It's Memorial Day Weekend!

It's not spring without poppies

Good Morning! Do you have plans for the Memorial Day Weekend? There's still time to make some plans.

This is not the Gardening Thread, but partly due to an unusual occurrence last week and partly due to Spring, we have extra flower photos from The Horde, including Red, White and Blue flowers from Don in Kansas, who has been busy with his camera. Aren't they gorgeous?

Rose 'Darlow's Enigma'

Phacelia campanularia

Powerline has one of their fleeting links up to this piece, Reflections on Memorial Day, Mackubin Owens

In 1998, I was invited to deliver the Memorial Day address at Newport City Hall. In my address, I sought to recur to the true meaning of the holiday. Memorial Day, I said, had unfortunately come to signify little more than another three-day weekend, which had obscured even the vestiges of its intended meaning: a solemn time, serving both as catharsis for those who fought and survived, and to ensure that those who followed would not forget the sacrifice of those who died that the American Republic and the principles that sustain it, might live.
Americans, I contended, had forgotten how to honor their war heroes and to remember their war dead. As my friend and fellow Marine, "Bing" West observed several years ago in his remarkable book about Fallujah, No True Glory, stories of soldierly courage deserve "to be recorded and read by the next generation. Unsung, the noblest deed will die."
I noted that what we now call Memorial Day was established by General John A. Logan's "General Order No. 11" of the Grand Army of the Republic dated 5 May, 1868. This order reads in part: "The 30th day of May 1868 is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers and otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies lie in almost every city, village and hamlet churchyard in the land." Logan's order served to ratify a practice that was already widespread, both in the North and the South, in the years immediately following the Civil War.

. . . The inconsolable pain and grief of the mother of my fallen Marine with whom I corresponded put me in mind of Rudyard Kipling's poem, Epitaphs of the War, verse IV, "An Only Son": "I have slain none but my mother, She (Blessing her slayer) died of grief for me." Kipling too, lost his only son in World War I.
But as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in his Memorial Day address of 1884,"[G]rief is not the end of all. I seem to hear the funeral march become a paean. I see beyond the forest the moving banners of a hidden column. Our dead brothers still live for us, and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and joy of the spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope and will."
So by all means, have that burger this weekend. Enjoy the barbeque. Go to the beach. But also take some time to watch Taking Chance and remember to honor those who died to make your weekend possible.

The entire piece is worth reading and considering during this weekend, especially if you have young people around.

Memorial Day Weekend Events

Are there still events commemorating Memorial Day in your area? The Central Valley of California is one area where such community events are still observed. Flags, ceremonies, concerts . . .

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Random Observations

Ace included a tweet from Nellie Bowles in his Great Withering of Humankind post yesterday (which some people are bookmarking for later consideration).

Nellie Bowles is not exactly a conservative, but she has been moving toward the right. Not totally, for sure.

David Mikics wrote in Tablet:

Good progressives are tossing the heady days of wine and wokeness down the memory hole. Lucky for us, there was a witness.

Remember the heady days of 2020? Progressives trained by the richest universities in the land suddenly had the chance to remake America in their image, the way they had always dreamed of doing. The result was so obvious and crushing a failure that one is no longer supposed to talk about it.
Four years later, the power elite have discovered that their cosplay revolution is seen as merely ridiculous. Minority groups don't want the new names that have been issued to them. Straight people prefer not to be called cisgender, and gay people don't like being submerged in a tide of heterosexuals who style themselves queer. Even The New York Times, that high conclave of official euphemisms, has begun to soft-pedal chilling locutions like "gender-affirming care for minors," instead referring honestly to puberty blockers and body-altering surgery.
Nellie Bowles' Morning After the Revolution is a grand tour through the craziness that followed the killing of George Floyd and continues to this day, despite the majority of Americans shaking their heads in bewilderment. Bowles, a former Times reporter, started out as a progressive seeker, curious and hopeful about the new thinking, and she is still seeking solutions to racism, income inequality, and attacks on women's rights. But she also sees the absurdity of much of what passed for progressivism, yet was actually narcissistic, neo-racialist, and aggressively inhumane.

Nellie Bowles has a sense of the ironic:

But to Western elites, anyone who hates us a lot is. . . kind of hot right now. If he's chanted Death to America, we're into him. If he kills thousands of dissidents as part of a fundamentalist religious revival, that's him really putting ancient indigenous values into practice.

The brilliant and always hilarious @NellieBowles torches Ibrahim Raisi and the useful idiots in the media, the UN, and elsewhere in the Western elite who despise America and defend any mass murdering sadist who also hates America. @TheFP pic.twitter.com/mud5LA5rZ4
— Mark Dubowitz (@mdubowitz) May 24, 2024

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How's that old Patriarchy doing in the USA?

Steven Hayward:

It is dogma among radical feminists and the identity politics brigades that America is in the oppressive grip of The Patriarchy. It would seem this is obsolete information (I know, facts have nothing to do with anything--"facts" are an oppressive white male construct, like "objectivity"). From our irrepressible pal Mark Perry:

Check out the responses at the link.

