above ALL the other sweaty people present, you funky.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:41 PM (eyxn4)

233 Depends on your standard giraffe. Has that length been standardized?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:35 PM

Which subspecies (or species) are you proposing as the Standard Giraffe?

While traditionally, giraffes have been thought of as one species, Giraffa camelopardalis, with nine subspecies. Most recently, researchers proposed dividing them into up to eight extant species due to new research into their mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, as well as morphological measurements. Seven other extinct species of Giraffa are known from the fossil record.

Choose wisely.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 05, 2024 01:41 PM (a3Q+t)

234
One of my trucks took down the electric line that powered a small neighborhood. The light company sued saying the height of the box was too tall. Turns out the neighborhood had added so many layers of asphalt it raised the box to height.

However, the higher asphalt caused the light wire to be lower than code. Truck was legal, wire was not.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 05, 2024 01:34 PM

Cool story.

In my neck of the woods they now have a machine that basically very evenly 'chews off' the last layer of asphalt before repaving. I think they may even be able to recycle that layer in some fashion.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2024 01:41 PM (RKVpM)

235 184 I want a volcano or two to pump out enough CO2 to push the ppm to 500. Make the entire Climate Change effort moot.

Posted by: Jamaica at April 05, 2024 01:33 PM (IG7T0)

Sure, but the SO2 it emits will cool the earth even more.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:42 PM (ynpvh)

236 Trump said people can prevent earthquakes by climbing into their freezer.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 01:42 PM (4VBfN)

237 I'm certain there is some China money going to the Biden family for this decision.
Posted by: RealityMain at April 05, 2024 01:03 PM (xsWV3)

Maybe, but didn't someone report earlier that the Administration had stated that opposing Taiwan independence is now official policy? Seems like that would be a bigger deal for the ChiComs than the SPR having oil. After all, we sent all our munitions to THE Ukraine, we made serving in the military toxic to anyone, and everyone, who would be a useful member of the military, and we're escalating tensions with Russia. It's not like China needs to worry about the US flexing its spindly little arms over anything.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 01:10 PM (nR2nR)

Apparently that has been the case for many years, though I hadn't heard of it. Its the "One China" policy which back in the day meant that Taiwan was the exiled rulers of all China. Somewhere along the way this got flipped around and so China diplomatically has a point if we now try and advocate for a free Taiwan....and most of our chip making is there.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 05, 2024 01:42 PM (eoQWY)

238 186 177 Thomas Massie says the SecDef and State Department claim they don't know how many Ukrainians have been killed in this war

But they know how many innocent "Palestinians" have died... 30 thousand !

Posted by: It's me donna at April 05, 2024 01:33 PM (Akjoo)

that depends on your definition of "innocent"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:42 PM (ynpvh)

239
Here, lick my armpit, it tastes good.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 05, 2024 01:41 PM (VMSDU)

What a GREAT idea!!

Posted by: Oklahoma Schools at April 05, 2024 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)

240 Everyone knows, the standard volume unit of measurement is penguins.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 05, 2024 01:42 PM (XV/Pl)

241 As a kid, I *very* nearly lost my balls when my bicycle saddle sheared off the post. Thankfully it was just a borderline-grievous thigh injury...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:28 PM (HnUIn)

As a kid, being the only girl of five, I always had to ride a boys' 10 speed if I wanted to ride. I'd stick my leg through the hole and ride off to the side. Adults (including my own mother) were always laughing at me.

Sometimes you've gotta do what you've gotta do.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at April 05, 2024 01:42 PM (JCLJi)

242 Here, lick my armpit, it tastes good.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 05, 2024 01:41 PM (VMSDU)
----
What a GREAT idea!!
Posted by: Oklahoma Schools at April 05, 2024 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)
++++
Good reminder of how public school people are.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:43 PM (HnUIn)

243 Hollywood has to address the complete absence of trans Indonesian sex workers in film.

#WeSeeYou

Posted by: Karine Jean Pierre's Brain at April 05, 2024 01:43 PM (9c66x)

244 >>> The answer is a cube of roughly 44.5 ft on a side.

Posted by: Archimedes
-------------------

That's not an American answer. An American answer would be precise.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 05, 2024 01:43 PM (VMSDU)

245 192 A furlong is the distance from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail of an adult male mink.

Duh!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 05, 2024 01:34 PM (991eG)

So...how many furlongs is a beaver?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:43 PM (ynpvh)

246 They are:

A. Lying
2. Choosing to lie because giving anything even remotely like an honest answer would have people use expressions like "holy fucking shit"
III. Then people would ask about Russian losses and things would get really bad.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 01:35 PM (nR2nR)

You mean we're not winning in Ukraine?

But the nooz!! It says we've got those Rooskies just where we want them.

Also, they're about to invade and take over all of Europe.

So here, take my money.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 05, 2024 01:43 PM (dGCAG)

247 So...how many furlongs is a beaver?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:43 PM (ynpvh)

Just the one.

When I'm around.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 05, 2024 01:44 PM (dGCAG)

248 Thomas Massie says the SecDef and State Department claim they don't know how many Ukrainians have been killed in this war and refused to even give a rough estimate.

Their draftable population and endless US aid should be giving them a deployed army of at least 2M soldiers. They seem to have less then 300K though reliable numbers are hard to find.

So...either they've got an insane number of causalities or most of their male population fled.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 05, 2024 01:44 PM (ibTVg)

249
My favorite acceleration unit: furlongs per square fortnight.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 05, 2024 01:44 PM (w6EFb)

250 Hope busty, freckled bikini girl has a good dermatologist.

Posted by: wth at April 05, 2024 01:45 PM (v0R5T)

251 If the excess death was truly coming from the “unvaccinated” then the “unvaccinated” would have surely been wiped out completely in weeks 21 to week 40 of 2021. To the contrary, there were an astounding 165,387 excess deaths among the most heavily vaccinated cohort. By week 40 of 2021, the total excess deaths rose to 315,472 among those who were most likely to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

We are approaching 1 million excess deaths in over 65.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 01:45 PM (ENQN6)

252 So...how many furlongs is a beaver?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:43 PM (ynpvh)

Just the one.

When I'm around.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 05, 2024 01:44 PM (dGCAG)

Oh, I thought you said "in."

Posted by: BurtTC at April 05, 2024 01:45 PM (dGCAG)

253 211 172 Isn't that what Lume and Mando are for?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 05, 2024 01:28 PM (N39Ws)

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Speaking of, why are these a thing all of a sudden? Are people just not showering anymore?

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 05, 2024 01:31 PM (DRSnL)

Be Stinky for Mother Gaia!
Also works to repel people from each other, thus reducing population...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:37 PM (ynpvh)
_____

It's some kind of weird fetish like women not shaving their legs or armpits. But it's a real thing. There are many cultures to this day that don't shower or use deodorant. Sadly there are those in the USA that are following this insanity.

I go on dates all the time and am always showered, nicely dressed, well groomed, and with a plan for the date. Girls often seem surprised, like there are guys out there who show up for dates looking like shit. I guess there are.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 05, 2024 01:45 PM (iFTx/)

254 A landline is a phone that gets its power from the phone line.

If your phone is connected to the internet it is not a landline. It is a VOIP line.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 05, 2024 01:45 PM (RIvkX)

255 Did you see that New Jersey is going to levy a "road tax" to EV's because they are losing revenue by these EV owners now contributing to the gas tax associated with the pump. NJ says it will start and $250 but climb to $290. And, it won't be higher than that (uh huh).

In the next breath NJ says..."well you already get a $4,000 subsidy to get an EV....so you're still coming out ahead." Then they said, "But, you really shouldn't count on that $4,000 since that fund isn't always kept applicable and runs out before the end of the year....oh well."

Posted by: Orson at April 05, 2024 01:45 PM (dIske)

256 202 I guess the sidebar link about the Seattle attorney means we can get by without Mannix girls today.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 05, 2024 01:31 PM (1bNHn)
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He's gonna poke someone's eye out with those sharp elbows...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 05, 2024 01:36 PM (7fElN)

Looks like someone picked the ugliest blow-up doll they could find and put a wig, makeup, clothing, and animatronics...uncanny valley, baby!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:46 PM (ynpvh)

257 Speaking of, why are these a thing all of a sudden? Are people just not showering anymore?

Heritage Americans tend to shower daily, for the "newcomers" it depends.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 05, 2024 01:46 PM (ibTVg)

258 >>>Turned the news on for a sec and it was wall to wall earthquake... A 4.7 earthquake ? Seriously ? I guess being from CA makes me jaded but still...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 05, 2024 01:32 PM (Akjoo)

It can be a lot more serious than the numbers indicate because CA has mandated structural codes for earthquakes since 1906. The East coast doesnt have those. They found that the standard brick building from the 1900s can just come apart in a good shake. So if a good hit happened in NYC, it could be bad for a lot of older buildings.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 05, 2024 01:46 PM (eoQWY)

259 An oil price shock would drive people to EV cars, right? 😉

Posted by: Don Black & The Experience at April 05, 2024 01:46 PM (oCjPU)

260 232 > Speaking of, why are these a thing all of a sudden? Are people just not showering anymore?