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Music

God Bless America, Kate Smith

America the Beautiful

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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You may remember that after last week's thread, Preparing for the Unexpected, was posted, the site went down. Unexpectedly!

When the site came back up, Tom Servo said,

I waited all day to make some incredibly pithy and insightful comment on this thread, but now I forgot what it was. It was really good, though.

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:11 AM

Comments

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1 Good Morning

Posted by: Rex B at May 25, 2024 11:13 AM (5h/8D)

2 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at May 25, 2024 11:14 AM (fwDg9)

3 T-storms possibly Monday but will go one way or another to parade in town, walk or drive if weather is threatening

Posted by: Skip at May 25, 2024 11:15 AM (fwDg9)

4 (winnowed)

>Please call my office for an appointment. We specialize in sending one scope down your throat and one up from the other end, meeting in the middle. Saves time and stress. Nice pictures, too.

Seriously, I hit 100K miles and got all the regular stuff done last year. They upgraded me from back end to both ends. They only go a few feet, not all the way.

Of course my comedy-spidey-senses told me there was a joke in there waiting to be found, but I did not find it.

A month later Instapundit mentions the double procedure and says something like "They really don't like it when you call it a spit-roast. I have been counselled."

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 25, 2024 11:18 AM (lhenN)

5 Good Morning!

Posted by: KT at May 25, 2024 11:19 AM (rrtZS)

6 Rose 'Darlow's Enigma'

Looks a lot like apple blossoms.

Posted by: BignJames at May 25, 2024 11:19 AM (AwYPR)

7 willowed:

Nuns retreat completely from the world. That is their vocation.

Religious sisters exist in the world, and some wear habits. The ones objecting are hippie throwbacks who threw away their habits and are trying to stay relevant. Those orders are dying out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 25, 2024 11:21 AM (llXky)

8 60/40 Split is why nobody’s getting married or having kids anymore. Women with degrees don’t want a man without one. Yuuuge imbalance so lots single ladies out there who will die single and childless.

Posted by: Montec at May 25, 2024 11:23 AM (tpjlM)

9 BignJames at May 25, 2024 11:19 AM

Apples are in the rose family. There are roses that smell like apples.

Posted by: KT at May 25, 2024 11:24 AM (rrtZS)

10 Shocked that happened in Denver. I half expected the police to be called for a hate crime, lol.

Posted by: Montec at May 25, 2024 11:24 AM (tpjlM)

11 I love those Flash Mob videos. They are so joyous.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 25, 2024 11:25 AM (t/2Uw)

12 willowed:

Nuns retreat completely from the world. That is their vocation.

Religious sisters exist in the world, and some wear habits. The ones objecting are hippie throwbacks who threw away their habits and are trying to stay relevant. Those orders are dying out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 25, 2024 11:21 AM (llXky)

I’m a Baptist with great respect for the traditional Catholic Church…. But I look in befuddlement now as I never thought I’d see a non-Catholic pope nor statements like the one made by those sisters. I have a good friend who is a lay member of Opus Dei and of course he won’t be critical of the church but I sense his unease….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 25, 2024 11:28 AM (xT8gx)

13 Apples are in the rose family. There are roses that smell like apples.

Posted by: KT at May 25, 2024 11:24 AM (rrtZS)

Hey! I had forgotten that!

Posted by: BignJames at May 25, 2024 11:29 AM (AwYPR)

14 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 25, 2024 11:30 AM (T4tVD)

15 Tom Servo, been there done that.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 25, 2024 11:32 AM (PiwSw)

16 Apples are in the rose family. There are roses that smell like apples.

Posted by: KT at May 25, 2024 11:24 AM (rrtZS)

Do they smell like Pete Rose ?

Posted by: JT at May 25, 2024 11:32 AM (T4tVD)

17 Ace put up a post a few years ago, and I'll never forget it, because it was so prescient. In this constant scrum between left and the so-called right, the left always puts up something, and the right always reacts to it.

It's been observed the so-called conservatives never actually conserve anything, because whatever it is, there's always movement to the left, no matter how much harumphing the so-called right is doing over the latest thing.

What has the R party been for, these past couple decades, other than perpetual war? They haven't stopped the left, they sure as hell don't ever roll back any of their gains.

Whenever I hear the latest outrage, what Woke is doing, that's the first thing I think about... what is anyone on the so-called right actually doing about it.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 25, 2024 11:33 AM (ss0cA)

18 Thanks KT and hope you have a memorable Memorial Day.

Shouldn't that chart comparing Male vs. Female college degrees have a column for Other?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 25, 2024 11:35 AM (991eG)

19 What has the R party been for, these past couple decades, other than perpetual war?

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Tax cuts for billionaires and endless illegal migration to keep wages low.

Posted by: Montec at May 25, 2024 11:35 AM (tpjlM)

20 It is disgusting many governments paid respect to a monster's death

Posted by: Skip at May 25, 2024 11:35 AM (fwDg9)

21 The world: man so sad that Iran’s prezzy died

Also the world: those fucking Jews, ugh

Same as it ever was

Posted by: Montec at May 25, 2024 11:37 AM (tpjlM)

22 The lily has a smooth stalk,
Will never hurt your hand;
But the rose upon her brier
Is lady of the land.

There’s sweetness in an apple tree,
And profit in the corn;
But lady of all beauty
Is a rose upon a thorn.

When with moss and honey
She tips her bending brier,
And half unfolds her glowing heart,
She sets the world on fire.

Posted by: Christina Rossetti at May 25, 2024 11:37 AM (dg+HA)

23 Carried forward from the prior thread regarding the question of intervening on aging neighbors:

There was a certain old woman who lived near our cabin, at 8,600 ft elevation in the Sangre de Cristo mtns. She was widowed, a retired NYC school teacher who had lived there for 30 years. We first met her in her 70's and she died at 91. In her later years she would park her car at the highway gate and hike the half mile to her cabin when the snow was too deep to drive. She would drive to town about once a week, going a cautious 40-45 mph on the highway. She was garrulous and eccentric but did not have debilitating dementia per se. Some of our neighbors conspired to steal her car keys and hide them from her. They insisted that she move into town to an apartment for the winter, and went so far as to arrange a place. She steadfastly refused and continued to live at her longtime home in the hills. She was found dead on her couch at home one morning by the oxygen delivery guy. This was her long-stated desire.

She died on her own terms and we respect her for that

Posted by: Muldoon at May 25, 2024 11:38 AM (991eG)

24 Slow day. Probably all the 'rons are at chile cook-offs.

Posted by: Just sayin at May 25, 2024 11:38 AM (gnGBL)

25 Hiya JT!!!

Posted by: Moki at May 25, 2024 11:40 AM (wLjpr)

26 Thanks for posting the info on the meaning and purpose of Memorial Day. While it's always appreciated by veterans to hear "thanks for your service" etc, Memorial Day is SOLELY to remember those who gave the ultimate, made the highest sacrifice. If thanks to the living are to be made, it goes to the parents, families of those fallen. Hate to see fliers/ads that offer discounts to veterans, etc, just helps to muddy up why it exists. We have Veterans Day for that you lazy uninformed ad firms.

Posted by: Son of Dad at May 25, 2024 11:40 AM (8JB5s)

27 It is disgusting many governments paid respect to a monster's death
Posted by: Skip at May 25, 2024 11:35 AM (fwDg9)

Patrick Bet-David suggests this might have been an internal Iranian power struggle, while at the same time recognizing this guy had no real power.

I don't know if he has inside info or not. If anyone does though, it would be him.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 25, 2024 11:40 AM (ss0cA)

28 >>>>>I love those Flash Mob videos. They are so joyous.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 25, 2024 11:25 AM (t/2Uw)
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Thank you K.T. For another wonderful garden thread. I watched the flash mob video and it got very dusty in my office. Just a beautiful sentiment and scene from the USA.

Posted by: Crusader Rabbit at May 25, 2024 11:40 AM (LolQL)

29 Hiya JT!!!
Posted by: Moki

Posted by: JT at May 25, 2024 11:41 AM (T4tVD)

30 Yuuuge imbalance so lots single ladies out there who will die single and childless.

Posted by: Montec at May 25, 2024 11:23 AM (tpjlM)

We got this.

Posted by: ferral cats at May 25, 2024 11:42 AM (B705c)

31 I don't know if he has inside info or not. If anyone does though, it would be him.
Posted by: BurtTC

He left Iran as a small kid with his family. Why would he have any inside info?

Posted by: Montec at May 25, 2024 11:44 AM (tpjlM)

32 Son of Dad: It irks me as well when people confuse the two. There’s a local car wash here that has free car washes for veterans on Monday. Uhm dudes you got the holidays mixed up.

Posted by: Montec at May 25, 2024 11:46 AM (tpjlM)

33 >>>>>Yuuuge imbalance so lots single ladies out there who will die single and childless.
Posted by: Montec at May 25, 2024 11:23 AM (tpjlM)

We got this.
Posted by: ferral cats at May 25, 2024 11:42 AM (B705c)
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By their own choice. just because a young man doesn’t have an MBA doesn’t mean he can’t be a good provider and most importantly a loving and nurturing Dad. Remember them?!? Sorry for going O.T.

Posted by: Crusader Rabbit at May 25, 2024 11:46 AM (LolQL)

34 Slow day. Probably all the 'rons are at chile cook-offs.
Posted by: Just sayin at May 25, 2024 11:38 AM (gnGBL))

And out buying carrots.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at May 25, 2024 11:46 AM (iODuv)

35 I don't know if he has inside info or not. If anyone does though, it would be him.
Posted by: BurtTC

He left Iran as a small kid with his family. Why would he have any inside info?
Posted by: Montec at May 25, 2024 11:44 AM (tpjlM)

He had connections. To the Pahlavi family, for one.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 25, 2024 11:47 AM (ss0cA)

36
By their own choice. just because a young man doesn’t have an MBA doesn’t mean he can’t be a good provider and most importantly a loving and nurturing Dad. Remember them?!? Sorry for going O.T.
Posted by: Crusader Rabbit at May 25, 2024 11:46 AM (LolQL)

I don’t think anyone would disagree with you. But it is the modern reality. And it’s not just women who end up alone. Men do as well.