There was a woman at the gym yesterday. I could clearly smell her BO from at least 20 feet away. She smelled like an old bucket of corn chips. Yes, it's a gym and people get a little smelly. But if you are easy to smell from that distance above ALL the other sweaty people present, you funky.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:41 PM (eyxn4)

That level of BO is the result of a person never washing their gym clothes.

Posted by: Gref at April 05, 2024 01:46 PM (5fDan)

261 At least the US cheese reserve remains intact. Yes, that’s a thing our govt taxes us for. We are not a serious nation.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 05, 2024 01:46 PM (JTwsP)

262 As a kid, being the only girl of five, I always had to ride a boys' 10 speed if I wanted to ride. I'd stick my leg through the hole and ride off to the side. Adults (including my own mother) were always laughing at me.

Sometimes you've gotta do what you've gotta do.
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at April 05, 2024 01:42 PM

You were riding a bike sidesaddle?

*considers logistics of this*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 05, 2024 01:47 PM (Wnv9h)

263
I go on dates all the time and am always showered, nicely dressed, well groomed, and with a plan for the date. Girls often seem surprised, like there are guys out there who show up for dates looking like shit. I guess there are.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 05, 2024 01:45 PM (iFTx/)

Younger generations of men are going on dates and bringing the lady a gift, flowers or the like, expecting a gift in return. They're highly offended if the woman doesn't bring them a gift.

Posted by: Random Facts at April 05, 2024 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)

264 F(bs)= [dtgf/gft]^2
Posted by: Jamaica at April 05, 2024 01:38 PM (IG7T0)
.......

I was told there would be no... uh, whatever that is, on this blog.

Posted by: wth at April 05, 2024 01:47 PM (v0R5T)

265 How Climate Change is Hitting Indonesian Trans Sex Workers
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How This Headline is Hitting My Field of Fucks: Behold

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 01:48 PM (4VBfN)

266 Wow. I've never seen an earthquake like the Jersey quake before.

It's less like a rolling and shaking and more like a damn cement mixer hit the house.

http://tiny.cc/h8wnxz

Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:48 PM (eyxn4)

267 Methinks someone had just returned from Indonesia IYKWIM.

Posted by: Erebus-ex-killer whale at April 05, 2024 01:48 PM (r7v6X)

268 They're highly offended if the woman doesn't bring them a gift.
Posted by: Random Facts at April 05, 2024 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)

Read: Put Out

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 01:48 PM (4VBfN)

269 233 Depends on your standard giraffe. Has that length been standardized?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:35 PM

Which subspecies (or species) are you proposing as the Standard Giraffe?

While traditionally, giraffes have been thought of as one species, Giraffa camelopardalis, with nine subspecies. Most recently, researchers proposed dividing them into up to eight extant species due to new research into their mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, as well as morphological measurements. Seven other extinct species of Giraffa are known from the fossil record.

Choose wisely.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 05, 2024 01:41 PM (a3Q+t)

We'll standardize on the Weasley Crusher pecker. It's ALMOST 1".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:49 PM (ynpvh)

270 How Climate Change is Hitting Indonesian Trans Sex Workers
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How This Headline is Hitting My Field of Fucks: Behold
Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 01:48 PM

Like a Faraday cage, I have zero flux to give.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 05, 2024 01:49 PM (Wnv9h)

271 97 HOW THE F******K ARE WE LOSING TO THESE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 05, 2024 01:13 PM (XV/Pl)
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The question I ask every day, though maybe phrased as "how are Democrats even slightly competitive?!?!"

Propaganda is much of the answer, I think. And complete civic ignorance, and infantilized citizen fearfulness.
Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 05, 2024 01:16 PM (xcNAP)

The Democrat governor of Washington just outlawed natural gas. https://tinyurl.com/5ea6hmdv

I'm sure that's just fine with a lot of the NW loons.

Posted by: kathysaysso at April 05, 2024 01:50 PM (yACxx)

272 Younger generations of men are going on dates and bringing the lady a gift, flowers or the like, expecting a gift in return. They're highly offended if the woman doesn't bring them a gift.
Posted by: Random Facts at April 05, 2024 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)
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A man does not present a date with a gift with the expectation of receiving a gift in return, but merely with hope of not being rejected 15 minutes into the date.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:51 PM (HnUIn)

273 > How Climate Change is Hitting Indonesian Trans Sex Workers

I'm sure it isn't

Posted by: Don Black & The Experience at April 05, 2024 01:51 PM (oCjPU)

274 222 Looks like that Spanish actor dude, what's his name? Javier Bardem? Oddly enough, this freak does a good, calm job of defending his client in the video. Usually these tranny freaks are screeching, hysterical lunatics.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 05, 2024 01:40 PM (iFTx/)

Unfortunately, some of the freakiest, most sci-fi looking troons were extremely competent and wealthy before their midlife crisis hit.