Posted by: Montec at May 25, 2024 11:48 AM (tpjlM)

37 Do not pluck my rosebud,
Nor the stalk which hangs beneath,
Leave it instead,
At the side of the bed,
In the glass where I keep my false teeth!

Posted by: Benny Hill, 1978 at May 25, 2024 11:48 AM (V5BDR)

38 The college degree data is interesting but I think it would be insightful to see the breakdown of cat food and cat related pet supplies.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 25, 2024 11:48 AM (dg+HA)

39 Lots of young women will fuck several hundred Chads and Tyrones, but ignore the men who would actually want a wife and kids. Then when these same women are ran through and hitting the wall, those men they ignored are rightfully repulsed and want nothing to do with them, or with raising their three kids sired by 384 potential fathers.

Posted by: Then cue the TikTok sobfests at May 25, 2024 11:50 AM (k3d8O)

40 >>>I don’t think anyone would disagree with you. But it is the modern reality. And it’s not just women who end up alone. Men do as well.
Posted by: Montec at May 25, 2024 11:48 AM (tpjlM)
******
Fair point.

Posted by: Crusader Rabbit at May 25, 2024 11:50 AM (LolQL)

41 Hi. Late for the coffee thread. Thanks for all the prayers. So effective coz I got home yesterday.

The nystagmus is practically gone. They say it's inner ear nerve inflammation (vestibular neuritis) and am on prednisone and signed up for vestibular therapy. They ruled out the crystals thing.

I'm trying basic eye exercises and trying not to take the anti vertigo med (meclizine) as relying on it will slow my improvement according to the vestibular expert at the hospital.

Thanks again for all the prayers. It was super scary at first but prayers really helped.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 25, 2024 11:52 AM (LIf6Z)

42 young women will fuck several hundred Chads and Tyrones, but ignore the men who would actually want a wife and kids.
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How prevelant is this though? I know this is conventional wisdom. All the THOTs etc. But is this really the typical young woman?

I really don’t know and I’m too old to know this stuff first hand. But my thinking is the stereotype applies to a small handful of social media personalities and is not typical of your average 23 year old woman.

Posted by: Montec at May 25, 2024 11:54 AM (tpjlM)

43 Wait. The Onion said something funny?

The End Times must be here.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 25, 2024 11:55 AM (bo7UB)

44 37
O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

-- William Blake

The Sick Rose comes to mind when I look around at the spiritual devastation around us. But real physical roses remind me of the true beauty of God's creation.
I love roses.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 25, 2024 11:58 AM (LIf6Z)

45 It is disgusting many governments paid respect to a monster's death
Posted by: Skip at May 25, 2024 11:35 AM (fwDg9)

Kowtowing to people who hate everything about the West is how the modern pseudo-intellectual demonstrates a raised consciousness.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 25, 2024 11:58 AM (bo7UB)

46 Nice rainstorm just passed through.

Went to the farmer's market this morning and got Boneset and Swamp Milkweed for my butterfly garden. Alas, they were out of Cat-bane, Ogre Tooth, Dragonbreath, and Witch's Tit.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 25, 2024 12:00 PM (FkUwd)

47 Muldoon at May 25, 2024 11:35 AM

Why, yes! Where are the multi-gendered?

Posted by: KT at May 25, 2024 12:00 PM (rrtZS)

48 Son of Dad: It irks me as well when people confuse the two. There’s a local car wash here that has free car washes for veterans on Monday. Uhm dudes you got the holidays mixed up.
Posted by: Montec at May 25, 2024 11:46 AM (tpjlM)

Maybe they tried offering free car washes to deceased servicemen but nobody showed up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 25, 2024 12:00 PM (bo7UB)

49 22 that's beautiful

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 25, 2024 12:01 PM (LIf6Z)

50 What’s the STEM degree stats?

Posted by: polynikes at May 25, 2024 12:01 PM (SHMXB)

51 Coming home, I passed a parking lot with kids holding car wash signs. Church youth group. Car was pollinated so I pulled in. Free, but donations accepted. About six kids got busy, a Mom and Dad supervising. Great job, and I noticed too many ones in the bucket so I laid a twenty on them.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 25, 2024 12:02 PM (V5eKu)

52 Did they have any Brass Monkey's Butt?

Posted by: That's usually only in winter at May 25, 2024 12:02 PM (dg+HA)

53 Oops, not the GardenThread.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 25, 2024 12:02 PM (FkUwd)

54 When I moved into my house the standard roses were poking along since they had been neglected for so long, and the climbing roses and the moss roses were tangled thickets.
I ignored them other than to mow around them and they started to get choked out. I finally decided to care for them, and they have bounced back. Several of them are now covered with blossoms, and one small yellow rose is actually flowering this year.
With luck I can get the yellow rose sorted out and make it big and sturdy instead of the vine-like plant it is. I know there are different types of roses, this one I suspect is old fashioned. However, they all respond well to rose food, and an extra blast of epsom's salt in water.