Like that one from a few years back who was getting green scales tattooed all over their body and ink injected into the eyes?

A high-ranking bank executive.

They can turn themselves into circus freaks because they built up a gigantic warchest in their careers.

Posted by: XTC at April 05, 2024 01:52 PM (UnA8+)

275 Someone probably already pointed this out, but that Independent headline sure looks like trolling.

Posted by: Emmie at April 05, 2024 01:52 PM (xAC7C)

276 As a kid, I *very* nearly lost my balls when my bicycle saddle sheared off the post. Thankfully it was just a borderline-grievous thigh injury...

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Uh huh.

"Nearly."

Riiiiight...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 05, 2024 01:52 PM (0FoWg)

277 Climate Change is Hitting Indonesian Trans Sex Workers in the Butthole.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 05, 2024 01:53 PM (JTwsP)

278 We'll standardize on the Weasley Crusher pecker. It's ALMOST 1".
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:49 PM

Mom says a radius of 1" is pretty good.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 05, 2024 01:53 PM (a3Q+t)

279 I think the makeup girl earthquake video from some years back was fake but still funny.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 01:53 PM (4VBfN)

280 253
...

I go on dates all the time and am always showered, nicely dressed, well groomed, and with a plan for the date. Girls often seem surprised, like there are guys out there who show up for dates looking like shit. I guess there are.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 05, 2024 01:45 PM (iFTx/)
Freshly brushed teeth, have a breath mint before...oh yes. Don't want to be offensive.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:53 PM (ynpvh)

281 High wind warning here

possible gusts to 100mph

Sat nite-Sun morning

Posted by: Don Black & The Experience at April 05, 2024 01:53 PM (oCjPU)

282 http://tiny.cc/s7wnxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:38 PM (HnUIn)

She has those diamond eyes and she doesn't shit ,she candies

Posted by: MAC V SOG at April 05, 2024 01:53 PM (P4Pk9)

283 Someone probably already pointed this out, but that Independent headline sure looks like trolling.
Posted by: Emmie at April 05, 2024 01:52 PM (xAC7C)

They're just trying to get ahead of the Bee.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 05, 2024 01:54 PM (dGCAG)

284 Time rate of change in giraffes, useful for measuring penguins/seal

Posted by: Jamaica at April 05, 2024 01:54 PM (IG7T0)

285 261 There are many weird and wonderful things on the list of strategic reserves. One is deer hide. Used on the tips of flight gloves. There's probably a warehouse the size of ten Olympic swimming pools filled with the stuff but the Feds buy more.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2024 01:54 PM (0EOe9)

286 This busty, freckled bikini girl wants the right to choose her mode of transportation and for her government not to intervene with mandatory and socially-destructive experiments:
http://tiny.cc/s7wnxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:38 PM (HnUIn)

Wow, adorable

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 05, 2024 01:54 PM (NtVYv)

287 257 Speaking of, why are these a thing all of a sudden? Are people just not showering anymore?

Heritage Americans tend to shower daily, for the "newcomers" it depends.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 05, 2024 01:46 PM (ibTVg)

For Biden it's Depends.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:54 PM (ynpvh)

288

So...either they've got an insane number of causalities or most of their male population fled.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 05, 2024 01:44 PM (ibTVg)

They were pretty quick to clamp down on draftable folk from the start. I'm sure some got out, but likely those are in the 'connected' cohort that don't get put in harm's way.

Ukraine has had an insane number of casualties -- satellite photos show an explosion of graves and there was word that they would be expelling WWII era graves. Also there are rumors that officers aren't keen on reporting dead or missing since they can skim the equipment and pay for the men.

Given that orders make them fight to the death for every hamlet and hillock, and the Russians have plenty of firepower to hit them when they can't hit back I'm sure losses are heavy. After the first few weeks of the grand offensive the western tanks went in the background and the final months were just unsupported infantry....walking a km or more through open fields under artillery towards a line that is just the wooded strip between 2 fields.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 05, 2024 01:55 PM (eoQWY)

289 210
FACT: Black women weren't allowed to have speaking roles in film until Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 01:36 PM

Butterfly McQueen has entered the chat...
Posted by: AltonJackson at April 05, 2024 01:37 PM (bEb2S)
________
She was from my hometown. Along with Capt Kangaroo, our most famous product.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 05, 2024 01:55 PM (1bNHn)

290 Speaking of, why are these a thing all of a sudden? Are people just not showering anymore?
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 05, 2024 01:31 PM (DRSnL)
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Daily showering is wasteful of water and bad for the environment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:55 PM (HnUIn)

291 Hope busty, freckled bikini girl has a good dermatologist.
Posted by: wth at April 05, 2024 01:45 PM (v0R5T)

I've never been to medical school but, if I were single, I'd -tologist the hell out of her derma.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 01:55 PM (nR2nR)

292 >have a breath mint before

The kid on Boy Meets World had a strategy of swallowing a little toothpaste before, so when he burped it would be "minty fresh"

Posted by: skywch at April 05, 2024 01:55 PM (uqhmb)

293 266 Wow. I've never seen an earthquake like the Jersey quake before.