I am trying to root some cuttings, and to date I have failed.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 25, 2024 12:03 PM (D7oie)

55 Did they have any Brass Monkey's Butt?
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No! Luckily, Brass Baboon Ass was available.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 25, 2024 12:03 PM (FkUwd)

56 Posted by: Montec at May 25, 2024 11:54 AM (tpjlM)

Yes this unfortunately is exactly what is happening.

Posted by: polynikes at May 25, 2024 12:03 PM (SHMXB)

57 Thanks again for all the prayers. It was super scary at first but prayers really helped.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 25, 2024 11:52 AM (LIf6Z)

You're welcome !

At first I feared you got hit in the head with sumpin, or was injured in a knife fight, or dropped an anvil on your toe.

Posted by: JT at May 25, 2024 12:07 PM (T4tVD)

58 I want to brag some more, my potatoes are doing fantastic. I got them in later than I wanted, but they are going well now.
I gave up fancy planting and mounding and just put them in rows and I plan to water them.

My corn, on the other hand, is not germinating, and I suspect it is old seed, Oh, and the slugs got all my seedling melons.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 25, 2024 12:09 PM (D7oie)

59 JT a couple of months ago I stupidly hit my head opening my car door, so you're not completely wrong.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 25, 2024 12:09 PM (LIf6Z)

60 JT a couple of months ago I stupidly hit my head opening my car door, so you're not completely wrong.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 25, 2024 12:09 PM (LIf6Z)

If you had hit someone else in the head, you'd be facing an assault charge.

Posted by: JT at May 25, 2024 12:12 PM (T4tVD)

61 My coffee is not working.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 25, 2024 12:12 PM (t/2Uw)

62 Been trying to finish processing 2021 Fall leaves, less than a half wheelbarrow to go

Posted by: Skip at May 25, 2024 12:12 PM (EDbJb)

63 And internet has been going on and off all day

Posted by: Skip at May 25, 2024 12:13 PM (EDbJb)

64 And internet has been going on and off all day
Posted by: Skip at May 25, 2024 12:13 PM (EDbJb)

Pixy must be fixing it !

Posted by: JT at May 25, 2024 12:15 PM (T4tVD)

65 Pixy must be fixing it !
Posted by: JT

Pixy's hamsters have escaped and taken over the interwebs

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 25, 2024 12:17 PM (LIf6Z)

66 *internet has been going on and off all day*

It's climate change.

Posted by: The pathetic media at May 25, 2024 12:17 PM (dg+HA)

67 When I lived in Putnam county NY, I had a Darlow's Enigma and I loved it: great scent and vigorous climber.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 25, 2024 12:30 PM (IG7T0)

68 Floyd killed himself

Posted by: GOP sux at May 25, 2024 12:32 PM (Zzbjj)

69 IT'S FINALLY OVER!!!!

The girl spawn has graduated from high school!! She walked confidently to the podium, climbed up on a step stool, and gave speech as class Salutatorian. The speech was short and to the point, just like the girl. She is 4 ft 10inches. That step stool was essential.

Now to the grad party.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 25, 2024 12:36 PM (4XwPj)

70 Kindltot. Yep, gave up on the fancy planting of potatoes. Put them in the ground, water them and harvest. Only doing fingerlings this year. Also, have had zero luck fussy planting asparagus, buried 3 year old crowns below ground level and am watering. We shall see. I never had asparagus until dad picked it along the cemetery fence line. If it grows wild how difficult can it be to grow?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 25, 2024 12:38 PM (2NHgQ)

71 vmom: "Pixy's hamsters have escaped and taken over the interwebs"

We shot the ones from the previous server out of a potato cannon and got some real distance!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 25, 2024 12:39 PM (O7YUW)

72 And internet has been going on and off all day
Posted by: Skip

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Great and just when I was about to post a really pithy and insightful comment, but now I've forgotten what it was. It was really good too!

Posted by: ~~Tom Seervo~~ Muldoon at May 25, 2024 12:39 PM (991eG)

73 /struckthrough Servo sock off

Posted by: Muldoon at May 25, 2024 12:41 PM (991eG)

74 Floyd killed himself
Posted by: GOP sux at May 25, 2024 12:32 PM (Zzbjj)

Yep. Auto-thugicide. Covers all forms of sudden death experienced by thugs in the course of thuggery. Live the thug life, die a thug death.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2024 12:42 PM (nX2lS)

75 Morning.

If I may pull from last week's thread...
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52 Never read Atlas Shrugged, seen many say its a bit of a mess to read
Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2024 11:33 AM (fwDg9)

Ayn Rand really, really needed an editor.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 18, 2024 11:36 AM (qort2)

Better yet, two.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2024 11:49 AM (W/lyH)

Atlas Shrugged was well worth the read.

Ayn Rand was right. Ayn Rand was right about *everything*. Now stop being a bunch of communists and get to readin'.