It's less like a rolling and shaking and more like a damn cement mixer hit the house.

http://tiny.cc/h8wnxz

Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:48 PM (eyxn4)

As there are many kinds of rain, there are many kinds of quakes, Forrest.
Rolly quakes,
Bumpy quakes,
short quakes,
long quakes,
up/down quakes,
side-side quakes,...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:56 PM (ynpvh)

294 So, I just got back from getting 10 gal diesel and putting 18 gal of gas in my truck.

$85

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 05, 2024 01:56 PM (Q4IgG)

295 I once watched a whole season of Marcus Webley MD so I knew this.

@MayoClinic, utilizing largest collection of testicular samples in youth, found mild to severe atrophy in the testes of boys who took puberty blockers, leading authors to doubt "reversibility" claims of these drugs.

See killing hormones in young men kills their development.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2024 01:56 PM (ENQN6)

296 218 Isn't that what Lume and Mando are for?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 05, 2024 01:28 PM (N39Ws)

Underboob!!!
Posted by: Dr. Shannon Klingman at April 05, 2024 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)

Thigh folds!

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 05, 2024 01:56 PM (N39Ws)

297 Yes. I had to alter my understanding of balance in order to do so, of course.

Had to re-learn when I finally rode a girls' bike.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at April 05, 2024 01:57 PM (JCLJi)

298 If re-elected, President Biden will stop all future earfquakes in New Jersey.

Posted by: Karine Jean Pierre's Brain at April 05, 2024 01:57 PM (mk8/f)

299 He is a puppet, and his handlers figure they will make him the focal point and just steal the election again.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 05, 2024 01:10 PM (di6C2)

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

True.

[Revised:] This ~~asshole~~ Junta is out of control. He's out of control, and we'll be lucky to live through it.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 05, 2024 01:57 PM (/SEnn)

300 Sundowner is a priest of the Global Warming Church now.
Congratulations

Yabba Dabba Do

Posted by: Skip at April 05, 2024 01:58 PM (+qhWd)

301 270 How Climate Change is Hitting Indonesian Trans Sex Workers
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How This Headline is Hitting My Field of Fucks: Behold
Posted by: ... at April 05, 2024 01:48 PM

Like a Faraday cage, I have zero flux to give.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 05, 2024 01:49 PM (Wnv9h)

Nice.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:58 PM (ynpvh)

302 There are many weird and wonderful things on the list of strategic reserves. One is deer hide. Used on the tips of flight gloves. There's probably a warehouse the size of ten Olympic swimming pools filled with the stuff but the Feds buy more.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2024 01:54 PM (0EOe9)
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And that's not even taking into account the Strategic Mohair Reserve.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 05, 2024 01:58 PM (DeFcY)

303 Wow. I've never seen an earthquake like the Jersey quake before.

It's less like a rolling and shaking and more like a damn cement mixer hit the house.

http://tiny.cc/h8wnxz

Posted by: bonhomme at April 05, 2024 01:48 PM (eyxn4)

That just means it was close. Roll and Shade is the distant ones. Rattlers are nearby.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 05, 2024 01:58 PM (eoQWY)

304 Heritage Americans tend to shower daily, for the "newcomers" it depends.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 05, 2024 01:46 PM (ibTVg)

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My sister recently told me she only showers once a week. To be fair, I couldn't smell her, but maybe she's stocked up on Lume.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 05, 2024 01:58 PM (DRSnL)

305 so when he burped it would be "minty fresh"
Posted by: skywch at April 05, 2024 01:55 PM (uqhmb)

There’s a Gas-X that does exactly that. Makes burping like smoking a menthol cigarette. Surprised it’s still legal.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 05, 2024 01:58 PM (JTwsP)

306 *~~He's~~ It's

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 05, 2024 01:58 PM (/SEnn)

307 Daily showering is wasteful of water and bad for the environment.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:55 PM

That's not all that's wasteful and bad for environment.

Remember, one square only!

Posted by: Sheryl Crow at April 05, 2024 01:58 PM (a3Q+t)

308 and guys, before your date, trim and wash your fingernails really well

If you have nasty hands, you will not be putting them ANYWHERE on her

so don't do an oil change the same day as your date

Posted by: Don Black & The Experience at April 05, 2024 01:59 PM (oCjPU)

309 Isn't that what Lume and Mando are for?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 05, 2024 01:28 PM (N39Ws)

Underboob!!!
Posted by: Dr. Shannon Klingman at April 05, 2024 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)

Thigh folds!
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 05, 2024 01:56 PM (N39Ws)

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Butt crack!

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 05, 2024 01:59 PM (DRSnL)

310 Just tryna help

Posted by: Don Black & The Experience at April 05, 2024 01:59 PM (oCjPU)

311 278 We'll standardize on the Weasley Crusher pecker. It's ALMOST 1".
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:49 PM

Mom says a radius of 1" is pretty good.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 05, 2024 01:53 PM (a3Q+t)

Except we were talking length.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 01:59 PM (ynpvh)

312 I hate flocken electrowagons.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 05, 2024 01:26 PM (Y6IkP)

Flocken electrowagons, that sounds German. Everyone appreciates German engineering!

Also, remember when Trump was going to fill the SPR at bargain basement prices, and Schumer blocked it in the senate because no “wins” for Trump? And now we need much, much more at sky high prices? If only there was an organization tasked with ensuring those kinds of maneuvers were made public…

Posted by: Advo at April 05, 2024 01:59 PM (VHN21)

313 263
I go on dates all the time and am always showered, nicely dressed, well groomed, and with a plan for the date. Girls often seem surprised, like there are guys out there who show up for dates looking like shit. I guess there are.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 05, 2024 01:45 PM (iFTx/)

Younger generations of men are going on dates and bringing the lady a gift, flowers or the like, expecting a gift in return. They're highly offended if the woman doesn't bring them a gift.
Posted by: Random Facts at April 05, 2024 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)
______
One of my college friends came up with the notion of "date theft" to counter "date rape". She lets you pay for everything, and doesn't put out.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 05, 2024 02:00 PM (1bNHn)

314 >My sister recently told me she only showers once a week.

Let me take you to

Funky TOWN

Posted by: Don Black & The Experience at April 05, 2024 02:00 PM (oCjPU)

315 85/28=3.037$/gal pretty damn good. Diesel around here is 5$

Posted by: Jamaica at April 05, 2024 02:00 PM (IG7T0)

316 Oh, WOE! No EV for me!

Posted by: Not Black at April 05, 2024 02:00 PM (cx155)

317 Remember, one square only!

Posted by: Sheryl Crow at April 05, 2024 01:58 PM (a3Q+t)

Ok that is one house we are not stealing underwear from

Posted by: The Underpants Gmones at April 05, 2024 02:00 PM (ibTVg)

318 Looking sharp on a date. The Marine Corps, in the early 70s put out an ALMAR saying that all Marines were recommended to wear Service A or Dress A on Liberty on a given night due to the attempted semi successful rescue of the sailors nabbed by the Cambodian Commies. My soon to be best man and I were taking the girls out and decided on the wearing of the green. What was cool, at Hogate's that night, our money was no good. Fat chance of that happening in DC nowadays.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2024 02:01 PM (0EOe9)

319 My daughter has crazy mixed kid hair. Wife washes it once a week because it tangles so easily.

Posted by: Jamaica at April 05, 2024 02:01 PM (IG7T0)

320 >Posted by: The Underpants Gmones

oh the Gmones

70s punk band

Posted by: Don Black & The Experience at April 05, 2024 02:01 PM (oCjPU)

321 307 Daily showering is wasteful of water and bad for the environment.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:55 PM

That's not all that's wasteful and bad for environment.

Remember, one square only!
Posted by: Sheryl Crow at April 05, 2024 01:58 PM (a3Q+t)
_____

Or that Ted Talk idiot who had a plan to dry his hands with one square of paper towel. Except the plan took like 5 minutes and involved shaking his hands like an epileptic Kansas City faggot and folding the paper like origami. Idiot.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 05, 2024 02:02 PM (iFTx/)

322 Wow. I've never seen an earthquake like the Jersey quake before.

It's less like a rolling and shaking and more like a damn cement mixer hit the house.

----------

We had one in Northern AZ a couple years ago that that would be up to sonic booms that would shake the house and rattle the windows when I was a kid growing up a few miles away from Nellis Air Force Base.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 05, 2024 02:02 PM (/SEnn)

323 My girlfriend's "adult" daughter doesn't wear deodorant because climate change. And I'd say that showering for her is a brief, infrequent affair. She smells like a pile of summer basketball team post-game uniforms left in a dumpster behind an Italian restaurant during a garbage truck strike in a heatwave.

Posted by: That'sa One Spicy Meatballa at April 05, 2024 02:02 PM (qUkBO)

324 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0

Thanks to Biden and Democrats some American cities are spending BILLIONS of YOUR TAX DOLLARS on benefits for ILLEGAL MIGRANTS.