Posted by: Robert at May 25, 2024 12:43 PM (1Yy3c)

76 We shot the ones from the previous server out of a potato cannon and got some real distance!

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Shave them and spray with WD40.

The shaving makes them more aerodynamic and the WD40 increases the muzzle velocity.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 25, 2024 12:43 PM (991eG)

77 She is 4 ft 10inches.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 25, 2024 12:36 PM (4XwPj)

Short girls are Best Girls.

Posted by: Robert at May 25, 2024 12:44 PM (1Yy3c)

78 IT'S FINALLY OVER!!!!

>>>>The girl spawn has graduated from high school!! She walked confidently to the podium, climbed up on a step stool, and gave speech as class Salutatorian. The speech was short and to the point, just like the girl. She is 4 ft 10inches. That step stool was essential.

Now to the grad party.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 25, 2024 12:36 PM (4XwPj)
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Mabel Tov to you, your daughter and the whole Mayhem family. May this be just the beginning of the blessings you and your family deservingly receive. Enjoy.

Posted by: Crusader Rabbit at May 25, 2024 12:45 PM (LolQL)

79 Don the hard part

Posted by: Skip at May 25, 2024 12:45 PM (fwDg9)

80 Better go get my coffee.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2024 12:46 PM (nX2lS)

81 Coming home, I passed a parking lot with kids holding car wash signs. Church youth group. Car was pollinated so I pulled in. Free, but donations accepted. About six kids got busy, a Mom and Dad supervising. Great job, and I noticed too many ones in the bucket so I laid a twenty on them.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 25, 2024 12:02 PM (V5eKu)

The Bikini Car Wash babes are going to be disappointed that you passed them by.

Posted by: Robert at May 25, 2024 12:46 PM (1Yy3c)

82 Mazel not Mabel, I hate autocorrect.

Posted by: Crusader Rabbit at May 25, 2024 12:46 PM (LolQL)

83 Pacific Wrecks has reported the discovery of a historical P-38 Lightning amidst the mountains and jungles of New Guinea.

Major Richard Bong's "Marge" has been found. While being flown by another pilot the P-38 suffered a seized engine and crashed.

Bong's sister says she plans to visit the crash site. She is 99 years old.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2024 12:46 PM (aMl27)

84 Don the hard part

*******

Don the hard part, gay apparel
Falalalala la lalala

Posted by: Muldoon at May 25, 2024 12:47 PM (991eG)

85 Very pretty flowers!

I'm really glad the mountain won.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 25, 2024 12:49 PM (6mcoq)

86 young women will fuck several hundred Chads and Tyrones, but ignore the men who would actually want a wife and kids.
—

How prevelant is this though? I know this is conventional wisdom. All the THOTs etc. But is this really the typical young woman?

I really don’t know and I’m too old to know this stuff first hand. But my thinking is the stereotype applies to a small handful of social media personalities and is not typical of your average 23 year old woman.

Posted by: Montec at May 25, 2024 11:54 AM (tpjlM)

Thanks to the power of Instagram I'm finding out my sister's eldest daughter is a giant whore.

Brought a black guy home for Thanksgiving. Already kicked him to the curb and has gone through a couple of dudes since.

Good job, sis!

Posted by: Robert at May 25, 2024 12:49 PM (1Yy3c)

87 Now to the grad party.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 25, 2024 12:36 PM (4XwPj)

Woot! Beer Pong!!

Posted by: Just sayin at May 25, 2024 12:49 PM (gnGBL)

88 Mazel not Mabel, I hate autocorrect.
Posted by: Crusader Rabbit

I wondered what old Mabel had to do with it. She's a nice lady but a bit persnickety sometimes.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 25, 2024 12:49 PM (4XwPj)

89 Beer pong + spud gun...

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2024 12:52 PM (aMl27)

90 I wondered what old Mabel had to do with it. She's a nice lady but a bit persnickety sometimes.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 25, 2024 12:49 PM (4XwPj)

The correct syntax is "Mabel! Black Label!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2024 12:52 PM (nX2lS)

91 "Wheeeeeeeeeee...splat"

Posted by: Hampster and potato cannon at May 25, 2024 12:53 PM (991eG)

92 You would need one of Krupp's finest to handle a Nadler round.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2024 12:54 PM (aMl27)

93 >>>>Thanks to the power of Instagram I'm finding out my sister's eldest daughter is a giant whore.
Brought a black guy home for Thanksgiving. Already kicked him to the curb and has gone through a couple of dudes since.
Good job, sis!
Posted by: Robert at May 25, 2024 12:49 PM (1Yy3c)
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It seems you have other things to think about now. Nothing you can do, other than keeping her from moving into your house.

Posted by: Crusader Rabbit at May 25, 2024 12:55 PM (LolQL)

94 While being flown by another pilot the P-38 suffered a seized engine and crashed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2024 12:46 PM (aMl27)

Shoulda' used full synthetic.

Posted by: BignJames at May 25, 2024 12:55 PM (AwYPR)

95 They're playing John Williams' "Hymn to the Fallen" from Saving Private Ryan on the radio right now. Getting misty in here.