This is madness!!

NEW YORK:
- $1.47 BILLION spent temporary food & housing services
- $53 MILLION debit card program
- $1,400 a month SNAP benefits

LOS ANGELES:
- Full-coverage health insurance for 700,000 illegals
- $1,000 per month through LA county’s guaranteed income

CHICAGO:
- $300 MILLION spent temporary food and housing services: laundry, mental health screenings
- 15,000 rental support to selected illegals

https://tinyurl.com/2srb97xs

Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2024 02:03 PM (NpAcC)

325 323 My girlfriend's "adult" daughter doesn't wear deodorant because climate change. And I'd say that showering for her is a brief, infrequent affair. She smells like a pile of summer basketball team post-game uniforms left in a dumpster behind an Italian restaurant during a garbage truck strike in a heatwave.

Posted by: That'sa One Spicy Meatballa at April 05, 2024 02:02 PM (qUkBO)

That attractive...to certain insects.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 02:03 PM (ynpvh)

326 317 Remember, one square only!

Posted by: Sheryl Crow at April 05, 2024 01:58 PM (a3Q+t)

Ok that is one house we are not stealing underwear from
Posted by: The Underpants Gmones at April 05, 2024 02:00 PM (ibTVg)

Low grade toilet paper = new ways to discover yourself.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 05, 2024 02:03 PM (N39Ws)

327 My girlfriend's "adult" daughter doesn't wear deodorant because climate change. And I'd say that showering for her is a brief, infrequent affair. She smells like a pile of summer basketball team post-game uniforms left in a dumpster behind an Italian restaurant during a garbage truck strike in a heatwave.
Posted by: That'sa One Spicy Meatballa at April 05, 2024 02:02 PM (qUkBO)

I take it that she is a Zero?

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 05, 2024 02:03 PM (ufFY8)

328 Nood. UN.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 05, 2024 02:03 PM (nR2nR)

329 https://tinyurl.com/yc5mjrtc

Here is a site to keep track of earthquakes. Scroll down to find the NJ one.

Posted by: Just Lily at April 05, 2024 02:03 PM (kQnry)

330 326 317 Remember, one square only!

Posted by: Sheryl Crow at April 05, 2024 01:58 PM (a3Q+t)

Ok that is one house we are not stealing underwear from
Posted by: The Underpants Gmones at April 05, 2024 02:00 PM (ibTVg)

Low grade toilet paper = new ways to discover yourself.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 05, 2024 02:03 PM (N39Ws)

Now with fewer splinters!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 05, 2024 02:04 PM (ynpvh)

331 "This multiplier is fictitious because it is derived from an assumed future emissions scenario ("Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5") so extreme that it has virtually no chance of becoming reality. And this is incorporated into climate models that already overstate the actual satellite temperature measurements by a factor of about 2.5. The result? Climate doom and gloom predictions wholly at odds with the actual evidence."
Important point about this: The RCP8.5 assumes a population of 12 billion in 2100. This is impossible. Nearly every country is having its fertility rate (number of children per woman, needs to be at least 2.1 to keep total population steady) going down. China is already losing population each year. So are other countries in East Asia, Europe, North and South America, ..... The current estimates are that the world population in 2100 will at most be around 8 billion, the current amount.

Posted by: Roland F Hirsch at April 05, 2024 02:04 PM (oMkPq)

332 Speaking of, why are these a thing all of a sudden? Are people just not showering anymore?
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 05, 2024 01:31 PM (DRSnL)

I know two people who have cut way back on showering. So far, they are not very smelly, but they are also not teenaged boys. They are doing it to protect their skin micro biome and reduce water usage.

Posted by: Emmie at April 05, 2024 02:04 PM (xAC7C)

333 323 My girlfriend's "adult" daughter doesn't wear deodorant because climate change. And I'd say that showering for her is a brief, infrequent affair. She smells like a pile of summer basketball team post-game uniforms left in a dumpster behind an Italian restaurant during a garbage truck strike in a heatwave.
Posted by: That'sa One Spicy Meatballa at April 05, 2024 02:02 PM (qUkBO)
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["Call me" hand-to-head motion]

-- Sasquatch

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 05, 2024 02:04 PM (iFTx/)

334 253 I go on dates all the time and am always showered, nicely dressed, well groomed, and with a plan for the date.

so... it doesn't work?

Posted by: anachronda at April 05, 2024 02:05 PM (v3pYe)

335 "I take it that she is a Zero?"

Illennial.