Posted by: Tuna at May 25, 2024 12:57 PM (oaGWv)

96 While being flown by another pilot the P-38 suffered a seized engine and crashed.
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At least it wasn't pounced.

Posted by: Methos at May 25, 2024 12:59 PM (Dnobf)

97 young women will fuck several hundred Chads and Tyrones, but ignore the men who would actually want a wife and kids.
—

How prevelant is this though? I know this is conventional wisdom. All the THOTs etc. But is this really the typical young woman?

I really don’t know and I’m too old to know this stuff first hand. But my thinking is the stereotype applies to a small handful of social media personalities and is not typical of your average 23 year old woman.

Posted by: Montec at May 25, 2024 11:54 AM (tpjlM)

Thanks to the power of Instagram I'm finding out my sister's eldest daughter is a giant whore.

Brought a black guy home for Thanksgiving. Already kicked him to the curb and has gone through a couple of dudes since.

Good job, sis!
Posted by: Robert

================================

Behold - The power of the Pill !!!

... and total lack of self esteem

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 25, 2024 12:59 PM (cOq4q)

98 The brilliant and always hilarious @NellieBowles torches Ibrahim Raisi

We can take turns.

Posted by: The Dark Lord at May 25, 2024 01:00 PM (lg881)

99 Crap.

I thought this was the gardening thread.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 25, 2024 01:02 PM (cOq4q)

100 Robert. I agree, Atlas Shrugged is in my top 10 reads. When Galt starts his 40 page or so lecture I skim it, read it through once and that was enough. The horde should read it and they will find themselves saying what they do about 1984. Shouldn't be a guide to what's happening now.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 25, 2024 01:02 PM (2NHgQ)

101 Sorry, forgot this was the gardening thread. Still, read it.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 25, 2024 01:03 PM (2NHgQ)

102 "This is not the Gardening Thread, but partly due to an unusual occurrence last week and partly due to Spring, we have extra flower photos from The Horde,"

Posted by: davidt at May 25, 2024 01:05 PM (SYTee)

103 Floyd killed himself
Posted by: GOP sux at May 25, 2024 12:32 PM (Zzbjj)

The barber ?

Posted by: JT at May 25, 2024 01:06 PM (T4tVD)

104 They're going after Alito. Dem Senators want a meet with Roberts.

What could go wrong?

Posted by: davidt at May 25, 2024 01:07 PM (SYTee)

105 Crap.

I thought this was the gardening thread.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 25, 2024 01:02 PM (cOq4q)
*******
Yes, it is. Not traditionally but we’re planting discontent and harvesting fellowship.

Posted by: Crusader Rabbit at May 25, 2024 01:07 PM (LolQL)

106 The commencement ceremony was okay. valedictorian went on and on. School "orchestra" needed to either practice that processional more or give up and play a recording. That was awful. Thirty ducks quacking in unison would have sounded better. The choir did a fine job with the National Anthem. The Navy JROTC unit was sharp presenting the Colors. The high school principal is a man I graduated with from that same school. Good guy. The art teacher rolled in wearing shorts and a Hawaiian shirt and sandals. He did have his dreadlocks in a man bun, so.... formal!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 25, 2024 01:07 PM (4XwPj)

107
Thanks to the power of Instagram I'm finding out my sister's eldest daughter is a giant whore.

Brought a black guy home for Thanksgiving. Already kicked him to the curb and has gone through a couple of dudes since.

Good job, sis!
Posted by: Robert

She belongs to the streets. Sadly, she has lots of company.

Posted by: It's an evil world we live in at May 25, 2024 01:08 PM (k3d8O)

108 A piece of Biden's pier to funnel resources to Hamas broke loose due to bad weather and got beached. Several Navy boats sent to recover the piece and the first boat that was towing it also got beached.

Something, something, God laughs.

https://tinyurl.com/y82m4u87

Posted by: Methos at May 25, 2024 01:09 PM (Dnobf)

109 78 IT'S FINALLY OVER!!!!

>>>>The girl spawn has graduated from high school!! She walked confidently to the podium, climbed up on a step stool, and gave speech as class Salutatorian. The speech was short and to the point, just like the girl. She is 4 ft 10inches. That step stool was essential.

Now to the grad party.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 25,

Congrats to your Daughter ! My Daughter-in-Law is 4 ft 11 inches

Posted by: It's me donna at May 25, 2024 01:09 PM (Akjoo)

110 For me, Memorial Day will always bring up a memory of something I saw by chance years ago. We were on vacation and driving through Kansas in the morning, a nice sunny day. We came through a small town just like a thousand other midwestern towns, and there was a small cemetery on the outskirts, as they all have. As we drove by I noticed an older gentleman had parked his pickup there and taken a lawnchair in, and he was just sitting there quietly by himself under a tree, next to a grave.
I don’t know anything more about him or the grave; I don’t need to. That to me is what Memorial Day is all about.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 25, 2024 01:09 PM (q3gwH)

111 The art teacher rolled in wearing shorts and a Hawaiian shirt and sandals. He did have his dreadlocks in a man bun, so.... formal!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 25, 2024 01:07 PM (4XwPj)

Everyting be irie, mon!

Posted by: Graduated ganjah cum laude, mon! at May 25, 2024 01:10 PM (k3d8O)

112 Thanks to the power of Instagram I'm finding out my sister's eldest daughter is a giant whore.

Is she over 7 feet tall ?

Posted by: JT at May 25, 2024 01:12 PM (T4tVD)

113 The Attack of the Giant Whore should've won Best Picture in '67.

Posted by: davidt at May 25, 2024 01:14 PM (SYTee)

114 Muldoon, Excel only supports 16,384 columns, so I don't think that would be enough for all the genders....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 25, 2024 01:16 PM (PiwSw)

115 Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 25, 2024 01:18 PM (PiwSw)

116 Two weeks ago the girl spawn got an associates degree in general studies (magna cum laude whatever that means) from Ivy Tech. Yes she got an actual degree from an actual college before she graduated from high school. She has a full ride two year scholarship to Vincennes University starting in the fall. By the time she graduates from VU in two years, she will have earned a bachelor's degree in legal studies.

Yes I am bragging!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 25, 2024 01:20 PM (4XwPj)

117 vmom, so glad to hear that you are home and hope you can get on top of this.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 25, 2024 01:22 PM (w6EFb)

118 Wow, Madamemayhem - that's brag-worthy for sure!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 25, 2024 01:27 PM (w6EFb)

119 Of course, Dick Bong only survived his plane by a few months. He was assigned to the P-80 (the first American jet aircraft) program as a test pilot and died in August 1945 when his plane flamed-out on takeoff.

Posted by: David, former member of the former USA at May 25, 2024 01:29 PM (bGP4p)

120 What’s the STEM degree stats?
Posted by: polynikes

It's been a few years..
Big Ten Engineering school here... Knew of three+/- women in the whole time who were in actual engineering classes (including dorm life). In a classes I had - One. That includes the introductory engineering classes with a hundred people in them.

Since then and 29 yrs in the field, met ONE that was respectable, the rest were DIE hires and tended to float to 'management' very quickly.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 25, 2024 01:53 PM (cOq4q)

121 Just for the record I am now full of wonderful yakisoba goodness.

Mmmmmmm, yakisobaaaaaa!!!!!!!! *drools*

Posted by: Robert at May 25, 2024 02:02 PM (DHvBV)

122 ********

Shave them and spray with WD40.

The shaving makes them more aerodynamic and the WD40 increases the muzzle velocity.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 25, 2024 12:43 PM (991eG)

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We talking hamsters or gerbils here?

Posted by: Richard Gere at May 25, 2024 02:12 PM (cOq4q)

123 Thanks Miley
I am so grateful to God

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 25, 2024 02:14 PM (LIf6Z)

124 What has the R party been for, these past couple decades, other than perpetual war? They haven't stopped the left, they sure as hell don't ever roll back any of their gains.
...

Posted by: BurtTC
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The old saying, 'Democrats get us into was Republicans get us out', is just that, an old saying.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 25, 2024 02:16 PM (Iynsv)

125 Shave them and spray with WD40.

The shaving makes them more aerodynamic and the WD40 increases the muzzle velocity.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 25, 2024 12:43 PM (991eG)

about 2005 the vineyards locally started using propane "guns" to scare the birds off the grapes. they were a metal T with an igniter and a slow bubble of propane from a cylinder that fired intermittently. .
When I saw those going in, I blessed my lucky stars that they were not put in when I was in high school when I was really dumb since my first instinct was to put potatoes in both ends and see if they would shoot.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 25, 2024 02:42 PM (D7oie)

126 I plan on planting a Carrion flower in the garden. I shall name it Mike Johnson.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 25, 2024 03:12 PM (aFNOf)

127 Tracking from a link to 'Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters' I tracked the header picture to spina-roja.blogspot.com which, a shock (why?) how alive communism is today.

"THE SIXTH FACE OF THE PENTAGON", FILM BY CHRIS MARKER, 55 YEARS AFTER THE GREAT DEMONSTRATION IN WASHINGTON AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR

Original title: The Sixth Face of the Pentagone

Synopsis: “If the five sides of the Pentagon seem impregnable to you, attack on the sixth” (Zen proverb). Chris Marker follows the Vietnam peace rally in Washington on October 21, 1967.

This French film shows the more than 100,000 protesters gathered by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam to call for an end to the Vietnam War on October 21, 1967 in Washington, D.C.

WATCH MOVIE WITH SPANISH SUBTITLES:
https://youtu.be/HpMvGhGp20w

Posted by: Braenyard at May 25, 2024 03:51 PM (Iynsv)

128 51 years as an electronic hardware designer.
One female in college, graduated by the skin of her teeth, and by crying her way into 3 (that I know of) finals re-tests.
Two in the real world. One was very good, easily in the top 10% that I've known. Had and raised three kids at the same time. The second had a good heart, tried mightily, but I had to guide her designs to make schedules. If I left her on her own, it would get done, but usually late.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 25, 2024 11:34 PM (4/Wcw)

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