Posted by: That'sa One Spicy Meatballa at April 05, 2024 02:05 PM (qUkBO)

336 The White House press corps has to know who is in the cabal running this country and probably their motivation in doing their best to destroy the USA. But to publish this blockbuster would be a death sentence. Whoever they are, they are playing with us; first a "clean" guy that came out of nowhere but could read whatever was placed in front of him and now a brain dead piece of shit.

Posted by: ss at April 05, 2024 02:06 PM (xlrNs)

337
Landlines, meaning non wireless will be around for a long time. It's just the old copper pair last mile is phasing out.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Most of the land line techs have retired.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 05, 2024 02:06 PM (63Dwl)

338 Considering his record after 3 and a half years as POTUS, I would've expected Biden to be losing by McGovern or Jimmy Carter-type margins. He's NOT.

Posted by: KC Wolf (mnw) at April 05, 2024 02:07 PM (NLIak)

339 Regarding the SPR drawdown:
...a lengthy depletion period could leave the U.S. vulnerable and resource-strapped in the event of an emergency.

Which is a flat-out admission that the reason for the drawdown was NOT an emergency.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at April 05, 2024 02:17 PM (TOe+Q)

340 21
There's rare earth in California but that's the same as buying it from China at this point.

Posted by: hurricane567 at April 05, 2024 02:18 PM (/lH+z)

341
Considering his record after 3 and a half years as POTUS, I would've expected Biden to be losing by McGovern or Jimmy Carter-type margins. He's NOT.

Posted by: KC Wolf (mnw) at April 05, 2024 02:07 PM

If you look at polls which include all the entrants he is toast. Burnt toast. If it wasn't for 3rd party guy John Anderson, Jimmy Carter had a slim chance, but Anderson nabbed 8% off Carter's totals.

RFK Jr is gonna take at least that much away from Biden. Maybe 14% according to some numbers I've seen.

Posted by: Babu Bhatt at April 05, 2024 02:24 PM (RKVpM)

342 Missed opportunity BIG GUY. Gas prices could be doubled with all out refill of the SPR. Force people in desperation to go EV on Bidenomics alone.

Refill
Refill
Refill

The guy is an idiot.

Posted by: torabora at April 05, 2024 02:45 PM (0Gnoc)

343 Biden lied. He's willing to weaponize the government and deplete critical wartime stocks for short-term political advantage.

He's an evil old vulture.

Biden has no idea what is going on. And has had no idea about anything going on since he was installed in the White House in January 2021.

This is all the doing of the Deep State. The Deep State ordered Biden to agree to drain the SPR and the Deep State ordered Biden to agree to not refill the SPR.

None of this is Biden's doing. If he died tomorrow, they would order Harris to do the same things. Once they get rid of both Biden and Harris, the Deep State will order the next Democrat President installed in November to do the same things.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 05, 2024 02:50 PM (UKWFA)

344 He said: 'Let's be clear, the automotive sector is moving toward EVs and we can't pretend otherwise. Sometimes, when these debates happen, I feel like it's the early 2000s and I'm talking to some people who think that we can just have landline phones forever.'
++++
Then why do you need to force the issue? If it's inevitable, why all the new rules and prohibitions?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2024 01:05 PM

The automotive sector is not moving towards EVs.

The automotive sector is being forced by the ridiculous EPA regulations and threats of industry-destroying fines and bans of sales of vehicles to move to producing the only products that can possibly meet the ridiculous fuel economy and emissions standards.

Standards that were deliberately set as such, because they are a defacto ban on ICE vehicle production and sale. The Obama Administration set this in motion. Trump halted it. Deep State eliminated him and put them back in place in January 2021. This is the WEF Agenda 2030 in action.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 05, 2024 02:55 PM (UKWFA)

345 I'm old enough to remember when Ford announced the end of their ICE sedans and coupes saying that only Mustangs, SUVs and electric cars will be produced in the near future.
Enjoy your Mustangs and SUVs everyone.

Posted by: Max Entropy at April 05, 2024 03:45 PM (oxDA9)

346 Biden should be made to walk to all his meetings maybe flapping his arms hard enough to get Airborne this Airhead is a Traitor of the worst kind

Posted by: Tamma the Drongo Bird at April 05, 2024 05:55 PM (wGqjj)

347 A presidential promise I'd like:

ANWR gets re-opened. An American drilling company gets tapped to drive their thick, huge penis-analogue into the firmament there to drill for oil. Every ounce of oil that comes up goes directly to the Strategic Oil Reserve.

And when the sweet, sweet oil spills out of every pipe of the Reserve, then the company can continue drilling and selling the rest of the oil on their own.

Posted by: Another Anon at April 05, 2024 06:27 PM (HbIq+)

348 Beijing ordered Pedo Joe not to refill the Reserve.

Just like they ordered him to give the Genocide Jab to our troops.

And for the same reason.

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